"Ah Yuan, don't blame Grandma, Grandma really had no choice!"
“Your younger brother is still growing, and your father has to drive every day. The whole family depends on him…”
"You can't go hungry..."
"You are connected to us by blood; once you're inside us, you've become part of our blood. We will carry you with us on this journey! Don't worry!"
...
Upon hearing this, Xi Xi felt nauseous, and her face beneath her night clothes turned extremely gloomy.
In her past life, she lived in an apocalyptic world and witnessed countless acts of cannibalism. It was a dark reflection of moral decay, the loss of all moral boundaries, and the killing of one's own kind.
Xi Xi clenched her fists and quickly deduced the whole story from Liu Guilan's few words.
The Xue family has two granddaughters, the older one is named Apan, and the younger one is named Ayuan.
Every day, Apan takes on all the tasks of finding treasure chests and cooking, while his younger granddaughter Ayuan, who was previously more favored, has become a burden, unable to help with anything and completely lacking the usefulness of his older granddaughter.
On a night filled with hunger and cold, they couldn't help but have evil thoughts.
It's unclear whether the eldest granddaughter, Apan, witnessed this scene, or whether she was simply afraid of being scolded by Liu Guilan day after day.
Not long after, the eldest granddaughter, Apan, actually took advantage of the excuse of keeping watch and ran away without permission.
Xi Xi sneered inwardly. This family was extremely cold-blooded, thieving, cheating, and committing all sorts of evil deeds. Moreover, they favored sons over daughters and were utterly inhuman.
Such a degenerate family should be rejected by society.
Let her give us the education we lacked in our original world.
Not knowing when they would make their move, Xi Xi took advantage of the night to arrive at the pond early and wait for them.
Xi Xi doesn't believe that with her current abilities, she can be a ruthless killer who can take on ten people at once, nor does she think that being a ruthless killer is something to be admired.
That's just an excuse for inherently wicked people to collude with this corrupt world, voluntarily extinguish their humanity, and unleash their dark desires.
No matter the circumstances, as long as one lives as a human being, one must adhere to one's basic moral principles, unless one's life is threatened, in which case there is nothing wrong with that.
Therefore, she believed from the bottom of her heart that these scumbags did not deserve to be human and should even pay the price for their contempt for life.
Xi Xi wouldn't mind using other people's knives to send these people to hell as well.
What Xi Xi didn't expect was that this whole family had already fallen into ruin from within.
Instead of sharing information, they each harbored their own ulterior motives and wanted to keep the treasure chest for themselves.
Then, things changed, and only Old Man Xue died.
Xi Xi stared at Xue Shi's lingering figure not far away, lost in thought.
Just as she was considering a change in strategy, she saw Xue Shi use some kind of spell on the pond.
The water in the pond froze into ice in an instant, and the figure of the giant creature in the water seemed to be frozen as well.
He was secretly delighted and stepped triumphantly onto the ice, intending to chisel an opening to take out the treasure chest.
At that moment, a powerful electric current suddenly struck Xue Shi.
He had no idea that the water monster could also generate electricity. Xue Shi secretly thought something was wrong; the note was a trap!
He trembled, his body stiffened instantly, and his eyes widened in fear and despair.
The electric current surged through his body, causing his muscles to twitch violently and his body to contort into an odd angle, his face contorted with pain and struggle.
However, the electric current did not stop raging. Like a merciless venomous snake, it continued to devour Xue Shi's life force.
Finally, Xue Shi collapsed on the ice, having lost all his strength. His face was covered with burn marks, and his skin was a horribly charred black.
Immediately afterwards, the water monster broke through the ice, making a deafening noise.
Just as the water monster roared, a stream of mercury-colored liquid sprayed straight at it.
The moment the liquid came into contact with the water monster, it emitted a hissing sound as the corrosive force took effect. The mercury-colored water blade instantly sliced open one of the water monster's tentacles.
The next second, a dazzling light burst forth, instantly transforming into an invisible chain that tightly bound the water monster.
Xi Xi used the new talisman she had just obtained the day before – the Binding Spell.
[Item Description: One-time consumable. An ancient spell that can imprison hostile creatures. The duration of the imprisonment depends on the hostile creature's health status, but cannot exceed 3 days.]
The water monster's body was instantly restricted by this mysterious force, unable to move freely. It could only roar angrily and struggle to break free of its restraints.
However, the chains binding it were exceptionally strong, and no matter how the water monster struggled, it could not break free of the invisible chains.
Its body was tightly bound, unable to move, and it could only watch helplessly as Xi Xi gradually approached.
Xi Xi picked up the multi-bladed scythe and swung it around. Sharp water blades shot out like lightning, accurately hitting all the tentacles of the water monster that were extending out of the water.
Immediately afterwards, Xi Xi looked meaningfully at the corrosive water blade in her hand, which she was using for the first time.
The power of this water blade was actually greater than she had anticipated! It seems she underestimated herself.
She gripped the sickle, plunged it into the pool, and began to stir it frantically.
A pungent odor and thick smoke followed.
The water monster let out a shrill roar, its green blood mingling with corrosive liquid, turning the surrounding water a mercury green.
After a fierce struggle, the water monster finally succumbed to the corrosive water blades, and its body gradually weakened.
In the distance, the streams of the highlands flowed gently down to the ponds, and then flowed downstream, slowly diluting the corrosive waters.
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