Inside the small bamboo house.
Subject No. 1's wolf-like claws suddenly grew five centimeters longer.
It was about to swing them, carving the human girl before it into pieces, when a stifling pain in its chest slowed its movement for an instant.
The girl in the green dress suddenly bent down, crouched beside the bamboo bed, picked up a damp towel, and gently wiped the blood from the subject's chest.
Before Subject No. 1 had fallen unconscious, it had suddenly coughed up blood, leaving its body stained all over.
The monster suddenly froze.
It noticed something strange about the girl's crouching posture. Her left leg seemed unable to bend too much and was stretched out at an angle.
Subject No. 1 suddenly saw that the section of calf exposed beneath her green dress was carved from wood.
The grain of the dark brown wood was clearly visible. The carving was rather crude, its surface uneven, and a rusty iron nail at the joint served as an axle.
Then it looked at her face.
As she tilted her head, her right cheek was exposed. Three vicious scars crossed her right eye. Her eyeball was cloudy white, its visual structures completely ruined. She must have already been blind.
Long ago, this girl had been through a near-death experience and suffered wounds all over her body. Though she had recovered, she was now severely disabled.
Subject No. 1 hesitated slightly again.
The girl in the green dress smiled sweetly. Her left eye could move, but her right eye seemed hollow. "My eye was injured. Everything I see is just a blur."
Subject No. 1 narrowed its scarlet eyes. "You can't see what I look like?"
The girl in the green dress was simple and guileless, seemingly not thinking much of it. Her pale