Nowadays, Dong Tianyu often felt like he had cultivated a counterfeit "Cultivation"; the representative Divine Sense of cultivators should have been all-encompassing in its reach, yet recently he discovered many things it could not perceive.

Just as Dong Tianyu was feeling regretful about his Divine Sense, a rumbling noise came from the courtyard.

It turned out that once the team leader confirmed the two people in the courtyard were under someone’s control, he decisively ordered the one called "Watson" to use the thermal imager to locate the object, and then to directly blow it up with explosives.

Watson had been a shepherd since childhood and had developed a knack for throwing stones with deadly accuracy, which was why the somewhat hot-tempered Watson was carrying a case full of explosives.

There were two benefits to this: one, explosives are dangerous, and having him carry them would ensure he knew enough to fear and thus not misuse them.

The second was that as a grenade thrower, in case he got separated from the group, with a case full of various kinds of explosives, he could nearly handle finding the team or eliminating monsters all by himself.

Hearing the team leader’s commands, Watson decisively flipped open the case and took out a round explosive, lit it with a lighter and quickly threw three of them towards the object.

As Watson threw explosives towards it from outside the door, a small ancient creature, springing up from nowhere, suddenly jumped up and caught one of the explosives in its mouth.

Not only that, the small ancient creature also intentionally used its body to block another explosive while jumping, but although it intercepted two explosives, a third slipped through and successfully flew into the target area.

Along with the successful explosion of the explosive, the one bitten by the small ancient creature detonated, blowing the creature’s head to smithereens.

The explosive that was blocked by the small ancient creature’s body also went off, blasting a huge hole in the creature’s abdomen, its intestines and viscera spilling out through the gaping wound.

The remaining explosive that reached the designated location detonated successfully, revealing a spherical object that had been invisible to the naked eye.

Digging out the wound created by the explosive, the object looked like a giant spherical thing, only it was covered all over with orifices resembling the nozzles on basketballs or footballs.

Combining the naked eye with thermal imaging made it easy to see that the threads controlling Watson and Wendi were spraying from the densely packed holes on the sphere.

When everyone saw this thing, they no longer felt fear or the urge to shrink back from such strange occurrences.

Most fears are the result of insufficient understanding, which often relates to limited perspective and knowledge reserves.

Just like many accounts handed down from ancient times, at first glance they seem mysterious and thrilling, but once they’re deciphered and their principles understood by everyone, those things no longer cause fear.

Even when encountering similar situations, they would try to interpret these eerie phenomena using the various methods within their grasp.

As Watson kept hurling explosives one after another, Wendi stood still, but Watson dived quickly towards the explosives, trying to control all of them before they could reach the object, just like the small ancient creature had done.

This action by Watson immediately caused some of the team members to frown, and before the team leader could issue an order, several team members had already used their projectile weapons to subdue him.

As the explosives continued to detonate one after another, both Watson, who had been temporarily controlled, and Wendi, who had stood motionless, fell into a state of unconsciousness together.

After Watson had used the explosives to blow the object in the corner to smithereens, the team leader first used the thermal imager to scan the courtyard, and upon confirming the absence of other heat sources,

Only then did the team leader call out to Zayne standing outside witnessing the spectacle, "The source of danger is now eliminated, now we need you to go in and take a look first."

Although he had suspected it, Zayne’s body couldn’t help but tremble involuntarily when he heard the team leader say so.

At some point, the team leader had come to Zayne’s side and politely said to him, "The known danger inside the courtyard has been eliminated by us, but now we need someone to go in and check it out personally; Zayne, who do you think would be best fit for the task?"

Zayne heard the leader ask this question, and, having no other option, he resignedly said, "I will follow the leader’s arrangements."

"Go then, if anything goes wrong, we will provide for your family."

Despite the grand promise made by the leader, which seemed generous, it was known that in practice, such assurances were often heavily discounted, so nobody wanted to gamble on gaining a posthumous reputation at the cost of their life.

But, who could argue when reserve duty was inherently about doing dangerous work? So, even though problems had arisen twice before, and the root cause of the issues had been identified and resolved, this still didn’t reassure Zayne, who was about to enter the yard.

Helpless because he was compelled by his situation, Zayne, despite some fear, gritted his teeth and obeyed the orders to proceed into the yard to conduct an investigation.

Zayne entered the yard very cautiously, first observing the situation inside the yard before approaching Watson.

Seeing Watson had already lost his heartbeat and breathing, Zayne shook his head in resignation and began to carefully examine the body.

Knowing what to expect, the autopsy process was very quick. Zayne undid Watson’s clothes and, as anticipated, found several small, similar holes in different parts of his body.

The thin lines issued by the entity in the yard must have penetrated these spots to gain control over him.

After examining Watson’s body, Zayne started checking Wendi’s condition.

After a similar examination, both corpses had the same holes in the same places, which suggested that Wendi’s situation was probably akin to Watson’s.

Once Zayne had finished the preliminary examinations on both, he walked out of the yard in full view of everyone else, and this act of his made the other members believe that Zayne had not been controlled by the entity like the other two had.

Seeing Zayne come out directly, the leader and Number Three exchanged glances.

Upon seeing the leader’s look, Number Three instantly understood his intention. Number Three found half a barrel of fuel and took advantage of the moment when everyone was asking Zayne about his condition.

Number Three quickly ran into the yard, swinging left and right while pouring the fuel over the chunks of the corpses.

As soon as Number Three tossed a lit torch, the flames ignited the fuel on the ground almost immediately.

As the torch hit the ground, the scattered blood clots and flesh mixed with Number Three’s flung fuel, and with the torch’s appearance, the ground was quickly set ablaze.

As the fire grew stronger, the bodies of Watson and Wendi, who had been motionless on the ground, jerked suddenly as if startled awake from sleep.

Just as Watson and Wendi were about to stand up, perhaps because the organs had already been reduced to ash in the flames, before they could fully rise, their bodies once again collapsed lifelessly, turning into a muddy heap on the ground.

The renewed outbreak of fire in the yard once again drew everyone’s attention away from Zayne and towards the scene.

Not only that, but everyone had witnessed the corpses’ momentary movement.

If Number Three hadn’t burned them again, the team would have suffered greatly, whether from the sudden violent actions of the corpses or if the entity continued to covertly take control of others.

With this realization, the other team members were suddenly covered in a cold sweat.

Seeing the uneasy expressions of the people outside, Number Three jokingly said to the others, "You guys probably forgot those sentences the leader makes us recite before we set out on a mission every time."

After saying this, Number Three grabbed the bodies of Watson and Wendi and threw them directly into the flames.