"This... this is impossible!"

Ahead, the Winged Lion inside the phone examined the boy who suddenly appeared behind the unconscious girl. Comparing him with its memory, it displayed an extremely human-like look of shock,

"You are not the Yan Huan of this worldline?! But... how could you follow the host of the ring finger through the crossing?! In the whole world, only she should be capable of such a feat, and you couldn’t possibly do it!"

Yan Huan didn’t respond, just watched Bai Yi, who was completely unconscious, in his arms.

Yet she was seen uneasily pursing her lips and furrowing her brows, as if unable to sleep peacefully, uttering words like the chirps of a nightingale,

"Yan... Yan Huan..."

"..."

Hearing this, Yan Huan couldn’t help but hold her a bit tighter, then lifted his eyes to look again in the direction of the index finger,

"But I did it."

"!!"

The Winged Lion, embodied by the index finger, twitched its eyelid wildly, but the next second it suddenly turned fierce, causing the entire phone to burst out with a purple eerie light,

"It doesn’t matter, anyway you and the host of the ring finger must die here!"

"Buzz!"

As the eerie light covered the entire beach, everything quieted down again...

Then, the index finger let out a sigh of relief, commanding Tong Yingying,

"Alright, bring me Bai Yi..."

But before the words could leave its mouth, they got stuck there.

Because in front of it, Yan Huan still stared expressionlessly at it, completely unaffected by any hypnosis effect.

"How... how is this possible?! You actually became the host of the Big Thumb?! But we only choose females as hosts!"

Seeing its effect rendered useless, the index finger instinctively felt fear, recalling the sternest father among the five fingers:

Big Thumb!

And Yan Huan only felt that this index finger in the if-line wasn’t as smart as the one in the main world, actually mistaking him for the host of the Big Thumb.

"Could it be... could it be that in your worldline, you... you changed gender..."

"Go to hell!"

Originally, Yan Huan wanted to laugh at the index finger’s incompetent rage, but as he listened, he found he couldn’t laugh.

His face darkened, and he immediately raised his finger.

Upon seeing this, the index finger also quickly shouted,

"Tong Yingying!" 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Yet as it was just about to speak, Yan Huan, with a cold face, tightened his grip on a Toad-shaped Amulet.

The Thing in Hand, the Toad Talisman, has the effect of allowing instantaneous movement once!

His face was instantly covered in a terrifying shadow, and in a flash, he appeared before the index finger, holding Bai Yi.

"Roar!!"

Sensing Yan Huan’s approach, the index finger bared its teeth menacingly, instinctively opening its mouth to bite Yan Huan’s modifier.

But Yan Huan looked down from a high position, raising his finger and pointing it at the unconscious Alvira beside,

A fireball was brewing at his fingertip.

"Are you sure, don’t you believe I can replace your host right now?"

"Meow?"

At this, the index finger was terrified and retorted,

"She is your wife’s mother!"

"I’m not from this worldline!"

At these words, the index finger widened its eyes, immediately stopping its aggression and obediently squatting down,

"I was wrong, Master Yan Huan."

At this moment, not only did the flashing dangerous light on the phone stop, but even those who had been hypnotized in the distance returned to being like wooden people.

"Crack!"

Yan Huan stepped on the index finger’s phone, then asked,

"Tell me, tell me everything you know about the Causal Law Bomb!"

Mentioning this, the index finger’s eyes immediately flashed, looking at Yan Huan with utter terror,

"The Causal Law Bomb is the super weapon of the ring finger, once it explodes the whole world will be doomed..."

Yan Huan had already guessed this much. His face was grim, and he ground his foot harder on the phone,

"Don’t tell me what I already know, I want to know even more... for instance, how to solve it?"

"Kill her! That’s the only way!"

The index finger widened its eyes, speaking with deep conviction,

"Aren’t you always trying to solve the modifier? The ring finger’s host selection criteria are extremely harsh, likely only one suitable Bai Yi would appear in a thousand years...

"Which means, as long as you kill her, the ring finger will have no more hosts! It’s equivalent to a complete solution, isn’t that good?"

At these words, Yan Huan squinted slightly.

Holding the warm girl in his arms, he lowered his gaze, the murderous intent in his eyes growing,

"...I don’t believe it."

Meanwhile, inside the phone, hearing Yan Huan’s terrifying threat, the index finger blinked and then whispered,

"Of course, there might be another way..."

"?"

"Lean in a little closer, I’ll tell you..."

"..."

At this, Yan Huan remained motionless.

Only after a silent moment, he sighed and shook his head,

"Index finger, you are so much dumber than when you were on Sister Shiyu, you know that?"

"Meow?"

The index finger was slightly stunned, and Yan Huan instantly stepped back...

By the moonlight, the phone screen perfectly reflected Tong Yingying, who had unknowingly appeared quietly behind Yan Huan, lifting a butcher knife.

"Bang!"

But before the blade could rise, Yan Huan suddenly kicked the phone, sending it flying.

Then, Yan Huan raised his long-prepared finger, and as the cold light lifted behind, aimed at the phone in mid-air.

"Boom!!"

A roaring sound erupted, and the phone was utterly engulfed in dazzling splendor, while everyone who had been hypnotized on the beach abruptly lost control and collapsed to the ground.

"Thunk..."

"..."

Yet Yan Huan remained where he was, holding Bai Yi, his brow tightly furrowed, saying nothing.

"Splash... splash... splash..."

Only when the cold waves lapped at his feet and the moonlight covered the abandoned factory did he finally come to his senses.