"This is... where?"

The surroundings were filled with high-tech walls with light constantly flashing across them.

"I might as well tell you—this is an arena formed by my anomalous tool. Only one person can leave alive, or it automatically disappears after one hour."

"Should I thank you then? For bringing me to this kind of place?"

Meanwhile, in the outside world—

The ice giant with green viscous liquid flowing from its body continuously sprayed various polluting fluids. Any humans who touched them instantly froze into green ice sculptures.

"Civilians leave the scene."

"Yes!"

The surrounding police officers left the scene in an orderly fashion.

"Other contractors leave too. Those confident in their abilities may stay."

"Director Su, good luck."

Su Wanying said nothing. The black flames around her grew more intense, and a black anomalous shadow formed behind her with blood-red eyes.

"I am the flame that burns all, I am the moon that devours the sun. Flame Burst!"

Black flame pillars shot out continuously with her whispers, instantly turning the entire environment into a sea of fire. Omnipresent black flames covered the entire sewer and laboratory. Everyone had been evacuated except Chi Xiaoyu watching from a distance.

"Worthy of an acting director. So strong!" Chi Xiaoyu looked at Su Wanying enviously. This A-grade contracted anomaly must be the Devouring Sun Anomaly from the A-grade anomaly incident that erupted at headquarters...

"Gahhhh, so cold, so cold and painful. Someone help me—so cold."

The giant continuously slapped at the flames on his body. His skin would immediately regenerate once burned. He used his massive body to continuously ram the surrounding walls, making the entire sewer shake violently.

Meanwhile, at Lin Bai's location—

Lin Bai, covered in wounds, stood gasping in the arena center. The man representing the Bishop of Envy in protective gear floated above on a magnetic levitation disc.

"Know why I haven't killed you?"

"After all, it's dangerous for me to go out now. Don't die on me, hahaha."

The man held a remote control with a screen showing the outside situation.

"Hmph, cast aside your mortal reason and embrace rebirth!"

He viciously pressed the button.

Outside—

The giant suddenly seemed to experience tremendous pain, continuously hitting his own head with both hands.

"No, no, someone save me."

After a while, he stopped and knelt on the ground lifelessly.

Seeing this, Su Wanying approached to investigate. The moment she got close, the giant suddenly erupted, eyes glowing red, roaring furiously.

The giant swung a person-wide fist at Su Wanying. She quickly raised her arm, and a black flame wall blocked the fist's attack, but she was still knocked back a short distance along with it. Taking this opportunity, she continuously increased the distance.

"Are you alright!" Chi Xiaoyu supported Su Wanying with concern.

"I'm fine."

The giant pursued victory by firing green ice spikes at Su Wanying. She swept her hand through the air, forming a crescent-shaped flame arc that wrapped around her and Chi Xiaoyu's front, blocking the ice spike attacks.

What she didn't expect was that the ice spikes that fell to the ground began a second attack. Countless smaller ice spikes shot at them from all directions. Seeing this, Chi Xiaoyu used Thunder Anomaly to accelerate at full speed, then pulled Su Wanying away from the central area, but they were still hit by some ice spikes.

"Are you okay?"

"Thank you."

Su Wanying summoned a tree-form anomaly covered in emerald green, continuously emitting green healing light waves. Soon the injuries healed, and Chi Xiaoyu nearby felt refreshed.

"Bind him."

The tree anomaly made vines emerge from everywhere to entangle the giant. Then Su Wanying leaped into the air, condensing a massive black flame fireball and throwing it.

The binding trees and the giant's flesh began burning together. With Su Wanying's snap of her fingers, a huge explosion sounded, forming a towering black flame pillar that directly pierced through the laboratory ceiling to the surface.

As the flame pillar dissipated, the green giant disappeared with it.

"Lin Bai, are you still alive?"

"Lin Bai..."

Meanwhile, in the arena—

"This, how is this possible? My masterpiece died just like that?"

"Damn it, now if I go out won't I..."

"These two women are still thinking about you."

The man looked viciously at Lin Bai, who was continuously bleeding in the arena center. At this moment, Lin Bai was conversing with another version of himself in his mental world.

"We meet again, the other me in this world. Or have you always been here?"

"I only appear when your life is in danger. If I were always here, I would have stopped you."

"Stopped me from what?"

"Stopped you from returning to D City."

"Why?"

"To prevent you from changing the world line. Everything is too strange now."

"?"

"I don't have a sister, understand? Su Wanying and I aren't boyfriend and girlfriend either."

"What?"

"Your world line has already diverged from mine..."

"In my world line, D City was destroyed."

"But I came back to help. Saving the city should be a good thing, right?"

"Not necessarily. I don't know what changes will happen in the future either. I originally wanted you to follow my route until the final moment before handing control to yourself. Now that changes have occurred, my route doesn't work anymore. But I can tell you clearly—I don't have a sister and I'm only ordinary friends with Su Wanying."

"..."

"I'll help you unlock another seal. From now on you'll transform into an anomaly at 7 PM every day, and you'll also gain some enhancement for a short time."

"Okay."

"Be careful using the Blood Witch's whispers. Don't let her influence you."

The man checked the time—almost an hour. The arena was about to disappear. Lin Bai, who he'd kept alive to delay the arena's duration, was no longer useful. He rode the magnetic disc down slowly, preparing to give Lin Bai a quick death.

"Sigh, tsk tsk tsk, what a pity. You have great fortune with women but no life to enjoy it, hahaha."

When the man was about to reach Lin Bai, Lin Bai smiled.

"Is that so?"

Blood began spreading around Lin Bai, and his body began transforming. This time she grew taller, becoming a girl about 162cm tall. The surrounding blood instantly covered this anomalous domain. Bai Ling slowly walked toward the man in protective gear, leaving footprints in the blood, chanting under her breath.

"I am the Blood Witch, guide of the crimson moon..."

"What? You're the anomaly from last night!"