At the critical moment, Trash Fish jumped out and blocked the space between the middle-aged man's palm and Xi Qi. With a bang, Xi Qi and Trash Fish flew backward and slammed into the rubble, but neither was hurt. They had only been pushed away.
The middle-aged man's palm had failed.
The old man looked back in surprise. He hadn't expected that young girl to block a palm strike from this man.
The middle-aged man landed and stared at Trash Fish in disbelief. What had happened? Had that fish blocked his palm?
"That hurt like hell! You despicable two-legged beast, kneel before Sir Fish! How dare you touch Sir Fish's noble body? Do you want to be enslaved for ten thousand years? Ten thousand years!" Trash Fish hollered, then leaped back onto Xi Qi's head.
Xi Qi rubbed her shoulder. It had hurt when she hit the rubble. That rock was so hard.
The middle-aged man stared at Trash Fish. "It can talk?"
Trash Fish pointed a pectoral fin at him. "Kneel before Sir Fish! Sir Fish might consider enslaving you for one month less. Sir Fish is furious! How dare you touch Sir Fish's noble body? The more Sir Fish thinks about it, the angrier he gets. No, Sir Fish will enslave you for a million years! No, ten million years! Kneel before Sir Fish!"
Behind them, the old man gave Xi Qi a long look, then fled without looking back.
The middle-aged man snorted. Ignoring Xi Qi, he went straight after the old man. "You won't get away today. You're dead!"
The old man gritted his teeth. "I've already given up arguing with you. Why do you have to drive me to my death?"
"Because that's your fate." As he spoke, the middle-aged man repeated the movements of