Xia Chujian did this to give herself a chance to catch her breath and recover some strength.
She was not a Gene Evolver. This kind of high-intensity hand-mining had long pushed her close to her limit.
And an "Order Maintainer" who had been watching her for days finally noticed her little trick and immediately grinned maliciously.
He quickly crawled over, suddenly flicked his long whip, and with a crack, lashed Xia Chujian across the back.
Xia Chujian stiffened her neck, her eyes nearly bulging from their sockets. Her back went rigid for an instant before she forcibly suppressed the searing pain shooting straight to the crown of her head, without making a sound.
Without the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha protecting her, any attack from these Gene Evolvers could be fatal to her!
Xia Chujian suddenly turned around and stared coldly at the "Order Maintainer" who was bent over whipping her. "There's metal in your whip!"
Otherwise, a whip made only of cloth cord could never have hurt her this badly.
But the "Order Maintainer" burst out laughing. "What metal? I think you've gone insane!"
Then he brought the whip down again.
Xia Chujian hurriedly dodged, barely avoiding a strike to the face, but her shoulder still failed to escape it.
After all, compared to Gene Evolvers, her movements were nowhere near as swift or powerful as theirs.
Seeing that Xia Chujian still dared to dodge, the man grew even angrier. When he lashed out with the third whip, he even used Mental Strength! He wanted Xia Chujian to bleed from all seven orifices and die...
Although Xia Chujian did not sense the Mental Attack, there was no way she could evade that third lash.
She could only wrap her arms around her head as best she could, preventing the