“And so, I brought Xia Beichen out and we walked all the way here!” Yun Mengli finished her story, her beautiful eyes red as she looked at Xia Beichen on the bed.
Xia Beichen is so pitiful.
Lin Dong touched his nose. Damn, those maids were really too immoral.
“Then…do you hate them?”
“Hate! Of course, I hate them!” Yun Mengli’s beautiful eyes gleamed with hatred.
“If it weren’t for them, how would Xia Beichen have ended up like this?
But what I hate the most is the master they spoke of!”
Lin Dong: …
“I thought about it all the way here and I probably guessed it. Jiang Zhu must have met a scumbag who brainwashed and possessed her, and then she coincidentally met Xia Qingyou, and she also couldn’t escape that man’s clutches!
That scumbag forced them both, one to hurt Xia Beichen’s heart, and the other to hurt Xia Beichen’s body. He is the real culprit!
Lin Dong, don’t you think this scumbag deserves to die?”
“Ah, this…” Lin Dong smiled bitterly and nodded.
“He, indeed deserves to die!”
How did this girl get so clever again?
Yun Mengli gritted her silver teeth: “I don’t have combat ability. When I go home, I will definitely tell my dad the truth and have him send out all the family’s forces to avenge Xia Beichen, and avenge my brother!”
Lin Dong sighed.
With how things are, you’d best not tell your dad.
How could you be so hard on your father?
Wouldn’t it be suicide if he came?
“Oh, right, Lin Dong, how did you get here?”
Lin Dong touched his nose: “Oh, my house was blown up, I had nowhere to live, so I just happened to come here.”
Yun Mengli sighed: “Alas~ It seems you are also a pitiful person.”
Lin Dong: …
This girl is still an overthinker.
Yun Mengli stood up and stretched beautifully, her graceful figure on full display.
“Ah~ It feels so good to get things off my chest. Coincidentally, I’ve also rested well. Let’s call those children up. I’ll help heal them, rest a bit more, and then we can leave!”
Lin Dong nodded, tilted his head, and shouted towards the building: “No. 3! Tell your younger siblings to come up!”
No one responded.
“Hmm? No. 3?”
No. 49’s timid voice came from the hallway: “Lin Dong Shushu, No. 3 went to help the Dean and hasn’t come back yet!”
“You’re having a 10-year-old child help handle corpses?” Lin Dong frowned as he went downstairs.
“How long has he been down there?”
No. 49 tilted her head, her small hand spread out: “This long.”
Lin Dong: …
No. 14 walked over: “Lin Dong Shushu, it’s been about 30 minutes.”
“That long?” Lin Dong suddenly realized something was wrong, kicked open the underground passage door, and rushed in.
Yun Mengli heard the commotion and hesitated before getting up.
“Xia Beichen, you rest well here. Mengli will go down and check.”
Using his phone’s light, Lin Dong saw the appearance of the underground floor and couldn’t help but frown deeply.
It was piled high with dead bodies, a terrifying scene, but there was no sign of Chen Tianxin or No. 3.
That old man, as expected, is strange!
Yun Mengli chased after him, her pretty face instantly turning pale: “Lin Dong, here…”
Lin Dong sniffed deeply: “There’s a smell of blood.”
He looked around, his gaze finally settling on a wall.
Click!
The secret passage opened, and the strong smell of blood that assailed them was nauseating, revealing a pitch-black underground tunnel, leading to who knows where.
“Lin Dong, what’s in here?” Yun Mengli was a little scared, as if there was something terrifying inside.
Lin Dong’s face was grim, a bad premonition flashing in his heart, and he rushed down without a word.
Yun Mengli gritted her teeth and eventually followed.
The passage went very deep, with the two of them one after another.
“Why is there such a deep passage here? Where does it lead?” Yun Mengli shivered while looking around.
“Judging by the traces, it should be an air-raid shelter left from a war a long time ago.” Lin Dong’s heart grew heavier and heavier, because the further down they went, the stronger the smell of blood became.
After walking for a long time, the two finally saw a faint light at the end and quickly rushed towards it.
“This… this is…” Yun Mengli’s almond eyes widened, her small face utterly pale, and she immediately turned her head and vomited violently.
Chen Tianxin showed a panicked expression: “You… how did you come here?”
Lin Dong stared blankly at the iron cage below, his face extremely grim.
The bottom of the iron cage was full of children’s bones and blood, with blood-stained clothing fragments scattered everywhere.
The pool of blood was several centimeters deep, indicating how many people had died here.
The monster in the cage was currently gnawing on something, its hair disheveled, its full appearance obscured.
No. 3’s figure was gone, only a severed hand was seen at the edge of the cage.
This hand… had no frostbite, and it was still tightly clutching a lollipop.
That was something he couldn’t bear to eat, perhaps wanting to save it to comfort his younger siblings, or perhaps wanting to use this lollipop as a symbol of hope for the future in the difficult apocalypse.
Unfortunately, he didn’t get to eat it.
He had his heart disease cured, he had gained hope to live.
Yun Mengli also saw it, her eyes instantly turning red: “Is this… that child from before?”
Suddenly, the surrounding temperature began to drop sharply, the air seemed to freeze, and Lin Dong felt as if his chest was blocked by something, making him uncomfortable.
“What! Are! You! Doing! Exactly?!”
Chen Tianxin stumbled and sat on the ground. Lin Dong’s gaze was terrifyingly frightening; meeting his eyes felt as if one’s heart was being squeezed.
However, since he was discovered, he no longer intended to hide it.
“I merely want to resurrect my son.”
“Resurrect your son?” Lin Dong’s voice was like thunder, filled with strong disbelief and anger.
“So, you fed No. 3 to this monster?”
“He’s not a monster!” Chen Tianxin stood up and looked directly at Lin Dong: “He is my son. He just got sick from being infected by Poison Snow. I can save him!
You weren’t wrong about one thing, I did feed No. 3 to my son. In fact, not just No. 3; since the snow started, I’ve already fed eight children!”
Boom!
Lin Dong felt his head was about to explode.
What kind of deranged thing is this?
Yun Mengli cried and questioned: “What did those children do wrong? Are you still human?”
“They were wrong to be born!” Chen Tianxin’s tone became increasingly sinister: “Otherwise, why would they be abandoned?
I gave them a chance to live, I raised them. They are alive now all because of me!
Now, it’s just about them fulfilling their value!”
Yun Mengli was trembling with rage: “You… you’ve gone mad!”
Chen Tianxin snorted coldly: “I haven’t gone mad! I’m calmer than anyone. I read in an ancient book that as long as you follow an ancient ritual, you can bring people back from the dead. It only takes half a day, at most half a day, and my son will return to normal!”
Lin Dong’s entire demeanor had become very sinister, and he said indifferently:
“You placed the furnace incorrectly!”