19. Night 19: Rescue
When Arsenal woke up, he was lying in a very dark place. The air he smelled was dark and damp, just like the bottom of the sea where there was no sunlight all day long, but it also emitted an unpleasant musty smell.
"Did you catch him?" a rough voice sounded.
"Brother, we caught him alive."
"Bring it over and let me see."
He felt the pain on his neck caused by his clothes, and in his blurred vision, he vaguely saw a black figure.
"Very good." The other party seemed very satisfied.
"Look, this is top-notch stuff."
"I understand." The person holding him said politely.
Arsenal wanted to open his eyes and see where he was taken and who attacked the car, but he couldn't do it. His mind was confused and he couldn't muster any strength in his hands and feet.
Is he dying? If he dies, he won't be able to see Miss Lu Xi anymore. She must not know that he has been captured by the bad guys. She thinks he has returned to the villa, and he won't even be able to see her for the last time.
Miss Lu Xi...
Not long after, he couldn't hold on any longer and passed out again.
Lu Xi was very angry now, extremely angry. She had given the little mermaid to them to take back, but she had lost the person on the way.
"Who kidnapped him?"
"This...we are still investigating."
"Investigation?" Her expression was as cold as ice. "Isn't the Lu family quite powerful? How could they even lose a cub?"
Suddenly, a powerful aura surged around. Lu Xi turned his gaze to an open space and saw a purple figure emerging there, with black horns and a mask covering half of its face.
It was the executioner I met on the road that day.
"Human, I want to talk to you."
The bleak wind blew across the empty road. This section of road led to the Lu family's territory, so there were few vehicles. In addition, they walked to an open space far away from the road, where no one would disturb them.
"What to talk about." Lu Xi looked at him.
Except for some important occasions, Lu Xi had never come into contact with the executioner before. When they met in the past, she just watched from afar. She couldn't imagine what the executioner would have to talk to her about.
Besides, time is running out to find the mermaid.
"Do you know about demon poachers?"
"Demon poachers..." Lu Xi knew of course that they were a group of demons who were clearly demons, but turned around and harmed their own kind. They were a group of scum who killed their own kind and sold demon organs, furs and other things to humans. They were the targets that the Yuan family had been hunting for many years.
"The little mermaid you are looking for is in their hands."
"What did you say."
This was something Lu Xi could never have imagined. Even if Lu Xi didn't know all about the cruel things that group of demons had done over the past few decades, he had heard about them a little. The little mermaid would definitely be in trouble in their hands.
Maybe they will kill and dismember me.
"How do you know this?"
"Do you want to cooperate? I want to catch them, and you save your people." Zi Xi looked at Lu Xi, and the wind gently blew his robe.
"The one you were chasing before was also a poacher?"
"Yeah." He didn't hide it.
"Why are you looking for me?"
There are so many people in the Lu and Yuan families, and there are some who are stronger than her.
He looked at her quietly, "I don't think you are a traitor."
Traitor, this word made Lu Xi's pupils dilate...
It seems that there is no peace among them either.
"I want him intact."
"Deal," he promised.
Assente didn't know how long he had been captured. It took a long time for him to regain consciousness and see the place clearly.
This place looked like an old warehouse, with many huge iron cans placed there. They tied him down to the beams with ropes.
"Awake?" A strong man came over.
Arsenal glared at him fiercely. He was tied up and had no power to resist, but he could smell the odor of the strong man. The mixed smell of blood made him feel so dirty that he wanted to vomit.
"Then eat something."
He threw the raw meat in his hand in front of the mermaid. The meat had been bitten, and Arsenal instantly felt nauseous and retched.
"Let me out." He struggled hard.
The ropes that bound his body left bloody marks on his body, but he seemed to feel no pain and rushed forward like a mad dog.
The sturdy man seemed to have gotten used to it. He ignored his roar and turned back to the small table to continue eating raw meat and drinking blood.
"Do you know where this piece of meat came from?" The strong man looked at the piece of meat in front of the little mermaid, a bloody and tattered piece of meat.
"I ate everyone who sent you back."
Arsenal's body shook, and his eyes looked up in a trance. He saw the torn clothes and fabrics on the ground next to the small table. His pupils suddenly contracted violently, and his face turned as pale as a devil from hell.
"After eating them, you put them..." His voice trembled like a sieve.
"Yeah," he grinned. "I ate it all."
"By the way, you are from the Central Sea Mermaid tribe, right?" He seemed to remember something, "You are a survivor of that incident."
Arsenal lay on the ground, glaring at him with gritted teeth.
"Your people are truly full of treasures. Not only is their meat delicious, but their internal organs and scales also fetch a high price."
This sentence made Arsenal's eyes widen and his heart tremble.
This moment was probably the nightmare of his life.
"You said...what..." His body was shaking violently, his clothes were soaked with sweat, the hems were covered with dirty mud, and tears rolled down unconsciously from the corners of his eyes.
"Huh? Mermaid tears? These are also valuable."
"Father...Mother...Everyone..."
"They were all...eaten...all..."
"Yeah, it's delicious." The strong man licked his lips and sneered.
The other people sitting nearby also laughed.
…
Lu Xi will never forget the scene she saw when she came to rescue the little mermaid. She was still trying to figure out if she could bring him out quietly until she heard screams and a strong smell of blood from inside.
Zixi told her that the people who kidnapped the little mermaid were just a few minions, and their real target was the other side. He would deal with those people. Zixi hoped that she could capture these minions alive.
But Lu Xi was worried that they would hurt the mermaid.
The shrill screams cut through the sky, and even Lu Xi, who had seen countless things in the world, felt his heart trembling at this moment.
She no longer thought about anything else and rushed in with a few people. The scene she saw made her pupils shrink violently.
The warehouse was littered with scattered pieces of meat, and dirty blood gathered into puddles on the ground, emitting a foul stench.
At the center of it all, a figure was floating in the air. It was the little mermaid that Lu Xi wanted to save. A powerful force formed a circular translucent barrier outside his body, enveloping him. Thick blood splattered all over him, and both of his claws were stained bloody. Drops of blood flowed down his arms.
"Ugh, ugh..." The person who followed her in vomited.
Lu Xi suppressed the churning in her stomach and walked over on the blood. Her snow-white shoes were stained with bright colors. She looked at the little mermaid. It seemed that he had awakened his talent due to some kind of stimulation.
And all these people on the earth were killed by him.
"Asent." Lu Xi walked closer to him.
The little mermaid turned her head stiffly, two streaks of water running down her blood-spattered face, and tears fell to the ground.
"Why, you want to kill my father and mother..."
"You all deserve to die, you all deserve to die..."
Lu Xi looked at his collapsed expression and remembered her last conversation with Zi Xi. She called him before the executioner left.
"Did they also do what happened to the mermaid clan?"
He looked at her for a moment and didn't answer directly, "It's not good for you to know too much."
Lu Xi raised her eyebrows. "You just need to answer yes or no."
"Yes." He didn't change the subject.
"Okay, I understand." She took a deep breath.
Lu Xi recalled the images sent back at that time, of corpses and pieces of flesh scattered all over the place. It was said that the smell of blood lingered for a long time.
No wonder they were so cruel; it turned out to be their doing. I just don't know which member of the Yuan clan had any dealings with these people. They say where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. I don't know whether I should say that the humans who trade with the demons are despicable, or that these demons are just profit-driven.
"To be precise, that wasn't premeditated." Zixi stared at the distant grassland, "I was just passing by and did it casually."
"Conveniently... huh?"
They were just passing by, and because they found traces of the mermaids, they wiped out the entire race.
——This is the "Demon Poacher."
"Asent, I'm here to take you home."
"I'm not going back, I'm not going back..." He muttered to himself like a madman, "Why did you come, Miss Lu Xi? You don't really care about me, it's just because I was your cub before, and if something happens to me, it will bring trouble to you." There was a miserable smile on the corner of his mouth, and he smiled in despair, as if he was abandoned by the whole world.
"It doesn't matter if I no longer exist..."
"What are you talking about?"
Lu Xi frowned and took a step closer. Unexpectedly, a strange force surged from her body and scratched her arm. "Don't come near me."
Arsente growled, realizing she was injured.
There was blood all around, but nothing was as eye-catching as the bloodstain on her body. It seemed as if a string in his brain broke, and the power surrounding him retreated in an instant, and the power that originally held him in the air also disappeared. Fortunately, Lu Xi rushed over and caught him.
"Let go, I won't go back." He struggled desperately.
Lu Xi held the little mermaid in his arms, said hello to the others and prepared to retreat, but when he reached the door, his face changed.
Arsenal felt dizzy and was suddenly turned in another direction by Lu Xi's arms. When he opened his eyes, he saw a shocking metal cone in front of him. The cone had pierced through Lu Xi's shoulder.
"Hmm..." Lu Xi endured the severe pain in his shoulder.
I looked up and saw a figure blocking the door. Didn’t Zixi say that he had stopped the others? Where did this person come from?
"A tiny ant actually got in."
"Are you also a demon poacher?"
When Lu Xi pulled out the cone, hot blood splashed into Arsenal's eyes, and he saw a lot of blood flowing out of the cavity.
Blood, so much blood...
Lu Xi felt something was not good. It was difficult for her to perform with the little mermaid, and the aura of this person made her feel very pressured.
Just as Lu Xi's brain was working rapidly, thinking about how they should escape, the other party had already launched an attack. A cone-shaped metal weapon shot towards them, too fast to dodge. Lu Xi only had time to block it with his back, hoping not to hurt the little mermaid.
At this moment, a long sword blocked the flying weapon.
A familiar purple figure appeared in front of them.
"You guys go quickly, I'll stop him." Zixi said.
As soon as he finished speaking, he rushed out.
Lu Xi didn't hesitate at all and ordered the people she brought with her to follow her. That person was very strong and there was no need for him to die innocently.
Lu's car was parked outside. Lu Xi carried the little mermaid into the car, started the car, and fled the scene as fast as possible.
It took Lu Xi a long time to come back to her senses. She looked down at the little mermaid and found that he also looked terrified.
"It's okay now." She held up his pale face and wiped the blood from the corner of his eyes with her thumb, but found that the more she wiped, the more blood there was.
"Let's...go home."
Under the little mermaid's terrified gaze, the woman with blood all over her shoulders fell unconscious on him with a smile on her face.
"Miss Lu Xi——"
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