Dragon Country's netizens cheered and celebrated Ajjar's gruesome death, happier than they were even at New Year.
India, by contrast, sank into grief.
Losing a trial clearer was like the sky collapsing on them.
For India's leadership in particular, it was a bolt from the blue.
After all, most of their trial clearers had been built up through massive spending.
Ajjar's death had not only inflicted enormous losses on the country but shaken its very foundations.
In this era, when trial clearers served as a nation's military might, Ajjar's demise...
Was like spending decades painstakingly developing a nuclear bomb.
Only to joyfully launch it for a test and end up setting it off like a bottle rocket...
But no amount of grief could change reality.
In the end, they could only turn all their sorrow into anger and direct it at Tang Xiaoling.
They believed that without her, Ajjar would never have entered the villa.
Nor would he have failed to leave promptly after taking the Spirit Artifact.
And he would never have been cornered on the stairs by an Evil Spirit, skinned alive, and devoured!
Faced with India's unreasonable accusations, Dragon Country's netizens offered them a word of comfort: "Serves you right!"
Then they launched straight into a war of words, trading insults with them.
Meanwhile.
Tang Xiaoling, who had reached the second floor, knew nothing of what had happened downstairs.
She thought Ajjar was still alive and simply had yet to come up.
So the little girl searched everywhere for somewhere to hide.
But after looking around, she discovered that the entire second floor was empty, without a single piece of furniture.
Only the master bedroom contained a stone coffin covered with a white cloth.
But as a four-year-old girl, she was truly frightened of the thing.
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