Chapter 98: We Really Are a Perfect Match, Hehe
Finally, at a certain moment, the white light of the sun shone through the blasted opening.
“We’ve reached the surface!”
The Zhu Que cried out excitedly, its body squeezing through the opening and taking flight into the sky. Behind it, countless Zerg surged out like geysers, snapping at the Zhu Que’s tail feathers and pursuing them relentlessly.
“We can’t let them gather, or we’ll be dragged back into the wormhole!”
Hong Que’s voice was urgent. On command, the Zhu Que immediately turned back toward the opening and opened its beak—
Flames spewed out, incinerating the Zerg in a row. Amidst the miserable screeching of the insects, Hong Que struggled to suppress the irritability brought by his acute hearing and quickly opened his light-brain to contact Sen Ji.
To his surprise, his calls went unanswered several times.
“Damn it! They wouldn’t have gone into the wormhole, would they!”
“Hong Que…” In his arms, Xie Qiang’s face turned pale. “My mental power… it seems to have been used up by the Zhu Que Spear.”
“What?” Hong Que’s heart tightened. He held Xie Qiang tight, his gaze worriedly fixed on the wormhole opening, hoping the Empress wouldn’t appear now.
But as if hearing his inner thoughts, a familiar screech suddenly came from the opening. Hong Que’s expression changed as he saw the Zerg Empress burst out of the hole, lunging madly toward the three of them!
Hong Que thought the Empress was truly insane. “Is she sick?! She’s lost so many limbs, and she still dares to follow us?!”
The Zhu Que spoke up. “Her target is the pervert! If she eats the pervert, she can rapidly recover to her peak state and produce new Zerg Kings!”
Hong Que: “Why didn’t you say so earlier!”
Zhu Que: “How was I supposed to know you were such an idiot!”
With Xie Qiang’s mental power exhausted by the spear, the combat power of the three dropped rapidly.
The Zhu Que was entangled by the Empress’s tail. Mo Yin and Tian Lang fell into the insect tide. Hong Que and Xie Qiang plummeted toward the ground, but thanks to Hong Que’s protection, Xie Qiang wasn’t injured.
Watching the Empress crawl toward him and Xie Qiang, Hong Que’s expression grew increasingly grim. He looked down at Xie Qiang in his arms. The girl was biting her knuckles hard, her pale lips trembling with fear, yet she was still trying to think of a solution. “What to do… what else can be done…”
Hong Que was heartbroken. He raised his hand to wipe away the tears at the corner of Xie Qiang’s eyes and kissed her forehead. “Xie Qiang, don’t be afraid.”
Even if I die, I will protect you.
He looked up at the Zerg Empress, his gaze gradually turning fierce.
The Zhu Que family had a secret: every generation of twins with shared senses could use the Zhu Que Secret Technique. By sacrificing one person’s life as an offering, the other’s Sentinel rank could be increased by one level.
Years ago, the Head of the Zhu Que family had chosen Mo Yin, who didn’t have the Zhu Que bloodline, wanting him to be the sacrifice so Hong Que could evolve into an SS-class Sentinel.
But for the secret technique to succeed, the sacrifice had to be willing and able to endure the pain of rank fusion. To this end, Mo Yin had suffered inhuman abuse in the Black Prison since he was a child.
Hong Que had gone to great lengths to save him; there was no way he would let him be the sacrifice again. So… this time, the sacrifice would be him.
As long as he could help Mo Yin evolve into an SS-class Sentinel, Mo Yin would be able to protect Xie Qiang.
Hong Que tilted the girl’s chin up, his voice forced into a light tone. “Xie Qiang, watch closely. This move will make you fall for me completely.”
You must stare at me fixedly. Remember my heroic posture.
Don’t you dare forget me.
Even if I die, you must keep liking me.
Wings as red as blood spread behind the youth’s back, and his entire body erupted in flames. As he released the arms holding the girl, he hovered behind Xie Qiang and turned into a whirlwind of fire, shredding the surging insect tide.
“Zhu Que, receive my orders!”
Sss— The Zhu Que turned into a streak of light and surged into Hong Que’s body. Hong Que bit his finger and smeared it on his forehead, then sliced open his entire arm. Blood fell like rain, and with his roar, a strange blood array formed on the ground.
“With the blood of sacrifice, merging the lines of kin, becoming one, for the sake of completeness…”
With every word, a mouthful of blood surged from Hong Que’s mouth. The blood array emitted a dazzling and scorching light, making it impossible for the insect tide and the Empress to get close. Within the tide, Mo Yin—who was lost among the insects—felt a pull and was forced to fly rapidly toward the blood array.
When he saw the blood array on the ground, his eyes snapped wide, and he began to struggle desperately against the force pulling him toward it. “No—no, Brother!”
“Hong Que…”
Xie Qiang’s eyes were red as she looked helplessly at the red-haired youth in the sky. Although she didn’t know exactly what he was doing, her intuition told her he was doing something extremely dangerous—something that might even be life-threatening.
She didn’t want Hong Que to die!
When Hong Que reached the fifteenth word, he looked down at Xie Qiang. After gazing at her with intense longing, he slightly opened his mouth. “…”
Xie Qiang’s heart skipped a beat. Sensing his life force rapidly fading, she finally couldn’t suppress her panic at losing Hong Que. She closed her eyes and screamed with all her might.
“Sen Ji—Cang Jiu!”
Where on earth are you!
Thud—!
The ground nearby suddenly exploded with a roar. A tall, sturdy black shadow burst from the rocks, swinging a broad blade toward the Zerg Empress’s waist.
When the Empress saw the newcomer, she instantly looked like a chick seeing a hawk. She gave a panicked cry, turned her head, and crawled clumsily toward the wormhole opening.
The insect tide, receiving the order to protect the Empress Mother, swarmed toward the newcomer. The man looked on coldly. With a swing of his blade, the tide fell to the ground like metal fragments shredded by a grinder, leaving only mangled limbs and a river of blood.
“Your Highness!”
Cang Jiu hauled Jiang Qingwan out of the opening, tossed her aside, and sprinted toward Xie Qiang. He surveyed her with an anxious expression. “Are you alright! Are you injured!”
Xie Qiang didn’t have time to answer. She looked tensely at Hong Que in the sky and yelled at the top of her lungs, “Hong Que! Get the hell down here!”
Hong Que, whose “ultimate move” had been interrupted, rubbed his nose somewhat awkwardly. He flew slowly back to the ground. Seeing the fierce-looking Xie Qiang walking toward him, he was about to explain when the girl reached out and hugged him tight.
Hong Que froze.
“You’d better not tell me you were planning to sacrifice yourself or self-destruct just now!” Xie Qiang said, her face buried in his chest.
Hong Que choked, saying guiltily, “I wasn’t thinking of self-destructing…”
So he was thinking of sacrificing himself, just in a different way.
Xie Qiang gave Hong Que’s waist a sharp pinch in anger, looking up at him. “Idiot!”
Her eyes were incredibly red, clearly showing her fear that he would die. Hong Que felt warm inside, unable to suppress the curl of his lips. He replied, “Mm, I’m an idiot.”
The two of us are both idiots.
We really are a perfect match, hehe.
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