“This is bad…”

Qiu Shiliu shifted her body backward, but this dilapidated corner of the wall made even turning around difficult. There was simply nowhere to hide.

Sure enough, when little Xuanwu approached the corner of the wall, she immediately discovered Qiu Shiliu’s foot exposed outside the straw.

She instantly raised her head, a gaze shooting out from within her dirty and disheveled hair toward Qiu Shiliu.

Qiu Shiliu’s heart also jumped to her throat in an instant. Her right hand directly clenched into a fist. Regardless of what exactly this little girl before her was, she was indeed Xuanwu.

If necessary, she wouldn’t mind directly beating little Xuanwu to death right here.

But unexpectedly, little Xuanwu didn’t attack Qiu Shiliu. She merely hurried back to the stove, used the wooden stick to flip out all those corn cobs, then, not caring whether they were hot or not, clutched them in her hands, walked to Qiu Shiliu’s front, and respectfully placed them on the ground.

Then little Xuanwu quietly retreated to a distance, looking at Qiu Shiliu with some fear.

At this moment, Qiu Shiliu didn’t know what to do either. She looked at the corn cobs at her feet, then looked toward little Xuanwu, and could only open her mouth to ask, “What are you doing…?”

“I stole them…” little Xuanwu said in a low voice, “Returning them to you…”

……

Xuanwu lost control again, leaving countless wounds on Wangba’s fat belly as if she had gone mad.

Immediately after, “Lush Wood” and “Wild Growth” cooperated with each other, causing countless vines to shoot up from beneath the ground to entangle Xuanwu. But she, as if stimulated enormously, continuously tore apart the vines and charged toward Wangba.

Upon seeing this, Wangba unconsciously took a step backward. After all, Xuanwu’s strength was truly too great, far exceeding the limits of humanity. Blocking each punch required mustering tremendous courage.

Luo Shiyi hurriedly released his “Carefree,” allowing Wangba to temporarily overcome the fear in his heart.

“Animal…?”

“I can’t describe this feeling.” Luo Shiyi looked at Xuanwu’s body.

She had no face, which meant she fundamentally couldn’t show any expression. Even though Xuanwu’s expression was usually extremely cold, everyone could still read some information from her eyes.

But at this moment, she was like a living killing machine, not saying a word, only slaughtering.

“Jiu Jie!” Luo Shiyi turned his head and shouted toward the distance, “If we don’t hurry up, we’re really going to meet our end here!”

Bai Jiu’s side was clearly pointing at Jiang Shi while arranging something with many people, and didn’t give Luo Shiyi a response.

“Shiyi, no need to rush Xiao Jiu.” Wangba took a step forward, his massive voice once again causing the ground to shake slightly, “Anyway, the ‘Day of Annihilation’ is almost here. I’ll just stay here.”

“Ba Ge, you…”

“This feeling of being a hero is too damn good.” Wangba said, “Usually you all call me ‘Wangba,’ but at times like this you all call me ‘Ba Ge.'”

After hearing this, Luo Shiyi furrowed his brow, “You can’t just act cool like this just because I called you ‘Ba Ge,’ can you?”

“Who? Me acting cool?”

“Dying by yourself isn’t going to amount to anything,” Luo Shiyi said. “If you’re going to die, I can also help out.”

“Little Jiang Shi still has your ‘Immortality’ on him, so you better not die. Just get beaten to a cripple and that’ll be fine,” Wangba said.

“Makes sense. Being crippled is good. If I’m crippled, Shi Ge won’t have to die.”

The two sorted out their emotions and once again stood before Xuanwu. After a moment, they directly charged forward.

……

Qiu Shiliu slightly furrowed her brow and bent down to pick up the corn cob. This thing was somewhat hot to the touch and felt exceptionally hard.

“You were just eating this thing?” Qiu Shiliu tried to converse with little Xuanwu, discovering that the other party really seemed to be a little girl, vastly different from the feeling Xuanwu gave people.

“Mm…” Little Xuanwu hesitated for a moment, then said, “I already returned them to you. I thought no one wanted them. I picked them up over there.”

Qiu Shiliu shook her head, held up the corn cob and said, “This thing can’t be eaten.”

“Yes, I won’t eat it anymore.” Little Xuanwu shook her head and hid the half-eaten corn cob in her hands behind her back.

“Damn…” Qiu Shiliu scratched her head, “That’s not exactly what I meant. If you want to eat it, go ahead and eat it, but this thing isn’t good for your body, right?”

“Good for…?”

“Damn… why am I starting to care about you…”

Qiu Shiliu seemed to think of something, then viciously threw the corn cob on the ground, stepped forward, and grabbed little Xuanwu’s dirty, tattered clothing by the collar.

Little Xuanwu didn’t look afraid, just silently closed her eyes.

Qiu Shiliu knew that the Xuanwu before her eyes definitely had a problem. After all, Xuanwu shouldn’t be a child. From this, she deduced that this entire world was fake.

“My teammates are being slaughtered by you outside, and here you’re pretending to be pitiful with me?” Qiu Shiliu said, “You think just because you look like a child I won’t strike at you? Having no food to eat versus losing your life—which do you think is more serious?”

Little Xuanwu didn’t speak, just kept her eyes closed the whole time.

Upon seeing this, Qiu Shiliu directly lifted little Xuanwu up, then viciously threw her to the ground.

Little Xuanwu’s head had a piece of flesh knocked off, and blood soon flowed all over her face. But she didn’t make any movement. After crawling up, she simply continued to close her eyes.

Qiu Shiliu made an effort to calm her emotions.

The current situation was just too bizarre.

She was viciously attacking a little girl in tattered clothing that barely covered her body. The girl had just wanted to roast the corn cobs she had picked up to eat, yet suffered a beating from her for no reason whatsoever.

Whether from a moral, social, or ethical perspective, she herself should be an utterly unpardonable person.

But was this really right? Xuanwu had perhaps killed more people than she had even seen…

“It’s fake…” Qiu Shiliu said in a low voice, “This is all fake… You’re Xuanwu’s weakness. As long as I kill you, Xuanwu will definitely die… Didn’t you always want to die? I’ll grant your wish…”

Thinking of this, Qiu Shiliu directly mounted little Xuanwu’s body and extended both her hands to choke the other party’s neck.

But what she hadn’t expected was that little Xuanwu’s attitude toward the world was fundamentally no different from the real Xuanwu’s. She didn’t even struggle, just lay on the ground waiting for death to arrive.

Qiu Shiliu subconsciously looked at little Xuanwu’s face. The years hadn’t left any traces on her face, but humans had.

With her hair spread out, her face was full of horrifying scars.

Although Qiu Shiliu was increasing the force in her hands, she couldn’t help but look at little Xuanwu’s limbs, discovering that whether it was her arms or her thighs, they were all covered with shocking bruises and wounds.

Several dozen seconds later, Qiu Shiliu hesitated once again.

This time, the feeling of killing someone was more real than any previous time. She could see little Xuanwu’s complexion gradually turning purple, the strength in her body gradually disappearing.

By the time she came back to her senses, she had already released her hands.

“Cough…” Little Xuanwu coughed once, making a dry heaving motion, but she quickly acted as if nothing had happened and opened her mouth to say, “Kill me.”

“You…” Qiu Shiliu’s lips trembled for a moment, not knowing exactly how to deal with this suffering child before her eyes.

Seeing that Qiu Shiliu made no movement, little Xuanwu slowly opened her eyes.

Only then did Qiu Shiliu discover that little Xuanwu’s right eye, which she had been using her hair to cover the whole time, actually had two pupils simultaneously.