mygo, but Cthulhu

Li Xi couldn't help but sigh, but before she could point the key, the door opened first. Her sister looked at her with a smile, and noticed the fatigue on her face and then showed worry.

"Lixi, are you okay?! Why did you come back so late today? Did you run into any trouble?"

"It's just a little thing, don't worry about it, sister."

Li Xi shook her head silently. Although many things that happened recently made her stop thinking about the gap between herself and her sister, when she saw this familiar face that was somewhat similar to her own, that feeling of inferiority would come up again.

She didn't tell her about this for her sister's safety... But if she had to face it, she would definitely do better than herself. At least she wouldn't be like herself, unable to help anyone until now.

"Really? Lixi?"

Maki led her in, observing her expression and asked softly,

"I feel like you've been distracted lately, and you've started to look distressed... Is there something wrong with the band again? Can you tell me? Maybe I can help you."

"It's really okay, sister,"

Lixi sighed, tried to cope with it and turned to leave, but the next moment she felt her sleeve being pulled. Turning back blankly, she saw her sister staring at her expressionlessly.

The coldness in those dark eyes that had not been seen for a long time made Li Xi tremble, and then Maki seemed to realize that she was different, and quickly adjusted her expression and forced a smile.

"I'm sorry, Lixi, did I scare you? I was just a little anxious just now...your sleeve is torn,"

She gently pointed at Lixi's sleeve, and the latter discovered that there was a burnt bullet hole there. It seemed that a bullet had just passed by her during the fight, and she was lucky not to be injured.

"Um, this...I accidentally touched the maintenance machine earlier."

While secretly cursing herself for being careless, Li Xi nervously tried to explain that Maki's look just now made her subconsciously recall her childhood, and made her lower her head and dare not look Maki in the eye again.

"...Really? So that's all. I thought you were in some danger, Li Xi."

After a moment of silence, Lixi heard her sister's sudden realization, which made her feel relieved instantly. She nodded vigorously and quickly turned around and ran back to the room.

"boom,"

After the door was closed, Maki's smile gradually froze on her face. She slowly closed her eyes, gritted her teeth and tried hard to suppress her angry breathing, fearing that her loss of control would be noticed by Lixi.

There was no mistake... Those were bullet holes. Someone had shot Li Xi? And they had nearly injured her? How could this be possible... How dare they?!

She covered her head tightly, and pulled out several strands of hair in regret and anger. Her facial features were distorted by extreme murderous intent. If anyone could see it, they would definitely be shocked.

After a while, Shiina Maki finally calmed down. She took a deep breath, walked silently to Lixi's door, and listened carefully to the sounds inside to calm the uneasiness in her heart.

At the same time, the clueless Li Xi silently buried his head in the quilt. He felt more and more disgusted with his own incompetence and felt more and more guilty towards his sister.

It took her a long time to get up from the bed. She sat there listlessly for a while. She turned her head and suddenly saw a bird declaration booklet on the corner of the table. It seemed that her parents had casually distributed it there.

She remembered something, pursed her lips, and walked over to pick it up. After flipping through a few pages, she looked at the cuckoo in the manual with complicated feelings, and recalled her childhood memories of her sister. That smiling, childish face seemed to have an indescribable difference from the later one.

"Lixi, what do you think of the habits of cuckoos? Don't like them? That's normal. A child like you, Xiang, will definitely not like them after learning about them."

"But, Lixi, I actually find their wisdom admirable. Killing other chicks and laying their own eggs in other nests—isn't that a very convenient way to survive?"

"..."

Li Xi sighed, then tore off the page about the cuckoo, crumpled it up and threw it into the trash can.

She lay back on the bed, staring at the ceiling silently. The memory that slowly emerged before her eyes was of her sister tearing the information about the cuckoo into pieces and kneeling on the ground with an expression that was hard to tell.

Ever since that incident, my sister's condition has become increasingly unpredictable. She often loses focus and no longer mentions the cuckoo that she used to praise so highly. One day when she returned home, she saw this scene.

"Sister...what's wrong with you?"

"Lixi, I just realized how stupid I was before."

My sister smiled bitterly at that time.

"I don't like cuckoos anymore. They're disgusting. They kill their chicks just to reproduce... They're disgusting, aren't they?"

"..."

Shiina Riki didn't understand why her sister suddenly changed so much, but she only knew that her sister hated Dujuan from then on. Even just mentioning this word would change her mood, so Riki tried her best to avoid this in her life.

...Moreover, Li Xi felt that it was probably because of her that her sister suffered such pain. As a result, she, the culprit, had the nerve to feel inferior. It was really ridiculous.

Lixi closed her eyes, but her mind gradually began to recall her deeply buried memories.

Chapter 89 Li Xi's Childhood Experience

Shiina Riki used to be very afraid of her sister. The reason at that time had nothing to do with any sense of inferiority, but was due to something more complicated.

When she was a child, her elder sister was already a model good child. She learned everything very quickly. She could always master things easily that Shiina Riki found difficult to understand. At that time, Riki only felt admiration for her.

"Sister, you are so amazing! How did you do that? I can never learn it."

"Really? I think it's pretty easy. Maybe you can do it if you spend a little more time, Lixi."

At that time, Maki

She responded nonchalantly, and if there was no one else around, she would not have been interested in looking at Lixi. She would just be drawing obscure patterns on the sand that Lixi could not understand.

After receiving such responses so many times, Lixi couldn't help but feel discouraged. She thought that maybe her sister didn't want to talk to her much because she was not good enough, so she began to work hard... But it was not so easy to succeed.

But even though many attempts have failed, Riki still wants to understand her sister and shorten the distance between them. This unremitting persistence makes Maki's responses increasingly brief and indifferent.

One day, Maki took the initiative to take Riki to the park. Riki thought it was a good sign and was very happy. She prepared a gift for her sister that day, but Maki did not take her to play, but took her under a tree.

There was a wounded chick in the shadow cast by the leaves. Li Xi subconsciously wanted to go forward to rescue it, but Zhen Xi raised her hand expressionlessly to stop her and pointed at the tree.

"Lixi, why do you think it fell down?"

"Uh, maybe it fell down accidentally?"

"The chick doesn't have that kind of athletic ability yet. It was pushed down by the cuckoo because it wanted its children to get more food."

Maki explained softly, but the young Riki was hearing such a cruel thing for the first time and couldn't help but open his eyes wide.

"Really?"

"Well, the cuckoo's survival habits are worth learning from, aren't they? You may think it's selfish, but this selfishness gives it a greater reproductive advantage."

Maki smiled meaningfully, then slowly walked forward. Riki thought she was going to help the injured chick, but the next moment he was stunned to see her shoes stepping on the chick.

"This chick is a natural loser. Its fate is already sealed, so there's really no need to sympathize with it. We just need to end its life."

Under Li Xi's incomprehensible gaze, Maki, who was still a little girl, smiled and kept increasing the strength of her feet, crushing the baby bird back and forth. The shrill wails made Li Xi dizzy. She watched it being crushed into a ball of meat by her sister, but Maki didn't care at all. Instead, she wiped it off with a leaf in disgust.

The memories that followed were a mess. Li Xi only remembered that she panicked and hid under the quilt, shivering. She didn't dare to look her sister in the eye during dinner, for fear of seeing those dark eyes.

That was the first time Li Xi felt fear of his sister, because that smiling face clearly had no respect for life, only contempt and indifference.

...But even so, after hesitating, Li Xi still did not give up trying to understand her sister. She tried many methods and tried hard to communicate with her sister. At the same time, Maki's responses became more and more casual and perfunctory.

One day, Lixi was walking on the street with her sister, but she suddenly found her parents missing. When she was confused, a wet handkerchief covered her mouth and nose, causing her to quickly pass out.

After waking up, she found that she and her sister were tied up with ropes. Even now, her sister still had an indifferent expression on her face, but Lixi couldn't help crying softly.

In the darkness, Maki did not comfort her. Instead, she kept looking at the door as if waiting for something. Until the door was opened and the dazzling sunlight shone in, Lixi was horrified to find that several men with smiles on their faces were walking towards them.

"Hahaha, they caught them already? The information that person gave was actually correct. These two girls are really pretty."

"Indeed, but don't waste time. We need to enjoy it quickly. It will soon be unsafe here."

They walked towards them while talking. Although Lixi didn't understand what they meant by "enjoyment", she knew that it was definitely not a good thing.

In fear and despair, Li Xi suddenly realized that the gift she had prepared for her sister had not yet been given away... So she didn't think about anything at the time, but just handed the small ring she made to her sister and whispered firmly in her sister's ear,

"Sis...you're going to be okay. I love you."

Zhenxi looked at her with some doubts, while Lixi clenched her teeth. She tried to stop her body from shaking, got up and looked at the men.

"Uncles, please don't hurt my sister. Please just target me. I won't resist."

"This brat still wants to be a hero? Hahahaha!"

Her words made the men burst into laughter. They found it funny and agreed without hesitation. They pulled her up and prepared to take off her clothes.

Just as Li Xi closed her eyes, she heard her sister's complicated voice.

"Bastards, I suggest you choose me."

"What did you say?! Kid?!"

The men were immediately enraged. Lixi was horrified and wanted to stop them immediately, but she was completely unable to stop them. She could only watch her sister, with her head down, being dragged into the room by them.

At that time, the young Lixi collapsed. She cried and called for her sister desperately, but all she heard was the men's excited laughter. After struggling desperately, she could only fall to the ground weakly, trembling and crying softly.

After a while, the police rushed in. The thugs rushed towards the police with roaring eyes and red eyes. Without exception, they were beaten into a hornet's nest. When the police untied the rope on Lixi, she immediately got up and rushed to the room desperately.

"Lixi, I'm fine."

A hoarse voice sounded, and Lixi was stunned. She only saw her sister in tattered clothes holding the door frame. Her neck was full of marks from being strangled, and the exposed skin was bruised and purple. Her messy hair covered her face, making it impossible to see her expression.

Their parents were finally found and sent them for examination immediately, crying. After an anxious wait, Lixi learned that her sister was not really hurt and the criminals had not had time to take the last step.

Since then, guilt has haunted Shiina Riki like a nightmare. She has dreamed of that scene many times, but every time she wanted to suffer in her sister's place, she could only watch her sister being dragged away.

Fortunately, Maki was not affected by the incident at all. The psychologist told her parents in surprise that she did not look like she had experienced such a terrible thing, and her mental age was not even like that of a normal child.

Moreover, Li Xi could often feel Maki staring at her. That look was no longer as blank as before, but began to be complicated. One day when Li Xi was helping her peel an apple, Maki suddenly spoke softly,

"Lixi, why did you stand up at that time? You knew that you would encounter terrible things, didn't you?"

"Yes, I was really scared at the time... But rather than letting my sister go through that, I would rather let me bear it instead."

Riki answered without hesitation, while Maki was stunned for a moment.

"Why? From the perspective of biological survival, you shouldn't have such thoughts at all."

"Because I love you, sister,"

Although she was just a child at the time, Li Xi was able to understand the meaning of the word. She answered frankly and seriously, while Maki's expression became confused.

"What is love...? I see this description all the time, but isn't that just a boring marketing tactic?"

"No matter what others think, at least I can be sure that I love you, sister."

"...even though I was so indifferent to you before

You? Even though I scared you to tears when I crushed the chicks to death?

"Because no matter what, you are my sister. How could I hate you for that?"

"..."

There was a long silence. Maki said nothing at that time. Finally, she just got up silently and returned to her room. When Lixi saw her again, she had torn up the information about the cuckoo bird.

Chapter 90 Massacre

"My fellow countrymen, you should now understand the truth of this world. Now, I need you to sincerely believe in the great Lord..."

"boom!"

In the dim room, a man was preaching devoutly to the people below. But just when he was halfway through his words, the door was suddenly and roughly opened. He turned his head in anger, and when he saw the hideous bird-beak mask, he couldn't help but open his eyes wide.

"Ms. Dujuan, why are you here so suddenly..."

"Let me ask you, what have you been doing until now?! Shiina Riki was attacked, and you didn't notice anything?!"

The furious woman roared and grabbed his collar. The ferocity in her voice made the man tremble in panic and tried to explain himself.

"W-what? Was she attacked?! Excuse me, ma'am, we'll send someone to investigate right away."

"I've already figured it out, and you've only just realized it now. This means you're completely useless, understand?"

Dujuan sneered, and the man realized something and wanted to beg for mercy in fear.

"I'm so sorry! Ms. Dujuan! We will never do it again..."

The next moment, his head was crushed by Du Juan's hand, and brain matter and blood spurted out, covering the trembling believers around him.

"This is a warning. If something like this happens again next time, I won't just clean up one person."

She spoke softly and coldly, while the others nodded desperately. The dead silence lasted for a few seconds, and then one of them mustered up the courage to speak cautiously.

"Well, ma'am, I have no intention of making excuses, but there is a reason for our negligence this time. Ruoye Mu will be attending the Meizhu family's banquet soon. Gluttony is a virtue advocated by the Lord, and we are also working hard to prepare for it, which is why we made some mistakes..."

"Really? Then you'd better not make such mistakes again."

Du Juan warned coldly, waved his hand and turned away.

"I've already investigated. Those mercenaries are peripheral members of a mafia organization. Many people will die tonight. You'd better hide yourselves and avoid being noticed by the committee."

"understand!"

Completely ignoring the nervous voices behind her, Shiina Maki thoughtfully took off her mask, returned to a secret base, and picked out some seductive clothes.

Since someone almost hurt Lixi, they must pay the price. However, she found that the committee was also investigating the matter, so she needed to act before them. In addition, she had no time to collect intelligence, so pretending to be a weak woman and being taken in voluntarily was the best option.