19: Lin Chuan Bastard

Aiya's face looked a bit pale, while the four men walked straight toward her.

"Hey, little schoolmate, why are you sitting here all alone?"

Fan Hu spoke words of concern, but could not hide the infatuated look in his eyes!

His lackeys stared straight at Aiya, clearly throwing the topic of leveling up they had just discussed straight out the window!

Aiya was in a terrible mood.

She had lost too much blood and her body was weak, making it impossible to fight back against these four men.

But for the sake of her dignity, she forced herself to stay calm and deliberately put on a dark, sinister expression.

She raised the mineral water bottle filled with Blood Gu insects high and suddenly laughed evilly: "I advise you not to come any closer. Do you know what's in my hand?"

In her hand.

Isn't it just a bottle of mineral water?

Fan Hu was about to say that, but then noticed the "blood" inside the mineral water bottle seemed to move.

After staring closely for a moment, he realized that the uncomfortable puddle of blood inside the bottle was actually alive!

Fan Hu hesitated for a moment.

After all, the thing inside that bottle really looked disgusting and terrifying.

But if he let a little girl scare him away like this, where would his prestige as the boss go?

Fan Hu tried to save face and deliberately said with a calm front, "little girl, don't think you can scare me with a bottle of blood! It's not like your big brother hasn't seen blood before!"

Aiya knew she had barely managed to intimidate them.

Her expression became increasingly calm, and her tone grew firmer: "This isn't ordinary blood! These are Blood Gu insects refined with my Talent ability! If you dare take one step closer, I'll have my Blood Gu insects suck you into dried husks!"

She spoke with absolute confidence.

Fan Hu became even more uncertain.

Leave because he was threatened? He couldn't bring himself to do it!

Even from a distance earlier, he could tell this girl was top-tier!

Now that he was close, hearing her talk and seeing her lively expressions made Fan Hu's heart itch all the more. He wanted to get her no matter what!

When he was farther away, he thought about enjoying her together with his brothers, killing her afterward, and taking the crystal cores from her corpse!

But now, in close contact, for the first time he felt what King You of Zhou felt when he lit the beacon fires for Bao Si.

Now, he didn't even want to share this woman with his lackeys anymore.

He wanted to keep this little beauty all to himself and keep her by his side from now on!

Under this infatuated mindset, there was naturally no way he would be scared off!

He suddenly changed his expression and coaxed her in a gentler voice: "Little sister, don't always think about fighting and killing. Look, in this apocalypse, how hard is it for a pretty little girl like you to live alone... Why don't you team up with us brothers? We're very strong, you know, and we can take you to kill monsters and level up..."

The three lackeys behind him also chimed in one after another.

Their mindset was the same as their boss, Fan Hu.

They were almost completely enchanted by this woman and refused to give up no matter what!

Aiya's face turned dark again.

She resolutely unscrewed the cap of the mineral water bottle, and the squirming mass of Blood Gu insects inside finally found an exit, surging wildly toward the bottle opening!

At the same time, Aiya shouted coldly: "I already have a teammate, and he'll be back very soon! With his strength, killing you would be as easy as crushing ants!"

Hearing her say this, Fan Hu's expression instantly turned ugly.

On top of that, he suddenly noticed at this moment that although the insects in the bottle looked bizarre, they moved even slower than Dimensional Bugs!

Even if those bizarre blood-colored insects could really suck a person into a dried husk, as long as he didn't touch them, wouldn't it be fine?!

What he noticed, his lackeys noticed too.

Arrogant, threatening voices from his lackeys sounded behind him: "Hahaha, teammate?! What's your teammate coming back for? To die?! We were just thinking about killing people for crystal cores!"

The other lackeys all burst out laughing as well.

Swept up in the rowdy atmosphere, Fan Hu could no longer hold back. Ignoring Aiya's threats and warnings, he boldly lunged at her!

Aiya's face turned pale. Gripping the bottle containing the Blood Gu insects, she threw it fiercely toward Fan Hu!

However, those who survived the heavy rain of the apocalypse had their attributes significantly increased!

With a dodge, Fan Hu easily dodged the blood bottle!

He laughed loudly, his eyes turning red, and pounced toward Aiya even more wildly!

"Help! Lin Chuan, save me! You bastard, hurry up and come back!" Aiya tried hard to stand up, but fell back down. In her panic, she subconsciously screamed for help!

The whole group was blinded by lust.

What they failed to notice was—

Although they had dodged the blood bottle Aiya threw earlier, it didn't fall straight to the ground.

Instead, it suspended directly in mid-air!

It didn't levitate for no reason either.

If one looked closely, they would find that an iron wire was actually wrapped around the bottle!

And the source of the iron wire was, without a doubt, Lin Chuan!

Looking at the Blood Gu insects he had worked so hard to nurture, several of which were escaping from the mouth of the bottle, Lin Chuan's face turned somewhat cold.

He flicked his right hand forward, and four iron wires shot out like arrows, binding all four men almost in an instant!

Lin Chuan didn't wrap the wire around their necks to decapitate them.

Like four chrysalises, the four men were wrapped tightly in iron wire!

Only then did Lin Chuan reveal himself. Walking over slowly, he tossed six crystal cores onto Aiya.

Aiya quickly absorbed the six crystal cores, gaining 6 EXP and successfully reaching Level 1!

Seeing her absorb six crystal cores in one breath made Fan Hu and his men burn with envy and jealousy, wishing they could rush over and snatch the crystal cores for themselves!

But they were bound and completely unable to move!

Lin Chuan ignored the four men. Holding the blood bottle in one hand, he looked down at Aiya: "Where's the bottle cap?"

"Waaah..." Instead, Aiya suddenly threw herself into Lin Chuan's arms and cursed loudly, "You bastard! You bastard! How could you leave me here all alone... Waaah..."

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Lin Chuan thought to himself, 'What the hell, I played the hero saving the damsel in distress, how am I a bastard?!'

'And I even helped you level up for free! When has Lin Chuan ever been so kind?!'

'This woman is truly ungrateful!'

If she weren't still useful for now, she probably would have been a corpse long ago!

Aiya only briefly vented her emotions.

She wiped her tears and snot on Lin Chuan's clothes as revenge.

Only after that did she hand the bottle cap of the blood bottle to Lin Chuan.

The three bottles of Blood Gu insects were basically safe and sound.

Aiya's symptoms of excessive blood loss also recovered due to leveling up.

Lin Chuan looked at the four men bound like chrysalises and said to Aiya, "Are you going to handle them yourself, or do you want me to do it for you?"

"Handle..." Aiya realized that the "handle" Lin Chuan spoke of meant killing them...

In peaceful times, she certainly wouldn't dare kill anyone.

But now it was the apocalypse...

Whether on the World Channel or the Regional Channel, the topic most discussed by everyone was how a certain murderer deserved to die!

Clearly, many people had already begun ignoring the law, killing others to level up!

Those murderers were condemned by everyone.

But beneath that condemnation, there was a hidden trace of envy and jealousy.

Those murderers had all reached Level 1 without a doubt, and they held extra crystal cores to trade for supplies in the trading market.

Those who dared to fight, kill, strive, and struggle had clearly become prominent figures in this world and this Killing Game!

Aiya actually didn't want to kill people.

But she knew that this Killing Game had created a dark forest for all of humanity.

Survival would always be everyone's top priority.

And a setting like "killing people makes you stronger" would inevitably create a chain of suspicion among the people in the dark forest!

Even if you abided by principles and didn't rely on killing to become stronger...

You couldn't be a hundred percent sure that others would abide by principles like you.

That was how it was even between strangers.

And those four men were not just strangers to Aiya.

They had tried to harm her!

Aiya faintly guessed Lin Chuan's thoughts.

Her right hand trembled slightly, her palm still showing the bloody scar left by Lin Chuan earlier.

Finally, she still extended her hand toward Lin Chuan firmly: "I'll handle it."

Her tone was firm, but her voice quavered slightly.

Lin Chuan glanced at her and handed her the blade.

Then, he watched as such a young-looking girl walked toward the four chrysalises holding the blade.

The four men screamed and begged for mercy, but Aiya did not soften her heart.

Because not long ago, she had begged for mercy as well.

But those four men hadn't softened their hearts either.

Watching this scene, Lin Chuan finally understood why this woman had been able to endure in her past life until her Blood Gu Technique Talent shone brilliantly.

She was a woman with wisdom, courage, and the ability to bow and submit when appropriate.

Although now she, who could yield when necessary, had grown bold enough to change her address from the initial flattering "Senior Lin Chuan" to "Bastard Lin Chuan"...