Chapter 26 - Without Mercy

After Qin Fuhai and the others buried their dead teammate, Jin Yang learned about what had happened from Sun Fang. Qiu Qiong had intended to rip off his rabbit’s ears. Just the thought of that scene made Jin Yang’s blood boil with rage.

As for the other thing Sun Fang said, “I didn’t know that Little Liu had gotten separated from her guardian. I am really sorry to cause you trouble.” It made him a little puzzled.

He glanced at the little rabbit who had been playing dumb and selling meng1 in Sun Fang’s arms. Its round pea-shaped eyes, that were like a pair of red marbles, looked at the sky, the ground, and everywhere else except him. He had a feeling that the little rabbit was hiding something from him.

Yin Yiliu was afraid that Sun Fang would say something like ‘Your child is so cute, such a good girl’ and so on, exposing her sockpuppet2, but thankfully she didn’t.

She let out a sigh of relief. She couldn’t explain to Jin Yang why she could transform from a rabbit to a human in this state. Everyone thought that she was a rabbit-hybrid evolved person, but only Jin Yang knew that she wasn’t.

At this point, among Qiu Qiong’s team of four, besides the little girl, two of them were seriously injured, and the last remaining one already used up all the water he had to make icicles. He was no longer a threat.

The tide had been reversed. Qiu Qiong’s team went from deciding on Qin Fuhai’s team life and death to being the ones who had their own life and death decided.

Qiu Qiong could never have imagined that he himself would fall into such a predicament. But no matter how difficult it was to accept, he could only hold back his anger and watch Jin Yang closely.

The most threatening people among the group were this young man in front of him and the rabbit-hybrid girl beside him who had extremely high speed and sharp claws. The combination of the two was even harder to deal with than large mutated animals.

Qiu Qiong’s huge wings were covered with coffee-colored hard feathers, forming a hard protective shell. Under this layer of protection, after removing the bullets, scabs had already formed over the gunshot wounds. Except for the excessive blood loss which caused him to feel a little dizzy, he was already steadily recovering.

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He moved his wings slightly, and when he found that he could still fly, he exhaled a sigh of relief and held the little girl tight in his arms.

“What do you want?”

The pale-faced young man twitched the corners of his mouth slightly. The men on Qin Fuhai’s team were immediately enraged by his arrogant demeanor. One of the members with strength-type abilities expanded his muscles, tearing his sleeves apart, and transforming his hand into the palm of an ape.

He leaped forward and punched the cannon man in his face. The cannon man’s face was hit with so much force that blood sprayed from his nostrils as he was knocked to the ground.

“Pay with your life!”

The cannon man looked quite miserable. He had a broken arm that was dangling beside him, and his face was covered with blood, but he made no resistance when confronted by these enraged men. He silently wiped the blood from his face with his uninjured hand.

He was, after all, a retired soldier. He still had a tinge of conscience and guilt in his heart.

Jin Yang shifted his gaze from Qiu Qiong to the little girl in his arms. His cold stare made the little girl shiver. She didn’t dare to throw a tantrum and silently drew closer to Qiu Qiong.

Jin Yang said coldly as he fiddled with the gun bolt in his hand, “Nothing much. Leave her ears here, then all of you can f*ck off.”

The little girl understood Jin Yang‘s words. She immediately covered her ears with her hands and cried, “Don’t don’t, he’s a bad guy! Brother Qiu Qiong, hit him!”

This big brother is so good-looking. But why is he so bad? He wanted to cut off Niuniu’s ears! He’s a bad guy!

Qiu Qiong was extremely irritated. The little girl was still sobbing in his ears. Through gritted teeth, he said, “That’s impossible. Don’t go too far.”

Even a cold-hearted person like Qin Fuhai was amused by Qiu Qiong’s shamelessness. “Your child is precious, but other people’s children are not?” he asked.

Qiu Qiong wanted to get Yin Yiliu’s ears just to please the child he brought along. He did not care about other people’s lives at all. Now the same condition applied to him, it was ‘going too far’. How ridiculous.

“If you don’t give it to me, then leave all your lives here.”

As Jin Yang spoke, Zhao Sihui, who was standing next to him, took a step forward, and thorns emerged from her palm. If Qiu Qiong dared to act rashly, she would stab him into a sieve.

She had just witnessed Qiu Qiong and his teammates kill a living person with a cannon. She was utterly disgusted by them. These people deserved to die.

Jin Yang didn’t think his request was going too far. It was simply an eye for an eye. He wasn’t going to gloss over anything just because the child was young.

As the saying goes, it could be seen how one would grow up to be at three years old. She had a vicious heart even at such a young age. He doubted she would grow up to be a nice person.

The men approached Qiu Qiong angrily. Qiu Qiong clenched his fists. He must bring the child back to City B unharmed, because her father was his immediate boss, and his parents and sister were in his hands in City B. If something happened to the little girl, his family would not live.

The little girl’s father was Liu Qianshan, a well-known figure in the military scene. He often appeared on TV. Anyone who followed the news would have known his name.

He was not stupid enough to reveal his identity. Liu Qianshan’s name may have been a life-saving talisman previously, but after the apocalypse, it would be the final nail in their coffins. They would undoubtedly be killed in order to eliminate any hidden danger.

Qiu Qiong used to be fond of the little girl, but now the only feeling he had for her was irritation. He took a long, hard look at his teammates who were kneeling on the ground, flapped his wings, and flew away with the girl in his arms.

The young man with freezing ability tried to grab Qiu Qiong’s shirt but he was too slow. For the first time, his shriveled face showed a look of despair, and he yelled at Qiu Qiong who escaped.

“You asshole abandoned us!!”

As soon as he cursed, the men behind him pressed down his shoulders, preventing him from escaping.

Jin Yang picked up the cannon man’s hand cannon from the floor. His golden eyes were locked at Qiu Qiong’s broad back and huge wings. When he carried the hand cannon, his lean but tough muscles tightened, and he steadily aimed at the eagle-clawed man.

The pain in his legs became increasingly intense. Coupled with the weight of the hand cannon, he felt like the needle-like pain was seeping out of his bones. His eyes constricted slightly as he fired at the target.

With a loud bang in the sky, when the cannon hit the back of Qiu Qiong, his thick and hard feathers instantly exploded, and a cloud of red mist was formed.

His back was burnt completely black. Half of his wings fell off, as he fell into a distant jungle.

The place where he fell was far away from Jin Yang and the others. It seemed that Qiu Qiong had broken his wings, and half of his body was gone. He could not have survived, so they did not go look for him.

He would either die because of his injuries or be devoured by the mutated animals in the forest, like the mutated wolf they tortured to death back then.

Yin Yiliu looked at Qiu Qiong, who was free-falling into the trees. She had no sympathy for him.

She wrinkled her nose and buried her head in Sun Fang’s arms.

If it were in the past, she would think that she should be easy on others and be more tolerant towards children.

However, after what happened today, Yin Yiliu had witnessed the ugly side of mankind when social order had collapsed. It changed Yin Yiliu from the inside. She became mentally stronger and more sensible.

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She truly realized that this was the apocalypse. Not only was it the battle between humans and mutated animals, but also a battle amongst humans.

As soon as Jin Yang hit his target, he put down the hand cannon in his hand. He frowned slightly as his legs under his trousers began to shake uncontrollably.

He wasn’t interested in the grievances between the remaining two evolved people and Qin Fuhai’s team.

With a cold expression on his face, Qin Fuhai walked to the cannon man and pressed the muzzle of his gun against the man’s head.

A loud bang pierced through the quiet sky. The man’s sturdy body slowly fell to the ground, and blood oozed from the hole on his head.

The person with the freezing ability panicked at the sight. He knew that he was next. He twisted his body frantically and yelled, “I did not want to kill your friend! It was Qiu Qiong’s orders!”

The big man behind him sneered and kicked him hard on the back. He pressed the young man’s cheek against the ground and pointed his gun at the back of his head.

The young man could only hear the crisp sound of the gun loading, which signaled his impending death. He widened his eyes…
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Footnotes

卖萌 (Selling meng): Slang for acting cute. 掉马甲 (Vest / Sockpuppet): A slang term for fake online identity. In this context, it means her identity as a human girl.

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