Chapter 264: Using a borrowed knife to kill
"Looking for death!"
Seeing Lin Wei not answering, the other party let out a low roar, swung both hands, and several identical bone short spears materialized out of thin air, shooting towards Lin Wei.
Lin Wei hurriedly dodged, jumping left and right.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The other party was experienced and cunning, taking advantage of the momentum to close in, their withered, sharp claws aiming straight for her heart.
Lin Wei gritted her teeth, parrying and evading, but the disparity in strength was obvious.
The other party's strength was above hers.
"Rip!"
Another bloody gash appeared on Lin Wei's arm.
"Thump!" A vicious knee strike to her abdomen sent a sharp pain through her, bending her over, almost suffocating her.
"Before hunting, you should first figure out whose territory this is. Pay attention to that in your next life."
The other party grinned hideously, raising their sharp claws.
Despair filled Lin Wei's eyes.
A wave of Pressure suddenly descended.
Like a tangible mountain, it pressed down heavily on that Aberrant's body.
Medium-risk Tenth Stage peak!
Only a single step away from High-risk!
The Aberrant's raised claws instantly froze mid-air, its entire skeleton creaking and groaning, its pupils contracting.
It looked incredulously in the direction the Pressure came from.
There was only dense shadow there.
"G... Great One! Spare me! I was blind! I didn't know she was your person! The prey... I offer all the prey to you, Great One! I beg you, let me live!"
It fell to its knees with a thud, its voice trembling, kowtowing like pounding garlic, its previous ferocity completely gone.
He was only a Low-risk Tenth Tier, utterly incapable of fighting the one across from him.
From within the shadows.
Su Zhan's figure slowly emerged, his golden vertical pupils sweeping over the Aberrant with indifference, not uttering a single word.
He casually raised his hand.
A condensed gray-white ray shot out.
"No—!"
The Aberrant's head was pierced through, and it fell straight to the ground, without even a chance to struggle.
The battle began in an instant and ended in another instant.
Lin Wei let out heavy, ragged breaths, enduring the sharp pain in her abdomen, struggling to get up.
She looked at Su Zhan, lowered her head, and said softly, "Thank you, Great One, for saving my life."
Su Zhan's gaze swept over the wound on her abdomen, then glanced at the drunkard's corpse on the ground, his tone flat and unemotional:
"Can you move? Clean this up."
Lin Wei endured the pain, stuffed the Aberrant and the drunkard's corpses deep into a nearby large trash bin, covering them with some waste.
She took a breath, leaned against the wall, and said in a delicate, weak tone:
"It's done, Great One... The Aberrant is dead, the officials won't bother investigating deeply, at most they'll treat it as an Aberrant gang fight. That human corpse left there is fine too, that's how I usually handle things. And... Great One~ I'm injured, and you're still so cold like this, you really don't know how to cherish beauty~"
Su Zhan's gaze swept over her: "Stop pretending. Also, from now on, in front of me, put away your little clever tricks."
Lin Wei's body stiffened slightly, her delicate weakness receding considerably: "...What do you mean?"
"You've been in Lincheng for so many years, how could you not know this district is that guy's hunting ground?"
Su Zhan's tone was flat, yet each word struck at the heart: "You came here to hunt on purpose. Your target was never that drunkard. You wanted to use my hand to eliminate this fellow Aberrant. Using another's blade to kill, not bad play."
Lin Wei's face instantly paled.
She hadn't expected her scheme to have been seen through clearly from the very beginning.
She immediately lowered her head, not daring to offer any more excuses, her posture extremely submissive: "...The Great One sees all. I... I was being too clever for my own good."
"For matters like this, you can tell me directly. I don't mind helping you solve trouble, since you're working for me now."