Chapter XIX: Deprivation
"Huh...... Another mongrel? And in the legend...... Those bastard-like mongrels of yours? Human-animal hybrid ......," Froude said, squinting at him, gasping.
He bought Bai Xiaodang some time, whether intentionally or not. But Bai Xiaodang couldn't do anything. I don't know if it's a boy's ability or a girl's ability, every time she accumulates some strength and is about to make a move, the flow of time slows down. Unable to carry out all her plans, she could only open her mouth to gasp like a fish out of water.
But she was surprised by Froude's attitude—the vast majority of humans were hostile to species, but that the Gates of Truth should not be included among them...... Not to mention the First Saints. Because their "sage" is the kind.
But now his hatred seems to have transcended reason—he is provoking the other party with impunity.
Bai Xiaodang glanced at the ashes on the floor and understood something.
Enoch didn't seem to be provoked. But the girl behind Froude was enraged.
Her body swelled suddenly—her originally toned body swelled in an instant, and even her beautiful face underwent a terrible change. Thick muscle fibers bulge beneath the epidermis, and blue veins swim like snakes. After a breath, the girl who was originally unearthly beautiful was gone, replaced by a pale golden muscular giant with a height of more than two hundred and fifty centimeters.
An angry expression appeared on the giant's terrible and hideous face, and he held Froude's right arm in the palm of his hand with a large, free hand. The latter's screams rang out at the same time as the sound of bones shattering, and blood spilled from the giant's fingers. Like the juice of a tomato.
"Father, I'm going to crush him!" The giant said in a hoarse voice.
"Patience, Cora." Said the son of God named Enoch. He raised his hand again and beckoned to Froude. Bai Xiaodang thought that Froude would also be reduced to ashes, but on the contrary, Froude's screams stopped. So Bai Xiaodang realized that Enoch's control of electricity seemed to have reached a terrifying level.
The conduction of human consciousness depends on nerves, relying on the biological currents generated between nerve synapses. Enoch seems to be able to manipulate this bioelectric current, invisibly manipulating human emotions. Now he must have done it again—Froude could no longer feel the pain.
Actually, it's not a good thing either - at the rate of his current blood loss, he won't last long.
"Tell me. Who else knows about this? Enoch looked at Froude. looked at Bai Xiaodang again, "What are you coveting my great father's body for?" ”
Bai Xiaodang has nothing to say - since he is going to die tonight, why should he let the enemy know more?
But she underestimated the anger in Froude's heart. Even if one arm has been shattered. He still wouldn't stop taunting Enoch.
“…… Oh. Son of God – So you are the true Son of God? Froude spoke with a twitch of his lips. Although he didn't feel the pain. But the dizziness, weakness, convulsions, chills and other phenomena caused by massive blood loss were enough for him to experience another kind of pain.
"So the two behind me are ...... Hybrids. As for you...... Hehehe...... "Blood foamed from his mouth, "Zeus and Hera made you?" Wow...... Legendary guy—"
The words were intercepted by a scream of severe pain. Enoch relinquishes control of Froude.
For the first time, Bai Xiaodang noticed a palpable emotional fluctuation on the Greek man's face—the muscles on his cheeks trembled like a real human being, and his mouth pursed tightly.
She was slightly surprised by this discovery. The other party seems to be extremely unhappy with the incident mentioned by Froude. Show unconscionable anger. In fact, she would have liked to have Froude shut up now, otherwise she had no doubt that Enoch would kill them both instantly.
The situation is desperate, but even one more second of delay will give one second of hope—even if that hope is just as dim as hopeless.
Froude even noticed the change in Enoch's expression. He opened his mouth exaggeratedly—perhaps due to the excruciating pain—and let out a hoarse laugh between moans: "Oh my God, what do I know...... What did you say? …… Then you're not...... Zeus and Hera...... So are you...... Hehe...... Your mother, and perhaps your sister at the same time? …… Ha Lu Ha this is ...... It's the real Zeus!! ”
The anger on Enoch's face disappeared in an instant, and Bai Xiaodang's heart suddenly sank to the bottom. She'd seen this dramatic change in the faces of many of her former "colleagues," including herself—without the wrath of the same dead man, of course.
"Now you can." Enoch said.
Without hesitation, the giantess named Cora clenched her left hand. The huge palm almost covered half of Froude's head, like an adult holding an apple in his big hand. In the midst of the thunderstorm, Bai Xiaodang heard a dull sound—Froude's head bursting open. But it didn't shoot out, just shattered into a puddle of red and white in Kora's hand - the skull was not as strong as it could be, and the human body that had lost a lot of blood did not generate enough pressure in the cranial cavity.
So Cora complained in a low voice, "I thought it would explode." Then she let go of her hand, and Froude's headless body fell heavily to the ground. Wind and snow poured into the house, and the blood on the ground quickly lost its heat and condensed into a pool of eerie solids, covered in snow.
Scold...... Bai Xiaodang sighed in his heart. But even she herself could not figure out whether she was relieved for Froude or for herself. If her skull is crushed, she shouldn't feel the pain - it will be her turn next.
Enoch turned his gaze to Bai Xiaodang. In fact, he never thought about making a disaster tonight. On the contrary, he was more than happy to continue the previous game - the two humans confided the truth unguarded under his influence, and he only had to sit in the corner and watch the farce and get all the information he wanted to know.
However, a woman named Christina, who possessed a rather peculiar amount of strength, could detect his anomaly. It's one thing to watch a play all the time, but it's another thing to pretend to be crazy and stupid after being suspected. The noble blood within him did not allow him to do that.
Enoch could feel Bai Xiaodang's emotions. He had seen all kinds of human beings, and had dealt with them and even had quite intimate relationships with them—and the children were the product of that intimacy.
So he knew that some people would give in to the threat of death, while others would not care about the threat—the woman should belong to the latter.
So......
He shrugged slightly.
Then the young man named Adonis also clenched his hand.
Time seems to be slowing down. It was precisely because time seemed to be slowing down that Bai Xiaodang could feel everything clearly—she didn't know if the boy named Adonis was deliberately letting her experience the most painful of all.
The feeling of suffocation is preceded by a swelling and numbness of the mind. It seemed as if there were a lot of fine needles coming out of her skin, and she felt that she must be flushed by now. Then she opened her mouth, and felt that everything in her neck was huddled together, and peeked out of her throat—but even more outside was her tongue, which was pushed by the things, trying to break free from her mouth.
Then the pain came too late—a lightning-like pain from her cervical spine, which struck back and forth along her spine, and she wanted to scream in pain, but all her breath was held in her lungs.
The rolling muffled thunder also became long and sluggish, and the snow-white electric light reflected Enoch's face in front of him. His gaze began to turn red, and Enoch's face began to blur.
Bai Xiaodang wanted to sigh. Because she had conceived many ways to die for herself, but she didn't expect that the last thing she could do was that a teenager crushed her cervical vertebrae from behind - and she would rather have a bullet through the heart.
In the last moments of her life, there was a buzzing in her ears.
And then—
The entire world suddenly fell silent.
A thought crossed her mind—perhaps this was the tranquility after death. The next moment, however, she immediately realized that something was wrong.
The flow of time has returned. The pressure on his neck suddenly decreased. Enoch in front of him suddenly had an extremely shocked look on his face and looked up at the sky.
Bai Xiaodang collapsed to the ground—Adonis behind her let out a low exclamation and dropped her, stepping over to Enoch's side, looking up at the sky as well.
Bai Xiaodang, who had escaped death, gasped spasmodically, and only then did he realize that the original roaring blizzard had stopped at some point. At the same time, there was a rolling thunderstorm in the sky—the thick clouds in the sky had dispersed, and the dense stars occupied the blue-black sky.
A deep and powerful voice came from the heavens, and said with a shocking majesty—
"Deprivation."
So all the powers and psionic powers were stripped away.
The giantess named Cora groaned in pain, and her muscles atrophied rapidly. This change came so quickly that she seemed to fall from mid-air, and before she even had time to adjust her posture, she collapsed to the ground like Bai Xiaodang. The floor shook slightly as she landed, and the tremor didn't stop—
The dilapidated wooden house trembled more and more, and finally after two seconds it turned into countless tiny shards—not explosions, but disintegrated by some powerful force, and after falling apart, it emitted a buzzing sound that surrounded everyone in the middle like a dense swarm of wild bees.
Bai Xiaodang finally saw Li Zhen in the sky through the cracks in the fragments - he stood out of thin air bathed in starlight, majestic as a god. (To be continued......)