Swish!
He slipped, activating his charge skill, and in a flash, he appeared at the elevator door from B1 to L1.
As the elevator doors opened, a strong smell of blood surged, confirming the location of his prey.
With a diagonal slash inward…
Clang…
The intense sound of metal cutting pierced the air.
Then.
The blade sliced through the elevator’s inner wall, leaving a distinct silver-white cut mark.
But clearly, he had missed.
The Night Watchman exclaimed,
“Something’s wrong, she’s not here, she….”
The tether between the two major bosses still existed, their mutual hatred palpable.
In that split second of realization, they reacted quickly; the Guardian let out a shrill scream from its throat.
Outside the southern gate, the graveyard stirred, mounds of corpses rising from the ground.
Very well, a simple level, and the number of interfering creatures had surged to 200 in one breath.
Excluding the four scattered candidates above, the elite candidates on the first floor, already on the brink of collapse, were each assigned at least three corpses.
What a stroke of luck!
But at the moment these corpses crawled out of their graves…
The Night Watchman sensed something was off.
A chill ran down its spine, and amidst the extreme panic, everyone heard the sound of the elevator arriving from behind the Night Watchman.
Ding… the elevator had arrived.
A certain scene’s background music reached a crescendo.
The elevator opened.
In the darkness, a faint light revealed her standing behind the open elevator doors.
Though tall and leggy, her face was still unclear, but she held a walkie-talkie, from which faint golden text crawled up her palm.
She spoke, her lips brushing against the walkie-talkie as she whispered.
Like an air traffic controller giving commands to a plane high above.
Her voice was magnetic, elegant, but the content was somewhat unclean.
“From Kakaro Ling’s hypnosis: Dead ghost, aren’t you going to take off your coat?”
She was quite considerate, stating her identity-Brook’s ID had to be mentioned, it was Kakaro Ling, no pretense!
Huh?
Hmm…
That pleasant, gentle, magnetic voice, which had already made Liu Shen feel a strong presence, was intentionally releasing such a soft and seductive tone.
In an instant, the Night Watchman was stunned, its body involuntarily…
The Guardian of the graveyard noticed,
“Don’t move!”
It attempted to enhance the light’s pull to reduce the hypnosis effect on its companion, but was surprised to find that the opponent’s level of hypnosis was so high that it ignored such pulls.
Damn?
Another C-class parasite?
No, it was Kakaro Ling.
A pureblood Kakaro Ling?
Otherwise, it wouldn’t have such a strong hypnosis effect, essentially ignoring other F-class parasites of the same level, only because these parasites were not purebloods within a hundred generations.
And she was pureblood, her innate effect was piercing.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t be hailed as the hypnosis master among the F-class of Brook Star…
Regarding the release of cursed words, direct contact is the best, but due to her precious life and the current unfavorable physical condition, she didn’t feel she was in a position to get close to the Night Watchman-she couldn’t handle that butterfly knife.
Before she got close, before she could stick seven cursed words to the person, she would be cut down.
Thus, she borrowed other techniques.
The walkie-talkie, and… the broadcast.
Earlier, it was said that the power systems were independent; the elevator controlled the elevator, the broadcast was separate, and the lights were separate.
So…
At that moment, the entire first-floor broadcast released the sound waves of the walkie-talkie enhanced by cursed words.
Because of this broadcast effect, it equated to a group influence, but it was keyword-locked.
Coat.
No one here wore a coat.
Except for one.
The Night Watchman, within… after being hypnotized, spread its hands and drowsily replied, “Okay…”
Crack, crack, pieces of hidden human skin coat automatically detached from its body.
The Guardian of the graveyard was shocked and shouted, “You fool!”
It rushed over, but it was too late.
At the moment the coat detached.
The elevator’s Huo You had already emerged, her body in “corpse” mode activated.
In corpse mode, as the coats detached from the Night Watchman, she approached the location of these coats.
With the setting of the Night Watchman as the creator of human-skin coats, the detachment of the coats meant an infinite reduction of status data, while wearing the coats meant her enhancement.
Though somewhat disgusting, they were hers now.
Enhancement, her speed, physical condition, and the ferocity of the corpse, all infinitely approached the Night Watchman, but did not reach him in that split second.
The extremely weakened Night Watchman could only watch as the Guardian charged toward him…
Bang!!
At the moment the Night Watchman in the morgue was bisected by Huo You, its severed waist slid off its upper body, revealing the ferocious hacking form of the charging Guardian…
It was a creature of the Cthulhu system, though a monster inherited within the Night Watchman’s hundred generations, it had the civilization system of Cthulhu; its combat and fighting techniques had blended with humanity after the war, so it understood human combat systems.
The Guardian immediately recognized that this human, although having hypnotized its brother Night Watchman with Kakaro Ling’s ability and occupied the human-skin coat with enhancement effects, was clearly untrained in systematic combat, so…
Clang!!
Double blades blocked.
For the first time, the weakest among over six hundred people, the frailest, directly matched it!
This was because the enhancement of the human-skin coat was the strongest, having killed too many people in this instance to obtain human skin, each dormitory basically had a death toll; you could see that in the dormitory where Liu Shen and the others were, only the three of them survived.
So, one can imagine how much benefit these stacked data provided Huo You, allowing her to directly confront the BOSS.
Power scale 23+!
The blades were screeching.
But soon, the Guardian, seeing through her weakness, switched blades and slashed at her neck, forcing Huo You to dodge sideways.
As she dodged, his kicking leg was already upon her.
Bang.
Huo You’s free arm hurriedly blocked; although she had status value, her slender physique lacked blocking power, and she was kicked away.
However, she was clever, her brain was a useful thing, and as she was kicked away, her other hand with the knife cut toward a target.
The blade was not aimed at the Guardian, but at…
Swipe!
That tether!
The Night Watchman’s upper body curled on the ground, weak and feeble, and the tether between the two brothers weakened as well; at the moment it was cut, the backlash swept in.
The pain was felt by the Guardian, which had intended to pursue Huo You with its blade, suddenly trembled and twisted, its face contorting in agony.
It was a step too slow, failing to successfully chase down and heavily injure Huo You in mid-air, but when she landed…
It still charged forward, enduring the pain of the backlash, dragging the severed tether.
The blade…
Blocked again.
Crack!
Huo You’s arm instantly went numb, just as she was about to change her knife technique, suddenly.
“Pierce.”
A faint voice.
Cold, clever, penetrating just like her penetration.
From another person on the scene.
Originally on the brink of death, thinking they were about to die, Wang Yang and the others, who had seen Huo You appear, turned to look.
The same person gave them a second shock.
Liu Shen.
This presence, which had made people think she had been KO’d after the Guardian appeared, showed no trace of the previous weak and heavily injured state; even the intensity of the nourishing liquid released from her body made their own parasites crave strongly, of course, their parasites were also suppressed feeling her hands forming gestures to release the piercing state, her palm’s transmitter emerged in a yellow oriole state, but entwined with both metal and biological dual patterns, following her gestures.
The sound mouth extracted a large amount of nutrients from the light patterns it formed.
Nutrient lines flowed through her slender, delicate form, rushing like the most beautiful stream in nature after a storm, showcasing the fluidity and explosiveness of life.
Thus, piercing!
This wave was over 40% stronger than when Liu Shen killed Joker.
One can imagine that her previous release was controllable, based on the upper limit of killing Joker, and she had preset her external strength in front of Huo You.
As a result, she was pretending.
Pretending in the basement, pretending on the first floor, pretending when dealing with Liu Luo and the others, even pretending after being heavily injured by the Night Watchman, she was still pretending.
Three waves of pretense, showing weakness to the enemy.
Three layers of pretense, no matter how she pretended, it all had a face.
“MD, this person just left us a sliver of health without completely killing us, could it be that she intended to weaken us, then use our disadvantage to force us to cooperate with her against this BOSS…”
One must admit, they had figured it out.
But it was only a trivial part of the truth; mainly, they were not opponents Liu Shen cared about-they were not worthy.
Her main goal was to gauge the upper limits of the two BOSSes, to draw out Huo You, the yellow oriole, and to further understand her limits.
Only after confirming the upper limits of both sides did she finally time her ultimate move.
At this moment, Liu Luo suddenly remembered this person was not only the top student of Qingya High School but had also consistently ranked in the top three in several joint exams among the dozen or so universities in their area on the Zhongyue planet.
Ranking in the top three in the written knowledge exam among thirty thousand candidates was enough to prove her intellect far surpassed their mediocre selves.
Though he didn’t understand why she chose the simple level, it seemed she was… holding this instance.
Her retribution?
Whose retribution.
The Guardian’s blade still maintained a blocking state against Huo You, suddenly being pierced in a surprise attack, many of its orifices instantly burst.
Crash!
Corpse fluid and flesh shot out from its seven orifices.
At the moment it was about to be killed, Liu Shen had already closed in.
She bypassed the Guardian’s weak, kneeling side, heading toward Huo You.
Huo You had the enhancement of the human-skin coat, and most importantly, Kakaro Ling was also a sound-based Cthulhu monster, giving her an advantage in this area.
Liu Shen knew that Huo You’s degree of influence was limited-look, she indeed changed her blocking blade, enduring the piercing damage, and countered by aiming her knife at the Guardian’s neck as it knelt.
Going for the kill?
No, now it was their 1 vs 1, king against king.
The only light here came from the graveyard, the light was slanted and scattered.
It elongated the shadows, making them appear erratic and mottled.
But soon… clang, clang, Huo You suffered losses in face-to-face combat.
Liu Shen’s dagger was used with remarkable sharpness, like an elegant assassin, showing no trace of the external temperament or the “agile mage” stereotype that parasites possessed.
On the other hand, Huo You had long been predicted by the Guardian to be at a disadvantage here, and indeed, there was no reversal.
She was a top lawyer, a judicial super elite who had risen to the legislative council, but she was not a special forces soldier; rather, she was the kind protected by the special forces system of the port city, a weakling.
Thus, it was impossible for her to reverse her fate and become a warrior like Wu Song after three years; absolutely impossible.
Of course, other novel protagonists might become gods in a few months or years…
but she had spent three years still making pizzas and picking up trash.
Just thinking about it was exhausting.
Huo You felt helpless about this too.
After Liu Shen’s blade cut open the Guardian’s neck, she stepped back, the dagger slicing across the throat, as she struck, Liu Shen blocked while raising her left hand in a gesture-chaos.
She still had nutrient liquid.
Indeed, it was far more powerful than her own nurturing system.
Indigenous people are impressive?!
The transmitter little yellow oriole released sound waves again, at that moment, Huo You, unable to evade the sound attack at close range, felt a wavering of her will, and her body, in corpse state, was being invaded by the human-skin coat, trembling, Pieces of it were writhing and separating from her corpse-like surface.
They were losing control due to the chaos, preparing to detach from her body.
Though they hadn’t completely detached, it was no different from a reduction for her.
Seizing this opportunity… Liu Shen closed in, slipping past Huo You’s body, moving to her back.
When the human-skin coats were in a state of detachment, their weight would reach maximum, and Huo You’s agility would drop to a minimum, so… she backflipped, the dagger aimed at Huo You’s throat from behind…
“Goodbye, sister.”
“I love you three thousand times.”