Bite Marks

  Boom!

  Suddenly, Nodrey charged, her shoulder smashing into a reinforced crete load-bearing wall, causing it to crumble immediately. She reached through the wall, grabbing a White Fang bandit's face, her fingers digging in.

  The bandit didn’t have time to scream before his face was crushed uhe pressure of her fingers. With a swift pull, ore off his face along with bones, exposing his steaming brain.

  "What the hell, how do we fight this?!"

  Witnessing this horrifying se, most of the desperados felt a chill down their spines.

  Against ordinary people, Nodrey’s sughter was effortless. She was like a meat griearing apart anyone roached her.

  Her massive body could explode with the speed of a leopard. Dealing with ordinary bandits required only a run, a grab, and a squeeze. In an instant, her fierce gaze would loto the arget.

  "Damn it, bastard—"

  Someone couldn’t bear it anymore and raised his gun. Before he could aim, Nodrey’s violent wind approached. Her mountain-like body merely brushed past him, sending him flying into the wall with a broken spine, dead on impact.

  Those farther away reacted, trating their fire on Nodrey. But she merely shook her body, g her fists together.

  Energy Burst!

  White-hot energy turangible, spreading faster and more viciously than high-pressure steam. The bullets veered off course before they even got close to her body.

  Rat-a-tat-tat—

  The heat and smoke blurred their vision as bullets rained down. No one knew if they hit the target. In a life-ah situation, they just kept firing.

  Click!

  The gunfire ceased. The bandits quickly ged magazines and chambered rounds. Just as they were about to pull the trigger again, a rge, white-glowing fist appeared before them.

  Whoosh—

  With a sharp sound, the shooter's head flew off, smashing into the wall teers away and exploding like a watermelon.

  "Shit! She's inside!"

  Some new recruits were extremely nervous, losing their wits as Nodrey's quick sughter made them irrational. Even though she was close, they instinctively turheir guns on her and held dowrigger.

  Nodrey merely twisted her body, letting the gunfire weave through her. The bullets ended up hitting many White Fang bandits, incapacitating them instantly.

  "Stop shooting—ugh!"

  "Stop, stop! We’ll all die at this range."

  "Use handguns, you idiots!"

  But no matter how they struggled, these bandits close to a martial artist had their fate sealed.

  "None of you will escape!"

  Nodrey’s eyes were blood-red. The as of these scum had thhly enraged her.

  Robbery, murder, humiliation, and bullying of defenseless women and disabled patients...

  "Die!"

  She struck with both hands, grabbing two bandits' heads and pulling forward, extrag two spines. Infused with energy, she used them as whips, sshing through the crowd.

  "Double Wind Split Ssh!"

  Nodrey unleashed her martial arts killing move without reservation. The spines, energized and sharp, sshed and smashed through the crowd. The bandits, uo resist, fled in panic, pushing each other to bloodrey’s pursuit.

  "You scum! You all deserve to die!"

  Nodrey, nearly frenzied, abandoned all defense, crashing into the crowd and breaking bones with brute force. She ighe ons and bullets pierg her flesh, tinuing to whip and ssh everything in front of her.

  She smashed one spine on a man's head, the sharp tailbone pierg his skull. Nodrey remained indifferent, fingers gouging out his eyes, ready to swing the other spine when a gap opened in the crowd.

  Nodrey saair of lifeless, hollow eyes.

  Whoosh—bang!

  Nodrey couldn't react as a shadow, like a high-speed train, crashed into her chest. Despite being an Alpha-tier martial artist, she couldn’t avoid it and took the hit directly. The shadow beast tio d bite as she flew back.

  Nodrey raised her hand to bloding on one foot, releasing energy to stabilize herself. The shadow extes arms, elbows smming down hard. aggered, and before she could regain her footing, the shadow hit her with a shoulder charge, followed by cws tearing through her defenses and biting her face.

  Sss—

  Nritted her teeth as a k of her left cheek was bitten off. The pain disrupted her internal energy, f her to try to repel the eo stabilize her stance.

  However, her palm strike was met with the shadow splitting into three, bypassing her defenses and hitting her ribs, shoulder, and neck.

  "Hiss—"

  Nodrey's pupils tracted. The severe pain and injuries disrupted her breathing, and her unstable mi caused her internal energy to bee chaotic.

  Martial artists fear instability during battle. It’s not about feariion but about making fewer mistakes in life-ah situations.

  Unstable energy flow was just a moment, but the resulting rea caused a slight dey in her as.

  Ihan 0.21 seds, the shadow's cws pierced her protective energy and into her chest.

  Spt—

  Nodrey spat blood, her lungs pierced, filling with blood and disrupting her breathing. But she could still fight, as a martial artist, she could still unleash her strength.

  Against these inhumane scum, she would fight to the death to eradicate them.

  However, she saw a young girl in the crowd, dressed in ill-fitting clothes, covered in scars.

  The girl, ed in dirty bandages, had bullet holes and burns all over, with dark purple erosion spreading across her skiing a stench of decay.

  She stood there bnkly, her red-bck eyes like the ominous clouds in the sky.

  "...Patient."

  Still so young, her body not yet developed, destroyed by hunger and bullets, she used her power unsciously, without excitement or fear, as if the world was irrelevant to her.

  'I am fighting a child.'

  Nodrey wavered. If she were a warrior, she would kill the enemy without hesitation.

  But she wasn’t a true warrior. She was the head nurse of the Humanitarian Relief anization.

  Her raised fist hesitated, not even feeling the cws pierg her body.

  'I must kill her; she's too dangerous, but how I kill a child... an ied one.'

  'These scum!'

  'I... ’t do it.'

  Nodrey realized she could tinue fighting and might even kill this ied girl.

  But doing so would betray the beliefs instilled in her since birth.

  "I will use my power and judgment to be my patients arain harmful as. I will not give harmful drugs, even if requested..."

  "Wherever I go, I will strive for my patients' happiness and avoid harmful and evil as, especially not sedu."

  "What I see and hear, whether business-reted or not, I will keep secret. If I keep this oath, may the gods grant me glory in life and skill. If I break it, may the heaveh, and spirits punish me."

  The Hippocratic Oath she took when joining the Humanitarian Relief anization echoed in her ears.

  How I harm such a child?

  The shadow's cws tio pierce, but Nodrey released her fist.

  The girl remained expressionless until the leader's voice rang out:

  "Enough, Sonia. Reinforts are ing; we must leave."

  The girl slightly raised her head, the shadoidly retrag into her body, dark wounds spreading on her skin, the stench of decay intensifying.

  "But boss, one more hit and she's dead." The bandit still feared Nodrey's terrifying strength.

  "So what if she dies?" The leader g the heavily injured Nodrey. "A severely injured person requires at least two caretakers. Do you think they won’t i heavily iing su important asset? Sometimes, a living person is more valuable than a dead oake the loot and women; we're leaving."

  "Boss, you’re wise!" The bandit spit at Nodrey, flipping her off. "Bitch, your women and supplies are great. We’ll be back!"

  "Hahaha, we hit the jaedical equipment, prosthetic parts, antibiotics, batteries, and diesel. We’ll domihe outside world."

  "And several pretty girls. Tsk, tsk, not enough to go around. Boss, let's grab a few more..."

  "What's the rush?" The leader grabbed Sonia by the neck, tossio his men. "Here's one for you."

  "But boss... she’s already rotten..."

  Sonia remained unrespohe leader pinched her thin face, g his men, and said:

  "Better than nothing. She’s obedient and won’t resist. Don’t try to iate with me. I’m doing you a favor."

  "No, no, you’re right. We’ve just been starving for so long... Cover your urn off the lights; it’s not a big deal."

  "Don't... don't try to escape..."

  Nodrey, exhausted, k on the ground, her fingers digging into the wall. Her vision grew increasingly blurry, and her gaze became listless.