Chapter 528: Sword Immortal's Heavenly Tribulation |
"Xiao Liu, are you sure you want to do this?"
In a corner of the first floor, a survivor with bloodshot eyes wore a ferocious expression, his face burning with manic excitement.
The man looked like he'd ingested something unclean, his mind clearly unhinged.
The one called Xiao Liu turned his head to look at the man trying to talk sense into him.
"Old Zhang, don't you have a crush on Miss Xu too?"
"Don't think I don't know about those dirty little thoughts of yours!"
"I've caught you sneaking glances at her every time!"
"Heh..."
"A goddess like Miss Xu—I could never deserve her, of course... but if anyone tries to defile her, I'll never allow it."
"I..."
After stammering "I" for a long while, Old Zhang couldn't get out a single complete sentence.
"Heh... Old Zhang, I'm not asking you to do anything. I only ask that after I'm gone, you protect Miss Xu!"
"Even if she doesn't need your protection!"
With those words, the man named Xiao Liu stood up and headed for the third floor.
Up on the third floor at that moment.
Jiang Rou's face was red with fury, her entire body radiating a violent aura that warned everyone to keep their distance.
The young physician Yao Yao was frantically apologizing to Jiang Rou.
Boss Ma, Zhan Lei, and the big horse all hung their heads like children caught doing something wrong.
"Who's there?!"
Suddenly sensing someone approaching.
Jiang Rou's gaze was like lightning, and her movements were even faster.
Within a single second, she was already at the stairwell.
Jiang Rou had one hand wrapped around a survivor's neck, lifting him high.
The survivor was hoisted up, his face turning crimson as his feet kicked wildly.
Boss Ma quickly strode over.
He took a good look at the man Jiang Rou had hoisted up.
"This guy isn't one of ours... he seems to be from that other convoy!"
Jiang Rou's expression turned even colder.
"Here to gather intel, are they? Planning to make a move?"
"Good..."
A look of excitement appeared on Jiang Rou's face, and the muscles in her long legs began to tense.
Boss Ma panicked and quickly said, "Sister Rou, Sister Rou, don't be so hasty!"
Boss Ma's temperament suited him perfectly as the convoy's deputy captain.
He didn't have Yang Han's laziness or Jiang Rou's explosiveness.
Back at the unfinished building, Boss Ma had stood by Jiang Rou's side without hesitation, backing her up.
But that had been determined by the circumstances.
It didn't mean Boss Ma was brainless.
Otherwise, how could a single Pathfinder and a young Physician have stopped them?
"Sister Rou... that man... you're about to choke him to death..."
The young physician had also rushed over.
Urged by everyone, Jiang Rou reluctantly set the man down.
Truth be told, this woman's habit of wanting to kill at the slightest provocation was a stark contrast to the red strapless bodycon dress she was wearing.
Even her name carried a contradictory temperament.
"Speak. What do you want?"
"Cough, cough, cough..."
Xiao Liu coughed violently, taking a while to recover.
"I... I'm a survivor from the Fair Convoy. My name is..."
Jiang Rou cut him off rudely: "I don't give a damn what your name is. If you don't start talking, I'll kill you!"
Jiang Rou's final words were bone-chillingly sinister.
Xiao Liu shuddered and quickly said, "I know everything about the Fair Convoy!"
"I can tell you all of it!"
"Everything!"
Boss Ma looked the guy up and down several times.
"Why?"
Xiao Liu gritted his teeth, red veins appearing in his eyes again, his expression turning manic.
"Why? Why?"
"Hahaha... you're asking me why..."
"Slap!~~~"
Jiang Rou lifted her long leg and viciously kicked the guy in the face.
Yes, that's right—she kicked him.
This woman's long legs were just as flexible as her arms.
The force was so strong it nearly snapped Xiao Liu's neck.
Two of his teeth were knocked out.
Blood dripped from the corner of his mouth.
His face was already swelling up into a massive welt.
And that was only because Jiang Rou had held back.
"Say one more useless word, and it won't end this nicely!"
A woman of stunning beauty.
She looked gentle and soft.
But she hit hard!
Xiao Liu, after being struck, quickly snapped back to his senses.
He looked around dazedly, as if wondering why he was here.
But that confusion lasted only three or four seconds.
His eyes turned bloodshot again.
"Why?"
Boss Ma repeated the question.
Xiao Liu chuckled darkly, about to go manic again, but then saw those long legs swinging in front of him.
That scared him sober.
"Because... because of Miss Xu..."
"Miss Xu is such a good person, such a beautiful person, but... but that idiot Chen Ye doesn't appreciate her!"
"I was one of the first to join the convoy!"
"Miss Xu is our goddess..."
"She's so beautiful, so beautiful..."
Blah blah, blah blah!
Xiao Liu rambled on with his explanation.
Now everyone understood.
This was love turned to hate.
And the object of that hate was the One-eyed Guy everyone had been teasing earlier.
It's just...
This guy's mental state seemed a bit off.
He kept rambling, talking in circles.
His expression was twisted in an unnatural way.
"Regardless of what this guy's thinking, it can't hurt to hear him out!"
"Go on, tell us. Spill everything you know!"
"If you talk well enough..."
"I promise you'll be fine!"
Jiang Rou grinned.
Just as she needed a pillow, someone delivered one.
"Alright, alright, I'll talk! Whatever you want to know, I'll tell you..."
Xiao Liu nodded frantically.
Right at that moment.
Not far away!
A sword aura shot into the sky.
Even from this distance, everyone could feel the sharpness of that sword aura.
It was an unstoppable sword aura.
As if descending from the heavens.
The dark clouds in the sky were directly split in two by this sword aura.
The blood moon, hidden behind the clouds, was revealed.
"Boom! Boom!"
A thunderclap exploded, as if right beside their ears.
Even Jiang Rou trembled slightly at the sound of that thunder.
It felt like the descent of some heavenly might.
Just then.
The moment that thunderclap sounded, a bolt of lightning descended from the sky.
Its target was that sword light.
Lightning and sword light tangled together!
A single word surfaced in everyone's mind.
"Heavenly Tribulation!!!"
The sword light and lightning wrestled.
The whole process seemed long, but it actually lasted less than ten seconds.
When the sword aura and lightning both dissipated.
On the roof of the unfinished building.
Chen Ye had just finished one round of the Blood Moon First Set of Broadcast Calisthenics and looked up toward the direction the sword aura had come from.
"That girl's really something!"
"Sword Immortal Sequence 4!"
"Incredible! She even attracted a heavenly tribulation."