Chapter 525 - 519: Going Mad

A familiar voice rang out from behind her. Su Xiyue tensed and spun around, her gaze turning ice-cold as she stared fixedly at the girl hacking away with a large blade.

’It’s Lin Yiyi?’

"It’s you!" Su Xiyue clutched her backpack, her fists clenching involuntarily.

"Don’t waste your energy, Lin Yiyi. Even if you chop through the outer layer of vines, I can regenerate them in an instant!"

"How long do you plan to keep this up?"

"I’m telling you, my sister will find out you dragged me here. And it won’t take long."

"If you dare to harm a single hair on my head, my sister will make you wish you were dead."

"Tch, don’t try to scare me with Xie Ning. You think she’s some kind of god? Where would she even look for you? Long before she ever finds you, I’ll have smashed open this tangled turtle shell, dragged you out, and whipped your corpse!"

"I’m telling you, Su Xiyue, don’t delude yourself. Xie Ning isn’t all-powerful. There’s no way she can find this place."

As she spoke, she glared furiously at Su Xiyue. "Tell me, when did you awaken your Wood Element Ability? How did I not know about it?"

"What else have you been hiding?"

’Wasn’t Su Xiyue always just a normal person? After the apocalypse began, every time I stood in front of her, I’d feel this secret sense of superiority.’

’It was because I was a Superpower User with a special ability, and Su Xiyue was nothing.’

Su Xiyue looked at her with a detached expression. "Who do you think you are? Why on earth should I tell you everything?"

"What, dropping the act now?"

Filled with rage, Lin Yiyi glared at the cage of entangled vines. She hated Su Xiyue, and she hated herself for being unable to sever the thick, overlapping vines.

"You’re truly disgusting, Su Xiyue. You put on this sweet little angel act for Xie Ning and the others, but we were deskmates for years. I know what kind of person you really are better than anyone."

"What kind of person am I? You say that as if you know me so well."

"Lin Yiyi, you had these feral cats and dogs drag me here. What is it you want?"

Fortunately, right before she’d felt something drag her into the burrow, her first instinct had been to shield herself with layers of wood vines.

That was why, despite being dragged and jostled the entire way, she hadn’t sustained any major injuries aside from a few scrapes on her hands and feet.

She just felt a bit dizzy and disoriented from being tumbled around inside the burrow.

But since she wasn’t badly hurt, Su Xiyue hadn’t activated her Healing Ability.

"Do you have any idea how long I’ve waited for this day? I bet you never thought this would happen, Su Xiyue! To think you’d actually fall into my hands! Haha!"

Lin Yiyi kept hacking away relentlessly from the other side of the layers of wood vines.

’I don’t believe this.’

’Is it possible that Su Xiyue’s superpower energy is inexhaustible?’

’It has to run out eventually!’

’And when it does, that little bitch is dead.’

’It’s been almost over an hour now. How much superpower energy could Su Xiyue possibly have left in that tiny frame of hers?’

’As long as I keep hacking away without stopping, I’ll eventually be able to pry her out of that wooden cage.’

’Su Xiyue must be an idiot. This is nothing more than a desperate, last-ditch struggle.’

Besides, Lin Yiyi found that the more Su Xiyue struggled to survive, the more excited she became.

’Isn’t it? Watching a helpless little lamb get tortured to death, little by little, right before your eyes... it’s a truly wonderful feeling.’

However, Lin Yiyi hacked away until both her arms ached, yet the sprawling cage of wood vines remained completely intact.

So she lowered her blade and ordered the mutant cats and dogs at her side to rush forward and tear at the vines.

But strangely, Su Xiyue’s superpower energy really did seem endless.

Her vine barrier was about three or four layers thick. The moment the cats and dogs gnawed through the outermost layer, a new one would immediately grow in its place. It was infuriating.

Sensing that something wasn’t right, Lin Yiyi stood to one side and observed her, quickly noticing something odd.

Every time Su Xiyue took a sip from the water bottle in her hand, her condition seemed to improve.

’That’s no ordinary water bottle. It must be an extremely precious Replenishing Energy Liquid!’

"Damn it, Su Xiyue! What are you playing at? Give me that backpack! Give it to me!"

Lin Yiyi’s eyes widened, and she glared viciously at Su Xiyue, who was encased in the Wood Vine Ball, screaming at the top of her lungs.

Acting like a madwoman, she shoved her arm through a gap in the Wood Vine Ball and desperately tried to snatch the backpack from Su Xiyue’s grasp.

Su Xiyue clutched the bag tightly to her chest, her hands in a death grip around a water bottle filled with Replenishing Well Water.

Looking at Lin Yiyi through the Wood Vine Ball, Su Xiyue’s eyes filled with contempt and disdain.

"You greedy, despicable wretch. All this scheming was just for the supplies in my bag. You’ve had your eye on it for a long time, haven’t you!"

"You used Yu Xiaofei to get close to us because you were desperate to join the Starfire Team. Why would my sister ever accept someone as cunning and malicious as you?"

"Wishful thinking!"

The two words pierced Lin Yiyi’s ears, sending her into a furious rage.

"Shut up! What did you just say? Your sister is just a blind snob! She has no eye for talent!"

Lin Yiyi shrieked, beside herself with rage, "A girl like me, with a special superpower at such a young age... with just a little training, my future would be limitless! Why wouldn’t she want me? What right does she have to look down on me?"

"To put it bluntly, she’s just jealous of anyone with talent!"

"She’s just afraid that if she invested resources in me, I’d catch up and surpass her, taking her title as the world’s number one Superpower User."

The more Lin Yiyi spoke, the more she convinced herself she was right. She glared viciously at Su Xiyue. "There isn’t a single good person in your entire family! Every last one of you is selfish and utterly shameless."

"Your sister is the most shameless of them all! She even stole a little girl’s mutated Spiritual System parrot!"

"She likes stealing my things, right? Fine! I’ll chop off your head and send it to her. Let’s see if she dares to steal from me ever again!"

"For every single thing she takes from me, I’ll take one of your family’s heads! Let’s just see how many family members she has for me to chop!"

"Bite faster! What are you all doing? Get to it, bite! Bite through it, tear it open!" Lin Yiyi shrieked, swinging the large blade in her hand as she joined the mutant cats and dogs in their attack on the Wood Vine Ball enveloping Su Xiyue.

Seeing Lin Yiyi’s hand once again force its way through a gap, Su Xiyue decisively pulled a sharp dagger from her backpack and, without hesitation, stabbed toward the other girl.

Caught completely off guard, Lin Yiyi was stabbed squarely by the dagger.

Blood immediately gushed down her palm, the pain causing her to let out a shriek of shock and fury.

"AHHH—!"