"Dad, why do you always sit there eating in a daze every time we go camping? Come fly a kite with me."

Green grass,

Hunter looked ahead and saw the tent and the camping mat, saw his wife and mother-in-law chatting, and saw the little boy holding a kite, waving at him.

When he instinctively wanted to get closer,

a voice pierced through the scene,

"At such an important examination site, are you still daydreaming, Mr. Hunter?"

The scene before Hunter's eyes reverted to the school playground. He didn't rush to look up but instead used his fingers to pull open his collar and looked at his own body.

Due to prolonged fasting, not only had his abs disappeared, but they had also sunken inward, with the outline of his ribs clearly visible.

Most importantly, the little boy who should have been in the chest area was also nowhere to be seen.

It seemed just as he said, due to unbearable hunger, his whole family had gone to sleep.

It even felt like Hunter had already lost the title of the[Carnivorous Family], standing here was only him alone.

After confirming the state of his body, Hunter slowly raised his head to look at his examiner, a young human he had once seen in Corner.

Despite not eating meat, Hunter's sense of taste improved significantly.

He could smell the scent on Yu Ze, which was quite different from when he first came to Corner.

"You've changed a lot."

Yu Ze scratched his head, looking relaxed, "I owe this to you, Mr. Hunter. I once thought too highly of myself, and came close to dying on the day I met you.

After that incident, I reflected and did a lot of soul-searching.

Finally, today I got the chance to try again.

I originally thought that the next time I meet you, it would be a true life-and-death duel. Who would have thought, the landscape of Corner has changed, and you've ended up here."

Hunter observed Yu Ze's relaxed demeanor and quietly commented, "Your competitiveness is strong."

Yu Ze's smile gradually faded as he softly replied, "Aren't you the same?"

"Yes."

"Shall we begin, then?"

"Bring it on."

Teacher Guo indicated the start of the examination early, the dialogue above was a kind of reminiscing.

Yu Ze gently waved his hand, and innumerable yellow talismans floated down.

Except for Luo Di, all the monsters present, including the teachers, felt uncomfortable seeing such talismans—a simple psychological repulsion.

This was not a power from Corner, but an effect from the world Yu Ze connected to, specifically a method for suppressing evil beings.

Coincidentally,

Monsters were also within the category of so-called evil beings, such talismans had excellent suppressive effects. This was the very reason Yu Ze, even as an adolescent, was chosen to join the Special Action Group.

Yet Hunter remained still, and he showed no aversion to the approaching talismans.

He even looked up at the yellow papers descending from the sky, his thoughts drifting to the past.

His family was inside an entirely sealed, abandoned factory, with many worried humans present as well.

A Monster Avatar, with a huge bloody mouth on its abdomen, floated in the air, scattering a slew of white paper. The message on the white paper spelled out their chances of survival.

'There's no food here. You must survive the next hundred days here, and I'll guard outside. Anyone attempting to escape will become free food for the others.

After a hundred days, I'll open the doors, and you can leave.'

...

Pop!

While Hunter gazed upward, a yellow talisman happened to stick to his forehead.

Following that, more talismans adhered to him. The talismans took effect, suppressing the evil entity.

Yu Ze's previously relaxed demeanor changed,

he approached, wielding a copper coin sword,

while advancing, he bit his finger, spreading the blood on the sword's surface.

When he got within striking distance,

he thrust his sword,

the copper coin sword seemed about to pierce through the opponent's body.

Buzz!

Space warped,

Clink~ blood-stained copper coins fell all over the ground,

half of Yu Ze's body vanished, the wound on his waist and abdomen showed visible bite marks.

The talismans that had clung to Hunter gradually lost their efficacy and fell off, though what he was chewing didn't seem quite right.

He spat out,

a paper doll with "Yu" written on it was expelled onto the ground.

Raising his eyes, he saw Yu Ze still standing at the initial position, looking at him with some puzzlement:

"Hunter, why are you in such a passive state? This isn't like you at all. Back when I encountered you on the shallow layers of Corner, you were extremely proactive.

I also simulated many battles with you, your bites always targeted me first.

What exactly are you thinking? It feels like you're still distracted.

If that's the case, I wonder if there's a way to snap you out of it."

Yu Ze suddenly took out a bronze casting bell, and after a shake, several sinister, rotten hands emerged from the ground where the yellow talisman had fallen before.

Immediately,

more than a dozen zombies refined from different monsters dug their way out of the earth, with the yellow talisman just pasted on their foreheads.

These zombies all inherit the physical bodies they had in life.

Jingling~ The bell rang, and all the zombies immediately surrounded from different directions.

However,

Hunter still didn't make any move. He looked at the zombies attacking him. For some reason, he fell into memories once again, as if it were mandatory, unable to stop it.

[Abandoned factory, day five]

Some of the weaker elderly had already died of starvation.

In the face of severe hunger and inability to escape, the desire for food gradually began to break through moral boundaries, and the corpses became the only option.

Too many monks and too little gruel.

After hunger was first satisfied, some people's eyes turned red.

They began to look at others in the factory and soon noticed Hunter's family because they had a frail elderly member already on the brink of death.

This was the reason,

they gathered around,

waiting for the elderly to die,

and unable to bear hunger, someone even began making restless movements, wanting the old man to die quickly.

...

"Is this guy distracted again? What exactly did he experience before coming to Vortex Town?"

Yu Ze didn't view Carnivorous Family as disrespecting him, but rather sensed that the other party seemed to be undergoing some kind of change.

Continuing to shake the bell, jingle jingle!

These zombies were all monsters Yu Ze had beheaded in the Corner, intentionally preserving their complete bodies, transformed into zombies using the Corpse Refining Technique he learned from the Connect World.

The refining process allowed him to enhance his spell comprehension, deepen his understanding of monsters and fear, and gain such excellent guards, a threefold benefit.

Currently,

these zombies were activated to their maximum potential under the effect of the talisman, surrounding Hunter from all sides and about to bite.

Yu Ze was momentarily stunned,

supposed to be a hundred meters away, surrounded by zombies, Hunter was already standing right in front of him.

The bell had been snatched away and crushed in a single grasp.

Hunter, whose gaze had been somewhat dazed and confused, now seemed like a different person: "Do you also like to manipulate others? Pretending to be superior, treating the weak as your pawns."

Before Yu Ze could respond, he sensed some huge danger approaching.

Buzz ~ a tinnitus echoed.

His head was already in Hunter's mouth,

and not just that,

the enormous oral cavity was stuffed with dozens of identical Yu Ze heads, but soon, these heads lost energy, transforming into tattered paper figures.

On the playground,

all the yellow talismans that had descended from the sky were bitten, leaving teeth marks.

Yu Ze's true body was hidden in the dark by the High-level Invisibility Talisman, a drop of cold sweat dripped down because all his arranged paper figures had their heads bitten off in that moment.

There was no substitute left,

no more probing possible,

startled.

An invisible mouth had already approached Yu Ze from behind.

A bite… crack!

Hunter's expression changed slightly, then spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm, mixed with a few tooth fragments.

It was as if he had bitten something harder than his tooth's hardness, triggering a resurgence of past memories.

[Abandoned factory - day fifteen]

Hunter was gnawing on an attacker's corpse, too agitated to notice the bones, and accidentally broke a tooth on the opponent's rather hard thigh bone.

For some unknown reason, he felt no pain at all, blood and tears mixed, continuously sliding from the corner of his mouth.

The fragments of memory quickly ended,

When Hunter looked again, Yu Ze had already changed somewhat.

The Daoist Robe was completely chewed to pieces,

revealing his upper body, tattooed with countless words, in a dark golden hue. The material used for these tattoos seemed to be some kind of gold powder, similar to the dust enveloping Vortex Town.

And these texts were precisely the "Diamond Sutra".

A bite before had left blood-seeping teeth marks on the back, but it did not damage the overall integrity.

Yu Ze took off his sunglasses, loosened his hair, steadied his stance, and assumed a Tai Chi starting position.

"Come on."

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