"Got it," Xiao Jinsheng nodded repeatedly.
She wasn't stupid—just hearing the noises in this basement was enough to know it was like a beast assembly; without any means of self-defense, she naturally wouldn't dare cause trouble.
Thankfully, though these mutant beasts were in uproar, they hadn't yet broken out of their cages.
Yu Yunxiao followed the familiar smell of blood all the way and truly found Mo Jiao lying in a pool of blood inside an iron cage, already half-dead.
Mo Jiao, with his 1.9-meter height confined in the small cage, noticed someone approaching. He raised his eyes and cast a glance. The moment he saw that familiar yet detestable face, killing intent radiated from his body.
With his venomous gaze locked on her, Xiao Jinsheng stopped in her tracks, feeling as if a giant python had coiled around her, suffocating her entirely.
She struggled to breathe, like a fish dying from dehydration.
"Mo Jiao, what are you doing?" Yu Yunxiao pulled Xiao Jinsheng behind him, cautiously watching the young man in the cage.
With Yu Yunxiao blocking her, that sense of discomfort entirely vanished from Xiao Jinsheng's body.
She stole a fearful glance at the man whose cheeks shimmered with scales, his beauty both enchanting and unsettling, her heart freezing with despair.
After the apocalypse on Mist Continent, humans not only underwent beastification but also awakened superpowers.
As for Mo Jiao, he had beastified into a snake, and his superpower was Illusionary Black Mist.
Evidently, at this moment, Mo Jiao had already developed murderous intent toward her.
Xiao Jinsheng internally cursed the Divine Gold System again, suppressing her fear of death while hiding behind Yu Yunxiao as she called out to Mo Jiao, "We… we came to take you home."
"Xiao Jinsheng, stop pretending." Mo Jiao sneered coldly, then looked at Yu Yunxiao, who was protecting Xiao Jinsheng. "Haven't you been sick of her for a long time? Rather than being bound to her and living a fate worse than death, why not listen to me."
"Let's kill her together and die alongside her. That counts as a type of escape too."
Yu Yunxiao, who hadn't had enough of living, shook his head immediately.
Although he wanted to kill Xiao Jinsheng, he wanted even more to survive.
If only divorce were an option!
Yes, divorce!
He would surely come up with a way to divorce Xiao Jinsheng!
"Forget killing her." Yu Yunxiao originally thought Mo Jiao would continue to egg him into murdering Xiao Jinsheng, but unexpectedly, Mo Jiao only made one attempt, then lay back in the pool of blood looking bored.
However, those violet eyes, partially obscured by blood-spattered long lashes, continued to eerily fix on Xiao Jinsheng like a predator stalking prey.
That spine-chilling fear surged across her again as Xiao Jinsheng stared at Mo Jiao, who lay in the blood with a death-welcoming posture, unsure whether she should save him or not.
A mutant beast's roar suddenly pierced the air, followed by the sound of an iron cage being smashed open.
A two-meter-tall brown bear, its broad paws hitting the ground, charged out of the cage directly toward Xiao Jinsheng.
Panic-stricken, Xiao Jinsheng clung to Yu Yunxiao's sleeve, jumping and dodging around him.
"Heh." A pleased chuckle echoed from the side.
Xiao Jinsheng looked back and found the sound came from Mo Jiao in the cage, who smiled at her, mouthing silently, "You're dead."
On Mist Continent, animals couldn't become human but instead mutated to develop multiple superpowers.
Yet humans on Mist Continent underwent beastification.
So here, Beastmen and animals were entirely different.
Beastmen eating animals or animals eating humans—it all adhered to the laws of nature.
But staring at the overwhelming strength of the brown bear, then at the cat-eared boy standing protectively in front of her, Xiao Jinsheng felt like crying without tears.
With both parties possessing superpowers, how was the little kitty supposed to defeat the massive bear?
Xiao Jinsheng cursed the Divine Gold System that dragged her here once more.
Yu Yunxiao, however, narrowed his eyes at the bear currently treating them as prey. As a Four Stars Level mutant, it was one star higher than his own rank. White light flickered over his body.
Xiao Jinsheng saw his superpower and felt her vision blacken again.
Doomed—the little kitty's superpower was Three Stars Healing Element, so how could he possibly defeat the Strength Superpower of the brown bear?
The brown bear ferociously lunged forward, and Yu Yunxiao reflexively pushed Xiao Jinsheng away while bracing himself against the bear's claws.
The force of Yu Yunxiao's push sent Xiao Jinsheng crashing into Mo Jiao's cage.
She scrambled to her feet and was just about to get away from the cage when her ankle was grabbed by an icy hand.
"Where do you think you're going?" Mo Jiao extended his hand through the bars, gripping her ankle effortlessly, his smile dark and twisted.
"Mo Jiao, I was wrong," Xiao Jinsheng wailed, unable to break free, slumping against the cage as she cried. "I know you hate me. I know you want to kill me."
"But can't we settle our accounts later?"
"Even if you're holding a grudge against me, you don't have any beef with Yu Yunxiao, right? He's just a little kitty—how's he supposed to take on the brown bear? Do you really want to watch him die here?"
"Now you're in a hurry—what were you doing before?" Mo Jiao sneered.
Xiao Jinsheng: …
Why did those words sound so damn familiar?
"Mo Jiao, I used to be blinded, my head wasn't clear, but I know I was wrong now. Could you give me a chance? Let's go back first and calmly discuss things, alright?" Xiao Jinsheng pleaded as much with Mo Jiao as with herself.
"It's good to stay alive. Don't lose hope in living. You hate me, I get it—I know my fault—I just wish for you to survive."
"How about this—you go back with us first, and I'll grant you freedom. We'll get divorced, okay?"
In the middle of fighting the brown bear, now bleeding, Yu Yunxiao twitched his ears and immediately shouted, "I want a divorce too!"
"Divorce, we'll all divorce." Xiao Jinsheng forced a bitter smile. "Can we just go home first? Let's part ways peacefully, and we'll get divorced."
"You mean it?" Mo Jiao hesitated.
"I swear." Xiao Jinsheng quickly raised two fingers, her expression solemn as if swearing allegiance.
Yu Yunxiao, who was being pressed back by the bear's attacks, chimed in, "As long as we divorce, I'm good. I can't beat this bear."
"Useless," Mo Jiao scoffed, releasing a black mist that engulfed the brown bear, reducing it to a pile of white bones.
Xiao Jinsheng widened her eyes in terror at the scene, only to hear the iron cage behind her open. Mo Jiao leaned out, blood-stained fingers tilting her chin up. "Xiao Jinsheng, don't forget what you promised."
"We'll divorce when we get back," Yu Yunxiao joined in on the side.
Xiao Jinsheng clutched her trembling chest, trying to calm her frantic heartbeat, forcing a smile and nodding, "Of course, I—won't forget."
She shut her eyes in resignation, completely unable to understand the mindset of the original body.
With Mo Jiao showing that kind of power just now, it was clear that this cage restricting superpower usage had no effect on him.
Such a dangerous person, how on earth did the original owner even think of drugging him and selling him to the black market?
Xiao Jinsheng felt like dying, too drained to even curse the Divine Gold System anymore.
Where were the promised five bodyguards? Now, one wanted to divorce her; one wanted to kill her.
She didn't even know what the remaining three were like, but her memories told her her relationships with them weren't good either.
Xiao Jinsheng was directly hoisted onto Mo Jiao's shoulder and carried away.
On the way back, Yu Yunxiao kept reminding her every few steps not to forget about the divorce.
Xiao Jinsheng, with a face full of deadened despair, was completely unresponsive.
When they arrived back at her house—a small white villa—the blue villa next door belonged to the protagonist Bai Yan.
Xiao Jinsheng, her face blank, was flanked by Mo Jiao and Yu Yunxiao, just as they ran into Bai Yan, who was preparing to head out.