Chapter 533 - 527: To Hell with Your Magnanimity
Chapter 533: Chapter 527: To Hell with Your Magnanimity
Yueyue, on the other hand, had a blessing in disguise, her superpower jumping two ranks in a row.
For her, this was truly a stroke of miraculous fortune.
It was likely because Yueyue had been constantly drinking the Replenishing Well Water and endlessly expending her Wood Element Ability to weave that wooden cocoon.
This cycle of depleting and rapidly replenishing her superpower had greatly enhanced it.
This kind of major breakthrough in a life-or-death situation was often the result of a Superpower User’s latent potential erupting instinctively when facing a mortal threat.
It had to be said, Yueyue truly had a blessing in disguise this time.
"Big Sis, my superpower leveled up! I think I should be at the Fourth Rank now," Su Xiyue said, her face beaming with happiness.
Xie Ning nodded emphatically, not holding back on her praise. "Yueyue, you’re amazing."
"Yueyue, you’re just incredible! You were so calm and composed in the face of danger, and you even managed to level up your superpower. Even your big brother here is impressed." After Song Shijun finished his praise, Song Kexin chimed in with more.
Surrounded by a torrent of praise, the little girl was overjoyed and felt like she was floating on air, completely oblivious to how much danger she had just been in.
Xu Yu, however, snapped back to reality and, unable to control her emotions, once again accused Xie Ning of being heartless.
"Why did you have to kill Yiyi? Your kid is a kid, but other people’s kids aren’t, is that it?"
"Yiyi was only fourteen this year! Before the apocalypse, a kid her age wouldn’t even be held legally responsible for murder!"
"Besides, nothing even happened to your kid!"
"Isn’t she alive and well right now? Why did you have to act without investigating more thoroughly?"
"Now that things have turned out like this, with no way to fix it, can you really live with yourself?"
Xie Ning stared coldly at Xu Yu.
"Stop crying. A woman your age, putting on a fake show."
"Do you think someone will sympathize with you just because you’re crying those crocodile tears?"
"I’m not listening to a single word of your twisted logic."
"Since you’re so worried about that girl Lin Yiyi, and miss her so much, I’ll send you down to have a nice reunion with her right now."
As if only just now snapping out of it, Xu Yu felt her life was in imminent danger.
She frantically turned her head to look at Zhuang Lei.
But Zhuang Lei had no intention of getting involved with her anymore.
’He’d seen stupid women before, but he never imagined his own girlfriend could be this stupid.’
’Crying and causing a scene at a time like this, ridiculously demanding justice for Lin Yiyi?’
’She could barely save her own skin.’
Xu Yu then looked at Gu Chen, Lu Wei, and the others standing to the side, and said in a rush, "Can’t you all see?"
"She’s breaking the law! She’s going to kill someone! Are you all just going to turn a blind eye?"
"Aren’t you a leader? As a leader, you can just stand by and watch this happen? Do you people have any conscience at all?"
"What did I do? What did we do wrong?" Xu Yu shrieked hysterically, a mix of shock and terror on her face.
"You set a fire to burn me, you wanted to burn me to death! I had no quarrel with you, you were the ones who attacked me first, so why are you yelling at my big sis now?" Su Xiyue retorted furiously.
"And another thing, ma’am, you seem to be mistaken again."
"Even before the apocalypse, a child between twelve and fourteen who commits a particularly heinous murder would be held legally responsible."
"Do you think the Earth revolves around your Lin Yiyi? That she can just kill people and start fires whenever she’s unhappy, but if we fight back, we’re the ones who are deranged?"
"Ma’am, I have to give you a thumbs-up for your ’logic.’ It’s just *so* great. It’s like you think you’re right about everything in the world."
Xu Yu was left speechless by Su Xiyue’s words. After a long moment, she weakly tried to defend herself, "But you’re fine, aren’t you? Nothing happened to you at all."
"Since you’re fine, why won’t you let us go?"
"What good will killing us do you? So young, yet so vengeful. Haven’t you ever heard the saying, ’an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind’?"
"You..."
She was about to keep babbling, but was suddenly cut off when Zhuang Lei, who was next to her, violently swung his arm and slapped her hard across the face.
"Shut up," Zhuang Lei roared. "Are you done talking? If you’re done, then shut your mouth."
’All that twisted, perverse logic... even he, her boyfriend, couldn’t stand her anymore, let alone anyone else.’
’If you’re caught, you’re caught. You should be kowtowing and begging for forgiveness right now. You have to at least show some remorse. Isn’t what she’s doing just pouring fuel on the fire?’
The slap was definitely not light; Xu Yu was completely stunned.
Clutching her suddenly aching face with one hand, she wore an expression of utter disbelief.
She glared at her boyfriend and started pounding on him with her fists. "You hit me? You actually hit me! Didn’t you say you’d love me and protect me for a lifetime? And now you hit me in front of so many outsiders. I don’t want to live anymore!"
Zhuang Lei shoved her away in a fit of rage. "If you don’t want to live, then go die in a corner, and don’t get in my way. Just listen to the nonsense you’ve been spouting! Who talks like that? If you don’t know how to talk, then shut up! No one will think you’re mute."
Zhuang Lei quickly knelt down, his face a picture of sincerity. "Little girl, we were wrong about what happened before. It was our mistake. We hope you can forgive us."
"It was all Lin Yiyi! All of it! She was the one who kidnapped you and wanted to harm you, and she was the one who told us to set the fire."
"To be blunt, if it weren’t for Lin Yiyi, we never would have become enemies. We hope you can be the bigger person and spare us."
"From now on, we’ll go our separate ways. We definitely won’t provoke anyone from your Starfire Team ever again. We definitely won’t."
"You make it sound like we have to let you go. As if we aren’t ’the bigger person’ if we don’t?" Xie Ning shot them a look that was not quite a smile, then grabbed Su Xiyue and turned to leave.
’To hell with being the bigger person. She, Xie Ning, was not the type to let things slide so easily.’
’If Yueyue hadn’t been lucky, she would have inexplicably died here.’
’Could she just let the terror her family had suffered be for nothing?’
’What a joke!’
As Xie Ning started to move, the others saw this and followed her in single file.
Zhuang Lei’s heart dropped. He cried out silently in despair, but his mouth kept spewing pleas for mercy. "Captain Xie! Director Gu! My mind was clouded before, that’s why I fell for Lin Yiyi’s tricks. It will never happen again, I swear! Please, give me another chance!"
"The world is already in this state! We Superpower Users can’t keep killing each other!"
"Otherwise, the world will only become more chaotic, more hopeless!"
"You’re all far-sighted people, you surely know better than I what the ultimate result of humanity turning on itself will be."
"Let us live, we can still be useful! I’m an Earth Ability User, and Xu Yu has the Water Element. We can both join the base’s official forces and work for the base. We only ask that you spare us this one time."
"Director Gu, please say something! Director Gu!!"