A powerful light shone in through the window.
Jiang Ran stood by the window, looking down at the group of people gathered below.
Led by Jiang Congwen, all the ability users from the Lan Base had come.
After all, this was the leader’s order.
Aside from Jiang Ran, no one in the entire base possessed an ability stronger than Jiang Congwen’s.
Three people stood on the rooftop of the villa.
Xiao Jingcheng stood in the middle with his arms crossed and a faint smile on his face, while Su Ya and Nie Fei stood on either side of him.
Looking at the hostile group below, Xiao Jingcheng reached up and adjusted his black-rimmed glasses.
“I’ve wanted to leave this godforsaken base for a long time.”
The three of them were simply waiting for Jiang Ran to give the order.
Lin Buyu walked over to the window and looked down.
The angry middle-aged man below was, unsurprisingly, Jiang Ran’s father, Jiang Congwen—the leader of the base.
The way he looked at Jiang Ran was not like the way a father looked at his son. It was more like he was looking at an enemy.
Jiang Congwen had always tolerated Jiang Ran’s bad temper because Jiang Ran’s abilities were stronger than his own.
But Jiang Ran should never have killed Jiang Tao.
That was his most beloved son.
Jiang Congwen stared at Jiang Ran furiously, the murderous intent in his eyes almost tangible.
“You killed Jiang Tao.”
He practically spat the words through clenched teeth.
Jiang Ran calmly looked at Jiang Congwen.
He had always thought that Jiang Congwen was the kind of person who fawned on the powerful and put benefits above everything else.
Apparently, it simply depended on who was involved.
He knew that fighting Jiang Ran would leave both sides seriously injured, yet he had still come here for Jiang Tao.
“Yes, I killed him. So what?”
“So what?”
Suddenly, ice pillars erupted from Jiang Congwen’s hands and shot violently toward them.
“I want you to pay with your life!”
“Get out of the way.”
Jiang Ran casually pushed Lin Buyu aside before leaping out of the third-floor window.
Lightning crackled fiercely around his hands.
The lightning and ice pillars collided in midair, neither side gaining the upper hand.
Almost the instant Jiang Congwen moved, all the ability users below moved as well.
However, their target was not Jiang Ran.
It was Xiao Jingcheng and the other two.
Although Xiao Jingcheng’s ability was particularly suited to cooperating with teammates, he was not afraid of fighting alone.
His ability was simply too strange. Anyone who fought him would be at a severe disadvantage.
As long as he could petrify someone for even one second, that person would become nothing more than another corpse beneath his blade.
Everyone in the base knew this.
The only way to deal with him was to avoid making eye contact.
Therefore, all the ability users surrounding him possessed speed-based abilities. They had also deliberately separated Xiao Jingcheng from Su Ya and Nie Fei, intending to take them down one by one.
A full ten ability users surrounded Xiao Jingcheng.
Su Ya and Nie Fei were not having an easier time either.
After all, the ability users of Group A were the strongest in the entire base.
Su Ya slammed her iron fist into the chest of an ability user who approached her, sending him flying more than ten meters.
But three or four more immediately rushed forward to surround her.
As for Nie Fei’s fire ability, he was being countered by water- and ice-type ability users.
Clearly, they had held a meeting beforehand and prepared specific strategies for dealing with them. Their goal was to defeat them one by one.
Moreover, everyone attacking Nie Fei was from Group B.
Group B had always been at odds with Group A. Now that they had the leader’s permission to attack, they certainly had no intention of holding back.
Lin Buyu leaned against the window and watched the battle.
For some reason, she couldn’t shake the feeling that there was another trick waiting to be played.
Xiao Jingcheng, Su Ya, and Nie Fei were still able to hold their own for now.
Meanwhile, Jiang Ran and Jiang Congwen had already exchanged blows dozens of times.
It was obvious that Jiang Congwen was at a disadvantage.
Jiang Ran’s lightning forced him backward step by step until the battle had reached the ground below the villa. Even the ice pillars Jiang Congwen summoned were becoming shorter and shorter.
Lin Buyu rested her chin on her hand as she observed.
Was it because she had arrived during the early stage of the great villain’s awakening?
Jiang Ran was clearly very powerful, but he hadn’t yet reached the point of being completely invincible.
At least in the short term, he really couldn’t defeat Jiang Congwen.
Lin Buyu analyzed the situation thoroughly in her mind while still having enough leisure to critique Jiang Ran’s fighting posture.
“That move where he tilts his head back to dodge the ice pillar… Tsk, that’s pretty handsome.”
Jiang Ran had just forced Jiang Congwen toward the area beneath the villa when he happened to hear her mutter those words.
He couldn’t help looking up.
Their eyes met.
Jiang Ran couldn’t see even the slightest trace of worry in her eyes.
She was as calm as if she were watching a movie.
Jiang Ran let out a low chuckle.
So this was what she called loving him more than her own life?
Little liar.
She couldn’t even commit to the act properly.
When Jiang Congwen was finally pinned against the wall by Jiang Ran, Jiang Congwen secretly raised the hand hidden inside his sleeve and made a gesture toward the most ordinary-looking person in the crowd.
Then he let out a furious roar.
All the ability energy in his body surged into his hands, and the ice pillars shot toward Jiang Ran like a raging torrent.
Forced to dodge the attack, Jiang Ran was sent flying backward.
At the same time, the man hidden behind the crowd gently shook a bell.
In the very next instant, three blue-eyed zombies with terrifying speed suddenly appeared from above and rapidly descended toward the spot where Jiang Ran was dodging.
Everything happened almost simultaneously.
They had calculated the timing perfectly.
To avoid Jiang Congwen’s attack, Jiang Ran had been forced backward, and that was precisely when the zombies launched their ambush.
Once a normal person had already committed to a movement, there was no way to retract it in time.
Blue-eyed zombies were extremely high-level zombies.
Their speed and strength were both terrifying.
They moved like bolts of lightning.
The three zombies had a very clear target—
Jiang Ran’s back.
No one could evade an attack like this.
Not even Jiang Ran.
A sinister ruthlessness flashed in Jiang Congwen’s eyes.
Jiang Ran, go to hell.
Lin Buyu saw everything clearly from above.
Jiang Ran also sensed the danger from the abnormal gust of wind coming from behind him.
Three speed-type enemies.
No time to dodge.
His eyes narrowed sharply.
He gathered a powerful surge of lightning ability in both hands and was just about to counterattack when a blur suddenly flashed past him.
“Bang!”
Lin Buyu swiftly appeared behind Jiang Ran from the third floor.
She kicked away the first zombie that lunged at them and simultaneously reached one hand behind her to steady Jiang Ran as he moved backward.
“Leave these three zombies to me. You deal with the others.”
Jiang Ran’s eyes widened slightly.
The person who had just brushed past him—
Was that Lin Buyu?
What incredible speed.
Lin Buyu felt that crystal cores really were amazing things.
When it came to speed, no zombie could possibly compare to the Zombie King.
She had only just managed to grow a little of her crystal core back, yet she could already move almost like she was teleporting.
Meanwhile, Jiang Congwen stared at the scene in disbelief.
How was this possible?
How could three high-level zombies possibly be unable to deal with a single woman?
One kick from her had sent them flying, and now they didn’t even dare approach her.
What exactly was going on?
Jiang Ran had already stopped.
The two stood back to back.
When Lin Buyu said they were zombies, Jiang Ran immediately thought of what Jiang Tao had brought back.
Artificially created high-level zombies.
Jiang Congwen was no longer a threat.
Jiang Ran turned around and stood beside her.
Not far away, the three blue-eyed zombies were crouched on the ground, like wild beasts preparing to pounce.
Yet they also seemed to be wary of something.
Jiang Ran grabbed Lin Buyu by the shoulder.
“You deal with Jiang Congwen. I’ll handle these three zombies.”
Zombies were not like humans.
When fighting a human, sustaining a few injuries wasn’t necessarily a problem.
But zombies were different.
There was always the risk of being scratched and infected.
On the other side, Jiang Congwen shouted,
“Quick! Dr. Yang, make them attack Jiang Ran! I want him dead! I want him to become a zombie!”
Tsk.
Those words had actually come from the mouth of a biological father.
Disgusting.
Lin Buyu pushed Jiang Ran backward.
“You deal with your disgusting old man yourself.”
Then, without another word, she charged straight toward the zombie at the front.