Song Qi slowly took a step forward.

He knew that no matter how pitiful Xuanwu was, they were ultimately two opposing sides. If Xuanwu didn’t die today, then all the members of the “Cat” team would be the ones to die.

After all, for Xuanwu, death was the only liberation. She had long ceased to be human, yet was still suffering inhuman torment.

Su Shan lowered her head and looked at her feet, discovering that a fragment of Xuanwu’s heart had somehow flown up and was now lying at her feet.

The reason she could recognize at a glance that it was a piece of “heart” was precisely because it was pitch-black all over, twisting and jumping on the ground like a worm.

Su Shan saw that it was emitting a faint glow, barely revealing the shadow of the two Chinese characters for “Immortality.”

She suddenly had an idea, so she opened her eyes wide with effort, taking in all the items at the scene.

Everywhere her gaze reached, various corners flickered with the shadow of “Immortality.” Xuanwu’s heart had been split into countless pieces, each piece individually becoming a black worm. These worms seemed separate yet connected to each other, all jumping together in unison at the same moment.

In other words—the “heart” was still working.

Even though it had been split into countless pieces, it was still beating rhythmically.

This was just like Xuanwu’s arm. Although it had been carried far away by Ma Twelve, it could still attack independently. It was controlled by Xuanwu’s thoughts, as if some invisible thing connected the flesh and organs together.

Su Shan lowered her head and pinched the jumping, worm-like heart fragment of Xuanwu in her hand. It indeed had signs of life, pulsing rhythmically together with countless other fragments. Rather than saying Xuanwu had no heart, it was more accurate to say her heart was everywhere.

So what exactly was connecting this heart together…?

While she was thinking, the ground melee assault team had already launched their offensive.

“Gigantification” Wang Ba, “Wangyou” Luo Shiyi, “Immortality” Jiang Shi, and “Shuttle” Cui Fourteen all stepped onto the ground battlefield together.

She held two strange weapons, like two small hula hoops. Using “Spirit Vision” to look more carefully, the two hula hoops had each been infused with “Shuttle” by her.

The “Cat” team’s coordination was flawless. Jiang Shi held Cui Fourteen’s hula hoop and began moving around Xuanwu.

Cui Fourteen’s fist entered through the hula hoop in her hand and could instantly emerge from Jiang Shi’s hula hoop. This was the wonderful use of “Shuttle.”

The bizarre attack left Xuanwu unable to defend against it for a moment. It was just a pity that Xuanwu possessed “Immortality,” and these fists had no way of causing damage at all. Some even drilled into Xuanwu’s body.

Seeing this, Wang Ba also used “Gigantification,” immediately enlarging Cui Fourteen’s fists when they appeared out of nowhere. But at most this could only push Xuanwu back one step, unable to produce any other effect.

But Su Shan on the rooftop slowly narrowed her eyes upon seeing this scene.

“‘Shuttle’…” She murmured these two words.

Because in some respects, Cui Fourteen’s fist emerging from another hula hoop looked no different from Xuanwu’s arm.

They had both separated from their own bodies yet could still move freely.

“Wait a moment…” Su Shan vaguely thought of something. She stared at Xuanwu with her brilliant eyes for a long time, seemingly discovering an anomaly.

What if the “Immortality” covering Xuanwu’s body… was actually a kind of “Shuttle”?

All the attacks aimed at her body were transferred out by the “Shuttle” covering her, then transferred to… other spaces.

This way, even if the limbs on her body were separated, the effect of “Shuttle” remained, able to forcibly establish contact between the separated limbs and the main body.

Su Shan felt that probably no one in the entire “Land of the End” had analyzed Xuanwu’s ability from such a seemingly scientific angle. After all, just thinking through this concept made her head feel hot.

She lowered her head again and pinched the heart fragment in her hand. It was clearly a three-dimensional object, yet there was still space inside. If one attacked this fragment with a toothpick, the toothpick might fall into the heart fragment, drifting in the vast sea of stars within.

“This is too abstract…”

Su Shan closed her eyes and analyzed Xuanwu’s current state.

A body that looked as brilliant as the starry sky, an arm that thorns could fall into…

“I think I know…” Su Shan said. “She’s now like a… three-dimensional… door?”

This confusing statement was heard by Officer Li and Song Qi, and their expressions instantly filled with puzzlement.

“Clearly a three-dimensional body, yet like a door that can be entered, able to ‘shuttle’ things to other locations…” Su Shan said. “That’s it…”

“Do you have a countermeasure?” Officer Li turned his head to ask.

“I don’t know if it counts as a countermeasure… but I have a bold idea.” Su Shan said. “It might also be futile, but it might also be a clever move… After all, I’ve never encountered this kind of situation before. I can only try to solve abstract problems with abstract methods.”

“It’s fine, speak up.” Song Qi said. “As long as there’s the slightest possibility of breaking the current deadlock, we can try it.”

After hearing this, Su Shan stared at Xuanwu with a serious expression, then extended her finger, pointing at Xuanwu’s pitch-black body.

“What do you mean…?” Officer Li asked.

“I want to go in and take a look.” Su Shan said.

After these words, both men froze at the same time.

“Xuanwu’s body is like a door or cave that can devour and take away objects. Can it devour… people?” Su Shan said with a serious expression. “Once a person goes in… what would happen?”

The atmosphere was silent for about ten seconds before Song Qi slowly came to his senses.

“You… wait…” Song Qi said. “Does your tactic sound right…? I’m a bit confused…”

“I want to jump into that vast starry sky on Xuanwu’s body and take a look.” Su Shan said. “I want to know where exactly the things devoured by her body go, and what kind of space is inside?”

“No… wait a moment…” Officer Li paused after hearing this. “I seem to understand what you mean, but this isn’t right either…”

“How so?”

“Perhaps it’s as you say… there’s something fishy about the space inside her body…” Officer Li paused again and said, “But this is the same principle as encountering a shark. Destroying a shark’s internal organs can quickly kill it, but before killing the shark, no one would actively choose to be swallowed by it.”

“That’s because the danger coefficient of being swallowed by a shark is too high—certain death for humans.” Su Shan continued. “But the inside of Xuanwu’s body is an unknown thing. We cannot use the experience of known things to deduce unknown things.”

Song Qi carefully pondered Su Shan’s words and felt this was indeed a bizarre breakthrough point.

Only this operation couldn’t be carried out by Su Shan—they had to switch to someone else.

“You can’t go. I know a suitable candidate.” Song Qi said. “When she’s angry, her entire body turns into a sea of flames. She seems most suitable for this mission.”