Mu Cheng walked over and sat beside Tang Nuo. Looking at him, now completely quiet, she spoke softly.
“You’re really a strange person. But why?”
“Is it because of the good education you received since childhood, making you place your own life aside and instinctively protect others no matter what? Or is it because of my brother that you wanted to protect me?”
She looked at the silent Tang Nuo again.
“Or is it like Grandpa said?”
“Ah!”
The prisoners around them, who had been stunned by everything that had just happened, finally came back to their senses and screamed in terror.
In the cell next door, two men saw that the iron bars had been broken. Hearing the screams, they rushed over, climbed over the broken bars, and tried to escape.
Without hesitation, Mu Cheng took a gun out of her space and shot the two men who were just about to climb out.
When the others saw that such a young, seemingly innocent girl could calmly shoot people to death, and with such composure while doing it, they were instantly terrified. They didn’t dare make a sound. Everyone shrank into the corners of their cells, trying to make themselves as inconspicuous as possible, afraid they would be the next to die.
Mu Cheng sat there for a long time before finally letting out a sigh.
“Phew… Tang Nuo, Tang Nuo. Because you’re Tang Nuo, I gave up the crystal core and chose to save you. Don’t end up like those people and turn around to harm me.”
“Hm… actually, forget it. I’ll observe you for a while first. Once I’m sure you won’t become like the others, I’ll completely cure you.”
Muttering to herself, Mu Cheng stood up with the gun in her hand and looked at the trembling people in the surrounding cells.
“Sorry. None of you can be allowed to live.”
After saying that, she stepped out with the gun and began shooting the prisoners one by one, killing everyone in the prison without hesitation.
Some people might think Mu Cheng was too cruel, but no matter what others said, she would still do the same.
These people were vicious criminals to begin with. Besides, they had seen her take things out of thin air, and they had also witnessed Tang Nuo shifting between being human and becoming a corpse-mutated being.
If she left them alive, once someone among them awakened an ability, they could easily escape the prison.
By then, both she and Tang Nuo would be in danger—perhaps even hunted down by humans working together.
So even though her conscience told her that she shouldn’t kill innocent people recklessly, she still killed the dozen or so prisoners in the jail without hesitation.
After dealing with them, Mu Cheng returned to Tang Nuo’s side, tossed the unconscious Tang Nuo into her space, and then left the prison for the nearby armory.
She took out a large bathtub, filled it with stream water, and then placed the unconscious Tang Nuo inside it.
The stream water could help remove the corpse poison from Tang Nuo’s body, but stream water alone couldn’t completely cure him. To fully heal him, he would need to be placed in the hot spring pool inside her space.
From her experience in her previous life, if an infected person didn’t drink the stream water in time, staying in the hot spring pool was the only way to completely expel the toxins from the human body. Back then, she had used the hot spring pool to save the lives of Cheng Jiang and Lin Mi’er.
Unfortunately, not only did they fail to thank her, they even secretly plotted against her and had her tied to the city wall.
Shaking off those unpleasant memories, she took out a lollipop, unwrapped it, and put it into her mouth. She loved sweets—her favorite was candy. Whenever she felt unhappy, eating one would gradually improve her mood; when she was already happy, eating one would make her feel even better.
Seeing Tang Nuo quietly soaking in the bathtub, she also took out a blanket, wrapped it around herself, and lay down in the corner to rest.