Thinking of Li Hao's strength, Gu Qianxue felt a little more at ease inside.
Everything that happened today was just a coincidence; it wouldn't happen again.
Tutoring Li Hao not only paid well, but it also helped improve her Meridian Opening techniques.
Thinking of this, Gu Qianxue suddenly felt that tutoring Li Hao wasn't such a bad idea after all.
She subconsciously pushed the massage incident to the back of her mind...
Arriving downstairs, Li Hao took out a ring. "There are some exotic beast ingredients in here. Take them back and build your strength up properly—don't go collapsing from exhaustion during a massage again."
"I don't want it..."
Exotic beast materials were extremely expensive, and Gu Qianxue knew the items inside the ring must be worth a fortune.
She had already taken such a high tutoring fee, and now she was taking someone's exotic beast materials on top of that?
Her appetite was getting way too greedy!
"You think I'm doing this for you? Your massage pressure is way too weak! At your speed, when am I ever going to open my meridians?!"
"Take it back and eat it. Next time, the pressure has to be increased to eight hundred jin."
With that, Li Hao called out, "Xiaoyao, bring the car around. I'm going to take Teacher Gu home."
"Got it, young master!"
Li Hao placed the ring in the palm of Gu Qianxue's hand and said, "Qianxue, let's go. I'll drive you."
Gu Qianxue clenched her fists and followed Li Hao out of the villa.
At this moment, as she looked at Li Hao's back, her heart was filled with a mix of resentment and delight.
Thinking of how many times she had been bullied by Li Hao today, she felt rather unreconciled, so she made a few threatening gestures behind his back.
At the same time, she let out a disgruntled little hum!
As if sensing something, Li Hao turned around and smiled slightly. "What, want to hit me?"
"N—no!"
Startled, Gu Qianxue gave a small jolt, hurriedly lowering her head so she wouldn't meet Li Hao's gaze.
Li Hao almost burst out laughing, thinking to herself, *Normally such a cold and aloof iceberg beauty, yet when she makes a mistake she's just like a child. She really is adorable!*
It turns out all that cold aloofness of yours is just a facade, a fake image put on deliberately for others to see!
Although the two of them weren't in the same class, Li Hao still remembered how Gu Qianxue was like thousand-year-old ice and snow, maintaining an arrogant demeanor that kept everyone at a distance.
That was precisely why, despite being the number one campus belle, nobody dared to pursue her, and she had hardly any friends.
"Li Hao, you don't need to drive me. I can just take the subway back."
"Public security hasn't been great lately. If you run into bad guys, who's going to give me my massage?"
"Let's go."
"But you're going way out of your way like this."
Gu Qianxue still felt it wasn't right.
"It's fine. I was planning to drop by my dad's company to see him anyway."
At that moment, Xiaoyao had already brought the car around.
Acting very gentlemanly, Li Hao opened the front passenger door, ushered Gu Qianxue inside, and fastened her seatbelt for her.
As he pulled the seatbelt across, his shoulder lightly brushed against the rounded swell of Gu Qianxue's chest.
"Mm..."
Gu Qianxue let out a soft whimpering sound, her body instantly going rigid, her cheeks flushing a bright crimson.
As if noticing nothing, Li Hao walked around the front of the car and got into the driver's seat.
Checking the time, Li Hao mentally calculated the route.
The time of Gu Qianxue's disaster was fast approaching, and he had to steer clear of that area.
"Qianxue, sit tight."
The car started up, and the underside of the vehicle seemed fitted with jet engines as it slowly hovered into the air.
For safety's sake, Li Hao had brought out the flying car.
Flying cars had long since existed in this era, but anti-air energy shields were deployed all over the skies above human cities.
Regulations for flying cars were extremely strict; unless you belonged to the upper echelons, you had no qualification to fly in the air.
As the son of Yuncheng's richest man, Li Hao naturally possessed that qualification.
It wasn't Gu Qianxue's first time flying in the air, but previously she had only ever ridden in aerial maglev trains, which felt completely different from a flying car.
Li Hao wasn't in any rush, and the flying car drove very smoothly. Looking out the car window at the city's nightscape, Gu Qianxue felt quite cheerful.
Li Hao, however, was rather tense.
Having been reborn, he didn't know if unexpected situations might arise.
Therefore, Li Hao kept a constant watch on the situation below.
The exotic beast Purple-Haired Rat excelled at burrowing and subterranean stealth; while it was relatively safe in the air, it wasn't absolute.
With a Rank-B exotic beast's abilities, attacking low-altitude targets was still quite easy.
"It's coming!"
Soon, Li Hao spotted the commotion.
Three blocks away in the distance, a transformation occurred. Buildings collapsed en masse, dust filled the sky over the earth, and flames shot straight into the heavens.
Cars emitted deafening wails, drowning out the terrified cries of panic.
"Squeak squeak squeak squeak..."
The terrifying exotic beast sonic wave swept outward from the center of the incident like an energy wave.
The flying car Li Hao was driving was also caught in the aftermath, continuously setting off alarms.
"What's happening?"
"There must be an exotic beast!"
Decisively turning the car, Li Hao took a detour, trying his best to stay far away from the incident.
The two people sitting in the car looked helplessly at everything on the ground.
Powerless to do anything...
The evening night market was bustling with a surging crowd. Hawlers shouting out sales; children playing and frolicking; lovers whispering to each other.
In the residential buildings, a mother preparing dinner for her family; children putting down their schoolbags to watch cartoons.
Office workers rushing home after work; elderly people taking a stroll in the park.
The moment the sonic wave appeared, everything froze.
As if the entire world had come to a complete standstill, descending into stillness.
The sonic wave swept past, causing everyone to bleed from their seven orifices and fall straight down to the ground.
This was the "sonic wave attack" of the Rank-B exotic beast Purple-Haired Rat!
Terrifying to the extreme!
"Ah..."
Gazing at the scene that looked like a living hell, Gu Qianxue couldn't help letting out a cry.
Tears slid silently from the corners of her eyes...
Li Hao sighed!
"What's meant to come has come after all!"
Following that, he reached out and pressed down on Gu Qianxue's left hand to offer comfort.
Martial artists below the Fifth-Grade Grandmaster level would all be affected in this kind of environment.
For ordinary people, it was no different from a devastating catastrophe!
The Rank-B exotic beast Purple-Haired Rat was a subterranean exotic beast skilled in burrowing and stealth. An adult weighed up to a hundred tons, reached a length of a hundred meters, and stood over twenty stories tall. This exotic beast possessed extreme speed and astonishing bite force, while also excelling at sonic attacks and biochemical poisonous gas. The casualties it caused when appearing in a human city were horrifying.
This type of exotic beast was extremely difficult to deal with. Not only did it excel at ranged attacks, but its poisonous gas also interfered with close-combat assaults.
If it couldn't beat its opponent, it would burrow into the ground and escape—truly a headache-inducing exotic beast.
Generally, only grandmasters of the seventh grade and above—top experts far surpassing the Purple-Haired Rat in strength—could resolve it with lightning speed.
"Alas, Yuncheng still has far too few experts!"
At the site of the incident, no one ever stepped forward to meet the enemy; they could only offer a passive defense.
In the Calamity Space Battlefield, this type of exotic beast was almost always in the vanguard forces, acting as mere cannon fodder.
In his past life, at his peak, he could easily slaughter hundreds of them with a wave of his hand.
Yet the destruction caused by such an exotic beast entering Blue Star was truly massive!
And this was just one; if they appeared in packs, they could instantly destroy a city.
The consequences were no less severe than an attack by a Rank-S exotic beast.
However, defending against this kind of exotic beast was very difficult, and its appearance would inevitably trigger a disaster in a certain region.
That was the terror of the exotic beasts from the Calamity Space.
Fortunately, Li Hao remembered that back then, Yuncheng's official authorities spared no expense in huge favors and resources to invite a peak Seventh-Grade Grandmaster to step in and resolve the calamity of the Purple-Haired Rat.
Otherwise, it wouldn't just be these few blocks falling; the entire city of Yuncheng would have been destroyed!
By that time, even with Li Hao's rebirth, he probably wouldn't have been able to protect himself...