Pfft--!
To Ye Yiqing's disbelief, the tentacle full of fangs slowly withdrew from his abdomen.
If barbed teeth sliced through the opponent's internal organs, causing the pierced wound to rip flesh outwards.
As Hela shoved the other person to the ground, the scarlet tentacle, covered in murky blood and fragments of internal organs, was completely pulled out.
A large amount of blood, along with an unidentified solid substance, vomited from Ye Yiqing's mouth.
The latter collapsed to his knees in agony, clutching the wound, which was larger than his head, tightly.
"Holy crap, that was so sudden!"
Lin Wushuang, who was behind him, was shocked and immediately took a step forward, reaching out to grab Ye Yiqing and use spatial distortion to take him away.
Before he could even touch Ye Yiqing, a cloud of blood mist exploded in front of him.
Before he could figure out what was going on, a sharp pain shot through his shoulder, and then he saw a lump of flesh appear out of thin air in Hela's hand.
"Ah--!" Realizing what had happened, his left hand, which had almost disappeared from his shoulder, fell limply to his side, and he clutched his shoulder in pain as he knelt on the ground.
Lin Wushuang hurriedly took off her coat and wrapped it around her bare, bony shoulders.
"Ah." Hela quietly gazed at the two people kneeling before her, taking a bite of the piece of meat in her hand.
" Brother Ye!!!"
Seeing Ye Yiqing so badly injured, Liu'er felt her heart break instantly. Without thinking twice, she drew her sword and slashed at Hela.
Clang--!
The sharp blade shattered in the middle the instant it struck Hela's surface, with half of the blade flying to the side and embedding itself in the sea sand.
Hela chewed on the flesh and blood in her mouth, glancing back at Liu'er with a faint look.
Suddenly, Liu'er's heart seemed to stop beating.
In her eyes, Hela didn't seem like a girl who looked even thinner than herself.
Instead, it was a monster from hell, its terrifying eyes peering out from the endless abyss.
The knife in her hand slowly slid down, but even so, she still tried to move closer to Ye Yiqing.
Hela glanced again at the only remaining ray-wielding man and the blue octopus clinging to the bubble.
The latter trembled uncontrollably and slowly raised his hands in surrender.
With a thud.
As Hela swallowed the last bite of meat, a faint mist of blood seeped from her surface, slowly enveloping the group.
The surrounding Spirit Shark and Sea Shark Dragon also heard the commotion and turned to look.
Upon witnessing this scene, everyone's minds went blank; they had no idea what had happened.
Ye Yiqing's skull earrings kept emitting red light, and despite the extreme pain in her nerves, the wounds were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Before the wound on his abdomen could fully heal, Hela grabbed Ye Yiqing's long hair and forcibly lifted him up, making him stand up.
He stumbled and almost fell to his knees again.
Beads of sweat glistened on his pale face, and he looked at Hela for a long time before finally managing to speak.
"You still want to hear what I have to say, right... otherwise I would have died long ago."
"Yes, that's right." Hela nodded, and a chair made of flesh and bones was constructed in the blood mist, which Hela sat down on.
She recalled what the man who called himself the Bai Yu of the Light God Society said to her five years ago when she was about to be wiped out by the [Ground].
Hela wanted to know the meaning of her existence.
Ye Yiqing's abdominal wound had completely healed. He straightened up, reached into his pocket again, and pulled out a glass ball no bigger than the palm of his hand.
Unlike the previous completely transparent glass sphere, this glass sphere contained four souls of different colors, each gently swaying inside.
One of the blue souls was the most lively, constantly moving around inside the glass sphere and occasionally bumping into the other souls.
"What is this?"
Hela sat on her throne made of flesh and blood, her gaze fixed on the glass sphere.
"This is my mother's ability; it can seal the soul of the dead inside."
He moved the glass ball a little closer to Hela, but Hela did not take it.
"And the soul within..."
"It's the soul of the Special Investigation Squad you used to be in."
Hela blinked and nodded slightly. "Oh."
"The souls of Sun Hai, Xing Lan, Liu Xiaogang, Feng Xuan are all inside. As for Si Xiaobei's, he's with Nanming."
Ye Yiqing explained it to Hela in detail.
"You can even talk to the spirits inside."
He then handed the glass ball to Hela.
A tentacle emerged from the seat, took the glass ball, and handed it to Hela.
Two delicate white hands held a glass marble, and big, peach-colored eyes looked it up and down.
"How can I speak to my soul?" She tapped the surface with her finger and looked up to ask Ye Yiqing.
"Just inject your spiritual energy." Ye Yiqing's expression had completely softened by now, and he smiled gently again.
Hela slowly channeled her spiritual energy into the glass sphere, which was then enveloped in a burst of white light. As the light faded, a lush green meadow appeared within it.
The lush green lawn is like a jade sculpture, and a bright flower adds a touch of color, making it less monotonous.
In the very center of the grassland stands a large tree, its branches swaying gently in the breeze.
"Wow, is this a bug?! A face suddenly appeared in the sky!"
Amidst a beautiful scene, the blue figure that had been traversing the sky suddenly stopped and shouted in Hela's direction.
"Oh, I know!" Then she exclaimed with a sudden realization, "It must be that the gods have finally remembered us forgotten ones!"
As she spoke, she gestured wildly in another direction, and soon three people came running over.
Hela recognized the blue figure at a glance.
It was [ Symbiote ] Xing Lan.
"God, I didn't do anything wrong! Why did you take Si Xiaobei away last time but not me?!"
"Wait a minute, doesn't this face look familiar?"
Liu Xiaogang squinted at the huge face in the sky, his eyes widening as he stared.
Hearing this, Xing Lan, who was kneeling on the grass and kowtowing repeatedly, also raised her head and blinked her big eyes.
Upon seeing it clearly, she jumped up, and twinkling stars appeared all around her.
" Hela!!!"
Sun Hai and Feng Xuan stared wide-eyed, their faces filled with disbelief.
Hela looked at the shocked gazes of everyone inside the glass wall, scratched her head, and gave a soft "hmm."
Suddenly, Xing Lan leaned in, almost pressing her entire face against the glass sphere screen.
Hela, can you hear me?!
"How are you now! Have you been captured by humans and subjected to all sorts of experiments?"
Five years have passed here, is the same timeframe on your end?
"Have you become a god? Come to heaven to take me away!"
"Waaaaah, I really miss you!"
The more Xing Lan spoke, the more her voice trembled, until finally she burst into tears.
For some reason, looking at the girl she hadn't seen for five years, Hela, who had been completely indifferent, suddenly felt something.
Hela recalled all the strange emotions she had felt while on the Special Investigation Squad.
"I..." Hela gazed at Xing Lan's face for a moment before speaking, "I missed you too."