Lantern Sister is still very capable.

Neither of the two men, who were standing close together, could dodge the other's gun. Pei Hanxing immediately adjusted his gun and fired another shot, but Li Menglu did not sit idly by. Instead, she turned around, crouched down, grabbed Pei Hanxing's laser gun with her bare hands, lifted it up, and used her knee to knock away his hand that was trying to grab the other gun.

Pei Hanxing took a step back, and Li Menglu suddenly released her grip on the gun. Pei Hanxing created distance and aimed at Li Menglu again, but Li Menglu suddenly hurled the laser gun at Pei Hanxing.

Li Menglu interrupted Pei Hanxing with an unexpected move, chuckled, caught up with Pei Hanxing, and punched him in the left abdomen.

A sharp pain spread from his lower abdomen. Pei Hanxing frowned, coughed, and helplessly raised his gun to fire at Li Menglu.

"Bang bang—" "Beep beep" intertwined, but Li Menglu seemed unconcerned that she was only one shot away from being eliminated. Without even pointing the laser gun at Pei Hanxing, she punched Pei Hanxing in the abdomen again, at the same spot as the previous punch.

Pei Hanxing painfully closed her eyes, forcing herself to open her dry eyes despite the dizziness and nausea.

The whole world seemed to blur. I felt two heavy blows to my lower left abdomen, as if a fire was burning from the outside in, and my stomach was so hot it felt like it was about to boil.

He struggled a few times with his hand holding the laser gun, the veins on the back of his pale hand bulging out, but then disappeared after a moment. His wrist dropped, the laser gun fell to the ground, and Pei Hanxing fell backward.

"------"

A grand yet silent world descended without a sound. Pei Hanxing saw Li Menglu curl her lips into a smile, her mouth opening and closing as if she were saying something triumphant, her eyes filled with a hint of pity. Unfortunately, Pei Hanxing, suffering from tinnitus, couldn't hear her.

Seeing Pei Hanxing fall to the ground, Li Menglu grabbed him by the collar, casually entered an empty room, looked around, opened a storage cabinet, swept out the contents, and then stuffed the unconscious Pei Hanxing inside.

Before leaving, she took one last look at the unconscious Pei Hanxing and gently closed the cabinet.

"Squeak-"

Pei Hanxing's unusually pale face was hidden in the darkness, completely isolating her from the outside world's view.

"...This examinee with the hair clip is quite skilled in combat?" Hua Zhongli noticed a peculiar scene in the surveillance footage, realizing Li Menglu's special nature, and asked.

Bai Xinxin also saw Li Menglu, but she was mainly focused on Pei Hanxing, who had unlimited potential. However, that didn't stop her from answering Hua Zhongli's question, "Her name is Li Menglu. She took shooting and combat classes later on. Her shooting level is only average, but she is very talented in close combat." After thinking for a moment, Bai Xinxin added her own personal opinion, "That boy is Pei Hanxing, so his qualification is basically confirmed."

Hua Zhongli didn't miss Pei Hanxing's feat of using her ice-type ability to take on five opponents single-handedly. Instead, she was more curious about Li Menglu's act of locking Pei Hanxing in the closet and hiding her away. "What's the relationship between the two of them?"

It's like it's protecting them, but it almost eliminated them before.

"They had a little grudge during the first weekly test, but they haven't been in contact since. They're not even in the same class at school," Bai Xinxin said truthfully.

It was somewhat unexpected that Li Menglu was able to kill Pei Hanxing, but reality always goes beyond plans. Perhaps Li Menglu is a highly latent superhuman, or perhaps she defeated Pei Hanxing, who was suspected of having awakened her powers, while acting as an ordinary person. Who knows?

Meng Qiuhe's best friend was locked in a dark room, and he was on a desperate escape. He ran through the corridor, panting. Fortunately, after more than a month of physical training, he was no longer the same as before. At least after climbing nine floors, he was able to fight back against the robbers chasing him.

The main problem was that Meng Qiuhe was hiding, while the robbers were chasing him like cats chasing mice.

Fortunately, Meng Qiuhe was following behind Chu Deng. Chu Deng's men cleared the area wherever they went, and no one survived below the eighth floor. Apart from two hostages who escaped, Meng Qiuhe was one of them. She benefited from this and conserved a lot of energy.

Chu Deng took the elevator from the 8th floor down to the 1st floor, and then took the private elevator from the 1st floor directly up to the 30th floor.

This was a real hardship for the unarmed Meng Qiuhe. He had just been happily clinging to someone's leg, but once he got to the 9th floor, his whole world changed.

Before he could finish exploring the 9th floor, he bumped into two robbers. Luckily, he reacted quickly and ran away. The two robbers saw him in a flash and disappeared before they could even see his identity. But then they realized something was wrong. Seeing how scared they were, they must be rescuers or hostages. So without saying a word, they chased after him.

"Help! Help!" Meng Qiuhe hopped and skipped as he ran toward the stairwell. He could see the whole corridor at a glance, and going into the room would be a dead end for him. He could only run toward the stairs, which had a bend every few steps, making it easier to dodge gunfire.

Fortunately, the two robbers behind him were not very skilled at shooting. Meng Qiuhe made an S-shaped movement, and the two of them became masters of human outline shooting, failing to hit a single shot.

"Damn!" The two men were shocked but also excited. Their running and shooting accuracy decreased, so they decided not to waste any more time and chased after Meng Qiuhe at full speed, intending to subdue him before shooting him to eliminate him.

"Meng Qiuhe?!"

"Jin Xiaoyue!!"

Before Meng Qiuhe even reached the stairwell, he heard a familiar voice and cried out in surprise, "Help! Help! Save my life!"

"Crouch down!" Jin Xiaoyue judged the situation the moment she saw him and shouted crisply.

The command, which left no room for refusal, made Meng Qiuhe instinctively cover his head and crouch down. His trust had been placed in her, and Jin Xiaoyue did not disappoint him, opening fire with her laser gun at the two robbers rushing towards them.

Caught off guard, the two hurriedly sought cover, only to be caught off guard by Jin Xiaoyue's swift movements. Seeing that they were about to be eliminated, the two robbers turned against each other on the spot, one pushing the other in front of him and then running away.

"Stop!" The tables had turned. Meng Qiuhe stopped running and wanted to chase after the two people, but Jin Xiaoyue stopped him speechlessly. "The hostages should go behind me!" After saying that, she chased after the two people herself.

Ten minutes later, Jin Xiaoyue was shot herself, eliminating the two robbers.

"Hahaha, that was awesome!" Meng Qiuhe laughed, hands on his hips, standing arrogantly in front of the two eliminated people. The two people were disgusted by his smug look.

"It was this guy who eliminated us, not you," one of them said disdainfully, pointing at Jin Xiaoyue.

“Exactly!” another chimed in.

After finishing their conversation, the two robbers seemed to recall their recent falling out. They continued fighting as they went downstairs and left, leaving Jin Xiaoyue and Meng Qiuhe dumbfounded.

"Here you go, this is a hostage protection card I found. It can only be used by hostages, and any attack will be ineffective for one minute. It can only be used once." After watching the two robbers leave the 9th floor, Jin Xiaoyue handed Meng Qiuhe the item she had found by chance.

"There's something like this?" Meng Qiuhe took the card and examined it carefully, then gave the chocolates he had found to Jin Xiaoyue to replenish her energy.

Neither of them stood on ceremony and readily accepted the money.

“After all, the hostages are too vulnerable, and it would be unfair without the help of props,” Jin Xiaoyue said, taking a bite of chocolate.

A group of people living in dire straits on the 30th floor held the opposite view.

They scattered, gritting their teeth, watching the candidates in front of them, helmeted and wielding dual pistols, wreaking havoc. They cursed the examination administration office in unison: "Damn, the number of hostages is way too much!"

Chu Deng patted the non-existent marks left by the laser gun on her training uniform and said with agreement, "Yeah, I think so too."