212: Bad Dogs and Abyss

Lin Yu raised his hand and touched his face.

"You can even recognize me like this?"

He had specifically used the "Body Control" ability that came with 【Origin · Vitality Nourishment】 to fine-tune his facial muscles and bone structure.

Let alone Lin Yao, even if his parents were standing in front of him, they definitely wouldn't have recognized him.

"How did you figure it out?" Lin Yu asked curiously.

"Hmph!" Lin Yao ran up to him in two steps, crinkled her nose, and playfully punched his arm, acting fierce. "I'd recognize that look of yours when you're watching a show even if you turned into ashes!"

She was both angry and amused.

"Good for you! You just stood there watching me get bullied, didn't you? Just wait until I go back and tell Mom and Dad that someone hit me while you just watched from the side! And you were even laughing!!! Can't you do something human-like for once!!! Wuwuwu."

"I just saw that our little Yaoyao was having so much fun, so I didn't want to interrupt."

His gaze swept over the few Tianqing Experts frozen in place, a playful look on his face.

Lin Yao's attention was quickly drawn to someone else.

She looked at the "handsome youth" who had been protecting her from the very beginning and had just blocked a lethal blow for her.

"Then, who is this?"

Wang Qingxuan was still immersed in the shock of Lin Yu suppressing the entire scene with a single finger; hearing Lin Yao's question, she suddenly snapped back to reality.

She looked at Lin Yao's curious gaze, then at the smiling Lin Yu beside her, and suddenly felt a bit embarrassed.

She cleared her throat and raised her hand, gently wiping her face.

The originally heroic, masculine makeup faded away, revealing an exquisitely beautiful and bright face.

"Lin Yao, long time no see. I'm Wang Qingxuan."

Lin Yao's eyes widened instantly.

"Sister Qingxuan?"

Wang Han and Father Lin were childhood friends for many years. Although they had less contact over the years due to being busy, Lin Yao and Wang Qingxuan truly grew up playing in the mud together as children.

It was just that later, Wang Qingxuan went abroad with her family, and the two gradually lost touch.

The sudden reunion brought Lin Yao immense surprise.

"It really is you! Why are you dressed like this? I thought..."

Wang Qingxuan scratched her head, somewhat awkwardly. "This... it's a long story."

The two girls started chatting away, forgetting all about Li Wen and the others who were frozen nearby.

Lin Yu didn't disturb them either, but instead started his "serious business."

He needed time.

Although 【Ancient · Exquisite Finger Snap】 allowed him to instantly cast pre-stored skills, the pre-storing itself, as well as stacking effects through the 【Ghost Card】 system, required a process.

That finger snap from just now was a skill he had pre-stored at any time.

Most of the time, it could buy him enough time...

Now, he needed to prepare for the upcoming "performance."

The cards flipped rapidly between his fingertips, stacking. With every stack, a terrifying energy that ordinary people couldn't perceive was gathering.

On the other side, after a brief catch-up with Wang Qingxuan, Lin Yao finally remembered the serious matter.

She looked at Li Wen, who was frozen in a comical pose, then looked at Wang Qingxuan, and a huge question surfaced in her mind.

"Sister Qingxuan, you said... you said... Uncle Wang is a director of the Tianqing Group?"

"Yes." Wang Qingxuan nodded.

"Then... why did they still dare to make a move?" Lin Yao pointed at Li Wen, her face full of confusion.

Li Wen had just been claiming to represent the Tianqing Group.

Employees of one's own company wanting to make a move on their boss's daughter?

Hearing this question, the smile that had just been on Wang Qingxuan's face instantly collapsed.

She looked in the direction of Li Wen, gritting her teeth.

"As for that... I'd like to know too."

She analyzed bitterly, "Either this dog surnamed Li is blind and didn't recognize me."

"Or his dog brain has gone crazy, and for that little bit of money from the Chen family, he even dared to touch me."

"Or..."

Before Wang Qingxuan could finish her sentence, Lin Yu, who was concentrating on stacking cards nearby, suddenly added nonchalantly.

"Or, he is just a pure, evil dog with a rotted heart."

Li Wen's body, frozen in mid-air, seemed to tremble slightly because of this sentence.

Wang Qingxuan was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing, and the anger and tension from just before dissipated quite a bit.

"That's right! He's just an evil dog!" Wang Qingxuan nodded fiercely, expressing her agreement.

Lin Yao curiously examined the few Tianqing Experts who were maintaining comical poses, then looked at Lin Yu, who was intently "playing" with cards.

She always felt that her brother's 【Slow Spell】 seemed to be even more powerful than before.

Although he could achieve similar effects before, he would never have done it with such ease, so... unreasonably.

It was as if time had really been grabbed by him in his hands, to be kneaded at will.

Lin Yao could perceive that the strength of these Tianqing Experts was definitely not weak.

Yet such powerhouses had not even a shred of room to resist under her brother's single finger snap.

"Brother, this skill of yours..."

Before Lin Yao could finish her sentence, a sudden change occurred!

"Brother! Watch out!"

A sharp, urgent cry erupted from Lin Yao's mouth!

Lin Yu, who had been standing on the side watching the show, had the card-stacking movement in his hands pause for the first time.

He raised his head.

He saw that in the static space covered by the 【Ancient · Slow Spell】, an incongruous "noise" had appeared.

The assassin who had been holding a dagger against Lin Yao's back!

His hand, which had originally been moving as slowly as a snail, was accelerating bit by bit!

The energy on his body was burning crazily in an unreasonable way, forcibly breaking free from the shackles of the law!

"Hum!"

The hundreds of job phantoms behind Lin Yao merged into one in this instant!

They were no longer independent individuals, but transformed into an incomparably huge, brilliant divine shield shimmering with the radiance of hundreds of jobs, blocking tightly in front of Lin Yu!

Lin Yao's reaction was fast to the extreme!

The first moment she sensed danger, she didn't retreat, but chose to use all her own strength to protect the brother behind her!

At the same time.

That Small Bat Blood Pack, which had just been blocking in front of Wang Qingxuan with an "one man guards the pass, ten thousand are unable to open it" stance, once again transformed into a black bolt of lightning.

It didn't hesitate at all, rushing directly to the very front of that brilliant divine shield!

It wanted to become the first line of defense!

It was the sturdiest shield!

Almost the moment the Blood Pack arrived in position.

"Crack!"

A crisp sound, like glass shattering.

The assassin had actually managed, relying on his own strength, to completely break free from the million-fold amplified 【Ancient · Slow Spell】!

The aura on his body surged more than tenfold the moment he broke free from the shackles!

That aura was cold, sinister, and filled with a sense of ominousness and destruction that did not belong to this world!

It was someone from the Abyss Domain!

The moment he revealed his true self, his target also changed!

It was no longer Lin Yao.

It was that small, seemingly most obstructive bat blocking in the very front!

"Die!"