Kevin: Create Death For Him! Su!

Sensing the sudden burst of air pressure behind him, Xu Ziling was slightly startled and instantly prepared to dodge the surprise attack from behind.

However, the white figure behind him was no ordinary person. He was faster than Xu Ziling had anticipated, and combined with the element of surprise, Xu Ziling was still hit by the figure.

Then...

"!!"

Kevin, bracing himself with his shoulder, slammed into Xu Ziling's waist. The scene he had envisioned, where the assailant would be sent flying, did not materialize. Instead, he himself saw stars.

Thanks to years of physical training and his extraordinary talent in this area, Kevin quickly adjusted his stance, preventing himself from being thrown off balance by the recoil.

Realizing that he was outmatched in pure physical strength by this masked phantom, Kevin quickly retreated, creating a considerable distance. However, he didn't flee directly. Instead, after establishing a safe distance from Xu Ziling, he planted his feet and sized up Xu Ziling.

Xu Ziling, acting as if nothing had happened, crossed his arms and looked at Kevin. The situation had indeed exceeded his expectations, but it seemed... to have become more interesting.

The two stood in a standoff.

Klein didn't understand what was happening and dared not say a word. The only sound was Mobius's faint, drunken mumbling.

"I mean... dude, with that kind of stamina, couldn't you do something better?"

After a long pause, Kevin's gaze flickered towards Klein and Mobius, who were tied up in the alley, as he tried to change the subject with Xu Ziling.

"Look, I'm a strong young man, and I hit you with all my might, but you're completely unfazed. That shows you really have a talent for physical fitness!

What do you say? Want to consider abandoning the dark and embracing the light? We have a sports club at our school, and if you join, I'll look out for you."

Hearing Kevin's clumsy attempt to change the subject, Xu Ziling, who had learned a thing or two from the oppressive Dog Boss before his transmigration, couldn't help but want to laugh.

Young man, that's not how you change the subject. And if you're trying to distract me, couldn't you at least stop staring at the 'hostages'?

Even a Corporate Slave at work knows to glance sideways to see what their Dog Boss is up to today, but you're just staring straight at them?

All I can say is, you have a brain, but not much of one.

"Ha~ Mr. Masked Prince passing by, is there a possibility that... I don't need to enroll in your school at all?"

Xu Ziling crossed his arms and smiled at Kevin.

"Also, Mr. Prince Charming of Chiyu Academy, didn't they teach you that rashly attacking the perpetrator while the hostages are still under their control can put the hostages' lives in danger?"

"Huh? You know me? Uh... cough cough."

Hearing Xu Ziling's address, Kevin cleared his throat tactically and said, "Then it's simpler. This... uh, criminal sir, since you know my identity from Chiyu, you should also understand that I, Kevin, am destined to become a 'hero'!"

As he spoke, Kevin was about to launch into an exaggerated speech like "If you know what's good for you...", but he suddenly remembered that the person in front of him had taken a full-power charge head-on and was still acting as if nothing had happened. This was a bizarre existence whose physical strength was simply unreasonable.

With that thought, the words on the tip of Kevin's tongue got stuck. After a moment of thought, he quickly changed his tune:

"Ahem... people make mistakes, and a hero should naturally be more forgiving towards those he saves, don't you think? So, big brother, you should also know that what you're doing now is not exactly legitimate. Hurry up and abandon the dark and embrace the light. How does that saying go in Shenzhou... oh, 'Put down the cleaver, and become a lump on the ground'..."

"It's 'Put down the butcher's knife, and become a Buddha.' It seems your Chinese language skills still need improvement, Mr. Prince Charming of Chiyu."

Xu Ziling waved the conspicuously out-of-place Pot Lid in his hand and flicked his finger. The Pot Lid instantly disappeared.

"Whoa!"

Kevin's eyes widened. He carefully examined Xu Ziling from head to toe and said, "No way... that's impressive, man. That long knife just now, you made it disappear just like that? Seriously, with your magic tricks, you could be an outstanding magician. Why would you be doing something like kidnapping?"

"Hmm..."

Xu Ziling glanced at the System Space panel in his vision and forced a straight face, saying, "Of course, magic can be one of my many skills, but a person's life shouldn't be solely about magic, don't you think?"

"Uh..."

Kevin scratched his head and said, "Your words sound so profound... this seems like philosophy? Hey, speaking of which, I recently happened to hear about a philosophy teacher. How about I introduce you two later? You guys could definitely come up with world-renowned philosophical masterpieces!"

I'm supposed to meet... myself?

Xu Ziling's brow twitched slightly. If he weren't that philosophy teacher, he would have actually believed Kevin's nonsense.

"Haha."

Xu Ziling chuckled lightly and looked at Kevin. "Alright, Kevin, I'm no longer impressed by your flattery. If there's nothing else, please leave. I don't want to cause unnecessary casualties, and I have my own reasons for doing what I'm doing."

"Ah? But..."

"But I have no reason or obligation to explain the reasons for my actions to you... do I?"

Before Kevin could finish, Xu Ziling interrupted him, smiling as he spoke slowly.

"Alright, Kevin, you've already wasted enough time with me... Continuing to delay won't change the current situation. Even if your friend can really come to your aid, can you guarantee that your friend's skills are superior to yours? Why would you assume that the person who arrives will be your reinforcement and not my new 'hostage'?

Let's leave it at that, Mr. Prince Charming. You should go back. I'm not interested in you. And when you get back, you should read more books and stop following MEI around as her bodyguard. After all, sometimes, a person succeeds not because of perseverance, but simply because they lack a 'Happy Goat' as their competitor."

"You!..."

Kevin might not have been the sharpest tool in the shed intellectually, but his emotional intelligence was off the charts. He naturally understood Xu Ziling's underlying meaning. What made it even more unacceptable was that this masked figure, who was stronger than him, had already noticed MEI. With his beloved in danger, Kevin felt a surge of protective instinct.

After taking a deep breath, Kevin suppressed himself and showed Xu Ziling a confident smile before saying:

"Uh... so you knew I was stalling for time all along... Then why didn't you stop me?"

"Because I'm lazy."

Xu Ziling stated bluntly, "You're too weak right now. Let alone you and your friends, even ten of you wouldn't be my match. When quantity can no longer cause a qualitative change, everything people do is futile and only serves to amuse. "

"Uh..."

Kevin scratched his head and said, "Then what if... buddy, I mean, what if we just change the 'quantity'?"

"You want to... change someone?"

Xu Ziling frowned upon hearing this and asked Kevin, "But that's meaningless."

"Uh, buddy, I didn't mean it like that."

Kevin scratched his head and said, "What I mean is very simple, it's just... it's just... it's now! He's slacking off! Su! Hurry up and bite! ... No, hurry up and drive him down!!!"

"?"

"Didi Didi!!"

Under Xu Ziling's slightly surprised gaze, a Didi express car tore through the night with its headlights blazing and swept in. After witnessing Xu Ziling's unreasonable physical strength, the Didi express car didn't slow down at all. With a screech of tires against the road, it roared towards Xu Ziling!

Xu Ziling was also human. Seeing the mud truck Didi charge directly at him, he was genuinely shocked. He hadn't expected Kevin to go to such lengths with Su for his sense of justice, nor did he expect to be run over by a mud truck in the middle of the night!

Was this what Kevin meant by "quantitative change" directly altering the "variable"?!

This guy actually used his brain!

Unfortunately... Xu Ziling's brain was clearly much better than Kevin's.

Facing the roaring mud truck, Xu Ziling only made one move, a... very simple move, and it ruined the trap Kevin and his friend Su had painstakingly set—

He jumped.

Yes, he just pushed off with his legs and jumped upwards forcefully.

If one ignored the fact that Xu Ziling's slight jump reached the height of a floor, it was truly an ordinary trivial matter.

The target suddenly disappeared from his sight. Su, the old driver of the mud truck Didi, was stunned for a moment. He immediately realized what was happening and quickly swerved the steering wheel, heading towards Kevin. After brushing past Kevin, he shouted:

"Get in! This opponent is definitely not someone you and I, as students, can handle."

"Huh? But heroes can't..."

Seeing Kevin about to spout his hero theories again, Su didn't waste any words. He quickly opened the car door, shifted into reverse, and steered. Concentrating all his driving energy, he performed a 180-degree drift on the spot, using inertia to directly "stuff" Kevin into the car.

Then, Su floored the accelerator, and they sped away with Kevin.

Xu Ziling lightly descended from mid-air, watching the car speed away. He sighed slightly and said, "Wouldn't it have been better to do this earlier... Classmate Kevin?"

"Alright, let's get back to the main topic. My hostage, Klein. After witnessing the strength I just displayed, you should understand what kind of bad guy is standing before you... Hmm?"

Xu Ziling finished speaking but received no response for a long time. He looked around and found the alley unusually quiet.

Xu Ziling turned around and saw that Mobius, who had drunk too much, was fast asleep, and Klein had also fallen asleep... However, compared to Mobius's unwakeable drunken slumber, Klein's sleeping expression was more like... she had suffered some mental stimulation, or her nerves had been pierced by fear? Falling into a psychogenic coma?

Don't ask why Xu Ziling understood such a complex expression. It was the same look his colleague had when he found out the Dog Boss was going to dock their pay again before he transmigrated.

In other words... Klein had fainted from fright?

Had his jump, which reached the height of a floor, overturned her perception of humanity and become the last straw that broke the camel's back?

But it shouldn't be... Ordinary people seeing such a superhuman scene should only feel surprised, not faint from fear, right?

Xu Ziling was baffled.

"Hmm?"

Just then, Xu Ziling felt something and instinctively turned his head towards the entrance of the dark alley.

"Rustle... Sizzle..."

The old streetlamp flickered intermittently, like a dying old man taking the last cigarette of his life, wanting to relive his youth, but his body couldn't stop coughing.

Of course, this referred to the streetlamp.

And beneath the streetlamp, a figure had appeared at some unknown time. He stood with his head bowed, silent. He wasn't looking at Xu Ziling either, yet Xu Ziling could feel that this suddenly appearing, eerie figure was "gazing" at him in a way that was difficult for ordinary people to comprehend.

This indescribable, eerie feeling made Xu Ziling uncomfortable. He looked at the figure who had suddenly appeared under the streetlamp in the alley and said:

"Hey! Friend over there, could you please forget what you saw tonight? Otherwise, haha, I'll be in a difficult position."

The figure under the streetlamp remained silent, still with his head bowed. The eerie feeling of being watched still lingered in Xu Ziling's heart.

"You... it's you..."

After a long moment, the figure under the streetlight spoke, his hoarse voice like a broken bellows, "Did you... steal my mask?"

"Mask?"

Xu Ziling was startled, then remembered the grayish-white mask he had casually picked up by the roadside for disguise. He had thought it was unwanted, left on top of a trash can. He hadn't expected it to belong to someone?

But... the mask was clearly not the main point.

Because Xu Ziling didn't believe that a normal person would confront him over a tattered mask left on a trash can, nor did he believe that his speed and agility could be visually tracked by ordinary people in the darkness of the night.

Thinking of this, Xu Ziling's expression became subtle. He looked at the figure under the streetlight, proactively took off his mask, and said, "So this is yours? Sorry, I saw it on the trash can and thought no one wanted it. If you want it, I'll give it back."

The figure under the streetlight froze, seemingly not expecting Xu Ziling to agree so readily. After a moment of thought, the figure slowly moved from his spot, which seemed rooted to the streetlight, and approached Xu Ziling.

Upon reaching Xu Ziling, he didn't immediately take the mask. Instead, he blurted out:

"So beautiful..."

"Hm?"

Xu Ziling looked at the oddity who kept his head down. He glanced at Klein and Mobius behind him, confirming their protective positions, and asked, "What exactly are you referring to?"

"Your face... it's so beautiful."

The oddity, refusing to look up, said blankly, "I... I... you... but you... can you... tear this face off for me!!!"

The next moment, the oddity suddenly raised its head. Its face, which had been hidden in darkness, finally came into Xu Ziling's view. Xu Ziling's pupils contracted sharply—

It was a face riddled with holes, as if ravaged by a virus. Grotesque and terrifying muscle and bizarrely twisted purple blood vessels formed patches on the face, like trenches after a bombardment. Its eyes, as dead as holes and deep water, were filled with despair, yet supported by horrifying purple lines that formed a ghastly smiling face