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"Do you want to be hung back on the wall?" Xu Huo asked her.
"Why would I want to be hung back on the wall? I don't." The painted woman watched him warily.
"The people who were killed inside were in a situation much like yours when you were forced to hang on the wall," Xu Huo said. "Both were things they absolutely didn't want to face."
The painted woman didn't understand. "Everyone I've met before killed people. They never said there was anything wrong with it when they did. You kill people too, and you never said there was anything wrong with it."
"Why can't I?"
"Of course you can," Xu Huo replied calmly. "If someone wants to kill you, you can kill him. If someone hurts you, you can kill him too. But don't kill or harm people for some inexplicable reason."
"You didn't become human by accident. It's not a bad thing to learn a few basic principles of how to treat people."
"Besides, if you don't want to learn, more people will definitely want to hang you back on the wall in the future, so you'll never become human again."
The painted woman certainly didn't want to be hung back on the wall, so she had no choice but to concede. "Fine, I'll listen to you."
Xu Huo smiled. "Want something to eat?"
There was nowhere to cook here, so Xu Huo gave her a few bags of snacks.
The painted woman leaned against a soft cushion he'd specially found for her. As she ate, she typed on the Communicator. "Do you really want to go inside?"
Xu Huo lit a cigarette, something he hadn't done in a while. "More or less. There's no guarantee I'll be this lucky next time."
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