BC Chapter 108

“Hey… sis, sis, where are you going?” The woman slumped on the ground saw that Lu Ziming was about to leave and couldn’t bother to pretend to be weak anymore, hastily calling out to her.

“You just asked me to save you, and I did. As for where I’m going, I don’t think I need to report to you, right?” Lu Ziming turned her head, her face full of impatience. She believes that the most basic thing between people is a sense of boundaries, that is, you are you, and I am me. So, she hates strangers who try to get close to her with a few words, and she also hates nodding acquaintances who treat her like a friend, as if they know her well.

“…Uh, oh, oh.” The woman was also encountering a stranger like Lu Ziming who was so impolite to her for the first time. Originally, with her face, she should have been successful in any situation, so when faced with Lu Ziming’s ruthless and indifferent reply, the words she had prepared suddenly stalled. But in order to achieve her goal, she had to use her last resort to drag Lu Ziming along. Because the moment Lu Ziming turned around, her gaze had already noticed that her brother, who had lightly jumped from the eaves of a low storefront on one side to the roof of a two-story storefront on the opposite side, was already ambushing there with a bloody golf club.

“Then… then can you help me again? Just… just once, just take me to those steps. Thank you, I really can’t walk anymore. Okay? Please… sis.” The woman’s face was full of pleading, her hands clasped together and shaking, as if to show that she was indeed extremely pitiful and had no ill intentions.

Lu Ziming turned her head and looked at the increasingly silent alleyway entrance, pondered for a moment, and finally sighed, gritted her teeth, and turned back to help the woman up.

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The steps the woman pointed to were exactly downstairs, directly opposite the location where the man ambushing on the roof of the two-story storefront was hiding. The woman’s purpose was to lure Lu Ziming over, and then the man would raise the club and descend from the sky, giving Lu Ziming a head-on blow, directly eliminating her to satisfy her brother’s appetite.

“We’re here.” Lu Ziming, who had brought the woman to the place, had no intention of continuing to dawdle with her. She left two simple words as both an explanation and a farewell. Before the words had even landed, she was already retreating.

At this moment, a heavy sound of air being sliced through came from above, instantly attacking Lu Ziming. But Lu Ziming was clearly unable to dodge at this time. The moment she looked up, the dark shadow had already descended overhead and was close in the blink of an eye.

But just as the couple’s plan was about to succeed, a variable that had been following behind Lu Ziming quietly activated. Almost at the same time that the man jumped down from the second floor, a cold arrow swiftly shot out along a pre-calculated trajectory.

Just in time, a second before the golf club fell, the arrowhead, close to the metal shaft of the club, pierced straight into the man’s right shoulder. The man’s landing point was slightly off, giving Lu Ziming a second to dodge. Her body instinctively lunged forward, supporting herself with one forearm and half of the hand holding the weapon, protecting her head, and rolled forward like a ball. However, after all, things happened suddenly. In the instant before she rolled away, the front end of the falling club still smashed into her left waist, the area where the backpack didn’t cover. This caused her to let out a muffled groan as she rolled away.

However, the man reacted quite quickly. Although he had just been hit by an arrow in the shoulder, he still endured the sharp pain and immediately adjusted his posture, waving the club again relentlessly to smash towards Lu Ziming, who was about to stand up. Lu Ziming didn’t have time to stand up to respond and was forced to dodge towards the center of the road again.

The two movements allowed Lu Ziming and the man to successfully create some distance. Lu Ziming finally raised her weapon in front of her, assuming a defensive posture.

However, the man, with his killing intent undiminished, didn’t care. He rushed forward two steps and got close, once again swinging the club with a piercing sound, swinging it horizontally with fierce killing intent, heading straight for Lu Ziming’s most vulnerable neck.

Lu Ziming hurriedly twisted her body and took a step to the side to block with both hands, but she didn’t expect the golf club in the man’s hand to be made of excellent material, with a hardness far exceeding the thick, hollow steel pipe in Lu Ziming’s hand. In addition, the man’s strength was much greater than the woman’s, so under the impact of the two, not only did Lu Ziming’s hands holding the steel pipe feel a sharp pain in the tiger’s mouth, but the straight middle section of the steel pipe was also bent a lot.

However, neither side stopped fighting fiercely because of this brief exchange. The increasingly heavy darkness before dawn enveloped the people present, but for the mutated Lu Ziming and the man, this ink-like darkness did not affect their vision in the dark at all. The sound of metal clashing continued, and it was already unknown how many rounds it had been.

At first, because he was worried that the person who released the cold arrow would continue to help, the man also observed his surroundings while attacking, but after fighting for a while, the man found that the person who released the arrow had no further action, so he put all his mind and strength into solving Lu Ziming in front of him.

Obviously, although Lu Ziming also had a mutated physique, her overall physical fitness was not as good as the man’s, so she was only struggling to resist in the fierce and rapid confrontation. This was still the case even with the man having taken an arrow to the shoulder. If it weren’t for the cold arrow released from the shadows at the beginning, she wouldn’t even have had the chance to fight him here. After all, the opponent’s complete suppression of Lu Ziming in overall strength was fatal, especially in a surprise attack.

However, the moment she noticed the arrow in the man’s shoulder, Lu Ziming had already understood her current situation—not only did this couple want to kill her, but Xu Rubing, who had ulterior motives in the dark, didn’t know what she was planning. Although she had initially helped her block the most fatal blow, she then acted as if she was dead, completely disappearing except for the contribution of that one arrow.

Seeing that the other party’s determination to kill her had not diminished, but her physical strength was gradually declining, she vaguely had a bad feeling. But Xu Rubing had no intention of appearing again in the end, so she knew that she probably wouldn’t be able to get through this hurdle today.

“Clang, squeak—thud.” The man also saw that Lu Ziming’s condition was getting worse and worse, so he suddenly changed his tactics during the attack. At the moment of the weapon clash, he slid along the steel pipe towards one end and directly smashed it on Lu Ziming’s right hand.

“Ugh—” With just this blow, Lu Ziming felt a piercing pain in the finger bones of her right hand, and she couldn’t even hold the weapon anymore.

She quickly retracted her right hand that had been knocked away, pressed it against her lower back, and trembled non-stop from the pain.

If Lu Ziming remembered correctly, the last time she made this movement seemed to be in elementary school, the day she was hit on the hand by the homeroom teacher for not doing her math homework.

But the pain that the same action brought to Lu Ziming’s body was completely different in magnitude. Lu Ziming almost instantly clenched her back molars in pain, and a thin layer of sweat instantly broke out on her back.