Ssss——

The alloy compression bottle sprayed the light blue hemostatic gel onto the injured left shoulder.

The gel, cool to the touch, quickly solidified upon contact with air, wrapping the wound and stopping the blood flow.

Wang Congshan silently returned the hemostatic gel to her tactical belt, switching to holding the gun with her left hand, eyes fixed on the direction of the door.

Like the other rooms in the unfinished building, this room didn’t have even the most basic wooden door; there was only a semi-transparent, pink plastic curtain at the doorway, resembling a garbage bag.

At this moment, the dust-covered curtain that Wang Congshan had just lifted was slowly falling back, floating back to its original position.

The right shoulder’s clavicle was fractured, the rotator cuff muscles extensively torn, leaving less than one-tenth of her original strength usable.

Wang Congshan calmly assessed the current situation, once again taking out the powder fire extinguisher, turning the button, and spraying it toward the pink plastic curtain at the door.

This time, the button turned at a different angle, and the fire extinguishing agent sprayed out thicker and more viscous,

sticking to the bottom of the plastic curtain, temporarily solidifying it with the door frame, forming a thin plastic door.

Wang Congshan expressionlessly retrieved the powder fire extinguisher, facing the door, inching backward toward the open balcony.

An indescribable feeling welled up in her heart,

her heart pounding violently,

a burning, stinging sensation coursing through her limbs and bones.

Even after undergoing several routine missions, this feeling remained both unfamiliar and familiar.

The fear of death, the fear of the unknown, the uneasy reverence for destiny, and...

An uncontrollable excitement.

Wang Congshan’s jaw muscles involuntarily tightened, and in her noise-bathed ears, it seemed she could hear the blood roaring through her vessels.

So this is what it feels like to tread the edge of death, where a single careless mistake and lack of power could lead to demise.

So this is the life Li Ang has been experiencing all along.

The corners of Wang Congshan’s mouth unconsciously curled slightly upward, her injured right arm slowly lifting, hovering in front of her forehead.

Crunch.

The sturdy tactical boots stepped onto a piece of rubble, crushing it,

and the next moment, a severe pain suddenly surged from Wang Congshan’s right forearm.

The right forearm position of the Mobile Detachment’s standard uniform felt as if it were being clamped hard by iron pliers,

the armor burst open, the fabric tore, the delicate skin ripped, and blood and flesh splattered.

The bite of a canine animal.

This thought clearly flashed in Wang Congshan’s mind,

and through the splattering blood, she could see two deep bite marks on her right forearm, left by canine teeth.

It was an invisible giant hunting dog,

without any warning, it passed through the sealed plastic door and bit into Wang Congshan’s right forearm, with a crunch, breaking the bone.

The intense pain shot straight to her brain, yet Wang Congshan felt unprecedented calm.

Her left hand abruptly swung the gun upward, the barrel suddenly stopping mid-air, delivering a sensation of pressing against animal fur—likely a giant canine creature comparable to the size of a Shire horse, merely standing on four legs it was a head taller than an average person.

Bang.

Wang Congshan’s left index finger pulled the trigger hard,

the pressure of the bite on her right hand disappeared instantly,

but before that pressure disappeared, Wang Congshan clearly saw the enchanted bullet shoot out, fly a short distance, and then vanish.

It hit the target.

No time to hesitate, Wang Congshan indiscriminately sprayed bullets ahead,

simultaneously stomping the ground with force, leaping back, flashing onto the balcony.

She released her grip on the assault rifle, allowing the gun to hang by a strap in front of her,

her left hand gripping the scaffolding on the outside of the balcony, using the strength of both her feet to leap lightly upward, quickly ascending.

The wind whistled past her ears, and the scene below shrank rapidly,

Wang Congshan climbed swiftly through the jungle of scaffolding with one hand, the corner of her eye catching sight of drones in the distance, and armored vehicles and mobile detachment around the unfinished building.

Li Ang and the others, they should be inside that tactical command vehicle, right...

The thought flashed through her mind,

and a resolute expression appeared on Wang Congshan’s face,

now wasn’t the time to tell them she was okay.

She climbed rapidly along the scaffolding, all the way to the open rooftop on the thirteenth floor.

This area wasn’t completed when the building was abandoned, large amounts of rusty rebar resembling the dried blood vessels of a dead giant could be seen everywhere.

She made it to the rooftop.

Wang Congshan jumped out from the scaffolding, landing in the center of the jungle of rebar, once again taking out the hemostatic gel and spraying it lightly onto her severely injured right arm.

However, the injury on her right hand was so severe,

pale, sharp bone edges pressed against the skin, creating sharp angles on the surface,

a large amount of blood flooded into the light blue transparent gel, dyeing it blood red, seeping out bit by bit.

The intense pain surged throughout her body, even the pain relief in the hemostatic gel couldn’t suppress it,

Wang Congshan slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air inside her respirator, beads of cold sweat running down from her forehead dripped along her eyelashes.

Her body’s weight pressed onto the network of rebar, causing the precarious jungle of rebar to tremble slightly.

"That transparent giant hunting dog undoubtedly has virtualization capabilities,

able to pass through the makeshift door I constructed with the plastic curtain and fire extinguisher spray.

It equates to being intangible in its normal state.

That’s why when I was firing randomly in the stairwell earlier, I couldn’t harm it.’

Wang Congshan took out several pieces of gray-brown, gum-like sheets from her tactical belt and tossed them into the corners around her where the steel bars stood upright.

Leaning against a steel bar, she slowly sat down.

’The hound’s attack power is incredibly high, capable of biting through the alloy armor plates embedded in the Mobile Detachment’s outer uniform in one snap, and it’s intelligent enough to prioritize attacking the wounded weak points of its prey.

Like my right hand holding the gun.

But its defense capability does not exceed the limits of enchanted bullets—when I pressed the muzzle against its fur and pulled the trigger, the pressure on my arm ceased,

the hound reverted to an intangible state to avoid being hit continuously by enchanted bullets again.

It knows the weapon in my hand can hurt it.’

Wang Congshan slowly let her right hand hang down as she calmly scanned the deserted floor, ’The key issue is that the Invisible Hunting Dog only materializes into a semi-transparent form at the moment of attack.

But even this form has limitations—there were no canine footprints on the dusty floor of the room on the third floor, although I heard the faint footsteps of four paws landing.

It’s impossible to use powder or bloodstains to mark it, whether in a phantom or material state, and force it to show itself.

Moreover, even in its intangible state, my enchanted bullets can’t hit the Shapeless Hound.

Which means, when I can hit it, it must have attacked me first.

If I try to engage in guerrilla warfare on the floor, 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

adopting a strategy of trading injury for injury, I will surely lose first...’

Her brain was working rapidly,

blood seeping from the gap in her gel was slowly dripping along the steel bars.

Wang Congshan leaned against the steel bar, her head bowed, her entire face hidden beneath the full-cover mask.

’In this situation, what should I do...’

She seemed to be in a trance, motionless.

Time passed by the second, as blood dripped beneath the steel bar she leaned against.

Creaaak—

A slight vibration suddenly came from the steel bar below,

Wang Congshan’s eyes snapped open, and with her left pinky finger, she hooked a tiny device resembling a lighter from her sleeve, pressing its button,

detonating the micro-bombs she had planted around her.

At the same time, she grabbed her assault rifle with her left hand and pulled the trigger heavily toward the direction of the vibration.

The muzzle spat flames,

and the sound of something heavy falling to the ground was heard up ahead.

The System’s task completion notification sounded in her ear; Wang Congshan collapsed sideways with relief, struggling to pull out a signal flare to fire—only then did the cameras of the distant drone swarm see

her right hand lying beneath her, with the palm pierced through by a piece of broken steel rebar.

Whoosh—

A strong wind swept by,

Li Ang appeared instantly on the rooftop of the unfinished building, his palm breaking through the hemostatic gel on Wang Congshan’s right hand, pressing down on her badly injured right arm.

The effect of the Origin of Life activated,

fusing bones, growing skeletal structure, healing muscles, rejuvenating skin.

Li Ang furrowed his brow slightly, "Is it finished?"

"Yes, it’s done."

Wang Congshan chuckled, stood up with Li Ang’s help, shook her sore right hand, and fired towards the spot where the rebar had shattered.

The remaining bullets poured out,

most pierced through the gaps in the steel jungle, hitting the cement floor,

while a few seemed to strike some invisible object, disappearing mid-air.

"Just as expected,"

Wang Congshan nodded, put down her firearm, and walked down the unfinished building with Li Ang.

As the two of them exited, the Mobile Detachment, following orders, filed into the building to secure the battlefield and erase traces.

Xing Hechou, who had emerged from the tactical command vehicle, was already waiting at the door,

and upon seeing the two come out, asked in some confusion, "Is the mission done?

What was that just now..."

He had watched the entire combat scene through the drone cameras in the tactical command vehicle moments ago,

but until the end, he couldn’t understand what had happened,

seeing Wang Congshan, seated in the steel jungle atop the building, seemingly aware in advance of the Shapeless Hound’s appearance, detonating explosives at its location and shooting it.

Yet from her player panel, Wang Congshan, which holds no extraordinary power system, shouldn’t possess such special abilities.

"All those were traps,"

Wang Congshan smiled slightly, cocking her head as if she were a regular student called to the podium by a teacher to explain problems in a classroom, speaking with a relaxed tone: "Escaping to the top floor of the unfinished building via the scaffold,

setting up micro-bombs,

pretending to slump from blood loss in thought,

sitting against the rebar,

and most critically, deliberately piercing my own right hand with a broken piece of rebar.

Everything, all of it, was part of a trap designed against the Shapeless Hound."