"Sis! Sis! Sis! Donât kill those who surrender! Itâs international custom! A custom, I tell you!"
Please spare me, Your Majesty! Queen! No, Goddess!
Ji Taixian was so scared he was actually crying. If he could earn this goddessâs forgiveness by kneeling on the ground, he was willing...
Xie Ning lowered her gaze to him, then glanced at the man curled up like a shrimp beside him. "So, it seems that Wang of yours wants to play dirty?"
"Excellent." Xie Ning smiled coldly and nodded slightly. "Uncle, drag them over here."
"On my way!" Song Youzhi set down his water bucket and eagerly ran to the utility room, dragging four young men, who were squealing like stuck pigs, to the doorway.
Xie Ning planted her foot on one of the young menâthe one with an ear studâand slowly crouched. The metal at her fingertip condensed into a blade, which she aimed at the young manâs pinky.
"I had Xiao Huang Mao bring you a message, didnât I? If you donât come and trade supplies for your people, Iâll send your Wang a finger every hour."
Ji Taixianâs eyes went wide, and he couldnât help but swallow hard. GULP.
Looking at his four companions, who were trembling like little quails, he stammered, "S-Sis... surely we donât have to go this far?"
"How do you like this grand welcome?" Xie Ning asked, raising an eyebrow, her gaze chilling as it fell upon him.
"Sis! Sis!" Seeing Xie Ningâs blade begin to descend, about to genuinely slice off his companionâs finger, Ji Taixianâs knees buckled. He instantly knelt, raising his hands high and shouting, "Dad! Daddy! Daddy!!"
Song Youzhi stared at the rather handsome young man, his face a mask of pure confusion.
âHeâs got the look of a pretty boy, which is hardly a redeeming quality, but I never thought heâd be crazy, too!â
Song Kexin, peeking from the window, witnessed her sisterâs second rule of survival in person.
âSo *this* is what she meant by "donât be afraid when you meet ghouls and monsters; just hit them with the socialist Iron Fist until they call you Daddy!"â
This was it.
A live tutorial, guaranteed results.
"W-we have supplies! Supplies! For, for you!" Ji Taixian yelled repeatedly. "Weâll trade! Weâll trade, trade!"
The words had barely left his mouth when the man began to convulse as if having an epileptic fit. As his body twitched, a torrent of itemsâCLATTER, CRACKLEârained down from his person, covering the floor in instant noodles, cookies, and more.
Song Kexin quickly opened the door and ran out to watch the spectacle. "Wow! I canât believe it! For a guy with such skinny arms and legs, you can sure hide a lot of stuff on you!"
Xie Ning silently turned her head away and, with a deadpan expression, instructed her clueless little sister, "Heâs a Space Ability User."
"What?" Song Kexinâs big, sparkling eyes widened, a look of pure envy on her face. "You mean like in novels, a Space you can enter and exit whenever you want, where you can farm, raise chickens and ducks, and it even has its own Spiritual Spring?"
Song Kexinâs eyes lit up. "Then you can just hide inside to escape whenever you run into zombies!"
Ji Taixian glanced at the girl and shook his head like a rattle drum. "No, no. Itâs just a fifty-square-meter storage space. People canât go inside."
âYeah, right. In her dreams.â
âFarm and raise chickens and ducks? A Spiritual Spring? What the hell is she talking about? Besides, look at me. Do I, with my young master airs, look like the farming type?!â
âOn top of that, if I could really enter and exit the Space whenever I wanted like she said, Iâd just stay inside all day and never come out. Then I wouldnât have to face those disgusting zombies.â
âAnd I *definitely* wouldnât have been beaten to a pulp by that queen today!â
"This is only enough to trade for half a person," Xie Ning said coldly.
Ji Taixian nodded repeatedly. "I get it, I get it! Iâll... Iâll go inside and get the things for you. Itâs a bit unseemly to do this out here at the main gate."
âThis Space Ability User is surprisingly fussy!â
âTaking things out at the gate is unseemly? Whatâs so unseemly about it?â