Chapter 1230: You

It's you again... Didn't you and Director Scorpio end up both suffering heavy losses? How do you still have the ability to cut my painting?

Watching Princess Fei Liya, who was caught by a giant morning glory and struggling desperately on the canvas that had been sliced open, Prince An De Lie's expression couldn't help but sink.

Reaching out to smooth over the sky on the canvas, after resealing the tear made by the knife, Prince An De Lie picked up the palette knife at his side. He pressed it against Xiao Hei, who was pulling Fei Liya's arm to drag her out of the morning glory, and with a cold face, he scraped down with force!

"Holy crap!"

Seemingly sensing the arrival of a crisis, Hearing Li Ang, who was on the canvas, shouted. He hurriedly dodged to avoid the trajectory of the palette knife, then looked in shock at the canvas, where the colors had become a chaotic mess after being scraped.

Tsk! Troublesome guy!

Watching Hearing Li Ang on the canvas successfully dodge the palette knife by relying on some sort of instinct, Prince An De Lie couldn't help but furrow his brows. He aimed his knife at the canvas once more and scraped down forcefully.

After the initial shock, seemingly having grown somewhat accustomed to this bizarre method of attack, the gray-covered Hearing Li Ang on the canvas dodged left and right, nimbly avoiding every strike of the palette knife.

But as the palette knife fell again and again, more and more color was scraped off the canvas. The space Hearing Li Ang had to dodge in became smaller and smaller, and evading became increasingly strenuous.

When Prince An De Lie, with a straight face, scraped away all the dodging space with two swipes, left and right, and then slashed down toward Hearing Li Ang in the center, the cornered Hearing Li Ang had no choice but to stand his ground. Holding the 【Silver Dagger of Cutting】 in his hand, he slashed violently at the invisible threat before him that seemed capable of erasing everything!

"Clang!"

Only a crisp sound of metal clashing was heard. Under the desperate strike of Hearing Li Ang in the painting, the palette knife in An De Lie's hand, which was capable of erasing everything, was actually cut in half directly. It was then shaken from his hand by a tremendous force and fell to the floor with a clatter.

This is... a True God-level anomalous object?

After glancing in surprise at the silver dagger in Hearing Li Ang's hand, Prince An De Lie flexed his wrist, which had been numbed by the shock. Then, with an expressionless face, he picked up his palette, squeezed a few tubes of pigment onto it, and silently began to mix colors with his brush.

It finally stopped...

After standing in place for a short while and discovering that the sense of crisis—as if he were about to be directly erased—did not continue to appear, Hearing Li Ang, covered in cold sweat, couldn't help but let out a long breath.

Although Director Scorpio had fallen, his judgment was still spot on. Prince An De Lie's ability, which not only made him invisible but also left one unclear about how the attacks were coming, was indeed the type he was least adept at handling.

Moreover, as his infection value increased and his physique strengthened, the time it took to sober up became shorter and shorter. When he had rescued Fei Liya earlier, the 【Immortal in Wine】 badge in his interface had already dimmed in advance.

If it weren't for the fact that the 【Silver Dagger of Cutting】 from Aquarius was powerful enough to cut through almost anything, blocking that last strike, he—having lost the invincible protection of 【Immortal in Wine】—would likely have been erased directly.

So... he still hadn't drunk enough!

Taking advantage of the gap while Prince An De Lie stopped his attacks, Hearing Li Ang furiously chugged wine to renew the 【Immortal in Wine】 effect, while holding the 【Silver Dagger of Cutting】, he rushed outside the secret room door and slashed fiercely.

I've already seen it, your soul is inside! As long as I can charge into this secret room... Damn!

Watching the secret room door, which had been cut but immediately resealed without even a sliver of a gap after his slash, Hearing Li Ang's expression darkened slightly. He immediately turned and rushed toward the giant morning glory, prying Fei Liya out from inside.

"Li... Hearing Li Ang!"

Clearly terrified by her previous encounter, the green-eyed young lady, still shaken, had just crawled out when she said with teary eyes:

"Just a moment ago I was in the No. 1 Military Industrial Zone, but then a patch of sunlight appeared there, and then many birds swooped down... Oh my!"

"There's no time to worry about your birds now!"

After tucking the panicked Fei Liya under his arm, Hearing Li Ang shouted for Frankie to cast out a fishing line, dragging over Director Scorpio, who was still fast asleep in the distance. He tied him back-to-back behind himself, then took long strides and turned to run. Although in this investigation mission, Director Scorpio had done nothing but deliver his head, defect, and watch from the sidelines—not only doing no work but also adding quite a bit of trouble—his experience and judgment regarding anomalous objects were still reliable.

And since even a "professional" like him said that An De Lie's ability was extremely special and the type he was least adept at handling, and that there would be danger even if he got close, he certainly couldn't be stubborn. When it was time to run, he had to run quickly!

Is he really this decisive?

Watching Hearing Li Ang on the screen, who had abandoned the attack after just one slash and was fleeing frantically with Fei Liya and Director Scorpio, Prince An De Lie couldn't help but furrow his brows. He then didn't even bother to finish mixing his colors, directly raising his brush and swiping horizontally, adding a surging great river to the painting.

And the moment the brush fell, in the direction Hearing Li Ang and the others were heading, a great river of muddy yellow color truly surged forth.

Waves crested and billowed, the torrents rolling and swirling.

The giant waves, over five meters high, carried the momentum to sweep away everything, roaring as they crashed down toward Hearing Li Ang, scaring the green-eyed young lady tucked under Hearing Li Ang's arm into screaming with a pale face.

"We're done for!"

"Not yet!"

Looking at the great river before him, which—despite its massive momentum—had a color that was faintly flickering and looked somewhat "hollow," Hearing Li Ang took a deep breath. Then, amidst Fei Liya's screams, he gritted his teeth and leaped toward the waves, dagger in hand.

"Swish!"

Under the reinforcement of his 59-point infection value, the 【Silver Dagger of Cutting】 in Hearing Li Ang's hand exerted terrifying effectiveness.

The moment it touched the snow-bright blade, the great river—nearly six meters at its highest point and spanning over three hundred meters across—was directly split in two from the center. It then collapsed with a boom, turning into a large patch of muddy yellow pigment that splattered onto the ground, which had already been reduced to ruins by artillery fire.

Immediately following this, seemingly annoyed by Hearing Li Ang's act of breaking the waves with a single slash, new attacks followed one after another: gullied ravines, toppling mountains, wind-whipped tornadoes, artillery fire filling the sky... There were even crimson meteorites as large as mountains, whistling as they tore through the air to smash down upon them.

However, no matter what kind of disaster it was, when struck by the small silver dagger in Hearing Li Ang's hand, it would be cleanly split in two, then instantly collapse, turning into colorful pigment filling the sky as it fell, unable to cause any damage at all.

Truly troublesome...

Watching Hearing Li Ang on the screen, who held the 【Silver Dagger of Cutting】 and leaped up violently to behead the evil dragon he had painted with a single slash, Prince An De Lie couldn't help but sigh. He had no choice but to stand up, walk to the easel in the corner, and take down the "Royal Banquet" mounted on it.

Immediately after, he held the "Royal Banquet," which was still missing one person, and walked back to the giant canvas. He cut a piece from the painting in front of Hearing Li Ang's escape route, sliced the edge of the "Royal Banquet" to connect it, and then reached out to gently smooth over the junction of the two paintings.

Swish.

A faint light flashed and vanished, and the cut, over a meter long, disappeared instantly. The two paintings successfully became one. The joyful banquet replaced the desolate ruins of the No. 1 Research Zone, becoming the center of the entire canvas.

At the same time, Hearing Li Ang, who was frantically fleeing with Fei Liya tucked under his arm and Director Scorpio on his back, suddenly felt his feet hit empty air. He fell directly into a magnificent pool, crashing into it with a bang and sending up a sky full of water, giving the surrounding guests a thorough soaking.

"?!!!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1231 =====