Lin Baici had never expected that a severed arm could still move, let alone with such speed and strength. With a single tug, it pulled his right leg out from under him, forcing him into a wide split and sending him crashing to the ground.

Damn it!

Lin Baici’s body had been enhanced, especially after consuming a deity in the God’s Ruins at the provincial museum, which significantly improved his physique and flexibility. Otherwise, that split would have torn him apart.

Still, the shock of it made him realize that the woman before him was a monster, and he could no longer judge her by normal standards.

Swoosh!

The monstrous woman aimed a blow at Lin Baici’s head.

Lin Baici bent over and swung his sword.

Shattered Flesh Strike!

Swoosh!

The woman’s arm was severed at the elbow.

Lin Baici powered through his waist, spinning upwards, his legs whipping out like steel flails, striking the monstrous woman repeatedly.

Bang! Bang!

The woman staggered backward from the kicks, then turned and fled.

Lin Baici threw his bronze sword!

Go!

Whoosh!

The bronze sword, casting a greenish shadow under the moonlight, flew past and pierced through the woman’s chest with a thud. However, her vitals were not there; despite being impaled by the sword, she was unharmed but furious.

“My organs!”

The woman was enraged. The beautiful organs she had painstakingly acquired were damaged. Sensing the strength of this human, she realized she couldn’t hunt today and prioritized escape.

She leaped onto the anti-theft net of a first-floor window, then burst through a second-floor window.

Crash!

Glass shards scattered everywhere.

Snap!

Lin Baici caught his bronze sword and sprinted after her.

The woman, like an arrow released from its bow, sped silently through the corridor, ghostly and silent.

Clatter!

A liver fell to the ground.

“My organs!”

The woman turned back, screaming in anguish and rage.

The grudge was now deeply set.

On the fourth floor, in a laboratory, a graduate student staying up late to experiment and write a paper heard the commotion in the hallway. He poked his head out to check and saw a woman rushing past like a whirlwind…

Startled, he tried to hide in the lab, but as soon as he withdrew his head, the woman charged in.

Bang!

The woman collided with the graduate student, and without any visible action, his arms were severed, drawn by an invisible force, and attached to the woman’s limbs.

The woman raised her hand.

Bang!

She crushed the unfortunate soul’s chest, brutally extracting a liver and stuffing it into her mouth.

Crunch! Crunch!

The sound of chewing raw flesh filled the classroom.

Lin Baici arrived to see a bloody corpse thrown at him. Remembering the recent ambush by a corpse, he didn’t hesitate and struck with his sword.

Swoosh!

The graduate student’s head was severed, blood spraying wildly, but his legs, as if alive, kicked towards Lin Baici’s chest. Meanwhile, the head on the ground rolled towards Lin Baici, biting at his shoe.

“If you dare, don’t run!”

Lin Baici taunted.

The woman ignored Lin Baici, smashed through a window, and jumped down.

Lin Baici activated Cat’s Grace, a divine favor that heightened his nervous sensitivity and predatory instincts at night.

With little distance and time, Lin Baici couldn’t switch to locust legs for extra jumping power. He leaped directly onto a nearby sycamore tree, then slid down.

Bang!

Lin Baici landed and chased furiously.

Go!

The bronze sword flew, slicing the woman’s right leg, leaving a huge wound. But as she wasn’t flesh and blood, her speed was unaffected.

“I must take it down quickly!”

Lin Baici’s expression was grave, as the woman was heading towards the brightly lit library. If she got there, many would die.

The woman had exactly that in mind. As long as there were people, she could keep replacing her organs and wear down this human in battle.

Lin Baici took a deep breath and, in a flash, activated his power!

Thump! Thump!

Lin Baici’s feet pounded the ground, sprinting at full speed, and in the blink of an eye, he caught up with the woman, then slapped his hand on her back.

Hand of Great Impression!

The woman turned, spitting out her tongue like a bullet towards Lin Baici’s face, while her newly acquired right hand lashed out at his cheek.

But in that lightning-fast moment, her movements were as slow as a sloth’s, and Lin Baici easily got the upper hand.

Bang!

Lin Baici struck the woman’s back, the immense force sending her plummeting to the ground.

Bang!

The woman hit the ground and disappeared, reduced from three dimensions to two, becoming a mere sticker.

Due to inertia, Lin Baici surged forward another seven meters before stopping. He then turned, panting heavily, to look at the woman.

This was the power of a divine favor gained from devouring a deity—overwhelmingly strong.

Lin Baici didn’t know what this creature was, but seeing it could steal limbs and devour hearts, he worried that weapons wouldn’t kill it. So he opted for the Hand of Great Impression.

Otherwise, if the creature reached the library and spread its rule contamination, the trouble would be immense.

The ground was paved with cement, and now the woman was stuck to it. Lin Baici scraped his foot over it, feeling no unevenness.

Lin Baici took out his phone and called Xia Hongyao.

“I’m at Haijing Medical University. I’ve killed a monster!”

Using the Hand of Great Impression had one problem: it instantly killed the enemy, leaving no chance to interrogate for information. So Lin Baici didn’t know if the monster had companions.

Now he could only hope it acted alone.

The laboratory area was secluded. The woman had smashed two windows and killed a student, but the noise hadn’t been loud, so no one had heard.

When Xia Hongyao and several colleagues from the Security Bureau arrived, the university’s security guards were still clueless about what had happened, following along with bewildered faces.

For convenience, Security Bureau staff carried police badges, so the guards let them through without hesitation.

They thought a student had reported a theft in the dormitory.

But when they reached the scene, they realized something was amiss.

Xia Hongyao saw Lin Baici and immediately checked him over: “Are you hurt?”

Her concern was evident.

“I’m fine,” Lin Baici replied, looking at his colleagues.

“Hello, I’m Luben Yu, head of the Thirteenth Division.”

The speaker was a middle-aged man, around forty, balding, wearing glasses, and his long coat was wrinkled with food stains.

“Hello, Lin Baici!”

Lin Baici was surprised. The divine hunters he had met were all spirited, and even if they were ugly or poorly presented, they were confident and superior due to the divine favors and wealth they possessed. But this division head seemed like a middle-aged man who had given up all hope and was just getting by until retirement.

“I know you. You were recruited by Minister Xia under the special talent clause!”

Luben Yu’s tone was neither friendly nor distant, as if he were just going through the motions. His subordinates, however, looked at Lin Baici as if he were a rare Tyrannosaurus rex.

“Where’s the monster?”

Luben Yu offered Lin Baici a pack of cigarettes.

“Thanks, I don’t smoke!”

Lin Baici declined.

Luben Yu lit one for himself with a match, then surveyed the surroundings before his gaze settled on the sticker-like woman on the ground.

“Where’s the body?”

A young man asked, as they had all donned gloves.

Although the Thirteenth Division’s members were also divine hunters, they were much weaker than average and were responsible for cleanup.

“On the ground!”

Lin Baici, disliking the smell of smoke, moved upwind of Luben Yu.

“On the ground?”

Everyone looked down, searching, but saw nothing. There was a sticker that looked lifelike and somewhat frightening.

But this was a medical university, so such performance art was understandable.

“What kind of divine favor is this?”

Luben Yu was curious. “You can imprint a monster on the ground?”

“What? This sticker is the monster?”

“Holy shit, really?”

“That’s a powerful divine favor!”

Everyone was shocked and came over to examine the monster sticker on the cement floor. Some even tried to scrape it off, but it wouldn’t budge.

“It’s nothing much!”

Lin Baici smiled slightly. He wasn’t familiar with Luben Yu and didn’t feel the need to share with so many strangers around.

Lin Baici was too modest, feeling that these were colleagues, so he didn’t deceive them. Otherwise, he would have said it was the work of a Divine taboo.

“Impressive!”

Luben Yu gave a thumbs-up. “You’re truly someone Minister Xia has her eye on!”

“Chief, how do we handle this?”

His subordinates asked.

They had seen all sorts of corpses and deaths, so they were mentally resilient, but this was something they had never encountered before.

“Scrape up the floor and take it back!”

Luben Yu ordered.

“There’s a body in that lab building, killed by it!”

Lin Baici pointed out.

“Got it!”

Luben Yu glanced at Xia Hongyao. “According to the regulations, you should now return to headquarters and report the situation here.”

“I’ll take him back!”

Xia Hongyao patted Lin Baici’s shoulder, excited. “You resolved it so quickly. You’re truly worthy of being my deputy leader!”

Xia Hongyao spoke loudly, deliberately showing off. She wanted everyone to know she had a formidable deputy leader.

“Not necessarily!”

Lin Baici smiled wryly. He hadn’t felt any hunger, so he suspected this monster was different from the one he encountered during the holiday.

Of course, it was also possible that this monster didn’t bring a Divine taboo on this hunting trip, so Lin Baici didn’t feel any hunger.

After handing over the aftermath to the professionals, Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao returned to the Security Bureau. Lin Baici recounted his experiences of the past few days and wrote a report.

“It’s done. You go back to school and rest. I’ll take this to Minister Xia!”

Xia Hongyao felt that with Lin Baici’s excellence, if she could recruit a few more strong team members, they might qualify to explore the Qin Palace God’s Ruins.

Lin Baici returned to school and resumed his normal college life.

Everyone decided to have a class reunion on Sunday afternoon.

…

Late at night!

Near Haijing Normal University, in an urban village.

A man wearing blue jeans, a gray hoodie, and a hat hurried home, clutching a rectangular box.

After locking the door and drawing the curtains, ensuring no one was spying, the man washed his hands three times with soap, then excitedly opened the box.

Inside was an item over a meter tall, wrapped in black plastic bags. He carefully unwrapped it to reveal a female mannequin.

It was the kind used in stores to display clothes, made of white plastic with very vague features.

But to the man, it was a treasure. He caressed it from head to toe, playing with it for three hours until dawn. Then he carefully wrapped it up again and carried it to another bedroom.

Opening the door, the room was filled with similarly wrapped mannequins, standing densely and eerily.

The man found a spot and placed the mannequin in the lineup: “From today, you’re my wife number 89!”

After locking the door, the man brushed his teeth, washed his face, and lay down to rest for a while before continuing his search for new wives. But after lying down for a bit, he suddenly sat up.

Something’s wrong!

Where’s my main wife?

Did she run away from home?

The man panicked and began searching, following the scent left by his main wife to Haijing Medical University.

He stood in the distance, looking at the spot where the woman had eaten the wild cat. He wanted to enter the lab building but found it sealed. Soon, he arrived at the place where Lin Baici had killed the woman.

“My wife was killed?”

The man was furious. Who did this?I must have my revenge!

But the pressing matter at hand is to quickly find myself another wife.

…

For three consecutive days, Lin Baici did nothing but attend classes and practice driving. In the evenings, he went to Gu Qingxiang’s house to learn Korean, until Thursday, when he received a call from Xia Hongyao.

“The medical university’s teaching anatomical models have gone missing in large numbers, and several corpses in the morgues of the three nearby hospitals have had their organs stolen.”

Xia Hongyao was frustrated; she thought the case was closed, but the culprit was still at large.

“Has there been any loss of life?”

Lin Baici stepped out of the classroom with the phone in hand.

“No!”

That’s also why the Security Bureau hadn’t sent their elite agents; because so far, only four people had died.

“What’s this guy doing stealing organs all the time?”

Lin Baici couldn’t understand. Surely it wasn’t for hotpot?

“I plan to stake out the morgue and catch the thief!”

Xia Hongyao suggested.

“That’s too much of a gamble. What if the culprit doesn’t show up?”

Lin Baici pondered for a moment: “All these strange incidents have occurred near the Medical University and Haijing Normal University. Check if there have been any unusual topics at these two schools recently!”

After giving Xia Hongyao a few instructions, Lin Baici returned to the classroom, grabbed his backpack, bent over, and slipped out the back door.

“Old Bai, what are you doing? Skipping class again?”

Liu Yu shouted.

Whoosh!

Everyone turned their heads to look at Lin Baici.

Lin Baici was now a prominent figure in his freshman year, with a considerable reputation, so he attracted a lot of attention.