While engaged in the fierce battle, Lin Qingqing suddenly felt a chill down her back. That annoying and disgusting gaze had returned.
She took a deep breath, then abruptly turned around and ran towards the burning three - story building.
There were doors at both the front and back of this three - story building. The back door led directly to the backyard. After rushing into the fire, she covered her vital parts with an ice armor and then charged straight into the backyard.
The intense fire couldn't harm her as an ice - type superpower user, and it certainly couldn't hurt Zhou Mang, who was a fire - type.
This was a battlefield Lin Qingqing had deliberately chosen. She was certain that Zhou Mang would follow her.
Sure enough, just as she turned around, she saw Zhou Mang strolling leisurely through the doorway ablaze with raging flames.
After a while, no one else entered. There were only the two of them left in the backyard. The burning three - story building behind them became a natural barrier. None of Zhou Mang's lackeys could get in, and Xiao Pengfei probably didn't even know she was here.
One - on - one, it was time to settle new and old scores together.
"You damned bitch, no one can save you now!" Zhou Mang licked his scarlet lips and said with excitement all over his face.
"You have a feud with me. Why involve so many innocent people?" Lin Qingqing stared at him intently and asked.
"They all deserve to die, and you especially do!"
Zhou Mang didn't answer her question. Instead, his response was a fireball hurtling towards her.
"You're the one who deserves to die, you lunatic!"
Lin Qingqing quickly sidestepped to dodge the unexpected fireball, tightly gripping her ice knife and cursing.
Although they were both at the second - order, she knew that the level of her superpower was definitely not as high as Zhou Mang's.
Lin Qingqing was aware of the gap between them. So, while continuing to use her ice knife and ice armor to resist the damage from the fireballs, she calculated the remaining superpower energy of both of them.Since ice and fire are mutually restraining, the odds of winning in a head - on fight were not great. Considering the other party's hot - tempered nature, Lin Qingqing decided to fan the flames and further enrage him.
Since he was already crazy, might as well push him over the edge!
As for the consequences of provoking Zhou Mang, she secretly glanced at the small fish - pond in the corner of the yard. There was still half a pond of water in it.
Worst - case scenario, she could hide in the water!
With a bit more calm in her heart, Lin Qingqing began to think about Zhou Mang's weaknesses: ruthless, killing without batting an eye, yet extremely obsessed with his cousin's death.
Thinking of this, Lin Qingqing came up with an idea.
"Your brother talked about you."
"What?" Hearing about his cousin, Zhou Mang was taken aback, and the fireball he was about to launch stopped in his hand.
"He told me about your superpower and said you had a way to improve it."
"Impossible! What could he know?" Zhou Mang instinctively didn't believe it, but his heart still skipped a beat.
Seeing that it was working, Lin Qingqing didn't give him time to think it over. Looking into Zhou Mang's eyes, she continued, speaking each word clearly:
"What's impossible? He came to my place asking for some supplies. Since I saw he was just a student, I invited him for a meal.""He told me that you had such an easy way to upgrade your superpower but you used it yourself and didn't tell him. He was very disappointed in you. He said that as his cousin, you weren't as good to him as Brother Qian and Brother Feng."
"Bullshit! Huizi wasn't that kind of person. I'm his brother. Only when I'm more powerful can I protect him. No! You're lying to me. I'm going to kill you today to avenge Huizi."
Zhou Mang didn't believe it. Lin Qingqing pressed on:
"Do you know how he died?"
"You killed him!"
"Humph~ You keep saying you want to avenge your brother, but do you know that your brother wasn't killed by me at all? It was you! You had a way to upgrade your superpower, yet you didn't even spare a single crystal nucleus for him. That day, he drank some wine at my place. On an impulse, he went to kill zombies to get crystal nuclei by himself. Although he died at the hands of zombies, it was all because of you. You're the one to blame!"
"Nonsense! Shut up!"
"Don't deny it. You didn't even spare your wife, let alone your cousin."
In a split second, Lin Qingqing thought of the woman who was strangled to death in the opposite building, and Zhou Mang's figure gradually overlapped with that man's.
"Ah! Shut up! Shut up! You damned bitch, you're courting death!"Upon hearing this, as if being poked at a sore spot, Zhou Mang had no mind to distinguish whether what Lin Qingqing said was true or false. He only wanted to kill this woman who kept provoking him with her words.
The fireballs in his hands shot towards Lin Qingqing like a madman. These fireballs were already the size of tennis balls. Lin Qingqing didn't know how many crystal nuclei he had swallowed raw to have achieved his current strength, but she knew that Zhou Mang was completely insane now.
Ordinary people would at least estimate the amount of their superpower and accuracy when fighting, but Zhou Mang didn't care about any of this. His fireballs came crashing down one after another as if they were free.
There had originally been many vegetables, trees, and a grape trellis made of bamboo in the backyard. Now they were all ignited by the scattered sparks. Lin Qingqing had no choice but to keep retreating.
She was in a sorry state of dodging, with many burn and abrasion marks on her body.
"Almost there!"
She only used her ice knife and ice armor to block when she couldn't avoid the attacks. Her superpower consumption was much less than Zhou Mang's. Zhou Mang, on the other hand, had consumed most of his superpower after continuously firing dozens of fireballs!
Perhaps because he couldn't hit the opponent's vital points all the time, Zhou Mang finally fired five fireballs at once.
"I can't dodge this!" Lin Qingqing's eyes sharpened, and then nine ice blades suddenly appeared around her, instantly splitting into two groups.Four of them traced an arc, hurtling towards Zhou Mang's chest, legs and neck. The remaining five ice blades, leaving streaks of after - images, successively crashed into the fireballs in mid - air.
"Bang, hiss~"
As the ice blades collided with the fireballs, they transformed into a mass of sparks and broken ice, dissipating into the air.
After the clash of their superpowers, both of them stepped back two paces simultaneously.
"You can remotely control your superpower too?" A sinister voice sounded.
Although all his fireballs had been blocked, Zhou Mang wasn't enraged. Instead, he sized up Lin Qingqing as if she were some strange and rare object.
"No wonder you dared to challenge me. Spill it! How did you manage that?"
He had conducted experiments and knew that only by devouring crystal nuclei of the same attribute could one enhance their superpower. This was precisely why he hadn't given crystal nuclei to his younger brother. Less than one - fifth of the harvested fire - type crystal nuclei were available, and since both of them were fire - type, there simply weren't enough to divide.
As for ice - type crystal nuclei, he hadn't seen a single one. Evidently, the drop rate was extremely low. So this woman must have a different method from his.
"I'm just gifted!"
Lin Qingqing wiped the bloodstain at the corner of her mouth and blurted out without hesitation.
"Bullshit! Don't try to deceive me. Speak up! If you tell me the way to upgrade your superpower, I'll spare you a complete corpse. What do you say?"Not good at all! Once dead, who cares about a complete corpse? Lin Qingqing thought to herself and secretly cursed "pervert".
"If I tell you, will you let me go?" she asked tentatively.
"Tell me and I'll consider it," Zhou Mang paused, then said in an extremely vicious voice.
Lin Qingqing pretended not to notice his gritted teeth and then said slowly, "Well, I'll tell you, but you can't tell anyone. The method I use to improve my superpower was taught to me by Captain Xiao..."
Here, she deliberately paused. While Zhou Mang's attention was drawn by her words, with a flip of her left hand, two cold glints flashed and disappeared into the darkness.
Zhou Mang didn't expect her to be so cooperative. If it was taught by that soldier, it was indeed possible.
"What is it?" he asked eagerly.
"It's..." Lin Qingqing's voice was very soft.
"Do you think you deserve to know?"
With that, she suddenly shot out an ice blade, launching an attack first.