"Faster, faster, faster!"
Li Aoz urged anxiously. This car, hand-assembled from scrap metal by the people of the Outland, was in worse condition than expected. The narrow front row couldn't fit two people. He gripped the car shed with both hands, half his body hanging outside, with Law Enforcement Division Four's bullets whizzing past him from time to time.
Thanks to the wind, snow, sand, and the red-black Esha clouds in the sky, the land was dim and dark.
In this low-visibility environment, it would be strange if the Law Enforcement Division Four female agents could aim accurately. If a burst of bullets hit anything, it would be thanks to the Twin Queens' blessing in heaven.
"Stop nagging! If you hadn't insisted on siphoning oil, this car would have been enough for us to escape!"
Nomi swerved the steering wheel from time to time, using the undulating sand dunes as obstacles to escape their line of sight. However, the Law Enforcement Division Four agents were already enraged and directly turned on their high beams, risking exposure in the darkness to take them down.
"Don't worry." Li Aoz's expression was leisurely, not panicked at all. "As long as you drive the car well, I can handle the rest."
He quickly calmed down and entered player mode.
Bright white light shone from the rearview mirror. Nomi clicked her tongue, her vision affected by the strong light. Li Aoz didn't hesitate, immediately smashing the rearview mirror askew with a punch. Nomi, free from the glare, stepped on the gas pedal without saying a word, rushing down the hillside and leaving Law Enforcement Division Four's SUV behind.
"Take a detour, back to Qiu Ran's place! This car has no protection; it'll be buried directly if we encounter a Sand Snowstorm."
Li Aoz urged, watching the SUV's headlights chasing closely.
"Putting that aside for now—damn it! This car is out of gas!" Nomi glanced down at the dashboard, which no longer displayed the fuel level, scaring her into a cold sweat.
"What do we do!? We took a big detour just now to shake them off... That's at least two kilometers away!"
"Uphill."
Li Aoz scanned the surroundings. The terrain here was noticeably undulating, with several slopes of considerable angle.
Nomi didn't hesitate, turning the steering wheel. With a bang, a bullet knocked off her ear. She didn't care, continuing to step on the gas pedal, increasing her speed to the limit, and climbing to the top of the slope.
Their actions quickly attracted the attention of the Law Enforcement Division Four agents.
"What's the situation? The vehicle in sight is lost."
Agent Ya Wen put away her gun and dropped down from the sunroof, covered in mud and dust mixed with snow and sand. She opened her breathing mask and quickly asked her colleague in the passenger seat.
"I'm activating heat source tracking—they're here, advancing diagonally along the sand dunes, they're trying to..."
"They're going uphill, trying to shake us off with that? Dream on!"
Agent Tima in the rear vehicle cursed in the channel and shouted at the driver, "Speed up, follow them—everyone else hold on tight!"
Ya Wen frowned. She pressed her headset and dissuaded, "Tima, that's too reckless. We don't know what's on the other side of the slope. This might be a trap—"
"Shut up, you vase from the capital. You haven't hit anything after firing so many shots, and you still have the nerve to shout here?"
Tima retorted fiercely to Ya Wen, urging, "Hurry up! That Imperial dog insulted the Twin Queens and has some dealings with the Rose Army. We must capture him alive!"
The Law Enforcement Division Four's vehicle immediately followed without suspicion. Their SUV had better performance, with sufficient horsepower and torque, and wasn't afraid of climbing slopes at all.
Buzz———
The wheels sank into the sand and snow, the engine emitted a mournful sound. Affected by the slope, the Law Enforcement Division Four agents were pressed tightly into their seats. Only a few picked up their guns, extending their upper bodies out of the car, braving the oncoming snow and violent sand, struggling to identify the dilapidated vehicle in front, while simultaneously shooting at the other party.
"Duck!"
Nomi said, pulling Li Aoz into her arms. Some stray bullets hit her, splattering blood. She was already numb to this, and it didn't prevent her from switching to first gear, continuing to step on the gas pedal, and accelerating up the slope.
Anyway, one or two shots wouldn't kill her, but Li Aoz couldn't withstand a few more hits.
"What's going on? Why are they climbing faster than us?" Tima fired a few shots and noticed that their vehicle's progress was slow, and they were lagging behind Li Aoz and Nomi by dozens of meters. She immediately scolded the male driver.
The male driver said nervously:
"They have fewer people, the car is lighter..."
"Get out of the car!"
Tima was anxious. Even Captain Nimoting had lost face because of that Red Arrow man.
This was a rare opportunity to perform. If she could capture the other party alive, she would definitely receive commendation from the bureau, and maybe even be promoted to headquarters—thinking of this, she immediately waved her hand, and immediately led the female agents to climb the slope on foot.
Frostplate didn't have the saying "Haste makes waste," but this act of abandoning the car and instead climbing the slope on foot made Agent Ya Wen, as a colleague, unable to hold back.
"Go back!" Ya Wen said anxiously, "The wind is so strong here, climbing to a high place, people will be blown away—"
"Shut up!"
Tima was exasperated. This bad woman was always thinking about ruining her good deeds. She held up her pistol and said fiercely in the channel, "So what if you went to college? Does going to college make you successful?! Don't be ridiculous, let me show you how a real field agent fights!"
"Agent Tima, if you insist on having your own way, you'll only end up killing your own people. Have you forgotten what Li Aoz just did—"
"Beep—"
Agent Tima directly blocked Ya Wen's voice. She took a slight breath, activated her Aura, and strengthened her physical fitness. As a Martial Artist, this bit of Aura to protect herself was enough to avoid the wind and sand, allowing her to move forward steadily.
Sure enough, as she expected, her rapid running speed immediately surpassed the other vehicles. With her blocking the wind, it was very convenient for her people to move. Several female agents with sufficient Aura had already rushed up, but she quickly overtook them again.
The opportunity has come!
Agent Tima was overjoyed. She blocked the wind and sand in front of her with one hand, and with the other, she raised her submachine gun and began to strafe the dilapidated assembled vehicle in front of her.
Da da da da da! "T-Tima, Agent Tima!"
She was happily shooting, chasing after Li Aoz's vehicle while firing. Hitting the tires wasn't very effective; even if they went flat, it would be difficult to overturn the car. She kept aiming at the driver's seat, trying to kill the driver.
"Don't go, don't come over—"
Just then, the tone of her companions in front of her became very tired, almost out of breath, as they shouted at her, "Don't go over there—"
Tima hadn't reacted yet when she took another step forward.
Thud! It was as if someone had suddenly slammed down on her. Tima's body tilted, and the sudden heavy blow almost made her kneel.
Tima's heart sank. She suddenly understood why the surrounding agents were all out of breath.
"Gravity Aura—this guy's Aura can change gravity!"
She realized it now, and she completely regretted her decision to get out of the car just now.
Cars are bodies of steel, and they can push forward with the horsepower of their internal combustion engines, but human flesh has no resistance to changes in gravity.
But as things stand, the target's vehicle is right in front of her. She has a gun in her hand, has received professional training, how difficult can it be to capture an unarmed Aura user? The key is, the reward behind it is too generous! Thinking of this, Tima gritted her teeth and desperately climbed up.
The closer she got to the vehicle in front, the more her spine bent. Tima gasped violently. Being in a high-gravity environment for a long time was extremely painful for non-Transcendent individuals. Coupled with the Outland's cold wind constantly depriving her of her physical strength, it didn't take long for her to feel her limbs becoming weak.
The shouts of her colleagues in the distance were no longer clear, drowned out by the wind. Tima raised her hand and pressed it on the rear compartment of the target vehicle. The latter half of her body was completely crushed by gravity. As the vehicle climbed up the dune, she collapsed on the ground and was constantly dragged along.
"Stop the car!"
She raised her submachine gun with difficulty towards the front and roared with all her strength:
"Stop and surrender immediately, or I'll shoot."
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw two hands slowly raised from the driver's seat. Having had enough of the gravity pressure, she subconsciously felt relieved, but immediately, Tima realized that whether it was the Aura or the vehicle's movement, it was still continuing!
They were still escaping! Bang!
Tima fired a shot at the dashboard, and the next moment, her heart tightened.
Clatter, clatter—
The gun malfunctioned.
The harsh environment of the Outland was very unfriendly to precision firearms, and malfunctions were common, but she never expected it to happen at this time.
"Damn it!"
Tima cursed. The next moment, she saw a head slowly poking out from the driver's seat. It was a young girl with bandages all over her face. She grinned, her light purple single eye seemed to be saying something like 'you've got it coming'.
"Law Enforcement Division Four's hounds, welcome to—the Outland."
Nomi giggled, and Li Aoz in her arms silently activated his Aura again.
Gravity Inversion.
The next moment, Tima felt the vehicle suddenly lighten, and her feet were instantly suspended in the air. The sudden change made Tima scream immediately.
The assembled vehicle crossed the sand dune and flew into the sky under the suddenly reversed direction of gravity. Tima wailed. The sudden reversal of gravity caused her to endure a positive and negative overload of more than 12G! Even pilots wearing anti-G suits, with professional training and excellent physical fitness, could not resist this level of overload.
Tima's body was thrown into the air. Her vision was black, and her spine was bent and twisted a full circle. After leaving Li Aoz's Gravity range, she was then captured by the Earth's gravity and fell straight towards the earth.
On the one hand, she was lucky that her head crashed into the soft sand dunes and snow.
On the other hand, falling headfirst from a height of more than 40 meters onto a snowy sand dune was no different from falling directly onto a steel plate.
The head of the Tima female agent was completely smashed into her chest cavity, and then her spine was impacted, bent and broken, bursting out of flesh and blood. An eyeball was squeezed out of its socket due to changes in blood pressure, rolling around on the ground for a long time.
Whoosh... Bang!
After that, she was crushed by a wheel falling from the sky. Li Aoz adjusted the gravity very smoothly, allowing them to land steadily. Nomi switched to neutral gear, and the engine completely stalled because the fuel was exhausted. The entire car was gliding entirely due to Li Aoz's adjustment of gravity.
"Myaa hahahahaha—did you see her expression just now? It's just like (Civilized Frostplate)! Oh, she probably doesn't have (Civilized Frostplate) to die for, after all, those who can work for Law Enforcement Division Four basically rely on sacrificing a page of their family tree."
"I saw it, it did look like an expression of despair."
Li Aoz waited for a while before the experience notification popped up.
[You killed lv.15 Law Enforcement Division Four agent 'Tima Laye'. Overall output share is higher than 70%. Killing an enemy above your level, team bonus... calculating] [You gained 1200 experience points]
After leveling up, although there was no experience penalty for teaming up with Nomi, the level difference with the enemy was small, and the experience gained was also less.
"Not bad, it's equivalent to having a mutation reset opportunity every four or five female agents."
Li Aoz calculated in his mind. Since he lacked harvesting methods in the early stage, the majority of his experience would basically have to come from doing tasks.
Gravity Aura could allow him to challenge some Elite enemies above his level, but it was difficult to get 100% of the experience gain. Fortunately, he had two human teammates, which increased the experience gain.
If the team consisted of beasts or animals instead of humans, the gain would be very pitiful. There were not many races in the entire universe that could help with experience and growth like humans.
"Your ability is really useful!"
Nomi couldn't stop smiling. She patted Li Aoz's shoulder and put her arm around his neck, looking in a great mood.
However, the next moment, she said very casually:
"Red Arrow's little beauty, how many lies have you told me?"
"Maybe even the name Li Aoz is fake."
"Oh, is that so, fake Li Aoz. Why don't you change your name to Woshe Pianzi? Anyway, the name Li Aoz was already very rustic, weird, and hard to listen to."
"Then what do you think about removing 'Aoz' and just calling me Li Si?"
"Li Si?" Nomi chuckled, drawing out the sound, and said in a high-pitched voice, "Little Li Zi~~ Sounds good, very much like an eunuch."
"That's why I added 'Aoz'—speaking of which, I had my fortune told before, and they said my life was lacking water, so adding an 'Aoz' would be good. Well, I'm much more nourished now."
"I can't see where you're nourished, acting like a human but not telling a single truth."
Li Aoz smiled, not caring at all. The two chatted and laughed, and the atmosphere was much more relaxed.
"If you really can't, just assume I've been lying all along—special reminder: this sentence is not a lie."
He looked at Nomi's 201 (Affection) favorability, crossed his arms, and didn't say anything.
Nomi rolled her eyes at him, tightened her grip around his neck, and said unhappily, "Tch—you guy, since you don't have a single truth in your mouth. Then I'll ask you, do you like women?"
"Not sure, it seems like someone is aiming at us."
"Answer! You bad guy, answer me quickly! Do you like women or not?"
Nomi rolled her eyes at him: "Tell the truth."
"That's really hard to say."
Li Aoz pondered and recalled:
"When I first came into contact with anime, I thought I liked mature women, then I heard people say that lolis are treasures, and then tsundere lolis went out of style, and I was dragged to like black-haired, straight-haired beauties."
'Is white hair not okay?'
Nomi muttered in a low voice, her eggshell-colored hair lifted by the wind.
Li Aoz didn't hear her and continued to recall: "Later, a fan sent me a photo, it was a JK, I was very happy, and thought I had a female fan, just when I recognized my hobby as JK beauties, he sent me a voice message, speaking in a thick Tianjin accent saying: Bro, do you like my crossdressing? I also have Hatsune Miku and Luo Tianyi, which one do you want to see? Don't go outside to find pretty sisters, just find me."
Li Aoz pondered for a moment and said, "Later I found out that gender doesn't matter, and race doesn't matter much either. Actually, as long as they look good, I can accept it."
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