"Shen Yiwei really assigned Chen Yan this kind of task?"
Weaving between the trees, Luo Puxin cursed under his breath:
"Even if he knows Chen Yan has Ice Attribute Qi and Blood, he shouldn't have given him a mission like this!"
Beside him, Si Wenyi studied the map location marked on her Martial Merit Badge, her brows furrowed.
"Deputy Chief Shen really did mishandle this."
Si Wenyi was extremely worried too.
If Chen Yan were anyone else, she might have said Shen Yiwei had done nothing wrong.
Xu Di and his younger sister were in grave danger, and the first priority was to get to them as quickly as possible.
But Chen Yan was different.
He was under immense pressure. He was still so young, yet had to face so many crises, always wound tight as a bowstring.
This sudden mission might crush a young man who seemed strong but was already teetering on the edge.
Chen Yan still wasn't strong enough.
The skin all over the madwoman's body split apart under Chen Yan's blows, but no flesh and blood burst out as he'd expected.
The woman's skin fell away like flakes of deadwood. She stood rooted in place, her venomous eyes suddenly flaring with purple light.
"Why did you come and disturb us?!"
She spoke viciously. Her skin crumbled away, revealing the smooth, rounded black exoskeleton beneath. She was tall and slender, her bones forming an exquisitely feminine figure.
Her icy, fair face was breathtakingly beautiful, with a bewitching grace that left people utterly astonished.
If he hadn't felt that suffocating, filthy malice firsthand, Chen Yan might have thought she wasn't an Ancient God Beast at all, but a human woman wearing armor.
Hiss...
Chen Yan hunched slightly. As his ink-dark sleeve shifted, an Ice Spear wreathed in