Si Kongchen left with Xie Longyun, then showed up near Wei Haichao and Hou Guozhong.
"Chief!" Wei Haichao greeted at the sight of him. His eyes glowed when he saw Xie Longyun, who was standing by Si Kongchen's side. "This is…"
"Xie Longyun from the Dark Department," Si Kongchen introduced Xie Longyun to Wei Haichao, but didn't introduce him to back to her. She knew about him anyway.
Wei Haichao gave Xie Longyun another glance with smile, but the latter greeted him with an expressionless nod.
"Didn't I tell you to be careful? Why were you so reckless?" Si Kongchen said to Xie Longyun with discontentment.
"Was I?" Xie Longyun responded to him coldly, "I was only trying to feel her out."
She was, indeed, a little displeased just now though.
Si Kongchen looked at her with no expression, then snorted coldly and said, "I think you're just jealous of her. Women really are troublesome."
Xie Longyun raised her eyebrows on hearing that, then looked at Si Kongchen scornfully as she clicked her tongue and said, "I'm jealous of her? Is she prettier than me? Are her legs longer than mine? Is her waist slimmer than mine?"
Si Kongchen looked at her silently.
"She's not less good-looking than you are," Wei Haichao murmured abruptly. Xie Longyun and Si Kongchen turned to him simultaneously, so he immediately shut his mouth and turned his eyes away.
"Her waist is slimmer than yours, and her boobs are bigger than yours," said Si Kongchen. After saying that, he cast a glance at Xie Longyun's chest.
Xie Longyun was instantly infuriated. She raised an arm and flipped her long hair, then puffed her chest and said, "So what? Am I flat-chested? No… Is this the time to talk about that? You two perverts!"
"You brought it up yourself…" said Si Kongchen and Wei Haichao with one voice.
"Leave that alone. What's wrong with your intelligence work? You didn't even figure out what her power was. She has poisonous fire, okay? Who said she has poisonous mist? Also, she's dual-powered. I guess you didn't know that either, did you?" Xie Longyun impatiently interrupted them.
"She does have poisonous fire. But, what do you mean by dual-powered?" Wei Haichao asked.
"She also has space power. What happened to Guozhong? Have you fought them face to face?" Si Kongchen looked at Hou Guozhong, who was lying on an old couch.
"No, but Lan Lu attacked us," Wei Haichao turned and gave Hou Guozhong a glance, then wore a sullen look as he responded to Si Kongchen. Hou Guozhong was attacked by a level-eight spirit power possessor. He didn't suffer a mental collapse and only fell into unconsciousness. Wei Haichao had no idea if that was a good result or a bad one. One thing was for sure, severe harm had already been done to Hou Guozhong.
There was a good chance that he could wake up as a retarded man.
Hearing that it was Lan Lu who attacked Hou Guozhong, Si Kongchen instantly knitted his brows.
On the other side, Lin Qiao skinned the bear, then cut it open and started to dig out its guts.
The bloody scene and the excited look on the zombie lady's face made Lan Lu turn his eyes away. He just couldn't bear watching that.
"Weren't you going to stop him? Why did you let him leave so easily?"
Ten large buckets were placed beside Lin Qiao in a straight line, each containing half a bucket of lake water. Lin Qiao put the livers and some other organs into the buckets to soak with water and tossed the guts aside.
"What else could I do? Fight him? Kill him?" While working, Lin Qiao gave him a bland glance.
"You killed a level-eight fire bear while he's only a level-eight man with fire power. It's not hard for you to kill him, is it?" Lan Lu didn't understand. Thinking about her power made him feel under quite a pressure. That was the power of a zombie emperor. Last time, Si Kongchen had failed to defeat the lightning-powered zombie emperor too.
Lin Qiao shook her head and said, "You don't know for sure. Si Kongchen is much sneakier than the big stupid bear. I'm stronger than him now, but I can't ignore his weapons. Defeating him might be easy, but killing him won't be."
"I thought you'd at least take the woman's life even if you wouldn't deal Si Kongchen some severe harm," Lan Lu shrugged.
Lin Qiao gave him a glance and said, "The woman is quite capable, even if she's only at level-seven. Can't you tell that she's dual-powered? One of her powers is special…"
While speaking, she slightly furrowed her brows and fell into thoughts.
"Are you saying that she has two powers?" Lan Lu was a little surprised. He really did not find out that the woman was dual-powered. He thought she only had metal power.
Lin Qiao emptied the bear's belly and started to cut it into pieces. While doing that, she said, "Are you blind? Didn't you see how fast she was? How do you think she moved like that."
Lan Lu blinked and said, "Almost as fast as teleportation. Is super speed her other power?"
"No…" said Lin Qiao, "It's space power."
"Space?" Lan Lu thought for a moment and then figured out what she meant, "Are you saying that her space is mobile?"
Entering the space, moving to another spot, and then coming out… That was such a good skill for escape.
At that point, Xie Dong and the others returned one after another; Xie Dong was the first one to return. A faint intent of killing and blood scent could be detected from his body, and a nucleus that belonged to a level-six superpowered man was held in his hand. He came back to find his Chief cutting a bear into pieces. He was used to that kind of scene already, so he stood by her side peacefully and handed her the nucleus.
Lin Qiao took out a towel and wiped her hands, then hung it on the edge of a bucket. After that, she took over the nucleus from Xie Dong's hand, threw it into her space, and then continued chopping the bear.
"Oh, that's the entrance fee you talked about earlier," Lan Lu figured it out. The zombie lady was only trying to come up with a fair reason to kill Si Kongchen's subordinates.
Lin Qiao waved at Xie Dong and said, "Come on, lend me a hand. I'll cut it into big pieces and you guys cut them smaller, then put them into the buckets."
Xie Dong, Liu Mingsong, and Wan Lizhong stepped up together, picked up the knives that Lin Qiao threw at them, and started cutting the bear.
As Chang Qingqing and her people found Lan Lu, Lin Qiao was cutting a hill of meat. "Is that the bear?" Chang Qingqing asked with surprise, "Why is she cutting the bear?"
Lan Lu raised his brows and said, "She said it's her soldiers' food."
Chang Qingqing didn't know what to say. Human beings couldn't eat mutated animals. How could her soldiers eat the bear?
After Xie Dong, Mo, Ye Qingxian, and Six had all returned, each with a level-six nucleus.
Lan Lu waited until Lin Qiao cut the bear into pieces, then started a serious conversation with her, "Earlier on, I sent someone to tell you about something. Have you dealt with that yet?"
On hearing that, Lin Qiao glanced at him sourly and said, "How are you gonna make it up to me?"
Lan Lu sighed with relief in his head when he heard what she said. Clearly, she had dealt with the problem.