"Understood," Xiao Jinsheng nodded repeatedly.
She wasn't foolish. Even just from the sounds, this underground chamber was a bestial gathering. Without any means of self-defense, she naturally wouldn't dare provoke them.
Fortunately, although the mutated beasts were agitated, they hadn't yet broken free from their cages.
Following the familiar scent of blood, Yu Yunxiao searched and indeed found Mo Jiao lying half-dead in a pool of his own blood within an iron cage.
Mo Jiao, towering at 1.9 meters, was confined to a small cage. Noticing someone approaching, he lifted his gaze and swept it over them. When he saw the face that was both familiar and repulsive, a wave of killing intent emanated from him.
Stared at by his viper-like gaze, Xiao Jinsheng halted her steps, feeling as if a giant python had coiled around her, a suffocating sensation engulfing her.
She gasped for breath, like a fish out of water, on the verge of dying.
"Mo Jiao, what are you doing?" Yu Yunxiao pulled Xiao Jinsheng behind him, watching the caged youth warily.
With Yu Yunxiao's shielding presence, the discomfort Xiao Jinsheng felt completely vanished.
A flicker of fear crossed her eyes as she glanced at the man whose cheekbones shimmered with scales, both handsome and eerily captivating. Her heart sank with a cold dread.
After the apocalypse in the Misty Continent, humans could not only transform into beasts but had also awakened supernatural abilities.
And Mo Jiao, who transformed into a snake, possessed the ability of illusory black mist.
Clearly, Mo Jiao now harbored murderous intentions towards her.
In her mind, Xiao Jinsheng cursed the lunatic system once more, suppressing her fear of death as she hid behind Yu Yunxiao and 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. "Weren't you already sick of her? Instead of being bound to her in a living hell, why not listen to me?"
"Let's kill her together, end it all. It would be a kind of liberation."
Yu Yunxiao, who hadn't lived enough yet, immediately shook his head.
Although he wanted to kill Xiao Jinsheng, he wanted to live even more.
If only they could get a divorce!
Yes, divorce!
He would definitely find a way to divorce Xiao Jinsheng!
"Fine, don't kill her then." Yu Yunxiao had thought Mo Jiao would continue to persuade him to kill Xiao Jinsheng, but who knew he would only try once before listlessly lying back down in the pool of blood, looking utterly bored.
However, his purple eyes, partially obscured by long lashes stained with blood droplets, fixed on Xiao Jinsheng with a predatory intensity.
That spine-chilling sensation returned, and Xiao Jinsheng, looking at Mo Jiao lying in the blood with a posture of waiting for death, was torn between whether to save him or not.
A mutated beast's roar suddenly echoed, accompanied by the sound of an iron cage being smashed open.
A two-meter-tall brown bear, its massive paws hitting the ground, emerged from the cage and lunged directly towards Xiao Jinsheng.
In her panic, Xiao Jinsheng grabbed Yu Yunxiao's sleeve, jumping and dodging around him.
"Heh," a pleased chuckle sounded from the side.
Xiao Jinsheng turned her head and saw Mo Jiao, still within his cage, smiling at her, silently mouthing, "You're dead."
In the Misty Continent, animals couldn't transform into humans; they only mutated and developed various supernatural abilities.
Conversely, humans in the Misty Continent transformed into beasts.
Therefore, beast-transformed humans and animals were completely different.
Beast-transformed humans eating animals, or animals eating humans, both followed the natural order.
But looking at the incredibly powerful brown bear before her, and then at the cat-eared boy shielding her, Xiao Jinsheng felt like crying without tears.
With both sides possessing supernatural abilities, how on earth was a little cat going to defeat a brown bear?
Xiao Jinsheng once again mentally cursed the lunatic system that had brought her here.
Yu Yunxiao, however, fixed his gaze on the brown bear that had targeted them as food, currently a four-star level, even one star higher than his own. Small white lights flickered around his body.
Looking at his ability, Xiao Jinsheng's vision went black once more.
It was over. The little cat possessed a three-star healing ability. How could he possibly defeat a brown bear with a power-based ability?
The brown bear lunged ferociously. Yu Yunxiao pushed Xiao Jinsheng backward with a backhand, using himself as a shield against the bear's claws.
And Xiao Jinsheng, propelled by his push, crashed directly into Mo Jiao's cage.
She scrambled to her feet, intending to get away from the cage, but a cold hand grabbed her ankle.
"Where do you think you're going?" Mo Jiao's hand reached out from the cage, easily clamping onto her ankle, a sinister smile on his face.
"Mo Jiao, I was wrong," Xiao Jinsheng struggled to break free, then simply leaned against the cage and pleaded with him, tears welling up. "I know you hate me, I know you want to kill me."
"But can't we settle our scores later?"
"Even if you have a grudge against me, you have no quarrel with Yu Yunxiao, right? How can a little cat like him fight a brown bear? Do you want to watch him die here?"
"Realize the urgency now, do you? Where was this urgency earlier?" Mo Jiao sneered coldly.
Xiao Jinsheng: …
Why did that sound so damn familiar?
"Mo Jiao, I was possessed by a ghost before, my mind wasn't clear. I know I was wrong. Can you give me a chance? Can we go back first and talk things over properly?" Xiao Jinsheng coaxed herself while also trying to coax Mo Jiao.
"Living is still good. Don't lose hope. You hate me, I know I was wrong, I just want you to live."
"How about this? You come home with us first, I'll give you your freedom, and I'll divorce you, okay?"
Yu Yunxiao, who was fighting the brown bear and already bleeding, twitched his ears and quickly called out, "I want a divorce too!"
"Divorce, divorce everyone," Xiao Jinsheng said with a bitter smile. "Let's go home first, okay? Let's part amicably, let's get divorced."
"Are you serious?" Mo Jiao hesitated.
"I swear," Xiao Jinsheng quickly raised two fingers, her gaze firm as if she were about to join the party.
Yu Yunxiao, forced back by the brown bear's attacks, also chimed in, "As long as I can get a divorce, I can't beat this brown bear."
"Waste," Mo Jiao scoffed coldly. A cloud of black mist emanated from him, enveloping the brown bear and instantly turning it into a pile of white bones.
Xiao Jinsheng stared wide-eyed at the horrifying scene, and then she heard the iron cage behind her open. Mo Jiao leaned out, his bloodied long fingers lifting her chin. "Xiao Jinsheng, don't forget your promise."
"We'll get a divorce as soon as we get back," Yu Yunxiao added from the side.
Xiao Jinsheng pressed a hand to her chest, where her heart was pounding wildly with fear, and forced a dry laugh and nod. "Of course, I-I won't forget."
She closed her eyes in despair, utterly unable to comprehend the original owner's thought process.
Just from Mo Jiao's attack, it was clear that the cage meant to suppress abilities was ineffective against him.
How could she have been so reckless as to drug and sell such a dangerous individual to the black market?
Xiao Jinsheng wanted to die; she didn't even have the energy to curse the lunatic system anymore.
So much for five bodyguards. Now, one wanted to divorce her, and another wanted to kill her.
She didn't know the situation with the remaining three, but her memories told her that her relationship with them wasn't good either.
Xiao Jinsheng was directly lifted by Mo Jiao with one hand, slung over his shoulder, and carried away.
On the way back, Yu Yunxiao reminded her not to forget the divorce every few steps.
Xiao Jinsheng's face was ashen, and she really didn't want to respond.
They returned to her home, a small white villa.
The blue villa next door was the female lead's house.
Xiao Jinsheng, with a wooden expression, was flanked by Mo Jiao and Yu Yunxiao on either side when they happened to meet the female lead, Bai Yan, who was about to go out.