"Isn't that initial potential almost catching up to 'Gecko'?"

The staff in the building were both shocked and delighted, watching excitedly as the person on the monitor rushed toward the exit.

"Not good!"

Suddenly, someone noticed a change and shouted in surprise.

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Meanwhile, in the subway station, Brian Carter was holding his Sophie Carter's hand. Seeing that they had broken through the encirclement, they were about to make their escape.

But the café waiter standing outside the crowd, watching his strange and agile movements, had a bizarre smile on his face that grew deeper and more twisted, as if it were becoming stiff and frozen, his whole person turning into an empty shell.

At the same time, seven or eight huge tentacles suddenly shot out from behind him.

Each tentacle was as thick as a barrel, covered in backward-growing bone spurs and strange eyes.

"Swish" "Swish" "Swish"

These tentacles shot rapidly toward Brian Carter.

As Brian Carter fled along the wall, bursts of mud exploded beside him, sending debris flying everywhere.

Under this violent barrage, the entire subway station trembled, as if it might collapse.

However, no matter how fast or terrifying the tentacles growing from his body were, Brian Carter's movements appeared incredibly bizarre, yet strangely natural. Sometimes he leaned sideways, sometimes twisted his body in ways that defied physics, dodging each tentacle one after another. It almost looked as if he were dancing on the walls and ceiling under the assault of those tentacles.

In just a few short seconds, he had already climbed dozens of meters away, nearing the exit.

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Seeing this, the short-haired woman at the observation point took a deep breath and turned to the girl in the other room.

"Prepare to wrap it up!"

The girl stood up expressionlessly, picked up the parasol in her hand, and slowly opened it.

"Wait..."

But at that moment, a staff member in front of the screen cried out in surprise, "Look, everyone..."

Everyone in the office turned their heads in shock, only to see that in the subway station, Brian Carter, who had just escaped the tentacles' pursuit with ghostly speed and was only a few meters from the exit—seemingly about to escape the station—suddenly paused. Instead of running out, he hung upside down from the ceiling, slowly turned his head, and beckoned with his finger.

Even the short-haired woman was startled. "What is he doing?"

"It looks like... he's provoking it?"

"......"

"How could this be?"

The atmosphere in the observation point grew tense, and the staff exchanged bewildered glances.

Ever since Brian Carter had revealed his spider-type abilities, they had been preparing for the final cleanup, because they knew how terrifyingly fast spider-type abilities could be. In this situation, the source of contamination in the café would definitely not be able to keep him. In fact, in this world, there were very few places or people who could trap a spider-type ability user.

But what they hadn't expected was that the spider-type ability user didn't run away...

Instead, he turned around to provoke it!

What kind of person, when facing such a monster, wouldn't immediately flee, but would instead turn back to provoke it?

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"Sophie Carter, what are you doing?"

At that moment, Brian Carter also shouted in shock.

The exit was right behind him—he could escape with just a turn—but his Sophie Carter stubbornly held him back.

Sophie Carter pouted. "Then what are you doing?"

Brian Carter was both angry and anxious. "Running away! Can't you see there's a monster?"

"Why are you so scared, brother?"

Sophie Carter laughed softly, provocatively beckoning at the café waiter.

Beneath her messy hair, her eyes were exceptionally bright. "Clearly, he's the one who should be afraid..."

Chapter Four: Level One Psychic Monster

"Hiss hiss..."

The café waiter saw that Brian Carter hadn't run away and was instead provoking him, and he smiled as well.

When the smile on his face twisted to a certain degree, his skin suddenly tore open, revealing a black flesh beneath. This flesh writhed and extended outward, turning into thick, twisted tentacles. Some of the tentacles had huge mouths growing on them, from which sharp, short fangs protruded; others rolled up and down, revealing a giant eyeball.

Then all the mouths suddenly opened wide, spraying out strands of sticky liquid.

Brian Carter shuddered all over. "Let's run..."

But Sophie Carter just looked at the monster excitedly. "I'm not running. Look how cute it is..."

Before her words had even faded, the monster let out a roar and suddenly swung countless thick tentacles at them.

Brian Carter was both shocked and terrified, unable to help but shout, "I..."

But as he cried out, Sophie Carter suddenly pulled him, charging rapidly toward the monster.

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"Psychic energy fluctuations have reached the limit..."

In the observation point, a staff member was frantically typing on the keyboard, shouting in a low voice, "A level one psychic monster has appeared!"