Lin Xian's heart pounded wildly, his eyes widened menacingly as he watched Liu Wei falling to the ground.
The stench of blood and pain seemed to trigger a madness within him.
I can't die, I don't want to die!
The instinct to survive surged Blood Energy through his veins, numbing the pain throughout his body in an instant, not pausing for even half a breath after knocking Liu Wei to the ground, he turned and threw a Wind Cannon at Liu Wei's face!
A bloody hole starkly appeared on Liu Wei's face!
Liu Wei screamed ferociously, his four tentacles picking up pebbles from the riverbed and hurling them crazily towards Lin Xian with such force that the stones whistled through the air.
Lin Xian didn't dare to be careless, quickly dodging to the side.
"I'm gonna smash you to death!"
Liu Wei, pushed to his limit, frantically started hurling stones at Lin Xian.
He had figured out that the guy in front of him was the agile type, able to shoot some sort of projectile, but seemingly posed no other threat.
Otherwise, he couldn't have survived until now.
Indeed, Liu Wei's simple mind had guessed correctly, at this moment Lin Xian only had the Wind Cannon and a barely useful Ice Shield, besides that, he could only engage in close combat with Liu Wei.
And now that Liu Wei was prepared, it was unlikely for Lin Xian to get a second chance to close in. Two hands against six—if the other party dared to approach him again, Liu Wei truly didn't understand how he could lose.
But he also feared Lin Xian's long-range attacks, so after the two created some distance between them, they both stood breathing heavily in confrontation, neither making the first move.
At this moment, the watch on Lin Xian's wrist suddenly sounded.
Both of their expressions changed, as Liu Wei also realized something.
"Bro, it's getting dark, how about we stop fighting and head back?" Liu Wei's face was covered in fresh blood, his eyes a gloomy green, looking like a demon crawling out of a bloodbath.
Lin Xian snorted coldly.
"Do you think that's possible?"
What kind of idiot would believe such nonsense in an apocalyptic scenario?
Liu Wei's eyes twitched slightly; the young man opposite him was indeed no pushover, not falling for his bluff at all.
"Alright then, let's see how many more times you can do that."
Liu Wei's gaze was sharp, continuously scanning Lin Xian.
As a Superpower User, he naturally knew using Superpowers greatly exhausted the body, and Lin Xian's long-distance attack must consume more energy than his own, otherwise Lin Xian would've already sprayed him like a machine gun, not needing to find opportunities to strike.
Despite his chubby and simplistic looks, Liu Wei considered himself anything but stupid. Having conducted petty business all his life, he thought of himself as extremely shrewd.
Lin Xian remained calm, unaffected by the other party, and directly pointed his right index finger at Liu Wei's face.
Liu Wei, on reflex, raised his tentacles to block, but if he covered his face, he wouldn't see Lin Xian's next move, which was the most troublesome.
So, he quickly thought, two tentacles protecting his face, and the other two continued to throw pebbles from the ground at Lin Xian.
Seeing his posture, Lin Xian's eyes were frosty, he simply sidestepped one of the stones, then slowly moved his finger downward, aiming at Liu Wei's crotch.
Liu Wei's body trembled violently, an intense pain exploded within him, because all along Lin Xian had aimed for his head, Liu Wei hadn't expected that Lin Xian would aim for his...smaller head...
As his crotch exploded, Liu Wei screamed in agony, and during that moment of lost focus, found Lin Xian already eerily close in front of him, the breath of death looming, he erupted with an astonishing survival instinct, his four tentacles shooting out furiously!
"You're gonna die, damn it!"
However, his all-powerful blow suddenly hit an Ice Wall, which instantly shattered, sending ice chips flying. In that moment, though, he didn't see Lin Xian's figure, and by the time he realized it, he found a finger...
A finger aimed at his eye!
In that instant, he was suddenly filled with immense regret.
Liu Wei's gaze trembled fiercely, before he could finish speaking, his left eye had become a bloody hole, his body rigidly fell backward.
He had never dreamed that, having acquired the Boss-level Superpower of 'Doctor Octopus', just a few days into his reign as a local tyrant, he'd absurdly die at the hands of a young man.
Seeing Liu Wei fall, Lin Xian suddenly coughed up several mouthfuls of congealed blood, but he did not even have a moment to catch his breath. He picked up a huge goose egg-sized stone from the ground, stepped forward, and furiously smashed it onto Liu Wei's face!
With each strike, his tentacles would strangely struggle.
Until... there was no movement at all.
Only then did he sit down on the ground, panting heavily.
As the adrenaline gradually faded, intense pain began to surge through him. From the previous fight, fortunately, there were no broken bones, but some internal organs were injured, and there were plenty of external wounds.
At this moment, the sky flashed with mysterious light, and Lin Xian's gaze abruptly tensed.
Elsewhere, on the train, Chen Sixuan leaned in the aisle, her expression taut as she watched the continually pounded driving compartment door.
"Open the door, open it now!!!"
A punk with a handgun climbed onto the windshield and started viciously smashing the glass with the butt of his gun.
But beyond the initial cracks caused by Liu Wei, the windshield remained unfazed.
"Get the hell out of the way!"
Another man with a submachine gun climbed up, kicked the punk aside, cigarette clenched between his teeth, stood on the hood, and riddled the windshield with a burst from his submachine gun!
In an instant, sparks flew, and stray bullets whizzed by.
"Damn, it's so tough, is that bulletproof glass!?"
"Careful, Da Fei, bullets don't have eyes."
"We can't get the door open, not unless we use a cutting torch."
"F*ck your grandpa, where am I supposed to find a cutting torch now..."
"Forget it, let's leave for now, it's getting dark."
Hearing it's getting dark, the thugs' faces changed.
"That guy got taken out by Brother Wei, and this woman is just meat in a can. We'll bring tools tomorrow to get her out."
"Hehe, I've placed a few rocks on the railway tracks; the train won't be able to move!"
"Hey, Brother Dafei, Dr. Zhao's vehicle was used by Brother Liu Wei to block the road. There's no other space in the convoy. What do we do, make them squeeze in?"
"Squeeze my ass, tell them to get lost. They haven't contributed much anyway and have the nerve to bring their families."
"Then let's just leave them be..."
The group of men left cursing and swearing. Chen Sixuan watched the clock inside the train carriage, the seconds ticking by, her heart was in her throat.
It's getting dark, what do I do...
Chen Sixuan's expression remained tight as she clutched the door handle firmly, trying to keep herself rational.
Some ten minutes later, a quick series of knocks suddenly rang out. Chen Sixuan thought it was Lin Xian and was about to respond when she heard a woman's frantic shouting from outside.
"Is anyone there, is there anyone inside, please, can you let our family in?"
"Hey, miss!" At the window, a refined man with glasses climbed up and upon seeing Chen Sixuan, immediately shouted, "Can you open the door and let us in for a while, it's getting dark!"
The woman at the door now seemed to be crying with a baby's cries also emerging, wailing, wailing~ it was heart-wrenching.
"Miss, please, we won't eat anything, we don't want anything, we just need to take shelter..."
"Our car is destroyed, we have nowhere to go."
"Please, please, have some mercy."
"This, this," the woman hysterically sobbed, "if you don't trust us, can you at least take my child to safety? He is still so small, doesn't eat much..."
The woman's cries, the man's pleas, the baby's sobs, a barrage of sounds bombarded Chen Sixuan's ears, she huddled in the corner, covering her ears tightly, silent tears falling, her heart screaming in torment.
Please stop shouting, please stop...
The clock in the driver's compartment ticked slowly.
Gradually, the crying subsided, and the knocking on the door came to an abrupt stop.