"I didn't have a choice. Neither did Xiao Qin!"
Every trace of dried blood and tears on Xiahou Wuxin's face was shivering. "She had to die!"
"Don't call my mother's name!"
Xin Xiaoqi shrieked. "You don't deserve to call her name, you shameless old dog!"
"You're right. I'm a sordid, shameless, and f * cking cowardly old dog. No. In front of the omnipotent 'angels', I'm not even a dog. At best, I'm just a fly that can't be knocked out of a glass cup." Xiahou Wuxin bitterly smiled. "You don't understand. You don't understand.
Xiahou Wuxin smiled bitterly and miserably. "You don't understand. You don't know anything at all. Xiao Qin and I have been through so many people, so many things, and so many years of wandering before we finally met again. At first, I thought that it was a blessing from the heavens. I only wanted to do my best to live a peaceful life with her and with you. No matter how hideous the outside world is, I only wanted to prepare a quiet, comfortable nest for you. I would rather be minced a hundred times and sent to the evilest laboratory in the City in the Sky than hurt her at all.
"However, it was she who begged me to kill her. We didn't have a choice!"
Xin Xiaoqi was stunned. Seeing that Xiahou Wuxin did not seem to be lying, she stammered, "What do you mean by 'she begged you to kill her'? What are you talking about?"
"We could've lived an illusionary and beautiful life like a real family."
There was confusion in Xiahou Wuxin's eyes. A world that did not exist and a beautiful life that did not exist glittered deep inside his unfocused pupils. "But Xiao Qin saw something that she shouldn't have seen and discovered the secrets of the angels. One of the 'test subjects', who had practiced certain uncanny methods to resist the hypnosis of the high-intensity anesthetics, was woken up on the way to Manjusaka. She also overheard the conversation of a few 'angels' and learned part of the truth about Manjusaka.
"The guy was so tough that several 'angels' were killed by him. He struggled to fight his way down from the top of the transportation tube. His body was covered in wounds, and his blood was flowing like a river. In the end, he fell and happened to land near your mother. He even told your mother everything!
"The angels ordered that all the sinners who touched the 'test subjects' must be killed. I was responsible for the matter in person! If I couldn't give a satisfactory answer, the most dreadful 'Team of Madmen' or the 'Heavenly Eye Legion' would've dealt with it. By then, it would not have been a matter of a hundred people but the entire Elysian World, or Liberty City, would've been erased!
"At that time, you were still young. You were an ignorant child, but the Celestials didn't care so much, so your mother had no choice. Either she died, or both of you died together.
"I-I found her and told her everything.
"After learning the truth about the City in the Sky, in her panic and fury, she cursed me exactly like you do right now. She scolded me for not being a human being but a beast, an animal, and a bastard that was worse than pigs and dogs … I admitted all that, but I also told her that she could not go back to you at such a time. You would've been screwed the moment she got in touch with you!
"In the end, she understood everything and knew what was best for you.
"She begged me to protect you no matter what. I agreed.
"I did it in person. I shattered her skull and destroyed her brain and her soul, ensuring that she would not feel any pain or be of any value to be experimented on.
"As for the other sinners who got in touch with the 'test subjects' who escaped, they were all sent to the City in the Sky for the most excruciating torture.
"Did you know? She was smiling when she left. Although it was a bitter smile full of worry and helplessness, I thought that it was much better than the two of you being sent to the laboratory of the City in the Sky for the inhuman experiments together, wasn't it?"
Xin Xiaoqi was stunned for a long time. She seemed to be both crying and smiling. In a trance, she shook her head hard. "I don't believe it. You're lying to me. If my mother asked you to take care of me, why did you send me out for twenty years to carry out such dangerous missions? Why did you not let me stay by your side or even tell anybody about our relationship?"
"It was to protect you," Xiahou Wuxin explained.
Xiahou Wuxin explained, "You thought that it was dangerous to deal with the gangs and the bandits, but it never occurred to you that it was even more dangerous to stay by my side. If you stayed by my side, you would inevitably get in touch with a lot of secrets. You would also be noticed by the 'angels', and the 'angels' would never be willing to let too many people know their secrets.
"Therefore, did you not notice that the disciples and subordinates who stayed by my side would be replaced every once in a while? As it turned out, those people had all been sent to the City in the Sky to 'enjoy life'. Would you like to end up like that?"
Xin Xiaoqi shuddered in coldness.
An invisible 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' seemed to have clung to her face like a bug, suffocating her.
"Everybody who knows the secrets of 'Manjusaka' has been cursed with an unbreakable curse. They will not end well, including me. Therefore, I do not want you to be too close to me," Xiahou Xin said.
"I cannot protect you forever. If you want to survive in the Land of Sins, the key is still to be strong enough! In the past twenty years, I sent you to the Land of Sins to carry out all kinds of missions, but the difficulty was increased step by step. I trained you in such a special way so that you would have the ability to survive on your own. Judging from your training right now, you have escaped from such a battlefield unscathed. There must be a 1% chance that you can escape from the hunting of the 'angels'. "
"You trained me in such a way? Either I'm crazy, or you are! "
Xin Xiaoqi shrieked. Then, she was slightly dazed. "The hunting of the angels?"
"Exactly," Xiahou Xin said bitterly.
Xiahou Wuxin said bitterly, "Can't you tell that the 'angels' have completely abandoned me? Perhaps it's because I've been serving them 'loyally' for decades and know too much, and it's not safe no matter how 'loyal' I am. Or perhaps it's because 'Fist King' Lei Zonglie's shocking changes on the battlefield are hiding a great secret that must not be learned by us, right? All in all, I can tell that Liberty City is doomed. Everybody on the battlefield of Liberty City is doomed. The 'angels' will not let anyone out alive.
"That's why I asked you to come here. Disguise yourself and grab some handy weapons first. Then, you will go to one of my secret warehouses to get the assets that are really useful. Then, you will find a way to march out of Liberty City and fight for the 1% chance of survival!
"This is the whole truth. Trust me, Xiaoqi!"
Xin Xiaoqi stared at Xiahou Wuxin in a daze for a long time. Even Li Yao could hear the sound of her teeth clattering.
After a clang, the dagger fell to the ground.
"I don't believe you at all. I've never heard any truth from your mouth," Xin Xiaoqi mumbled.
From her pupils to her eyeballs, from her eyeballs to her eye sockets, and from her eye sockets to every muscle on her face, she said, "I don't believe it. I don't believe it. I don't believe it. I don't believe it. I don't believe it. I don't believe it. I don't believe it. I don't believe it. I don't believe it. I don't believe it.
"Hehe. Hehehehe. It's all fake. How can it be so absurd? You are lying to me. You are all lying to me. The whole world is lying to me!"
She staggered to her feet and waved her arms and legs as if she were drunk. With fascination beaming out of her face, she raised her head high. Her hazy eyes seemed to be piercing through the roof and the rusty clouds to a nonexistent heaven.
"My mother must still be waiting for me in the sky. She said that she had saved a lot of money by working hard up there. After I go to the sky, we will live a carefree, happy life.
"My mother is not dead. My mother even gave me a music box as a birthday present last year. What a beautiful music box it was. There were even two little people dancing in each other's arms. It could even spin! There is no such delicate thing in the Land of Sins at all. So, it must've been a gift from my mother!
"Mother, wait for me. I'm coming to you right now. I'll fly to Manjusaka to find you right now …"
Standing on her tiptoes, she danced agilely, as if she were not wearing ragged combat boots but a pair of red dancing shoes embedded with diamonds. She lunged at the door with a smile.
Xiahou Wuxin gritted his teeth and rose. He dragged her back and threw her to the ground brutally, staring at her without saying anything.
The smile on the cat-like woman's face was still frozen, but black mist was quickly condensing inside her eyes. Under her master's gloomy eyes, she finally collapsed completely.
"Mother is dead! Mother is dead! Mother is dead! "
Pulling her hair, Xin Xiaoqi arched like a shrimp and burst into tears. "Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy!"
She cried so hard that she was out of breath. Tears and snot were spurting out of her nose. She coughed so hard that she seemed to be cramping.
Xiahou Wuxin sighed in a low voice.
"If you really do not have the courage to escape, I'll send you to meet your mother right now," he said softly.
He said softly, "Nod your head, and I promise that I will let you depart comfortably. I will not let you suffer torture that is worse than death, and I will not let anyone humiliate your corpse, just like how your mother died back then, okay?"
"Mother …"
Xin Xiaoqi's head was dizzy, and her eyes were dull. She seemed to be considering Xiahou Wuxin's suggestion carefully.
Tremendous waves spread out of Li Yao's soul.
He did not hate Xin Xiaoqi, a woman who still had kindness at the bottom of her heart, in the first place. After hearing the story between her and Xiahou Wuxin, he was even more reluctant to watch the poor woman die just like that.
However, after eavesdropping on other people's family affairs for such a long time, it was rather awkward for him to show up after a cough.
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