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She was...

Suddenly, the soft flesh around her waist was twisted forcefully by the person next to her without leaving a trace!

"!!!"

The female journalist, pained, snapped back to her senses with wide eyes and gritted teeth, staring warily at the little girl opposite her, "Who are you?"

"Who am I?"

The girl tilted her head, repeating her question.

Then her smiling face widened, "My name is Lina, but am I really Lina?

"Whoever you see me as, that's who I should be.

"Whatever you see me as, that's what I should be.

"So now, what do you see me as?"

The girl's voice was still pleasant, and the female journalist couldn't help but reply, "You are Lina."

"Yes, I am Lina, but what about the person next to you? Who is she?"

"She is..."

The journalist instinctively looked back, but the next moment, she jumped back in fright, slamming into the wall with such terror that she didn't even have the movement to take out a weapon to resist!

In her line of sight, the person next to her was not a female social worker at all!

Sticky dark matter crawled over its body, and on the ground was a puddle of intertwined black tentacles, the shape of the head incomprehensible, the eyes were two blood-red marbles moving erratically, bloated, evil, twisted chaos was its true form!

Disgusting!

Disgusting! Disgusting!

The monster opened its gaping mouth, moving up and down as though speaking.

But the accompanying sound, bustling and sharp like a dagger, pierced fiercely into the journalist's mind!

She couldn't help covering her ears, wanting to block her hearing, but that chaotic and incomprehensible sound rang directly in her head, deep within her soul.

She shook her head vigorously, her face showing pain.

Just then, a voice that was indistinct in its gender, age, and emotion, but exceptionally clear and gentle, broke through the noise, intermittently ringing by her ear.

"Sister... you... calm down... don't let her... affect you..."

"I... monster... calm down quickly..."

"Calm down..."

"Calm down..."

This voice, different from the chaos, became clearer and more melodious, cleansing the soul as if washing away her painful and troubled emotions.

The journalist came to her senses in a daze, staring blankly with heavy breathing at the monster in front of her.

She saw the monster attacking her.

And in her hand, she was holding a weapon—

The next moment, the journalist stuffed the marbles in her hand into her mouth and swallowed them with the force of lightning!

"Puf!"

The marble exploded in her stomach, turning into blue electric arcs ravaging the languid flesh and blood, the electricity spreading along the blood vessels up to the heart, then shooting straight to the brain!

The journalist snapped awake with a jolt.

The monster in front of her had vanished without a trace, and the normally poised social worker looked at her with ambiguous expression, those emotionless eyes fixed tightly on her.

"I..."

The journalist gasped for breath, trembling as she hurried to explain her current condition, "I'm fine."

As her words ended, the social worker finally showed a relieved expression.

"Sister, you scared me to death just now; you actually thought of attacking me!"

"I'm sorry..."

The journalist clenched her fists, feeling her strength returning, and stood up straight again, swiftly glancing at the little girl not far away.

The girl's face still bore an elegant smile, looking exceptionally harmless.

But the journalist had already witnessed the terrible power of this girl; just a portion of a voice could make her lose her sanity!

Truly a high-class monster from the script!

Could it actually be the big boss?

Even if not, given the current situation, the journalist would rather hope that the other party was the big boss, otherwise, the script was just too difficult.

They had only climbed up two floors, just ten minutes, and yet all six of them who entered found themselves in peril!

The female journalist looked over uneasily, but dared not make eye contact again.

"So, do you see now who she is?" Lina said with a smile.

"She's my companion, any problems with that?" The female journalist responded expressionlessly, continuing to fiddle with the marbles in her hand.

Lina smiled, unoffended.

She then turned to the female social worker.

"You don't need to say anything more to me, because your enchantments are useless against me." The social worker preempted Lina with a gentle upward curl of her lips: "Idiot."

"..." Lina.

"..." The female journalist.

The journalist turned her head dumbfounded to the short-haired cute girl next to her, then couldn't help but give her a thumbs up.

Daring to directly provoke something so bizarre, respect!

She was doing a fine job of drawing aggro!

Lina's expression instantly darkened, the girl's sinister gaze boring into her, those strange pupils oozing black substance, leaving her beautiful face looking especially horrific at that moment.

"You're all a bunch of filthy, despicable wretches. Permitting you to step on this land is a defilement!"

Lina's voice became sharp and grating, like the angry roar of a demon, as she suddenly threw back her head and howled, the shrill sound seemingly piercing through the eardrums!

The Qiming Building trembled, followed by the walls, corridors, ceilings, and doors, which all started to tremble lightly.

A slender claw poked out from the corridor wall, while a tentacle dangled from the ceiling; then, more and more monsters began to gather behind Lina, spreading the fishy stench of decay and a suffocating sensation throughout the hallway.

The female journalist furrowed her brow in concentration.

The rules of this place had indeed changed, at least, there was nothing in the manual that mentioned this situation on the third floor.

She had only wanted to take a look inside that room from outside, even the rules had said that photography was allowed on the third floor.

Looking at the forming monsters not far away, the journalist tossed the translucent marbles in her hand, then hurled them with force!

"Boom!"

A powerful energy blast swept up, sending the newly formed monsters flying, turning into a heap of viscous dark matter, but soon they began to coalesce again.

Lina remained standing in place, unmovable as the blue nun's robe and twin ponytails whipped in the strong wind, her face twisted into a grotesque, terrifying smile as she stared at the two by the staircase.

The female journalist snorted, "That rule really is a hassle."

Not being allowed to use open flames or anything that could exceed four hundred degrees Celsius meant she couldn't trigger an explosion, only rely on regular energy blasts to repel the enemy, but such a method of combat was hardly effective under these circumstances.

Then, the female social worker spoke up, "I'll deal with them, you just make sure to cover me, sister."

"It doesn't have to be just you, buy me a minute to prepare," the journalist said as she continued to pick out marbles.

"Alright."

The social worker nodded with a smile, then stepped forward, flipping her hand to clutch a dark green Bamboo Joint Cane, the staff emanating a faint light.

As she looked at the monsters crawling out onto the corridor, the social worker's gaze flickered, and with a tap of her toes on the ground, she dashed over like lightning!

The light from the cane concentrated at the tip in an instant as she charged straight towards Lina at the center of the hallway, raising her hand to strike!

Lina made no move to dodge, her face carrying a bizarre smile as she dissolved into a black mist and vanished in the wake of the attack.

However, the social worker didn't actually bring her attack to completion. Instead, she pivoted on the ball of her left foot, her figure suddenly spinning, her descending cane whipping out a golden crescent glow that streaked towards the monsters behind!

Whoosh——

The golden glow, like a tidal wave, slashed through the monsters in its path, which shattered into black fog under the light's erosion.

Suddenly a dark tentacle burst from the ceiling overhead, prompting the social worker to swiftly lean aside to dodge whilst flicking her cane into the wall behind her.

A faint, piercing shriek flashed past as the stealthy claw trying to ambush from the wall trembled and shattered.

In the next moment, the social worker quickly executed another Returning Spear, repelling the attacking tentacle above her head.

Spinning the dark green Bamboo Joint Cane in her hand, she dodged nimbly in the narrow corridor, the golden light flashing intermittently, piercing the darkness with a holy, radiant aura. Continue your journey with My Virtual Library Empire

In the pitch-black corridor filled with monstrous howling and climbing, her agile, graceful movements were like those of a beautiful butterfly flitting amongst flowers.

The female journalist at the stairway entrance was briefly dumbstruck before swiftly hurling seven marbles in that direction.

The semi-transparent marbles floated in the air, linked by blue electric arcs, swirling into a variegated array of lights that looked stunning in the dim environment.

The journalist's demeanor and posture at this moment became extremely reverent and holy, her eyes reflecting the seven orbs, shining brightly.

"The wisdom of the Stars, heed my command."

"Seven Stars Conjunction!"

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