232: Chapter 232 Attack

The girl's movements were too abrupt. Clearly, they had been chatting and laughing just before, but now she had actually attacked suddenly.

"Xiao Yan, don't!"

Qian Mo had originally felt his heart settle quite a bit after hearing her words, but he hadn't expected her to suddenly launch an attack.

A black scale instantly appeared behind the boy.

His black threads of spiritual energy were on the verge of connecting to the girl.

Faster... just need to pull her away...

But Xing Yaoyan's actions were, after all, much faster, and at such a close distance, that red Demonic Power was already about to touch Uncle Yun's face. He was too late...

"Boom!"

...

"Boom!"

A huge explosion rang out.

"Sir!"

Just as the few people outside heard the commotion and prepared to break down the door, a massive figure wearing a ghost mask instantly blocked their path. The immense Demonic Power of a Great Yao-level entity exploded outward, forcing them back.

"A Tier 5 Lion Yao..." Everyone gasped in cold air.

"Wait! Quickly turn on the silent mode of your visors, there's a Sea Yao too!" A man wearing a blue combat suit hurriedly warned.

Before his words had even faded, everyone except him felt an incredibly beautiful singing voice enter their ears. The next moment, their spiritual energy became chaotic, and the scene before their eyes changed drastically.

But they were not ordinary people; they quickly followed the prompt to turn on the silent mode, isolating themselves from external sounds.

"Captain, 12 o'clock in front of you!"

The eyes of the woman wearing a purple combat suit narrowed behind her visor. She drew a highly technological folding longsword from her waist and slashed horizontally at the front with all her might.

"Clang!"

A metallic clashing sound rang out.

As the hallucinations gradually faded, she finally saw the enemy attacking her—that Tier 5 Lion Yao.

He had just taken advantage of the moment everyone was dealing with the Sea Yao's Innate Talent to launch a sneak attack.

Fortunately, they had a high-level perception-type Esper here; otherwise, that hallucination, which only lasted a few seconds, might have really cost them their lives.

"Wait! There's another enemy, her position..."

"Right under your feet~" A teasing, bewitching voice rang out.

"Splurt!" The sound of a sharp blade piercing flesh stung the eardrums of the other team members.

"Lan!" Watching the partner she had fought alongside for many years get split in two by a pair of claws, the captain's eyes split with rage.

"Your squad's combat suits aren't much... they can't even withstand one of this kitty's claws..."

Another figure with a sultry physique and wearing a different ghost mask appeared behind Lan.

Forming a pincer attack with the Lion Yao in front of the group.

Another Tier 5 Cat Yao!

Someone secretly wanted to send a distress signal, but soon, the Sea Yao's singing, which traveled into their visors along with the signal, forced them to abandon that thought.

"Don't you know that our Sea Yao Race's 'Bewitching Song' can travel to your ears using any medium? You still dare to send a distress signal?"

Just hearing this voice brought a strong sense of dizziness. A slender woman walked out from behind the Cat Yao; it seemed she had been hiding by utilizing the Cat Yao's Innate Talent until just now.

"Three Tier 5s..."

Not having time to continue grieving, Zi forced herself to calm down.

Their squad originally had five people; now that a Tier 4 perception-type Esper had died, there were four left. In terms of paper strength, although only she and one other team member were Tier 5, relying on their skilled coordination and the combat armor they wore, there should still be a chance...

Besides... this time, Yun Sheng's allowed free activity time was only half an hour. So, taking a step back, they only needed to hold out at the door for ten minutes...

"Three Tier 5s? Who said there were only three of us?"

Hearing the captain's words, the Cat Yao smiled dismissively.

The visor translated the Cat Yao's words into text and projected it onto the glass. Zi suddenly realized the origin of that violent explosion from earlier.

"Not good..."

Although she knew Qian Mo and that Saintess of the Demon Race were still in the private room, the incoming enemies were all Tier 5, and the Yao attacking Yun Sheng definitely wouldn't be lower than Tier 5. Could they hold out... No! Perhaps the whole thing was that the Saintess of the Demon Race was their accomplice, and this was a long-planned murder!

Thinking of this, Zi gritted her teeth, wondering why she hadn't been firmer at the time, why she hadn't kept that White-haired girl outside. That way, even if they were attacked, she could have captured her as a hostage, and Lan wouldn't have died so inexplicably.

"Everyone... combat armor to full power! End this quickly!"

There was no other way. This mission came with a strict order from above to ensure Yun Sheng's safety. If he died, it would cause extremely serious consequences.

The combat armors of various colors instantly enveloped the figures of the group, and the immense pressure of their spiritual energy forced the three Yao back several steps.

"No! What are you doing? We only killed one of you, do you have to fight us to the death like this?!"

The opponent clearly had intelligence as well, knowing that their combat armor couldn't hold up for too long, and that running at this power level would cause extremely severe damage to the human body, although the boost in strength it provided was quite significant.

The two sides instantly engaged in a chaotic battle.

"Die!"

With a furious shout from Zi, the spiritual energy thrusters behind her combat armor instantly spewed out brilliant flames as she charged toward the Cat Yao.

With the strength of a Tier 5 Cat Yao, she could actually only see flashes of afterimages, and by the time she truly reacted, that folding longsword had turned into a white moon and slashed fiercely toward her.

"Shadow Assault!"

The Cat Yao's figure flickered, and the entire Yao instantly vanished. The next moment, she appeared directly beside Zi and slashed her away with a claw.

"Damn it..." Zi spun half a circle in the air, then braced her sword against the ground to land steadily.

Her Superpower allowed her to gain extreme speed when attacking a locked-on enemy; this Superpower was extremely powerful whether in assassination or normal combat. And she could currently swing her sword at thirty times the speed of sound.

A normal person wouldn't be able to react at all, because in close-quarters combat, this was basically no different from teleportation.

But this Cat Yao's reaction was still too fast, and her Innate Talent seemed to be invisibility and acceleration, completely countering her own Superpower.

"Shadow Assault."

Without giving her a chance to breathe, the Cat Yao's figure appeared directly beside her, and the sharp, long cat claws in her hand fell like a sickle.

"Whoosh!"

Three thin, long claw marks were slashed into the ground, but Zi's figure had already moved to the other side at some point.

"Oh? You've got some moves..."

A drop of cold sweat dripped from Zi's temple.

Fortunately, she had just locked onto the Sea Yao fighting the others and forcibly accelerated once; otherwise, she would have truly taken that hit full on...

"Come! Come again!" Zi raised her sword and took a stance.

She already knew that given the current situation, their squad probably wouldn't be able to end the battle quickly, and in all likelihood, they wouldn't be able to go back alive. But if they were going to die, they had to die spectacularly.

"Quite energetic..." The Cat Yao scratched her chin with some disdain, then, her eyes behind the mask flashed with a blood-red light. "But prey that knows how to resist is interesting... Originally, we only needed to stall you, but I've suddenly changed my mind... I'm going to kill you!"

The next moment, the Cat Yao's figure vanished again, and Zi felt the sharpness of the Cat Yao's claws once more from her side.

The same operation, the same combat situation; the opponent was determined that she had no way to deal with this move.

However... at this moment, Zi's heart was incomparably calm. She knew... the opponent had underestimated her.