Chapter 81 Shan Ran is dead
Guan Dachui's eyes were bloodshot with rage. He was in so much pain that he wanted to scream, but no sound came out; only a "hoarse" sound could be heard.
The woman below wanted to scream, but a hand reached out and covered her mouth. Then, with a swift stroke, her screams were drowned out by the hand that appeared out of nowhere.
After confirming that both of them had passed away, Xiaoshan left.
She weighed the knife in her hand; it was a pig-slaughtering knife she had just grabbed from the kitchen.
I don't know why, but it feels kind of familiar.
She had never practiced with a knife before, but the moment she used it, it felt as if she had swung it countless times. She skillfully found the most vulnerable and fatal spot on the human body, and her strength was much greater than she had imagined.
Moreover, she wasn't afraid at all.
I thought it would take a long time to mentally prepare myself for doing it for the first time, but I didn't expect her to be so decisive, exceeding my expectations.
She glanced at the knife in her hand again and suddenly smiled.
She was smiling very brightly.
In one night, she fought her way from the village entrance all the way to Guan Xiaojun's house.
We encountered some trouble at Guan Xiaojun's house.
It was past 3 a.m., and Guan Xiaojun was still awake, playing games in bed.
Therefore, he heard the noise coming from his parents' room and ran over to check.
And just like that, I bumped into Xiaoshan, who had just opened the door.
Thus began a fierce battle.
Xiao Shan was much thinner and weaker than Guan Xiaojun; in the past, he certainly wouldn't have been able to defeat him.
But now she seems to have become a different person. Her combat power has increased dramatically. Although she is not strong enough, her attacks are always very tricky and her moves are exceptionally ruthless.
Guan Xiaojun usually works out, but he lacks practical combat experience. After a few moves, he was defeated.
The consequence of failure was the loss of life.
Guan Xiaojun lay on the ground, clutching his throat, trembling all over, staring intently at Xiaoshan.
He tried hard to say something, but couldn't get the words out.
Xiaoshan didn't want to listen either.
She was a little tired, so she leaned against the wall to rest for a while, panting heavily. Then she went downstairs to the kitchen on the first floor and looked for something to eat.
After eating and drinking to their hearts' content, Xiaoshan continued on his way.
She won't stop; there are still people to save, and grudges yet to be avenged.
Guanjia Village is not large, and there are not many villagers living there.
The severe gender imbalance led them to consider buying wives.
However, the reason for the imbalance is the older generation's preference for sons over daughters.
At that time, drowning newborn female infants was something most villagers had experienced.
"Everything you are in now is your own doing."
This was the only sentence Xiaoshan said tonight, and it was directed at Guan Da and his wife.
It was these two people who, on her very first day there, drove her back from the crossroads of hope to the abyss of despair.
She walked around the village before finally arriving at Guan Shengqiang's house.
Just a day ago, she thought she had left this hell, but she never expected to be back here so soon.
This time, she's here to send them to hell.
Tonight is a full moon, its pale and desolate light illuminating the path leading up the hill.
She climbed over the wall into the yard and found that the room where Xiaoshan had been imprisoned was empty.
Xiaoshan turned to look at the main house, but the door was locked. She quietly circled around and climbed in through an open window at the back.
The main house is divided into three parts: the foyer, the bedroom, and the kitchen.
The window is positioned right in the bedroom.
Xiaoshan had been confined to the small house for a long time, but had never been to the main house.
The main house was also made of adobe bricks, and the interior was messy with a damp and rotten smell.
The bed was placed against the corner, the bedding was messy, but no one was there.
There was a dark shadow on the ground. Xiaoshan approached cautiously, gripping the knife in his hand tightly.
As she got closer, by the moonlight streaming through the window, she discovered that the person lying on the ground was none other than Xiao Meng.
She didn't recognize him at first because his face was so swollen it was unrecognizable.
There was a pool of blood beneath him, and his body was covered in mottled bloodstains.
Xiaoshan was shocked and carefully examined the boy's wound, unsure of what to do with her hands, afraid of touching it.
His body was covered in wounds, and upon closer inspection, it was discovered that one of his ears was missing, with jagged and irregular breaks, which was quite gruesome.
It looked as if it had been torn apart!
Xiao Meng's eyes were tightly closed, and his body trembled uncontrollably even in his unconscious state. The unconsciousness was merely his body's way of protecting itself, but he could still feel intense pain.
Xiaoshan was furious, yet also felt a heart-wrenching pain.
The girl's experiences, written in the notebook, were now truly revealed to her.
Just as Xiaoshan was about to check on the boy's condition further, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her back.
She instinctively turned and stabbed, hitting her target, but the knife was blocked by the hard bone.
A piercing scream rang out.
It's Guan Shengqiang!
A surge of intense anger and fear rushed into her mind, causing her to completely forget the pain in her back.
Guan Shengqiang's knife got stuck in Xiaoshan's shoulder blade, but her knife also fell to the ground.
She had already stabbed him in the thigh, blocking his escape route.
The two of them started fighting bare-handed.
Xiaoshan's main form of exercise since childhood was running. However, at this moment, she seemed to have mastered it without a teacher. Every punch she threw mobilized the strength of her whole body, and she was able to find the vital points. She actually knocked the taller and stronger man opposite her to the ground.
The lame man on the ground was initially spouting threats, but his voice gradually softened, and his profanities turned into pleas for mercy.
However, the wound on Xiaoshan's back was torn wider and wider with the violent movements, and the blood flowed more and more. She felt dizzy and a white light flashed before her eyes.
This brought her to a temporary halt.
Guan Shengqiang, who had been knocked to the ground, was panting heavily. Seeing this, a vicious glint flashed in his eyes.
He crawled two steps, reached the boning knife not far away, and then lunged forward with all his might.
Guan Shengqiang roared with a ferocious expression, and was about to pounce on the girl when he was suddenly knocked down by a heavy blow and fell to the ground.
Immediately afterwards, someone picked up the boning knife he had dropped and plunged it into his heart.
The ugly man's eyes bulged out, and his hands gripped Xiao Meng's arms tightly, his filthy fingernails digging deep into his skin.
Xiao Meng seemed completely oblivious to the pain, pressing down on Guan Shengqiang until he died.
Xiao Meng was tortured all night; having been pampered since childhood, he had never suffered such hardship.
He was in excruciating pain, and every time he woke up from a coma thinking it was a dream, he would see that devilish face with a cruel smile on it.
Moreover, according to Guan Shengqiang, he did not intend to kill Xiao Meng easily, but to keep him until the next new "wife" arrived.
If that's the case, he'd probably go crazy before any new people even arrive.
He breathed a long sigh of relief.
This nightmarish experience is finally over.
He turned around and climbed up the hill using both his hands and feet.
The girl had already fallen into a coma due to excessive blood loss.
He carefully held the girl, looking at the knife sticking out of her back, unsure of how to proceed.
She didn't cry even when she was being tortured, but now her tears flowed uncontrollably.
"Xiaoshan, Xiaoshan! Wake up! Are you alright? Don't fall asleep!"
The voice, trembling with tears, gave Xiaoshan a headache.
She wanted to say she was fine, but when she opened her mouth, she couldn't utter a sound.
Her eyelids grew heavier and heavier, the sounds around her grew more and more distant, and her body seemed to lose all sensation.
"Dye!!"
The next second, Shan Ran suddenly opened her eyes.
There were no wounds on my back, but the pain was like a vague illusion.
She was enveloped in a tight embrace, so tight that she could hardly breathe.
Meng Xinye's cheeks and shoulders were soaked with tears, as if they were free, and they fell on Shan Ran's body.
Shan Ran patted his head to comfort him, but her mind was filled with thoughts of her conversation with her before she regained consciousness.
"I thought there would be something scary, like ghosts or monsters, since there were no superpowers this time. I didn't expect it to be such an ordinary illusion."
"Normal? Are you sure?"
Shanran recalled her experience in the illusion and remained silent.
"The content of the illusions within the mist is not static. They use your familiar world as a backdrop, which makes you lower your guard and subconsciously believe that these things are real. They will seek out those terrifying events and scenes from your memories to construct your illusions. Although they don't have superpowers, their goal is the same: to destroy your mental world."
If he doesn't save you, you'll go insane soon; if you don't save him, he'll go insane shortly. If either of your mental worlds is destroyed, you'll both be trapped in an illusion.
The World Consciousness continued, "In the last fog, you would occasionally wonder if it was all a dream, but this time it's so real that you won't even have that thought."
This is the truth. Shanran never doubted that it was fake. She only hoped that it was all a dream when she occasionally had a mental breakdown.
"Alright, there's always another hurdle to overcome. Good luck to you guys!"
At this moment, Shan Ran was in a white cocoon, tightly wrapped up, with a man holding her tightly in front of her.
"Okay, okay, don't cry."
Meng Xin didn't make a sound, she just rested her chin on her shoulder and silently shed tears, looking quite pitiful.
Hearing Shan Ran's voice, he turned his head, his round eyes, brimming with tears, blinking as he looked at her.
"Let's go out first."
Meng Xin wiped away her tears with the back of her hand and nodded.
Shan Ran took out her knife and Meng Xinye's hammer from her spatial storage.
Previously, Meng Xin had asked Shan Ran to name his big hammer. Being terrible at naming things, he thought for a long time and finally came up with "eighty".
So now, Meng Xin, embracing his "eighty," smashed open the cocoon that had enveloped them with a single blow.
Sensing the unusual movement in the cocoons, the cocoons hatching in other locations split open from the inside, and a large number of ferocious beasts rushed towards the two.
Before entering the cave, Shanran turned back to look at Meng Xinye.
"Hang in there, I'll get it sorted out as soon as possible."
Meng Xin stepped forward and pressed his lips to Shan Ran's, but the kiss was brief.
Then he couldn't resist adding a dig at her.
"Don't worry, I'll definitely last longer than that muscleman!"
Ignoring the man's ulterior motives, Shan Ran plunged into the dark hole and quickly crawled inside.
This time, she didn't have to suppress the feeling of unconsciousness; her mind was clear, and she counted as she crawled.
When they had counted to a little over a thousand, they reached the end of the cave.
Shan Ran cautiously peeked out; it was still pitch black outside. She slid down the slope and soon reached the bottom.
After standing up, she was on high alert, carefully looking around.
Pitch black.
Silence.
Even if Shanran used night vision, he couldn't see anything around him.
If the enemy doesn't move, I won't move either.
Now that they have arrived at their lair in another world, Shanran is not in a hurry.
She simply took out a bottle of beverage from her storage space to replenish her fluids.
As if unable to bear seeing her so relaxed, He appeared in front of Shan Ran the moment she took a sip of water.
It's clearly not the same one as last time.
Shan Ran was prepared and was not startled.
She put the drink back in the container and silently stared at the mouth in front of her.
Its mouth was wide open, revealing three or four rows of sharp teeth that were not neatly arranged, but densely packed and pitted.
The outermost row of teeth each has an eye on it.
Each eye blinked at a different frequency, but they were all staring intently at Shan Ran. Upon seeing these eyes, Shan Ran felt goosebumps all over her body and her heart pounded.
As the eyes looked over, countless intricate and chaotic murmurs surged into Shanran's mind like a tidal wave.
Even though she was mentally prepared, it still felt like her head had been hit by a heavy hammer. A flash of white light appeared before her eyes, and she could no longer support herself, collapsing to the ground.
Having lost her superpowers, her body reverted to its pre-apocalyptic state.
The stronger her powers become after the apocalypse, the weaker and heavier she will be at this moment.
Shan Ran clenched her fists, struggling to resist the overwhelming, sinister whispers.
These voices seemed to grow directly from the depths of her mind, exploding from within.
She ventured into her own mental world, which was in complete chaos.
This time, there were seven orbs of light in the spiritual world.
The two Q Xiaorans, one representing agility and the other immortality, were in agony as they resisted the collapse around them.
The little harpy eagle flapped its wings, opened its mouth, and emitted a silent shriek.
All seven orbs of light were teetering on the brink of collapse, fraught with danger.
The illusion was meant to destroy her spirit, and this place is also attacking her spirit.
The "gods" of this other world seem unable to directly harm her body.
The “giant objects” that appeared before her might not be the actual deities; they existed in different dimensions, so they could only defeat her spiritually.
Her special abilities were useless; she could only use the power of the rules to harm them.
Shan Ran recalled her previous actions and quickly entered that mysterious state.
A pair of spiritual tentacles appeared in his mind, struggling to maintain their form and gathering the seven orbs of light together.
He discovered Shan Ran's intentions and intensified his attack.
When they first met Shan Ran, they were dismissive and didn't use their full strength.
So this time, He held nothing back.
With a "plop," under the heavy pressure, Shanran felt a sharp pain in her eyes, so much so that even she, who usually had a high tolerance for pain, couldn't help but let out a scream.
She can't see anymore.
Her eyes turned into a bloody mist, the eye sockets were empty, with residual liquid flowing down, making them wet and sticky.
The dark and damp power grew wildly in her mind, severely affecting Shanran's thinking and interrupting her just-concluded enlightenment.
She bit her tongue hard, almost biting off a piece of flesh.
No, she needs to be faster.
It's too late!
Shan Ran raised her trembling hand and plunged it fiercely into her eye socket.
Her already somewhat numb eye sockets were once again wracked with indescribable pain, and this intense pain cleared her muddled mind considerably.
The spiritual tentacles, which were almost dissipating, reappeared and finally condensed the seven orbs of light together.
Her face was a mess, and her nose was filled with the smell of blood, but Shan Ran seemed completely oblivious. She looked up and revealed a crazy smile.
She touched the power of the law of cause and effect!
This time, she held nothing back. Even with her spine on the verge of breaking, she used all her strength to shout out that sentence.
"Cause arises from effect."
You will surely perish!
Pain can lead to death, but pain can also lead to strength.
He was thoroughly enraged and, faced with the choice between resisting the power of the rules and annihilating the insignificant ant in front of him, chose the latter.
He wanted her to experience the consequences of killing a god.
After uttering those words, Shan Ran's mind went blank, and a strange murmur exploded in her head, turning her insides into ruins and spewing out a cloud of blood mist.
At the same time, the power of the rules swept over his entire body, all his eyes closed at the same moment, and then his massive body crashed to the ground.
He had something he couldn't say before it was erased by the power of the rules.
Shan Ran did not witness any of this.
Because her eyes had turned to dust, her body no longer moved.
She died.
Three days have passed in the outside world.
Within three days, order had been initially restored in the safe zone.
The Mist Gang built an earthen wall around their perimeter, and outside the wall was a buffer zone where teams took turns guarding the area to prevent the monsters inside from escaping.
All the survivors in the southern part of the outer city were relocated elsewhere, and the injured received treatment.
In addition to the guards on duty in shifts, there are many other people stationed here in the isolation zone, waiting day and night.
"Young Master Rhein, why don't you go and rest?"
The round-faced Wu Chuci handed Rhein a towel and then offered some words of advice.
As the older brother, he gave the opportunity to his younger sister last time, letting Wu Chuyu go to District 5 to pick up Shan Ran.
This time, he was finally able to get to the scene and wait for his boss to come out.
"Thank you." Rhine took the towel and wiped the monster slime off her body.
Upon learning that Meng Xinye had gone in with Shan Ran this time, Rhine didn't say a word, but simply gripped the cross sword tightly, her arm trembling slightly.
Then, without saying a word, he rushed into the earthen wall and fought the monster for most of the day before finally stopping, exhausted.
He quietly wiped the dirty cross-shaped sword, ignoring all the stares and scrutiny around him.
Most of them were driven by curiosity, gossip, admiration, and reverence...
One of them carried a hint of displeasure... and malice?
It can't be entirely called malicious, but it made Rhine a little uncomfortable.
The gaze was so bright and piercing that Rhine simply couldn't ignore it.
He turned his head and saw a handsome red-haired young man.
Seeing Rhine looking over, the red-haired youth didn't flinch, but snorted and turned his back.
Like a big red bull.
Rhine: ?
He frowned in confusion, vaguely guessing that this person might be related to Shan Ran, but he didn't ask any further questions.
Ranran has the freedom to make friends.
All he wants now is for Ranran to come out safely; he doesn't care about anything else.
At that moment, there was a sudden commotion behind us.
Rhein turned around and saw the Kunwu squad arriving, looking travel-worn.
Leading the way was the tall, strong, masked captain.
Rhine didn't speak, but simply nodded politely.
Kunwu Yecheng nodded in agreement.
A while ago, the ocean shipping routes between the mainland and Taiwan were being tested. Lu Wenrou entrusted this task to the Kunwu team, so they have been out on the move.
Kunwu Yecheng was eager to complete the mission and return to the safe zone as soon as possible, but the passage of the route required connection with the other two continents and the establishment of a safe port. The process was complicated and could not be completed in a short time.
Now that things have finally come to an end, we can hand over the duties to the other teams, but Shan Ran is still shrouded in mist, her fate unknown.
Thinking of everything that happened in the mist last time, Kunwu Yecheng's breathing quickened.
Meng Xinye went in with her this time.
He suddenly understood the feelings of the person who had been waiting outside last time.
He had only waited a short while when he became extremely anxious and restless.
He didn't care what happened between Shan Ran and Meng Xinye; he just wanted her to come out safely.
Kunwu Yecheng stared intently at the mist, his thin lips pressed tightly together beneath his mask.
Not long after, his eyes suddenly widened and his feet involuntarily moved forward a few steps.
He saw that the fog in the distance was gradually thinning.
Soon, those around also noticed the change in the fog.
"The mist, the mist is disappearing! It's Captain Shanran! It must have been Captain Shanran who did it!"
"Yama-iro will be out soon!"
"That's right, that's right, it was the same last time! I've watched that video over and over again!"
The monsters that had appeared with the mist rushed into the depths of the mist at an astonishing speed, and soon they were all gone.
Apart from the ruins on the spot, not a trace was left.
Everyone stared wide-eyed, scrambling forward to get the best view.
Kunwu Yecheng gestured to the back, and the team members immediately dispersed to organize the crowd, maintain order, and keep the onlookers dozens of meters away.
Chandler had been waiting nearby and rushed over as soon as he received the news. By the time he arrived, the fog was about to dissipate completely, and two figures appeared in the very center.
"Dye it!"
"Shanran!"
The team members prevented unrelated people from approaching, but did not stop them from filming videos and livestreaming.
Meanwhile, news that Shan Ran had cleared the second fog had quickly spread online.
Wow! I knew the fog was cleared by Shan Ran!
【Danran, fly freely! Mountain powder will always be with you!】
[This is the second fog effect; that's impressive! Who dares to say it's special effects? The process of the fog dissipating was filmed so clearly at such close range; who would dare spread rumors?]
So far, only Shan Ran has the ability to clear away the mist. Why is that? Could it be that she possesses something special?
[Could you please invite Shan Ran to the First Continent? (Anonymous)...]
The ocean route is open and will be officially operational soon. I wonder if Shanran will go to other continents.
[Why did we go? Shanran is a treasure of our Third Continent! We can't leave! We must ensure her safety!]
[What right do you have to decide where Shanran goes? Shanran hasn't said anything yet. Maybe she'll come over in a while, fall in love with it, and settle down permanently, who knows? Hahaha....]
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Author's Note: Thank you to the little angel for the nutrient solution: Qianyi
Thank you so much! [Dog head with rose in its mouth][Dog head with rose in its mouth][Dog head with rose in its mouth]
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