Chapter 770: Strike to Kill

Unable to stop.

While running, Lin An glanced in surprise at the man stuck to the ground.

He had no idea how this person had managed to stay alive until now under the pursuit of the weeping angels.

Logically, the weeping angels would never leave any survivors.

His eyes showed inquiry, but he saw no expression on that person's face, as pale and blank as a wax figure.

Only in his eyes could a hint of regret and unwillingness be seen.

The two came face to face.

"Lin... An..."

His voice sounded like a damaged tape.

He weakly uttered Lin An's name, his blood‑stained finger pointing to a line of writing on the ground.

A plea.

Those eyes seemed to be telling Lin An, begging him to look at the words on the ground.

He had no strength left to send a message, so he could only leave information in this most primitive way.

He rushed past in a second.

In his peripheral vision, Lin An instantly memorized the twisted, distorted blood‑stained characters on the ground, his expression barely shifting.

Seeing that Lin An had noted down that passage, the man squeezed out a grim smile.

He seemed to have been waiting all along.

When Lin An arrived, the breath that had been sustaining him completely dissipated.

(Lin An... sorry, we should have trusted you...)

(Save... them...)

(Chen Yang... Tian... is behind the gate...)

(Ghost...)

Footsteps echoed.

Stepping over piles of flesh shattered into bloody mud, Lin An felt a deep suspicion rise in his heart.

Fresh bloody handprints covered the stone walls on both sides of the passage.

Regarding the message left by that officer, he felt completely bewildered.

The former part is easy to understand—nothing more than the military regretting not having listened to his advice.

Perhaps a few Awakened Ones managed to escape.

But the latter...

Is Chen Yang Tian the ghost behind the gate?

Which gate? Which ghost?

A supernatural incident?

It is completely impossible to judge or reason about.

Even the term "gate's rear" he had only heard from the Second Will.

(Those who walk out from within the gate... the ghost behind the gate...)

Is there any connection between the two?

And what exactly is the gate?

Upon encountering for the first time information he had no memory of, Lin An couldn't help but think hard.

After a while, he realized he could think of no connection at all.

"Boom!"

A piercing whistle.

As Lin An, still pondering the problem, passed through the corridor littered with the most corpses, he suddenly heard a violent impact.

Hmm?

The sound of this impact and the sonic boom clearly came from the weeping angels.

It seems the normal‑version monster he was looking for is right ahead.

Quickly suppressing his doubts, Lin An simply set the question aside for now.

The information is too scarce.

But he could at least be certain of one thing.

Chen Yang Tian, indeed as he had suspected, had run into trouble.

The urgent priority is to quickly rack up points and escape the trial.

He fled in panic.

More than a dozen Awakened Ones from the two regions fled forward in frenzy, their spiritual energy nearly squeezed to the limit.

Since the monster emerged from the secret chamber, both sides' forces have been slaughtered.

Nobody could withstand the monster's attacks.

If it weren't for a Huaxia Military Region warrior who, on the brink of death, briefly activated his gene lock, giving them a chance to catch their breath.

They couldn't even survive with that.

Hearing the familiar sonic boom behind them, the Huaxia soldier at the rear gave a bitter laugh and instantly turned around.

They couldn't outrun it.

His speed and position destined him to be the next to die.

Better to face the monster head‑on than be struck from behind; perhaps he could still activate his gene lock at the brink of life and death!

Just as he turned his head, he unexpectedly heard hurried footsteps.

That was.

His pupils contracted.

He saw that behind the monster chasing him stood Lin An, who had just appeared, and...

two brand-new monsters.

It's over..

A last desperate hope rose, only to be snuffed out instantly.

Three monsters, we're doomed...

Those running ahead, who still felt reluctant to abandon their companions, also heard the abnormality and, instinctively, tilted their heads slightly as well.

The whole team's steps faltered, and they widened their eyes as if seeing a ghost.

They stared at the sole mask.

A flicker of disbelief crossed everyone's mind.

Lin An, how could he be here?!

How could he be chased by two monsters?!

There was hardly any chance of escape to begin with, and the current situation is no better than adding frost to snow.

His heart was like dead ashes, with no time to think.

The stone statue, charging at high speed, instantly slammed into the last Awakened One.

Almost at the same moment, a loud shout rang out:

"Stay still!"

Descent!

In an instant, an invisible, dark-shaded barrier domain expanded, drawing the whole passage into it.

Like teleportation.

Lin An, who was far at the end of the passage, instantly appeared before the last person.

White light flashed.

Unable to react, in a gaze of shocked terror, Lin An activated Blink again, forcibly pulling that person to appear behind the stone statue.

Like an instantaneous reposition.

Having survived the calamity.

The Huaxia Awakened One rescued by Lin An stood stiff and dazed in place.

He could not fathom why he had suddenly appeared behind the angel.

No, he should be in the middle of the three monsters.

"I...?!"

His breath was suppressed, making it hard to breathe.

Under the Descent domain, over a dozen Awakened Ones felt their pressure double, their eyes fixed on Lin An filled with shock.

Just now, that was two teleports?!

"Thud!"

Suddenly halted.

The first time, the original Crying Angel that had missed its target eerily jerked its head, its bluish-white stone eyes staring at Lin An.

Target changed.

It seemed the monsters also had some mechanism, prioritizing the killing of special targets.

"Boom!"

The sonic boom sounded again, two slow and one fast.

Without time to check what happened inside the passage, the people stared in horror as the three monsters launched another attack in an instant.

And the target was Lin An and the person in the middle.

"Careful!"

An instinctive warning.

The sudden change left them little time to think, but instinctively they blurted out a warning to the monsters on either side of Lin An.

As expected.

As the monsters moved again, Lin An remained calm, simply shoving the rescued Awakened One away with force, then fixing his gaze firmly on the fastest Crying Angel.

At the extremely short distance among the three, the original angel's impact struck first.

The wind pressure was oppressive.

Watching Lin An remain motionless, everyone's hearts rose with shock and doubt.

Move!

Why not use that ability just now?!

Seeing Lin An about to be crushed into mincemeat by the three monsters at once.

A blazing burst of white light appeared again.

Now!

"Boom!!!"

Barely, he barely grazed the stone statue as he blinked away.

In a deafening blast, the three stone statues collided instantly, the cyan energy from each of their bodies, like the power of rules, merging and dissolving into one another.

Two seconds later, faint cracking sounds rang out in succession.

"Crack—"

Broken stones littered the ground.

The weeping angel that made all Awakened Ones tremble with fear died so absurdly.

The clashing rule power disintegrated their bodies.

Monster... died?

Indestructible, the monsters that had slaughtered their two war zones just died like that?

Stunned in place.

The only dozen or so survivors who remained alive could not put their inner shock into words.

That masked figure, silently standing beside the rubble, was deeply etched into their minds.

Turns out, monsters can kill like this!?

At the same time.

From the system, a prompt that only Lin An could hear rang out:

"Ding, 1875 Secret Room Guardian died (1/2), 1996 Secret Room Guardian died (2/2)"

"Earned 150 points."

"Completed perfect-level trial; does the trial participant choose to withdraw?"

He raised his hand to cancel the Descent domain, Lin An calmly picked up a piece of rubble from the ground.

Unlike the shocked crowd, as if petrified, he merely thought the system was too stingy.

After realizing the statue's attack and speed were not proportional, he then understood.

Only monsters can kill monsters.

And the perfect-level task that has not been given is nothing more than resolving the most terrifying existence in this trial.

That's all.

Idly playing with the rubble from the weeping angel's head, Lin An casually tossed it onto the ground, peered up and stood up:

"Let's go."

"It's time to farm points."

Regarding these few survivors, Lin An is still curious whether they know...

What exactly did that deceased officer say?