Chapter 80

"Bodyguard?" Yuan Lan seemed to have heard a joke and laughed heartily to himself.

Ji Chuanze looked at him, somewhat confused, not knowing what he was doing.

Ji Chuanze was about to climb up when Yuan Lan's foot, which was on his shoulder, pushed slightly, sending him back down again. Yuan Lan continued to laugh, as if the person under his foot wasn't a human, but a bug that could be trampled at will and entertained him.

"Oh, sorry, sorry, I'm not laughing at you," Yuan Lan's demeanor and tone were utterly unapologetic, tears almost coming to his eyes from laughing. He raised a hand to wipe his slightly moist eye corner with his index finger knuckle, and asked with a smile, "It's just, why would Bai Xuechao choose someone weaker than him to be a bodyguard, hahahaha..."

In this world where the highest special ability level was 9 and there were only four people at that level, Ji Chuanze, as a level 7 special ability user, was only lower in rank than a small number of level 8 special ability users. He was already considered among the top of the pyramid, but in Yuan Lan's eyes, he was nothing.

Being stepped on and humiliated like this, Ji Chuanze's handsome face flushed with anger.

He braced his right elbow against the edge of the hole, twisted his wrist, and swept his blade towards Yuan Lan's other foot, which was on the ground.

Yuan Lan's one foot was still pressing on Ji Chuanze's shoulder. If it were an ordinary person, trying to dodge this attack would certainly involve comically hopping on one foot, but unfortunately, Yuan Lan was a special ability user.

He merely moved his fingers, and a dozen puppet threads flew out from the void, entangling Ji Chuanze's horizontal blade and flinging it away.

The horizontal blade landed on the ground with a "clang" and slid several meters due to inertia. It stopped where Ji Chuanze had dropped his milk tea bag not long ago.

The milk tea bag had been affected during their battle just now; both the bag and the milk tea cup inside were sliced open. Light brown milk tea flowed all over the ground, and the silver-white blade tip was stained with some of it.

The scattered, split cup bag, the milk tea spread out like a pool of blood, and the horizontal blade lying unwielded, together formed a scene that couldn't help but make one think of a disaster.

"Come on, try harder," Yuan Lan looked down at Ji Chuanze, moving the foot that was pressing on his shoulder to his chin. He used the pointed tip of his leather shoe to hook Ji Chuanze's chin, saying with a lack of interest, "I don't even have the desire to control you like this."

Bai Xuechao watched all this, making no move.

He estimated in his mind that the protagonist group should have arrived.

Xiao 6 bit its code handkerchief and said angrily, "Yuan Lan is too bad! How can he bully an arrogant puppy like this?!"

Bai Xuechao: "..."

Before, didn't it call him an arrogant evil dog? Now he's a puppy?

Ji Chuanze defiantly kicked Yuan Lan. His vision, blurred temporarily due to the special ability's side effects, couldn't see anything clearly. Yuan Lan was a blurry color block of white and black, still stained with a thin layer of red from the blood flowing into his eyes.

He reached out to grasp the ankle of Yuan Lan's foot that was hooking his chin. As Yuan Lan waited with a look of amusement, he was about to forcefully crush Yuan Lan's ankle bone when the European-style main doors of the room were suddenly pulled open.

"Bai Xuechao!" Zhou Chenhao recklessly rushed in through the gap in the main doors that was just wide enough for a person to pass.

He froze for a moment after seeing the scene in the room, and his movements also stopped.

Xia Xiaoxi ran behind Zhou Chenhao. Because Zhou Chenhao suddenly stopped, she couldn't brake and bumped into his back. She rubbed her head and, clutching Zhou Chenhao's shoulder, tiptoed to look inside: "Why are you blocking the doorway? Is he still there?"

She peered in, and after seeing the scene in the room, she also froze.

Ling Feng followed last, arriving right behind. With his height, he didn't need to tiptoe and looked directly over Zhou Chenhao's shoulder at the scene in the game room—

The room was in disarray, full of pits and hollows, as if it had suffered a disaster. There were still damp water stains on the floor, presumably from Bai Xuechao using his special ability.

There were several deep marks on the walls, some thick, some thin. The thick ones were probably caused by the horizontal blade next to the spilled milk tea on the floor, and the thin ones looked like they were caused by fine threads like piano wire. Traces of battle were everywhere.

Bai Xuechao, whom they were looking for, had not left and was standing on the sofa chair on the inner side, completely unaffected by the mess in the room.

A large hole had collapsed in the floor. A black-haired youth with gray hair had fallen into the hole, his hands gripping the edge of the hole. His face and body were covered in crimson bloodstains, looking disheveled.

At the edge of the hole, in front of the youth, stood a tall, white-haired youth, who was lightly hooking the youth's chin with his foot. The youth's hand was also clutching the ankle of the foot that was hooking his chin, his eyes fierce, like a beast about to devour someone.

W-what was going on?

At first glance, Bai Xuechao, who was standing aloof, seemed to be with the youth, but there was a sense of incongruity everywhere. In their understanding, Bai Xuechao shouldn't act like that.

"More people have come." Yuan Lan's gaze swept over the three of them, finally resting on Zhou Chenhao, and he chuckled, "It's you, the nullification special ability user."

"You know me?" Zhou Chenhao asked, pointing at himself, somewhat surprised.

"Mm-hmm." Yuan Lan nodded, speaking volubly, "Originally, I wanted to turn you into my new toy, but I've already found something more interesting, Xiaoxuechao—" He drew out the last syllable.

Bai Xuechao wanted to curse after hearing that.

What kind of feeling was it when a boyfriend showed off his new toy to others?

He didn't deliberately resist the control from the special ability, and his body involuntarily jumped off the backrest of the sofa chair, walking straight towards Yuan Lan, and standing beside him.

Yuan Lan finally lowered the foot that had been hooking Ji Chuanze's chin, turned around, and intimately put his arm around Bai Xuechao's shoulder, as if they were friends of many years. He flicked Bai Xuechao's hair that hung by his neck, his eyes curving into a smile: "Xiaoxuechao is already mine."

"Huh?" Zhou Chenhao tilted his head.

Xia Xiaoxi poked her ear with her index finger, then raised her hand: "Um, can you say that again? I think I misheard."

Ling Feng didn't question Yuan Lan's words. Instead, as if he had thought of something, his pupils dilated.

"I said—" Yuan Lan was about to repeat.

On the other side, Ji Chuanze, after Yuan Lan released his restraint, quickly climbed up from the edge of the hole. He interrupted Yuan Lan at this moment, shouting in a low, hoarse voice, "Bai Xuechao, how long are you going to be controlled?!"

That single sentence revealed that Bai Xuechao was currently controlled by Yuan Lan, and also that he and Bai Xuechao were truly acquainted.

The trio was somewhat shocked.

A special ability user who could control Bai Xuechao must be a high-level special ability user!

"I don't like being interrupted when I'm talking, you know," Yuan Lan said, looking somewhat unhappy. He pouted, but his gaze was on Bai Xuechao, as if complaining coyly to him.

At the same time, several puppet threads suddenly flew out of the air, shooting straight towards Ji Chuanze.

But Ji Chuanze's horizontal blade had already been flung far away by Yuan Lan, and he currently held nothing in his hands, unable to see clearly, making it impossible to defend himself!

Zhou Chenhao didn't know that the white-haired youth in front was a level 9 special ability user. As the saying goes, a newborn calf fears no tiger. When he saw the puppet threads attacking the unarmed Ji Chuanze, he subconsciously ran forward, wanting to stop them, but he was too far away to help even if he wanted to.

Xia Xiaoxi reacted and also used her special ability to produce vines, which flew towards Yuan Lan.

She didn't know Ji Chuanze or Yuan Lan; she was only helping Ji Chuanze because he seemed to be a friend of Bai Xuechao and appeared to be at a disadvantage.

Seeing that the two had already acted, Ling Feng's special ability was not suitable for this scene at the moment, so he just stayed where he was, pondering something, his superior and refined brows looking somewhat serious.

However, neither of them could catch up.

Ji Chuanze was very close to Yuan Lan, and the puppet threads appeared almost in front of him. He had no time to think and could only rely on his body's perception of the outside world and his blurry vision, which couldn't even make out a face, to try and dodge the flying puppet threads.

He dodged two, but Yuan Lan anticipated his movements, and his left shoulder was pierced by a puppet thread.

Yuan Lan raised his hand, and one end of the puppet thread appeared at his fingertip.

He raised his hand and pulled, and Ji Chuanze's left shoulder was entangled by the puppet thread. The other end flew upwards, hanging in the air, suspending Ji Chuanze's left shoulder as if in a marionette show, restricting his movements and making it difficult for him to dodge or escape.

Immediately after, several more puppet threads attacked Ji Chuanze, who was trapped in place and unable to flee.

Xia Xiaoxi's vines were instantly cut into several pieces by the puppet threads.

Yuan Lan caught Zhou Chenhao's punch with one hand. The punch and palm collided with a "thwack," and he opened his eyes slightly in surprise: "Oh, you're quite strong."

As he spoke, a puppet thread flew out from where their skin touched, about to drill into Zhou Chenhao's body!

Just then, a high-pressure water stream condensed in the air not far away and sprayed over, cutting the puppet thread hanging Ji Chuanze's left shoulder at a perfect angle, and also severing the puppet thread that was about to drill into Zhou Chenhao's body!

Bai Xuechao only broke free from control for a second before he was again under Yuan Lan's control.

He confirmed that Yuan Lan's puppet thread implantation could be interrupted.

"Xiaoxuechao, how could you betray me?" Yuan Lan immediately ignored everyone else, pressing his arm on Bai Xuechao's shoulder. There was no trace of sadness on his face, and he said with great interest, "This is the second time. Although both times you only temporarily broke free, you might be able to break free completely soon. Ah... just thinking about it makes me so excited. Do you want to kill me?"

He extended the tip of his pink tongue and licked his lower lip.

On the other side, Ling Feng picked up the horizontal blade lying next to the spilled milk tea on the ground and looked at Ji Chuanze: "This is yours, right?"

He threw the horizontal blade.

Ji Chuanze could only see a blurry color block flying towards him, but relying on his familiarity with the horizontal blade and the color distinction between the hilt and the blade, he successfully caught the hilt, swung it once to shake off the milk tea stained on the blade tip, and then swung the blade at Yuan Lan.

He called out again, "Bai Xuechao!"

Bai Xuechao actually didn't really want to respond to Ji Chuanze, but he still made a token effort, after all, this person hadn't abandoned him and fled.

The high-pressure water stream had only half condensed when Yuan Lan manipulated it to cancel. Bai Xuechao offered no resistance to the control, and the water splashed "whoosh" onto the ground.

This series of actions, in the eyes of others, was Ji Chuanze calling out to the controlled Bai Xuechao, and Bai Xuechao trying his best to respond but failing.

Xiao 6 was so excited it was about to faint: How is this not a mutual journey?!

Yuan Lan used a puppet thread to block Ji Chuanze's blade, then gripped Bai Xuechao's slender nape and said with a smile to Ji Chuanze, "It seems your relationship is still good?"

"Not at all," Ji Chuanze replied hoarsely, "We're incompatible like fire and water."

Yuan Lan raised an eyebrow: "Is that so?"

Several puppet threads flew towards Ji Chuanze from different angles.

Ji Chuanze couldn't see clearly and could only dodge by senses other than sight.

Just as he was about to crash into a puppet thread Yuan Lan had released behind him, anticipating his movement, Zhou Chenhao pulled him aside, dodging it by a hair's breadth.

"Um, I've been wanting to ask that," Zhou Chenhao said, pulling Ji Chuanze back with one hand to create distance from Yuan Lan, and pointing at the leather shoe on Yuan Lan's foot with the other. He asked with a sunny smile, "Why are you only wearing half a shoe?"

The leather shoe he was pointing at was the one whose tip Bai Xuechao had previously cut off with high-pressure water. One could see Yuan Lan's five toes that had regrown through special ability healing.

Zhou Chenhao added, "Are your toes free?"

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