If he couldn't dodge it, then he wouldn't.
Liu Zheng neither dodged nor evaded. He even spread three tentacles wide to embrace the deadly blade light.
"Swish!"
With a single slash, he was cut in two at the waist along with his tentacles.
Before the pale purple, nimble blade light had faded, another heavy blade light tinged with blood came crashing down.
Liu Zheng yanked hard with his remaining intact tentacle, sawing off everything below his abdomen himself.
"Eat this, you bastard!"
Eyes wide, he flung out three severed tentacles to wrap around the shadow, then aimed his own lower body at it.
Blood, bile, gastric fluid, and other bodily fluids sprayed wildly over the shadow, dyeing it blood-red.
"Ptooey! Ptooey! Ptooey!"
As if that still wasn't enough, Liu Zheng puffed out his cheeks and spat fiercely at it.
Having never encountered this kind of attack before, the shadow seemed somewhat at a loss and actually forgot how to counterattack for a moment.
"You call yourself an assassin with that level of professionalism?"
Sensing its confusion, Liu Zheng sneered.
If it were him, no matter how bizarre the enemy's behavior was, he would kill them first and talk later.
"Thud!"
After sneering, he released his tentacles and slammed onto the ground.
Then, without hesitation, he supported himself on his tentacles and fled.
"Da Xiang, get over here and protect me already!"
Liu Zheng blurted out.
"Oh, oh, I'm coming, I'm coming."
Da Xiang snapped out of his dumbfounded state and hurled out his rubber baton.
The rubber baton, originally only as long as an arm, instantly extended and shot straight through the shadow, carrying enough force to pin it against the wall.
"You've got some skills."
Liu Zheng gave him a surprised look.
As expected of the deputy captain of