"Du Xu, can you still hold out?"
Zhao Zicheng panted, several claw marks on his body as well.
But compared to his initial fear, there was already a hint of stubbornness in his eyes.
Less fear, more resolve.
After exchanging blows a few times...
This so-called demon did not seem as frightening as it looked.
It felt pain, too, and knew fear.
Although the dog demon had no visible wounds, it did not seem to be in good shape either. Even as the agitation in its eyes grew more obvious, it did not attack recklessly again.
"Now that I think about it, Yu Sheng had some fucking foresight."
"He knows to bring a knife wherever he goes!"
"Fuck!"
"Who knows where that guy ran off to? If he came back now, I'd even call him Dad!"
Zhao Zicheng spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, clutching his chest.
The very next second.
A figure slowly emerged from the darkness, standing opposite the others and flanking the dog demon.
Zhao Zicheng froze.
The words he had just spoken were still echoing through the factory.
"I'd call him Dad..."
"Call him Dad..."
"Dad..."
With those echoes, the atmosphere grew increasingly strange.
Something about it just felt off.
What had been Du Xu and Zhao Zicheng's hot-blooded action show had suddenly turned into a family reunion.
Even Yu Sheng paused, giving Zhao Zicheng a hesitant look. "That's... not really appropriate, is it?"
"..."
"Fuck off!"
"Now's not the time for that! Where the fuck did you go?"
Zhao Zicheng's embarrassment turned into anger.
Usually so refined and courteous, he could not help swearing now, as though that could make him seem a little more bold and cover up what he had done earlier.
"The bathroom."
Yu Sheng scratched his head.
"You couldn't hear all that noise?"
"I don't believe you. You're lying!"
Zhao Zicheng's mind raced as he tried to expose Yu Sheng's lie.
"Mm." Yu Sheng simply nodded calmly. "I'm actually not very good at lying. Sorry to embarrass myself."
Yu Sheng's honesty caught Zhao Zicheng completely off guard.
Knowing what Yu Sheng was like, he decisively dropped the subject. "Hey, toss me a dagger."
Yu Sheng looked conflicted.
He simply walked past the dog demon and over to the others, then tentatively asked with a hint of shyness, "Um, could I trouble you all to get seriously injured?"
Everyone: ???
Du Xu instinctively shifted a little farther away from Yu Sheng, even though doing so brought him closer to the dog demon.
For some reason, he felt as though being with the dog demon was safer.
Zhao Zicheng's body abruptly stiffened as well.
Keeping his eyes fixed on the agitated dog demon opposite them, which was itching to move and might attack again at any moment, he squeezed a faint voice through his teeth. "What are you trying to do?"
"It's just..."
"Could you fight him again?"
"Make it a little wilder."
"All attack, no defense."
Yu Sheng pondered, then broke his idea down and repeated it once more.
Zhao Zicheng swore his mind had gone blank.
He was utterly confused.
God only knew what madness had gotten into Yu Sheng this time. Fucking wilder?
If there had not been a dog demon opposite them, and if he had not been absolutely certain he could not beat Yu Sheng, he would probably have grabbed Yu Sheng by the collar already and roared, "Are you out of your mind?!"
Seeing the dog demon's bestial instincts once again overwhelm what little reason it possessed, Zhao Zicheng had a flash of inspiration!
"Ah!"
"It hurts so much!"
As he spoke, Zhao Zicheng abruptly collapsed to the ground, wailing nonstop.
He looked as though he were having convulsions. It was a pitiful sight.
Although the others did not know exactly what was happening, they understood that Yu Sheng was far stronger than everyone present.
Since Yu Sheng said they were seriously injured, then seriously injured they were.
In less than three seconds, Du Xu was the only one still standing.
Du Xu and Yu Sheng stared at each other from a distance.
In the end, a trace of helplessness entered Du Xu's eyes. He gave a few thoroughly halfhearted cries of "Ow," then leaned against the wall, still retaining a somewhat dashing pose.
Yu Sheng froze, then glanced at a surveillance camera in the corner, a question in his eyes.
Soon, the camera moved slightly, as though nodding.
Yu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, and his expression quickly turned solemn.
"To think there could be such a savage demonic beast!"
"Attacking my comrades!"
"If I hadn't arrived in time, all twelve of these lives would likely have been lost at your hands!"
He placed particular emphasis on the number twelve.
"Under the Ink Pavilion's leadership, we young people should forge ahead without hesitation and defend our homeland to the death!"
"We must take responsibility for humanity!"
"Protect..."
Before Yu Sheng could finish, the dog demon finally went completely berserk and charged at him with a low growl.
"Tsk, tsk."
"Listen to that. What a wonderful speech."
"Slap this footage onto the Ink Pavilion finance department's desk, and wouldn't they be moved in seconds? Then wouldn't the money come rolling in?"
"It's just that his acting is too clumsy. He sounds like he's reciting lines."
"What a waste of that speech."
The driver sat in the surveillance room with admiration all over his face, watching with great interest and even looking a little like he was humbly learning from it.
Only when the dog demon interrupted Yu Sheng did he show some displeasure.
He covered his forehead in frustration. "My fault."
"I should have restrained that dog demon first!"
"Our first collaboration, and I've already messed it up. Will this kid think I'm not good enough and refuse to work with me again...?"
"If I restrain it again now, it'll look too fake."
"What do I do...?"
The driver kept muttering, thinking of a way to salvage the situation.
Meanwhile, monitors A and B had long since gone numb and turned a blind eye to it all.
Heaven only knew how many devastating shocks their fragile hearts had suffered in just one day.
They were clearly just clerks who recorded data and made spreadsheets.
Why did they have to experience this darkness of human nature?
So shameless!
So utterly brazen!
They were even a little jealous and envious.
"Protecting my comrades is a duty I cannot shirk."
"I don't believe this is an act of heroic bravery. Rather, under the Ink Pavilion's guidance, my duty tells me this is what I ought to do!"
"May the faith of the Ink Pavilion endure forever."
"May humanity's flame never die!"
Yu Sheng's wooden lines rang out from the surveillance feed again.
The driver's mouth had already fallen open into an O in astonishment, leaving him dumbstruck.
On the screen.
The dog demon was already a pitiful sight. In barely half a minute, wounds had appeared all over its body, dripping blood nonstop, and it lay on the ground, drained of strength.
Meanwhile, Yu Sheng straddled it, his hand crossbow pressed against its forehead.
He kept reciting at the top of his lungs.
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