Chapter 212 (1/2)

Vivian’s strength was real. Hao Ren had finally experienced it first hand. Getting hit by the vampire’s Lightning Strike at close range was an experience beyond words. As everyone scrambled out of the wreckage, they saw the spacecraft flashing with lights as well as a large number of dead fish and shrimp—if other people actually learned this fish electrocution ability, they would have been rich by now.

Vivian was the only one back on the surface still in good shape. She was immune to her own power—Lily was not. That was why after a fight with the vampire, she was not any better. But, there was another reason Lily was so enraged. It was because of guilt. The vampire maiden was a good person, just that her Physics teacher died a little too prematurely.

“Sorry, I didn’t realise.” Looking at Hao Ren and Lil Pea outdoing each other in puffing black smoke, Vivian came up to them, feeling bad. “I used to be on my own all the while and I haven’t been electrocuted before, so I forgot that water’s a conductor.”

Lily took a brush out of nowhere, brushing her own tail as she grumbled. “Sooner or later we’ll all die because of you.”

Hao Ren rubbed his face, thinking to himself. He would have to really watch out for Vivian’s move of mass destruction. When Y’zaks summoned a meteorite he had at least given this teammates a heads up, but this vampire maiden summoned her Lightning Strike on a whim without prior warning. She almost slaughtered five people, including the enemy, during their very first wreckage exploration.

Lil Pea rested on Hao Ren’s collar, coughing and puffing out two more rings of black smoke. Hao Ren looked on and realised—including her, it should have been six kills.

After brushing her feather-duster tail for like half a day, Lily still could not restore it. She gave up. Probably back home, a hot towel would do the trick, she thought. Tucking back her brush, she glanced at Lil Pea with concern. “Is she okay?”

“She was shocked.” Hao Ren found it incredible. “She’s bizarrely healthy even though she was struck by lightning at close range…”

Vivian looked at Lil Pea, whose face was black, and who was also muttering in fear. “She was born in boiling water, nothing could be more bizarre than that.”

Y’zaks guffawed, looking at everyone. He was the one who suffered the least injury. His face was black, other than that, he was as fit as a fiddle. He dusted the sand off his pant as he came near the alloy monster. “Anyway, at least this thing’s dead now. Vivian’s Lightning Strike worked like a charm.”

The robot monster that attacked them lay dead not far away. Vivian’s Lightning Strike was fatal. Coupled with the violent attack of Lily’s claws, its spherical core was punctured and its insides were a mess. It looked like it could never move again.

Hao Ren went near the monster, examining its bizarre arms. Its spherical body was less than a metre across, but dozens of alloy arms were attached to it, making it a giant. Some of its arms had been chopped off by Lily, and he could see the cross-sections. The insides were flexible like muscles glowing in metallic lustre. Some kind of terminal was attached at the end of the arm. From the looks of it, Hao Ren could vaguely identify a beam weapon, a visual component and some other sensors. Obviously, this thing was a warrior with awesome design. It was in the wreckage under water for two months and it still worked.

Out of curiosity, Hao Ren had dragged it out when he left the wreckage.