It was time.
Qi Lingwu knew it, and so did Sheng An.
There wasn't a shred of strength left in her body. She couldn't struggle at all. That fatal blow came straight for her neck, carrying savage killing intent.
The Otherkind's expression was vicious, his eyes filled with brutality.
Yet as he delivered the fatal blow, Sheng An neither ducked nor dodged. She smiled like a victor.
"You lost," she said.
Just before the attack reached her neck, it stopped abruptly. The Otherkind still wore that vicious expression, but the brutality in his eyes turned to bewilderment.
Blood slowly trickled down from between his brows.
His eyes widened, and he toppled over, rigid.
-He had already died a moment before that bewilderment appeared.
When he thought victory was assured, when Sheng An had enraged him beyond endurance, when he decided to strike with everything he had, he died.
Sheng An caught her breath, her voice hoarse but confident. "You lost. Zhang Jialiang was never stupid. You underestimated the country, and you underestimated us."
The right timing, the right terrain, the right people.
Every aspect of this battle had been accounted for.
Sheng An's vision blurred. She turned toward Qi Lingwu. Her teammates were already rushing toward her, and Jiang Yu was crying as she ran.
Sheng An's smile grew even brighter.
-Captain Qi, the man she loved, the man she could trust to watch her back.
Just as she had known.
They had won again.
The sky grew brighter and brighter, pale light spreading along the horizon. The sun was about to rise.
"Sister Sheng!" Jiang Yu was crying her eyes out.
She ran up, reached out, and heaved the Otherkind off Sheng An.
Ever since she had started farming, her strength had increased dramatically.
After pulling the Otherkind away,