“Has Miss Qiao’s friend been found?”
“Of course.”
“Not coming along with Miss Qiao? No matter, I can send someone to invite Miss Qiao’s friend over. “ Wei Qingyuan said with a smile: “Since you are here, don’t rush to leave. Sit down and have a drink with us.” He extended an invitation.
He scolded Teng Yan in his heart: How could Teng Yan handle things like this!
“I wasn’t in a rush to leave in the first place.”
Qiao Ying accepted the invitation and walked over generously, sitting down.
Wei Qingyuan looked at Qiao Ying taking her seat. His sagging eyelids hiding a pair of smiling eyes that seemed to spew venom. His hand holding the cane tightened. Killing intent flashed through his eyes as he wanted to wring Qiao Ying’s neck.
But he heard Qiao Ying ask: “How’s the wine? Still good to drink?”
The three men were shocked in an instant, thinking of something in the same moment. They felt a sudden twisting pain in their abdomens, with their entire chests burning up as well.
Mu Ying and Fei Ying, who had drunk more, showed the most obvious reactions.
Wei Qingyuan had only taken a small sip and hadn’t felt anything yet. But seeing Mu Ying and Fei Ying’s faces twisted in unbearable pain, he put away his fake benevolent expression, “What did you put in the wine?”
Qiao Ying thought for a moment, “It doesn’t have a name yet, but it originates from the ‘Blue Seatangle’ poison. Should we call it ‘Purple Seatangle’ or ‘Red Seatangle’? Which color do you prefer?” She asked innocently.
“Blue Seatangle?” Wei Qingyuan was horrified, “How do you know about it...”
Before Wei Qingyuan could finish asking, Mu Ying, who was sitting down, suddenly attacked Qiao Ying, reaching out to grab her delicate neck, trying to subdue her and force her to hand over the antidote.
But Qiao Ying’s skills were clearly unexpected to Mu Ying.
Qiao Ying single-handedly grabbed Mu Ying’s wrist while her other hand moved even faster to smash Mu Ying's temple heavily into the wall beside her. A loud bang sounded as the wooden panels caved in.
Her speed was astonishing. Mu Ying didn’t even have time to react before his head was smashed against the wall.
Qiao Ying looked coldly at Mu Ying, whose nose and mouth were bleeding, “Leave the Dark Shadow and I can consider sparing your lives.”
Only a few old fellows in the Dark Shadow knew that her genes were extracted. Mu Ying and the others didn't know about it or participate in it. She could, in the spirit of their years together as fellow sect members, spare their lives.
But Fei Ying attacked her at this moment.
Qiao Ying repelled him with one hand. And when Fei Ying attacked her again, she swiftly took out a dagger from her waist and directly severed a tendon in Fei Ying's hand.
The bloody dagger nailed itself onto the table.
Wei Qingyuan took a closer look - this dagger belonged to Teng Yan.
But right now Wei Qingyuan had no mind to care about the owner of the dagger. His eyes, like poisonous snakes, stared intently at Qiao Ying, recalling the moves she displayed just now.
Her skills, why were they so similar to Blood Shadow’s?
With his wrist tendons and veins exposed, the flesh ripped open to the white bone from the profuse bleeding, Fei Ying leaned against the wall in pain.
The toxins inside him also spread faster due to his intense movements. Blood flowed from all seven orifices on his face. And the burning in his chest made him feel worse than dead.
“You...what’s your...relationship with Blood Shadow?” Struggling with the intense pain, Fei Ying's blood-filled eyes could hardly see the girl’s face clearly anymore.
Qiao Ying let go of the poisoned and painfully struggling Mu Ying, letting him flop on the floor like a dying fish.
Qiao Ying said plainly, “Blood Shadow? You mean that killer who was captured by the Dark Shadow to be experimented on and died in Nanyang? The leader of all you people with the word ‘Ying’ added to your names?”
She changed her words, “Oh no, can’t say ‘captured’, she volunteered.”
“...What did you say?” Mu Ying and Fei Ying looked at Qiao Ying incredulously, then glanced at Wei Qingyuan.
Wei Qingyuan’s face darkened as he just sat there quietly, his sharp eyes kept trying to see something from Qiao Ying’s body, but ended in failure every time.
Qiao Ying raised an eyebrow slightly, “Surprised? What did your organization tell you? That Blood Shadow failed her mission? And you believed it?”
With blood flowing from his mouth, Mu Ying asked hoarsely, “What experiment?”
Qiao Ying said dismissively, “No meaning telling people about to die.”
Unable to endure the agonizing pain, Fei Ying stretched out a hand to Qiao Ying from his place on the floor, “Antidote...give us the antidote...”
Qiao Ying said coldly, “After I kill this old fella here, if you’re still alive then, we’ll talk about it.”
Then she looked at Wei Qingyuan and said, “What are you still waiting for, go ahead and attack me. I came here just to kill you.”
“On this cruise ship, apart from those bodyguards who are just decorations, most others have died. You living a few more minutes is letting you off easy.” Qiao Ying felt annoyed that he got to live longer by a few minutes.
Wei Qingyuan let out a cold snort, “No one capable of killing me has been born yet, with just you here?”
As soon as he said that, his cane transformed into a lethal weapon as it unleashed fierce attacks towards Qiao Ying.
Qiao Ying met the moves head-on without defending herself, each of her counters meant to kill the opponent with one hit, full of hatred to end his life then and there.
The two tangled with each other, evenly matched for the moment.
Qiao Ying’s moves were big and bold, using her full strength in every hit.
In comparison, Wei Qingyuan had to hold back.
Apparently the poison had started taking effect in his body. Although he had only taken one small sip, just a touch of this poison could end his life.
At first Wei Qingyuan’s moves were vicious, fast and ruthless, intending to quickly defeat Qiao Ying and rush back for the antidote.
But after exchanging blows, he was shocked to realize Qiao Ying’s skills were at least on par if not better than his own. He didn’t dare attack recklessly anymore and instead looked for chances to escape, planning to settle scores with Qiao Ying another day.
But Qiao Ying didn’t give him any opportunity at all.
Wei Qingyuan quickly fell into a disadvantageous position, struggling more and more to withstand Qiao Ying’s aggressive moves. His cane had long slipped from his hand.
The girl’s mocking voice rang out, “Old fella, too many leisurely days makes your skills deteriorate badly.”
Wei Qingyuan was furious and chopped at her vulnerable neck with a palm.
But instead Qiao Ying twisted and broke his wrist.
Wei Qingyuan cried out in pain and attacked again with his other hand.
With both so exceptionally skilled, the absolute advantage went to the one with superiority.
Qiao Ying dismantled his moves like breaking apart a toy.
“Too slow.”
Qiao Ying dislocated one of Wei Qingyuan’s arms.
“Way too slow.”
She kicked and broke the shin bone in Wei Qingyuan’s leg.
“Still too slow.”
With one killing blow, she ruptured Wei Qingyuan’s windpipe.
Wei Qingyuan spewed out a mouthful of blood, his eyeballs bulging out as if about to pop out of their sockets. Qiao Ying then twisted and broke his one remaining intact arm, as easy as breaking dead branches.
With all four limbs broken, Wei Qingyuan collapsed on the ground, spitting blood from his mouth. Bleeding also started from his seven apertures. But Qiao Ying felt it wasn’t enough.
Compared to that half year she spent in the underground lab, such injuries were far from enough.
With great effort Wei Qingyuan raised his eyes to look at the girl standing expressionlessly in front of him like looking at a corpse. Her eyes held icy hatred towards him.
For a moment, those eyes overlapped with another pair of eyes from his memory.
Wei Qingyuan opened his mouth with great difficulty, making fragmented sounds from his ruptured windpipe, “You...who on earth...are you...?”
Their skills were exactly the same.
He was too familiar with them, so familiar it made his scalp tingle.
Hearing his question, the girl squatted down and leaned in close. Her beautiful eyes churned with frightening emotions.
She smiled eerily, baring a mouth of cute little white teeth, “My dear ‘Father’, you don’t recognize me?”
She got a little angry, her expression changing neurotically in a flash, the eerie smile still on her face but her fine brows furrowed unhappily, “I’m your favorite child!”
Wei Qingyuan’s wandering pupils suddenly shrank as he shook violently, like he had seen a ghost.
Seeing his reaction, Qiao Ying laughed.
Parting her red lips, she spoke softly to comfort him, “My esteemed Red Heart K, don’t panic. I’ll soon send those old fellows JKOER down to accompany you and have a reunion.”
She wiped all expression off her face and stood up, picking up the bucket of gasoline by the door and splashing it around casually.
She glanced at the long dead Mu Ying and Fei Ying.
If you want to blame someone, you can only blame your bad luck.
Indifferently withdrawing her gaze, she took out a lighter.
The lighter sparked a flame. She looked at Wei Qingyuan, who was still breathing on the floor, and smiled satisfactorily.
Turning around, she flicked the lighter behind her.
Fire rose swiftly.
The cruise ship had already descended into chaos. The bodyguards were looking for Teng Yan in a panic as the ship had docked back at shore.
With the fire growing bigger behind her, Qiao Ying kicked away some bodyguards rushing at her and walked onto the deck, leaping down from the fourth floor to the third in one smooth jump.
More bodyguards closed in behind her again.
Qiao Ying looked back, with no time to entangle with them.
She quickened her pace, about to leap down to cross the river and leave, but saw a familiar car driving over.
The car speed was very fast.
Almost the moment the car stopped, Qin Hanyue rushed out from inside, his gaze also locking onto the figure on the cruise ship in that moment, and he immediately rushed towards it with legs striding.
Qiao Ying looked at that figure running over, and smiled.
She immediately changed direction, using the momentum to leap down from the railing to the ground with one foot.
The figure below sped up, rushing towards her with all his might.
Then Qiao Ying fell into a warm embrace.
"Boom!" A huge explosive sound rang out.
Qin Hanyue didn't even think, just turned around hugging the person, sheltering her in his arms, as the flaming blast erupted behind his back.
