An ordinary person encountering this kind of situation might have already beaten a retreat, yet Luo Xiaoyu currently would not think this way.
She observed for a moment and once again raised the firelock in her hand, aiming.
Yet even ordinary Fog Persons would not stand in place waiting for death, let alone this type whose mysticism was a step above.
Attacked once more, it sharply roared several times.
The surrounding mist therefore became a little sparser, and the Fog Person’s entire body was also revealed.
Yet even though it had been enraged, the Fog Person still did not take the initiative to attack.
The two ribbons beside its upper limbs were currently taut, clearly in a defensive posture.
Continuing to shoot like this would only waste bullets.
At the very least she had to force the other party to reveal a bit of an opening.
If she wanted to do this, then the key was the Fog Person’s strange upper-limb ribbons.
Relying on her enhanced physical attributes, Luo Xiaoyu pressed her body as low as possible and charged forward in a dive.
Her small leather shoes heavily stamped the ground to accumulate force.
The black-haired girl spun in midair, and her lower leg immediately swept horizontally toward the other party’s head.
The ribbons blocked it.
She had still somewhat underestimated the other party.
Reaction speed that could rival a bullet, and strength that could even forcibly bounce away a silver-white bullet carrying tremendous kinetic energy—
The ribbons possessed the dual characteristics of both speed and power.
Luo Xiaoyu’s lower leg nearly lost all sensation.
She retreated several steps in succession, her gaze tightly fixed on the Fog Person.
The other party’s ribbons, at the instant of blocking her, could still divert attention to remain ready for defense at any time.
Since that was the case, only one choice remained.
The black-haired girl casually tossed the firelock backward.
With a thought she notified the system, and the firelock vanished into thin air and entered the system warehouse.
If she herself could not deal with it well, then she would not stubbornly fight to the end.
Staying alive was the most important.
Thus, under the Fog Person’s vigilant gaze, Luo Xiaoyu turned and ran.
From the other party’s perspective, it was a stranger who had intruded into its territory, provocatively challenged it for a while, and then decisively stopped and wanted to escape.
It was simply inexplicable.
Large predators in nature all possessed the habit of demarcating territory.
The behavioral logic of this type of Fog Person was clearly closer to that of higher organisms with sound intelligence.
It decided to swallow the other party and then harvest the mysticism.
Failing that, it at least had to drive the other party out of its territory.
A preliminary idea formed in its mind.
The Fog Person slowly drifted, and the space around it was once again covered by dense white mist, looking as though it had disappeared on the spot.
The black-haired girl who had already run a certain distance found a terrain that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and hid in the deepest part of the building.
During the process of fleeing, Luo Xiaoyu discovered that these white mists seemed to be following her.
Because according to the surrounding environment, she was currently very close to the street of the convenience store.
Taking a step back, on this kind of day it was impossible for there to be not a single person on the street.
If one had to explain it, one could only arbitrarily understand it as that Fog Person from just now still chasing her.
If it really would not work, then it was not that she could not take out the scythe as a backup means.
Yet this could only be regarded as a method of staking everything on one throw.
If one were to say there was not the slightest bit of regret in her heart, that was also not very possible.
Yet Luo Xiaoyu was also very fortunate that she was able to witness combat methods that could match a Transcendent.
If possible, then she would certainly also choose to step onto a certain Pathway in order to guarantee safety.
Once again taking the firearm out from the system warehouse, Luo Xiaoyu silently counted down in her heart, predicting when the other party would catch up in front of her.
The result was that the Fog Person’s speed was considerably faster than what she had expected.
The girl suppressed her own breathing as much as possible, remained behind cover, and waited for the Fog Person’s approach.
Yet the other party’s behavior once again exceeded Luo Xiaoyu’s expectations.
The air in front of the Fog Person was compressed to the extreme.
Slightly trembling transparent circular gas shot straight over like artillery shells.
Luo Xiaoyu hurriedly dodged, yet what followed in succession were groups of paired air shells.
Only when the situation temporarily calmed down had the cover that had just allowed her to crouch and hide already been blasted into pieces here and there.
Bricks and concrete were like a small mudslide, bringing diffuse dust.
Thus she drilled into the retreat path she had thought of in advance—that is, the passage behind the room—and continued fleeing.
The air projectiles behind tightly pursued without letting go.
Luo Xiaoyu could only draw her gun and try to see whether she could shoot down the projectiles.
After the firelock’s bullets collided with them, perhaps they destroyed the dense air structure of the projectiles.
The disturbance caused several projectiles that had nearly hit her to whistle and disappear.
At the critical moment of a thousand jun hanging by a single thread, a voice familiar to Luo Xiaoyu rang out.
“Xiaoyu… I’m very busy with my experiments.”
She focused her eyes and looked.
The chestnut-haired manager had appeared at the scene at some unknown time, wearing a rather helpless appearance.
“I promised Mu Mu that I would protect you. Yet if it’s this kind of matter…”
She casually took out a fountain pen inlaid with bright-colored gems—
Upon closer inspection, this rather exquisitely crafted fountain pen instead resembled a magic wand, engraved with many very elegant characters.
Chen Ge wrote many floating characters in the air with the wand.
The characters maintained a bright light, then rapidly scattered while carrying expanding mysticism, dispersing the dense white mist of the surroundings.
The manager stepped forward several paces, grabbed Luo Xiaoyu, and the two of them ran in the direction away from the white mist.
Only after escaping the danger did the highly tense nerves of the girl finally relax.
She turned to look at Chen Ge, yet discovered that the manager’s situation was even more severe than her own.
Chen Ge supported both hands on her knees and was somewhat embarrassingly moderating her breathing because of the long-unused intense exercise.
“Man… Manager…”
The black-haired girl felt a little at a loss.
She wanted to stretch out a hand to support the other party, yet Chen Ge stretched out one hand to indicate it was unnecessary.
After a long while, Chen Ge finally recovered, wearing an extremely tired appearance.
“It’s fine. No need to explain. In fact I also only happened to come over to collect experimental data…
I finally encountered a Weirdness that could barely be considered up to standard and simply wanted to know what the situation of Fog Persons in Qiufeng City was like.”
“Conveniently seeing a cute store clerk encounter a crisis, so extending a helping hand was almost inevitable.”
Looking at the other party’s appearance, Luo Xiaoyu also felt embarrassed to open her mouth and say anything more.
Yet since it was already safe now, she still had many things she wanted to know.
Pondering, the black-haired girl who was about to speak raised her head, yet discovered that the other party was continuously staring at her.
“Ask whatever you want to ask… Rest assured. I will not tell Mu Mu about today’s matter.”
“Is that all right…”
Perhaps feeling that she had caused trouble today, Luo Xiaoyu once again confirmed in a tiny voice.
Only when Chen Ge nodded did she open her mouth and silently ask some matters she had always been very concerned about.
Why she had never met her before, as well as what kind of relationship she had with her older sister and the like.
The responses she received were also very simple.
Bai Mu did not wish for Luo Xiaoyu to have any intersection with the mysterious side.
This would produce more or less connections with various dangers and schemes, and further generate threats to her own personal safety.
As for the relationship between Chen Ge and Bai Mu, in fact Luo Xiaoyu could already see it from the attitude of the two people’s dialogue.
Yet she still wanted to personally confirm it with the manager.
“Mm… We are old acquaintances. We knew each other very early on, and our relationship is also relatively good.”
The chestnut-haired girl said this.
She searched for related memories in her mind and finally only summarized with a somewhat tired feeling.
“As for the boy previously at the store, he seems to have brought Xiaoyu quite a bit of trouble. I apologize to you.”
As she spoke, Chen Ge suddenly solemnly said this sentence, bowing as she did so.
Luo Xiaoyu subconsciously waved her hand to indicate she did not mind, yet the manager continued explaining on her own:
“Because… in any case, it was for some mild-natured experiments.
I took children from the western district orphanage, provided conditions such as food, clothing, shelter and transportation, and in exchange had the other party register under my name.”
“That’s how it is.”
“Then what about you, Xiaoyu? Yuan Dong of the Moon Church told me that you seem to have been contacting Weirdness…
Curiosity is only natural. Yet if you still encounter danger afterward…”
“What will you do?”
The manager asked with an inquiring, gentle gaze.