“Bai Feifei’s” sudden eruption was so devoid of warning that Zhao Jiao didn't react at all. By the time her knees were pinned to the ground, the smug expression on her face was still frozen in place.
It wasn't until blood sprayed out from beneath her that the intense pain overwhelmed her reason. The only thing she could do now was scream.
“Aaaaah!”
“You... how dare you?”
Her face turned deathly pale in an instant. She looked at the Bai Feifei before her, her entire body trembling from the pain.
The person was the same as before, but she felt as if this girl had suddenly torn off a mask of kindness and gentleness to reveal a demon beneath.
“Ugh, why are you screaming so loud? I don't want to hear it.”
“I told you to kneel before you spoke. Are you deaf?”
Xu Mo had no intention of wasting words. With a flick of his hand, he pulled another iron spike from the storage ring and tossed it forward.
It pierced Zhao Jiao’s other leg with precision. This time, she was forced into a proper kneeling position on both knees.
For someone like this, all verbal communication was useless. Her meager brain could understand nothing except violence.
So, he would give her violence.
Zhao Jiao wailed in agony, her instincts driving her to continue her vitriol.
“Aaaaah! You bitch! I knew it... I knew it was all your doing!”
“You’ve finally shown your true colors, you—”
“Ah, what are you babbling about? Yeah, I did it. So what?” Xu Mo said impatiently. The metal bracer on his wrist shifted and rearranged itself into a short sword.
Pressing one hand down on Zhao Jiao’s head, he thrust the blade into her mouth, gave his wrist a twist, and casually stirred it around.
Crackle, crunch—
After a series of ear-piercing sounds, Zhao Jiao’s teeth were sent flying. Her screams came to an abrupt halt, replaced by muffled, whimpering moans from the back of her throat.
“Don't exhaust yourself trying to slander me. Wouldn't it be easier if I just admitted to everything?”
“I killed the people. I caused the aberration. I even hoped the aberration would spread further. It was all my grand conspiracy.”
“But, so what?”
Xu Mo’s cruel voice rang in Zhao Jiao’s ear. The extreme pain finally cleared her head slightly, making her realize that her usual bag of tricks had been used on the wrong person this time.
Twisting the truth and occupying the moral high ground to slander others was her specialty.
With someone backing her, she was adept at handling such dirty work.
But while those tactics might have worked on Bai Feifei, they were utterly meaningless against someone as completely unreasonable as Xu Mo.
Slander me? Say I’m guilty?
The way I used to play this game... you couldn't even imagine it in your wildest dreams.
Xu Mo leaned down slightly, the blade still resting in Zhao Jiao’s mouth, and whispered into her ear with a chuckle.
“Come on, I’ll give you a chance. Think about what you should say to me.”
“You have five seconds to organize your words. If you can say something that makes me happy, maybe you won't die.”
Zhao Jiao finally realized that regardless of the consequences of Bai Feifei’s actions, she herself was about to die right now.
She had no real strength of her own; she had relied entirely on clinging to the powerful and sucking up to Liu Yishou to earn a chance to enter the Inner City.
In her desperation, she turned her head slightly to look at Liu Yishou out of the corner of her eye, only to see him staring elsewhere with a grim, stoic expression.
Liu Yishou: Don't look at me! I’m terrified too!
“5, 4, 3...”
The demon’s death knell sounded in her ear. Zhao Jiao was about to try and say something, but her consciousness was already fading into darkness.
Pfft!
“Wait! You can’t—” Wang Xu tried to stop him, but he was a step too late.
Xu Mo didn't even bother counting to five. By the time he reached three, the blade had already driven forward, skewering her through.
“I’m tired of counting. Just die already.” Tossing the corpse aside, Xu Mo finally felt the rage in his heart subside a little.
He had been annoyed enough being woken up, but after hearing that woman’s slanderous drivel, he had almost been laughed into a fit of rage.
Though he was an Old-Timer, he had played this game many times and had never taken this kind of crap from anyone.
In his eyes, these kinds of framing and slandering dialogues were the most boring cutscenes imaginable. Whenever he encountered them, he just started killing.
I’m playing a game here; do you really think I’m going to let some NPCs play mind games with me?
He blamed Bai Feifei for even bothering to talk to such a minor character. Xu Mo spoke to her internally with some dissatisfaction.
“I’m telling you, are you a bit too easy to talk to?”
“In the future, when you meet someone like this, just kill them immediately. Don't embarrass me, alright?”
Bai Feifei was speechless. From the moment she felt this Evil God wake up in her mind, she knew something big was coming.
The brutal killing made her uncomfortable, but she also felt a faint, sinful sense of satisfaction in using evil to combat evil against such a person.
“It’s just that, if we do this...”
Xu Mo cut her off.
“Enough with the ‘this’ and ‘that.’ If you can’t handle it, just go to sleep. Your Sanity is too low anyway. I’ll handle this mess.”
Bai Feifei: ...
You’ll handle it?
Will there even be anyone left alive...?
Having finished the killing and vented his anger, Xu Mo looked up and scanned the crowd.
Perhaps because his aura was fundamentally different from Bai Feifei’s, no one had dared to step forward and stop his previous atrocity.
Even now, wherever his gaze landed, no one was willing to meet his eyes.
The Second Outpost team, which had been so aggressive toward Bai Feifei earlier, suddenly seemed a lot more reasonable for some reason.
Xu Mo’s gaze finally settled on Liu Yishou, and he spoke with a mocking grin.
“Heh... so your words are the rules, huh?”
“I really didn't expect to run into someone who could act even more arrogant than me.”
Liu Yishou was caught off guard by the girl’s sudden change in personality. He could only say coldly, “That was just a figure of speech.”
“Even if we set aside what role you played in this aberration incident, the fact that you brutally murdered a Scavenger in front of so many people is an undeniable truth!”
“Eh? Why set aside the previous part? Let’s talk about it,” Xu Mo said, adopting the posture of a brazen rogue.
“Isn't it obvious what role I’m playing? I’m the outlaw, the one who slaughtered the innocent and caused the aberration to spread. If you want, you can even say I’m the one who researched that aberration potion.”
Liu Yishou: ...
Listening to these words, he felt an inexplicable sense of dread.
Originally, “Bai Feifei” killing Zhao Jiao in public would have been good news for them.
She was just a plaything; her death wasn't a loss, and it would have easily confirmed “Bai Feifei’s” identity as a homicidal maniac.
But the most incomprehensible problem now was that the person being framed was actually admitting to everything wholeheartedly!
Shouldn't she be explaining herself frantically or expressing her outrage at the injustice? What the hell does this mean?!
“By the way, Little Liu, let me ask you something,” Xu Mo suddenly spoke again.
“Tell me, if a master lets their dog loose to bite people, should one hit the dog, or should one hit the master?”
Liu Yishou: ...
Without waiting for an answer, a wicked smile curled on Xu Mo’s lips.
“Well, according to my habits, I hit both the dog and the master!”
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