"Rez?" Guldo's heart trembled violently, pounding against his chest.
This guy is Rez!
The person who spoke is Rez!
Guldo quickly scanned his surroundings again, only to discover in horror that everyone around him had stopped moving.
Vegeta remained in the posture of crawling out of the pit, half-kneeling on the ground, his expression frozen.
Broly's head was tilted, his mouth slightly open, frozen at the exact moment he had asked his question.
In the distance, Recoom had just stood up and was now motionless.
Even the grass, the trees, the floating dust, the light in the air... everything was still.
However, Rez was moving.
He stood there with a calm demeanor, the tail behind him swaying gently without any wind, as if he were in normal time.
Not only that, but besides Rez, the female Saiyan next to him was also moving.
She stood by Rez's side, her blue eyes looking at Guldo calmly; there was no surprise or nervousness, just quiet observation.
Guldo truly felt that something was sinister!
This wasn't normal!
This was absolutely not normal!
How could it be like this?
I'm clearly still holding my breath, which means time has stopped.
Why aren't they affected by the Time Stop?
"I'm asking you a question, why are you running?" Rez asked with a smile.
Guldo's four eyes bulged like copper bells, his mouth agape, nearly letting out the breath he was holding.
"Rez, something seems a bit off," Linoshi whispered, leaning closer to Rez as her gaze swept over Guldo.
"What's off?" Rez asked.
"Look at Broly and the others... they're not moving," Linoshi said softly, pointing ahead.
Rez hadn't noticed that much just now; he had only seen Guldo hesitate for a brief moment before turning to run.
His attention had been entirely on that four-eyed shorty, thinking he just simply wanted to escape.
Now, reminded by Linoshi, he realized that whether it was Broly or Recoom, including Jeice and Vegeta, they were all completely motionless.
Broly kept his head tilted, mouth slightly open, his expression frozen at the moment of his query.
Recoom had just climbed up from the ground and was half-squatting with one hand braced against the floor, his posture awkward and comical.
Jeice stood in the distance with his arms crossed, the surprise still hanging on the corners of his mouth.
Vegeta had just crawled out of the pit, half-kneeling on the ground, covered in dirt.
Even the blue smoke that had just been blasted out by Recoom's Mouth Cannon had stopped.
The cloud of smoke hung in mid-air with clear edges, perfectly still, like a frame where the pause button had been pressed.
The only ones who could move were Linoshi and Guldo.
Rez suddenly understood.
So that fellow Guldo had used Time Stop.
Since I've practiced Ultra Instinct, is Time Stop useless against me?
Or was it... shielded by Linoshi?
"It's Time Stop, isn't it?" Rez pondered aloud, his gaze falling on the small figure sprinting in the distance. "I've long heard that this guy named Guldo can control time."
"So it's Time Stop, no wonder," Linoshi nodded thoughtfully, her gaze also landing on Guldo, watching his two short legs churning rapidly as he sprinted through the frozen air.
"The two of us are actually unaffected by the Time Stop." Rez looked at Linoshi meaningfully, a faint smile playing on his lips.
"It's... it's so amazing... maybe our constitutions are just special!" Linoshi quickly explained with a blush, her blue eyes flickering nervously as her fingers began to fiddle with the hem of her battle suit.
"Perhaps so," Rez nodded, having no intention of making things difficult for Linoshi.
He knew this wasn't some special constitution; it was clearly Angel Power at work.
An ability like Time Stop might be an inescapable killing move for ordinary warriors, but before an Angel, it was nothing more than child's play.
Guldo felt completely unsettled, his four eyes wide, momentarily at a loss for what to do.
His cheeks were puffed out like two balloons, his face turning red from holding his breath; his short legs had stopped running, and he stood there, unable to move forward or retreat.
He wanted to run away, but he had been spotted by Rez!
What was he supposed to do now?
"Huff, huff, huff..."
Guldo finally couldn't hold his breath any longer. His mouth opened, and he gasped for air, his chest heaving violently.
Having held his breath for so long, his lungs felt like they were about to burst, and sweat slid down his round cheeks.
Time resumed its flow.
"Captain! How is this possible!" Jeice turned pale with fright, still shocked by the fact that the Captain had been defeated, completely unaware that Guldo had already scurried a hundred meters away.
His eyes widened as he looked at Ginyu embedded in the pit on the ground, his mouth hanging open wide enough to fit a fist.
After Jeice spoke, he suddenly noticed out of the corner of his eye that Guldo was gone.
Startled, he turned his head toward Guldo's direction.
That guy had already run far away and was standing in an open area a hundred meters off, panting for breath in an extremely pathetic state.
Jeice was instantly enraged, his face flushing deep red.
"Guldo! You bastard, you just used Time Stop! Were you trying to run away?" Jeice shouted sternly, his voice full of anger and contempt.
"I was not! I was just getting ready to go to the bathroom!" Guldo argued loudly, his four eyes shifting guiltily.
"Guldo, I despise you!" Recoom also followed up with an angry reprimand, climbing up from the ground and pointing a finger at Guldo's nose as he cursed.
Guldo stopped talking, shrinking his neck and lowering his head, not daring to meet his teammates' angry glares.
Recoom then glared at Broly with a face full of fury, his face red with anger and his cheeks puffed out like a toad's.
This brat fell from the sky just now and hit me with a heavy blow.
I really want to give him a good lesson!
The problem is... that guy named Rez is too powerful.
Even the Captain was knocked unconscious by a single palm strike from a distance.
I have to find a way to slip away.
I'm injured now!
My speed definitely can't match Jeice's.
The only person I can outrun is Guldo.
Recoom's mind raced, and he quickly made up his mind.
"Kid, you just wait for me, I'll be back!" Recoom said as energy erupted from his body, a golden aura instantly surging up.
Whoosh—
Recoom turned into a streak of light, quickly fleeing into the distance, leaving a long trail in the sky.
The moment Recoom moved, Jeice also reacted, kicking off the ground and turning into a streak of light, flying toward the spaceship.
His speed was even faster than Recoom's, the golden light vanishing in the sky in an instant.
Guldo was left dumbfounded on the spot, his four eyes wide and round.
These two bastards!
Why are they running faster than me?
This is simply too shameless!
Guldo didn't hesitate; he turned and ran, his two short legs churning rapidly on the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
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