Batu's voice suddenly rang out in everyone's ears.

The next moment, Yang Xinxin pointed toward the wall across from them.

"Hurry, look!"

Zhang Yi and the others turned their heads to look at that dilapidated wall. Originally white, it was now covered in stains and hideous, dark bloodstains.

At the same time as Batu's voice sounded, blood-red characters began to appear on the wall.

"【Asylum】Game Rules."

"First, there are many mental patients in the ward. They will actively attack all living things. Please be sure to stay away."

"Second, once discovered by a mental patient, you must keep staring at them at all times. Your gaze will calm them down."

"Third, these mental patients will not harm the players, but they will put them into a standby state, unable to act."

"Fourth, eliminate all shadows, or wait 24 hours, and the game ends."

Looking at the sinister blood-red words that had inexplicably appeared on the wall, Yang Xinxin quickly understood their current predicament.

"It seems his ability falls under the rule-based category. That makes things a bit more troublesome."

Rule-based abilities were the most special existence among superhuman powers.

Extremely strong, but also extremely weak.

If the conditions were met, the ability's potential could reach an incredibly high ceiling.

But if the conditions couldn't be satisfied, then a rule-based superhuman was no different from a waste.

Take Yang Xinxin, for example.

As long as her 【Desire Angel】 arrow hit its target, even an Epsilon-level superhuman would be controlled.

But the prerequisite was that the arrow had to hit, which was incredibly difficult to achieve. After all, most combat-type superhumans could dodge her rule-based arrows, which didn't travel fast enough.

Yang Xinxin murmured, "I understand now. For Martial Arena's ability, the trigger condition is that the player actively enters. That's why Brother's 【All Things Follow Traces】 didn't sense any danger—because at that moment, the ability couldn't harm you yet."

Zhang Yi carefully read the game rules several times, his gaze turning icy cold.

"Trying to trap me? To buy time for them, so they can search for the treasure beneath the Demon Abyss first?"

According to what the game rules stated, if they couldn't eliminate all the mental patients, they would have to wait 24 hours before they could leave this Asylum.

A full day's time would be more than enough for Gao Changkong and the others to get a huge lead over them.

In a moment where every second counted, this was a very troublesome matter.

But Yang Xinxin said, "No, Brother, we can't trust everything written there!"

She said cautiously, "This is Martial Arena's space. He can set the rules, so these so-called rules might be his lies. We have to find our own way out of here, not be bound by his game rules."

"Besides, we first need to figure out what those so-called mental patients really are."

Old You said naively, "How hard can it be to kill an NPC conjured up by a Delta-level superhuman's ability?"

Yang Xinxin looked at everyone and said seriously, "It's not a question of how hard they are to kill!"

"Even I can control an Epsilon-level with my Desire Angel if it hits."

"Rule-based abilities can't be measured by common sense."

Zhang Yi's eyelids drooped, and he sneered coldly, "But I don't like following other people's rules. I like breaking them!"

He had no intention of obediently following the other party's rules.

In his hand, the black blade Holy Judgment swung fiercely toward the window, intending to cut through it in one blow!

At worst, he would directly destroy this entire Asylum, and then everything would disappear.

But as he swung his blade, the scene before him changed again.

The window, which was right in front of him, began to stretch infinitely. No matter how Zhang Yi tried to get closer, the distance only grew farther and farther.

"Whoosh!"

Zhang Yi immediately activated his spatial traversal ability, attempting to cross this world.

But after several traversals, he was shocked to find that he was still standing in the same room.

"I'm starting to get angry."

Zhang Yi said, frowning deeply.

He raised his long blade in his hand, and suddenly, a terrifying force condensed behind him.

A black hole unfolded, and a horrifying void power enveloped Zhang Yi's entire body.

He intended to forcefully tear open this space. Although he had never tried it before, he also knew that the small spaces created independently by superhumans had a bearing limit.

With his superhuman ability index as high as 18,000 points, could he really be trapped by a mere Delta-level?

The terrifying force forced Liang Yue and the others to take several steps back.

The violent dark void power swirled chaotically around Zhang Yi, wrapping around his body and his long blade like a tangible black battle armor.

"Break for me!"

Zhang Yi gripped the long blade with both hands and viciously slashed toward the space in front of him!

Rumble!!!

The entire world shuddered violently under such a powerful force.

The scene before them seemed to begin distorting, but before Zhang Yi and the others could celebrate, it slowly began to repair itself.

The hospital room was restored to its original state, still that same gloomy, dilapidated appearance.

Zhang Yi's frown deepened.

"It didn't break. Could it be that he has already reached the Epsilon level?"

Considering Gao Changkong's presence, this possibility wasn't nonexistent.

But if that were the case, it would be far too terrifying.

With two Epsilons in their team, Garuda's Followers were undoubtedly the toughest opponents to face on this trip, even surpassing the Lord of the Charnel Ground!

"Brother, that's not how you should understand it."

Yang Xinxin spoke up to Zhang Yi.

As a rule-based superhuman, she understood the particularity of this ability very well.

"Look at what he wrote on the wall."

Yang Xinxin pointed at the wall.

"Assuming these rules are real, then Martial Arena doesn't have the ability to kill us. Otherwise, he would have already made a move."

"So, his goal is just to trap us, to buy time for his team."

"This is like how you, Brother, specialize in defense. Even superhumans with an ability index much higher than yours find it extremely difficult to hurt you, let alone kill you."

"So, I guess the main function of this 【Asylum】 space is 'trap.' By pouring all of its power into the sealing and trapping ability, it can complete the binding of a higher-level superhuman."

Zhang Yi nodded. "That does make sense. But now that we can't break this space, how do we get out?"

He didn't want to waste too much time here.

Yang Xinxin smiled slightly. Her face showed a calm and confident expression, not displaying the timidity of a young girl in the face of this sinister and terrifying Asylum.

"As long as it's a rule-based ability, we just need to find a way to break its rules."

"First, we need to confirm what these so-called 'mental patients' really are."