Chapter 13
"Where?"
"It's right ahead. We're almost there... Look, it's on that rock."
Mia looked in the direction Kira pointed, and saw a protruding stone in the dark mine tunnel, reflecting a pale white light under the torchlight. She squinted her eyes and saw that there were indeed some black marks on it that looked like words. However, she was seven or eight meters away and couldn't see clearly what was written on it.
Mia held the torch and walked over quickly, staring at the words. After walking up to them and carefully examining them for a while, she finally saw the words that looked like ghostly scribbles.
[Hahaha, you got fooled, idiot! ]
There is also a grimace expression with the tongue sticking out at the back.
Mia was stunned.
A strong wind blew from behind, and Mia quickly turned to avoid it. Then she was kicked hard on the waist. She was kicked out and rolled twice on the ground. Suddenly, there was nothing under her body and she fell straight down.
As her body fell, Mia instinctively reached up, but she could only grab air. In the dim light, she only saw a malicious smile.
“Bang!”
The girl's body fell heavily to the ground, and her internal organs seemed to be displaced by the shock. She spurted out a mouthful of blood, and her mouth was suddenly filled with a fishy-sweet taste, but she was strong enough not to faint.
“Hoo…Hoo…”
Mia gasped with difficulty, trying to open her eyes wide and look up. She fell into a pit more than ten meters deep. The walls of the pit tilted inwards, and there was only a small hole at the top. Two almost identical faces appeared at the hole and looked at her. The bright and dark shadows made the originally very pleasing faces look like evil spirits sticking their heads out of hell.
"Kira...Kibe..." Mia gritted her teeth and squeezed out their two names from between her teeth.
"Idiot~ Idiot~" Kira clapped his hands and laughed, his smile as carefree and unusually bright as ever.
Kibe lowered his head and looked around. He then smiled with satisfaction and turned to Kira and said, "You found a good place this time. It looks like even if she's not injured, she definitely won't be able to climb up."
"Of course, I spent a long time looking for it!" Kira said proudly.
"Why!" Mia said bitterly, "You treat me like this... Aren't you afraid... that you won't be able to explain to Mr. Rong?"
"Mr. Rong?" Kira tilted his head. "Who is Mr. Rong?"
“…”
“Hahaha…” Seeing Mia choked, Kira laughed happily again.
Kibe squatted beside her and said to her, "It's okay to tell you. Your Mr. Rong is actually our target."
"But he's too strong!" Kira said regretfully, "Even if I set a trap, I have no chance of defeating him."
"We just want to have some fun, but we don't want to die."
"So it's your turn!"
"Looking at your appearance, you should be a daughter of a wealthy family, right? Even in this hell, there are people who will protect you well..." Kibe said with a smile: "It's annoying just to look at you!"
"How is it? Are you desperate, painful, and angry?" Kira opened his hands : "The taste of betrayal is so sweet, you have never tasted it before?"
Mia bit her lip, trying not to show any vulnerable expression so as not to give them greater pleasure, but she couldn't help but have tears welling up in her eyes.
At this moment, Mia hated herself the most. She had known that people were evil, but she once again let down her guard against the wrong person.
"Don't even think about anyone coming to rescue you," Kibe said condescendingly. "We'll block the entrance to the cave with rocks. It will form a natural soundproof room. Even if they come looking for you, no one will hear your cries for help."
"But guess what, will someone come to see you?" Kira said maliciously, "Even if it's Mr. Rong, you're just an unnecessary burden to him."
Looking at Mia's expression, he couldn't help but laugh happily again.
"Oh, by the way, you're already very lucky, you know?" Kira said sincerely, "We originally prepared a lot of games to entertain you, but in order to prevent that person from really coming, we're going to leave quickly."
"Think about it carefully, you are here, waiting for death to approach slowly, step by step...it sounds like a good idea, right?" Kibe said.
The two brothers admired Mia's performance for a while, and seeing that she was biting her lips the whole time and didn't beg for mercy or cry, and didn't even curse in despair, they couldn't help but smack their lips in boredom and prepared to move stones to block the entrance of the cave.
"I say, what's your reason for doing this?"
"who?"
The sudden sound startled the two men of the Ji family so much that they jumped up at the same time, drew their weapons, and looked vigilantly in the direction where the sound came from.
Mia looked up in surprise, but couldn't see what was happening above, and a faint hope arose in her heart.
"If you kidnapped her to sell her, it's for money; if you bully her, it's for lust, I can understand ; if you use her as bait to deal with that person, and want to experience the pleasure of bullying and defeating the strong, then I can barely understand it." The man in the dark said as he walked over. First, he saw a faint silver light, then he found that it was silver hair reflecting the firelight, and then, a face full of vicissitudes appeared in front of them. He said: "But I've been waiting for a long time, and it seems that you are just because you don't like that little girl, you are willing to risk offending a super strong person to kill her, and then flee without a way out. I can't understand this."
"You guys...are you tired of living?"
"It's you, Ulvis." Kira saw the person coming, weighed the fighting power of both sides, and smiled again, "The reason is actually very simple, because it's fun!" He was worried that Ulvis's loud shouting would attract other people, so he gave Kibe a look that said "quick battle and quick decision", and the two of them began to outflank without leaving a trace.
Ulves raised his eyes and asked, "Is this a reason?"
Kira grinned and said, "That's the reason!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the two of them rushed forward together. Ulves was well prepared and blocked Kibe's stone knife that was attacking from the side with a bang.
Mia clenched her fists and listened nervously. She only heard a series of thudding sounds, followed by the dull thud of flesh hitting the wall.
Kira sneered: "You fools who don't know your own limits, why don't you pretend to be asleep? What's the point of being a hero saving a beautiful girl? You two should die together!"
"ah--"
"Kibe, what's wrong?" Kira was furious, and then shouted, "Asshole, I'm going to kill you!"
Ping-pong, crackle-crack...
——What happened?
Mia craned her neck, eager to know the outcome of the battle.
After a while, an extremely ordinary-looking face poked out from the hole above. It was Qiao Fei, the young man who had a cold face all day and had the least presence among the group.
This was the last person Mia expected to come to her rescue.
"How are you?" asked the young man Qiao Fei coldly.
Mia moved her hands and feet hurriedly. After a period of buffering, she had recovered from the severe pain when she first hit the ground. Now her hands and feet could move freely, and she could barely sit up, but her limbs still hurt badly, her head was buzzing, and she couldn't stand up.
Mia told Qiao Fei her situation truthfully. He thought for a moment and said, "Wait a moment." Then he left the cave. Not long after, he came back with a long root of some plant in his hand. No one knew where he got it from.
Mia suddenly discovered that these people on Yuxing actually all had their own unique survival wisdom and skills, but they did not show them under Rong Yuan's light.
Qiao Fei hung the roots down from the cave entrance and let Mia tie herself to him. Then Ulves, with his face covered in blood, also appeared at the cave entrance. The two of them worked together to pull Mia up.
"Thank you, thank you for saving me." Mia didn't know how she could repay them except for thank you for saving her life.
"No need to thank me. I just still need to rely on Mr. Rong to find my daughter, and I don't want to anger him because of the behavior of these two guys." Ulves coughed twice, wiped the blood off his face, and said.
Qiao Fei looked at her steadily and said, "As a thank you gift, can you ask the master to accept me as his apprentice?"
"I...I can't make the decision for him..."
Qiao Fei tilted his head and asked, "Are you unwilling or incapable?"
"He and I..." Mia knew that her greatest guarantee was that these people couldn't figure out her relationship with Rong Yuan. However, being stared at by the boy's dark eyes, she couldn't help but tell the truth: "Before that, we only met once."
Qiao Fei nodded, not sure whether he accepted her statement or simply didn't believe it.
At this moment, Kibe, who was lying in a pool of blood, groaned and weakly called out, "Kira..."
"How are they going to deal with it?" Qiao Fei asked without even looking at the two people on the ground.
"Ask...ask me?" Mia was stunned. Seeing that Lian Ulves seemed to be waiting for her to make a decision, she hesitated for a moment.
Half an hour later, the three of them returned to the mine where everyone was resting. The cave was quiet, and it seemed that no one had noticed their departure. Ulves and Qiao Fei returned to their positions, but after a while, they heard even breathing sounds, wondering if they were really asleep. Mia stood at the entrance of the mine for a while, but couldn't help but walk to Rong Yuan and sit down with her knees hugged. Finally, she felt a sense of security, and her cold limbs began to tremble uncontrollably, and boundless fear gradually spread from the bottom of her heart.
"You're back?"
Mia thought she had misheard and turned around in surprise, only to find that Rong Yuan, who was sleeping with his arms against the wall, had really opened his eyes, and the words that seemed to contain concern were also said by him.
In an instant, all the fear disappeared, but a huge feeling of grievance suddenly surged up. Just as Mia was about to speak, tears began to fall.
"Silly girl." Rong Yuan said helplessly: "Girls shouldn't follow men to strange places casually. Isn't this common sense in the outside world?" He looked at the girl's accusing eyes and changed the subject, "Besides, think about it carefully, you should have heard of their names."
"Huh?" Mia was confused.
"Three years ago, there was an explosive news in the Empire." Rong Yuan said, "A pair of twin brothers, starting at the age of seven, used various means to randomly deceive and abduct victims to their home, and then killed them in a brutal way. Due to physical limitations, the initial victims were mostly children and women. After they reached adulthood at the age of sixteen, they shifted their main targets to adult men. By the time the brothers were arrested, a total of 158 victims could be confirmed. In court, when they were asked why they did this..."
"Because it's fun!" The boy's bright smile and cheerful tone of voice who gave this answer have since become the nightmare of many people.
After the news was exposed, the people of the empire were outraged, and countless people called for them to be sentenced to death. However, the imperial court finally followed the law and made a decision to exile them to the Red Prison Star.
Mia recalled this incident, and the question she had when she saw the news came to her mind again: "Why...are there such people in the world?"
Not for fame or profit, but simply because it's fun, they trample on other people's lives unscrupulously.
Rong Yuan's mental power spread out. There was a big rock on top of the cave where Mia was kicked down. Below, Kira took a fist-sized rock and smashed it on the head of the twin brother next to him, smashing it into a bloody mess. After the body stopped twitching instinctively, he pounced on it and sucked the warm blood, still with a twisted smile on his face.
Mia decided to give them a taste of their own medicine, and she would treat them the same way they had planned to treat her. But she probably didn't expect that after Kira woke up and saw his situation clearly, he immediately decided to kill his fellow brothers as food reserves.
"Yeah, why?"
A sigh dissipated in the wind.
Kira's throat, which was swallowing, suddenly stopped, all the light in his eyes was gone, and his stiff body fell to the ground, raising a small cloud of dust.
