Chapter 42: You Two, Stop Fighting Already! If You Want to Fight, Take It to the Dance Studio!

However, a scene that made one’s scalp crawl unfolded.

Su Rou did not dodge.

In the instant the bullet was about to strike her between the eyebrows, she suddenly opened her mouth wide.

Her small cherry lips split all the way to her earlobes, revealing rows of razor-sharp teeth packed like a shark’s.

Crunch!

She actually bit down on the high-velocity spinning bullet!

Sparks sprayed between her teeth.

Su Rou chewed once, then spat with a wet ptui, flinging the deformed bullet head onto the ground.

“Qin Hongyi.”

Su Rou stared at Qin Hongyi, the jealousy in her eyes so dense it almost took physical form.

“If you weren’t the key, do you really think you could control him?”

“If I eat you, can I become his master?”

Before the words faded, Su Rou’s figure vanished into thin air.

Too fast!

More than twice as fast as 002!

“Watch out!”

Gu Chen instinctively shoved Qin Hongyi aside.

Swoosh!

A white shadow flashed past.

Five deep claw marks, several inches long, were gouged into the cement floor.

If he had not moved, it would have been Qin Hongyi whose chest was ripped open.

Gu Chen stood protectively in front of Qin Hongyi. The purple skirt tore in the gale, exposing the taut lines of his thighs.

He stared at Su Rou a short distance away—now on all fours, spider-like, clinging to the wall—and his gaze turned utterly cold.

The Su Rou who used to trail behind him crying, the one who could not even bear to watch a chicken get killed, was dead.

This Su Rou was a monster forged by the Eden Project, a creature named Jealousy.

“This is going to be trouble.”

Gu Chen flicked his wrist; his nails began to lengthen slightly.

“President Qin, looks like your love rival just leveled up.”

“She’s even crazier than I am.”

Qin Hongyi staggered a few steps from the push, then steadied herself. 

Looking at the inhuman figure on the wall, she did not show fear—she laughed instead.

She reached up, yanked off the necklace around her throat, and tossed it into the muddy water.

“Leveled up? So what?”

Qin Hongyi stepped to Gu Chen’s side and stood shoulder to shoulder with him.

“If she dares touch what belongs to me, even if she mutates into the Buddha himself, I’ll hammer her back into her original shape.”

She turned her head and breathed against Gu Chen’s ear, her voice domineering to the extreme.

“And you, Gu Chen.”

“Remember this well.”

“Anyone who dares bite you except me…”

“I’ll knock every last tooth out of her mouth.”

On the wall, Su Rou watched their intimate posture. 

The deathly white in her eyes instantly boiled over, and a low growl rumbled from her throat.

“Don’t you dare touch him!!”

Boom!

Su Rou launched forward like a cannonball, carrying pure jealous hatred straight at Qin Hongyi.

“He’s mine!!!”

Gu Chen drew a deep breath. The lingering T-9 Agent in his body began to burn.

“You want to touch her?”

Gu Chen met the charging Su Rou head-on. 

Instead of brute force, he displayed the close-combat techniques etched into his bones.

Borrowing momentum, sidestepping, seizing.

“Silly girl, getting stronger doesn’t mean you know how to fight.”

Gu Chen’s voice cut through the pouring rain like ice.

“This lesson’s on me—free of charge.”

Bang!

Gu Chen’s whip kick landed precisely on Su Rou’s vulnerable side.

But the sensation—

Gu Chen’s expression changed.

Hard.

Way too hard.

Kicking Su Rou felt like kicking a steel plate.

Instead, searing pain shot through his own shinbone.

Su Rou took the kick without budging an inch.

She turned her head and split her mouth wide.

“Brother Gu Chen, did you skip dinner?”

“That little bit of strength won’t be enough to kill me.”

Su Rou’s clawed hand clamped down on his ankle with monstrous force.

The world spun.

Gu Chen was hurled like trash and slammed hard into a nearby abandoned shipping container.

Boom!

The metal container caved inward with a deafening crash.

Gu Chen slid to the ground and coughed up a mouthful of blood.

“Cough… cough…”

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and stared at the white figure laughing madly in the rain. 

He could not help cursing inwardly:

What the hell kind of feed did she eat?

One 002 and she evolves straight into a boss?

The numbers don’t make any sense!

“Qin Hongyi!”

Gu Chen roared. “Stop spacing out! Find a way to retreat!”

“This crazy woman is a stat monster now—fighting her head-on is a losing deal!”

Qin Hongyi did not move.

She stood in place, watching Su Rou, a strange light flashing in her eyes.

“Retreat?”

“Young Master Gu, since when did you learn how to run?”

Qin Hongyi pulled a deep-blue syringe from her pocket.

It was the other failed product she had grabbed from the underground lab along with the golden agent.

“A stat monster, huh?”

Qin Hongyi looked at Su Rou charging toward her and stabbed the syringe straight into her own thigh!

“Since this is an all-villain game…”

Qin Hongyi yanked out the empty syringe. 

Her pupils flooded with blood, and her aura surged upward, faintly overpowering even Su Rou’s frenzied momentum.

“I’ll join the fun too.”

Gu Chen’s eyes widened.

“Are you insane?! That’s undiluted berserk agent! It’ll kill you! Do you want to drop dead right here?”

Qin Hongyi only smiled.

She tossed the empty syringe aside, cracked her neck with a series of popping sounds like firecrackers.

“Die?”

“Even if I go to hell, I’m taking the VIP seat.”

In the rainy night, two women—one who had turned into a monster for love, the other who had injected herself with poison for love.

Gu Chen leaned against the container, watching the scene, and suddenly thought…

Being a kept man was not as easy as it looked.

It was way too hard on the kidneys.

Some women got hyaluronic acid injections to become prettier.

Some women got into catfights to steal a man.

Qin Hongyi was different.

To steal a man, she turned around and stabbed herself with a biological weapon.

She really was a natural-born demon.

The blue liquid surged into her veins. 

Qin Hongyi’s pupils were instantly webbed with red. 

Veins bulged along her neck and crawled up to her jaw.

There was no scream.

Only a suppressed sigh that sounded so pleasurable it made the scalp tingle.

“Haa…”

Qin Hongyi dropped the syringe.

Then she vanished.

Boom!!

The air-tearing sonic boom still echoed when Su Rou, several meters away, was smashed backward by a brutal knee strike. 

She crashed straight into the load-bearing wall of the abandoned factory.

The entire brick wall collapsed with a thunderous roar. 

Dust and rainwater crashed down in a chaotic shower.

Gu Chen’s eyelid twitched.

She just went full cheat mode?

Was this the plain and simple style of a life-burning big shot?

How much combat power did that single shot add?

“Roar!!”

From the ruins came a inhuman howl.

Su Rou crawled out of the broken bricks on all fours. 

The originally pale bone spikes along her spine had flushed a vivid blood-red. 

White steam rose from her skin with a sizzling sound.

“It hurts… it hurts so much.” 

Su Rou tilted her head; her neck cracked loudly as her mouth split open to her ears, dripping viscous fluid. 

“Qin Hongyi, I’m going to skin you alive and turn your hide into a handbag!”

“Come on.”

Qin Hongyi ripped off her obstructive coat, revealing a silk blouse stretched tight over rippling muscle.

She crooked her finger, her smile even more ferocious than the monster’s.

“Let’s see who turns the other into a handbag first.”

The two figures collided again in the pouring rain.

If the earlier exchange had been combat, this was now a brutal, technique-less slaughter show.

Su Rou’s claws tore open Qin Hongyi’s blouse, leaving deep, bone-revealing gashes across her back.

Qin Hongyi did not even frown. 

She tanked the damage head-on, reached behind Su Rou, and snapped off one of the bone spikes with raw force.

Crunch!

Su Rou screamed. She whipped around and sank her teeth into Qin Hongyi’s shoulder.

Qin Hongyi grabbed a fistful of Su Rou’s hair, treating her head like a ball, and slammed it repeatedly into the ground.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Mud flew. Flesh and blood sprayed.

As a spectator, Gu Chen’s feelings were complicated.

It was like watching two tyrannosauruses fight over a piece of marbled beef.

Unfortunately, he was that piece of beef.

As wounds multiplied on both women, the scent in the air changed.

Beneath the sharp tang of blood, a sweet fragrance gradually spread.

It was the pheromone released by high-grade mutant blood.

To ordinary people it was lethal poison gas.

To the three people present, it was the highest-grade aphrodisiac.

“Something’s wrong.”

Gu Chen felt the residual T-9 Agent inside him stir. His heart pounded wildly.

The two fighting women also slowed.

Not from exhaustion.

Their eyes had changed.

Pure killing intent had turned into something sticky and hungry.

Su Rou suddenly stopped. Her nostrils flared frantically, like a cat that had caught the scent of catnip.

“Smells… so good…”

She ignored Qin Hongyi completely and stared straight at Gu Chen in the distance.

Soaked by the rain, the purple skirt clung to his body, outlining every curve.

Combined with the faint flush on his skin from the drug’s side effects, he looked irresistibly tempting.

“Brother Gu Chen…”

Su Rou swallowed hard. Forgetting Qin Hongyi’s fist entirely, she dropped to all fours and scuttled around the defense line like a spider in heat, then pounced straight at Gu Chen.

“Shit!”

Gu Chen tried to dodge, but the gene-level pheromone suppression made him half a beat slow.

Bang!

He was slammed hard against the metal wall of the container.

Su Rou’s blood-smeared, slime-covered face pressed close. 

Her sharp teeth grazed his Adam’s apple as she greedily licked the rainwater from his cheek.

“So fragrant… I want to eat you so badly. Is this your taste?”