Chapter 126 – Why Open Your Mouth Just to Insult Me?

“They came out so quickly…” Seeing Su Lifeng and Cheng Xiaomei walk out of the teahouse, the boss lady curled her lip again.

After watching them disappear around the corner, the boss lady withdrew her gaze and turned her head, only to be startled badly.

“Who are you!”

Behind her stood a man. He looked to be around thirty or so, dressed plainly, with a wooden expression. No one knew when he had appeared there.

“I want…”

After patting her plump chest, the boss lady caught her breath. She sized up the other party’s clothes and asked without much hope, “What? Buying something?”

“No. I’m just a little hungry.” After the man finished speaking, his jaw suddenly dropped, revealing a mouth full of mucus.

Pff!

With a muffled sound, the boss lady’s arms instantly drooped. A large amount of blood followed her body and legs, slowly flowing onto the ground.

“Xiaomei, what exactly is wrong?” After leaving Zhangjiayuan, Su Lifeng suddenly glanced at Cheng Xiaomei and asked.

“Ah?”

“You look restless,” Su Lifeng said.

Cheng Xiaomei froze. After thinking for a moment, she was just about to speak. “I feel like someone…” But Su Lifeng suddenly grabbed her arm.

“Careful!”

At the same time that Su Lifeng abruptly shoved her aside, Cheng Xiaomei also felt what seemed like a current of air sweeping in behind her.

Her right hand instinctively entered its mutated state. Before she had even steadied herself, her lengthened claws had already swept in a circle, blocking off her own body.

If there was an enemy, then protecting herself well was the greatest help she could give Su Lifeng. Only after that came helping Su Lifeng defeat the enemy. That was how Cheng Xiaomei thought.

After doing all this, her footing also stabilized, and she hurriedly turned her head to look.

The scene before her shocked her somewhat. Su Lifeng’s Bone Wings had spread behind him, while the slightly shorter pair of spear-like Bone Wings stabbed forward, respectively blocking two short blades as long as an arm.

And the person holding the short blades and facing off against Su Lifeng was a long-haired man. His shoulder-length hair was tied casually behind his head, and the unshaven stubble on his face made him look not artistic, but rather wildly violent. Most eye-catching of all were his hands… Those two blades were not weapons he held, but what his hands had become after mutation.

At the same time, his stance also seemed somewhat familiar to Cheng Xiaomei…

Blocked by Su Lifeng, the man’s face flushed slightly, clearly showing that resisting him was not easy.

A faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. He squeezed a sentence out through his teeth. “I didn’t expect to casually run into such a strong Mutant. And even that pretty little girl is actually a Mutant too.”

“I didn’t expect that casually walking down the road would make a mantis suddenly jump out from the side,” Su Lifeng said with a slight frown.

Now Cheng Xiaomei suddenly understood. No wonder he looked familiar!

A biology student’s recognition ability really was strong…

The man laughed at first, but then his expression suddenly froze, and he could not help cursing angrily. “I only just reacted… I was praising you, at least. Why did you open your mouth just to insult me!”

Yet with this slight loss of momentum, a chill suddenly shot from his tailbone all the way to the back of his head. Goosebumps instantly rose across his entire body.

“Crap…” The man’s eyes changed.

But it was already too late. Su Lifeng’s other pair of Bone Wings suddenly swept toward him. The sharp bone spikes forced him to immediately leap backward. But immediately afterward, Su Lifeng arched his body slightly back, and his entire person followed the man’s movement as he rushed up, then crashed into him heavily.

Bang!

His back slammed directly into the surrounding wall, and the impact from the front immediately made the man feel a wave of intense pain. He gave a dry cough at once.

But before he could finish coughing, the military spike in Su Lifeng’s hand was already pressed against his throat.

Su Lifeng gripped the military spike in one hand. His Bone Wings folded behind him as he stared at the man with an ice-cold expression. “Who are you?”

“…We talked online.” The long-haired man did not dare move at all now. He lowered his eyes to look at the military spike pressed exactly against his Adam’s apple and said, “Can you move that a little farther away?”

Su Lifeng froze for a moment, then thought of that brother and sister. “You’re Crisis?”

“That’s me. This military spike of yours was sold to you by my younger sister. Remember?” Crisis said.

Su Lifeng stared at him indifferently for two moments, then withdrew the military spike.

Crisis let out a breath of relief and was just about to say something in thanks when he heard Su Lifeng say, “Whether I have the military spike or not, you still shouldn’t think about making any moves.”

“Tell me. What do you want?” Su Lifeng asked.

The reason he lowered the military spike was that Crisis was not much of a threat. Moreover, the ambush just now had been more of a probe. Suppose Su Lifeng had been an ordinary person and failed to react in time; the other party could still have pulled back in time. The result would have been Su Lifeng continuing forward, completely unaware that anything had happened behind him, and even less aware that a mantis had nearly chopped him with big blades.

Otherwise, the instant Su Lifeng had created a chance to counterattack earlier, he would already have killed him.

“Now that you suddenly ask me, I really don’t know how to say it…” Crisis muttered softly, then said, “My original plan was to test you. If you were a Mutant, I’d immediately give you the feeling of finding an organization, evaluate you a little, then bring you back to our Association. But the current situation didn’t follow the script at all. Oh, right. My younger sister discovered you through the surveillance feed.”

Su Lifeng’s heart chilled. He secretly thought he had been careless, and that he should be even more careful in the future.

He simply had not expected that even in an abandoned place, they would still conduct real-time surveillance…

“Association? What’s that?” Su Lifeng asked.

“It’s an organization that gathers Mutants and some like-minded people together. As for the main purpose, it’s to resist the Xenospecies. I didn’t lie to you online. I was originally a veteran. I had a brother still in active service who went missing, so I went looking for him. I didn’t expect to discover Xenospecies at the place where he died… I don’t need to tell you what happened after that. You already know,” Crisis explained.

Su Lifeng was somewhat surprised. He had not expected Ningnan to already have an organization like this. After thinking for a moment, he asked, “So your Association also has ordinary people?”

“Of course. My younger sister is one. But she’s very capable. Her grappling and fighting skills aren’t any weaker than mine. After hearing all this, are you interested?” Crisis asked with some anticipation.

“Not interested.” Su Lifeng already had enough matters of his own, so of course he would not join some Association. Moreover, an Association that directly “developed” members out on the street gave Su Lifeng a rather unreliable feeling. He was not alone now. He also had to consider Su Lian and the others, so he had to be even more cautious in everything.

“Uh, that’s true. You’re this strong, so you’re completely fine alone, and you even brought a Mutant girl with you… But no matter what, it’s always good to get acquainted, right? My real name is Xiang Qianyan. My younger sister is Qianru. You are…” Crisis laughed awkwardly and said.

Su Lifeng had originally wanted to say “no need” and turn to leave. But just as the words were about to leave his mouth, he hesitated for a moment.

“Do you still sell equipment?” Su Lifeng asked.