HELP! These Girls Wants To Kill Me-Chapter 253

For the first time, the woman’s crazed face was filled with fear as she looked at the small girl who subdued her with such ease. She wanted to use all her strength to break free, but no matter how desperately she tried, she just couldn’t free herself. Forget about freeing herself; she couldn’t even move. The only thing she could do was to look at the girl with disbelief and shock, wondering if she was in a nightmare. But the tearing pain in her broken wrist made her realise that she was, in fact, not dreaming.

"UUuuuuu..." She wanted to say something, but because of the small hand on her mouth, only a muffled voice came out.

"Shut up." Feeling her tongue licking his palm as well as the dampness from the saliva, Yang Ze instinctively wanted to pull his hand back, but stopped at the next moment. Even though her earlier shout was engulfed by the heavy rain outside, he couldn’t guarantee that her next scream wouldn’t be heard by someone.

Thinking for a moment, he lowered his head and spoke in a soft, chilling voice.

"I am going to remove my hand now."

"Scream and I will twist your head."

The woman’s eyes went wide, but she didn’t dare to move. She just froze in response.

"Nod if you understand."

As soon as Yang Ze said it, the woman immediately nodded in response, afraid that the small girl in front of her would change her mind.

"Good."

Yang Ze slowly pulled his hand back, not daring to remove it completely, he wanted to see if the woman would scream or not.

Thankfully for both of them, even though the woman seemed crazed, she didn’t scream. She just sat there in silence with a painful expression on her face, her eyes occasionally darting towards her broken wrist that was still held by the small girl in front of her.

"I am gonna ask you a few questions." There was not a single emotion in Yang Ze’s voice as she spoke those words. "Answer them honestly, and I will let you go."

The woman instantly nodded again, not even daring to open her mouth. As for whether she believed that the girl would let her go or not... She didn’t have a choice.

If she were to reject this offer and refuse to answer, the girl would simply kill her. Although she knew that the guards would definitely find out about the murder and the culprit, at that time, she would be dead... so it wouldn’t matter whether the girl was punished or not.

"What is this?" Yang Ze’s very first question stunned the woman who followed the direction of his finger, which was pointing to the boiling pot placed in the middle of the room, with parts of flesh and rotting bodies in it.

"That... that is..." Opening her mouth to speak, the woman’s voice faltered as she licked her dry lips, wondering if she should answer or not. But after taking a single look at the expressionless, exquisite face of the girl, her body trembled in fright.

"That is the elixir of life." Her words instantly made Yang Ze frown in response.

In the next moment, Yang Ze used his all-seeing eyes to take a look at the caludorn, but the only thing he saw was...

[Sturdy Caludron: Cauldron made from a mixture of various metals.]

He then focused his gaze on the boiling mixture inside the pot, only to see another row of text.

[Human pottage: A somewhat tasty pottage made from the flesh of humans!?]

’What the hell?’ Averting his eyes from the vile mixture, Yang Ze resisted the urge to throw up and somewhat tightened his grasp on the woman’s wrist, letting her clench her teeth in pain, but she didn’t dare to scream. She clearly remembered his warning.

"Go on... Tell me about it."

Enduring the heart-wrenching pain in her wrist, the woman hurriedly spoke further.

"I made it from a mixture of secret ingredients. If you eat it regularly, you will stay young forever."

Her words left Yang Ze stunned, who couldn’t help but take another glance at the woman in front of him, wondering if he was hearing things.

"What did you say?" His voice raised a pitch as he asked with a frown.

"Like I said..." listening to the changes in the girl’s voice, the only thought that came to the woman’s mind was that the girl was tempted and was interested in it. Thinking about it, she couldn’t help but let out a victorious, relieved smile.

Just as she thought, how could anyone resist the temptation of staying young forever? Even though this girl in front of her was young, eventually she will grow up and even grow old. But now that there was something so tempting in front of her, how could she resist?

"This is the elixir of life... A miraculous medicine that I personally created for eternal life."

"....."

"....."

For a while, Yang Ze didn’t know how to respond to such a ridiculous claim. He looked at the woman, then at the boiling pot, then again at the woman and then again at the boiling pot, unable to understand why she would do such things.

From the looks of it, the body parts in the pot seemed to be of children. Perhaps she lured them like him and then...

Thinking about it, Yang Ze couldn’t help but take in a deep breath, but the next moment, his face was twisted in disgust due to the horrendous smell that was everywhere in the room. For a moment, he even wanted to rush out of the room, but somehow managed to hold back.

"Does it work?" He asked a simple question, but the woman in question couldn’t seem to hear the ridicule in those words. She immediately got excited with her previous crazed expression returning on her face as she almost jumped up from her position.

"YES... YES... OF COURSE IT WORKS."

"I KNOW IT... AFTER ALL, I MADE IT."

"IT WORKS... IT WORKS..."

The more she spoke, the more excited she got. By the time she reached the end of her sentence, she was almost shouting.

"...." Yang Ze resisted the urge to pat her to death on the spot, and asked in a cold voice.

"Didn’t someone find you doing this?"

He remembered seeing a few guards wandering around when he first stepped into the imperial city. From the looks of it, they seemed pretty intent on keeping orders. How could they not notice something as vile as this happening just below their nose?

The more he thought about it, the less sense it made.

"Who?" The woman tilted her head in confusion, wondering what she was even talking about. Who was going to find her? And for what?

"The Guards, of course." Yang Ze’s expression turned dark.

"Huh!?" The woman couldn’t help but look at the small girl, wondering if she actually meant those words. Why would she ask such a question while standing at the heart of the imperial city?

She glanced at the small girl from top to bottom, but upon realising that she was serious, answered with a heavy breath.

"Eh... the guards would come here occasionally, just to taste my secret medicine."

"Some of them have told me that they could already feel the vast vitality in their bodies."

"??????" The moment she finished those words, Yang Ze’s eyes narrowed into slits, and his breathing almost halted. Till now, he had been thinking that the woman was doing it in secrecy, hiding in plain sight. But from her words, it was clear that the guards knew about it and even came here to taste this so-called elixir of life.

"What the fuck?" Yang Ze finally blurted out with a frown. "Didn’t they arrest you? Took you to prison?"

"Eh!? For what?" The woman had even forgotten about the tearing pain in her wrist.

"FOR KILLING AND EATING THE CHILDREN." This time, Yang Ze was finally unable to hold back as he screamed at the top of his lungs.

"...."

"...."

The room plunged into an eerie silence as the two pairs of eyes gazed at each other in silence before the silence was shattered by an ear-splitting laughter.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHA"

The woman raised her head up as she let out a burst of wild laughter, as if she had heard the funniest joke of her life.

Yang Ze didn’t interrupt her but kept on looking at her in silence, but with every second that passed, the expression on his face hardened, and his eyes turned frosty.

Resisting his urge to pat her head, he waited for her to stop, and sure enough, after a few minutes of laughing maniacally, the woman finally stopped, used her free hand to wipe the corner of her eyes and spoke.

"Why would they arrest someone as talented as me?"

"I have been working for the royal family for so long... constantly discovering so many secret recipes. Why would they put someone as talented as me in prison?"

"HUH!?" Yang Ze finally lost his cool.

"You mean to say that the royal family is aware of what you do here?" Yang Ze suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

The woman finally nodded with a smug face.

"Of course... after all, they are the ones who appointed me to this position."

"I am just one of the many."

The more Yang Ze listened to her, the more ragged his breathing got. For a moment, he couldn’t believe what he was hearing.

He even thought that he somehow travelled to an evil town full of demonic cultivators instead of the imperial city under the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Sword Sect.

How could such a thing exist? Especially under the nose of the Heavenly Sword Sect?

Didn’t the Heavenly Sword Sect take pride in being one of the righteous sects? How could they let someone do such things right under their nose?

"Unless..."

"Unless they were unaware."

But the moment this thought came to his mind, he shook his head in response. How could such a mighty sect with such a large influx of intelligence be unaware of such things taking place right under their nose?

The only explanation was that they were aware of it.

They were aware... and still chose to do nothing.

The more Yang Ze thought about it, the more his heart chilled. He suppressed the urge to kill and manifested a large rope that he used to tightly bind the woman before stuffing a piece of cloth in her mouth to prevent her from speaking.

After making sure that she wouldn’t be able to speak or move, he split a clone of himself to keep an eye on her before walking out of the room.

In the next instant, he used the illusion to cover himself, making him merge with his surroundings as he walked towards the nearest house.

He didn’t believe everything that the woman said.

From the past events, he had learned his lessons. He was going ot see it with his own eyes and make sure that every single word she spoke was true.

With this in mind, Yang Ze finally reached towards the nearest house, which was a few hundred meters away from the woman’s.

The owner of the house didn’t seem present as the door was locked from the outside.

Yang Ze didn’t immediately rush in, but stood in front of the door and sniffed for a while.

"No foul smell!" The only thing he could smell was the faint fragrance of the herbs and medicines.

Compared to the woman’s house... this house looked like a heavenly place.

"That lying bitch..." Yang Ze let out a cold snort. Seemed like the woman was purposefully lying to him, trying to make him believe that her twisted mind was actually accepted and even appreciated in this place.

"Yes... How could a place under the righteous sect do something like this?" Yang Ze couldn’t help but scoff as he thought about it.

With a sneer, he was about to turn and head back to deal with that woman, but the moment he turned around, he heard a muffled groan from the house.

In that very instant, Yang Ze’s figure stooped and his breathing hastened. He even stopped breathing, just to make sure that he wasn’t hearing things.

"Mmmmm..."

After a brief silence, the muffled groan once again sounded in his ears.

Yang Ze immediately turned around to face the house. The voice definitely came from the inside.

Taking a deep breath, Yang Ze slowly moved forward and opened the door.

And the moment he did, the first thing that greeted him was the intense smell of medicine and herbs, which were piled inside the room, almost filling it entirely.

If not for the chair and bed, as well as a few sets of clothes, Yang Ze would have thought that he accidentally entered a medicinal warehouse.

Ignoring the sight and smell, he focused on the muffled voice, but no matter where he looked, he just couldn’t find anyone.

And just when he was wondering if there was truly someone present in the room or not, the sound echoed in his ears once again.

"BELOW!" This time, Yang Ze knew where it came from.

So without wasting another moment, he rushed to move the herbs that were blocking the entrance leading further down.

Opening the latch, Yang Ze jumped down without any hesitation, and the moment his feet touched the ground, the scene around him finally became clear in his eyes.

He seemed to be inside a secret room that was almost five meters in diameter. The walls were adorned with paper lamps, giving off a hazy glow.

But it wasn’t the room or the decorations of the room that made his breathing stop. Instead, it was what was in the middle of the room that once again shook Yang Ze to his very core.

IN the middle of the room, there were numerous stands... stands which were obviously for showcasing precious dresses and armours.

And on those stands were the bodies of what looked like children, barely in their teens.

Some of them were dead, some of them were still alive, barely clinging to their lives. But every single one of them had one thing in common...

They all had been skinned alive.

Their flayed skin was placed on a tannery, with various precious herbs near them.

And just when he was looking at the hellish scene in front of him in silence, one of the children who was barely alive turned its head to look at Yang Ze as it opened its mouth that only had teeth without any lips as a trembling, barely audible voice escaped from his throat.

"Ki...."

"Kill me..."