Chapter 291 Execution
"Ha, you're not going to run away?" the queen bee smirked, her mouth bloodied. Although she hadn't sensed any worker bees approaching, she wouldn't let Chen Xiao'e off if she showed any weakness.
As she questioned confidently, the girl began to panic at the sound of approaching footsteps.
Chen Xiao'e didn't panic, her heartbeat only slightly quickened. But it was only a fleeting moment of daze, captured by both despair and the queen bee.
【Take advantage of now】
The queen bee felt the pressure weakening, and she pulled back her right arm with a "whoosh" sound, lubricated by the blood!
"Oh," Chen Xiao'er reached out to grab it, but the queen bee rolled over and took the bone-cutting knife on the ground back into her hand.
Oh no! Chen Xiao’er’s mind went blank: the offensive was reversed, and it was she who dropped the dagger during the struggle.
Time slowed down, and details magnified one after another flickered before my eyes: the sinister smile on the cook's face, the scars on her hands, and—the knife in her hand.
Is this the end of my life?
The blade was getting closer and closer to Chen Xiao'er's chest. Just as the footsteps in the corridor reached the door, it sounded like someone was pushing hard on the locked glass door.
"Don't give up, Chen Xiao'er."
Countless voices echoed in her heart, including those of familiar teachers and classmates, as well as unfamiliar voices that she had only heard once, and finally converged into Xiaotong's bright eyes.
Her body moved, adjusting her posture in slow time.
It was as if dotted lines outlined the trajectory of her movements, drawing out the delicate turns that allowed her to avoid the blade.
One step, two steps, three steps...
Chen Xiao'er and the queen bee constantly change their movements and directions in a special time flow.
Crash——
The loud sound of shattering glass shattered the harmonious space and time, and both of them were shocked at the same time.
The queen bee subconsciously looked at the glass door of the kitchen, which was still intact. The sound came from another direction!
"Zero!" Chen Xiao'e looked toward the window with delight. A tall woman was standing on the thin windowsill. With a single kick, she slid in without even using her hands.
Zero held a short knife in his right hand, and his left hand changed into a fist. His silver hair fluttered as he ran, and in an instant he was between the two of them.
The queen bee widened her eyes in fear: What the hell, this is cheating stuff!
Wasn’t it agreed that everyone in Chen Xiao’er’s eyes is an ordinary person without any special abilities? Then what’s the deal with her teleportation?
Ling's gaze swept across the blood stains on Chen Xiao'er's body, and his eyes turned as cold as ice in an instant.
She raised the short knife in her hand and stabbed the enemy smoothly.
The queen bee reflexively dodged to the side, but Zero's fist came from another direction as if it had tracking capabilities.
For some reason, the threat posed by this punch was even greater than that of the knife. The queen bee was forced to retreat halfway, leaving her right arm vulnerable as she flipped over.
"Ahhhhh!" The pain struck her soul, and she fell to the ground screaming. The wound that Chen Xiao'er had just cut was stabbed again!
"Xiao'e, are you okay?" Ling looked at Xiao'e gently, and then stabbed the cook's left arm again.
Damn it - if my abilities weren't limited, I would make sure you guys pay!
The queen bee huddled against the table leg, cursing and praying. "My most loyal worker bees, if you come and save me now, I will treat you better in the future..."
She had been in the influence of Zero for too long, and more and more humanity and common sense were pouring into her heart.
Even a egocentric anomaly like the Queen Bee couldn't resist imagining how wonderful it would be if anomalies could unite more and help each other. They would surely become stronger, and perhaps even create civilization.
Isn't that the same as humans?
She suddenly froze, and the door behind her opened with a bang.
Could they be here to rescue me? The queen bee looked over with hope, but her bright glow suddenly dimmed: all those rushing in from the door were humans, not a single worker bee.
So, bypass Zero and escape by jumping out of the open window behind her?
That was impossible, because there was a black-haired girl who was taller than Chen Xiao'er sitting on the windowsill, and the woman was looking at her as if she was a corpse.
"Ah, just kill me!" The queen bee spat out a mouthful of blood miserably. She would rather die at Chen Xiao'er's hands than face the punishment of despair.
"Wait a moment." Chen Xiao'er didn't bother to reminisce with Lin Lang and the others. She hurriedly walked over to the Queen Bee, squatted down, and asked, "Tell me Xiaotong's whereabouts first."
"What? If I tell you, will you let me go?" The queen bee smiled desperately. How could that be possible?
"Of course," Chen Xiao'er agreed crisply, "If you can return Xiaotong to me healthy, I will certainly let you go."
This sentence may sound so light when said by others, but when said by Chen Xiao'er, it carries a kind of decisive credibility in its innocence.
However, the queen bee is well aware of the cunning of humans.
Moreover, Chen Xiao'er should be a kind human being. Her promise to release the people was probably just a literal promise. Letting them go first and then killing them is also letting them go.
Even so, the queen bee's despair was somewhat alleviated. If she could convince Chen Xiao'e to let her run away before pursuing her, she might still have a chance of survival.
But I don’t know where Chen Xiaotong is... How about just give that person up?
When she had the idea of cooperating with Chen Xiao'er, a line of black words flashed out.
[I'll tell you Chen Xiaotong's whereabouts. You can just pass these two addresses to Chen Xiao'er.]
Great monarch, please don't misunderstand!
The queen bee's scalp tingled with fear. She was so preoccupied with the weakling Chen Xiao'e that she had forgotten that the great being in the abyss could see through the minds of its kin.
Despair sent a map.
The cross symbolizing the destination seemed to be pointing near the hotel.
But the consciousness the queen bee received clearly told her [to Chen Xiao'e: "Take the highway and drive east for an hour, then get off the highway and go directly into the city."]
A flood of information flooded her mind, and the Queen Bee felt something was amiss. It wasn't just Schrödinger's spatial position; the subsequent reminders of despair were also incredibly complex.
Your Majesty, why did you ask me to tell Chen Xiao'er to look in two different places?
Did He want humans to split up their forces? But since both locations were in the same city, the troops wouldn't be far apart. Why not just set up a trap at the same location and wait for the enemy to tire themselves out?
Her thoughts raced, and a stream of pure black, sticky emotion flowed out along with the despair in her heart, clearing away the redundant thoughts along the way.
Don't think too much, just do it.
yes.
The queen bee's eyes dimmed, she lowered her head and did not respond to Chen Xiao'er's words.
This is also a desperate request. I can't be too proactive at the beginning. I have to wait for Chen Xiao'er and the others to force the information out bit by bit so that it will seem more real.
"Hey, hey, can you hear me?" Chen Xiao'er waved her fingers in front of her eyes. Noticing the cook didn't react at all, she sighed irritably, "Let's tie her up first."
"Alright." Lan jumped down from the windowsill and pinned the guy down. Lin Lang took a rope from his bag and tied her to a chair. The whole process went smoothly, with no incidents of biting the tongue or the poison sac.
After everyone was tied up, Chen Xiao'er became conflicted again.
School didn't teach her any torture methods, and she wasn't good at it. She looked around for help: "Excuse me, does anyone have any ideas for getting her to tell the truth?"
Uncle Wolf shrugged: "I'm only good at making people shut up."
The others behind him had clear and helpless expressions.
Only Lan smiled and said, "I can't do it. I'd die if I fought. How about we bring Xinnaya down and try?"
What's the use of Xinaya? Wait, maybe it's actually useful.
Chen Xiao'e thought back to the suspicious basement that day, and the oppressive feeling Xinaya had initially given her in the darkness. If she used her to scare people, maybe she could actually get something out of them?
The atmosphere became tense, but the despair behind it was the most anxious.
The Queen Bee chess piece has already failed. He must use the most precise calculations to make Chen Xiao'er move to the right place at the right time in order to seize the last chance of victory.
He observed Chen Xiao'er's eyes [right now].
The desperate queen bee said in a hoarse voice like a puppet: "Actually, you..."
"This lord!"
Her voice was drowned out by another voice. An old man in the crowd shouted, "Our child hasn't been rescued yet!"
"Can you please save our child?"
"Child? Are these people kidnappers?!" Chen Xiao'er raised her voice.
"Right, right, right!" the old man nodded hurriedly and said, "Several young people in our village have gone missing. I heard this shop is a well-known shady business, so I came here."
"The young people in our village have all been abducted by the anomalies here! We really can't survive if we don't rescue them."
Oh boy, there is this one more thing.
Chen Xiao'er suddenly realized: "I knew it! How could the Chen family's mission be enough to buy off such a luxurious hotel? It seems they usually do shady things like human trafficking, and accepting the Chen family's commission is just a part-time job."
Since he is a human trafficker, there is nothing much to say!
Chen Xiao'er raised her fist and struck the cook on the cheekbone. Her watery eyes gleamed with a fierce glint as she sternly shouted, "Tell me the truth! Where are you hiding them?"
Hiss—you humans!
Tell her directly.
The desperate order was absolute. The queen bee's eyes blurred and she said dully, "The missing people are hiding in the kitchen. We have a secret room."
"The missing person is nearby. The nursery has been temporarily moved elsewhere by your power."
After she finished speaking, her eyes immediately went blank: No, I shouldn't tell Chen Xiao'er about the nursery! According to the prophecy, Chen Xiao'er will kill my child!
Unfortunately, it was too late, and the ability to reset to zero took effect immediately.
When Chen Xiao'er thought about finding the "secret room", the secret room would come to her.
After listening to this, Chen Xiao'er fiddled with it for a while and found a suspicious little mechanism next to the refrigerator, and pressed it hard.
Click, click.
The refrigerator automatically moved, revealing a small room behind the wall.
The strands of cocoon immediately broke apart and all the restraints were automatically released.
Chen Xiao'e saw a dozen dirty young men lying on their backs in the muddy water, their eyes wide open and their mouths full of black food.
She looked again at the place where the insect eggs were originally stored. What Chen Xiao'er saw was not a beehive, not a nursery, no babies and bees, but only a huge cabinet full of drawers.
"What a big drawer, what is it used for?" Chen Xiao'er frowned as she looked at the dirty drawer, always feeling that it was disgusting.
The queen bee followed her gaze and trembled all over: That's my child!
"Hey~" Lan grinned, walked to the cabinet and pulled it hard.
Kashasha.
The drawer opened easily, and a rustling sound that made my scalp tingle came from inside, as if there were a swarm of insects crawling around.
Chen Xiao'er stuck her head out to take a look and almost fainted.
There were lots of opened bags of flour, powdered sugar and other foods in there, but all over the food was - cockroaches!!!
"Ah—" She screamed through her teeth, barely able to steady her legs, and loudly questioned the cook: "You, you did this on purpose, there are so many bugs!"
Bugs? Isn't that my child? The queen bee was still confused, but she knew she couldn't let Chen Xiao'er know that she fed her child with humans, so she kept her lips tightly shut and said nothing.
Lin Lang turned around and looked at his father, then nodded: We must take advantage of this opportunity to eradicate this abnormal offspring.
She didn't want these monsters who had eaten many people and had great malice towards humans to take advantage of Chen Xiao'er's ignorance and transform into humans, or even embrace the beautiful new world.
Its larvae are cockroaches in Xiao'er's eyes, which is great.
Lin Lang glanced at the food cabinet and walked towards the unconscious human on the ground with heavy steps.
She first squatted down to feel their breathing, and only after feeling the airflow did she feel relieved and slowly build up her emotions.
Breathe~
"Oh my god!" She deliberately let out an exaggerated scream: "Xiao'er, come and see, she, they actually feed people food mixed with insects and flour!"
The people on Yu's side were a little confused and didn't quite understand what Lin Lang was doing.
But the old man inside had experienced many unusual situations over the years, and he instinctively followed the choice of the strong humans. He sobbed and echoed: "Oh, my poor grandson... he's about to be choked to death by insects."
Chen Xiao'er quickly ran over to check on the young men lying unconscious on the ground. Their arms and legs were so thin that they were just skin and bones, and it was obvious that they were often suffering from hunger.
There were real insect tentacles and claws in the black foam that came out of their mouths, and some of them were still moving!
Chen Xiao'er's anger instantly burned away her last bit of compassion.
Damn it, I thought you were forced into this. Is forcing others to eat cockroaches also forced into this?!
She gritted her teeth and ran back to the food cupboard. She suppressed her nausea and killed a few cockroaches with an iron spoon. Then she scooped them into the chocolate bucket along with the live insects and mixed them together. Finally, she poured a box of milk into the chocolate and added more cockroaches and spoiled flour.
"You want to make chocolate, right?" Chen Xiao'er slammed the pot on the table.
Lan stood behind her and helped her hold down the "cook's" neck, forcing her to put her head into the pot obediently.
"Give it to me." The brunette chuckled creepily in his ear.
"No, no—" The queen bee's eyes almost popped out and fell into the pot.
Even with her special vision as an abnormality, she could still see the remains of the insects and the wriggling larvae. Those were her most beloved children! !
The queen bee has never cared about how humans feel when they witness the tragic death of their own flesh and blood. She only needs the energy they provide.
But returning to zero cruelly gave her a temporary soul. Her soul was bent and twisted in intense pain, and the huge pain it brewed was even more than despair.
“No, no, no, no!” she screamed and begged, “Ask, ask, I’ll tell you everything—”
I was wrong, I was wrong, I was really wrong—
Endless regret and sorrow overwhelmed her will, and she blurted out piece of information after piece of information in fear.
But the iron spoon dipped in the corpse was still forcefully inserted into her mouth, and the sticky liquid mixed with the wriggling live worms was stirred vigorously.
"Ugh—" She vomited large chunks of scarlet blood with tears on her face.
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