Shrouded Seascape

Just as Wang Sheng thought that he was doomed, the Mobile Task Force members glanced at Anna, and without a word, they ran past the two, making a beeline for the ongoing commotion.

It turned out that Anna had whipped out a pistol and was pressing it against Wang Sheng's waist. From their eyes, Anna was an IMF staffer escorting a prisoner.

If this were any other time, they would have asked questions, but there was a more pressing situation in the distance, so they had no time to spare for anything else.

Wang Sheng seemed eager to say something in the elevator, but he dared not say something in the face of Anna's stern glare. Fortunately, Anna had no need to deceive them for so long, as she only had to keep up the facade until they were out of the elevator.

When the elevator door opened, Anna immediately walked out. When the elevator doors closed once more, Anna pressed her hand on the wall, and her green corrosive flames burned a hole in it.

She then grabbed Wang Sheng and phased into the nearby wall.

Instead of leaving immediately, Anna bid her time, seemingly waiting for something. Just then, a figure beneath the hole emerged from a ventilation duct and rushed along the wall toward the opening.

It was the clown. Its right arm was broken, and a bleeding gunshot wound was in its abdomen.

A large group of Mobile Task Force members were behind it. One of them had a physique that resembled a spider, and he ran fast, leaving afterimages behind him.

Mike looked at the enemy's back with a hint of disdain in his eyes. It was already severely injured, so how dare it keep on running away from them? It was really underestimating them.

Just as Mike was about to thrust the bayonet toward the clown, the clown abruptly turned around and presented its chest to the bayonet.

Mike was stunned. The clown took advantage of that and put his clown mask on Mike's face. With the mask on, Mike propped his limbs on the ground and crawled out of the corroded hole like a real spider.

"Command Center! Target has switched hosts and is headed to Level -29. Raise the Level 2 alert!"

The relentless pursuit of the Mobile Task Force members allowed them to reach a dead Mike on Level -29 in just three minutes. Unfortunately, the mask had long vanished by then.

The mask was on Wang Sheng's face. He quietly followed Anna as they ascended through the walls. Just as Anna was about to reach the surface, the spliced flesh creatures lurking in the soil finally came into play.

They crawled out of the golden sand and fearlessly staggered their way toward Site 66. They were a fearsome force as they had hot weapons in their arms. Even worse, they were impervious to bullets.

However, incendiary attacks were extremely effective against them, and one of them was torn apart upon getting hit by a grenade launcher. Despite their clear weakness, they still achieved the effect that Anna wanted to achieve.

Anna took advantage of the chaos to escape with Wang Sheng from the other side of the commotion.

After a mad dash to the car, Anna jumped in and started it. The masked Wang Sheng leaped to the rear of the vehicle. He then took out a magician's cloth from his sleeve and hurled it to the ground behind them.

The purple magician's cloth landed on the ground, and the tire tracks of their vehicle disappeared.

The car moved at full speed ahead across the desert. Just as they exited the site's periphery, whirring helicopters echoed from the distant sky. The IMF members were actually catching up to them.

"I told you that it wasn't going to work! There's no way the IMF will let you fool them so easily!" Li Lu exclaimed fiercely with Tobba in her arms.

"Shut up!" Anna gripped the steering wheel with one hand and gnashed her teeth. She pushed the accelerator to its limits, and their vehicle charged straight into the sand dune up ahead.

Anna's figure and the vehicle vibrated at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye.

The off-road vehicle shot into the sand dune as if it were a rocket. Upon melting into the sand dune, Anna forced the car's nose downward, driving it as if it were a submarine.

This was Anna's first time phasing through solid with so much baggage at once. There was no such thing as a free lunch in this world, and Anna was no exception. She had to pay a price for using her special ability.

Soon, she could feel her brain swelling from the exertion. However, there was no way she was going to give up. If the helicopters and planes above them were to end up discovering them, they'd become sitting ducks for the IMF.

If the IMF ended up surrounding them, they wouldn't be able to escape.

Thus, Anna endured the mental strain and persevered for thirty minutes before finally driving the car out of the sand. However, the prolonged use of the special ability inevitably weakened its effects, so they were covered in sand all over.

The masked Wang Sheng opened his mouth, spitting out some sand from his mouth. He then grabbed the steering wheel from Anna's hands. Although they had evaded the IMF's pursuit, Anna dared not stop within their territory.

They decided to take turns driving across the entire desert. They moved so fast that they crossed the entire desert in just five days, arriving at what looked like a region with a semi-desert biome.

Upon confirming their current position via GPS, they changed directions. Instead of heading in the direction of the airport where they previously landed, Anna decided to head for the country next door.

Wang Jianshe had already prepared everything for them, so they'd definitely receive support from him.

Since the crisis had been resolved, Anna's taut nerves finally relaxed, but the ramifications of using her special ability for an extended period of time and on such a scale finally descended upon Anna like a waterfall.

In an instant, she felt a splitting headache, and she quivered like an aspen tree.

She desperately needed to rest, so after taking a few painkillers, Anna sprawled out amidst the jumble of miscellaneous items in the trunk.

The moment she laid herself down, she instantly fell asleep, and she found herself in the middle of a bizarre dream.

She was located in what appeared to be a vast, boundless sea. It was a dreamlike and surreal scenery. She felt as if she were sprawled out on an azure ocean, and the gentle waves of the ocean were rocking her to sleep.

The starry sky was above the sea, and the glittering stars up above seemed to gather to form a vague face. It was a familiar face, but Anna just couldn't remember him.

"Long time no see, Anna. How have you been?" the face asked.

As soon as the voice entered her ears, Anna instantly remembered the owner of that face. It had to be Charles' face, as the voice just now unmistakably belonged to him.

Anna was utterly furious. She looked up at the starry face and cursed, "How dare you ask me how I've been, you piece of trash?! Don't you know what you've done to me?!

"If I had known that you'd treat me like that after all I've done for you, I would have just eaten you whole, skin and all, back then!"

The string of curses astounded the starry face. It seemed that it hadn't expected Anna's reaction. Unfortunately, the subtle hint of surprise on its face was its folly, as Anna instantly realized that something was off about the Charles before her.

Charles had offered a variety of responses to her invectives, including getting angry and arguing back. However, Charles had never reacted that way, and Anna believed that he would never react that way as well.

In other words, there was an invader—someone had invaded her dream.

Anna stood up from the water and glared coldly at the massive starry face.

"Who are you?" she asked.

"You already noticed? As expected of 315, who has single-handedly upended an entire site."

As soon as the starry face's words fell, everything around Anna faded away.

The starry sky vanished, and the seawater receded. When the surroundings finally peeled away, Anna found herself standing on the bottommost level of Site 66, where Wang Sheng was being held captive.