99: Food! Food!

White Crane Domain, core city, Peili City.

Yi Xin Group building, top floor.

A woman appearing to be around 35 years old stretched comfortably after signing a document in her hand.

"Work is finally over."

She picked up the hot coffee on her desk, stood up, and pushed open a door.

"Watching the match, Lele?"

Sitting on the sofa, the boy with a mushroom cut nodded.

Due to his awkward phase, the lower half of the boy's face looked like an adult's, while the upper half looked like a student's.

He was in that 'ugly-handsome' stage.

"Mom, you're done with work."

The woman nodded and sat down beside the boy.

"It's really great now. Back in my day, you needed connections to watch the Seven Regions Genius Battle in person."

"Now, you can just lie at home and watch the livestream."

"The times really change fast."

The woman sighed with emotion, then noticed that the name of a man on the screen looked familiar.

"Long Shan?"

"Lele, doesn't your class have someone named Long Shan?"

"You even said he was quite impressive. Is this him?"

Lele nodded:

"It's him, that's why I've been locked onto his channel."

"How is your relationship with him?"

The woman took a sip of coffee and asked casually. In the past few years, the company had undergone a transformation, and she had been extremely busy.

She simply hadn't had time to learn about Lele's life at school.

She had seen the name Long Shan when she attended a conference the year before last.

"It's pretty good, Long Shan is a nice guy. It's just that he's too 'chuunibyou'!"

"If he wasn't improving so fast, I would suspect he spends all day at home watching those hot-blooded anime!"

"Especially after reaching Level 10 Mental Energy, his mouth often says things like 'I will save the world'."

The woman's movements paused imperceptibly when she heard this:

"Is that so?"

"Then he is quite responsible."

"Unlike Mom, who was a student at one of the Three Top Academies back then, only to end up running a company after graduation!"

After saying this, she looked at Lele:

"Tell me, is Mom very disappointing?"

"Mom, don't say that. You've raised me so carefully since I was little and poured so many resources into me."

"In the end, I only reached the level of the Eight Famous Schools; I'm the one who's disappointing!"

Lele was very sensible; he knew his mother was busy running the company and had to go on relatively long business trips once a year.

The woman looked at Lele, who was trying his best to defend her, and smiled:

"The Eight Famous Schools is just fine."

She then changed the subject:

"How is this Long Shan's strength?"

"Very strong!"

Lele said without hesitation.

"And even stronger than I thought!"

"But even so, he was almost eliminated just now."

"These students who can get contracts with the Three Top Academies are truly monsters!"

After saying this, he realized something and quickly explained: "Mom, I didn't mean you're a monster!"

The woman chuckled and did not answer.

As a single mother, she cherished the time she spent with her son.

At this moment, on the screen, a man was sitting on top of a building, closing his eyes to rest.

...

District C, Extraordinary Avenue, abandoned building, top floor.

"I really didn't expect that someone would be able to interrupt my right eye's summoning technique in this competition."

Long Shan opened his eyes, looked at the empty stairwell in front of him, and muttered to himself.

After speaking, he habitually pushed up a place on the bridge of his nose where nothing existed.

"Forgot to bring my sunglasses."

He lowered his head and looked at a small puddle on the ground.

"Actually, these eyes look pretty cool, it's just annoying that I'm always mistaken for someone from an alien civilization."

"If the right eye's ability is closed normally and then reopened, it requires a 24-hour cooldown."

"Now that it's been interrupted by Chen Du, it will take 12 hours before I can use it again."

"It looks like I'll have to keep a low profile for the next half day."

Long Shan stared at his reflection and said faintly.

Just then, a sound of footsteps suddenly came from the stairwell below.

The sound was neither fast nor slow, with a rhythmic sense like beating time.

"Hmm?"

Long Shan immediately took out his wristband to take a look, then looked ahead with a slightly puzzled expression.

Strange.

There are no resource points within a few kilometers of here.

Besides me, who flew up here to rest, why would anyone specifically climb the stairs up here?

The equipment in this abandoned building had long been deserted. Although Wanxiang City had renovated it, not all buildings were renovated.

The main purpose of its renovation was to provide a venue for future large-scale competitions.

Not just the Seven Regions Genius Battle, but all future large-scale competitions would be held in this city.

Many buildings were kept as they were, firstly to remember history, and secondly for the necessary sense of desolation.

He didn't dwell on it anymore; his goal was to eliminate all opponents.

Long Shan's eyes focused ahead, his right hand lifted slightly, and three flying knives in his holster flew out with a 'whoosh'.

Like drones being remote-controlled, they hovered in the blind spot above the stairwell.

Then, under the focus of Long Shan's pupils.

A creature with thin, long legs, a neck like a snake, a head like a bird, and a body covered in green feathers appeared before him.

Hmm?

It's an alien civilization I don't recognize.

But there are no resource points nearby.

Long Shan muttered in confusion.

He was ready to take out members from other domains, but the creature that appeared before him clearly exceeded his expectations.

But this did not affect his decisiveness in the slightest. The three flying knives circling above, the moment Long Shan clenched his fist,

Plummeted straight toward the alien's long, thin neck like a crashing plane.

However, the opponent didn't even look; that slender neck twisted strangely, forming an S-shape.

The daggers 'whooshed' past, missing their mark.

Long Shan's expression changed slightly. The previous attack had been launched from a blind spot.

Could it be that the opponent grew eyes on top of its head?

Although a bit surprised, it didn't stop him from continuing his attack.

The three daggers moved back and forth as if they were his own hands and feet.

Long Shan wasn't just attacking the opponent's neck.

As an alien species seen for the first time, gathering intelligence was necessary.

And this alien seemed to be bored of playing; it suddenly opened its mouth, and its sharp beak thrust forward.

It bit a dagger that had just grazed past the back of its head.

Its teeth emitted a faint green light.

Long Shan suddenly had a bad premonition.

Then came a 'crack' sound.

The dagger shattered!

At this instant, pain appeared on Long Shan's face.

The Mind Control Blade Technique didn't just use Mental Energy; it was Mental Energy combined with the power of a curse.

These daggers weren't just randomly obtained weapons either; they required the infusion of curse power to maintain.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be called the Mind Control Blade Technique; it would just be called Object Manipulation.

The daggers were weapons chosen by the ancestors of the Long Clan after countless attempts and passed down through the generations.

At this moment, Long Shan felt as if a piece of flesh had been torn from his body.

He had been sitting quietly on the ground, but a row of fine beads of sweat instantly appeared on his forehead, and his steady breathing rhythm began to disorder.

"Damn it!"

"What on earth is this thing!"

After speaking, he pressed his hand against his right eye and said somewhat angrily:

"And the right eye's ability is on cooldown at a time like this."

Just as Long Shan was thinking about his next strategy, the alien in front of him spat out the shattered dagger.

It looked at Long Shan with glowing eyes.

A sharp sound came from its mouth.

"Food! Food!"

Long Shan's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and a sense of panic he had never felt since birth spread from the bottom of his heart.

The right eye's ability is temporarily unusable, and after just finishing a fight with Chen Du, my condition isn't good either.

He didn't hesitate, turned around, leaped, and jumped downward.

The two daggers that had been besieging the alien flew over quickly and arrived under Long Shan's feet.

Once again, he unleashed his ultimate skill, Flying on Daggers!

"That alien gives me a very strange feeling; it doesn't seem like a robot."

"Is the imitation too realistic? Or is it..."

Just as Long Shan was pondering, the sound of wind breaking behind him made him look back involuntarily.

He saw that the alien had actually spread its wings and flown over!

Only then did Long Shan realize that the feathers the opponent had been keeping on its body weren't armor, but wings!

The alien stared fixedly at Long Shan, still muttering the words from before:

"Food! Food!"

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