As soon as Ma Twelve left with the “arm,” the scene immediately fell silent, as if nothing had happened.

Song Qi paused for a moment, then made hand signals to the people on the rooftops, arranging the tactics for the next round of attack.

Now that Xuanwu was missing an arm, it was somewhat helpful no matter how one looked at it.

“Oh… this is bad…” Jiang Shi suddenly thought of something and turned his head to look in the direction Ma Twelve had just run off to, saying blankly, “Forgot to tell Twelve the bad news about ‘Immortality’…”

“Oh shit!”

Ma Twelve’s scream suddenly came from the distance, the sound drifting ethereally. He seemed to have run quite a distance away, but was still within the range covered by “Silence.”

“This, this arm is beating me up! Ow!…” His voice grew more and more distant. “Is anyone coming to help? Son of a bitch, this is Xuanwu’s arm, how am I supposed to fight it myself… Ow!”

“Oh…” Jiang Shi turned his head back nonchalantly. “No problem, looks like Twelve already knows.”

Everyone then acted as if nothing had happened, seriously watching Song Qi’s hand signals and Xuanwu on the ground while Ma Twelve’s screams grew more and more distant.

After Song Qi made several consecutive hand signals, everyone nodded at the same time.

Moments later, the entire “Cat” team’s combined offensive was launched again. This time the tactics were almost identical to before, using props and “Echoes” to launch a large-scale offensive. Many strange phenomena combined together, once again sweeping across Xuanwu’s entire body.

Although Xuanwu was missing an arm and couldn’t block the wide-range offensive, everyone still found it difficult to cause any substantial harm to her.

All the attacks hit Xuanwu completely, yet still seemed to sink into the sea—making enormous noise but not causing the slightest ripple.

“What amazing ‘Immortality.'” Jiang Shi stood with his hands clasped, crouching on the rooftop and murmuring, “When will I have such abilities?”

Officer Li stared down from the rooftop for a long time, then tossed out his cigarette butt.

“What do you mean by ‘try’?” Song Qi turned his head to ask.

“No matter how strange the opponent looks, at the end of the day, she’s humanoid.” Officer Li said. “If I find a way to pull out Xuanwu’s heart… what would happen?”

Song Qi considered this question and felt the answer was hard to fathom.

Although no one knew the answer to this question, Song Qi just felt that Xuanwu wouldn’t die.

Even if all humanoid creatures would die, Xuanwu definitely wouldn’t die.

“I can’t say for sure.” Song Qi answered honestly. “Xuanwu’s current state is far too bizarre.”

“Song Qi, based on your experience, once I attempt to pull out Xuanwu’s heart…” Officer Li asked with a troubled expression, “Will she completely fly into a rage and kill all of us?”

“This…” Song Qi thought and lowered his head. “Si Ge, to be honest, I’ve seen many people who say ‘I don’t want to live,’ but survival is human instinct. Once someone truly realizes they’re going to die, their subconscious will make them try every way possible to survive, so Xuanwu will very likely be enraged.”

“So… should I try, or should I not try?”

“Try it.” Song Qi said. “After all, we have no other breakthrough. If Xuanwu truly flies into a rage, then we’ll all bear the consequences together.”

“Alright…” Officer Li nodded, then reached his right hand into his pocket and closed his eyes.

Xuanwu once again emerged from the thick black fog, still appearing not angry.

This consecutive attack was naturally also a novel death experience for her, and the closest she felt she’d been to death in a long time.

Perhaps with just a bit more effort, it would succeed…?

If only the opponents tried harder, cooperated more closely, and the scale of the “immortal techniques” was more powerful, she might have fallen here.

It sounded so reasonable…

A guardian of the rules, simply dying on the path of protecting the rules—this was the most fitting death for her.

So she had let no one down, not the “rules,” not the people she had killed before, and not Qinglong who had kept her from starving.

The members of the “Cat” team also felt that Xuanwu was unlike any enemy they had ever encountered.

Rather than saying Xuanwu was like a “Divine Beast,” it was more accurate to say she gave the feeling of being a “native” with boundless magical power.

Every enemy encountered in the “Land of the End” required sufficient wisdom to deal with, but Xuanwu was the exception.

She could only accept the simplest ideas, as direct as “you kill me first, then I’ll come kill you.”

But the most direct was often the hardest. Even with “Divine Power” and “Tianxingjian” here, they might not gain any advantage over Xuanwu.

Xuanwu clearly wanted to die so badly, she had clearly given them enough chances, yet everyone simply couldn’t kill her.

“You…” Xuanwu said softly as she walked forward, “Try harder… Are you close to succeeding…?”

No one dared answer Xuanwu’s question, because whether this succeeded or not, everyone would die.

If it succeeded, they’d be killed by Qinglong; if not, they’d be killed by Xuanwu.

“I can feel it…” Xuanwu continued dragging her long hair forward. “I can feel that you’ve been getting close to success…”

As her words fell, Xuanwu felt her heart suddenly throb.

But that throbbing sensation was also very distant from her, as if transmitted into her mind from another space.

“Mm…?”

She lowered her head to look at her body but didn’t discover anything unusual.

The next instant, Xuanwu felt her heart suddenly hurt sharply. Her chest instantly felt as if a piece was missing, and a wave of pain tinged with coldness surged into her mind.

This time the pain was more intense than any before, as if something had attacked her from inside her own body.

“Immortality” could no longer block this pain that pierced to the bone marrow.

Behind Song Qi, Officer Li trembled as he extended his hand. In his hand was a bright red beating heart.

This bright red heart was surrounded by dots of starlight, as if transmitted here from another space.

Song Qi also turned around with a terrified expression. He had never imagined Officer Li’s plan would go so smoothly. Su Shan beside him also widened her eyes.

The thing before them was Xuanwu’s heart… also where her vital point lay.

If the heart was destroyed… would she certainly die?

Officer Li acted decisively, picking up a sharp wooden fragment from the ground and viciously stabbing it into the heart.

Xuanwu in the distant clearing also let out a wail at this moment, startling everyone nearby.

But the next second, Officer Li felt something wasn’t right. He seemed to have stabbed the wooden fragment into a bundle of straw.