The lower half of Meng Chao’s body was bound by hundreds of stone snakes formed by reinforced concrete.
He looked like he was knee deep in mud, which instantly coagulated. It turned him into a strange statue that had not yet been completed.
He struggled desperately and roared at the top of his lungs while trying to break free of the restraints, but the stone snakes acted as if they had a life of their own. They slithered rapidly around his upper body.
They wanted to crawl into his body through his orifices and fill his organs with reinforced concrete.
Meng Chao pushed the concrete creatures with his fists, and shattered pieces flew everywhere like rain.
Yet once they landed on the floor, they soon gathered together once more under Lu Siya’s control and attacked Meng Chao.
Countless small stone snakes gathered into two thick stone dragons and opened their rebar-covered mouths to bite Meng Chao’s neck.
Meng Chao spread his arms and grabbed the areas seven inches under the two stone dragons’ heads. His veins popped up, and even his eyeballs bulged out, but he did manage to stop the stone dragons from biting him.
But in the next second, he could no longer persevere.
On the surface, Lu Siya had the advantage.
However, once Su Lun observed the situation carefully, he noticed that Lu Siya was also on the verge of a collapse from exhaustion. She’d had to control tons of reinforced concrete to form stone snakes and stone dragons in their battle.
Or at least, that was how it appeared.
Her hair was in a mess, her face was pale, her skin was dry, and her thick blood vessels and tendons popped up on her skin. Her beautiful face had long since become unbearably haggard.
Her spirit flames flickered like candles in the wind. They split uncontrollably and spread around her.
Even the spirit tattoos that spread from her skin to the reinforced concrete were messy and dim. They were originally exquisite runic symbols, but now, they were no better than lousy scribbles.
This was the sign of a person losing control over their spirit energy and being on the verge of entering spirit energy deviation.
This was not a good sign.
Just as Su Lun expected, after a brief stalemate, the two vicious stone dragons that bound Meng Chao started cracking.
Shattered pieces started falling from the stone dragons like scales.
Meng Chao’s hands dug deeper into the stone dragons’ necks, as if he was about to crush the stone dragons in the next second.
Even though the victor had yet to be decided, it was clear just who was going to emerge alive.
If no external forces interfered, Meng Chao was definitely going to break free within three minutes and crush Lu Siya as well as her stone dragons.
Su Lun remained in the black smoke and watched everything coolly. There was a faint, mocking smile on his lips, as if he was sitting on a VIP seat and watching two clowns put on a low-grade performance.
He did not intend to attack. He did not care about Lu Siya and Meng Chao’s survival and took a step back, about to leave quietly.
But at that moment, he noticed a reflection on Meng Chao’s face.
Under the illumination of the burning flames around them, the reflection on Meng Chao’s face was too bright. It was as if his face was covered in oil.
He was sweating.
But there was more sweat on his face than a normal human could possibly secrete.
It was also very sticky. When it pooled around his temples and forehead, it formed a shiny shell.
Su Lun’s eyes went wide.
His mind raced, and he instantly understood everything.
He removed his disguise and lifted his mask. Then, Red Brows Su Lun walked out of the darkness with an upright stance.
“Commander Su!” Upon seeing him, Lu Siya became ecstatic. She did not even care about why he appeared here alone and immediately shouted at the top of her lungs. “I’ve already caught Meng Chao! Hurry up and assist me! The saber is under my feet! Kill him!”
Su Lun looked beside Lu Siya.
It was as she said. There was a beautiful saber surrounded by spirit flames and nine crystals embedded into it beside her.
“Alright!”
He put on an expression that said that he was going to risk his life and rushed forward to grab the crystal saber.
Meng Chao seemed to have realized that his death was imminent.
His face turned even more savage, and he bared his teeth while letting out a monstrous roar.
“Meng Chao, your death is nigh!” Su Lun shouted. He grabbed the saber and raised it high above his head. His spirit energy exploded like a volcano.
But before he could completely create his spirit energy magnetic field, the nine crystals on the saber shone with fierce light. It gathered into two electrical arcs that crept into Su Lun’s arms through the hilt, electrocuting him until his hair stood up. He twitched and fell down head first.
“Wha…”
Lu Siya was a little stunned.
Even Meng Chao stopped struggling and roaring.
It was as if something had gone wrong with the script and the director called for them to stop acting. They turned into puppets with their strings cut, and the battle sank into a strange silence.
Lu Siya turned around and stared at Su Lun’s palms in disbelief. Smoke was coming out of them.
Behind her, Meng Chao quietly broke free from the two stone dragons’ restraints.
They had not been as strong and sturdy as they seemed. They were empty shells that only appeared strong.
Lu Siya made a mistake not even elementary school students would make.
She seemed to have forgotten that she was in a death match against Meng Chao and exposed her back to him while he was within attack range.
It was as if she still thought that they were close comrades, who risked their lives together and could entrust their backs to one another.
But Meng Chao betrayed her trust and made use of her idiocy.
“Wha…”
It was only when Meng Chao appeared behind Lu Siya like a God of Death that the usually skilled and powerful Queen Bee remembered him.
With a puzzled expression, she wanted to turn her body around to ask him, ‘How could this happen?’
But what she saw was a twisted, savage smile on a face covered in a lot of adhesive liquid. It was a completely different face from that of the real Meng Chao.
Splat!
Before Lu Siya could understand what was going on, Meng Chao rammed a punch into her spine.
His punch contained astonishing power, and it was like a drill rotating at high speeds. It instantly pierced Lu Siya’s chest, for even the puffed out chest plate could not hold him back. A blood-drenched arm shot out of her chest.
Lu Siya widened her eyes. Aside from blood gushing out of her throat, the only other thing that came out were her rasps.
She lowered her head to look at the arm that had pierced her chest plate.
“Meng Chao” was holding a hot, pulsating heart.
The next second, he crushed that heart without hesitation.
“Meng Chao”‘s palm released a red flame that burned Lu Siya’s heart to a crisp, then he tossed the remains on the floor.
Through the horrifying hole on the motorized armor’s chest plate, Su Lun could clearly see the broken bones and torn flesh inside.
She fell on the floor and twitched helplessly.
She understood something when she was about to die.
The Queen Bee’s face was full of shock. She stared at “Meng Chao” with eyes full of anger. She used her last bit of strength to speak, and her voice came out in a rasp. “You’re… not… Meng… Chao…”
“Meng Chao” smiled.
Unfortunately, his smile was destroyed by the adhesive liquid that kept dripping down. It made his expression full of indescribable evil.
“Unfortunately for you, you figured it out too late.”
“Meng Chao” stepped on the left side of Lu Siya’s chest plate and stomped on the spot where her heart had been.
Lu Siya’s eyes froze, and she stopped breathing. Her spirit flames also disappeared without a trace.
“Meng Chao” snorted derisively and kicked Lu Siya’s corpse into the corner.
The broken walls had already been swaying from the flames. After the impact, they collapsed with a bang and buried Lu Siya’s corpse.
Once “Meng Chao” dealt with the corpse, he snorted and went in front of Su Lun
From the moment Su Lun appeared, the battle had progressed in a manner that made no logical sense, and it arrived at a very strange conclusion.
Why did Lu Siya not find Su Lun’s appearance strange?
Why did the crystal saber that Lu Siya told Su Lun to pick up hurt him?
Lu Siya’s stone dragons might have been empty shells that only appeared strong and fierce, but why was Meng Chao able to break free of them with just a simple tug?
Why was Lu Siya not on guard against Meng Chao and even dared to expose her back to him?
An onlooker would have definitely been puzzled and dumbfounded by this chain of events.
Yet Su Lun was as calm as ever. He seemed to have seen through the script a long time ago.
As for “Meng Chao”, who had ambushed him on the surface not long ago and should have been mortal enemies with him, showed no signs of going to attack.
“Meng Chao” was silent for three seconds before he said something really strange. “This place is too hot.”
“Indeed.” Su Lun did not seem to find it strange. He watched as adhesive liquid continued flowing down “Meng Chao”, and his facial features became like melting wax. He nodded and said, “It’s too hot for you.”
“So, you suspected Lu Siya from the start, that she didn’t really want to kill Meng Chao?” “Meng Chao” said. “Why?”
“Because she spoke too much,” Su Lun said faintly. “When she descended and saw us, she started to talk and explained the reason behind why she had to kill Meng Chao.
“The reasons she gave, that killing Meng Chao would protect his fame and save the value of the brands he endorses as much as possible, protecting Lu Siya and her father’s investments, and the rest, all made sense.
“But Lu Siya is currently the most beloved lady in the Lu family. She might even inherit Sky Pillar Corporation in the future, so a rich girl like her should be arrogant and prideful. Was there a need for her to waste her breath to explain things to lair citizens like us?
“If Lu Siya did not have ulterior motives, she wouldn’t have said so many things. She would have just given her orders.
“The more she explained, the more certain I became that she wasn’t being honest. Right from the start, she only had one goal that made her give up on the spotlight at the frontlines and come to the chaotic lair.
“She didn’t want to kill Meng Chao, but to save him!”
