Chapter 273: Procrastination

As Ouyang Feng's body fell with gravity.

Qin Zhixia had already turned into a pale blue stream of light, with the posture of tearing the sky, she violently struck from a corner of the night sky!

Like a humanoid meteor going against the current!

"Boom——!!!"

The terrifying impact sound even drowned out the wind and rain and the alarm!

Ouyang Feng smashed back onto the rooftop.

The entire trembling Tongzi Lou, on the verge of collapse, let out a groan unable to bear the weight.

The rooftop beneath Ouyang Feng's feet was slammed by this tremendous force, causing it to sink and rupture downward! Reinforced steel bars twisted, concrete exploded!

In the thick mist formed by mixing smoke and rainwater, a figure slowly rose.

Qin Zhixia

Her whole body was covered with a lightweight exoskeleton flashing with pale blue arcs, and the Crimson Phoenix Eyes beneath her helmet were chilling enough to make one's heart palpitate.

"High-risk target detected."

The electronic voice from her helmet was icy cold, like a system command.

Qin Zhixia pressed a button on the arm of her exoskeleton.

"Fuse limit, released."

'"Overload" mode, activate!'

"Hum——!"

Qin Zhixia's exoskeleton burst into blinding light, the cooling vents at all joints spewing high-temperature steam, turning her into a blue afterimage skimming the ground as she lunged straight at Ouyang Feng!

"Ignorant worm."

He growled low, and more than a dozen ferocious bone spikes behind him suddenly unfurled, like a peacock spreading its tail, and like the wings of a hellish demon, they shot violently toward Qin Zhixia!

The battle erupted in a flash!

Qin Zhixia's speed had reached the extreme.

She sped across the shattered rooftop, performing a Z-shaped turn in a posture defying physics, each change of direction leaving spiderweb-like cracks under her feet.

The special pistol in her hand, within just three seconds, spewed a fire dragon made of bullets!

Each bullet trailed a blue flame, precisely aimed at the joints of Ouyang Feng's bone armor!

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

The dense metallic clangs merged into a continuous sound, sparks wildly scattering in the downpour!

However, those specially made armor-piercing rounds capable of penetrating tanks could only leave shallow white dots on Ouyang Feng's bone armor.

"Too weak!"

Ouyang Feng's roar carried the contempt of a superior.

"Your attacks can't even make me feel pain!"

He waved his hand fiercely, a bone spike turning into a whip, with a piercing screech that tore the air, lashing viciously at Qin Zhixia!

Qin Zhixia's waist thruster instantly overloaded, launching her backward, narrowly avoiding this deadly strike.

That bone whip struck nothing, smashing heavily into the load-bearing wall behind her.

"Screech——!"

The steel-reinforced concrete wall, like tofu, was easily sliced open, leaving a deep, ferocious gash that seemed bottomless.

Qin Zhixia stared at that gash, her pupils slightly contracting.

Is this...... the destructive power of the White Bone Sword Ghost?

"What are you protecting?"

Ouyang Feng stepped closer step by step, not rushing to attack, but instead taunting in a tone like a cat playing with a mouse:

"Protecting the bureaucrats who treat you as a tool? Or protecting the trash that only knows how to scream and flee?"

"Only the power in one's own hands is everything."

"Only by possessing power does one have the right to change everything!"

His voice was filled with fervor and obsession.

Qin Zhixia did not answer.

She silently raised the gun muzzle and fired the last bullet from the magazine.

This shot was aimed at Ouyang Feng's scarlet eyes.

Ouyang Feng's face was covered with a white bone mask.

The bullet precisely struck his mask, but only made a small pit, along with bone fragments feebly falling to the ground.

"Boring trick."

Ouyang Feng completely lost his patience.

His figure instantly vanished from the spot!

Qin Zhixia's battle system alarm rang in her mind, and she instinctively crossed her arms in front of her chest.

The next second.

An irresistible tremendous force slammed heavily onto her arm.

Crack!

The exoskeleton armor emitted a crisp shattering sound.

Qin Zhixia was flung backward, heavily striking the distant broken wall remnants, smashing half of the wall to pieces!

"Pfft——"

A mouthful of blood spurted from the corner of her mouth, staining the helmet's visor red.

Difference.

It is a gap in absolute power, skill, and experience that cannot be made up by will.

"It's over."

Ouyang Feng walked slowly toward the fallen Qin Zhixia, looking down at her; his gaze was like looking at a piece of trash about to be thrown away.

Qin Zhixia struggled, trying to climb up from the ruins.

Her right exoskeleton was completely ruined, and the armor on her left shoulder was severely deformed.

The system's alarm blared and overload warnings screamed in her ears.

She knew she was reaching her limit.

But the mission was not yet completed.

She had to...... hold him back!

Qin Zhixia gritted her teeth, a flash of resolve crossing her eyes.

She slammed down a red button on the left shoulder of her exoskeleton.

"Warning! Detected activation of the 'Pre-dawn' sniper cannon module!"

"Warning! Due to severe damage to the airframe, activating the 'Pre-dawn' causes recoil exceeding the frame's limit by 300%!"

"Forced execution will cause permanent damage to the airframe and serious injury to the pilot!"

Qin Zhixia ignored the system's warning.

The armor on her left shoulder flung open, a horrifyingly large-caliber sniper cannon with a short barrel, gleaming with energy, slowly extended, its muzzle locking tightly onto the nearby Ouyang Feng.

This is the ultimate weapon mounted on the exoskeleton for breaching fortifications.

No one has ever dared to use it at zero range.

"Madman!"

On Ouyang Feng's face, for the first time, a solemn expression appeared.

He could feel the terrifying energy gathering in the muzzle.

"Go to hell!"

Qin Zhixia roared and pressed the launch button.

Boom—!!!

A thick energy beam instantly illuminated the entire night sky!

However, at the moment of firing, Ouyang Feng's figure twisted at a weird angle, narrowly avoiding the vital point.

The energy beam grazed his body and flew on, blasting into his building.

The entire Tongzi Lou, after a silence of 0.1 seconds, was violently pierced through the middle, leaving a huge smooth circular hole!

Qin Zhixia had no chance to see this.

That unimaginable terrifying recoil, at the moment of firing, fully acted upon her body on the brink of its limit.

"Crack!"

A clear bone-cracking sound rang out.

The bone in her left arm was instantly snapped by this brutal force!

Intense pain surged.

But before she could cry out in pain, a bony fist had already broken through her shattered chest armor and heavily struck her abdomen.

"Thud!"

In the muffled sound, Qin Zhixia's body bowed like a shrimp.

She was like a baseball hit at high speed, falling from the edge of a rooftop tens of meters high downwards.

Wind howled in her ears.

The spinning city lights quickly blurred in her vision.

Her consciousness was falling into endless darkness.

"Boom—!"

A piercing metal twisting sound, accompanied by glass shattering, came from the street below.

Smoke and dust billowed up.

When all the dust settled, only Qin Zhixia's petite figure could be seen far away, heavily smashing onto the roof of an already-scrapped car.

The entire roof was dented deeply, her exoskeleton arcing and flashing, completely ruined.

She had multiple fractures throughout her body, the light in her eyes quickly dimmed, blood continuously trickled from the corner of her mouth, she was already critically wounded and totally lost combat ability.

But she indeed did it.

She bought precious...... minutes for headquarters.

On the rooftop.

Ouyang Feng lowered his head, indifferently glanced at the figure on the street below with extremely weak vital signs, then slowly withdrew his gaze.

A bothersome bug, finally no longer in the way.

He turned around, no longer paying attention to anything outside.

He step by step walked to the Wish Bottle emitting a weird glow, bent down, used his vicious bony hand, and picked it up again.

Now, no one can disturb him anymore.

The ritual to become a god will be completed at this moment.