Xiao Jiu didn't want to talk.
After Ba Zai brutally stabbed Xia Tianwu to death, they completed the task assigned by their eldest brother and decided not to linger any longer, preparing to go downstairs.
Summer was not a day of death, and the chirping chirp downstairs suddenly swayed.
What was originally an adult form, almost instantly, collapsed and shrank back into the deformed juvenile form. His body had undergone too many experiments and was already at its breaking point.
When the mutants are weak, they revert to their juvenile form. However, with Summer absent, Chiu Chiu maintains her adult form through medication and various other means.
The cubs slumped down softly.
Xie Chiyuan glanced at him, then reached out and caught Yu An, who was also exhausted.
The bone blade fell from Yu An's hand. Xie Chiyuan retrieved the bone blade and hugged Yu An into his arms.
After slaying dozens of clones of A10, Yu An finally regained clarity in his eyes when he pointed his bone blade at A10 for the last time.
His face turned pale, and he let out a soft chirp.
Chirp woke up, Chirp shrank, Chirp fell over.
Yu An's vision went black, and he could no longer see anything else.
Xie Chiyuan held Yu An in his arms, then looked at the little cub on the ground. As he took his bone blade from Yu An and slashed at the clones A10 one by one, his emotions were churning.
The Yu An he had just seen was a Yu An he had never seen before, and a Yu An he had never imagined.
And this little chirp.
He is Yu Anyang's little chick, and also a well-known A10.
"An'an".
Xie Chiyuan's eyes were unreadable. He said in a low voice, "Besides you, I don't think you can find another person who would treat A10 like a baby."
He dismissed some of his unpleasant thoughts and sighed, "Luckily, there's only one A10 right now. If there were a few more, our family harmony would face a serious challenge."
Chapter 72
Xie Chiyuan found another car nearby, put Yu An and A10 in the car, and turned to go upstairs to check on Xia Tianwu's situation.
Xia Tianwu has many secrets about him, and he wants to take him back for a thorough interrogation.
Not long after Xie Chiyuan left, Ba Zai, the murderer who killed Xia Tianwu upstairs, was also talking to Huo Yan. He was clearly worried about the little sister in Huo Yan's arms.
"Keep an eye on your sister."
Bazai threatened bluntly, "If she wants to avenge her master, I don't mind killing her too."
If it weren't for the fact that Flame had provided them with location information, Eight-Eyed would never have let Little Ember, this potential threat, go unpunished. According to his approach, eliminating the threat at its root is the most effective way to prevent danger.
Flame hugged her sister tightly and nodded in agreement.
After warning her, Ba Zai continued, "And the rest of us... don't tell Xie Chiyuan either. He didn't notice us just now."
Flame hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed under A08's gaze.
These A-sequence aberrations clearly follow Yu An, and Yu An follows Xie Chiyuan. In the end, neither Yu An nor Xie Chiyuan has anything to do with her.
She is a member of the Red Bird Organization, and her goal this time is simply to help Xie Chiyuan find Xia Tianwu.
At this point, she has already achieved her goal.
Flame didn't intend to meddle, but when Xie Chiyuan came up and saw Xia Tianwu who had been stabbed to death, he bombarded her with a bunch of questions.
"Who killed Xia Tianwu? Where did he go?"
Flame wanted to say that she was the one who killed him, but when she looked at Xia Tianwu on the ground and the corpses of the other mutants, even with her thick skin, she was too embarrassed to take the blame.
"Well, what is it?"
The three mutants that were just there had all retreated. Flames were directed at the corpses on the ground, and then at Xie Chiyuan in front of him. He racked his brains to lie, saying, "The mutants betrayed us. They fought with Xia Tianwu, and both sides were injured and died."
Xie Chiyuan: "..."
Xie Chiyuan had a look on his face that said, "Do you think I'm an idiot?"
Flame knew her lie wasn't very clever, but she couldn't come up with a better reason, so she had no choice but to stick to her story.
"Really, the scene just now was a bit complicated, and I don't know how to explain it to you, but anyway, Xia Tianwu is dead. Don't dwell on how he died!"
By the end, even the flames seemed to be getting desperate.
Xie Chiyuan stared at the flames for a few seconds, his gaze so deep that the flames turned their faces away.
The two remained deadlocked for a moment, with Flame stubbornly refusing to reveal anything about A06 and the others.
Whether it's A06, A08, or A09, none of these aberrations are easy to deal with! If he were to betray them, Flame knew for sure that he would be killed by them.
Xia Tianwu's death is a foregone conclusion.
Xie Chiyuan could also tell that Huoyan was unwilling to tell the truth. He had already searched the sixth floor, and it wouldn't be impossible for him to continue searching the other floors.
But it can't be now.
Yu An is still unconscious. In this S City, there are not only mutants, but also a zombie king.
Xie Chiyuan didn't waste much time. After checking that Xia Tianwu had indeed stopped breathing, he led Huoyan downstairs.
soon.
The car parked downstairs drove away, Flame drove the car, and her sister lay in the back.
Xie Chiyuan sat down next to Yu An, letting Yu An's head rest on his lap. He looked down at Yu An, lowered his voice, and instructed Huo Yan, "Let's go to the nearby residential area and settle down there first. Make sure to find a pharmacy; they might need medication."
The flame gave a soft "hmm".
After looking at Yu An, Xie Chiyuan turned to look at A10. Perhaps because A10's situation was truly too tragic, it had now reverted to its juvenile form, making it look rather pitiful.
The poor little chirp nestled quietly beside Yu An's waist, its wings still bearing the marks of being cut.
"never mind."
Xie Chiyuan patted his head meaningfully: "From now on, just be a good little boy in front of your older brother."
The car sped along.
Flame searched for the pharmacy and the neighborhood, and soon she actually found them.
"Xie Chiyuan, there's a pharmacy up ahead, and a residential area behind it."
"Okay, let's go into the community first."
Entering the residential compound meant having to clear out the zombies again. Xie Chiyuan got out of the car alone after it entered the compound.
He closed the car door tightly and instructed Flame, "Stay in the car and wait for me to come and get you."
Flame nodded: "Okay."
Xie Chiyuan hadn't had a moment's rest all night, and it was impossible for him not to be tired by now. But even though he was tired, he couldn't rest; he had to settle everything in the car.
The bone blade was pulled out again.
In his drowsy state, Yu An heard the roar of a zombie. The zombie's roar was so infectious that even in his sleep, he wanted to join in with a couple of roars.
The three cubs, which had retreated back onto Yu An, snuggled close to her and fell into a comfortable nap.
They had already checked on their eldest brother; he was just too tired. The children weren't stressed and slept peacefully with their eldest brother.
Xie Chiyuan, on the other hand, was engaged in fierce fighting outside.
After an unknown amount of time, Xie Chiyuan returned, covered in dirt. He took off his coat before picking up Yu An.
Flame asked, puzzled, "It's cold at night, why are you taking off your clothes?"
After hugging Yu An, Xie Chiyuan folded the A10 and placed it back in Yu An's arms. He said casually, "Yu An is a clean person, my coat is too dirty."
The flames choked.
Damn it, feeding her dog food in the middle of the night, can't you be a decent human being?!
Filled with resentment, Huoyan, along with her younger sister, followed Xie Chiyuan into the apartment building.
The zombies in the apartment building have all been cleared out, but a few high-level zombies have appeared in the neighborhood. It took quite a bit of effort to deal with them just now.
"Come in."
Xie Chiyuan pushed open one of the room doors, and the house was unusually clean and tidy. It was unclear whether there were no zombies inside to begin with, or whether Xie Chiyuan had removed them.
The house is spacious and has three rooms.
Xie Chiyuan assigned rooms in a seemingly serious manner: "Flame, you and your sister will share a room. A10 will share a room, and An'an and I will share a room."
There was no objection to the flames.
Her sister is still in a coma, and who knows what will happen when she wakes up? She needs to keep a close eye on her in advance.
After Flame took his sister back to her room, Xie Chiyuan also brought A10 to the bedroom.
A10 had external injuries, but not as many as Xie Chiyuan's. Xie Chiyuan was severely restricted in tonight's fight and truly took a lot of damage.
"Applying medication to the mutant..."
Xie Chiyuan murmured, "Aside from Duoduo, I never thought I would continue to apply medicine to the mutants."
Moreover, this mutant was previously on his kill list.
Thinking of Yu An lying in his bed, Xie Chiyuan resignedly applied medicine to the little one. After all, they would be family in the future, and it wouldn't be appropriate for him to mistreat him.
After the wounds of the injured girl were treated, Xie Chiyuan had to rush back to his and Yu An's room.
Yu An lay on the bed, his clothes having been changed by Xie Chiyuan. His breathing was even, and he appeared to be unconscious due to extreme exhaustion.
Xie Chiyuan had been through this before, so he wasn't too flustered.
He went to the bathroom to take a shower, and the three little ones were looking at the bathroom door, extremely annoyed.
With Xie Chiyuan occupying the eldest brother's position, they can't even sleep with him if they want to. This has been going on for so many days; that Xie fellow is simply going too far!
Ba Zai lowered his voice and started thinking of ideas again.
He suggested, "Let's take down Xie Chiyuan! The three of us, plus Qiuqiu, can definitely take down Xie Chiyuan."
The other two cubs ignored him.