Nest Crisis

With the sword in hand, Lu Shanshui thought the fight would be easier, but he found the reality to be the complete opposite.

“Hey, where are you looking?” Ren Anhua’s voice came from behind.

A chill ran down Lu Shanshui’s spine, but he knew this was just bait.

Lu Shanshui suppressed the strong instinct to turn around and counter, carefully distinguishing the sound of the air being broken.

‘It’s above!’

The sound of steel clashing rang out in the empty hall.

A weight pressed down on Lu Shanshui’s hand, his footsteps sank, and the surrounding tiles shattered.

‘This girl is too strong.’

“Smart,” with movements as light and elusive as a ghost, Ren Anhua quickly flashed more than ten meters away.

Ten meters.

This was the maximum range of Lu Shanshui’s sword skills.

Ren Anhua had already figured out his attack methods, advancing and retreating with ease.

“You can’t expect a little trick to fool me three times,” Lu Shanshui’s eyes were fixed on Ren Anhua’s figure, afraid she would disappear from his sight if he wasn’t careful.

Ren Anhua’s control over the anti-gravity field was exceptionally skilled.

When dodging, she was as light as a butterfly; when advancing, she was as fierce as a tiger.

These alone were enough to give Lu Shanshui a headache, but her strengths didn’t end there.

The blood-stained long knife had left an extremely deep impression on Lu Shanshui.

A mere shallow cut had actually blasted open a wound two centimeters wide and one centimeter deep.

The intense pain almost made Lu Shanshui unable to hold his sword.

He had never seen Ke Xiaoshan use such a peculiar technique.

‘Is this pink-haired girl’s ability really healing?’

“Haha, indeed. A normal person would have died on the first hit. This is the first time I’ve played like this on the same person repeatedly. It was my oversight.”

The corner of Lu Shanshui’s mouth twitched.

“So you really want to kill me?”

Ren Anhua spread her hands, pointed at herself and said, “Hey, the doctor is right here. What are you afraid of?”

“You have the gall to say that? Are there doctors like you?”

“Then what kind of doctor do you want? One who obediently stays in your RV, is protected by three people every time danger arises, and can only survive by relying on others?” Ren Anhua’s voice suddenly deepened.

“That was an accident! If the military hadn’t been there, we would have swapped the abilities back! We…”

A bloody wind suddenly rose.

Ren Anhua’s swift and terrifying slash once again attacked Lu Shanshui.

This forced Lu Shanshui to parry again.

Guarding was ineffective against this kind of bloody slash; he could only use the most basic upward strike to break the move.

“But it happened!” The cleaver in Ren Anhua’s hand was deflected by Lu Shanshui at a clever angle, but the blood on the blade flew towards Lu Shanshui’s eyes like another bloody knife.

This was one of the most troublesome aspects of this blade.

Even if parried, the blood on the blade would still fly out due to inertia and slash at the human body.

It was recognized as a multiple attack in Lu Shanshui’s skill system and could not be guarded against.

Although it didn’t have a very strong damaging effect, it would explode like a small bomb at the most critical moments, constantly interrupting Lu Shanshui’s skills.

And if it splashed into organs like the eyes, even a direct explosion would cause temporary blindness.

Lu Shanshui was now facing this predicament.

The bloody knife was already in front of his eyes.

He could only close his eyes as quickly as possible, at least to prevent it from making direct contact with his eyeballs.

“Ugh!” Lu Shanshui felt as if his eyes had been punched hard.

Although the impact of the blood explosion was not as strong as the Biomass Bomb, it was still very effective at close range.

After opening his eyes, Lu Shanshui saw a blood-red scene.

His eyes were bloodshot from the heavy blow, but fortunately, he was not completely blind.

The blood explosion had passed.

Ren Anhua was right in front of him.

This was an opportunity.

Lu Shanshui reversed his grip on the hilt, his sword wrapped in a sharp wind.

At this distance, his slash was as fast as lightning.

The trajectory of his slash could only be seen from the afterimages in the air.

After seeing it once, Ren Anhua had no interest in dodging it, because it was impossible to dodge.

But for Ren Anhua, even if she couldn’t dodge this kind of attack, it wasn’t a big problem, because the wound was too small.

“If I couldn’t self-heal, your move would be pretty impressive. Silhouettes cross, and two seconds later, one of them suddenly kneels to the ground, blood spurting out. Heh, very stylish. But unfortunately, you’re up against me.”

A thin line of blood appeared on Ren Anhua’s arm, then quickly disappeared.

To Lu Shanshui, she was a target he couldn’t damage.

It was too frustrating to fight her.

Every single one of his attacks could kill someone in an instant, yet he couldn’t even cause a single scratch.

After so many slashes, the effect was not even as obvious as the three nails she had driven into herself at the beginning.

“I’m almost starting to like this ability. Sometimes it really makes me feel invincible.”

“Then why don’t you just accept it? Can’t we just talk things out? Is it necessary to fight like this?” Lu Shanshui turned his sword around and knocked Ren Anhua back with a pommel strike.

Only this kind of blunt strike could produce a noticeable effect on her.

If it were a slash, it would have to be thick enough to cut her body open.

But unfortunately, most of Lu Shanshui’s slashing skills were of the slender and swift type, making it difficult to inflict effective damage on her.

‘Blunt strike?’

Lu Shanshui suddenly had some ideas.

“Of course it’s necessary! If I don’t beat you up, I can’t vent the hatred in my heart!”

Seeing Ren Anhua rush over again, Lu Shanshui took a step forward, bent down, and gathered his energy.

Horizontal Sword Draw!

The small figure flew backward at four times the speed she had rushed in at.

The “holy crap” that reached Lu Shanshui’s ears even produced a Doppler effect.

‘Switching to the back of the blade has an outstanding effect!’

Why hadn’t he thought of this earlier? He had taken so many beatings for nothing.

Lu Shanshui sighed.

This little ancestor was too difficult to serve.

He didn’t know how much beating she would take before she was satisfied.

“Hey, that’s enough, right!” Lu Shanshui shouted towards a large building.

The last attack had sent Ren Anhua flying out of the hall and into another building.

This was a common occurrence in their battles, and they had changed venues many times because of it.

Fortunately, they had consciously not strayed too far from where they had started, as their team members were waiting there.

“Lu Shanshui! F*ck your grandmother!” Ren Anhua’s angry voice came from inside the building.

Lu Shanshui’s face darkened.

Was it really necessary?

He had been sent flying by her so many times.

He had only sent her flying once, and she was cursing like this?

She was such a sore loser.

It was too much.

“Hurry up and get me out of here! There’s a f*cking Broodmother in here! Ugh… what the hell is this thing! Mmmph!”

Ren Anhua’s voice suddenly changed from clear to muffled, as if she was being covered by something.

Lu Shanshui’s heart sank.

This was bad.

A unique roar came from within the building.

Immediately, the wall cracked, and a small Broodmother rushed out with astonishing momentum.

Although it was said to be small, that was only in relative terms.

This Broodmother was still two stories tall.

To Ren Anhua, it was a small mountain.

Lu Shanshui could see Ren Anhua struggling on the surface of the Broodmother’s body.

She was frantically slashing at the arms that were dragging her into the Broodmother’s body.

But the place she was standing was a biological swamp.

No matter how much she slashed, she couldn’t avoid sinking into it.

The reason she could pop her head out from time to time was because she was using blood explosions to blast away the surrounding limbs.

But the Broodmother itself was an organic matter absorber and had high resistance to this kind of biomass attack.

Her blood explosions couldn’t save her.

She was being rapidly devoured by the Broodmother.

“Wait, wait, I’ll cut that part of you off right now!” Seeing Ren Anhua in trouble, Lu Shanshui rushed up without hesitation.

If he didn’t save her now, he probably wouldn’t get another chance.

Fortunately, Lu Shanshui happened to have a suitable skill to solve this predicament, but the cost was a bit high.

Although it pained him, he was saving a life now.

This was not the time to be frugal.

Lu Shanshui painfully took out two Level Three crystal cores, crushed them, and under the guidance of the system, the energy flow presented a brilliant color, finally wrapping around the long sword.

EX—Sword Draw!

It really f*cking hurt.

Two Level Three crystal cores.

But the effect was worth the cost.

A sword aura over thirty meters wide swept across the Broodmother’s body with a heavy sense of oppression, easily cutting off the part of its body that was wrapped around Ren Anhua.

“Hey, hurry up and get out!” Lu Shanshui saw the chunk of flesh that had fallen off the Broodmother throb violently a few times, but Ren Anhua didn’t come out, and he got a little anxious.

“You f*cking cut off my legs!”

Lu Shanshui was a little embarrassed.

This move was good in every way, except that it was too slow to activate.

The position he had initially aimed at would not have hit Ren Anhua.

Fortunately, Ren Anhua’s regeneration speed was fast enough, and she rushed out of the chunk of flesh after a while.

If she had been any later, she would have been eaten by the Broodmother again.

After its body was cut off, the Broodmother would eat its own body again.

To it, flesh was flesh, and there was no difference.

“Ugh… you smell… retch…”

“Isn’t this your fault!”

Ren Anhua stood barefoot on the ground, covered in disgusting corpse blood and rotten flesh.

She looked quite wretched.

But compared to this, what was more unbearable was the feeling coming from her legs.

It was very bad, extremely bad.

Ren Anhua’s legs, which hadn’t seen the light of day for half a month, were incredibly sensitive.

The regenerated legs had strictly maintained their state before regeneration: slender and long, and with the sensitivity created by being wrapped in tentacle stockings for a long time.

The modification of the stockings was a gradual process.

This modification was on the same level as the ankle modification and had become a curse that could not be lifted even with regeneration.

Ren Anhua could barely stand right now.

But bad things always seemed to get worse.

Ren Anhua felt her lower abdomen loosen, and it seemed as if hot water was pouring down her thighs.

She quickly reached down and, sure enough, she touched a severed soft tube.

“F*ck!”

After half a month, Lu Shanshui once again saw those heart-shaped pupils that tempted one to commit a crime.

This resentful little look, this familiar feeling.