The Creatures That We Are

Chapter 635: A Serious Punch

Black Fish patiently tried to persuade him. “You’re humanity’s greatest treasure. You can’t just die here!”

“You’re right!” Dr. Jia realized the pros and cons of his options. “No, I can’t die here. I have lots of studies to do.”

“Do you have any more resurrection pills?” Black Fish asked.

“I only have two,” Dr. Jia responded.

“Then have one and follow me!” Black Fish said. “This place isn’t safe. Even idiots will know to find you here!”

“Ah, right.” Dr. Jia took out a small blue bottle from his pocket, poured a pill out, and popped it into his mouth. Then he thought of something. “Give me a minute. I need to pack...”

“There’s no time! Forget it!” Black Fish grabbed his hand and dragged him out of the laboratory.

“Wait, let me take my parrot at least...”

“No, we’re going now!”

There was a narrow corridor outside the lab, which ran more than ten meters long. Dragging Dr. Jia through the corridor, Black Fish said, “We’re going to the garage. I’ll drive you away. Do you have any other hideout?”

“No.”

“Alright. We’ll find a hiding place and then contact the others.” Black Fish scowled. “Protector Six Rime got lured away by Gray Bear, and Elder Azure Dragon is fighting Wang Zikai. Seven Shadow hasn’t shown up. He’s gonna come for you for sure...”

Black Fish didn’t get to finish. He came to a sudden halt, his expression crumbling.

“Why did you stop?” Dr. Jia bumped into Black Fish’s back. He took a step back, confused.

“We’re too late.” Black Fish laughed bitterly.

The corridor was dim. At some point, thin spider webs had come to fill the corridor, and Black Fish only realized that something was wrong halfway through. When he noticed the danger, he was already trapped by countless spider webs.

A backlit man stood at the exit. He took a step forward, his face revealed when he entered the dim corridor.

He was dressed in a blue racing suit, with short black hair, blue eyes, a long face, and a confident smile. He was Black Fish, an Elite of Team Azure Dragon.

“I knew you would do this, Nainai.” Black Fish knew his former teammate well.

His right fingers quickly grew into five fangs covered in dark green venom. Once he placed a fang on a spider web, dark green spread along the translucent strand and toward Nainai.

“Nainai,” the real Black Fish called out. “I’ll give you one chance. Surrender, or die.”

Wrapped in spider webs, Nainai scoffed. “A mere mortal is looking down on this Empress. How humiliating.”

Brilliant golden light shot out of Nainai’s eyes.

Black Fish Froze, sensing the great power radiating from Nainai’s body. What, has her Talent reached level 7?!

Shit, the spider webs aren’t enough to trap her!

Black Fish unleashed his spider venom at maximum potency. The green venom spread toward Nainai, but it was a step too late.

She increased in size at incredible speed and broke out of the spider webs almost instantly, breaking the corridor too as she continued to grow bigger.

She went all in with level 7 Scale, growing to her maximum size.

Like a tree propping up the sky, she crashed through Dr. Jia’s mansion from underground. The entire rich area was shaking, the earth and stone shards scattering like a localized rain.

Less than two seconds later, a giant reaching almost thirty meters in height towered over the ruin. It was Nainai, dressed in a blue and white sailor uniform.

With the rapid expansion of her bones and muscles, a faint golden mist swirled around her like golden qi enveloping a mountain. Gone was what had been the front yard of the mansion. And amid the ruins, Azure Dragon, Qing Ling, and the dead Core East and Veggie were nowhere to be seen.

On top of the mansion across the street, Azure Dragon carried his dead companions with each hand. He lowered them to the ground and looked at the giant Nainai.

Nainai clenched her right fist and looked to the side to meet his gaze.

Regret flashed through Azure Dragon’s eyes.

Nainai looked momentarily guilty as well.

But that was the end of it. The moment was all that their previous bond deserved.

Without hesitation, Azure Dragon clenched his right fist and tucked it by his waist, drawing his power.

Nainai knew what he was going to do. After a three-second charging, Azure Dragon would make an attack that threatened to terraform a whole area. Even a giant like her would be rendered into pieces.

“Ah!”

Nainai shouted, the sound shaking the land. She took a step forward and swung her arm at the rooftop where Azure Dragon was.

However, she was too slow in giant form, and Azure Dragon finished charging up. Eyes radiating golden light, he opened his mouth. “A Serious Punch.”

Clang!

With powerful currents and golden energy, the fist swung toward the sky. From afar, it seemed as if an arc of golden shockwave had cut through the black sky.

Yes, Azure Dragon’s Serious Punch hadn’t hit Nainai. She “disappeared”.

A second before Azure Dragon made a swing, Nainai had shrunk down to the size of a thumb in an instant, and Azure Dragon’s hit missed like a cannonball trying to hit a mosquito.

Nainai had pretended to attack Azure Dragon to fool him. She was immature, not stupid. She wasn’t such an idiot that she would fight Azure Dragon head-on.

It was all part of her plan.

Her job was to turn into a giant and create chaos so that Qing Ling and Wang Zikai could run away. Then Qing Ling would help her escape.

Swoosh.

A Black Gold dart flew toward Nainai, and she clung to it with both arms in midair.

Qing Ling didn’t hesitate to ride her blade away, followed by a Black Gold dart that drew little attention. It was carrying a girl, who continued to buzz like a mosquito.

Azure Dragon looked up at Qing Ling as she made her escape. He didn’t give chase, but instead turned to the ruins, landing on it with a jump. He was looking for his companions and Dr. Jia.

Soon, Azure Dragon found the unconscious and injured Black Fish. Like a victim of an earthquake, he was buried under a collapsed wall and soil, his chest penetrated by a ceiling light. Fortunately, it didn’t go through his heart.

Azure Dragon quickly removed the rubbles and extracted the ceiling light, injecting Black Fish’s chest with Medicine C.

“Hmph...”

Black Fish’s pale face slowly regained colors, and his furrowed brows relaxed.

Azure Dragon stood up and extended his senses with his eyes closed. There was no one else around.

“Where’s Dr. Jia?” Azure Dragon asked.

Lying on the ground, Black Fish spoke in starts and stops. “In...Nainai’s...hands...”

The moment Nainai turned into a giant, she had grabbed Dr. Jia and held him in her hand. That was all Black Fish managed to see.

Azure Dragon frowned, quickly putting two and two together. He sighed.

“We failed to stop them.”