Chapter 4726 — Wei Zhao in Peril
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This was a super-high-tech weapon representing the pinnacle of secular-world technology. Even if its controls were designed to be as smart and simple as possible, it was still absolutely not something you could finish off by casually pulling the trigger. Without a bit of scientific common sense, an ordinary person could not even find the power switch, let alone use it to kill someone.
Wei Zhao had assumed that only Kang Jingming knew how to use such a thing—after all, that was how it had been the whole way here. If not for that, a minor figure like Kang Jingming would never have been given the leading role. So from beginning to end, Xu Lingchong had seemed utterly harmless in his eyes.
Just like a moment ago: Wei Zhao had not needed to target him specifically at all. Even the mere shockwave of the Furious Fire Thousand Explosions Fist had already been more than Xu Lingchong could bear.
Even if Xu Lingchong still had some strength left, with his meager ability he could not pose the slightest threat to Wei Zhao. Even if he used his strongest martial technique, Wei Zhao was confident enough to take it with one hand.
He had never imagined that after every step had gone so smoothly, he would instead be stabbed in the back by this thing—that this thing could actually use a laser cannon!
Watching Wei Zhao slowly collapse with an expression of disbelief, the corners of Xu Lingchong's mouth immediately curved into a sly arc of a scheme come to fruition. The laser cannon might be highly sophisticated technology, but he was a genius among geniuses; after watching Kang Jingming use it a few times, he had already learned it. This was merely a small test of his skill!
The moment Wei Zhao fell, Kang Jingming finally escaped the miserable fate of being roasted alive; he had nearly been electrocuted into a charred husk, black smoke still pouring endlessly from the top of his head, and he looked for all the world like a man already dead and gone.
Yet this kid's vitality was so outrageously tenacious that even now a last breath still lingered in him. His consciousness, of course, had long since blurred; the only reason he could still stand was purely the support of his smart armor.
Seeing this, Xu Lingchong breathed a sigh of relief. Whether Kang Jingming lived or died did not really matter to him, but the boy was, after all, a rare and trusted subordinate—and next he still needed this kid to compete for Ning Xuefei. If all went smoothly, he would be an enormous asset in the days to come.
"Wei Zhao!!!" At that moment Huo Yudie came charging over from the entrance, crying out. She threw herself onto Wei Zhao without a care for anything else. Seeing the horrifying bloody hole in his abdomen, she felt the world spin around her, her mind going completely blank. A woman who had always been like an ice-cold snow lotus was now weeping like a frail, tear-soaked girl, with no regard for appearances at all.
Huo Yudie herself did not know why she was like this. From childhood to now, this was the first time she had ever worried so much about someone, cared so much—especially when that someone was a man she had known only a short while.
Apart from panic and confusion, the only thing left in Huo Yudie's mind at this moment was regret—endless regret.
She hated herself for hiding so far away. If she had been at Wei Zhao's side just now, how could she have left Xu Lingchong such an opening? How could Wei Zhao have been reduced to this precarious, desperate state!
Unfortunately, this was only her wishful thinking. The Furious Fire Thousand Explosions Fist was an indiscriminate attack within its range—everyone except Wei Zhao himself. Anyone standing within it was bound to be gravely wounded, friend or foe alike.