It was eerily quiet, except for Lin Yiran's breathing.

She turned over in her sleep, but suddenly a chill ran down her back!

Even with her eyes closed, her alertness, honed over years in the apocalypse, remained. She instinctively sensed someone behind her, someone who wanted to kill her.

A chilling murderous intent emanated from him!

"Miss Lin, it's been a long time."

Lin Yiran was startled when the other party suddenly spoke up. She then relaxed, thinking that with such low intelligence, it was true that the saying "villains die from talking too much" was not without reason. In fact, it would have been better if he had just stabbed her in the back rather than spoken up directly, thus saving her the opportunity to retaliate.

But then the other person spoke up, which was clearly a notification that someone was in the room.

The room she was staying in was old, and the light bulbs emitted a weak yellow light that wasn't very bright. Even with the lights on, it wasn't very bright, let alone now that the lights were off.

When the lights are off, the room is darker than the outside.

It was so dark you couldn't see anything.

Suddenly, something came hurtling through the air!

Lin Yiran dodged to the left, then flicked a marble onto the light switch in the room. With a 'click,' the switch turned on, and the room finally had some light.

It's Zhou Ling.

The person who tried to steal her S-rank mission in the Forest of Hope last time was... what was that? Leopard, the leader of the Cheetah Mercenary Group.

"What, you've come here today to take revenge on me?" Lin Yiran said.

"Are you looking for a beating again? Didn't I say that if there's a next time..." He was interrupted before he could finish speaking.

"Miss Lin, your words are far too arrogant. I'm here today not for anything else, but to teach you a lesson, so that you, a lowly person living in this dilapidated house, will know what true nobility and lowliness are!" After saying that, he released his spiritual power, trying to completely suppress Lin Yiran.

In an instant, it felt as if a mountain was pressing down on Lin Yiran. Her mental strength seemed to have improved again. She didn't know if it was just her imagination, but she felt that the last time the other party used their mental strength, they didn't give her such a strong sense of pressure.

This time, the pressure caused her blood to flow more slowly.

If this continues, I'm afraid my heart will be unable to cope with the pressure!

However, she slowly raised her hand to allow her supernatural power to circulate through her body's meridians, and only then did she feel her heart feel better and she was able to breathe again.

Lin Yiran: "The space here is small. I wonder if we could move to a different spot and fight outside?"

The small room is so cramped that you can't even stretch your legs, which definitely affects your performance.

However, Zhou Ling on the other side snorted coldly: "No need, do you think I'm stupid? The outside is full of Sky Eye systems, why would I go out and make trouble for myself?"

"Let's stay here. But don't worry, I'll have someone collect your body after you leave!"

Lin Yiran sneered, shook her head, and didn't waste any more words with him. Instead, she activated her superpower to its maximum.

At the peak of her superpower's activation, Lin Yiran seemed to hear a "pop" sound, and the oppressive feeling immediately lessened.

She was puzzled, but when she looked inward at her dantian, she found that her superpower had increased by one level, from the original seventh-level metal-type superpower to the eighth level!

It turns out that forcibly mobilizing one's superpowers under the influence of gravity can upgrade them, which is a pleasant surprise. However, this method should only be used once. Once the pressure increases, the superpowers will move freely and easily, and this method will no longer be effective for her.

After advancing to the eighth rank, Lin Yiran discovered that her metal-type ability seemed to have changed a bit; she seemed to be able to sense a wider range of metal.

Right now, she can already sense the metallic particles in the abandoned soil in the distance; she wonders if she can fuse with them. However, this ability is still relatively weak and requires diligent practice. Right now, she needs to stop the trouble in front of her!

Several throwing knives were thrown directly, but they were all blocked by the opponent's protective shield. Lin Yiran only heard a few clanging and sizzling sounds before the throwing knives spun around like boomerangs and headed straight for her. Along with them came a large physical net formed by Zhou Ling's mental power.

Lin Yiran's metal-based superpower had no effect on him, but his physical mental power still worked on her. She simply dodged to the side, and her fingers touched something soft.

Oh, I was so focused on fighting that I forgot there was someone else here. With no other option, Lin Yiran gritted her teeth and jumped out of the window!

Zhou Ling, who was behind her, thought that Lin Yiran was looking for a chance to escape, so he jumped down as well, blocking the female lead's way, and then forced her into the small hotel step by step.

Lin Yiran knew what he meant, and since it would be more convenient to kill someone in a hotel, she voluntarily returned to the hotel, but did not see the hotel owner at the front desk.

The hotel owner was still watching Lin Yiran's room from the back of the second floor, not expecting that Lin Yiran and the others had already gone downstairs.

Just as he was wondering why there was no sound from the second floor, he heard the sound of plates, cups, and other things breaking from the first floor. He then ran downstairs in astonishment, his mouth agape.

"Brother, brother, brother, be gentle! These things cost money. It's okay if you kill someone, but you have to compensate me if you break these things! This is just a small business!"

Then, when he came out from the corner of the stairs on the first floor, A-Qiang was stunned for a moment.

Because the scene below was not what he had imagined.

His initial thought was this: Zhou Ling, holding a lightsaber, his face cold and his eyes icy, his body stained with the girl's still-warm blood, the girl's corpse lying on the ground beside him, her eyes wide open in death. But Captain Zhou didn't care at all; the moment he saw him come down, he turned and left, adding a cheeky remark: "Could you please dispose of the body?"

He was just thinking about how to get more money for cleaning when he saw this scene as soon as he came down the stairs.

The girl was holding a curved knife in her right hand, which was pressed against the man's body. The man was wearing a gorgeous combat uniform and leaning against the wall. Honestly, from his angle, if you didn't look closely, you would think the two were being intimate. But if you looked closely, a curved knife was stuck right in the man's neck.

It was stabbed into the throat. Perhaps because he had just killed someone, the blood was slow to flow down and instead slid down his neck little by little, dripping into Zhou Ling's pure silver combat uniform.

It looked exceptionally dazzling.

The girl remained incredibly calm. When she saw all this, she merely turned her head and glanced at him, a glance that held a profound meaning.

Then Lin Yiran started spouting nonsense: "Oh, this guy ran into my knife, I didn't kill him, so this is... a failed suicide attempt?"