Yan Jingxing ran wildly on the eaves shrouded in night.
The narrow wall passage was no more than one step wide, but he still walked as fast as flying, like a martial arts master in a martial arts novel who shuttled back and forth between the corridors, or a superhero who jumped across the rooftops of the city.
The split-headed dog's fur was dark and shiny, almost blending into the night. As it ran, only the undulations of the ridge outline could be seen; but Yan Jingxing's eyes were always firmly fixed on this monster, and he never missed a moment. So I can follow closely.
In just a few seconds, a man and an animal jumped out from the window and fled, running to the side building adjacent to the main floor of the hospital building.
The black dog ran and leaped, easily jumping over the "gorge" that was insurmountable for ordinary people, and landed on the opposite rooftop - if he accidentally slipped, he would have fallen five stories high, enough to cause serious injuries. People die.
Yan Jingxing, who was following it, also saw this "gully", but he didn't hesitate in his steps. Instead, he speeded up again.
With no protection, Yan Jingxing strode forward, one foot straddling the guardrail, the other foot firmly planted on the ground, and he jumped towards the empty place ahead without hesitation.
At this moment, the feet submerged in darkness became an abyss. When you look down, you will feel dizzy, as if you are falling into the void.
But Yan Jingxing’s movements and gestures are so natural:
He opened his arms and listened to the howling wind in his ears, falling into the night with gravity, like a bird flying in the sky, and even felt comfortable.
The feeling of weightlessness, emptiness, acceleration... every feeling stimulates the heart to speed up.
After accelerating through the run-up, Yan Jingxing crossed a distance of more than five meters in one breath, as if gliding in the air, and landed steadily on the rooftop opposite. After rolling on the spot, he stood up neatly and continued to chase the black dog in front of him. .
The split-headed dog jumped back and forth between the walls of the corridor, showing its amazing jumping ability; Yan Jingxing was also not to be outdone, jumping directly over a slightly farther place, and his performance when climbing high places was as flexible as a bird. An ape.
Even places that seem impossible to jump over or climb up can still be easily crossed after making extensive use of comprehensive skills; therefore, even if there is a physiological gap between humans and monsters, the black dog can run faster than He was faster and jumped higher than him. Yan Jingxing was never left behind.
As long as the split-headed dog refuses to give up the group of hosts in this building and leaves the hospital, it will have no chance of escaping under his nose.
The Split-Headed Dog turned its head, smashed through the iron door, and returned to the building again;
In order to catch up with it in a roundabout way, Yan Jingxing changed direction in the middle and jumped directly from the rooftop to the window on one side;
When the whole person fell in mid-air, he quickly stretched out his hands, grabbed the wall outside the window, stopped the falling trend with the strength of his hands, and then used his hands and feet to open the window and climb in.
This series of actions is thrilling, and it is carried out without any safety protection. Even from the perspective of the audience, it is enough to make people hold their breath; but Yan Jingxing himself remains expressionless.
When he turned over and fell out of the window into the corridor, he only saw a black shadow running towards him in the distance. When the Split-Headed Dog noticed that he was blocking the front, he could clearly see that the beast showed a humanized expression that seemed to be "stunned." The general expression is like asking "How did you get in front of me?"
It pushed forward with all its limbs and slid a short distance with support. After stopping, it stared at him warily.
Standing firm, Yan Jingxing didn't give it any more time to rest. He held a knife in each hand and accelerated and sprinted again.
"There are three minutes and thirty-five seconds left in the limit time..."
Yan Jingxing set the limit of his ability at "four minutes and thirty seconds". In other words, less than a minute had passed since the start of the battle.
If he had to hold on longer, the changes in his physical condition would be uncontrollable, which would most likely cause him to lose strength and faint on the spot.
"no problem."
He silently confirmed to himself in his mind.
Yan Jingxing's running posture at this time was like a cheetah attacking its prey. He leaned his upper body forward, kicked his feet, and his whole body shot forward with a "whoosh", as if he was flying close to the ground.
And because of this weird posture, the split-headed dog obviously misjudged the angle of his attack: it stretched its head forward, opened its fangs and mouth, spit out a stream of fishy wind, and tried to bite Yan Jingxing directly, but ended up biting him. Empty.
Yan Jingxing, who has activated his warrior instinct, has an astonishing keenness in grasping the battle situation and understanding the enemy's weaknesses. The huge beast with two heads looks very bluffing, but he can see this appearance at a glance Defects caused by:
Having two heads means having two pairs of eyes and two noses. The advantage of course is that it expands the scope of observation, but the disadvantage is that there is still only one neck connecting the heads——
In other words, each head has less room to move. One of the most terrifying weapons of the beast is the bite of its teeth. This appearance will inevitably limit the bite angle and become an obstacle for the opponent to use the "weapon".
This is why Yan Jingxing immediately changed his strategy and chose close combat after he used a knife to cut a wound on the Split-Headed Dog and realized that this attack method was not powerful enough.
When he quickly approached the Split-Headed Dog, the opponent couldn't even fight back because the direction he drilled in was very tricky, exactly where the Split-Headed Dog couldn't bite with its mouth——
The two heads placed on a stubby neck are too crowded, causing a "dead spot" between the two as they compete for space to squeeze each other.
Yan Jingxing got into this blind corner without hesitation, stretched his curled body violently, and raised the knife in his hand sharply.
"Stab-!"
Blood spattered, and even though the Split-Head Dog shook its head as much as possible to dodge, the sharp blade still carved a deep blood mark on the deformed second head, and the wound extended to the neck.
"Ouch!"
The black dog howled in pain, jumped back suddenly, and dodged the other knife held by Yan Jingxing in his left hand.
If the split-headed dog hadn't reacted in time, or if the blade in Yan Jingxing's hand had been longer, it might have had its first head cut off by now. The process was as easy as an ordinary person peeling off a circle of apple skin.
"...three minutes and twenty-five seconds."
Yan Jingxing calmed his breathing and calculated his physical strength.
It took ten seconds, but there was still plenty of time left.
He leaned down again.
Blood flowed freely from the wound on the black dog's neck, sprinkling blood stains like snowflakes on the ground.
Heh...even if it is parasitized, will it still be red?
He moved his arms to relieve the muscle soreness caused by overexertion. He thought to himself, "It will probably be very difficult after the ability ends..." and he rushed over again.
But at this moment, he seemed to notice the movement from the other side of the corridor, and subconsciously stopped.
From the direction of the second floor, he heard the little girl shouting with all her strength:
"Jing Xing! You... can you hear me? Those parasitic patients are rushing towards you!"
The voice was so loud that it could be heard all over the building. The girl's voice, which was originally as clear and beautiful as a mermaid, now seemed a little hoarse, and one could hear how hard she was shouting.
Yan Jingxing frowned subconsciously.
Even if he was fighting a monster head-on or parkouring dangerously in the upstairs room, his expression remained unchanged in his instinctive state; but just now he just thought, "Will Chun Zao's throat become mute and unable to hear her original voice?" It would be a pity to sing." But his expression had changed - indicating that things about that girl could cause his emotions to fluctuate more intensely.
Yan Jingxing did not think carefully about what this meant. It was not the time yet. He just shouted towards the corridor:
"I know! I'm on the third floor, don't come over yet!"
He turned his head again and saw the split-headed dog silently licking the wounds on his body.
It seemed to have noticed something as well. One head continued to stare at itself, while the other injured one looked deep into the corridor.
Yan Jingxing heard the swaying footsteps of the patients coming from the darkness, scattered and chaotic, which made people feel panicked.
The Hairless Ones seem to want to do something, and it will take some time for them to completely kill the Split-Headed Dog...
At this critical moment, he retreated to a safe distance and temporarily turned off the use of his abilities.
After the "fighting instinct" is turned on, every breath of time is precious; and by repeatedly starting and ending it, the waste of unnecessary moments can be controlled.
However, the time saved this way would add up to less than four and a half minutes.
It's like running for a while and resting for a while. The duration of persistence is naturally longer than running all the time, but the physical exertion is still astonishing.
Yan Jingxing leaned against the corner, watching closely as the group of patients appeared around the corner;
Each of them looked very pale, but they all grinned in a strange smile;
The split-headed dog sharpened its claws on the tiles, and saliva flowed uncontrollably from the corners of its mouth, dripping onto the ground together with blood.
*
One floor below.
Xie Yuzhi stared closely at the dozen or so spiraling stairs, and asked her companion:
"How's the situation upstairs?"
There was no trace of anxiety in her tone.
"There are a total of thirteen hairless hosts, keeping most of the distance from the split-headed dogs. There has been no conflict between the two sides for the time being..." Ji Chunzao closed his eyes, opened his wet lips slightly, revealing his teeth, and leaned lightly on them. As for Miss Xie, "Jing Xing should be watching from the side..."
"okay, I get it."
Xie Yuzhi nodded, holding the curly-haired girl with one hand to support her body and prevent her from falling.
But even if you know it, you still can't do anything.
Under the embroidered cuffs, her white fingers were coming together one by one, and she quietly clenched her delicate fists.
There are more than a dozen hairless people and split-headed dogs that feed on the hairless people. She has just awakened the king's ability tonight, but she only has one soldier available. Her power is too weak to interfere with the overall situation.
The matter itself doesn't matter. The problem is that Yan Jingxing has already been involved in this struggle. Being unable to help his friends and standing on the same battlefield as him is what really makes the eldest lady feel frustrated.
Xie Yuzhi was thinking, for safety reasons, should he let Jing Xing come back and let the three of them leave together?
As for what would happen to this hospital and those patients in the future, it was none of their business and she didn't care.
But the key to the problem now is Yan Jingxing's thoughts.
She recalled the expression on the boy's face when he asked her and Haruna to leave before the battle with the Split-Headed Dog——
She believed she was right. Yan Jingxing was smiling at that time.
It was a smile of excitement for the battle ahead.
Perhaps in the eyes of others, an underage student should not be competitive, but in Xie Yuzhi's eyes, Yan Jingxing's reaction was not surprising at all; on the contrary, she admired it and felt that everything should be as it should be.
They are no longer ordinary people. As "warrior" men, or boys, they should have such ambition.
As for Chun Zao, she may not have noticed this, or she may have been vaguely aware of it. After all, this girl's intuition is still very keen.
but……
After going around and around, I still came back to the problem.
She was obviously the boy's companion, but she couldn't support him in the fight. The eldest lady's self-esteem was somewhat hurt, and she felt as if she had become a spectator standing on the side of the battlefield, unable to intervene.
Of course, her abilities are constantly growing. As long as there is a suitable partner, this situation will change in the future——
"……wrong."
Xie Yuzhi shook her head unconsciously.
"Ah, what's wrong?"
Ji Chunzao, who was leaning on her shoulder, noticed her sudden movement and asked in confusion.
"I said, now, I clearly have something I can do but I don't do it. Instead, I make excuses for myself. Such cowardly thinking is wrong."
"?"
A question mark seemed to appear on Ji Chunzao's head.
"After I controlled the first hairless man, I found that with my current strength of consciousness, although the king's ability is not at its limit and can temporarily control other creatures, I am afraid that it cannot allow me to control a second 'soldier' at the same time. so that after the more advanced Head Splitter appeared, I felt that the difficulty of controlling it was definitely not at the same level as the Hairless Man, so I didn’t try it from the beginning... But I changed my mind, and I must help Jing Xing busy."
After Xie Yuzhi said these words seriously, she grabbed Ji Chunzao's shoulders with her hands.
"Then Chun Zao, I have to ask you to support me."
"……Eh?"
Ji Chunzao was stunned for a moment, but saw that Miss Xie had closed her eyes and leaned towards her.
"Wow!"
She quickly opened her arms and hugged him, almost missing him.
