230: The Strange Quiet Stream

Jing Xi braced her hands, and the black hole in her grasp instantly expanded.

It shielded her like a buckler.

All of Ai Yue's fierce attacks were swallowed by the black hole, vanishing into nothingness.

The others had never seen such an intense fight; they watched with mouths agape in astonishment.

Gong Qiuqiu was also shocked. He thought it was enough that someone as freakish as Ai Yue existed, but he hadn't expected this woman named Jing Xi to be just as monstrous.

He leaned toward Li Meng and asked, "Brother Li, what's the deal with this woman from your Safety Tower? How is she so powerful?"

Li Meng was also in disbelief. Usually, Jing Xi was gentle and soft-spoken, only serving as the team's doctor during missions.

Her Superpower could heal the wounds of the injured, so everyone protected her. She rarely fought, and even when she did, it wasn't particularly effective.

He was just as surprised that she had suddenly become so powerful.

Hearing Gong Qiuqiu's question, Li Meng swallowed hard before saying, "Brother Gong, to tell you the truth, I really don't know why she's so strong. I never imagined she was hiding it so well."

"As for her background, I'm even less sure. I heard she was there when the tower was built. Later, when the Apocalypse began and our unit entered the Safety Tower, we crossed paths with her hospital. We saw her and knew she had been working there. Then, after we awakened our Superpowers and formed the squad, she was one of us. She's been with us ever since."

Li Meng rambled on, but he didn't really explain Jing Xi's origins.

Realizing Li Meng truly didn't know Jing Xi's background, Gong Qiuqiu stopped asking.

He was very confused. Judging by the conversation between the two women, they had known each other for a long time and were close sisters who had suffered through hardships together.

But as far as he knew, before the Apocalypse, Ai Yue was just an office worker who had recently graduated from university. Her family was wealthy, and she had never suffered a day in her life!

He couldn't fathom how, in the stable society before the Apocalypse, the two of them could have shared such hardships or developed such a life-and-death grudge.

The battle over there continued. Although Ai Yue and Jing Xi were making a huge commotion, they still hadn't woken the Nameless Monster.

After Jing Xi used the black hole to swallow all of Ai Yue's attacks, the black hole vanished. Jing Xi staggered back several steps uncontrollably and spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

It turned out that the black hole had absorbed too much energy, exceeding her capacity and causing a backlash.

Seeing her opponent cough up blood, Ai Yue's spirits lifted, and she immediately launched several more Superpowers at Jing Xi.

Seeing she was outmatched, Jing Xi decisively used a newly learned teleportation superpower and vanished from the spot.

Ai Yue didn't stop, continuing to strike at the place where Jing Xi had just been standing.

Looking at the scene, she feared Jing Xi might also have the ability to turn invisible.

After Ai Yue's Superpower dissipated, there was still no sign of Jing Xi.

Ai Yue's brow furrowed. Suddenly sensing something, she looked sharply toward the Nameless Monster.

Sure enough, Jing Xi appeared not far from the Nameless Monster, clutching her chest and staggering as she continued to spit out blood.

Ai Yue had a bad feeling and immediately rushed toward Jing Xi's position, but she was a step too late.

Jing Xi curled her lips into a mocking smile at Ai Yue, made a throat-slitting gesture with her finger, then turned and vanished.

By the time Ai Yue arrived, there was no trace of Jing Xi left.

Ai Yue knew she had teleported away again.

But why would she run toward the Nameless Monster?

For some reason, Ai Yue felt uneasy. She felt that Jing Xi's approach to the Nameless Monster was deliberate, not accidental.

But after getting close to the Nameless Monster, she vanished. Where did she go? What was she planning to do?

Ai Yue couldn't guess.

In their encounter in this life, Ai Yue completely failed to understand what Jing Xi was trying to do.

Gong Qiuqiu and the others also caught up, looking at the colossal monster before them with trepidation, fearing it might suddenly wake up and swat them all to death.

Li Meng stared nervously at the monster and called out softly to Ai Yue, "Miss Ai Yue, where did Jing Xi go? How did she suddenly disappear?"

Ai Yue shook her head slightly, staring intently at the monster.

Gong Qiuqiu stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong? Did you find something?"

Gu Xiheng then joined them, saying nothing and simply looking at Ai Yue.

Ai Yue's brow remained furrowed as she said solemnly, "I didn't find anything, but I suspect that Jing Xi has entered the monster's body."

"What?" Everyone who heard this was shocked.

"Ai Yue, what nonsense are you talking about? How is that possible? That's the monster that created the zombies. Does Jing Xi want to die? Entering the monster's body? That's preposterous."

Gu Xitian immediately spoke up to refute her in her surprise.

"Yeah, how could that be? How would she get in—through the nostrils? The airflow from the white mist being sprayed out would make it impossible for anyone to enter!"

"Exactly!"

Li Meng, Qi Bin, Cao Leiyang, and the others all agreed that Ai Yue's words were unreliable.

Ai Yue remained silent. She was thinking about how Jing Xi had managed to escape this time. She had noticed a scar under Jing Xi's jaw—a scar from their previous life, sustained when she and Ai Yue were fighting others for food. It was a permanent mark that could never be removed.

But that was something from their past life. In this life, logically, she shouldn't have that scar, let alone one identical to the one in the previous life.

The more Ai Yue thought about it, the weirder it felt. Thinking back carefully, she realized Jing Xi wasn't young; her face had wrinkles from the elements, and she looked even older than she had when Ai Yue last saw her in the previous life.

These details were hard to notice without careful observation. After all, in the Apocalypse, no one's skin remained in good condition except for Ai Yue's. Even Beauty Cheng looked a bit weathered under the hardships of the Apocalypse.

But Ai Yue just felt that the Jing Xi of this life shouldn't look older than she did ten years later. It wasn't normal.

But none of that mattered for now. It was better to focus on how to deal with the monster. As for the vanished Jing Xi, she would show up sooner or later. There was no rush!

Gong Qiuqiu and Gu Xiheng remained silent. They felt that if Ai Yue said so, it definitely wasn't without reason.

However, they didn't think it mattered where Jing Xi had gone.

"Ai Yue, the few of us just discussed it. To deal with this big guy, our only option is to use ability guns and fire at it together to try and kill it!"

After countless experiments by researchers, using ability guns gave a thirty percent chance of killing the monster, whereas using current-stage Superpowers offered less than a ten percent chance.