Chapter 1073 I Don’t Want to Live Like This
Those who cooperate with him may think they have met a kindred spirit, and wishfully believe that they are superhuman and different from others.
When one person attains enlightenment, even his chickens and dogs ascend to heaven; even if his relatives are just ordinary people, they should receive preferential treatment because of him.
Little did they know that in the eyes of these people, if even a former fellow superhuman could stab someone in the back without any psychological burden, how much more so would a pawn like him be used?
Who cares about the life or death of a chess piece? When a chess piece loses its function, or instead hinders or affects their plans, it no longer has any reason to exist.
After speaking, Xiao Jihui remained silent for a moment, then sighed, "He deserved his fate, but it's a pity for his family."
Ye Wanxi glanced at him and said calmly, "Although it's a pity, he can't be considered innocent."
These people's plan was clearly not a spur-of-the-moment decision; it must have been carefully planned beforehand.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to evade inspection so easily, arrive in D City unharmed, and only be discovered after they caused a scene.
The family only realized something was wrong when the other person appeared in their home, which can be considered a failure in some respects. They can't be said to be completely innocent in having such a child, but it's not a crime deserving of death, which is somewhat regrettable.
But when she thought about the truly innocent victims in the supermarket, Ye Wanxi couldn't muster much sympathy for this family.
"By the way," Ye Wanxi didn't dwell on the topic and instead asked about another matter that she was more concerned about, "Among those six people, there was one superhuman who was different; he was the one who had already died."
When Ye Wanxi asked about this, Xiao Jihui's expression changed slightly.
Ye Wanxi noticed the change in his expression and frowned slightly: "What's wrong? Is it inconvenient to talk about it?"
Xiao Jihui touched his nose and said awkwardly, "It's not that. I just said I hoped Miss Ye could keep it a secret and not spread this matter for the time being."
Ye Wanxi raised an eyebrow, instinctively feeling that this matter was probably not small, otherwise Xiao Jihui would not be so cautious and nervous.
"The superhuman you just mentioned is named Orias. He is indeed quite different from the other superhumans."
"How are they different?"
"The others all mutated naturally due to environmental factors..."
"The others mutated naturally, but he didn't? Then why did he become... like that?"
A sudden thought flashed through Ye Wanxi's mind, and her heart pounded wildly at a certain speculation: "Could it be..."
Upon seeing Ye Wanxi's expression, Xiao Jihui knew that she had probably already guessed it, and nodded solemnly.
"Is it... what you think?"
Ye Wanxi's eyes widened, and her face instantly darkened: "Are they crazy? How could they do something like this!"
Xiao Jihui gave a bitter smile: "The world is already in such chaos, what wouldn't they dare to do? It's only because we suppressed it in time that things are a little better. People are dying almost every day in those places outside. If people with superpowers want to be different and have a status that is different from ordinary people, they have to climb up by stepping on ordinary people, and in the process, they have to step on some people. This is something that is hard for some people to accept. Having tasted the taste of preferential treatment, to fall from the altar, even if it is just to go back to being an ordinary person, is more painful for them than death."
"So, they are willing to pay any price to remain on their pedestal forever, even if it means cooperating with demons and acting as gods while doing the work of demons?"
"Yes." Xiao Jihui's expression was also very unpleasant. He felt disgusted by what these people had done, but also a little relieved.
I am grateful to be in such a place, grateful that they have countless companions who can trust each other and strive for the peace before them, and even more grateful that they met Ye Wanxi and others before the cruise ship of disaster sailed in an uncontrollable direction.
"Was he turned out this way voluntarily, or...?"
Xiao Jihui didn't speak, but handed Ye Wanxi a somewhat superficial document.
"This is all the information we could find about him. Orias' family was once quite wealthy, but in the second year after he came of age, his parents became addicted to gambling, and all the family's money was gambled away, leaving them with a huge debt. Just at that time, spiritual energy revived globally, mutated plants and animals proliferated, and even people mutated and developed supernatural abilities."
Xiao Jihui paused for a moment, then continued, "Unfortunately, Orias was not one of these lucky ones. About five or six months ago, his parents' account suddenly received a huge transfer, and Orias disappeared after that. Until a month ago, Orias reappeared, by which time he had become a member of this group of six, and was recognized as the strongest in the team."
Ye Wanxi wasn't stupid either. After hearing Xiao Jihui's explanation, she understood the intricacies of the situation.
Five or six months ago, when mutated plants and animals were at their most rampant and rampant, the first batch of superhumans appeared less than a month later.
Orias' parents were heavily in debt due to gambling, but during this period, a huge sum of money inexplicably appeared, and Orias disappeared.
Nearly half a year later, the other party reappeared. By then, he had transformed from an ordinary person into a superhuman, and his body still bore the experimental traces of mutated animals.
Once you make that connection, it's not hard to guess what he's been through.
“Selling their own son for money and throwing him into such a dark and hopeless place, such people are truly unworthy of being parents.”
Xiao Jihui felt the same way. He sighed and said, "Perhaps he is already lucky. Although he has become neither human nor ghost, at least he has survived."
In that situation, the number of people who died would definitely be more than the number who survived.
“But this isn’t the kind of life he wants.” Ye Wanxi flipped through the documents in her hand, and couldn’t help but recall the empty eyes of Orias when she fought him.
As a human, he fused with the cells of a mutated spider and almost died, but he awakened his true superpowers before dying and survived.
Without this experiment, he could have become a true superhuman, possessing the ability to live a good life.
But it was all too late. He had survived by sheer luck, but because he had merged with the mutated spider, he was no longer himself. He couldn't even control his own mind or his own actions, and had become a walking corpse with only an empty shell.
According to Xiao Jihui's information, after Orias awakened his power-type superpower, he successfully fused with the mutated spider and gained its toxicity, destructive power, and attack skills, namely, spitting silk.
However, when fighting Ye Wanxi, although Orias released eight spider legs to attack Ye Wanxi, he did not spit silk or release poison.
(End of this chapter)
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