Chapter 15: Eel, I Think It’s Love at First Gill!

“Who the hell is that person?”

Yang Liuqing had seen plenty of strange people, but this one was by far the weirdest.

Even jumping down, asking for directions, wouldn’t have felt that odd.

It was like she came specifically to get a look at him.

“Not another good girl Xiao Qingqing once ruined, is it?”

Ke Li looked over, grinning.

If the other party wasn’t a threat, there was no need to waste energy focusing on them.

“Ruining your head! I’ve never seen her before either.”

Yang Liuqing wanted to give her a Super Sugar-roasted Chestnut.

“Master, that girl just now… she’s dangerous.”

Ke Ling’s expression was serious.

Yang Liuqing was taken aback. “I didn’t feel that at all.”

“Xiao Qingqing’s still too green.”

Ke Li shrugged. “At that distance, if she’d made a move, we’d have been in a tough fight.”

“That strong?”

Yang Liuqing really hadn’t sensed it. Instead, she thought it was weirder that the girl jumped down from five stories and then back up without a scratch.

And when she landed, she was like a cat—didn’t make any noise.

She didn’t understand complex stuff, but she thought it looked cool.

“The kind that can put us in huge danger.”

Ke Ling hadn’t actually seen through her.

But precisely because she hadn’t seen through her, the girl was formidable.

“Xiao Qingqing, did you notice her eyes were strange? Like there was a starry sky in them.”

Ke Li recalled the mysterious girl’s peculiarity.

“Huh? I thought they were color contacts.”

Yang Liuqing blinked.

“How could they be color contacts?”

Ke Li gently elbowed her in the stomach.

“Anyway, those eyes are very special.”

“Heterochromia?”

Ke Ling seemed thoughtful.

Just then, a roar approached from far to near.

Yang Liuqing turned her head and immediately sensed trouble.

Several motorcycles were speeding toward them.

Harsh headlights illuminated their entire bodies.

“Are you kidding me? I got delayed for a moment and they already found me?”

She couldn’t help feeling frustrated.

She’d even chosen a remote side road.

And these guys still found her…

“No, taking a side road is exactly what makes it easy to be found.”

Yang Liuqing realized she’d made a bad decision.

These guys were all thugs—how could they not know which routes were safer when fleeing?

“Hey, pretty lady! Out so late shopping? That’s not safe.”

A heavy motorcycle arrived first. The rider was a bleach-blond thug wearing a yellow floral shirt and faded, ripped jeans.

He had on crocs, a strong build, and a somewhat lecherous face.

He took a closer look at Yang Liuqing and immediately lit up with joy.

“What luck! I’ve been hunting high and low, and here she is without any effort!”

“Xiao Qingqing, this thug’s actually pretty educated.”

Ke Li was totally unfazed.

“Well, our country’s nine-year compulsory education is no joke.”

Yang Liuqing replied quietly, already mapping escape routes in her mind.

With the enemy on motorcycles, it would be hard to escape through either small streets or main roads.

Unless… she took the rooftops.

She suddenly recalled the mysterious girl jumping five stories high.

Could she do it?

Her body had been altered by magic potions, and her physique was many times beyond ordinary people.

But over thirty feet? That was tough to leap.

“Master, there are more and more thugs. Should we fight?”

Ke Ling asked for orders.

“No. These thugs are like cockroaches—endless. Fighting will only attract more. And it’s a waste of time.”

Yang Liuqing shook her head gently.

At that moment, the motorcycles fanned out and stopped, forming a semicircle to surround them.

After fighting Chise Liequan, Yang Liuqing faced this kind of scene without a trace of panic. She was completely calm.

She’d even repelled a Transcendent before—why be afraid of a bunch of thugs?

But not being afraid didn’t mean she’d kill them.

At this point, killing or not killing wouldn’t change the outcome.

The entire Xiaoya Bay would become a battlefield for the magic potion anyway.

Rather than waste time on them, she might as well find a safe place and let the clock run.

This mini game had a clear time limit.

The longer she stalled, the better for her.

“Hey, pretty girl? Pretty boy? Whatever—just come with us for a while, okay?”

The blond said with a smarmy smile.

It wasn’t that he couldn’t tell male from female.

Simply that Yang Liuqing looked a bit different from her photo.

In both aura and appearance, she was no different from a girl.

Her height and build had even shrunk.

From every angle, she was a breathtakingly beautiful girl.

If it weren’t for the ill-fitting clothes giving a sense of dissonance, everything else would be fine.

The thugs’ eyes gleamed.

Such a rare beauty—unprecedented. Who knew when they’d ever encounter one again?

“What if I say no?”

Yang Liuqing stood her ground without arrogance or fear.

“Then don’t blame us for getting rough.”

The blond’s face instantly turned cold.

Their own lives were at stake—whether she was a beautiful girl or a goddess, they had to capture her and deliver her.

The atmosphere shifted. All the thugs kicked down their motorcycle stands and got off to carry out the order.

If they didn’t bring her back, their boss Daoba really would kill them.

“Then, come and catch me if you can.”

Yang Liuqing’s lips curled into a mocking smile.

This was exactly what she’d been waiting for—them to kill the engines and dismount.

As soon as she finished speaking, she took off running.

“Damn it! Are you a rabbit? Running that fast!”

The blond clearly hadn’t known about Yang Liuqing’s transformation.

All the thugs were stunned.

Could a person really move fast enough to leave afterimages?!

“Get on! Chase him!”

Seeing them standing around dumbfounded, the blond barked.

“Ke Ling, Ke Li, is there a Transcendent among them?”

By now, Yang Liuqing had darted into a narrow alley.

“No.”

The two little ones said in unison.

“They’re just ordinary thugs.”

“So it really was a lie after all. ‘Anyone can become a god’—only the chosen have even a tiny chance.”

Yang Liuqing laughed bitterly.

If everyone could become a god, then gods would be far too cheap.

“Master might have misheard, or didn’t read the fine print on the Game Administrator’s promotional poster,”

Ke Ling said offhandedly.

“There’s no such thing!”

Yang Liuqing shot her a look.

It wasn’t Yu Tianjun, after all—who would put fine print on a poster?

“Xiao Qingqing taking marketing hype seriously is pretty unbearable.”

Ke Li looked helpless.

“It’s like that lottery you entered before. Only people eighteen or older who were chosen could participate, right?”

“I guess so.”

Yang Liuqing recalled while picking up speed.

The roar of motorcycles came from behind.

“In short, it’s advertising fraud.”

Ke Ling glanced back. The headlights were bright and glaring.

“There aren’t as many chosen ones as Master thinks. Otherwise, the streets would be full of Transcendents, and it’d be total chaos.”

“True.”

Yang Liuqing understood.

Transcendents becoming as common as cabbages didn’t mean everyone had a cabbage.

Besides, the lottery didn’t guarantee abilities—part of it was just items.

“Xiao Qingqing, this won’t work. Motorcycles aren’t that affected in alleys. They’ll catch up soon!”

Ke Li indicated that now wasn’t the time for chitchat.

“Master, dead end.”

Ke Ling looked ahead. The alley ended in a high wall.