A Toast to Friendship and Memories

"It wasn't enough that he wiped out our people—he's spent the past few months hunting down the survivors too." The masked man spoke bitterly. "Thanks to him, there are fewer and fewer of us left. Without the Tree Pupae, we were already unable to reproduce, yet he still refuses to let us go. He won't even give us the chance to hide among humans and live out the rest of our days in peace. If that's the case, then we might as well fight to the death. We'll kill everyone connected to him and make him spend the rest of his life alone."

Bai Qing had backed up to the very end of the parking lot. There was nowhere left to retreat.

She looked around before finally pulling an old fluorescent tube from a trash can.

The old Bai Qing would probably have been trembling all over by now. But after what had happened three months ago, although she was still terrified, at least her calves were no longer shaking. She could even think of a way to protect herself, though she had no idea how much use the fluorescent tube in her hand would be.

As the masked man opposite her closed in step by step, Bai Qing could only grip the fluorescent tube tighter, the sole thing she had to rely on.

The masked man seemed somewhat dissatisfied with Bai Qing's reaction. In his understanding, she should have been shivering in fear and desperately trying to distance herself from Zhang Heng. Yet she seemed to have accepted his reason for seeking revenge on her.

The masked man did not want to waste any more time. Though there was no one in the parking lot now, that did not mean no cars would enter later. This was, after all,