345: Chapter 345 Is it faster, a fist or a stream of water?

The rain suddenly grew fierce.

It was as though a massive hole had opened in the sky, pouring down all the water in the world.

Low rumbles of thunder rolled through the distance, muted like the deep growl of a giant beast.

It seemed to play a suffocating prelude for this isolated, dark block.

Cheng Leyi's thin red camisole dress was long since soaked, clinging tightly to the voluptuous curves of her body.

Cold rainwater ran down her dripping wet hair and slid across her fair cheeks.

Her eyes glistened as she stared ahead with a mixture of fear and anticipation.

A massive sphere of water enveloped Lin Xuhao.

The human face formed of water also stared wide-eyed in that direction, filled with alarm and suspicion.

Toward that pitch-black corner.

For a moment, a sexy woman, a suffocating man, and a liquid monster...

...the three stood within the curtain of rain, forming an eerie, frozen picture.

"Who's there?!"

The transparent water man stared intently into the depths of the darkness, unable to resist questioning again:

"Hiding your head and showing your tail—what kind of coward are you?!"

The voice drifted through the pouring rain, sounding remarkably distorted.

No one answered, nor was there any extra sound of breathing or heartbeat.

Within that darkness, a deathly silence reigned.

It was as if everything just now was merely a paranoid illusion of those present.

Suddenly—

Two faint yet distinctly rhythmic footsteps sounded.

Patter.

Patter.

Then, a figure seemed to peel away from the backdrop of the rainy night.

The outline of the body gradually shifted from blurry to clear.

Cheng Leyi's pupils contracted slightly.

It was a man wearing a black raincoat, tall and straight.

Merely standing there, he radiated an invisible sense of pressure.

Rain dripped from the brim of his hood, forming a broken curtain of water that obscured most of his face.

Only his eyes reflected two terrifying points of red light in the dense darkness.

His steps were neither hurried nor slow, each one seeming precisely measured with a ruler.

Stepping on the waterlogged road, they made soft patter-patter sounds, as clear as if tapping directly on the heart.

Just by looking at this walk as steady as a mountain, Cheng Leyi could sense that this person was very strong.

"Stop!"

The transparent water man seemed to sense danger, its voice instantly turning shrill.

"Take one more step, and I'll kill him immediately!"

Inside the water sphere, Lin Xuhao struggled even more violently, his face turning the color of pig liver from suffocation.

The figure was surprisingly cooperative, stopping as requested and standing over twenty meters away from them.

Seeing this, the transparent water man's eyes flickered uncertainly:

"In the middle of the night, raining this hard, what are you doing here? Are you reinforcements from the Special Investigation Team?"

"No..."

The figure finally spoke, slowly shaking his head.

His voice was deep, as if soaked in rainwater, carrying a tinge of cold indifference.

Hearing this, the transparent water man secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the other party's next sentence caused the liquid surrounding its body to fluctuate wildly.

"I came specially for you, Scorpion."

As he spoke, a wild wind swept across the damp street.

A killing intent even colder than the rain spread out without warning.

Scorpion!

Hearing the name called out, the transparent water man was visibly stunned.

The water sphere enveloping Lin Xuhao quivered violently as well.

Crack—

A ghastly white streak of lightning tore fiercely across the night sky, its brief flash illuminating everything as bright as day.

And in that exact instant, Cheng Leyi finally caught a clear view of the newcomer's entire appearance.

It was a pure white stone mask with ferocious, terrifying lines, like an evil demon from Hell.

Where the eyes should be, two rubies were embedded, emitting an ominous, blood-red glow.

"That mask?!"

Cheng Leyi's heart shuddered violently as a codename deeply buried in the Special Investigation Team's classified files surged into her mind.

It was White Owl!

That legendary Devil King who killed without batting an eye and struck terror into countless hearts!

Back then, they had spent immense effort searching for his whereabouts in Dongdu, only to end up empty-handed in the end.

Who would have thought that just as she and her companion were hanging by a thread...

...this person, far more dangerous than any enemy, would abruptly appear before them like a sick joke of fate.

At this moment, it was truly a hungry wolf behind and a fierce tiger ahead.

They were trapped in an unimaginable predicament.

Whoosh—

The wind grew stronger.

It blew raindrops continuously against her bare shoulders and thighs, stirring up a fine layer of goosebumps.

Cheng Leyi instinctively wrapped her arms tight around herself, shivering.

The transparent water man—no, he should be called Scorpion.

After a brief silence, its composure seemed to return to calm.

"Do I have a grudge with you?"

Scorpion suddenly asked.

"No."

Fang Cheng shook his head again, his gaze glowing crimson as he locked onto the liquid monster before him:

"I just simply dislike the sight of you."

This extremely arrogant response plunged Scorpion into silence once more.

A moment later, he suddenly uttered a strange laugh, his tone softening.

"Friend, since there's no grudge between us, why resort to violence?"

"Look, this female cop from the Special Investigation Team has such a great body. As long as you help me deal with them, I'll let you have fun with this chick. How about it?"

Cheng Leyi's heart leaped, and she was just about to shout curses...

...only to see that while Scorpion was still talking, he had already launched a secret attack.

The murky standing water spreading across the street seemed to come alive, turning into dozens of slender venomous snakes.

They slithered silently along the ground, winding around to encircle Fang Cheng's position.

Seeing that they were inches from the target and about to succeed, Scorpion let out a neurotic shriek:

"Die!"

The water snakes suddenly lunged, instantly weaving into a tight, inescapable net that fiercely throttled the spot where Fang Cheng had been standing!

However, only a swoosh of wind sounded.

No one was there anymore.

The moment the water snakes closed in, Fang Cheng's figure vanished like a ghost.

When he reappeared, he was already standing several meters away.

It was as though he had performed an unannounced teleportation just now.

With Fang Cheng's Spirit attribute at 50 points and Agility attribute at 40 points...

...a sneak attack of this level didn't even qualify to make his heart beat faster.

"Damn it, this guy is troublesome, I have to be careful..."

Seeing his sneak attack fail, Scorpion cursed secretly under his breath.

Shifting his eyes, he immediately threatened using the hostage trapped inside his body, clamoring:

"Don't move! Or I'll squish him! Let's see whether your fist is faster, or my water!"

Seeing the masked guy just standing there, uselessly clenching his fists and staring blankly under his threats...

...Scorpion suddenly felt quite smug, thinking he had seen through the other party's bluff.

Right now, he seemed to hold the enemy's weak spot, regaining the upper hand.

But he didn't notice that during those few seconds of dialogue with him, Fang Cheng's right arm was undergoing a bizarre transformation.

The skin turned bright red and burning hot, while the muscles continuously swelled.

The 5-second charge time of the Qilin Arm was now completely finished.

Boom!

Fang Cheng's body leaned forward abruptly, his waist erupting like a steel cable twisted to its absolute limit.

His right fist broke the sound barrier, unleashing a sonic boom airwave so scorching it distorted the air, punching forward fiercely!

The air in front of his fist was violently compressed, and a faint ring of burning red light could even be seen shimmering!

Crossing a distance of over twenty meters, this punch struck first despite launching second, smashing like a sledgehammer toward the human face on the water sphere.

Scorpion couldn't even see his movement clearly, feeling only a flash of red light before his eyes.

Bang—!

The giant water sphere enveloping Lin Xuhao burst apart instantly!

The terrifying force of the punch completely shattered the liquid cage in an instant, the crimson fist halting right in front of Lin Xuhao.

Water sprayed everywhere, mixed with yellowish-brown slime splattering in all directions.

"Ah—"

Cheng Leyi gasped, instinctively closing her eyes, afraid to look.

When she opened her eyes again, she saw her companion freed from the water sphere, slumped on the ground.

"Lin Xuhao!"

Delighted, Cheng Leyi hurried over in her high heels to help him up.

"How are you? Are you okay?"

"Cough, cough... blegh!"

Lin Xuhao knelt on the ground, vomiting violently, throwing up murky yellow foul water that stank terribly.

Gasping heavily for air, his face was pale as death, taking quite a while to catch his breath.

"Good thing I'm tough and thick-skinned, barely held on... Damn it, this guy is disgusting. I need to get my stomach pumped when we get back!"

Lin Xuhao cursed a few times, then together with Cheng Leyi, turned his bewildered and uncertain gaze toward the man wearing the white mask.

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"Who is he??"

Lin Xuhao was full of confusion; having been trapped in the water ball earlier, he didn't have much conscious awareness at all.

In his daze, he even thought a Senior from the Special Investigation Team had rushed over to provide support.

"Take a close look at the style of that mask. Do you have any impression of it?"

Cheng Leyi reminded him, her voice sounding somewhat hoarse.

Hearing this, Lin Xuhao immediately widened his eyes and observed carefully.

When he saw clearly the ferocious, ghost-like appearance of the mask, he couldn't help but gasp in a breath of cold air.

"He... he is... that masked mysterious man we tracked before?"

Lin Xuhao stammered.

In his mind, scenes of executing a mission together with Cheng Leyi back then immediately flashed through.

In pursuit of the mysterious man who killed the Ghoul, they had lurked around the Jiuchang Street area in Jiangbei for a long time, monitoring suspicious targets.

Although they ultimately returned empty-handed, the legends about the powerful and cruel "White Owl" had long been deeply etched into his memory.

"Careful!"

Just as the two of them were talking, Cheng Leyi suddenly let out another exclamation.

The raindrops all over the sky seemed to turn into fatal bullets at this moment, dense like locusts, shooting toward Fang Cheng!

Swept into the aftermath of the violent attack, the two of them scrambled and retreated behind the wall at the street corner in fright, searching for cover.

At this moment, the combat scene unfolding before their eyes was far more direct and shocking than the name "White Owl" brought!

Scorpion's figure completely disappeared.

It seemed to have transformed into this heavy rain itself, blending into the boundless night.

Bullets, long whips, and sharp blades condensed from rainwater attacked endlessly from all directions, launching a saturation attack.

Every strike landing on the wall and the ground would leave shocking traces, blasting out dense pits.

There were even those emitting white smoke and making a sizzling sound, just like being splashed with concentrated sulfuric acid.

Yet Fang Cheng was like a ghost strolling leisurely through the fierce storm.

His figure kept flickering in the dense barrage, occasionally disappearing on the spot.

The next second, he would appear at the other end of the street.

The speed was unimaginably fast; even in the eyes of Cheng Leyi and Lin Xuhao, they could only barely capture afterimages.

"Useless! Useless! This heavy rain is my excellent assistance. Here, you can't even touch my body!"

Scorpion's sharp voice came from all directions, trying to use trash talk to disturb Fang Cheng's state of mind.

He seemed somewhat resentful that the opponent actually disregarded a teammate's life so much and didn't play by the rules.

Fang Cheng turned a deaf ear.

His scarlet gaze calmly surveyed all movements around him.

In another dodge, he suddenly struck, precisely pinching a drop of yellowish viscous liquid from an oncoming stream of water.

That liquid wriggled violently between his fingertips, as if it possessed a life of its own.

Chi, chi—

A corrosive, burning sensation came from his fingertips.

"It's this..."

Fang Cheng's eyes narrowed slightly.

It was almost identical to the yellow mucous substance previously found in Scorpion's room.

Thinking of this, Fang Cheng's gaze suddenly swept across the surroundings, instantly discerning the flaw in the enemy's invisibility.

Although Scorpion could blend into the sky-filling heavy rain and use the darkness and water flow as cover, making his whereabouts truly difficult to detect,

this ability was not without a price.

Every time he launched an attack, Scorpion's main body would secrete this highly active and highly corrosive biological enzyme.

That was the special biological enzyme recorded in the police forensic report.

The rainwater could be remotely controlled, but this yellowish mucus, as a part of his body, could only be produced from his main body.

It was absolutely impossible to create it out of thin air!

"Found it!"

Fang Cheng thought to himself, his gaze suddenly turning fierce.

In the sky-filling rain curtain, he captured a few drops of freshly oozing yellowish mucus a dozen meters away to the left.

This time, Fang Cheng no longer dodged.

Letting those "raindrop bullets" sufficient to pierce an ordinary person's flesh pour down entirely on his body, they produced a dense, explosive sound of "pitter-patter".

In an instant, the raincoat he wore was pierced through, becoming riddled with holes and nearly shattered.

Yet Fang Cheng seemed completely unaware, clenching his right fist once more.

Punching fiercely toward the seemingly empty air ahead!

Bang!

The fist force exploded like an artillery shell, and the fierce wind even cleared away a large swath of the rain curtain ahead.

"Ah—"

A shrill scream finally no longer came from all directions, but clearly from the position struck by the fist.

It really hit!

Fang Cheng's eyes gleamed.

The contour of a naked man flashed past in the rain, and like being hit by a truck, he flew backward and smashed into the shop window of a clothing store by the street.

Clatter—

The sound of shattering glass resounded through the night sky.

"Monsters... both of them are monsters..."

Lin Xuhao crouched at the corner of the wall, watching in dumbfounded awe.

Cheng Leyi's gaze gleamed, and her fingers couldn't help pinching the hem of her slip dress.

She seemed even more nervous than the two parties in battle.

Fang Cheng looked at the shattered shop window, tipped his toes, and was about to press home the attack.

"Roar—"

A non-human roar came from inside the shop.

Immediately following that, a towering giant wave, mixed with glass shards and clothing mannequins, surged wildly out of the shattered shop window!

Not just ahead!

From all directions, all the accumulated water on the street, and all the heavy rain falling from the sky,

seemed to have received a summons at this moment, condensing into giant waves several meters high that closed in on Fang Cheng from all directions, instantly submerging him!

An irregular huge water ball with a volume of several dozen cubic meters trapped Fang Cheng tightly in the center.

The street seemed to have turned into a swimming pool.

Fang Cheng only felt that he was sealed in a water prison, his limbs unable to touch the ground.

Surrounding him was an endless water current carrying immense pressure.

He tried throwing a punch.

The punch force stirred up turbulent undercurrents inside the water ball, forming the trajectory of a white water line.

But when it reached the surface of the water ball, it merely burst into a cluster of splashes, and the splashed water, as if endowed with life, slowly wriggled back to merge into the water prison again.

Amidst the churning waves, a human head surfaced on the water prison.

Scorpion's blurred face, with its facial features constantly shifting, wantonly let out wild laughter:

"Idiot! Do you think it's useful to hit water with your fists?"

His voice was filled with venom, while his heart was full of lingering fear.

If not for relying on his eerie liquid body to offset most of the impact force,

that punch just now, if it had solidly landed on his Physical Body, would have truly blown him apart!

Suppressing his apprehension toward Fang Cheng's strength, Scorpion stared fixedly at the prey already trapped in the water prison and sneered:

"Struggle! Slowly suffocate inside my body and be slowly digested!"

Seeing this, Cheng Leyi's heart instantly sank to the bottom of the valley.

However.

Fang Cheng, trapped in the water prison, had an expression beneath that ghost mask that was terrifyingly calm.

Water Breathing Breathing Technique quietly operated.

To others, the deep-water environment was a fatal cage, but to him, it was like returning to his mother's embrace.

He could even extract trace amounts of oxygen from the surrounding water.

Let alone suffocation, even staying inside for a day and a night would leave him completely unharmed.

Scorpion waited for a moment, seeing that the masked guy actually didn't have any of the expected reactions.

His brow couldn't help furrowing slightly, and then he let out another sneer:

"It seems I have to add some spice for you!"

While speaking, a certain yellowish venom began to frantically secrete from the inner wall of the water prison, spreading toward Fang Cheng's body.

"Hey, careful, this guy's body has deadly poison!"

Cheng Leyi couldn't help shouting out a reminder.

Lin Xuhao muttered a sentence:

"Both of these monsters are perverted; for our Special Investigation Team, it would be best if they both suffered heavy losses!"

Cheng Leyi glanced at him with a complex expression:

"If I really have to choose one, I'd rather 'White Owl' win than have that perverted sex fiend triumph."

"Hahahaha! Melt in my strongest deadly poison!"

Scorpion mocked crazily.

Just at this moment.

Fang Cheng in the water prison suddenly opened his mouth.

Gulp.

He actually took a deep, large gulping breath toward the surging yellowish venom.

Scorpion's wild laughter came to an abrupt halt.

"You... what did you do inside my body?!"

He roared in a mix of shock and anger.

The corners of Fang Cheng's mouth beneath the mask curved into an arc.

"Sorry, I'm a bit hungry."