18: Kill the scumbag and the bitch

"What debts from past and present lives? I haven't done anything to you, so why did you hide in my house? I'm telling you, don't bother begging me. You want me to get back together with you? No way! Get out of my house right now." Han Xiao thought she was obsessed and had stuck to him like a piece of plaster.

Hearing his shameless words, Ai Yue's brow furrowed, and she punched him in the face.

Han Xiao let out a miserable scream and spat out two teeth with a "wah."

Liu Shuang screamed in terror once again.

She clamored, "Ai Yue, you crazy woman, what do you want? You're breaking and entering and hitting people! I'm going to call the police and have you sent to prison!"

"You shameless bitch, Han Xiao already dumped you, and yet you have the face to pester him and beg for a reconciliation. I've never seen anyone as shameless as you in all my life..." As she spoke, she rummaged through her bag for her phone to call the police.

Ai Yue snatched her phone and threw it on the ground, crushing it underfoot.

She really couldn't understand these two's train of thought. Where in her actions did it look like she was begging for a reconciliation? Where exactly did they see that?

Without a word, Ai Yue took out a rope from her space and tied them up tightly. She sealed their mouths with tape and slapped each of them twice.

Looking at Ai Yue, whose eyes glinted with murderous intent, Liu Shuang finally shut her mouth, whimpering softly and no longer acting arrogant.

Looking at her enemies from her past life, the hostility in Ai Yue's heart continued to surge. If they hadn't seized her home, her parents wouldn't have died a tragic death.

The more she thought about it, the more she hated them. She took out a Baseball Bat from her space and swung it at the two of them. Seeing things appear out of thin air time and again, Han Xiao and the other showed looks of terror in their eyes.

The more terrified they became, the colder Ai Yue's gaze grew.

Ten minutes later, the two lying on the ground went from violently dodging and muffled shouting to soft whimpering. It looked like they were taking more breaths in than they were letting out.

Ai Yue pulled out a Swiss military knife and patted their faces. "You can go in peace. The debts of our past and present lives are settled now."

After saying that, she slit their throats. Blood splattered all over her. She made sure they had truly stopped breathing.

Only then did Ai Yue stand up, staring at the two dead bodies and whispering softly, "You two go first. Later, I'll send that group of scumbags down to accompany you! The people who beat my parents to death and ate me... just you wait... no rush, one by one!"

Ai Yue cleaned the entire room, wiping away all traces she had left behind. She set the air conditioner to the lowest temperature, entered her space to change into clean clothes, locked the doors and windows, and left under the cover of night.

Ai Yue wasn't worried at all about someone finding out because she knew their families weren't local and they had few friends. No one would come looking for them in such sweltering heat.

Furthermore, they lived in a building with one unit per floor. With the doors and windows tightly shut, no smell would waft out, so no one would discover their deaths.

Even if they were discovered, it would be a while later. By then, Ai Yue wouldn't be afraid. By then, people would be dying every day, and the police would be too busy with their own problems to handle this case. No one would care.

It was already 11 PM when Ai Yue drove home. Opening the door, she found her parents sitting expressionlessly on the sofa in the living room on the first floor.

"Mom, Dad? Why aren't you guys asleep yet? Is it too hot to sleep? I have a pocket air conditioner I got from an auction, you can carry it on you..."

"Alright, stop fussing and come sit down," Li Shilan said, patting the sofa beside her.

Ai Yue guessed that her parents already knew what she had just gone to do.

There was nothing that couldn't be said. Besides, her parents wanted to kill them even more than she did.

As expected, when they heard that Ai Yue had truly killed Han Xiao and the other and had handled the aftermath, they both breathed a sigh of relief.

It turned out that she wasn't the only one carrying the nightmare of her past life; her parents were too... "Mom, Dad, starting tomorrow, I'll teach you killing skills." Ai Yue held her father's and mother's hands and said word for word.

In the natural disasters of the Apocalypse, it was survival of the fittest.

From this moment on, the human way of survival had shifted to hell mode.

This was a world where the strong preyed on the weak. If one couldn't follow the rules of the game and make themselves as strong as possible, they would likely be devoured sooner or later.

After hearing Ai Yue's words, the old couple couldn't help but feel a tremor in their hearts. They looked at each other, then gripped Ai Yue's hands back and said, "We'll listen to you. We've been practicing physical fitness at the gym lately and have made great progress. Don't go easy on us when we practice tomorrow."

"That's right. The stronger we are, the longer we'll live in this man-eating Apocalypse."

"Mhm, our family will persist and survive together!"

Ai Yue hugged her parents and said softly.

Early the next morning, the outdoor temperature was 68 degrees as usual. Inside the villa, with the help of multiple air conditioners, it remained at room temperature. A single wall divided two different worlds.

"Yueyue, get up quickly! It's already 5 o'clock! We have to practice martial arts after breakfast!"

Downstairs, Ai Guosheng shouted with a voice full of energy.

Startled awake from her dream, Ai Yue flipped out of bed with a carp leap and stood barefoot on the floor, staring at the wall with dazed eyes, unable to snap out of it for a long time.

It wasn't until her father's shout came from downstairs again that she completely woke up.

She sighed helplessly. This was way too early. She had gone to sleep late last night, so why did she have to get up so early?

She moved her numb arm, patted her groggy head, and shouted downstairs, "I know! I'm coming down now!"

Ai Yue hurriedly washed up and went downstairs.

"Wow, it smells so good. Mom, what delicious food did you make?" Ai Yue's little nose twitched as she sniffed. "It's... banana porridge and pumpkin oil cakes."

"Do you have a dog's nose? You can even smell that?" Li Shilan brought the porridge to the table and teased with a smile.

"Mom, I can smell the food you cook from ten miles away. What's so strange about me smelling it?" Ai Yue flattered her.

"Hehe, you're so cheeky!" Li Shilan loved hearing people praise her cooking.

Ai Guosheng brought out two baskets of soup dumplings and a plate of cucumber pickles from the kitchen and placed them on the table, telling them to eat quickly.

Ai Yue browsed the news on her phone while eating.

Before she could look for more than a few seconds, she received a "loving touch" from Comrade Li Shilan.

Ai Yue cried out "Ah," clutching her head and saying pitifully, "Mom, what was that for?"

"What for? What do you think? Don't play with your phone while eating."

"I wasn't playing, I was just looking at the news."

"That's not allowed either. Can't you look after you finish eating? How much time could it take? Besides, you'll get indigestion doing that, and you'll become nearsighted!"

"Isn't that a bit of an exaggeration..." Ai Yue retorted defiantly.

Li Shilan glared at her. "What do you know? It's the Apocalypse now. If you become nearsighted, where are you going to find someone to make glasses for you? Could you make them yourself?"

Seeing her serious face, Ai Yue surrendered and put down her phone. "Alright, alright, alright, I won't look at it."

"Ai Yue, let me tell you, even though it's the Apocalypse and we don't know when we might lose our lives, we still need to maintain good habits. If you don't, you'll become lax. Once you're lax, a person's spirit is gone. And if your spirit is gone, how can you survive in the Apocalypse!"

Although she felt something was off, after thinking carefully, it seemed to make a lot of sense!

"Mhm, I got it, Mom. I'll definitely maintain good habits! But can we eat now?" Ai Yue suggested with a grin.

"Eat, eat quickly. It'll get cold in a bit." Li Shilan hurriedly placed a meat bun in her bowl.

Ai Yue turned her head silently to look out the window, said no more, and started eating in large gulps.