The Same Move Won't Work Twice

"His blade was crystallized?" Zero-Two's pupils contracted. With an angry shout, his palm trembled lightly as he tried to shatter the crystal.

"Stop struggling in vain. This crystal is far beyond anything the previous one could compare to." Sister Deng left behind those final words before being completely encased in crystal.

"Damn it!" Seeing a thin layer of crystal already covering his legs, Zero-Six tried to escape through the ceiling, but it was already too late.

In less than a tenth of a second, the entire room became a world of crystal. Only the small area where the bed stood remained as the last patch of pure land.

The moment Chen Xu stepped into the room, the four crystal-encased figures abruptly shattered, turning into crystal shards that scattered in all directions.

Ji Si tilted her head slightly and looked at Chen Xu, her voice weak. "Jian Feng?"

After a moment of silence, Chen Xu recalled the girl's identity. She was the little girl who had stayed with Dr. Jian, an Armed Envoy capable of materializing sound waves. It had to be said that if this ability were properly developed, her combat strength would be formidable.

"Aunt Jian is gone. You're my only family now." Ji Si's voice was calm, but tears slid down her face and fell onto the bedsheet.

"You should know that I'm not her relative." Chen Xu had no desire to suddenly gain an unrelated stranger as family for no reason.

"No, you are Jian Feng." Her gaze was filled with conviction. Perhaps she had truly decided Chen Xu was Jian Feng, or perhaps she had simply made the name Jian Feng into something to cling to.

A thread slid down and wrapped itself around a broken wall pillar several times. A man with his hands behind