CHAPTER 40: CHAPTER 39: WU MING’S DANGER LEVEL

Boom——

As the codename "Cannon" suggests, his awakened ability is to make each of his attacks as powerful as a cannon blast.

Any doll hit by his fists would shatter into pieces, unable to recover. Coupled with his ability to see the dolls, Cannon was the main force leading at the front.

But after all, two fists are no match for four hands. As more and more dolls surged forward, he began to struggle.

"This isn’t working. The dolls in front will just keep increasing. Even if we make it to the center of the square, they’ll follow us in. We need to find a way to deal with them permanently!" Cannon said, panting slightly.

He Zhan was also frowning slightly at this moment.

Liuyun’s awakened ability requires her to lock onto targets, but she couldn’t see the dolls. The Priest and his own abilities didn’t have direct damage effects either...

"Let me do it."

Just as everyone was troubled, Wu Liang’s voice emerged.

Before they could react to how Wu Liang planned to deal with the dolls, they noticed that the surrounding white mist was becoming denser, gradually covering most of the square.

Almost all the dolls were within the mist’s range.

"But doesn’t your ability also lack killing power..." He Zhan was preparing to ask how the mist alone could solve the dolls.

He suddenly remembered something—

Previously, when dealing with the Shouyi Ghost, Wu Ming’s mist had enveloped its body, bringing it down in no time, severely injuring the Shouyi Ghost’s true form.

So, this guy’s mist is far more than just "trapping," isn’t it!?

As expected, once the thick mist covered all the dolls, not a single one escaped, and there weren’t even any signs of struggle!

"Let’s go, investigate the center of the square."

Wu Liang’s tone remained as casual as if he had just dealt with cockroaches in the kitchen.

Everyone followed him forward in shock, trying to figure out how he had done it.

No one knew that, indeed, he wasn’t lying.

The Mist Ghost’s power indeed had no direct killing effect at all.

But, Wu Liang didn’t have just this one ghost!

Once the mist covered all the dolls, with He Zhan and others unable to see inside, thick ropes exuding an eerie aura appeared in the mist, forming loops.

Just like nooses used for hanging suicides, they looped around each doll’s neck.

Then lifted them, suspending these eerie dolls all in the air!

[Life-taking: The rope used for hanging only causes damage and can summon any number of Life-taking Ropes within a certain range to hang targets to death]

This was the ability provided to Wu Liang after the Hanged Ghost in his rented room was subdued.

Since the dolls can’t be killed in the true sense, the ropes would only hang them up, putting them in a loop of hanging—disassembling—recovering—hanging.

This essentially resolved all the dolls in one go.

"Wu Ming... are you managing okay with the energy consumption of your ability?" He Zhan’s tone was a bit odd.

As the deputy leader of the Supernatural Handling Squad, he rarely sees such wide-ranging awakened abilities.

Generally, for such a wide-reaching ability, either the effect is weak, or it consumes a huge amount of power!

A moment ago, this guy resolved all the dolls instantly with such intensity and range! His spiritual power must be nearing its limit!

"Hmm? Consumption? What consumption?" Wu Liang blinked and glanced at He Zhan.

He relied on the Ghost Compendium to gain special abilities from Fierce Ghosts, completely unaware of the intense physical or spiritual exhaustion associated with using awakened abilities!

Thus he was puzzled about what He Zhan meant by consumption.

Unfortunately, due to the mist covering his face, He Zhan couldn’t see his confused expression.

Listening to Wu Liang’s tone, He Zhan took it as Wu Ming simply considering the spiritual cost of that last move insignificant, then sighed, "I see, didn’t expect you were still holding back before, impressive!"

With that, he silently elevated Wu Ming’s threat level quite a bit in his mind.

After today’s events are over, he might need to report this situation.

Around them, several Awakened couldn’t help but break a sweat, realizing how terrifying Wu Ming’s spiritual power was!

After using such a massive, powerful awakened ability, he could still casually chat and joke around!

"Your spiritual power is just insane, practically a monster..." The Priest chuckled awkwardly, teasing.

His Purifying Holy Light was also a wide-ranging awakened ability. After giving it his all, he would be exhausted for at least a few minutes, which made him deeply appreciate Wu Ming’s terrifying ability!

"What are you all talking about? Let’s investigate the true form of the Fierce Ghost first." Wu Liang didn’t understand their exclamations after listening for a while.

"You’re right, let’s get to work!"

The five quickly moved to the center of the square.

The atmosphere here became even stranger—

Young people were playing badminton leisurely; a fat man was jumping rope, panting to lose weight; elderly folks sat on the steps chatting and laughing; and a couple was sweet-talking not far away.

Normally, People’s Square would look just like this.

But under these circumstances, such harmony was clearly abnormal!

Everyone could see this scene.

He Zhan frowned, raising his Palm Eye, cautiously approaching an elderly man who was chatting and asked, "Excuse me, may I ask what you’re..."

"Chatting, what else can we do? Who are you?" The old man replied impatiently.

Rolling his eyes, the old man turned back to continue gossipping about his relatives with his partner.

This seemingly normal interaction made He Zhan give Wu Liang a surprised look.

Yet the only response he received was a slight shake of the head from Wu Liang, indicating these were all dolls.

This judgment made everyone even more chilled.

Previously, the dolls’ behavior was somewhat eerie, but now they were indistinguishable from real humans. If these dolls went berserk...

Cannon looked down at his fists.

He couldn’t imagine punching, the opponent’s face still that of an old man, screaming and cursing, being battered and bloodied.

Knowing they were dolls was one thing, but if it came to a real fight, it would feel no different from personally killing a large number of living people.

That kind of mental burden was still present.

"Help! Help! Save me!"

Amidst all the harmony, a cry for help suddenly erupted from behind the sweet-talking couple.

Looking closely, a man crawled out from the bushes behind them. He seemed to have detected the anomaly surrounding him and, frightened, ran frenziedly towards everyone, his face filled with indescribable terror.

Everyone quickly looked at Wu Liang.

This time, Wu Liang lightly nodded.

It was indeed a real victim!

He Zhan and the others were surprised, with a victim on hand they’d find it easier to understand what the supernatural event was like when it broke out.

They could also inquire where the other victims went!

Just as they were preparing to save the victim, Wu Liang, who had just confirmed he was real, acted.

With a wave of his hand, the mist enveloped the victim’s head, and amidst his horror-stricken cries for help, another crisp sound was heard.

Snap—

The next moment, the beheaded head from within the mist fell to the ground, rolling to everyone’s feet, staining the grass red, sending shivers down everyone’s spine.

The Awakened could not help but look in his direction.

Everyone was deeply shocked!

Didn’t he just acknowledge it was a living person? Why did he suddenly kill him?

Has Wu Ming gone mad!?