Chapter 81: Chameleon
“Bang!”
Just as Yi Ning was racking her brains to salvage her losses, the last camera standing beside the hot spring was also smashed to pieces by Lu Zheng.
Yi Ning looked in the direction of the sound, staring blankly at the fragments scattered on the ground.
“This is really……”
Her lips twitched slightly, and her emotions were quite complicated.
It wasn’t that she felt bad about the camera…
Alright, she admitted, she did feel a little bit of heartache.
However, she was, after all, an evil scientist capable of single-handedly invading an entire city. She had to maintain at least a shred of dignity befitting a villain.
Even if she felt heartache, she couldn’t let it show.
Yi Ning stood up from the ground, took a deep breath, straightened her chest, and looked at Lu Zheng.
Even if she was about to get a brutal beating from a hero, as a villain, she had to straighten her back and maintain the bearing of a proper antagonist.
“Come on! Face me head-on!”
She pointed at herself with her thumb, closed her eyes, and tensed every muscle in her body, ready to face the storm about to hit.
But after waiting in place for quite a while, the expected beating never came.
What was going on?
Yi Ning stealthily cracked open her right eye.
Lu Zheng still stood in place without moving, his pixel screen displaying a helpless emoji.
But none of that really mattered.
The important thing was that the black orb under Lu Zheng’s lower body was still there.
She had witnessed something exceedingly rare.
Yi Ning instantly opened both eyes, the pitiful expression on her face replaced by one of smug satisfaction.
Although she didn’t know why, it seemed Lu Zheng’s current ability hadn’t disappeared.
Which meant Lu Zheng still couldn’t switch to another ability.
After all, Yi Ning had fought against Lu Zheng for quite some time and had gained a decent understanding of his powers.
That guy’s ability was handy, but not without flaws.
It was like a game cartridge that could be inserted into a console—only one could be used at a time.
If he wanted to switch powers, he had to remove the current cartridge first.
So, if he hadn’t chosen to cancel that ability or was unable to cancel it now—
“You’ve brought about your own demise!”
Yi Ning sneered as she pointed at Lu Zheng.
She walked proudly toward him, mocking him with every step.
“Not attacking? Or is it that you’re too scared to strike?”
She stopped in front of Lu Zheng and flexed her fingers.
“In that case, I’ll strike first!”
Before she even finished speaking, Yi Ning shifted her weight onto her right foot, rotated her shoulder, and thrust her right hand forward.
A fierce right straight punch shot toward Lu Zheng’s pixel screen helmet.
A cruel smile appeared on her lips, as if she could already see his pixel screen shattering under her blow, followed by his body being forcefully thrown back by the impact.
“Smack.”
Lu Zheng raised his right hand and effortlessly blocked Yi Ning’s punch, then wrapped her small fist in his large palm.
“Ah, huh?”
Yi Ning’s expression froze.
Why did things not go the way she expected?
She tried to pull her fist back from Lu Zheng’s grip.
Unfortunately, not only could she not retrieve her fist, she couldn’t even get his arm to budge.
Yi Ning had seemingly forgotten Lu Zheng’s sturdy build.
The muscle-bound strength of his body allowed him to fix several of her at once without breaking a sweat.
Let alone merely holding her fist to restrict her movement.
“Ah this…”
Yi Ning’s face immediately reverted to the pitiful look she wore earlier.
Her speed at changing expressions would even make Xia An, whom she called a chameleon, bow in admiration.
“I just wanted to act a little cute with you~”
She used her still-unrestrained left hand to tap Lu Zheng’s chest lightly, then leaned her body toward him, seemingly trying to snuggle into his arms.
“A-da!”
Before she could get close, Yi Ning let out a strange cry, then chopped down viciously with her left hand at Lu Zheng’s right hand that was gripping her.
“You fell for it again, damn pixel brain! I’ll chop off your arm with this and take my fist back!”
Yi Ning shouted as her hand-chop struck down on Lu Zheng’s forearm.
Then, it was as if she had struck an iron block. Her entire body trembled on the spot, and she retracted her trembling left hand with a twisted expression.
This guy—why was his body as hard as iron?
Yi Ning looked at Lu Zheng with a gaze full of resentment, pouting as she fired a beam of disdain at him.
He must have sneakily used some other ability!
It was all that broken ability’s fault!
Yi Ning absolutely refused to admit that there was such a large gap in physical strength between her and Lu Zheng.
“Gu~ Just kill me already.”
She turned her head away, striking a posture of a chaste martyr.
Lu Zheng raised the hand holding Yi Ning’s fist and lifted her off the ground.
“Don’t underestimate me.”
He brought Yi Ning’s face close to his and sneered in a low voice.
But even so, Yi Ning didn’t change her attitude.
She was a proper graduate of Evil University, and she wouldn’t lack the pride a villain should have.
So what if she got beaten up again?
She didn’t care!
Though she said that, she still lifted her tiny foot and kicked Lu Zheng’s abs twice.
As with her hand chop earlier, Lu Zheng’s abs were like iron—completely unmoved.
Yi Ning simply gave up struggling and hung from Lu Zheng’s hand like a dead fish.
Looking at the completely at-his-mercy Yi Ning hanging from his hand, Lu Zheng felt a bit troubled.
He wasn’t like those soft-hearted guys who couldn’t bring themselves to hit a girl.
In his eyes, even friends had to pay the price if they made a mistake.
But he didn’t know where to hit.
Slapping the face wasn’t appropriate—after all, Yi Ning was a friend, and she was currently a girl. What if he accidentally messed up her looks?
Hitting the chest was also problematic—it was a private area for girls, and hitting it might count as harassment.
Striking the abdomen might damage some vital parts.
Arms and legs seemed too light to serve as punishment.
Lu Zheng was conflicted.
Maybe he held Yi Ning too long, and she grew impatient.
“Hey, if you’re gonna kill or torture me, hurry up. I’m about to get off work.”
As the one being beaten, she actually started rushing him.
Lu Zheng sighed helplessly, with a sighing round face emoji appearing on his pixel screen.
He brought Yi Ning’s face close to his again.
“How about we make a deal?”