Si Jiangchen still carried me horizontally in his arms, as if afraid of pulling on my wound.
His handsome face was right in front of my forehead, and my panicked expression was reflected in his eyes.
"You're talking nonsense. I'm not a monster! I don't eat people!"
I shook my head, wondering if this guy had gone crazy.
"Hehe, in this world now, there are no people! They're all monsters!"
The ten - year - old boy gritted his teeth tightly. His cheeks bulged high, and the iron skewer in his hand waved like the splashing magma from hell.
He noticed that Si Jiangchen had been protecting me all the time, so he recklessly attacked me non - stop.
"Hiss!"
Si Jiangchen couldn't dodge in time while holding me. The iron skewer scratched across his cheek, and immediately the sound of burning flesh came into my ears.
A cut more than an inch long appeared on Si Jiangchen's face. The flesh was turned over, which startled me.
"Put me down!" I exclaimed. "Someone! The prisoner has escaped!"
However, we were underground. The prison door was so thick that my voice couldn't get out at all.
Instead, it drew a burst of laughter from the little boy.
"Yeah... the prisoners have all escaped!"
I heard that the man who had been beaten to a pulp actually slowly slipped out of his shackles. He sneered and approached us. "We've been waiting for this opportunity. General Si, when interrogating those secrets, there can't be other people around, of course... But I never expected that you would bring a little girl with you. Do you think it's too lonely to be a hostage by yourself?"
This father - son pair were like two evil spirits climbing out of hell. They grinned hideously and pounced on us.
"Hiss!"
The iron skewer stabbed Si Jiangchen's shoulder socket again, burning a hole right through his military uniform.
I took the opportunity to grab the boy's hand.
"Let go!"
He and I shouted at the same time.
I also broke free from Si Jiangchen's arms. The boy suddenly let go of the skewer and grabbed my neck instead. I was knocked to the ground by his momentum, and he just pressed on my wound.
On the other side, Si Jiangchen was also forced against the wall by the man who had escaped using the collarbone technique.
"Ugh!"
I almost fainted from the pain. The boy's hideous face kept getting closer in front of me. "Hehe, little girl, you're quite good - looking! When we escape later, I'll have some fun with you first!"
As he said this, he actually had the audacity to lean over and bite my face. His dirty yellow teeth made me feel sick. Without thinking, I reached out my hand to block it.
"Crunch." The little boy's teeth sank deeply into my flesh. Seeing my painful expression, he became even more complacent and used all his strength. I could feel the blood gushing out from the gaps between his teeth and sliding down the skin of my palm.
"Hehe! Little girl, you came right to my mouth yourself!"
The ten - year - old boy finally let go of my hand. He stuck out his tongue and licked his lips, licking all the blood on his mouth into it.
"Hehe... it's the same!"
I felt as if a string in my mind suddenly snapped. Instinctively, I reached out and grabbed his hair.
A strange power that didn't belong to me rose from my heart. In an instant, I pinned him to the ground.
"You came right to me!"
My bitten hand pressed firmly on the boy's neck. His pulsating blood vessels actually merged with mine through my wound. A scorching heat rushed through his body and into my veins like a mighty river flowing into the sea. It burned so badly that I wanted to scream.
The boy also noticed his own abnormality. He desperately grabbed my hand trying to break free, but unexpectedly, the more he struggled, the faster that scorching vitality rushed into my body...
"Ah!!! Dad! Save me!"
He finally screamed in fear.
"Idiot, letting a woman pin you down?"
I vaguely heard the man's flippant laugh. He didn't know that both of us were at a critical moment of life and death!
As the boy's vitality continuously poured into my body, his face turned from the excited red to pale, and then to blue - purple...
"Dad!"
He suddenly opened his mouth wide, but his scream stopped halfway because his tongue had become like a withered leaf. The flesh on his face and body shrank and collapsed, just like a mummy that had been dried by the wind in the desert for thousands of years.
My palm was snow - white, with traces of blood from the bite. When I pressed on his neck, there was a soft "creak" sound. The boy's neck was actually crushed by me!
Piece by piece, like dried leaves, it turned into powder with just a little force.
"Whoosh..."
The boy's whole body was crushed under the strength of my fingertips. All that was left was his tattered and dirty clothes, which fell to the dust like a shed snake skin.
"Ugh!"
Without support, my hands gave way and I fell to the cold floor. The scorching breath that had entered my body from my tiger's mouth was rushing around in my body, making me curl up in pain.
"Ah!! Ah! Son! Bitch, where did you take my son?"
The man's roar seemed far away, or as if it was covered by a glass shell. It was indistinct.
"Your son has been eaten!"
... It was Si Jiangchen's cold voice. "If you also want to follow in your son's footsteps, then let's give it a try..."
I reluctantly raised my head and saw that Si Jiangchen had grabbed the man's neck and lifted him off the ground.
The man had nowhere to exert his strength. His hands and feet flailed around like a turtle out of water.
"... No!! No... I can't die..."
The best chance he thought he could turn the tables had just slipped away.
He thought that with his and his son's skills, they were more than capable of controlling Si Jiangchen.
And I was just a sickly woman, not even within his scope of consideration.
"You can't kill me... Now, I'm the only one who knows where the 'Supreme Soul - Returning Spell' is!"
His face was already flushed red. He clung to Si Jiangchen's wrist with both hands and still threatened, "If I die, your... your woman will never be able to become human again!"
Si Jiangchen's cold voice drawled lazily, "It doesn't matter. She's fine like this... I can catch countless scoundrels like you for her to eat!"
"Then!! Then you'll never be able to touch her. Hahaha!!"
A sick and crazy look suddenly appeared on the man's face. "A beautiful little girl. If you just look at her like this every day, aren't you afraid of suffocating yourself?"
"Hehe... It seems you don't know..."
Si Jiangchen laughed along with him. Two terrifying fangs showed at the corner of his lips. "I'm the same as her. I eat people too!"