“Wait…
Li Si looked closely, recognizing the blonde girl.
“You’re that doctor?”
Xu Xiaoyou didn’t respond, swinging the long whip in her hand to fend off the law enforcer in front of her. She glanced at the still dazed players, a slight frown on her brow:
“Step back, go somewhere safe.”
The bullet screen in the players’ livestream chat scrolled rapidly.
“: Sob sob sob, Dark Gold Rose boss is so cool!”
“: Even at a time like this, she’s still thinking of us. Greatness, no words needed.”
“: Miss Dark Gold Rose, can I be your dog?”
“Am I really just going to watch Dark Gold Rose boss protect us and do nothing?”
“No, I must at least help Dark Gold Rose boss, even a little bit!”
Among the crowd, a player shouted about friendship bonds and charged at the law enforcer. The outcome was obvious: Li Si treated him like a spinning top, unleashing a stun baton strike for nearly 114 critical damage, instantly clearing his health bar.
Xu Xiaoyou helplessly pressed a hand to her forehead. These players were so adorable, like harmless little lambs. It wouldn’t do for them to just playfully follow her around, so she, their shepherd, needed to give them some instructions to fully utilize their initiative.
“Go find an NPC named ‘Natsu Kuri.’ She’s very important to me. Leave the front lines to me.”
Upon hearing Xu Xiaoyou speak, the players all quieted down, nodding meekly before scattering like excited children, searching through the massive nursery. Only she and Li Si remained in the corridor, facing each other, along with a pink-haired girl whose eyes were filled with adoration.
“You…” Xu Xiaoyou looked at Yueyue, recalling that she had seen her at the very beginning of the dungeon.
Yueyue ignored her shattered bones, scrambled to her feet, and flashed a sweet smile:
“I’m fine, I’m okay, I won’t drag you down, Dark Gold Rose boss.”
Seeing the status bar above her head almost full of negative effects, and her health bar visibly dropping, Xu Xiaoyou’s mouth twitched. But seeing the girl’s eager eyes, she couldn’t say much.
Perfect. Since she intended to make the name Dark Gold Rose famous, she needed a witness.
She had already displayed immense power before countless people, so further deepening the players’ understanding of her would be ineffective. She needed to break the players’ current fixed impression of her and create a new persona to expand her influence.
“I was just wondering how to get you out of that stinky den, and here you are, delivering yourself to my doorstep!”
“Excellent. I’ll apprehend you and the test subject together and hand you over to the tribunal for disposal!”
Just as Xu Xiaoyou was pondering how to establish her unique appeal, Li Si’s attack arrived. The long baton, crackling with electric arcs, hummed softly as it swept directly towards her face. The long whip in Xu Xiaoyou’s hand also crackled with lightning. With a flick of her wrist, a burst of subtle force erupted from the handle and transferred to the tip of the whip. The whip tip snapped open, suddenly lashing upwards.
The long whip, like a venomous snake, bared its fangs and leaped into the air towards its prey, swiftly coiling around the baton. The two currents clashed, sparking and flashing as fire danced.
During the brief standoff, the more Li Si looked, the more familiar the long whip in Xu Xiaoyou’s hand seemed. He blurted out, “Wait, is that Talise’s weapon?”
Xu Xiaoyou didn’t respond. She exerted force with her wrist, pulling the whip sharply to the right. Li Si, still recovering from his thoughts, was caught off guard and slammed violently into the nearby wall, blood gushing from his mouth.
This segment of whip was a refined grade weapon she obtained after killing the law enforcer Talise. It felt quite handy, though it was still far inferior to her Hundred-Bone Whip.
“You killed her!” Li Si gritted his teeth, blood seeping from the cracks. His sharp eyes were filled with intense hatred.
“Just like you planned to kill me,” Xu Xiaoyou replied casually.
The two exchanged blows multiple times per second in the narrow corridor. The long whip and stun baton collided, creating only afterimages that seemed to bite and wrestle each other in the eyes of ordinary people. Electric arcs filled the air, sometimes light and nimble, sometimes fierce and powerful!
The stun baton smashed through walls, and the long whip carved a deep gash in the ceiling, neatly slicing through a crystal lamp.
Li Si’s stun baton was once again ensnared by the long whip, sending him flying to crash through a wall. Xu Xiaoyou quickly followed, raising her elbow above her shoulder, bending it slightly, and rotating twice with her feet. The long whip danced in the air like a nimble, frenzied snake, baring its fangs to strike downwards!
As Li Si touched the ground, the long whip immediately followed. He rolled and scrambled, barely evading the whip’s slash. Looking back at the ground crystallized by violent electric arcs, he was filled with shock and uncertainty.
He couldn’t imagine how this doctor, as a researcher, could unleash such formidable combat power.
Xu Xiaoyou alone could not match Li Si’s raw strength, but human potential is immense. The combat ability a normal person and a seasoned martial artist can display in the same body is vastly different.
Her accumulated combat experience allowed her to fully unleash this body’s potential, skillfully mastering various force application techniques, making her capable of confronting this law enforcer head-on!
Not to mention, before every battle, she would use a whole bunch of miscellaneous training cards. The trajectory of every move had long been etched deep into her consciousness.
Just like now,
Xu Xiaoyou twisted her waist slightly, leaping gracefully across the ground like a dragonfly touching water. The long whip in her hand whistled as it lashed upwards, incredibly slicing the entire wall cleanly from bottom to top. Exploding shards of rock shot past Li Si’s cheek, leaving scorching blood marks.
“You damn bastard!” Thinking of the person he once admired now reduced to bones, Li Si’s rage surged, and he could no longer maintain his rationality.
Getting up from the ground, Li Si gripped the stun baton with both hands, slamming the long whip against the wall multiple times. He charged towards Xu Xiaoyou with rapid strides, quickly closing the distance between them.
Xu Xiaoyou knew the various disadvantages of the long whip in close quarters. She fought and retreated, her feet tapping rapidly as she moved backward, her long, low ponytail swaying in the air.
The long whip and stun baton repeatedly clashed, separating briefly to trace arcs in the air, then coiling and colliding again,
Like a lion and a giant python locked in a struggle.
Walls collapsed in their wake, and entire sections of the staircase caved in. Priceless vases and paintings with intricate gold patterns shattered like worthless pottery, falling smoothly as white streaks, shallow then deep, marked their path.
Yueyue and her livestream viewers were stunned.
“: Are we really playing the same game as Dark Gold Rose boss?”
“: You’re telling me this is the effect a body with five strength can produce?”
“: Did I see that right? Dark Gold Rose is fighting toe-to-toe with a body whose three stats don’t exceed fifteen against a law enforcer with total stats over one hundred twenty? Fighting above one’s grade isn’t supposed to be like this!!”
“: She’s practically a superhero!”
“: Awesome, this is Dark Gold Rose! This is real combat!”
“: I’m already Miss Dark Gold Rose’s dog…”
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