Chapter 45 (1/2)
Faint cries and screams emanated from within the heavy smoke
Ye Qingxuan resisted the hallucinations, and forced hi clearer He searched through the the se system Sometimes, he would open a door and find it empty Sometimes, he would see the twisted faces of those in pain He opened door after door, but he still could not find Bai Xi
He pulled hith to push open the door He saw her sleeping face ”You're here,” he murmured
She was still in a deep sleep, unable to sense all that had happened
”It would be so nice if you're always this quiet” Ye Qingxuan pinched her cheeks Only now did he see that she was actually a very cute girl With delicate features, she was quiet, cute, and pretty, like a little doll
He bent down to pick her up, but suddenly his expression changed, and he collapsed
”You…you mutt,” said a hoarse voice
A blade was held against his back Ye Qingxuan froze Behind hier Her face was still twisted ”Do you knohat you did?!”
Kneeling on the ground, Ye Qingxuan reached behind hi into her red eyes, he was not scared anyh
”Didn't you say that in life, there are always suddendeep into her His eyes were decisive yet condescending ”Sometimes, you just have to bear it”
”You due, forcing herself to stay level headed Thinking of her now insane underlings, her heart dripped blood It had taken years to get a following of that size, and get a foothold don But in one night, everything had been destroyed
For the first tiotten herself into this, but now she could not get out She wanted to turn around and flee, but greed was still burning in her heart There was so o crazy
She only needed to get the girl, and then she would never have to live in Avalon anyundy, to the Corsica Islands, or sneak into the East and live a life of wealth
Those Easterners had even proal surgeries Youth, returning to youth—it was an impossible dream Impossible despite however irls
”Go die!” she screamed and tackled him
Ye Qingxuan rolled on the ground He felt his energy slowly leaving him
The old woman who had seemed so pitiful and lonely finally revealed her true nature as a ferocious and ruthless worow her monsters
Ye Qingxuan never ith to roll on the floor, as the woed to escape In her hand, the light reflected off of the sharp blade It was terrifying
As the undeniable boss of don, she had not gotte there just by raising otten that she had elevated her status froet her way Her technique had been perfected at the cost ofattacked by hallucinations, she could still take care of Ye Qingxuan!
Her eyes were bloodshot as the fantasies have crept into her brain She ceased the sht at Ye She stabbed twice in a second—so fast one could not even react Ye Qingxuan dodged, but he still bled from a neound
”Come on, mutt Come!” Hariti's steps were cluain and in an instant, tounds appeared on Ye Qingxuan's arm But the fatal blow aimed at his heart missed
Behind her ear, her stringy hair blew crazily, revealing a hidden gill
”A gill?” Ye Qingxuan gaped at the inhuman body part
”What are you looking at?” Wildly, Hariti smoothed down her hair She seemed to be furious, but her hallucinations were so joyous She caressed the inhuman body part behind her ear She cackled, the cold sound like singing wind
”It's the Siren Transfored thirty years of my life for this power I have power, and you all have to die! They all died, killed by that white-haired creature The white-haired creature died too”
She continued xuan, she suddenly turned savage ”You must die too! Everyone like that creature must die!”
The crazed woer doards!
Ye Qingxuan used the last of his strength to roll over and heard thethe floor
”Go die, go die, go die, die, die!” Eer that had been in the floor suddenly fleard Ye Qingxuan!
The floorboard creaked, wood splinters flying in the air The dagger cut a gaping hole in the floor, going straight towards Ye Qingxuan's throat She had really gone crazy She illing to do anything to kill him
But the dagger that would have undoubtedly split his throat, and the floor in half suddenly stopped It was gripped in Ye Qingxuan's outstretched hand
In a daze, Ye Qingxuan was still conscious enough to try to grasp her arrabbed the blade instead But even if it was the blade, he still had to hold on tight! So he held on for dear life
The blade cut deeply into his pal the bone
The debilitating pain spread His burning hand shook, but Ye Qingxuan stared at Hariti's twisted face He suddenly asked, ”Are you scared?”
”Youfastened Saliva dripped fro to rip you to shreds!” She scratched at Ye Qingxuan's face crazily, leaving behind bloody xuan's body suddenly went stiff, as if he were frozen
The treradually dilated
Hariti stopped, suddenly laughing as if she had heard the funniest joke in the world! ”Haha! You're dragged into it too!” She cackled, overjoyed ”Your nightmare has started too!”
On the ground, Ye Qingxuan was still stiff His body was curled into a ball, trehosts had dragged hihtmare