Excessive ferocity due to caution

The sun sets.

Night fell, and on this desolate and bleak battlefield, the criminals' passion had completely cooled.

Those criminals who attempted to threaten Zhao Yi are now a pile of dismembered corpses.

Zhao Yi's behavior and logic terrified them.

The normal person's thinking is that if a large number of people commit crimes, then we should make an example of them to warn others.

Zhao Yi's logic is... kill all the criminals, leave no one alive!

More than 600 criminals died at Zhao Yidao's hands.

Apart from the original leaders, none of the rest who joined the uprising escaped.

The entire process took only a very short time.

Zhao Yi's immense power turned this confrontation into a one-sided massacre!

The remaining criminals watched all this silently, without uttering a word.

They dared not speak out.

Because they knew that if necessary, Zhao Yi, that madman, would really kill them all!

He possessed a destructive madness.

Having gathered the remaining surviving criminals, numbering approximately 3000, Zhao addressed them:

"My revenge is over. You can leave now. I will no longer restrict your freedom. But if any of you still want to follow me, you can go back to the ruined city."

After saying that, Zhao Yi left with the two women and the man.

On the lonely street paved with starlight, Zhu Gan'er carried the unconscious Chang Yong on her back, following behind Zhao Yi. She suddenly turned around and glanced at the gruesome scene, feeling as if it were all a dream.

...

After half an hour.

Chang Yong opened his eyes in a clean white room, and the first thing he saw was a face that was both strange and familiar.

"Little Rain..."

Chang Yong was stunned, his voice trembling slightly.

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"Is it really you?!"

He stared in disbelief at the thin girl in front of him, unable to believe his eyes.

Bamboo Pole turned his face slightly and gave a hesitant "hmm".

"Where have you been all these years?"

"Has anyone been bullying you?"

Chang Yong's tone carried a hint of guilt.

Bamboo Pole was silent for a moment, then an unnatural smile appeared on his face:

"without."

She rarely smiles since leaving the orphanage.

Because she looks beautiful when she smiles, people might think she's easy to bully.

Looking at the bamboo pole in such a state, Chang Yong felt even more guilty.

"I'm sorry, Xiaoyu."

"It's all my fault..."

Bamboo pole stretched out its hand and gently stroked Chang Yong's cheek.

"Brother Yong, don't take everything on yourself. You were forcibly taken away by the military because you awakened your superpowers. Besides, you don't owe me anything, so there's no need to blame yourself..."

"On the contrary, I owe you a lot."

Once she spoke her mind, the coldness around her gradually faded, and her face regained its simplicity and innocence.

"When we were little in the orphanage, you took so many beatings to protect me..."

He couldn't help but laugh when he thought about how he tried to be a hero when he was a child, and even tried to save his bullied Zhugan'er by being beaten up by a group of bullies in the orphanage. His pants were also stripped and his penis was spanked.

"Hey... just a bunch of kids who don't know any better."

Suddenly he became serious:

"By the way, since you've awakened your superpowers, why didn't you join the military? Why did you become a criminal instead?"

Bamboo Pole pouted and hummed:

"I won't tell, I won't tell."

"Children's business is none of our concern!"

Chang Yong grabbed the bamboo pole's hand and said earnestly:

"tell me."

Bamboo Pole said somewhat awkwardly:

"What else could it be?"

"Being orphaned means you won't go astray..."

Chang Yong stared into her eyes:

"Don't lie to me, you've never been one to lie since you were little."

Bamboo Pole was silent for a while, then wrinkled its little nose.

"Do you really want to know?"

Chang Yong nodded:

"Um."

Bamboo Pole took a deep breath, withdrew his hand from Chang Yong's grasp, and glared at him, saying:

"Because there's this idiot who's dreamed of becoming a legendary hero in Z City since he was little!"

"He was willing to risk his life for merit!"

"But how could he, with no family background whatsoever, possibly compete with the sons of those aristocratic families and distinguished guests?"

"A truth that everyone else understands, yet he alone doesn't!"

"He's obsessed with catching S-class criminals to increase his merits, but Z City has long since run out of S-class criminals for him to catch. Most of the S-class criminals are just domesticated pigs deliberately cultivated by the higher-ups of Z City..."

"Sometimes I think, this idiot is already so pitiful, he should have everything that others have..."

Chang Yong was stunned.

After a moment of silence, he suddenly hugged the bamboo pole tightly to his chest.

Bamboo Pole bit his lip, reached out and stroked Chang Yong's back, and said:

"Be gentle, I can't breathe..."

...

Z City, seaside villa.

On the beach, starlight fell like rain.

Zhao Yi and Cherry are sitting here drinking.

Cherry's wife was making them a late-night snack at the villa.

"I knew that not many of the old guys in the lab were good people, and I had thought that if I accumulated too many merits in the future, I would be envied. But I never expected that the one who would betray me would be my favorite student."

Zhao Yi, holding his wine glass, smiled and said:

"Maybe he didn't betray you?"

Cherries replied:

"He imprisoned me in the desert for thirty-three years, separated my family, and made me suffer the agony of longing. Isn't that betrayal?"

Zhao Yi and Cherry exchanged a glance:

"Most of the time, people who are taciturn are weak cowards, but occasionally there are some... who are true warriors."

"You've been so good to P; you've been a guiding light on his path in life, one of the few bright spots in his life."

"Unfortunately, he understands you, but you don't understand him."

The cherries keenly detected a different smell:

"What do you mean?"

Zhao Yi stretched out her finger and gently tapped Cherry's forehead:

"See for yourself."

A sliver of light flickered by.

Cherry felt her body become light and floaty, and she entered a gray world.

He witnessed everything P had gone through, and his entire body seemed to be drained of strength in an instant. Even after the memory ended, he remained frozen in place.

The sea breeze at night felt both fishy and cold on my skin.

After a long silence, Cherry finally spoke:

"He should have told me something this important."

Zhao asked in return:

"Would you let him do that?"

Cherry said earnestly:

"Of course not."

Zhao Yi stood up and clinked his wine glass against Zhao Yi's, producing a crisp sound.

"He also knows you won't."

He tilted his head back and drank the wine in his glass in one gulp.

"P doesn't have much love for this world."

"He gave all his love to you."

"You should be proud of that."

Zhao Yi walked away under the starlight, leaving Cherry sitting alone on the beach, gazing wistfully at the undulating sea...

PS: First update.

I'll go write the second update right away, and that concludes today's chapter.