Its tentacles hadn’t even reached Fang Chang before they were pulverized by the opposing forces of the two spaces. But Fang Chang was simply too weak. Her size was no match for its, and her unfamiliarity with her own power was a fatal weakness too.
Worse, the zombie Mother Nest had learned from its pain. White light gleamed along its tentacles, and they began to wield the power of space.
It brought down its massive energy, instantly seizing the upper hand.
The area Fang Chang had neutralized and turned into reality kept shrinking.
Li Zirong came to her senses and shouted, “You’ve connected to reality now—why aren’t you running? With me holding it back, it can’t descend into the Present World! Why are you still forcing yourself to hold on? You haven’t fully grown yet. You’re no match for this fully matured Mother Nest!”
Fang Chang’s teeth chattered. ** But she didn’t retreat a single step, much less turn around and slip through the gap into the Present World. Instead, she fought to maintain the state of spatial neutralization.
“Aaaah! Don’t look at me like this and underestimate me! I’m a man too! Senior, I’ve drawn all its fire—attack already!”
Li Zirong froze.
She’d never felt anything like this before.
She’d always been the one protecting others. This was the first time someone had protected her.
His words were rough, but the truth behind them wasn’t.
Her tone softened. It wouldn’t matter if Fang Chang let go. “Even a zombie Mother Nest can’t destroy the neutralized zone in an instant. That brief window would be enough for you to escape. But if you keep stubbornly holding on, you won’t get another chance to run.”
Fang Chang’s whole body began to tremble. She was at the end of her strength, almost unable to hold on. But!
“I told you! I’m a man! What kind of man would leave you here alone, Senior?!”
Even after her bioenergy had been squeezed to its limit, she still wasn’t a match for the zombie Mother Nest. It was simply too huge, with far too much energy inside it. Fang Chang hadn’t finished growing and couldn’t possibly defeat it.
The neutralized zone rang like shattering glass. Shadows swallowed reality, and the tentacles surged forward. Fang Chang swallowed the blood rising in her throat from the backlash of her power and summoned the Demonic Power within her.
“Demonflame! Detonate!”
Demonflame blazed to life. Its heat evaporated the sweat on her body, engulfing her in a ball of fire. Booming blasts erupted from within it, their force terrifying.
But compared to the tentacles blotting out half the sky, it was nothing.
The two collided, and flames burst like a small sun. Several tentacles were blown apart. But as soon as one was destroyed, two more took its place. The dazzling flames were smothered in an instant, and dark-red tentacles coiled around Fang Chang’s exhausted body, wrapping her up completely.
The pressure, the corrosive force, and the foul stench of the tentacles nearly made Fang Chang faint in her weakened state. She felt wronged, unable to understand why Li Zirong still hadn’t acted after all this time.
Just then, a blade of light flashed across the entire Void Space bubble.
Every tentacle that came near Fang Chang was severed.
The tentacles released Fang Chang. She fell alongside their lifeless remains, tumbling toward the ground.
All she could do was watch helplessly as the ground grew larger and larger, trying to reassure herself.
“I’m in such good shape. I probably won’t die from the fall…”
Before she could finish, she landed in a soft, warm embrace.
She looked over in surprise and found herself in the arms of a tall woman, their bodies pressed tightly together. Four soft mounds squashed against one another, bringing a strange, pleasant sensation.
“Huh? Senior? Something’s not right with your chest! How come yours are bigger than mine?”
The woman ignored her and looked up at the zombie Mother Nest in silence. Some of its tentacles had been severed, but it only recoiled instinctively before surging toward them again with even greater fury.
Only then did Fang Chang get a clear look at the woman. She wore a tight-fitting suit of black elastic fiber, with complex metal weapons fitted to parts of it. Her long hair fell loose around her shoulders. Her face looked a lot like Li Zirong’s, yet there were also major differences Fang Chang couldn’t quite put her finger on.
She tentatively called out, “Senior?”
A pleasant female voice answered her—not a mechanical one!
“That’s me.”
Fang Chang was stunned. Who would’ve guessed Li Zirong was so well-endowed? So was her usual mech form just some kind of senior-expert act?
“Senior, what’s going on with you?”
“I synchronized with the Doomsday Valkyrie.”
“What’s that?”
“You don’t need to know what it is. Just know that I’m very powerful now.”
“How powerful?”
Li Zirong raised a hand and aimed it at the tentacles blotting out the sky.
“This powerful.”
Golden ripples spread through the space behind her. One side of the Void Space bubble was torn open without mercy, revealing countless golden-lit cannon muzzles and gun barrels, all radiating an imposing might.
“Who gave you the nerve to bully my little lab rat?!”
Fang Chang froze. The words were full of swagger, and Li Zirong was clearly standing up for her—but why didn’t she feel protected at all?
The tentacles paused. Fang Chang sensed the zombie Mother Nest’s emotions!
Fear!
“Initiate Annihilation Energy Strike—for our destiny!”
