He looked at Phoenix in surprise: "Is...this also your special ability?"
Phoenix nodded gently, tears streaming down her face.
This girl... she can read minds, shapeshift, fly, and heal wounds...
Wouldn't that mean she's also a "monster" with several superpowers?
However, looking at such a beautiful person, it's really hard to associate her with the word "monster."
Chen Xiao looked into Phoenix's eyes, then smiled, stood up, and said softly, "I trust you even more now... So you had this trick up your sleeve. That means there was a reason why you deliberately let me rush in alone, and you were confident that even if I was seriously injured, you could heal me quickly, right?" After a pause, Chen Xiao smiled and said, "You're basically just a little nurse."
Phoenix burst into laughter through her tears, but then her expression turned serious. Looking into Chen Xiao's eyes, she said with some difficulty, "Chen Xiao, it's not that I intentionally hid anything from you... it's just that there are some things I can't tell you right now. I don't want to lie to you, so I have no choice but to keep quiet. I know those two guys, but for some reason, it's inconvenient for me to meet them. That's why I'm letting you risk your life alone—but if I'm always there for you, if your life is truly in danger, I'll risk everything to help you! Do you believe me?"
"Of course I believe you." Chen Xiao nodded, deliberately smiling easily. "Even if I'm torn to pieces, as long as I'm still alive, you can bring me back to life, right?"
Phoenix couldn't help but chuckle, but then her eyes reddened, and she gently covered Chen Xiao's mouth: "You... you're never allowed to say things like that again! Things like 'cutting him into eight pieces'..."
Chen Xiao nodded.
Here and now, Alice had fainted sometime during the night. And Yaksha lay there, barely clinging to life.
“Those two guys…” Chen Xiao frowned.
“They’re gone.” Phoenix shook her head. “They suffered a great deal too, and they ran away. I couldn’t stop them. So…”
"Let's not talk about that." Chen Xiao looked at Yaksha lying there and suddenly felt a pang of pity. After all, if Yaksha hadn't suddenly struggled and attacked at the last moment, he might not have had a chance either...
"Could you save him too?" Chen Xiao pointed at Yaksha.
Phoenix sighed, glanced at Yaksha, and shook her head: "It's not that I'm unwilling, it's just... Chen Xiao, my healing ability has limitations; it can only be used once every so often. Now, with this one and only chance, of course I'll save you first. But... I have no other choice now."
Chen Xiao then noticed that Phoenix's face was somewhat pale and her voice sounded exhausted.
Chen Xiao and Phoenix walked up to Yaksha.
At this moment, the layers of black cloth covering Yaksha's body were already in tatters. This was because when Chen Xiao unleashed his final psychic cutting net, Yaksha was with the two men in top hats. That psychic cutting was an indiscriminate attack, and Yaksha naturally couldn't escape it.
The strips of cloth covering his body were mostly torn off, and there were many small, knife-like wounds all over his body. However, the most serious wound was undoubtedly on his neck!
The top-hatted man who controlled the cold air delivered a fatal blow to his neck with an ice blade! It almost severed his throat, but this Yaksha was truly a monster, possessing such incredible vitality that he had managed to hold on until now without dying.
The cloth strips covering his face had long since fallen away, revealing his hideous and terrifying face. Sensing Chen Xiao and Phoenix approaching, Yaksha barely opened his eyes, his breathing weak and continued, blood gushing from his throat. Yet, his eyes, those eyes that seemed to have slits left, stared at the two of them, revealing the look of a dying beast.
Cold-blooded! Cruel!
Moreover, there seemed to be a deep-seated hostility and distrust in his bones! It was as if he were a wild beast, especially when he was seriously injured and dying. Any creature that came near him would trigger the deep-rooted hostility and ferocity in his nature.
Chen Xiao frowned and squatted down. Yaksha seemed to subconsciously want to move, but her body could not react. She just stared at Chen Xiao with her thin, cold eyes.
Phoenix stayed by Chen Xiao's side and sighed softly, "He... is beyond saving. A normal person in his condition would have died long ago. And... in his current state, we can't move his body at all, and we don't have any medicine or cell repair fluid with us. He could die at any moment..."
Chen Xiao frowned, looking at the terrifying-looking Yaksha.
But for some reason, I suddenly remembered that time when I was hiding behind the corner, listening to Yaksha's voice, filled with inferiority, hatred, and twisted humanity, that cry of "freak"...
“Actually… I suddenly feel that he’s quite pitiful.” Chen Xiao sighed.
Yaksha continued to stare intently at Chen Xiao, but the life force in his eyes was gradually fading away.
Chen Xiao looked into Yaksha's eyes and said in a deep voice, "I don't know if you can still hear me... I don't want to hurt you. But we can't save you. So..."
He sighed, thought for a moment, and slowly said, "Anyway... thank you for what happened just now, at the very end!"
When the words "thank you" were uttered, a strange light suddenly appeared in the dying Yaksha's eyes, as if his eyes had brightened up a few times in an instant.
His fingers, which were hanging on the ground, suddenly twitched slightly, and his lips trembled twice.
Chen Xiao immediately leaned down and put his ear to Yaksha's mouth: "What do you want to say?"
The Yaksha's mouth was full of blood and bloody spit. He was struggling to exhale, his lips trembling slightly as he tried to say something, and bloody spit was spraying out little by little.
Finally, Chen Xiao heard what Yaksha said clearly.
He said:
"Take my special ability! Just like... you did to Qiu Yun!"
Upon hearing this, Chen Xiao was stunned!
Yaksha, your final request was this?
This guy is full of twisted emotions, inferiority complex, hatred, and extreme selfishness!
On his deathbed, he actually... made this request for a "gift"?
As Chen Xiao froze, a glint of light suddenly flashed in Yaksha's eyes. He mustered his last strength, opened his mouth, and bit down hard on Chen Xiao's ear!
He put all the last of his strength into that bite, biting so hard that his teeth broke the skin next to Chen Xiao's ear, causing the flesh to rip open and blood to flow out!
However, at the same time, the blood from Yaksha's own mouth also stained Chen Xiao's wound!
Chen Xiao winced in pain, instinctively straightening his body, touching the wound beside his ear, and looking at Yaksha in surprise.
The Yaksha's eyes gleamed, and he suddenly laughed. As he grinned, his severed nose and mouth twisted together. But this bizarre smile, in Chen Xiao's eyes, seemed like an illusion. He vaguely felt that beneath that terrifying aspect, there was actually a hint of...
A sliver of genuine happiness?!
"Haha...haha...I never imagined that before I, Yaksha, die, there would still be someone in this world who would say...thank me..."