Lethal Stunner: Kicking Off with Five Beast Husbands
Chapter 53: Thanks to QiDian babies for the additional update with 20 monthly tickets.

Chapter 53: Chapter 53: Thanks to QiDian babies for the additional update with 20 monthly tickets.

At the moment Xiao Jinsheng locked eyes with the Fog Corpse, her soul almost fled her body in terror.

The Fog Corpse swung its heavy claw, and the cardboard box around them burst apart.

Holding the cub tightly, Xiao Jinsheng got up and bolted, only to realize that the mist had thickened tonight, and there were already plenty of Fog Corpses around.

The Fog Corpses, hearing the commotion, all turned their eyes on Xiao Jinsheng.

"It’s over, it’s over." Xiao Jinsheng despaired, tightening her grip on the cub in her arms.

She had always stayed obediently in the Terminal Sanctuary before—where had she ever encountered a scene like this?

Even if the surrounding Fog Corpses were only One Star, they posed an extreme threat to Xiao Jinsheng, who was only eight years old.

Fortunately, she was familiar with the surrounding terrain. Carrying the cub, she climbed and ducked, narrowly escaping the Fog Corpses’ attacks time and again. Tragically, however, the noise kept drawing more Fog Corpses behind her.

The cub struggled in Xiao Jinsheng’s arms; the more it struggled, the tighter she held it.

Angry, the cub opened its mouth and rubbed its sharp teeth against Xiao Jinsheng’s wrist.

"Be quiet—we’re running for our lives here." Xiao Jinsheng yanked at the sharp-furred edge of its rounded ears.

"Run for what? If you don’t deal with them, you’ll draw even more Fog Corpses." The cub spoke coldly.

"Let me go, let me deal with them." The cub struggled, its crimson eyes filled with battle intent.

Xiao Jinsheng didn’t trust that with one lame leg, it could muster any combat strength—not when it couldn’t even break free from her embrace.

Still clutching the cub tightly, she was about to climb up onto a water tower when a Fog Corpse suddenly emerged and pounced on her, knocking her to the ground and sending the cub tumbling to the side.

Just as the Fog Corpse raised its claw, about to pierce her head, a long metal rod shot through its palm, pinning it firmly to the ground.

A tall, lanky boy, his black hair loose, trudged over with a limp, quickly and painstakingly pulling out the rod that had pierced the Fog Corpse’s palm before driving it straight into the creature’s head through its temple.

After dispatching the Fog Corpse that had ambushed them, he gripped the rod tightly and extended a hand towards the fallen Xiao Jinsheng: "Get up, stay behind me."

"Doggy?" Xiao Jinsheng exclaimed in shock.

The boy grabbed Xiao Jinsheng by the wrist and easily pulled her up, his face stern: "I’ve told you—I’m not a dog."

"Heh heh—"

The previously gathered Fog Corpses now surged forward as well. In the dense mist, it was impossible to see how many there were.

Judging by the sound, there were at least thirty of them.

Unfortunately, one of them had no ability to protect herself, and the other was injured.

Xiao Jinsheng noticed a pile of stones by her feet and lifted her skirt to gather a whole heap of them.

The two of them pressed their backs against the water tower, with the boy standing in front, ruthlessly killing the advancing Fog Corpses. Xiao Jinsheng fixed her gaze on the boy’s figure fighting amidst the swarm of corpses, hurling stones at the heads of the Fog Corpses attacking him.

One stone for each target, with flawless accuracy. Her attacks gradually dispelled the terror she felt towards the Fog Corpses.

After a blood-soaked ten minutes, a heap of corpses lay around them.

Xiao Jinsheng had also run out of stones to throw, but fortunately, all the Fog Corpses surrounding them had been slain.

"Head up the water tower." The boy leaned on the rod, limping towards Xiao Jinsheng.

Xiao Jinsheng quickly went over to support him, and the two climbed the water tower together, helping each other along.

Cramped in the narrow space of the water tower, Xiao Jinsheng glanced at the boy’s right leg, which was covered in three gaping claw wounds, fresh blood still pouring out in torrents.

She hurriedly took off the belt from her dress and tied it tightly below his knee.

"Why didn’t you say anything about such a severe injury when you were still in beast form!" Xiao Jinsheng snapped angrily.

When the boy was in his cub form, he had been covered in mud. At the time, aside from his limping, there hadn’t been any signs of bleeding.

Xiao Jinsheng had assumed he hadn’t sustained external injuries, just a broken bone.

"It was just one swipe from a Mutant Beast—it won’t kill me." The boy leaned against the wall, sweat dripping from his forehead, coldness weighing down his entire body.

Xiao Jinsheng searched the small room atop the water tower but found no useful medical supplies.

Seeing the boy’s increasingly pallid complexion, she hurriedly took off her inner shirt and pressed it firmly against his bleeding wound.

"Are you trying to kill me with the pain?" The boy sighed, and when he turned his gaze to Xiao Jinsheng, he noticed tears streaming from her face as she clutched her injured leg.

"Actually... it doesn’t hurt that much." The boy backtracked, using the back of his hand to wipe away the tear hanging from Xiao Jinsheng’s chin: "Stop crying—you look terrible."

"Hold out until tomorrow. If you can make it until noon, the Terminal Sanctuary will open its doors." Xiao Jinsheng said urgently.

"I told you—I’m not that easy to kill." The boy replied weakly.

Xiao Jinsheng kept vigil by his side, her eyes fixed on the time slowly passing on the Star Map.

Finally, morning came on the second day at 11 o’clock, yet the dense mist enveloping the Terminal Sanctuary showed no sign of dispersing.

The boy’s strikingly handsome face had turned ghastly pale, his lips an eerie blood-red, his sword-like brows furrowed, his feathered lashes half-closed, and his crimson eyes carried the weight of deathly stillness.

"Doggy?" Xiao Jinsheng shakily reached out and touched his neck, only to find it ice cold.

"Doggy!" Xiao Jinsheng panicked, cradling his face as she screamed urgently: "Wake up! The sanctuary doors are about to open—we’ll be safe!"

"Wake up—"

Her palms touched skin that was now deathly cold, her frantic cries met with utter silence.

"If you don’t wake up, I’ll really believe you’re just a dog!"

Just when Xiao Jinsheng was consumed with despair, a cold hand gently grabbed her wrist.

The boy weakly opened his eyes, his crimson gaze warm as he looked at her, an annoyed smile playing on his lips: "How many times do I have to tell you—I’m not a dog."

"Then what happened after that?" Xiao Jinsheng nervously clutched Li’s collar, her voice trembling with hope: "The Terminal Sanctuary opened its doors at noon, and we were both saved, right?"

Li rested his palm on her hand, gently squeezing it as he slowly spoke: "That mist lasted for fifteen days."

"What..." Xiao Jinsheng recoiled in shock.

She tried hard to recall, but the memory from when she met Li at eight years old and the half-month spent in the mist remained a blank.

Even without Li spelling it out, she could already anticipate how dire their situation had been back then.

Whenever mist enshrouded Mist East, for the vigilance of the sanctuary, the Terminal wouldn’t open its doors.

Sure enough, Li said: "You followed me, fleeing in the mist for half a month."

Pain twisted in Xiao Jinsheng’s chest as fragmented images flashed through her mind like shattered glass.

Every piece of memory was soaked in blood.

Decaying bodies of Mutant Beasts, mangled remains of Fog Corpses—they all flickered in her visions.

She saw the boy leading her to one hiding spot after another near the sanctuary.

But no matter how secluded their hideouts were, the Fog Corpses always found them.

The boy, drenched in blood, always stood in front of her as the Fog Corpses attacked relentlessly.

When they faced the largest swarm of Fog Corpses in those fifteen days, numbering over a hundred, the boy drove the broken metal rod into the final Fog Corpse’s head.

He turned to her amidst the mound of corpses, his body glazed in blood, indistinguishable from the Fog Corpses or his own.

The image that struck Xiao Jinsheng the hardest was his face—the five claw marks furrowing his features from his forehead, slicing through his eyelid, and down to his jaw, peeling skin and exposing bone beneath.

As her memory flickered, the boy’s bloodied face blurred and merged with the Demon Mask now before her.

Xiao Jinsheng reached out hesitantly, her fingertips brushing against Li’s mask as she murmured sorrowfully: "Doggy?"

A flicker of delight passed through Li’s crimson eyes, his brows lifted in a faint smile, and he replied, annoyed: "How many times do I have to tell you—I’m not a dog."

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