"Captain, an unidentified anomaly appeared. She killed a D-grade anomaly!"

"White hair, red eyes, wearing a black lace-trimmed dress, black stockings."

"How did you see so clearly?"

"Couldn't help it, she was too beautiful!"

The captain walked over and gave him an annoyed knock on the head.

"No matter how beautiful, she's still a target. Quick, catch her!"

When Bai Ling had discovered the investigation team below, she knew there must be an anomaly nearby, so she followed them. That anomaly had already turned into a core lying quietly in her palm.

Bai Ling continuously jumped across the balconies of buildings, looked back at the Mutation Investigation team on the ground, and revealed an eerie anomaly face expression.

She arrived at a rooftop terrace and fed the anomaly core to her clothes.

"Thank you, sister~"

"You're welcome."

Taking out her phone, Bai Ling checked her messages.

Her sister's icon showed a red bubble with 99+.

"Huh?"

She opened it:

"Are you there, brother?"

"Hello?"

"Where are you!"

"Reply to me? I'm getting angry!"

Angry cat meme 99+

...

Lin Bai held his forehead and replied:

"Not available."

"Qingming Festival is coming soon, remember to come back."

"Okay, anything else?"

"Um, burst some coins?"

Bai Ling smiled and sent 50 to her sister.

"So little, bro!"

Cat with no money meme

...

Just then, Bai Ling felt a sense of connection, as if something was calling her. The voice seemed to come from some insurmountable existence—it was the contract she had signed!

Chi Xiaoyu was summoning her.

Feeling the general direction, Bai Ling scanned for and got on a yellow bike.

"Sister, can't you fly?"

"No."

On Chi Xiaoyu's side, the battle was raging fiercely. She had originally taken on a D-grade anomaly mission, but unexpectedly, this blood anomaly had sacrificed an entire building of people to upgrade to almost B-grade.

Chi Xiaoyu was on the second floor when she was swept away by a pair of crimson giant arms and fell to the floor below. It was quite a hard fall, and since it was a D-grade anomaly mission, Chi Xiaoyu hadn't even worn her exoskeleton armor.

"Thunder Anomaly, possess me."

"But, master, you don't have armor. It will hurt you." Thunder Anomaly said uncertainly.

"No choice, we'll just have to hold on until squad members or Bai Ling arrive."

Flash—

At that moment, at the entrance of the building, a bright red anomaly face appeared. It was as large as an entire door, with no body, just a blood-red face. Its eyes were hollow, but through those basketball-sized holes, one could see a giant heart inside.

Seeing this, Chi Xiaoyu raised her sword. Thunder Anomaly understood immediately and attached to it. The lightning-flowing sword pierced the blood anomaly's eye, directly striking the throbbing crimson heart. But just as Chi Xiaoyu inserted her sword, that huge face turned into a pool of blood, and the entire building collapsed into fresh blood along with it.

Chi Xiaoyu quickly released the lightning from her sword. In an instant, countless lightning bolts coursed through the blood, accompanied by a scream of pain. But the blood didn't stop. Just as it was about to engulf Chi Xiaoyu...

Bai Ling stopped her small motorbike beside Chi Xiaoyu. Seeing the white-haired anomaly girl riding a yellow bike, Chi Xiaoyu was somewhat shocked at her contracted anomaly.

"Goodness, you're an anomaly, right? Riding a yellow bike to get here?"

The moment Bai Ling raised her hand to touch the blood, it seemed to be frightened and began to lose its spirit, falling to the ground. The blood anomaly in the building instantly gathered the blood back, turning back into a building.

"Who are you?" the blood anomaly tremblingly asked. It instinctively felt a sense of fear, as if the girl before it was an insurmountable existence.

"The person who will kill you."

Without hesitation, Bai Ling concentrated a ball of blood in her palm and shot it toward the building at a speed almost impossible to catch with the naked eye. After repeating this several times, the blood anomaly, enduring its fear, transformed the building into a blood giant who stepped toward Bai Ling.

"I don't care who you are, you can't stop me from becoming immortal, hahaha."

But when his blood giant's foot touched the girl's raised arm, he realized he was wrong, because all the blood turned into water, lost its spirit, and became ordinary blood falling to the ground.

Seeing this, Chi Xiaoyu quickly stabbed the now-exposed crimson heart again. This time there was no blood protection. One stab, covered with lightning, accompanied by a breaking sound and the blood anomaly's screams, left Chi Xiaoyu completely stained red.

In contrast, Bai Ling didn't have a single drop of blood on her. The blood seemed afraid to touch her, bouncing away just before contact, as if merely touching her would be a terrible sin.

"Thank you~"

Chi Xiaoyu gave the blood anomaly's core to Bai Ling, along with several D-grade cores she took out.

"You're giving me all these?"

"All for you!"

Chi Xiaoyu happily patted Bai Ling's head. This was her night's harvest. Though she wanted to complain about her contracted anomaly's mode of transportation—even Thunder Anomaly could fly.

Soon after, members of the Anomaly Catching Squad arrived. Seeing Chi Xiaoyu covered in blood, Explosion Head immediately knelt down and cried:

"Captain, Captain, you must live! Quick, call an ambulance."

Ye Luo irritably knocked him on the head.

"Obviously it's not the Captain's blood."

Chi Xiaoyu frowned.

"You guys are too slow! But at least you came, unlike someone who doesn't show up at all."

She looked at the message she had sent to Lin Bai on her phone.

"Come help me quick!"

With her current location attached.

[Lin Bai! You're completely ignoring my messages!]

Bai Ling saw the message Chi Xiaoyu had sent to Lin Bai and her heart skipped a beat.

"Not good, it's over."

Putting down her phone, Chi Xiaoyu took Bai Ling's hand.

"Bai Ling is the best after all. Big sister will take you to buy something delicious!"

"Thank you, but I don't eat human food..."

"Of course it's not ordinary food."

Chi Xiaoyu rode her motorcycle with Bai Ling to a food street. The surroundings were bustling with many people selecting various delicacies. Bai Ling had been here before. Previously, what she liked most was buying various 10-yuan snacks, but now seeing these only made her feel uncomfortable—she could only smell, not eat...

Chi Xiaoyu led Bai Ling into a small alley.

A general store in a place like this?

The store had only a very few customers. Inside, the owner was an old grandmother.

"Wel—come."

"Grandma, some snacks please."

"Sure, please—wait."

This old grandmother's final syllable was extremely long, and she moved very slowly. At first glance, she didn't seem to be in good health.

Soon after, she returned with a plate of various snacks.

Chi Xiaoyu stuffed those snacks to Bai Ling, indicating she should eat them.

Bai Ling looked at the food before her uncertainly, but trusting Chi Xiaoyu, she put it in her mouth.

"Mmm~ Delicious!"

Chi Xiaoyu smiled and patted Bai Ling's head.

"If you—like it, come—often."

The grandmother leaned on her cane and sat down on a chair.

"How is this possible?" Bai Ling asked puzzledly while eating the snacks.

"Have you heard of Mercy? One of the Six Anomaly Kings, Mercy."

"Six Anomaly Kings?"

"Compassion, Incomplete, Mercy, Contract, Blood."

"And the last one?"

"The last one can't be spoken of. You'd be slapped to death. I'm afraid."