Chapter 41 Why didn’t you tell me earlier?
Light filtered through the heavy curtains and fell sporadically onto the floor, illuminating it with a blood-red hue.
"The boss doesn't like you to kill people, you should know that." The yellow-haired man crossed his long legs and leaned against the door with his arms folded over his chest, sniffing the smell of blood in the air and speaking.
Anna's raven-feather eyelashes fluttered slightly, and she paused to wipe the blood from her fingertips. A silent sneer curled up the corners of her lips, and then she said, "I don't like men either, especially you, bossing me around. You should know that."
The murderous aura was not concealed at all, sweeping towards the man like a sharp blade.
The man raised his hands in black leather gloves: "Ceasefire."
The arc of his lips slowly fell: "Those little bastards showed up."
Anna raised an eyebrow and said nonchalantly, "So? They're just the juvenile forms of a bunch of scumbags. Is it worth mobilizing so many troops?"
"The brats took the human-faced spider to Yuelai Plaza." The yellow-haired man said concisely.
Noticing that Anna's expression finally changed, the yellow-haired man felt proud.
"I'm here to tell you that I've already sent someone to clean up your mess. You owe me a favor this time."
After saying that, the yellow-haired man turned and left, not giving Anna a chance to retort.
Anna's eyes gradually grew darker as she heard the yellow-haired man's uncontrollable whistle of joy. Sooner or later, she would kill him with her own hands!
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The sixth floor of Yuelai Plaza.
Li Xiaogou rushed to the sixth floor at the fastest speed in his life, and then saw a scene that made him furious.
The boy held a wooden box and walked towards the children in the corner with a numb expression.
The children who were playing had not yet realized that danger was approaching and were still laughing and making noises, but their teacher had already realized that something was wrong.
No, they knew something was wrong when the fire alarm went off, but they were traveling with a whole class of children, more than 30 people, and by the time they made sure everyone had their shoes on and was ready to leave, they were already stuck.
The entire mall fell silent, leaving only them and the young man in front of them.
Xia Han initially thought that the boy was alone and was confused by the sudden fire alarm. She tried to take him away with her, and then... she saw the boy's eyes.
It was red, as if there were two fires buried there, filled with hatred that wanted to burn everything.
Then she saw the boy slowly take out a dagger and walk towards them.
Amidst the silent tug of war, a clear voice broke the silence.
"Sun Jun, Wu Liang is dead."
Xia Han saw the boy's body stiffen. He slowly turned his head and looked towards the source of the sound. Xia Han also followed his gaze and saw the appearance of the person who saved him.
She was not a fan and never paid attention to the entertainment industry, so she did not recognize Li Xiaogou's face. She only saw the young man slowly approaching with handsome features and a tall figure. He was wearing a black uniform and black gloves on his hands. He looked very similar to the special forces personnel she had seen in the news.
An inexplicable sense of security came over me.
She clasped her hands together and took all the children under her wings. When the two men confronted each other, she slowly retreated to the corner, trying to reduce their presence as much as possible.
Li Xiaogou saw all this clearly from the corner of his eye, and felt a little relieved. The teacher remained rational, and the children did not fall into panic either.
This way, he can focus on dealing with Sun Jun.
He repeated the story of Wu Liang's death, and as he spoke, he carefully moved in small steps towards the children, while also observing and being wary of Sun Jun's condition.
Sun Jun's eyes were red, and it was obvious that he was still in a state of illness.
Li Xiaogou kept provoking him with words.
"Wu Liang is dead. He can no longer threaten you. You don't have to complete this mission. Give the things to me. My colleagues can help you with the treatment. Don't you want to return to an ordinary life?"
"Wu Liang... Teacher Wu..." Sun Jun murmured, as if his mind was experiencing a fierce war. The two different voices, clarity and irritability, were fighting fiercely, clamoring to tear him apart.
He was spinning in place, his body twitching. This process lasted for more than a minute. Just when Li Xiaogou had walked in front of the teachers and children, Sun Jun finally stopped struggling.
His eyes did not return to black or red, but turned into a strange golden color, like the pupils of a snake, which was chilling.
He said in a hoarse voice: "Teacher Wu did not threaten me, I volunteered, I volunteered, I volunteered!"
He became more and more excited as he spoke, and in the end he was almost roaring.
Xia Han was frightened by the boy's crazy look and couldn't help but shrink her neck.
However, the children behind her had already begun to sob softly, and she could not retreat at this time. She suppressed her fear and stubbornly opened her arms to block the children.
Liang Bin couldn't help but frown and complained in a low voice, "Why doesn't this guy appease the other person, but instead keeps provoking him?"
Xia Han looked at Li Xiaogou's straight back and said in a deep voice, "At least he chose to stand in front of us instead of just hiding himself at the first moment."
Liang Bin's face turned grim. Xia Han had panicked and abandoned the students before calling on him to run into the toilet.
"I'm just a driver," Liang Bin argued quietly. He was driving a school bus, and it had broken down today, so they had stopped briefly at the mall to let parents pick up their children.
Xia Han ignored him and just watched Li Xiaogou's every move. This was their only hope.
There was no obvious change in the expression on Li Xiaogou's face. He pulled his body away and took the initiative to make a gap so that Sun Jun could see the children behind him.
"I know that Wu Liang treats you very well and treats you like his own son. Li Chenglu is also your best brother. When you saw your good brother sick and your closest elder threatened, you took the initiative to offer to help them. It was you who made Li Chenglu convert you. You are repaying Wu Liang's kindness to you and also repaying Li Chenglu's friendship."
Sun Jun's eyes moved slightly.
Li Xiaogou pointed behind him and said, "Look at them."
Xia Han didn't know Li Xiaogou's intention. All she could do was protect the children more closely. She was petite, so she let the children bury their heads in her arms and comforted them softly.
"It's okay, it's okay, the teacher is here."
Li Xiaogou continued, "She is a good teacher, just like Wu Liang. The students she protects are just like you once were."
"You once saved an injured puppy on the roadside, but your alcoholic father later stewed and ate it. You had a huge argument with him, and he ended up breaking your leg. It was Wu Liang who saved you, and he told you that you had done nothing wrong."
"Then, when you passed by the park, you saw an old lady who had fainted while rummaging through a trash can. No one around was willing to help her, but you helped her up. You even received a commendation from the school for this."
"You certainly didn't do these things because you were praised. You did them because you are a good person at heart."
"Do you really want to hurt these innocent people?"
Sun Jun slowly squatted down, curled up into a ball, and sobbed, "But Teacher Wu is dead. You killed him!"
"Yes, it was my colleague who did it. I won't lie to you. I don't approve of his actions. I think he went too far, so after the case is settled, I will report him to my superiors."
"If you cause significant casualties here, it will be easier to justify the other party's actions in harming Teacher Wu, and Li Chenglu, as the one who instigated you, will receive a heavier punishment."
"If I give you the things, can Li Chenglu reduce his punishment?" Sun Jun asked with tears in his eyes.
Li Xiaogou stretched out his hands towards him and said sincerely, "I swear, I will fight for a lighter punishment."
After a moment's silence, Sun Jun seemed to have finally made a decision. He threw the dagger two meters away and slid the box containing the spider towards Li Xiaogou.
When Li Xiaogou raised his hand and was about to catch the box, something unexpected happened.
A black shadow flew past him at an extremely fast speed, picked up the box on the ground, and threw a round object at Li Xiaogou.
Li Xiaogou was about to grab the box and subconsciously wanted to wave away the thing thrown by the other party. When he looked closely, he found that what the other party threw was actually a child!
The child who flew over was caught, and the box was also snatched away.
"Liang Bin, what are you doing?" Xia Han looked at her colleague in disbelief, the dull and honest man who greeted her every day.
"Ma'am, my name is not Liang Bin."
A smile that was extremely inconsistent with Liang Bin's personality appeared on his ordinary face.
In an instant, all the unreasonable things had a reasonable explanation.
The real Liang Bin is a driver who is very patient with children. He would never abandon the children and run away when danger occurs.
The man raised the box in his hand: "I've taken back the human-faced spider—"
Li Xiaogou attracted all the man's attention, or perhaps the man didn't care about the "defective products" made by the human-faced spider they released. When he spoke, he didn't notice Sun Jun's movements at all.
When his neck was grabbed and his blood vessels were squeezed, the man turned his head in surprise and met a pair of red eyes.
Sun Jun bit the prey in front of him like a real beast, his sharp teeth piercing deeply and pulling out forcefully. Each movement could tear off a large piece of flesh and blood. The red liquid drew an arc in the air and fell to the ground. The air was filled with a thick smell of blood.
A huge hole was bitten in the man's throat, but the supernatural person's strong physical fitness still allowed him to survive. He burst out with the last strength of his life and fought with Sun Jun.
Li Xiaogou handed the little fat boy to Xia Han who came running over and smiled at her: "Find a place to hide and don't let them see what happens next."
He rushed out after he finished speaking.
The smile on his face quickly faded, and Li Xiaogou was like a sword out of his body, emitting a biting chill.
He ignored the two people fighting and rushed towards the box that was overturned during the fight.
The pure black spider lay on its back, and after struggling for a while with its thin and long legs, it finally turned its body over.
The box was only the size of a palm, and when the human-faced spider fell out of the box, it was only the size of a thumb nail, but when it turned over, its body had expanded to the length of a human arm.
With every passing second, its body expanded larger and larger, until its back finally hit the ceiling, a full three meters high!
If it had continued to grow and been stuck in the narrow space, it would have been fine, but the human-faced spider stopped expanding when its back touched the ceiling.
Its back and huge spider legs were covered with dense protrusions, and upon closer inspection, they all looked like human faces.
Xia Han held the child tightly in her arms. She couldn't believe what she saw. It had completely overturned her worldview.
She followed Li Xiaogou's advice, placed the children in the castle, and guarded the entrance of the castle herself.
Li Xiaogou stood in front of the huge spider, holding a dagger that was shining with cold light in his hand.
This dagger was given to him by Yunlou for self-defense, because physical skills were not his strong point.
Li Xiaogou had lived for two lifetimes and knew very little about creatures like spiders, so when the monster in front of him roared like a beast towards his face, his expression did not change much.
He rushed forward directly.
Everyone has to pay the price for what they do, and spiders are no exception.
The human-faced spider gained a huge body, but sacrificed agility accordingly.
Li Xiaogou quickly shuttled between the spider's legs that kept stepping down, and when he couldn't avoid it, he used his dagger to block it. They rushed forward all the way, and several cuts were made on his combat uniform, but he didn't feel any pain because he held all his attention and waited for the most fatal blow.
It’s getting closer, it’s now!
He leaped up, his black boots stomping hard on the spider's legs, his lean waist twisted 180 degrees in mid-air, and the dagger slammed down fiercely towards the spider's eyes from above.
A sharp light flashed by, and the crystals wrapped in the thin film became fragile, and juice instantly overflowed.
The human-faced spider let out a sharp whistling sound, and even the crowd gathered downstairs could hear the terrifying sound clearly.
"What on earth is Li Xiaogou doing upstairs..." muttered a member of Li Xiaogou's fan club who rushed over from the next street as soon as he got the news.
However, no one present could answer her question.
Li Xiaogou was hit by the attack and quickly withdrew, but he was also stabbed in the arm by the spider's leg in mid-air. When he landed, blood splattered on his face, making his hair look even blacker than ink and his face look even lighter than paper.
From the air-raid shelter to Yuelai Plaza, the number of times he had used his supernatural powers had reached its limit. The huge consumption of mental energy was like a huge pump, draining his brain without stopping for a moment. The dual fatigue of body and mind had pushed him to the limit.
He had just used all his strength in this attack.
Wiping the blood from the corner of his lips with his sleeve, he stared at the spider that was still roaring not far away.
However, after a miserable howl, the spider managed to steady itself.
Every time it sucked a person's blood, its skin became harder. The hateful dagger pierced its eyes but failed to penetrate its brain.
Wounds, blood, pain, each point stimulated the human-faced spider to become even more angry.
Suddenly, all its spider legs curled up, and the human face on its back began to struggle violently, as if it was about to rush out at any time.
Those human faces opened their white teeth and bit the air angrily. In an instant, the body of the human-faced spider was covered with countless mouths.
It just rushed towards Li Xiaogou.
Li Xiaogou half-knelt on the ground, a fishy and sweet taste came out of his throat, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
Am I going to die here?
The spider's legs had already swung in front of my eyes, sweeping over with a fishy smell.
"I'm sorry, Tongzi, I haven't helped you find the Destroyer yet."
The spider leg finally swung down.
Li Xiaogou raised his eyes and looked directly into the beast's only remaining eye. He spat a mouthful of blood foam at it, then smiled gently.
He actually grasped the sharp spider leg with his hand. Blood flowed down his palm, but he was completely unaware and let the pain of cutting flesh repeatedly torment his will.
Li Xiaogou trembled as he raised the dagger in his other hand and stabbed the twisted and struggling human face on the spider's skin again and again.
Every time the knife fell, the man's face would let out a cry.
The blood brought by the blade splashed on Li Xiaogou's face, making him look like a demon crawling out of hell.
Gradually, I lost all feeling in my body and could no longer feel the pain. It seemed as if the spider's leg had pierced into my right shoulder.
It seems to be nailed to the wall.
"You little bastard, you seem to be even angrier than me."
On the verge of death again, Li Xiaogou seemed to have regained the madness of his previous life.
The other spider leg was raised high, as if to deal him a fatal blow.
Li Xiaogou's nostrils twitched slightly as he thought of a brilliant way to die together, just like in his previous life.
However, at this moment, a mechanical sound suddenly rang in my mind.
Somehow, the voice seemed to carry a hint of urgency.
[The host's melon-eating system has been upgraded, and the melon-eating synchronized somatosensory skill has been acquired.]
[The host can select a person while eating melons and replicate a small part of their abilities, limited to physical skills.]
Li Xiaogou raised the corner of his lips with difficulty and murmured, "Your grandfather should have said it earlier."
The next second, a fierce look flashed across his face, and he whispered, "Copy Wang Zheng's ability."
Then, he clenched the hand that could still move into a fist and punched the human-faced spider's abdomen hard.
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