Chapter 108 – A Monumental Misunderstanding That Would Affect a Lifetime

He had actually wounded her…

Ren Xiaoying stuck out her tongue and licked her lips, then revealed a smile full of interest.

At first, she had only been somewhat curious about Su Lifeng, because he had somehow absorbed a Wisdom Species.

But now, she was genuinely starting to care.

In such a short time, Su Lifeng had actually raised his evolution level to E-class. More than that, he now possessed the ability to injure her.

“A grasshopper hopping around everywhere has turned into a venomous snake that can bite. Looks like I’ll need to deal with him before welcoming that moment. And then there’s that Wisdom Species hiding its head and showing only its tail… I can feel that I’m already very close to it. I should be able to find it within the next two days.” As Ren Xiaoying spoke, a flash of excitement passed through her eyes.

“Then what about the army here?” that voice asked again.

“That… You go have some fun with them. No need to come back,” Ren Xiaoying said casually.

…

“Su-Ge, are you all right?” Gouzi kept glancing at Su Lifeng with worry as he asked.

They had not driven very far before abandoning the car for the sake of staying hidden. Su Lifeng’s wounds were healing slowly, and walking did not seem to be a problem for him. But this was the first time Gouzi had seen Su Lifeng suffer such severe injuries in such a short span of time.

There was no telling how many of his ribs had been broken. His body was covered in wounds pierced open by the Black Thread, and each wound was sunken in as if it had been scorched black in an instant. At least until he completely healed, Su Lifeng looked miserable right now.

“I’m fine. They’re all surface wounds,” Su Lifeng answered, then fell back into thought.

In a head-on confrontation, he had not died, and the other side had been injured.

But compared with back when he had been F-class and Ren Xiaoying had been E-class, the gap between their current evolution levels should actually be even greater than it had been then.

The higher one evolved, the harder evolution became. Every higher level represented a new tier of life. That kind of gap was not something that could truly be expressed by simple labels like F, E, or first, second, and third rank.

Yet the actual difference in strength between them had narrowed instead… Why?

“Could it be because I absorbed a Wisdom Species?” As Su Lifeng thought of this, he suddenly asked, “Gouzi, how did you know the Xenospecies that came just now were dangerous? I mean, how did you know to go start the car instead of trying to hold them off?”

If he had asked this in the past, Gouzi definitely would have gotten guilty and started loudly declaring his loyalty. Now, however, he answered very frankly, “It was a feeling, I guess. Like I couldn’t resist them at all. I even felt like they’d already noticed me, but to them, I was just an ant, not worth the effort of stepping on. Honestly, I wasn’t afraid in my heart at the time. I’m someone who’s already died once. But my body was so scared I couldn’t even move. I thought an enemy like that would be dangerous even for Su-Ge. If I tried to block them, it wouldn’t do anything at all. It would be better to call and warn you, then prepare an escape route for Su-Ge. Of course, if Su-Ge needs me to, my life is yours. Even if I had to crawl, I’d crawl over and take a hit for Su-Ge.”

“No, no. What you did was exactly right. If it hadn’t been for you just now, I wouldn’t have been prepared in advance, and the other side definitely would have chased me down. That already counted as blocking their path. People shouldn’t throw their lives away blindly. They should figure out what action has the most value at the critical moment. It’s good that you were able to do that.”

“So when you said your body went weak from fear, that was an instinctive reaction?” Su Lifeng was not really asking a question so much as making an inference. Thinking about it this way, when he faced Ren Xiaoying, although his instincts also sensed an intense threat, his body was not affected…

“The Wisdom Species is useful. It’s because I absorbed a Wisdom Species that I wasn’t affected. If I absorb another one, then the next time I face Ren Xiaoying, I’ll truly have the strength to fight her.” Su Lifeng thought this to himself, a hint of anticipation flashing through his eyes.

But just then, another new question suddenly popped into his mind.

Holding the female Xenospecies in his hand, Su Lifeng raised a question with considerable value for academic discussion: “Can Xenospecies or Mutants… have children?”

He wanted Jiang Yushi and Su Lian to become Mutants, but he had not considered this question yet…

Naturally, no one answered his question. The only one who might have offered an opinion, Gouzi, had already been thrown into total confusion.

Thinking back on the series of expressions Su Lifeng had shown just now, then looking at the female Xenospecies he was carrying in his hand, Gouzi suddenly felt as if he understood something!

And once he thought about it that way…

“Wait. Does that mean I have to do the same? Is my dream of finding a wife ending right here? From now on, can I only find a Xenospecies?!”

Beneath the sunlight, Gouzi’s understanding of his own life suddenly plunged into a massive misunderstanding…

On the way, Su Lifeng captured another Xenospecies. These High-class Xenospecies had gathered here to fight the human military, but none of them had expected to be treated as material someone could carefully pick and choose from.

When they passed a shopping mall, Su Lifeng found two large boxes and stuffed both Xenospecies inside.

After he casually pulled a baseball cap onto his head and changed into another set of clothes, he discovered that Gouzi had come out carrying a whole pile of gold chains.

“Where did you find those?” Su Lifeng asked.

Gouzi pointed behind him. A pair of feet could be seen faintly sticking out from behind a counter. “That guy took advantage of everyone running away to hide in the counter by himself, then stole all these gold chains. I saw injustice on the road and kicked it flat, so I confiscated the stolen goods. Su-Ge, tell me, at a time like this, how can there still be someone so reckless? Refusing to evacuate over this bit of money, isn’t he stupid?” As he spoke, he held the gold chains up in front of Su Lifeng.

“…You keep them.” If Gouzi wanted to take over Ningnan’s entire underworld, he would definitely need money, but Su Lifeng had not yet turned his attention to matters like that. In fact, with Jiang Fusheng around, he did not need to worry about money at all.

So after thinking for a moment, Su Lifeng still said, “In the future, don’t do unnecessary things. If you need money, just say so. In the end, money will only become less and less valuable.”

“Got it.” Gouzi nodded obediently. In his view, Su Lifeng was an educated man. If he was going to follow someone like that, he had to look a little further ahead.

“When we get back, I’ll rob all those bosses first,” Gouzi decided in secret.

One glance was enough for Su Lifeng to know Gouzi had not understood what he meant. But when he thought about how Gouzi was, at heart, still a street thug with a street thug’s habits, someone who had done plenty of petty theft but definitely could not bring himself to kill and rob, Su Lifeng could not be bothered to bring it up again.

“Let’s go.”

The moment they left the mall, Su Lifeng suddenly heard a tremendous boom.

Gouzi heard it even earlier than he did. He had just opened his mouth to warn him when his jaw dropped in shock.

Su Lifeng also turned toward the source of the sound in astonishment. There, a huge mass of Black Thread was crawling over the side of a building. Its body was so enormous it had already taken up half of a high-rise, and countless strands of Black Thread were spreading madly in every direction.

That tremendous boom had come from it slamming a mass of Black Thread heavily into the ground. As several screams rang out, a few special forces soldiers were instantly swept into the air by the Black Thread. Then their limbs were bound by the Black Thread, and they were torn to pieces in an instant.

A huge mouth packed with dense, razor-like teeth flickered in and out of sight. Along with it appeared a pair of cold, enormous black eyes like bronze bells. When those severed limbs were seized by the Black Thread and delivered into that great mouth to be chewed, even Su Lifeng felt his scalp prickle.

At the same time, sparks kept bursting across the giant monster’s body. But it was obvious that the bullets had a hard time tracking the Black Thread while it was moving. Even when they hit accurately, they could not immediately inflict fatal damage, let alone when it was constantly dodging on its own initiative.

“That’s terrifying…” Gouzi murmured.

“It’ll be shot dead,” Su Lifeng said. He could tell that this Xenospecies had extremely strong defensive capabilities, but its mobility was not particularly good. As long as the human military figured out its attack range, its death was only a matter of time.

A monster like this had clearly been created specifically to test the strength of the human military.

All of this was undoubtedly preparation for the Xenospecies’ full-scale invasion. And witnessing this scene meant that day was already not far away…