PSW - Chapter 89
Chapter 89
In the end, Zheng Yi didn't make things too difficult for Yu Yinan. After breakfast, they continued on their way, heading straight for the coast.
As for the base in Chuanyang? Survivors? Ability users? It wouldn't be too late to consider all that after they went to the coast and saw the ocean.
That was what Zheng Yi and Yu Yinan had originally planned.
The modified car headed straight for the coast. They had planned to enter through the park and go directly to the beach to see the ocean and have some fun. However, before they even reached the park entrance, halfway down the road, their path was mostly blocked by a series of rear-ended, abandoned vehicles. Yu Yinan was about to get out and move them, but she noticed that the area not only had vehicle wreckage but also a distinct reflection in the sunlight. She got out of the car and walked over quickly, only to discover that the road was littered with shattered glass and steel caltrops.
Truly despicable.
"Should I clear it? Or should we find a detour?" If she were to clear it, completely melting all the steel spikes would probably take a lot of time. Besides, this was clearly a man-made obstacle.
Zheng Yi got out of the car and examined the tracks near the road. On the other side was a dirt path, and the weeds on both sides had clearly been cleared by someone. She glanced at the scattered caltrops; some had obviously been reused, with some of the points slightly bent.
Just then, Zheng Yi suddenly looked up at the top of a streetlight on the side of the road. A black crow had landed there at some point and was staring intently at them.
"Looks like we won't be seeing the ocean today." Zheng Yi sighed softly. A stream of water silently condensed behind the black crow, enveloping and freezing it in the next instant before shattering.
With a bang, what burst apart wasn't the crow's flesh and feathers, but a cloud of black mist. The black crow was actually the product of some ability user's power, not a real creature.
"Then we…" Yu Yinan was still wondering if they should take the dirt path to leave when she saw Zheng Yi put the modified car into her backpack and start walking toward the path.
"Those people should be on their way. Let's go meet them," Zheng Yi said with a smile. "Haven't you been wanting to try some real combat?"
"Okay," Yu Yinan agreed. Just as she was about to walk down the path with Zheng Yi, she clearly heard the sound of a vehicle accelerating toward them. A silver van, covered in dust and dirt, closed in from behind them, while from down the path, three motorcycles kicked up dust as they sped up.
"It's them!" A man in the van had an ugly expression. He clutched his head; the sudden death of the black crow had caused him considerable backlash, filling him with anger. He cursed a few times in the local Chuanyang dialect before shouting in a thick accent, "I found them, so I should get to go first this time, right? I want them to bear me a son!"
"My old Zhang family still doesn't have an heir. You have to let me have them this time, no matter what!" These men had dark, sun-tanned skin and were mostly shirtless. Before they even got out of the car, they were already making lewd comments, jeering and joking about "dividing the spoils."
"Fuck, we finally survived that damn heatwave. I'm sick of eating that old meat. These two little chicks look so soft and tender. After we're done playing, I've got to have a taste."
"They look pretty clean and not at all distressed. They couldn't be powerful ability users, could they?"
"Just two women. How strong can they be against ten of us ability users? If you're not confident, have Xiao Wang conjure another bird to fly back to the village and call for more people."
The men from the two motorcycles got off and blocked Zheng Yi and Yu Yinan. The six men from the van also got out one by one, leaving only the male ability user who controlled the black crow and another ability user behind. The two of them clearly didn't have combat-type abilities and stayed in front of the vehicle together.
"If you don't want to suffer, then be good girls and get in the van with your grandpas. Look at that tender skin of yours. I'd hate to kill you too quickly."
"Serve the men in the village well, give birth to a few sons, and we'll guarantee you'll have food to eat and water to drink."
They roared with laughter. One of them had just taken a step forward when a scorching flame suddenly slammed down. He was startled, and a silver steel shield formed before him like flowing water, barely managing to block the flame. "Fire-type! A bit strong!"
"Attack!"
"I'll do it!" another man shouted. A stream of water condensed and was about to douse Yu Yinan when another man raised his hand to touch the water, concentrating as he channeled lightning into it. Streaks of lightning spread through the water as it surged toward Yu Yinan.
In that instant, the weeds on both sides billowed up with the wind, growing explosively as they swept toward Zheng Yi and Yu Yinan. Vines hidden beneath the clumps of weeds shot out suddenly like venomous snakes.
The four men who had arrived on motorcycles also roared. One of them dropped to a crouch, and in the next moment, the phantom image of a cheetah appeared over his body. He lunged forward like a wild beast.
"One is a fire-type, the other is… a water-type? Wait, why does she have so many colors on her?" Another man was about to concentrate and get a clearer look when his head suddenly buzzed. He let out a bloodcurdling scream, and before he could even report his findings to his comrades, his eyeballs exploded. He fell straight and heavily to the ground, silent.
A pair of twin brothers on another motorcycle also used their ability at the same time, twisting and blurring the area, trapping everyone present and preventing any living creature from escaping. The ability was similar to a limited domain; when the two brothers combined their power, even strong ability users would find it difficult to break through the space and escape instantly. They called their ability "the Cage."
In the past, when they had encountered tough prey, it was their "Cage" that had trapped them, preventing the quarry from escaping.
Zheng Yi felt the "lockdown" of the space. She merely glanced at the weak stream of water surging toward them, wrapped in lightning, and it abruptly stopped in mid-air.
"What's going on?! My water-" How was the water he'd conjured no longer under his control?! Before he could finish his sentence, he watched in horror as the stream of water suddenly changed direction, forming a dragon's head with fangs. It lunged at him with lightning speed. He couldn't even dodge before the water slammed into him, and electricity crackled through his entire body. The lightning-type ability user turned pale with fright and hurriedly tried to dispel the lightning elements from his body.
Just then, intense heat rolled toward them. A scorching flame erupted, instantly burning the spreading grass and vines to a crisp. The ability user with the cheetah's speed was forced back by the heatwave before he could even get close to the two women, his hair singed yellow and curled. The fury in Yu Yinan's eyes was unabated. In an instant, she pushed her ability to its limit. The intense heat burned the steel shield red-hot. The ability user found it difficult to maintain complete control, constantly trying to form a new shield amidst the terrifying heat. "Where's the water?" he roared, seeking help from his teammate, but his companion was clearly too busy to help.
The temperature of the flames was still rising! It reached a point where the fire in Yu Yinan's hands began to turn white. She struggled to control the shape of the flame, trying to form it into a blade. Her mental energy was being consumed at a rapid rate. With a furious shout, the white-hot blade of light suddenly sliced down, instantly cutting the steel shield—and the man behind it—in two!
When the super-high temperature made contact with the human body, the mist of blood vaporized before it could even splatter, leaving only a charred corpse.
In just one exchange, before they had even fully engaged, two of their men were already dead!
"She's almost out of mental energy! Stall them! We have to avenge Lao Zhang!" Fearing his companions would be scared off, the lightning-type ability user, his neck red with exertion, roared and fixed his gaze on Yu Yinan. He gestured in the air, weaving a net of lightning bolts-
Boom!
The flame and the lightning net collided, erupting in an even larger explosion of energy. Endless waves of heat washed out. A towering wall of ice abruptly appeared in front of Yu Yinan, blocking the full force of the heatwave's aftershock.
Yu Yinan gasped for breath, beads of sweat dripping from the tip of her chin. She fought back the stabbing pain in her mind, about to conjure more flames, when a cool, damp towel blocked her view.
Zheng Yi casually draped the towel over Yu Yinan's head, raised her hand, and swallowed a Stamina Recovery Pill. In an instant, a boundless downpour began to fall.
"Relax, it's okay," she said softly, comforting the group of ability users whose eyes were filled with shock and fear, who were even beginning to consider retreating. "I also have a healing ability. I won't… let you die by accident~"
Host: Zheng Yi
Saint Points: 6285
Backpack Slots: 11
Special Abilities: Water/Healing (High-Tier)/Storage (Low-Tier)
Six thousand Saint Points were spent in an instant, upgrading her healing from mid-tier to high-tier. The sudden downpour instantly transformed into sharp, endless falling icicles.
A water-type? No matter how hard the man tried to conjure a stream of water or control the rain, in that instant, none of the water elements in the world would obey his command. It was as if he had completely lost his ability. Only the constant drain on his mental energy and the stabbing pain in his mind as he desperately tried to activate his power reminded him that he was still a water-type ability user. It was just that this ability…
…was completely crushed in the face of another water-type ability user.
This had never happened before. They had clearly encountered water-type prey in the past…
A high-pressure water blade sliced down in an instant. The transparent streams of water swirling around the woman were stained crimson. She strolled through the rain as if in a garden, effortlessly severing all the limbs of the water- and lightning-type ability users. Their blood merged with the water, and their wounds were healed by a golden light. In the blink of an eye, only their torsos and heads were left lying in the middle of the road.
With a crack, the Cage shattered instantly. The twins couldn't take it anymore and were about to flee on their motorcycle.
Boom! A huge, thick wall of ice abruptly blocked the entire path, even though Zheng Yi hadn't even looked in that direction!
The continuous rainfall during the heatwave wasn't without its benefits for her. In the "heavy rain," Zheng Yi could easily control and perceive every single "raindrop." The amount of her mental energy was even more ridiculous than before. Multitasking like this, even using two abilities at once, posed no obstacle whatsoever; it was utterly seamless.
She handled it with ease.
The rain soaked Yu Yinan to the bone. Through the curtain of rain, she watched Zheng Yi, who was smiling faintly as she manipulated a high-pressure water jet, effortlessly slicing the van in two right before the eyes of the black crow ability user and the other man.
"You've already come all this way. What's the rush to leave?"
The black crow ability user collapsed to the ground, a yellow stain spreading between his legs. He was too terrified to say a word. The other ability user beside him was no better off. He was just a healing-type, and he only ever came along to treat his companions or keep their prey alive. He had never imagined they would encounter a monster like this. Treat them? She had already treated his companions, keeping them alive. His companions, with only their torsos and heads remaining, were still alive. They were still alive!
He fell to his knees, his face a mask of despair.
The twin brothers, the plant-type, and the cheetah-agility-type ability user still wanted to escape. They wove a ladder of wild grass to climb the ice wall. However, just as they grabbed the vines and started to climb, the once-smooth surface of the ice wall instantly erupted with countless sharp spikes, piercing through them from behind.
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