Stellar Rail: I'm a Big Villain, Starting by Annihilating the Astral Express Crew

Looking at the remaining Villain Points, and the pathetic body stats, with only Charm being slightly higher.

Jiang Mo's lips couldn't help but twitch.

It was a true return to square one after that exchange.

Only a pitiful 530 points left, not enough to exchange for any of the remaining Traits.

However, he successfully exchanged for two permanent Traits, one gold and one blue, so this wasn't a complete loss.

Especially Trait Devour.

As long as he could keep killing, he could become stronger! A god-tier Trait!

Next...

Now that he had Traits, he was different from before, he had to quickly find a way to get some food to fill his stomach.

Jiang Mo licked his dry, peeling lips, and, supporting himself against the cold wall, shakily stood up.

A gust of cold wind blew through, carrying a mix of blood, rust, and mildew, hitting him in the face.

Jiang Mo frowned.

He couldn't stay here for long.

But just then, one of the people on the ground got up!

Chapter 10: The Girl Seele

Skinny struggled to wake up from the intense pain, his head buzzing and his vision blurry.

It wasn't until he saw a glaring crimson color in the distance that he suddenly woke up.

It was Fatty's head, now out of shape, red and white mixed together, like a mashed dragon fruit, viscous liquid mixed with dirt, slowly seeping into the ground.

"Ugh..."

After seeing the corpse clearly, a sense of fear rushed through his body, and he threw up on the spot!

Immediately, he felt a chill behind him, and he turned his head sharply, only to see a thin figure.

Jiang Mo!

The little brat who had been cowering in the corner not long ago, trembling from their bullying!

Now he stood there, with his back to the light at the entrance of the alley, his face hidden in the shadows, only his eyes were frighteningly red in the darkness.

"Y-you..."

Skinny shuddered all over, his teeth chattering uncontrollably, he pointed in Fatty's direction:

"What did you do? Murder?!"

"I'm going to find the Silvermane Guards..."

He shouted as he scrambled backward, trying to get up and run away.

Jiang Mo's eyes suddenly turned cold.

Silvermane Guards?

Heh.

In this Underworld, where human life was worth less than a dog's, would those people care about the death of a street vagrant?

How naively ridiculous.

"Murderer, you're done for! When the Guards come, you'll spend the rest of your life in jail..."

Skinny finally got up, and just as he was about to turn around, he felt a chill on the back of his neck!

Jiang Mo had somehow gotten behind him, and was weighing a brick in his hand, the edge stained with blood.

Before Skinny could react, the heavy brick slammed into the back of his head with a whoosh!

Pfft—!

A muffled sound.

Skinny didn't even manage to scream, his body stiffened suddenly, and then he fell forward limply, his head hitting the cold ground with a thud.

Blood, as if a faucet had been turned on, quickly spread from under his head, merging with the blood from Fatty, forming a pool of blood in the dirty alley.

[Gained Villain Points +30!]

The prompt sounded, but Jiang Mo didn't even lift an eyelid.

He coldly looked at the corpse on the ground, the only sound in the alley was his own heavy breathing.

Having just killed two people, his hands were shaking a little.

Not from fear, but from exhaustion, and the hunger was starting to torment his stomach again.

Just as he was about to search the bodies for anything valuable, or even a scrap of food.

A slightly trembling, yet familiar voice, came from the entrance of the alley.

"Jiang Mo, what are you doing...?!"

Jiang Mo's heart leaped, and every muscle in his body instantly tensed. He spun around!

In the light of the alleyway stood a small, thin girl.

About his age, with messy, dark blue short hair, wearing patched-up, dirty old clothes, and carrying an equally worn-out, deflated cloth bag, her face smudged with dust.

It was Seele!

He knew this girl. She was one of the few people in the Underworld he could exchange a few words with.

Like him, Seele was a homeless orphan. She had been in the orphanage before, but somehow, after meeting Jiang Mo, she left that place.

Now, she and Jiang Mo barely survived by rummaging through trash cans and scavenging discarded waste.

They were competitors, but occasionally, when they met at the same trash can, they would search together and share the spoils.

Jiang Mo knew it was harder for a girl, so sometimes, when he found something slightly better, he would subconsciously give her a little more.

And Jiang Mo remembered very clearly that he hadn't seen her near the trash cans for the past few days because she thought she couldn't find anything to eat there and had gone to Rivet Town next door to try her luck.

But now, why was she back?

And, of all times, at this moment.

Seele's eyes widened as she stared in astonishment at the tragic scene in the alley—

Two figures lying in pools of blood, a slightly older teenager unconscious, and Jiang Mo standing to the side, holding a blood-stained brick.

Her gaze moved back and forth between Jiang Mo and the three on the ground, her small face filled with shock and confusion.

Jiang Mo's heart sank.

She saw it…

What to do?

What would she do?

Report him? Find those adults? Or… tell the Silvermane Guards?

Jiang Mo's brain raced, thinking of countermeasures.

Kill her to silence her?

The thought flashed through his mind, but he forcibly suppressed it.

Not to mention that he was physically exhausted now, even if he was in normal condition, he couldn't bring himself to hurt Seele.

Seele stood there for several seconds before she seemed to come back to her senses and quickly walked in.

She didn't immediately question Jiang Mo, but instead bypassed Fatty, whose head had been cracked open, and walked to Huzi and Skinny, squatted down, and reached out her trembling fingers to check their breathing, then opened their eyelids to take a look.

Seele's brow furrowed even more tightly.

After confirming that Skinny was dead and Huzi was only unconscious, she stood up and looked at Jiang Mo again.

"You… killed them?"

Her voice was very soft, and it was impossible to tell what her emotions were, but her eyes, as she looked at Jiang Mo, were full of thoughts.

Jiang Mo was silent, not denying it.

He knew that in this situation, any explanation would seem pale and weak.

Children in the Underworld mostly matured early.

Seele, as an orphan living in this Underworld, had seen even more darkness and possessed a maturity and sensitivity beyond her age.

Lying to her would only make him look ridiculous.

Jiang Mo's silence was undoubtedly an admission in Seele's eyes.

She didn't say anything more, just stood there quietly, digesting everything that had happened before her.

After a moment, Seele spoke again:

"It's Huzi's fault, right?"

"They, relying on their numbers, often bully people in this area and steal their things."

"Last month, the lame old man from the next street finally managed to pick up half a bag of wheat bran, but they stole it and broke his arm."

"Doing this kind of thing, they'll get their comeuppance sooner or later… I just didn't expect it to come today."

Chapter 11 Accomplice

Jiang Mo felt a sense of relief. It seemed that Seele didn't intend to pursue the matter.

Seele sighed softly, touched her empty cloth bag, and her voice lowered:

"There's not much to eat in Rivet Town either… Those Fissure monsters are getting more and more numerous, and it's not safe outside the town. There's less and less to find."

"I was just so hungry that I thought I'd come back here to see, but I didn't expect…"

She didn't finish, but her meaning was clear.

It turned out that she hadn't had an easy time these past few days either.

"Grumble…"

Just then, a loud and untimely sound broke the silence.

It was Jiang Mo's stomach.

That damned hunger was still gnawing at him.

A hint of embarrassment flashed across Jiang Mo's face, but the sharp pain in his stomach left him no time to worry about it.

He could only instinctively clutch his stomach.

Unexpectedly, Seele hesitated as she watched him in discomfort, then took out a small piece of something from her arms and handed it to him.

It was a piece of bread that looked very dry and hard, but at least it wasn't moldy.

"Here. This is the only piece I found left today."

She looked at Jiang Mo, "Eat something first."

Jiang Mo was stunned.

He didn't expect that in this situation, Seele would share her only food with him.

He looked at the bread, then at Seele's equally tired face, took it, and silently tore the bread in half.

Jiang Mo stuffed half of it into his mouth, chewing slowly.

Then, he handed the remaining half to Seele.

Seele shook her head, taking a half step back:

"I don't need it, you eat it."