Tan Zhan watched him from the side, and for a moment he even felt that he was more terrifying than Xie Chiyuan from the West District.
This night was exceptionally long and exceptionally bloody.
Yu An awakened all his superpowers from A01 to A10, and these superpowers seemed to have been his innate abilities.
He found it even easier to use than the 01.
When the first ray of sunlight peeked in through the window, the original color of the floor in the room was no longer visible; it was a glaring, sticky, and pungent red.
Yu An hasn't killed them all yet.
In the end, a few people escaped; they fled outside, onto the streets, and back to where they lived.
Yu An did not pursue.
He leaned against the wall, and the vines of the Seven Cubs appeared on his hands.
The vines supported his body, allowing him to stand steadily.
"Yu An, it's dawn."
Looking at the brightening sky, Tan Zhan asked, "Do you want to rest?"
Yu An remained silent, his eyes fixed on the door, as if wary that those people might return.
Time passed silently.
A while later.
Footsteps sounded downstairs again, but this time they weren't hurried; instead, they sounded like casual footsteps.
Tan Zhan tensed up, preventing Yu An from moving.
He stepped through the blood on the floor and walked towards the door: "I'll go take a look."
Yu An was at his limit, and Tan Zhan really didn't dare to let him move anymore.
The door was carefully pushed open.
Tan Zhan descended the stairs quietly, and at the top of the stairs, he heard a voice talking to itself.
"They've hidden themselves again."
"Sisi is becoming more and more disobedient."
"This time we still need to lock him up and starve him for two days, otherwise... he'll never learn his lesson."
The woman was talking to herself slowly, and judging from her voice, she was an older woman.
The woman moved around, as if she was tidying up things on the ground.
When they started fighting yesterday, a lot of things were thrown downstairs.
There was also a corpse among them.
Tan Zhan's heart tightened, and just as he was about to examine the body, the woman's voice came again: "Old woman Hua, are you dead?"
"Oh, he really is dead. You still owe me two months' rent."
"It's not just the rent; your blood has stained my floor, and you still owe me money."
The woman showed no fear of the corpse; she kept talking.
As she spoke, she looked up at the stairs.
As they looked, Tan Zhan's gaze met hers.
“I knew people lived here.”
The woman's cloudy eyes scanned Tan Zhan for a long while before she shook her head: "You didn't kill Granny Hua."
Who else is upstairs?
Tan Zhan woke up late, so he didn't know anything about the woman.
There are monsters around these days, so it's hard to say this woman isn't one.
He didn't want the woman to come up, so after a moment's thought, he replied, "My family members are upstairs, they're sleeping."
"Can we stay here temporarily? I'll pay you rent."
As he spoke, he added, "I'll pay you double the rent."
"You need to rent a place."
The woman's tone was flat; she seemed to be considering whether or not to rent it to her. After a moment's thought, she slowly replied, "You can't stay here."
"Unless you kill everyone here, you'll be the one dying soon."
"I will."
Tan Zhan continued her words and repeated his request: "I'd like to rent your apartment, the one upstairs."
The woman's house was very, very big; the upstairs that Tan Zhan mentioned, she hadn't been to in a long time.
Therefore, she eventually agreed to Tan Zhan's request to rent a house at a high price.
Tan Zhan also stood at the top of the stairs, in a posture that suggested he didn't want her to go upstairs.
The woman looked at him, slowly turned around, dragged the corpse from the ground, and walked out.
Only when her figure gradually disappeared from sight did Tan Zhan's tense body suddenly relax.
After he could no longer see anyone, Tan Zhan went upstairs.
upstairs.
Yu An collapsed at some point, lying in a pool of blood on the floor, his body almost completely submerged in red.
Tan Zhan walked over in a few steps, and when he was about to put him on the bed, he almost didn't dare to touch his body.
Blood was everywhere, wounds were everywhere, and he almost didn't know where to begin.
A moment later.
Tan Zhan dragged the corpses out of the room. Just as he finished, he heard the sound of the babies waking up behind him.
The tiger cub was the first to wake up. The tiger cub didn't know what was going on; as soon as he lay down, he slept soundly and couldn't hear any sound.
He was not able to break free from that state until dawn.
However, when he saw the scene in the room clearly, he felt that he might still be dreaming.
"Big, Big Brother?!"
The usually composed tiger cub trembled for the first time. He stared at the bloodied Yu An not far away, unable to believe his eyes.
Tan Zhan hurried to continue dragging the body, and while doing so, he briefly told Tiger Cub about what happened last night.
“After you all fell asleep, no one could wake you up. I only woke up when I heard Qi Zai crying. When I woke up, I saw that Yu An had so many injuries on his body from protecting you.”
Before last night, Tan Zhan didn't really understand the bond between Qi Zai and Yu An.
He knew that Yu An had raised seven cubs, these deformed cubs. He also knew that Yu An claimed to treat these deformed cubs as his own.
However, mutants have never been treated equally in the human world.
Tan Zhan took Yu An's talk of raising a child as being like humans raising a favorite pet.
Seven repeatedly emphasized, "Big Brother said I'm your precious little one."
He just took it as casual words to coax his son.
Until last night.
He watched as Yu An repeatedly shielded the children with his body, his hand broken and his shoulder slashed, yet he never yielded an inch.
Only then did he truly realize that Seven was not wrong.
The cubs that Yu An raised with her own flesh and blood are not just any ordinary pets.
After Tan Zhan finished recounting what happened last night, Tiger Cub's eyes were red, and he let out a heart-wrenching roar of grief and indignation.
His voice made the other babies, who were already awake, open their eyes even faster.
Chiu Chiu sat up groggily, still confused: "Meow, meow is crying."
As soon as Chiu Chiu finished speaking, Seven Cub cried out again from the pain in his arm.
"Ouch, someone hit me!"
The sounds of Chiu Chiu and Seven were not too loud, and then Eight and Nine woke up as well.
The babies were dazed and confused for only a short time after waking up.
Because they all smelled the blood, and their eyes found their elder brother.
Seven's crying suddenly stopped. He panicked and tripped and fell while trying to get off the bed.
Chiu Chiu and the others weren't much better off.
"Big brother!"
"Big brother!!"
At the same time, panicked cries rang out, and the little ones all gathered around.
Chiu Chiu was a crybaby to begin with, and after seeing his older brother's condition, tears streamed down his face.
"Help, please help my brother!"
Chiu Chiu used his little hands to cover Yu An's wound, and he looked at the other children in a panic: "Big brother is bleeding, don't let big brother bleed."
Bazai was just an octopus; he didn't possess any healing abilities. He could only carefully squeeze out the water to wipe the blood off his older brother.
Jiuzai's mycelium is poisonous, so he dares not use his own mycelium to clean his elder brother's wound.
Fortunately, the vines of Qizai have a slight medicinal effect.
He plucked handfuls of his own vines and leaves, crushed them, and used them to smear his older brother's wounds.
All the children were trembling with fear, not because they were afraid of danger, but because they were afraid that their eldest brother's breathing, which was so light it was almost imperceptible, would stop.
Jiujiu gripped Yu An's fingers tightly, while vigorously wiping away her tears with her other hand.
"No, that won't work."
Chuchu choked back tears as she said, "We need to find a doctor for my older brother."