It can be seen that Xu's mother seemed very guilty and uneasy about Bai Yuzhi's questioning.

She stammered, "Don't worry about where you came from, just tell me where my daughter is now!"

Bai Yuzhi sneered.

Don't cry until you see the coffin.

"You want to know where your daughter is, right? You want to see her?"

Hearing Bai Yuzhi say this, Xu's mother's eyes lit up and she nodded repeatedly.

"I want to! I want to! Let her go, and I'll tell you everything!"

That's bullshit.

Bai Yuzhi looked at Xu's mother. She was the image of a traditional small town woman, simple and honest. But if she was really an honest person, would she do such a thing as cursing someone's unborn child?

Not at all.

Since she is not as honest as she looks, if Bai Yuzhi really released Xu Xu as she said, Xu's mother would definitely have a backup plan to allow herself and Xu Xu to escape safely.

Tell her everything, it's all bullshit.

Bai Yuzhi didn't trust Xu's mother.

Bai Yuzhi ordered someone to bring out Xu Xu, who was imprisoned in the underground prison.

She looked like a completely crazy woman, dirty, stupid and dumb, occasionally making unconscious mumbling and screaming. It was obvious that Yuzhi had not been tortured for a long time, but she still looked miserable.

Xu Xu exuded a foul smell that had not been cleaned for a long time, which was disgusting.

When people around saw Xu Xu like this, they either covered their noses or took a few steps back. In short, this woman who was once the center of attention in the base was now despised by everyone.

When Xu's mother saw Xu Xu like this, she was stunned. She never expected that her daughter would become like this, and her hatred for Bai Yuzhi became stronger.

She even began to hate her stepdaughter who had run away. If Chen Sizhen had not refused to go to Bai Yuzhi to ask for Xu Xu's release no matter how much she begged, her daughter would not have become like this.

Bai Yuzhi looked at Xu's mother and saw hatred in her eyes that could not hide her emotions.

"Here it is. You saw it. Can you tell me now?"

Mother Xu swallowed her saliva and spoke with difficulty, pausing for a moment after every word: "Yes, I saved it by doing odd jobs."

Not only did Bai Yuzhi himself not believe this, but even the onlookers did not believe it.

An onlooker who knew Xu's mother said, "Forget it! With the work you usually do, you're lucky to survive. How can you save up money to attract rats?"

Bai Yuzhi stared at Xu's mother with a half-smile.

"You're not telling the truth, are you?" Someone dragged Xu Xu to Bai Yuzhi's side. Bai Yuzhi raised her hand, and Ren Gui placed a barbed metal whip on her hand. "You don't have to suffer. Someone will suffer for you."

Each section of the whip glowed with cold light. If it were used on a person, it would definitely tear off a large piece of flesh.

Bai Yuzhi swung the whip mercilessly. One could almost hear the rustling sound of metal cutting through the air. Amidst Xu Xu's mother's screams, the whip accurately hit Xu Xu's stiff but motionless body. In just an instant, an extremely hideous and terrifying blood mark appeared on Xu Xu's body.

White jade raised eyebrows.

Oh my, it seems like I discovered some big secret.

When the whip was lashed out, Bai Yuzhi stared at Xu Xu closely. This was not because she suspected Xu Xu was pretending to be crazy, but mainly because she believed that humans have an instinctive reaction to avoid harm.

So even if Xu Xu had become a madman, she would reflexively avoid damage before Bai Yuzhi hit her. She might scream or shrink, but she would definitely not stand still and have no reaction.

Because Xu Xu is not a vegetable.

Even if she is crazy, she is still a living and conscious person.

The reason why Bai Yuzhi was looking at her was to aim.

But Xu Xu's reaction just now was particularly abnormal.

When Bai Yuzhi just raised the whip, Xu Xu's reaction was obviously that she was very wary of this thing, because her stiff body showed that she was afraid and resisted the harm that the whip would bring to her.

However, until the whip actually hit her, she remained motionless and did not dodge or react.

If this wasn't what Xu Xu intended, Bai Yuzhi really couldn't think of a second possibility.

If that's the case, then what else is there to be puzzled about? It turns out Xu Xu had already left himself a backup plan.

She pretended to be crazy and stupid in front of Bai Yuzhi to save her own life. In fact, she didn't know how she left some of the materials in the space to Xu's mother, or even the space itself - after all, Xu Xu's so-called spatial ability was not a real ability at all, and it was expected that it could be stripped away.

Xu's mother was responsible for finding the right time to use these materials to do something "big" that could cause a stir, with the goal of getting Bai Yuzhi to release Xu Xu.

The reason Xu Xu was still pretending was because she couldn't escape unscathed from Ren Gui's surveillance.

Just when Bai Yuzhi saw through her disguise and was about to have the damn mother and daughter arrested, Xu's mother suddenly turned around.

A child climbed up the city wall at some point.

The child looked to be only three or four years old. He climbed up the stairs tremblingly. He was still young and didn't know who he was approaching. He just kept getting closer.

Mother Xu looked at the child with a strange expression. She took out a lollipop from behind her. The child in the last days had never eaten such a thing before. He was immediately attracted by the sweet smell of the candy and rushed into Mother Xu's arms step by step.

"It's Xiaobao!"

Suddenly, a woman's sharp cry was heard from the crowd. She was calling for the child who was suddenly grabbed tightly in Xu's mother's arms.

The child didn't get the lollipop, but Xu's mother pinched his still delicate neck hard.

Xu's mother's face was distorted and her voice was sharp: "Let my daughter go, or I will strangle him to death!"

The cage in Xu's mother's hand fell to the ground because of her large movements, and the rat with its eyes wide open crawled around inside.

They surrounded Xu's mother. In the apocalypse, these creatures were not afraid of humans at all. They would bite anything they caught. Just as Xu's mother was holding the child up in her arms, the group of rats began to bite Xu's legs.

The bitten flesh could be vaguely seen in the hole in the trouser leg torn by the rat. The bitten area had turned black and purple, but Xu's mother was so immersed in the tension that she didn't notice it.

At this moment, Xu Xu knew that she had been discovered, so she stopped pretending and covered her bleeding wound tightly.

Then he glared at Bai Yuzhi fiercely, a sinister grin spreading across his lips: "Look, the real war has just begun. It's still unknown who will win."