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Yan Junze didn't even know how many times he had smashed down, but at some point, he couldn't even lift the mallet anymore.

Fortunately, with every strike, it felt like he hit the target, and that thing couldn't flee like it did before.

Panting heavily, Yan Junze turned on the light in the outer room and plopped down on the couch, placing the mallet beside him.

However, he suddenly felt something was off. Looking down, he saw the mallet had actually deformed! The side that got hit the worst during the smashing was the most distorted, and not only that, the surface of the mallet even started to show signs of cracking.

"Damn it, this won't do!"

Just when he thought he had found a comfortable weapon against the strangenesses, Yan Junze found himself speechless at this moment.

Gold's hardness isn't enough. It looks like he'll need to refine it into an alloy with other metals to enhance its hardness if he gets the chance in the future, probably for a better effect.

Of course, this had the most direct connection with the Black Spirit Bead melted inside it. If the bead were melded into a dagger, the dagger could also be powerful.

But if you're talking about the thrill of bashing strangenesses, using this kind of mallet feels more satisfying.

We'll talk about that later. After all, this was his first time taking on a strangeness with a mallet, so noticing the shortcomings early and making targeted improvements was best.

And now, the creature on the floor had been so thoroughly battered that even its own mother wouldn't recognize it. After such relentless pounding, if it still wasn't dead, Yan Junze was ready to let this strangeness pose for a photo shoot, being as bold as possible.

Yan Junze picked up the camera he had thrown onto the couch earlier, snapped a picture of the ground, then glanced at it and shivered, shaking his head. The scene was so gruesome he couldn't bear to look directly at it.

"Come out, it's okay now!" Yan Junze called to the person inside the bedroom as he set down the camera.

The door to the bedroom opened a crack. Gu Bai didn't come out right away. Instead, he peeked out for a moment before opening the door. As he stepped out, he looked around timidly and cautiously before standing in front of Yan Junze.

Yan Junze spoke up first, "Let's not talk about other things first. Which company installed your bedroom door? Give me their contact number when you have time."

Gu Bai was stunned, not understanding why Yan Junze suddenly brought up the door, then asked in astonishment, "Where's the strangeness? Did it get away?"

"No," Yan Junze shook his head.

"Where is it?" Gu Bai hurriedly looked towards the dark room.

"You might be stepping on its hand," Yan Junze pointed underneath Gu Bai's feet.

"Ah shit!"

Gu Bai jumped in fright, leaping aside and looking at the empty floor.

"Use this," Yan Junze handed him the camera.
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At that moment, Lin Meng also walked out from the house, trembling with fear in the same manner as Gu Bai when he came out.

Approaching Gu Bai, he aimed the camera at the spot where he had just been standing and took a picture.

From this angle, it seemed even closer and clearer.

Then he lifted the camera, looking at the small screen in the middle.

Contrary to Yan Junze's expectation, just one glance made Gu Bai's eyes roll back as he collapsed, going limp.

What surprised Yan Junze even more was that Lin Meng, who was standing beside him, not only had an incredible resilience, with nothing happening to her but also grabbed the camera from Gu Bai's hands the moment he started to fall.

Right, she didn't protect her husband; her first instinct was to safeguard her beloved camera.

Only after Gu Bai hit the floor did Lin Meng remember about him. She quickly knelt down to help him, and with Yan Junze's assistance, they laid Gu Bai on the couch, where he finally came around.

Yan Junze pointed to the ground, "This guy should be out of commission. I'll keep an eye on it, and if there's no reaction by tomorrow morning, it should be over."

As he finished speaking, a task alert popped up in his mind.

[Photographing, Trembling with Fear (Medium), completed. You have received 700 points of Different Dimensional Energy.]

Two more nodes in the Atlas were illuminated, reaching a total of 30, and the accumulated Different Dimensional Energy was now 4,400 points, allowing for a Rewind time span of 440 minutes.

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"Give me the camera." After seeing the mission completion prompt, Yan Junze asked Lin Meng for the camera and took another picture of the ground.

Looking at the photo, he saw that the voyeuristic maniac who had resembled a puddle of mud a moment ago was now gradually evaporating and vanishing, piece by piece. The image even captured his body slowly dissolving.

He handed the camera to Gu Bai, who had regained consciousness.

"It's over, this guy is completely finished," Yan Junze said, "I'll be leaving at dawn."

Gu Bai dared not look at the photos and passed the camera to his wife. He sat up from the sofa, his face full of gratitude, "I really can't thank you enough for this time."

"Yeah, no problem," Yan Junze shook his head and then picked up the deformed mallet.

Gu Bai glanced at it, shocked, "Did you use this thing to hit that guy?! Where... where... did you bring it from?"

"I've always had it hidden in my crotch," Yan Junze laughed, "but it's just not hard enough."

Gu Bai's eyes widened as he took a look at Yan Junze's pants, as if measuring the length of the trouser leg with his eyes, then said, "I can solve this problem. I can combine some metals and non-metals in the mixture to melt them together, increasing its hardness. That way, it won't be less effective than high-strength alloys."

"That would be perfect," Yan Junze mulled to himself, "With the Black Spirit Pearl not being very powerful, I'll have to rely on the mallet's hardness to seek the strength and satisfaction of beating strangenesses."

As the saying goes, when capability falls short, hardness comes to compensate.

However, Yan Junze estimated that even if the mallet's hardness were further increased, at best it would only pose a threat to Wandering Spirits, and that would still require him to be fully energized.

If faced with a strangeness like Resentful Granny or anything above a Semi-Sculpting Spirit, even wielding the mallet wouldn't stop him from being thoroughly done for.

The three of them talked for a while, and after confirming that the voyeuristic maniac had been eliminated, Lin Meng went to the darkroom to completely clear out all the half-eaten photos.

At that moment, she finally dared to enter the darkroom alone.

But after only a short while, Lin Meng came out with a dark expression, biting her lower lip tightly, and handed a stack of photos to Gu Bai.

Yan Junze curiously leaned in to take a look, immediately felt his face heat up, and averted his gaze.

"I don't know when these were taken, but they seem to be all of me," Lin Meng said softly.

These photos appeared to be taken inside the bedding, from various difficult angles, and even included close-ups.

"Damn it, even in death as a strangeness, he really got what he deserved!" Yan Junze thought to himself.

The couple felt embarrassed and quickly returned to their bedroom. Whether they could sleep was uncertain, but not long after they entered, Yan Junze fell asleep on the sofa.

He slept until morning and after arranging a time to remake the mallet with Gu Bai, Yan Junze left Lion Awakening Road and returned to the FH Community.

After eating something, he took another rest and then got up to read for a while, reviewing the important knowledge points.

For the next period, Yan Junze didn't plan to take on any more missions; he would wait until after the college entrance examination.

Of course, he would still regularly visit Aunt Mei in the underground garage and bring some "local specialties" or the like. Yan Junze had a hunch that maintaining a good relationship with this strangeness could bring benefits to himself.

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In Great Capital, Tianyi District.

Beside an ordinary street, within an old stone arch, this place was once the courtyard of a landlord, later converted into residential buildings. Now the residents here are mostly older, with few young people to be seen.

On the top floor of the innermost residential building, on the fifth floor, there sat a young man in the middle of a room. He wore a headset with a microphone and in front of him were a computer and a simple wooden desk.

At this moment, he was busily clicking the mouse, switching the computer screen, and the 16:9 monitor displayed at least four different backgrounds from simultaneous streams.

In one of the scenes, the Back-faced Woman and Lv Xin, whose chest was protruding the head of Resentful Granny and who was in the midst of battle, were playing out.

The room was extremely dark, not due to poor lighting, but because the curtains were all drawn, only allowing slivers of light to filter through, leaving half of the young man's face shrouded in darkness.

"I went through some connections on the platform to get this video," the young man spoke smoothly, his expression calm, showing no hint of surprise or fear, "That young man's name is Lv Xin, previously he followed my lessons online from the USA. Like you, he possesses a special constitution that is outstanding and has reached the Spirit-Nurturing stage, but he was exposed too soon."

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