An Tianxin collapsed on the ground, trembling.
Her mind flashed through three possible futures.
One was if she charged out and got her head smashed in.
Another was if she drew her gun and ambushed them, only to have the bullets backfire.
The last was if, before she could even touch her gun, she was swallowed whole by a monster descending from the sky.
An Tianxin didn't understand why three futures appeared, and why none of them offered a way to survive.
Fu Yunting controlled the flow of time, and each change in time produced different consequences, naturally leading to different outcomes.
An Tianxin, however, didn't comprehend. She only felt her head was about to explode.
Dust continued to fall from the roof beams above, and the ground seemed to be shaking.
What the hell! Every time she ran into that brat, nothing good happened.
“Right, this time, to prevent you from escaping, I had Xiao Yu guard the outside. Say hello to it.”
Xiao Yu bit into the roof and gently lifted the entire roof off.
A snake's face, so dark it gleamed, stretched down from above, almost suffocating An Tianxin to death.
“Snake! A b-big python! You're keeping a monster!”
“Xiao Yu is very obedient. As long as nothing runs wild in the sky, it won’t attack.”
“An Nuan! You wretched woman, you killed Mo Shu and my mother, how dare you come back!”
An Nuan wanted to ask, how dare you occupy Grandma’s house!
An Nuan snatched the heavy weapon from An Dong and stripped him bare, leaving him not even a dagger.
She then moved to pin down An Tianxin and stripped her clean as well.
An Tianxin's arms were broken, leaving her with no ability to resist.
She writhed on the ground like an eel, crying out.
Fu Yunting found it annoying, “Can’t you make her shut up? She’s so loud.”
“Fu Yunting, don’t lay a hand on her yet. It’s not your turn.”
“Fu Yunting?”
An Tianxin looked at Fu Yunting in terror.
“The man you’ve been dreaming of stealing, he's standing right in front of you. Don’t you remember him?”
An Tianxin had been too scared earlier and hadn't looked closely at his face in her panic.
Only now did she realize it was him!
Ever since she was six years old, she had wanted to be Fu Yunting's wife, the future mistress of the Fu family.
She never expected that upon meeting him again, he would still be with An Nuan!
Fu Yunting, seeing her crying and laughing, drooling, felt so disgusted he wanted to vomit.
“Disgusting!”
“Don’t go! Fu Yunting, I sent you so many messages, I did so much for you, don’t you remember? You can’t betray me! You can’t!”
“For me?”
Fu Yunting walked over coldly and slowly crushed the sole of his shoe onto An Tianxin’s finger, grinding it.
“When I was a child, I was abducted into the mountains, that was your doing, right? Your father wanted to extort my grandfather and then pretend to be a good person to save me, so the Fu family would owe you another favor.”
“But you never expected that Xiao Nuan, while chasing a rabbit back home, would stumble upon the place where I was locked up and help me escape.”
An Nuan: This happened? I don't remember.
Oh, I lost my memory!
“Later, when I was engaged to Xiao Nuan, you found someone to kidnap An Nuan while I was abroad. As a result, she suffered a head injury, lost her memory, forgot about me, and caused Grandfather An's death. Are these the good deeds you've done?”
An Nuan: I have a grandfather?
She only remembered her grandmother and parents, with no impression of her grandfather.
Perhaps, along with Fu Yunting, he too had been forgotten…
Fu Yunting slowly ground her finger, “Because of your father and daughter, I now have to make Xiao Nuan accept me from scratch. Do you know how troublesome this is?”
“I’m sorry, I was wrong, I really know I was wrong. It was all Father’s idea! Let go, my finger is going to break!”
It was already broken!
Fu Yunting pressed down hard, hearing three crisp cracking sounds before withdrawing his foot.
An Tianxin nearly fainted.
Fortunately, she had also advanced to become a Rank One ability user, her physical condition was much better than before.
Breaking a few bones was not a big deal.
An Nuan took a handful of snow and rubbed it on An Tianxin’s face to wake her up.
An Tianxin wailed, “I’m more capable than An Nuan, prettier than her, and just because I’m the second child born, I get nothing. The old woman is biased, I’m not convinced!”
“I didn’t do anything to you in the end, why are you trying to eradicate us?”
“Even if your parents are dead, it’s because their driving skills were bad, what does that have to do with me!”
“If you want to settle scores, you should find my dad, why are you making things difficult for me?”
An Dong was still wandering off somewhere, and it was unknown if he could hear his biological daughter’s words.
An Nuan watched An Tianxin’s frenzy coldly and grabbed her hair.
“I wouldn't be this angry if anyone else had done such things. But it’s you, my dear sister, who played me for a fool for so many years, poisoned all my relatives. Do you think a few cries and wails will make me let you go? How can you be so delusional!”
“What do you want? We have many powerful ability user companions outside. If you hurt me, they won’t let you go!”
“She’s lying!”
The person in the cage yelled at the top of their lungs.
“Her people are all here, no one outside!”
“Yes, they also said they’d barbecue later, catching zombies to fight us, making us perform for them, and even betting!”
“These heartless beasts, kill them!”
Fu Yunting glanced outside and nodded at An Nuan.
He released his control over An Dong, and An Dong immediately fell to the ground, shrieking like a madman and gasping for air.
“What was that just now? I, I’m still alive?”
He could hear everyone’s voices, but they all entered his ears at an incredibly slow pace.
It was as if in a place of utter silence, clear echoes suddenly resounded, and people were slowly approaching.
He clearly knew they were getting closer and desperately tried to dodge, but he couldn't move an inch. He could only clearly feel the fear of being controlled.
An Dong was terrified.
“Oh my god, what’s going on with you guys? Sorcery, it must be sorcery.”
Fu Yunting wasted no time, breaking both his legs and dislocating his jaw, rendering him unable to speak, only able to make simple sounds.
“Are you ready?”
An Nuan asked.
Fu Yunting looked outside and nodded, “Yes, thirty should be enough.”
“Tianxin, it’s only thirty. You’re lucky. Back then, you devoured a large piece of me, I couldn’t even count how many there were.”
“What nonsense are you talking about? Wretch, let me go, where are you taking me? Wretch, let go!”
An Tianxin screamed frantically, her fingers digging into the cage.
The people inside used their teeth to bite open her hands.
An Nuan pushed her against the doorway.
Below the five steps, thirty zombies stood erect.
An Nuan smiled, “Tianxin, you’ve always liked handsome men. You’re lucky this time. Fu Yunting found these for you, some of them are quite good-looking.”
“Madwoman! Let me go, sister, I beg you, it was all my fault, please spare me!”
An Nuan brushed aside her long bangs and smiled faintly.
“No!”
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Next chapter, A Second is a Hundred Years, Traveling on the Road to the Underworld