Taking Action

Mingzhu City only had so many people.

The Heavenly Foxes had devoured the populations of several districts, wiping out nearly thirty percent of the city in one stroke.

Under those circumstances,

even ordinary people could tell something was wrong.

The problem was that ordinary people had nowhere to run. Leaving Mingzhu City would only get them killed faster.

The Awakened, meanwhile, had fled Mingzhu City one after another. Only a handful remained, searching for a way to save it.

"How many people know the Heavenly Foxes exist?" Zhang Ping asked after listening to her account. His heart felt heavy.

This was another Parallel World,

but its people were no different from him. They were his fellow humans all the same.

Seeing his own kind slaughtered as food by beasts would anger anyone with a sense of justice.

"At present, no one but me knows about the Heavenly Foxes," Su Jingyao replied. "The others only know there are Mutated Beasts, but they have no way to deal with them."

"Only you?"

Zhang Ping froze. He had thought all the Awakened who stayed behind knew.

"Zhang Ping in this world was so furious about his own ability that he died," Su Jingyao said calmly. "I was the first to find his body. I was heartbroken, so I picked up a Contract Gem he'd left behind and ate it."

In truth, she had eaten the Contract Gem while crying and cursing. She had been nowhere near as calm as she was now.

She had been so angry then. So what if his ability was useless? What was the big deal? Why had he gotten so angry that he died?

She truly could not understand it. She wanted Zhang Ping to come back to life and had even been willing to eat the Contract