‘Is it over?’
That thought flashed through Lin Zhen’s mind.
The gap was still too vast.
His strengths were indeed long, but his weaknesses were far too short.
Especially when facing a Strong like Dark Dust, this weakness was magnified infinitely.
After this brief battle,
He felt like a toddler holding a pistol.
He could clearly kill Dark Dust, an adult, with one shot, but his frail body prevented him from even aiming.
Damn it…
If only one shot could hit—just one!
whoosh!
The metal rod that had been propelling Lin Zhen at high speed
Suddenly sprouted countless sharp branches, stabbing toward Dark Dust’s back.
Lin Zhen knew well this move wouldn’t work. He just refused to die without a fight. Even if he were frozen the next second, he would resist with all his might this second.
Maybe now…
A dangerous idea suddenly surfaced in Lin Zhen’s mind, but before he could fully grasp it, an unexpected interruption broke his train of thought.
Though she possessed three comprehensive and powerful abilities—fire, ice, and telekinesis—Dark Dust made an odd and irrational choice despite knowing the attack from behind.
She didn’t use telekinesis to block the spikes, didn’t pull Lin Zhen away from the metal rod to dodge the attack, and even her flight ability seemed to vanish.
Her speed slowed drastically in an instant, turning her from flying side by side with Lin Zhen into something like a traveler hanging outside a train.
She did nothing.
It was as if she had suddenly fallen into some kind of stun, maintaining her posture while a blue light began to glow in her palm.
Opportunity!
Lin Zhen didn’t have time to think about why this happened.
Ignoring the blinding blue light, he instantly solidified all the metal liquid floating beneath his clothes.
zzzz!
The silvery-white metal grew rapidly between Lin Zhen and Dark Dust.
Like an airbag inflating suddenly, it forcefully pushed Dark Dust away from Lin Zhen.
The next second.
Blue light burst from around Dark Dust, freezing everything nearby.
Watching the ice forming rapidly in the air, Lin Zhen coldly swung his right hand.
“Lightning strike!”
This time, let’s see how you dodge!
“Holy crap, he can punish recovery frames? Six-six-six.”
“Mo Yuan is shady as hell, but so am I (Lao Zhen).”
“This fight, this fight is control cancel.”
“I guess Dark Dust is like the Beast Spirit Walker—though she has three abilities, each switch and use has a cooldown.”
“Exactly right. Just now, she switched from telekinesis to ice ability and got stunned when Lin Zhen attacked.”
boom!
The blue light fell for the fourth time.
The newly formed ice shattered instantly.
Though these ice shards broke at the slightest touch under the blue light, together they might have blocked it for less than 0.1 seconds.
But the next second, frost spread, continuously generating more and more ice, stubbornly blocking the blue light from below.
But for Yun Ruoxi, that was enough.
Lin Zhen’s lightning strike had terrifying power, but its attack range was pitifully small. It was a classic example of concentrating power at the cost of range.
So with proper caution, a simple dodge was sufficient.
whoosh!
Yun Ruoxi sidestepped.
The blue light broke through the ice layer, scraping past her armor.
Watching the thick, silver-white star energy metal rod, glittering with electricity, plunge deep into the ground, her eyes flickered.
“Five years apart, and you’ve gotten much sharper. Caught my weakness that fast—not bad.”
Whether Dr. Forefinger was truly worried she might betray again, or it was the “heavenly will” from the Production Team—fearing she would be too strong for the main cast to handle—
Even after performing emotion isolation surgery on her, Dr. Forefinger still embedded five or six elemental supernatural abilities into this Pavlov armor.
Whenever her star energy overflowed or she developed the intention to use an ability, the armor would absorb it, converting it into an AI-selected specific power. Only a small fraction of star energy could be used to drive telekinesis.
And that ratio was the so-called armor recharge ratio.
This armor was never her weapon—it was the second lock Dr. Forefinger placed on her!
“In that case, let’s continue!”
Yun Ruoxi looked up at Lin Zhen with some anticipation.
She not only wanted to see what surprises Lin Zhen could bring her, but also to see the expression on his face when he finally broke through the armor after racking his brains, only to find her true strength.
whoosh!
Yun Ruoxi’s figure blurred, mimicking Lin Zhen as she propelled herself forward with continuously generated frost.
“Is she… learning my movement style? To avoid showing openings like before?”
Lin Zhen’s eyes flickered as he unleashed another lightning strike at Dark Dust.
Blue light flashed again.
Though she dodged it easily, Lin Zhen showed no disappointment. He kept moving, always maintaining distance from Dark Dust.
He had noticed.
When moving with ice ability without using telekinesis, Dark Dust was only slightly faster than him, but couldn’t catch up in a short time.
As if scared witless by Dark Dust’s earlier grab, Lin Zhen abandoned his usual steady stance. Whenever Dark Dust got close, he repeatedly used his strongest kill move to repel her.
The earth shook violently. The jungle vanished completely in the blue light.
After dragging the battle for over a minute, Lin Zhen watched Dark Dust charge at him again, raised his hand, and shouted once more:
“Lightning strike!”
Yet this time, no blue light fell from the sky.
He shouted again.
Then his whole body trembled, as if he had just realized something. His face turned ashen, revealing panic and regret.
Throughout the process, Dark Dust didn’t pause.
She didn’t care if Lin Zhen was bluffing.
She only knew that the blue light indeed hadn’t appeared.
That was enough.
She grabbed Lin Zhen’s face, yanked him off the metal rod beneath his feet, and using the strength amplified by her body and armor, slammed him brutally into the ground.
bang!
Lin Zhen let out a muffled groan from his throat, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.
[Armor Recharge: 100%, Ability: Ice]
[Emotional Reserve: Anger, Remaining: 30%]
zzzt!
A blinding blue light covered Lin Zhen’s eyes.
A layer of hard ice began spreading from his face to his entire body.
Face, neck, chest, hands…
Just as he was about to be completely frozen, Beneath the ice shell, a flash of madness gleamed in Lin Zhen’s eyes.
whoosh!
Hundreds of icy metal chains shot out from the unfrozen parts of his body.
They wrapped around Dark Dust, loop after loop.
“Lightning strike!”
Lin Zhen squeezed out two words from his throat.
The next second.
Among the dozens of silver-white alloy boxes floating in low orbit, the bottom of one suddenly split open.
A massive star energy metal cone, propelled by electromagnetic power, shot out from the box’s base, turning into a dazzling blue light that flew toward Dark Dust and Lin Zhen at terrifying speed.