Chapter 508: Chapter 502: A Method to Eliminate Trouble

’Is this woman really not one of our people from the X Realm, lost and stranded out here?’

’She seems to get it instantly. She’s smart, and utterly ruthless.’

"That’s more or less what it means." Xiao Cong nodded slowly. "Li Zongyuan and the others escaped. You’re going to have a lot of trouble later."

"Right now, you have one way to avoid that trouble, and that’s to cooperate with me." Xiao Cong lifted his head, his eyes filled with utmost sincerity as he looked at Xie Ning.

"Only by working with me can you guarantee the physical safety of yourself and everyone around you."

"Do you have any idea how much trouble you’ll be in once the higher-ups in our world notice you and decide on a plan to deal with you?"

"Cooperate with me, and I can ensure you won’t be targeted by them, at least in the short term."

Xie Ning smiled at him. "Tell me, is there any chance that if I just get rid of all of you, the trouble will naturally disappear?"

"Imposs—" Xiao Cong’s cry had barely left his lips when he realized that a dozen iron tendrils, each as thick as an arm, were closing in on him from all directions.

He didn’t even have a chance to utter a single word of resistance.

First, a piercing pain shot through his calf, followed quickly by his thigh, waist, and back.

’This woman is a lunatic!’

She’d launched a Gold Ability attack at the slightest provocation.

As a Gold Ability User, Xiao Cong should have had defenses, but he quickly discovered that against Xie Ning’s attack, they seemed... completely useless.

He couldn’t remove the iron tendrils that had pierced his body, nor could he convert the metallic energy coursing through him.

Metal fragments were even flowing into his bloodstream, unconsciously tearing at his vessels and meridians, wreaking havoc inside him with unstoppable force.

"How is this possible?" Xiao Cong cried out in shock.

’Aren’t we both Sixth-rank Gold Ability Users?’

’Why can she crush me so effortlessly?’

"Are you a Sixth Rank Gold Element?" Xiao Cong cried out in pain. "You... you’re not."

The feeling was too painful, too despairing.

Just moments ago, Xiao Cong had believed that as one of the most elite Evolved People from the X Realm, he could unconditionally crush these natives.

But now? What on earth was happening?

The only answer he received was the pain of more metal tendrils piercing his body.

Xiao Cong’s scrambled mind could no longer form any coherent thoughts.

Xie Ning simply grabbed a handful of Spiritual Fragments, reading through the more useful pieces of information.

Discarding the chaotic and useless bits, Xie Ning eventually sorted out two main clues.

The first was what Xiao Cong had just revealed: the Space Folding Machine.

This machine wasn’t some bugged device that could be used limitlessly; with the X Realm’s current technology, the Space Folding Machine could only be activated once a day.

Furthermore, the maximum folding distance was no more than two kilometers.

However, due to version updates for the Space Folding Machine, the one Li Zongyuan and his group had seemed to be version 2.0, which allowed for a fixed destination point.

Before they had entered to ambush Xie Ning, Li Zongyuan had secretly set the Space Fold’s destination to the spot beside the small pickup truck.

So, no matter what happened, as long as you grabbed a corner of Li Zongyuan’s clothes, you could fold back to the original spot with him.

That unlucky bastard Xiao Cong had failed to catch this last ride with Li Zongyuan and was left behind, immediately suffering attacks from the swarm of Mutated Birds summoned by the broken parrot.

Entangled with the Mutated Birds, it became even more impossible for Xiao Cong to escape, right up until Xie Ning’s arrival.

The second useful clue coincided with the information from the mind of the Space Ability User, Xiao Yu.

One of their main objectives for this trip was indeed to survey the surface environment, and ideally, to bring some environmental samples back to the X Realm.

Another objective was to target, categorize, and capture individuals among Earth’s native population who displayed exceptionally strong superpower talents.

In other words, Xie Ning was just one of their targets.

The X Realm didn’t just want a blood sample from the world’s number one High-level Gold Ability User; they also needed samples from other geniuses.

Two Spiritual Ability Users, who could possibly perform a combined Fusion Technique.

One Sixth Rank Gold Element, another Fire Element, and a super-strong Space System user.

This was the power the X Realm was showing to the natives.

Honestly, if they hadn’t run into Xie Ning, they very likely would have succeeded.

Dousing Xiao Cong’s body with a bit of gasoline, Xie Ning lit it on fire and burned the man to ashes.

She then paused for a moment. "Go see why the little tiger isn’t back yet."

"Little Master, Little Master, Xiao Bai Bai is already back!"

Xie Ning nodded. Less than half a minute later, a white blur flashed around the corner and leaped in front of her with incredible speed.

The little tiger was carrying half a bloody leg in its mouth.

Xie Ning shot it a disgusted look. "Isn’t that filthy?"

The little tiger immediately dropped the leg. It wanted to go nuzzle against Xie Ning, but the heartless woman dodged away from it with a look of utter disgust.

"Ahaha, hahaha," the little broken parrot cackled, flapping its wings in midair. "Moronic Xiao Bai Bai."

Before the little broken parrot could finish laughing, it choked on the wind-blown sand and started squawking, flapping its wings frantically.

Xie Ning yanked the moronic bird out of the air and examined it with a frown. "You didn’t just inhale a sand worm, did you?"

Xie Ning could actually see a trace of panic on the parrot’s feathery face.

"No, no, no, no, that can’t be, right, Little Master?"

Xie Ning almost burst out laughing.

"So there’s something you’re afraid of too." Xie Ning was exasperated. She ruffled the broken bird’s head and scolded, "Stop flying around. Get into the Space, now."

"I need a drink of Replenishing Well Water to calm my nerves!"

Xie Ning nodded in agreement.

Not only could the Replenishing Well Water restore energy and calm one’s nerves, but after trying it herself, she discovered that long-term consumption could subtly improve one’s constitution.

She had already expelled many impurities from her body over the past few days, and the resulting improvements were quite significant.

This was most evident in her speed.

Her speed had increased at a visible rate. Although she still couldn’t match Speed Superpower Users of the same Rank, she was already far faster than other Superpower Users.

If drinking Replenishing Well Water could expel impurities, Xie Ning guessed, then those harmful sand worms surely couldn’t escape it either.

Xie Ning sent the bird and the tiger into the Farmhouse Space, specifically instructing her grandpa and grandma to draw two large basins of water to wash them first.

She stood in place and scanned the Space with her spiritual power. Only after confirming that the two little ones were fine did she withdraw her spiritual power.

Looking down again, she could see that the leg on the ground was already half-buried by the wind-blown sand.

She could still clearly make out the style of the small leather boot on its foot.

It was a woman’s boot.

It seemed the unlucky person who’d lost half a leg was the sister from the pair of Spiritual Ability User siblings.

With Li Zongyuan and Qian Rongye both incapacitated by the little tiger, the remaining two were hardly a threat.

Xie Ning’s gaze swept coldly over the sand-swept, dark night before she turned and walked into the laboratory building.

When she was lingering in the lobby earlier, Xie Ning had already discovered it: there was someone else in the laboratory building!

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