Huh?
The bizarre thing in front of Du Qifeng had just pulled a move that left him baffled.
His eyes widened despite himself, and the blade he had been swinging so fiercely slowed for a moment. "Wait. What did you say? You want to surrender?"
"Yes, sir, I do. I don't believe there's any bad blood between us. That man tried to rape me, so I had no choice but to fight for my life and kill him—"
The voice switched back to that delicate, feminine tone. Its feeble explanation made the earlier male voice sound almost like an illusion.
If not for the bullet holes and all the blood on her cheeks, the "beauty" busy defending herself—or rather, maintaining her disguise—might have looked genuinely pitiful.
Unfortunately for her, all she got from her enemy was an amused snort.
"Oh, right, right. So you're saying you bit that guy to death by sheer luck while defending yourself."
He casually kicked aside a severed section of the corpse beside him so the blood spilling from it would not soak his shoes any further.
As the thing before him stubbornly tried to pass itself off as a "normal person," Du Qifeng looked it over carefully from head to toe, paying particular attention to anything out of the ordinary.
Clearly, the creature had no idea they had secretly watched the whole "inviting the wolf indoors" routine. It was still trying to talk its way through this, hoping it could fool the young man.
A pointless effort.
The "woman" tilted her head toward him and offered a sweet, ingratiating smile. It only made him sick.
The smile looked attractive at first, but something was still wrong with it. More precisely, when the creature smiled, the flesh of its face did not move. Only the