The entrance to the Ember Zone in the Tieyu Base.

  The usually bustling entrance had been cleared, and no Ember Zone travelers were entering or exiting.

  This was the rule of the Tieyu Base:

  —Once Li Peipei enters the Ember Zone, the entrance is completely closed, and no one is allowed to pass.

  The strong naturally have privileges.

  Li Peipei, Sequence 43, controls the lives and deaths of everyone in the Tieyu Base and establishes all the rules within it.

  A special person was timing the entrance to the Ember Zone to determine Li Peipei’s status.

  The timer quickly reached the full 60 minutes—the time for Li Peipei to return.

  Suddenly, two flashes of light appeared in front of the Ember Zone entrance, stirring mixed emotions among the onlookers.

  The good news: two people had survived, and one of them must be Li Peipei.

  The bad news: the five-person team had lost three members, proving once again how dangerous the Ember Zone was.

  But it wasn’t a big deal.

  Li Peipei had survived the loss of teammates before. It was just a matter of finding new ones. For the other Ember Zone travelers in the Tieyu Base, the deaths of An Yue and the others were actually a good thing—they had freed up positions.

  Before the murmurs of discussion could rise, Li Peipei’s furious voice already resounded from the entrance!

  “Capture him alive!”

  The light completely dissipated.

  Everyone saw the two figures appear in front of the Ember Zone entrance.

  One was naturally Li Peipei, her long hair disheveled and her anger overwhelming. Her once-beautiful features were now twisted with rage.

  The other person, however, was not a member of her squad but a young man no one recognized.

  The atmosphere froze.

  Everyone was stunned by the unexpected scene, and only Li Peipei’s angry voice continued to ring out.

  “Capture him alive! Do you hear me!?”

  “Capture him alive! I want to pull out his tendons, skin him alive, and cut him into a human stick before throwing him into the cesspool!”

  Her scarlet eyes glared at Xia Lin, but she didn’t make a move.

  This was to be expected, wasn’t it?

  Li Peipei was cautious, as evidenced by her decision to leave the Ember Zone and set the battlefield at the Tieyu Base.

  At that time, Xia Lin’s attributes in the Ember Zone had far exceeded the norm, and he could even contend with Li Peipei. But Li Peipei didn’t know that Xia Lin’s attributes were temporary.

  To play it safe, she chose to return directly. After returning, she wouldn’t personally engage Xia Lin but would let other Ember Zone travelers wear him down before finishing him off herself.

  Because she was furious, she chose to capture Xia Lin alive, ensuring he suffered a fate worse than death to vent her rage!

  However, this was the wrong choice.

  If Li Peipei had acted decisively and killed Xia Lin on the spot, nothing would have happened afterward.

  Unfortunately, she didn’t make that choice.

  The consequence of this was...

  “Whoosh.”

  A flash of light burst from Xia Lin’s fingertips, rushing into Li Peipei’s mouth at an impossible-to-dodge speed, interrupting her furious tirade.

  Li Peipei instinctively closed her mouth, staring at Xia Lin in shock, wondering what he had just forced her to swallow...

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  Xia Lin grinned.

  He raised his hand and gave Li Peipei a farewell wave.

  “Goodbye, you fat cow!”

  A whistling light enveloped Xia Lin.

  Before Li Peipei and the others could react, the light swept Xia Lin away, instantly penetrating the earth and shooting off into the distance.

  Farewell from a Thousand Miles had activated!

  Ignoring obstacles, it could instantly transport him thousands of miles away!

  It was difficult to track and impossible to find.

  At least, Li Peipei didn’t have the ability to do so.

  Xia Lin had escaped.

  But one wave of trouble followed another.

  Before everyone could recover from the shock of Xia Lin’s disappearance, Li Peipei suddenly screamed.

  The scream was harsh and piercing, as if she had encountered the most terrifying thing in her life.

  All eyes turned to Li Peipei.

  Then, everyone froze.

  They could see that Li Peipei’s body was beginning to swell. Large amounts of fat grew under her skin, rapidly expanding her figure.

  The sound of tearing fabric echoed continuously. In just three seconds, Li Peipei’s clothes had burst from her rapidly expanding body.

  She was now naked, and the process of her gaining weight continued!

  Li Peipei, the supreme authority of the Tieyu Base and its most beautiful woman, had burst out of her clothes...

  However, this did not inspire any romantic thoughts.

  It was because she had gained weight so quickly and so strangely—and so solidly!

  When you gain weight, it ruins everything.

  By the time Li Peipei had reached an extreme level of obesity, what appeared before everyone’s eyes was a grotesque, physiological nightmare!

  Her facial features were completely distorted by the fat, losing all recognizable shape.

  There were no more graceful curves or alluring contours—just layers of folds and furrows.

  Her strong physique kept her from collapsing under her own weight, and she even retained some mobility and fighting power.

  However, the fat on her buttocks and legs cascaded like a waterfall, covering her once-slender legs and drowning her feet, which were now splayed on the ground.

  “What have you done to me...”

  A muffled, distorted voice emerged from the folds of flesh, faintly recognizable as Li Peipei’s.

  The next second, a whistling airwave rippled out from the mountain of flesh, and the terrifying fat showed ripples.

  “You! What have you done to me!?”

  The words “fat woman” echoed in everyone’s minds.

  Looking at the naked, spherical creature before them—weighing at least two thousand kilograms—some shivered, some suppressed their laughter, and some vomited loudly.

  “Doctor! I need to wash my eyes.jpg.”

  “Ah!”

  “Aaaaaah!”

  Li Peipei’s screams echoed at the entrance to the Ember Zone, lingering in the air.

  Meanwhile, thousands of miles away...

  Xia Lin’s figure appeared out of thin air in an abandoned high-rise building.

  His head felt dizzy, and a slight pain throbbed in his temples.

  This was a sign of excessive mental energy consumption.

  One use of Extreme Nourishment and one use of Farewell from a Thousand Miles had consumed a total of 9 points of Xia Lin’s Spirit.

  His total Spirit was only 10 points.

  Spirit was necessary to activate active skills.

  When Spirit drops to 0, the Ember Zone traveler will faint on the spot. Xia Lin wasn’t far from that state.

  Without external support, his Spirit would slowly recover at a rate of 1 point per hour until it reached his attribute limit.

  However, a cool sensation suddenly appeared, nourishing Xia Lin’s depleted Spirit.

  The Ember Zone system prompt sounded in his ears:

  [Backstab effect activated.]

  [You have backstabbed your faction. Effect assessed as: moderate.]

  [You have gained 3 points in all attributes.]

  In the room, Xia Lin’s laughter suddenly erupted, raising a cloud of dust.

  Yes, he still had the Backstab skill.

  Was he from the Tieyu Base?

  Of course, he was!

  Although he didn’t have his ID card on him, anyone could check the records.

  He, Xia Lin, was a citizen of the Tieyu Base! He had a job!

  He had just sent Li Peipei a burst of Extreme Nourishment, naturally satisfying the conditions for Backstab and gaining an attribute boost.

  At this, Xia Lin smiled, his eyes narrowing.

  A thought occurred to him as a matter of course.