“Who are you? Were those words you just said meant to stop me?”
As Ji Zige stopped singing, Han Xiaohu—who had been somewhat dazed under the effect of her skill—snapped back to alertness in an instant. Immediately after, he quickly turned a wary gaze toward Ji Zige, who had suddenly appeared in the chairman’s office, and questioned her as such.
Hearing this and knowing he was on guard against her, Ji Zige didn’t want him to harbor too much hostility. She proactively offered him a smile and replied, “I am Ji Zige. If you have the habit of listening to music online, you surely know me. As for what I said to you earlier, it was indeed because I wanted to stop you.”
Upon hearing Ji Zige’s introduction, Han Xiaohu—who, despite spending the past few years in decadence after his brother’s death, had never given up his love for music—recalled the voice from her singing moments ago. It was identical to the voice of the virtual singer Ji Zige he had heard online. He couldn’t help but show surprise on his face and said to her, “So you’re that new singer, the virtual singer Ji Zige who’s been trending online lately. I never imagined that besides being a new singer, you are also an Awakened.”
Hearing Han Xiaohu’s words and knowing he had recognized her, Ji Zige—who had long since obtained all valuable information about him through her virtual singer skills—showed no surprise on her face. She then continued, keeping her smile, and said to him, “An Awakened is, in the end, just a person with supernatural powers. It’s nothing special. Compared to that, I prefer people to see me as a singer. After all, being a singer is much more challenging than being an Awakened.”
Hearing Ji Zige’s words, Han Xiaohu finally snapped out of the shock her identity had brought him. He quickly concealed the surprised expression on his face and, remembering her earlier statement about wanting to stop him, proceeded to say to Ji Zige, “I don’t care if you’re a newly debuted singer or some not-so-famous Awakened. Since I said I’m going to take the lives of these two bastards today, no one—no matter who—can possibly stop me.”
“Are you really going to be this stubborn?”
Hearing Han Xiaohu’s words, Ji Zige—who didn’t want to see a young man whose heart hadn’t yet been cooled by society’s harsh realities do something foolish—continued to question him thus.
“I won’t repeat myself a second time, Miss Ji Zige. If you continue to hinder me, don’t blame me for being impolite to you.”
Upon hearing this, Han Xiaohu answered Ji Zige very seriously, simultaneously beginning to gather supernatural power with a frosty aura around his body.
Hearing Han Xiaohu’s words and sensing the supernatural power gathering around him, Ji Zige knew he was preparing to get serious. She couldn’t help but let out a long sigh and said, “Since you refuse to listen to reason, then I’ll just have to defeat you here.”
After saying this, without giving Han Xiaohu a chance to react, Ji Zige—who, after her star ascension, possessed the physique of a four-star Awakened—instantly vanished from her spot.
The next second, she appeared right in front of Han Xiaohu, throwing a punch directly toward his face.
Seeing this, because Yán Qí was consciously controlling from a distance, Ji Zige—as her doppelganger—had hardly been releasing her own aura.
This led to Han Xiaohu failing to immediately judge the power gap between himself and Ji Zige. As a result, upon witnessing with his own eyes Ji Zige’s speed, which far surpassed that of an ordinary Awakened, he couldn’t help but show an utterly astonished expression.
Watching Ji Zige’s fist getting closer and closer to his face, Han Xiaohu knew that if he took this hit—even if Ji Zige held back—it definitely wouldn’t end well for him. Without the slightest hesitation, he quickly activated his supernatural power, condensing a huge block of ice in front of himself to slow Ji Zige’s assault.
Seeing the massive ice block appear before her and understanding Han Xiaohu’s intention with this move, Ji Zige did not choose to halt her attack. Instead, she continued swinging her fist forward.
Bang!
Accompanied by a crisp sound, Ji Zige’s fist smashed hard into the huge ice block obstructing her path and hindering her fist’s advance.
In just an instant, the massive ice block Han Xiaohu had condensed with his supernatural power shattered and scattered like a mirror struck by a heavy blow.
Watching the ice block he had created to block Ji Zige being smashed to smithereens by her punch in less than a second, Han Xiaohu—who had finally managed to put a safe distance between them during that one second of delay—looked increasingly appalled.
“Why is this woman so strong? Could her supernatural power be leaning toward strength aspects?”
Secretly guessing this in his heart, Han Xiaohu knew from the brief exchange that Ji Zige’s next attack would come immediately. He also understood he was absolutely no match for her.
However, unwilling to simply let those two vampires go and flee in disarray from here, Han Xiaohu mustered all his power. He created a large cluster of ice blocks even bigger than the previous one, enveloping Ji Zige—who had just easily shattered the ice with her bare fists.
Seeing the ice blocks surrounding and trapping her, Ji Zige knew such things couldn’t possibly hold a four-star Awakened like herself for long. She quickly realized this was Han Xiaohu’s attempt to stall her so he could carry out what he had previously vowed to do.
So, while swinging her fists to smash the ice blocks surrounding her, she without hesitation opened her voice and sang out a melody beautiful and pleasing, with a tone ethereal and delightful—trying to prevent Han Xiaohu’s mistaken course of action.
Just as Ji Zige opened her voice and began singing again…
Having successfully sealed off Ji Zige’s movements, Han Xiaohu noticed that Guō Liángzhī was now too far away to easily target. So, he turned his gaze toward Guō Liángmíng—who had earlier been pinned on the sofa by the security guards and was now wearing a dumbfounded expression due to the sudden turn of events in the chairman’s office.
“I’ll start with you,” Han Xiaohu said inwardly to Guō Liángmíng, then launched his attack against him, striving to kill him as quickly as possible. After that, he would deal with Guō Liángzhī, and finally find a way to shake off Ji Zige and escape from this place.