86: Chapter 86 Is Judging by Looks a Death Inevitable? This is a Rule-Level Meme Weapon

The screams were abruptly cut off by the sound of tearing flesh.

The pale, gaunt monster moved.

Without any run-up or buildup, it was like one frame jumping to another, instantly crossing a distance of thirty meters.

A middle-aged man in a designer suit was holding up his phone to record, and just as his finger touched the record button on the screen, the monster was already pressed against his face.

It didn't use its claws, just simply opened its arms and closed them like it was embracing a lover.

Splat.

That teeth-aching thud sounded like a balloon filled with tomato juice being crushed by a hydraulic press.

The designer suit instantly turned dark red, and before the middle-aged man could even feel pain, his entire body had turned into a pile of indistinguishable fragments, scattering into the fountain pool and staining the clear water red.

The crowd completely panicked.

"Run! Run quickly!"

"Don't look at it! Whatever you do, don't look at its face!"

Panic was like a breached flood, with thousands of people on the pedestrian street pushing and trampling frantically. Someone fell and was instantly trampled by countless feet, unable to even let out a scream.

But the monster didn't care about any of this.

It had its own hunting logic.

Its head twisted frantically at an angle impossible for humans, and its murky eyeballs scanned the surroundings. As long as someone's gaze made contact with it, or even if they just caught a glimpse of that twisted face in their peripheral vision, it would immediately lock onto the target.

Boom!

It bent its legs slightly and kicked off violently.

The hard marble ground instantly cracked into a large pit, and gravel flew like bullets, shattering the surrounding shop window glass.

It charged into the crowd like a harvester charging into a wheat field.

A young girl who had just turned back to look for a second screamed and hid inside a gold shop, locking the thick bulletproof glass door and curling up behind the counter, shivering.

"It can't see me... It can't see me..."

Bang!

A loud noise.

The bulletproof glass door, which was claimed to be able to withstand shotgun fire, shattered like a thin, crispy cracker under the monster's withered, thin palm.

The monster walked out from the flying glass shards and walked precisely toward the girl behind the counter.

Distance was not an issue at all; cover was non-existent in front of it.

Rules.

This is an unreasonable rule.

"Don't move! Get down!"

The piercing sound of police sirens rang out, and three patrol cars rushed into the pedestrian street, blocking the middle of the road. Seven or eight Special Police officers quickly got out of their cars, using the car doors as cover while aiming their guns.

"Target thirty meters ahead! White humanoid creature! Currently committing a crime!"

"Fire!"

Bang, bang, bang!

Dense gunfire resounded throughout the street.

9mm pistol rounds hit the monster's pale skin, but only left a few shallow white spots without even breaking the skin. The monster's body didn't even sway, and instead, it was enraged by the pain.

It whipped its head around, exposing that terrifying face to the view of all the police officers without reservation.

In that instant, the air seemed to freeze.

The pupils of several Special Police officers constricted, and a trembling sensation from the depths of their Soul made their index fingers, which were pulling the triggers, instantly stiffen.

The next second, a white shadow flickered.

The first police car was directly flipped into the air by a massive force, rolled twice in the air before crashing down heavily, crushing the two police officers behind it into pulp.

The monster stood on top of the overturned police car, let out a piercing shriek, and its form disappeared again.

The remaining police officers hadn't even reacted before they saw their vision spinning—that was their heads leaving their bodies, the last sight they saw while flying through the air.

In the blink of an eye, an elite Special Police squad was wiped out.

"Hahahaha! That's it! Tear them apart! Tear all these ants apart!"

Zhao Feng, hiding in a dark alley, watched the "Chaos Value" progress bar rising before his eyes, trembling with excitement as he dug his nails deep into his flesh.

"Do you see that, Gu Changan? This is a rule-level memetic weapon!"

"Physical defense is ineffective, speed is infinite, and it will never stop until you die!"

"Even if you bring in the army, it's useless! As long as your soldiers look at it, they die! No matter how many come, they will die! I want to see how you catch it!"

Zhao Feng licked his lips, his eyes crazed.

He was already fantasizing about that pretentious jerk Gu Changan kneeling on the ground begging for mercy. In this low-martial world, this kind of rule-based erasure from a higher dimension was a dimensionality reduction strike, an unsolvable dead end!

...

At this moment, inside the field command vehicle of the Bureau of Anomalous Affairs.

The atmosphere was as cold as an ice cellar.

The huge monitoring screens had all gone black, with only a few red dots jumping frantically on the map; the disappearance of each red dot represented the loss of a life.

"Director! The First Assault Team has been wiped out! This monster's speed cannot be calculated; it's too fast!"

"Perimeter snipers report that they cannot aim! As long as they see its face through the scope, even from eight hundred meters away, it will rush over immediately!"

"The drone was shot down just as it transmitted the footage; this thing can even jump a hundred meters into the air and tear the drone apart by hand!"

The operation captain's voice carried a hint of desperate trembling: "Director, this is unsolvable! As long as we observe it, the killing rule is triggered, but if we don't observe it, we don't even know where it is. How do we fight? Blindly?"

This is a dead loop.

To attack it, you have to look at it. To look at it, you have to die.

Gu Changan sat in the main seat, his face still wearing that indifference that made people want to punch him hard.

He held a newly printed document in his hand, featuring a blurry photo, and the location in the photo had already been covered by the red word "DANGER".

"What are you panicking about?"

Gu Changan tossed the document onto the table, his tone as casual as if he were discussing what to have for lunch: "According to the 'Public Security Administration Punishments Law' and the 'Emergency Response Law', this thing is suspected of seriously endangering public safety, resisting law enforcement violently, and destroying public and private property. The charges are enough to sentence it to death one hundred times."

The operation captain was sweating profusely with anxiety: "Director! Now is not the time to determine charges! This thing is impossible to catch! It's a product of rules!"

"Rules?"

Gu Changan chuckled, stood up, and took out a pair of peculiar-looking goggles from the black metal case beside him.

These goggles were thicker than ordinary tactical glasses, and the lenses were not transparent but made of an opaque, pitch-black material, covered with tiny sensors and cameras.

"In the face of the state apparatus, its crude killing logic is at most an immature BUG."

Gu Changan put on the goggles and pressed the start button on the side.

Beep.

The indicator light on the front of the goggles lit up with a ghostly blue glow.

"Attention all personnel, immediately equip the AI visual correction goggles codenamed 'Net-Clean' (Version 3.0)."

Gu Changan's voice spread through the radio to every combat unit on standby.

"This System is connected to the Bureau's supercomputing center. Its principle is very simple: it captures images via external cameras, then the AI performs real-time image processing within 0.01 milliseconds, and finally projects it onto your retinas."

"The System will automatically identify and mask the monster's facial features, replacing them with... the sticker that the nerds in the Technical Division like the most."

The operation captain was stunned, holding the newly distributed goggles in his hand, looking bewildered: "A... sticker?"

"Put them on." Gu Changan ordered briefly.

Everyone hesitated no longer, putting on the goggles and activating the System one after another.

Zzz —

The sound of electricity flashed by.

The operation captain's field of vision lit up. Although the image seen through the camera was not as clear as the naked eye and had a bit of digital noise, it was enough to see the surrounding environment clearly.

He looked toward the white figure rampaging in the ruins in the distance.

The next second, the corner of the operation captain's mouth twitched violently.

That monster, which was originally terrifying, covered in flesh and blood, and exuding an aura of death, now, in his field of vision, still had that pale body, but its head...

Had turned into a huge, pink, and tender Hello Kitty head.

The cat head even had dynamic effects, wobbling with the monster's movements, and the iconic red bow on its left ear was exceptionally bright.

"Meow~"

Inside the goggles' bone conduction headphones, the monster's piercing shriek was even thoughtfully converted into a soft, cute meow in real-time.

The bloody scene, which had originally been like a Shura Hell, instantly became absurd and comical because of this one change.

"This..." The operation captain felt his worldview had been impacted.

"This is what happens when you don't let your thinking slide; there are always more solutions than problems."

Gu Changan adjusted the focal length of his goggles, watching the "pink kitty" rampaging in the distance, a cold arc curling at the corner of his mouth.

"The rule says 'die if you see the face,' so as long as my brain doesn't receive the visual signal of a 'face,' the rule will judge that I am not observing it."

"This is called glitching the System."

Gu Changan took a specially made heavy shotgun from the gun rack and racked the bolt to chamber a round with a click.

"Alright, Special Task Force, listen up."

"Catch this Hello Kitty that's urinating everywhere and bring it back for me."

"If it dares to resist..."

Gu Changan looked through the one-way glass at the monster that was still "meowing" and tearing at a lamppost, his eyes cold.

"Then shave its fur."