Lin Yiran seemed to have exhausted all her strength. After barely managing to stand, she sighed and said, "Letting him die like this is really too good for him."
Jin Shuo frowned: "Then what else do you want? To be like they did to you, to be devoured alive?" It sounded good, but he felt that Lin Yiran, a girl, would not do such a cruel thing.
But he clearly underestimated Lin Yiran.
Then he heard Lin Yiran say, "Swallow him alive? That would be too easy on him."
"There's a kind of worm in the soil over there that sucks people's blood. If it were me, I would skin him, tie him to a tree, put the worm on it, watch it swell up little by little, and then feed the man some healing medicine. While ensuring he doesn't die, I would let him experience the feeling of being worse than dead."
Lin Yiran spoke lightly, but the two people opposite her looked over and stared at her with surprise.
Lin Yiran raised an eyebrow: "What? Is this the first day you've met me?"
Jin Shuo shook his head, imagining the scene: a bloodied man crawling with worms. He got goosebumps.
No, it's not.
To confirm that she really wanted to do it, Lin Yiran went over and examined the young man's body. After confirming that he was truly dead, she thought to herself that it was a real pity, otherwise she really wanted to try it.
Jin Shuo paused for a moment when he saw the young man's face that Lin Yiran had turned over, then stepped forward and flipped the man over himself: "Yuan Leng? What's this guy doing here?"
He squatted on the ground and looked up at Lin Yiran, who was about to leave.
He had an expression that said, "How did you two meet?"
Lin Yiran: "I don't know, I guess I offended someone, and that person hired someone to kill me." "Let's go, don't worry about this, let's go out, I'll treat you to drinks when we go out, freshly brewed wine."
Jin Shuo refused to leave. Instead, he wiped his hands, which had been touching the corpse, with a handkerchief and said to himself, "Do you know who Yuan Leng works for?"
Lin Yiran: "Whose people?" Although she didn't know whose people they were, she had a general idea of who wanted to kill her, so she wasn't interested in the topic. However, in order to pretend that she didn't know anything, she could only pretend to be very interested in the topic.
Jin Shuo, however, changed his expression, mysteriously approached Lin Yiran, put his arm around her shoulder, and said, "Zhou Lin's man!"
Lin Yiran looked up in surprise: "Zhou Lin? So he deliberately sent someone to kill me, to avenge his cousin?" This gave Lin Yiran a reasonable excuse.
We can fool them.
Jin Shuo: "You could say that, but you can't say that either. There are still two things I don't understand."
"First, Zhou Lin is not a petty person at all, and he has a very bad relationship with his cousins. If it weren't for his father's instructions, given Zhou Lin's personality, he wouldn't have opposed you at all on the stage last time. He's extremely annoyed by his cousins. If you killed his cousins, I think he should thank you with drums and gongs. Why would he kill you?"
Lin Yiran: "Then... it's also possible that their father wants to kill me, after all, he is Zhou Qi's uncle."
Jin Shuo: "So what if he's your uncle? Zhou Lin's father is no good. Back then, because Zhou Lin's mother was in his way, he even killed his wife, with whom he had shared a long and loving life. I don't believe that such a cold-blooded person would come looking for trouble for you because of his two nephews. It's more believable that he would do it for the sake of saving face."
Lin Yiran: "Well, he's just trying to save face. I humiliated the Cheetah Legion last time, so he's getting revenge on me."
Jin Shuo: "Why are you explaining so quickly? This is only one point of doubt. There's another point I haven't mentioned yet."
Lin Yiran looked at Jin Shuo. What's the suspicious point?
"You and Yuan Leng came from the same orphanage and were admitted in the same batch. Don't you know him? I thought you two would?"
"They all came from the same orphanage and were from the same batch of students in the same academy. They should have let you off the hook, considering you were childhood friends. How could he really do that?"
"That's a bit too cruel."
Lin Yiran's heart skipped a beat. Oh no! She had the original owner's memories, but most of them were dictated to her by the system. She didn't have any impression of the people in the orphanage.
In her memory, there were only a few close girlfriends who were good friends with the original owner of the body back then, and the few people who later chose to betray her for Lin Fei.
Jiang Yan, Liu Yihuan, Yuan Shiyu.
But what kind of suspicious point is this?
Lin Yiran's nonchalant stabbing was also meant to lower Jin Shuo's guard: "Do you think an orphanage is some kind of wonderful place? I grew up there, and I know life there like the back of my hand. Where are the friends, childhood sweethearts? People have been killed over a nutrient solution or a pen, and you think they'd show mercy? Once you leave that orphanage, who will even recognize you? Give him money and he'll sell me off right away. You saw it with your own eyes..."
Lin Yiran was underestimating the situation. It's a small society there, and children with relatives can receive good care. Otherwise, her identity wouldn't have been taken away.
Jin Shuo exclaimed in shock, "No way! The orphanage is a nursery supported by government funding. How could it be as dark as you describe? You, you... your heart is too dark!"
Lin Yiran countered, "Then why do you think he accepted this mission? Even if he knew Zhou Lin's father wanted to kill me, he didn't need to do it himself. He could have easily turned down the mission."
Jin Shuo thought about it and realized that made sense.
However, "Is it really true, as you say, that people in orphanages would fight over a pen and a drop of IV fluid?"
Lin Yiran: "It's more than that. People starving to death is a common occurrence. The federal government has allocated a lot of funds to support orphanages, but not all of them can be used for the children. The children still have very few supplies. When we were young, it was a luxury to be able to eat a full meal!"
"Not to mention that she and Yuan Leng were childhood sweethearts. If there was any relationship between them, it would be the kind where they fought to the death over a bite of food when they were kids."
Lin Yiran was indeed right about this.
Food resources are scarce in interstellar space, so many parents and relatives voluntarily send their children to orphanages in the hope of getting a full meal. They then bribe the people in the orphanages to protect their children, thus forming a small society with human relationships and conflicts. Poor little girls like Lin Yiran, who have no one to take care of them, are completely bullied by others.
It was truly a desperate situation, with no one to turn to for help.
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