Chapter 91 – Fight!

Gouzi’s eyes were wide. If it had been him, there was no way he could have fought a monster like Qin Moyun. But right now, he had no choice but to stare fixedly at the scene and shout for Su Lifeng in his heart. Every time the Black Thread absorbed from him, it brought him agony so intense it reached the limit of what he could bear. The thought that he would be absorbed alive within a minute made him want to die on the spot. At the same time, he knew that the more pain showed on his face, the more Su Lifeng’s mind would be thrown into chaos.

That damned Young Xenospecies had been the one to tell him that… His existence would cause Su Lifeng to make the wrong judgment.

Was that Xenospecies experimenting? Or was it verifying the human knowledge it had learned? Gouzi had no way of knowing.

The only thing he could do now was grit his teeth as hard as he could and give no reaction at all. It was an extremely difficult thing to do, because all the flesh and blood in his body felt as if it were being squeezed toward the tiny wound on his neck, then sucked away by the Black Thread.

Bang!

Qin Moyun raised her arm, and her wings immediately blocked Su Lifeng’s military dagger.

She had absorbed over a hundred Xenospecies. Although it had not stopped her body from rotting, the parts that remained had clearly been strengthened even more than before.

When those wings spread, Su Lifeng actually failed to pierce all the way through.

Even so, he did not retreat at once. Instead, he calmly drew a scalpel and slashed fiercely toward Qin Moyun’s neck.

The two movements followed one after the other, almost in a single breath.

Combined with his incredible speed, it even gave the impression that both attacks were happening at the same time.

If Qin Moyun’s reaction had been just a little slower, Su Lifeng’s strike might have landed.

But Qin Moyun was clearly not that simple. She merely whipped her head around, opened her mouth, and a massive clump of Black Thread lunged straight at Su Lifeng.

She wanted to force Su Lifeng back, because the Xenospecies that had delivered Gouzi had said that according to Wang Zhao, the closer they got to the one-minute limit, the higher the chance that Su Lifeng would make a mistake. Once she absorbed Su Lifeng and evolved again, she would prove herself once more.

In the mind of a Xenospecies, there was no such emotion as unwillingness. Even if Qin Moyun still retained some memories from this skin, evolution remained her only driving force. Her desire to prove herself was only a desire to prove that she could continue evolving.

Swish!

Su Lifeng did not pull his hand back. His Exoskeleton instantly surfaced, and the moment his palm and scalpel collided with the Black Thread, he slashed sharply sideways.

A large amount of Black Thread was immediately cut away, but even more Black Thread grew back almost at once.

Its regenerative ability was terrifyingly strong. Cutting alone would never be enough to sever it all.

If Su Lifeng had not relied on his Exoskeleton to yank his hand back with a burst of force, he probably would have lost that hand there.

But the true killing move had never been the scalpel. It was the Bone Wings on his back.

While the opponent’s attention had been drawn first by the military dagger and then by the scalpel, the Bone Wings behind Su Lifeng suddenly moved. A streak of red light instantly stabbed forward.

With three consecutive attacks launched in such a short span, Qin Moyun would inevitably be injured if she showed even the slightest opening.

But…

“Ngh…”

The Black Thread suddenly contracted at that moment, and Gouzi could not stop himself from letting out a muffled groan.

Su Lifeng’s movements immediately stalled. In that brief instant of hesitation, the Black Thread stabbed into his left shoulder.

Although Su Lifeng instantly reached back and cut the Black Thread apart, Qin Moyun’s other hand had already grabbed the Bone Wings that had frozen mid-motion. Then she hurled him away with brutal force.

Pfft!

Su Lifeng was thrown straight into a wall more than ten meters away. Before he could even climb back up, sharp pain tore through his back and shoulder, and he opened his mouth to spit out a mouthful of blood.

It seemed that even if Qin Moyun stood completely still, her brute strength alone was astonishing.

Gouzi’s eyes were bloodshot. He was in agony, but at the same time, he wanted to slap himself hard across the face.

He still hadn’t held it in… He hadn’t held it in…

“Keep going. You still have more than fifty seconds. There’s plenty of time,” Qin Moyun said without the slightest emotion.

Although there was no mockery in her tone, Gouzi felt an overwhelming rage and unwillingness.

She wanted to torture Su Lifeng to death alive!

“Then let’s go again.” Su Lifeng seemed not to have realized that at all, and he quickly stood back up.

He glanced at the Black Thread in his shoulder and discovered that even after being cut off, it was still sucking his blood.

Clearly, this was another bat-like trait written into Qin Moyun’s genes.

If someone took a heavy barrage from her Black Thread, she probably wouldn’t even need to actively absorb them. They would die of blood loss in no time.

In other words, Gouzi might not even have a minute left.

“I didn’t expect the hostage thing to be true, though,” Qin Moyun said.

“This has nothing to do with hostages. It has to do with a promise,” Su Lifeng replied.

Gouzi suddenly felt his eyes grow hot…

“Still, I’ve figured out a little…” Su Lifeng thought.

After handing the Black Thread from Qin Moyun’s body over to Shen Fei, Su Lifeng had not yet had time to get any feedback from him, but he had already obtained some information about the Xenospecies from Shen Fei.

He couldn’t wait for Shen Fei’s conclusions now, but in his fight with Qin Moyun, he could experience the differences more directly.

Qin Moyun’s body kept rotting, and from the look of it, the process had already reached an irreversible point. That alone said plenty.

Generally speaking, a situation like this meant the Xenospecies’s level was not high enough.

Li Yi, for example, had also had rotten patches on his body back then, but after absorbing humans, he had returned to a state close to that of an ordinary person.

What was the difference between Qin Moyun and Li Yi?

“Absorbing a massive amount in a short period of time to forcibly raise her level?” Su Lifeng suddenly thought of that Precognitive Vision of the ground caving in. He had believed it was the signal for a full-scale Xenospecies invasion, but thinking about it carefully, wasn’t Qin Moyun’s appearance also a kind of signal? It meant Ren Xiaoying wanted to speed up the process.

Ren Xiaoying had failed to appear both times, proving she had something even more important to do.

The Xenospecies that had taken Gouzi had not appeared either, so it had to be related to this as well.

Just as Su Lifeng had thought before, in the eyes of these Xenospecies, he was still only a human. They would not pay him too much attention.

“The good news is that this kind of forced evolution obviously comes with severe side effects. If a lot of High-class Xenospecies created through forced evolution appear during the full-scale Xenospecies invasion, then once I grasp their weaknesses, I’ll have another layer of protection.” As Su Lifeng thought this, he had already charged forward again.

Gouzi kept his eyes wide open, staring. He watched Su Lifeng get thrown back again and again, but just when even he was starting to despair, Su Lifeng’s eyes were growing brighter and brighter.

“I know now.” The last time he was thrown back, Su Lifeng twisted sharply in midair, stabbed his military spike into the ground, and forced himself to a stop amid a spray of sparks.

Without the slightest pause, he sprang up and charged straight at Qin Moyun even faster than before.

A huge mass of Black Thread immediately slammed into Su Lifeng’s body one after another, but he acted as if he felt nothing. He rushed straight up to Qin Moyun, then suddenly thrust his hand toward her mouth and seized the Black Thread in one grab.

“You never truly evolved at all. The only thing that evolved was the Xenospecies itself, not this skin you’re wearing. You attacked me four times in a row, and after each attack, your body rotted a little more.” As the huge mass of Black Thread absorbed him frantically, Su Lifeng let out a furious roar and used every ounce of strength he had to yank the Black Thread outward.

Forcibly pulling a Xenospecies out of a body was extremely difficult, but Qin Moyun’s skin was already on the verge of complete collapse.

Even while she was absorbing Su Lifeng, she could not stop her skin from rotting even faster as the Xenospecies’s true body gradually left it.

Soon, her face, her body, and her wings all began to collapse completely…

“Ah!”

Gouzi stared blankly as Qin Moyun’s body gradually turned into white bones. At the same time, he watched as Su Lifeng’s entire body was pierced by Black Thread, leaving him drenched in blood from head to toe.

He was retreating step by step. With every step back, a little more of his strength drained away, yet there was a smile on his face.

“Although this still doesn’t count as your true weakness, I will find it.” Su Lifeng let out one last roar, then toppled straight to the ground with a mass of Black Thread attached to him.

In the place where Qin Moyun had been standing, only a skeleton remained…

He had won the clash.