Originated from mountains and seas, life never ends

The girl's eyes were fixed on the basket of mice and her face was pale.

"One for each person. As you can see, these mice are alive and healthy. Your mission today is to kill them. Do it before the sun sets."

Feng Yaoshan said slowly, without a change in the smile on his face.

"If you don't complete the task, you will be punished."

As he said this, he asked someone to come forward and take it.

Most of the children looked natural and relaxed when holding the mouse in their hands. They took the mouse to find their familiar companions and discussed how to kill it.

The girl's body was stiff and she looked quite inert. She pinched the mouse's tail with her fingers but was bitten hard.

The girl felt pain and quickly changed her hand to grab the back of its neck, afraid that it would run away.

Qin Xiao was the last one to receive it. He didn't know if it was intentional, but Shen Hao was particularly casual when throwing it to him, which was completely different from when he gave it to others. Moreover, the rat was very big, almost as big as Qin Xiao's four hands.

Qin Xiao did not leave. He clamped the mouse's head with two fingers, looked at it, and thought it was quite cute.

Qin Xiao touched the mouse's furry head, looked into its black eyes, and pinched its little paws.

The mouse's fur is long and smooth, and feels very comfortable to touch.

"Is it enough to just kill him?" Qin Xiao looked at Feng Yaoshan and asked him for confirmation.

Feng Yaoshan looked at Qin Xiao's actions and felt a little strange. After all, few people would show a gentle attitude towards a species like mice.

"After killing it, just put the body in this basket." Shen Hao nodded his chin. It was the basket used to hold mice.

Qin Xiao nodded and looked down at the relatively docile mouse in his hand, without any murderous intent.

Then, he pinched the mouse's head with one hand and its tail with the other, and pulled hard on both sides at the same time.

The mouse died before it could even squeak.

Qin Xiao pinched the lifeless body and threw it back into the box: "Okay."

It took less than two minutes from the time I got it to the time I finished it.

There was no trace of murderous intent when he was killing, just like the calm caress at the beginning. There was no change in his breath or eyes in between.

Feng Yaoshan's expression changed slightly, but the smile on his face remained the same: "Okay."

After Qin Xiao, another child took it.

"Teacher, it's done."

A familiar sweet voice came, Qin Xiao turned his head and was surprised to find that it was the girl with an ugly face just now.

The corpse in the girl's hands was bloody, completely different from Qin Xiao's.

The mouse's fur was completely stained with blood, and its head was hanging straight down. The girl pinched the tip of the mouse's tail with her fingers, and her fingers were also stained red.

The girl's body trembled slightly, revealing her panic.

Feng Yaoshan took it with a smile, and was stunned when he saw her pupils.

Qin Xiao didn't care at first, but when the girl hurriedly turned her head, his eyes met hers.

Qin Xiao was stunned for a moment.

The girl's pupils were bloodshot. Her originally light brown pupils had turned completely red, as if they were dyed red by blood.

When the girl saw Qin Xiao's gaze, she quickly looked away and blinked. Her pupils returned to normal, as if it was just an illusion.

But Qin Xiao was sure that he was not mistaken.

"You can arrange the rest of the day as you wish." Feng Yaoshan said to them in a gentle tone.

The girl nodded and avoided Qin Xiao's gaze.

Corpsebinder...?

Qin Xiao remembered how the excited man addressed him, and what Qin Xiuyun said later when he introduced the Corpse Binder to him.

[Master, are you here? 】

This was the first time Qin Xiao called Mang Ling since he woke up.

【explain. 】

[That girl... I heard that there is a kind of evil cultivator called Corpse Binders in this world. They...]

Qin Xiao told Mang Ling what he knew, including the confrontation between himself and Xie Er.

[They are not using the same thing as you.]

Mang Ling's voice was extremely calm, without any ripples.

[That human had too much death energy on him, so he must have killed a lot of creatures. The rat in her hand died from blood bursting all over its body, but she probably did this for the first time and had no experience, which led to it being so bloody.]

[Blood vessels burst? Can't she control blood as well?] Qin Xiao was puzzled.

[It’s different.] Mang Ling didn’t explain in detail, but just told him this.

[She probably didn't use something called attributes.]

Qin Xiao frowned and wanted to ask more questions, but when he saw that Mang Ling didn't want to explain in detail, he hesitated for a moment.

Qin Xiao left Feng Yaoshan and the others, looking at the kids who were in a mess on the training ground, feeling somewhat confused.

Looking more closely, they found that some mice had escaped, and the children accidentally injured many of them as they tried to catch them. This caused the children's hands to tremble, and they ended up in the same situation as them.

Qin Xiao saw the dazzling white color at a glance, and after walking closer and seeing the situation clearly, he couldn't help but frown.

"...What are you doing?" Qin Xiao asked.

Mo Hanyu frantically tried to stop the rat from running around on him. The rat was small, but agile and skilled, running around on Mo Hanyu's shoulders, arms, and waist.

Qin Xiao: ...

Qin Xiao stretched out his hand and accurately grabbed the scurrying mouse.

Mo Hanyu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw the mouse coming down.

"I let it run away accidentally. Luckily I didn't jump down." Mo Hanyu said, feeling somewhat relieved.

Qin Xiao nodded and returned the small thing in his hand to him.

"Hurry up and do it. Everything will be fine once you're done, right?" Qin Xiao said.

Mo Hanyu looked at Qin Xiao's empty hands, a little curious: "What about yours?"

Qin Xiao: "It's done."

Mo Hanyu was a little surprised: "So fast?"

"It's just a mouse, how long does it take?" Qin Xiao didn't care.

Mo Hanyu looked at the squeaking mouse in his hand, but he couldn't bring himself to kill it.

Qin Xiao noticed that Mo Hanyu looked strange and asked, "What's wrong?"

Mo Hanyu bit his lip in embarrassment: "What should I do?"

"The easiest way is to pull its neck and tail on both sides, that's it." Qin Xiao pointed to the location and said, "If you don't want to do that, you can just freeze to death. Isn't your attribute ice? You can freeze it instantly."

Mo Hanyu's palms were sweating. He stared at the struggling mouse but did not move for a long time. Soon, cold sweat began to appear on his forehead.

Finally, as if he had made up his mind, he grabbed its tail with one hand and grabbed its head with the other, wanting to listen to Qin Xiao's words and pulled hard.

At this moment, the mouse rubbed his palm in a humane way for some reason.

Mo Hanyu hesitated again.

For some reason, I suddenly lost strength in my hands.

Qin Xiao saw that Mo Hanyu's hands were shaking constantly and was a little confused.

Didn't you notice he had tremors before?

Qin Xiao didn't quite understand Mo Hanyu's complicated feelings.

Mo Hanyu frowned, and the sweat from his forehead flowed into his eyes, stinging them.

“…I’m sorry, I can’t do it.”

Mo Hanyu lowered his head and spoke softly.

Qin Xiao was puzzled: "Why?"

"I... I haven't killed these. It..." Mo Hanyu looked at the little mouse in his hand that suddenly became quiet with complicated eyes.

"It was biting you just now." Qin Xiao noticed the scratches on Mo Hanyu's neck.

"But..." Mo Hanyu pursed his lips, still feeling reluctant.

"It will die in the end anyway, and maybe you can give it a quick death." Qin Xiao said calmly.

"What does it mean to feel happy?" Mo Hanyu lowered his head and asked in a muffled voice.

"...died in an instant, and lost consciousness before the pain even reached him." Qin Xiao thought for a moment and said.

Seeing that Mo Hanyu was still hesitating, Qin Xiao did not force him. After all, there was still a lot of time and he could wait slowly.

"I... ask, ask."

A trembling voice came into his ears, Qin Xiao looked and found it was Yin Xihui.

"It... why is it still moving?!" A rare crack appeared on Yin Xihui's usually gentle face. He was holding a bloody object in his hand, which was stained with a lot of sticky blood.

It's even bloodier than what that girl did.

Qin Xiao was a little surprised.

But when looking over, I found that the bloody rat had a wound on its neck, but it might be that the wound was not placed in the right place, so although a large amount of blood spurted out, it was still alive and gasping for breath, and its body kept shaking.

Yin Xihui was breathing heavily, as if he was very nervous, and his hands were shaking constantly.

After all, it was not easy for Qin Xiao to take over and complete the task for him, so he just took a glance and thought of a method that was most suitable for him.

"Your head is twisted." Qin Xiao said lightly.

"How, how do you twist it?" Yin Xihui's face turned pale.

Qin Xiao made a motion of twisting the lid: "Just twist it like this."

Yin Xihui's face became even uglier.

Qin Xiao looked at him, then at Mo Hanyu.

The rat in Mo Hanyu's hand smelled blood and began to struggle continuously.

Mo Hanyu clasped his hands stiffly to stop it from escaping.

Yin Xihui was different from Mo Hanyu. Qin Xiao had already given a solution. He did not hesitate for long. He only paused for two seconds and then imitated Qin Xiao and broke all the rat's cervical vertebrae.

He even heard the sound of breaking.

"Is this okay?" Yin Xihui asked, looking at the lifeless mouse.

"Yeah." Qin Xiao said perfunctorily and looked at Mo Hanyu.

Mo Hanyu knew what he meant. He looked at what Yin Xihui had in his hand, and couldn't help but think of what Qin Xiao had said.

Give me a pleasure...

Mo Hanyu looked at the mouse in his hand, which was extremely uneasy. If he continued like this, it would only increase its inner fear. It would die in the end anyway, so it might as well be quick about it.

Mo Hanyu thought about it and his eyes calmed down.

Recalling what Qin Xiao said, he pinched the neck with one hand and grabbed the tail with the other, pulling hard.

The sound of broken bones was particularly clear and loud.

Qin Xiao was a little surprised when he saw his clean and neat movements.

Even though he was still unable to do it just now...

Mo Hanyu lowered his head, staring at the lifeless corpse in his hand with an unclear expression, and an unknown light flashed in his blue eyes.

"Indeed...it's quite simple."

Mo Hanyu said softly.

Qin Xiao felt that there was something wrong with his tone and looked at him.

Mo Hanyu didn't look at him, but looked up at Yin Xihui and smiled at him: "What should we do after we're done?"

"Just hand it over there." Qin Xiao pointed in the direction of Fengyao Mountain.

"Okay." Mo Hanyu still didn't look at him and responded politely.

Qin Xiao frowned.

Looking at Mo Hanyu's back, I felt like something was wrong.

"What's wrong with you?" Yin Xihui looked at Mo Hanyu. He naturally noticed that there was something wrong with Mo Hanyu's attitude.

"No, nothing." Mo Hanyu looked normal, as if nothing had really happened.

Yin Xihui frowned slightly and glanced at Qin Xiao who was not far away: "Then why are you...?"

"Nothing." Mo Hanyu said, as if he remembered something and lowered his eyes slightly, "I was just wondering... why he can look at this kind of thing so calmly."

"...Aren't they very calm?" Yin Xihui pointed at the children not far away who were still discussing how to kill, and those who had already been killed and were about to hand in.

"No. They are not calm, they feel novel and excited." Mo Hanyu retorted, "They are not afraid of this, and they think playing with killing is a very interesting thing. I won't say anything about this. But Qin Xiao gives me a different feeling."

"He seems to have no emotions." Mo Hanyu said, "He is indifferent to everything. He is not as excited about the killing as they are, nor does he feel any discomfort. All his actions are as if he is doing a mission. Although they are perfect, they give people a cold feeling."

"..." Yin Xihui was silent for a moment, then asked weakly, "But... aren't we on a mission now? There's nothing wrong with him doing this, right?"

"I didn't say he did a bad job." Mo Hanyu frowned and looked at him, as if he felt that he didn't understand what he meant. But after thinking about it, he gave up discussing this issue with him, "Forget it, you are right, this is what I should do."

Seeing that Mo Hanyu had ended the topic, Yin Xihui did not force a response.

Mo Hanyu frowned, thinking about something.

He was just a little uneasy.

Qin Xiao gave him the feeling that he had no emotions. He had always been like that, with a calm expression, unmoved by anything, and without too many emotions. Even though his attention to them had obviously increased now, they would take the initiative to find him. But he felt that Qin Xiao had not put any emotions into it.

He seemed to be just using a fixed template, as if he was imitating the way other friends get along with each other.

Mo Hanyu thought of Qin Xiao's indifferent attitude towards the passing of life. Unlike other children, Qin Xiao clearly knew the meaning of the passing of life and what killing was like, so he was not as excited as other children, but he was not like Mo Hanyu, who felt pity or sadness about it.

What if someone died in front of him? Would his emotions fluctuate?

This thought suddenly popped up in Mo Hanyu's mind, but he immediately realized that Qin Xiao had already given the answer to this question when they first met.

That night, in the inn full of dead bodies, he was still so calm, and his answers to his questions were so matter-of-fact and without any emotion.

Mo Hanyu realized belatedly that his heart was chilled.

"Tell me, if you arrived at a place to rest and found out in the middle of the night that everyone inside was dead, how would you feel?" Mo Hanyu suddenly spoke and looked at Yin Xihui.

They had already handed over the body and it was not far away from Shen Hao and the others.

When Shen Hao heard Mo Hanyu's words, his eyes changed and he looked at him calmly.

Yin Xihui was stunned for a moment, as if he had not expected Mo Hanyu to suddenly ask such a question.

"...It would be quite scary, right? After all, we don't know what the cause of their death was." Yin Xihui thought about it, put himself in the situation, and when he thought of that scene, he couldn't help but let out a "hiss".

"I can't help but wonder if the murderer has not left, and if he is staring at me from somewhere...I feel creepy and uneasy, right?"

Yin Xihui answered Mo Hanyu's question seriously.

"Then when you find there is no danger, will you go back to the house and have another sleep?" Mo Hanyu asked.

"How is that possible?!" Yin Xihui couldn't help but feel his hair stand on end just thinking about it, "I'll probably stay awake all night."

……

Mo Hanyu lowered his eyes: "Really?"

Yin Xihui looked at him hesitantly: "...What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Mo Hanyu smiled, "Thinking about what happened before, I suddenly thought of this question and wanted to ask."

After a moment of silence, he asked again, "Can you really not sleep?"

"Of course!" Yin Xihui expressed his affirmation again.

Mo Hanyu nodded, confirming that his behavior at that time was what a normal person should have.

…No, you’re not normal either.

Shen Hao looked at Mo Hanyu secretly with a strange look in his eyes.

Would a normal child listen to the advice and go to bed? Would he think about the safety of the mountain and the hotel as soon as he realized it?

It’s good enough that you don’t get scared and run away.

Shen Hao recalled the expression on Mo Hanyu's face when he was assessing the pros and cons, glanced at Yin Xihui who was completely unaware of this, and couldn't help but smile.

"What's wrong?" Feng Yaoshan, who was standing next to him, noticed his expression and asked.

Shen Hao shook his head: "Nothing, I just thought of something fun."