Chapter 507 - 501: Head-on Clash
Chapter 507: Chapter 501: Head-on Clash
The process didn’t keep Xie Ning waiting long. Soon, everything had been absorbed.
She’d definitely made the right call killing this monster.
The total number of Space Ability Users who had died at his hands was as high as twenty.
And to guarantee his success, he had always devoured Space Ability Users several Ranks lower than himself.
The viciousness of his methods was truly astonishing.
A Seventh Rank Space Ability User—a higher Rank than her own.
’If she had actually been controlled by those two from the Spiritual System, his chances of devouring her would have been... one in ten thousand, perhaps.’
People from the X Realm were born with a sense of high-and-mighty confidence toward the citizens of Earth.
This sense of superiority seemed to be innate.
Xie Ning’s lips curled as she stared coldly at the man before her.
Xiao Yu clutched his throat, which gurgled and frothed with blood. He stared at Xie Ning in utter defeat, completely unable to speak.
Only now did he realize just what kind of person they had provoked.
The information Xie Ning had absorbed was that the X Realm’s true purpose in sending people to participate in the Gushang Base environmental research survey was to capture her.
As the world’s foremost High-level Gold Ability User, Xie Ning’s research value was, in fact, extremely high.
The X Realm wanted to know how, without any aid and with the apocalypse having started just over a year ago, Xie Ning had managed to advance her Rank so rapidly.
They suspected there was something strange about her. If they could detain her and take a blood sample, it would be invaluable for their future research on the people of Earth.
Xie Ning captured countless fragments of information from Xiao Yu’s spirit world, a scornful sneer touching her lips.
Her gaze shifted, and she saw an olive-pit-sized Energy Crystal suddenly burst from the dead Xiao Yu’s chest.
Without a word, Xie Ning casually splashed it with several handfuls of tap water. Only after washing it clean did she extend two slender, jade-like fingers and expressionlessly pinch the Energy Crystal.
The instant the pads of her fingers touched the Energy Crystal,
Just as expected, the Energy Crystal dissolved into shimmering motes of light and instantly merged into her body.
It was just like when she had absorbed the Energy Crystal from the Space Ability User at the farmhouse.
The fusion process felt perfectly natural, causing her no discomfort whatsoever.
However, compared to the Energy Crystal from the farmhouse’s Space Ability User, Xiao Yu’s was of a much higher level.
Xie Ning narrowed her eyes. Instead of rushing to check on her Space, she hurried out the door to contact her broken parrot.
Xie Ning rushed out the door and was hit by a blast of wind and sand.
Miserable screams echoed from nearby, attracting some of the zombies lurking in the sandstorm.
Xie Ning hurried over to take a look and frowned. "Where are the others?"
The one being pecked and clawed at by a flock of Mutated Birds was the Gold Ability User, Xiao Cong.
The brother and sister, along with Che Kai who was carrying Li Zongyuan—all four of them—were gone.
"Mistress, Mistress! Those people were so strange! One second they were here, the next they were hundreds of meters away. They’ve already driven off!"
Xie Ning frowned, gleaning two pieces of information from her broken parrot.
Li Zongyuan’s group of four had fled.
’And they instantly teleported hundreds of meters away?’
’This kind of miraculous feat must be more of the X Realm’s black tech.’
’Just like their Invisibility Device?’
Meanwhile, Xiao Cong, who was being pecked by the flock of Mutated Birds, thrashed on the ground, crying out in pain. He couldn’t help but roar in fury, "You woman! Make them stop!"
’Vile woman! Vile!’
Xie Ning raised her hand. The broken parrot flapped its wings commandingly, and the flock of Mutated Birds immediately pulled back, circling in the air again.
"So it was you," Xiao Cong seethed, grinding his teeth as he watched. He was practically itching with hatred.
He had been wondering how a flock of Mutated Birds could have appeared out of nowhere in this sandstorm and singled him out for a pecking.
It really was this woman’s doing.
’Just how many superpowers does this woman have?’
’First Gold Element, then Space System, and now she pulls out a superpower that controls animals?’
’So brilliant and unparalleled... is she really a native of Earth?’
’Could she be the genetically engineered, genius descendant of some master from our X Realm who was left behind on Earth?’
Seeing the flickering in his eyes, Xie Ning directly used her Spiritual Ability to capture fragments of his thoughts.
"What else do you have besides the Invisibility Device? How did Li Zongyuan’s group get away just now?"
A psychic voice echoed in the depths of Xiao Cong’s mind. It felt like a massive hammer had just gone CLANG inside his skull.
The shock was so great that Xiao Cong nearly became a drooling idiot on the spot.
"I don’t know..." Xiao Cong had just gotten the three words out when the pain became unbearable. He clutched his head and let out a wail.
"Have your Mutated Bird minions wipe out those brainless zombies. Don’t let them get close and disturb me," Xie Ning ordered her broken parrot. With a flurry of squawks, it flapped its wings and flew off.
Xie Ning felt the world grow much quieter.
’It would be even better if the man barely clinging to life on the ground would just shut his mouth.’
"Besides using these... these underhanded tricks to control me, what else can you do?" Xiao Cong squeezed the words through clenched teeth.
"Do you... do you dare fight me head-on? I-if I lose, I’ll... I’ll tell you everything."
"You want to fight me head-on?" A peculiar glint appeared in Xie Ning’s eyes.
"Yes! Do you dare?"
"Trying to goad me is such a cliché, tacky trick. It’s useless on me," Xie Ning said with a faint smile, though a flicker of interest showed in her eyes.
"We’re both Gold Ability Users. A Gold Element versus Gold Element fight... that’s the only real... straightforward way to battle."
"Not this..." Xiao Cong gritted his teeth, desperately fighting the pain in his mind. "...not messing with me using these dirty tricks."
"Even if I lose like this, I... I won’t accept it!"
"Who cares if you accept it?" Xie Ning pursed her lips in amusement. "I just want you all dead."
The young woman’s gaze turned colder by the second. "Whether you accept your defeat or not is really not that important to me."
"AAAAHHHHH!" Xiao Cong truly hadn’t expected a master to be so... unprincipled.
’When masters duel, isn’t face the most important thing?’
’But this woman...’
’She doesn’t follow the rules at all.’
Clutching his head, he truly couldn’t take it anymore.
It felt as if Xie Ning was churning his brain with a giant pair of scissors, stirring from the left side of his skull to the right. His entire mind was filled with an explosive, agonizing pain.
’It’s agonizing!’
The pain was so unbearable, he never wanted to experience it again.
"I... I’ll tell you! I’ll talk! Just stop torturing me!"
"Speak. My patience is limited. What is the escape device?"
"It’s a... a teleportation device. Something like a Dimensional Space. It’s space-folding technology."
"Space folding," Xie Ning murmured, raising an eyebrow in genuine interest. "How does it fold? Like a piece of paper? You just connect two points and fold yourself from here to there?"
Xiao Cong gave her a stunned look.