Fierce Battle

Was the optimal solution given by Deep Sea to first rescue this teenager?

Actually, Nan Jin wasn't surprised to hear this answer.

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She knew very well what being with A-009 for 20 minutes without incident meant... This was an out-of-control individual whose danger level had reached A-Rank.

Being able to do this couldn't be explained by mere luck.

The data showed that A-009 was frantically pursuing a truth that ordinary people couldn't understand.

Gu Shen being able to coexist peacefully with her couldn't be an accident... Could it be that this teenager was also a madman?

There was no time to think more.

Wei Shu's voice rang out again, "I will cut off this carriage. Next, you need to take him and escape."

"Rumbling—"

The light rail sped wildly through the night wind in the suburbs of Da Teng City. A dull cracking sound rang out as the carriage disconnected from the other carriages behind it. The wheels locked up in a violent friction sound. Due to inertia, the entire carriage began to "slowly" lift off from the bottom.

Nan Jin said expressionlessly, "Hold me tight."

Gu Shen: "???"

He lunged forward and unceremoniously hugged Nan Jin's slender waist. Under the wide trench coat was a warm and delicate body. Gu Shen felt several cold, hard, slender outlines... This woman had three long and short knives hanging around her waist.

Thinking of the cold light that had cut the train earlier, he couldn't help but shudder.

A jolt!

The train carriage was almost airborne. The two people stood on the bottom of the carriage, sliding downwards at an angle almost perpendicular to the ground.

Nan Jin took quick steps at an extremely fast pace, not at all like she had a big man wrapped around her waist. Because the carriage was flying upside down, she looked like a night cat running on walls. The whole world was reversed, but she alone maintained her balance.

Holding her breath and focusing her mind, she held the knives in both hands and delivered a cross slash.

The blazing light of the blade illuminated the darkness.

"Clang clang clang!" Three crisp sounds!

The Bone Scraper blocked the blade!

But the lady's throat once again let out a painful roar. Even Gu Shen could see the string of bright red blood beads that flew out from the open black formal dress.

The moment she drew her knife, all the color in Nan Jin's eyes faded away, turning into a cold expanse.

She wasn't greedy for victory. Although she successfully broke through after the block and slash, accurately stabbing the tall lady in the chest with one knife, she immediately turned around after succeeding. At the critical moment, Nan Jin's hand flashed out like lightning, her five fingers tightly gripping the back of Gu Shen's collar. When the carriage completely rolled 90 degrees, she squatted down abruptly, heavily smashing the tempered glass with one boot, sinking downwards like a diver.

The broken glass and rolling electric arcs were like seaweed floating in the Deep Sea.

The derailed carriage was like a rising submarine, except this was land, not the ocean.

The carriage rolled, flying off the tracks, like a giant rock falling down a slope, hitting the ground unstoppably, constantly colliding, and sliding out with thousands of brilliant arcs of light. At the last moment before overturning, two figures jumped out of the carriage in the night sky, landing on a lawn.

Nan Jin patted the dust off her trench coat. Her eyes were always fixed on the broken carriage that had slid four or five hundred meters away. After falling off the tracks, the carriage was silent and still.

Smoke billowed, but she didn't let her guard down. Instead, she drew a third longsword from her waist, reporting coldly, "Target rescued... A-009 is still in the carriage."

Wei Shu quickly replied, "Seal off the perimeter. Backup is on the way. Don't let it escape."

Nan Jin hummed softly in agreement.

"Crack..."

Her eyes caught the slightest movement from the silent carriage... Nan Jin immediately gripped the fourth sword in her backhand, drawing it out. Holding the swords in both hands made her feel much safer, but she still felt a little uncomfortable.

Nan Jin looked down and realized the reason. "How long are you going to keep hugging?"

"Can I hug a little longer?" A certain youth shamelessly tightened his grip on her thigh, rubbing his face against it and squeezing out a fawning smile. "Big sis... I'm so scared."

Was that really fear on his face?

He was chatting and laughing with A-009 when she cut open the carriage.

"A-009's ability is corruption." Nan Jin said expressionlessly, "Under normal circumstances... she can contaminate anything she touches, including but not limited to swords, blades, metal, firearms... and people."

Gu Shen recalled the last scene on the train, the woman in the dress smiling as she reached out to him, and couldn't help but shudder.

Corruption?

That was too scary... He even took that ruler. Would he be okay?

"During the battle just now, I'm not sure if this coat came into contact with it."

Nan Jin's casual remark made Gu Shen throw off the windbreaker as if it were burning his hands.

"Big sis has a tough battle ahead, go go go..." Gu Shen cheered while cautiously asking, "Little bro here is really limited in ability... How about I take my leave first?"

He really wanted to run.

Let the gods fight; he didn't want to get involved.

"Want to leave... you can try." Nan Jin glanced at the youth and sneered, "I'll burn paper money for you on time next year."

Gu Shen: "???"

"This area has already been sealed off. I suggest you don't leave my sight... because I can't truly restrict A-009. Her personality is stubborn and insane. If she's determined to kill you, it doesn't matter how far you run."

Nan Jin gently inserted two longswords into the grass, put on special snow-white silk gloves, then re-gripped the swords, adopted a stance, and gave a final warning in a low voice to a silent, dilapidated carriage, as if facing a formidable enemy, "Before 'backup' arrives, I can only protect this small area. The further you run, the faster you die."

The night wind surged.

Visible to the naked eye, strands of silver light emerged from the dark void, like fireflies, eventually wrapping around the blades of the two swords held in opposing stances. Nan Jin, holding the swords in position, seemed to have become a galaxy in the night sky.

Gu Shen swallowed. He couldn't explain this scene with the knowledge he had... What exactly was this flowing, wind-like snow-white energy?

Could it be the legendary "sword aura"?

Then came a muffled sound.

A deafening crash echoed from above the carriage.

To be precise, it came from the bottom of the carriage.

After the overturn, the train car was upside down. Yet, as the dust swirled, a force from within pushed the car, slowly righting it. Moments later... a tall figure emerged from the swirling, shadowy dust.

The woman pushed open the car door, bending slowly to exit the train. The process was still unhurried, dignified like a noble, even remembering to hold onto her wide-brimmed hat.

From a distance, her height was level with the overturned train, like a walking giant.

The two "long knives" that had pierced the woman's chest were now completely eroded by the power of corruption. A gust of wind shattered them, the blades and the secret silver patterns reduced to ashes.

In the dust, the tall woman slowly turned, surveying her surroundings, finally stopping and looking at Nan Jin.

The red light in her snake eyes oozed out eerily.

With just a glance, Gu Shen felt his blood turn to ice. Nan Jin was right... he should never have tried to escape on his own. If he were targeted by this thing, there would be no chance of survival.

The next moment.

Something terrifying happened—

The tall woman in the formal dress slightly tiptoed, slowly lifting a corner of her skirt, and performed an ancient and orthodox curtsy. At the moment the curtsy ended, dozens of muddy water columns exploded in the lawn over hundreds of meters.

She reached Nan Jin's blade range in a second, the Bone Scraper wrapped in old newspaper slashing at the point where the two blades converged in a cross.

"Clang!"

The impact of the sound was enormous. Gu Shen felt as if he had been hit by a heavy hammer from a distance, his ears ringing, and he fell heavily to the ground.

This is a Bone Scraper? This is clearly a bone-crushing hammer!

He looked at the sturdy woman blocking in front of him, her trench coat lifted by the wind, fluttering. At this moment, she was like a majestic Valkyrie, with the strength to uproot mountains and the spirit to overwhelm the world, resisting this Mount Tai-like blow without changing her expression.

Then came the blade-shaking retreat—

Thousands of strands of silver blade aura moved with the wind, surging!

The woman, steady in her horse stance, delivered dozens, hundreds of slashes in an instant, the blade light illuminating the night!

A low roar sounded, A-009 was instantly swallowed by the brilliant blade light, the tall figure like a lone flower in the waves, instantly blasted away, crashing back into the dust of the train car.

The dust had not yet settled.

That huge sense of oppression descended once again.

The woman in the formal dress, who had been knocked away by the blade-shaking, came at an exaggerated speed, taking small steps—

Nan Jin's expression was cold, and she shook her blade for the second time.

"Boom!"

The third time!

The fourth time!

The high-frequency explosive airflow bombarded in turn, causing Gu Shen almost to have tinnitus. This was because he was hiding behind Nan Jin. At this moment, apart from the noise of the bombardment and shock, he could not hear any other sound.

"...Wei Shu."

Nan Jin's condition was very poor, blood spilling from her lips, and bloodshot eyes constantly appearing, almost gathering at the pupils, completely dyeing them red.

This encounter was different from the A-009 recorded in the files. Some strange changes had occurred.

What exactly did it experience to become so insane?

Even in such a terrible state, Nan Jin remained calm. She whispered into her headset, asking the control room on the other end, "How much longer until backup arrives...?"