In his dream, Baili Pangpang, in his soul form, slowly opened his eyes.
"Haaah~~~Yawn~~~"
He stretched lazily, smacked his lips, and muttered to himself in a state of half-asleep, somewhat puzzled:
"Why did I sleep so comfortably today...? Didn't the instructor blow the whistle?"
"Um?"
"Where is this?"
He finally regained full consciousness, looked at his own soul stuck in the spider web, and then at the other struggling souls of the recruits around him, a deep sense of confusion appearing in his eyes...
What the heck is this?
How did he get here?
He scratched his head; even if he was slow to react, he now realized that something was wrong.
"A mental trap?" Baili Pangpang muttered to himself, then shook his head. "No, if it were a mental trap, the [firewall] should automatically resist it. This isn't an offensive mental trap; this is..."
Baili Pangpang tugged hard at his hand, but found that he couldn't break free from the spider web at all. He was floating in mid-air, and could clearly see the new recruits coming and going in the training camp, but the new recruits below seemed to be unable to see his existence.
"A spiritual forbidden realm capable of stripping away the soul?" Baili Pangpang asked with some surprise. "These kinds of forbidden realms are rare... Never mind, let's leave first."
He channeled his spiritual power into a black ring on his right index finger. Although he was in a soul form and his clothes were all materialized phantoms, and forbidden items like the [Free Space] would not appear on him, the ring seemed to be attached to his soul form, completely unrestricted.
"Since it's a soul, this thing should be effective." Baili Pangpang muttered, and a black blade of light shot out from his fingertip. "A forbidden item, [Soul-Severing Blade]."
With a flick of his finger, the black light blade easily sliced through the spiderweb binding his soul. His soul floated lightly down from the spider silk, and then he felt a powerful suction force coming from the direction of his physical body, and he drifted rapidly towards it...
At the same time, the spider boy who was sleeping on the warehouse spider web suddenly screamed!
"Ouch! It hurts so much... Who is it?! I just wanted to get some sleep in peace, why are they hitting me?"
He sat up from the spider web with a pitiful expression, his red eyes shining brightly once more as he saw Baili Pangpang's soul returning to his body, and the corner of the spider web that had been cut off from his own body.
"Oh no, this fat guy can hurt my [Soul Weaver]... This is terrible, what should I do..."
The Spider Boy sat on the soft bed of spider silk, looking distressed. After pondering for a long time, he shook his head violently, adopting a "what's the use of trying" expression.
"Whatever, whatever, let it be. Going back to sleep!"
He hummed in agreement, lay back down on the soft bed, and closed his eyes contentedly...
A dormitory building.
Baili Pangpang, who was lying on the bed like a dead pig, grunted twice and slowly opened his eyes.
He stared blankly at the ceiling for several seconds, then suddenly sat bolt upright in bed. "Holy crap, there's a monster!"
He turned to look at Lin Qiye's bed, only to find it empty. He glanced down at the Rolex in his hand, then put on his slippers and ran outside.
As soon as he opened the door, he saw Shen Qingzhu returning from the cafeteria.
When Shen Qingzhu saw Baili Pangpang run out, he was first stunned, then opened his mouth wide in shock and exclaimed:
"You, how could you..."
Baili Pangpang looked around, frowned, and asked, "What's going on? What happened?"
Shen Qingzhu didn't rush to answer Baili Pangpang's question. Instead, he ran to several dormitories to make sure everyone else was still asleep before looking at Baili Pangpang with surprise.
"Here's what happened..."
Shen Qingzhu briefly explained what had happened to Baili Pangpang, who nodded thoughtfully.
"No wonder. It seems the other unconscious people, like me before, had their souls stuck to that giant spider web..."
"How are they?" Shen Qingzhu asked anxiously.
"It's nothing, they're just trapped. I can save them," Baili Pangpang said with a shrug.
"You can save them?" Shen Qingzhu asked excitedly. "Really?"
"Do you think I'm lying?"
"How should we save him?"
"I have my own way." Baili Pangpang smiled smugly, took out a monocle from his pocket, and put it on his nose.
The moment Baili Pangpang put on the monocle, he could clearly see that countless ethereal threads in mid-air intertwined to form a large net that enveloped the entire training camp.
He had used this forbidden item before when fighting the [Masked] squad. It was the Forbidden Ruins Sequence 315, the [Eye of True Sight]. Once worn, nothing, whether tangible or intangible, could hide from him, including his soul.
"So many..." Baili Pangpang muttered, as the [Yaoguang] necklace on his chest emitted golden light, which converged into a huge sword shadow, carrying Baili Pangpang's body and making him rise into the air.
Shen Qingzhu stared blankly at Baili Pangpang's soaring figure, which actually possessed a trace of ethereal beauty...
"Damn, it's so good to be rich!"
Baili Pangpang stood steadily in mid-air, riding on the [Yaoguang], wearing the [Eye of True Sight], and holding the [Soul-Severing Blade]. A gentle breeze brushed against the hem of his clothes, carrying a trace of ethereal and otherworldly aura.
A confident smile spread across his face.
The black light of the Soul-Severing Blade swept across the sky, precisely striking a spider silk. The spider silk snapped in response, and the soul attached to it fell off, automatically flying back into its original body.
The sword shadow formed by Yao Guang dragged Baili Pangpang's body, flying through the air. The black light of the Soul-Severing Blade flashed continuously, and the invisible spider web in the sky collapsed at an astonishing speed...
"Aa..."
The spider boy in the warehouse suddenly sat up, clutching his head and screaming in pain, uncontrollably rolling around on the soft bed of spider silk...
"That fat guy... he's cutting my silk!"
"Ouch, ouch, ouch...No, no, I can't take it anymore! Fine, I'll give all these souls back to you, okay?receive!"
He stretched out his palm towards the distant sky, and the spider silk covering the training camp quickly disappeared, retreating into the Spider Boy's palm. The souls that were originally attached to the spider webs also fell down and returned to their physical bodies.
Baili Pangpang, carrying the Soul-Severing Blade, stopped in surprise as he watched the spider silk rapidly closing in one direction.
"Hmph, now you know how powerful I am, right?" Baili Pangpang put the Soul-Severing Blade back into his ring, put his hands on his hips, and laughed triumphantly.
A moment later, the smile on his face gradually disappeared, and his expression became serious.
He pushed up his monocle on the bridge of his nose and muttered to himself:
"Hiding there...?"