The kick against the door brought a powerful recoil, as if he had kicked a steel plate. The bone-deep agony made the person responsible twitch violently at the corners of his mouth. This was absolutely awful!!
"Alright, now let's have a little talk." After the woman wrapped the bedsheet from one side of the bed around herself and looked fearfully at Jiu Ming and Di Xue, the two intruders, Jiu Ming gave a soft laugh and said to the altered one who had pushed himself up against the wall, "You remember her, right?"
The altered one stared at Di Xue for a while before several shades of astonishment appeared on his face. "You actually dared to show up here?!"
"Oh? So you know her. Good, that saves us a lot of talking."
Jiu Ming nodded. Noticing the man's furtive glances, he tilted his head slightly. "Put it this way: the people outside can't get in. At least, not until this matter is settled."
His words made the altered one sense that something was wrong as well. Just as Jiu Ming had said, it really did seem like... the surroundings had become eerily quiet. Breaking through the wall earlier had caused a huge commotion. There was no way the ambushers nearby could have failed to notice it.
Gritting his teeth, the altered one's skin swiftly turned black, and solid bulges of muscle swelled across his body. He punched the wall behind him. With a dull crack, his expression changed drastically.
With incredulous shock, he stared fixedly at his deformed fist. This wasn't how it was supposed to go! Why was the wall, which should have been smashed apart by his punch, completely unharmed?!
Instead, the impact had fractured the bones in his hand?
He looked toward the hole Jiu Ming and