“Is she captured?”
While his heart ached, Lin Zhen also breathed a sigh of relief.
‘Don’t worry, Little Xi. Once we leave this place, I will do everything in my power to heal and fix you.’
Lin Zhen raised his right hand slightly.
The surface beneath Yun Ruoxi suddenly protruded upward. Like a wave, it transported her—still pinned down by the iron chain spiderweb—along with the ground beneath her toward Lin Zhen and the others.
*Clatter!*
The iron chains shook slightly.
Yun Ruoxi suddenly lifted her head, looking at Lin Zhen piteously.
“Brother Zhen, please let Little Xi go. Little Xi is in so much pain. Little Xi already knows she was wrong. Little Xi is willing to go with you.”
Hearing Yun Ruoxi’s pleas for mercy, which sounded exactly like they used to, Lin Zhen’s breath hitched. He turned his head away, unable to bear the sight.
He moved the metal wall he had been using to protect the spaceship from Yun Ruoxi’s attacks, looked at the others, and ordered, “Little Xi has likely told the Doctor everything; we don’t have much time left. Once we lock Little Xi in the stern, we will immediately start the spaceship and leave this place.”
“Right!”
After seeing Yun Ruoxi in this state, Zi Jiu and the others didn’t want to stay in this ghostly place for even another minute.
They immediately turned and walked toward the spaceship to complete the final preparations before takeoff.
Seeing that Lin Zhen was ignoring her, Yun Ruoxi began to beg the others as they walked past her.
“Jiu, Sister Jiu! Little Xi is really better now. Please, go beg Brother Zhen to let me out!”
“Little Xi, just bear with it. Everything will be fine once we leave!”
With that, Zi Jiu took a deep breath and strode past Yun Ruoxi with her head down.
“Little Ai, Sister is in so much pain, please save Sister!”
“Sister…” Aili walked to Yun Ruoxi’s side while weeping. She reached out and gently stroked Yun Ruoxi’s cheek. “I can’t do that… Brother Zhen is doing the right thing.”
“Only by leaving this place can you return to the way you were before.”
A flicker of gratification that no one noticed flashed in the depths of Yun Ruoxi’s eyes.
Then, her expression shifted into a look of rage as she roared, “What is so bad about staying here?! Why do we have to leave? The outside world is the real hell! I only want you all to stay here, forever and ever, to keep me company!”
“Only in the Saints’ hand society can you protect yourselves. If you leave here, you will only encounter danger.”
As she said this, Yun Ruoxi’s expression darkened, and her breathing became erratic.
“Sister…” Aili said softly, “but only by leaving here can we decide our own futures. And no matter how dangerous the outside world is, as long as we face it together, we don’t have to be afraid.”
“What do you know?!”
Yun Ruoxi spoke dryly. Then, she suddenly turned her head and bit down hard on Aili’s finger.
Aili let out a startled cry as blood was drawn from her finger, yet she had no intention of pulling it away.
Instead, she smiled and said, “If biting Little Ai’s finger makes Sister feel a little better, then please, keep biting.”
“Bah!” Yun Ruoxi spat out Aili’s finger, her face twitching as she lowered her head again.
「So Lao Xi also has dog-girl traits」
「Cute pet category female lead (confirmed)」
「Sincerity is the Bi Sha Ji」
「Corrupted female lead, nice!」
“The engine is installed!”
The installation of the positive-negative warp engine had already reached the final step.
By the time Yun Ruoxi was slowly transported to the front of the spaceship, Lin Zhen had successfully finished mounting the engine.
“The food and water are also loaded!” Zi Jiu said.
“Confirmed that there are no issues with the air circulation system,” Kaos said, poking half his face out of the spaceship’s porthole.
“My electromagnetic power shielding is also set up on the spaceship, but I’m not sure if it can evade the warship’s radar,” Scarlet said, withdrawing her hand from the spaceship’s exterior.
“It’s enough.” Lin Zhen nodded. He took a step back and surveyed the spaceship he had spent two years designing.
He looked at the minor abrasions on the spaceship’s surface caused by Yun Ruoxi knocking it over earlier. His gaze narrowed, and with a wave of his right hand, he repaired them.
Finally, he turned to look at Yun Ruoxi.
*Creeeak!*
The spaceship’s stern hatch opened. Lin Zhen melted the area, merging the hatch with the metal surface so he could smoothly move Yun Ruoxi into the interior.
Yun Ruoxi kept her head down, her body tilting slightly. Just as she was about to be sent through the hatch, she suddenly let out a pained groan.
Her body twitched as she collapsed weakly onto the ground, blood beginning to seep from the corner of her mouth.
“Sister!” Startled, Aili quickly leaned down to check on Yun Ruoxi’s condition, then looked up with a face full of horror.
“Brother Zhen, Sister’s heart rate is so slow! Her life fluctuations are rapidly fading!”
“Sister… Sister is… she’s dying!”
“What?!”
Lin Zhen’s expression changed drastically at Aili’s words. Ignoring everything else, he lunged forward, knelt down, and pulled Yun Ruoxi into his arms to carefully examine her.
‘How could this be?’
‘Little Xi’s body was clearly fine!’
‘Could it be because of the star power lock? But that doesn’t make sense. The star power lock only seals star energy, preventing a star energy user from using their supernatural power and making them physically weak.’
Lin Zhen was incredibly confused. He had tested it on himself and confirmed it wasn’t harmful before using it on Yun Ruoxi. Why was this sudden accident happening now?
‘Wait, what if it isn’t an accident?’
Lin Zhen’s heart skipped a beat as a certain possibility occurred to him. He looked down in horror.
Yun Ruoxi—who had been tightly closing her eyes with a faint breath—suddenly snapped them open. The corners of her mouth curled up into a smile that was both innocent and tinged with malice.
“You guessed right, Brother Zhen. Concern leads to confusion!”
「Young people have no martial ethics」
「Blackened Xi is stunning, so Shuai」
「Lao Lin has been tricked until he’s numb, so tragic」
The young girl’s soft, sweet voice fell as she exploded into action. She actually forced herself up against the iron chains, knocking the nearby Aili aside and tackling the caught-off-guard Lin Zhen to the ground.
*Clatter!*
The iron chains slid rapidly across the surface.
Pinned down by Yun Ruoxi, Lin Zhen hurriedly used his supernatural power to fuse the chains into the ground.
But he was half a beat too late.
Yun Ruoxi sat atop Lin Zhen, her slender legs clamped tightly around his waist and abdomen. The iron chains binding her hands were wound forcefully around Lin Zhen’s neck.
*Shing!*
The girl pulled her crossed hands apart, and the iron chains tightened instantly, deathly squeezing Lin Zhen’s throat.
“Ugh… ack…”
Lin Zhen’s face turned red from the lack of oxygen. He could only manage the raspy, hurried gasps of a broken bellows.
He tried to push Yun Ruoxi off of him.
But it was then that he realized that Yun Ruoxi, who had once been much weaker than him, had now become incredibly powerful — becoming even more powerful than him in terms of Strength!
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t move her. Instead, because of the lack of oxygen, his strength was gradually fading away.
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