In Duxie and the others’ eyes, this guess made perfect sense.
After all, they never would have thought that Lin Zhen and the rest would actually hide such a thing from Yun Ruoxi just because they were worried about her mental state.
Besides.
When all was said and done, they were still just a bunch of kids who forgot their lessons after getting hurt—Yun Ruoxi had never really given them any harsh punishments before.
So, after an instinctive moment of fear, they quickly calmed down again.
The sky cleared, the rain stopped—they thought they were back on top and wanted to defend their dignity once more.
“Xinglan…” Duxie bared her teeth, eyes cold. “Did you bring your little sister here to take revenge on us?”
Revenge?
Yun Ruoxi was momentarily stunned and turned to look at Lin Zhen and Aili.
Aili didn’t know whether to explain what had happened before, glancing nervously at Lin Zhen.
But Lin Zhen was actually amused by the other side’s words.
He thought that if Duxie didn’t make trouble again, he’d just keep this to himself and not tell Yun Ruoxi, lest she lose her temper and break the rules.
He never expected that even after he backed off and drew a clear line, the other side would still keep inching toward the boundary.
“So this is what they mean by ‘if you don’t court death, you won’t die’?”
Lin Zhen recalled a saying he’d once seen somewhere on Earth and shook his head.
He gave Yun Ruoxi a brief summary of what had happened over the past few months.
Since Duxie and the others had gone so far, hiding the truth served no purpose.
Yun Ruoxi would have found out sooner or later from someone else.
And once she learned that Duxie’s group had been bullying Aili throughout her three-month absence, a surge of fury instantly flooded Yun Ruoxi’s mind.
She clenched her fists, teeth grinding audibly, wishing she could blast them all to pieces right then and there.
Just like she had once blown apart Number 319, and that annoying Xiao Niao!
Anyone who bullied her little sister deserved to die!
Buzz!
Yun Ruoxi slowly floated upward, reaching her hand toward Duxie and the others, then clenched it sharply.
A massive wave of Telekinesis crashed out like a tsunami, sending the students standing between the two sides flying five or six meters away as if rammed by a giant beast. They landed hard on their backsides.
Then, the Telekinesis split into hundreds of small hands, gripping Duxie and her companions by the torso and muscles, forcefully lifting them into the air.
Duxie had never expected Yun Ruoxi to be just as strong as before—worse, she struck without a word, her gaze icy with rage:
“Xing…Xinglan, you—mmph!”
But before she could finish, her mouth was forced shut, the sound of her teeth clacking together echoing sharply.
Yun Ruoxi slowly tilted her head, a red gleam in her eyes, arms raised before her as if wringing a towel.
Panicked, Duxie activated her Yi Neng and vanished in an instant—but her companions weren’t so lucky.
Under the opposing forces of two spinning flows of Telekinesis.
Their bodies began to twist and deform—upper torsos rotating left, lower bodies twisting right.
Crack, crack.
They contorted to their physiological limits, the sickening sound of bones grinding filling the air.
To her credit, Duxie was loyal enough not to flee after dodging the attack; instead, she seized the moment while Yun Ruoxi was dealing with her companions and flashed to her back.
Clutching a sharp dagger, she drove it ruthlessly at Yun Ruoxi.
But as the dagger closed within ten centimeters of Yun Ruoxi’s back, it felt as if it had stabbed into an unyielding rubber sheet, unable to advance a single millimeter further.
At the same time, the air around Duxie thickened, dragging her speed to a crawl.
A Time-Slowing Field and the Polymorphic Telekinetic Shield!
Yun Ruoxi’s two signature abilities in the training camp.
Every time Duxie had sparred with Yun Ruoxi, she’d lost badly because she couldn’t crack this ever-present Polymorphic Telekinetic Shield.
This time seemed no different.
But!
After losing to the same trick once, twice…several times in a row, how could Duxie not have considered ways to break it?
Especially after she had thoroughly provoked Yun Ruoxi!
On the day Yun Ruoxi returned.
Mo Yuan had refused to shelter them, but did teach them how to further develop their Yi Neng to grow stronger.
After Mo Yuan’s guidance these past few weeks.
She had finally found a way to counter that move!
The corners of Duxie’s mouth curled slightly. Starforce surged inside her, Yi Neng coating her dagger.
Then.
The dagger trapped in midair and her right hand holding it flickered, slipping through the Polymorphic Shield and pressing directly against Yun Ruoxi’s back.
Duxie had no intention of killing Yun Ruoxi—she couldn’t afford the consequences of murdering a genius that even the training camp refused to execute.
But she could give Yun Ruoxi a painful lesson, to show she wasn’t one to be trifled with.
For example, piercing her heart and lungs, seriously injuring her just once!
The thought alone made Duxie tremble with excitement; she thrust her right hand forward with all her might.
But the expected sensation of blade cutting flesh never came.
Instead, the dagger seemed to strike an iron plate, sending numbness shooting up her arm.
In the instant before she could be stabbed, Yun Ruoxi reacted, focusing her Telekinesis to the extreme and, with the help of her Starforce Battlesuit, blocked the attack.
“You want to kill me?” The girl spoke softly, not even turning her head.
Then, she lifted her free left hand and squeezed hard—Duxie, caught in her flicker cooldown, had nowhere to run.
A powerful surge of Telekinesis began to twist Duxie’s right fingers one by one, snapping them inch by inch.
Crunch, crunch!
The chilling sound of bone breaking rang out again and again.
Duxie screamed in agony, desperately trying to yank her hand free.
But her right hand had pierced the shield using her Yi Neng’s flicker; now, pulling it out would rely solely on her own power.
“Let go! Let me go!” Duxie sobbed, kicking at Yun Ruoxi with her left hand and both legs.
Her companions, bodies twisted beyond the limit, were now bleeding from their eyes, noses, and mouths, their wails echoing throughout the training hall. The corners of Yun Ruoxi’s lips curled upward, clearly savoring the chaos.
The other trainees from Class Nine, meanwhile, were so terrified they pressed themselves against the wall, afraid of getting caught up in the carnage.
[Ruoxi’s dark side fully unleashed]
[Ha, what a maniac~meow]
[Ruoxi is standing there with red eyes, killing people to their faces, and you’re telling me Lin is still not noticing something’s wrong with her?]
Lin Zhen had indeed noticed.
At first, he’d thought Yun Ruoxi was just angry and being a little rough.
But now it was clear she meant to torture Duxie and the others to death.
Something was wrong. Yun Ruoxi’s state was seriously off!
Watching the faint, strange smile on Yun Ruoxi’s face, alarms went off in Lin Zhen’s mind. In that moment, he finally realized what Yun Che had meant yesterday about something not being right!
Yun Ruoxi possessed a Perception Field—her five senses were extraordinarily keen.
She’d rested well in the dorm these past weeks.
So how could she have suddenly fallen asleep, or let Xiao Niao escape right under her nose?
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