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Chapter 334 If you're not human, you won't have human flaws.
The other operators could only watch helplessly as Ruri's sword struck out with lightning speed. By the time they realized what had happened, it was too late.

Liuli drew her sword and slashed back, countless sword shadows transforming into layers of barriers that encompassed everything in the courtyard that was higher than the ground. Whether they were rushing up to seek revenge or turning to flee, it made no difference.

The sword light dissipated.

All that remained at the scene was a mangled corpse and snow soaked in blood.

Liuli swayed twice, then stuck the sword blade upside down into the ground to support herself.

"Not bad." She took off her hood and covered Rin's wide-eyed face.

"Sword Immortal, are you alright?" Xue Xiaojin rushed over from the backyard with a group of hunters. "Captain Fu said we need reinforcements here."

He ran to Liuli's side and was immediately shocked by her injuries.

The ice needles on her skin were melting rapidly, but two ice spikes, one in front of her chest and one in back, were firmly embedded in her body, each the size of a bowl! At that size, it was impossible for her heart and lungs to have been preserved.

Xue Xiaojin frantically pulled out the blood orange, but didn't know where to start—the blood orange could only quickly stop the bleeding and close the wound, and was completely incapable of dealing with her serious injury.

Liuli smiled and comforted him, "Don't worry, I won't die, at least not now."

"But……"

"Go find me a coat."

Xue Xiaojin immediately did as instructed.

He had just asked a companion who was about the same height as the Sword Immortal to take off his coat when he turned around and saw Liuli holding ice spikes in both hands.

"Sir, you mustn't pull it out—"

Before she could finish speaking, Liuli had already forcefully pulled the ice spike out!

A handful of hot blood spilled onto the ground.

But surprisingly, no more blood flowed from the wound.

Xue Xiaojin cautiously examined the location of her injury, then gasped – it was indeed a massive penetrating wound; he could even see the snow behind her. However, the inside of the wound was a deep crimson, obscuring any details, or rather… there were no details at all.

Liuli tossed aside the ice pick, draped her coat over her shoulders, and shrugged, saying, "This way, no one will notice anything amiss, right? I can't let him see me looking so disheveled."

"You..." Xue Xiaojin was speechless for a moment.

Liuli wasn't surprised; she had experienced similar things many times before. She looked human, and could perfectly portray pain, breathing, and bleeding, but ultimately, she wasn't human.

She is Oddity N21.

Humanity's vulnerabilities do not exist for her.

The enemy's ability users lost because of this.

Rin, the opponent, was almost a personification of ice and snow, but she was still a person... She was clearly still lacking in skill when facing a real sword.

"This courtyard is now in your hands," Liuli said.

Xue Xiaojin snapped out of her daze and quickly nodded, "Yes, you should go and rest!"

Just then, a deafening wolf howl echoed from a hundred meters away. The sound was so loud that everyone bared their teeth and covered their ears, and the glass windows of the Green Grass Hall cracked. Turning their heads, they saw a semi-transparent gray giant wolf appear in the courtyard. Standing upright, it was nearly thirty or forty meters tall, and a single blow could shatter a three-story wooden house. Engaging the giant wolf was an equally enormous giant; judging from its clothing, this giant was undoubtedly a user of the abilities from the mechanical side.

"What powerful magic..." Xue Xiaojin couldn't help but exclaim.

As arranged by the Immortal Master, the western courtyard is to be defended by Spicy Village, while the eastern courtyard is to be monitored by the Witch's Gathering Place. This majestic giant wolf must be the guardian beast summoned by the witch.

As they were speaking, golden lightning suddenly flashed across the clear night sky, and bolts of lightning struck the ground, briefly illuminating the entire North Heaven Academy.

Clearly, Liu Shuyue had also joined the fray. Liu Li immediately changed her mind and turned to walk towards the east side of the courtyard.

"Sword Immortal?" Xue Xiaojin asked in surprise, watching her retreating figure.

"You guys just guard this place, I'll go add fuel to the fire." She waved her hand and said in a relaxed tone, "After all, the more lively the fighting in the courtyard, the more it will attract the enemy's attention."

That way, they could create an opportunity for Chen Xuan to capture the real target.

……

"Captain, let us join the attack!" Xiao shouted urgently from outside the vehicle. "The commotion at the North Heaven Institute... is too abnormal!"

Even without looking at an electronic map, anyone could sense that the current situation had deviated significantly from the organization's expected course of action. What was supposed to be a silent suppression and encirclement had clearly spiraled out of control, with explosions and gunfire shattering the silence of the night. If the Beitian Academy hadn't been nestled in the dense forests halfway up Lushan Mountain, half the city would probably have been awakened by the incessant rumbling.

But even if they are far from the city, it doesn't mean they can act recklessly, especially when a blizzard and thunderstorm occur simultaneously in one area. Such an anomaly cannot be concealed even if the logistics team does its best. Moreover, Lushan is not an uninhabited area. The officers responsible for blocking the roads have reported more than ten interception incidents, which means that those living at the foot of the mountain have noticed the unusual activity on the mountain and are planning to come up to investigate.

At this point, the secrecy of the entire operation was almost gone. The organization had to suppress the Northern Heavenly Academy before dawn to buy the logistics team enough time to clean up the mess.

The problem is... they don't even seem to be able to do that.

Xiao Kanong saw that nearly half of the dots on the electronic map had disappeared. Each grayed-out dot represented the loss of vital signs of an operator. The remaining personnel were also unable to break through the Green Grass Palace line, let alone the medical building behind it.

According to reports from soldiers on the front lines, this was not a hospital at all, and the enemy was certainly not an unarmed doctor.

They felt like they had stumbled into a giant trap.

The enemy was equally armed to the teeth, and even better prepared than them, with not only rifles, but also heavy machine guns and rocket launchers.

This sounds absolutely absurd.

In Jiangcheng, an unofficial medical organization actually possesses a large amount of heavy weaponry? And no word of it had leaked out beforehand?
But it is what it is.

Even more unbelievable is that the enemy also has a large number of ability users mixed in, with a conservative estimate of as many as seventy or eighty, while our side only has two execution teams, and the rest of the people are non-ability users. In terms of overall strength, we are firmly suppressed by the enemy.

Despite the strength of the Arbitration Tribunal agents transferred from headquarters, they were outnumbered and outgunned. In addition, the North Heaven Institute also had Wanderers assisting them, which led to the organization becoming the one being besieged.

Things have developed to this point, which is quite unfavorable for them.

However, Xiao Kanon remained unmoved, and even when the blue light representing the Arbitration Tribunal's "Snowflake" went out, he did not issue a retreat order.

"Captain!" Xiao pleaded again.

At that very moment, Xiao Canon's eyes changed.

He turned to look at Xiao outside the car and saw that a transparent chain had somehow appeared on the ground and wrapped around the other person's neck.

It wasn't just Xiao; all the other agents guarding the car... whether they were ability users or not, had a strange chain around their necks, and none of them noticed it.

Did you finally notice?
Shocanon grinned.

In an instant, the chains tightened, pulling everyone to the ground—only then did Xiao and the others realize they had been attacked, their expressions changing drastically.

At the same time, a figure flew out of the sky above Beitianyuan.

He had no wings, yet he was faster than a nightjar, swooping down to the car in the blink of an eye.

The visitor was none other than Chen Xuan!
Ever since the organization infiltrated the Northern Heavenly Courtyard, he had been using his inner energy to monitor the situation. It wasn't hard to see that the organization had always kept a group of people with high spiritual energy levels guarding outside the courtyard. This indicated that they were protecting someone, and this person was most likely the commander-in-chief of the attack, Xiao Kanong.

The so-called capture the leader first.

This battle mobilized almost all the forces that Chen Xuan could muster. If it was merely a repelling of the organization's encirclement, it could not be considered a significant victory.

However, if we can capture the chief of the branch office here, the organization's influence in Jiangcheng will be severely damaged, and it is not impossible for them to be completely driven out of the country!
(End of this chapter)