Chapter 1074 Truly a Family

They clearly had more powerful moves, but they never used them from beginning to end, and even deliberately exposed a fatal flaw at the last moment...

"Perhaps he no longer wanted to live."

"Huh?" Xiao Jihui looked at Ye Wanxi in surprise. "Don't you want to live anymore?"

“Yes.” Ye Wanxi gripped the documents in her hand tightly and said in a low voice, “This should be the only reasonably plausible explanation.”

After merging with the mutated spider, the mutated spider's consciousness subtly overwhelmed Orias's own thoughts. Although the six-person team was a single unit, it was clear from their conversations that they mostly acted separately.

The group didn't interact much with Orias. They probably didn't work together usually, or they were usually the ones who went first. Orias would only appear when necessary, such as when they couldn't win a match.

They rejected him, feared him, yet relied on him.

His loved ones betrayed him, the things he wanted to do were not of his own free will, and even his body and mind were being gradually eroded. He was still himself, yet he was no longer himself.

There was nothing left in this world for him to cherish. He wanted to die, but he found that in his current state, even death was a luxury.

Ye Wanxi guessed that when Orias fought her, his remaining consciousness was also pulling against the consciousness of the mutated spider within his body, and the fact that he didn't spit silk or release poison during the fight was evidence of this.

The reason he chose to launch his attack at this time might be because he realized that he didn't have much time left, and if things continued like this, his brain would be completely taken over by the mutated spider's consciousness.

Perhaps it was Ye Wanxi's previous performance that made him willing to take a gamble, hoping that she could free him completely.

Now that he is dead, his thoughts at the time are impossible to verify, but there are still many problems regarding the corpse he left behind.

“Country D called us not long ago, requesting that we send those people back to Country D, including Orias’s body.”

Ye Wanxi raised an eyebrow, as if she had heard something extremely ridiculous: "Do they know what these people have done here? How dare they demand people so brazenly?"

Xiao Jihui seemed to have thought of something and rolled his eyes speechlessly: "They're not unaware, they're deliberately turning a blind eye. Do you know what the media said when this first broke out? They said these people suffered unfair treatment, were viciously attacked, injured, or even killed when they came here, and demanded that we give them an explanation."

Ye Wanxi: "..." Why does this tune sound so familiar?

Oh right, back when she was in the entertainment industry, some scheming women would eagerly provoke her, looking for trouble, and then buy articles to turn the tables on her. That's how those media outlets, which are good at taking things out of context, secretly fanned the flames.

Sure enough, there are unscrupulous media outlets everywhere, and they are all the same.

In fact, this is not the first time they have encountered such a situation of taking things out of context and smearing their own company.

When the mutated sea monster and the mutated plants and animals first appeared, many foreign media outlets righteously blamed them and demanded compensation.

This time it's even more outrageous. They came to their place without permission, beat people up, and stole their money. In the end, they were caught and then demanded compensation. That's truly the logic of a robber.

"What are your plans?"

"There's no need to do anything. Didn't they say we were bullying them? We just released the video."

Xiao Jihui became a little excited when he talked about this, and his face lit up with excitement.

"These people who came this time are all young people. Even though they are very capable, they are still in their 'chuunibyou' phase."

There's a saying that goes something like this: you can never predict just how destructive a mischievous kid can be, especially one with supernatural abilities—they're the kings of destruction.

But there are advantages to mischievous kids, namely that they generally don't consider the consequences of their actions too much.

Although they locked the supermarket when the incident occurred, they did not turn off the surveillance cameras inside.

They might have forgotten, or they might have done it on purpose, because this would better satisfy their vanity, making them feel that they can openly and legitimately manipulate everyone, and that no one can do anything about it but watch them leave after they've done their thing.

This measure conveniently facilitates their current evidence collection process.

The videos recorded by the survivors are evidence, as are the surveillance cameras inside the supermarket at the time of the incident. It is clear from the footage who started it, who bullied whom, and who the real villain is.

Once these videos are released, anyone with eyes can tell whose fault it is, but some people just want to pretend they're blind and stupid, and there's nothing we can do about it.

A sober person can never wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep. They only need to have a clear conscience, since they are not the ones who are in a hurry at this time.

"After being humiliated, they pretended to be dead for a while, but eventually couldn't wait any longer. They secretly offered a lot of benefits, hoping to exchange these people, especially..."

Ye Wanxi narrowed her eyes: "If that's the case, Orias is very likely one of the few, or even the only, who succeeded and survived. His physical data is extremely important to them. Otherwise, they wouldn't be in such a hurry to take his body back. What does your father think?"

Xiao Jihui rubbed his nose, slightly embarrassed: "My dad's point is that we definitely can't just let the survivors go, otherwise all our men would have died for nothing. As for the one who died..."

They didn't want to give it, but not giving it might cause a lot of trouble later, making it a losing proposition.

Xiao Jihui paused for a moment, then smiled obsequiously and said, "I heard from my colleagues who went to help with the rescue that Miss Ye was worried that those people would hurt others and escape after they recovered, so she simply disabled their superpowers. So, I wanted to ask Miss Ye if there was any way to turn the corpses back into normal human forms and prevent them from extracting any data?"

Ye Wanxi glanced at Xiao Jihui in surprise. "I see!" Even though she was involved, strictly speaking, it was still not convenient for her to explain these things in such detail.

So that's what they were waiting for!

Ye Wanxi's lips twitched slightly, and after a long pause, she could only manage to utter one sentence: "Was this a question your father made you ask, or one you wanted to ask yourself?"

“My dad wants to ask, and I want to ask too. We're both curious, so it's not a conflict.”

Ye Wanxi: "..." Should I praise you two for truly being a family?

Having already asked, Xiao Jihui couldn't care less about anything else. He opened his innocent and expectant eyes wide and asked in a low voice, "Is there?"

Ye Wanxi, who was given goosebumps by someone's malicious attempt to act cute, said: "...Yes."

(End of this chapter)