hsntnovel Chapter 39 Her Life and Death
Chapter 39 Her Life and Death
Song Juexiao was the first person to notice something was wrong.
She followed behind Xiao Jiming and He Jingtong, and almost instantly raised her head.
Then she saw this scene.
The placental person clearly looked like it had been through a battle; its body was still covered in grass and mud, and the skin on its abdomen? Chest?—or some other part of its body—had been torn open, with flesh and blood falling out.
The sticky blood dripped down, looking more like glue than liquid.
For a moment, Song Juexiao wondered if they would stick together and become inseparable if they came into contact with blood. She didn't know.
It's too late.
The girl watched this scene unfold, her mind racing.
But it was too far, and Jiang Xingni was falling too fast.
Song Juexiao didn't believe he could stop Jiang Xingni from falling in a short time, neither could Xiao Jiming or He Jingtong.
She could almost feel her heart pounding, or perhaps it had stopped beating from fright. The images in her mind kept replaying, until finally all that remained was the ever-increasing pain in her chest and mind.
Song Juexiao thought to himself that he shouldn't have reacted so strongly.
After all, this wasn't the first time she'd witnessed death, and she hadn't spent much time with Jiang Xingni. Jiang Xingni had only saved her once by chance, so she shouldn't be reacting so strongly.
Song Juexiao told himself that he shouldn't react so strongly.
But tears had already fallen without Song Juexiao's knowledge; she cried silently, almost unaware that she was crying.
Following her gaze, within a second, He Jingtong and Xiao Jiming simultaneously looked in Jiang Xingni's direction.
The location and timing of the placental human's appearance were too coincidental. If it weren't for Song Juexiao's intuition, they probably wouldn't have realized the placental human's existence until after the sneak attack, by which time Jiang Xingni would have already been killed.
But in reality, Jiang Xingni was only stunned for a moment when the white light flashed, and then she calmly stabbed at the place where the light spots gathered—that is, the placental person's open mouth.
If we say that placental humans grow by eating, giving themselves new limbs and becoming more and more like humans.
Jiang Xingnian thought that the mouth must be very important to him.
Jiang Xingni couldn't be sure if it was just a guess, but at the moment the placenta opened its mouth, Jiang Xingni could see the light spot almost jumping into the placenta's mouth with joy.
The light spots are not real things, nor will they be eaten by the placental people. They only exist in Jiang Xingni's eyes and field of vision. They are created by Jiang Xingni herself and belong only to her supernatural ability.
Even with the placenta person's mouth closed, she could still see the light shining through the skin around the mouth. Jiang Xingni could even see the blood vessels and meridians in the facial muscles under the light.
His weakness is his mouth.
Jiang Xingni thought to herself that this was the main reason why she deliberately cut off her collar and fell from mid-air.
Otherwise, given Jiang Xingni's agility, she wouldn't have been caught at all.
Even if he were caught, Jiang Xingni would not choose this method to escape—at least Jiang Xingni is not stupid enough to jump directly into the enemy's mouth.
Jiang Xingni could only see a dazzling golden light in front of him and the almost ecstatic smile on the face of the placenta person.
The girl chuckled softly, and a golden light, similar to the speckle of light, shone in her eyes. Although no one present could see the world that Jiang Xingni could see, and although Jiang Xingni herself had no idea that her eyes were glowing.
The dagger, barely the length of a forearm, plunged into the placenta-man's mouth. In the instant the placenta-man tried to close its mouth, the girl nimbly used the leverage to prop itself up. Then, she flipped the blade in her hand and thrust it out through the gap between the bones, piercing the placenta-man's face.
With tears streaming down his face and swaying precariously, Song Juexiao never imagined that the scene before him was so different from the screaming image in his mind.
She unconsciously widened her eyes, but at the same time, the girl suddenly felt the incessant screams around her disappear in that instant.
As if it had never existed, she could hear her heart beating normally again, no longer in hysterical pain as before, whether from beating too fast or from pain that was almost stopped.
"Stars?" she murmured, blinking her eyes gently.
The placental person, pierced by a dagger, screamed silently, frantically waving its arms, trying to grab Jiang Xingni and shove him into its mouth.
However, even when he was sober, he couldn't catch Jiang Xingni, let alone in this violent moment when he had lost his will.
The little girl slipped easily through the gap, even managing to slice open the placental man's mouth during the attack and then slash his head a few more times.
Only when the placental person collapsed to the ground was Jiang Xingni able to focus his attention on his surroundings.
She saw Song Juexiao's hazy green eyes, which seemed to be glistening with tears in the sunlight; she saw He Jingtong's emerald green eyes in the shadows looking at her with a hint of inquiry; and she saw Xiao Jiming give her a smile, as if he had breathed a sigh of relief.
On the other side, Zheng Tingfeng, holding a book, trembled as she pointed her trembling hand at the placental body lying on the ground, and then at Jiang Xingni standing on the ground.
"You destroyed my creation!" she screamed.
Those weren't Zheng Tingfeng's words, but they truly came out of his mouth.
In an instant, Jiang Xingni realized just how malicious the world was towards him.
"System, if the plot unfolds normally," Jiang Xingni hesitated for a moment before continuing, "should I die in front of them?"
Jiang Xingni could fully imagine how readers in the real world would react when all this happened—would anyone cry for themselves?
Yes, but definitely not many.
After all, Jiang Xingni hasn't been on the scene for very long and hasn't left a deep impression on anyone. Even if he dies early at this point, he will only become part of Xiao Jiming's burden of responsibility.
Thinking of this, Jiang Xingni almost burst out laughing.
Her life and death were ultimately just tools to shape Xiao Jiming's growth.
Of course, she wouldn't blame Xiao Jiming for this, as he was an innocent person. But that didn't mean Jiang Xingni wasn't affected at all.
"That's right," the system replied to Jiang Xingni. "After all, you shouldn't have existed in this world in the first place, should you?"
Jiang Xingni should have died long ago; the fact that he's still alive is thanks to the system.
She suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of loneliness.
Even though she is among the main characters, she is not a member of the main characters.
Without the protection of the main characters, she is just like everyone else in this world, and could die at any time for various reasons.