He just broke up with his girlfriend and is already living with the devilish rich girl.

Just as tensions were about to escalate and a conflict was about to erupt, a lazy and pleasant voice suddenly rang out from behind Shen Er without warning.

"So, if someone kills you fast enough that you don't even have time to snap your fingers, you won't be able to reverse the damage, right?"

This is the second time today that Shen Er has experienced that chilling, soul-shaking feeling of being on the verge of death.

The first time came from Zheng Yueyao's seemingly ordinary longsword; the second time, it was simply because of a single sentence.

He barely thought; his body instincts drove him to concentrate all his weight into his right fist.

He twisted his waist and hips, and threw a punch hard behind him.

The air was compressed, the ground shattered, and all the rubble within several meters was suspended in the air.

This punch is enough to shatter mountains.

However, that fist was casually grasped by a hand.

That hand was slender and fair, with distinct knuckles, as if it would break with the slightest force.

But it held onto Shen Er's fist without moving an inch, its strength completely disproportionate to its size.

Shen Er could even feel the terrifying gravity contained in his fist being completely neutralized the moment it came into contact with that palm.

Like a whirlpool being extinguished on the surface of the sea.

A stunningly beautiful woman with a slender figure, dressed in a black dress, stood gracefully in front of him.

She tilted her head, a sweet yet cruel smile on her face.

Those beautiful eyes scrutinized him with great interest, as if observing a frog about to be dissected.

Luo Yao.

"hello."

Luo Yao greeted him with a smile, her tone light and cheerful.

"You had a good time beating up my girlfriend, didn't you?"

Shen Er's heart sank to the bottom instantly.

He abruptly pulled his fist back and used the recoil to take half a step back.

Without a second thought, he pushed his gravity ability to its limit.

"Kneel down before me!!!"

A terrifying gravitational field, powerful enough to crush a small city, suddenly erupted from his center.

The surrounding ground seemed to have been struck by an invisible giant hammer, instantly sinking half a meter, with cracks spreading in all directions like a spider web.

In the distance, the ruins of buildings were flattened, and the metal and bricks groaned as they cracked.

Those Youdu citizens who were still kneeling on the ground were affected by the aftershocks and fell to the ground, struggling to breathe.

However, Luo Yao, standing next to him, seemed unaffected and still had that smiling expression.

"Huh? Didn't you eat? Is that all the strength you have?"

Shen Er's pupils suddenly contracted.

How is that possible?! His gravity field has no blind spots. Even Zhou Xuetong, who can absorb kinetic energy, could not stand under his full pressure.

The woman stood less than half a meter away from him, but her body seemed to be embedded in another space, not even a single hair of hers moved.

The next second, Luo Yao's figure suddenly disappeared.

There was no sound of teleportation, no afterimage, and no dynamic trajectory.

She vanished into thin air within the gravitational field of Mirage II, as if she had never existed.

Before Shen Er could react, an irresistible force came from the back of his head.

"Bang--!"

His entire face was shoved hard into the hard ground beneath his feet.

Dirt, stone chips, and blood splattered everywhere; his head was buried more than ten centimeters into the ground, with only his body still exposed.

"Did you do the same to my girlfriends?"

Luo Yao's voice came from above his head, still in that light and cheerful tone, as if she were asking him how the weather was today.

"Aaaaaaah!!!"

Shen Er let out a wild, angry roar.

He lay on the ground, supporting himself with his hands, frantically channeling his internal energy in an attempt to break free.

The surrounding rubble, ruins, and broken metal frames all rose into the air under the control of gravity, transforming into hundreds of high-speed spinning deadly projectiles that bombarded Luo Yao from all directions.

But Luo Yao simply pressed the back of his head, stretched out her other hand, and waved it casually.

Those shards of stone, powerful enough to pierce armor, suddenly slowed down and shattered the moment they came within three feet of her body.

It eventually turned into powder and fell down, covering the ground like a thin layer of ash.

"Not even as good as a little bug," Luo Yao said, then gently lifted her right foot.

"Bang!"

Shen Er was kicked out of the ground and sent flying, rolling and crashing through three broken walls before barely coming to a stop at the edge of the square.

He had just straightened up when Luo Yao reappeared where he had landed and delivered a whip kick to his side.

"Bang!"

Like a kite with a broken string, Shen Er was kicked into the sky, its body flipping and tumbling continuously during its ascent.

He knew Luo Yao would appear above.

Sure enough, the next second, Luo Yao was already standing in mid-air, looking down at him.

Then, she raised her right fist and smashed it into his chest like a nail.

"boom!"

The mirage crashed back to the ground at a speed far exceeding its descent speed, kicking up dust and smoke tens of meters high.

The earth shook violently, and a new impact crater appeared in the center of the square, deeper and more regular than the crater previously created by the North Star.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The entire Youdu echoed with the dull thuds of Shen Er being beaten back and forth like a ball.

Luo Yao's attacks were always perfectly timed. She reappeared beside Shen Er, delivering a punch, an elbow, and a knee, before striking him in the next direction.

Her movements appeared relaxed and casual, without any sign of exertion; even the hem of her skirt swayed only slightly within three inches of her body.

However, each time they come into contact, Shen Er's body will undergo obvious deformation and produce cracking sounds.

Tao Ye, Zhou Xuetong, and Zheng Yueyao, who were watching from a distance, were all dumbfounded.

Zheng Yueyao's face was covered in blood, and she was using a knife to support her upper body.

She was first shocked, then overwhelmed with anxiety, and shouted at the sky with all her might.

"Miss Luo Yao! Be careful of his superpower! He can reverse damage! Why don't you just kill him?!"

Tao Ye hurriedly added.

"Yes, yes, yes! That's the move he used to take us all down! All those injuries were transferred to us!"

Zhou Xuetong was unable to speak and could only communicate with her eyes.

Luo Yao acted as if she hadn't heard, and continued to toy with Shen Er.

At this point, Shen Er had been beaten beyond recognition, with not a single part of his body intact.

His scalp was rolled up, his ribs were exposed, his right arm was twisted at an odd angle, and his left eye could no longer be opened.

He lay in the deep pit, coughing up blood continuously, his chest rising and falling weakly.

But he was not blinded by anger.

Instead, he kept waiting.

He realized as early as the second strike that he had no chance of winning a head-on battle with Luo Yao.

But he still has a trump card up his sleeve.

As long as his superpowers can still be activated, as long as his fingertips can still make that gesture.

Right now.

Luo Yao appeared beside him, stepped on his chest, and bent down to say something.

With his last ounce of strength, Shen Er struggled to raise his right hand, his thumb pressing against his middle finger.

He snapped his fingers.

[Pain Transfer - Equivalent Exchange]

He wanted to see how much of the backlash this woman could withstand.

He wanted to expel all the wounds from his body, the broken bones, the severed nerves, and the pain accumulated in every cell.

They stuffed it all inside her.

however--

A second passed.

Two seconds passed.

Three seconds passed.

Nothing happened.

Luo Yao remained unharmed and smiling.

She crouched down, rested her chin on her hand, and looked down at him.

Shen Er remained in that miserable, half-dead state, his wounds still bleeding, and his broken bones still throbbing painfully.

"Why...why..."

Shen Er's pupils trembled violently, and a hoarse voice squeezed out from his throat.

"Hmm? Do you think that just because you activated your superpower, I should end up in a terrible state like you, and then you'll be perfectly fine?"

Luo Yao rested her arms on her knees, looking at him with amusement.

"Let me correct a small mistake you made."

Luo Yao held up one finger and shook it.

"Your special ability is not simply 'reversing damage' at all."

"Its essence is to establish a cause, namely the fact that 'I have been hurt'."

"Then forcibly apply this 'effect' to the enemy."

"Let cause and effect itself, in order to maintain logical consistency, heal you, the original 'cause'."

"In this way, your ability is much more advanced than the most basic, simple energy-level damage reversal."

"It touches on a very superficial level of causality, right?"

Luo Yao analyzed with a smile, her tone like a teacher explaining a student's mistake.

"However, this ability to involve cause and effect has a very important prerequisite: the 'effect' you set must be possible."

"In other words, as long as I injure you so quickly that your brain and soul don't have time to construct the 'cause' of 'I was injured by Luo Yao'."

"Or, within the infinite timeline you can observe, there simply isn't an 'effect' of 'I can hurt Luo Yao'."

"Then your law of causality cannot stand."

She paused deliberately, enjoying the growing fear in Mirage's eyes.

"In that 0.0001 second just now, in the infinite river of time, I have already tortured and killed you 136.72 million times."

"I used a different method each time, but the result was always the same."

"And now..."

"Your power is about to backfire because it can't find an object to bear the consequences."

Luo Yao's outstretched hand turned into three fingers.

"3".

"Wait...wait! Wait a minute!! Please!!"

Mirage Two finally realized just how terrifying the existence he was facing was.

Fear and the instinct for survival caused him to lose all his dignity.

"No! Let me go! I can help you deal with Mirage One! I'll do anything..."

Luo Yao looked at him with a grin and withdrew one finger.

"No waiting~"

"2".

"No!!"

Shen Er used his last bit of strength to try to stand up, but his body was no longer under his control.

He could only stare with bloodshot eyes at Luo Yao's last remaining finger.

"They already said they won't wait, hehe~."

"1~"

The next second, Shen Er's body suddenly stiffened, and he fell into a strange state of stillness.

His expression froze in a moment of extreme terror, his eyes bulging, his mouth wide open, and his fingers curled into a scratching motion.

Then he fell straight down to the bottom of the pit, without making a sound, with only a faint pulse still beating.

Luo Yao stood up, patted off non-existent dust from her hands, and explained to everyone.

"Okay, all done."

"He will suffer all the harm I just caused him in his own infinite cycle of cause and effect, over and over again, until his soul is completely annihilated."

"This is something they brought upon themselves."

At this point, Luo Yao's smile suddenly vanished.

She raised her head and looked at Qingyao, who was bound by chains and covered in blood in mid-air, a cold rage flashing in her eyes.

"Who told him to hurt my little Qingyao like this?"

She glanced in Qingyao's direction and casually flicked her finger.

The chains, engraved with runes, snapped instantly, inch by inch.

Qingyao lost her support and fell from the sky.

The next second, Luo Yao appeared beside her, stretching out her arms and gently supporting the blood-soaked body that was barely clinging to life.

"Do you miss me, Qingyao?"

Luo Yao carried her to the ground and tenderly wiped the blood from her face.

Her tone shifted dramatically from cruel to almost coquettish.

Qingyao weakly opened her eyes, her gaze unfocused, and it took her a long time to focus on Luoyao's face.

She looked at the familiar face before her, a face she both loved and hated, and a faint, bitter smile appeared on her lips.

"You saved me again... How embarrassing..."

"Hehe, you do have some sense of shame after all."

"Leave me alone..."

Qingyao struggled to stand up, but her body went limp as soon as she left Luoyao's arms.

She grabbed Luo Yao's collar, her fingers still trembling, her voice broken and intermittent.

"Hurry...hurry to the Special Administration Bureau... Shen Yi...he..."

"Don't worry." Luo Yao interrupted her, hugged her tightly again, and looked indifferent.

"Do you really think that woman surnamed Lin will die so easily?"

She paused, her smile becoming even more meaningful.

"I do feel a little sorry for that kid named Shenyi."

"After being kept locked up like a pet by that woman for so many years, I finally escaped, but now she wants to play with me like a monkey."

"Sigh, what do you think he's after?"