I am the Clone of a Death Row Inmate-Chapter 110: Battling a Cocoon-Breaker

"You’re Chang Meng, right?" 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Su Ze immediately spotted the little girl with albinism among the group of children. She had white hair, and her paper-white skin was covered in dirt.

A trace of fear appeared on the little girl’s face. She lowered her head, not daring to speak.

Su Ze, unconcerned by the dirt on her, picked her up and said, "Xiaoke and Mrs. Qin are very worried about you. I’ll take you all home in a bit, okay?"

"Okay." Hearing the names Xiaoke and Mrs. Qin, Chang Meng nodded vigorously, much of the fear in her eyes fading.

"Let’s go."

With Su Ze in the lead and Mr. Ya bringing up the rear, they escorted the children up the stairs.

Mr. Ya suddenly said, "When I came down earlier, there was a woman here. I don’t know where she went."

Su Ze thought for a moment and said, "She probably heard the commotion and ran. But the basement is sealed off, so she couldn’t have gone far. Let’s get the children out first, then we’ll come back and look for her."

...

Outside the temple, the peace officers had already brought the situation under control.

The silver-trimmed, white-robed bishop and the Black Armored Warrior had both been captured alive.

Seeing Su Ze and Mr. Ya escorting a group of children out, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The peace officers immediately began to settle the children, first verifying each one’s identity and checking their condition. Other officers rushed into the basement to collect evidence.

For the Dongli Kingdom’s Security Department to move against a major power like the Evolution Divine Teachings, they had to secure evidence to get the full support of the Sovereign Country.

Otherwise, the Dongli Kingdom alone would be no match for the Evolution Divine Teachings.

The Evolution Divine Teachings was incredibly powerful, especially their Pope, whose strength was unfathomable. Even the Sovereign Country had to show them some respect, allowing them to proselytize within the Lin Hua Continent.

Mr. Ya said, "This is probably just a transit point for them, used for brainwashing the children. Those who have already been successfully brainwashed have likely been sent somewhere else."

The rescue was a race against time. The peace officers immediately began interrogating the three captives.

Among the three, the white-robed acolyte was too low-ranking to have access to that level of information. Meanwhile, the Black Armored Warrior and the bishop were both tight-lipped, claiming to have unshakeable faith and vowing never to betray their god.

The security department captain said, "Looks like we’ll have to take them back and use some... methods. We’ll have to ask Principal Zhou Wenshan to step in. There’s no mouth he can’t pry open."

Su Ze was surprised. "Mr. Zhou is skilled at that? He seemed so friendly."

The captain chuckled. "Every expert skilled in Spiritual Power is a master of interrogation. After all, physical pain has its limits, but mental anguish... Heh."

The captain’s words sent a chill down Su Ze’s spine. ’I hope my gentle sister doesn’t become an expert in this too,’ he thought.

Just then, disaster struck!

Among the children, a little girl with a grimy face suddenly punched and injured a peace officer, then bolted!

"It’s her!"

Everyone instantly thought of the criminal disguised as a child.

"After her!"

Several peace officers, including the captain, gave chase instantly. But the female criminal was powerful. She broke through the officers’ encirclement, got clear of the Temple of Evolution’s grounds, and used Earth Escape to vanish into the ground.

Su Ze grabbed Mr. Ya and gave chase. Understanding implicitly, Mr. Ya used Earth Escape, pulling Su Ze into the ground with him in pursuit.

In a park a kilometer away from the Temple of Evolution, the female criminal suddenly reappeared. Before she could even catch her breath, Mr. Ya and Su Ze emerged behind her.

She hadn’t expected another evolutionist with the Earth Escape Skill to be chasing her. Realizing she couldn’t escape using her skill, she suddenly turned to counterattack.

Her body suddenly expanded, transforming in an instant from a little girl into a grown woman. Her hand became a blade, chopping toward Mr. Ya.

"That’s the woman I saw in the basement earlier!"

Mr. Ya exclaimed as he hastily retreated to dodge, but Su Ze charged forward to meet her head-on.

"A mere Pupa Stage like you, looking to die?" the woman sneered, her blade-hand slashing at Su Ze’s neck.

’Let’s see just how big the gap is between me and the Cocoon Stage.’ Su Ze’s reaction and physical speed were both incredibly fast; he dodged the woman’s hand-blade by a hair’s breadth.

Then, he began his counterattack. Offense was, after all, his specialty.

He didn’t use any other skills. He just activated his Ant Power Skill and hammered her with his bare fists.

Ever since mastering the "Knowledge is Power" skill, for Su Ze, "every basic attack was a skill."

BANG!

A punch landed on the woman’s abdomen.

The woman spat blood as she was sent flying backward.

"As expected of the Cocoon Stage. Their bodies really are tough. If she were in the Pupa Stage, my fist would have gone right through her just now," Su Ze remarked admiringly.

The woman, however, was in utter disbelief. "You... you’re really in the Pupa Stage?"

Su Ze’s power was even greater than hers, a Cocoon Stage practitioner!

Although she wasn’t a strength-focused fighter like the Black Armored Warrior, and her power was far from the Peak of Cocoon-Breaking Stage, she was still a mutant!

The woman considered her strength to be anything but weak among Cocoon Stage practitioners, yet she had lost to Su Ze, a Pupa Stage. It was simply outrageous.

She didn’t want to fight anymore. If this dragged on, the other peace officers would arrive.

WHOOSH!

She used Earth Escape again, trying to flee.

However, Su Ze had been expecting this move and immediately followed up with "Furious Waves."

Furious Waves: A powerful strike on the ground that unleashes a violent air wave, attacking the surrounding area (on the ground, underground, and in the air within a certain range). Lifeforms hit by the Air Wave Attack will enter a brief state of Dizziness and their locations will be revealed to the user.

Furious Waves could strike enemies within a certain range underground. The woman had just escaped into the earth and hadn’t gotten far before the violent air wave hit her.

The woman felt like every bone in her body was about to be shattered. Then, she fell into a state of Dizziness.

When she came to, she found that Mr. Ya had already dragged her back up from underground.

What greeted her next was Su Ze’s combo: "Ant Power" + "Needle Strike."

Sensing the danger, the woman’s body shrank, reverting to her little girl form.

She was originally a person with dwarfism. After mutating, she gained the ability to freely switch between her adult and child forms. In her child form, her bone density was extremely high, granting her greater Defense Power.

At the same time, her expression turned vicious. With the resolve to fight to the death, she charged at Su Ze fearlessly. A crimson layer coated her blade-hand as one hand went for his neck and the other chopped at the hand he was using for his Needle Strike.

A fight to the death?

Su Ze smiled. He wasn’t afraid of a life-or-death battle.

Because he had two lives.

Besides, the woman’s tricks were nowhere near enough to force him to use his second life.

Su Ze sidestepped the fatal attack aimed at his neck, while his other hand stabbed straight toward the woman’s forehead.

A ferocious look was on the woman’s face, appearing particularly monstrous on her childlike features. After shrinking, her bone density had increased, making her bones frighteningly hard—especially her skull, which could be called the hardest part of her entire body.

She didn’t believe Su Ze could pierce her incredibly hard skull in a single strike.

Moreover, as long as Su Ze didn’t want to lose a hand, he would surely dodge and give up his attack.

However, Su Ze’s actions said, ’You may have a hard head, but I’m even more hard-headed.’