Chapter 98 - 91: Equipment Drop

Chapter 98: Chapter 91: Equipment Drop

’You’re only just now realizing something is wrong? Aren’t you a little slow?’

After receiving such a definitive answer from the strange Xia Shuran before him.

Gu Qing’s expression darkened, growing more solemn than ever before as a chill crept into his heart.

’What in the world is this person before me?’

’Why can it take on my junior’s form?’

’Why doesn’t it have a label above its head?’

’Is it a ghost?’

’Or some other, even stranger existence?’

The more Gu Qing thought about it, the more his hair stood on end. He raised his guard to the absolute limit, his eyes locked on the strange Xia Shuran, ready to strike at any moment.

Ever since awakening his label ability, this was the first time he’d encountered a humanoid creature without a label.

Facing such an inscrutable and mysterious entity, a sense of unease born from the unknown grew wildly within him.

But in the next second,

he forcibly suppressed all his negative emotions.

His gaze became incredibly sharp.

His entire being was like a drawn arrow, ready to be loosed,

locked firmly onto the strange Xia Shuran ahead.

The atmosphere instantly turned deadly.

"Oh?"

The strange Xia Shuran’s lips curved into a smile. Her tone was playful, mixed with a hint of imperceptible nostalgia. "Are you going to make a move on me?"

Gu Qing didn’t respond with words.

His response was the sound of a shoe violently shattering the concrete ground and the sharp whistle of his body tearing through the air.

Gu Qing moved.

He suddenly exploded with force from his feet.

A single stomp caused the concrete ground to crack and collapse.

His body became a blur,

rushing in front of the strange Xia Shuran in an instant.

He raised his right arm,

his five fingers bent like an eagle’s talon,

and shot fiercely toward the strange Xia Shuran’s neck.

The strange Xia Shuran’s pupils contracted. She had no time to react at all before Gu Qing’s large hand was clamped tightly around her throat.

The immense force of the impact sent her stumbling backward until—BAM!—she slammed hard against the wall of a residential building, finally coming to a stop.

"Speak! Where did you take Xia Shuran!"

Gu Qing choked the strange Xia Shuran, pinning her entire body firmly against the wall, immobilizing her.

Even with her throat constricted, the strange Xia Shuran showed no hint of panic. A smile still hung on her lips.

She stared at Gu Qing with her bizarrely vacant, lifeless eyes, her right hand landing on a glass window on the wall behind her.

A dim light flickered in her eyes.

Immediately after,

the windowpane her right hand was touching suddenly rippled, the waves spreading outward and causing the surrounding light and shadows to distort along with it.

Gu Qing sensed something was wrong.

He tried to drag her away from the glass window.

In the next instant,

an immense pulling force

suddenly enveloped Gu Qing’s entire body.

It gave him no time to react, forcefully dragging him into the boundless Mirror World.

...

A dizzying sensation of the world spinning hit him.

The air was bone-chillingly cold.

There was no sound of wind.

Nor any human voices.

The silence all around was unsettlingly absolute.

Gu Qing opened his eyes and found himself in a strange new world.

As far as he could see,

there were endless layers of mirrors.

Each mirror’s surface gleamed with a silent, cold light,

reflecting countless versions of himself,

and countless versions of the strange Xia Shuran.

An oppressive feeling washed over him.

This lifeless Mirror World was the strange Xia Shuran’s home turf.

She stood quietly at the center of the intersecting mirrors, the corners of her mouth holding a faint, ambiguous smile. Her eyes glinted with an all-knowing, playful light as she looked at Gu Qing and said softly,

"Since you’re here, don’t think about leaving so easily. First, you can have some fun with me."

The moment her words fell,

the countless surrounding mirrors vibrated in unison, letting out a low hum.

In the next second,

all the strange Xia Shurans in the mirrors came to life.

One after another, they rushed out of the mirrors, charging at Gu Qing from all directions.

Seeing this, Gu Qing instantly activated his Muscle Knots mode. His muscles bulged rapidly, the Qi Blood Power within him surged wildly, and his aura soared.

At that moment,

the nearest few strange Xia Shurans had already pounced on him like starving wolves.

They opened their mouths and began to tear at him madly.

They raised their hands and clawed at him viciously.

Every move aimed for a vital spot.

They were insidious and vicious,

with nothing girlish about them at all.

However,

Gu Qing’s body was as hard as steel. No matter how they tore, clawed, or bit, they couldn’t leave a single scratch.

"Ah, he’s so hard!"

One of the strange Xia Shurans, who had pounced fiercely onto Gu Qing and was biting his body madly, suddenly cried out in pain, "All my teeth shattered!"

Another strange Xia Shuran, who had tried to gouge out Gu Qing’s eyes, broke her fingers instead. "It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!"

"Heh."

Gu Qing sneered mockingly, "Like stirring a vat with a toothpick. You overestimate yourselves!"

He was then utterly ruthless, first crushing one’s head with a devastating punch, then piercing another’s chest with a Black Tiger Steals the Heart.

In the blink of an eye, he had easily scored a double kill.

His ruthlessness, even toward someone who looked like an acquaintance, had a touch of Homelander’s style.

The two strange Xia Shurans he killed were instantly covered in cracks, and then, with a series of CRACKS, they shattered into a rain of glass shards that scattered across the ground.

"AAAAAAAH!"

He had just destroyed two of the strange Xia Shurans when, in the next second, several more came screaming and pouncing at him.

Gu Qing swept his leg out, slicing them all in half at the waist and causing them to explode into a floor of glass shards.

"BANG!"

"BANG!"

"BANG!"

Gu Qing took the initiative, his iron fists whistling as he swept them horizontally, launching heavy blows at the strange Xia Shurans surging toward him from all sides.