Lethal Stunner: Kicking Off with Five Beast Husbands-Chapter 199 I Will Kill Her

Watching Ming Huaxin’s family drive away, Xiao Jinsheng returned home.

Xuan Jiu’s disapproving voice rang out: "She doesn’t trust you, yet you told her the truth. Aren’t you afraid she’ll stab you in the back?"

"If my superpower still worked, then at least you’d..." Xuan Jiu, reminded that his own superpower was unusable without Star Stones, felt stifled.

Back then, he had chosen to reveal the terminal’s secret of devouring humans to Xiao Jinsheng.

It was because he relied on his mind-reading ability as insurance.

He had seen through Xiao Jinsheng’s heart.

Knew that after learning the truth, even if she didn’t trust him, she wouldn’t put him in danger.

"I would never push my family into peril," Xiao Jinsheng explained. "Likewise, when I have the capability and know the truth, I won’t turn my back on a friend."

"But she doesn’t fully trust you," Xuan Jiu frowned. "If malicious intent arises, you’ll be in danger."

"If malicious intent arises," Xiao Jinsheng lifted her gaze to Xuan Jiu, her eyes ice-cold, harboring murderous intent.

She spoke calmly: "Then she would no longer be my friend, and she certainly wouldn’t walk out alive through this door."

Xuan Jiu stared at her in shock.

Only to see Xiao Jinsheng raise a brow, smile faintly at him, and question: "You know the capabilities of mind-reading better than I do, don’t you?"

"Did you copy my superpower?" Xuan Jiu asked hesitantly. "But my superpower is unusable. Copying it makes no difference."

He had also learned of Xiao Jinsheng’s second awakening and her Plundering Superpower.

Xiao Jinsheng trusted him, and had shared some basic information about the Plundering Superpower.

"Humph, it’s my ability," Caicai boasted arrogantly.

"In our interstellar world!" Caicai shouted, then realized the description wasn’t fitting and corrected itself: "I am the system. I have a power that lets people hear others’ inner thoughts."

"Just now, I used the system’s power to help Xiao Jinsheng hear Ming Huaxin’s thoughts."

"Although Ming Huaxin didn’t verbally affirm full trust in Xiao Jinsheng, deep down she already believes Xiao Jinsheng’s words."

"She just needs some time to process the terminal being malevolent."

"She is one of my few friends here," Xiao Jinsheng said, her gaze lowering in melancholy. "I merely want them to know the truth and prepare for the battle against the Insect Clan."

Likewise, she would not be foolishly altruistic.

Helping others at the expense of putting herself and her family in danger was not an option.

Had Ming Huaxin’s heart harbored even a sliver of ill intent against her at that moment...

Xiao Jinsheng clenched her palm tightly, nails digging into her flesh without her even noticing.

She... she would have killed her without hesitation.

Even if Ming Huaxin’s Beast Husband were present.

But decades of habits on the Mist Continent...

Few Beastmen ever guarded against a female.

Yet now, the females of the Mist Continent were no longer the weak ones with only spiritual power and no means of self-defense.

"My arm hurts a bit. Can you press it for me?" Li reached out, pulled Xiao Jinsheng’s clenched hand apart, and noticed her nails had already left deep marks in her palm.

He softly brushed his fingers over the marks, then placed her hand on his arm. "Quick, press it for me. I must have overexerted myself planting trees yesterday."

"How many did you plant?" Mo Jiao sneered. "Chen Yunji planted quite a few trees, only for you to snatch them away."

[Good man.]

Chen Yunji looked at Mo Jiao, inwardly sighing.

Then Mo Jiao grabbed Xiao Jinsheng’s hand and handed it to Yu Yunxiao: "Heal her."

"You mustn’t harm yourself like this again, and don’t replicate my healing superpower in the future." Yu Yunxiao summoned warm-colored light to fall onto Xiao Jinsheng’s palm, quickly erasing the marks her nails had made.

Xiao Jinsheng sighed helplessly: "This isn’t really an injury; it would’ve healed itself in a few minutes."

"The survival rule of the apocalypse world is self-reliance," Su Yejin said, his eyes glinting faintly. "You risked danger to tell her the truth; you did nothing wrong."

"You heard Ming Huaxin’s thoughts?" Xuan Jiu chuckled. "Were you thinking, if her mind harbored even a trace of malintent against you, you’d kill her immediately?"

"I was," Xiao Jinsheng said softly, her mood low.

"And what if I had killed her?" Shi Xie’s gaze turned cold as he stared at Xuan Jiu. "In the apocalypse, those who ignore warnings must bear the consequences of their own death."

"When I took you to Cloud Island Snow Peak and told you the terminal’s truth, I similarly listened to your thoughts," Xuan Jiu leaned lazily against the sofa, speaking unhurriedly. "Back then, my thoughts were exactly like yours."

As he spoke, his red eyes blazed fiercely, his lips curling up to reveal sharp fangs at the corners of his mouth.

"Had you harbored even a shred of malintent against me back then..."

"I would’ve ripped out your heart at Snow Peak and ended your life right there."

"Stop being crazy," Chen Yunji warned coldly.

Xuan Jiu ignored him, looking at Xiao Jinsheng instead.

But Xiao Jinsheng showed no fear; in fact, she smiled cheekily.

"I said I would’ve killed you back then," Xuan Jiu emphasized.

"Wow, I’m so scared," Xiao Jinsheng exaggerated sarcastically.

Because she knew Xuan Jiu didn’t actually have such thoughts.

From the moment they met, Xuan Jiu had been listening to her thoughts.

From the very beginning, Xuan Jiu had understood exactly what kind of person she was.

That’s why, after sharing the terminal’s secret with her, he hadn’t had any intention of killing her.

But he did harbor more sinister thoughts.

Anyone who knew the terminal’s secret but lacked sufficient strength would be trapped in Snow Peak by the terminal.

If Xiao Jinsheng had betrayed Xuan Jiu’s words and been detected by the terminal...

She too would’ve been trapped in Snow Peak alongside him.

Then the two of them would’ve ended up as cellmates at Snow Peak.

That scenario would’ve been far more infuriating than Xuan Jiu killing her.

The "three enemies" would’ve spent their days at Snow Peak hacking at each other for hundreds of rounds.

Brilliant, utterly delightful chaos.

"As long as you have a clear conscience," Que Zelian said as he stroked Xiao Jinsheng’s head.

He had reminded her of all he could.

Whether or not she believed him was her choice.

"Even if she doesn’t trust you and reports all this to the terminal, the terminal won’t have the energy to intervene, nor would it care," Huaiqing interjected.

Xiao Jinsheng looked at him curiously: "Suddenly saying this—did you foresee something again?"

"It’s the same premonition as before," Huaiqing replied, masking the gloomy look in his eyes with a smile. "But this time, it came again."

And he realized that premonitions could indeed be altered.

"The insect eggs are not the Insect Clan’s main force."

Huaiqing walked to the window, staring at the bright sky outside.

Leng Ji spoke with a chilling tone: "In three days, the warships surrounding Mist Continent will land. The Insect Clan will arrive with the apocalypse at the same time."

"It accelerated again!" Caicai exclaimed in shock.

Just as it was about to ask Xiao Jinsheng for praise for pretending its mind-reading ability was from the system and keeping the Guardian Contract’s secret from her Beast Husband...

It overheard Huaiqing revealing this bombshell news.

Caicai hurriedly snuck some of Lou Yan Zhi’s points and used them to survey the region surrounding Mist Continent.

Sure enough, in the Star Sea, it detected Insect Clan warships encircling Mist Continent’s Star Ring, methodically landing under orders.

These three days were the final hours of preparation.

Xiao Jinsheng immediately gathered her team and retreated to the area around the Star Stone Mine in Mist West.

By day, they avoided the Fog Corpses and absorbed Star Stones.

By night, during rest, she hurried to enhance her spiritual power.

In the last three days, priorities were discarded entirely.

Her daring reached unprecedented levels.

She selected her partners from Beastmen who hadn’t cheated with water yet.

Three rounds a night, spiritual power surged.

During these three days, the survivors of Mist Continent mostly followed the terminal’s tasks: planting trees and digging up insect eggs.

Until...

The sky split open, revealing a deep abyss that swallowed the blazing noonday sun.

Every corner of Mist Continent plunged from light into darkness in an instant.

As humanity became aware, they saw the position where the sun once hung transform.

A colossal eye formed from a convergence of crimson mist, opening wide.

The golden sun had been replaced with a massive dark-veined spinning eye, suspended in the sky. fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm

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