Are Your Bones Stretched So Long Just to Make It Easier for Me to Snap Them?

The tattooed man raised his hand and wiped at the footprint on his face.

His fingertips came away bloody and sticky.

He stared at the trace of red on his hand for several seconds, seemingly unable to process what had just happened.

He had survived on the wasteland for so many years and had plenty of blood on his hands; he was extremely sensitive to such things.

In a mere instant, this woman had gone from wanting to avoid him to wanting to kill him!

“You...!” The tattooed man looked up, staring at “Bai Feifei” in utter shock.

Xu Mo ignored him, turning to address Bai Feifei in her mind.

“To put it bluntly, Bai Feifei, you need to change this habit of yours immediately.”

“It doesn't matter who this kind of trash is. How could you not beat him up? The moment he showed any intent to make a move on you, you should have forced him onto the ground before talking.”

Bai Feifei: ...

Feeling herself lose control, Bai Feifei sighed softly in her heart.

Meanwhile, back in the monitoring camp.

The eyes of all the assessors were glued to the massive screen.

No one was watching the students anymore.

By comparison, Bai Feifei's feed was clearly much more entertaining.

They were highly curious about what would happen next and who this man actually was.

The assessors craned their necks one after another, looking exactly like a crowd gathered to watch a sports match.

In the corner, Liu Yun raised her hand and lightly tapped on the table.

“Everyone,” she said, her voice laced with exasperation. “Remember what you're here for. Don't forget your duties.”

At her words, the assessors quickly sat up straight.

Right, they still had students to monitor!

They hastily tore their eyes away from Bai Feifei's screen and redistributed their attention back to their respective academies.

However, there was one person who naturally didn't budge: Xie Xuan of Turing City.

He remained standing before Bai Feifei's screen, pushing up his glasses. The fury on his face had already given way to surprise, replaced by a look of growing interest.

Seeing the traitor get kicked, he even subconsciously clenched his fist.

Then, the man decided he was done standing.

He glanced left and right, found a chair to sit down, rested his chin on his hand, and watched with undivided attention.

Seeing that he had calmed down, Liu Yun also let out a long sigh and shook her head.

...

On the live broadcast screen.

Xu Mo stood in place with his hands in his pockets, his posture incredibly arrogant and domineering.

He looked at his opponent and flashed an exceptionally warm smile.

“Actually, right now, I'm quite curious about who you are and where you came from.”

He said this because, based on his intuition as an Old-Timer, he felt this guy didn't seem to belong to Dawn City either.

“But then again...” His smile gradually grew somewhat twisted. “If I don't beat you half to death, you probably won't talk.”

“Right?”

This wasn't even a real question; he simply hoped the other guy wouldn't chicken out, so he could test his skills.

Just kidding—even if he chickened out, he was still getting beaten up.

“Little girl,” the tattooed man's face twisted in fury. “So young, yet so utterly ignorant of the world. Since you've made a move...”

Before he could even finish, Xu Mo was already in motion, delivering a direct kick that shot out like a missile!

You don't deserve to speak!

And I don't care to listen!

The tattooed man's expression changed. His speed was incredibly fast; his body twisted like a snake to barely dodge the blow, and he immediately prepared to counterattack.

But Xu Mo accurately grabbed his raised arm, neutralizing the attack while simultaneously throwing out another leg.

His right leg swept out violently, his shin slamming directly into the inner side of the tattooed man's knee!

A faint sound of cracking bone rang out. The tattooed man let out a muffled groan and stumbled two steps to the side.

From just this single kick, his right knee began to buckle outward, the bone protruding unnaturally.

“Sss!” Hissing in pain, cold sweat instantly drenched his forehead, his eyes flashing with utter disbelief.

In their very first clash, he actually found himself outmatched by this woman in close-quarters combat!

But Xu Mo didn't give him a single second to catch his breath. Springing off his toes, he lunged forward once more.

“Bai Feifei's” fighting style was completely mismatched with her slender frame. There were no flashy Word Souls, nor any special effects of energy bursting.

It was pure fist-to-flesh, a brutal aesthetic.

Iron fists slammed into the tattooed man's blocking forearms, the crisp sound of fracturing bones exploding in the air. A heavy stomp descended upon his other ankle, crushing the ankle bone directly into the red soil.

A relentless barrage of thuds, interspersed with the sounds of cracking bones, left the tattooed man crying out in agony.

Under the storm of attacks, he instantly became a punching bag, swaying unsteadily and barely able to put up any counterplay.

“Ah!”

Following a furious roar, he abruptly leapt back two steps. His eyes were blood-red and filled with murderous intent as he bellowed his Word Soul.

【Loach stretches, transforms into a flood dragon!】

As soon as the words left his mouth, his body suddenly executed a movement that completely defied human anatomy. His spine seemed to lose its bones entirely as he stretched half a meter longer.

His skin turned an earthy yellow, and his arms elongated directly, hurtling toward “Bai Feifei” like rubber bands!

“You've gone too far!”

“So what if I did?!” Xu Mo had seen plenty of Word Souls and wasn't surprised at all. Ducking low to dodge the strike, he grabbed the man's wrist.

“A loach transforming into a flood dragon? I wouldn't have said anything if you were at least a snake!”

He was actually amused by the other guy's Word Soul. Wasn't it embarrassing to shout something like that out loud?

Looking at the man, he revealed a cruel smile. “Are your bones stretched so long just to make it easier for me to snap them?”

Then, he gripped the man's hand and twisted violently!

A tooth-gritting crunch echoed. The man's two-meter-long arm was instantly wrung into a twist by the immense force, crackling like popping firecrackers.

“Ahhh!!!”

The tattooed man instantly let out a scream that sounded barely human.

...

“Beautiful!”

In the monitoring area, Xie Xuan slammed his hand on the table and stood up, unable to hold back his cheers, a look of pure satisfaction on his face.

The people around him immediately stared. This engineer had never shown such intense emotion before.

“Yes! Great! That's exactly how you should beat him!”

Xie Xuan pointed at Bai Feifei on the screen, shaking his fist. He racked his brain for a moment, not knowing how else to praise her, before finally shouting,

“T-Teacher Bai is a good person!”

Everyone: ?

Why is he praising her all of a sudden?

And of all people, you call her a good person?!

...

On the red wasteland.

By now, the tattooed man had been beaten so thoroughly that all of his previous arrogance had vanished. He curled up on the ground, one arm wrung into a twist, the other in a similar state.

As for his legs, they had been broken into several segments right from the start.

He panted heavily, blood trickling from the corners of his mouth.

He had truly never expected that he would be beaten to such a miserable state today.

What rank was this woman anyway? She clearly didn't feel like an Edgerunner!

How could an Edgerunner travel on foot by running?

But still, he was a Rank 5 Scavenger! How could he...

“Dying already? Is that all you've got? How boring.”

“Any other tricks? If you have any, show them before you kick the bucket.”