Metamorphic Mutation

The conflict went from on the verge of erupting to settled dust in almost an instant, yet Xiao Xuebai felt as though she had lived through a long century.

Her entire body was stiff and numb, cold sweat congealing on her back and cheeks.

Especially when Jiang Qian looked at her like a greedy beast, Xiao Xuebai blanked out for a moment, even thinking she was about to be treated brutally as well.

The two remained silent for a while.

"Are you okay?" Jiang Qian was the first to ask.

So he had merely been checking whether she was injured or otherwise abnormal.

Xiao Xuebai finally seemed to wake from a dream and nodded, then shook her head.

Jiang Qian shifted his gaze away and walked to the living room alarm, calmly pressing the red button.

Then he pulled out his phone with its shattered screen and directly called the Jinping City Special Service Center. Identifying himself as a security specialist from Wanzhong Group, he gave a concise account of the case.

After finishing all that, Jiang Qian looked out the window.

The bright moon hung high overhead.

In the floor-to-ceiling window of a darkened living room high up in the building across the way, Ye Xiaojing stood expressionlessly, silently meeting Jiang Qian's gaze.

Cool moonlight fell across her delicate, palm-sized face, making her look like an exquisite doll in a display window. She had the figure, she had the looks—she just would not smile at you.

Ye Xiaojing was a lone wolf.

She rarely taught others and was not good at praising or encouraging her students for outstanding performances.

Jiang Qian withdrew his gaze and turned toward Xiao Xuebai, who was still sitting on the floor.

"Did you really leave equipment in the car?"

He did not care about any equipment. The main thing was that the girl had been frightened badly, and Jiang Qian wanted to find a lighter topic to ease her nerves.

"No, I lied to him..." Xiao Xuebai said, looking toward the man lying on the ground. Her voice trembled slightly. "Is he dead?"

"Not yet. He fainted. He can't die yet—there are still a lot of things we haven't figured out." As Jiang Qian spoke, he pulled Xiao Xuebai up from the floor.

Then he walked over to the woman of the house.

At a signal from his eyes, the Sorrow Demon clone on the woman's body obediently returned to Jiang Qian's pocket.

As the Sorrow Demon clone detached itself, the woman regained a trace of clarity, but Jiang Qian immediately struck the back of her neck with the edge of his hand, knocking her unconscious again.

Jiang Qian straightened up, fiddling with the little black porcelain figure in his pocket.

Under the Noble Card, the Little Devil Set's lethality was limited. Even so, to Jiang Qian's opponents, it was already nothing short of a disaster. If they got caught off guard, they would at least lose a layer of skin.

If he did not have to guard against certain contingencies, and most of the demon clones could stay home to guard the house long-term, Jiang Qian's combat power would be on an entirely different level.

"How are your injuries? Are they serious?" Xiao Xuebai had finally pulled herself out of her terror and began noticing Jiang Qian's wounds.

She took out some emergency medicine from the toolbox she carried with her and gave Jiang Qian some basic treatment.

"So, do we wait for the official security officers to arrive?" Xiao Xuebai asked as she gathered up the bloodstained gauze.

"Yes, they should be here soon." Jiang Qian smiled. "Isn't this our work procedure? Senior, how come you're less familiar with it than I am?"

Xiao Xuebai's fingers twitched, and her cheeks began to heat up.

The lingering terror and unease from meeting Jiang Qian's eyes earlier finally melted away at that moment, replaced by the embarrassment of a senior being corrected on procedure by an intern.

"You're awful! Is that any way to talk to your senior...?"

The moment she made that shy, bashful gesture, Jiang Qian felt an unprecedented tenderness and tolerance toward her. He wanted to pat her head and comfort her: Don't be afraid. I'm here.

Is this her ability...? Jiang Qian fought to suppress the urge to reach out.

Just then, a buzzing sound came from within the house.

Both of them held their breath and warily scanned their surroundings.

The unchecked second bedroom suddenly began to tremble faintly.

The sight felt oddly familiar to Jiang Qian.

But unlike before, the trembling of the second bedroom slowly stopped under their watchful eyes.

"What is that...?"

Xiao Xuebai tried her best to keep her emotions steady, though her mind had already gone completely blank.

Jiang Qian stepped in front of Xiao Xuebai.

He knew very well that no matter what was about to emerge from behind that door, he was the only one on the scene who could serve as a combatant.

In the span of no more than a breath, the second bedroom, which had gradually calmed down, suddenly began violently shaking at the doorknob!

It was followed by impacts fiercer than before!

Amid piercing buzzing, the impacts came faster and faster, as though something was desperately trying to break through the door.

With a boom.

The door split open...

The force of the impact hurled the shattered door panel completely outside the room, smashing it onto the floor by the entrance.

At the same time, a cloyingly sweet scent spread through the air...

Jiang Qian stared coldly at the doorway. It was pitch-black inside, impossible to tell what was causing the disturbance.

Without taking his eyes off it, he touched Xiao Xuebai. "If anything goes wrong later, remember to run fast."

This was Jiang Qian's final reminder to Xiao Xuebai.

Then he casually grabbed a pair of scissors from the medical kit, rose to his feet, and slowly circled toward the front of the second bedroom door in an arcing path.

Because of some sort of interference, he could not cheat using Spirit Vision. He could only see it with his own eyes.

As he advanced, the visible area inside the doorway gradually widened, while the sweet, greasy odor assaulting him grew increasingly pungent.

His gaze swept over the battered door panel. On the inner side, a yellow, translucent, viscous substance clung to it.

It reminded him of a certain supplement favored by women...

Just as Jiang Qian gradually moved into position directly opposite the second bedroom...

A head poked out from above the doorframe.

From overhead...

Two densely packed clusters of compound eyes peered down at Jiang Qian from a bristling head.

Its exaggerated mouthparts writhed rapidly, with yellow, viscous secretions continuously pouring from them and splattering onto the threshold beneath the second bedroom doorframe...

"H-How is it?"

Seeing Jiang Qian stop moving, Xiao Xuebai became even more anxious, terrified that something might happen to him.

The instant her words fell, a giant hornet two meters long arched its body, clung to the ceiling, crawled over the doorframe, and emerged from the second bedroom onto the living room ceiling.

The scene was utterly bizarre. The many detailed features of the giant hornet made Xiao Xuebai's scalp go numb and her stomach churn!

A Mutant!

Jiang Qian reached his conclusion.

He also swiftly assessed its current condition:

Weak. Frenzied.

It was a giant hornet that retained a few human characteristics. For some reason, the wings on its back were broken, and the antennae atop its head were bent at unnatural angles...

But even so, "he" still lunged fearlessly toward Jiang Qian!

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