Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

The uneasy Simba and his warriors raised their guns to attack but Zhao Yao had flashed and appeared in front of a warrior, who knelt down on the ground, trembling as he covered his stomach.

Zhao Yao activated Time Freeze and touched the warrior's belly lightly. Then he resumed time.

“Great, I can use these people for testing my new tactics.”

After a warrior went down, Zhao Yao did not attack but merely flashed and dodged their attacks as if he was waiting for something.

“What's happening? Why didn't the cooldown period reduce?” Zhao Yao dodged a bullet and extended his hand to grab a bullet aimed at his groin. He shouted furiously, “Hey! Don't you know how to aim? Why aim at my groin?”

He dodged another wave of bullets and took out his cellphone to message Matcha, “What's happening? Are you doing your job?”

“Didn't I say to help me once I activate Time Freeze?”

“Are you playing computer games?”

In the Extradimensional Belly, Matcha, who was playing Mobile Legends on his cellphone, threw down his cellphone as though he was electrocuted. He shouted anxiously, “Lucifer! Lucifer? Come out and do your job!”

Latte pounced and caught hold of the falling cellphone. He stuck out his thumb and said, “Don't worry, leave the rest to me.”

“I'll leave it to you, Latte!” Matcha said gratefully, “Don't let my winning rate of 40% drop! It concerns our future compet.i.tion career!”

Milk Tea rolled his eyes and felt a headache. “I can't let Latte be addicted to computer games. I have to think of a solution.”

With Matcha's call, Lucifer ran over and shouted, “What's up, Matcha? Any matters?”

“Silence!” Matcha gestured for him to keep silent and concentrated on his hearing. Lucifer was puzzled.

Time froze and resumed. At the first instance of time resuming, Matcha raised his paw and slapped Lucifer's face hard.

“Ouch! Why did you hit me?”

Matcha jumped on Lucifer's face and punched him viciously. Latte was terrified.

Latter asked in shock, “What's happening? What are you doing Matcha? Why are you hitting this cat?”

Milk Tea said, “It's alright. Don't worry. They're just fooling around.”

Latte pointed at Lucifer and said, “But… but the cat's face is bleeding!”

Matcha's paws were filled with fresh blood. Every punch on Lucifer's face caused blood to spurt and his body to convulse.

Latte said in fear, “He… he's dying.”

Milk Tea said, “It's alright. Brother Matcha knows what he's doing.”

Latte looked at Lucifer's distorted face and thought, “This is going beyond limits. His brain juices are coming out!”

“What's with the reaction of the surrounding cats? Why did everyone act as though everything's fine?”

“Perhaps… perhaps this warm and cosy family is actually a gang-related clan? An evil power?”

Latte looked at Milk Tea and Matcha who was pounding Lucifer. He felt that they were extremely evil.

In the material realm, Zhao dodged the bullets and felt the changes in Time Freeze.

“Matcha's attacks are reducing the cooling down period.”

Since Matcha was upgraded to Level 10, he had the ability to reduce the cooling period when he attacked physically after the end of Time Freeze.

Zhao Yao used up 10 seconds of Time Freeze and Matcha beat Lucifer for four seconds. The cooling down period disappeared.

“Very good. In this case, I'll let Matcha stay in the Extradimensional Belly to reduce the cooling down period. Time Freeze became more effective.”

Zhao Yao flashed and Time Freeze ended. Tens of rebels screamed in pain as they flew out like flour sacks and landed immobilized on the ground with broken bones.

A few seconds later, all the rebels lost their mobility. Zhao Yao focused his mind and the guns flew from the rebels' hands as they were gathered by the Deflective Field and thrown on the ground.

Simba looked fearfully at Zhao Yao but remembered his everlasting body and shouted viciously, “This is not over yet. Just you wait! We'll return! We'll pursue you…”

“Finished? I'm not done yet. This is only the beginning.” Zhao Yao snapped his fingers and a dark Dimension Portal opened behind him.

“Dust Ball, round all of them up and squeeze them of all available experience points. Then let them return to revive.”

Dust Ball walked merrily out of the portal and shouted into the Extradimensional Belly, “Brother, collect our goods!”

In the Extradimensional Belly, Latte looked at the seriously wounded rebels being pulled in and became more alarmed. “What are they doing?”

“This place is totally different from what I expected!”

In the material realm, a.s.ser and Shreev hid in a distance and witnessed the entire scene.

a.s.ser shook his head. “This man's too meddlesome. Can't he just run away? I've followed the rebels in vain.”

a.s.ser's plan was to use his superpower to sneak into Simba's team and find a chance to enter the Door of Everlasting Life. Then he would defeat Arria and stop the power of the Door of Everlasting Life from expanding.

An unknown apostle appeared and wrecked his plan.

a.s.ser shook his head and said, “Let's go and find another target.”

A sound came from behind his back. “After watching for so long, aren't you saying something before leaving?”

a.s.ser and Shreev turned their heads and saw Zhao Yao smiling behind them.

“Your const.i.tution's very strong but is useless when faced with real strong cats.” a.s.ser glanced at Zhao Yao and said, “I advise you to leave this country. There would be more and more powerful soldiers pursuing you. You won't be able to resist forever.”

“This guy…” Zhao Yao was stunned by the sound he felt in his mind. It was different from his telepathic communication with his supercats. He took out his Battle Scanner and put on the monocle to scrutinize a.s.ser and Shreev.

Shreev was trash while a.s.ser was glowing with light and his head showed Level 12.

“Level 12 supercat? Wrong…” Zhao Yao was shocked as he looked at a.s.ser. “Besides Book, other supercats do not have level indication. He has the power of awareness and is equivalent to Level 12 Catherine.”