Time rewinds to ten minutes ago.
With a loud bang, Gu Jianlin crashed into a table, tumbling across the floor until slamming into the wall.
He felt as if every bone in his body had shattered, his internal organs seemingly displaced, as he spat out a mouthful of blood.
And this was just from a single collision with the Joker's grotesque transformed body.
As a seventeen-year-old boy, he was enduring pain far beyond what should be expected at his age.
This was a blood-soaked lesson: one must rely on oneself for everything!
From now on, he swore never to pin his hopes on his teammates again.
Initially, he thought that the elite action group from the Ether Association would be formidable.
But after a grandiose entrance, they had been completely annihilated without even the slightest resistance.
——Though this wasn't entirely their fault.
It seemed that someone else was operating behind the Joker.
