Chapter 355: Just a rub, just a rub is enough

It was obvious that Yunxiao's gossiping about Lin Ran behind her back had been heard by the person herself; as the powerful Star-piercing Spear swept past, that unfortunate star, together with the disaster, was blown into fragments.

"Cough..."

Yunxiao gave an embarrassed cough; although letting the other hear her secretly badmouthing her made her a bit embarrassed, she still had to contend for Zhang Jie's allegiance.

Lin Ran was also furious; she went up and kicked Yunxiao away from Zhang Jie's side.

"You say it so easily, talking while standing doesn't hurt your waist!"

In the vast Alliance, she is the true decision-maker; great power likewise means bearing great responsibility.

Some call her a dictator, some say she's an old thing unwilling to step down, but anyone can see that without her, the Alliance wouldn't remain firmly entrenched among the top forces in the Star Sea.

If the disaster were still raging and she alone couldn't clear it, she would have long ago quit.

"You!"

"You... what you!"

"Alright, alright, alright, alright!"

Seeing the two about to fight again, Zhang Jie hurriedly called for a stop.

However, this doesn't mean they lack the big picture; facing the black disaster ahead, though strong, it's up against one of the top two humans in the Star Sea now, so the sense of oppression instantly drops by half.

Wanting a top-tier individual combatant is something many civilizations aspire to, but the difficulty is indeed imaginable.

Over these many years, the Alliance has produced only Lin Ran and a biological giant ship carrying its headquarters, showing how hard it is to birth an individual of transcendent strength.

But at this moment, under Lin Ran's powerful strike, the star's fragments mixed with that strange disaster actually gathered together again.

"It's still not dead?"

Lin Ran was shocked; this black thing could actually survive like this, completely beyond her expectation.

Meanwhile, this black disaster kept writhing; Lin Ran shattered the star, not only failing to defeat it, but actually helping it absorb the star's energy more quickly.

Even the kinetic energy from Lin Ran's single Star-piercing Spear made its aura stronger; for a moment Lin Ran dared not act rashly.

As the disaster before them kept changing shape, starting from a sphere and continually varying, it gradually formed a being with four limbs.

For some reason, Zhang Jie looked at the disaster and felt its shape resembled a cat....

Then, in the next instant, a pair of eyes suddenly opened on its body, staring fixedly at Zhang Jie, and at a speed Lin Ran couldn't react to, it lunged at Zhang Jie.

"Watch out!"

"....."

"It hurts.... who...."

A mass of consciousness awakened from deep within the disaster's body, dazedly looking out through the eyes on its form.

There was a fairly large iron person there; Blue Sapphire had seen bigger and more numerous ones before, but she had eaten them all.

"My body.... how did it break...."

Blue Sapphire's body was mixed with star fragments, but she felt no pain; she could only focus her attention to mobilize her body to recombine, and in a sense she was no longer a human.

Over years of devouring and accumulation, her body's depths held energy unimaginable to ordinary people, though it was stored very secretly.

As Lin Ran arrived, she saw the huge iron person melt like mercury, gradually revealing the human silhouette within.

The same face, the same dark pupils; just that one glance left her completely stunned.

"How could this be....."

Aside from hair color, everything else is exactly the same; could there be people in the world who look this alike?

Is it a coincidence? Or reincarnation? He shouldn't be using her memories anymore.

Blue Sapphire felt a bit lost, just staring at the other, while the people around him seemed to be arguing, and they also noticed that she herself hadn't died.

That pile of shining Spirit Energy Crystals, she still kept them carefully; the string of hand‑bearing the longing also still existed.

The face that had gradually blurred in countless Dream Realms became clear again at this moment; that visage, she would never forget.

"Knight Sir...."

She began to control her chaotic, disordered body, making it at least look less twisted.

She turned herself into the shape of a small cat, but she didn't know if he noticed; however, from his solemn expression, it seemed he hadn't.

"Can't worry about that anymore...."

She lunged at Zhang Jie, regardless of whether he remembered her, as long as she could get to his side....

"Just a rub.... just a rub is enough...."

She rushed forward quickly, and the next moment she was blasted away by Lin Ran's gunshot.

"!?"

She glared at the woman who had blown her whole body apart with a single shot, snorted angrily at her, then charged even more fiercely toward Zhang Jie.

"Zhang Jie! Dodge!"

Lin Ran's face grew grave; she could feel that the monster's internal fluctuations had become far more terrifying, completely different from its earlier chaotic, disordered form.

And Zhang Jie, watching this, felt something was odd.

"Yunxiao, you said... did this thing just exhale?"

Yunxiao kept stroking her chin, nodding seriously; she also felt that the thing seemed to have exhaled just now.

"Don't rush, my true body will be able to come soon; there's nothing to worry about."

"I don't need you!!!"

Lin Ran swung her gun to fling the opponent away, angrily looking behind; she herself wasn't unable to deal with this thing.

The opponent's goal was clear; although it sometimes attacked Lin Ran, it kept trying to run toward Zhang Jie, which annoyed her immensely.

"Get away from him!!"

Lin Ran was utterly enraged; her Star-piercing Spear and Gatling fired wildly, but the opponent was like an unkillable slime—even if the spear pierced her, it would just pass through, causing hardly any damage.

Meanwhile, Zhang Jie kept thinking, looking at the scene before him, feeling there were some clues.

"Could it be a sapphire?"

Zhang Jie watched the calamity before him continually trying to approach him, and an unrealistic idea gradually emerged.

He saw those longing eyes, which were completely unlike the emotionless vertical pupil he had initially slashed.

Those eyes, full of longing, were like an abandoned kitten, the kind of look that begs to be taken in.

Although he didn't know why she wasn't speaking, Zhang Jie could feel that her behavior was not as violent as the calamity.

After a long while, he finally made up his mind.

"......"

"Lin Ran, let it come over."