Zheng Yingxiong gave Tiantian an extremely strange feeling.

He was just like her, as if he had never wanted to live from the very beginning.

Now both of them wanted the other to leave while they themselves died.

If things continued like this, who would survive?

“If we’re going to live, then let’s live together…” Tiantian smiled bitterly, then turned to Old Liu and said, “Big Brother, I said I’m willing to do anything. But I don’t want this child to see what happens to me, so can you let him wait here while I go inside with you?”

“No.” Old Liu said decisively, “If he runs off to call your companions… I’ll be the one in the most danger.”

“Our companions…?”

Tiantian realized the other party must have thought she and Zheng Yingxiong were teammates who had escaped from the same room, which explained why they hadn’t allowed anyone to leave alone from the very beginning.

“Old Fang, bring Little Cheng out and slaughter this kid to bleed him.” Old Liu called back, “We’ll have something to eat for the next few days.”

“Bleed him…”

Although Tiantian could imagine this kind of thing was the norm in the “Land of the End,” when it came to herself, it was still difficult to accept.

If this child hadn’t encountered her… would he have suffered such a miserable fate?

“Wait a moment…” Tiantian suppressed the panic in her heart and said to the tall man before her, “To be honest, this place must already be full of corpses, right… If you really want to find food, there are even corpses around that have already been bled dry… Why must you attack a child? You clearly don’t need to kill anyone…”

“Looks like you really haven’t eaten people…?” Old Liu stared with his yellowed eyes and asked, “Then how exactly have you managed to survive here?”

“I…” Tiantian naturally didn’t want to tell the other party about her experiences, but she still couldn’t accept that “eating people” was the norm.

“This is too absurd…” Tiantian said through gritted teeth, “So neither of us can escape…”

“Originally you could have escaped.” Old Liu smiled, “But seeing that you’re carrying both dry rations and water… I figure you must have an organization, right? Otherwise I can’t imagine how a delicate woman and a ten-year-old child could collect these things on their own. So now neither of you can leave—if you leave, you’ll put us in danger instead.”

Tiantian had never imagined that Zheng Yingxiong’s backpack would become the fuse for their deaths at this moment.

“So you’re going to kill us directly?” Tiantian asked.

“No, I want to ‘make full use of everything.'” Old Liu smiled, “Here, beautiful women have their uses, children have their uses. You’ll understand later.”

“There’s no need to wait until later…” Tiantian replied with a defeated expression, “I’ve seen more dirty things in this world than anyone…”

“Oh?” Old Liu clearly didn’t believe her. “You, a tender little girl, are acting all world-weary with me?”

“Let me put it this way.” Tiantian’s eyes suddenly turned cold, and her entire aura seemed to change. “I know I definitely can’t escape, but you still have a choice. If you want to have a good time later, do as I say and let this child go. Otherwise, I’ll definitely make you die when you’re having the most fun…”

Although she spoke the most humble words, Tiantian’s aura still made Old Liu before her feel something was wrong.

He was even worried that the woman before him was an “Echo” with some strange ability. After all, she had remained calm from the very beginning, which really wasn’t like an ordinary girl.

Old Liu said nothing, staring at Tiantian’s eyes and constantly sizing her up.

Under normal circumstances, to know whether someone is lying, you only need to see if their gaze shows any flaws when they stare at you.

And Old Liu caught a trace of panic deep in Tiantian’s eyes.

No matter how calm her words were, her expression couldn’t deceive people.

She had no trump cards at all. All her trump cards were merely the slight threat in her words just now.

At this time, Old Fang and Little Cheng had also come to Old Liu’s back. The two of them were now wearing different expressions, contemplating something.

“She’s lying.” Old Liu smiled, “Kill the child, tie up the woman.”

Tiantian’s eyes widened instantly, and Old Fang was already walking toward Zheng Yingxiong with a maniacally laughing expression on his face.

The injury on Zheng Yingxiong’s forehead made him dizzy and drowsy, unable to even move.

“Don’t…” Tiantian grabbed Old Fang’s arm in panic, “You can kill me, but don’t kill him…”

“Go to hell!” Old Fang kicked Tiantian away. “You’ll suffer plenty in a moment!”

Tiantian fell to the ground, her whole body beginning to tremble. What had this world become?

Whether it was the real world or the “Land of the End,” what was the difference?

It seemed everywhere was the same—survival of the fittest was the only law in the entire world.

Making women and children “fully utilized”—how ridiculous.

Why did every person who was kind to her have to die in the end?

Old Fang fiercely grabbed Zheng Yingxiong’s neck and lifted him from the ground, while Zheng Yingxiong kept striking Old Fang’s body with the limp newspaper short sword in his hand.

He seemed to be wielding a real sword—slashing horizontally, then chopping down, then thrusting forward with the sword point.

Unfortunately, to save costs when printing newspapers, a large amount of mechanical groundwood pulp is used to make newsprint. This kind of paper, let alone using it to kill people, would be barely adequate even for swatting an ant to death.

“Uncle Fang!!” The young man called Little Cheng stepped forward and grabbed Old Fang. “That’s enough! Why must you attack a child?”

Old Liu snorted coldly and directly pulled out a knife, pressing it against Little Cheng’s waist. “Little Cheng, have you lived long enough? Do you know why you’ve survived until today?”

“I…” Unarmed Little Cheng, with a sharp knife pressed against his waist, had no solution for the moment and was left with only an expression of unwillingness on his face.

Watching Zheng Yingxiong’s face gradually turn red from being choked, Tiantian felt her entire state was very strange.

She allowed anyone in this world to die, but she wouldn’t allow someone who was kind to her to die.

Because in this world, people who were kind to her were rarer than anyone else.

Now Yun Yao’s whereabouts were unknown, and the little boy she had met on the road was also about to die inexplicably. This feeling cast a deep layer of despair over her heart.

She didn’t want to escape from here, and it seemed she couldn’t live here either.

Could it be that destroying this place was the only correct answer?

*Clang!*

As soon as the bell rang, Old Fang, who was grabbing Zheng Yingxiong, trembled all over his body, as if he had experienced something bizarre.

And Zheng Yingxiong still had his face flushed red, eyes closed, waving the short sword in his hand.

One sword, two swords, three swords.

Old Fang’s clothes were continuously cut open, flesh flew everywhere, blood spurted out.

In just a few seconds, he completely lost his strength, released his grip on Zheng Yingxiong, and fell backward onto the ground.