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"I was just thinking it would be more convenient to do it all at once..." Yun Yi had only managed to say half a sentence when he was interrupted by Shi Huaiya's increased grip.

Ouch—it's so bloated!

She shook her head, trying to shake off Swire's seemingly slender but strong fingers, and pleaded as she grabbed Swire's wrist. "Stop, stop, stop, let go, let go! I know, next time I'll have 002 help me with this kind of high-tech work, I'll never try to be a hero myself!"

"You'd better keep your word." Swire glared at Yun Yi as if warning, but still loosened the pressure between her fingers by swinging her tiger tail, and soothingly massaged Yun Yi's acupoints to relieve her lingering discomfort.

As the two were talking, the icon representing Yun Yi's location on the map behind her gradually overlapped with the large red dot representing the Inner Guard.

Chen Huijie interrupted their conversation in time, "Miss Yunyi, we've arrived."

Volume Two: Fireworks at Longmen: Chapter 180 Yun Yi: Face me, **!

Hoshiguma walked to the map, bent down to examine the several large red dots that remained motionless, and said with a smile, "The other side hasn't discovered us yet."

"OK." Yun Yi nodded to them, tightened his grip on Shi Huaiya's wrist slightly, and made a promise that sounded unreliable, "I promise I'll keep my word, so please be lenient and let me bring our test subjects in first, okay?"

"I'll trust you this once." Not wanting to delay important matters, Swire decisively released Yun Yi's grip, making room for him to move. Her gaze, however, still held a hint of sternness mixed with worry. "I will keep an eye on you."

So don't think about splitting up and going free!

Yun Yi nodded with an awkward smile, quickly shifting his attention to the projection to avoid drawing attention to Swire's highly noticeable gaze.

Under Yun Yi's gaze, the projection transformed from a purely high-definition video into a combat-style display, filled with various data and target acquisition frames.

With a thought, she assigned the Nirvana to the friendly side marked by the star track and shared the map information.

Having obtained the enemy's accurate location, the Nirvana activated all its target acquisition functions simultaneously. Accompanied by a series of soft, dense "beep beep beep" sounds, various target acquisition frames on the projection screen flashed repeatedly in the area where the inner guards stood still.

Finally, the red energy target acquisition frame beeped and solidified, framing a dark figure on the empty ground.

"Inner guard successfully locked," Yun Yi announced to everyone, raising his hand and spreading his five fingers toward the icosahedron, calmly commanding the Nirvana, "Teleport target."

The dark figure in the projection vanished instantly, and in front of the disc where everyone was standing, a black and gray-clad inner guard appeared at the center of the icosahedron.

The moment the guard realized he had been moved by unknown means, a nauseating, viscous black aura surged from his body, and he wanted to self-destruct.

But once it falls into a regular icosahedron, it freezes.

He remained in the position of self-destruction with his head raised, but the black aura around him was swept away by a strange force.

Feeling utterly bewildered, the guard instinctively tried to find the answer by observing everything within his sight.

He peered through the gap in his mask, his neck stiff as he looked out.

The first thing the guard saw was a disc floating in the boundless space. The second thing he saw was a being whose race he couldn't discern but which made his brain tremble, looking down at him with blood-red and viscous golden-red pupils.

Then, his thoughts followed in his body's footsteps, coming to a complete standstill. The red light that had been flashing beneath the mask lost its luster, and he froze into a lifeless stillness.

In Yun Yi's eyes, it was as if the inner guard had only taken two breaths after entering the icosahedron before the red light on the mask faded, and he stopped breathing, as if he had died.

“Uh, it seems the restrictions were too harsh,” Yun Yi scratched his face, “and I accidentally killed this guard.”

Breathing and cellular function are also human actions.

Chen Huijie was closest to the edge of the disc. When she noticed that the guard had stopped breathing, she quickly walked towards the icosahedron. She had already arrived and was observing the guard inside.

“Not necessarily, let’s wait and see,” Swire reassured her, her tiger ears twitching as she looked at Chen Huijie. “Stopping breathing doesn’t mean losing life.”

“That’s right. Most people can hold their breath for a minute or two even if they stop breathing. Look at the strong physique of the Inner Guard. He must be trained regularly. Holding his breath for a few minutes should be easy for him.” Hoshiguma walked steadily to the front of Yun Yi with Hannya, and spoke to Yun Yi with a smile.

Her gaze remained fixed on the guard who appeared to have already met his end, and she stood silently on the straight line connecting Yun Yi and the guard.

“I know that stopping breathing won’t kill you instantly,” Yun Yi said, spreading his hands. “Cellular function is also considered action, and it’s prohibited by the rules—even if all the cells in the human body stop working, it won’t die immediately, right?”

“That depends on your definition of ‘immediately’.” Chen Huijie, who was standing in front of the icosahedron, answered Yun Yi. She turned and walked towards the three of them. “If you think ‘immediately’ is a few seconds, then no, if it’s a few minutes, then yes.”

It has only been a little over a minute since the guards entered.

"So, this guard isn't dead yet." Yun Yi breathed a sigh of relief, then turned to look at the two people beside him and Chen Huijie walking towards him. "So, should I let him die, or relax the restrictions and ask him for information?"

"We probably won't get any information from them, but we can give it a try," Swire replied, crossing her arms and nodding her arms.

“It’s never a bad idea to ask.” Hoshiguma turned to look at Yun Yi, her golden eyes carrying a hint of a smile. “Since you can easily arrest the inner guards, we can spend more time with them and see if we can dig out some good news.”

“That’s right, let’s give it a try.” Chen Huijie came to Yun Yi’s side and looked at him. The dragon tail behind her swayed from side to side with its tail close to the ground. “Ursus is older, more complex and unstable than Lungmen. Losing the high-level officials would make it even more chaotic and dangerous. The Inner Guards, as the emperor’s right-hand men, know a lot. Perhaps we can get some key information from them and avoid some dangers.”

Yun Yi nodded. Now that she heard that, it did seem like a good deal. And for the sake of her future stability, she probably had to give it a try.

If she remembered correctly, there seemed to be quite a few landmines in Ursus.

“Then let’s loosen the restrictions on movement a bit, and continue to seal the restrictions on energy.” After showing her agreement, Yun Yi immediately took action. She raised her finger and aimed it at the icosahedron, making two strokes in the air as if she had cut something off.

The inner guard at the center of the icosahedron suddenly coughed deeply. A red light gradually appeared in the gaps of his mask, and his chest under his gray robe began to rise and fall. The stagnant black liquid in the tube behind his head began to flow slowly again.

He raised his face, which was covered by a black mask, and lightly glanced at the four people on the round platform. Finally, his gaze landed vaguely on Yun Yi in the center, and he said indifferently, "What brings you here?"

Seeing that the guard had the desire to communicate, the other three consciously remained silent, observing this person, whose combat strength was said to be at the top of Ursus according to intelligence, in their own ways.

"Oh?" Yun Yi looked at the guards curiously. This was the first person, apart from the operators (the Emperor also had an April Fool's Day operator name card), who did not show any fear towards her. "It's nothing, I just want to know why your Emperor is in such a hurry to send you to kill me."

"Didn't he consider that even if I'm weak now, he might still be someone he can't afford to offend?" Yun Yi was genuinely puzzled by this. "Besides, maybe I wasn't interested in Ursus in the first place, and it was only because of your probing that I wiped out Ursus? Didn't you consider these things?"

"..." The guards remained silent.

Yun Yi couldn't discern any emotion or thought from his fully covered mask. She frowned and said coldly, "Answer my question, or I won't hesitate to descend upon Ursus immediately and utterly destroy your country."

Volume Two: Fireworks at Dragon Gate: Chapter 181 The Inner Guard (A cry from the depths of his soul): Give me a chance!

Yun Yi's icy command not only made everyone else present feel the temperature drop sharply, but it was also like a straight knife to her, cleaving through her self-righteous nonchalance.

She then realized that her anger towards the Ursus leaders for causing trouble had not dissipated as much as she had thought with their deaths.

On the contrary, the anger seems even more intense than before.

So much so that when Yun Yi saw the Imperial Guards, she subconsciously pulled out her grudge book and unleashed all her dislike for them at once.

The attack on the Guard Bureau disrupted their plans, injured Texas, and further complicated their situation...

She couldn't feel the reality of the deaths of high-ranking officials by looking at the system logs, but the trouble caused by the internal guards was very real.

If it weren't for these guys, she should be holding Swire and getting ready to sleep right now, instead of running around here and not being able to get her own land right away!

Thinking of this, Yun Yi placed his fingertips on his chest, and his already unfriendly gaze toward the guards grew even colder.

Someone has to pay the price for her negative emotions, Yun Yi thought. Since the inner guards are willing to be the scapegoats of those culprits, then they can continue to be her emotional dumping ground "willingly".

Trapped inside the icosahedron, the internal defenses were hampered, and every movement was restricted to an extremely slow pace.

He was unaware that in a short period of time, he had gone from being an interrogated person with some human rights to an emotional dumping ground with no human rights whatsoever.

—I don’t have the energy to know.

Yun Yi's fluctuating emotions were transforming into real and deadly surging waves in his eyes and senses, crashing indiscriminately around Yun Yi.

As Yun Yi's malice coalesced with his thoughts, the surging pressure instantly subsided, slamming down on the inner guards like a raging waterfall.

The pressure made the guard dizzy and weak, his knees trembling and every muscle shaking. If his movements hadn't been restricted, he probably would have been forced to kneel down to Yun Yi on the spot.

But this is not something to be thankful for. Precisely because he did not fall, the oppressive force remained as stable and terrifying as the torrent of water from a high-pressure gun.

It materialized into immense gravity, pressing heavily on the guard's shoulders and compressing his internal organs from a distance.

It is all-pervasive and chilling.

The inner guard's breathing, which echoed through his mask, grew increasingly labored and uncontrollable.

He gripped the knife tightly to hide the unnatural trembling in his fingertips, struggled to suppress the urge to shudder in his knees, swallowed hard as his throat seemed to creak under the pressure, and forced himself to open his mouth and answer.

The guard's voice was hoarse, awkward, and reverberant, like a demon crawling out of hell. It contained his own extreme fear and sorrow, yet sounded so low and menacing as if he were threatening the person he was speaking to: "Ursus...unintentionally...offended...the order was...given by His Majesty...to carry it out...it was we...Ursus...innocent..."

"Are you choking on phlegm? What are you buzzing about? Can you clear your throat before you speak? How can anyone understand you like this?" Yun Yi's coldness froze for a moment.

It wasn't that she was making a fuss, but the guard's voice sounded like a loudspeaker exploding, with all sorts of syllables mixed together.

If she hadn't barely understood "Ursus," she would have thought the guard was speaking Russian, the language of his hometown. Shouldn't this be called Ursusese? In any case, it wasn't a language she could understand.

The guard, who had been reprimanded, choked for a moment, his lips twitching slightly beneath his mask.

As a rigorously trained and experienced guard, his humanity should have been almost completely worn away. Yet, at this moment, his eyes, covered by the red light, almost shed a tear.

Isn't the reason I can't speak normally because of you?

If you had just stopped using your powers, would I be unable to even speak clearly?

You want me to speak, but you also want me to explain clearly? No, you should at least give me a clear explanation of the conditions!

The inner guard had a similar but more serious cry in his mind, but dared not say it aloud.

He feared that the demon before him was waiting for him to "speak recklessly" so that he could use that as an excuse to go to Ursus and stir up trouble, making a mess of his country.

Desperate to avoid being implicated in Ursus's affairs and to take responsibility, the inner guard, unable to speak, was extremely anxious. He slowly raised his trembling hand and grabbed the muscles in his throat that were about to cramp under the pressure, trying to straighten his knotted throat from top to bottom with the force that drew blood.

But when Yun Yi realized what was happening, his mood plummeted again. The pressure around him became even more menacing, directly causing blood to froth at the corners of the mouths of the guards who had finally managed to adjust. The fragile capillaries in their eyes ruptured and turned blood red, and blood also flowed from their ears, but all of this was hidden by the mask.

“No, you spoke very clearly just now—” Yun Yi, who was completely unaware of the inner guards’ miserable state, felt like he had been tricked. His golden-red eyes were like molten lava covered with frost, with anger burning and leaping within them.

As she spoke, she noticed the guard's strange neck-grabbing motion and immediately used her vivid imagination to recall the energy flow that resembled a self-destruction when she dragged him in.

Yun Yi's eyes instantly turned icy cold, reflecting a chilling light. "You're stalling for time to self-destruct? Hmph, wishful thinking."

As she spoke, she raised her hand to command the rules of the Nirvana and give the internal guards a hard time, but was stopped by Swire, who was observing from the side, who grabbed her finger and physically stopped her. "Wait, Yunyi, calm down."

Chen Huijie, who was a step too slow, pursed her lips, withdrew her foot, and calmly turned her head to continue studying the details of the inner guard's equipment and assessing the situation in Ursus. However, the dragon tail behind her stood upright, no longer as natural as before.

Hoshiguma withdrew her smiling gaze from Chen Huijie's dragon tail and patted her shoulder playfully.

Chen Huijie silently shook off Xingxiong's hand and glared at her.

During their brief interaction, Swire glanced at them but paid them no further attention, while Yun Yi remained oblivious.

Upon hearing Swire's words, she turned to look at him, "Calm down?"

The moment Yun Yi turned to look back at Shi Huaiya, the turbulent emotions in his eyes subsided, and the oppressive aura that had been suffocating the inner guards vanished.

"Hmm..." Unaware of these things, Yun Yi recalled his own state and spoke to Swire gently but with a puzzled look, "What's wrong? I'm perfectly calm."

“I know you’re rational and calm.” Swire squeezed Yun Yi’s knuckles, which were a little cooler than hers. “But I hope you can calm down as well.”

“If you continue to get agitated, this guard will die.” Swire stated her prediction, raising her chin to indicate that Yun Yi should take a closer look at the person opposite her. “Look, he can’t stand up straight.”

Yun Yi paused for a moment, then turned back to look at the inner guards as instructed by Shi Huaiya.

Volume 2: Fireworks at Dragon Gate Chapter 182 Chen Huijie: Ugh, it feels so weird to be called by my full name by my friends!

The defender was indeed unable to stand steadily at this moment.

The oppressive force that was about to crush his bones suddenly dissipated, and the joints that he had been struggling to resist instead emitted a series of ominous "crack" sounds. His muscles also became numb and loose, completely unable to support his own broad frame and heavy equipment.

Therefore, when Yun Yi looked at the inner guard, he saw his huge body struggling and swaying three times, but still losing strength and slowly leaning forward, falling to the ground in a dog-face-fee posture, with a few drops of bright red blood spilling out from the gap that was glowing red.

As the guard fell, the hem of his gray-black robe fluttered up slightly, tracing an arc in the air as he fell to the ground in humiliation.

Yun Yi couldn't tell what the guard was feeling through his mask, which was pressed tightly against the ground, but he could feel the speechlessness welling up inside him. "...I thought his life level was pretty good, that he could withstand it like Texas."

As a result, this is it?

Yun Yi's gaze shifted from looking at the enemy to looking at a schoolchild. "If you can't hold on, just say so earlier. You're wasting each other's time."

The guard stubbornly supported himself on the ground, his gloved fingers twitching silently.

Seeing the guard's frustrated expression, Swire squeezed Yun Yi's palm, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but turn up, and she couldn't help but chuckle, "Hehe, cough," she coughed to suppress her inappropriate laughter, "Perhaps it's because you, Yun Yi, are more hostile towards him, that he experienced much more pressure than Texas, which caused him to be unable to withstand it."

“Moreover, you’ve put so much pressure on him,” Swire said with a forced laugh, “he probably thinks you haven’t given him any room to express his displeasure.”

Yun Yi has already threatened to destroy the country and exterminate the people if the Inner Guards do not cooperate. How could the Inner Guards think they have the right to discuss "whether the oppression can be eased"?

Even if the inner guard believed he was qualified, as someone akin to a death squad, his first thought would definitely be to try to dissuade Yun Yi from destroying the country, rather than to improve his own treatment.

Listening to Swire's analysis, Yun Yi also recalled the people who had been trembling in front of her before. They were either speechless or could only say nice things and cautiously probe her.

She suddenly realized, "So he wasn't just being pretentious when he was speaking in a drawn-out tone, but because he was scared?"

"Pfft—pretending to be serious..." How are these connected?

Swire released Yunyi's hand, covered her mouth, and shook her head with a smile. "It wasn't from being scared, it was from your breath that caused real damage to his vocal cords, making it difficult for him to speak."

This can be discerned from the tone of the two sentences spoken by the inner guard: one is clear, full, and pure in tone, while the other is hoarse, rough, dull, and indistinct.

By the time the guard speaks his second sentence, his vocal cords or throat are likely already slightly damaged.

Yun Yi didn't care whether the person who wanted to kill her had damaged his voice. She withdrew her hand and touched her chin, only caring about one thing: "In other words, what he just said was what he really wanted to tell me, and it might be useful."