CHAPTER 430: CHAPTER 398 BEAST MASTERY

Andre and Ozaki Aozora kept silent, only staring at the White Horse Tombstone standing in the middle, their expressions strange.

Without any verbal warning, Andre drew eight short swords wrapped in Bible pages from his vest and hurled them like lightning toward the tombstone, then pulled out two handguns from his waist and fired consecutively.

Meanwhile, Ozaki Aozora also summoned more beast golems from the void, armed with machine guns and rocket launchers on his back, bombarding the tombstone with unbridled firepower.

"Enough."

Though White Horse Tombstone was a good person with universal values, she also had a temper.

Seeing both sides ignoring her dignity, she immediately inserted the stone coffin into the ground and activated the special effect.

Crack, crack, crack, crack—

The concrete ground tore open, hundreds of thousands of black mummified arms emerged from the soil, grabbing all of Ozaki Aozora’s beast golems and holding them in place, unable to move.

Ozaki Aozora himself was also pinned to the ground by mummified arms.

As for Andre’s side,

White Horse Tombstone lifted her left hand, palm open in a grasping gesture, generating a rapidly spinning fire vortex, capturing Andre’s thrown short swords and bullets, melting them into an irregular metal ball.

White Horse Tombstone’s right arm then whipped out like a long tail, striking the metal sphere precisely.

Whoosh—

The metal ball flew back at a speed faster than the bullets that came before,

Andre hurriedly activated the special effect of the Inch Scripture, instantly teleporting thirty meters away,

Yet before he realized it, White Horse Tombstone approached, grabbed his collar, and slammed him heavily onto the ground, creating a pit,

She pressed her thumb against Andre’s forehead— to a level 29 Close Combat Transcendent, the speed of crushing the skull and destroying the brain was faster than the captive’s brain could generate the thought of "exit the killing field."

"Now, will you settle down?"

White Horse Tombstone said irritably, "Let’s talk. Why are you fighting?"

Before entering the Teleportation Gate, all players had signed a magic contract, if a murder and loot occurred in the Secret Realm, the contract retaliation would strike first,

Secondly, even if you withstand the retaliation, and leave the Secret Realm with spoils taken from other players,

The organizing committee for this exploration, an alliance formed by twenty guilds, could use "spells to recreate the crime scene" to identify who was causing trouble and settle accounts.

Any player with some sense wouldn’t fight to the death.

"..."

Andre and Ozaki Aozora, firmly subdued, remained silent, their eyes rolling, seeking a way to escape.

"...Are these two crazy?"

Fuding Hualong frowned slightly as he stepped forward, "Miss Ozaki Aozora, do you remember me?"

As an excellent agent of the Special Affairs Bureau’s Sichuan Mobile Task Force, he had once met Ozaki Aozora at the seminar on "Using New Skills, Showing New Styles, Reaching New Heights—Promoting Healthy and High-Quality Growth of Private Guilds."

With a player’s memory, she should remember.

However, after he finished speaking, Ozaki Aozora still remained silent, even resisting directly looking at his face.

As if his face was terrifying.

Li Cheng raised an eyebrow, the Vast Sea Soul-locking Bell in his hand hadn’t activated, proving there were no illusion effects nearby, could it be... a curse?

He pondered for a moment and inserted the Steel Banner Spear into the ground, activating the Flag Planting Moment special effect.

Buzz—

A halo brightened around the Steel Banner Spear, and the Red Driver and others felt a slight relief from exhaustion and thirst.

Still, Andre and Ozaki Aozora’s eyes remained flickering, silent.

Seeing no results, Li Cheng then took out a small blackboard from the Three-dimensional Warehouse, writing on it, "Can you two understand these words?"

This time, Andre finally reacted, taking a deep breath and saying, "Regarding typography, Seneca once said, a chaotic brain operates rapidly, eyes illuminating like animal bones."

Ha?

Before the players could react, Ozaki Aozora also spoke deeply, "What happens if faces are pierced, and what if they aren’t? It makes me reflect, are you bipedal primates?"

What on earth is this?

Are you two acting like rambling weak-minded AI?

White Horse Tombstone showed hesitation, wondering if she had hit them too hard and made them foolish.

"I get it! They have aphasia!"

Gray Rain, who had been browsing pre-downloaded short videos from the onboard hard drive, suddenly had a light in his eyes, dancing in excitement, "Their brains have a problem, their language understanding and expression severely impaired, their words lack coherence!"

Aphasia is an acquired communication disorder caused by brain damage, usually due to stroke, trauma, tumors, or degenerative brain diseases,

It severely affects the patient’s emotions and life quality.

Externally, patients use seemingly randomly assembled words to express a sentence,

For example, "You have such high-speed machinery entering China, remember the principles I gave."

The intended meaning might be "Every vehicle entering the community must comply with community regulations."

Red Driver was taken aback by Gray Rain’s words, his impression of Gray Rain stayed back to the last battery escort mission, thinking this of Li Cheng’s magic pet (?), only good for eating, sleeping, playing on the phone watching Douyin, and being durable,

How come not seeing them for a while, their intelligence suddenly improved dramatically?

Could it be that Li Cheng, like him, was also a genius in beast control?

"Wait,"

White Horse Tombstone, hearing this, slightly relaxed the restraint, "If it’s merely aphasia, why did they fight?"

"Because, aside from aphasia, they also suffer from facial recognition disorder, unable to recognize each other’s faces."

Gray Rain rubbed his palms with an air of triumphant pride: "Andre said ’eyes illuminating like animal bones,’ and Ozaki Aozora said ’are you bipedal primates,’

In their perspective, everyone except themselves has non-human faces, completely unlike humans."

Facial recognition disorder is often caused by epilepsy, migraines, eye disease, or brain lesions, patients identify others’ faces as beasts, dragons, or pseudo-humans resembling humans.

This disease occurring suddenly is truly terrifying, imagine waking up with everyone besides yourself, family and friends, all having distorted faces, showing concern.

Considering Andre and Ozaki Aozora also have aphasia,

In their perspective, each other, along with the newly appearing White Horse Tombstone, Li Cheng, etc., might seem like pseudo-human monsters who don’t speak human language.

Understanding this, White Horse Tombstone quickly relaxed the restraint, and the three parties communicated their meanings through illustrations on the blackboard and gesticulations.