"…"
A few of the villagers were so shocked by Meng Chao's fierceness that they could not speak.
They either had scales, horns, or superhuman strength. Some even had fangs and claws that looked like those of wild beasts. Based on a normal person's aesthetic standards, they looked like fierce monsters.
But in their eyes, Meng Chao was the real monster.
No, he was the Grim Reaper who could kill monsters at will.
"Excuse me, please."
Meng Chao flung off the blood and brain matter on the chain around his right arm. He sucked in a deep breath and quelled his anger. Then, he tried his best to speak to the villagers in a gentle tone. "Can't you tell? I'm on your side. I'm here to take Ms. Mulian away from this place."
The villagers looked at each other at a loss and sized up Meng Chao. They did not find any abnormalities in him.
But they knew that he was an outsider, and great distrust instantly appeared on their faces.
"There are nine of the superhumans who killed innocent people just now."
Meng Chao extended nine fingers and said calmly, "I've killed five of them. There are still four left, and they will come to this place at any moment. If you want Ms. Mulian to be safe, hand her over to me. I will protect her."
The people looked at the innocent villagers who were killed by the so-called law enforcers, then at the three corpses Meng Chao had killed. They also heard the rumbling of crystal engines above the smoke and under the dark clouds getting closer.
They made up their minds and gritted their teeth to make way.
Behind them was a slender young girl wrapped in a coarse cloak. She was squatting in front of a dilapidated wall with some other villagers. She seemed to be exerting all her strength, but no one knew what she was doing.
Meng Chao frowned a little.
Ms. Mulian seemed to be a little slow in her reaction.
The other party had clearly come for her. The bullet had nearly blown her head off, but she was still ignorant and dilly-dallying?
Meng Chao strode forward and asked, "Ms. Mulian?"
The girl in the cloak lowered her head and said something to the dilapidated wall. Then, she turned her head around to look at him.
Meng Chao was a little stunned.
A strange feeling suddenly rose in his heart.
It was as if a strange energy had crawled into his brain from the depths of her eyes and stirred up ripples in his mind.
He sized up Ms. Mulian, who was considered a living Bodhisattva by the villagers.
The girl could barely be considered pretty, but she was far from being devastatingly beautiful. At the very least, she did not have Lu Siya's sharp and aggressive beauty.
She had a pair of emerald eyes, a pair of pointy ears, and circles of spiritual stripes that looked like wood appeared on her skin. At first glance, she looked like a statue that had gone through a thousand years of vicissitudes and been polished into luster by time.
Based on her facial features, she should be around the same age as Meng Chao.
But the lingering sense of pity between her eyebrows made her full of classical beauty, making people subconsciously ignore her age.
What Meng Chao found strange was that her face was clearly filled with grief. Meng Chao could also feel that her soul was in great pain, as if she was silently crying for the villagers' misfortune.
However, in the depths of her eyes, there was a hint of indifference and alienation.
It was as if only half of her soul was walking in the mortal world, while the other half was floating in the sky as a bystander, coldly watching the destined tragedy.
'Am I imagining things? How did I manage to read so much information from her face in an instant?'
Even Meng Chao found it unbelievable.
In fact, he even wondered whether he had known Ms. Mulian in his previous life and whether they had had a close relationship.
But when he searched through his memories, aside from discovering that there was a race known as elves in the Other World and that they looked somewhat similar to Ms. Mulian, he did not find any connection between them in his previous life.
Now that he thought about it carefully, Golden Tooth Lair had run into a very strange fire in his previous life. Hundreds of thousands of lair citizens had been tortured by the flames, and even a peerless fighter like Saber Jin Wanhao had died in the flames.
Ms. Mulian and all the people in Leprosy Village should have been devoured by the flames caused by the Supernatural Entities, right?
He had to wait until the Monster War ended before he could rise to power. It was impossible for him to have a relationship with Ms. Mulian.
While Meng Chao was filled with puzzlement, Ms. Mulian frowned slightly, as if she was seriously trying to recall where she had met this fierce man.
After thinking about it for a long time, a puzzled look appeared on her face. She just nodded slightly at Meng Chao and said softly, "Yes, I'm Su Mulian."
As she spoke, she turned around again and crouched down under the crumbling walls.
Her voice was filled with a very unique inspiration from the void.
It was as if everything around her had nothing to do with her.
But this did not match her image as a living Bodhisattva who saved people.
It also did not match what she was doing.
Meng Chao took two steps forward and moved behind Su Mulian and the villagers to look under the crumbling walls. It was only then that he understood what they were doing.
There was a person under the crumbling walls.
It was an ugly, burly woman with fangs curling up at the corners of her mouth. She did not look like a woman.
But no matter how ugly she looked, her hands were tightly clasped around her swollen abdomen, which made her body shine with a motherly radiance.
Unfortunately, that weak light was being corroded by endless darkness.
The pregnant woman's thigh was pressed down by the crumbling walls.
There were also a few terrifying wounds on her body.
The flesh around the wounds opened like a baby's lips. Blood rushed out of the dust that covered her body and flowed all over the ground.
She widened her turbid eyes and stared at the sky that was burning with black spirit flames in a daze. Her lips, which were supported by her fangs, trembled as if she wanted to beg the Gods and Buddhas on Earth to at least give the child in her belly a way out.
Unfortunately, the crumbling walls that were pressing down on her thigh weighed at least dozens of tons. It was definitely not something that a few villagers could move together.
As the blood continued to flow, her breathing and heartbeat became weaker by the second.
Her body temperature had dropped to a critical point. The wings of death would descend from the black fog at any moment.
Even if the Gods and Buddhas on Earth really existed, they would not be able to travel through the entire universe and save her and her child's lives.
Only Su Mulian was still kneeling in front of the pregnant woman. She held her hand and whispered in her ear as if she was encouraging her. For the sake of the child, she must not give up. They would definitely save her.
Ms. Mulian did not give up, and neither did the villagers around her. They stuck their strange-looking hands deep under the crumbling walls and worked together to try to lift the floor that was pressing down on the pregnant woman.
Meng Chao was silent for a moment. He went forward and knelt on one knee. He stretched out two fingers and pressed on the pregnant woman's neck, then on her stomach.
"She's hopeless. The child in her belly hasn't reached full term yet. Even if we cut it out, it won't survive."
Meng Chao sighed. "You've done your best. If you don't want to see more innocent people die, come with me now."
He was not someone who would not save people.
However, the experience of harvesting countless monsters allowed him to instantly distinguish between fatal and non-fatal injuries.
The pregnant woman's injuries were very serious. Unless the most advanced medical cabin appeared in three minutes and the most expensive medical medicine was injected, even a Golden Immortal would not be able to save her.
The cruel apocalypse had taught him to make choices and not dwell on the tragedies that had already happened.
Su Mulian stared at Meng Chao deeply.
"No, there's still hope," she said softly.
Then, the two emeralds embedded in her eye sockets suddenly shone with a gentle green light that was full of vitality.
The green light was like water. It turned into two warm currents that flowed through her arms and surged into the pregnant woman's body.
Something unbelievable happened.
The pregnant woman clearly did not take any medicine, and she did not look like a superhuman with a super strong self-healing ability.
However, the terrifying wounds on her body were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye under the comfort of the green light.
Moreover, Meng Chao could clearly sense that not only were the external wounds healing quickly, but the pregnant woman's blood vessels were also filling up again. Her and the child's hearts were beating strongly again. Not only did their body temperature rise, but their vitality magnetic field was also like an indomitable flame that burned fiercely again!
"This … is impossible!"
Meng Chao could not believe it.
The pregnant woman was full of vitality again, but Su Mulian seemed to have overdrawn her life force. In an instant, she became painful and dispirited.
However, she still forced a smile and looked at Meng Chao. "Please, help me save her."
No matter how dangerous the situation was, since the pregnant woman saw hope for survival again, Meng Chao naturally could not just watch two lives die.
He observed the overall structure of the ruins and first shot out his chain sabers to wrap around the two thick pillars at the top and pulled them to the side.
Then, he pushed a huge rock to the pregnant woman's side and used it as a fulcrum.
Then, he squeezed into the middle of the villagers and, together with the strange-looking humans, extended his burning hands and inserted them deep into the cracks of the ruined walls. With a roar, he suddenly exerted his strength.
Spirit flames shot out of the 36,000 pores on his body again.
His bulging muscles completely tore apart the waterproof canvas that was riddled with holes.
The seven or eight "staples" that were fixed to the wound on his chest also flew out.
However, before his heart was squeezed out of the wound, he finally lifted the dozens of tons of reinforced concrete, which was precious by dozens of centimeters, so that the villagers could pull the pregnant woman out.
A tall villager with loose hair like a savage hugged the pregnant woman tightly and expressed his gratitude to Meng Chao while sobbing.
Su Mulian looked at the spreading blood on Meng Chao's chest in shock. She reached out to touch it. "Are you injured?"
"It's just a small wound. We'll talk about it later."
Meng Chao held her hand and listened to the movements of the four former Reaper Squad members above him. "Your grandfather was killed, and your next target is you. For the safety of Leprosy Village and all the villagers, you can't continue staying with them. You have to come with me, understand?"
Su Mulian's eyes went wide, and she instantly lost control of her emotions.
But in the next moment, she regained half of her compassion and half of her indifference. She just nodded and said, "Got it. I'll go with you."
"That's good."
Even though he did not understand how Ms. Mulian could be so calm, it was for the best that she was willing to cooperate. Meng Chao sighed in relief and said to the villagers around him, "Everyone, run in different directions. Don't gather together, and don't follow Ms. Mulian. The more people there are, the bigger the target will be. You'll bring danger to all of us! Don't worry, hand Ms. Mulian to me. I'll protect her with my life! "
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