"Huh... Ho......

Xiaoya gasped in a low voice, her vision blurred.

Inability to breathe.

Unable to move.

The eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of puffs, and everything in front of them seemed to be covered with a gray mist.

She felt cold from the loss of blood, and felt some hot needles pricking in her body from the violent heat. She lay on the cold floor, but it felt like it was so hot, like an iron plate roasting itself.

She couldn't feel her fishtail anymore.

— but she could see it.

Her beautiful, pure white fishtail was in her field of vision.

Its cross-section appears to have been roasted, revealing a pale white color of cooked meat. And in the scorched, shedding scales, you can see how it is truncated.

She remembers... It was a beam of light. A light she can't forget.

It wasn't an attack aimed at Xiaoya at all. She was just an innocent crowd affected. By the time the laser arrived at her, it was already close to the ground, and if she had taken a meter or two back, she would probably not be hurt at all.

But there is no if.

Xiao Ya was directly cut off from the fish's tail and fell to the ground in embarrassment. It's like a fish grilled on an iron plate.

But to this day, she still considers herself lucky.

- because the owner of this shop is now dead in front of her.

He was a few steps closer than Xiaoya, and was about to pull down the roller shutter door. While that would make it impossible for them to see outside, and therefore avoid some attacks, they, the civilians, are not equipped to dodge that kind of attack themselves.

In this way, at least it will not be discovered and attacked by those madmen.

But the roller shutter door did not fall at all. Because before the boss arrived at the door, he was affected by the same laser, and the whole person was directly swept away.

At that time, he still did not die, and he did not even faint immediately. He let out a miserable wail of pain, and the upper half of his body rolled on the ground. The instantly scorched skin would not let him bleed to death in a short period of time, and he barely bleed. But many of the internal organs that were cut in half made him have no way to live.

He struggled like that for a long time, and finally was blown up by the drone until he fainted.

Now...... The old gentleman is probably dead.

Am I... Sooner too?

She thought pessimistically, and suddenly felt the heat rush to her abdomen.

Xiao Ya suddenly convulsed violently, and the rising heat in her body made her feel the pain accumulate. Let her roll like a dead fish, and then spit out a mouthful of blood.

She just wanted to vomit, but even she didn't expect that what she vomited was bright red blood.

It was so bright red blood—like fire, like sunset, like melting glass. It's like a mirror, reflecting your own face.

… My blood, it's so beautiful.

Xiao Ya's blank brain suddenly came to her mind. After coughing up blood, she suddenly became a lot more relaxed. She felt as if it wasn't so hot anymore, and it felt like it was starting to get colder.

But at the same time, she also felt that she was still very conscious... Now it's starting to blur quickly.

Her sense of time began to get confused.

It feels like a long time, but it's only for a moment; It felt like it had only been a moment, but yet a long time had passed. She woke up like she was asleep, as if she had been in a long dream... It was as if he had just closed his eyes for a few seconds, and the sound of an explosion was still coming from his ears.

Why, why....

Will it turn out like this?

At this moment, Xiaoya suddenly heard chaotic footsteps.

Her eyes lit up with hope.

"Help, help—"

I.....

But when she could see the faces of those people, the remaining half of the words were jammed and swallowed in her stomach.

That's Dai

Wearing a wolf's head hood, he suddenly attacked the outlaws in this neighborhood.

"A Miss Mermaid."

Someone saw her and sneered maliciously.

"Look at it, brothers, it's a beautiful cross-section."

"Tsk, what a big tail."

"Look at that big tail... I feel like I can stew a big pot of fish soup."

"Yes, indeed. The meat of the tail is very fat when you look at it. Is that a meat-eating variety?"

"Or pure white scales... This tail must be a carp, right?" "It looks like a white koi. Platinum koi, probably. After all, you can only see that the tail is white, and it could be other koi with white tails..."

Those people also saw Xiao Ya's embarrassed appearance now. They did stop in response to her call.

But they didn't have the slightest pity for Xiaoya, they didn't have it at all, but laughed at her. Finger at her.

Xiao Ya only felt that her heart was like an ice cave and realized their identity.

- They will never save themselves. Because this "war" is caused by them.

The believers of the "werewolves" hate the "inferior people" of Yongquan Island.

As a hybrid or aberration, they are born with the characteristics of terrestrial spirits, and are called "scaleless".

You can't enjoy all kinds of benefits, all kinds of treatment, and you can't even get a job normally. Either mining, cutting down trees, pumping oil, exploring...... Either they will be treated as inferior people on the island, or they will be expelled from the island altogether.

Springs Island does not directly persecute them, nor does it actively enslave them. If they are willing to leave, they can even arrange for them to study and work on other empty islands.

- However, everyone knows that Yongquan Island is the best treated empty island.

As the only empty island that the dragon personally takes care of, the other empty islands have to give Yongquan Island some face.

If the other empty islands are just "city-states", then they are "empires". And it is an empire ruled by a Ming monarch.

At least for the aquatic spirits, Yongquan Island is indeed a paradise without pressure, even if everyone knows that this kind of preferential treatment is actually obtained by squeezing the "scaleless", "***" and other commoners of the empty island, but those "scales" are living an extremely happy life.

Work only six hours a day, four days a week, and there's no stress about employment – even after high school, you can get a good job and the job is not difficult. Education, medical care, pension, entertainment, and marriage are all subsidized, and they are full of smiles from birth to death. They are born noble, and there is no doubt that they are a nobler race. You don't have to worry about poverty and hunger, and you can develop a variety of hobbies that you like.

- So, at the cost?

The price of all this is paid by the other spiritual relatives.

These scaleless people live like slaves. They have an even lower status than the ***.

On Springs Island, the scaly poor do not hate the rich, and the rich do not discriminate against the poor—they unite to discriminate against those who "come from a backward, depraved land."

They possess very few spiritual relatives who can touch the sea, and they are the only empty island that understands the knowledge that more than 70% of this world is ocean.

Now that the land is polluted, they are rightfully proud.

For their ancestors were innocent and had no blood of their countrymen on their hands. Their ancestors were not directly involved in the Shari'a wars, nor did they live a cannibalistic life in the chaotic last days. Because they originally lived by the sea and isolated islands, and made a living by fishing. What happened on the land side had nothing to do with them.

Some of the knowledge that was considered taboo on other empty islands is taught here in the open. Because they are deliberately cultivating this innate pride.

And among these aquatic species, a whole new concept has emerged.

- Nation.

While the society of the scaly has become incredibly united and friendly, so have the scaleless

I felt equal discrimination and alienation.

Obviously born on the developed and civilized Yongquan Island, who is willing to be driven to other twisted, busy, dangerous and depraved empty islands?

Obviously, everyone was born on Yongquan Island, so why is it more noble to have scales?

Before the appearance of the "werewolves", people were only indignant about it. Even if you live a hard life on Yongquan Island, even if you use your life to mine and cut trees on land, it is better than being driven away.

But now, things are different.

Since Yongquan Island doesn't want them...

- Then let Springspring Island be as distorted and chaotic as other empty islands. Anyway, no matter how bad their situation is, it will not be worse than now.

In this way, they will be able to balance.

The attack they're launching now... It is not so much that they have no regard for civilians at all, but rather that their goal is to attack the "scaly ones".

Those with fish heads are the first group to be attacked—because this is a special aesthetic that only the scaly can understand, a special aesthetic that is contrary to the human aesthetic, and they also belong to the category of "purer blood" among the scaly ones, and the offspring are more likely to have scaly ones.

And the one with the human head and the human face...... It is easier to be forgiven.

Because of this, after laughing at Xiaoya, they still chose to "have pity".

But that's not to treat her, and it's not to just leave—

A man with a younger voice pulled out a pistol.

"Forget it, seriously, brothers... She looked miserable, and he sighed, "This kid is pretty cute, he shouldn't be too old."

"Come out and buy a cake."

Another person saw the strawberry cake on the counter and casually said, "Then give her some relief." Let's eat the cake and get ready to run."

"Hey, are you going to run away?"

"The rest of the battle is none of our business...... Why don't we smash this store? The old man of the shopkeeper is also a fish head."

"It's not impossible."

The man came over as he loaded his pistol.

"No, don't..."

Xiaoya whimpered and begged, "Don't... I don't want to die... Cake, cake for you... Please, don't kill me..."

The man in the werewolf hood said softly, "Don't be afraid, Miss Mermaid. No one is going to save you, so it's better to die. If you don't hide, it won't hurt

"—but it should hurt you for a while."

A low, hoarse voice suddenly came from behind them.

As the shadow fell, the man suddenly tensed and lowered his body to look back.

only to see one of his companions fly directly out of thin air, as if losing gravity, smashed high into himself!