Chapter 218 - 141: I’m Avoiding Her Spearhead?

Chapter 218: Chapter 141: I’m Avoiding Her Spearhead?

It was the girl from the woods that day!

Gu Qing recognized her at a glance, and his expression immediately turned grave.

He had taken to heart every single word Zhao Chuan had said on the field just now.

The power of a Rat God Cultist was not to be underestimated.

Until he knew the extent of their abilities and their Biological Level, he couldn’t afford to be careless.

He had to be cautious, and then some.

Otherwise, it would be all too easy to capsize in the gutter and be discarded like yesterday’s trash.

"It was you!"

"You’re the one who took my sister!"

"You deserve to die!"

Huang Xiaoqing stared venomously at Gu Qing, her voice seething through clenched teeth, wishing she could tear him limb from limb.

A thought stirred in Gu Qing’s mind.

’This is...’

’The older sister of that girl with the pigtails, Huang Xiaoyue?’

’No wonder they look so much alike.’

’Even their fashion sense is almost identical.’

’If I’m not mistaken, she must be the one who attacked Brother Yang and Sister Yu.’

’I wonder how strong she is...’

As these thoughts raced through Gu Qing’s mind, he kept his eyes locked on Huang Xiaoqing, preparing himself for a major battle.

At his side, Xia Shuran instantly released her Martial Soul and gripped her Dragon Spear, ready to fight alongside Gu Qing.

She had trained with Gu Qing as a team many times and they had developed exceptional combat synergy.

She believed that with their synergy, no matter how weak she was, she wouldn’t hold Gu Qing back.

However, just as she was thinking this, Gu Qing poured cold water on her resolve.

"Get out of here. The farther, the better. This isn’t a fight you can be a part of."

Gu Qing said, his expression like he was facing a formidable enemy.

Xia Shuran bit her lip, a little unwilling, and looked at Gu Qing to say:

"Senior, you have to be careful!"

After saying that,

she didn’t hesitate for a moment.

She turned and ran,

quickly putting distance between herself and Gu Qing.

Xia Shuran believed she wouldn’t hold Gu Qing back, that much was true, but she trusted Gu Qing’s judgment even more.

And at the moment she turned to leave,

Huang Xiaoqing, up ahead, began to transform.

Thick, long black fur rapidly sprouted from her fair, smooth, hairless skin.

Her petite, delicate frame rapidly swelled with firm, bulging muscles.

Her flat, short, and delicate nails rapidly elongated and thickened, becoming incredibly sharp.

In just a brief moment,

her entire body had nearly doubled in size.

Her height shot up to almost three meters.

At a glance,

she stood like a mountain on the campus path, completely blocking the otherwise spacious walkway.

"A m-monster—!"

In the nearby girls’ dormitory, a timid student who had witnessed Huang Xiaoqing’s transformation into a Ratman screamed in terror.

Her scream drew the attention of many other girls in the building to Huang Xiaoqing on the path outside.

When they saw Huang Xiaoqing’s terrifying appearance,

all of them, whether timid or brave, turned pale with fright, their eyes filled with terror.

As ordinary people, they had never seen such a hideous monster, and their perception of reality was shattered.

「At the same time.」

Wu Jiahao, who was in the girls’ dormitory showing off his Extraordinary charm, also saw the fully transformed Ratman outside.

The moment he saw the Ratman appear, his eyes lit up as if he had just seen the noble goddess of his wildest fantasies.

’My time to show off has finally arrived!’

"Everyone, don’t panic!"

"It’s not a big deal!"

"Now, watch my performance. I’ll take care of that monster for all of you!"

Wu Jiahao was practically shouting at the top of his lungs, afraid the girls in the dorm wouldn’t notice him.

Many of the surrounding girls turned to look his way.

SNAP!

Wu Jiahao coolly snapped his fingers.

The next second,

he pushed off forcefully from his feet, his figure instantly blurring into an afterimage as he shot toward the campus path at a speed almost too fast for the naked eye to follow.

During his sprint,

he quickly activated several powerful, foreign, mutated creature genes within his body.

His skin hardened, his muscles bulged, venom dripped from his mouth, and arcs of electricity flickered across his body...

His comprehensive combat power surged exponentially.

WHOOSH!

A piercing sonic boom rang out.

Wu Jiahao instantly arrived on the path and stopped beside Gu Qing.

He deliberately lowered his voice and whispered to Gu Qing:

"Leave this Ratman to me. Don’t interfere, and I’ll treat you to a big meal afterward."

He wanted to hog the spotlight, bask in the adoring gazes of all the girls present, and be the coolest guy there.

Gu Qing knew what the guy was thinking and offered a calm reminder, "This Ratman is most likely the one that attacked Brother Yang and Sister Yu a few days ago. Her Biological Level is at least Tier Nine, far higher than your Tier Seven."

"Heh."

Wu Jiahao sneered, his eyes full of confidence. "Protagonists can always defeat higher-level enemies. A mere Tier Nine Ratman? I’ll crush it easily."

With that,

he furiously channeled the Power of Thunder and Lightning throughout his body, transforming into a streak of electricity and charging straight for Huang Xiaoqing.

’Ma Dongyu? What a worthless piece of trash.’

’An Extraordinary Contactor with no Superpower is useless, even if she’s Tier Nine!’

’How dare she even be mentioned in the same breath as me?’

Filled with this absolute, world-scorning confidence,

Wu Jiahao rushed in front of Huang Xiaoqing, raised a massive iron fist crackling with electricity, and threw a heavy punch at her hideous, nauseatingly grotesque rat head.

Huang Xiaoqing didn’t even spare him a glance.

She just casually whipped her thick tail.

The next instant—

BAM!

The tail lashed heavily against Wu Jiahao’s body.

The powerful impact that erupted in that instant sent him flying.

He shot backward for dozens of meters like a kite with a snapped string,

until he slammed heavily into a towering tree,

snapping the barrel-thick trunk.

Only then did his airborne momentum stop, and he tumbled to the ground, curling up like a shrimp in agony.

"Some stray cat off the street dares to hiss at me? It clearly has a death wish."

Huang Xiaoqing glanced at Wu Jiahao from a distance. Seeing him lying on the ground, completely out of commission after just one hit, she muttered with utter contempt in her eyes.

Then, she turned her gaze back to Gu Qing, her voice so cold it made one’s hair stand on end:

"I’m going to make you wish you were dead!"

As her voice fell, a terrifying biological pressure, infinitely close to High-Level, erupted from her enormous body.

Everything within a hundred-meter radius felt an extremely powerful shockwave.

In an instant, dust swirled and fallen leaves scattered.

In the nearby dormitory, several girls who were closer to the action lost their footing and were knocked to the ground by the sudden, powerful gust of air, landing flat on their backs.

BOOM!

The sound of shattering concrete rang out.

Huang Xiaoqing stomped, shattering the ground beneath her. The terrifying explosive force from her feet instantly turned her mountain-like body into an afterimage, hurtling toward Gu Qing with overwhelming kinetic energy.

At the same time, Ma Dongyu, who had previously rushed to Xuri Building to deal with the mutated giant rats, somehow appeared on the scene.

Her vital energy erupted as she sprinted desperately toward Gu Qing, shouting a warning as she ran:

"Gu Qing!"

"This Ratman is extremely strong! Fall back and avoid a direct confrontation!"

"Fall back to my position! We’ll face her together!"

As she spoke, Ma Dongyu was about to reach Gu Qing’s side.

However,

Huang Xiaoqing’s speed was even greater than hers.

When she was still more than ten meters away from Gu Qing,

Huang Xiaoqing had already reached him. She snapped open her massive, blood-red maw filled with sharp fangs and chomped down viciously on Gu Qing’s head.

’Not good!’

Ma Dongyu’s expression changed drastically, as if she could already see the hopeless scene of Gu Qing’s head being bitten off by Huang Xiaoqing, his headless corpse toppling to the ground.

In contrast,

Gu Qing, whose entire head was now engulfed by the massive maw, remained perfectly calm and composed.

’A moment ago,’

’I didn’t know how strong Huang Xiaoyue’s sister was.’

’So I acted cautiously.’

’Now...’

’Knowing she’s not even an Advanced Creature...’

’You want *me* to avoid a direct confrontation with *her*?’

With a confidence even greater than Wu Jiahao’s,

Gu Qing stood his ground, not moving an inch. He simply raised his hand, clenched it into a fist, and punched straight into Huang Xiaoqing’s descending maw.

Faced with this punch, Huang Xiaoqing also didn’t dodge or evade, chomping down directly.

CLANG!!!

CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH—

The moment the massive maw snapped shut, a violent crash exploded, immediately followed by the sound of something hard shattering.

Huang Xiaoqing had bitten down on Gu Qing’s fist.

Not only did she fail to crush his fist with a single bite as she had expected,

but the immense recoil from the bite also made her head ring and shattered every fang in her mouth.

Finally, the brute force of the punch tore a huge hole straight through her throat, sending flesh and blood flying.

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