Zhao Laoda's nearly hundred-strong team was routed in less than five minutes.
Zhao Laoda was a user of the strength-type ability, and even an elephant would struggle against him. Shi Huai charged forward to engage him in hand-to-hand combat.
His biceps bulged, threatening to burst, and Shi Huai found himself exerting considerable effort.
He bared his teeth, revealing sharp fangs.
Zhao Laoda cursed furiously, "Damn it, you monster! Go to hell with your monster friends!"
Zhao Laoda shoved Shi Huai's arm away, preparing to finish him with a headbutt.
Roar!
A sonic wave, mixed with the force of the wind, was unleashed again.
Before Zhao Laoda could even execute his headbutt, his head was blown clean off. A soil-yellow crystal dropped to the ground.
Xiao Yu immediately shrunk, snatched the crystal, and scurried slipperyly towards Fu Yunting.
It obediently placed the crystal in Fu Yunting's palm.
"Good boy."
Fu Yunting praised Xiao Yu, which then happily flapped its small wings.
He tilted his head back and swallowed the crystal. No visible changes occurred on his body, only a slight sense of comfort.
"That's it? No change?"
An Nuan stared at him, scrutinizing him from head to toe.
After absorbing crystals, everyone else showed at least a fluctuation of energy, but she couldn't sense any from Fu Yunting.
Was it because he had reached Rank Four, and those of lower ranks were not qualified to sense higher-ranked individuals?
She had never heard such a theory!
Fu Yunting smiled faintly and said, "What change can one crystal bring? It's just to fill one's stomach. If I'm lucky, maybe seventy or eighty crystals will suffice. If I'm unlucky, it might take three to five hundred crystals to level up again."
"Three to five hundred to level up is already considered good, and you're still complaining!"
An Nuan snorted.
Three to five hundred was already a daunting number, and leveling up became increasingly difficult as one progressed.
Many people only advanced one rank after absorbing a hundred crystals.
An Nuan was about to retort when Shi Huai unleashed another sonic blast, vaporizing the person and their rocket launcher into dust.
The effect was similar to a cannon blast, and An Nuan quite liked it.
"If this skill could be sealed into an item and used as a bomb, it would be incredibly powerful."
"I'll ask Jiang Yu if it's possible to create one, then we can research it."
"That's the first sensible thing you've said. There's one more crystal. Whose head is it in?"
Fu Yunting swept his gaze over the crowd and pointed to a car at the tail of the convoy.
The car's body dissolved into a mosaic, disappearing piece by piece. The people inside tumbled to the ground, scattering in terror and screaming.
"The one in red."
Xiao Yu instantly appeared over six hundred meters away and coiled around the woman in red.
In another blink of an eye, it reappeared before An Nuan and Fu Yunting.
This teleportation-like skill blinded everyone's eyes. Tian Nan nearly fell face-first onto the ground.
This skill was simply explosive!
Even a snake was this formidable; how incredibly arrogant must its owner be!
An Nuan couldn't help but smile at their expressions.
Xiao Yu didn't possess the ability to teleport; Fu Yunting had accelerated Xiao Yu's perception of time.
Those who didn't know would assume Xiao Yu itself was incredibly powerful.
The woman, coiled by Xiao Yu, trembled in fear. httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
Fu Yunting said, "If I kill her to retrieve the crystal, will you agree?"
Fu Yunting's world consisted of only two types of beings: his own people, and things that were irrelevant.
He wouldn't eat people, but killing someone for their crystal was acceptable.
However, he cared about An Nuan's feelings and didn't want her to feel even the slightest discomfort.
An Nuan found the girl somewhat familiar but couldn't recall who she was.
It was Luo Luo who remembered.
"Isn't that Wang Rui?"
Hai Changfeng, who had been standing with his back to them, watching the spectacle from the front, turned around instinctively upon hearing Luo Luo's words and looked towards them.
"It really is Wang Rui? Hmph, it's rare to meet under these circumstances."
An Nuan sensed from Luo Luo's tone that their relationship was quite casual.
Wang Rui, having calmed down, also recognized Luo Luo.
"Director Zhou? It's great that you're here! Quickly tell this snake to let me down, it's so scary!"
"It's alright, Xiao Yu is very docile and beautiful."
Beautiful or not, it was still a snake!
Wang Rui dangled in the air, kicking her legs about wildly.
Luo Luo watched, stifling a laugh.
Xiao Long asked innocently, "Sister An Nuan, if you know them, will you still crack her head open?"
Upon hearing her head might be cracked open, Wang Rui quickly cried out, "Don't crack it! Don't crack it! My brain is stupid and not tasty at all!"
"Ms. An, our car just arrived, and we haven't done anything. You can't harm innocent people, can you?"
This was true.
Apart from Zhao Laoda's group and two other small teams, the rest had indeed done nothing.
However, except for Tian Nan, who had relied on his sharp eyesight to protect his team,
the others had been observing.
If Zhao Laoda had gained the upper hand, they would have charged in with him.
Now that An Nuan's team had the advantage, they dared not make a move.
An Nuan remained silent. Wang Rui, spotting a handsome man standing nearby, immediately put on a pitiable expression and wept dramatically.
"I truly did nothing. Little brother, you must speak up for me! We are all compatriots; we shouldn't be killing each other."
Fu Yunting's eyes were fixed solely on the crystal.
As he got closer, his senses became more accurate.
After assessing that the crystal's purity and ability were relatively low, Fu Yunting lost interest in her.
It wasn't even enough to fill the gaps between his teeth!
He coldly turned his head away, sighing with disappointment.
Seeing his disappointment, Xiao Yu, not understanding why, tightened its grip, nearly crushing Wang Rui's bones.
"It hurts! Please, let me down! Ms. An, I was wrong. I shouldn't have stolen the documents! It was An Tianxin who told me to do it back then. I was blinded by greed and shouldn't have believed her!"
"Documents?"
"Yes, it was the proposal Hai Changfeng created. I secretly took it, and then An Tianxin also told me to copy the data from his computer and sell it to the bidding company. I... I'm just a low-level employee; I had no choice. Your sister threatened me!"
Hai Changfeng had been expelled from the company back then for leaking crucial company intelligence.
He was supposed to be prosecuted and imprisoned, but An Nuan had argued strongly to defend him and find a way to prove his innocence.
However, the company's data leak was real. Although the "culprit" was found at the time, Hai Changfeng was still decided to be fired by the board of directors due to improper management.
It seemed the "culprit" back then was also problematic.
It was a scapegoat deliberately arranged by An Tianxin to protect Wang Rui.
"An Tianxin arranged a scapegoat for you? Are you two close?"
"Very!"
Wang Rui was unaware of the animosity between An Nuan and An Tianxin. She only remembered that the two sisters had a very good relationship in the past.
An Nuan had been almost unfailingly accommodating to her cousin, completely oblivious to the fires burning in her own backyard.
Wang Rui, confident in this, smacked her lips and began to fabricate.
"Xiang and I have a wonderful relationship. She even gifted me a yellow diamond necklace. We used to call each other best friends; we were very close!"
A hint of a sly smile flickered in Fu Yunting's cold eyes.
This woman had walked herself into a dead end.