After a while, Liam climbed down from the girl’s arms and struggled to stand up.

  Even though his wound had been healed by the girl’s mysterious greencrystal, the lost vitality and blood couldn’t be restored in a short time. Liam felt extremely weak.

  Propping himself up on the ground with his hair, Liam felt an intense hunger again—so intense that even the girl beside him seemed unusually delicious. He noticed that his tail became especially restless when he was hungry; if he stayed next to her any longer, he might not be able to resist devouring her.

  But human reason and emotion always prevailed over the animalistic instincts of his body. Although Liam knew he urgently needed to eat to replenish his lost vitality, he would never hurt the girl.

  “Let’s go. We have to leave here quickly.” Liam took the girl’s hand and spoke softly. Besides, he felt someone watching them—needless to say, it must be Lucas and Elijah hiding in the shadows, waiting to ambush them.

  “Isn’t it too late to leave now!” Suddenly, Lucas jumped down from a huge boulder.

  Liam had just looked up when he felt a sharp pain. He quickly wrapped his hair around himself and stepped back, not forgetting to push the girl behind him. Looking at the ground where he had just stood, it was now potholed and uneven. It turned out that before Lucas jumped out, he had sprinkled a large amount of corrosive liquid into the sky. When he appeared himself to attract Liam’s attention, the corrosive liquid fell exactly where Liam was standing.

  “Tch, even injured and you still run so fast.” Lucas frowned in dissatisfaction when he saw that Liam was only hurt on the shoulder.

  Elijah then emerged from behind the boulder and said calmly, “You sprinkled the corrosive liquid unevenly, which made him alert in advance. But it doesn’t matter—his combat power is only 56 now. You can handle him, right?”

  “Come on, if I can’t even handle this, I might as well bang my head against a wall and die.” Lucas scoffed, staring at Liam like a hungry wolf.

  Liam stood in front of the girl, watching Lucas warily.

  Lucas was a huge threat to him. He had no way to counter Lucas’s corrosive liquid for the time being, and now that he was seriously injured, the situation was extremely unfavorable to him!

  “Girl, step back a little. It’s going to get dangerous here soon.” Liam said to the girl behind him.

  The girl grabbed Liam’s clothes and shook her head stubbornly, then glared angrily at Lucas and Elijah opposite them.

  “Little beauty, you’d better listen to him. Otherwise, if you hurt that pretty face of yours, I won’t want you anymore!” Lucas grinned. If the girl hadn’t been behind Liam, making him hesitant to act recklessly, he would have attacked long ago.

  Liam gently pushed the girl back with his hair, then looked at Lucas and said, “If you want my life that badly, let’s see whose life is harder.”

  Before Lucas could respond, Liam’s hair lashed out at him like whips.

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  Lucas immediately secreted corrosive liquid to wrap around his body. The hair touched the corrosive liquid and was instantly corroded, unable to reach Lucas at all.

  “Pretty boy, your tricks are completely useless against me. So just die obediently!” Lucas sneered, flicked his finger, and a drop of corrosive liquid shot straight at Liam’s forehead.

  Liam dodged quickly, then inserted all his hair into the ground. He then shouted pretending to be crazy: “You forced me! Although using this ultimate move will cost me my lifespan, I have no choice now. Take this!”

  “Be careful! He’s trying to escape!” Elijah sensed something was wrong and shouted quickly.

  Hearing Elijah’s words, Lucas immediately roared: “Corrosive Wave Tsunami!”

  A large amount of corrosive liquid sprayed from his hand, all rushing toward Liam’s direction.

  The black mist from Liam’s tail could only be sprayed once a week, and he needed to accumulate enough mist to use it again. So it wasn’t that he didn’t want to spray the mist to escape, but that he couldn’t. Just now, he had inserted his hair into the ground to stir up sand and dust, then take the girl and run—but Elijah had seen through his plan.

  Seeing the corrosive liquid rushing toward him, Liam quickly severed the hair inserted into the ground and rolled awkwardly to the side. He couldn’t help but admire Elijah’s sharp eyes. Although Elijah wasn’t a combatant, with him watching from the side, escaping was almost impossible.

  “Hahahaha! Ultimate move? You’re just a pretty boy, and you look so pathetic.” Lucas mocked Liam, who was covered in dust.

  Liam wasn’t angry. He wiped the dust off his face and propped himself up with his hair again. He knew his body was in a terrible state. Although he could still fight with willpower, he was actually weak to the breaking point—maybe even a single ordinary kick from Lucas would knock him unconscious.

  Seeing that the battle was almost a foregone conclusion, Elijah turned his gaze to the girl Lucas had his eye on. If he captured her, he could end the battle early.

  He circled around Liam, who was focused on fighting Lucas, and slowly approached the girl. Although his ability wasn’t combat-oriented, his body, which had been tempered by the “crystal ”, was much stronger than the average person. He was confident that he could capture the girl easily.

  The girl watched the battle between Liam and Lucas nervously. Although she didn’t quite understand why those two bad guys were fighting over her, she knew Liam was protecting her.

  Suddenly, she saw one of the bad guys walking toward her, and she immediately glared at him angrily.

  “Little girl, relax. I mean no harm. I think you should be well aware of our strength by now. If you come with us, you’ll not only be safer, but we also have a secret base—comfortable and with enough food. You don’t have to live in fear like this anymore. So leave that man!” Elijah said temptingly.

  The girl didn’t speak, still glaring at the bad guy in front of her. As for the base the bad guy mentioned, she didn’t care at all. She only wanted to be with Liam. Besides, she thought Liam’s scent was very nice—smelling it while sleeping made her feel especially comfortable. So she would never leave Liam.

  Seeing that the girl refused to be persuaded, Elijah sighed softly and said, “To be honest, I don’t like violence, especially against women.”

  But there was no other way now!

  Elijah suddenly made a move. He rushed toward the girl quickly and reached out to grab her hand. But what happened next was completely beyond his expectations.

  The girl tilted her head back slightly. On the light screen attached to Elijah’s eyes, he could see the girl’s combat power soar from “5” to “999” in an instant. Then the girl slammed her head into his chest.

  “Ugh…” Elijah spat out blood immediately, his chest completely caved in. The only thought in his mind was: “What terrifying explosive power!”

  He didn’t know that the girl’s headbutt was absolutely abnormal. Once, the super giant tree in the center of the forest had been slightly dented by her headbutt—what terrifying strength that was!

  Hearing the sound of Elijah spitting blood, both Liam and Lucas turned to look. Then Liam rushed to the girl’s side as fast as he could, wrapping his hair around the seriously injured Elijah at the same time.

  “Let him go!” Lucas shouted immediately, but he didn’t dare to make a move.