Chapter 544: She Slandered Sister
Chapter 544: She Slandered Sister
“She must be faking it, trying to get sympathy.”
“Xu Li’er, stop pretending. You can’t escape this time.”
“Just acting. So fake!”
When no further strange events happened, the meddlesome women began cursing again. One of them gave Xu Li’er a shove, easily knocking her into the snow.
Xu Li’er lay motionless, eyes open, staring blankly.
When Wang Wei tugged at her, she moved stiffly, like a wooden post—pulled one way, her body followed mechanically. It was unnervingly strange.
An Ran stepped into the RV. The moment her eyes fell on Little Mint, pale in Zhao Ru’s arms, she understood. Just one glance, and An Ran understood—Little Mint had pulled something out of Xu Lier’s brain.
That was the real reason Xu Lier had suddenly gone stupid.
“Mint,” An Ran asked softly, sitting beside her, “can you really take things out of a living person’s brain?”
An Ran sat down beside her. Seeing the girl trembling uncontrollably, she placed a low-grade crystal core into Little Mint’s palm and said gently, with concern: “Do you really hate Xu Lier that much?”
Little Mint nodded weakly. Her half-lidded eyes looked exhausted as she leaned against Zhao Ru and slowly absorbed the crystal core An Ran had given her.
Her power was unlike strength or elemental abilities. Strength-Type Ability Users didn’t need crystal cores, and elemental-type ability users could do with one at a time. But Little Mint’s ability consumed energy differently. Crystal cores helped restore her slightly, but true recovery only came from sleep.
She couldn’t absorb advanced crystal cores, no matter how many she was given—only the most basic ones. After using them, she would sleep, and upon waking, everything would return to normal.
“She slandered sister.” Little Mint managed only those few words before slipping into sleep in Zhao Ru’s arms.
In this world, she hated anyone who hurt An Ran the most. Anyone who made An Ran unhappy—she wanted them dead. Anyone who dared harm An Ran, she would kill.
Tonight, she wanted Xu Li’er dead. That was why she tried to rip out all of Xu Lier’s brain tissue. But it was her first time attempting this on a living person, and since she wasn’t extracting a crystal core, her control was immature. In the end, she could only remove part of Xu Lier’s brain.
That was why Xu Lier had suddenly become an idiot. With an incomplete brain, it’s inevitable.
An Ran brushed the hair from Mint’s cheek with a sigh of concern.
Seeing that she was asleep, Zhao Ru carefully shifted and laid her flat on the sofa.
Hengheng, sitting nearby to watch over Doll, quickly pulled a blanket over her.
Zhao Ru, who had gone to fetch a blanket herself, paused when she saw Hengheng had already done it.
Setting her cup aside, she turned to An Ran. “What’s wrong? Do you think Little Mint was too harsh?”
After all, Xu Li’er had only slandered An Ran. For Little Mint to attack her so viciously—by normal standards, it was excessive.
An Ran only shook her head, unwilling to criticize. She could not bear to judge Little Mint’s extreme sense of right and wrong.
Within the team, Little Mint’s past was never spoken of. Outside a select few, no one knew what she had endured.