Monsters and Monsters
The gray-white, Wing-Clipped Angel walked towards the central television tower in Zone 1 of the settlement. This time, he did not move quickly, controlling his power and not damaging the streets or houses.
Exclamations of surprise rang out from all around. Lady Xin Luli was truly amazing; she could even subdue monsters, who listened attentively to her words.
For some reason, this kind of argument always made Jiang You feel uncomfortable.
Am I considered a monster? My current appearance is already that of a monster.
Does it mean that he is now obediently following Xin Luli's orders? But he did cause harm to the city because of his eagerness.
Or is it Envy of Xin Luli's high reputation? No, her achievements truly deserve respect.
Seeing the disgusted looks in everyone's eyes, Jiang You realized that from the moment Xin Luli, the positive character, stepped forward, everything about him would be defined as negative.
Because of the comparison, even if one is the one who is hurt, even if one's rampage only damages the streets and does not harm any innocent people, one will still be regarded as the evil party.
If Xin Luli hadn't appeared, when he revealed everything, he would have been the one deserving of sympathy, and people wouldn't have overly scrutinized his mistakes. But with Xin Luli's appearance, all his subsequent achievements would have been attributed to Xin Luli, and in the end, he would only be seen as a monster.
Although she felt uncomfortable, she believed that with Xin Luli's status, she could definitely investigate everything behind the underground laboratory. Once the matter was clarified, everything would be fine.
As the giant, Wing-Clipped Angel headed towards the television station, many citizens gathered there. These citizens, armed with various weapons and carrying hastily made banners and wooden signs, frantically blocked the giant's path. If Xin Luli gave the order, they would probably disregard the difference in their physical strength and rush forward madly.
When Xin Luli appeared on the TV station rooftop, the fervor intensified several levels. Her small body leaned against the rooftop railing, her ordinary white dress fluttering in the breeze, her long black hair dancing in the wind, captivating countless hearts.
Jiang You raised his head and looked at the woman called the Holy Angel. With a slight flap of her wing, she flew into the sky in an extremely unscientific way. With his extraordinary eyesight, he could clearly see every pore of Xin Luli's body.
"Excuse me, do you have..." Xin Luli hadn't finished speaking when a large number of ice arrows flew from afar. With a flap of a wing, she deflected the ice arrows, and Jiang You's grayish-white pupils turned to the ground in that direction.
A tangled mass of tentacles and eyes was writhing there. One tentacle was wrapped around a heart-shaped magic wand, while the other held a card. It was he who had just released the ice arrow.
"Fly!" More tentacles produced cards, and the magic wand lit one of them. The mixed-up object then took flight. To others, it appeared as a beautiful girl holding a magic wand, with more than ten cards floating around her. After giving the command, she flew up.
On the other side, the enormous tentacle butterfly, swirling with powder, had a fleshy mass beneath its wings that appeared to be made of countless intertwined tentacles. Its flapping wings created a powerful gust of wind, blowing the powder off its body towards Jiang You: "Powder Magic: Paralysis."
In addition, there was that lump of greenish-yellow mud, which once again summoned a large number of creatures. With the bluebird as the main body, they fused together to form a huge monster. The Great Bluebird flew into the sky, but its head was replaced by the heads of several other animals, turning it into a multi-headed monster bird.
Standing on the rooftop, Xin Luli still wore a sweet smile as she stepped back.
"Didn't those magical girls often clean up those mutated creatures before?" The three girls had been cleaning up some Ashen War Beast released from the underground laboratory for the past two weeks, so naturally there must have been witnesses.
"Defeat this monster! Kill it!!" shouted a fanatic of Xin Luli.
They never wanted Xin Luli to risk contact with the monster in the first place, but now that someone has come out to fight it, Xin Luli's safety can be guaranteed, so it's all good.
Jiang You stared at the mixed-up thing named Lin Qian, his feelings incredibly complicated. Although he was reluctant to admit it, this disgusting thing was indeed someone he had once liked.
White liquid oozed from its grayish-white body, solidifying into a massive grayish-white armor. A longsword shot out from its wrist, blocking all the incoming spells. The huge single wing behind it flapped, also creating a whirlwind to prevent the powder from coming.
"You just want your sister, right? Here, take her back!" Jiang You grabbed Ye Ni with his other hand. His original plan was just to ask if there were any other clues, but since Xin Luli was willing to help him, this woman might not be of any use to him.
Jiang You landed on the ground. He had been paying attention the whole time, so Ye Ni in his hands was not hurt. At most, she was just a little frightened. But the next moment, an invisible impact struck Ye Ni.
The fragile human body was like a punctured balloon, bursting into pieces. What remained in Jiang You's hands was only half of the body. Looking at the Little Leaf that resembled yellowish-green mud, and then at the mixture of tentacles and eyes over there.
The scene looked like a monster going berserk, mercilessly crushing the hostage. The blood on his hands made him look like he'd fallen into a pile of mud, even if his hands weren't obviously moving.
"Do you want the last bit? Would you believe me if I said I didn't do it?" The gray-white monster placed the small piece of corpse by the roadside. All the humans around looked at him with disgust and fear. They didn't know the whole story, and even if he explained, it wouldn't make a difference, because monsters have no human rights.
Jiang You is very familiar with this kind of thing. People often use a certain standard to judge the behavior of others. For example, once in the past, someone lost something in the classroom. According to the surveillance footage, only a few people passed through the classroom at that time, one of whom was Jiang You, and the others were girls in the class.
Jiang You was a poor student and not good-looking. Compared to the other pretty girls, everyone was willing to believe that Jiang You had stolen the things, even though they had no evidence. In the end, Jiang You took the blame and was punished. Only then did one of the girls apologize to him privately, saying that she had taken the things and returned them that night, telling Jiang You not to worry about it.
People harbor all sorts of prejudices. Those with poor grades are necessarily bad people, while those who are good-looking are necessarily good people. Therefore, whatever the monster says is a lie, and no one will believe that the one who killed Ye Ni was the beautiful girl in everyone else's eyes.
"Because they're pretty?" Jiang You looked at the excited crowd around him, who were shouting to kill the monster, which made Jiang You despair of this appearance-obsessed world.