Yu Shaoyang was an old man who looked to be seventy or eighty.
He was listless, with a disheveled beard and hair.
His clothes were tattered and had long since fallen apart.
He simply sat there in the chair, his eyes utterly devoid of light.
He stared straight at the ground not far ahead and muttered to himself, "Dead. They're all dead!"
Yu Gui led Yu Xiang, Liu Lan, and me over to him.
Yu Gui said to Yu Shaoyang, "Granduncle, do you still recognize her?"
He pointed at Yu Xiang.
Only then did Yu Shaoyang raise his head and look at Yu Xiang. His expression changed slightly, as though he wanted to smile, showing the heartfelt excitement and joy of seeing family.
But when his gaze fell on my face, it was as though he had suffered a tremendous shock. He sprang up from the chair in terror, staggered back several steps, and even knocked over the chair he had just been sitting in.
He wrapped his arms around his chest and cried timidly, "Don't kill me! Don't kill me! I don't want to die!"
Yu Gui froze and looked at me.
Then he said to Yu Shaoyang, "Granduncle, do you know him?"
"It was him, it was him! He killed everyone on Little Barren Island. He killed them all! He killed everyone on the island!"
I frowned. What kind of act was he putting on?
He was actually claiming that I had killed everyone on Little Barren Island.
Leaving aside why I would do such a thing, even if I were truly bloodthirsty, I would need the ability to pull it off.
Unless I used the missiles in the manor and directly leveled Little Barren Island. No, if I set off firecrackers that big, the island might not