After the Blade-Tusk Mouse realized that the three people surrounding it were nothing but flashy on the outside and useless on the inside, it immediately switched from defense to offense.
With a fierce kick, it shot toward Wang Deyou in front of it.
Wang Deyou reacted quickly, bracing his short blade against his chest to guard his vital spot. With a loud clang, the blade collided head-on with the two tusks.
The Blade-Tusk Mouse stepped back two paces, but Wang Deyou rolled backward on the ground.
Seeing this, Wang Defa rushed forward with his blade raised and thrust straight at the mouse's tail end.
The Blade-Tusk Mouse was nimble. It twisted its body swiftly, clamped Wang Defa's blade with its tusks, and with a hard twist, sent the short blade flying.
At the same time, Wang Dezhong seized the chance while it was distracted. He leapt up, the tip of his blade stabbing straight toward the mouse's back.
"Got it!"
Puchi!
The blade sank into the Blade-Tusk Mouse's back, piercing straight through its belly and stabbing into the ground.
But not a single drop of blood seeped from the wound.
The Blade-Tusk Mouse's eyes flashed with vicious light. It turned its head and bared its teeth, about to slice open Wang Deyou's throat.
Wang Deyou had no choice but to release his short blade and fall backward.
The Blade-Tusk Mouse immediately used its tusks to pull the blade out of its body and tossed it aside.
Its whole body remained completely unharmed. The blade lying on the ground still gleamed cold as snow.
A chill ran through all three Wang brothers.
At last, the three of them remembered once again the common knowledge everyone in the Safe Zone knew: ordinary people cannot kill gods.
A wave of despair instantly wrapped around their hearts.
But the one minute Qin Siyang had set was not up yet.
They could only grit their teeth and endure, continuing this battle they knew they could never win.
Qin Siyang watched silently from the side.
In his eyes, the movements of the three burly men were like toddlers just learning to walk.
Slow, weak, full of openings.
Even the sharp light in their eyes gradually faded as they found themselves helpless against the Blade-Tusk Mouse.
Even so, the three brothers still fought with all their strength.
Qin Siyang nodded in satisfaction.
After all, they were tough men who had suffered before and after the apocalypse and managed to claw their way up. From body to willpower, they were first-rate.
"Alright. One minute's up. Fall back."
The three brothers felt as if they had been pardoned. They scrambled backward, rolling and crawling away.
The Blade-Tusk Mouse was still brimming with energy, looking at the three in confusion.
It had clearly been having fun playing with its food, warming up before the meal. Why did these three suddenly stop?
Qin Siyang walked slowly toward the Blade-Tusk Mouse, but his gaze remained on the three brothers, "The three of you performed far beyond my expectations. Very good!"
Seeing another person appear, the Blade-Tusk Mouse's eyes lit up. It raised its tusks and charged fiercely.
"Boss Qin, be caref—"
Before Wang Defa could finish his warning, he saw Qin Siyang simply wave his hand casually.
The Blade-Tusk Mouse, which had not even reached Qin Siyang, was sent flying backward and smashed into the ground.
After letting out two squeaks, it stopped breathing.
Wang Defa and the other two stood there dumbfounded.
'Boss Qin is this powerful?'
'No, Sequence ability users are overwhelmingly powerful!'
After truly witnessing the gap between themselves and a sequence ability user, their desire to awaken their sequences burned hotter than ever before.
To avoid exposing his location, Qin Siyang picked up the Blade-Tusk Mouse and tossed it into the storage box.
He lowered his head and glanced at the stopwatch on his phone.
He had been exposed outside the Safe Zone for about three minutes now. The sandworms could not possibly find him that quickly.
But just in case, it was better to get back into the drill cabin and leave soon.
"Let's go. Come into the drill cabin and rest."
"Yes, Boss Qin."
After they entered the drill cabin, Qin Siyang drove away.
The three brothers wiped the sweat from their faces and adjusted their breathing.
Wang Deyou gritted his teeth, "This is the first time since entering the Safe Zone that I've seen a living god… I didn't expect even a mutated rat to make the three of us look so miserable."
Qin Siyang comforted him, "Ayou, don't be discouraged. Once you awaken your sequences, the fog will clear and everything will make sense."
"Yes, Boss Qin!"
Under Qin Siyang's repeated prodding, the three of them felt their longing to awaken sequence abilities grow stronger and stronger.
Although they had only fought for one minute, their minds had stayed at peak tension the whole time, and with adrenaline surging, their bodies had pushed out one hundred and twenty percent of their strength. Now they were almost collapsing from exhaustion.
"Rest for half an hour, then we'll continue. Focus on gaining experience."
"Alright."
Qin Siyang slowly drove the drill cabin underground. After half an hour, he brought the three back up to the surface and fought another god.
After one minute, he stepped in again, killed the god, and took the three away.
After repeating this five times, Qin Siyang finally ended the brothers' training for the day.
It was their first time fighting gods, and none of the three Wang brothers successfully awakened a sequence.
But Qin Siyang was not disappointed.
He could not possibly expect everyone to be like himself, as if blessed by heaven in everything, advancing with triumph at every step.
After sending the three back to their courtyard, Qin Siyang set a time to pick them up again tomorrow.
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Then, without stopping, he rushed back to the guesthouse, sent Li Pengfei to school, and then dragged Hu Chan outside the Safe Zone again.
Hu Chan yawned, "Boss Qin, even if you're trying to stockpile sequence potion resources before opening the Path of the Believer, you don't have to rush like this. We haven't even enrolled yet. Your progress is already faster than everyone else's."
"My enemies aren't a bunch of freshmen who haven't even entered university," Qin Siyang held the steering wheel with one hand, his tone calm, "So being ahead of you means nothing to me."
Hu Chan fell silent for a moment, then said, "Boss Qin is right. In that case, I need to speed up collecting materials for the Path of the Believer too."
"Suit yourself."
After activating his tracking ability, Hu Chan split up from Qin Siyang.
He headed toward a possible nest of high-point small gods, while Qin Siyang drove the drill cabin toward the location of a medium god. Once he was done, he would come back to pick up Hu Chan.
Qin Siyang quickly dealt with the medium god Ice-Frost Rabbit and stored it in the storage box.
He recalled the struggle of the three Wang brothers when fighting the weakest small god earlier, and countless thoughts rose in his mind.
The sight of the three brothers today stirred up dusty memories.
Less than a year ago, he had been just like them, an ant, rummaging through trash bins near the Safe Zone exit for scraps of god remains to eat.
Now he was a powerful sequence ability user who could casually kill a medium god.
And once he accumulated enough god remains, he would step onto the Path of the Believer and become one of the top figures within the Safe Zone.
Under the starry sky, Qin Siyang sat atop a massive rock and suddenly looked back.
Gazing over the barren plains, past events felt like old dreams carried by the wind.
A thought seemed to surface in his mind.
The more than half year since his rebirth seemed to be just like his previous life, once gone, it would never return again.
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