Light Barrier - Chapter 3: Fierce Battle

The optimal solution given by Deep Sea was to rescue this young man first.

In fact, Nan Jin wasn’t surprised to hear this answer.

She knew very well what it meant to spend 20 minutes with A-009 without incident… This was an out-of-control individual with a danger rating of Class A.

Being able to do this could not be explained by ordinary luck.

According to the information, A-009 was frantically pursuing a truth that ordinary people could not understand.

It couldn’t be a coincidence that Gu Shen could coexist peacefully with her… Could this young man be a powerful ‘transcendent’?

No, this guy didn’t have any transcendental aura at all.

Just as Nan Jin dismissed this thought, Wei Shu’s voice sounded again. “I’ll detach this carriage. Next, you’ll need to take him and escape from here.”

Rumble!

The light rail was speeding violently in the night wind in the suburbs of Oto City. Suddenly, a muffled sound of breaking rang out. This carriage unlinked its connection hook to the carriage in front of it, and the wheels tightened with violent friction sounds. Due to inertia, the entire carriage began to ‘slowly’ rise into the air from the bottom.

Nan Jin was expressionless. “Hold me tightly.”

Gu Shen: “???”

He suddenly pounced forward and hugged Nan Jin’s slender waist without holding back. Under the wide trench coat was a warm and slender torso. He felt several cold and slender outlines… This woman still had three sabers hanging from her waist.

Recalling the cold light that cut the train earlier, he shuddered.

Jolt!

The train carriage was almost in the air, and the two of them stepped on the bottom of the carriage and slid down at a nearly 90° angle.

Nan Jin took quick steps, not at all like she had big weapons hanging around her waist. Because the carriage flew up, she was like a night cat flying over roofs and walls. The entire world was reversed, and only she maintained her balance.

Holding her breath and focusing her spirit, she wielded a saber with both hands and executed a cross slash.

A blazing blade light pierced through the darkness.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

The boning knife blocked the blade!

But the lady’s throat growled in pain again. Even Gu Shen could see the bright red blood beads floating out of the open black dress.

The moment Nan Jin drew her saber, all the color in her eyes faded and turned cold.

She was not greedy for victory. Although her attack successfully broke through the opponent’s defense and accurately stabbed the tall lady’s chest, she immediately turned around after succeeding. At the critical moment, one of Nan Jin’s hands flashed out like lightning, and her five fingers tightly grabbed the back of Gu Shen’s collar. When the carriage rolled 90°, she suddenly crouched, stomped heavily on the tempered glass, and sank like a diver.

The broken glass and tumbling electric arcs were like seaweed floating in the deep sea.

The derailed carriage looked like an ascending submarine, but this was land, not the ocean.

The carriage rolled and careened off the tracks like a boulder tumbling down a slope. It crashed onto the ground and kept sliding, shooting out thousands of dazzling arcs of sparks. At the last moment before overturning, two figures made a daring leap into the night and landed on a patch of grass.

Nan Jin patted the dust off her trench coat. Her gaze remained fixed on the broken carriage that had slid nearly five hundred meters away. After falling off the tracks, the carriage lay motionless, shrouded by an eerie silence.

Smoke billowed, and dust rose. Nan Jin did not let her guard down. Instead, she drew a third saber from her waist and reported coldly, “The target has been rescued… A-009 is still inside the carriage.”

Wei Shu immediately replied, “Lock down the surroundings. Backup is on the way. Don’t let it escape.”

Nan Jin nodded slightly.

Click…

During the silence, her sight caught some movement from the carriage… Nan Jin immediately reached for the fourth saber and drew it out in a reverse grip. After holding the saber with both hands, she felt much more at ease, but there was still a sense of discomfort.

Nan Jin lowered her head and found the reason. “How long are you going to hold me?”

“Can I hold you a little longer?” A certain young man hugged her thighs spinelessly. He rubbed his face against them and squeezed out a flattering smile. “Heroine… I’m scared.”

Is that expression really fear? When I cut open the carriage, this guy was still chatting happily with A-009.

“A-009’s ability is corruption,” Nan Jin said expressionlessly. “She can contaminate objects that come into physical contact with her, including but not limited to knives, swords, metals, firearms… and people.”

Gu Shen recalled the final scene on the train, when the woman in the dress smiled and extended her hand to him. A shiver ran down his spine. Corruption? That’s too terrifying… I even took the ruler. Will I be fine?

“In the battle just now, I’m not sure if my  clothes touched her.”

Hearing Nan Jin’s casual words, Gu Shen let go of the trench coat as though it was burning his hands.

“Heroine, your skills are extraordinary, and your demeanor is majestic. I’m ashamed of myself…” He changed the topic and asked carefully, “Why don’t I leave first?”

To be honest, he wanted to escape.

When gods and immortals fought, he’d better not get involved.

“No problem. If you really want to leave, then go ahead.” Nan Jin glanced at the young man from the corner of her eye and said calmly, “On this day next year, I’ll burn incense paper for you on time.”

Gu Shen: “???”

“This area has been sealed off. I advise you not to leave my sight… because I can’t truly restrict A-009. She’s obsessive and crazy. If she’s determined to kill you, it’s futile no matter how far you run.”

Nan Jin gently inserted her two sabers into the grass and put on special snow-white silk gloves. Then she held her sabers again and made a stance. Facing the silent and dilapidated carriage, she looked as though she was facing a formidable enemy and issued her final warning in a low voice, “Before backup arrives, I can only protect this small area. The farther you escape, the faster you’ll die.”

The night wind surged.

Visible to the naked eye, wisps of silver light emerged from the darkness one after another like fireflies. Finally, they entwined around the two sabers. Nan Jin, holding the sabers in a stance, seemed to have become a galaxy in the night.

Gu Shen gulped. He could no longer use the knowledge he possessed to explain this scene… What kind of substance were these snow-white currents flowing like the wind?

Was this the legendary ‘saber astral’?

Suddenly, there was a thud.

Bang!

A hair-raising collision sound exploded from the top of the carriage.

To be precise, it was from the bottom of the carriage.

After flipping over, the iron carriage was already upside down. However, as smoke and dust billowed, a force actually pushed the carriage from the inside back to standing upright. A moment later… a tall figure emerged from the shadowy haze of the billowing smoke and dust.

The lady pushed open the carriage door, bent down, and slowly walked out of the train. This process was even slow and dignified, like an aristocrat. She didn’t even forget to hold down her bonnet with a hand.

From afar, she was as tall as the overturned train, like a walking giant.

The two ‘sabers’ inserted into the lady’s chest had already been completely corroded by the corruption power. With a gust of wind, they shattered, and the blades and silver mystic patterns were annihilated into ashes.

In the smoke and dust, the tall woman slowly turned around and looked around. Finally, she stopped and looked at Nan Jin.

A faint red light oozed from her snake pupils.

Merely looking at her eyes, Gu Shen felt his blood turn cold. Nan Jin was right… He should never attempt to escape on his own. If this thing targeted him, there was no way he could survive.

The next moment…

A horrifying matter happened.

The tall woman in the formal dress stood on her tiptoes, slowly raised a corner of her dress, and curtsied in an ancient and orthodox manner. The moment she finished the curtsy, dozens of muddy water pillars erupted on the patch of grass hundreds of meters away.

She arrived within Nan Jin’s sword range in a second, and the boning knife wrapped in old newspaper slashed at the point where two sabers crossed.

Clang!

The impact of this sound was so thunderous that Gu Shen felt as though a heavy hammer had slammed into him. His ears buzzed, and he collapsed to the ground.

How the fuck was this boning knife? This was clearly a bone-crushing hammer!

He looked at the valiant woman holding sabers and blocking in front of him, her trench coat fluttering in the wind. She looked like a majestic valkyrie with unparalleled strength and an unparalleled aura. Her expression didn’t change as she withstood the monstrous blow.

Immediately after, she swung her sabers and took a step back.

Thousands of silver saber astrals moved with the wind and poured forth!

The woman stably maintained her stance and delivered hundreds of slashes in an instant. The dazzling saber light seemed to illuminate the night!

With a deep howl, the dazzling saber light instantly swallowed A-009. Her tall body was like a lone flower in the waves as she was instantly sent flying and slammed back into the smoke and dust of the carriage.

The smoke and dust had yet to dissipate.

The immense pressure came again.

The woman in the dress, who had been sent flying by the saber strike, took small, rapid steps forward and attacked at an exaggerated speed.

Nan Jin’s expression was cold as ice as she swung her sabers a second time.

Boom!

The third time!

The fourth time!

The high-frequency explosive air currents bombarded Gu Shen one after another, causing his ears to ring. It was why he was still hiding behind Nan Jin. At this moment, apart from the concussive sounds of explosions, he could no longer hear anything else.

“… Wei Shu.” Nan Jin was in a very bad state. Blood was flowing out of her lips, and blood vessels kept appearing in her eyes, almost covering her pupils, dyeing them completely red.

In this encounter, A-009 was different from what was recorded in the files. Some strange changes had occurred.

What did it experience to become so crazy?