With a bang, the Kabane wielding a steel blade slowly fell, crashing heavily onto the ground.
Fang Li held his dagger in a reverse grip and looked at the fallen Skill-Stealing Type before him, unable to help but feel a little wistful.
"Normally, this should have been a Kabane that even Kurusu would have found difficult to handle, right?"
Yet such a Kabane had failed to last even a single exchange against Fang Li.
The reason for this was certainly that, although the Skill-Stealing Type could skillfully use weapons and combat techniques, it was not as resourceful as a human. It knew how to use fighting techniques, but not tactics.
However, the most important reason was probably Fang Li's improved strength.
"The Newbie Paragon title is helping me way too much now."
The fallen Skill-Stealing Type before him proved that.
Mumei was another person who proved it.
"Finished in an instant?" Mumei murmured.
"You really have gotten so much stronger."
Although, in Mumei's eyes, Fang Li—an utter novice at combat—still had far too many openings, with his powerful physical abilities, Magic Eye, and killing techniques backing him up, he was far more threatening than before.
Of course, Kabane would never understand what a threat was.
"Aaaahhhhhh—!"
Seeing the Skill-Stealing Type killed by Fang Li, the surrounding Kabane completely went mad.
Only then did Mumei react, hurriedly raising the Steam Gun in her hand.
But before she could, a hand seized her wrist.
"All right." Fang Li held Mumei's hand and said to her, "Let's go."
"Go?" Mumei froze, blurting out in astonishment, "We're not fighting anymore?"
"We're done fighting." Fang Li curled his lip and said, "There's no reward for fighting now anyway."
"Reward?" Mumei was instantly confused.
Could killing Kabane actually earn rewards?
Without giving Mumei time to think, Fang Li spoke.
"What are you standing around for? Move!"
With that, Fang Li led Mumei and charged straight toward the weakest point of the encirclement.
"Aaaahhhhhh—!"
Amid the identical howls, the Kabane ahead pounced.
But all the charging Kabane met were a dagger and bullets cutting through the air.
"Splat—!"
The dagger tore through flesh.
"Bang—!"
A bullet pierced a heart.
Fang Li and Mumei thus broke through the encircling army of Kabane. Like fish plunging into the sea, they rushed into the pitch-black forest amid the Kabane's chaotic roars.
At this moment, both Fang Li and Mumei were far faster than ordinary Kabane.
Therefore, the massive horde of Kabane could only watch helplessly as Fang Li and Mumei vanished into the darkness, their unwilling roars echoing into the heavens.
The night gradually deepened.
In the pitch-black forest, two figures darted swiftly past tree after tree. They looked like fleeting ghosts, especially frightening to behold.
The one charging ahead was Fang Li.
As if he were not worried in the slightest that Mumei might lose him, Fang Li ran at top speed, weaving nimbly through the trees. He looked nothing like the shut-in from several days ago who had needed to catch his breath just going up and down stairs.
Mumei silently followed behind Fang Li. As she watched his back, her expression gradually changed.
Because Mumei discovered that she was genuinely beginning to fall behind him.
This only proved one thing.
"His speed is faster than mine?"
Mumei could hardly believe it.
After all, Mumei had already removed the restraint from around her neck. The speed she was displaying was her true full strength.
Yet even so, she was still gradually falling behind Fang Li.
"What exactly is going on?"
What kind of change had made Fang Li suddenly become so strong?
Clearly, half an hour ago, Fang Li had not been this strong.
Could Fang Li have become a Kabaneri too?
No, absolutely not.
If Fang Li had become a Kabaneri, Mumei—who was extremely sensitive to the presence of Kabane—would definitely have noticed.
In other words, Fang Li had truly become this strong all of a sudden with a human body.
Watching Fang Li grow faster and faster while she herself began to lag behind, Mumei immediately felt a surge of unwillingness.
"I won't lose to an ordinary human!"
As she said this, Mumei's figure abruptly sped up. She unleashed all her speed and desperately began chasing after Fang Li.
Under such circumstances, Fang Li and Mumei's figures grew increasingly blurry. In the blink of an eye, they crossed one forest and swept into another area.
Maintaining that speed, the two passed through vast stretches of forest.
Only after arriving at a clearing did they stop one after the other.
Mumei lifted her eyes to look at Fang Li, her gaze filled with questions.
Seeing this, Fang Li smiled faintly and pointed at a cave ahead. "Let's rest over there for a while."
"Rest?" Mumei stared at Fang Li's face and said, "You're not going back to the Iron Fortress?"
"My reason for staying aboard the Iron Fortress is gone. I was bound to leave sooner or later." Fang Li answered without hesitation, then sighed. "Though now that I say that, it seems I no longer have a reason to keep wandering outside either."
Fang Li only had two days left to remain in this world.
And his reason for staying aboard the Iron Fortress was already gone.
So originally, Fang Li had intended to use these two days to farm Exchange Points here, then return loaded with gains after two days.
Unfortunately, the Space had suddenly canceled kill rewards, completely ruining Fang Li's plans.
Now, even Fang Li did not know what his next step should be.
Thus, Fang Li shook his head, turned to Mumei, and asked, "What about you? Why did you suddenly show up here?"
"I..." Mumei opened her mouth, yet she could not even form a complete sentence.
That was right.
Why had she come here?
Had she come looking for this guy?
It seemed so.
But she seemed to have had no reason to look for him.
Then why had she suddenly rushed out without caring about anything and come here?
Mumei could not help feeling somewhat lost. She said softly, "I... I don't know..."
"You don't know?" Fang Li raised a brow.
Then Fang Li said this.
"Do you really not know? Or have you simply never realized it at all?"
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