"Who are you?" The Swarm Overmind, still wearing the appearance of a fifteen-year-old "girl," began to back away little by little, her face full of innocence and alarm. If there had been a third person present, it would have looked like a brutal villain abusing a delicate, helpless young girl. Anyone with even a remotely normal sense of right and wrong would have been outraged by such a scene.
To be fair, the appearance Shali had chosen at this stage still came as a refreshing surprise to Yu Lian. She looked like a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old girl, wrapped in a simple, thin white sundress. Delicate and adorable, pitiful and yet full of youthful energy. That age, teetering on the edge of criminal, really was the easiest appearance with which to let down someone's guard.
In his previous life, she hadn't been anything like this. She'd spent every day wrapped in a queen's armor that looked like an insect's carapace, as if she were determined to make sure nobody mistook her for anything but a major villain.
But at the mention of his previous life, a crazed smile blossomed across Yu Lian's face once more. "I told you—you took everything from me!"
The ferocity and venom that seemed to seep from every pore, right down to his bones, left the Overmind miss feeling a little depressed. "I told you, I don't even know who you are!"
"You will!" Yu Lian sneered, once again bringing the atomic light spear across his body. He raised his other hand and swept it through the air. Another dazzling orb of light appeared in his palm, as if he had plucked a fragment of the sun straight from the cosmos.
By now, the "girl" knew that whoever her opponent was, there was no way this would