Chapter 675: Burning the Boats
Wu Yue and Sun Cheng knew the identities of these two people very well, but they just revealed such important information yesterday, and they were arrested today, and for such a bizarre reason. The word "conspiracy" immediately appeared in Wu Yue's mind.
Sun Cheng and he looked at each other. They both knew that Qi Le was moving, but they didn't know from which angle he would involve them.
"We are not traitors. What evidence do you have?" Nan Xiaomio struggled to break away from the people who were holding her. However, even though she was a superpower, her physical condition was poor and the enhancement of her superpowers did not bring her much advantage. She struggled with all her might but was not shaken at all in the hands of the other party.
"The evidence is your sudden supernatural powers." An old woman in her fifties stepped forward and slapped Nan Xiaomo twice in the face. She was thin and her face showed traces of long-term labor. Her hands were covered with calluses. Her red eyes were full of hatred, as if she wanted to eat Nan Xiaomo in front of her alive.
Nan Xiaomo's hair was blown all over the place, there was blood at the corner of her mouth, and there was a long scratch on her face, making her look miserable.
"Xiao Mo--" Cangcuo next to him shouted softly and moved towards Nan Xiao Mo, and was immediately kicked hard.
He was already in poor health, and after being kicked, he lay on the ground for a long time without being able to get up. His arms were too weak to hold him up, and he could only tremble on all fours like a turtle that had been overturned. And the man actually wanted to hit him again.
"Cangcuo!" When Nan Xiaomi saw that Cangcuo was injured, he originally considered not using his supernatural powers, but now he immediately took action. The tree branches that grew out of his fingertips pierced through the man who raised his foot without any hesitation.
"Ah--" With a shrill scream from the man, the mutant plant created by Nan Xiaomo pierced his calf, wrapped around it, and threw him upside down to the side.
She also shook off the person who was suppressing her, took two steps forward and helped Cangcuo sit up. She looked at the people surrounding them with nervous and hostile eyes. Among them were the people with high-ranking supernatural powers in the past, as well as villagers from neighboring villages who she rarely had contact with.
They all looked at the two of them with indignation, as if they were looking at something disgusting.
"I have had superpowers for a long time, but I don't use them because of my poor health. Just because of this, you can simply conclude that we are spies from the Panshui base?" Nan Xiaomio let Cangcuo lean tightly against her. The man who once supported her life with his strong chest could now only lean on her weakly, gasping for breath.
They just want to live in peace and live an ordinary life, but these menacing faces are telling them that it is impossible.
"Of course someone pointed it out personally." The old woman seemed to be blind to the danger she was in at the moment. She approached Nan Xiaomo step by step and wanted to attack her, but was stopped by the psychic next to her.
“Don’t stop me, no one of you can stop me!” The old woman was like a mad dog, glaring at the people who stopped her, her swollen eyes glowing abnormally, “I’m going to kill her, I’m going to kill them all!”
"To survive up there..."
"What does it have to do with me? I want them to die. My Mingming, my Mingming..." After the old woman said these two crazy words, tears flowed out. "Mom will avenge you, Mom will avenge you."
"She has never... cough cough... never done anything that is against the law of nature..." Cangcuo coughed so hard that he could pass out at any moment, but he still tried to defend himself, "What grudge do you have to seek?"
"You still dare to ask? She is a spy from the Panshui base. The beasts in the Panshui base eat people with special abilities!" the old woman said viciously, "She must have eaten my Mingming. Otherwise, how could he, an awakened person with special abilities, disappear?"
"No one is seen alive, and no body is found dead!" The old woman started crying again.
"And me, my child is missing too."
"My father has disappeared too. He definitely won't abandon us and run away."
"My daughter is only nine years old..."
"You evil ghost from hell, why don't you let anyone go..."
…
A bustling sound of crying and shouting rang out, and Wu Yue realized that those ordinary people who were not far from the psychic all looked like they were here to seek revenge.
"What's going on?" Sun Cheng walked behind Li Jing, who looked the friendliest, and asked her in a low voice.
"Their family members were originally chosen to be enlightened with superpowers." The person who spoke was Fang Tang. As soon as he spoke, many people looked over.
“Then they all disappeared.”
"What does missing... mean?" Sun Cheng sensitively noticed the hidden message.
“Literally, gone.”
"Is it all together or individually?" Wu Yue asked.
"Batch by batch," Fangtang replied, "the time of enlightenment is different."
The time of disappearance is also different.
Wu Yue looked at the farce in front of him and asked, "Since they disappeared in large numbers after being enlightened, isn't it possible that the enlightenment of the supernatural power failed and something else happened?"
Fangtang didn't say anything, and Li Jing retorted in surprise, "How is that possible? The Lord Mountain God has never made a mistake, and everyone who has been enlightened has awakened their special powers."
"That's right, don't talk nonsense."
"We will tolerate your behavior since you are our guests. But if you insult our Lord Mountain God, we advise you to be careful."
None of the people with special abilities said a word, only the ordinary people spoke.
Wu Yue and Sun Cheng didn't say anything else, and saw a group of emotional people who were about to step forward and tear Cangcuo and Nan Xiaomo apart. Cangcuo, who was in the middle, had dissatisfaction in his eyes, but he could only argue for her with words, even though he himself felt it was useless.
"Since you said someone has identified me, then bring the person here and I will confront him myself." Nan Xiaomio couldn't bear to see her lover like this and shouted angrily.
"Okay, let's see how you can argue," said the old woman, pushing away the crowd, walking to the back and almost dragging a person in front of Nan Xiaomo.
What’s surprising is that this is an acquaintance - it’s none other than Lao Zhangtou, the village chief of Shengli Village.
Yesterday they were still discussing a way out together, but today they became enemies.
Nan Xiaomo did not hide the shock and surprise in her eyes. Old Zhang avoided her gaze and stammered for a long time without saying a word.
This reversal surprised Wu Yue a little, and his mind quickly circled whether there was anything that could not be said between them.
Sun Cheng even directly asked the little kids beside him what was going on, but no one answered.
"Uncle...?" Nan Xiaomo shouted in disbelief.
"You said! Didn't you report it? Didn't you say that they were spies from the Panshui base and ate the mutants who disappeared from the base?" The old woman's bulging eyeballs were covered with red bloodshot, and they looked scarlet like an evil ghost ready to eat people at any time.
He grabbed Old Zhang by the back of the collar and kept pushing him. Although he didn't look as strong as Old Zhang, his strength was surprisingly strong.
The vigorous old Zhang seemed to have had his energy drained away, and let her shake him continuously.
"Old Zhang, what's going on?"
"Why don't you tell me? How could Xiaomo be a spy?"
"Yeah, didn't you say yesterday that she had supernatural powers for a long time?"
Although the villagers of Shengli Village were quarreling with Old Zhang, they still had some feelings for Zhang Shun, who had tried his best to protect them for several years at the Panshui base. When they saw Old Zhang being treated like this, they immediately became anxious.
"Where's Shunzi? Where did Shunzi go?"
"Nannan? Nannan?"
When these two sounds came out, Old Zhang trembled abnormally, as if he was hit on the head with a club, and spoke in a hoarse voice.
"She...they are spies."
"Yes...it eats mutants."
"I saw it with my own eyes..."
"Uncle, what nonsense are you talking about?" Nan Xiaomo never expected to be betrayed by her closest person. When Zhang Shun first learned that she had awakened her superpowers by eating human flesh, he felt more worried than sympathetic. It was Old Zhang who said that he knew the character of the children he had watched grow up, and he kept the two wandering children by his side, giving them a place to stay.
Because of their past experiences, Nan Xiaomio and Cangcuo were afraid of being recognized and bringing trouble to Zhang Shun and his son, so they dared not interact with many people. Their relationships with people around them were mostly polite.
What Old Zhang said was equivalent to nailing down their identities, which was tantamount to sending them to death.
Nan Xiaomo looked at Cangcuo helplessly, trying to find a solution, and saw Cangcuo looking at Old Zhang calmly, and suddenly asked, "Where is Nannan?"
Old Zhang wanted to laugh, and squeezed his wrinkled cheeks as if crying, "She...she..."
"Where is Brother Shunzi?" Cangcuo asked again.
"Shun Zi... Shun Zi took Nan Nan... to play... to play," Old Zhang repeated in a low voice with his head down. After a while, he looked up at Cangcuo. There were clear tears in the old man's turbid eyes, and he seemed to be laughing and crying.
Nan Xiaomo still wanted to struggle, but Cangcuo chuckled twice and looked at the crowd as if he was looking at a group of clowns. He coughed violently twice and said loudly, "Qi Le, can't you pretend anymore?"
"Or has someone discovered that you are Luo Qi, the base commander of Panshui Base?"
"Could it be that someone has discovered that you used cannibalism to awaken the superpowers?"
As soon as these three reckless words came out, the surroundings suddenly became quiet for a moment, and then it became noisy as if one had entered a vegetable market.
Sun Cheng pulled Wu Yue back silently, and asked him what he wanted to do through mouth shapes.
"Burn the boats," Wu Yue whispered.
After all, it was obvious that someone was using them as a target, and the possibility of them surviving was almost zero, so it was better to try their best to plant the seeds of doubt in everyone.
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
"Master is Master, how could he be involved with the beasts in Panshui Base."
"Stop making alarmist remarks here. Now that you've been caught you want to blame my master. I must teach you a lesson today."
"Yes, teach him a lesson..."
Children's emotions are the easiest to incite, and just a few words can immediately arouse public anger.
When powerful superpowers appear in immature people, it can easily cause them to lose their cool. In the gap between a few words, the superpowers who were originally just passing by started to move.
"Am I wrong? Then, what about Zhang Shun and Zhang Nannan?"
"If you don't want people to think that Old Zhang is being controlled by someone, then let Zhang Shun and Zhang Nannan come out—"
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