hsntnovel Chapter 81 Who's Like You?
Chapter 81 Who's Like You?
—Whose turn is it?
Oh, now they've got their eyes on her.
Jiang Xing glanced at Zhao Henshan with a slight smile, and calmly tilted her head in response to his provocation.
"Then let's do it." She mouthed those words silently.
Jiang Xingni had always stood at the very front of the group, followed by Xiao Jiming—the nominal leader of the main characters.
Jiang Xingni didn't know why she had become the team's leader for a short time.
However, from Xiao Jiming to He Jingtong, no one raised any objections, and Su Yanzhi was even more so.
He was pleased to see that even though there was already a nominal captain, everyone still unconsciously followed Jiang Xingni's lead.
What I'd like to see even more is how Xiao Jiming would react if he realized this.
Will she be angry because her authority as captain is being challenged? Or... will she condone it because it's Jiang Xingni?
Su Yanzhi's eyes curved into a smile, revealing a blatant malice and a sense of anticipation.
Jiang Xingni certainly noticed the undisguised malice in Su Yanzhi's expression.
But to be honest, Jiang Xingni didn't care much about such things.
At this moment, Jiang Xingni was only grateful for one thing—thankfully she was walking in front, otherwise, if they had seen her provoking Zhao Henshan like this...
A strange creature whose details are currently unknown.
Jiang Xingni genuinely felt that if they found out, even in this urgent situation, he would inevitably be stared at by Song Juexiao with a reproachful yet worried gaze for a while.
But Jiang Xingni will still choose to do it.
Why notify them again before taking action?
All they wanted to do was instill fear in them.
But Jiang Xingni didn't want her to have her way.
Since they were already being watched, even if they knelt down and wept bitterly, it wouldn't change their fate.
Jiang Xingni's belief has always been that if she is not having a good time, then those who are making her suffer should not even think about staying out of it.
The girl with golden eyes narrowed her eyes.
The group of people behind her naturally didn't see the silent words Jiang Xingni uttered, but that didn't mean they weren't aware of Zhao Henshan's sudden change in mood.
The chilling malice suddenly froze, or more accurately, it came to a standstill.
However, this brief, almost less than a second of stillness was not enough to make them lower their guard; on the contrary, it made them even more vigilant.
Next, perhaps the best way to put it is: as expected.
The chilling anger seemed to be abruptly cut off by Jiang Xingni's words—although Xiao Jiming and the others actually didn't know what Jiang Xingni had just said.
However, it was entirely predictable that Jiang Xingni must have done something to elicit such a strong reaction from Zhao Henshan.
Song Juexiao pursed his lips, subconsciously took a step forward, and reached out his hand to stand beside Jiang Xingni.
She didn't know if she could protect Jiang Xingni, but Song Juexiao knew very well that she couldn't just stand behind Jiang Xingni and do nothing.
Just as Song Juexiao was about to take action.
Suddenly, the world spun before her eyes.
The stadium, covered in blood and corpses, distorted before Song Juexiao's eyes.
The human corpse gradually blended into the wall, its black hair spiraling and curving, forming patterns on the wall.
The eyes on the corpse, which were originally tightly closed, seemed to have opened slightly.
The eyeballs rolled around uncontrollably, not like the result of human manipulation, but more like a controlled rotation.
The first impression that came to Song Juexiao's mind was a spinning fan, a ball being tossed about by centrifugal force—things like that.
It's definitely not the eye of a normal human being.
Their rotation speed increased rapidly, almost blurring into afterimages, as they surged forward, hurtling straight towards Song Juexiao and the others.
At that moment, the rapidly spinning eyeballs stopped.
All the eyes—no, in this case, they can't even be called "human"—are embedded in the wall in shapes that resemble human figures. The hair has been transformed into patterns, and even the skin is flat and neatly laid out on the wall. Only the eyeballs become more and more prominent as they move.
The internal organs and bones were also neatly laid out next to the skeleton, just like... the scene after being hit by a two-dimensional foil in a novel that Song Juexiao had once read.
She felt dizzy after just a quick glance.
The foot that had just stepped out, not yet landing, froze in mid-air, and then lost its footing.
Song Juexiao fell straight down, stiff as a board.
Before losing consciousness, the last thought that surfaced in Song Juexiao's mind was—
Did she really just glance at the wall briefly? Song Juexiao didn't know.
She has no recollection of it at all.
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"Bang."
Jiang Xingni only turned around when he heard the thuds of people falling to the ground one after another.
When he turned around, he saw that all his teammates had fallen to the ground for some unknown reason.
Jiang Xingni's perspective also changed, but it was different from Song Juexiao's.
The scene of bloodshed and corpses flying everywhere, which had seemed half-real and half-fake in Jiang Xingni's view, completely faded away, leaving only the real scene of the stadium.
Her pupils contracted, and her first reaction was to look around to see if there was any sudden, strange attack.
But in the instant Jiang Xing turned her head, she saw a familiar figure.
Zhao Henshan.
The girl who had just been glaring at Jiang Xing with resentment now wore a gentle smile.
She pressed her cheek against Jiang Xingni's and then affectionately rubbed her cheek against his.
The blood on the girl's face smeared all over Jiang Xingni's body with her movements, and the sticky feeling lingered on Jiang Xingni's face.
She blinked, then frowned almost imperceptibly, avoiding Zhao Henshan's affectionate touch.
"Don't you like it this way?" she chuckled. "You take such good care of that girl next to you, I thought you'd like me doing this?"
"You should be like us," she said quietly. "We've been watching you all along. Why are you allowed to keep climbing up, untouched by this garbage?"
Jiang Xingni instantly realized the hidden meaning behind those words.
—From the moment she enrolled in school, she was being watched by these strange creatures?
Does "should have been like us" mean that they were destined to die in the mall and become part of the monsters?
Jiang Xingni lowered her eyes.
"Who's the same as you?" she scoffed, retorting without hesitation.