But just as the fireball was about to hit Li Xin’s body, Zhou Haimei moved.
No one saw how Zhou Haimei moved.
In the blink of an eye, Zhou Haimei had turned and teleported in front of Li Xin.
The next second, an even purer flame was hurled towards the incoming fireball.
Almost without pause, the two fireballs collided.
A huge amount of energy erupted.
Zhou Haimei grabbed Li Xin and quickly retreated.
Xu An was also not idle. She used her spatial ability to gather everyone, then enveloped them all in a protective shield.
This prevented them from being hit by the impact force of the massive flames.
Liu Chang probably hadn’t expected that among the group on the opposite side, there were also ability users. The power unleashed by the fierce explosion felt like being scorched by raging fire.
Hong Ying was forced to use her ability, protecting her people with dense trees.
Those who were too slow to return to Hong Ying’s protection were directly roasted into dried jerky in the flames.
The immense pain caused these people to cry out in agony.
The flames consumed their bodies, consumed their arms.
The smell of burning flesh wafted through the air.
These people discovered that the flames on their bodies would not be extinguished even if they lay in the snow.
They looked towards Hong Ying not far away.
Some of them knew that Hong Ying’s ability had the power to heal.
They crawled laboriously in Hong Ying’s direction, their throats so scorched that they could not speak, only letting out groans of agony.
They crawled on the ground, reaching out their arms towards Hong Ying, hoping she would see them and save their lives.
Did Hong Ying see them?
She certainly did.
But she wasn’t as kind as Xu An, who would envelop all her team members in her shield.
Firstly, Xu An’s team only had five people, while Hong Ying had over twenty.
She definitely couldn’t take care of everyone.
Furthermore, no one understood the consequences of using abilities better than Hong Ying herself.
This time it was because Liu Chang was present; otherwise, Hong Ying would have preferred to escape rather than use her ability.
Besides, if she saved one person, should she save the others?
But there were four or five people burned like this.
Not only could Hong Ying not save them, but even if she could, why should she?
Was it for a few flattering words?
Hong Ying pretended not to see, turning her head away.
Some people wanted to say something but were stopped by others.
After all, the power of the flames had not completely dissipated.
If they offended Hong Ying now and she got angry and withdrew her protection, no one would fare well.
Originally, this group of people gathered with ulterior motives and a focus on self-interest.
Now, those people were no longer useful.
Even if they were saved, with such severe burns, it would be difficult to persist in this place until the competition ended.
Therefore, rather than survive, suffer torment, and then die, it was better to die now.
Liu Chang looked at Hong Ying and found that she was not looking at him at all but was turning her head away.
“You did it on purpose?” Liu Chang’s voice was soft, audible only between the two of them.
He was still giving Hong Ying some consideration.
If the people here knew that Hong Ying had intentionally let those two die, they would surely not let it go.
Unable to save, and intentionally unwilling to save.
Those were two different concepts.
Hong Ying looked into Liu Chang’s eyes. This time, she did not evade but met his gaze directly.
“In your heart, am I such a vicious person?”
If it were in the past, Hong Ying might have explained, might have proven her innocence.
She might even have argued passionately with Liu Chang, defending her purity.
But the current Hong Ying would not.
When a man starts to disbelieve you, it’s useless to prove your innocence. Conversely, you will fall into a trap of self-justification.
Just because of a question from him, you might fall into a trap of self-consumption.
As the saying goes, rumors are easily spread, but refuting them is a difficult task.
Because of his doubt, Hong Ying might have racked her brains to prove that she hadn’t done it.
But the current Hong Ying would not.
Because when you decide to leave this man, or no longer intend to spend your life with him and walk side by side,
You will find that you don’t care at all about this man’s thoughts and opinions.
Liu Chang’s gaze towards Hong Ying held both inquiry and suspicion, but in the end, he said nothing.
Hong Ying also offered no explanation, as if to say, you wrongly accuse me, but I won’t speak, creating a sense of brokenness.
Finally, Liu Chang still said nothing.
He just gave Hong Ying a deep look before shifting his gaze away.
After all, Hong Ying’s ulterior motives were secondary to the woman who could release flames and collide with him, making her more formidable to Liu Chang.
He asked Hong Ying.
“In the doctor’s laboratory, is there such a person?”
Hong Ying saw that Liu Chang wasn’t pursuing the matter further and found it a little amusing.
Previously, every time she was wronged, no matter how she proved herself, Liu Chang would look at her with suspicion.
But now, she was too lazy to explain.
And he stopped questioning her.
She shook her head.
“The list of ability users at the doctor’s is confidential, so I don’t know. Even if there is, it would probably be a high-level ability user. Looking at her flames, they seem purer than yours.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Liu Chang glared at Hong Ying with a fierce look.
Hong Ying knew from Liu Chang’s expression that she had said the wrong thing.
Liu Chang detested people saying he was inferior to others.
In Xia Jin, as the foremost among so many fire ability users,
Liu Chang relied on this unwillingness to be subservient to gain the first chance of survival.
Although fire abilities are the strongest in attack among all abilities, they also contain the most elements in the human body.
However, speaking of this, among ten ability users, there could be five fire ability users.
So compared to Hong Ying’s wood ability, Liu Chang’s ability was purely strong through his own training.
Even though Liu Chang didn’t initially plan to claim this camp for himself, now that things had escalated to this point,
They and Xu An’s team would inevitably engage in a bloody battle.
At this time, neither side knew that the viewers in the livestream audience outside had already erupted.
“Damn, this is the first time I’ve seen a real duel between two ability users!”
“This is so cool!”
“Exactly, I’ve always seen these ability users appearing in various places, but they seemed to know each other’s locations and never met. Now, finally, we can see a real duel.”