One Single Blow Was Enough

Feng Ran cried and sobbed loudly. Her thighs were in so much pain. She raised her head to look at Lilian Mo with hate, completely forgetting about the decimated bodies of mutants around her that was killed by this very same girl.

Lilian Mo was very calm.

"Hey, Auntie. Repeat what you just said."

"You bitch! Leave me alone! Heaven will strike you down for this!"

"Ah? Really? Didn't you say 'die so I can live?' Who is exactly is the bitch here?" Lilian Mo tilted her head, a few strands of black hair falling across her face. With her fair and jade skin that was clean with only her cheek stained with one single drop of blood, there was a certain kind of beauty and danger that she emitted like that of a reaper that had risen from the underworld. This was amplified with the fact that she wore dark clothes and had hair as dark as midnight.

Feng Ran gaped as she saw this. This bitch was still so beautiful even after fighting so many monsters... Her eyes flashed with envy and jealousy.

"If it weren't for you, none of this would have happened! Cursed star! You're so unlucky! Why did you bring me away from the station? I would still be safe if it weren't for you! This is all your fault!"

Her backwards logic really made Lilian Mo smile. Feng Ran also said a lot of things like this in her past life. Twisting words about the situation so that it would always be in her favor and Lilian Mo would be the one to blame.

'Crazy woman,' Lilian Mo thought.

"If it weren't for you, then why would those monsters suddenly appear?! You're so slow every time they appear! I almost got killed and now you've injured me. You aren't human! You're probably one of those monsters. Otherwise, how were you able to fight like a beast?"

Instead of feeling offended, a bitter smile appeared on Lilian Mo's face. A beast? She wasn't human? Maybe. She ceased being human after all the things she experienced.

Besides, humans were the real monsters. With their cold and dark hearts, even the last bit of innocence in this world is almost gone.

Once upon a time, Lilian Mo was a simple high school student. And once upon a time, she was still a kind and gentle person.

But that was a long time ago.

Time and people had changed her.

Other than surviving the apocalypse, avenging her loved ones and past self were her goals.

She would not rest until this woman, Feng Ran dies a brutal death. Lilian Mo had enjoyed the past three days. Not only did she harvest crystal cores and accumulated a lot of battle experience, one of her enemies had fallen from grace and became nothing but a worm under her feet.

'I am heartless.' Lilian Mo admitted.

Looking at the hate filled eyes of Feng Ran who was emitting a putrid scent from her body, her skin dry and her lips that were cracked and bloody that you almost couldn't recognize the originally beautiful lady, Lilian Mo was not able to smile.

'I was like this, too.' She thought as she remembered how she worried over her food and water in her past life since getting missions was hard due to Feng Ran's influence.

But she did not blame anyone and continued to endure just so she could live. After her death, she had learned that kindness was a weakness itself.

'If I have to be heartless to live, then so be it. But I would not be like them. I would not treat women like playthings for men or men like tools for women.'

"Get away from me! Get away from me!" Feng Ran shouted when Lilian Mo approached. Picking up the knife that Feng Ran had thrown away, Lilian Mo smiled to the point that her eyes had almost closed themselves.

Feng Ran shivered. It was like looking at the devil. Was this girl really just a young girl?

"Don't c...come near me!" Feng Ran warned. Gritting her teeth, she endured the pain as she pulled the knife from her other thigh but before she could pull it all out, a boot slammed down on her hand, lodging the knife back and burying it deeper.

"AGGHHHHH!! It hurts! It hurts!!! STOP!"

"I also said that when you told a bunch of people to beat me up." Lilian Mo said.

"I don't know what you're saying! You're crazy!"

Lilian Mo placed the tip of the knife in front of Feng Ran's chest. "You also said that to me, pretending to be innocent while blaming me as the thief who stole the crystal cores."

"I don't know... I don't know... I don't understand what you're saying..." Feng Ran repeatedly shook her head. She was now pale after losing a lot of blood and Lilian Mo's threatening stance did not help with her mental health.

"Hah." Of course you wouldn't understand since you always acted as if you did nothing wrong. But Lilian Mo did not say this aloud.

Heaving a sigh, she raised the knife in midair.

Just like Lin Jiaojiao who repeatedly stabbed Liu Shi with a sword, Lilian Mo did the same to Feng Ran. Earlier, the woman was still able to scream but Lilian Mo had dealt a fatal blow in one single move and ended her life.

Just like putting off a candle's fire, one single blow was enough.

And yet, her hands moved on her own as she stabbed down, pulled back and stabbed again.

This scene straight out of a horror movie was what Mizuki Rei and the rest of the group witnessed after heading to the place where there was signs of fire.

Who would have expected that this kind of crazy scene would greet them?!

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