"Ah!"
A shrill scream tore through the night sky once more, as if it would rip the darkness apart.
"Just you wait! I'm not done with you!" she roared, her voice filled with endless hatred.
Boom!
As a spatial rift opened, Qiang Wei vanished in an instant.
"Things always turned out unexpectedly."
Watching Qiang Wei leave, Yun Ming felt both regretful and amused.
He had originally thought of a way to handle things, but a moment of mischief had ruined everything.
Now, Qiang Wei probably hated him to the bone and had sworn not to rest until one of them was dead.
Yun Ming helplessly shook his head and turned his gaze toward the reservoir before him.
Though this reservoir was not small, it was clearly not enough to intimidate De Nuo.
He needed to find somewhere bigger, a place where he could hide his tracks while putting enough pressure on De Nuo.
With that thought, Yun Ming flashed forward, crossing a hundred meters over the water in an instant. Within a few breaths, he had reached the river on the other side of the reservoir.
"Should I find a larger reservoir, or go somewhere crowded and create a bigger impact?" Yun Ming stroked his chin and fell into deep thought. He needed to carefully consider how to make De Nuo fear him more and thus achieve his goal.
Meanwhile, Qiang Wei completely ignored the strain on her genes and frantically used wormholes to travel, reaching the Giant Gorge in just over ten minutes.
But she had forgotten that the space around the Giant Gorge was encrypted, making wormhole travel impossible.
After rushing back all the way, she had neither the strength nor the patience to crack those complicated calculations, so she had no choice but to return to her quarters by conventional means.
As it happened, a group of Super Soldier Company members were relaxing on the deck, enjoying the evening breeze.
When they saw Qiang Wei appear, drenched from head to toe, they all froze in surprise.
Seeing the others leisurely resting on the deck, Qiang Wei's expression immediately darkened.
Ge Xiaolun stood up and asked with a curious smile, "Qiang Wei, did you go training? How did you end up soaked all over?"
With a dark expression, Qiang Wei ignored him and headed straight for her room without looking back.
For the first time, she loathed the Giant Gorge's Space Encryption so intensely. She silently swore, I have to find out Aunt Lian Feng's Wormhole Key!
At that moment, Lei Na, with her divine body, suddenly wrinkled her nose. Catching an unusual scent, she cursed in displeasure, "Why do I smell urine? Who has such poor manners?"
Hearing Lei Na's words, Qiang Wei quickened her pace even further.
This abnormal reaction immediately caught everyone else's attention. Lei Na was so shocked that she could barely trust her nose. "Qiang Wei smells like urine?"
Ge Xiaolun immediately retorted in dissatisfaction, "Sister Na, what nonsense are you talking about? What urine smell? I didn't smell anything."
Zhao Xin and the others also shook their heads in disbelief.
Qiang Wei's behavior might have been strange, but they would not read too much into it.
That kind of joke could not possibly be made.
Even if it were true, it had to be false.
"Ha ha ha, sorry, sorry."
The more Lei Na thought about it, the funnier it became. She laughed so hard that tears came to her eyes.
She might have been carefree, but it was not like she had no brains.
Still, apologizing over and over while laughing only made people even more annoyed.
"Stop laughing, Sister Na!" Ge Xiaolun said indignantly.
"Alright, alright, alright." Lei Na nodded repeatedly, trying hard to suppress her smile. Then she turned to the others and asked in confusion, "What do you think happened to Qiang Wei? She seemed a little off."
"Damn it! What the hell was that thing?!"
The moment Qiang Wei returned to her quarters, she rushed into the bathroom and began washing herself. She scrubbed her body again and again, spending nearly half an hour and using a huge amount of body wash, yet she still felt an indescribable smell clinging to her.
The more she smelled it, the more obvious it became, nearly driving her to collapse.
Qiang Wei had never shed tears because of the pain from her injuries, but now tears streamed uncontrollably down her face.
As she cried, she cursed furiously, "What the fuck is this thing? It's stuck to me like some damned plaster! It's disgusting!"
In her rage, Qiang Wei slammed her fist into the bathroom's glass door, shattering it.
She stood beneath the showerhead, her face streaked with water, impossible to tell whether it was tears or droplets.
Qiang Wei kept taking deep breaths, trying to steady her emotions.
I need to calm down. I need to calm down. Qiang Wei repeated it in her mind, desperately trying to settle herself.
But the scene from before surfaced in her mind again, reigniting the flames of anger in her heart.
"Go die! Get lost!" In a furious rage, Qiang Wei smashed another fist into the steel wall, leaving a dent in it.
Just then, the doorbell rang abruptly. As if she had not heard it, Qiang Wei continued madly squeezing out shampoo and body wash.
But the bell kept ringing, making her increasingly irritated. At last, she roared, "Who keeps ringing the damn doorbell?! Get lost! No one's here!"
The doorbell finally stopped. The next second, a gentle, kindly voice sounded from outside. "Qiang Wei, it's me, Lian Feng."
Hearing that familiar voice, Qiang Wei gradually calmed down. She asked as evenly as she could, "Aunt Lian Feng, what is it?"
"We all saw it."
In an instant, Qiang Wei's vermilion lips trembled, and her face shifted between pale, red, and green in a spectacular display.
"The world is vast, yet there is no place for me to call home."
Standing atop a high-rise in the city and looking down over it all, Yun Ming had a terrible headache.
He had planned to stay by an enormous reservoir, but it was too far away, and after thinking it through carefully...
That kind of threat would leave a very bad impression.
If he were ambushed and instantly killed, it would all be pointless.
There was no such thing as guarding against a thief for a thousand days, and he could not guard against it anyway.
He wanted to stay in the bustling city, but he had no money, had to avoid the surveillance cameras everywhere, and feared being recognized.
Going to the Deep Mountain Forest was not an option either. Was he supposed to live in a cave or sleep in a bird's nest?
He thought too much, filling in all the blanks himself—his most fatal flaw.
Yun Ming grew irritated. In this mortal world, he was no longer an ant, yet he still could not live as freely as he wished. The frustration made him want to punch apart the reinforced concrete building beneath his feet.
The more he thought about it, the more agitated he became.
Facing the cold wind on the rooftop, Yun Ming forced himself to calm down.
"I can't keep hesitating. If life isn't satisfying, then what's the point of living? What's the point of having this power?" Yun Ming felt that he should simply do as he pleased. What was coming would come eventually; it was not something he could avoid just by hiding.
He should not conform to this world. This world should conform to him.
He would not slaughter innocents, but if the Super Soldier Company made a move against him, then they could not blame him if innocent people got caught up in it.
If the angels rejected him, there was nothing he could do to resist them. At worst, he would die.
He could not live so restrained.
Don't be so damned cautious—people still died in the end.
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