Too Many Reincarnators? I Bring the National Team to the Field - Chapter 211

Chapter 211

Sheng An gripped the Shadow tightly, her voice soft.

“Do you think I’m dead?”

The one who had truly been facing off against the Time Aberrant all along was Sheng An. She had kept quiet, but she had never been just a decoration.

The Supernatural Ability inside her felt as if it had run dry, especially after she had already used it once.

But she was still Time.

She clamped down on the Shadow’s wrist. She could not use her own Supernatural Ability, nor could she restrict the Shadow. And because of the other’s Immortal Body, she could not kill it.

But the other party could not exert Time on her either. If it wanted to shuttle through time, then it could take her along with it!

Back when they had discovered that Wu Buyu could not read Sheng An’s mind, they had known as much. True, her Supernatural Ability could not be used, but her level and the concentration of Special Factor in her body were still there.

When the Time Aberrant’s Time collided with hers, Sheng An might not necessarily be dragged into the domain of Time.

Her first strike just now had proved it.

If not for this thing’s Immortal Body, Sheng An’s blow would already have killed it.

The Shadow stood there, enduring attack after attack from Wu Buyu and the others.

Li Xin and the others changed tactics as well.

They could not kill it?

Fine. Then they would pound it flat!

Every attack they launched was an attempt to smash the Shadow into a pile of sludge.

The Shadow stared at Sheng An’s hand, growing more and more irritated.

It seemed unwilling to bring Sheng An with it through Time, so the Shadow remained rooted in place and did not move again.

A moment later, the Shadow calmed down and gave a mocking laugh. “So you’ve restricted me? And what of it…”

The Shadow murmured, “Can’t you hear it?”

Sheng An’s brows drew together.

A sound?

She listened carefully, but heard nothing unusual.

The hand hidden behind her back moved slightly. As if she had thought of something, Sheng An’s face grew even paler. The blood inside her body began to flow faster, surging faintly.

“Crack-”

She heard it!

Sheng An’s expression changed. She stared fixedly at the Shadow and forced out through clenched teeth,

“The Southwest Apocalypse Month Three Time Layer… collapsed?”

No, not collapsed.

It was collapsing right now.

What the Shadow had said earlier had not been an empty threat. From the moment it had mentioned the collapse of “Apocalypse Month Three,” the Shadow had already been controlling another Time Layer’s disappearance.

After that, the Shadow would have one fewer foothold, but they would lose Qi Lingwu and Shan Hua.

The faint sound she could hear was another Time world’s collapse and erasure. The people inside would remain forever in Apocalypse Month Three…

Li Wanyun, who had been attacking, froze mid-motion, her expression changing drastically.

Jiang Yu ground her teeth, her eyes bloodshot. She wanted nothing more than to throw herself at the Shadow and tear it into pieces.

Damn it!

This thing deserved to die!

That adorable Calico Cat, and the powerful, reassuring Qi Dui-right now, they were actually trapped in another Time, waiting for death.

Sheng An’s grip on the other’s hand tightened, as if she wanted to crush the Shadow to death.

Yet her strength had little effect against an Immortal Body.

The Shadow looked at her, as if smiling.

The eyes beneath the cloak remained fixed on her, wanting to see her break down, and seemingly wanting to drive her completely insane.

Half of Sheng An burned with rage; the other half stripped away all emotion and became calmer than ever.

The strength in her hand around the Shadow’s wrist eased, maintaining only enough force to keep it from breaking free. Because of the high fever, her pale face was flushed scarlet. Her voice came out clear-

“You’re trying to enrage me. With a Time Ability and an Immortal Body, you should be able to do whatever you want. But from the beginning until now, you’ve kept hiding things, even trying to kill us with traps.”

“There must be something you’re afraid of.”

She spoke those two sentences calmly. At a time when Qi Lingwu and Shan Hua might die, when they were desperate and helpless, even after she had discovered that the Shadow possessed the Supernatural Ability of an “Immortal Body” and had started stalling for time…

The calm half of her had stepped outside of everything, constantly reviewing the entire process.

From their entry into the Southwest, to the Volcano erupting, to Prophecy catching the Time Aberrant, to the Time Aberrant revealing an Immortal Body and appearing powerful and invincible…

The Shadow was absolutely not invincible!

Not only did it have a weakness, there was even someone among them it feared.

And when she thought of the Shadow killing people, collapsing the other Time Layer it used as a foothold, and trying to enrage her…

The person the Shadow feared was her.

Or rather, her Supernatural Ability.

But what exactly did she have to do to kill this thing?

Sheng An could clearly sense that after she finished speaking, the wrist in her grip paused slightly.

Then the Shadow chuckled. “Then do you have any way to stop me? Let me remind you, the collapse is more than halfway through. That Loophole will become a Loophole beyond the world, no different from death. Or rather, they’re already dead. A moment of silence for your teammates.”

“I’ll fucking kill you-”

Furious, Li Xin charged forward, raising the enormous steel sledgehammer and bringing it down viciously at the Shadow.
The Shadow yanked Time hard.

And in the instant it dragged Li Xin back, Long Tianyu appeared behind it. A knife had already sliced through the Shadow’s throat.

It healed in the blink of an eye.

Long Tianyu struck again, and Time was pulled back once more.

The Shadow was starting to get irritated.

Li Wanyun wiped the sweat from her forehead, raised her hand, and unleashed a Spatial Blade. Gritting her teeth, she said, “Then we’ll keep going. As long as we can leave wounds on you, even if you don’t die, I refuse to believe it doesn’t hurt.”

The Shadow said, “A waste of effort.”

Liu Yue ignored it. His fireball was already blazing toward it.

“Crack-”

Another sound of Time collapsing. No one else could hear it, but Sheng An heard it again.

The Shadow had been annoyed to the limit by the people behind it, yet its eyes remained fixed on Sheng An. When it spoke again, it had lost some of its calm. “You’ve already lost. What are you still struggling for?”

“Have I?” Sheng An tightened her grip on the Shadow’s hand. “You haven’t won either, have you?”

They had reached a stalemate.

No one could win, and yet everyone wanted to.

Sheng An did not fully possess her Supernatural Ability yet, which meant she could not control Time. She had only been able to send Shan Hua and Qi Lingwu in because she activated her Supernatural Ability at the exact same moment Shan Hua drilled through the Loophole.

She had gambled that her Supernatural Ability was Time. For an instant, Time acted on Time, creating a Loophole Shan Hua could slip through.

But now…

As if it knew what she was thinking, the Shadow said, “That tiny, dried-up, pathetic bit of Supernatural Ability inside you can’t open a door on its own at all. They’re in the middle of the lava, and you’re here. Even if you make Time fluctuate, that instant of fluctuation won’t be enough for that cat to crawl out.”

The Shadow was gloating.

She could only stir up a single instant of fluctuation in Time. In that instant, could Shan Hua and Qi Lingwu make it?

-They couldn’t.

-That was almost certain.

Standing in front of the Shadow, Sheng An said, one word at a time, “Then let’s try.”

As soon as she finished speaking,

Sheng An suddenly activated her Supernatural Ability.

Using that already withered power felt like tearing open parched, cracked earth. Her organs all screamed in pain, and blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.

But she truly did tear open a sliver of Time!

At their side, because of the fluctuation in Time, Space Ability began to distort.

The Shadow watched as if enjoying a show.

The fluctuation in Time that Sheng An could create would only last for a very brief instant.

“Qi Lingwu!” she shouted the moment the fluctuation appeared.
In another Time Layer.

Sheng An’s guess had been right. The Shadow had returned once in the middle to “Apocalypse Month Three.”

Qi Lingwu had killed it on the spot.

But the Shadow hadn’t died.

It was at that moment that he confirmed the Shadow possessed another Supernatural Ability-Immortal Body.

And from that, many other things could be analyzed.

Qi Lingwu immediately took Shan Hua and left the Four Small Mountains, heading toward the encampment.

However, before he could arrive,

Time collapsed, causing Space Ability to distort. He could only unleash his Supernatural Ability at full power, trying to locate the encampment within the twisted Space Ability.

Qi Lingwu knew Sheng An would definitely try to save them.

But her Supernatural Ability could only act for an instant. He and Shan Hua had to try to seize that instant.

He knew it was nearly impossible.

But they still had to try.

“Whoosh-”

It was an extremely faint sound, utterly inconspicuous within the twisted Time and Space Ability, but Qi Lingwu caught it.

He charged toward it with Shan Hua, whose Supernatural Ability was also fully unleashed!
The Shadow had originally been watching the show, but then, as if realizing something, it suddenly froze.

It tried to break free from Sheng An, only to find itself held fast.

The Shadow sneered, and its Time Ability slammed into Sheng An’s Supernatural Ability.

The shaky, barely formed distortion point she had managed to create began to sway. There was no way anyone could pass through it!

“Bang-”

The barely formed distortion point collapsed completely.

Even more blood spilled from the corner of Sheng An’s mouth.

The Shadow smiled. “You failed. You’re about to lose.”

Hao Jingye slowly closed his eyes, despair written across his face.

Qi Lingwu and Shan Hua hadn’t come out…

The Supernatural Ability Sister Sheng had painstakingly gathered probably could no longer support another Loophole in Time.

They had failed.

They couldn’t save their teammates.

But Sheng An did not look at the Shadow. After swaying unsteadily, she kept one hand locked tightly around the Shadow while her gaze remained fixed on that distorted point.

There was nothing there?

No. There was a single… leaf that had poked through.

The Mutant Houttuynia had only managed to take the chance to stick out one leaf. At that moment, it was wriggling its body, seemingly trying to squeeze out another leaf, along with its entire body.

-It was using every ounce of strength it had.

However, Sheng An shouted, “Don’t move!”

The leaf trembled, then went stiff, not daring to move.