"Zhu Zhu," Luan Yu pounded on her room door from the outside, "There are aliens outside, we need to leave here quickly!"
It was the dead of night, the time when people were at their most exhausted. Luan Yu, who was particularly sensitive to the monsters under her jurisdiction, had detected their arrival in advance.
She pushed open the door and yelled in a flurry, "Those two women must have caught up. They want to wear us down with a war of attrition. Can you handle it?"
Zhu Zhu looked out at the world through the semi-transparent glass.
The night sky was devoid of moon and stars, utterly black. A ball of blue light stood out conspicuously, as if the sky had been torn open, revealing a blue world beyond the rift.
"How can I kill you?"
Luan Yu was stunned for a moment, then reacted immediately, "The scepter. You can kill her with the scepter. Try to kill her in one blow, don't exhaust her too much energy, or she'll be useless to me later."
"Got it."
Zhu Zhu's form transformed into a wisp of red smoke and vanished from the room.
Luan Yu belatedly realized something and shouted in frustration, "War of attrition!"
Could she handle it?
What if she was drained of too much energy by those monsters? Could she defeat those two women then?
Thinking of this, she rushed back to the living room and looked at Dong Ling Sui, who was groggy and dazed, with his eyes half-closed. She picked up Xiao Tang Yuan and tossed him into his arms. "Wait here, don't run around. We'll be back soon."
The space in the large living room distorted, and in the next second, she too disappeared.
Dong Ling Sui, disheveled, held the equally disheveled Xiao Tang Yuan. Their eyes met, and both looked utterly bewildered.
He shook his head and, holding Xiao Tang Yuan, was about to return to his room when the door was knocked.
"Who?"
"Guest, due to an unexpected incident, we need to relocate you temporarily for your safety. Please cooperate."
Dong Ling Sui thought that the two women had left, so he believed the person outside was telling the truth and opened the door.
A tall man in uniform stood at the doorway.
He thought for a moment, "Oh, you're the general from earlier... What can I do for you?"
Su Yanyun's gaze was sharp, "Take him away!"
"Yelp!"
Xiao Tang Yuan, who was in his arms, suddenly leaped up and lunged at Su Yanyun's face, scratching him fiercely with a claw. Although Su Yanyun reacted quickly and tried to dodge, he still had his skin broken on his neck by the claw.
He raised his hand to grab the strangely shaped little cute creature, but Xiao Tang Yuan twisted its body and leaped back into Dong Ling Sui's arms, letting out a cry.
Dong Ling Sui immediately reacted, retreated into the room, and slammed the door shut on Su Yanyun's face.
He was somewhat panicked.
He had overheard people discussing earlier that the Ninth District was good, and its leader was also good. So why was the general trying to capture him?
The door was being battered by them with loud bangs. If it weren't for its sturdy quality, it would have been opened long ago. He was in a panic, "My wife is not here. Can you take me away? Didn't you...?"
Xiao Tang Yuan cried out and jumped onto the floor, backing away a couple of steps.
It had expended too much spiritual energy bringing these two people from that world. Although it had absorbed spiritual energy from Zhu Zhu in the past few days and recovered some, it still couldn't take him back.
If it took the master back, what would happen to the mistress?
The mistress was currently weak, and the scepter was broken. She couldn't travel through space and time on her own.
They couldn't leave.
"Squeak." Hold them off here, I'll go find the mistress!
It leaped out of the living room window, and its snowy white form instantly disappeared into the dark night.
The next second, the door was broken open.
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The monsters emerging from this void were formidable. Compared to those Zhu Zhu had encountered before, they were like a pack of prehistoric behemoths. Not only were their appearances more bizarre and terrifying, but their sizes had also increased exponentially. Zhu Zhu even saw many monsters that resembled ancient mythical beasts.
For example, the one charging at her now had two heads, each with four antlers. Its body was covered in red and black wrinkled skin, and its protruding spine resembled that of an ankylosaur. The two bodies were connected at the waist, making it look fierce and ugly. Its body was contorted into a U-shape, and its two massive heads, mouths agape, lunged at her.
One of its heads was half the size of Zhu Zhu's body. The distance from its left head to its right head was at least a hundred meters. It moved like a spring. For something this large, it was also incredibly agile. The hardships it must have endured were untold.
Unfortunately, its appearance wasn't well-suited for attack. Zhu Zhu moved as fast as lightning. A red streak flashed through the middle of its body. The first part of the "U" was cut in half, forming two "j" shapes, one on the left and one on the right. However, they weren't dead. After being severed, they twisted their bodies and continued to bite at her.
The system assisted from within the space, "Host, this is a variant of annelid worms during their evolutionary process. You won't be able to kill it like this."
Like earthworms, these annelids were difficult to kill. After being cut, they would become two. Unless they were completely burned or chopped into small pieces, they could regenerate.
Zhu Zhu leaped far away. She didn't react to the system's words. She raised her long sword. Beautiful light flowed along the sword, and then it began to grow, expanding to over ten times its original size from an ordinary-looking long sword.
Then, held by Zhu Zhu, it cleaved one half of the monster's body vertically in the middle.
The system watched, dumbfounded.
So, besides burning them completely or chopping them into pieces, cutting them vertically like this also worked.
An alien resembling a chicken and a bird flew and flapped towards her. Its feathers weren't colorful; they looked more like scales, dark and deep. Its slightly cumbersome body flapped with considerable effort. The sword sliced off its head.
A monster dozens of times larger than the hellhound she had previously killed roared and lunged at her. It was at least ten meters tall, and when it leaped, it soared tens of meters into the air. Its body, weighing at least ten tons, shook the ground when it landed.
Just as it was about to pounce on Zhu Zhu, it was suddenly grabbed by something behind it. It looked back and saw a blue ring of light devouring its body. Its tail and a large portion of its hindquarters were being sucked in, and it was stuck in the ring, neither able to move forward nor back.
Luan Yu, her body not yet recovered and her scepter completely broken, faced these ferocious alien monsters. She didn't even have the strength to open the portal to space and time. She could only temporarily trap it. Seeing Zhu Zhu hesitate, she yelled, "Quick, kill it! I'm running out of strength!"
Zhu Zhu sent a gust of wind into the hellhound's bizarre mouth. Its mouth was split open and couldn't close, which was perfect for the wind attack. It was sliced from its mouth to its shoulder blade, and before it could even let out a cry, it was completely dead.
Luan Yu, with trembling hands, managed to retract the void. She collapsed onto the ground, exhausted, and watched Zhu Zhu wield her long sword against the monsters. Her movements were sharp and invincible. Suddenly, she felt a bit superfluous.
Zhu Zhu and the monsters were locked in a fierce battle beneath the ring of light.
On top of a distant skyscraper, two women who looked almost identical to them watched everything silently.
"She's much more powerful than you."
The woman chuckled self-deprecatingly, "Of course, she's the original body after all."
She said with a voice full of hatred, "But as long as I can kill her, I will possess the full power of that body. Then, I will become the new supreme ruler of the divine realm."
"I will help you kill her. Don't forget what you promised me."
The woman's eyes darkened, "Don't worry, I haven't forgotten."