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Chapter 50 Girl's Self-Esteem
Yan Jingxing ran wildly on the eaves shrouded in night.

The narrow wall is no more than one step wide, but he still walks like flying, just like a martial arts master shuttling back and forth between the corridors and eaves in martial arts novels, or a superhero leaping and galloping between the rooftops of the city.

The split-headed dog's coat is black and shiny, almost blending into the night, and when running, you can only see the ups and downs of the outline of the ridge; but Yan Jingxing's eyes are always firmly fixed on this monster, and he never misses a moment. So follow closely.

In just a few seconds, the people and beasts who jumped out of the glass window chased and fled, and they had already reached the side building adjacent to the main floor of the sick building.

The black dog ran, leaped, and easily jumped over the "ditch" that is insurmountable for ordinary people, and fell to the opposite rooftop - if you accidentally slipped, you would have to fall down five floors, which is enough to kill you. people die.

And Yan Jingxing, who was following behind it, also saw this "ditch", but he didn't hesitate in his steps, on the contrary, he sped up again.

With no protection, Yan Jingxing strode forward, with one foot on the guardrail, the other foot was already on the ground, and he jumped towards the empty place in front of him without hesitation.

At this moment, the feet submerged in darkness turned into an abyss, and when one looked down, one would feel dizzy, as if falling into the void.

But Yan Jingxing's gestures are so natural:

He opened his arms, listening to the howling wind ringing in his ears, falling into the night with gravity, like a bird flying in the sky, and even felt comfortable.

The sense of weightlessness, emptiness, acceleration...every feeling stimulates the heartbeat to speed up.

After accelerating through the run-up, Yan Jingxing crossed a distance of more than five meters in one breath, as if gliding in the air, landed steadily on the opposite rooftop, rolled around on the spot, got up neatly, and continued to chase the black dog ahead .

The split-headed dog jumped back and forth between the eaves and walls, showing amazing jumping ability; Yan Jingxing was also not to be outdone, and jumped over a little farther away, and his performance when climbing high places was as nimble as a ape.

Even places that seem impossible to jump or climb can be easily crossed after making full use of comprehensive skills; therefore, even if there is a physiological gap between humans and monsters, the speed of black dogs running is faster than that of monsters. He was faster and jumped higher than him, Yan Jingxing had never been thrown off.

As long as the split-headed dog refuses to give up the group of hosts in this building and is unwilling to leave the hospital, it will have no chance to escape under its nose.

The split-headed dog turned its head, smashed through the iron door, and returned to the building again;
In order to catch up with it, Yan Jingxing changed direction halfway and jumped directly from the rooftop to a side window;
When the whole person fell in mid-air, he stretched out his hand quickly, grabbed the wall outside the window, stopped the falling trend with the strength of his hands, and then opened the window with hands and feet to climb in.

This series of actions can be called thrilling, and it was performed without any safety protection. Even from the perspective of the audience, it is enough to make people hold their breath; but Yan Jingxing himself is still expressionless.

When he turned over and fell into the corridor from the window, he only saw a black shadow running towards him in the distance. When the split-headed dog noticed that he was blocking him, he could obviously find that the beast showed a humanized look, as if "stuck" The general expression is like asking "how did you come ahead of me?"

It kicked its limbs forward and slid a short distance with support, then stopped and stared at him warily.

Yan Jingxing, who stood firm on his feet, didn't give it any more time to rest. He clenched a small knife in each hand, and once again sped up and sprinted.

"There are three minutes and 35 seconds left in the limit time..."

Yan Jingxing set the limit of his ability at "30 minutes and 1 seconds". In other words, less than a minute had passed since the start of this battle.

If he had to persist for longer, the changes in his physical condition would be uncontrollable, and it was likely to cause him to lose strength and faint on the spot.

"no problem."

He silently confirmed to himself in his heart.

Yan Jingxing's running posture at this time was like a cheetah attacking its prey, with its upper body leaning forward, and with a kick of its footsteps, the whole body was ejected forward with a "swoosh", as if flying close to the ground.

And because of this weird posture, the split-headed dog obviously misjudged his attack angle: it stretched its head forward, opened its fangs and mouth, and spit out a gust of wind, trying to bite Yan Jingxing directly, but it bit empty.

Yan Jingxing, who has activated the warrior's instinct, has an astonishingly keen grasp of the battle situation and insight into the enemy's weaknesses. He has two heads and a huge beast. It looks very bluffing, but he can see this appearance at a glance. The resulting defects:
Having two heads means having two pairs of eyes and two noses. The advantage is to expand the scope of observation, but the disadvantage is that there is still only one neck connected to the head——

In other words, each head has less room to move.One of the most terrifying weapons of a wild beast is the bite of its teeth. This appearance will inevitably limit the angle of the bite and become an obstacle for the opponent to use the "weapon".

This is the reason why Yan Jingxing immediately changed his strategy and chose to fight in close quarters after he cut a wound on the split-headed dog with a knife and realized that the weakening power of this attack method was not enough.

When he quickly approached the split-headed dog, the opponent couldn't even fight back, because he drilled in a very tricky direction, which happened to be where the split-headed dog couldn't bite with its mouth——

It is too crowded for two heads to be placed on one thick and short neck, which creates a "dead corner" when the two compete with each other for squeezing space.

Yan Jingxing got into this blind spot without hesitation, stretched his curled body violently, and raised the knife in his hand sharply.

"Thorn--!"

Blood spattered, and even though the split-headed dog had shaken its head as much as possible to dodge, the sharp blade still carved a deep bloodstain on the deformed second head, and the wound extended all the way to the neck.

"Ouch!"

The black dog wailed in pain, jumped back suddenly, and dodged the other knife held by Yan Jingxing in his left hand.

If it wasn't for the split-headed dog's timely response, or if the blade in Yan Jingxing's hand was longer, it might have had its first head cut off by now, and the process was as easy as peeling off a circle of apple peel by an ordinary person.

"...Three minutes and 25 seconds."

Yan Jingxing calmed down and calculated his physical strength.

It took ten seconds, and there was still plenty of time left.

He crouched down again.

Blood flowed wantonly from the wound on the black dog's neck, and snowflakes of blood fell on the ground.

Heh... Even if it is parasitized, is it still red?

He moved his arms to relieve the muscle soreness from overexertion, thinking in his heart, "It will be very difficult after the ability ends...", and he rushed over again.

But at this moment, he seemed to have noticed the movement from the other side of the corridor, and subconsciously stopped.

And from the direction of the second floor, he heard the little girl shouting with all her might:
"Jing Xing! You... can you hear me? Those parasitic patients are rushing towards us!"

The voice was so loud that it could be heard throughout the whole building. The girl's clear and beautiful voice like a mermaid's was a bit hoarse at the moment, and one could hear how hard she was shouting.

Yan Jingxing frowned subconsciously.

Even if he was fighting monsters head-on, or running dangerously in the upstairs room, his instinctive state would not change his face; but just now he just thought about "Will Chunzao's throat be hoarse, can't hear her original voice?" It's a pity to sing," but his complexion has changed - explaining that the matter about that girl can make his emotions fluctuate more intensely.

Yan Jingxing didn't think carefully about what this meant, it was not the right time, he just yelled towards the corridor:
"I got it! I'm on the third floor, so don't come here!"

He turned his head again, and saw the split-headed dog silently licking the wound on his body.

It also seemed to have noticed something, one head continued to stare at itself, while the other injured one looked into the depths of the corridor.

Yan Jingxing heard the shaky footsteps of the patients, coming from the darkness, scattered and chaotic, which made people panic.

The hairless ones seem to want to do something too, and it will take a while for me to completely kill the split-headed dog...

At this critical moment, he withdrew to a safe distance, temporarily shutting down the use of his abilities.

After "Battle Instinct" is turned on, every breath time is precious; and by repeatedly turning it on and off, the waste of unnecessary moments can be controlled.

However, the time saved in this way will only add up to less than four and a half minutes.

It's like running for a while and resting for a while. The persistence time is naturally longer than that of running all the time, but the physical exertion is still amazing.

Yan Jingxing leaned against the corner, staring at the group of patients appearing at the corner;
Each of them was very pale, but they all grinned at the same time, revealing a weird smile;
The split-headed dog rubbed its paws on the tiles, and its saliva flowed down the corner of its mouth uncontrollably, dripping on the ground together with the blood.

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One floor below.

Xie Yuzhi stared at the spiraling upwards of a dozen stairs, and asked her companion:

"How's the situation upstairs?"

Anxiety could not be concealed in her tone.

"A total of thirteen hairless hosts have kept more than half the distance from the split-headed dog, and there has been no conflict between the two sides..." Ji Chunzao closed his eyes, opened his wet lips slightly, revealing his white teeth, and leaned his body gently On Miss Xie, "Jing Xing should be watching from the side..."

"okay, I get it."

Xie Yuzhi nodded, holding the curly-haired girl with one hand, supporting her body and preventing her from falling.

But even if you know it, you still can't do anything.

Under the cuffs embroidered with lace, her fair fingers were pressing together one by one, and she quietly clenched her delicate fists.

There are more than a dozen hairless people and split-headed dogs that feed on the hairless people. She has just awakened the king's ability tonight, but she has only one soldier at her disposal. Her power is too weak to interfere with the overall situation.

It doesn't matter in itself, the problem is that Yan Jingxing has already been involved in this struggle, not being able to help his friend and standing on the same battlefield with him is what really makes the young miss feel depressed.

Xie Yuzhi was thinking, for safety reasons, should Jing Xing come back and the three of them leave together?

As for what will happen to this hospital and those patients in the future, it's none of their business, and she doesn't care.

But the crux of the problem now lies in Yan Jingxing's thoughts.

She remembered the expression on the boy's face when he let himself and Chunzao leave before the battle with the split-headed dog—

She believed that she was not mistaken, Yan Jingxing was smiling at that time.

It was a laugh of excitement for the upcoming battle.

Perhaps in the eyes of others, an underage student should not fight for power, but in Xie Yuzhi's eyes, Yan Jingxing's reaction was not surprising at all; on the contrary, she appreciated it and felt that everything should be so.

They are no longer ordinary people. As a "warrior", a man, or a boy, should have such a spirit.

As for Chunzao, she may not have noticed this matter, or she may have noticed it faintly, after all, this girl's intuition is still very keen.

but……

Going around and around, it still came back to that question.

She was obviously the boy's companion, but she couldn't stand behind him to support him in the fight, which hurt the eldest lady's self-esteem somewhat, and felt like she had become a spectator standing on the sidelines of the battlefield with no way to intervene.

Of course, her abilities are constantly growing, as long as she has a suitable partner, this situation will change in the future——

"……wrong."

Xie Yuzhi shook her head unconsciously.

"Ah, what's wrong?"

Ji Chunzao was leaning on her shoulder, noticed her sudden movement, and asked in a daze.

"I said, now that I have something I can do but I don't do it, instead I make excuses for myself. Such a cowardly idea is wrong."

"?"

There seemed to be a question mark on Ji Chunzao's head.

"After I manipulated the first hairless man, I found that with my current strength of consciousness, although the king's ability is not at the limit, and I can temporarily control other creatures, I'm afraid I can't control the second 'soldier' ​​at the same time. So much so that after the appearance of a more advanced head splitter, I felt that the difficulty of manipulating it was definitely not at the same level as the hairless one, so I didn't try it from the beginning... But I changed my mind, I must help Jing Xing busy."

After Xie Yuzhi said these words seriously, she grabbed Ji Chunzao's shoulder with her hands.

"Then Chunzao, I'll leave it to you to support me."

"……Eh?"

Ji Chunzao was stunned for a moment, but saw that Miss Xie had closed her eyes and leaned towards her.

"Wow!"

She quickly opened her arms and hugged him, almost missing him.

(End of this chapter)