"He Xi, watch out!!"
"Wha... what??"
He Xi had been listening intently as Hua Zhen explained what Multi-Space Mapping Technology was. Halfway through, she suddenly saw him lunging toward her. They had not been far apart to begin with, and with Hua Zhen charging like a runaway horse, the moment her words fell, she felt herself being roughly pulled into his arms.
?!!
He Xi froze for a moment, but her beautiful eyes quickly widened and her pretty face flushed red. It was not bashful embarrassment, but anger stirred by being molested. Her reaction could not have been faster—or rather, it was a woman's instinct.
Gritting her teeth, she bent forward to gather divine power, bent her leg, raised her knee, and aimed to kill!
The movement was completed in one smooth motion.
"Crack!!"
"OOOH—!"
The completely unprepared man let out a deep scream, his face twisting out of shape in tandem.
"You..."
By the time Hua Zhen uttered the word "you," his voice had completely changed pitch, becoming rather shrill. He had never expected He Xi to suddenly pull something like that... no, not something. A crushing knee strike.
He wanted to berate her, but he knew this was a critical moment, not the time for that. Enduring the agony of shattered balls and ruptured kidneys, Hua Zhen ignored He Xi's struggling and held her tightly. Trembling, he raised his other arm, resumed the calculations that had been interrupted by the blow, and said painfully.
"Ac... activate the Sub-Biological Defense Barrier."
After struggling twice, He Xi actually stopped. In that instant, an unprecedented sense of danger had suddenly surged into her mind. Then, hearing Hua Zhen speak through gritted teeth, she softly cried out, realizing that she had misunderstood him.
Tch, what a mess...
"Whoosh—!"
Just as the Sub-Biological