The intense heat caused Zhou Ziwei, who wasn't wearing a helmet, to have his hair curl up involuntarily, as if it were about to burst into flames.
"I inhale—" Zhou Ziwei was so overwhelmed by the airflow that he opened every pore on his body, absorbing the heat particles surrounding him and converting them into attribute-free energy for his own use.
It was probably because Zhou Ziwei had been absorbing the heat from the "solar energy" all day long these past two days that he had become so accustomed to it that he had become incredibly adept at using his body's pores to absorb heat particles. And at this moment, he increased the frequency of this absorption several times over without feeling any lag at all.
Therefore, the scorching air currents posed no threat to Zhou Ziwei at all. Apart from slightly scorching his hair at the beginning, the air around him was so quickly absorbed by the heat that the temperature in the air dropped sharply, creating a strange sight of many tiny frost flowers.
However, this spectacular sight was fleeting. Immediately afterward, the thousands of flaming arrows flying in the air shot towards Zhou Ziwei. The scorching air once again took the upper hand, scorching Zhou Ziwei's hair until it was completely burnt and emitted a pungent, acrid smell.
Each fiery arrow emitted temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees, causing the wooden shaft to almost instantly burn to ashes. However, because the arrow's trajectory had already been established, the shaft effectively maintained its balance. Now free from the shaft's restraint, the arrow's speed increased dramatically again, becoming almost as sharp as a bullet. Moreover, because it emitted scorching heat, its destructive power was far more terrifying than that of ordinary rifle bullets.
As for the several enormous flaming arrows that Mogher fired, their power was probably even more terrifying than that of ordinary incendiary bombs.
As the temperature around his body rose sharply, Zhou Ziwei had to accelerate the rate at which his pores absorbed heat energy. However, although his absorption rate increased significantly, the rate at which his body converted heat energy could not keep up. A large amount of heat energy accumulated in the subcutaneous fat layer, making Zhou Ziwei's body feel as if it were on fire. In fact, Zhou Ziwei lost weight instantly due to the burning of a large amount of subcutaneous fat.
Damn, I miscalculated!
Zhou Ziwei felt his body temperature soaring like a rocket, and he was horrified. It seemed that if this continued, he would be burned alive by the intense heat even before the flaming arrows hit him.
Volume 2 The Assassin's Nightmare, Chapter 402: Roasted
Even a rabbit will bite when cornered, let alone Zhou Ziwei, who is far more aggressive than a rabbit. Feeling the scorching energy accumulating within him, while the external heat continued to assault him, Zhou Ziwei's eyes turned bloodshot. He no longer cared about converting the absorbed heat particles into his own power, and hurriedly mobilized all his liquid soul energy to envelop the scorching energy clumps within him and expel them from his body…
In the blink of an eye, dazzling orbs of light appeared around Zhou Ziwei, and in a short time, there were more than a hundred of these energy orbs.
That works too!
Zhou Ziwei was initially worried that the thermal energy particles he had just absorbed into his body would not be able to be mobilized at will if they were not nurtured in the energy space of the Tanzhong acupoint.
However, it now seems that such worries were unnecessary. Even though he hadn't had time to transform the energy particles that had just been absorbed into his body, under the suppression of his powerful soul force, these energy particles remained very docile and showed no signs of agitation.
However, although Zhou Ziwei instantly expelled all the accumulated heat energy particles from his body, the thousands of blazing arrows were now very close, and the heat emitted by the arrows was increasing exponentially. Zhou Ziwei still felt as if he had been thrown into a furnace.
Therefore, he never dared to stop absorbing heat energy, and the heat energy he absorbed in that instant was almost equal to the total energy he had just sent into his body.
So Zhou Ziwei once again sent out all the thermal energy particles in his body, completely merging them into the more than one hundred energy spheres that were floating outside his body at this moment.
"Boom, boom, boom..." As the total energy increased, the energy density in the hundreds of energy orbs was rapidly compressed to a critical point, and then a qualitative change began to occur, completing the transformation of energy into substance. In the blink of an eye, raging flames rose up, turning into more than a hundred blazing fireballs.
Just now, when these thermal particles were still just clusters of light, Zhou Ziwei could suppress the intense heat contained within them with his soul power. But now that the energy has been materialized, the heat is no longer something that his soul power can block. Instantly, Zhou Ziwei felt as if his skin was being roasted.
"Go!" Zhou Ziwei dared not keep these explosive fireballs around him any longer. As soon as he realized that these energies had formed into solid fireballs, he immediately used his soul power to guide these hundreds of fireballs to fly away into the distance.
Of course, Zhou Ziwei had worked so hard to condense so many fireballs, so he wouldn't waste this energy. He then targeted the nearly one hundred wizards from the Wusang Kingdom flying around him, and each fireball was aimed at one wizard's body.
Moreover, since the number of fireballs he condensed in that instant was slightly more than the number of wizards in the Wusang Kingdom, a few unlucky guys received extra care and shared the burden of one or two more fireballs.
In particular, the one who led the group and called himself Mogher fired a total of five fireballs at him.
You trying to play tricks on me? Well, I'll blow you up this time.
Just as Zhou Ziwei finally released all the fireballs he had condensed around him, the thousands of blazing arrows finally reached him, about to touch his skin.
The specially made combat suit that Zhou Ziwei was wearing, which was touted as having excellent fire resistance, finally failed to withstand the test of tens of thousands of degrees of heat and burst into flames, turning Zhou Ziwei into a human torch.
Damn it, why isn't that white light coming out anymore? I'll fucking kill you...
Zhou Ziwei was horrified and wanted to curse, but the intense heat had already made his throat dry, and he couldn't utter a single word.
Just when Zhou Ziwei thought he was really going to lose his physical body this time and could only leave his soul to see where he could find a handsome man's body to be reincarnated, he suddenly felt a silvery-white light, as if it were a tangible substance, suddenly separate from every cell in his body, and in an instant completely converged together, surging out of his body with a roar, enveloping the arrowheads of the thousands of blazing arrows...
"Sizzle—" The arrowheads of thousands of blazing arrows shot into that dazzling white light that seemed to be real, just like snowflakes falling into a pot of oil, melting away completely in an instant without leaving a trace.
At the same time, the more than one hundred fireballs that had just been launched from Zhou Ziwei seemed to have traversed dozens of meters of space and struck the hundred Wusang Kingdom wizards directly.
Enveloped in the power of the soul, the fireball moved with the speed of a streak of light. The wizards of the Wusang Kingdom didn't even have time to react before being struck by the sticky fireball.
Everyone screamed in horror, dropping their crossbows and frantically trying to strike the fireballs, but at that moment, Zhou Ziwei suddenly withdrew the soul power that enveloped the fireballs, and hundreds of dazzling fireworks suddenly exploded in the dark night sky...
"Boom—" More than a hundred fireballs exploded at the same time, and the combined force was no less than that of a missile explosion.
The nearly one hundred sorcerers from the Wusang Kingdom didn't even have time to utter a scream before they were instantly reduced to dust and nothingness. Only bewildered souls remained, wandering aimlessly in mid-air... The dazzling light flashed and then vanished, quickly merging back into their bodies. Zhou Ziwei, meanwhile, looked utterly wretched.
His original clothes had turned to ashes from the inside out, leaving him completely naked and exposed to the air. His skin and flesh had been scorched beyond recognition by the high temperature, like a whole roasted lamb that had been roasted over a fire for half a day, and he was constantly emitting a pungent, burnt smell.
Fortunately, when he realized the temperature around him was too terrifying, he had already decisively thrown the aircraft he was holding, along with some other important items on his person, out of the air. He then used his soul power to pull them far below, preventing them from being severely affected.
Otherwise, given the deadly temperature around him just now, that aircraft with safety hazards would probably have exploded long ago, and those Kun pets still on him would probably be roasted alive by now!
"Ziwei... are you alright?"
After the earth-shattering explosion, the surrounding world quickly returned to complete darkness. Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang, who had been sent high into the air by Zhou Ziwei, were quite frightened. Seeing that there was no movement below, they hurriedly shouted. Although they both knew that since they were still in the air and hadn't fallen, it meant that Zhou Ziwei was probably still alive.
However, as the saying goes, concern can cloud judgment. After all, the explosion was so terrifying that it would be incredibly cold-blooded for them to remain calm at this moment.
"I...cough cough...I'm...nothing..." Zhou Ziwei held his breath for a long time, and then used his soul power to moisten his throat for a moment before he could barely speak.
Then, with a thought, he pulled down the tornado hanging high in the air, along with the two women inside. The massive tornado then suddenly expanded, transforming into a vortex that lifted all three of them up simultaneously. Afterward, Zhou Ziwei retrieved the flying vehicle he had thrown down, which he had been holding aloft with his liquid soul power, along with some of his belongings, and tossed them onto the vortex.
Only then could Zhou Ziwei withdraw the liquid soul power that had been integrated into the nerve wires. Otherwise, if he had continued to use the liquid soul power to maintain the operation of the nerve wires, he would probably have died from the pain.
He is now far more severely burned than someone who was thrown into a vat of boiling oil for half an hour; almost every inch of his skin and flesh is intact. An ordinary person would be in excruciating pain several times over, and the burns could even have reached their heart, potentially leading to death.
However, Zhou Ziwei's body was not only forged by the water of reincarnation, but also invaded by the white light that was said to be the source of divine power. The soul power of several tens of percent cut and sawed back and forth, causing all the cells in his body to die and regenerate several times. Now all the organs in his body have become extremely powerful, and even the resilience of his nerves is many times greater than that of ordinary people.
It was precisely because of this that he was able to endure the pain even after the liquid soul power was infused into his nerves, amplifying the sensation countless times.
"Ziwei, are you really alright?" After hearing Zhou Ziwei's voice, Wang Xuewei's heart finally relaxed a little. However, she could still tell from Zhou Ziwei's slightly hoarse and violent cough that his condition did not seem to be very good.
At this moment, she sensed that Zhou Ziwei was right beside her, but she wondered why he wasn't hugging her like before. So she reached out and groped her way toward Zhou Ziwei.
Who knew that when I touched it, it felt like I was touching a rough piece of charcoal, with a trace of scorching heat still remaining on it. This feeling was definitely not like clothes being burned.
Wang Xuewei was taken aback and couldn't help but stroke him up and down again until she reached his buttocks. When she could clearly feel the shape of his buttocks, she was shocked and finally realized that Zhou Ziwei was not wearing any clothes at all, and that she had been stroking his skin.
However, what surprised Wang Xuewei was not that she had unintentionally taken advantage of Zhou Ziwei, but rather how rough Zhou Ziwei's skin had become.
"Ziwei...you...how are you? I feel like your body is...like..."
Wang Xuewei stammered for a long time but couldn't quite put her finger on what it looked like. Chu Qiutang, standing on the other side of the vortex, couldn't wait to hear this and hurriedly reached out to grope Zhou Ziwei's body. Perhaps because of the different angle, Chu Qiutang mainly touched Zhou Ziwei's front part. As her jade hand slid down, she involuntarily grabbed a large mass. Slightly startled, she carefully rubbed it with her jade hand and immediately felt that the mass in her hand had suddenly grown much larger.
If Chu Qiutang still didn't know what she had touched at this point, then she wouldn't deserve to be called an outstanding military doctor. She had just been listening to Wang Xuewei's anxious voice and hadn't figured out what was going on, but she never expected that Zhou Ziwei would be standing naked in front of them. She was so embarrassed that her cheeks turned red to the back of her ears, and she quickly withdrew her hand and spat softly.
Fortunately, she had already decided to give her body to Zhou Ziwei, so it wasn't unacceptable that she unexpectedly took advantage of him first. It's just that girls are shy and can't bring themselves to do it right away.
After a slight blush, Chu Qiutang exclaimed again. As a medical student, she was far more familiar with the unusual feel of skin than Wang Xuewei. After a moment of surprise, she understood what the pitted and uneven feeling she had just touched was all about. She couldn't help but hug Zhou Ziwei's body again, carefully stroking him up and down while urgently saying, "Director Zhou, you... how... how could this happen to your body? Oh my god... it seems like you have deep burns all over your body, this... what should we do!"
Zhou Ziwei had just been groped all over by these two beautiful women, to the point that his body had involuntarily produced a strong physiological reaction, and he seemed to no longer feel the pain of the burns.
At this moment, he wished the two women would keep their hands on him so he could have his fill. However, the burns on his skin were truly horrific. Fortunately, there was no light source around, so they couldn't see his ugly appearance. Otherwise... it's possible that the two beauties would have some kind of lasting trauma.
So Zhou Ziwei could only reluctantly push the two women's hands off his body, saying nonchalantly, "It's nothing... just some burns, don't worry. When we get to the small lake at the top of the mountain, let me soak in the water, and these little injuries will heal quickly."
Upon hearing this, Chu Qiutang immediately became furious and said, "Ah... how can you soak in water after such severe burns? Are you crazy?... Let's go back quickly! I still have some burn ointment, I'll put some on you later..."
Zhou Ziwei chuckled wryly, "Will your ointments even work? Have you forgotten how your face was healed? Heh... Don't worry, I'm tougher than a cockroach. This little injury will be fine in no time. But... all my clothes are burned off... Heh... Now I'm completely naked in front of you... while you're all wrapped up tightly. Isn't that... a bit unfair? How about... I help you... do that too..."
After Zhou Ziwei finished speaking, his large hands began to grope the two women's bodies, which immediately startled them into screaming.
Women are sometimes so contradictory. Even though they have made up their minds to give themselves to someone, they still panic when the time comes. If this were flat ground, they would probably have been scared away by Zhou Ziwei and run away in all directions.
Unfortunately, this was the sky, and they were all standing on the vortex controlled by Zhou Ziwei, so even if they wanted to run away, they had nowhere to escape.
After a gasp of surprise, they could only let Zhou Ziwei hold them in his arms and take advantage of them.
Zhou Ziwei had a real urge to take advantage of the two beauties right there in the sky. He'd already experienced sex with Liu Xiaofei, but he'd never experienced having sex with two beauties at the same time. And to do it right there in the sky… that was even more alluring, just thinking about it was enough to make any man's blood boil…
Just thinking about how he looked like a whole roasted lamb, he was actually a little afraid that if he did this once, he would disgust the two women, and then he would never be able to enjoy the so-called bliss of having two women again.
Left with no other choice, Zhou Ziwei had to temporarily suppress his lustful desires. He simply held the two women by the waist and then used his soul consciousness to propel the vortex beneath his feet towards the small lake at the top of the mountain...
With a "splash," water splashed everywhere, interspersed with two women's screams.
Although it was pitch black all around, Zhou Ziwei was still able to find the exact location of the flight in the low sky with the scan of his soul power so that he would not get lost. Even so, it still took him a little effort to finally find the small lake hidden on the mountaintop, most of which was hidden in the mountain cave.
After finding the lake, Zhou Ziwei did not notify the two women at all. He simply lowered the flight altitude slightly and then suddenly removed the huge vortex that had been supporting them. He then picked up the three aircraft and some important items that Zhou Ziwei had nowhere else to put, and threw them onto the lake shore.
As for Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang, they were caught off guard and fell into the icy lake water together with Zhou Ziwei. Naturally, the two women couldn't help but cry out in surprise.
Zhou Ziwei burst into laughter as his prank succeeded. In his cheerful mood, he seemed to forget even the excruciating pain caused by the cold water stimulating his scarred skin.
Once the two women recovered from their initial shock, they immediately grabbed Zhou Ziwei from both sides, trying to tickle him. However, the rough, uneven skin they felt made them both pause in surprise, and they immediately couldn't bring themselves to tickle him anymore...
Volume 2 The Killer's Nightmare Chapter 403 Floating Ball
Seeing that Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang had finally stopped, Zhou Ziwei shook his head with some regret, then chuckled and said, "I'm going to shed my skin now. You two take a bath first! As for me... I need to go towards the drain so as not to pollute your fair skin... haha..."
After saying this, Zhou Ziwei abandoned Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang, took a plunge into the water, and immediately swam more than 20 meters underwater. When he surfaced again, he was near a drain outlet hidden in a cave in the small lake on the mountaintop.
The cave was extremely spacious, and as far as the eye could see... it was pitch black. However, Zhou Ziwei's soul power could scan the area in place of his eyes. After casually scanning the surroundings with his soul power, his expression suddenly changed.
In the lake within this cave, a large number of strange aquatic plants grow. These aquatic plants look like spheres of varying sizes, from as small as a grain of rice to as large as a watermelon. Each sphere is a different color, making it look like a ball pit in an amusement park.
Zhou Ziwei clearly remembered seeing these spherical creatures from the ladybug's memory, many of which had small flowers resembling daisies growing on them. Countless colorful spheres were covered with flowers of different colors, making this lake look as beautiful as a dream.
But... now most of these brightly colored, round creatures floating on the lake are completely bare, with only a few broken petals occasionally visible in some corners. All the colorful spheres seem to have been severely ravaged, and many have inexplicably shriveled up.
Zhou Ziwei frowned slightly, but he was currently feeling unwell and had no time to think about such things. He closed his eyes, calmed his mind, and channeled countless amounts of liquid soul power into his skin, promoting the rapid growth of the cells that still had life. The cells quickly devoured the charred, dead cells and then rapidly divided into new cells...
In order to accelerate the process of cell phagocytosis and regeneration, and to prevent the new skin from looking too unsightly, Zhou Ziwei consumed a full thousand units of soul power in one go. Only then did he finally completely shed his severely burned, charred skin and regrow a body of delicate, baby-like skin.
Only then did Zhou Ziwei breathe a long sigh of relief. He swam backward in the water for a moment, washing away all the dead skin clinging to his body. Then, floating on the surface, he slowly extended his palm. With a slight movement of his soul consciousness, he immediately mobilized a wisp of attribute-less energy from his middle dantian. When this energy rose to the palm of his hand, he began to use the energy conversion method to transform it completely. Then, with a "whoosh," a ball of light emitting a faint heat spurted directly from his palm.
This ball of light was completely different from the ball of light that Zhou Ziwei had used to attack others in the past. That kind of ball of light contained a large number of violent thermal energy particles. The reason it emitted light was because there was a mutual characteristic between thermal energy and light energy.
This time, when Zhou Ziwei was converting the attribute-less energy in his body, he mainly converted this energy into light energy. So although this ball of light would also generate heat, its heat was very gentle and there was no sense of irritation.
Its main function is lighting.
The ball of light that shot out from his palm slowly rose to the top of the cave under Zhou Ziwei's soul control, just like a slowly rising sun, instantly illuminating the entire cave as if it were daytime.
"Ah—" Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang, who were playing naked in the water on the other side of the lake, suddenly felt a blinding light rise up, illuminating their naked bodies in full detail. Surprised, they couldn't help but cry out and hurriedly hugged their chests while diving into the water.
After a brief moment of shyness, the two women were immediately stunned by the strange sight that suddenly appeared before them. They had been bathing in the small lake near the cave entrance, so they hadn't encountered the large patch of colorful, spherical aquatic plants growing inside the cave. But now, under the dazzling light in the air, they suddenly saw countless colorful spheres of all sizes floating throughout the vast cave. The dreamlike scene left them speechless, their mouths agape.
"It's so beautiful, I never imagined... In this world with such a harsh climate, there is such a wonderful view..." Wang Xuewei covered her full breasts and couldn't help but exclaim, "Ziwei, what are these colorful balls? They are so beautiful, they are like natural jewels."
Zhou Ziwei dove into the water and suddenly appeared between the two women. His thieving eyes first scanned the two beauties' fair skin exposed above the water without any politeness, and then he grinned and said, "These should be some kind of strange aquatic plants. Didn't you see that some of the spheres have flowers blooming on them?"
Both women were startled by Zhou Ziwei's sudden appearance beside them. After letting out a scream, they covered their sensitive areas even more tightly. But when they noticed Zhou Ziwei's skin, which was as tender as a newborn baby's, they couldn't help but exclaim again. No longer caring about concealing their private parts, they reached out and stroked Zhou Ziwei's newly grown skin.