Chapter 42: Don't Be So Fiery, Will You?

621!

Squelch!

Accompanied by the sound of a short blade slicing flesh, the bizarre's right palm was severed on cue and dropped to the ground!

But Hua Wuye didn't press the advantage. Instead, he kicked the bizarre, then grabbed Lin Ling and retreated violently.

The surrounding people immediately rushed over to cover them, forming a human wall to conceal the two's movements. On the ground around them lay a carpet of Guard Team corpses.

Earlier, they too had used their lives to protect the two Captains, buying them time to catch their breath.

Fortunately, this time the bizarre didn't rush to attack. Instead, it visibly froze for a moment, lowered its head to stare at its severed palm for a while, then slowly raised its head and opened its huge mouth, letting out a ferocious roar.

In the firelight, many people saw the bizarre's appearance clearly for the first time.

It was unmistakably… Lady Chen's personal maid from Chen Fu—Xiaoyu!

"It's him!"

"Someone from Chen Fu?!"

"I always wondered why Captain Chen never came to reinforce us. Looks like something happened at Chen Fu!"

Amid the crowd's whispered discussions, Lin Ling and Hua Wuye split up and moved about under the protection of the human wall.

Lin Ling crouched low, wincing as he took out a medicine bottle, poured out the last few black pills, and swallowed them.

Then he took out other small medicine bottles, poured pills into his palm, and tossed them into his mouth in one go.

After swallowing the pills, his forehead immediately bulged with blue veins, his face twisted in agony, as if he were enduring something.

The black pills from before were precious medicine for restoring internal strength.

The other bottles and jars were inferior pills for rapidly restoring Qi and Blood.

Poor quality, containing medicinal toxins, and harmful to health. But these were the best pills Gu Yue Cun could provide.

The Qi and Blood recovery pills were still acceptable, but as for medicine that restored internal strength—even Lin Ling didn't have many hoarded away; they were extremely precious.

Normally he rationed them carefully, reluctant to use them. Yet today he'd used them all in this one battle, which made Lin Ling furious, wishing he could tear that maid bizarre apart.

But unfortunately, his strength was no match. Without Hua Wuye's coordination, he would have been killed by the bizarre earlier!

Boom!

While Lin Ling was enduring the pain to recover his Internal Breath and injuries, a heavy sound suddenly came from Di He.

Lin Ling's face changed, and then he heard exclamations from the crowd.

"It's destroying Di He!"

"Charge! Don't let the bizarre succeed!"

"Protect Gu Yue Cun!!"

In Lin Ling's line of sight, villagers and Guard Team members surged toward Di He in a dark mass.

But those charging at the front were quickly sent flying high by the bizarre's Supernatural Strength, crashing heavily to the ground, twitching a few times before going still.

Lin Ling saw clearly that every time the maid bizarre raised its hand, it could sweep away several people, and every time it charged into the crowd, it claimed over a dozen lives.

Before the bizarre's terrifying Supernatural Strength, human lives were like weeds.

Watching familiar villagers scream and die one after another, Lin Ling's eyes instantly reddened.

"Beast!"

Unable to wait for the signal to coordinate with Hua Wuye, he bent and kicked off the ground. With a bang, he leaped straight out from the crowd, soaring high into the air.

"Spear!"

Snarling sharply mid-air, a Deputy Captain nearby who already had the unspoken understanding tossed his long spear, sending it flying toward Lin Ling.

As the iron spear flew in, Lin Ling gripped it firmly. Suspended in mid-air, he channeled all the internal strength he had just recovered, aimed the spear at the bizarre, and thrust straight down.

"Cloud Dragon in the Sky!"

Boom!

Internal strength flowed to the spear's tail and violently erupted into a powerful air current, generating terrifying momentum.

In an instant, Lin Ling became an afterimage, diving down toward the maid bizarre on the ground.

"No!"

Hiding in the crowd, Hua Wuye saw this scene, her face instantly draining of color, and she screamed out loud.

That scream drew the attention of others—and also the bizarre's.

But just as the bizarre raised its head… the long spear had already arrived!

Bang!!

The sharp spearhead thrust straight at the bizarre's forehead, but it was like stabbing solid rock—terrible resistance met the blow, and Lin Ling in mid-air seemed to freeze for an instant.

But the next moment, Lin Ling's forehead bulged with blue veins as he let out a hoarse, desperate roar.

"Get in there!!"

All his internal strength unleashed, power surging forth.

As the metal spearhead at the very tip was crushed flat, the spear let out a screech and pierced through the bizarre's scalp, punched through its skull, shot out from the back of its head, and slammed viciously into the ground.

Bang!!

With an explosive blast, the floor cracked apart, blasting out a circular pit, and the bizarre was firmly pinned in place.

Only now did a massive blood-red number resembling a critical hit slowly drift out from the flash on the bizarre's forehead.

1351!

The scene instantly fell deathly silent. Everyone stared at this sight in shock, their thoughts churning for a moment.

But before they could express their emotions, their faces collectively shifted to terror and despair.

The maid bizarre, which had been pinned dead-still in place with its head hanging motionless, suddenly snapped its hand up and directly seized the throat of the already-spent Lin Ling.

"The bizarre is still alive!?"

"Captain Lin is in danger!!"

Amid the rising and falling cries of alarm, a graceful figure suddenly darted out from the shadows, appearing directly behind the anomaly.

As if sensing something, the maid anomaly with the severed palm suddenly spun around and flung her severed palm backhand.

The graceful figure ducked low, feeling the howling wind rush past her face.

She reversed her grip, both hands seizing the maid anomaly's severed-palm hand, and locked her legs around the maid anomaly's neck.

A joint-lock technique snapped with a crack, forcing the maid anomaly down onto one knee and twisted onto the ground, and then a dagger stabbed wildly at the maid anomaly's neck in a frenzy.

"Let him go!!"

211!

522!

321!

386!

As a string of numbers popped up over her head, the maid anomaly seemed thoroughly enraged. She hurled Lin Ling—who was gripping her neck—flying, slapped the floor with one palm, surged from kneeling to standing in a single motion, ripped Hua Wuye—who had been coiled around her neck—free, and swung a fist slamming viciously into her chest.

Boom!

As the ground split apart, Hua Wuye's chest instantly caved in, bones snapping, limbs going rigid, eyes rolling back, blood spraying from her mouth.

"Stupid woman!!"

Lin Ling, already drained of strength, instantly widened her eyes and screamed in her heart.

But after throwing that punch, the anomaly didn't pause at all—she leapt straight forward, caught up with Lin Ling midair, and kicked him in the stomach.

151!

The searing pain spread from his stomach through his whole body. Lin Ling vomited blood with a retch midair, then whooshed down into the crowd, causing panic.

When the anomaly landed, she charged straight toward where Lin Ling had fallen.

The crowd hastily formed a human wall, but the anomaly swatted them aside like flies, sending a whole swath flying with a casual backhand.

In a few quick moves she reached the barely-breathing Lin Ling, and drove a fist straight down at his forehead.

Everyone screamed and shut their eyes, unable to bear watching such a brutal scene.

Boom!!!

A thunderous explosion rang out across the night sky, and then the entire scene fell silent.

The crowd opened their eyes in terror, only to see Lin Ling still alive on the ground, his skull not shattered into pieces, staring wide-eyed in shock at what was above him.

And above his head, two fists were trembling as they slammed against each other, locked in a contest of strength.

The fist slamming down viciously belonged to the maid anomaly.

The one holding an uppercut pose, meeting that fist head-on and saving Captain Lin, was… Fang Yue!

As if sensing the anomaly's ferocious gaze, Fang Yue smiled faintly.

"Miss Hole-in-the-Head, don't be so hot-tempered."

(End of chapter)