Chapter 41 An Accident

The late-night snack left the four of them stuffed. As they left the barbecue stall, they all had the same thought: walk home to digest.

At the crossroads, the four parted ways, each pair heading home. Mingmei felt the cool night breeze and sobered up a bit.

"Come to think of it, Liliana hasn't told us her plan yet."

After saying so much today, realizing that Bai Xiao and the others might be unreliable, Mingmei suddenly remembered that she didn't know how Liliana wanted them to help.

"She should tell us when the time comes. I have a feeling Liliana's plan might be different from what we imagine. Maybe she doesn't want us to fight them head-on."

Mu Chen looked at Mingmei and said, "Do you remember that doll from earlier tonight?"

"Ah, yes, I remember. It should be Mona's, right? It didn't have any fighting power." Mingmei recalled the doll she had snapped the head off of, feeling a bit annoyed at being startled by something so weak.

At this moment, she didn't understand what Mu Chen meant.

"Maybe Mona isn't as strong as we think."

"Hmm?"

"I mean her actual body. She herself might not be as powerful as we imagine."

After Mu Chen said that, Mingmei thought it was possible.

"Then why did you stop me from grabbing her? If she's not that strong, are we just going to let her capture people?"

Although Mu Chen had said that even if they captured her, it wouldn't be of much use, she still wanted to take action after thinking about what she had been doing recently.

Mu Chen: "..."

"Didn't I say that even if you catch her, she won't tell us where the Zerg went?" Mu Chen reminded Mingmei. "Her perception is so twisted that I don't think you'll get the answer you want even if you torture her."

"Ah... I understand, I'm just... unwilling, that's all."

After the last Zerg escaped, its last known location was here. If they couldn't pry information from Mona, they wouldn't have any way to find them unless the Zerg came out again to stir up trouble.

"You know, how come there's no trace of this Zerg in so many game worlds? Like you said, besides you, there are a few other tricky bosses in these game worlds. Since we can't find the Zerg, shouldn't Uncle investigate those key game worlds?"

"He did, but it wasn't there." Mu Chen shook his head. Yan Hui did investigate several suspicious games thoroughly, but still found nothing.

"It's like it really escaped from the game." After Mu Chen said that, he turned and denied the possibility. "With Mr. Yan Hui's skills, he would never let it escape. It must still be hiding somewhere in these game worlds."

"Sigh~ Troublesome, this world~" Mingmei held her head and looked at the night sky without a single star, murmuring, "I always feel that emotions are really complex. Does Mona's kind of crazy craving for emotions really exist?"

"It does."

Mu Chen chuckled softly at Mingmei's incomprehensible mumbling, "Don't you know? These villainous bosses have strong emotional fluctuations, intense emotional experiences that are almost suffocating. Haven't you felt them before?"

Mu Chen still remembered the time he and Mingmei switched accounts, and Mingmei was depressed for a long time after experiencing it.

"I've experienced it, but... Mona's emotions are too twisted. What emotions is she so obsessed with that she became like this? Love?"

Mingmei subconsciously felt that the word love was absurd.

How could her past be considered love?

"But she doesn't seem like family to Liliana either." Mingmei thought of another possibility, but she still shook her head.

Seeing Mingmei so troubled, Mu Chen reached out and gently stroked Mingmei's hair, comforting her, "Don't think about it, it's better to ask the person directly about this kind of question."

After speaking, he took her hand and walked towards their residence.

They would eventually face Mona, so it was better to ask Mona about it.

But before they could take two steps, they heard messy footsteps and shouts behind them. Mingmei instantly realized that the voice was Lu Xiaoyao.

"Crap! Something happened!"

Mingmei and Mu Chen immediately turned around and ran towards the direction of the sound!

"Lu Xiaoyao!"

Before Mingmei and Mu Chen got close to the place where the sound came from, a strong smell of blood rushed into their noses. Then, Mingmei saw Lu Xiaoyao carrying Julian, who was covered in blood, while running and calling for help.

Immediately afterward, Mingmei saw that the person chasing Lu Xiaoyao was actually Bai Xiao!

At this moment, Bai Xiao's condition was very wrong.

She was wearing a black apron. Although black could hide other traces, when Lu Xiaoyao ran under the street light, no one would casually think that the stains on the apron of the person behind her were water stains, right?

"Meimei! She's crazy! She's gone crazy!" Lu Xiaoyao shouted when she saw Mingmei and Mu Chen coming. Mingmei and Mu Chen rushed over to help.

"Die, all of you! You all deserve to die!"

The terrifying red bloodshot eyes of Bai Xiao made her look very abnormal. Even though Mu Chen rushed up and kicked away the blood-stained axe at the first moment, he fought with Bai Xiao for a few rounds, subdued her, and pressed her to the ground.

"Meimei, call the police, and call an ambulance for Julian too."

As soon as he subdued Bai Xiao, Mu Chen asked Mingmei to call the police.

"Understood."

The smell of blood on Bai Xiao was very strong. Looking at Julian, who was put down by Lu Xiaoyao, with half of his shoulder stained with blood, Mu Chen felt that this wasn't just the smell of cutting Julian.

But her eyes were still fixed on Lu Xiaoyao and Julian, whose face was so white that it was almost transparent.

"What's going on with you two?"

Mu Chen subdued Bai Xiao, and Mingmei was giving Julian's wound a simple treatment.

There was no disinfectant or anything like that around, so Mingmei could only tear Julian's clothes into strips and temporarily tie up his main artery. The wound on his shoulder was so deep that the bone was visible, so they could only wait for the ambulance to come.

"We just wanted to take a shortcut home, who knew..."

Lu Xiaoyao was terrified when she thought that she and Julian were playing around in the alley, and then Julian was the first to notice that something was wrong. At an alley entrance, Julian suddenly stood in front of her when a flash of white light appeared before her eyes!

"It's her! She was in the innermost part of that alley 'chopping ribs'... Oh no, spit! She was killing people! With that axe!"

At this moment, Lu Xiaoyao recalled in horror when Julian hugged her to block the damage, her eyes passed over the person who raised the axe and chased after them and saw the flesh behind her, except for the head, which had been chopped into pieces!