Chapter 1053
This observation was confirmed when they went out the next day.
It was not just the woman they had encountered last night. In fact, wherever Victoria and Zoe went, they keenly felt the hate-filled stares. The same went for Vilsin.
The only one spared was Hesta, but when the mountain folk noticed that Hesta seemed quite close to Victoria and the others, the way they looked at her quickly turned hostile as well.
At first, Victoria found this utterly baffling. But after Vilsin remarked, "How could you expect the people here to give District 3 people a friendly face?" she finally understood—the reinforcement troops from District 3 had pushed south several times. Perhaps some of the mountain folk laboring here had once encountered District 3's forces.
Zoe remained silent along the way. She kept a straight face and avoided everyone's gaze, but Victoria knew that Zoe was probably even more dejected inside than she appeared.
Victoria understood that this was likely because Zoe had witnessed Eunice racing up the mountain last night. For a Quicksilver Needles like Zoe, who held herself to high standards, the blow was enormous—it was like suddenly throwing a talented, diligent person into a new reality where everyone could crush her from a higher dimension.
What was more, Vilsin's rhetoric had deliberately or inadvertently implied that all Quicksilver Needles were defective products modified and weakened by AHgAs. Their kin living in these mountains and forests were undoubtedly a more natural, more powerful group.
That notion was probably more agonizing than the difference in ability itself. It not only shattered the vague sense of superiority that had long existed among Quicksilver Needles, but also fundamentally shook their confidence in defending themselves: after all, how could a Quicksilver Needles shackled by Constraint Time possibly defeat an