Trials (4)

Luo Zhao's murderous intent was genuine, and her words were true. She could indeed burn all these people to ashes before her energy ran out, and perhaps even burn the entire forest to ashes.

Because she can't control her energy very well.

So as long as she lets the energy run wild, she can set herself on fire to exchange her life for another's, just like what happened to the Luo family.

This was also the main reason why the association kept her under close surveillance after she awakened. Later, Ying Yungui melted a small portion of the ashes of Luo Han and Fu Yuchu into a necklace and gave it to her as a restraint, requiring her not to remove it until her death.

Under this condition, Luo Zhao was freed from the supervision of the association.

At this moment, facing the humiliation of these people, Luo Zhao has already reached out to the necklace...

"Bang!" It was the sound of someone being kicked away with immense force. Before the rest of the six-man team could react, they were all sent flying one by one. The only one left standing there, bewildered, was the support-type esper.

The five people who were knocked away did not die, but they all lost consciousness due to the huge impact and fell in scattered places.

Luo Zhao's vision was completely unclear. She only vaguely saw a person walk up to her and slap away her hand that was reaching for the necklace.

"Are you such a coward?" It was a male voice.

Luo Zhao realized that he was talking to him.

"Do you understand me well?" Although he couldn't see clearly, Luo Zhao never lost in his words. "Who are you?"

The man seemed a little surprised after being choked. He paused before continuing, "You really are wasting your talent."

Just as Luo Zhao was about to laugh out loud and say that he didn't have any talent, the male voice continued, "It's a waste of the effort of the person who awakened this talent for you."

Luo Zhao's vision suddenly became clear again for a moment.

She saw Jiang Yu standing in front of her amidst the raging flames. His outstretched arms had completely turned to wood, with hard, rough branches growing out, wrapping around him and shielding him from the blazing fire.

"Azhao, wake up. This is not an illusion, don't fall asleep." Jiang Yu's hands could not move, so he could only press his forehead against Luo Zhao's forehead, calling softly and gently as if he was afraid of scaring her.

"I will protect you until this flame burns out. Don't move. Be good and obey."

"I can't accompany you from now on. You have to be strong. Remember not to bully others when you get out. It will be very troublesome if no one helps you clean up the mess."

"I'm sorry, this is all I can do with my ability. Aunt Han and the others..."

"Azhao, you will definitely survive. You must live well."

In the end, Jiang Yu was speechless because he had to dedicate his entire body to the source. Only by completely turning into wood could he protect Luo Zhao from the erosion of the supernatural flames outside.

Most of Jiang Yu's face had turned into dry and cracked bark, and until he completely turned into a tree in a hugging posture, his eyes never left Luo Zhao for a moment.

He wanted to engrave his beloved girl deeply into his last memory.

...

After many years, Luo Zhao recalled these scenes clearly again, and he became so angry that he spat out a mouthful of blood.

At this moment, the man who had rescued her grabbed the only conscious support-type psychic and ordered, "Give her treatment."

After a while, when Luo Zhao's condition improved a little, and he was not dying but had no strength left to fight, the man knocked out the auxiliary psychic as before.

However, he didn't seem to intend to attack Luo Zhao. Before leaving, he moved her to a hidden corner and left a sentence: "Your fire is too weak, that is not your true power." Then he disappeared.

Luo Zhao leaned against the tree trunk, closed her eyes, and chuckled softly. A flower blossomed in the palm of her right hand, a small, white flower that drooped downwards.

Starting from this flower, green energy extends out for half a kilometer.

The flowers, plants and trees that had been previously burned by the flames and cut down by the wind blades began to revive happily.

The woods came alive again.

Luo Zhao also came back to life.

——

"The first round of Zone A is over!" As the host finished speaking, one of the doors bound by red chains reopened.

Luo Zhao walked out of the door somewhat dejectedly. The right half of her body was stained with blood, which looked very horrifying, so Maya hurried over to support her.

"I'm fine, don't be afraid." Luo Zhao wanted to touch Maya's head to tell her not to worry, but he retracted his touch after seeing the blood on his hands.

Ying Yungui helped Luo Zhao back to her seat, checked her injuries, and asked, "Who treated your wounds?" Luo Zhao didn't answer directly. Instead, she grabbed Ying Yungui's sleeve and whispered, "Brother, I want to learn how to control my dual abilities."

Ying Yungui lowered his head thoughtfully and coaxed her: "Okay, Zhao wants to learn, brother will help you find a teacher."

Although he and Lin Zhouze had some ideological differences and their relationship was not very good, Ying Yungui felt that he should be grateful to him in this matter.

Thank him for seeing the predicament Luo Zhao was in and insisting on letting her in alone.

About twenty minutes after Luo Zhao was sent to the treatment room, a second door finally reopened. "The first round of Zone D is over!" the host announced the progress as usual. Ying Yungui looked over and saw that it was the door Mai Er had entered alone earlier.

Looking at Luo Zhao's appearance, it is not difficult to guess that she did not become the winner of 100 points in Area A. Ying Yungui would not blame her. After all, she had always resisted using her two special powers, and she must still be lacking in actual combat.

But Ying Yungui didn't think that the remaining few people would be powerless to fight, especially Pei Chanbai and Mai Er.

They are the ones who fought all the way here.

However, the moment Mai Er came out of the door, Ying Yungui realized that something was wrong. He had thought too simply before.

The area D that Mai Er entered was also full with 18 people, but unlike the area A where Luo Zhao was... only 5 people came out of the door at this moment, and without exception, all of them were seriously injured.

Ying Yungui flashed by the door and caught the unconscious Mai Er. Her blonde hair was tangled and disheveled, and you could vaguely see patches of scalp exposed where hair had fallen off, as well as skin tissue and blood clinging to her hair.

"Want to fight me?"

The other four people who came out of the same door were about to approach Mai Er when they found that they could not move.

Ying Yungui didn't even look at them, but simply felt Mai Er's pulse and asked casually. However, only those four people knew the pressure behind his seemingly casual question.

"No... no, but she..." The four dirty people seemed to want to say something.

Ying Yungui: "Get lost."

At this time, a graceful woman came over and patted the four men on the back, signaling them to calm down: "Be careful of the wounds opening, I'll take care of it."

Then she turned to Ying Yungui and said, "Mr. Ying, you misunderstood. My students never meant to offend."

Mai'er had more small wounds on her body than expected, but Ying Yungui was not a healer, so he couldn't figure out why she had her eyes closed with a sad look on her face.

"She looks like one of your team members. Do you mind if I take a look at her injuries?" The woman's words and actions were quite polite, and she looked like a lady of great stature.

Ying Yungui stopped her from extending her hand towards Mai Er and said, "No need. Just take care of your own teammates." As he said that, he was about to pick up Mai Er and take him to the treatment room.

"Teacher! We can't let that woman leave!" At this time, the captain of the four-member team, who was the least injured, suddenly shouted, "Everyone else in Area D is dead! It's very likely that she did it! We can't let her go!"

The woman's eyes darkened. She didn't speak rashly, but stopped her apprentice from shouting: "Don't talk nonsense. Do you have any evidence?"

The host took in the situation and came to the scene of the commotion. He reported, "There are indeed only five remaining life forms detected in Area D. As for who did this, we haven't detected it yet."

The captain was clearly agitated. "We were four on the same team, and two of our teammates died. She was the only one who went in and came out alone. If it wasn't her, did we kill our own teammates?!"

That made sense. At this point, the other two team leaders also came over, but they didn't go directly to Ying Yungui. Instead, they questioned the host, "Thirteen people with special abilities died in Area D. Are the authorities just going to sit back and do nothing?"

The host, wearing a mask, scratched the back of his head and said bewilderedly, "There were 18 contestants in Area D. Among the 13 psychics who died, there was a team of six, a team of five, and a team of two."

The captain immediately agreed: "Yes, that two-person team is my two team members!"

"Well... in that case..." The host nodded and seemed unwilling to give them an answer.

At this moment, Maya squeezed into the crowd, knelt down beside Ying Yungui, and held Mai'er's cold hand.

The host said "Hey," made a face at the crowd, and then said, "As I said before, aside from the previously announced general rules and the specific rules for this match, there are no restrictions."

"Of course~ If you can't remember clearly, you can look it up again."

"There's no rule that says 'it's forbidden to kill team members during a match'~"

“!!!”

“!!!”

"What did you say!" The crowd around them became even more agitated, especially the group of four who had just escaped death.

"How could this happen! The Association actually allowed such competition rules to be passed!"

“That’s ridiculous!”

Seeing that chaos was about to break out, the host raised his hands and pressed them down, signaling everyone to be quiet.

"Even those of you who want a panacea have to pay a price, let alone fighting for the qualification to obtain this unique secret method?"

"Besides, if you can't even understand the true rules, you don't deserve to pass the preliminaries."

At this moment, he took off his mask and revealed his true face.

"Christopher?! It's you?" Everyone recognized him, because he was the initiator of the Orb selection competition and the inheritor of the secret techniques of this generation of the Karanka clan.

Christopher's dark skin couldn't hide the blush on his face. He seemed very excited: "You can choose to withdraw, but you have to wait until the end of this individual points race~"

It was at this moment that Ying Yungui took action. He picked up Mai'er and led Maya to the treatment room, because Maya had just secretly passed on a message to him: "Sister Mai'er has her own 'hypnosis' seal on her body."

Ying Yungui's movements were noticed by the captain closest to him. He reached out to pull him back, but with a bang, he was sent flying nearly a hundred meters, his blood gushing out and splashing all over the group.

Ying Yungui didn't look back. His voice was filled with murderous intent as he left the others on the field with a single sentence: "Stop me again, and I'll die." After he left, Christopher exclaimed in admiration: "See? That's the courage of a team leader."