"I don't want to see him again."
Chen Jie whispered softly beside Xia Wanrou.
Then he released the hand he had been holding around her.
Seeing Chen Jie let go, the short, chubby man became ecstatic.
"Haha, smart move, kid! Little beauty, come with me! I'll keep you alive in this apocalypse."
Xia Wanrou's expression was icy.
She didn't even hear what the chubby man said.
The scales on her body reappeared, and arcs of lightning drifted off her body.
Then they condensed into a bolt of thunder that shot forward.
Chen Jie had assigned her a single task: kill the man in front of her.
She showed no hesitation.
Whatever Chen Jie ordered, she did immediately.
Lightning flashed.
Before the chubby man could even react, he felt a chill at his throat.
Thud!
The chubby man's head fell to the ground.
Yet Xia Wanrou did not stop there.
With two bolts of lightning, she lifted his head back up.
Then she ascended to the second floor.
The seven members of the squad who had been fending off monsters froze, first stunned by Xia Wanrou's beauty.
Then, seeing the chubby man's severed head, their shock turned to fury.
"Old Eight! You killed our Old Eight?!"
The squad leader roared, eyes practically shooting flames.
Even while aiming his gun at Xia Wanrou.
"This ugly brat dared to upset my Chen Jie—he deserves to die!"
Xia Wanrou said coldly.
With a wave of her hand, she tossed the chubby man's head in front of the squad leader.
Seeing his comrade's head, the squad leader trembled with rage.
Without hesitation, he pulled the trigger.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Bullets sprayed toward Xia Wanrou's position.
Unfortunately…
These ordinary firearms were far too weak against her.
In her vision, the bullets slowed dozens of times.
She merely twisted her body slightly and easily dodged every shot.
"Damn! She's an awakened! Boss, we need to retreat!"
A skinny squad member warned.
But the leader was too enraged to listen.
His gun kept spraying.
"You're going to die!"
Xia Wanrou's voice, light and clear, echoed through the hotel's first floor, as if announcing the squad leader's death sentence.
Whoosh!
Her Azure-Scaled Longsword flickered.
In just a second, a bolt of lightning struck the squad leader.
"Ah!"
He screamed, collapsing to the ground.
He twitched for a moment, then lifelessly lay still.
One by one, Xia Wanrou proceeded to claim the lives of his remaining subordinates.
The Xia Wanrou of the past had never been this ruthless.
But after a day of hands-on guidance from Chen Jie, she quickly adapted.
In the apocalypse, mercy toward enemies is the cruelest act toward oneself.
"Bitch! You'll die for killing so many of my brothers!"
The last small-time thug suddenly emanated a deep blue light.
Armor plates appeared out of nowhere, assembling onto his body.
"I've awakened! Super Martial Armor! Today is my day!"
Gao Ming, now fused with armor, looked triumphant.
Xia Wanrou's expression remained calm.
She locked her gaze on Gao Ming.
The blue armor covered his entire body.
His aura was more than ten times stronger than before.
"Bitch, you killed so many of my brothers—now I'll avenge them!"
Gao Ming's face twisted with cruelty.
"You just awakened and already thinking of revenge?"
Chen Jie's voice echoed from the stairway.
He stepped down slowly.
The oppressive aura he radiated dwarfed even Xia Wanrou's.
With each step closer, Gao Ming felt his armor trembling.
Bloodline suppression.
This was Chen Jie's unique physique.
His Chaos Yellow-Black Body, descended from the bloodline of the Creator Pangu, could suppress most life forms.
"So what if there are two of you? I'll still kill you!"
Gao Ming shook off the pressure and regained his stance.
He raised his hand, summoning a lightsaber before him.
This was the peculiarity of their awakened armor—they summoned light weapons, not Mimic Weapons.
"Such arrogance for a newly awakened one."
Chen Jie looked at the new awakener with disdain.
He couldn't fathom where Gao Ming's courage came from, daring to oppose him immediately after awakening.
Perhaps the sudden boost in power gave him a false sense of invincibility.
"Prepare to be split in two!"
Gao Ming roared, swinging his lightsaber at Chen Jie's head, with no defensive maneuvers.
"Foolish mortal!"
Chen Jie's tone was cold; he didn't even summon the Heaven-Splitting Axe.
He merely pointed lightly at Gao Ming's position, and two streams of Hongmeng Qi shot up toward the sky.
In an instant, the two streams of Hongmeng Qi wrapped tightly around Gao Ming.
"What is this?! Let go of me!"
Gao Ming struggled, hacking at the Hongmeng Qi with his lightsaber.
Several strikes later, it had no effect.
Chen Jie then clenched his fist in midair.
Crack!
Gao Ming's armor shattered.
The once confident Gao Ming felt his heart drop to the depths.
The man before him was far beyond his match.
He didn't even have the ability to fight back.
Before he could think further, the tightening aura around his waist bound him even more.
"Ahhh!"
Gao Ming screamed.
Soon, his body completely collapsed, blood pouring out.
Bang!
Only after Gao Ming's life was utterly gone did Chen Jie release him.
The awakened armor talent he had relied on was now a joke.
A few brave students stood at the stairway, watching the scene.
Sweat ran down their faces.
Chen Jie was far more ruthless than they had imagined.
"Go back. If any of you cause trouble again, your fate will be the same as his!"
Chen Jie gave a slight smile.
To the students, that smile was terrifying.
They could only nod repeatedly.
Having dealt with the squad, he was about to return upstairs to rest.
Roar!
Suddenly, a terrifying roar echoed outside the hotel.
Chen Jie turned to see a mutated monster, as large as a truck, with a snake body and chicken head, emerging from the darkness.
From the chicken-like beak, a forked snake head kept hissing, eyes locked on Chen Jie.
The earlier battle had attracted it here.
Unexpectedly, there was a "delicacy" like Chen Jie present!
At this stage, a second-tier awakened human was the ideal prey for such a high-level deformed monster.
"More trouble…"
Chen Jie frowned.
In an instant, the Heaven-Splitting Axe appeared in his hand.
With a powerful stomp, he vanished from his spot.
The next moment, he appeared beside the chicken-headed monster…