Then let the witch offer her loyalty

...

Liu Dashan led Zhou Yan inside the giant ship.

Here, rows of cabins are clearly divided according to their purpose, and each alloy door is labeled with a neat number and function label.

In the intelligence room, the walls were covered with magnetic screens and movable map modules. Several members of the Magic Alliance were sitting around a sand table, talking and occasionally flipping through the documents at hand.

The weapons compartment was lined with shock-absorbing rubber sheets, and various firearms were neatly arranged on the shelves. Technicians were performing routine maintenance on the weapons with great skill.

The living area was the most crowded. Some people were drawing with sketching pencils, some were playing cards by assembling folding tables, and others were humming pop songs while wiping their guns.

Seeing Zhou Yan frown slightly, Liu Dashan asked, "Why the long face? This place isn't quite what you imagined."

Zhou Yan coughed lightly and said dryly, "It's not that I'm discriminating against you all, but I thought that as an illegal organization officially named by the Empire, our place should be even more... terrifying."

"For example, there were bloody human heads hanging everywhere, and you could hear the screams of prisoners being beaten from time to time. Everywhere you looked, there were crazy men licking the blades of knives with their tongues, laughing savagely as they did so."

Liu Dashan laughed irritably, "Damn, have you been watching too many trashy movies? Our Witch Alliance is a military organization rigorously selected by the Azure Federation Government, OK?"

“Everyone here has received federal military training, and their professionalism is no less than that of the regular army. If everyone were the kind of lunatics you described, we would have been wiped out by the Empire long ago.”

Zhou Yan chuckled foolishly twice: "What are we going to do now?"

Liu Dashan's expression turned slightly serious, and he slowly said, "I'll take you to see the boss. I need your help with something."

The two passed through the outer passageway and arrived at the inner area, entering a core cabin.

The lighting here is gentle, the floor is covered with medical-grade antibacterial panels, and there is a faint smell of disinfectant in the air.

A middle-aged man was lying on the hospital bed. His hair was a little gray, but he was very well-groomed. He wore thin-rimmed gold-rimmed glasses and was intently reading an English book in his hands.

The man appeared to be refined and cultured, but his face was deathly pale, as if devoid of any color, and his entire body, especially his neck, was swollen in a sickly manner.

He had many IV tubing attached to his hands, and bags of medicine were dripping into his body through the bluish-purple veins on his skin, suggesting he had some very serious illness.

"Brother Shen, I've brought the person you wanted."

Liu Dashan nodded slightly to the man.

The middle-aged man put down his book, his cloudy eyes burning with hope as he looked at Zhou Yan: "She's the Scarlet Witch, the one who can control the blood in your body?"

“That’s right, it’s her.” Liu Dashan nodded and turned to Zhou Yan, saying, “Zhou Yan, this is Shen Feng, the head of our branch base.”

“His leukemia is in its late stage and cannot be cured by conventional medical methods. You are the only one who can save him now.”

The way Shen Feng looked at Zhou Yan was like a starving person seeing a big piece of fat meat. His original gentle and refined temperament vanished, and even the various indicators of the life detector next to him began to fluctuate in the abnormal zone.

His wide-open eyes gleamed, and he kept swallowing hard. "Good...good...little darling, come here to Uncle!"

Seeing Zhou Yan standing there hesitantly, Liu Dashan quickly nudged her: "The boss is calling you, go on, what are you standing there for?"

Seeing this, Shen Feng put on a stern face and began to scold Liu Dashan: "Dashan, don't push him. The child is new here and is bound to be shy. Let him get used to it."

Liu Dashan nodded in response: "Yes."

Shen Feng licked his dry lips, grinned, revealing his yellow and rotten teeth: "Little darling, I heard that your father treats you very badly?"

"It's okay, once you're here, you're family. Your uncle will take good care of you."

"Are you tired from the long journey? What would you like to eat? How about Uncle takes you to see the goldfish?"

Chapter 186 Sunlight

Faced with Shen Feng's almost obsessive enthusiasm, Zhou Yan didn't say anything, just stood there silently.

Liu Dashan was extremely anxious.

He seemed quite clever before, how come he's so clueless at crucial moments!

Shen Feng was very patient and not angry at all: "Haha, the little cutie is quite shy."

That soft, almost greasy tone of voice was like a damp velvet cloth brushing against the skin, making one involuntarily get goosebumps.

Liu Dashan forced himself to remind him, "Zhou Yan, you should first establish a spiritual contract with Boss Shen and share your blood-controlling spiritual energy with him so that he can heal himself."

"As long as you cure his illness, you'll be a great hero to our Demon Alliance! Whatever you want to eat or wear, the boss will provide it. Whatever you want, we'll buy it for you!"

Zhou Yan remained silent, only glancing at the wall out of the corner of her eye, as if waiting for something.

Time passed second by second. Although Shen Feng still had a smile on his face, a hint of impatience appeared in his eyes. The atmosphere in the room became heavy and quiet, so quiet that even the sound of dripping water was particularly jarring.

"Zhou Yan!" Liu Dashan finally couldn't hold back any longer, his voice filled with anger and agitation, "I'm talking to you, didn't you hear me..."

"Boom—" Before Liu Dashan could finish speaking, a violent explosion suddenly came from outside.

The ceiling trembled, the light bulbs swayed and scattered light across the floor, and dust and debris fell from the vents, causing people to cough incessantly.

"What happened?!" Shen Feng sat up abruptly, the medical lines on his neck twitching, and his face turned pale.

The crowd looked at each other, completely bewildered.

At this moment, the communicator on Liu Dashan's waist beeped.

He quickly pressed the call button, and amidst the piercing noise came the sentry's alarmed shout: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack! There's a hole blown in the bottom of the ship, and it looks like frogmen are coming up!"

"Hey, goldfish guy." Finally, Zhou Yan spoke.

A smug smile spread across her face, and a sarcastic curve appeared at the corner of her lips: "A pedophile like you should have died long ago."

"Whoosh—" Without warning, an extremely sharp sound of air being torn apart resounded all around, and an invisible blade went straight to Liu Dashan's throat.

Although Liu Dashan was in shock, he leaned back almost instantly to avoid the sudden attack.

"Oh? Such a quick reaction." A young and unfamiliar voice rang out in the cabin, with a hint of amusement in its tone. "Looks like a melee-specialized alien psychic."

The moment the words fell, the air rippled like water, and an irregular distortion of the spatial structure appeared in the center of the cabin, revealing a figure in combat uniform from a transparent state.

The man had a shield-shaped rose emblem on his arm, symbolizing the Witch Administration Bureau, and his amber eyes were smiling at Liu Dashan.

"Chen Moxin!" Zhou Yan called out, her voice not loud, but filled with hidden joy.

Liu Dashan narrowly escaped a fatal blow, but he was still injured. A dagger slashed his face, and blood gushed out, staining half of his face red.

Even though he was slow to react, he finally realized what was going on. With a ferocious grin, he yelled at Zhou Yan, "You fucking schemed against me?!"

Perhaps it was because Chen Moxin's presence made him feel very safe, but Zhou Yan suddenly showed his childlike nature, dancing around with joy and sticking out his tongue at Liu Dashan with a "lie".

"Go ahead and hit me if you dare! You weakling~ You're really useless, isn't that all you've got?"

Liu Dashan's face was even more ashen than if he had swallowed a fly. He roared at his companions, "The Bureau's dogs are here! You protect the boss and get him out of here. I'll handle this!"

The members of the Demon Alliance present did not dare to delay. They immediately helped Shen Feng escape from the sanatorium. The door slammed shut and the heavy bolts locked the three of them inside.

Then Liu Dashan raised his head and let out a roar, a deep, resonant voice filled with the primal power of a wild beast.

His skin quickly developed a rough, grayish-brown texture, his veins bulged like vines, and his muscles swelled up at a visible speed, revealing a terrifying and powerful force.

At the same time, the skin on his head split open, and two winding, rugged bull horns, like those cast in brass, grew out. With each breath from his mouth and nose, hot streams would gush out, mixing with the already damp and cold air in the cabin to turn into a vast white mist.

Upon seeing this, Chen Moxin couldn't help but exclaim, "Holy crap, brave Niu Niu, unafraid of difficulties?"

Liu Dashan roared, and the immense force of his running caused the entire cabin to tremble violently. With the force of a thunderbolt, he rammed his bull horn toward Chen Moxin.

"boom--"

The loud noise reverberated, creating a visible shockwave that sent all the bottles and jars in the treatment room flying.

Liu Dashan felt a heavy force penetrate into his forehead, as if he had been hit by an iron wall. His charging body was stopped in a very short time and could not move forward.

He looked closely and saw that Chen Moxin was surrounded by a blood crystal barrier. This crystal, hardened by spiritual energy, was extremely sturdy and had blocked his attack.

At the same time, Zhou Yan had already grabbed his calf, and the blood that had separated from his body stuck his feet to the ground, making it difficult for him to exert any force.

"You two bastards!"

Seeing that Chen Moxin had used the same spiritual power as Zhou Yan, Liu Dashan felt that he had been tricked and was extremely angry.

However, he showed no signs of weakness, and his thunderous roar instantly reverberated.

Just as there are various subcategories under the two types of spiritual energy, namely nature and trickery, the heterogenous spiritual energy, although known for its melee combat, also has many subcategories.

Liu Dashan's psychic energy includes beast-like power, making him a specialist in close combat. In a pure power clash, he could completely overwhelm Zhou Yan's abilities.

Amidst Liu Dashan's furious roar, his savage body instantly crushed the blood crystals wrapped around his feet. Despite Zhou Yan clinging to his legs below, he relentlessly pressed forward against Chen Moxin, finally slamming her against the wall with a "thud."

Zhou Juan gritted his teeth, trying to restrict Liu Dashan's movements, but the difference in strength between the two was too great. No matter how hard Zhou Juan tried, he could not hold on to him, and his joints were in excruciating pain and numbness under the heavy pressure.

"Crack crack crack..." Liu Dashan's power was too immense. Even with the blood crystal's hardness surpassing that of metal, it was still difficult to resist. The barrier in front of Chen Moxin crumbled inch by inch, and the rugged bull horns were about to harm his body.

"Chen Moxin!" Zhou Yan was getting anxious. Blood condensed in his palm, forming a sharp blade, which he thrust directly into Liu Dashan's crotch.

"Go to hell!" Liu Dashan used the bull horn on his head to hold Chen Moxin down. His hands were still free. He reached down with his left hand, grabbed Zhou Yan by the neck, and pressed him against the wall.

Immediately afterwards, he clenched his right fist, which was as big as a cannonball, and glared fiercely at Chen Moxin: "So what if you have two psionic powers? What's wrong with dual contracts? I can still kill you with my single-elemental psionic power!"

Chen Moxin blinked: "Although, but when did I say I only have two psionic powers?"

In the blink of an eye, a strange change occurred.

Liu Dashan only felt a blur before his eyes, and Chen Moxin's figure, which had been supported, disappeared.

This is not a visual disappearance, but a true physical disappearance.

Due to inertia, Liu Dashan's head tilted forward uncontrollably, and the two bull horns crashed into the wall with a loud thud and got stuck inside.

In the next instant, Chen Moxin, having completed the phase shift, appeared behind Liu Dashan like a ghost.

A sudden upward thrust of the dagger in his hand...

It stabbed hard between Liu Dashan's legs.

"Pfft-"

"Aa ...

Liu Xiaoshan was brutally attacked, and Liu Dashan let out a heart-wrenching scream. He clutched his groin and collapsed to his knees, his face pale and his mouth twitching, cold sweat pouring out like a burst dam.

"Hehe~" Chen Moxin felt extremely comfortable and let out a bright and cheerful laugh.

Liu Dashan clutched the severely injured Liu Xiaoshan, writhing in agony, lying on the ground like a shrimp, blood flowing everywhere.

Zhou Yan glanced at Liu Dashan, who was wailing and struggling, and then at Chen Moxin, who was grinning, and couldn't help but feel a little horrified.

This is sunlight now.

"Hiss... Huff... Ahhhhh I'm going to kill you!!!" Liu Dashan screamed like a madman, trembling as he crawled up from the pool of blood and lunged at Chen Moxin.

Chen Moxin activated her phase field, marked a piece of junk on the floor behind Liu Dashan, swapped positions to teleport, and then stabbed Liu Xiaoshan with another knife.

This time, however, Liu Dashan not only took precautions in advance, but even anticipated that Chen Moxin would use the same trick again.

The instant the other person disappeared, he turned around and threw a punch.

"Boom!!!" Chen Moxin was unable to dodge the attack. His head was hit hard, and he flew backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing into the wall. The powerful impact almost embedded him in the wall.

Seeing that Chen Moxin was seriously injured, Zhou Yan rushed to Liu Dashan's back and kept stabbing at his neck with the blood crystal blade in his hand, creating one gash after another.

However, Liu Dashan had already gone completely mad. He let Zhou Yan stab him in the back, preferring to trade one for one to kill Chen Moxin.

"Boom boom boom boom boom—" Those two enormous fists, carrying the force of thunder, pounded wildly, raining down on Chen Mo's heart. The dull impacts were accompanied by bursts of roars, making one's scalp tingle.

Liu Dashan's strength was truly terrifying. He punched Chen Moxin with his bare hands, causing her skull to crack and deform, and her entire head to become concave and twisted.

As a witch, Zhou Yan was well aware of the limitations of her spiritual power, and the restorative power brought about by controlling blood was not limitless.

Her psychic powers can easily heal minor to moderate injuries, and while they can also heal fatal wounds, there are two conditions.

First, the injury must not be too severe. If the rate at which bodily functions deteriorate exceeds the rate at which they heal, the injury will still worsen.

More importantly, it is essential to maintain a clear mind. A person who has lost consciousness cannot control their blood, let alone heal their injuries.

Chen Moxin's head was almost smashed. Zhou Yan was so anxious that tears welled up in her eyes. She roared and grabbed Liu Dashan's head. Losing her mind, she began to bite at his thick neck with her teeth.

Just as Zhou Yan was biting himself until his mouth was full of blood, he suddenly felt his waist being grabbed, and his whole body felt light as he was pulled down from behind Liu Dashan.

Zhou Yan subconsciously looked back, and when she saw Chen Moxin's smiling face, she froze on the spot, her eyes brimming with tears, and stammered, "You..."

Chen Moxin put Zhou Yan on the ground, made a "shh" gesture to her, and then quietly led her to hide behind a cover.

Liu Dashan was frantically whipping the corpse when suddenly, his vision was enveloped by endless white light, followed by a destructive torrent of energy rushing towards him.

"Boom!!!" Chen Moxin's "corpse" exploded on the spot. The violent shock wave blasted Liu Dashan into the ceiling, then bounced back and slammed heavily onto the floor. He bounced several times in the cabin before collapsing there like a dead eel.

Blood streamed from his mouth, his eyes were wide open, and he kept emitting mournful cries mixed with anger and despair, with only one thought in his mind—

How could this be fake?!