F-class thief? Sorry, I can steal anything.

Chapter 393 The Holy Cult Surrounds the Sky, the Cheat Team Begins the Battle

"Now that you've shown up..."

"Then there's no need for the Holy Church to remain hidden any longer."

As soon as the Holy Lord finished speaking, all the alarms at the bottom of the sky went off simultaneously.

Bai Zhi's screen flashed seven or eight times, with red windows filling the entire screen.

"Maintenance level number seven has been breached!"

"An old energy well has been invaded!"

"Contamination reaction detected in abandoned interrogation area!"

"And...and three hundred meters below the main elevator shaft, someone crawled out of the wall!"

Shenhou smashed the oncoming silk thread with his stick, almost laughing in anger at those words.

"Crawling out from inside the wall?"

"Is the sky a sieve?!"

Bai Zhi's fingers tapped rapidly, the sound growing increasingly urgent.

"It wasn't opened up temporarily."

"Coordinates have been buried in these channels long ago. They don't usually show any energy reaction, and even the Celestial Self-Check can't detect them."

"Only after the World Engine locked out professional privileges and the Celestial Array was downgraded did they collectively awaken!"

Wang Qingyun, with a cigarette burning with grayish-blue veins between his fingers, stood in front of the old blockade without turning around.

"How long ago was it buried?"

Bai Zhi pulled up the old records, her fingers pausing for a moment.

"The earliest set of coordinates... seventeen years ago."

Shenhou paused in his movements.

The rat also raised its head.

Seventeen years ago.

After Yanlong stepped down, Chenlong took over.

Chenlong lay on the ground, his chest heaving more heavily.

"It wasn't me."

Shenhou glanced down at him.

"Your words have no value now."

Chenlong gritted his teeth and remained silent.

Chen Yifan raised his hand and tore off another piece of dark green rune from the edge of the crack, throwing it to the nearest black-armored figure.

"Stop investigating."

"They're already at the door, let's attack them first."

No sooner had he finished speaking than the metal door of the maintenance corridor on the left side of the ground floor suddenly bulged open.

The next second, the entire door was smashed open from the inside.

The first group of heretics from the Holy Church rushed in.

They still retain human form; some have insect wings growing from their backs, some have half their faces covered by bone shells, and some have their chests split open, with a row of tiny arms squeezing out from inside.

There are no professional lighting effects.

There are no skill prompts.

There were also no fluctuations in the World Engine panel.

They stepped through the shattered door into the lower level, their external energy surging, directly bypassing the class lock-on.

The leader's neck had been modified into three sections. He shook his head and glanced at Shenhou and the black-armored man from the Ministry of Punishments.

"The lamplighter?"

"Without system authorization, what do you have left?"

He raised the bone blade, his voice shrill and piercing.

"A pack of hounds with their teeth pulled."

Shenhou looked down at the long staff in his hand.

The dark green runes that Chen Yifan had just branded onto the staff were still glowing.

He looked up.

Who did you just insult?

The heretic from the Holy Church laughed.

"The dog that had its tooth pulled."

boom!

The monkey-like people had already rushed out.

no skills.

There are no job bonuses.

It means to swing.

The long staff, covered in dark green runes, slammed down, and the heretic raised his bone blade to block it.

The bone blade broke in half upon contact with the staff.

The next blow struck him directly in the chest.

boom!

The person was thrown out and crashed into the wall behind them, half of their body embedded in the metal layer, their bones shattered everywhere.

Shenhou shook his numb hands.

"The teeth are gone, but the stick is still here."

He turned and yelled at the black-armored man behind him.

"What are you all standing there for?"

"If they won't accept skills, then chop them up with a knife!"

The officers in black armor from the Ministry of Punishments pressed forward in unison.

After losing their professional privileges, they moved much slower, and their armor lost its energy support.

However, the broken knives, shields, and iron rods in their hands were all illuminated by the heretical runes that Chen Yifan had given them.

The second heretic from the Holy Church lunged forward, his rotting flesh armor withstanding three swords, and with a backhand, he tore open the shoulder armor of one of the black-armored figures.

The man in black armor grunted but didn't retreat.

The two people next to them immediately filled in.

"Hold him down!"

"Cut off his neck!"

"There are green spots on her neck!"

Three enchanted daggers stabbed down at the same time.

The external path node in the neck of the ascetic was pierced, and his body convulsed instantly, with pieces of rotten flesh and armor falling off.

Chen Yifan raised his hand and grabbed at the air.

"Stealing everything."

He forcibly dug that external node out of the other's body, and it was still throbbing in his palm.

He flicked his finger.

The node landed on the wounded man in black armor's blade.

The dark green veins on the blade suddenly intensified.

"Give it a try."

The man in black armor, panting heavily, gripped his sword with both hands and slashed horizontally.

puff!

The rotten armor that was previously impossible to cut through was now cleaved in half by this single strike.

The man in black armor paused for a moment.

Shenhou yelled from the side, "What are you standing there for? We've given you the cheat code, and you still can't kill it?"

Black Armor reacted and slashed down with a second strike.

The heretics of the Holy Church fell to the ground, their bodies turning into black ash.

"We can kill them!"

"Nodes can break their armor!"

"Chen Yifan! Give me another one!"

The shouts suddenly increased.

Chen Yifan stood in the middle of the battle line, his right hand constantly rising and falling.

Each time they made a move, a heretical node within the body of a heretic of the Holy Cult would be forcibly dismantled.

These nodes are far coarser than the power of the Lord.

They don't have that much self-protection.

There is no complicated causal disguise.

To him, it was like a lock that had already been broken once.

It takes a lot of effort.

But it can be opened.

"Rat (子鼠)".

Chen Yifan sent over a compressed node.

Zishu caught it and looked down at his old-fashioned short gun.

"The magazine is about to give out."

"Then don't fire in quick succession."

The mouse pressed the node into the gun barrel, and dark green patterns appeared on the surface of the barrel.

He raised his gun.

boom!

A dark green bullet pierced the knee of an outsider at the end of the corridor. Instead of flying away after penetrating, the bullet exploded inside the knee, directly exposing the internal nodes.

The rat was slightly taken aback.

"This thing can even pinpoint weaknesses?"

Chen Yifan replied as he disassembled the device.

"You're a good shot, don't blame it on cheating."

Shenhou laughed and scolded, "This is the first time in his life that someone has praised his marksmanship. He probably won't be able to sleep tonight."

The mouse is reloading.

"If there is still night."

Shenhou swung his stick and knocked two outsiders flying.

"Stop spouting such unlucky things!"

"The sky won't fall until I've crippled Chenlong!"

Chenlong lay on the ground, his breathing becoming even more erratic.

"Shenhou, you..."

Shenhou stepped on the polluting silk thread that was extending from the side.

"Shut up."

"I'll interrogate you later."

Bai Zhi finally connected the first batch of outer path nodes into the offline array.

The remote projections around her were flashing violently, and the sound of cables exploding came from the real location.

"Traction node access".

"The attached nodes are stable."

"Reverse encapsulation of eroded nodes..."

She coughed twice, and a few drops of blood appeared on the screen.

The message from the Rabbit immediately came in.

"Bai Zhi, move to technical position number two."

"We will not withdraw."

Bai Zhi gritted her teeth and reconnected the charred cable.

"Technical position 2 does not have a manual bus."

"I can directly modify the old sealing layer here."

Hearing the commotion, Shenhou took a moment to curse.

"Little White, don't burn yourself to death!"

Bai Zhi didn't even raise her head.

"If you kill two fewer people, I'll have an easier time!"

The Monkey King was delighted.

"Okay, you still have the energy to curse, then it's fine."

The next second, the gray-white patterns on the outer edge of the old sealing layer lit up again.

It's not the same stable lighting effect as before.

It's a mess.

One section is bright, the other is dark.

But it did withstand the continued erosion of the Holy Church's coordinates.

Bai Zhi's voice trembled, but she couldn't suppress her excitement.

"It's done!"

"Outer nodes can serve as temporary power supply cores!"

"Chen Yifan, keep dismantling! I can weave them into the old containment layer!"

The Rabbit side also began issuing new orders.

After losing her professional privileges, she never mentioned automatic arrays again, nor did she call up the system panel.

All commands were changed to the most basic human password.

"Punishment Department Team Three, retreat to the outer perimeter of the old energy well and seal off the east gate."

"The remaining personnel in the interrogation area, take purely physical firearms to the abandoned interrogation area."

"Do not attempt to retake the maintenance level; instead, blow up the connecting bridges No. 7 and No. 9."

One of the judges couldn't help but interject.

"Rabbit, blowing up the connecting bridge will trap the people inside!"

The Rabbit pauses for half a second.

Are there any living people inside?

Bai Zhi quickly scanned it.

"No signs of life."

"Then let's bomb it."

Silence fell on the other end of the channel.

Soon, two muffled thuds came from afar.

The passageway to maintenance level 7 collapsed.

A group of heretics from that direction were buried.

But the sky is too big.

The Holy Church has laid too many coordinates.

A new intrusion alert popped up in the direction of the old energy well.

Chen Yifan's fingers were already trembling slightly as he dismantled the thirty-seventh outer channel node.

The Stealing of Everything skill is indeed powerful without any cooldown period.

But every time it is dismantled, there is a backflow of pollution.

The Purple Gold Pagoda can suppress, but it doesn't consume things out of thin air.

Chen Yifan shook his stiff fingers and was just about to change positions when Wang Qingyun suddenly walked past him.

Old Wang's chest was still bleeding.

The cigarette in his hand burned down to half its original length, and the gray-blue dragon pattern crawled into the deepest part of the old blockade layer with the smoke.

He walked step by step toward the stargate safety line.

Chen Yifan frowned.

"Where are you going?"

Wang Qingyun didn't stop.

"The fracture is about to break."

"The white gardenia is used to fill the outer ring, but the inner layer needs to be pressed down."

Chen Yifan raised his hand to stop him.

"In your current state, you'd be risking your life to survive."

Wang Qingyun turned her head to look at him.

That face, which had been slacking off at the Jiangcheng Police Station, was now devoid of laziness, only showing signs of exhaustion.

"You guard the living."

"I'm keeping old debts."

Chen Yifan tightened his grip.

This sentence was spoken very softly.

So lightly that even Shen Hou didn't dare to respond.

Wang Qingyun pressed Chen Yifan's hand down and added in a low voice.

"Don't shout."

Chen Yifan's throat moved, but he only managed to utter two words.

"Don't pretend."

Wang Qingyun coughed.

"Why imitate my stubbornness?"

After he finished speaking, he walked alone to the broken section of the old blockade and pressed his hand on it.

Grayish-blue dragon patterns flowed from his palm.

The dark purple edge of the crack, which was about to widen, was forcefully pushed back.

The Holy Lord watched this scene from outside the Star Gate, his tone turning somber.

"Wang Qingyun".

"You dare touch the ashes of the previous era?"

Wang Qingyun, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, mumbled a reply.

"Is it any of your business?"

The Holy Lord raised his hand.

In the decaying sea of ​​stars, hundreds and thousands of heretical sects from the Holy Church pressed forward simultaneously.

Beyond the bottom cracks, more insect wings, bone blades, and rotting flesh armor clung to the sealing layer.

The alarm went off again over Bai Zhi's side.

"The second wave is here!"

"The number is at least five times that of the first wave!"

"Even the old energy wells can't hold up!"

Shenhou, carrying a long stick, spat a mouthful of blood onto the ground.

"Black Armor, follow me to the front!"

"Rat, kick its leg!"

"Chen Yifan, dismantle the node!"

Chen Yifan raised his right hand, revealing a circle of dark green nodes on his palm.

"Use it sparingly."

"After this battle, I won't cover any after-sales service."

One of the men in black armor couldn't help but call out, "Captain Chen, can I pay on credit?"

Chen Yifan was stunned for half a second.

Shenhou laughed first.

"Well done, kid, you have a team now?"

Chen Yifan flicked a node onto the black armor shield.

"buy on credit."

"I'll pay for it if I survive."

The man in black armor nodded vigorously, raised his shield, and charged out.

The second wave of heretics from the Holy Church crashed into the defenses.

This time, they were clearly smarter.

The front row of rotten flesh armor held firm, while the rear row of insect-winged outer paths bypassed from above, and the bone-bladed outer paths drilled towards the base of the formation, specifically targeting the connection point between Chen Yifan and Bai Zhi.

The rat fired three shots, knocking down two insect wings.

The third one had already pounced on his head.

The mouse didn't have time to reload.

A black-armored figure lunged forward, using an enchanted broken shield to ram the insect-winged creature, deflecting it.

Bone spurs tore open his breastplate.

He grunted and grabbed the other's wing roots with his other hand.

"beat!"

Zishu raised his hand and drew a short knife, the handle still bearing the knot that Chen Yifan had just affixed.

puff!

The short knife pierced the wing root.

The node exploded, and half of the insect's outer body went out of control.

The rat finished the job, shattering the node on the chest.

The outer path collapsed.

Zishu looked at the man in black armor.

Thanks.

Black Armor clutched his chest.

"I used to find your censorship section annoying."

The mouse is reloading.

"And now?"

"Still annoying."

The mouse nodded.

That means you haven't been contaminated.

On the other side, Shenhou had gone on a killing spree.

Without professional skills, his fighting style became even more aggressive.

If the long stick breaks off, use the short stick to hit it.

The short stick is bent, then the outer bone blade is snatched.

Chen Yifan kept burning the outer nodes of his staff, and the patterns on the staff changed layer after layer.

"Come!"

"Who just mentioned hunting dogs?"

"Come here and call him that again!"

A tall, heretical figure emerged from behind the crowd, with four deformed heads slung over his shoulders.

He grabbed his companion's corpse, swallowed the node in the chest, and his body swelled up.

"Shen Monkey".

"The Holy Lord said that your bones are suitable to be a flagpole."

Shenhou raised his stick and pointed it at him.

"Did the Holy Lord say that your head is suitable to be used as a chamber pot?"

The ground beneath the assailant's feet exploded, and he charged forward instantly.

They were faster than everyone in the first wave.

Just as Shen Hou was about to meet him, Chen Yifan suddenly raised his hand.

"Don't try to take it head-on!"

Everything steals and locks onto the opponent's chest.

But this time, as soon as the ring got hot, the node inside the outer path body spontaneously split into seven.

Chen Yifan frowned.

"It's designed to be tamper-proof?"

The Lord's voice came from behind the crack.

"You're too good at stealing, I have to teach them something."

The tall, imposing figure had already rushed up to Shen Hou.

Shenhou could only raise his stick to block.

boom!

He was knocked back more than ten steps, his feet leaving two furrows in the ground.

"Something's not right with this thing!"

Chen Yifan stared at the seven nodes, his right finger ring burning painfully.

Six of them were actively drawing upon his power to steal.

Only one ripple was shrinking back.

"behind."

Chen Yifan lowered his voice.

"It hides the true node on the spine."

Bai Zhi amplified the energy waveform of the tall outer channel almost simultaneously.

"confirm!"

"The third vertebra!"

Chen Yifan stomped his foot and activated the Void Shuttle.

With a flash, he appeared behind the tall, imposing figure.

The outsider reacted quickly, and bone spurs popped out from his back.

Chen Yifan grabbed two bone spurs with his left hand, and his palm was pierced.

Press your right hand onto the third vertebra of your spine.

"Gotcha!"

Steal everything!

A dark green node was forcibly pulled out.

The tall, outsider's movements froze on the spot.

Shenhou seized the opportunity and swung the broken stick at his head.

boom!

The four deformed heads, along with the original head, exploded together.

Shenhou, panting heavily, turned and shouted at Baizhi:

"Xiao Bai, well done!"

Bai Zhi didn't reply.

All that remained in the communication was harsh static.

Chen Yifan's expression changed.

"White gardenia?"

A few seconds later, Bai Zhi's voice came again, filled with barely suppressed panic.

"I'm fine."

"But... when we were dismantling its node just now, the mouse sent back an old identification code."

The rat was squatting beside a heretic he had killed.

He used his dagger to cut open the rotting flesh on the other man's chest and pulled out a piece of metal that had been soaked in blood.

Half of an old emblem can still be seen on the metal sheet.

After a moment of silence, the mouse transmitted the image to the public channel.

Everyone saw it.

It was a tattered old team emblem.

The edge is engraved with a number.

【J-07】

Shenhou's smile vanished instantly.

Wang Qingyun's hand, which was resting on the sealed layer, paused slightly.

Zishu stared at the fragment, his voice low.

"Old Wang."

"In your old unit, besides you, who else is still alive?"