Chapter 73: Unexpected Change
Before removing the strip of cloth, Xu Zhi had imagined what kind of injured eyes she might see. But she had never expected not to see any eyes at all.
On the girl's thin, frail face were two pitch-black, hollow sockets, blood spilling from them. Her expression was numb and lifeless. In Xu Zhi's eyes, faint red light glimmered within those empty sockets—it was obvious that someone had gouged them out using a [Cup] extraordinary ability.
"Tell me, you didn't do this, did you?" Xu Zhi raised a brow and turned to look at the boy behind her.
The boy's pupils contracted slightly, and astonishment appeared on his face. "...How could that be?!"
He did not sound as if he were lying. He looked at Xu Zhi as though she had said something utterly absurd.
If not him, then who else could it have been?
Could Fanatics turn on one another?
Thinking that, Xu Zhi asked outright, "If it wasn't you, are there other Fanatics here who could gouge out her eyes?"
The moment those words left her mouth, the boy's somewhat exaggerated surprise froze. His pupils trembled continuously, as though Xu Zhi's words had given him an immense shock. Xu Zhi could see the muscles in his face twitching faintly beyond his control.
"How did you kno—"
Before he could finish, his right arm suddenly swelled, taking on an inhumanly distorted shape before shooting straight toward Xu Zhi.
He was incredibly fast, even kicking up a sharp whistle of wind. Yet Xu Zhi merely stood where she was, frowning at him with reproach in her eyes.
Reproaching him for being so incapable of keeping his cool.
The boy had no idea what she was thinking. He only intended to cripple her first, then interrogate her