Yan Yan counterattacked the instant he got the gun, but his bullets still failed to hit that blond, blue-eyed man.

The other man was incredibly fast and vanished again.

The guy had wanted to launch another sneak attack, but this time Yan Yan was already prepared for the fact that he wasn’t normal. With that in mind, he met the attack head-on and fought back.

The blond, blue-eyed man never expected Yan Yan to go in for close combat, and on top of that, to be this insanely good!!

He might not be a Power User, but his speed and agility were completely on par with a top-tier special forces soldier.

The fact that he hadn’t been taken down in a single move, and could even predict where the guy would Instant Teleport to, was already unbelievable.

Realizing this, the blond, blue-eyed man, after the initial shock, instead showed an excited grin.

After roughly five minutes of fighting, the blond, blue-eyed man suddenly flashed aside, dodging to a spot two meters away. He raised his middle finger at Yan Yan and pulled a mocking smile. "I’m done playing with you."

From the van that had just crashed into them and flipped over right beside Yan Yan and Yun Qiqi, there suddenly came a sharp "beep."

Yan Yan, who had remained calm and in control the whole time, finally had his expression change drastically when he heard that sound. He lunged toward the still-stunned Yun Qiqi next to him:

"Little Gua!"

While they’d been fighting, Yun Qiqi had been standing off to the side, lost in who knows what, like her soul had gone missing. She just stared blankly, eyes empty.

Only at this moment, hearing his voice, did she seem to snap back, her gaze slowly focusing on him.

And then, she saw a pillar of fire erupt behind the man, a searing wave of heat roaring toward them.

She hadn’t even had time to dodge when Yan Yan suddenly took a powerful stride forward and rushed her, wrapping her tightly in his arms. She lost her footing and was slammed down onto the ground.

Right after that, with a boom, her entire world seemed to explode in an instant, turning into a wasteland of nothingness.

For a split second, she couldn’t hear anything at all, her vision plunged into darkness.

The whole world fell into Jing Jing.

Several seconds passed before sensation slowly returned. She felt the lingering heat of the blast burning on her skin.

And her whole body was tightly shielded in his embrace. In front of her was his broad, solid chest, his arm locked firmly around her, so that in every breath she drew, aside from the smoke and gunpowder from the explosion, there was only the clean, familiar scent of him.

Everything was so still—only the sound of his heartbeat, one thud after another.

Yun Qiqi’s hands trembled. She instinctively wrapped her arms around the man on top of her, but the moment her fingers brushed against something thick and sticky, she lowered her head on reflex.

Her hand was covered in blood.

She stared, eyes wide and vacant, as if her soul had been sucked out of her body. All she could see in front of her was a blur of torn flesh and blood.

In her muddled consciousness, it felt like something was desperately trying to claw its way out, piece by piece.

She wanted to do something. She felt like she had to do something.

But her hands wouldn’t move, she couldn’t even manage to think. She could only stare blankly at the man in front of her.

When Di Shan and the other security personnel arrived, they saw their Boss sprawled over the Young Girl, pinning her to the ground in a full-on protective posture.

He had taken everything on himself.

Seeing this, Di Shan didn’t even care about his own gunshot wound anymore and shouted immediately, "Hurry, call an ambulance!"

The whole area was in utter chaos.

Yet Yun Qiqi just lay there with her eyes open, her small hands lightly holding the man above her whose body was a bloody mess, not moving at all. Her gaze was empty and lost, as if the world had abandoned her in an instant, leaving her helpless and utterly alone.

Only two clear trails of tears kept sliding down from the corners of her eyes.