The crimson greatsword swung straight toward Xia Lan’s body, leaving a trail of scarlet afterimage.
Just as the blade was about to touch Xia Lan’s body, a mutation occurred.
The twisted, profane half of Xia Lan’s flesh transformed into countless bacterial miasmas, bypassing Annie and reforming behind her.
Before Annie could recover, Xia Lan’s lips tore apart, and an enormous, ugly mouthpart extended outward like a blooming chrysanthemum, shooting straight for Annie’s head.
Swish!
Annie swung her greatsword back in one motion, and the base of the mouthpart was immediately split in two by the sharp slash.
She quickly retreated, staring at Xia Lan in shock.
“At this level of strength, you’re the real one!?”
Xia Lan did not respond.
She retracted her mouthpart, her lips returning to normal, and looked at Annie with a cold gaze.
Realizing that the Na Gou before her was not a clone, Annie’s heart immediately surged with excitement.
Her blood boiled, and the combat-loving factor of [Kong Nue] began to dominate.
She laughed heartily, brandishing her greatsword wildly.
“Haha, I never thought I’d run into your real body one day.”
With her murderous desire rising, a scarlet light enveloped Annie, cutting off Xia Lan’s miasma and spores.
“I didn’t expect to have a proper meal tonight!”
[Lady Annie, please prioritize the mission!]
“I know, but since I finally met Xiao Xia’s real body, how can I not give her a proper welcome?”
Lust took over the small head, and the big head gradually sharpened.
A scarlet domain enveloped the hospital room, the smell of blood filling the nostrils, and faint skeletal ghosts drifted in the air.
“I know, with these patients here, Xiao Xia, you can’t go all out, and I won’t have as much fun.”
Annie pointed at the patients on the nearby beds.
“So, let’s change places!”
In an instant, Annie’s figure disappeared from the spot.
At the same time, Xia Lan’s figure also vanished.
And Bai Jia, who had lost his restraint, immediately fell onto the hospital room floor.
The smell of blood and stench of rot—
The powers of Kong Nue and Na Gou lingered in the room, intertwining and smearing every void.
‘It hurts, it stinks…’
Bai Jia instinctively curled up his body.
Perhaps due to the influence of the two magical girls’ powers, he felt a coldness in his lower abdomen, yet also a fire burning there, the heat spreading from his dantian to every nerve in his body.
A tingling pleasure filled his entire body, and a faint sheen of sweat covered his skin.
An indescribable desire surged from the deepest part of his heart.
His brain nerves raced wildly, and scenes from the deepest reaches of his memory surfaced in his mind.
A shabby operating room, a tired middle-aged man, a blinding overhead light…
Fragmented memories flooded his brain, but Bai Jia had no mind to deal with them.
Because a voice, as if from the deepest abyss of chaos, and like an interrogation from his own heart, spoke.
[What do you desire most in your heart?]
The most desired…
Bai Jia’s memory flickered to the second year after he was left at the orphanage.
The orphanage grandma would set the day the children arrived at the orphanage as their birthday.
He remembered that at his birthday party that year, he didn’t smile, but Grandma still said to him kindly, “Make a wish.”
He looked at the flickering candlelight and finally made this wish.
[I want someone to love me forever and never abandon me.]
A faint pink light rose from under Bai Jia’s skin, cutting off the lingering influence of Na Gou and Kong Nue’s power on him.
—
Hospital, morgue.
Annie and Xia Lan’s figures flashed into this place.
Xia Lan looked around and couldn’t help frowning.
“You chose this place as a battlefield?”
“There aren’t any living people here, isn’t that great?” Annie showed a seemingly very healthy smile.
Xia Lan stared at Annie.
She instinctively felt something was off, so she immediately checked the images sent back by the bugs left in the hospital room, but they showed no problems at the moment.
‘Strange, that Annie. Why choose this place as a battlefield? The morgue has many corpses. From a rational perspective, this battlefield clearly gives me a greater advantage.’
‘Hmm, but with Kong Nue’s power influencing her, Annie is already a maniac. If she thinks beating the enemy in a place favorable to them is more satisfying, that wouldn’t be strange.’
But, according to Xia Lan’s speculation, the Leonard Corporation must have investigated Bai Jia’s identity and thus sent Annie to capture him.
From the fact that Annie hasn’t taken extreme measures, it’s clear that the Leonard Corporation has ordered her to keep a low profile.
If not for running into her by chance, Annie would have finished the mission days ago.
But at this moment, Annie did not bring Bai Jia with her, instead leaving him in the hospital room.
Was it because the long-unfought battle with her real body made her temporarily forget the mission?
Not to mention, if it’s that pointy-headed woman, she really could do something like this.
As far as Xia Lan knew, the number of times Annie had failed missions because she wanted to enjoy a fight was already numerous.
For example, in the most recent one, Annie fought fiercely with an angel from the Church of Light, causing the needed documents to be burned.
But Bai Jia had the potential to hold the power of Se Nie.
Could Annie be so obtuse as to disregard the importance of this matter?
Xia Lan’s mind raced, but at this moment, Annie showed a sly smile of having planned things perfectly.
“Alright! Let’s take this as a reunion after all these years,” Annie hoisted the greatsword.
“Use Na Gou’s power on me, Xiao Xia!”
Before the words faded, Annie’s figure burst forward, turning into a streak of red light that crashed into Xia Lan’s body.
At the moment of impact, Xia Lan’s abdomen suddenly burst open, and a huge, plump worm opened its gaping maw.
Its overlapping mouthparts dripped with sticky saliva as it met the deadly red light.
Boom!
The moment the red light and the worm collided, the air exploded with a sharp boom, sending out rippling waves.
Then Annie’s form reappeared.
She raised her greatsword high, and the blade blocked the worm’s mouthpart squarely.
Then Annie’s muscles suddenly flexed, and the worm was flung aside like a toy by the immense force.
Its terrifying form let out a pitiful whimper.
“Tsk, your strength is still as great as ever.”
Xia Lan frowned deeply, immediately choosing to create distance and waving her hand.
The next moment, clouds of green mist exploded on Annie’s body one after another.
Countless vile, indescribable tiny creatures writhed within the mist.
As the green mist enveloped Annie’s body, those profane things gradually took root on her skin.
From a distance, Annie now looked like a dancing clump of disco green rice.
These were the spores that had been attached to Annie earlier in the hospital room.
Dense and clinging, Annie now seemed like a body built from stacked worms.
In other words, did Xia Lan win?
Whoosh!
In an instant, a scarlet blood aura exploded from Annie!
The powerful energy and blood mist turned into an imposing aura that wiped out all those filthy bastards on her body.
“Hahahaha!!! How nostalgic, Na Gou!”
Annie’s eyes turned scarlet as she laughed ferociously.
“It reminds me of the day we first met—you were scared like a coward!”
Xia Lan’s expression was grim.
She didn’t respond.
It was precisely because of their years of fighting that she knew the power of [Kong Nue] was not so easily defeated.
“Now, let’s recreate that battle from back then! Let the myth reenact!”
Annie raised her greatsword, its tip pointing to the sky, and shouted madly.
“Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!”
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