Li Sitong stood up and said, "You go in through the front door first to distract her, and I'll climb in through the back window to ambush her from behind."
Do you even hear what you're saying?
"You overestimate me. With my current strength, I probably can't even last a single encounter, and besides, I'm really hungry right now, I can't muster any strength."
Jiang Xia gave a wry smile and waved his hand, showing no intention of proving himself.
This isn't something to act recklessly about.
Li Sitong smiled faintly, "Don't worry, this woman isn't too strong. She won't kill you in one encounter. The reason I want you to cooperate with me for a sneak attack from behind isn't because we can't beat her, but because we don't want to make too much noise. It's best to deal with her without alerting anyone. More importantly, I want to give you an opportunity to gain experience."
"I think we should plan this more carefully."
Jiang Xia had thought about going to the battlefield, but he didn't expect it to be so soon. He wasn't even mentally prepared. He was just here to check on his sister, right?
"Do you not trust me?" Li Sitong's eyes narrowed, a cold light shooting from the narrow slits.
"No, no, how could I not trust you? It's just that I'm not ready yet!"
"Ready? Not everything will give you ample time to prepare. If you hesitate this time, you'll never grow!"
Li Sitong pushed Jiang Xia out of the side room.
Under her mix of coaxing, threatening, and enticing, Jiang Xia, holding a twenty-centimeter military knife, left the villa, quietly approaching the opposite villa.
Jiang Xia didn't want to go, but Li Sitong promised him that if he could just slightly distract the "kind" inside the villa, she would tell him a way to make his family safer.
This condition indeed moved him. Compared to himself, Jiang Xia wanted his family to be safer. Otherwise, in this suddenly changing world, he couldn't ensure that his mom and sister wouldn't suddenly encounter danger.
A piece of good news was that Li Sitong told him the password to the villa's door lock, so he didn't need to pick the lock and could just go in directly.
Although entering the password might make some noise, wasn't his task to expose himself, attract that thing's attention, and facilitate Li Sitong's successful sneak attack from behind?
Moreover, even if entering the password didn't make a sound, since they were of the same kind, that thing should be able to sense another kind approaching.
Another piece of news, which he wasn't sure if it was bad, was that he still hadn't mastered how to transform. He could only pray that Li Sitong wouldn't fail him.
Standing in front of the villa door, Jiang Xia took a deep breath, trying to calm his tense nerves, but it had no effect. His heart rate began to accelerate, and he could clearly feel his heart pounding against his chest. Finally, he entered the password with a sense of dread.
Click!
The villa door opened!
Thump—thump—thump!
Jiang Xia felt like his heart was about to explode!
Throughout the process, he had been forcing himself to be brave, gritting his teeth, and now that the door was open, he regretted it!
He couldn't understand: How did I dare to listen to Li Sitong's crazy words and open this door?
Faintly, the sound of flesh being torn came from inside the villa.
Jiang Xia began to reconsider going inside. Maybe there was still time to leave?
Swish, swish, swish!
Without giving Jiang Xia a chance to regret, three tentacle-like things resembling seaweed shot out from the door crack, wrapping around Jiang Xia's legs unexpectedly. With a forceful pull, Jiang Xia's body slammed against the door crack, and he was dragged inside.
"Damn!"
Jiang Xia's head buzzed. He remembered he still had a military knife in his hand and tried to cut the seaweed-like tentacles wrapped around his legs.
But somehow, the tentacles wrapped around his legs suddenly loosened on their own.
The next moment, he saw a fish-headed monster quickly crawling towards him, its spine twisting, emitting a deep-sea fish-like hum.
Jiang Xia only noticed the two very large eyes on the monster's head. He was almost scared stiff, his mind blank, but his strong survival instinct made his body react instinctively, using his hands to push against the ground and retreat continuously.
But the fish-headed monster kept rapidly approaching him.
Jiang Xia was anxious, placing all his hopes on Li Sitong, hoping she would appear to save the day. But even when the monster's blue arm grabbed his calf, Li Sitong was nowhere to be seen!
Jiang Xia's whole body jolted as if struck by electricity!
His eyes turned red, his mind heated up!
Damn it!
Dead either way, might as well fight!
Jiang Xia grabbed the military knife and stabbed it straight into the fish head's eye, with a squelch, dark green liquid exploded, splattering all over his face.
With just one stab, the fish-headed monster stopped moving, its large fish head slumping to the ground.
Jiang Xia's eyes froze for a moment, staring at the motionless fish head, not understanding how he managed to end the fight with just one stab. Wasn't it supposed to be a life-or-death struggle?
Suddenly!
The fish mouth snapped open!
A black, small octopus-like thing shot out from the fish mouth, slapping onto Jiang Xia's face.
Jiang Xia let out a scream, grabbing the thing's two tentacles with both hands, his fingernails filled with soft flesh, but no matter how hard he pulled, he couldn't get it off, as if thousands of tiny suckers were clinging to his skin.
The most terrifying thing was, this thing was trying to crawl into his mouth, seemingly wanting to enter his body!
Jiang Xia used all his strength to pull, his facial skin stretching and deforming, the burning sensation on his face made him realize he might be disfigured, the slippery and sticky feeling making him extremely uncomfortable.
Finally, after using all his strength, he managed to pull the thing off his face.
The slippery liquid made it hard for Jiang Xia to grip it firmly, his eyes bloodshot, both hands violently squeezing the thing, his fingernails digging into its flesh, not giving it a chance to escape, clenching his teeth, he tore it apart like raw meat, black liquid splattering out.
Only when the thing was torn into several pieces, completely motionless in his hands, did Jiang Xia slowly release his grip, the slimy chunks of flesh hanging between his fingers.
Hurriedly throwing the pieces away, Jiang Xia sat on the ground, gasping for air, his expression still in shock, the edges of his irises glowing with the same phosphorescence as the monster's blood.
It wasn't until he vaguely felt a warm current flowing through his body that he slowly came back to his senses.
His gaze shifted to the fish-headed monster on the ground, his brow furrowing.
Just now, the fish-headed monster had been rapidly crawling towards him on the ground, and in the urgency of the moment, he hadn't noticed—it had its legs cut off, and there were several holes on its back, oozing tar-like blood.
What happened?
Who did this?
Li Sitong?
Jiang Xia looked around, his gaze finally fixing on a corner of the living room, his pupils rapidly contracting.
There stood a tall, tightly wrapped black-clothed person.
This person wore black boots, black tactical pants, a tactical jacket, a hood over a baseball cap, and a black mask.
Seemed like a woman?
The only exposed parts of her body were those sharp eyes and the hand holding a knife.
In her left hand, she held a blue-glowing curved blade, the arc just right, with a total length of over 1.3 meters including the handle.
"Awakened?" Jiang Xia's breath caught.