Holding Their Own Space, the Family Returns to the Apocalypse

173: Throw them out!Ye Rui also pouted her small mouth and said loudly in anger, ”Exactly! You guys take all the benefits, leaving us with no say at all. Won’t our lives be restricted everywhere in the future? And yet you claim life hasn’t changed much? Who are you kidding?”

Mo Li was caught in the middle, looking from one to the other. ”Ye Rui...”

”Hmph... Big Brother Mo Li is also a bad person who came to bully us!” Ye Rui ignored Mo Li in anger, turning her small face away and refusing to look at him.

”Hey, I didn’t, I’m not! I would never bully you! You have to believe me. We’ve gone through life and death together; we have a bond forged in blood.” Mo Li looked anxious and immediately explained.

”Hmph, you came with them, so I don’t really believe you anymore,” Ye Rui continued.

”No, oh, I’m being wronged, I’m truly being wronged! I just came along to see the excitement because I had nothing better to do. I really didn’t get involved in this. You have to believe me.”

”Really?” Ye Rui asked with a look of heavy suspicion.

”Really, truer than real gold!” Mo Li explained earnestly, nearly swearing an oath.

”Well, fine, I’ll believe you just this once for now,” Ye Rui said reluctantly.

”Oh, thank you, my little ancestor, for still being willing to believe me!” Mo Li’s heart finally settled back into his chest.

This was the life partner he had set his sights on long ago; he couldn’t let things be ruined so easily.

Gu Xiheng’s suggestion was flatly rejected by Ai Yue. Gu Xiheng thought it over and continued:

”How about this: you let us onto the mountain, and we’ll leave you the activity space you need. The rest of the area will belong to the Safety Tower. We’ll each mind our own business!”

Ai Yue was furious upon hearing this. ”Get lost! How is this any different from before?”

Gu Xiheng’s expression also soured. ”Then what do you want? You tell me!”

”What do I want? I want all of you to get the hell off this mountain and stop eyeing our territory.” Ai Yue was completely enraged and said to Ye Rui, ”Throw them out!”

Ye Rui’s gaze turned sharp as she shouted, ”Yes!”

With that, the two sisters acted in unison.

At this point, Ye Rui didn’t care about whether she destroyed the trees. With a flick of her finger and a wave of her hand, violent thunder transformed into rings of lightning that attacked Gu Xiheng and the others.

Ai Yue wasn’t idle either. With a rub of her hands, lightning even more massive than Ye Rui’s formed above Gu Xiheng’s group. Under Ai Yue’s precise control, the entire mass of lightning split into countless small thunderclouds that hovered over everyone’s heads.

Precisely striking every single person.

Except for those still unconscious in the ground, everyone else in Gu Xiheng’s team suffered the baptism of lightning.

”Ai Yue, Ye Rui, stop it! I don’t want to be bald! Don’t strike me!” Ai Yue gave Gu Xitian special treatment, with every bolt aimed at burning off her hair.

However, at every critical moment, a chivalrous protector would step forward, pulling her into his arms to shield her from the lightning. Only some residual electricity leaked onto her; it was harmless, though her hair was scorched yellow and stood straight up.

But Yan Li, who was blocking the lightning for her, wasn’t so lucky. After being struck by a double dose of lightning, not only was his hair almost gone, but his skin was split and his flesh was raw.

Even so, he gritted his teeth and endured, shielding Gu Xitian as they fled down the mountain.

Everyone was in a frantic scramble, constantly trying to fight back, but their Superpower levels were too low to withstand the combined assault of Ai Yue and Ye Rui.

Even Gu Xiheng couldn’t hold his ground; he could only lead the remnants of his group down the mountain first.

When they had all escaped to the bottom, the thunderclouds overhead finally vanished. They then discovered that the Black-clad warriors who had been buried in the soil and electrocuted earlier were all safely piled at the foot of the mountain—not one missing, not one dead.

The group that had been driven down the mountain in such a pathetic state—except for Gu Xitian, who had been protected by Yan Li the whole time and remained uninjured—everyone else had sustained varying degrees of injury. Hardly any hair was left on their heads after the lightning strikes; even the beautiful Cheng Siyu hadn’t been spared.

The great beauty had been turned into a soot-faced, bald ”nun.”

Cheng Siyu touched her bald head, feeling so humiliated that she wanted to die.

She quickly tore a large piece of cloth from her clothing to wrap around her head, not daring to let Gu Xiheng see her in such an ugly and wretched state.

Gu Xiheng sat on the ground, staring blankly at the mountain, without sparing Cheng Siyu a single glance.

”Ahhhh!”

”Ai Yue is too much! Brother, go kill her! She’s not human! How could she use lightning to strike us? My hair was almost ruined by her!” Gu Xitian, seeing they were safe, couldn’t help but scream hysterically.

Snapped back to reality by the shouting, Gu Xiheng frowned. As the numbness in his body faded, he slowly climbed up from the ground and said, ”What are you screaming for? You’re not dead. Besides, isn’t your hair still growing on your head?”

”Look at Siyu. She’s a girl too. Your hair is still there, but hers is gone just like ours. She isn’t making a scene like you, wailing as if the world is ending. It’s just hair, isn’t it? It’ll grow back after a while.”

Hearing his words, Cheng Siyu felt both angry and humiliated. It was an absolute social death, and her hatred for Ai Yue deepened further.

”Ah! You’re such a straight man! What do you know? This is hair! My hair is my second face! Since that bitch Ai Yue dared to disfigure me, I want her dead! Brother, you must avenge me!” Gu Xitian held her frizzy hair, refusing to let the matter go.

Gu Xiheng really couldn’t understand. It was just some hair; why act like a lunatic? His mood was already at rock bottom, and she was still causing trouble for him.

So he said coldly, ”I think you don’t want me to avenge you; you want me to end up without a whole corpse.”

”Brother, what are you saying?”

”Seeking out Ai Yue for revenge? Do you think we aren’t miserable enough? She’s so powerful. For the sake of a few of your hairs, you want me to go and throw my life away in front of her?”

”No, I...” Gu Xitian hurriedly tried to explain.

”If not, then shut up. Does this even count as a problem?” Gu Xiheng finished coldly and ignored her. He truly didn’t understand why Gu Xitian would be so reckless over some damaged hair.

Being scolded, Gu Xitian shut her mouth aggrievedly and shrank to the side, no longer speaking.

Usually, if Gu Xitian was wronged, Cheng Siyu would be the first to comfort her. But now, she was even more miserable than Gu Xitian and had no mental energy to comfort anyone else.

Once the numbness had completely faded from everyone, Gu Xiheng ordered his men to set up camp on the spot. He then made a satellite call to Gu Yan to inform him of the situation and request reinforcements.

After Ai Yue’s Earth Evasion Technique Superpower was upgraded, she could control the soil of the earth at will. After she used her Earth-controlling superpower to transport the people she had dragged into the ground to the foot of the mountain and drove Gu Xiheng’s group away from Nameless Mountain, she took Ye Rui home to report the results of the battle.

After hearing Ai Yue’s account, Ai Guosheng and his wife both frowned, feeling that things had become troublesome.