49: Chapter 49 A Desperate Struggle

"Beep..."

"Snap!"

Qian Mo sat up from his bed, then neatly folded his quilt and washed up as usual.

He walked to the balcony, eating bread while enjoying the beautiful morning scenery.

There were no cars on the street, and the surroundings were quiet.

Qian Mo liked this quiet atmosphere very much.

After a final adjustment to his clothes, he stepped out and immediately spotted an elongated hovercar parked by the roadside.

"Hello, were you sent by the Mayor to pick me up?"

He gently tapped on the car window.

The window rolled down slowly, revealing Secretary Wu Ming's face with a peaceful smile.

"Yes, Mr. Qian Mo."

Qian Mo got into the car.

At that moment, Secretary Wu Ming brought out a small cake from somewhere, with a small candle stuck on top.

"I learned that today is Mr. Qian Mo's birthday, so I specially prepared a birthday cake for you."

"Oh! Thank you!"

Qian Mo took the cake with both hands, and his initial impression of the Mayor inevitably improved a lot.

It makes sense; after all, he is the Mayor, so he must be very thoughtful in everything he does...

I didn't expect that the first birthday of my two lives combined would be celebrated by someone else.

"Then, Mr. Qian Mo, let's set off."

"Much obliged."

Qian Mo nodded to Secretary Wu Ming with a smile, feeling somewhat emotional in his heart.

Yesterday, the man in front of him was the host of the Awakening ceremony, and today he has become a server for me; this is the prestige brought by strength...

Thinking of this, he clenched his fist, turned his head to enjoy the scenery flashing by outside the window, and a slight smile curled his lips.

Xing Yaoyan, when our strength becomes great enough, we will go and see all the mountains and rivers of this world together.

Just as Qian Mo was feeling sentimental, he didn't notice that as the hovercar drove away, a massive blue barrier suddenly appeared, completely enveloping a one-kilometer radius centered on his home...

...

In her sleep, Xing Yaoyan opened her eyes with a premonition.

In the next moment, something she would never forget in her life happened.

Red! Red! Red!

In her Malice Perception, a large number of red silhouettes appeared in all directions around Qian Mo's house.

"Haha... Am I still dreaming..."

"How could so many people with malice toward me suddenly appear..."

Saying this, Xing Yaoyan lay back into the quilt and adjusted her sleeping position.

Then, she suddenly bolted up, took out the glass bottle containing the liquid that could shield spiritual perception from her storage space—the one Hu Wang had given her—and smashed it violently.

Next was a smooth combo of 'Mist Form' followed by 'Swap,' instantly teleporting her into a lush park.

This was the escape route she had prepared for herself yesterday. She had thought it was a bit redundant since she was going to Kyoto with Qian Mo in less than a month.

Unexpectedly... the weather is unpredictable after all...

Xing Yaoyan didn't understand where she had slipped up; she had been so careful, yet she was still discovered.

"Xing Yaoyan, calm down. So what if you're discovered? What's important now is thinking of a way to overcome this crisis."

She also saw the blue barrier in the sky and knew that this group of Enforcers from the Security Bureau was determined to catch her.

Through Malice Perception, she could clearly understand the position of every Enforcer.

Currently, they were clearly still mainly concentrated near Qian Mo's house.

This also conveyed a message to her—the Enforcers didn't have complete information about her.

This gave her a lot of room to maneuver.

"Eh?"

Just as Xing Yaoyan was desperately thinking of a strategy using the little time she gained from the information gap, something happened that made her hair stand on end.

She saw a red dot suddenly flying toward her direction at an extremely high speed.

"No way? They're cheating!"

Seeing this, Xing Yaoyan quickly swapped again, this time to a thicket by the roadside.

After obtaining the 'Swap' skill, she had deliberately looked for several more hiding spots.

With her current strength, she could mark up to three objects for swapping at the same time, so she still had one Swap left, giving her a bit of room for error.

However, while the ideal was plump, reality was skinny.

Before she could even catch her breath.

She saw that malicious red dot, as if it had a GPS tracker installed, actually turned and flew directly toward her current direction.

"This... I'll Swap again!"

This time it was the rooftop of an abandoned building.

Watching the red dot still rapidly approaching her current direction, Xing Yaoyan was completely numb.

"Dammit! Since I can't hide, your grand-auntie won't hide anymore!"

The spiritual energy in her spiritual sea belonging to 'Mist Form' and 'Swap' was already exhausted; even if she wanted to, she couldn't leave.

*Hum~*

She simply took a stance on the spot, waiting quietly on the rooftop for the enemy's arrival.

She didn't have to wait long for Xing Yaoyan.

Before long, a silver-white point of light suddenly appeared in her vision, flying rapidly toward her.

As the silver-white light drew near, she finally saw its true form—it was a silver spear.

It's her!

The moment Xing Yaoyan saw this silver spear, that pretty face with a charming smile instantly flashed in her mind.

Sure enough, the silver spear slammed into the ground, and the familiar young girl slowly stepped out from the white halo radiating from the spear.

"Captain Li Qiaoyan..."

The smile was gone from the girl's face, and she appeared cold all over.

She didn't speak, but simply kicked the spear standing on the ground up with one foot, the tip of the spear pointing directly at the white wolf's brow.

In the next instant, the spear tip, carrying a dangerous chill, stabbed in front of Xing Yaoyan's eyes in the blink of an eye.

"So fast!"

Xing Yaoyan's wolf pupils instantly narrowed into slits.

Her reaction was very fast; she immediately lowered her head to dodge this first spear strike, then pounced directly toward the girl, whose defense was now open.

Her claws, coated in golden light, slapped onto the girl's shoulder.

*Clang!*

Xing Yaoyan felt as if she had hit hard metal; her paws were shaken to the point of being a bit numb.

"What the hell, so hard!"

Failing the strike, Xing Yaoyan quickly used the counter-force to pull back to a safe distance from Captain Li Qiaoyan.

"I don't care about your fancy tricks, swallow for me!"

Xing Yaoyan aimed her claws at the girl and directly activated her ultimate weapon—the Star Swallowing Art.

Silver-white spiritual energy was continuously sucked into Xing Yaoyan's spiritual sea.

But Captain Li Qiaoyan obviously wouldn't let her absorb it so easily.

She saw her throw the spear in her hand directly at the white wolf, forcing Xing Yaoyan to stop absorbing her spiritual energy to dodge.

"As expected of a third-tier legendary grade Awakened, her spiritual energy is really hard to suck..."

After a silent complaint, Xing Yaoyan re-evaluated her current opponent once more.

The silver-white spear returned to the girl's hand; she spun the spear beautifully and assumed a stance that balanced offense and defense.

Xing Yaoyan already knew the girl was strong, capable of killing a third-tier snake demon in an instant.

But she herself was now a Heaven-Swallowing Star Wolf who had evolved a second Holy Mark, broken through the Heart Gate, and even collected a Chaos Beast Star Soul!

When it came to raw stats, she wasn't afraid.