Becoming a White-Haired Witch in a World Full of Anomalies

Chapter 73 : Stopping the Advancement

Leaping into that black wormhole, the two kept falling through the air. Bai Ling embraced Chi Xiaoyu and slowly flew down to the ground."Thank you."

"A bit soft."

"What?"

"Nothing."

Bai Ling suddenly pulled Chi Xiaoyu into a small alley.

"What's wrong?"

"Shh, keep it down."

Two pedestrians wearing hats walked past the alley entrance.

"They're all anomalies!"

"Be careful not to touch anything around here. This place is full of anomalies."

"What are you going to do?"

Bai Ling scratched her head. She didn't know how to stop Black City either. The goat-head man said to use her own blood to irrigate it - should she just tear open a wound and bleed here?

Just then, a grand voice came through, and running sounds echoed on the street. Bai Ling peeked out to see everyone running toward the city center.

"What's happening?"

"Should we follow and see?"

Bai Ling pulled Chi Xiaoyu and quietly followed behind those infected people to the central plaza.

In the center of the plaza, a huge black skull floated there. It began to proclaim loudly:

"From this moment on, I declare the establishment of our Black City! I shall be crowned king!"

"King."

The infected below couldn't perfectly pronounce the word "king," but their meaning was still clear - they were hailing the birth of a new king!

Around Black City, energy continuously gathered. At this moment, the most nervous was actually the skull head undergoing advancement.

Because he sensed that the Blood Witch had recently entered E City again, but he didn't know that the Blood Witch was actually right in front of him.

"What do we do? He's advancing. How do we stop him?"

"Should I let some of your blood and try?"

"No need, I'll do it myself."

Bai Ling's arm suddenly began flowing with bright red blood. She summoned her anomalous domain here - Crimson Blood Domain.

The blood continuously spread, soon covering a range of dozens of meters around them.

The skull in the air suddenly showed a strange expression like drinking soup and finding mouse droppings, then let out piercing screams.

"Ahhhhh!"

"When did the Blood Witch get in!"

He charged toward Bai Ling like a madman. Seeing this, Chi Xiaoyu drew her blade to try to block him. Bai Ling quickly grabbed her hand, trying to escape.

"Hey, he's an S-grade after all. How could you possibly block him?"

"You know he's S-grade too."

The two advanced at high speed. Bai Ling continued bleeding while the skull head chasing behind her kept cursing:

"Damn it, damn it, stop! Don't bleed anymore! I'll stop your bleeding! Wait for me, don't bleed anymore!"

But Bai Ling couldn't hear, continuing to control the blood in her hands, flowing continuously and leaving a long trail on the ground.

"My anomalous domain, no! My city, no!"

The skull head was furious. He proclaimed loudly:

"I am the incarnation of shadow, I walk in darkness, I am the master of Black City - Entangle!"

Black wires flew out from the city one after another, densely packed. After reaching a certain height in the air, they turned and flew toward Bai Ling.

Chi Xiaoyu, being pulled by Bai Ling as they flew through the air, continuously cut the black wires approaching them. Seeing this, the skull head summoned a huge black wire dozens of meters thick to wrap around Bai Ling.

Bai Ling struggled to control her direction, constantly dodging attacks while blood continued flowing from her hands.

"No, no! Stop it! What exactly are you doing?"

The skull head's heart was collapsing. If he used full force to kill Bai Ling, having a Blood Witch die in his anomalous domain would invalidate it and his advancement would fail. If he didn't kill the Blood Witch, Bai Ling's blood would keep flowing until reaching a critical point, and his anomalous domain would still be invalidated.

"Can't fight, can't not fight! Stop it!"

If he had legs, he would already be kneeling down begging that damned Blood Witch to leave his anomalous domain.

"Getting a bit dizzy."

"Too much blood loss?"

Hearing this, Chi Xiaoyu took out a red pill and fed it to Bai Ling. After eating this familiar pill, Bai Ling's complexion noticeably improved.

"By the way, where did you get this pill? The effect is so good."

"J Company's core technology - 'Universal Healing Medicine.'"

"Is that so? Must be expensive."

"20,000 per pill."

"How much?"

Bai Ling just felt it was so expensive. After all, she was still a poor boy. Although she'd joined the Investigation Bureau for a while, it hadn't been a month yet and she hadn't received her salary.

Bai Ling worked hard to expand her anomalous domain's range. While it couldn't cover all of Black City, it could barely cover about one-tenth.

Seeing Bai Ling's domain covering an increasingly large area, rage surged in the skull head.

"Fine, fine! You won't let me advance to Anomaly King, so I'll explode with you!"

The buildings throughout Black City suddenly began to dissipate, all transforming into black wires. They continuously wrapped toward Bai Ling in the air. Chi Xiaoyu tried to cut the approaching thin wires, but endless black wires kept wrapping around them.

Before long, they were swallowed by an ocean of black wires. Some of these wires were also stained red by Bai Ling's blood. Just as these black wires carried the two into the ground, a burst of blood energy exploded. The center of that black wire ocean was completely stained red, then Bai Ling broke out like hatching from an egg, flying to high altitude while holding Chi Xiaoyu.

Bai Ling summoned Yueyue to create an anomalous domain protecting Chi Xiaoyu, then summoned Blood Princess to guard Yueyue's domain nearby.

"Master?"

"I'm fine."

Bai Ling faced off with the black skull in the air. Just now, both she and Chi Xiaoyu had suffered fatal attacks, but fortunately her blood could dissolve those black wires.

Lin Bai, who appeared calm on the surface, was actually already calling out to herself in her heart.

【Are you there, Bai Ling, Lin Bai? Another me?】

【Hello?】

Unfortunately, she got no response. Was it because she wasn't in mortal danger yet?

Just then, the black skull head suddenly began enlarging, swallowing this entire area in one gulp. Bai Ling looked around - she was inside that anomaly, surrounded by pitch-black wires everywhere.

Then endless infected people came here too, beginning to attack Bai Ling. Bai Ling felt her physical strength being absorbed while inside the skull head, her head getting more and more painful, her body lighter and lighter.

"No, this is bad."

As countless thin wires rapidly extended and pierced Bai Ling's body, though they dissolved the moment they touched her blood, they still left wounds.

Just as Bai Ling was about to give up, a voice sounded within her body.

"Honestly, it's a bit too early."

"The world line has changed too much."

"Anyway, if you want to live, if you want to save Chi Xiaoyu, you might never be able to change back into a boy."

"..."

"Then I'll take that as your agreement."

The girl showed a smile, because she was herself, so she understood - she would agree. Whether for Chi Xiaoyu, for E City, or to save herself.