The Creatures That We Are

Chapter 790: That’s an Order

Jing Ke keenly noticed that Wang Zikai was slowing down. In his frenzied state, he became increasingly reckless. Believing that he was going to win soon, he sized an opening and was about to make a lethal attack at Wang Zikai’s chest.

But then whoosh, there were three arches of purple flashes. Before he realized it, he had already lost control over his right hand.

Then he realized that his right arm had been sliced off and hurled above him in two bloody trails. Three slim bone claws had come out of Wang Zikai’s right fist at some point. The three blades could cut steel like butter, and they easily sliced through Jing Ke’s prided bone blades and arm.

Just when Wang Zikai was about to decapitate him, about a dozen talismans with the word bao, explosion, flew toward them, attaching to Jing Ke and Wang Zikai indiscriminately and flickering a blinding red light.

Boom, boom, boom!

The explosion caught both Wang Zikai and Jing Ke, and the firelight surged.

Losing his arm, Jing Ke was thrown off his feet by the explosion, dying with blood and gore covering him.

He was lucky. He would be able to come back with the resurrection pill and had avoided getting thoroughly killed by Wang Zikai—Lin Fu had made an indiscriminate talisman attack exactly to save his companion.

Wang Zikai got thrown away by the explosion, too. He rolled to a stop and quickly rose to his feet, retracting his bone claws to put out the embers on his chest by clapping it.

Shit, shit, shit!

Dang it, I’m not gonna be able to grow chest hair!!

Wang Zikai had always envied Gray Bear for his thick chest hair. He thought men needed chest hair to be sexy, and he had asked Gray Bear how he grew his.

Chest hair was inherent. Some had them, and others didn’t. Gray Bear didn’t have the heart to tell Wang Zikai the truth, though, and he joked that hair would grow out as long as he took good care of the skin on his chest.

Wang Zikai, the idiot, believed the joke.

Glancing at his slightly burned chest, Wang Zikai lunged at Lin Fu with a stomp, eyes flashing with killing intent. Now I’m really angry!

[Nine Frost: Wang Zikai, run!]

A breeze entered Wang Zikai’s head.

[Wang Zikai: Huh? But I’ve just warmed up...]

[Nine Frost: Qilin’s here! Run!]

Wang Zikai quickly looked up. Indeed, two blurry figures had emerged from the portal not far away. Judging by the shape, it was Qilin pushing a wheelchaired Surnamed Li.

Nine Frost had been keeping an eye on the full picture and monitoring the portal from a distant vantage point, and he spotted Qilin and Surnamed Li immediately.

According to the plan, Team Nine Frost was to blow up the Ocean River Union’s underground base. It would be good if they succeeded, but they were to retreat as soon as they failed. There must be no casualties.

[Wang Zikai: What are you afraid of? I...]

[Nine Frost: That’s an order!!]

Wang Zikai paused, remembering immediately what Gao Yang had told him: You must obey Nine Frost unconditionally for this mission, Wang Zikai. If you disobey him, you will no longer be my brother.

Fuck!

Wang Zikai cursed silently and bolted. He was so quick that he managed to put fifty meters between him and Qilin in the blink of an eye, yet he was still too late.

Without his glasses on, Qilin had made a move as soon as he emerged from the portal, his eyes flashing with a discreet green light.

Activate Psychic Shackle!

The skill was a single-target version of Statues. Its attack range was the same, and it could avoid friendly fire. Moreover, once Psychic Shackle was put on a target, Qilin could move regularly, which allowed him to get closer to the target and follow up with a lethal attack.

Psychic Shackle had an obvious flaw: it exerted a weak control that was only one-sixth of the power of Statues.

That, however, was good enough to deal with Wang Zikai.

He felt like an invisible rope had tied onto him, and he staggered and fell face-down.

“Shit...”

Wang Zikai propped himself up with both hands to slowly get to his feet. He could still move, but it felt like moving with messy ropes tied around him and hindering him. He was moving much slower.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

About a dozen talismans written with ting, stop, caught up with him, attaching to Wang Zikai’s back densely. In an instant, Wang Zikai grew even slower with a stiffening body, as if someone had hit his acupuncture point.

“Ughhhhh...”

Wang Zikai clenched his teeth and struggled to keep going, reaching back to tear off the talismans. Gradually, his movement picked up in speed again.

Five seconds later, however, a numbness he couldn’t resist took over him.

Colorless had caught up to him and used Petrify.

This time, she was able to use her Talent at full force without distraction.

The eerie change started with Wang Zikai’s ten fingers. The skin became stiff, pale, and dry, quickly cracking like plaster. Then the capillaries on his skin became clearly visible, turning from purple and red to grayish green.

And then his face became pale and dry, too. Cracks formed along the muscles...

[Nine Frost: Wang Zikai! Run! Hurry!!]

[Wang Zikai: Stop nagging. I’m running. But...I can’t run further...]

Qilin was still approaching Wang Zikai while pushing Surnamed Li’s wheelchair along. If they got ten meters closer, Wang Zikai would be in the range of Qilin’s psychic pressure. Then even if Colorless couldn’t kill him, Wang Zikai would be unable to run until he met his end.

Wang Zikai was a troublesome fighter of the Nine Scions. It would be best to kill him here.

“Sniper. Bullet hitting your head in five seconds,” Surnamed Li said, having foreseen the next ten seconds.

Swoosh. A bullet flew toward Qilin’s temple five seconds later. He easily dodged it by tilting his head. He continued to push Surnamed Li forward.

Qilin’s Eidos increased not only his Willpower and Charisma, but also gave a boost to his Constitution, Endurance, Strength, and Agility.

While he looked like a gentleman, he wasn’t weak. It was true that he couldn’t rival a great fighter in a pure melee fight, but he could kill a slaughterer without issue, which proved his physical strength.

Moreover, Qilin’s psychic aura allowed him to detect any movement in his seventy-meter radius, allowing him to react to lethal threats in time. Even without Surnamed Li’s warning, it would be difficult to land a sneak attack on Qilin from a long distance.

He hadn’t been considered the top-ranking awakener with his fame and reputation alone.

[Nine Frost: Wang Zikai! Run!!]

[Wang Zikai: I can’t... I really...can’t keep running...]

Almost all of Wang Zikai’s skin had been petrified, and the change was spreading deep into his flesh, internal organs, and bones. In another ten seconds, he would become a real stone statue.

In fact, Colorles was shocked that Wang Zikai had endured more than ten seconds facing level 6 Petrify, and it seemed that he would be able to hold on for another twenty seconds or so.

Blood streaked down from Colorless’ nostrils, and her eyes were bloodshot. She clenched her teeth, pushing her psychic intrusion further without relaxing her guard.

[Wang Zikai: Tell Gao Yang...that I...didn’t disobey orders...this time...]

[Nine Frost: Don’t give up! That’s an order!]