I said you are all war criminals

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The Gothic girl landed hard on the ground, but luckily Akito used his body as a cushion to prevent her from breaking her body.

Anyway, the crisis is over...

……?

Li Xi raised his head and looked at the sky.

She had just kicked a noose.

And now, how many ropes are falling from the sky?

Hundreds, no, thousands of twisted ropes poured down from the sky like dense raindrops, interweaving into a huge web of death, shrouding the entire street in a suffocating shadow.

Those ropes were not ordinary hemp ropes or steel cables. They flashed with a strange dark red light, pulsating like blood vessels, and exuded a creepy evil aura.

The ropes indiscriminately wrapped around the necks of passers-by, hanging them high up, causing them to struggle and suffocate in the air.

Li Xi's heart sank suddenly.

What she had just severed was but a drop in the ocean. At this moment, countless dark red ropes, like tentacles reaching out from hell, densely dangled from the sky, shrouding the entire street in a shadow of death.

"Damn..."

Li Xi cursed under his breath.

If these are all curses, how many people are there...how many people are cursed?

Li Xi looked around, and all he saw was a hellish scene. Hundreds of people were hanging in mid-air by dark red ropes, struggling helplessly like animals in a slaughterhouse.

Suffocated screams and desperate cries intertwined into one, echoing in the air like a symphony of death.

hateful!

It is impossible to save everyone by your own strength!

But Lixi had no time to hesitate or be afraid.

Li Xi growled, jumped up again, concentrated all his strength on his right leg, and kicked hard at a rope that was entangled with the young girl.

"Rider Kick!"

Lixi's knight's kick landed squarely on target, snapping the noose around the young girl's neck. She plummeted to the ground, gasping for air and still trembling. Lixi didn't have time to check on her; he turned and locked onto his next target—a boy whose face was already turning purple, and who looked asphyxiated.

Li Xi jumped high again and launched a knight kick.

One, two, three.

Li Xi squeezed out all his strength and continuously launched knight kicks to break the ropes.

The fourth time, a boy in a high school uniform and headphones, seemingly still unsure of the situation, was let down. He took off his headphones, rubbed his neck, and looked confused, as if he still thought he was just imagining being dragged up.

The fifth time, a girl with pigtails and a junior high school uniform was rescued. The strangulation marks on her neck were so deep that they were frightening. She clutched her chest in shock, gasping for air.

The sixth time, the tall boy in basketball uniform landed on the ground. He staggered a few steps, knelt on the ground, and then fell down.

The seventh time, the eighth time, the ninth time.

After the tenth Knight Kick, Lixi felt her breathing quicken. An indescribable feeling of exhaustion washed over her, overwhelming her like a tidal wave. She could feel the power supporting her transformation rapidly draining away, like the anxiety of a cell phone battery dropping to single digits.

If you continue kicking, you will probably die.

Such a premonition flashed through Li Xi's mind.

Li Xi gritted his teeth and forced himself to ignore the physical fatigue and the increasingly clear premonition of "dying" in his mind.

Every breath was aching like a knife, as if her lungs were filled with molten lead, so heavy she couldn't breathe. The soreness in her thigh muscles was beyond her capacity; every tense felt like a stabbing needle, the sharp pain making it nearly impossible to stand. She felt as if her body was collapsing, like an overloaded machine, ready to disintegrate into a pile of parts at any moment.

——Then disperse.

But before it breaks, I have to—

eleven……

fourteen……

Seventeen...

Pushing yourself to the limit will not result in a happy ending.

Just after the nineteenth knight kick broke the red rope, Lixi's transformation was forcibly cancelled, and she immediately coughed up a lot of blood in mid-air.

Li Xi, her transformation undone, fell heavily to the ground, a wave of excruciating pain radiating from her body. She felt as if her bones were falling apart, unable to even move a finger. A fishy, sweet taste welled up in her throat, and a mouthful of blood gushed out, staining the ground red.

Her vision blurred as the world spun and twisted before her eyes, eventually turning a blood-red. The air was thick with the stench of blood, making her stomach churn and nausea swell. She wanted to vomit, but she couldn't even muster the strength. She could only dry heave, uttering a few weak sobs.

"very noisy……"

Li Xi tried hard to open her eyes, but found her eyelids were heavy as if filled with lead. She struggled, using all her strength, and finally managed to open them a crack.

In her blurred vision, she saw a dark shadow falling from mid-air and hitting the ground heavily with a dull thud.

Then the second, the third...

At first, they were just blurry shadows, falling from the sky like dumplings. But as his vision gradually cleared, Li Xi saw clearly that they were people.

They were twisted, their limbs bent unnaturally, with expressions of pain and despair on their faces, falling from a great height and turning into pools of bloody flesh.

Seven, eight, ten...

Dozens, hundreds...

Thousands, tens of thousands...

Finally, it turned into a dense mass, falling from the sky like a torrential rain.

Those who she failed to save fell powerlessly from the air like rag dolls and hit the ground with a teeth-grinding sound of bones cracking.

The smell of blood in the air became stronger and stronger, almost suffocating Li Xi.

She felt like she had been thrown into a huge meat grinder, surrounded by bloody and mangled limbs and disgusting fragments of internal organs.

A huge pool of blood spread out, slowly engulfing her.

The sticky blood soaked her clothes. Lixi could only lie powerlessly in the pool of blood, feeling the shadow of death slowly enveloping her.

All of this... is her fault.

If she was a little stronger, if she could hold on a little longer, if she hadn't undone her transformation...

All these people can survive.

are all...

My bad…

"thump."

Lixi sank into the sea of blood.

Blood, thick as unmeltable syrup, dragged Lixi down with it. The crimson world wasn't icy cold, but rather a sickening warmth, a strangely comfortable feeling like falling into the womb. She closed her eyes wearily, letting herself be consumed by the viscous liquid. Guilt, like a giant octopus, wrapped its tentacles tightly around her heart, making it nearly impossible to breathe.

Every heartbeat sounded like a death knell, one, two, each beat heavier and more desperate than the last.

The falling figures flashed repeatedly in her mind, their distorted faces, their terrified eyes, their powerless struggles... They were like a silent movie, replaying over and over in front of her eyes, accusing her of incompetence and mocking her powerlessness.

"it's all my fault……"

She murmured silently, her voice swallowed by the viscosity of the blood, so weak that even she could not hear it.

Sinking, sinking, endless sinking.

As long as you sink to the bottom where even sin is no longer sin, everything can be forgiven.

I can also...

"Lixi!"

Someone caught Lixi.

Instead of sinking to the bottom of the sea of blood, Lixi was caught by something.

That's a hand.

A hand reached out to Li Xi from above the sea of blood.

It was a hand that didn't match the blood at all.

……right.