Chapter 139
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Wen Yian is an excellent assassin, her innate abilities make her assassinations unstoppable.
She covered the cultist’s mouth, laid the dead cultist on the ground, and then approached the battlefield, posing as if she was going to help the others kill Lou Yan.
The three cultists entangled with Lou Yan didn’t see her killing their own person just now. Coincidentally, Ji Yuan was staggered back by Lou Yan’s whip, and his back happened to face Wen Yian.
Wen Yian didn’t hesitate to step forward, a dagger cut across Ji Yuan’s neck and immediately disappeared into the darkness, only to appear in the shadow of Xia Jie the next moment.
Xia Wu’s pupils shook violently as she watched this scene from afar, immediately shouting, “Brother, be careful!!!”
Xia Jie reacted quickly. Just as Wen Yian’s dagger was about to touch his neck, Xia Jie dodged it, turned his head to glare at Wen Yian with a sinister look, his eyes full of killing intent. “Wen Yian, you dare betray us.”
Wen Yian smiled indifferently, then vanished into the shadows in an instant. The next moment, she appeared behind Dead Monkey, decisively stabbing the dagger into Dead Monkey’s neck without hesitation. Without pausing, she reappeared in the shadow of Xia Wu twenty meters away.
“Ah!” Xia Wu was startled, her expression fierce. “Get away, traitor!”
Wen Yian squatted down, placing the dagger horizontally against Xia Wu’s neck, teasingly lifting Xia Wu’s chin with a sigh. “I’ve always liked kids. If possible, Xia Wu, I don’t want to kill you.”
Xia Wu wanted to bite Wen Yian to death. “Wen Yian, dare to try and kill me!”
Seeing his sister in danger, Xia Jie’s eyes darkened, and his aura surged instantly. He was about to rush towards Xia Wu, but Lou Yan restrained him with a spinal whip. “Ghost-faced Xia Jie, I’m still here.”
Enraged, Xia Jie turned his head and roared at Lou Yan, his voice no longer human-like, but terrifying. The ghost mask on his face seemed to have completely merged with his flesh, becoming a new layer of skin. His eyeballs bulged, his mouth gaping, his skin pale and bluish-white. Xia Jie’s figure also doubled instantly, looking like a demon from h*ll.
Xia Jie began to transform into a strange being!
Xia Jie grabbed the spinal whip wrapped around him with both hands, exerting force to break it!
The spinal whip was already on the verge of breaking during the previous fight, so Lou Yan wasn’t surprised when Xia Jie broke it. Lou Yan threw the spinal whip to the ground, took a couple of steps back, then jumped onto Xia Jie’s back. With one hand firmly holding Xia Jie’s neck, Lou Yan used “True Eye” to locate Xia Jie’s transformed heart and viciously stabbed his other hand’s bone spikes into Xia Jie’s heart.
[Mental Power: 70/140]
[Mental Power: 60/140]
[Mental Power: 50/140]
The bone flower devoured Xia Jie’s flesh and blood.
Suddenly, Lou Yan’s innate ability, “Crisis Perception,” which he could use after Ji Yuan’s death, issued a warning. Subconsciously, Lou Yan forcefully turned on Xia Jie’s body, moving from behind Xia Jie to his front. Just as he finished this action, he saw a black monkey pounce on Xia Jie’s back.
This black monkey was hairless, with only a layer of black skin covering its bones. Its eyes were red, glaring at Lou Yan, and its claws emitted a greenish glow. It threatened Lou Yan with bared teeth, its sharp yellow fangs dripping with thick, bloody saliva, emitting a foul stench.
Lou Yan subconsciously looked at Dead Monkey’s corpse, and sure enough, saw that Dead Monkey’s body had been torn in half, as if something had crawled out of Dead Monkey’s body before his death.
It turned out that Dead Monkey was also a semi-anomaly, and this black monkey was the weird creature revived inside him. Dead Monkey bore deep resentment towards Lou Yan before he died, so after the black monkey revived, it was influenced by the host and considered Lou Yan its first target for attack.
The black monkey quickly climbed onto Xia Jie’s shoulders, opening its big mouth and preparing to pounce at Lou Yan. Lou Yan’s legs clung to Xia Jie’s waist. Using the strength of his legs and waist to support his entire body, he released his hand that had been choking Xia Jie’s neck, firmly grabbing the top of the black monkey’s head with his hand, resisting its pounce.
Without hesitation, Lou Yan released a second bone spike from the palm of his hand pressed against the monkey’s head, stabbing it straight into the black monkey’s brain.
[Mental Power: 35/140]
“Squeak!!!”
The monkey emitted a sharp and piercing cry. Lou Yan gritted his teeth, using all his strength to hold down the monkey’s head and prevent it from escaping. His arms were scratched by the monkey’s claws, causing numerous wounds.
The green claws of the black monkey possessed strange power. Under its scratching, Lou Yan’s Mental Power began to plummet.
[Mental Power: 34/140]
[Mental Power: 33/140]
Not good.
Lou Yan frowned, but there was no panic or anxiety in his crimson eyes. He tried to calm his breathing, exerting more force to suppress the black monkey, whose resistance gradually weakened.
On the other side, Wen Yian swiftly wiped Xia Wu’s neck.
Although Xia Wu was a child, there had been countless people who died at her hands to become the leader of the cultists. Therefore, Wen Yian felt no guilt.
In fact, Wen Yian quite liked Xia Wu’s personality. If possible, she didn’t want to kill Xia Wu either. But if she let a cultist go today, she would be the one to die later.
“…”
Xia Wu wanted to cry out for help, but she couldn’t make a sound.
The blood in her neck surged outwards, and Xia Wu’s body twitched uncontrollably. She lifted her neck, staring blankly at the gloomy sky.
The dark clouds surged, rain mercilessly pelting her body and face. Xia Wu’s face turned even paler under the rain’s washing.
Xia Wu’s mouth trembled, feeling the intense pain…
So this was what it felt like to have one’s throat cut.
The surrounding forest was rustling, as if mourning, yet also laughing maniacally. The sound of raindrops pattering together with them formed a deathly melody.
So cold.
Xia Wu trembled all over as she looked at the dim and heavy dark clouds in the sky, her eyelashes trembling as they blinked away the raindrops, distant memories suddenly rushing into her mind.
It was truly miraculous. Even though the anomaly resurgence had only occurred over two months ago, she felt as though two or three years had already passed.
Oh, it seemed like she and her brother had entered a place called the “Anomaly Domain.” The flow of time in the “Anomaly Domain” was different from that in reality. She and her brother had spent a full two to three years in the “Anomaly Domain,” completely adapting to the dangerous and cruel world within it. Both of them had undergone drastic changes in personality. She had learned to kill, learned to be ruthless, and learned to be a loyal cultist.
Before entering the “Anomaly Domain,” what were she and her brother like?
Xia Wu’s still youthful face showed a puzzled expression.
Strange, why couldn’t she remember…
Suddenly, Xia Wu remembered the girl named “Little Yu” that she saw at the Anomaly Control Bureau. She really liked her. Looking at Little Yu, she always felt a strange familiarity, as if she used to be as cute and lovely as Little Yu.
Ah! Xia Wu’s eyes lit up, and she remembered something. It seemed that before the arrival of the Anomaly Resurgence, she and her brother were just an ordinary pair of siblings. She wore dresses like Little Yu’s and was praised for being cute. Her brother had a bad temper but liked teasing her, yet he was a good person. They also had a clingy and furry dog at home who loved licking her feet before licking her face…
Home?
That was really a distant word.
Right, she still had a home, she should have a home. Then, what about her mom and dad?
Mom and dad…
Xia Wu struggled to find memories of her parents in her mind.
Oh… Her parents seemed to have been mysteriously killed on the day of the Anomaly Resurgence, suddenly appearing at home. Protected desperately by their dog named “Fufu,” only her brother managed to escape with her. Her brother held her in his arms, tears streaming down his face, and she was crying too.
The smell of blood, the salty taste of tears, the pain of a heart scorched by hatred. She still remembered that she and her brother had made a firm decision to avenge their parents, to kill the anomaly that had killed them…
Later, how did they forget their original intention to seek revenge? How did they become accomplices of the anomaly, as if brainwashed?
How did they become cultists?
They wanted to be dragon slayers, but unknowingly, did they also become evil dragons lurking in the abyss?
Tears streamed down Xia Wu’s face. Suddenly, she felt a sense of relief in her heart, grateful that she was killed by Wen Yian before she could make even bigger mistakes. She even felt like thanking Wen Yian a bit.
How could she become so bad? How could she kill so many people for the anomaly?
Xia Wu turned her head with difficulty, looking at the transformed Xia Jie. She felt the tears burning hotter, making her eyes uncomfortable and hot. She opened her mouth, whispering in a voice full of grievances, “Brother, how could you also become bad…”
I’m still young, didn’t you know to remind me?
D*mn it, you used to tell me you wanted to become a great hero!
With tears streaming down her face, Xia Wu closed her eyes in sorrow.
The transformed Xia Jie seemed to feel his sister’s death, and all his struggling movements stopped in an instant. He stared blankly at Xia Wu’s body, as clueless as a child.
Lou Yan seized the opportunity and pierced the anomaly heart inside Xia Jie’s body.
Xia Jie’s huge body fell to the ground.
The blood and flesh of the black monkey were devoured by Lou Yan’s bone spike, and after being crushed under Xia Jie’s body for a short moment, it also lost its life.
Breathing heavily, Lou Yan stood up and surveyed the entire mountaintop of Xiaoqing Mountain. Bodies lay scattered around, and his body was covered in his own and others’ blood.
The process of the battle was actually very fast, but Lou Yan felt extremely tired. The discomfort of his greatly reduced Mental Power was hard to bear, causing a dizzying and throbbing sensation.
Lou Yan closed his eyes, and the blood squeezed out of his eyes, which were already full and about to overflow, flowed down along the red edges of his eyes, making him look as if he had cried.
When he opened his eyes again, Lou Yan’s crimson eyes had turned black and white. He exhaled a breath of heat, retracting the two bone spikes in his palms, then turned to look at Wen Yian.
Wen Yian was quietly looking at Xia Wu’s body, her face neither particularly happy nor sad, just calm. Feeling Lou Yan’s gaze, she smiled at him, her moist face even more beautiful and moving than usual. Wen Yian walked towards Lou Yan with graceful steps. “Lou Yan, how was my performance this time?”
Lou Yan casually wiped the blood off his face with the back of his hand, his lips curling up. “Very good.”
Wen Yian smiled satisfactorily. She glanced at the corpses around, then, after passing by the body of Saint Ye Ruan, she sighed softly. “For you, I completely betrayed the cultist organization. Even Lord Saint himself…”
“Saint Ye Ruan isn’t dead yet,” Lou Yan said calmly.
Wen Yian was startled for a moment, then her face changed drastically. She quickly stood up and walked to Ye Ruan’s body to check. “He’s not dead?! Then where is he?!”
Lou Yan looked towards the temple.
At first, he also thought that Saint Ye Ruan was dead, but after all the cultists present died, his “Crisis Perception” reminded him that there was still danger in the temple.
After being reminded, Lou Yan immediately glanced at Ye Ruan’s body. The body still looked like Ye Ruan, but the skin was pale without any signs of life, resembling a lifelike doll.
Just with a glance, Lou Yan knew that the one who died was Ye Ruan’s substitute, not the real Saint Ye Ruan.
It made sense. Ye Ruan was at least the Saint of the cultist organization, how could he die so easily?
The blood on Lou Yan’s hands was washed away by the raindrops, slowly washing down from his fingertips. His slender fingers turned pale, and the fingertips wrinkled from the water and blood.
The cool rain eased the throbbing in Lou Yan’s head.
Lou Yan looked at his remaining Mental Power, only 28 points left.
After inspecting Ye Ruan’s body, Wen Yian quickly realized that something was wrong. She stood up with a serious face, looking at Lou Yan. “Lou Yan, we must kill Ye Ruan. We absolutely, absolutely cannot let him leave! Otherwise, with his ability to stir people’s hearts, the two of us won’t have peaceful days.”
Lou Yan responded with a “Mmm” from his nose and took the lead towards the temple.
Although there were only 28 points of Mental Power left, there was still a possibility of killing Ye Ruan.
Even without using anomaly abilities, Lou Yan’s physical strength was terrifyingly strong.
Just right, Lou Yan also wanted to see. In his previous life, Ye Ruan was killed by Fu Xuezhou. Could Lou Yan also kill him in this state?
Lou Yan wanted to know, how much difference is there between him and Fu Xuezhou now?
Wen Yian took a deep breath and held the dagger in her hand tightly, following closely behind Lou Yan.
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