But now, she wasn't fighting alone.
No matter what kind of person Lin Yu was, Kiana could feel that he genuinely cared about her.
And now, every gun barrel was pointed at Lin Yu.
After Lin Yu dodged, the mercenaries directly in front of him had already trained their pistols on every part of his body.
From where they were aiming, they clearly intended to kill Lin Yu right there.
At that moment, Kiana became even more certain that Cocolia was absolutely not a good person.
What kindhearted person would have subordinates who were all ruthless killers like this?
Still, no matter how hard Kiana thought, she no longer had time to act.
With the sound of gunfire, more than a dozen bullets shot toward Lin Yu at once.
Helpless, the girl could only watch as Lin Yu, standing in front of her, was struck by those bullets.
Kiana closed her eyes. She could even picture Lin Yu collapsing into a pool of blood before her.
Yet in the very next instant, she suddenly heard startled cries from the enemy.
"How... how is that possible?!"
"The bullets don't work?! What the hell is this monster?!"
"Damn it, Cocolia said this mission would be easy."
"Bullshit! Tell her to raise our pay when we get back, or we're done!"
What the hell?
Kiana opened her eyes at their furious curses and saw the scene before her.
The mercenaries who had pulled the triggers were filled with anger and confusion.
And Lin Yu, whom she had thought would be lying in a pool of blood, was completely fine.
Not only that, she could sense a terrifying surge of power from him.
"Ah, ah. Today isn't a good day for killing, so I'll let you off this time."
Lin Yu drove his right fist, charged with tremendous power, heavily into the ground.
Cosmic Phantom!
Relying on Cosmic Phantom's ability to perfectly block most attacks, Lin Yu stopped every bullet fired at him.
At the same time, with his power fully charged, Lin Yu used Cosmic Phantom's immense destructive force after charging to smash the floor before him apart in a single blow.
"Eh... eh?!"
The sudden sensation of weightlessness sent Kiana falling downward.
But before she hit the ground, she relied on her physical abilities and landing technique to touch down safely.
The mercenaries, however, did not possess Kiana's reaction speed, which was practically beyond human limits.
Having never expected their opponent to shatter the floor with one punch, the mercenaries all crashed to the ground after suddenly falling from midair.
"Ha... what a pain."
After throwing that punch, Lin Yu glanced at the mercenaries and could no longer be bothered with them.
He was no longer the same as before.
Having prepared himself mentally, Lin Yu's resistance to killing enemies had greatly diminished.
But right now, he still felt that he could not kill these people.
It wasn't because he had any fondness for these lunatics who lived by the blade—how many good people could there be among mercenaries?
The key issue wasn't them, but the little ancestor behind him.
Miss Kiana Kaslana, who possessed the body of the Kaslana clan and the soul of a Herrscher, also had another personality within her.
Although Lin Yu had no idea when that personality might emerge, he felt it would be better not to provoke her too much at a time like this.
Especially not by mowing all these people down with a pistol in front of Kiana—that would be far too stimulating for her to watch.
"Senior... you really aren't an ordinary person either."
Kiana stared at the rubble on the ground and spoke helplessly.
"The me who was worried you'd get killed just now really looked like an idiot."
"Instead of chatting, you should retreat with me right now."
Lin Yu spoke irritably as Kiana rushed toward the elevator again.
"Take the stairs."
"Eh, why... Fine, I'll listen to you."
Under Lin Yu's helpless gaze, Kiana finally followed after him reluctantly.
Less than a second after she left the elevator, a rocket suddenly flew in from a bizarre angle and blew up the elevator she had been planning to take.
"What the hell?"
Seeing that, Kiana, who had just left the elevator, felt herself starting to panic.
"See? I told you taking the stairs was better... Holy shit!"
Lin Yu had intended to make a sarcastic remark, but the moment he saw that suddenly fired rocket, he lunged at Kiana and knocked her to the ground.
After the two fell to the floor, a rocket launcher fired from the other side and blew away the stairs they had intended to use as well.
Amid the smoke, Kiana and Lin Yu looked at another group of mercenaries in the distance, holding a row of RPG launchers aimed at them, and completely froze.
No, wait, Cocolia...
—why had she arranged for mercenaries carrying rocket launchers to ambush Kiana on the floor below the one she was on?!
I'm speechless. If she really goes this far and stimulates the Herrscher of the Void into awakening, then everyone is seriously going to die together, okay?!
PS: Eighth update.
Promotion segment:
Synopsis: After transmigrating into a world where the Immortal Path and martial arts coexisted, Qiao Mu could continuously revive.
Every time he was beaten to death, he would revive at the cost of growing older, but his martial cultivation would also deepen with age.
The more he died, the older he grew; the older he grew, the stronger he became. The more heroic his death, the stronger he would be after reviving.
So he came up with all kinds of ways to court death, charging wherever danger lay.
The enemy discovered in horror that after they had just beaten the young one, an old one came next—endlessly.
A legend of an immortal family that no one could afford to provoke began to spread throughout the world.
"The Qiao family is filled with loyal martyrs. Every generation has been made up of heroes who hate evil, value righteousness over life and death, and dare to lead the way for the world!"
"The son died on the battlefield, and his white-haired father continued fighting in his place. How admirable, how tragic!"
"Long ago, a member of the Qiao family died shielding me from bullets. Today, I cannot stand by and watch his elderly father spend his final years in misery."
"A descendant of the Qiao family boldly entered the palace to assassinate the foolish ruler, only to fail and perish body and soul? Foolish ruler, you are mistaken—the Qiao family's thousand-year-old hidden ancestor is about to emerge!"
"The sacred immortals and Buddhas have returned? Then why are even those immortals and gods calling the Qiao family elders their ancestors? Just how many ancestors does the Qiao family have, and where did they all come from?"
After countless deaths, Qiao Mu suddenly looked back and realized that he had already died his way into becoming a human ancestor tens of millions of years old, with cultivation as vast and unfathomable as the sea.
Ninth Update, Chapter 41: You Jump, I Jump
Lin Yu had no idea what medicine Cocolia had taken.
Normally speaking, no matter how he looked at it, her target should have been Raiden Mei.
Oh, that wasn't to say it would have been fine if Raiden Mei got screwed over instead.
The key issue was that Lin Yu had no idea why Kiana had come to the television station, only for that unlucky girl to be surrounded there.
And judging from the weaponry they had deployed, they really were here to kill.
If Cocolia had hired more than one group of mercenaries, and the other team had already been sent to Mei...
This is seriously enough.
If the Herrscher of Thunder and the Herrscher of the Void awaken together, I'll most likely be completely dead.
Damn it, when that happens, can I awaken as a soul, possess someone, and go kill Cocolia?!
If that suicidal bitch doesn't die, I won't be satisfied!
Meanwhile, although Kiana had no idea what Lin Yu was thinking, judging from the expression on his face, he was definitely about to be angered to death.
I don't know why Senior knew I was here, but he came after me... he probably came for me.
If Senior dies here... no, I won't let him die!
But, but—just shouting slogans won't do anything! (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
Cocolia, that bastard, just said I was Cecilia Mom's daughter and that she didn't want me to get hurt.
Sure enough, not a single word she says can be trusted!
"Come with me, this way!"
After dragging Kiana into a room to the side, Lin Yu could not even be bothered to close the door before he heard another explosion behind him.
"Senior, do you have any ideas?"
Kiana immediately spoke as she looked at Lin Yu's troubled expression.
"If you don't have a way, then I..."
"There's definitely a way."
Seeing Kiana's nervous expression, Lin Yu suppressed the anger in his heart and entered the Mirror Mind state.
Kiana saw Lin Yu's expression suddenly become calmer and immediately asked,
"Really? That's great!"
"There is a way, but only if—you trust me."
Trust him?
To be honest, after wandering alone for so many years, Kiana knew very well that no one could truly know what another person was thinking.
But at the same time, her instincts were telling her that the man before her could be trusted.
He had rushed upstairs for her and nearly gotten blown up by a rocket launcher. If she still didn't trust him at a time like this, wouldn't that mean there was seriously something wrong with her?!
"Of course I trust you, Senior, so—"
"Oh, good."
Lin Yu walked to the window and opened it.
Then, after calmly glancing back at Kiana, he casually spoke a single sentence.
"You jump, I jump."
"Um... Senior..."
Hearing that, Kiana, who completely did not get the reference, resisted the urge to complain and said to Lin Yu,
"You're... being a little too extreme. Actually, we..."
"Actually—what are you doing?!"
Kiana had wanted to say that those rocket launchers might not necessarily be able to kill her, but Lin Yu suddenly yanked her over and pulled her off the building with him.
As Kiana felt herself falling through the air, she desperately wanted to open her mouth and curse Lin Yu out a few times.
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