Goodbye, Fat! Bitch!

At Iron Rain Base, by the entrance to the Ash Zone.

The entrance, which should have been busy, had been cleared out. Not a single Ash Zone Walker was entering or leaving.

These were the rules of Iron Rain Base.

Once Li Peipei entered the Ash Zone, the entrance would be sealed off completely. No one was allowed through.

The strong naturally enjoyed privileges.

And Li Peipei, sequence forty-three, held power over the lives and deaths of everyone in Iron Rain Base and made all its rules.

Someone stationed below the entrance kept track of the time to determine Li Peipei's condition.

The timer ticked on, soon reaching exactly sixty minutes.

That was when Li Peipei was due to return.

Suddenly, two lights flashed before the Ash Zone entrance, filling the people below with mixed joy and sorrow.

They were glad that two people had survived, and one of them had to be Li Peipei.

They were saddened that three members of the five-person team had perished. The Ash Zone was as dangerous as ever.

But it wasn't a major problem.

It wasn't as though Li Peipei had never lost teammates before. She could simply find more. For the other Ash Zone Walkers at Iron Rain Base, the deaths of An Yue and the others were actually a good thing.

They had freed up some spots.

Before anyone could start talking, Li Peipei's furious voice exploded from the Ash Zone entrance!

"Capture him alive!"

The light faded completely.

Everyone saw the two people who had appeared before the entrance.

One was naturally Li Peipei. Her long hair was disheveled and bristling with rage, and her exquisite features were twisted out of shape.

The other, however, was not a member of her team, but a young man nobody knew.

The atmosphere froze.

The unexpected sight left everyone's heads spinning. Only Li Peipei's furious voice continued to ring out.

"Capture him alive, do you hear me?!"

"Capture him alive! I'll tear out his tendons and skin him, then chop off his limbs and throw him into a cesspit!!"

Li Peipei glared at Xia Lin with crimson eyes, but made no move.

But that was to be expected, wasn't it?

Li Peipei was cautious. That much was apparent from how she had left the Ash Zone outright, choosing to move the battlefield to Iron Rain Base.

Back in the Ash Zone, Xia Lin's attributes had far exceeded the norm, to the point where he could even hold his own against Li Peipei—but she didn't know that all his attributes at the time were temporary.

To play it safe, she had chosen to return immediately. Once back, she certainly wouldn't personally take the field to kill Xia Lin. Instead, she would have the other Ash Zone Walkers wear him down before finishing him off herself.

And because of her anger, she would certainly choose to capture Xia Lin alive and make him wish he were dead, so she could vent the fury in her heart!

But that was the wrong choice.

If Li Peipei had acted decisively and cut Xia Lin down on the spot, none of what followed would have happened.

Unfortunately, she hadn't made that choice.

The consequence was...

Whoosh.

A faint light suddenly shot from Xia Lin's fingertip and flew into Li Peipei's mouth at a speed she had no hope of dodging, cutting off her furious howling.

Li Peipei instinctively closed her mouth and stared at Xia Lin in bewilderment, unsure what he had fed her...

Xia Lin grinned.

He raised a hand and waved goodbye to Li Peipei.

"Goodbye, you fat bitch!"

A howling light burst forth and enveloped Xia Lin's entire body.

Before Li Peipei or anyone else could react, the light swept Xia Lin away, piercing straight through the ground and shooting into the distance.

A Thousand Li Apart at Parting activated!

Ignoring all obstacles, it covered a thousand li in an instant!

Difficult to track, and impossible to find.

At least, Li Peipei had no such ability.

Just like that, he ran away.

But before one disturbance had settled, another arose.

Before anyone could recover from the shock of Xia Lin's disappearance, Li Peipei suddenly screamed.

The scream was piercing and shrill, as though Li Peipei had encountered the most terrifying thing of her life.

Everyone turned to look at Li Peipei.

Then they were all dumbstruck.

Li Peipei's body began to swell. Great quantities of fat grew beneath her skin, rapidly expanding her figure.

Cloth tore in a continuous series of rips. In just three seconds, Li Peipei's rapidly expanding body had burst out of her clothes.

She was stark naked, and she was still getting fatter!

Li Peipei was the highest authority in Iron Rain Base, as well as the woman everyone acknowledged as its most beautiful.

And now, her clothes had burst off...

Yet no one entertained any salacious thoughts.

She was getting fat too quickly, too bizarrely, and the fat was far too solid!

Getting fat ruined everything.

By the time Li Peipei had reached a certain extreme, what stood before everyone was a giant tank that made them feel physically ill!

Her features were squeezed out of shape by the fat, becoming completely unrecognizable.

Her graceful curves and suggestive contours were gone, leaving only layer upon layer of fleshy folds and deep creases.

Li Peipei's formidable physique kept her from falling on her backside. She even retained her mobility and most of her combat strength.

But the fat around her hips and thighs spilled down like a waterfall, covering her once-slender legs, even swallowing her feet and spreading across the ground.

"What did you do to me..."

A numb female voice came from the folds of flesh, faintly recognizable as Li Peipei's.

The next second, a howling blast of air swept out from the mountain of flesh, sending ripples through the horrifying fat.

"What! Did you do to me!!"

The words "fat bitch" that Xia Lin had said at parting came to everyone's minds.

Looking at the naked, spherical creature before them, which might have weighed two thousand jin, some trembled, some struggled not to laugh, and one person retched and threw up.

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"Ah!"

"Aaaah!"

Li Peipei's screams echoed before the Ash Zone entrance, lingering without end.

Meanwhile, a thousand li away.

Xia Lin's figure appeared out of thin air inside an abandoned high-rise.

His head was groggy and ached slightly.

That was a sign that he had expended too much Spirit.

One use of Rapid Proliferation and one use of A Thousand Li Apart at Parting had cost Xia Lin a total of 9 Spirit.

And his total Spirit was only 10.

Spirit was necessary to activate active skills.

When Spirit fell to 0, an Ash Zone Walker would faint on the spot... Xia Lin wasn't far from that state now.

Without a skill to aid it, Spirit would slowly recover at a rate of 1 point per hour until it reached its attribute limit.

But suddenly, a cool sensation appeared out of nowhere and nourished Xia Lin's depleted Spirit.

An Ash Zone System notification sounded in his ears.

[Backstab effect activated.]

[You backstabbed the faction you belong to. Effect assessment: moderate.]

[You gained 3 points in all attributes.]

Xia Lin's laughter suddenly burst through the room, stirring up a cloud of dust.

That was right. He still had the Backstab skill.

Was he a member of Iron Rain Base?

Of course he was!

I didn't bring my ID, but you can check the records.

I, Xia Lin, am a citizen of Iron Rain Base! I have a job!

Having just given Li Peipei a dose of Rapid Proliferation, he naturally met the conditions for Backstab and gained an attribute boost.

At that thought, Xia Lin narrowed his eyes as he laughed.

A perfectly natural thought occurred to him.