Nothing hurt more than caring alone

By the time everyone stopped, the four Executioners had vanished without anyone noticing.

They were gone.

They had not even said goodbye to Ba Dawang.

They had not left so much as another word of thanks.

They had simply disappeared!

"Ba Dawang, I'm leaving. Until we meet again!"

"I'm leaving too."

"Goodbye, Ba Dawang, Youyou."

"Let's hope we meet again!"

Amid a flurry of hurried farewells, everyone patted Ba Dawang and Ba Xiaomei on the shoulders, then scattered in different directions.

Like a structure made of blocks falling apart, losing one piece after another.

In the blink of an eye, the space around them was deserted.

Only a bewildered Ba Dawang and Ba Xiaomei remained, along with the composed Ge Yuan.

"Waaah! Wah! Waaaah..."

After a long while, Ba Xiaomei suddenly pouted and burst into tears, feeling terribly wronged.

When she and Ba Dawang had begged Fu Junlin for help, when Fu Junlin had told them he would bring the Rangers in as reinforcements to help rescue the test subjects...

They had been genuinely happy.

Back when they had lived with the other test subjects, there had been fights and hostility, but more often than not, they had kept one another warm.

In that heartless place, the bonds between them had been the warmest thing they had.

More than once, they had imagined how, once the test subjects were rescued, everyone would embrace and cry together, supporting and caring for one another like family, like brothers and sisters.

They would survive in this world together, perhaps even overthrow Xiao together in the end and take their revenge.

But now it seemed that had only been wishful thinking on their part.

These people had no feelings for them at all. All along, the two of them had been the only ones