Tang Yue Was Dead (Revised)

"You-you actually killed Soft Bone Rabbits!"

An angry female voice reached Tang Yue and Guang Ling through the noisy chatter of the patrons. Tang Yue instinctively looked toward the sound and saw a rather cute girl with a scorpion braid pointing at the nose of the boy touting for customers and demanding answers. Her face burned with fury. Ignoring his attempts to stop her, she kicked open the iron cage displaying live Soft Bone Rabbits outside.

In an instant, Soft Bone Rabbits swarmed through the crowd. The boy shouted, only for the girl to throw him to the ground with a Waist Bow.

"You-you've gone too far!" The boy lay sprawled on the ground, wailing. "Everyone, come judge this for yourselves! This girl not only released my Soft Bone Rabbits, she hit me too! Is there any justice left? Any justice at all?"

Before long, a crowd of ordinary people had gathered outside the restaurant to watch the spectacle. They pointed at the girl and criticized her. She realized things were going badly, but in that brief span, a sea of people had already surrounded the restaurant.

Heaven Dou City had no shortage of Soul Masters. A mere Soul Elder daring to make such a scene here truly had a head of iron.

"How can this girl be so unreasonable? She came right up and wrecked their business, and she's a Soul Master, too!"

"Exactly! I saw it with my own eyes. The restaurant's boy hadn't even said a word before she smashed their cage!"

"Such a pretty girl. How can she have such a vicious heart?"

Listening to the criticism around her, the girl's face flushed red. She scanned the crowd and only breathed a sigh of relief after finding no experts at the Soul Douluo rank or above.

This restaurant was despicable! They'd caught so many Soft Bone Rabbits to make spicy rabbit heads. Those were all her kin! They were even just ten-year soul beasts! How could they bear to do it?

At that thought, the girl no longer felt ashamed of being criticized. She declared brazenly, "Soft Bone Rabbits are so cute! Aren't you afraid of retribution for slaughtering living creatures like this?"

"Retribution? Slaughtering living creatures? Aren't rabbits meant to be eaten? Are you going to tell me rabbits aren't animals?"

At some point, Tang Yue had left her seat opposite Guang Ling and squeezed into the crowd. She walked up to the girl and looked her up and down with a smile. The playful look in her eyes made the girl deeply uncomfortable, but the moment she saw Tang Yue's face, she visibly jolted, her entire body trembling.

"T-Tang Yue?!"

She seemed very surprised, yet she dared not call Tang Yue's name loudly. Guilt flickered in her eyes, and she retreated several steps as though she had seen a ghost.

"You know me?"

The girl's name was Xiao Wu. She was the sweetheart of Tang Yue's so-called brother, and the person who had indirectly caused the original owner's death back in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Tang Yue had no intention of acting as though she knew her. Why should she know an ill-mannered Soft Bone Rabbit?

Faced with Tang Yue's question, Xiao Wu froze again. Wasn't she Tang Yue?

Only after examining Tang Yue carefully did Xiao Wu realize that, although the girl before her looked very much like Tang Yue, her bearing, clothes, and even her skin were worlds apart from Tang Yue's. Tang Yue had been dead for a month. She couldn't have come back to life, much less turned into a noble young lady within a month. Yes, this wasn't Tang Yue. It definitely wasn't!

Xiao Wu kept hypnotizing herself with those thoughts. Once she had convinced herself that the person before her was not Tang Yue, she resumed her earlier haughty attitude. "Brother said that all things have spirits. Why wouldn't Soft Bone Rabbits count as living creatures?"

Soft Bone Rabbits counted as living creatures?

Tang Yue sneered. Some Soft Bone Rabbits certainly did, but soul beasts that were only ten years old had not even developed intelligence. How could they count?

Even a pet dog knew to repay its owner. What could a ten-year-old Soft Bone Rabbit do besides eat, drink, relieve itself, and sleep?

"Then by your reasoning, chickens, ducks, fish, geese, and pigs are living creatures too. What, you've never eaten pork? You've never harmed a living creature? You eat nothing but vegetables and carrots, and you've never even touched anything else, is that it?"

Shrek's usual meals were indeed rather poor, but Tang Yue remembered perfectly well how often Xiao Wu had gone out to mooch meals off Ning Rongrong, and how often she had asked Tang San to take her out for something better. Wasn't this talk of all things having spirits a slap in her own face?

Every word Tang Yue spoke stabbed Xiao Wu right in the heart, leaving her speechless. All she could do was point at Tang Yue's nose and rage helplessly. "You! You! You!"

"What are you pointing at? Point again, and I'll beat you into a spicy rabbit head for Little Yue to snack on with her wine!"

An immense pressure surged from behind Tang Yue. Xiao Wu's heart lurched. This aura-a Titled Douluo?!

Xiao Wu tried to turn tail and flee, but the pressure Guang Ling unleashed was far too powerful. She turned around, yet could not take a single step.

"This pressure only affects soul beasts. Little Yue, how about you give her a beating, then we kill the rabbit and take her bone?"

Guang Ling's voice transmission reached Tang Yue's ears. The corners of her lips lifted slightly. She thought that was a good idea, too, but killing the rabbit for her bone now would waste a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring. Ultimately, it would not be worth it.

Tang Yue turned and glanced at Guang Ling. Her smiling expression left him somewhat helpless. He withdrew his pressure, lifted his gaze, and stood beside Tang Yue without taking further action.

"..."

With the pressure suddenly withdrawn, the struggling Xiao Wu fell to the ground. She clenched her fists and gritted her teeth. She had never imagined that an ordinary restaurant in Heaven Dou City would actually have a Titled Douluo inside!

"Xiao Wu!"