What was the fairest revenge in the world?
If someone stabbed you, you would stab him back. It seemed fair. However, since you did not hurt anyone, why should you suffer the same pain as the assailant? A fairer situation would be when the wound on your body disappeared and the assailant suffered the same stab, right?
In other words, if you were killed, the fairest situation would be that you regained your life force and the assailant died in your place. In this way, you would be unharmed and the assailant would receive the punishment he deserved. Everyone would be happy. Even though this situation defied common sense and was impossible to achieve in most places in the world, there was one place that was an exception.
It was a pocket dimension.
Lin Sanjiu could not hear a thing. Her blood was pumping in her veins, and her ears were filled with the sound of blood gushing out. However, amidst the chaos, she finally understood one thing.
She could not let the corpse get close to her because it believed that she was the assailant. Once she got close to her, it would launch a "just revenge" on her. What could be more just than extracting the life force from the assailant and resurrecting herself?
"Hurry up!" Mrs. Manas urged in her mind, "Right, run to the right!"
Lin Sanjiu covered her abdomen with her hand as cold sweat trickled down her forehead. She retracted her [Individualized Teaching] and the line of words that read "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" instantly disappeared into the night. She loosened her grip, and the [Ability Polishing Agent] fell to the ground with a clatter. Silverlight staggered all the way to the corner of the warehouse. She did not have the time to grab the small silver bottle, so she struggled to summon her [Tornado Whip]. With a whip, a gust of wind shot out from her hand.
The stench of decay that had enveloped her since the beginning was finally blown away along with the corpse. There was only a faint smell of decay left at the tip of her nose. It was an indescribable smell, dark and filled with the aura of death. When it flowed through her nose and into her body, she felt as if half of her blood and spirit had been sucked dry.
Before Lin Sanjiu could hold her breath, she felt a sharp, cold pain tearing through her organs and muscles. Her breath caught in her throat, and her clothes were soaked in the blood that gushed out of her body. Before the [Ability Polishing Agent] slipped out of her hand, she cast a glance at the corpse with the help of the silver light. The bloodstain on its chest was slowly shrinking.
In less than half a second, the corpse had transferred its injury to Lin Sanjiu without even touching her.
Lin Sanjiu did not have the time to look back. She pushed herself up from the ground and her vision darkened. She staggered in the direction that Mrs. Manas had pointed and ducked between two shelves. Glancing through the gap between the shelves, she happened to see the corpse fall in the distance with a thud, its two legs swaying in the air like a long sack as it smashed to the ground.
"Don't let it get near you," Mrs. Manas said quickly and anxiously, "I don't want your neck to be broken like that!"
"I don't want that either..."
Lin Sanjiu repeated the words on the tip of her tongue a few times, but she couldn't get them out. She held onto the shelf with one hand and leaned all her weight on it. She pressed her hand against her wound, and her consciousness blurred like a TV with poor signal.
"Did I hurt an important organ?" "Is my lung bleeding?" Lin Sanjiu thought vaguely, "Why did I lose consciousness just because of a small cut?
It's not like I've never been injured more severely in the past... "
Ryuji seemed to have noticed that something was wrong with her, but when his voice reached Lin Sanjiu's ears, she could only hear a few broken syllables. Her already dim vision became even more blurry. Lin Sanjiu had to blink a few times before she saw the corpse stand up again. Without the wound on its chest and abdomen, its limbs seemed to have become more coordinated, and its movements were much more agile.
"Damn it."
Lin Sanjiu turned around and walked away, but her footsteps were too heavy for her to control. She bumped her shoulder against the shelf.
"First aid kit," Mrs. Manas' voice became more and more erratic as Lin Sanjiu's consciousness began to wane. "The grand prize must have given you a first aid kit. It's impossible that he didn't give it to you … Look for it carefully …"
Lin Sanjiu felt as if a black hole was opening up in her abdomen, draining her stamina. Lin Sanjiu fell to the ground with a thud, but she stood up shakily. Subconsciously, she took out a box-like object and placed it on the ground. Then, she realized that it was a communication device.
"First aid kit," she mumbled, but the meaning of those three words was not as significant as the next two words, "Grand prize …"
The corpse behind her was dragging its limbs and bending its head. It was so fast that it was almost like a shadow as it moved towards her at high speed. Lin Sanjiu gathered the strength that seemed to be draining from her body. She propped herself up and staggered forward. Her wounds were tearing at her body, making it hard for her to breathe. As a posthuman, it was rare for her to feel so powerless and vulnerable. She felt empty, powerless, and vulnerable.
Lin Sanjiu smiled bitterly as she thought about it.
The wounds on her body came from the corpse, and to that corpse, it was a fatal wound. According to its principle of "an eye for an eye", Lin Sanjiu should have died immediately after she was injured. The reason why she could still stand up and run was probably because her physique was far superior to that of a normal posthuman.
She staggered toward the other end of the warehouse. She didn't expect that she wouldn't even have the chance to stop and catch her breath when she was so severely injured. Ryuji was standing at the only side of the warehouse without a wall. He looked at her and shouted, "Are you badly injured? Don't you have any medicine? "
Lin Sanjiu didn't wait for an answer. She tripped and fell to the ground again. Her grand prize must have left some first aid measures for her, but since she didn't know what they were, she could only open her card library and search for them one by one.
Ryuji looked at her and hesitated for a moment. Suddenly, he lowered his head and took out something from his pocket.
"This is for you," he seemed to have made up his mind. "You have helped me a lot. I don't have anything better, so I'm going to throw it in!"
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