# Chapter 764: I Thought You Were a Ranged Attacker!
The core fragment was black and rectangular, three meters long and two meters wide! Like a stone tablet, it even had a metallic feel when touched!
It looked as if it had broken off from a larger whole!
Although Zhong Yingxue couldn't understand the inscriptions on it, she could confirm this was the eighth-floor core fragment!
She had been digging for a while and had already unearthed half of it!
Her pretty face was full of joy!
Xiao Nan would be really happy when he found out, right?
She immediately resumed digging!
Zhong Yingxue had been randomly teleported to the east at first, originally planning to head north to regroup with her teammates!
But that mid-journey surge of mental energy had caught her attention!
She wondered if it might have been caused by the core fragment making a commotion!
So she decided to come over this way to take a look, and sure enough, she discovered the core fragment!
After working hard for a while, she finally managed to lift the core fragment out of the pit!
Just then, a female voice came from the dense forest.
"You're pretty lucky, huh? Did you actually find the core fragment?"
"Thanks for digging it out! Looks like my luck is even better!"
Zhong Yingxue wiped her nose, her pretty face turning cold!
Then Shirley emerged from the woods, beaming with smiles!
Behind her followed four people!
Three men and one woman!
Two of the men were burly with close-cropped hair, well-built with prominent muscles—they should be tank-type fighters with high physical resilience!
The other man had long hair, and while his muscles weren't exaggerated, his legs looked powerful—he should be a close-combat fighter! His physical condition was also formidable!
The short-haired woman was probably like Shirley, a squishy ranged attacker...
Zhong Yingxue quickly analyzed the situation, glanced around, and said coldly, "Just the five of you?"
"Looks like you're the unlucky ones!"
With that, she reached into her pocket, pulled out a hair tie, held it in her mouth, lifted her black hair, and actually started tying it up!
Shirley laughed out loud: "This is the first time I've seen someone complaining that there aren't enough people to beat them up!"
"Aren't five people enough for you?"
Zhong Yingxue tied up her hair, revealing her fair neck. It seemed to be just Shirley and her five, with no one else hiding nearby...
"No! Five people aren't enough for me to beat!"
As she spoke, her hand didn't loosen—something was hidden in her palm. It was what she had taken out of her pocket while pretending to get the hair tie!
Her entire hand was now silently tucked inside her sleeve!
At her words, Shirley and her five companions burst out laughing, as if they had heard the funniest joke!
"Hahaha! I could laugh for half a year! This is in a Spirit-Binding Field, you old squishy attacker can't even use your superpowers!"
"Fighting purely with your body, I can beat you until you cry. With such a pretty face, one punch should make you cry for a long time, right?"
"Being so close to Jiangnan, you're a little slut too. I wonder what expression Jiangnan would make if we killed you?"
"I love destroying beautiful things with my bare hands!"
Zhong Yingxue's pretty face was covered in frost, and she remained silent!
She let the five of them surround her!
Shirley sneered: "I was originally thinking of having a proper match with you, letting you know what a real ranged attacker is, what a Chosen Divine Maiden is!"
"But the heavens aren't cooperating. It seems there's no chance now. Get her! Kill her!"
The moment she finished speaking, the excited long-haired man charged first!
His fist broke the sound barrier as it viciously aimed at Zhong Yingxue's cheek!
Instead of retreating, Zhong Yingxue rushed toward the fist, moving just as fast!
Just as the fist was about to hit her face, she ducked under it!
Closing in on the long-haired man, her hand, which had been hidden in her sleeve, shot out!
Her middle finger gleamed with gold—it was wearing a Paralysis Ring!
She jabbed it into the long-haired man's ribs!
Long-haired man: (ꐦʘ̆益ʘ̆ꐦ) Yaaah-ooooh~
He screamed, his body stiffening completely, unable to move, thoroughly paralyzed!
Taking advantage, Zhong Yingxue lifted her leg and, with all her strength, drove a knee strike viciously into his vital area!
The force was so great it lifted him off the ground!
With two loud "paps"—
∑(乀)∑(乀)
The long-haired man fell flat on his back, his face green with pain. Even while paralyzed, he let out a piercing howl!
"Oww!"
But Zhong Yingxue didn't stop. She leaned down and drove her golden finger straight into the man's eye socket, all the way in!
Another scream!
Before he could finish, she pulled a Black Steel Dagger from her lower back and slit his throat!
Blood choked off his cry!
Zhong Yingxue said coldly: "In your next life, watch your mouth!"
Shirley: Σ(ŎдŎ|||)ﾉﾉ
W-wait, aren't you supposed to be a ranged attacker?
A Platinum-level attacker killed a Platinum-level close-combat fighter in a Spirit-Binding Field?
This is seriously wrong, isn't it?
At that moment, the two tank-type guys were stunned too, feeling a chill down their spines!
Groin strike, eye gouge, throat slit?
Your moves are way too vicious!
Such a pretty young girl, how can she be so ruthless?
Enraged, the two tanks drew their machetes while Zhong Yingxue was getting up and slashed at her back!
Zhong Yingxue couldn't dodge in time and took the hit, her clothes torn with a long gash!
But sparks flew, and the blade chipped! It didn't cut through at all!
Beneath her clothes, a crimson Blood-Drinking Chainmail was revealed—it was the gift Jiangnan had given Zhong Yingxue!
The short-haired man was dumbfounded, but he didn't stop. He punched toward the back of her head!
Zhong Yingxue sidestepped slightly, grabbed his arm with both hands!
Her golden finger touched him, and he screamed, instantly paralyzed!
She threw him over her shoulder and slammed him hard onto the ground!
Panicking, the short-haired man struggled wildly, but under paralysis, he couldn't move!
He could only watch helplessly as Zhong Yingxue drove the Black Steel Dagger down!
Straight into his eye socket, blood splattered!
Another one killed! No sooner had she stabbed than the other short-haired man swung a punch!
Without time to dodge, Zhong Yingxue raised her arm to protect her head!
"Boom!"
The massive force sent her flying, crashing into a tree!
A tree thick enough for three people to wrap around was snapped!
Zhong Yingxue's pretty face flushed red as she coughed up blood, one arm hanging limply at her side!
Two corpses lay quietly on the ground, one with a dagger still lodged in its eye socket!
She pulled a Vitality Ginseng from her backpack and stuffed it into her mouth!
Her broken arm mended rapidly!
Raising her fists into a fighting stance, she said coldly: "So, there's only one of you left now!"
The short-haired man swallowed hard, cold sweat pouring down!
He was panicking!
What the hell, is this really a squishy attacker? This is insane!
Where did she learn those close-combat techniques?
No fancy moves, just deadly strikes at vital points!
And she only coughed up blood after taking my full-force punch?
How does a squishy attacker have such a strong physique?
The truth was, Zhong Yingxue did have a reputation as a squishy attacker, but that was compared to Jiangnan and Xia Yao!
In Jiangnan's team, which one wasn't terrifyingly physically strong?
All those Strength 2.0 White Soaks? All those times knocked down in the training hall?
Every close-combat technique she had was taught by Jiangnan himself!
If she could severely wound an opponent, she wouldn't settle for light injury. If she could kill, she killed!
Zhong Yingxue had learned well, striking with lethal moves!
Shirley's expression couldn't have been uglier!
She had thought Zhong Yingxue was just like her—a squishy attacker!
Turns out the other girl was only playing at being squishy? While she herself was genuinely squishy!
Why would an attacker train in close combat?!
What infuriated Shirley even more was that Zhong Yingxue didn't even consider her and the other girl as opponents...
Shirley gritted her teeth in anger: "Watch out for her finger! Don't let her touch you! Kill her already!"
Zhong Yingxue glanced at Shirley through narrowed eyes!
Then she suddenly dashed sideways, charging straight at Shirley!
Startled, Shirley kept backing away: "Stop her, quick!"
But the tank-type guy wasn't fast enough!
Zhong Yingxue was already in front of Shirley in no time. Shirley raised her fist to strike!
But in Zhong Yingxue's eyes, it was full of openings. She easily dodged and punched hard into Shirley's stomach!
Shirley was sent flying seven or eight meters, clutching her stomach and vomiting sour liquid!
The other girl's face had turned pale with fear. She turned and ran!
But Zhong Yingxue caught up, swept her legs with a scissor kick, knocked her to the ground, and pinned her there, driving her golden finger straight into her trachea!
Another one dead!
Just then, the tank-type guy charged with bloodshot eyes, fists like heavy cannons, raining blows on Zhong Yingxue!
She could only keep retreating and dodging, as her physical condition was still far below that of a same-level tank!
One hit would be enough to seriously injure her!
Anxiety crept in, because when she turned her head, Shirley had already run off clutching her stomach!
And this tank guy had gone completely berserk, attacking her relentlessly!
He was terrified of giving her a chance to touch him with that finger!
Forced to evade everywhere, Zhong Yingxue felt somewhat frustrated. If it were Yao Yao, she'd probably have finished the fight by now?
Just then, Zhong Yingxue suddenly froze. She looked up at the sky above the dense forest, her face full of joy!
The tank guy's eyes lit up: "Haha! Opportunity!"
He gathered all his strength into a heavy punch aimed at Zhong Yingxue's head!
But a crimson halberd beam descended from the sky, crashing heavily to the ground!
The smirk on the tank guy's face froze, and his body was split in two!
Jiangnan withdrew his halberd, flicked his hair, and grinned smugly.
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"Saving the beauty, huh? What do you think? Aren't you moved?"
Zhong Yingxue covered her mouth, holding back a laugh. "Hehe, you're always the smooth talker!"
At that moment, the tricycle finally arrived, carrying Mila and Heidi, who were late to the party!
If it weren't for the Holy Maiden's radar detecting Zhong Yingxue, Jiangnan might not have found her!
Zhong Yingxue grabbed Jiangnan's hand, beaming with joy. "Hey, Xiao Nan, come see what I found!"