Skinwalker Belle – Chapter 451 – And you still claim you’re not a pervert!

Zhu Yan was stunned.

She had indeed felt the miraculous power of that emerald-green Spirit Energy emanating from the silver ring on her wrist.

And that Lei Jie’s strength was indeed terrifying beyond comprehension.

But using someone else’s old socks as cultivation resources?

Was that something a person with a sound mind would do?

“Even setting that aside—” Zhu Yan’s gaze was piercing, giving Lu Yuan no room to save face. “This is the ruins of the Capital Base. The entire ruins are enormous, with all kinds of clutter scattered everywhere. How can you be so sure these belong to Lei Jie?”

Lu Yuan puffed out his chest, a hint of pride even creeping onto his face.

“That’s simple!”

He raised a finger and tapped his nose.

“I know the boss lady’s scent!”

The air stopped moving at that moment.

In the distance, Wang Shan covered his mouth, eyes wide as saucers.

Zhu Yan’s perpetually expressionless face was now undergoing an extremely violent contortion.

“You know… her scent!?”

Zhu Yan’s voice shot up an octave.

“Yeah.”

Lu Yuan was completely oblivious to the severity of the situation.

“I know this scent inside and out! It’s definitely the boss lady’s—no mistake about it!”

Zhu Yan’s chest heaved violently.

She looked at Lu Yuan’s righteous, even faintly proud demeanor, and the thread in her mind called “reason” snapped with an audible pop .

Digging through the ruins for dirty socks Lei Jie had thrown away.

Carrying them in his pocket, pressed close to his body.

Even sniffing the scent specifically to confirm they belonged to her.

This wasn’t just simple perversion anymore.

This was pathological, depraved, top-tier perversion!

“And you still dare to say you’re not a pervert!”

Zhu Yan roared.

BOOM.

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A dark golden light shot straight into the sky.

At this moment, Zhu Yan completely abandoned any restraint from their sparring session.

The pure Dragon Bloodline at peak seventh rank erupted without reservation.

The Dragon horns on her forehead lengthened instantly, and her golden Vertical pupils burned with fury.

Her entire body transformed into a human-shaped projectile, carrying a gale that tore through the air, hurtling straight toward Lu Yuan’s face.

Twice as fast as before!

Lu Yuan didn’t even have time to react.

“Hey! No wait! Are you even listening to reason… holy sh*t!”

Lu Yuan’s protest was cut off halfway.

A fist wrapped in dark golden Dragon Scales, carrying devastating physical force, filled his entire field of vision.

Too fast.

His Light-type Ability didn’t even have time to activate.

THUD!

A dull impact echoed across the Black Palace Square.

Lu Yuan’s left cheek took the full force of that heavy punch.

His entire body was lifted off the ground, tumbling through the air for over a dozen rotations, snapping two remaining marble pillars in succession before crashing into a pile of rubble and leaving a deep crater.

Dust billowed everywhere.

Lu Yuan lay at the bottom of the pit, feeling as though a hundred great bells were ringing simultaneously inside his skull.

The left side of his face was swollen high, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, stars dancing before his eyes.

It was over.

He’d lost.

This woman was a goddamn female tyrannosaurus.

Lu Yuan spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva and struggled to get up.

A foot in a white running shoe had already stepped onto the edge of the crater.

Zhu Yan stood there, looking down at him from above.

Her golden hair clung to her cheeks from the intense exertion, her chest still heaving.

Those Vertical pupils had already returned to human black, but the fury in her eyes had not diminished in the slightest.

Lu Yuan raised both hands.

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“Stop! Stop! I admit defeat, alright! I’ll let the boss lady handle things, fine! Just stop hitting me!”

Zhu Yan stared at him for a moment.

His gaze swept toward the multifunctional combat watch on Lu Yuan’s wrist.

“3:45.”

Zhu Yan withdrew her hand, her tone stiff.

“Exactly sixty-one minutes have passed since I stated the rules.”

Lu Yuan froze.

“Huh?”

“I told you.”

Zhu Yan turned around, her back to Lu Yuan.

“Survive one hour, and you win.”

Lu Yuan sat at the bottom of the pit, half his face swollen, taking a long moment to process what had happened.

That was it? He won?

That punch just now had been vicious, but Zhu Yan had clearly held back.

If she’d used her full peak Level 7 destructive force, his head would already be a mess of red and white on the ground.

This woman was rigid in her thinking, but she did stick to her word.

Zhu Yan took two steps forward, then suddenly stopped.

The flesh-colored stocking on the ground still lay alone among the broken bricks.

She frowned.

Flicking out a burst of energy through the air, she sent the fabric flying, landing in a distant sewer drain.

Only after doing that did the knot of discomfort in her chest ease slightly.

Recalling how Lu Yuan had shamelessly declared “I know it very well” just moments ago, Zhu Yan felt her cheeks grow warm.

An unnatural flush crept up from the base of her ears.

“So that’s what he likes.”

She muttered under her breath, her voice barely audible.

Lu Yuan happened to climb out of the pit just then, brushing dust off his clothes.

“Hey, sis, what did you just say?”

“Call me Zhu Yan!”

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She whipped around, glaring at him fiercely, the flush on her face instantly suppressed.

“Don’t act so familiar!”

“Fine, fine, Zhu Yan, sis.”

Lu Yuan touched his swollen cheek and sucked in a sharp breath.

“We had a deal, right? I won, so for the next month, I’m in charge.”

Zhu Yan didn’t reply, walking straight toward the blast wall in the distance.

Wang Shan was cowering in the corner. Seeing the female tyrannosaurus who’d just finished beating someone approach, he was so frightened he plopped onto the ground, trembling all over.

“You.”

Zhu Yan pointed at Wang Shan.

“Stand up.”

Wang Shan scrambled to his feet, bowing and scraping.

“Zhu… Zhu Jie, your orders!”

“Are the puppet troops assembled?”

“Y-yes, all assembled! Three hundred and twenty men in total, all at your command!”

“Lead the way. Head to the nearest survivor stronghold.”

Zhu Yan swept her gaze over the ruined Black Palace debris scattered everywhere.

“Per Lei Jie’s instructions, gather the population. Anyone who resists will be executed on the spot.”

Wang Shan didn’t dare utter a single word of objection. He scrambled to the front of the formation to lead the way.

Lu Yuan sidled up, pulled a crushed cigarette from his pocket, lit it, and took a deep drag.

“Chu Chen just sent coordinates. We don’t need to handle the Rift on the Ugly Nation’s side. After consolidating the survivors, we head straight to the capital defense base to rendezvous with him. The follow-up evacuation work will unfold there.”

“Got it.”

Zhu Yan strode forward without looking back.

“Hey, Zhu Yan, sis.”

Lu Yuan walked alongside her, tilting his head to look at her.

“How does that Spirit Energy Big Sister Lei gave you feel?”

Zhu Yan’s steps faltered.

The Dragon Bloodline within her body was unprecedentedly docile.

That emerald Life Aura hadn’t only repaired her hidden injuries—it was continuously expanding the limits of her meridians.

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The hidden dangers left by Chen Dingjun’s crude gene implantation were being slowly smoothed away by this power.

This was the most settled she’d felt in years.

“Powerful.”

Zhu Yan gave her honest assessment.

“Big Sister Lei’s got plenty of good stuff.”

Lu Yuan blew out a smoke ring, starting to act cheeky again.

“You throwing away those stockings just now was absolutely the biggest loss of your life. Once you get to know the rest of the team, you’ll realize that thing is something people would kill to get their hands on.”

Zhu Yan couldn’t take it anymore. She stopped and turned around to stare at him.

The dragon horns on her forehead showed signs of glowing again.

“Say that one more time and I’ll twist your head off right now.”

Lu Yuan immediately shut up and made a zipping motion over his mouth.

The team began to move across the wasteland.

Wang Shan’s puppet troops marched in perfect unison, their footsteps against the rubble producing a dull, heavy sound.

The last rays of the setting sun fell upon the ruined buildings of the Black Palace, casting long shadows.

This land that had once represented the highest authority of Blue Star was now nothing but scorched earth.

Zhu Yan walked at the front and glanced at the silver ring on her wrist—identical to the one Lu Yuan wore.

The faint blue rune light was still pulsing in a steady rhythm.

That was Lei Jie’s promise.

It was also proof that she could live again as a human.

“Lu Yuan.”

Zhu Yan spoke suddenly without turning around.

“What?”

“Once we reach the capital base, do something about that face of yours. Walking around with a pig head everywhere is an embarrassment to the team.”

Lu Yuan was so angry he laughed.

“And who the hell did this to me!? You’ve got some nerve calling me an embarrassment!”

“Because you deserve a beating.”

Their bickering echoed through the ruins.