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55: This Woman Is Simply Not Human

His underlings dared not disobey their boss’s orders and immediately began to carefully search the area.

At that moment, Qin Xiang, who was hiding in the black fog, locked onto the shooter’s direction by sound.

She lowered her steps and made a wide detour to avoid the other bandits as she flanked toward the shooter’s position.

“Lily, do you think that bitch might be hiding in the black fog, waiting to ambush us?”

The middle-aged man suddenly stopped and warily analyzed the situation with the young woman at his side.

The woman froze for a moment and frowned as she said, “She probably wouldn’t dare, right? Besides, as long as we stay behind these underlings, we’ll notice any danger immediately.”

“True, as long as we keep our distance, she won’t detect us!”

The man nodded thoughtfully.

Just a while ago, he had ambushed a police officer in exactly that way.

Moreover, after the ambush he immediately slipped behind a building so that any shots fired at him would miss.

With the black fog for cover, getting away with evil deeds felt completely safe!

He glanced at the officer on the ground, who was still breathing weakly and glared viciously at him, then the middle-aged man raised his gun and fired, finally killing Wang Zhiqiang.

“Damn, you filthy detectives used to chase me every day and you still dared to arrest my boss!”

After killing the officer, the man spat fiercely, his anger still burning.

The young woman looked at the body, frowned, and said, “Brother Li, you’re wasting bullets. A knife would have done the job.”

“It’s fine… I’ve still got over a dozen rounds left. That’s enough!”

The middle-aged man showed no concern.

What he didn’t know was that that very shot had enabled Qin Xiang to pinpoint his location deep in the black fog.

Across a distance of more than ten meters, Qin Xiang raised her gun, used the sound to locate her target, and then fired without hesitation.

The shots rang out in rapid succession: “Bang, bang, bang!” All three bullets struck their mark, and the anguished screams of a man and a woman rang out.

Even without visual contact, at that distance Qin Xiang’s extensive experience allowed her to judge direction by sound.

When she heard no more footsteps in the black fog, Qin Xiang advanced cautiously with her gun still raised.

Her footsteps were so light that they made almost no sound.

Eventually, she saw two bodies lying on the ground.

It was definitely a man and a woman.

The man had been shot twice in the chest and blood continuously dripped from his mouth; his breathing was labored and he couldn’t even lift a hand.

He still held a gun, marking him as the shooter who had ambushed Wang Zhiqiang in the black fog.

“Li Batian? Damn it, it’s you, you murderer!”

Once Qin Xiang saw the middle-aged man’s face, she furiously stepped forward and delivered a heavy kick that instantly killed him.

This Li Batian was an escaped fugitive who had been wanted for robbery and murder before the apocalypse but had always evaded capture.

Moreover, Li Batian hadn’t acted alone.

His gang numbered at least three, all of them deadly fugitives who had committed murder!

After confirming Li Batian’s death, Qin Xiang turned to the woman who had also been shot, whose breathing was weak as she lay feigning death.

She drew the dagger at her waist, preparing to finish the woman off.

Since she had only one bullet left, she couldn’t afford to waste it.

However, at that critical moment the young woman suddenly rolled over and jumped to her feet, conjuring a blazing sphere of fire in her hand that shot straight at Qin Xiang’s face!

Although Qin Xiang had remained highly alert, the sudden flame attack still caught her off guard.

She swiftly dodged to the side, narrowly avoiding most of the fire, but a few flickers grazed her body, leaving searing burns.

“Superpower user!”

Qin Xiang’s eyes narrowed.

She hadn’t expected the young woman to be a superpower user!

At the same time, the earlier gunshots had drawn the other desperados to surround her.

“Boss? Boss, are you still back there?”

“Boss, was that gunfire your shot just now?”

Hearing the underlings’ voices, the young woman quickly called, “I’m here! Hurry over!”

Qin Xiang’s expression hardened as she hurled her dagger like lightning, embedding it precisely in the woman’s neck.

Blood sprayed out like a fountain.

The woman’s eyes widened as she struggled in pain for a few moments, then went limp and collapsed, the fiery energy in her hand dissipating.

Meanwhile, the surrounding desperados, armed with various weapons, quickly closed in.

Qin Xiang did not hesitate; she raised her gun and fired, instantly killing the bandit charging at her.

She then took a swift step forward and delivered a powerful kick to another bandit’s chest.

A sharp crack resounded as the man’s chest caved in, sending him flying backward like a kite with a cut string, and he crashed to the ground, dead.

She had killed a full-grown man with a single kick!

Is this even human?!

The other bandits froze in terror, their faces filled with horror.

Their boss was dead!

Even the big sister with superpowers was killed!

This female officer was terrifying!

She was not human!!

Absolutely not human!!!

With almost no hesitation, as Qin Xiang prepared to strike again the desperados turned and bolted into the black fog.

Qin Xiang frowned; if she still had bullets, she would have killed every last one of them!

Letting such unscrupulous fugitives live would endanger countless innocents.

Then she rushed to Wang Zhiqiang’s side, only to discover he had been shot in the head as well and was completely lifeless.

Grief filled Qin Xiang’s face.

Another colleague had perished.

And it had been such a righteous and kind young officer.

Now, she might be the last survivor of the detective squad…

But she couldn’t afford to die, since many survivors still depended on her.

Qin Xiang took a deep breath, stifled her grief, and removed Wang Zhiqiang’s sidearm and remaining ammunition.

Then she moved to Li Batian’s corpse and retrieved the gun he had held and all the bullets on him.

“This… is actually a police-issue pistol!”

Qin Xiang frowned.

Could other colleagues also have been killed by Li Batian?

With no answers in sight, she refocused, pulled her dagger from the dead superpower user’s neck, and prepared to bury Wang Zhiqiang as quickly as possible before leaving.

So many bodies drained of blood would surely attract mutated beasts by their scent… trouble she couldn’t afford.

Just as Qin Xiang was about to start digging the grave, she suddenly caught the faint sound of footsteps coming from the black fog ahead.

“Who’s there!?”

Qin Xiang went on full alert, holding her dagger defensively.

The footsteps had appeared abruptly, as if materializing out of thin air!

“Relax, I’m not with them.”

A magnetic voice rang out.

Then a handsome man stepped into view.

Shen Yi had also only just arrived.

He hadn’t used teleportation for the entire journey, as it would have drained too much energy and been too dangerous in this environment.

Instead, he had used his god’s-eye view to watch everything that had just happened.

Qin Xiang and her colleague had been ambushed by these desperados, and then Qin Xiang had staged a remarkable comeback and flawlessly executed a counterattack.

One had to admit that Qin Xiang’s strength was formidable, and with her apparent superpowers, she could handle a group of desperados unarmed, as long as they had no guns.

Shen Yi weighed his options briefly and realized that, without an ambush, he might not even be her match.

Therefore, he had no choice but to reveal himself.

Because the two superpower fruits were in the young woman’s pocket.

Yes, the fruits had already been picked by her.

However, she hadn’t had the chance to consume them before Qin Xiang killed her.

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