A number of villagers were so shocked by Meng Chao’s ferocity that they could not speak.
Some of them had scales on their skins. Some had horns. Some had bodies so bulky that they no longer looked like normal people. Some even had monstrous-looking fangs and claws. Based on the aesthetics of normal people, they were like demonic monsters.
But to them, Meng Chao was the real monster.
No. He was the God of Death who could kill monsters at will.
“Excuse me, please make way.”
Meng Chao flung off the blood and brains stuck on the iron chains surrounding his right arm. He sucked in a deep breath and squashed down his rage as he did his best to use a gentle tone to talk to the villagers. “Can’t you tell? I’m on your side. I came to take Ms. Mulian away from this place.”
The villagers looked at each other at a loss. They sized him up and found that there was nothing strange about him.
They knew that he was an outsider and deep distrust appeared on their faces.
Meng Chao brought up nine fingers and said calmly, “There were a total of nine superhumans who killed innocents indiscriminately just now.
“I’ve killed five of them, so there are four more who will find this place soon. If you hope for Ms. Mulian to remain safe, hurry up and hand her to me. I’ll protect her.”
The people looked at the innocent citizens who were killed by the “law enforcers”, then at the three people Meng Chao killed. They also heard the roars of crystal engines getting closer to him through the smoke and dark clouds.
They made their decision, gritted their teeth, and made way.
Behind them was a thin girl wrapped up in a cloak made of coarse cloth. She was squatting down with some villagers, who were using all their strength in front of some debris.
Meng Chao frowned a little.
Ms. Mulian seemed to be a little slow when it came to reacting to her surroundings.
The enemy had clearly come for her, and the bullets had nearly blasted her head open, but she was still ignorant and dawdling?
Meng Chao strode forward and asked, “Ms. Mulian?”
The girl in the coarse cloak still had her head bowed. She said something in the direction under the debris, and it was only then that she turned around to look at him.
Meng Chao was slightly stunned.
A strange feeling suddenly rose from the bottom of his heart.
It was as if a strange energy had crept from her eyes into his brain, and it stirred up ripples in the deepest parts of his mind.
He carefully sized up Ms. Mulian, who was known as the living Buddha by the villagers.
The girl could only be considered pretty. She was not so gorgeous that men would fall for her left, right, and center nor did she have the aggressive, unconcealable beauty of Lu Siya.
She had a pair of eyes as green as jades and a pair of sharp ears. Spirit tattoos were prominent on her honey-colored skin, and they looked like tree rings. At first glance, she looked like a thousand year old statue that had been polished by time till it was shining.
Judging by her looks, she was probably about the same age as Meng Chao.
But the merciful look that was ever present on her face gave her a classic beauty, which made people instinctively overlook her age.
However, there was something strange. Her face was full of grief, and Meng Chao could sense that she was withstanding great pain in her soul. It looked like she was weeping silently for the villagers’ misfortune.
But a sense of aloofness and distance shone in the depths of her eyes.
It was as if only half of her soul was wandering the land, while the other half was floating in the sky as a bystander and cooly watched the tragedy that was bound to happen.
‘Is it my imagination? Why was I able to read so much information in just an instance?’ Even Meng Chao found this hard to believe.
He began to wonder whether he knew Ms. Mulian in his previous life and whether they had a close relationship at that time.
As he searched through his memory fragments, he could only find the group known as elves in the Other World, which looked similar to Ms. Mulian in terms of appearance. Yet he could not find anything about them ever interacting with each other in his previous life.
But on second thought, in his previous life, Golden Tooth Lair experienced a strange fire, and a few hundred thousand lair citizens were burned to death. Even someone as powerful as Saber Jin Wanhao seemed to have died in the fire.
Ms. Mulian and all the villagers should have been devoured by the flames the Supernatural Entity stirred up, right?
Meng Chao only rose to power after the Monster War ended. There was no possibility that he would have had any relationship with Ms. Mulian.
While Meng Chao stood thinking, Ms. Mulian frowned a little as well. She seemed to be going through her memories seriously and wondering when she had ever seen such a fearsome man.
But no matter how much she tried to remember, she only felt puzzled. She could only nod in acknowledgement to Meng Chao’s question and answer softly, “Yes, I’m Su Mulian.”
After saying that, she turned around and squatted down beside the debris once more.
There was a unique, airy quality to her voice.
It was as if everything around her had nothing to do with her.
But this did not fit into her personality as the living Buddha who saved all those who were suffering.
It was also in complete contrast to what she was doing right now.
Meng Chao took two steps forward and stood behind Su Mulian and the villagers. He looked under the debris and finally understood what they were doing.
There was a person stuck below.
She was ugly and built. Fangs protruded out of her mouth, and she did not look like a woman, but no matter how ugly she was, she had her hands over her swollen belly, and it made her shine with a maternal light.
Unfortunately, that weak light was being devoured by endless darkness.
The pregnant lady’s thighs were caught under the debris.
There were a few terrifying wounds on her body.
The flesh around her wounds had flipped open like a baby’s mouth, and blood washed away the dirt on her body before flowing everywhere on the ground.
She widened her murky eyes and stared at the sky in a daze as it was burned by black flames. Her lips were pushed open by her fangs, and they trembled. It seemed like she was praying to the Gods faraway on Earth, begging for them to at least spare the child in her belly.
Unfortunately, the debris crushing her thighs weighed dozens of tons, and even if a few villagers worked together, they would be unable to move them away.
And as blood continued flowing out of her body, her breathing and heartbeat became weaker with each passing second.
Her body temperature was already too low, and she was about to die. The shadow of death would descend on her from the darkness at any moment.
Even if the Gods on Earth really existed, they could not move through the entire universe to save her and her child.
But Su Mulian continued kneeling in front of the pregnant woman and holding her hand as she whispered. She seemed to be motivating her to not give up for the sake of her child since they would definitely save her.
If Ms. Mulian did not give up, the villagers around her did not give up as well. They stuck their strangely shaped hands under the debris and worked together to try and lift the floorboard that squashed the pregnant lady.
Meng Chao was silent for a while before he went forward and knelt on one knee. Then, he extended two fingers and pressed down on the pregnant lady’s neck before he pressed down on her stomach.
He sighed. “She can’t be saved anymore. The child in her belly isn’t carried to full term either. Even if you cut it out, it won’t be able to survive.
“You’ve done everything you could. If you don’t want to see more innocent people die, you have to leave with me now.”
He was not someone who would not save those in trouble.
But he had harvested countless monsters, and he could instantly tell what was a fatal wound and what was a non-fatal wound.
The pregnant lady was badly injured. Unless the most advanced medical cabin appeared within three minutes and the most expensive medicine was pumped into her, even Asclepius would not be able to save her.
The brutal apocalypse had taught Meng Chao to save those that could be saved and not get bothered by the tragedies that had already happened.
Su Mulian cast a deep glance at Meng Chao.
“No, she can still be saved,” she whispered.
Then, her green eyes suddenly shone with a gentle green light full of vitality.
The green light turned into two warm streams that resembled water. They traveled into the pregnant lady’s body through her arms.
Something unbelievable happened.
The pregnant lady had clearly not taken any medicine and was not a superhuman with great self-regeneration powers, but the terrifying wounds were healing rapidly as she was swathed in the green light.
Meng Chao could clearly sense that not only were her external wounds getting healed swiftly, her blood vessels became filled again. The hearts of the child and her started pumping with great power, and not only did her body temperature rise once more, her vitality magnetic field also started burning fiercely like a flame that would never go out!
‘That’s… impossible!’
Meng Chao could not believe it.
The pregnant lady’s life force started burning fiercely once more, while Su Mulian looked like she had been drained of her life. She appeared to be in pain and about to wither away.
But she forced herself to smile and looked at Meng Chao before she said, “Please, help me… save her.”
No matter how critical the situation was, since the pregnant lady now had a chance to live, Meng Chao would definitely not watch two lives die before him.
He observed the overall structure of the ruins and fired his chain saber to bind the two thickest pillars on top of the debris. Then, he dragged them to the side.
After that, he pushed a huge stone to the pregnant lady’s side to make it into a lever.
He moved between the villagers and extended his burning hands deep into the cracks of the fallen structure. With a loud shout, he summoned his strength and worked together with the strange-looking humans to raise it up.
Spirit flames gushed out of his pores again.
His muscles swelled up and tore up the tattered waterproof canvas.
The medical staplers on his chest wound also shot out.
But before his heart was squeezed out of his wound, he finally lifted the reinforced concrete that weighed dozens of tons. Even though it was only by dozens of centimeters, those precious centimeters were enough for the villagers to drag the pregnant lady out.
A huge villager who was covered in fur and looked like a savage hugged the pregnant lady tightly and thanked Meng Chao profusely while he wept.
Su Mulian stared at Meng Chao’s chest in shock. Blood continued flowing out, and she extended her hand to touch it. “Are you injured?”
“It’s a minor wound. I’ll tell you later.” Meng Chao grabbed her hand and turned his head to listen for the other four former Reaper Squad members. He quickly said, “Your grandpa was killed. Their next target is you. For the safety of Leprosy Village, you must not stay with the other villagers anymore. You have to come with me, understand?”
Su Mulian’s eyes went wide, and her emotions instantly showed signs of going out of control.
But in the next second, she returned to her merciful but also aloof expression. She only nodded and said, “Got it. I’ll leave with you.”
“Good.” Even though Meng Chao could not understand how Ms. Mulian could remain so calm, it was for the best that she was willing to work with him. He sighed in relief and said to the villagers around him, “Everyone, run. Don’t gather together, and don’t follow Ms. Mulian. The more people there are, the bigger the target you make, and it’ll bring danger to everyone! You can entrust Ms. Mulian to me. I will risk my life to protect her!”
