“Her entire body is covered in ‘ripples’…?” Song Qi was slightly puzzled.

“‘Ripples’ should be what you all call ‘Echoes.'” Su Shan said. “I can see materialized ‘Echoes.’ In my eyes, they appear as ‘ripples’ like waves.”

“You’re saying that Xuanwu right now…”

“Her entire being is wrapped in a ripple called ‘Undying.'” Su Shan said. “That ‘ripple’ is too powerful—it’s even beginning to produce a slight turbulent feeling…”

After hearing this, Song Qi carefully pondered the current situation.

Xuanwu’s entire being was wrapped in “Undying,” but was “Undying” some kind of physical entity?

Why could it wrap around a person’s body?

“Now the problem is a bit troublesome…” Song Qi said with furrowed brows. “That means Xuanwu’s ‘eyes’ are most likely wrapped beneath ‘Undying.’ To attack the eyes, we must break through ‘Undying.'”

After hearing this, Su Shan also nodded with a troubled expression. “That’s about right.”

“But the reason ‘Undying’ is called ‘Undying’… is precisely because there’s no way to break it.” Song Qi said. “All our attacks from here on will likely sink like stones into the sea.”

After Officer Li and Su Shan heard Song Qi’s statement, their expressions only became extremely grave. After all, killing “Xuanwu” was just the first ring of the mission. Next, there was still “Zhu Que” waiting for them.

From the surface, the mission the “Cat” was executing was far more difficult than the “Extreme Path’s,” because they couldn’t afford to lose.

For a team with a total of fewer than twenty people, the loss from any random person dying would be enormous.

So they had no way to employ human wave tactics like the “Extreme Path.” They could only kill Xuanwu through more exquisite coordination.

Unfortunately… every tactic they had formulated without exception attacked every corner of Xuanwu’s body.

If this was the case, would these large-area attack tactics still be effective?

“If you really can’t be certain, then continue executing the killing plan.” Officer Li said from the side. “From a criminal investigation perspective, once you’ve determined a killing plan, don’t keep changing it. If you discover the opponent’s armament has become stronger, our only countermeasure is to bring out firepower stronger than the original plan to continue suppressing them.”

“Firepower suppression…” Song Qi nodded. “What excellent firepower suppression.”

“Yes.” Su Shan also said from the side. “Right now, I have no way to find more of the opponent’s weaknesses. Once the fighting starts, I should be able to analyze more things.”

“Good.” Song Qi nodded and called out loudly to everyone, “The plan remains unchanged. No matter what that thing in front of us is, we’ll attack regardless, except we need to bring out more powerful firepower than before.”

“Alright.” Luo Eleven replied from the ground. After speaking, he turned around to look at Xuanwu. “We’ve finally prepared to kill you together. How many chances will you give us?”

After hearing this, Xuanwu tilted her head slightly, as if puzzled.

“Chances…?”

“That’s right.” Luo Eleven nodded. “We need to have some back and forth, right? Once we can’t kill you within a certain amount of time, then the mission is declared a failure, and you can kill us too.”

“Not necessary.” Xuanwu shook her head. “As long as you truly want to kill me, I’m willing to try no matter how long it takes. But if I discover you can’t do it, then it’ll be my turn to take action.”

A bead of cold sweat slowly rolled down Luo Eleven’s forehead. What a “can’t do it.”

In other words, from Xuanwu’s perspective, all the people she had killed before died entirely because of “incompetence.”

“At least let us try.” Luo Eleven said. “Such a large-scale collective assassination is something you’ve dreamed of too, right…?”

“Correct. I want to die.”

“Then we won’t hold back.”

As the words fell, “Silence” descended. A miraculous power directly wrapped around the entire space.

Bai Nine took advantage of the moment to throw down a large net from above. Wu Ten spread it open.

The two worked together to spread the large net in the sky, then simultaneously withdrew their “Echoes.” The net also slowly fell at this moment.

Immediately after, thorny brambles began to grow out of thin air on the large net. Liu Twenty-One had begun to activate “Luxuriant Wood.” After the brambles appeared, Ning Eighteen’s “Wild Growth” descended at the same moment, causing the brambles to grow into a dense patch along the net’s ropes in an instant.

Before the large net could even touch Xuanwu, Wang Eight’s “Gigantification” followed closely. It surprisingly enlarged every single spike on the brambles precisely. Those spikes, each like daggers pointing downward, fell toward Xuanwu’s body.

Upon seeing this scene, Xuanwu instinctively shifted her feet to leave her original position. However, Ning Eighteen, who was standing on the ground, suddenly released a “Flash Burst.” Although Xuanwu had no eyes, she was still forced to retreat a step by this intense light, and was coincidentally caught squarely under the giant net.

All the giant spikes pierced into the void on Xuanwu’s body at this moment, causing her entire being to fall to the ground.

But this wasn’t over yet. A moderate-sized tornado began to swirl and rise with Xuanwu at the center, spiraling and tightening the giant net mixed with spikes on the ground. Each spike also struggled at this moment to tear through Xuanwu’s body.

The giant net tightened more and more, almost wrapping around Xuanwu’s body. Xuanwu’s body had also been twisted and deformed, trapped and unable to move an inch.

If Xuanwu were not in an “Undying” state right now, there would be a probability that the “Cat’s” mission could be completed directly here.

Perhaps one of the spikes would poke out Xuanwu’s eyes hidden on her body in the chaos. However, at this moment, this combination technique was so powerless.

Upon seeing this, Song Qi directly pulled out the bag at her feet and opened it together with Officer Li behind her. Then they worked together to throw it down. This was a bag of small to medium-sized rubble.

The moment the many stones fell, their forms surprisingly began to change. Bai Nine’s “Liquefaction” began to take effect. The stones neither became water nor melted into magma. Looking at them, they surprisingly became liquid while maintaining the texture of stone.

The stones that should have scattered everywhere instead adhered like an oily substance to Xuanwu’s body and the giant net. Then Bai Nine withdrew “Liquefaction,” allowing all the stones to return to their original state, molding Xuanwu into a lifelike stone statue.

Song Qi’s eyes darkened. The entire stone statue began to emit sparks. Then precise and comprehensive explosions began to sweep across Xuanwu’s body. The brambles on the giant net were also blown in all directions. Dense smoke rolled intensely into the sky from the clearing between the low buildings.

“BOOM!!”

Just as the plan had originally envisioned, if Xuanwu still had a physical body, this attack would definitely have damaged her eyes.

However, no one present showed an excited expression. They only quietly watched as Xuanwu walked out from the dense smoke, then once again tilted her head in puzzlement.