Inside a dilapidated building.
Xie Litang gave a light flick of her hand, sending a flowerpot tumbling down from the third-floor balcony.
'Clatter-crash~'
The group of students below instantly snapped to high alert.
Apart from Li Ruoxi, Su Xiao, and the three members of the Ye Family, the remaining students were mostly the children of Ye Family employees, serving the dual purpose of protecting the Ye Family members and farming exam points for themselves.
"Who's there?"
Xie Litang leapt down from the third-floor balcony.
Bending her knees slightly to absorb the impact, she stood up and offered them a drop-dead gorgeous smile.
"Oh, what a coincidence."
Li Ruoxi's eyes widened before she snapped imperiously, "Well, well! It's you, bitch! Heaven offered you a path and you refused it, yet you waltz straight into the gates of hell!"
"I didn't expect you to be hiding here, but you never thought Beitao City would be chosen as this year's exam venue, did you?"
"You bitch!"
"You're dead meat this time."
Su Xiao cast a disdainful look at Xie Litang as well, then reassured the crowd, "Everyone, don't be afraid! She's just a trash who awakened an E-Grade ability."
Ye Weicheng frowned and raised his chin arrogantly. "You're the one who beat my sister using underhanded, despicable tricks?"
Xie Litang dug at her ear with a finger, wondering if these people had brain damage.
Didn't they stop to think why she dared to show up right in front of them like this?
Then again, the Ye Family's public relations had been overwhelmingly effective. Not only had they distorted the fact that Ye Lingyun had literally gotten the shit beaten out of her, but they also claimed that Xie Litang was utterly evil and had only won by using dirty tactics.
Online, truth and falsehood blurred together.
In the end, everyone still believed she was just a useless trash.
Li Ruoxi stepped forward, pointing right at Xie Litang's nose as she sneered, "If you know what's good for you, kneel down and apologize! Admit that you used despicable methods! When we hand you over to the Peacekeeper Bureau later, Young Master Ye might even say a few good words on your behalf."
Xie Litang felt a vein throbbing at her temple. She reached out and slapped Li Ruoxi across the face.
"You really are..."
The immense force of the slap sent Li Ruoxi flying through the air.
A domineering force far more terrifying than a fierce beast's exploded inside Li Ruoxi's body.
'Splat~'
With a crisp sound, Li Ruoxi burst into a shower of minced flesh, splattering all over the wall.
Only then did Xie Litang finish her sentence, "...so noisy."
The area fell dead silent for a moment.
Then, blood-curdling screams pierced the sky. Several children of Ye Family employees turned and bolted instantly.
A few diehard loyalists chose to gamble for wealth amid danger. As long as they survived this, not only would they receive lavish rewards, but their parents back home would also get promotions and raises.
"Protect Young Master Ye!"
"Hurry and inform the invigilators!"
"Hold the line, everyone! The City Defense Force, the Peacekeeper Bureau, and the teachers will be here soon!"
A young student activated his ability, condensing a massive shield in front of himself and bellowing, "As long as Young Master Ye lives, we'll all become core employees of the Ye Family in the future..."
Before he could finish his words...
[Clang.]
Xie Litang slammed a fist against the massive shield, blowing both the boy and his shield into tiny fragments.
"Xie Litang, don't kill me!"
"Did you forget? We used to be roommates! I even shared my Stancomb hair cream with you!"
[Clang.]
Another pile of minced meat was added to the ground.
"I'm the child of a Ye Family executive! You can't kill me!"
[Clang.]
"My uncle is a Ye Family member!"
[Clang.]
[Clang, clang.]
In the end, only Ye Weicheng was left, collapsed on the ground, paralyzed with terror.
The woman before his eyes wasn't human at all—she was a walking demon.
If her strength had been close to theirs, or even a full realm higher, they might have stood a chance in a fight.
But Xie Litang was literally squishing them like bugs with a single punch!
"M-My dad is Ye Fan!"
"My sister is Ye Lingyun, a specially admitted student at Eastern Martial Arts University! If... if you let me go, I'll give you money! As much as you want, I can give it all to you!"
Right at that moment...
A dozen maglev drones rapidly closed in.
Pitch-black gun barrels emerged from the drones, locking onto Xie Litang.
Faint figures could be seen rushing over from farther away.
"Haha! You're dead—"
[Clang.]
Another pile of minced meat smeared across the ground.
Xie Litang curled her lip in disdain. "Your dad is Ye Fan? Die anyway."
Whether she would die or not remained to be seen, but the three Ye Family members participating in this Jianghai City Gaokao were now completely wiped out.
Xie Litang opened a container, and the newly repaired, pristine Crane Whisper Battle Armor quickly donned itself onto her body.
Immediately after, a flurry of metallic clanging echoed around her.
Dense bullet dents instantly covered the elegant, sleek Crane Whisper Battle Armor.
Xie Litang couldn't help but feel a bit embarrassed.
She had stacked a bit more HP over the past few days.
According to the defense conversion from the Blood River Divine Canon, her defense stat was now over six thousand.
"I'm actually tougher than the armor."
"Sweeping..."
"Huh?"
Sensing the rhythm of the wind, Xie Litang could faintly track the trajectories of the incoming bullets. Just as she was about to test if Sweeping Blade could anchor onto a bullet to dash forward...
She suddenly noticed something.
The progress bar for Blood River Divine Canon on her status panel had actually nudged forward by a tiny notch.
"I see."
"Taking hits increases proficiency?"
Xie Litang simply stopped dodging altogether.
She even waved a cheerful peace sign at the drones.
Little did she know...
Inside the Jianghai High School Gaokao Command Center, complete chaos had already broken out.
"What on earth is going on?!"
"It hasn't even been two hours since the exam started, and seven or eight students are already dead!"
"Investigate this immediately!"
"Pull up the surveillance feeds of the deceased students!"
Cold sweat poured down the forehead of the Chief of Education of Jianghai City.
It wasn't unheard of for students to die in battle during the exam, but this many deaths constituted a severe instructional catastrophe.
What gave him an even bigger headache was that among the dead were members of the Ye Family.
Suddenly...
[Beep beep beep beep!]
Red lights flashed wildly throughout the temporary command center.
"Oh no! It's... it's an A-Grade wanted criminal!"
"According to our records, that girl has a conflict with the Ye Family! This is definitely a premeditated murder!"
On the main screen...
Xie Litang's figure quickly appeared.
The very girl who had just slain seven or eight students was currently flashing a peace sign at the drone camera.
The Chief of the Peacekeeper Bureau walked in with a grim, pale face. "Provocation! She killed four of our peacekeepers earlier—this is a blatant provocation against our Peacekeeper Bureau!"
Atop the tallest skyscraper in Beitao City...
A sniper originally tasked with protecting the examinees instantly pivoted his rifle.
[Target locked.]
[Requesting permission to fire.]
"Permission granted."
"Dead or alive, take her down."
'Bang~'
A heavy sniper round flew toward Xie Litang.
The massive kinetic force knocked Xie Litang backward by several meters, blowing a hole straight through the abdomen of the Crane Whisper Battle Armor.
Xie Litang's HP took a hit—losing over seven hundred HP, which shaved off a microscopic sliver of her six-hundred-thousand-plus total Vitality.
"I knew it."
"I'm not invincible yet. If it were one of those heavy snipers that can punch through several meters of steel plate, a single shot could take off tens of thousands of my HP."
"I was careless."
"As punishment, I'll go back and stack another anthill later."
[Target confirmed dead.]
Through the scope, the sniper suddenly saw Xie Litang stand right back up. He cried out in shock, "Holy shit, how is that possible?!"
Just as the sniper was about to fire a second shot...
'Squelch~'
That was the sound of flesh being torn apart. In the next instant, the sniper ceased all thought.
Several kilometers away, deep within a dense forest...
The girl in the wheelchair was reloading her heavy sniper rifle.
Even an Old Era anti-materiel heavy sniper rifle was more than enough to easily tear apart a squishy sniper of this era.
"Trying to ambush my sister, huh?"
"Go to hell, all of you!"
Drones lowered steel claws, picking up the wheelchair and speeding away.
Relocate after every shot, and keep protecting big sister.
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