Only I can make them stronger

"Something evil is contaminating your will. It must be very hard for you to fight against it, right?"

"It's okay, don't be afraid, I'm here... and Leah, Shana, and Canaanzi, they're all by your side."

"An Ke, be good. You don't have to run away and fight anymore. Come home with us, okay?"

Luo Qi's gentle words, like coaxing a baby, made everyone feel surrounded by a sense of security.

The power of the mysterious domain after being strengthened by Xia Ye can already subtly influence the people around.

But only Anke still had a hideous and distorted expression on his face.

"Don't... talk to me..."

"Keep quiet..."

"Keep it dark..."

"Refuse to visit..."

"Get out..."

Although An Ke's mouth and tongue were unable to move smoothly due to the paralysis, a sound was squeezed out from the depths of her throat. The hoarse voice was completely different from her usual timbre, and her tone was filled with a strong sense of fanaticism.

"This symptom is much more serious than Fiti's..." Xia Ye frowned, feeling that if this continued, there would be no way An Ke would regain his sanity.

But he suddenly remembered that the healing fire seemed to be of great help to Fitty's symptoms!

So he continued to strengthen Luo Qi and at the same time activated the healing fire. He took Luo Qi to Anke's side and pressed his palm covered with white flames directly on Anke's forehead.

“Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!” Without any warning, Anke screamed.

"What's this!"

His mental strength began to drop rapidly, indicating that the healing fire was taking effect.

Xia Ye bit open a capsule that she had stuffed in her mouth earlier.

This was given to him by Y before the operation began, and he stuffed three capsules of Liposuction into his pocket while saying, "Since I can't help you in rescuing Anke, I'll provide you with some supplies as aid."

Along the way, the first impression that the current Y left on Xia Ye was "so generous that he doesn't look like a mercenary at all."

But it seems that these capsules were not given in vain.

The replenished mental power was unscrupulously applied to Luo Qi and An Ke at the same time, strengthening them and healing them at the same time.

Xia Ye felt like a supply package now.

However, the effect of this supply pack was indeed strong enough. Not long after, Anke stopped howling and his eyes gradually became empty.

At the same time, Luo Qi also noticed that the strong sense of mental confrontation was slowly disappearing, so she took the opportunity to continue to increase her output, while calming Anke's emotions, she continued to try to use [Resonance] to awaken her sanity.

Slowly, a faint purple hue appeared in the lifeless eyes, which meant that Luo Qi's [Resonance] finally took effect.

"An Ke... You don't feel scared anymore, right? Everyone is around you, and there is nothing to scare you anymore."

"Your mission at the Mercury Merchant Corps has ended. You should go home."

"When you get home, you can take a hot bath, sleep on a soft bed, and there will be grilled steaks that Luoqi prepared for you."

"You should feel relaxed now, right... Encore?"

Words of consolation after words were constantly attacking An Ke's defenses, making her expression increasingly calm.

"Am I...safe...?"

Finally, a crisp voice sounded in a low voice.

"Encore! Wake up!"

An intense purple light shone from Luo Qi's eyes, which slowly dissipated after putting an end to this long-lasting mental tug-of-war.

With this shout, An Ke's eyes finally regained clarity.

"Luoqi...Liya...and Shana?"

Seeing this, Leah finally let go of Anke's arm, and Shana silently adjusted the power of [Electrostatic Conductivity] to free her limbs from paralysis.

“Wuwaaaaaah…” After regaining her ability to move, Anke immediately hugged Luo Qi’s waist and cried loudly.

"I had a...long, long...nightmare...I was alone in the dream...I couldn't see anything...and there were many voices in my ears telling me...to lock myself up..."

"They are all so scary... oooo..."

"Okay, okay, be good. It's okay." Luo Qi touched Anke's head lovingly and kept comforting her.

That strange sound could even scare her, not to mention Anke, who was already sensitive and fragile.

His past style as the backbone of Qianshi Agency was fully displayed.

"Luoqi... I want to go home..." After acting coquettishly for a long time, An Ke raised her head, tears streaming down her pretty face, and pleaded urgently.

"I know, we will be home soon." Luo Qi smiled, gently took out a handkerchief to wipe her tears, and helped her up.

"Um……"

…………

"Luoqi, who is he?" On the way back, An Ke looked at the unfamiliar Xia Ye and asked in a subtle tone.

She seemed to have seen Luo Qi and this man holding hands just now.

It was the first time that Anke saw Luoqi have physical contact with a man, and it was also the first time that she saw Shana talk to a man so naturally.

At the same time, Xia Ye was also looking at the other party.

The situation was urgent just now and he didn't pay attention to her appearance or clothes.

At this time, An Ke has returned to normal, but looking at her, she doesn't look like a researcher at all. Instead, she looks like a little girl who would bully others with a baseball bat and a look of disdain on her face.

Especially in comparison with Canaan just now, the difference between the two is particularly obvious.

Are these two really a team?

"Let's talk about this later. It's a good opportunity for me to formally introduce Mr. Xia Ye to you and Jiananzi and talk about his past. I believe you two will like him."

Luo Qi said with a smile and opened the door of the room where Jiananzi and Y were.

The two companions finally returned to her side and seemed to be safe now, which really made her feel relieved.

But soon, the breath turned into icy wind, freezing her in place.

Before my eyes, blood was flowing on the floor, and two people, each with a penetrating wound on their body, fell to the ground, their life or death unknown.

Such a sudden scene stunned everyone, and they didn't know what was happening for a moment.

But before they could exclaim or check the situation, a cold voice sounded from behind them.

"It looks like everyone is here... a great harvest..."

79. Gun Feast

Shana, who was at the back, reacted the fastest. Countless arcs of electricity instantly flowed across her arms. She directly pulled out a dagger and attacked from behind with her backhand.

But the attack did not work, Shana's dagger passed through his body and only cut through the air.

The opponent raised his arm, and a dark purple energy thorn suddenly shot out from the palm of his hand, instantly piercing through Shana's ribs.

The fight happened in a flash, and in just one second, another one of our side was seriously injured.

At this time, the rest of the people reacted and turned around to look——

A figure covered in a black robe was distancing himself from them, floating in the air, his figure looming, and the energy spike in his palm slowly retracted into the black robe.

"【Virtual Spirit Body】!" Xia Ye was not unfamiliar with this ability. When they picked up the 【Eternal Fire】 in the wilderness, they also encountered the remnants with the same terrifying ability.

[Ethereal Body] is an ability above the fourth level, which means that the opponent is a user with spell-like abilities above the fourth level.

"Be careful... He has a fifth-level spell domain..." At this time, Shana suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood with a hint of purple and clenched her silver teeth.

"That kind of energy attack is loaded with toxic elements. The elements in my body are now in a state of disorder... and are being rapidly consumed..."

"It should be the fifth-level spell-like ability [Tarsal Poison]..."

"Shana!" Xia Ye called out softly, and the healing fire was activated, quickly healing the wound between her ribs. However, Shana's pale face still showed the ferocity and effectiveness of the opponent's sting attack.

In addition, the sudden drop of 20 points in mental strength was enough to illustrate the ferocity of the opponent's attack.

After hearing her words, Leah, who was about to rush up and fight with the opponent, stopped.

If you want to deal with an enemy in the [Phantom] state, you must find his real body, otherwise ordinary rational elements and physical attacks will be ineffective against the phantom.

"Can it actually cure my [Tarsal Poison]?" The other party was floating in the air, and a cold voice came from under the black robe.

As he spoke, Xia Ye suddenly felt as if he was being stared at by a poisonous snake.

"Looks like I have to get rid of you first..."

Before he finished speaking, a shadow suddenly swooped down from mid-air and headed straight for Xia Ye as if he didn't care about anyone else. A purple energy wave quietly covered his hands.

In the blink of an eye, the black-robed man's purple-black palm turned into a claw and grabbed Xia Ye's neck directly.

Xia Ye recalled the scene when he was fighting with the remnants, and quickly activated the healing fire to spread on his body surface. When the black claws and the white fire came into contact, there was an immediate "sizzling" sound, and at the same time the man in black robe howled miserably.

It seems that the defensive function of the healing fire is also effective against spell attacks from the living.

But the opponent's strength is much higher than that of the fourth-level survivor. In addition, he does not act on instinct like the survivors, so he knows that he must not give this man a chance to escape. His other hand also grabbed Xia Ye's chest.

"Xia Ye!" Leah shouted, and at the critical moment she suddenly accelerated, hugged Xia Ye and rushed to the side, narrowly avoiding the fatal blow.

Seeing that he failed again, the man in black robe retreated immediately. His figure gradually faded and disappeared into the air.

He was waiting for the cooldown of his factor ability to recover.

They were lucky this time and avoided the attack.

But what about next time?

With the enemy lurking around, they could only watch out for sudden attacks with great concern, and had no way of quickly leaving the abandoned houses with the two seriously injured and unconscious people.

And this kind of place where the vision is largely obstructed is his best attacking site.

None of these people can escape today.

……

A feeling of tension lingered in everyone's hearts, and the possibility of an attack from behind at any time made their nerves highly tense.

There was no time to think about who the enemy was and why they were being attacked.

What made Xia Ye even more worried was that most of his mental power had been consumed again, and there was only one last Lisu capsule left in his mouth.

"We can't waste any more time on treatment... otherwise, if Y doesn't have more Lisu capsules, we will just die slowly..." Xia Ye looked at the two seriously injured women in the room and thought with gritted teeth.

They now don’t even have the chance to confirm whether Y and Canaanzi are dead or alive.

The enemy's attack could come at any second.

"The only chance is to prepare for a counterattack while the enemy is waiting for an opportunity and kill him in one fell swoop."

"But...how to do it?" He looked around and became even more anxious.

His [True Insight] was not yet usable, and it was impossible to find the other party's true form under the cover of dozens of houses;

Leah is a pure combat domain, and is not very good at dealing with this strange spell-like ability;

Strengthening Shana to launch a large-scale bombardment is feasible, but although Shana has been treated, her energy has obviously been depleted. If they fail to kill the opponent, then they are finished;

Luo Qi is even more impossible...

Finally, his eyes fell on Anko.

The opponent possessed a very destructive fighting method, which Karen had already told him.

"Encore!"

"Ah!?" An Ke had just recovered from her out-of-control state, but was stimulated at this moment and became sensitive and nervous again. She was frightened by Xia Ye's scream alone.

"I don't have time to explain too much. I will use my power to strengthen your factor ability in a moment. I need you to use that extremely destructive shotgun just now to destroy everything in this group of houses as much as possible!"

The plan was quickly stated in a simple yet abstract way. An Ke actually didn't know what Xia Ye was going to do, but her almost instinctive combat IQ allowed her to roughly understand what the other party meant, and she nodded blankly.

"Luo Qi! If things get out of control, help me calm An Ke down! We only have one chance!" With the lesson learned from the previous experience, he called out to Luo Qi.

"Okay... okay... Mr. Xia Ye." Luo Qi understood Xia Ye's plan and did not ask too many questions. The purple color reappeared in her eyes and she was ready.

"Don't resist this power, accept and exert your factor ability as much as possible!" Xia Ye gave a preventive shot in advance, and at the same time, the fire of strengthening surged in his hand and pressed directly on Anke's shoulder.