My God... Just a moment ago, Chen Linlin had already walked through the gates of hell again.
Fear gripped Chen Linlin, and she immediately walked up to Zhou Ziwei and said without any hesitation, "I...I'll go with you."
Zhou Ziwei had expected Chen Linlin's reaction, so he didn't say much. He just nodded slightly, said "Follow me," and then immediately led the way, hurrying towards the garage.
Seeing Zhou Ziwei walk into the pitch-black passage, Chen Linlin was still terrified. She glanced down at the flashlight still clutched in the dead man's hand, and on a sudden impulse, she hurriedly squatted down again, wanting to take the flashlight from the man's hand to light the way.
"If you don't want to become the target of those killers hiding in the shadows, don't touch that flashlight."
Zhou Ziwei's words made Chen Linlin's hand tremble, and she threw the flashlight she had just picked up back to the ground. Although she didn't have much experience with this kind of thing, after thinking about it carefully, she realized that Zhou Ziwei was right. Although a flashlight can be used to shine a light on others, holding it in your hand means that you are the first thing to expose yourself to others.
This behavior is absolutely suicidal when assassins are lurking everywhere.
Left with no other choice, Chen Linlin had to abandon her flashlight and follow closely behind Zhou Ziwei, relying solely on the faint footsteps he had left behind. However, it was too dark all around, and she couldn't see anything at all. Before she had gone a few steps, she bumped into a wall.
"Hey... could you... could you hold my hand?"
Chen Linlin rubbed the spot on her forehead where she had been bumped, and said with a pained expression, "I can't see anything, and you... you're just going to make me follow you in the dark like this!"
Zhou Ziwei didn't say anything, but immediately rolled up the dagger in one hand with his clothes and tucked it into his waistband. Only then did he free his hand and tightly grasp Chen Linlin's small hand, which was slightly cold due to her fear.
Just now, before Zhou Ziwei's identity was exposed by Chen Linlin, the two could walk hand in hand naturally. But now... Chen Linlin immediately felt an extremely strange feeling rising silently from their tightly clasped hands.
Judging from the fact that Zhou Ziwei no longer deliberately imitated the female assistant's voice, Chen Linlin knew that this stranger must be a man, a real man.
Chen Linlin never imagined that she would one day do such a shameful thing with a man… She actually kissed him first, and… even let this man help her change clothes, and even… let this man touch her buttocks… Oh my god… Chen Linlin didn’t dare to recall what had just happened, didn’t dare to think about what other cheesy and explicit things she had said, or how many crazy things she had done. In the past, these words and actions were nothing between her and her female assistant, but if she did them in front of a stranger… especially a strange man… that would be too terrifying!
This is unbelievable! I actually kissed a man… God, and I even felt pleasure while kissing him and being touched by him… How is this possible… How could I possibly feel anything for such a disgusting creature as a man? Could it be… that I wasn't born only to like women? No, no, no… Men are so terrifying, so disgusting… How could I possibly like men? Just now, I only had those normal physiological reactions because I didn't know he was a man and mistook him for Xiao Ai. Now that I know he's a man, any physical contact with him will absolutely not elicit any reaction… Well, even if I did, it would probably only be a feeling of wanting to vomit!
While lost in her own thoughts, Chen Linlin followed Zhou Ziwei, who was pulling her hand as they stumbled forward. However, when the road suddenly turned, she was caught off guard and staggered, almost falling to the ground. Fortunately, Zhou Ziwei was still holding her hand, and when he saw her about to fall, he simply exerted a little force and pulled her back.
And so Chen Linlin's delicate body once again crashed into Zhou Ziwei's arms without any restraint.
"Mmm..." Chen Linlin gasped softly, instinctively grabbing Zhou Ziwei's shoulders tightly with both hands as she suddenly lost her balance. At the same time, Zhou Ziwei had already freed his other hand and wrapped it around Chen Linlin's soft and slender waist. In this way, the two of them were in a posture that looked just like lovers in the throes of passion embracing each other.
Both of them were stunned for a moment, and for a moment they forgot to let go of each other. They just held each other tightly and remained motionless in the darkness.
Chen Linlin felt as if her whole body was melting rapidly, like an ice cream cone exposed to the sun. The aversion she had always felt towards men was still struggling fiercely at this moment, but her body was telling her from the bottom of her heart... that men... might be able to make her feel a heartbeat and passionate surge more than women.
Especially when she clearly felt a cylindrical object rapidly growing larger and harder, pressing against her lower abdomen more brazenly, at the point where their lower abdomens were pressed tightly together.
Chen Linlin felt her heart pounding in her throat...
How could this be… She didn’t know why she felt this way. Didn’t she used to hate men’s penises the most? Before, even if she accidentally saw men’s penises in pictures, online, or movie clips, she would still run to the bathroom to vomit before she could barely get rid of the disgust in her heart. But now… her body was being pressed tightly against by a man’s penis. How could she not only not feel disgust, but also have a strange feeling of her heart racing and her blood boiling? This… was countless times stronger than the feeling she used to have when she was hugging and kissing her sister Xiao Ai in bed.
Is this what men are like? Why do they give me this strange feeling...?
At this moment, Chen Linlin completely lost herself. She didn't know which one was the real her, or what kind of self was the right one...
But before she could continue struggling and savoring the moment, a muffled yet clear gunshot rang out in the passageway in front of them… And almost the instant the gunshot rang out, Chen Linlin suddenly felt Zhou Ziwei's arm around her waist tighten abruptly, and then she felt as if she were flying through the air… Oh… or rather, it was just a feeling similar to weightlessness; in any case, her feet had completely left the ground, and she began to move rapidly…
Volume 1, Rebirth of a Prodigy, Chapter 226: Speed Doubled
Before entering the corridor, Zhou Ziwei had already tripled the sensitivity of his vision, hearing, smell, and limbs, and he had been maintaining this level continuously. Although it was pitch black all around and his eyesight was excellent, he could hardly see anything.
His soul power can only radiate outwards to a distance of twenty meters. Under normal circumstances, he can only maintain a scanning range of twenty meters with two or three strands of soul power at most. It is impossible for him to monitor every corner of the 360-degree all-round way at all times. It is not that he cannot do it, but the consumption is too astonishing. Unless there is a very necessary reason, even if his current soul power is very sufficient, he cannot withstand such consumption.
Fortunately, Zhou Ziwei's hearing was also very sharp. In this pitch-black environment, hearing was especially important. Even when Zhou Ziwei and Chen Linlin were hugging, he was not completely captivated by Chen Linlin's delicate and charming body. He kept a close eye on all the sounds around him. Suddenly, he heard a faint sound of a finger pulling a trigger not far away. Zhou Ziwei's sensitive ears immediately picked up this subtle sound clearly from the chaotic sounds around him.
That's right... what he heard was the sound of the assassin pulling the trigger, not the sound of a gunshot.
It's important to know that the muzzle velocity of a pistol bullet usually exceeds the speed of sound. If Zhou Ziwei and others had only reacted after hearing the gunshot, it would have been too late. However, pulling the trigger would actually produce a very crisp sound, which would definitely occur before the gunpowder inside the cartridge explodes. Although the difference between these two sounds is not large, perhaps less than 0.1 seconds, it was this difference of less than 0.1 seconds that allowed Zhou Ziwei to finally react in the instant before the bullet hit Chen Linlin.
However, this only gave Zhou Ziwei less than 0.1 seconds, which was still far too short. Zhou Ziwei's physical agility had only increased to three times the normal value. Even if it was three times that of a normal person, what could he possibly do in 0.1 seconds?
Avoid vital points!
The instant he heard the sound of a trigger being pulled in the distance, Zhou Ziwei's mind raced, and he immediately made a decision.
He was confident that he couldn't help Chen Linlin dodge the enemy's shots in such a short time, so he could only try to move Chen Linlin briefly while holding her. As long as the shot didn't kill Chen Linlin directly, Zhou Ziwei was confident that he could use his supernatural ability to heal Chen Linlin's gunshot wound in a short time.
In a mere instant, Zhou Ziwei immediately wrapped his arms around Chen Linlin's waist, and at the same time, a powerful force burst forth from his legs. Then, like cannonballs, the two of them leaped up with a "whoosh" and rushed swiftly towards the left side of the corridor...
Just as the two leaped into the air, a powerful gust of air swept past them, the force of which even caused Zhou Ziwei, whose agility had been tripled, to feel a burning sensation in his limbs.
He dodged it! He completely dodged it... How is that possible?
Zhou Ziwei had already prepared for the worst, and even mobilized his soul power the moment he jumped, ready to inject it into Chen Linlin's body at any time. Fortunately, he could immediately stop the bleeding after she was hit by the bullet and shrink the wound as much as possible.
However, he never expected that in that split second before the bullet arrived, he and Chen Linlin leaped up and actually dodged it. Could it be that the assassin was just too incompetent and couldn't aim properly? But how could that be? The other party dared to fire in such a dark environment, so he must have been quite confident. He must have been wearing infrared night vision goggles to see their every move in the dark.
Since the opponent was a Night Elf assassin, even the lowest-ranking one, their marksmanship shouldn't be too bad. How could they possibly miss at such close range?
However, Zhou Ziwei immediately understood the cause of this unexpected event... It turned out that his speed had increased... He had only increased the agility of his limbs to three times the normal value, but in that critical moment, he suddenly burst out with a speed even faster than when his agility was increased to six times.
How could increasing the value by three times result in a speed of more than six times? And it seems that such a fast speed has not strained his body. He still feels the same as when he increases the value by three times.
What if he could increase his limb agility sixfold? How astonishing would his speed become?
The electric current... it must be because his soul power has been integrated with the properties of electric current, which is why he produces different effects when he applies this soul power.
It's important to know that electric current can almost reach the speed of light when there are no conductors to restrict it, so it's reasonable that Zhou Ziwei's speed would change drastically after his body was modified by the properties of electric current.
The problem was that Zhou Ziwei had only just realized that his body's speed had changed again after the electric current fused. Now, he suddenly felt an effect far beyond his expectations, which caught him off guard. After a slight pause, he grabbed Chen Linlin and slammed them hard against the wall on the left side of the corridor.
He had originally expected that this leap would only land him at the corner of the wall, but now that his speed had increased exponentially, the distance he leaped had also increased significantly, which is why he was about to crash into the wall.
If this collision actually happened, Chen Linlin probably wouldn't be seriously injured in his arms, but Zhou Ziwei would be in trouble. He's currently in a state where his physical agility is tripled, and with a tripled agility, his pain sensitivity would be stimulated by more than thirty times. So, the consequences of hitting the wall would be predictable.
Damn it, how could this happen!
Startled, Zhou Ziwei hurriedly spun his body slightly in mid-air and kicked the wall hard with his right foot.
He was prepared to risk losing that leg and let it bear all the pain, which was better than having his whole body writhe in agony.
Even if he can't move one leg for a while due to pain, he still has his other leg and two hands. He won't have to resort to his trump card when facing the assassin's next attack.
Whether it's the ladybug or the new cross-shaped dart, it seems too early to use them now. The night elves will have at least forty assassins, and the ones that have emerged so far, including the one mentioned earlier, are only five.
As for the guy who was about to kill Chen Linlin with a syringe, Zhou Ziwei didn't think he was a real killer at all. He probably did what Chen Linlin's female assistant did, either by being bribed or threatened.
Otherwise, a true professional assassin would never have been killed instantly by Zhou Ziwei's attack without even having time to react.
This means that Zhou Ziwei still needs to kill about twenty more Night Elf assassins before he can rest easy. So it's really not appropriate to reveal too much strength now, and he should at least scare away all the assassins who haven't appeared yet!
With a soft "thump," Zhou Ziwei kicked the wall hard, then immediately flipped over and, using the powerful recoil from his foot, slammed into the wall on the right side of the corridor.
God is my witness, Zhou Ziwei really didn't intend to crash into the wall again this time. But the problem was... although he realized that his speed had undergone a dramatic change after merging with the electric current, understanding it was one thing, and being able to completely master the rhythm of this speed was another. Driven by inertia, he originally planned to use the rebound force to jump directly to the ground, but in reality, the force was still too great this time. As a result, Zhou Ziwei lost control of his landing point once again and crashed into the wall again...
Zhou Ziwei almost completely fainted at this point!
Holy crap, this is ridiculous! Are you going to crash into me again?! Are you trying to kill me?!
Feeling that the speed at which he was hitting the wall hadn't decreased at all, it seemed that the result would be the same as last time. Zhou Ziwei was really on the verge of tears.
Just moments after kicking the wall hard, a piercing pain immediately swept over him like a whirlwind, almost making his entire right leg numb.
But at that moment, a tingling sensation suddenly arose in the nerves of his leg, causing a slight numbness in his entire right leg. Then, the excruciating pain inexplicably disappeared.
Huh... the pain stopped so quickly? It seems... it's like an electric current automatically soothing the stimulated nerves... the mutated current actually has this effect?
While still in mid-air, nearly halfway away from the opposite wall, Zhou Ziwei's leg, which had been subjected to the recoil, returned to normal completely, which made Zhou Ziwei ecstatic.
For him, it meant much more than just reducing some pain.
Under normal circumstances, because of the amplified pain, he wouldn't dare to increase his limb agility casually. Otherwise, even without being hit or injured, the prolonged impact of the ground's reaction force on his feet while running would be enough to make him faint from the pain.
This is why he usually only increases his physical agility by three times when needed, and even when facing life-or-death situations, he can only increase it to a maximum of six times. It's not that he can't increase his agility to more than six times, but rather that his body simply cannot withstand it if the value exceeds six times.
But now... if the electric current integrated into his soul power can significantly alleviate this side effect, wouldn't that mean he can increase his limb sensitivity to seven, eight, or even more than ten times at any time?
It is conceivable that even if he only maintains three times the sensitivity now, coupled with the acceleration characteristics of the current, his speed has already reached six or seven times the normal speed. If he were to increase this sensitivity to more than ten times, wouldn't his actual speed easily reach more than twenty times the normal speed?
If we calculate it this way... that is to say, if it takes him ten seconds to run 100 meters under normal circumstances, then if he uses his superpower to increase his limb agility tenfold, he can easily run 100 meters in just 0.5 seconds, and in one second, he can run more than 200 meters.
Two hundred meters per second... that's not much slower than the speed of a regular handgun bullet...
If he could increase his physical agility by more than twenty times, then even when facing bullet attacks, he wouldn't need to dodge; he could simply run in a straight line and easily shake off the bullets behind him.
Of course, these are just theoretical data. In reality, whether his nerves can withstand the impact of more than ten times the power of the soul, whether his physical strength can support him to move at such a high speed, and whether the pain caused by more than ten times the sensitivity can be relieved by the electric current are all unknowns.
However, judging from his current physical condition, he estimates that he should be able to withstand at least ten times the sensitivity.
Moreover, his body will continue to grow stronger under the constant nourishment of the soul power. Once his physical strength reaches a certain level, he may not be unable to achieve twenty times the agility.
As his thoughts raced, his body moved like lightning, carrying Chen Linlin as he crashed into the wall on the right. This time, he kicked the wall again, using the rebound force to leap into the air once more.
This time, however, he was prepared. The instant his left foot struck the wall, he consciously used his mind to activate the electric soul power flowing through his nerve fibers, accelerating its flow.
Sure enough... under his deliberate control, the stinging sensation in his leg caused by the recoil was almost immediately washed away by the rapidly flowing soul power.
Because the pain was fleeting, it felt like getting a shot in the hospital, and this time the pain had almost no impact on him.
Haha... It really works! Now I don't have to worry about speed anymore.
Overjoyed, Zhou Ziwei found his body unusually light, and this time he didn't bother to limit his speed, so he naturally leaped back towards the left wall.
However, Zhou Ziwei wasn't jumping back and forth between the two walls in place. Instead, he was bouncing back and forth in a zigzag pattern, rushing at a rapid speed straight towards the direction from which the bullet had just come.
It was only at this moment that the assassin on the other side fired his second shot. However, Zhou Ziwei was in constant motion, and even though the assassin had rich shooting experience, he could not lock onto Zhou Ziwei's figure at all. Naturally, this shot also missed.
With three consecutive left and right bounces, Zhou Ziwei advanced nearly ten meters forward in the corridor in less than three seconds. Then, the figure of the assassin hidden around the corner of the corridor ahead appeared within the scanning range of Zhou Ziwei's soul power.
The unfortunate assassin clearly hadn't expected to encounter a terrifying being like Spider-Man. As the opponent bounced back and forth between the two walls as if suspended on a wire, the assassin could barely make out the opponent's shadow through his infrared night vision goggles. Under these circumstances, his shooting was completely pointless.
In his panic, the assassin was about to fire a couple more shots indiscriminately to slow down the enemy's momentum before retreating when a sudden warning flashed through his mind, followed by a gust of wind rushing towards him.
There are hidden weapons!
The assassin was secretly alarmed and could no longer care about sniping the enemy. He hurriedly turned and fled. However, just as he was rejoicing that he had chosen to snipe from the corner of the corridor and that the enemy was using a concealed weapon instead of a gun, so that as long as he ducked down and hid on the other side of the corner, the enemy's attack would inevitably miss, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck, which made his vision go black and he fell directly to the ground.
Even as he lay dying, he still couldn't understand what had happened. He had clearly hidden behind the wall, so how could the enemy's hidden weapon have still managed to pierce him...?
This is the fifth one!
Zhou Ziwei watched as the ghostly soul slowly rose from the assassin's corpse in front of him, but he did not use the Six-Syllable Mantra to absorb it.
Fortunately, the confused ghost he killed in an instant didn't seem to be very aggressive, so Zhou Ziwei ignored him and quickly swept past the corpse with the still dazed Chen Linlin in his arms, also pulling out the black dagger stuck in the back of the corpse's neck.
Zhou Ziwei showed no intention of putting Chen Linlin down. He continued to carry her and ran towards the garage at three times the normal speed, but in reality, he moved at more than six times the normal speed.
As they passed the entrance to the garage and backstage area, they indeed saw several corpses lying there. They appeared to be security guards from the Workers' Stadium or bodyguards for the celebrities. It seemed that some of the souls Zhou Ziwei had just absorbed belonged to them.
Zhou Ziwei sighed inwardly, but his feet didn't stop for a moment. He quickly passed through the entrance and continued running forward. However, at this moment, he suddenly sensed the situation in the garage through the small mosquito left in the garage, and immediately stopped in his tracks...