Bai Shan's mind buzzed.
She did not have time to think. She instinctively swung her dagger and chased after him.
But against her expectations, Meng Chao seemed to have one last breath left, but he jumped up and down, dashed left and right, and died again and again. He just could not die.
There were a few times when Bai Shan's dagger cut his skin.
But aside from making his mangled flesh even more indistinct, she could not stop this loach-like monster from jumping around.
The environment around her was also working against her.
While Meng Chao ran, he crashed into the swaying, broken walls in the ruins.
The ruins continued collapsing, and they either blinded Bai Shan's eyes or blocked her path.
She could only watch Meng Chao wiggle his butt one wall away from her, but she could not pounce on him and stab his heart to her heart.
After a short five minutes of chasing and fleeing, Bai Shan became agitated. Her eyes were completely blinded by the blood-red glare, and there was only one thought left in her mind. She had to kill this person to silence him, or else, everything would be over!
Fortunately, no matter how agile Meng Chao was, the blood that gushed out of his wounds left behind a bloody path in the ruins.
Even if she lost sight of him time and time again, she could still catch up to him by smelling the pungent stench of blood.
Besides, Meng Chao was on the verge of running out of energy.
When he crawled through the ruins, he was scratched by the sharp rebars and shattered stones. His wounds became even more terrifying, and his crawling speed became slower.
In the end, Bai Shan caught up to Meng Chao.
In front of the two of them stood a pitch-black wall.
It was a dead end.
Meng Chao seemed to be in despair. He shouted and struggled to crash into the wall.
Bai Shan snorted coldly. Her dagger turned into a white bolt of lightning that stabbed Meng Chao's heart from behind.
"Ah!"
Meng Chao let out a shrill scream of pain. The dagger was stuck in his back.
"Crash!"
He threw himself against the wall.
But the wall had long since become brittle due to the impact from the explosion of the spirit energy underground. When he crashed into it at full force, it shattered to pieces.
Meng Chao fell into the space behind the wall.
Eight pillars of light shot at Bai Shan from the space behind the wall.
Bai Shan narrowed her eyes. She saw Wild Wolf, Zhang Tie, A 'Ji, and five other Wild Wolves' shocked and bewildered expressions.
The corners of her eyes twitched, but her expression remained the same. Her mind raced as she quickly thought of a reasonable excuse.
Meng Chao fell by the Wild Wolf's feet and did not move.
Bai Shan's dagger was stabbed into his back, close to his heart.
Wild Wolf looked at Bai Shan, then at Meng Chao. He knelt down on one knee and extended two fingers to press against Meng Chao's carotid artery. He counted quietly for a few seconds.
Then, he carefully examined the wound caused by the dagger. He shook his head and asked in confusion, "He's dead. Bai Shan, what happened? Who is he? Why did he appear here? Why did you kill him?"
"… I don't know."
Bai Shan was silent for a moment. Then, great sorrow appeared on her face. She sobbed and said, "I only know that he killed Ms. Mulian."
"What?!"
Everyone jumped up.
Ah Ji jumped especially high.
"You saw it with your own eyes?" Wild Wolf's voice quivered. He could not believe it, and neither could he accept it.
"… Yes, I saw it with my own eyes."
Bai Shan sucked in a deep breath and said in a quivering voice, "After we split up to search, I accidentally heard a very faint cry for help. It sounded like Ms. Mulian's voice.
"When I looked in the direction of the voice, I found Ms. Mulian leaning against a corner of the wall. The person seemed to have noticed that Ms. Mulian wasn't dead, so he wanted to go up and kill her.
"Without thinking, I wanted to go up and save her, but this person was very sinister.
"But this guy is really sinister. When he saw me, he threw a grenade and reduced the corner where Ms. Mulian was to ruins. Ms. Mulian was blasted to pieces, and she was buried under the rubble. She's definitely dead.
"I-I couldn't save Ms. Mulian in time. I only managed to snatch this at the last moment."
She opened her palm and handed over Su Mulian's bracelet.
Wild Wolf took the bracelet with trembling hands.
It was a wooden bracelet he had personally made, and it was light and did not weigh much.
However, this tough man made of steel and iron seemed to be unable to support it. He had to use both hands to barely support it.
"You … Bai Shan, did you really see clearly that the person this person killed was Ms. Mulian?" Wild Wolf's voice instantly turned hoarse.
Bai Shan hesitated for a moment.
"Yes," she said firmly.
"At that time, half of Ms. Mulian's face was burned to a bloody mess, but the other half of her face was still clean. When I shone the searchlight on her face, I managed to see her facial features. I saw it very clearly. It was indeed a heavily injured Ms. Mulian."
"Sh-She was blasted to pieces by this person, and she was buried under reinforced concrete?" Wild Wolf shut his eyes as if he could not imagine such a cruel scene.
However, his tightly clenched fists were making squeaking sounds, and white smoke was rising from his palms, as if he were holding two red-hot soldering irons. It was clear that his heart was on the verge of exploding with anger.
"Wild Wolf, don't ask so many questions."
Bai Shan let out a long sigh. "Trust me, Ms. Mulian didn't die in any pain. As long as we get through this crisis, there will come a day when we can find her remains and let her obtain eternal peace.
"The dead are gone. What's important is the people who are still alive. Regardless of whether it's the old village chief or Ms. Mulian, they treat us and all the villagers as their family. I believe that their spirits in heaven will also hope that you can pull yourself together and lead your 'family' to slaughter a path of survival!"
"That's right. I do have to pull myself together and slaughter a path of survival."
Wild Wolf opened his eyes, and the thousands of blood capillaries in his eyes snapped. He asked coldly, "But who is this person? Who ordered him to kill Ms. Mulian?"
"I don't know for now," Bai Shan said in a low voice.
Bai Shan said in a low voice, "Give me some time. I'll definitely be able to find out this fellow's identity. At that time, the mastermind and conspiracy behind him will be completely exposed!"
"… Looks like the entire plot is indeed as clear as day."
Wild Wolf let out a long sigh.
He stared deeply at Bai Shan, and indescribable grief and disappointment appeared in his eyes.
Zhang Tie, A 'Ji, and the Wild Wolves also stared at Bai Shan with strange gazes.
Blood filled Zhang Tie's arms, and the killing intent that gushed out of his pores became stronger.
Just now, when Bai Shan and Wild Wolf had been talking, he had quietly spread out with the Wild Wolves to surround Bai Shan and seal off all the directions and routes she could run in.
Not far away, there was a stream of fire burning fiercely.
But Bai Shan felt that the temperature in the underground space had instantly dropped by dozens of degrees.
It was as if she had been locked in a freezer.
Or an ancient tomb in the depths of the ice.
She took half a step back and stuttered, "Wild Wolf, what's the meaning of this?"
"What do you think?"
Wild Wolf took half a step closer. His beast-like killing intent locked onto his right-hand man. "Bai Shan, why did you lie to me?"
"I didn't!"
Bai Shan still did not understand what went wrong. Her sparkling gaze moved around before she locked on A 'Ji, who had a shifty look on his face. She widened her eyes and said fiercely, "Wild Wolf, no matter what this boy said, it's all fake. There's no reason for you to believe this boy of unknown origins but not your childhood friend!"
"That's right. Pearl Bai Shan, you, me, and Strong Arm Zhang Tie grew up together. We were childhood friends," Meng Chao said.
Tears of blood rolled down Wild Wolf's cheeks, and his expression became even sadder. "That's why I really don't understand why you lied to me!"
"I —"
Bai Shan still wanted to argue, but she suddenly heard a series of strange coughs.
Her voice came to a screeching halt.
Three eyeballs, including the one at the center of her brows, looked as if they were about to pop out of their sockets at the same time.
She saw an unbelievable and nightmarish scene.
Meng Chao, whose heart had been pierced by the dagger under Wild Wolf's feet, started twitching as if he had come back to life and started coughing.
Then, his bones let out a series of cracking sounds. His limbs, which had clearly been twisted by the collapsed reinforced concrete, returned to their original positions, and he was as good as new.
While he coughed softly, he slowly fiddled with his wounds and "tore" the seemingly fatal and terrifying wounds off his body!
Bai Shan was dumbfounded.
She watched as Meng Chao tore off the wounds on his body to reveal his brand new flesh.
His skin shone with a metallic luster, and his bulging muscles contained explosive strength. He was as agile as a hungry cheetah!
When Meng Chao held the medical gel with both hands and washed off the blood on his face to reveal his true face, his gaze was as fierce as lightning, and Bai Shan did not dare to look him in the eye. He no longer looked like he was covered in wounds and on the verge of death.
Clang!
He controlled the muscles and bones on his back to clamp the poisoned dagger tightly, and it fell to the ground.
Bai Shan's heart also fell to the ground along with the dagger.
Meng Chao grinned, revealing his sharp, white teeth.
He extended a finger at Bai Shan and said seriously, "I'll give you one more chance. Did you really see me kill Ms. Mulian?"
Bai Shan felt as if she had been struck by lightning.
Her thoughts were a mess, and she instinctively struggled. "Wild Wolf, trust me. I really saw him kill Ms. Mulian with my own eyes, and that's why I chased after him. As for what sort of nonsense he told you behind my back, I don't know. Don't believe him either!"
The moment she said that, the temperature in the underground space dropped by a few degrees.
Everyone's gazes when they looked at Bai Shan became even stranger.
A 'Ji couldn't even hold back his laughter.
"W-What's wrong?" Bai Shan had a bad feeling again.
Then, she saw something even more unbelievable than Meng Chao's resurrection.
Su Mulian's slightly pale face appeared in the darkness behind Wild Wolf. When she looked at Bai Shan, there was indescribable sorrow and aloofness in her eyes.
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