Chapter 137. Liu Chenshuang is dead, the master...
Xiao Weizhi saw that Liu Duoxin was still unmoved by reason and only focused on her own ideas, and her eyes were full of mockery for the past.
It's laughable. Over ten years is enough time to raise a dog; it should be tamed by now.
This woman, living a privileged life with the money and resources given to her by the Xiao family, still turned around and accused them of not treating her well enough.
Liu Duoxin felt increasingly wronged as she spoke: "You promised Grandma Xiao that you would treat me well, but for the sake of a cripple, you've been targeting me at every turn. You used to... and even... blah blah blah (a thousand words of grievances and accusations omitted here)."
Xiao Weizhi clenched his fist, which was raised in mid-air, and the more he listened, the tighter he clenched. So this was the reason why Liu Duoxin took the initiative to leak the Xiao family's secrets to other aristocratic families?
A long time ago, Lin Xiaoxiao's guess was correct. Despite being engaged, Xiao Weizhi treated Liu Duoxin like a thief, never letting her into his study.
The main reason is an incident that occurred many years ago.
Before that incident, Xiao Weizhi originally thought that once they were engaged, they would be family, and there was no need to be wary of her family.
Even if he doesn't like it, he will abide by the marriage agreement made by the previous generation and live a good life with Liu Duoxin.
Therefore, apart from the treasure vault which could only be entered by the designated heir, Liu Duoxin was free to come and go as she pleased in other parts of the house.
At that time, Xiao Weizhi had just experienced the disappearance of her father and the serious injury of her grandfather, who was admitted to a sanatorium. She had only recently taken over the Xiao family business and was still unfamiliar with many things.
Every day, I have to bring any unfinished work home to my study to finish it.
But he never expected that Liu Duoxin, who was only a teenager at the time, would steal information from the study and give it to the rival family, and secretly dig up resources from the Xiao family for the Liu family.
This led to the Xiao family being passively embroiled in various troubles and disputes for more than three years afterward.
Even with the connections left by Xiao's father and grandfather, the Xiao family still faced crises such as bankruptcy, annihilation, and targeted attacks on multiple occasions.
Xiao Weizhi gritted his teeth and, with the secret help of Jiang Dehai and others, managed to barely survive by sacrificing his pawns in various ways.
Xiao Weizhi, who wanted to break off the engagement, eventually had to grit his teeth and accept the loss after being persuaded by the Liu family, Liu Duoxin's sophistry, Xiao's grandmother's dying words, and Xiao's grandfather's advice.
Since that incident, all areas within the Xiao family mansion that contain documents and information have been closed to Liu Duoxin.
As for why Lin Xiaoxiao could freely enter and leave the study after moving into the Xiao family home, there are three main reasons:
First: Her life was intertwined with Xiao Weizhi's. In the beginning, she rarely left her room while living in the Xiao family.
Second: There are not many confidential documents in the study anymore; instead, there are many books that have been treasured for many years.
Third: Xiao Weizhi had tested Lin Xiaoxiao many times by waving several confidential documents in front of her.
On one occasion, it was even placed directly on the table next to her, but it couldn't compare to the braised meat made by Chen Yijin. She didn't even glance at it, patted her bottom, and turned away.
Xiao Weizhi pressed his tongue against the soft flesh inside his mouth, clenched his fist in mid-air, making a cracking sound, and said in an exceptionally hoarse voice, "You really are the same, you haven't changed at all, you'll never admit your mistakes."
On the other half of Liu Duoxin's fair face, due to excessive manipulation of the black mist, many black blood vessels extended from her neck upwards, covering her fair cheeks, and the pupil of her intact eye was tinged with a light red.
She curled up against the corner of the wall, her light red pupils filled with obvious terror, yet she looked up at Xiao Weizhi with a stubborn expression, as if betting that he wouldn't kill her as he always had.
Xiao Weizhi's face was cold. His fist, raised in mid-air, began to emit bursts of purple light, and there were many tiny electric currents wrapped around it, which occasionally made small crackling and popping sounds.
His fist swung directly at Liu Duoxin's neck, just as it was about to break her neck.
Looking at the undisguised killing intent in Xiao Weizhi's eyes and the ferocity in his punches, Liu Duoxin seemed to finally recognize reality and smiled with a hint of self-mockery. It turned out that she was the only one who had been trapped in the past.
After thinking it through, the fear on her face faded, and she looked calmly at Xiao Weizhi, asking in a deep voice, "Before I die, may I ask you a question? Please answer me truthfully for Grandma Xiao's sake."
Xiao Weizhi's fist stopped 30 centimeters away from Liu Duoxin's neck. The electric current in his fist caused Liu Duoxin's messy hair to fly up automatically without any wind.
He paused for a few seconds, blinked, and remembering his grandmother's dying words, stood up and took a few steps back, saying in a deep voice, "Ask."
Liu Duoxin's lips curled into a straight line: "What exactly is the Xiao family's secret treasure?"
Even without Xiao Weizhi, judging from the number of times Liu Duoxin has inhaled the black mist and fought as a black mist person, she wouldn't last long before being corrupted into a mindless polluted body.
Liu Duoxin just wanted to know where the Xiao family's treasures were hidden, which was why she hadn't been able to find them for so many years.
Back then, Liu Duoxin used special methods to enter the Xiao family's inheritance treasury several times, but still failed to find the secret treasure that the God of Greed wanted.
Xiao Weizhi's eyes were cold, and his smile was mocking. He never expected that Liu Duoxin would remain so incorrigible even when facing death.
His voice was cold and deep, and he spoke slowly, uttering a truth that had been hidden for many years: "The Xiao family's secret treasure? Is this what you wanted to achieve by getting close to the Xiao family? You've had it with you for so many years and you didn't even notice it. You really are blind to its value."
Upon hearing this, Liu Duoxin instinctively retorted, "You're talking nonsense, when did I ever receive it?"
Suddenly the sound stopped, and a thought flashed through Liu Duoxin's mind. Her eyes widened instantly. She had been holding it with her for so many years? Was it the ring that Grandma Xiao had personally given her when they got engaged?
She went mad, as if she'd been struck on the acupoint of laughter, clutching her waist and laughing hysterically. A barely perceptible tear welled up in the corner of her intact eye: "Hahahaha... I really am blind to talent."
Laughing, Liu Duoxin used the last of her energy to deliberately crush her own heart.
After a muffled groan, a trickle of black blood escaped from the corner of her mouth. Her breath began to weaken, her mind went blank, and past memories began to surface:
Over a decade ago, the Liu family made a fortune and, before moving to Beijing, young Liu Duoxin was filled with anticipation for the future, hoping to make many good friends.
{As she spent more and more time in the capital, young Liu Duoxin experienced for the first time the exclusion, isolation, and ridicule of so-called high society... Over the years, she followed the crowd and developed the habit of fawning over the powerful and belittling the weak.}
At a banquet, Liu Duoxin, wearing an outdated dress, was relegated to a corner. Her clear eyes remained fixed on the handsome boy beside the host...
{When Liu Duoxin was once again ostracized and bullied, hiding dejectedly by an abandoned pond and crying, a hoarse voice appeared out of nowhere, asking her: 'Do you want to be someone superior?'}
{At that time, Liu Duoxin, still quite young, had a precocious ambition shining in her eyes: 'I want to!' She had had enough of being bullied, ignored, and targeted...}
Three months after making a deal with the mysterious black mist, Liu Duoxin 'accidentally' saves Grandma Xiao, who has fainted outdoors. Dramatically, she then discovers that Grandma Liu was Grandma Xiao's childhood friend… and the Liu and Xiao families begin to maintain normal relations.
Six months later, due to an "accident," the Liu family was implicated by the Xiao family. Grandma Liu passed away in the accident, and 11-year-old Liu Duoxin was taken to live with the Xiao family.
At the age of 13, she became engaged to Xiao Weizhi, who was a few years older than her, and became the fiancée of the Xiao family heir. At the engagement banquet, she received a ruby ring from Xiao's grandmother, which symbolized her status as the matriarch of the Xiao family, thus beginning her many years of wealthy life.
{Happy days passed quickly, but tragedy struck on the day Liu Duoxin turned 18 and awakened her professional instincts. That very night, the mysterious voice from before reappeared, and she became a henchman of the god of greed.}
{A special dark god of war in reserve, Liu Duoxin is special because she did not obtain the divine seed of the God of Greed, yet she can mobilize other divine followers under the God of Greed for her own use.}
{The God of Greed promised that once Liu Duoxin could find the Xiao family's treasured secret, the transaction would be officially completed, and there would be no further interaction between them. The past transactions would never resurface.}
Unfortunately, despite trying every possible method, she couldn't find the Xiao family's secret treasure, whether it was joining forces with other powerful families to suppress her, stealing information, or infiltrating the Xiao family's treasury...
Having failed to complete her initial mission, Liu Duoxin received a new one from the God of Greed: to approach Chen Zhuoran, a poor young man from a declining family in City S, become his lover, and manipulate his mind…
Before Liu Duoxin breathed her last, her heart was filled with regret. She realized that she had been so close to the happy life she longed for, and that she and he should have had a wonderful ending.
Xiao Weizhi slowly lowered his fist, which was raised in mid-air, and coldly watched as Liu Duoxin's breath gradually stopped and her body temperature dropped, turning cold.
On the other side, after Lin Xiaoxiao burned Nu Enluo's body, she turned and walked towards Xiao Weizhi, passing by a deep pit.
Lying at the bottom of the pit, Chen Zhuoran, who had lost his hands and feet and whose face and body were covered with all kinds of pustules, slowly opened his eyes, which had turned completely black and had no whites left, and stared blankly at the gray sky.
A rare moment of clarity returned to her chaotic thoughts, like the sound of sandpaper being rubbed, very soft: "Xiaoxiao, I, I had a very long dream. In the dream, with your help, I became the captain of the SSS team, which was very prestigious."
Upon hearing this, Lin Xiaoxiao paused in her step, a look of surprise flashing in her eyes. Why would Chen Zhuoran dream about things that happened in his past life?
She suppressed her chaotic thoughts and didn't deliberately walk to the edge of the pit. She replied softly, "That was a dream."
Then, without looking back, he walked in the direction where Xiao Weizhi was.
The foul-smelling wind carried her answer to Chen Zhuoran's ears at the bottom of the pit.
Lying at the bottom of the pit, Chen Zhuoran's monstrous face revealed a terrifying smile as he murmured in a very soft voice, "Yes, it was a dream."
If I hadn't been seduced by Liu Duoxin's promise of wealth, would I have lived a life of luxury as I dreamt? Unfortunately, there's no going back now.
With deep regret, Chen Zhuoran opened his dark eyes, his breath dissipating, and his body beginning to lose temperature.
The instant Chen Zhuoran closed his eyes, a strange, thick black fog billowed from the black earth, enveloping his body and disappearing from the spot a few seconds later.
Xiao Weizhi turned to look at Lin Xiaoxiao, who was walking slowly toward him, his eyes filled with tenderness, and took several steps forward to greet her.
Lin Xiaoxiao smiled and quickened her pace, throwing herself into Xiao Weizhi's arms: "Weizhi, I won."
Xiao Weizhi gently hugged Lin Xiaoxiao and rubbed his chin against her hair: "Xiaoxiao is really amazing."
During the minute the two embraced and talked, Liu Duoxin, who had lost her breath, was also enveloped by the black mist that overflowed from the ground, and then disappeared into the corner of the wall.
A minute later, both of them discovered that Liu Duoxin had mysteriously disappeared.
Lin Xiaoxiao frowned deeply, a strange feeling creeping into her heart. She had a feeling that Liu Duoxin's disappearance was not a good thing.
Xiao Wei gently placed his hand on her shoulder and said in a deep voice, "We'll think about Liu Duoxin's disappearance later. The most important thing now is to get rid of the evil gods, pollutants, and polluting beasts inside and outside the city."
Lin Xiaoxiao nodded, but when she passed a deep pit, she found that Chen Zhuoran's body, which had been lying there, was gone. Her sense of unease grew stronger.
But she didn't have time to think it through; the juvenile evil god rampaging inside and outside the city had to be dealt with immediately.
During the time she fought with Xiao Weizhi, the number of Mission 2 changed dramatically.
From the original: [Forced Quest for Divine Inheritance 2: Slay the Evil God [312/30023]]
The current version is: [Mandatory Quest for Divine Inheritance 2: Slay the Evil God [433/60234]]
The evil gods have multiplied through a special method, reaching an astonishing number of over 60,000.
There are not many pollutants or polluting beasts left in the city; instead, these disgusting-looking evil god-like beings are wandering around.
Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi flew in different directions to clear out the wandering evil god bodies.
They were all at the peak of demigod status, and a trace of the energy within their bodies had already transformed into a special god-like energy.
By attaching this wisp of pseudo-divine energy to the weapon, one can attack the special energy cores hidden deep within the bodies of those evil gods, eliminating them with a single strike and preventing them from continuing to multiply.
The slain evil god body, after being killed, will turn into a pool of foul-smelling, viscous, disgusting liquid, resembling oil.
[Candidate for Godhood - Lin Xiaoxiao, Slayed Evil God +1, Reward: A Sliver of Purifying Power]
[Candidate for Godhood - Lin Xiaoxiao's Protector: Xiao Weizhi, +1 for slaying an evil god, Lin Xiaoxiao is rewarded with a trace of purification power, and the Protector is rewarded with: 0.001% body purification]
...
Just as Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi were working hard to eliminate the evil god bodies inside and outside the city of Mona,
Deep within the contaminated zone, shrouded in black mist, the God of Greed spoke with a voice both joyful and maniacal: "Finally got it, hahahahahaha... The chosen ones of destiny, the chosen ones of destiny, as long as I devour their bodies, I can break half of the seal chains."
"I have been scheming and plotting for so many years. I am about to leave this damned galaxy. Luckily, wait for me to devour you and become one with you... I will be with you for all eternity."
Within the body of the God of Greed, in a vast and dark special space, two lifeless bodies floated in the air, enveloped in black mist.
Every time a part of their bodies is dissolved by the black mist, countless golden energies transform into thin, long threads that drift out from within.
Then it was quickly swallowed up by the black mist that had been waiting in this space, and the black mist began to grow and expand at a very slow speed.
The special energy chains binding the outside of the object, belonging to the god of greed, were being melted and broken by the black mist overflowing from within, at a rate of one chain every 10 minutes.
The enormous body, bound by hundreds of thousands of chains, trembled incessantly, the chains clanging as they trembled.
The entire space began to vibrate along with the chains. A few seconds later, the vibration was forcibly stopped, and everything returned to normal, as if to cover up the sound of the chains breaking.
If you look closely, this place is very strange, as it is full of pure white energy clouds.
Some of the energy chains emerged from the void, some stretched out from the energy clouds, and some connected to the dark brown ground... All these chains were meant to trap the greedy god in the center, who was bound into a sphere.
Three days later, when Lin Xiaoxiao swung her final knife:
[Candidate for Godhood - Lin Xiaoxiao, Slayed Evil God +1, Reward: A Sliver of Purifying Power]
[Mandatory Quest for Divine Succession 2: Slay the Evil God [69234/69234] (Completed)]
Lin Xiaoxiao looked at the task completion notification panel in front of her, wearily dismissed the lightsaber in her hand, swayed a few times, and plopped down on the black earth covered in filth and specks of barely visible blood.
She rested her hands on her knees, her head slightly bowed, breathing heavily, letting the sweat drip from her face onto the ground, forming a small, inconspicuous water droplet.
A dozen minutes later, Xiao Weizhi, who was more than 20 kilometers away, found Lin Xiaoxiao resting on the ground and asked with concern, "Where do you feel unwell?"
Lin Xiaoxiao shook her head slightly with an almost imperceptible curve, her face showing extreme exhaustion: "It's nothing, I'm just too tired."
Before returning from the previous journey, I hadn't rested for two days and two nights in order to stake out the exit of the special space;
After returning from their journey, they fought against Nuenro for nearly two days and one night.
Immediately afterwards, he had been clearing out other professionals inside and outside Mona City, as well as the evil god that Xingyan and the others couldn't kill in one go, and hadn't slept for three days and three nights.
After about seven or eight days without closing her eyes, even if Lin Xiaoxiao was a peak demigod, she would still be exhausted from such high-intensity combat.
Xiao Weizhi's current condition is not good either. His hair is messy, the dark circles under his eyes are almost reaching his cheeks, and there are some small, purplish-black, sticky bloodstains stuck to his half-long beard.
He reached out his hands, bent down, picked her up, and held her in his arms: "I'll take you back to rest."
Lin Xiaoxiao leaned against his broad shoulder and yawned: "Where are Xingyan and the others?"
Before they arrived back, Xingyan, Kagome, and the others had been fighting for almost half a month, and eventually collapsed on the battlefield because all their energy was exhausted.
If it weren't for their companions' quick reflexes, they would most likely have been devoured to dust by some disgusting evil god.
Xiao Weizhi carried Lin Xiaoxiao towards the rest area in the city and said in a deep voice, "They are fine. They are just in a coma because their energy is completely depleted. They are not seriously injured."
Lin Xiaoxiao leaned on his shoulder, her eyelids closed, and asked somewhat hesitantly, "Oh, what about the battle damage in the city?"
Xiao Weizhi continued walking without stopping, her tone calm: "It's unclear at the moment, but judging from the appearance, the number of injured professionals is no less than 40%. The vast majority of the surviving professionals are seriously injured, and the number of those with minor injuries is unknown..."
Xiao Weizhi carried Lin Xiaoxiao as they walked further in. The surrounding area was filled with the fragments of war-damaged buildings. From a distance, it seemed as if only the two of them remained in this ruined world.
Quan Zhi floated more than 1,200 meters above the very center of Mona City. His eyes, which had been tightly closed, opened in astonishment after sensing some special energy fluctuations.
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