27: Safe return

Not far away, Qin Yue and the others were all standing there with their mouths agape, staring at Zhou Xing in stunned silence.

It felt as if a Peak Foundation Condensing Realm expert was like a helpless child in Zhou Xing's hands, completely unable to resist.

However, at that moment, a flash of cunning crossed Zhou Xing's expression.

"Pfft!"

Suddenly, he spat out a mouthful of blood, followed by a stumble. Everyone's expressions tightened, and they rushed over.

As expected, the side effects of Zhou Xing's forced outburst had kicked in.

"Zhou Xing, are you okay?" White Night supported Zhou Xing, continuously injecting gentle water elements into his body.

"Cough... cough, I'm fine. It's just that the consecutive outbursts caused an energy backlash in my body."

Zhou Xing feigned a couple of coughs. "Don't worry, I'll be fine after I get back and rest for a while."

Zhou Xing had no choice; three attributes were already shocking enough. If too many people knew he possessed so many elemental abilities,

there was no guarantee the news wouldn't leak out, leading to him being sliced up for research.

This world definitely had abilities like mind-reading.

Until he had enough power to protect himself, he had to hide as much as possible.

After all, even his sister, with whom he depended on for survival, was unaware of this.

"To be honest, we have Lin Yue to thank for all of this."

Qin Yue said with a face full of emotion, "Without Lin Yue, Zhou Xing wouldn't have joined our team. Forget about revenge—the grass on our graves would probably be sprouting by now..."

"Alright, stop rambling. Let's take this Divinity Catalysis Potion back; it might be useful for the stronghold.

We should head back quickly. This isn't a place to linger."

Zhou Xing spoke up.

Everyone nodded and quickly retraced their steps... Dragon City, Divine Gene Company, Top-level Meeting Room.

"Useless! A bunch of useless fools!"

At this moment, the general manager, "Silver Fox," was furious.

He had just received news: "The experimental base in Dark Canyon has been destroyed. Han Feng and the five mechanical cyborgs have been wiped out!"

Below, an intelligence officer reported tremblingly, "We only discovered the anomaly after the mechanical bodies were destroyed. By the time we rushed there, we couldn't find any trace of the targets."

"However, based on the residual aura, we can determine that the opponent was at least a squad!"

A cold light flashed in Silver Fox's eyes. "Investigate. In all of Dragon City, only The Watchers and The Officials would dare target our hidden base."

He slowly stood up and said solemnly to the person in front of him, "Use every available resource to find out exactly which squad it was."

"I suspect the probability of it being The Watchers is the highest. Report immediately once you find anything."

"We previously received word from Corroding Shadow that the experiment might have succeeded, so it's possible the item has fallen into their hands."

"Also, send someone to contact Star City. Tell them the counter-plan in Dragon City needs to be launched ahead of schedule and request reinforcements!"

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Meanwhile, Zhou Xing and the others successfully returned to the Watcher Stronghold.

They soon arrived back at the Sky Patrol Squad's training base.

"You guys..."

Lin Yue, Lei Lie, and Zhou Keer, who had received word in advance, were all waiting at the entrance of the training base.

Upon seeing everyone's wretched state, their voices caught in their throats.

As for Lei Lie, he hurriedly stepped forward to check on everyone's condition.

*Bang!*

The lounge door was suddenly burst open.

Zhou Keer ran out with her hair in disarray.

Her eyes were red and swollen; she had clearly been worrying ever since Zhou Xing left.

Seeing Zhou Xing now, she threw herself recklessly into her brother's arms.

She didn't care at all about the foul smell on Zhou Xing's body.

"Heh, don't worry. Isn't your brother back now?"

Zhou Xing gently patted his sister's trembling back, speaking softly as if he were a different person.

Since everyone's injuries were serious and couldn't be delayed—especially Qin Yue, who had barely managed to hold on until now—

Qin Yue was immediately placed into a medical pod for treatment.

"How are you? If you're not well, I'll take you for an exam and have White Phoenix help you out. That way, you'll recover faster."

Lin Yue walked up to Zhou Xing, looking very worried, especially as she saw the bloodstains on the corner of his mouth that hadn't been wiped clean.

"Yeah, Vice-Captain. White Phoenix is the only healing-type Awakened One in our entire stronghold. With her help, you'll recover in no time."

White Night followed up immediately, and everyone looked at Zhou Xing and nodded.

Lin Yue was also very surprised by the change in how everyone addressed him.

When she learned that without Zhou Xing, everyone would have been wiped out long ago, a look of shock appeared on her pretty face.

However, when she heard that Zhou Xing had made everyone smear themselves with Iron-Spined Earth Dragon excrement, she almost couldn't help laughing out loud.

As for Lei Lie, he was so stunned he couldn't speak for a long time.

In the end, everyone could only sigh that a Genius simply couldn't be judged by common logic.

Of course, all of this was thanks to Lin Yue.

Since Qin Yue was still healing, everyone disbanded and returned to their respective lounges.

While washing his body, Zhou Xing finally had time to check all of his attributes—

[host: Zhou Xing]

[Strength: Peak foundation condensation]

[Fragments Obtained: "god of frost" fragment (25%), "god of flame" fragment (22%),

"god of wind control" fragment (15%), "god of steel" fragment (35%), "god of hallucination" fragment (15%),

"god of thunder" fragment (15%), "god of phantom" fragment (15%), god of war fragment (23%),

"serpent blood goddess" divinity fragment (27%), "god of bones" divinity fragment (25%)]

[Unfused Fragments: "god of shadow" fragment (33%), "Sea God" fragment (26%)]

[Resistances Obtained: Frost Resistance Lv.2 (Reduces 25% Ice damage),

Flame Resistance Lv.4 (Reduces 42% Fire damage),

Wind Resistance Lv.1 (Reduces 15% Wind damage),

Mental Resistance Lv.1 (Reduces 15% Mental damage),

Thunder Resistance Lv.1 (Reduces 15% Thunder damage)]

Metal Resistance Lv.3 (Reduces 35% Metal damage),

Corrosive Poison Resistance Lv.3 (Reduces 36% of all corrosion and poison damage)

[Abilities Obtained: Frost Control (Intermediate), Ice Burst (Intermediate),

Flame Control (Intermediate), Fire Meteor (Intermediate),

Shadow Clone (Elementary), Hallucination (Elementary),

Thunder Strike (Elementary), Gale Step (Elementary),

Metal Dominator (Elementary), Metal Skin (Intermediate),

Battle Fever (Passive), Tactical Senses (Elementary), Battle Domain (Elementary),

Skeleton Armament, Skeleton Cage (Forms a layer of bone armor on the body surface)]

Serpent Blood Toxin (Corrosion + Nerve Paralysis),

Blood Serpents Embrace (Releases a phantom giant snake to entwine the target, continuously draining blood to heal oneself)]

The Sea God fragment was directly collected by the System after killing Han Feng; others simply thought Han Feng's divinity fragments had dissipated on their own.

Looking at his current attributes, Zhou Xing felt that if he didn't want to expose too many of his abilities,

he should focus on fusing as many fragments of the god of frost, god of flame, and god of war as possible.

Especially since the dual Ice and Fire elements were his primary means of attack, his focus could temporarily shift to collecting these specific fragments.

And then there was Keer... Thinking of his sister, Zhou Xing fell into silence...