“Ah! Su Xing!”
Kaka exclaimed.
Su Xing felt a sharp pain, and her consciousness quickly blurred.
However, at this moment, the life-saving necklace Kaka had given her finally worked.
The sapphire pendant emitted a dazzling blue light, directly enveloping Su Xing, pulling her away from the Snow Maiden’s grasp, and rapidly healing her wounds.
Kaka reacted, immediately shouting, “Run! You’re safe as long as the blue light is there, but it only lasts ten seconds!”
Su Xing turned to look at the Snow Maiden, who was blocked by the blue light.
Her eyes were filled with murderous intent.
Su Xing’s heart sank, knowing that this was just a delay of death.
If she couldn’t deal with the Snow Maiden, she would eventually die.
Understanding this, Su Xing did not follow Kaka’s advice to run, but instead stood still, “Do you know where your daughter is?”
The Snow Maiden froze for a moment, a flicker of confusion in her eyes, but her desperate lunge towards Su Xing stopped.
A hint of joy flashed in Su Xing’s eyes—it worked!
“Wife, what are you doing? She’s tricking you! Kill her quickly!”
Seeing Su Xing suddenly mention their daughter, Keno panicked and immediately ordered.
The Snow Maiden’s eyes became firm, and she lunged at Su Xing again.
Su Xing quickened her pace and shouted loudly, “I know where your daughter is! She’s outside right now, have you been deceived by this scoundrel?”
At these words, the Snow Maiden stopped again.
This time, no matter what Keno said, she didn’t move, just stared at Su Xing with a nervous gaze.
Su Xing didn’t challenge the Snow Maiden’s patience and immediately spoke what she knew, “Did your daughter become very old because of the experiment? Is her name Qina?”
The Snow Maiden nodded stiffly, but a brighter light burst forth in her eyes.
Su Xing immediately breathed a sigh of relief, knowing she had gambled correctly.
She quickly said, “We just saw your daughter. She’s upstairs, disguised as a normal human to lure people in.”
The Snow Maiden held her head in her hands, an incredulous expression on her face, as if she couldn’t believe her kind daughter would become like this.
Su Xing further speculated, “Have you ever thought that you’ve been tricked by your husband, Keno? He controls the only channel for you two, mother and daughter, to communicate. Isn’t it normal for him to conceal, deceive, and even threaten you both? And most importantly, from what I’ve observed, Qina seems to be getting older day by day.”
She had only vaguely sensed this point and wasn’t entirely sure.
But it didn’t matter; the goal now was to make things sound as serious as possible.
And judging by Keno’s guilty look, she might have actually guessed correctly.
The Snow Maiden trembled upon hearing Su Xing’s words and stiffly turned to look at Keno.
She and Keno had been husband and wife for many years, and even though she had become a Snow Maiden with stiff thoughts, it didn’t hide her understanding of Keno.
Seeing his expression, the Snow Maiden immediately realized that, just as Su Xing had said, Keno had been deceiving her all along.
And her only daughter was now on the verge of death because of Keno’s experiment.
“Hoo—”
A sharp shriek erupted from the Snow Maiden’s mouth, and she lunged directly at Keno.
Su Xing knew that they couldn’t help in a battle of that caliber and immediately shouted, “Let’s run! Run separately! If anyone finds an exit, quickly go up and find help, don’t worry about the others!”
With that, she took the little fox and was the first to run out of the room.
Since the Snow Maiden had been “melted,” they didn’t have to worry about running into ghosts outside.
With no one else around, Su Xing anxiously searched for the exit while asking the little fox, “Why can’t you use your skills? If it weren’t for the necklace Kaka gave me just now, I would have really died!”
The little fox’s tail was tucked between its legs, looking like a beaten dog.
As a phantom, it naturally felt the same intense fear during Su Xing’s near-death moment.
The little fox dispiritedly cooperated with the search.
Hearing Su Xing;s question, it replied with fear and resentment, “You’re too weak! You’re so weak that you can’t even support me in using my skills.”
Su Xing was amused, “So it’s all my fault?”
“It’s my fault too,” the little fox admitted frankly, “I didn’t expect the human who summoned me to be so weak.”
Su Xing rolled her eyes, “Forget it, I knew I couldn’t count on you. I should have known there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Such powerful skills must have huge limitations for me.”
Quickly adjusting her mindset, she asked again, “Can you smell where the exit is?”
The little fox shook its head, “No, the reason I could take you to the Snow Maiden’s room before was because the pressure emanating from that room was very strong. I thought, since we’re going to die anyway, why not take you to the big boss to die.”
So she could find a safe place purely by luck?
There was no time to joke around with the little fox.
Beads of sweat appeared on Su Xing’s forehead, and her movements became increasingly frantic.
She didn’t know who would win, the Snow Maiden or Keno, but no matter who won, it might not be a good outcome for them.
***
Time passed minute by minute, and Su Xing still found nothing.
Suddenly, she felt a gust of cold air float from behind her.
Su Xing sharply turned her head, only to see Keno standing behind her with a sinister grin.
She gasped, her eyes filled with terror.
The current Keno was clearly transformed.
If he was just an ordinary human before, now anyone could tell he was non-human.
Keno’s lower body had turned into a huge snowball, with only a human head on top, appearing exceptionally small.
Perhaps knowing that only Su Xing and her useless phantom were left, Keno was no longer in a hurry.
He said viciously, “Are you very proud? You’ve ruined my base like this, you incited my wife against me with a few words, and even made my wife and I both suffer heavy losses, forcing me to return to my original form. Do you know how hard it was for me to maintain human form? Now I have to start all over again!”
Su Xing also knew she couldn’t rely on anyone else now.
Suppressing the shock in her heart, she scrutinized Keno for a few moments, then mocked, “Is this what you call evolution?”
Keno was clearly provoked by this statement, his face flushing red, “What do you know? If it weren’t for the lack of test subjects, why would I have become like this? If I could have more test subjects, I could definitely complete the ultimate evolution of humanity!”
As soon as Su Xing saw Keno in this state, she knew she probably wouldn’t survive.
Since death was inevitable, she brazenly provoked him, “How pathetic! A person who spends their entire life studying life and evolution ends up looking neither human nor ghost, even maintaining human form becomes a luxury. And now you’re still proud of completing your evolution. Have you ever considered? This is exactly life’s revenge on you! You don’t respect life, so life won’t respect you either!”
These words hit Keno’s sore spot.
His failed evolution was his eternal pain, and Su Xing attributed this failure to life, the very thing he most neglected.
This finally made Keno completely furious.
He didn’t move, but the snowball beneath him suddenly split into two smaller snowballs.
The small snowballs transformed into hand shapes, one grabbing the little fox, the other clutching her neck, squeezing tightly.
Su Xing quickly felt herself unable to breathe, her face turning purple, her body struggling uncontrollably in mid-air.
Perhaps her painful appearance at that moment pleased Keno.
He slightly loosened his grip, allowing Su Xing room to breathe, then said smugly, “See, you’re wrong. Even the smartest ordinary human can’t defeat an evolved human like me, even if my evolution had a slight problem. A life like yours, I can crush one with a single hand.”
With that, he smiled, looking at Su Xing with what he thought was generosity, “I’ll give you another chance, do you want to be my partner? I’ve already mastered the primary stage of evolution. As long as we have more test subjects, I will eventually complete the ultimate mystery of evolution. At that time, you’ll be an evolver, one step ahead of all humanity!”
“No!”
Su Xing firmly refused.
She knew that by refusing, she would likely face only the fate of death.
To survive, it might be better to pretend to surrender and then plan for the long term.
But she also knew that once some things begin, it’s hard to stop.
Once she started the experiments, indiscriminately killing people, even if it went against her true nature, could she really uphold her so-called true nature?
Rather than slowly degenerating in warm water, it was better to firmly refuse from the start.
This was also why Su Xing, despite having experienced various professions across all walks of life, had never touched gambling, prostitution, or drugs.
She couldn’t gamble on her willpower.
The snow hand tightened again.
Su Xing felt a wave of suffocation.
Keno didn’t use full force all at once; in his eyes, only by slowly and methodically making Su Xing experience extreme pain before dying could his anger be appeased.
“Yingyingying!”
The little fox beside her struggled desperately.
Su Xing also tried to push the hand away, but it was completely useless.
The air in her lungs grew scarcer and scarcer, her face turning purplish-blue, veins bulging.
Could it be… that she was going to die?
Su Xing thought vaguely, she had no more life-saving items. If she died this time, she would truly be dead.
Looking at the gloomy surroundings, Su Xing’s short life flashed before her eyes like a revolving lantern.
Her whole life seemed to have been spent in such dark places, living by a trash can waiting for relief when she was little, and mixing in various low-life places to earn money when she grew up.
No! She absolutely, absolutely did not want to die in a place like this!
A powerful force suddenly erupted from Su Xing’s entire body.
“Ying!”
The little fox let out a long cry, its entire body erupting in dazzling red light.
The dust in the corners suddenly began to swirl, the air rotated rapidly without wind, quickly forming the of a tornado centered around Su Xing.
The tornado grew larger and larger, filling the entire room in a breath.
Su Xing in the center of the tornado remained completely still, but Keno on the side was not so comfortable.
The powerful suction actually lifted him into the air.
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