Displaying Strength

A short time before Yu Jing escaped from his room, Jiang Pengyu and Yu Xiaoxiao, along with two others, were waiting outside the door in the hallway. They were supposed to be searching the room with Yu Jing and Hu Zhi. Peering through the gap in the door, they watched the old woman's body on the bed, still as a corpse. If there was any movement, Yu Xiaoxiao and Jiang Pengyu would act immediately.

Just as Yu Jing lowered his head to search the lower part of the bed, the old woman's body on the bed twitched, and the door suddenly shut without warning.

Yu Xiaoxiao didn't say a word. The dagger in her hand slashed across the door lock, forcing the wooden door open.

But when the wooden door was broken open, the room inside was empty. The four of them entered the room and searched everywhere, finding no trace. Jiang Pengyu quickly discovered the problem. Standing by the window, his face showed surprise.

"How... how are we on the second floor?"

The four of them exited the room and found that the room number was indeed '210', not the '110' room where the old woman had been.

"It felt like there was a faint neural interference just now. I'm sorry, I thought it was due to lack of sleep causing a false perception, so I didn't alert everyone."

Zhang Xingyue apologized for the incident, but Yu Xiaoxiao, without a moment to think, broke away from the team at high speed and ran towards the first floor.

"Follow her!" Jiang Pengyu led the other three, following Yu Xiaoxiao's pace.

When they reached the door of a room in the corner on the first floor, a thick smell of blood had already wafted into the hallway. The corpse by the bedroom door lay on the ground. Judging by the skin color and clothing, the deceased was the soldier Hu Zhi.

Yu Jing and the old woman were gone from the room. From the shattered window facing outwards, and the bloody handprints and footprints, it was easy to deduce that the old woman had chased Yu Jing and fled into the forest.

Yu Xiaoxiao, without any hesitation, left the hotel through the broken window and ventured deep into the forest, braving the pouring rain.

"As expected of someone from the Yu family, their physical mobility is so strong. I can only barely keep up at this speed... It's too easy to get lost in the forest and be picked off one by one. The three of us will stay here for now. Yu Jing, after all, has a cultivated physique. With the geographical advantage in the forest, and the help of the Yu family assassin, he should be able to survive this ordeal."

Jiang Pengyu could not possibly chase after the two teammates behind him who were not good at physical exertion. Believing that Yu Jing could survive, he continued to search the more peculiar bedroom.

"Hoo!"

Yu Jing, after running six hundred meters on the uneven mountain road, was somewhat exhausted, but the feeling of being followed was very clear.

"If I keep running, I'll be exhausted and die!"

Yu Jing stopped next to a large tree and quickly turned around to face the old woman chasing him.

However, in his vision, besides the dense forest and the raindrops falling in the air, he didn't see the terrifying crawling posture of the old woman he had imagined.

Yu Jing placed his right palm on the tree beside him. The plant in his arm connected with the tree, and while absorbing nutrients, he sensed something falling onto the branches above.

"Does it have some intelligence?"

Yu Jing lunged forward, and a figure fell onto his original position. The old woman's claws sank into the muddy ground. If he had been a second slower, Yu Jing would have lost his head.

Unlike in the research institute, after experiencing life and death, Yu Jing grew every day.

Yu Jing, who lunged forward, maintained a crouched posture. Knowing that the old woman would land in his original position, Yu Jing had prepared a trap. The tree that was dozens of meters tall nearby had now lost all its vitality, clearly having absorbed all its nutrients while Yu Jing was leaning against it.

In a crouched position, Yu Jing's right hand's fingertips connected to five vines buried underground, extending from the muddy ground to the old woman's current position.

"Into the net!"

As Yu Jing pulled hard with his right arm, the ground suddenly lifted a thick vine net, enveloping the old woman. Only a rotten, black arm was exposed.

"A slight miscalculation?"

Yu Jing's expression changed. After all, he had witnessed the old woman's strength. Although the exposed arm could very well tear through the tough vine net, it also made it difficult for Yu Jing to approach her.

Just then, a small figure flashed past Yu Jing. Perhaps because her attention was focused on the old woman, the figure moved so fast that Yu Jing couldn't even see clearly.

A flash of silver light flickered around the old woman's extended arm.

"Swish!"

The arm, covered in viscous corpse water, landed right in front of Yu Jing.

"Yu Xiaoxiao, don't kill it!"

Yu Jing saw that the black shadow was Yu Xiaoxiao. After she cut off the old woman's arm with her dagger. From Yu Xiaoxiao's stance, she was preparing to drive the dagger through its head, but Yu Jing immediately stopped her.

"Why? That's ten points." Yu Xiaoxiao's dagger remained poised above the old woman's head, showing no intention of retracting.

"It's not ten points... If I'm not mistaken, this old woman is just a creation of this hotel, not an independent monster! If we want to understand the truth behind the hotel, the information from this old woman's mouth is very important. Otherwise, if we kill her, the clue will be lost, and we'll have no way to proceed. Listen to me, okay?"

As Yu Jing finished speaking, Yu Xiaoxiao paused for three seconds before finally retracting her dagger into her sleeve.

"Alright." Yu Xiaoxiao turned her head. Her previous cold, killer demeanor instantly turned into a cute and petite one.

Yu Jing extended a thick vine from his palm, connecting it to the net that ensnared the old woman. He placed his hands on the vine, resting it on his shoulders, and like a boat tracker, he dragged the old woman, who had lost an arm, back to the hotel in the heavy rain.

This was Yu Jing's first battle with a non-human monster after gaining his abilities, and he emerged victorious.

On the way back to the hotel, perhaps it was Yu Jing's guilt at seeing another teammate, though not very familiar, die before his eyes, perhaps it was the feeling of his first perilous victory in an independent battle with a monster, or perhaps it was witnessing Yu Xiaoxiao's power and coldness, but Yu Jing and Yu Xiaoxiao remained silent throughout the journey.

Yu Jing carefully tucked the special bell into his pocket for safekeeping...

This scene was displayed on the surveillance footage of the Dihua Ability Institute's new physical training program.

For Yu Jing's solo handling of the emergency situation and his successful capture of the monster, the review specialists awarded him extremely high scores. Commissioner Lu Chuan, the person in charge of this physical training, gave an excellent rating for Yu Jing's calm analytical ability in the face of danger.

"As expected of Commissioner Liang's student. It seems that after experiencing the brink of death, his actions are so calm and extraordinary... However, he has only managed to subdue a small corpse puppet so far. Can he really survive against such an evil spirit? It's only been a day, and things have already escalated. I hope you can transform in this desperate situation."