Protecting the Last Protection

Hearing her name called, Ye Jiang jumped down from the pile of reinforced concrete and went over to ask, "What happened?"

Upon seeing Ye Jiang approach, Wang Zhiqiang addressed her with a wronged expression. "Boss."

Ye Jiang: "..."

She didn't know when this Little Thief had gone mad, but he seemed to have some kind of absurd obedience and dependence on her.

Ye Jiang ignored Wang Zhiqiang and looked at Ji Jia. Ji Jia calmed down after Ye Jiang came over, stopped yelling, lowered his head, and his eyes behind his glasses were a little red.

"Miss Ye, I have a lead regarding the person I'm looking for. Would you mind accompanying me?" he said to Ye Jiang. "I'd like to confirm it."

Ye Jiang asked, "Where's the base?"

Aren't you going?

Ji Jia, "I want to check it after I've confirmed it."

Before Ye Jiang could say anything, Xiao Pei walked over, so Ye Jiang said to Xiao Pei, "Boss, I can't take on your work for the time being."

She said, "I'm working."

There is a sequence to the tasks.

She didn't think Xiao Pei needed her assistance to hunt down a Blood Knight. It was probably because the Ability Control Bureau had some regulations restricting their actions against humans that they needed her help, which meant she wasn't indispensable.

I refused.

Xiao Pei's eyes darkened, concealing her disappointment. She looked at Ye Jiang for a long time before finally sighing, "Never mind."

Ji Jia needed to confirm something and was leaving now. He said goodbye to Xiao Pei, Xiao Pei told him the location of the base and that he could come to the base if needed after he finished his business. Ji Jia thanked her.

Ye Jiang followed Ji Jia away from the Ability Control Bureau's team. Wang Zhiqiang looked left and right...

They followed behind.

After getting away from the Ability Control Bureau, Ji Jia stopped and, looking exhausted, explained to Ye Jiang, "I want to Blood Knight."

When it came to the Blood Knight, Ji Jia deliberately kept his distance from the crowd before speaking about it.

Blood Knight again...

The boss wanted to kill the Blood Knight, Ji Jia wanted to Blood Knight, and Ye Jiang, indifferent, agreed, saying, "Okay."

She didn't ask why, but Ji Jia himself told her that he was deeply shocked and wanted to confide in someone, so he said, "Wang Zhiqiang said the Blood Knight might be human, might be... the person I'm looking for."

Ye Jiang: "..."

Hearing the conversation ahead, Wang Zhiqiang stomped on the gravel beneath his feet. The plant-type ability user surnamed Liu had once asked if the Blood Knight was an ability user or Polluted. Wang Zhiqiang actually had an answer in his heart: the Blood Knight was an ability user.

When City S was first sealed off, the pattern of the Blood Knight's appearances was still unknown. Wang Zhiqiang had encountered the Blood Knight before. It was the first time the magma phenomenon had occurred; lava fell from the sky. Wang Zhiqiang hurriedly dodged, but his leg was pierced through by a piece of steel falling from above. As a speed-type ability user, his injured leg was equivalent to being half-useless. The Blood Knight arrived at that moment, dragging his heavy sword to create a deathly melody, and a line of blood instantly attacked him. Terrified, he dodged but lost his balance and fell into the rubble, luckily avoiding the attack.

The steel bar was still embedded in his leg; he couldn't escape and could only curl up into a ball, trying to minimize his presence. But the Blood Knight still found him. The Blood Knight came up to him, his tall figure looking down at him, shadows enveloping him completely, and arrows formed of congealed blood were aimed at him. He screamed and covered his head.

He thought he was going to die that time.

However, the pain was slow to come.

He cautiously opened his eyes a crack and found that the Blood Knight standing in front of him was stuck. The arrow, which was half-formed, suddenly disintegrated, and the Blood Knight's armor trembled inexplicably. Crack, a crack appeared in the solid helmet.

"I saw it. Underneath the helmet were a pair of human eyes, with a red mole at the corner of each eye."

Wang Zhiqiang told Ji Jia, who was looking for someone, "The eyes are exactly the same as the person in your photo!"

The people in the city instinctively assumed the Blood Knight was a man because his armor was so thick and made him appear unusually tall. They never considered that inside might just be a delicate, short girl. The armor swallowed everything about the person inside—her identity, her gender, her past, her future—and stripped her of her self simply by wearing it.

Ji Jia, "This must be a lie. The person I'm looking for is the most selfless hero in the world, devoted to the people. She would never, never..."

"I will never turn the blade against my compatriots." Ji Jia clenched his fists in anguish.

Chapter 46: Guarding the Last Guardians

At the entrance to City S, Ye Jiang returned to this place. Because Xiao Pei said that the Blood Knight would chase after her, she did not go to look for the Blood Knight, but instead chose to wait for the Blood Knight to come to her on his own at the intersection where she had recently been exposed to the scorching sun.

She didn't entirely believe Xiao Pei's words. Her exchange with the Blood Knight was consensual, so why was the Blood Knight pursuing her? It was as if the Blood Knight was very dissatisfied with their exchange.

Let's see if this strange phenomenon will descend upon the Sky above her again.

Ye Jiang chose a rooftop to wait with her sword. The rooftop she chose was high enough that even if the Blood Knight didn't come to her, she could quickly find the Blood Knight's location and chase after him.

Peeling a candy and stuffing it into her mouth, Ye Jiang drifted off into thought out of boredom. Her gaze swept across her employer, the refined man, who was holding the photograph, his fingers clenched so tightly they turned white, his lips pressed into a thin line. Drifting further away, she saw the Little Thief thief Wang Zhiqiang peeking out from behind the door of the tower, looking more like a thief than ever before. The moment Ye Jiang's gaze fell on him, he trembled, a mixture of fear and excitement.

Ye Jiang: "..."

This person's brain is completely broken, it seems beyond repair.

Ye Jiang looked away with slight disdain, failing to notice the Little Thief's dejected expression.

A breeze blew from the rooftop, carrying the stale smells from the surrounding area. Ye Jiang frowned slightly, disliking the city's air quality.

A ray of light tore through the gray Sky, scattering down and enveloping the area near the intersection. Instant heat rose up, compressing the air and scorching it. Only about an hour later, the strange phenomenon of the blazing sun appeared in the intersection area where Ye Jiang was.

When Ye Jiang sensed the light, her eyes flickered. Xiao Pei was right; the strange phenomenon followed her.

How could this be?

Ye Jiang's face remained expressionless, slightly taken aback.

clatter.

clatter.

Heavy footsteps echoed, and Blood Knight in armor appeared out of thin air on the street. Blood dripped from his armor, sizzling as it fell onto the scorching ground. Before Ye Jiang could react, Ji Jia excitedly stood up and ran to Ye Jiang's side, looking down at the street below. Before he could even see who it was, a line of blood shot up from the ground, heading straight for his face and turning his vision crimson. Ye Jiang cleaved the blood line with his sword. Ji Jia wasn't injured by the blood line, but his face turned completely pale, not because he had almost been injured or even killed, but because of the fact that he had been attacked by the Blood Knight.

The Blood Knight is definitely not the person he's looking for.

Ji Jia Ji Jia lost and dejected. Ye Jiang glanced at him and asked, "Shall we go down now?"

Ye Jiang Ji Jia Ye Jiang hadn't heard her at all. She stopped talking, grabbed his arm, and fell forward, landing freely. The wind tousled her hair. She threw her heavy sword; with a clang, it slammed into the ground. She adjusted her stance, landing on the sword's surface. The sword, impacted, dipped slightly before bouncing back. She easily dissipated the force of gravity and stood firmly on the sword. "I think I'm actually quite good at fighting," the thought flashed through her mind for a moment. The next second, her arm sank. Her employer, whose arm she had grabbed, wasn't as composed as her and was pulled down by gravity, falling awkwardly to the ground, pulling her off balance and dispelling her fleeting thought.

Ye Jiang: "..."

I forgot I was dragging someone along.

She let go of his hand, noticing his glasses were askance, perched askew on his forehead, "Are you alright...?"

Before she could finish speaking, more than a dozen blood arrows shot towards her. She swung her heavy sword with one hand and cut them all in half. Blood threads followed closely behind, dense and numerous, like a disordered net.

The Blood Knight is ferocious, much more so than when we first met.

Ye Jiang remained silent and severed them all.

The Blood Knight sprinted over, and as he ran, a heavy sword gradually materialized behind him, pointing straight to the Sky. The heavy sword became more and more solid until it took shape. It cleaved through the air and slashed towards Ye Jiang with immense power. Ye Jiang did not pay attention to the amazing sword. Her gaze was fixed on the Blood Knight's neck, where the shopping bag she had generously given her not long ago was still hanging.

Ye Jiang tore the shopping bag open and put it around the Blood Knight's neck, then used the [Sewing Box] to restore it. The Blood Knight did not throw it away.

So it's definitely not that he doesn't like it.

Ye Jiang refuted Xiao Pei's claims in her mind.

She flashed, the blood sword missed its mark, and Ye Jiang appeared in front of the Blood Knight. With a flick of her finger, the two apples in the shopping bag, which had once again become shriveled, plumped up again.

--She's an excellent trading partner, and she even handles after-sales service.

She landed back on the ground.

The Blood Knight paused for a moment, and the air seemed to freeze.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

A hail of blood-red arrows shot after Ye Jiang, even more fiercely and with greater momentum than before.

The blood arrows were mixed with streaks of blood, ever-changing and dazzlingly beautiful.

Ye Jiang easily dodged, but her expression was far from relaxed. Her face was expressionless, and her brows were furrowed. She couldn't fool herself anymore; the Blood Knight seemed... seemed to really dislike her apple.

Ye Jiang was filled with self-doubt.

She flashed to the Blood Knight's Blood Knight and whispered in his ear, "You don't want to?"

Attack based on health.

Ye Jiang dodged and then darted to the other side of her ear. "I thought you were willing."

Blood Sword Assassination.

Ye Jiang stood directly in front of the Blood Knight. The Blood Knight was so tall that she had to crane her neck to see Blood Knight head. She pursed her lips and asked, "You don't even use a sword, so what are you doing with this?"

Is that so? It was clearly an unused item, yet she traded her rarest possession for something unused. Why is the Blood Knight unhappy?

Ye Jiang said seriously, "Your sword is nothing but pretty, useless, and superfluous."