Ci Yu flew into a rage. "Not to fight? You're telling me not to fight now? Do you think I can just stop fighting whenever I want?! They'll kill me! They won't let any of the God-Favored go!"
Ning Yao looked at him. "But if all the God-Favored stop fighting, then there will be no fighting among the God-Favored!"
"What are you talking about!" Ci Yu stared at her. "You've met Fan Cang. He's a madman and a thief. If he kills me, he'll steal my abilities, everything I have... No, impossible! I can't not fight for it!"
Ning Yao: "Why is it impossible? Number 199 didn't compete, and she still doesn't have Slaughter Value!"
Ci Yu's burning gaze turned cold. He looked at Ning Yao as if he were a stranger. " Ning Yao, you're telling me this? You're telling me this now? Don't you know how I initially accumulated my Slaughter Value?"
Hearing his words, Ning Yao's expression was filled with immense pain. Her lips grew even paler, and she moved as if trying to explain something, yet her voice was heavy with helplessness. "Back then, I didn't know it would turn out like this... I never expected..."
Ci Yu: "You brought me out of the temple, you wanted me to see the outside world, you told me that as long as I broke through the quarantine zone, there would be freedom outside, a beautiful Garden of Eden. And what happened? Ah... this is Garden of Eden... this is the damned Garden of Eden you spoke of!"
"I'm sorry..." Ning Yao grasped his hand again, interlocking their fingers with her own bone. " Ci Yu, it's my fault, it was my fault back then, but we can't keep making the same mistakes, we really shouldn't have..."
Ci Yu's icy gaze held a hint of madness. " Ning Yao, I've already gone this far, there's no turning back!"
As he spoke, his expression softened, and he pleaded gently with her, "Just this once, please? After I kill Number 199, I promise I'll never kill again... I won't kill anyone on purpose."
Ning Yao
He nodded, "No! No way! Ci Yu, Number 199 is innocent. She's not like everyone else. If you kill her, you'll never be yourself again..."
Ci Yu fury, "Number 199 is no different from us! She was just lucky. If she had to bear the burden of Slaughter Value, would she still be so innocent? So clean? Hypocritical coward! She's nothing but a foolish lucky one!"
As he spoke, he began to plead again, "I want the Heart of the Creator, Yaoyao, I want the Heart of the Creator! I'm in so much pain, please help me, just one last time... just one last time... please help me... Without the Heart of the Creator, he... he'll eat me..."
Seeing this scene, Song Xiaozhu felt a chill run down her spine.
Ci Yu 'Ci Yu went beyond madness; he was a wicked man trapped in a quagmire from which he could not extricate himself.
What exactly is the Heart of the Creator?
Ci Yu's behavior is clearly abnormal.
He wasn't just driven to this state by the rules and the inhumane killings; it was related to the Heart of the Creator.
Song Xiaozhu didn't know what Ci Yu like originally, but she could make a rough guess from the few words the two exchanged.
Dharma City was also a Testing Ground; they came from the Dharma City region.
There are also Three Temples there: one for Heaven, one for Earth, and one for Humanity, and Ci Yu is the monk in the temple.
How could a monk have ended up like this?
What exactly did he go through?
Ning Yao is also a resident of Dharma City. Her "Elementalist" profession was probably awakened after the isolation zone was damaged. Only by leaving the Testing Ground could she have the opportunity to awaken such a high-level profession.
Ci Yu continued to plead, but Ning Yao refused to let go. She didn't shed any tears, as if she had cried all her tears in the past few months, leaving only her red, torn eye sockets and heavy eye bags.
Ning Yao was pale and thin, her right hand bony. Even so, as she swayed Ci Yu, she still held Ci Yu tightly, repeatedly telling him, "Don't do this anymore, Ci Yu. You weren't like this before. You were kind and compassionate. You wanted to bring a better life to the poor refugees. Our Garden of Eden belongs to everyone, not like this, not..."
Ci Yu stopped talking and stopped pleading, but he wouldn't listen to a word Ning Yao said.
His gaze grew increasingly cold, his eyes bloodshot, and the veins on his forehead bulged like venomous snakes spitting their tongues.
It's all your fault!
Suddenly, Ci Yu grabbed Ning Yao by the neck. His eyes were filled with madness, his mind completely consumed, and only his hand was left to exert force.
He started
He had the intention to kill.
He harbored murderous intent towards the woman who loved him deeply and whom he loved in return. "It's all your fault, all your fault, all your fault! You've ruined me like this! Ning Yao, you've ruined me like this!"
Song Xiaozhu's heart jumped to her throat.
no!
Something needs to be done!
Song Xiaozhu didn't know how to help Ning Yao, but Ci Yu had gone mad and completely lost his mind. If a mad God-Favored were to be bumped into by the villagers, something terrible would happen.
Song Xiaozhu quickly sent a message to the surrounding patrol teams, instructing them to clear out the villagers within a ten-meter radius and warning them not to approach without orders.
She had just finished doing all that when she saw another change on the screen.
Ning Yao's thin and frail body was lifted high by Ci Yu. Her throat was being choked, her face turned red, and her mouth was wide open, but she couldn't breathe like a drowning fish.
Ci Yu wanted to kill her.
He is killing her.
Memories of the past surged up like bubbles, and sweet images floated before her eyes—the clumsy monk's shy smile at her, her leading him out of the temple, out of the Garbage Mountain, and towards the isolation zone that symbolized freedom.
She told him that the outside world would accept them.
She told him that there was a beautiful Garden of Eden there.
She told him that once the isolation zone was opened, the displaced people living at the Garbage Mountain would live a prosperous, stable, and happy life.
But her father lied to her.
Outside the safety zone is a swarm of animals.
The beast tide engulfed the village, and it also swallowed her and Ci Yu.
They were already dead, on the night everyone else died.