Chapter: Chapter 215
Black Alley, this is the name given by the people of Seaside City to those districts that can be ignored.
Everyone who lives here, without exception, is a low-level person. They are not good at working, but they are absolutely skilled at stealing, swindling, and deceiving.
Among them, Anxi, a sixteen-year-old girl, can be considered a leader among these idlers.
Naturally possessing acceleration abilities, she often manages to steal, or rather, snatch valuables from people before they can react.
Her targets are usually tourists from other places, which makes her invincibility, and she is not held accountable afterward.
The Seaside City authorities have no way to deal with these petty thieves in Black Alley. Limited by their own weak strength, they dare not rashly send people into Black Alley to arrest them.
Unless something really happens, Anxi, as a thief, is absolutely safe hiding in Black Alley.
But today, Anxi has kicked a steel plate, a steel plate in every sense of the word.
The black-haired demon, whose physique was like a steel plate and whose heart was like a steel plate, left Anxi with a very indelible psychological shadow. At that time, she really thought she wouldn’t be able to return.
Witnessing the girl lightly burn five burly men to ashes, Anxi gained a deeper understanding of the dangers of this world.
Fortunately, she admitted defeat quickly, otherwise, she might not have received a beating that didn’t hurt her flesh and bone, but would have been burned to ashes like those men.
No one would care if a thief in Black Alley disappeared out of thin air, because in this place, it is not uncommon for anyone to vanish.
Walking to a small house, Anxi rubbed her face, trying hard to force a smile onto her face, which still held a hint of lingering fear.
She couldn’t show such an expression in front of her sister, otherwise, she would make her sister worry.
Reaching out and knocking on the merely symbolic main door, Anxi pushed open the unlocked door and walked into the pitch-black room.
The room was messy. Anxi had no talent for tidying, and her sister had no ability to tidy. Fortunately, there were no visitors, and the place where the two sisters lived was on the second floor.
At least her own room, Anxi could still clean up勉强.
As if hearing the movement downstairs, the light on the second floor was turned on, and with a creaking sound, a cute little head cautiously peeked out from the top of the stairs on the second floor.
“Be careful, how many times have I told you, don’t run around no matter what sound you hear.” Anxi ran upstairs in three steps, reaching out to support the frail girl.
This girl was Anxi’s sister, named Anxin.
Despite such a name that made people feel at ease, the girl’s condition was not so reassuring.
Beneath the semi-transparent white gauze nightgown was a body that was too thin. The girl could be described as skin and bones, if not a bamboo pole.
The girl’s complexion was not the healthy rosy color but a somewhat eerie paleness. Her breathing was short and rapid, as if walking from the bedroom to the stairs had already exhausted her.
This was not because Anxi had not taken good care of her sister. In fact, Anxi’s sister complex was even deeper than that of some sisters who were considered the scum of humanity.
Even if she was hungry, she would make sure her sister ate her fill.
Furthermore, Anxi did not rely on stealing to make a living. Stealing was at most pocket money. What she did most was running errands for people.
There were many places in Black Alley that needed ability users like her with clean backgrounds and high professional ethics. The money she earned was absolutely enough to keep the two sisters fed.
But, only fed.
Anxin’s condition could not be solved by just being fed. She also needed to see a doctor and buy medicine. These were the main reasons why Anxi had to do those things.
“Sister, did you encounter danger?” Holding her sister’s hand, the sickly little girl whispered.
“No, I just didn’t manage to steal anything. I worked all night for nothing,” Anxi sighed. Not only did she not steal anything, but she was also beaten and ordered around once.
But compared to those men who vanished into thin air, at least her life was saved, and she wasn’t missing any limbs. She was lucky.
The beating, though painful, did not injure her bones. The black-haired person was quite considerate in such a strange place.
“Sister is lying to me.” Anxin hugged Anxi tightly. “I can hear your thoughts, sister. You’re scared, scared of being alone.”
“I…” Anxi’s expression froze. She knew her lie would be exposed. “Didn’t I tell you not to use your superpower? It will make your condition worse.”
Anxin lowered her eyes. She could read her sister’s thoughts, but her sister could not read hers. This made Anxin always the dominant one in their communication.
She did not want to tell her sister that she had been unable to control her abilities freely for a long time.
To be precise, she could no longer turn off her abilities.
Anxin knew that the more she used her superpower, the worse her physical condition would become, but she had no way to control her abilities.
“Sister, how much time do I have left?” After a long silence, Anxin finally broke the deathly quiet.
Anxi desperately tried not to think about what the doctor had said last time, but it was of no use. Just a fleeting thought made Anxin get the answer she wanted.
“Is there only… this much time left?” Although she had long suspected it, after truly knowing the answer, Anxin still felt a sense of unreality.
“If you take good care of yourself and don’t use your superpower, two to three years should be fine. But if you use your abilities without restraint, you’ll probably only live for a year,” the doctor had said. “Moreover, your sister’s superpower is already on the verge of losing control. If her abilities get out of control… she might only have a few months left to live.”
“Anxin, believe me, sister, you will get better, you definitely will!” Anxi hugged her sister nervously, afraid that Anxin would do something irrational after knowing the truth.
But her sister was clearly more mature than she thought. Even after knowing she had so little time left, she showed no negative emotions.
“Sister, I want to go play by the sea, can I?”
“But…”
“I don’t want to be born by the sea and never see the ocean. Besides, aren’t you here to protect me?” The little girl’s eyes sparkled.
“…Alright.”
…
If you were to ask Anxi what her biggest regret in life was, she would undoubtedly answer today that she shouldn’t have agreed to her sister’s request yesterday.
Yes, under normal circumstances, it is a very normal thing to take your sister to the beach. No one would find it strange.
However, as she sat on the tour bus and saw two very familiar girls coming up in front of her, her hair stood on end.
She would never forget the black-haired girl.
The moment she saw that girl, Anxi instinctively lowered her head, not wanting to be discovered by the black-haired demon.
But this ostrich-like action was clearly useless. Leticia’s ability to recognize people did not rely solely on her eyes.
The tour bus was very spacious, so spacious that there were empty seats in front of and behind Anxi.
After seeing her old acquaintances, Leticia gave up her original intention of finding a corner to sit in and instead pulled Miss Bai to sit behind Anxi.
Bai Ling also recognized Anxi. Just one night was not enough for her to forget the girl who had stolen Leticia’s things and was then hung up and whipped.
“Your control of strength is really good.” After sitting down, Miss Bai said to Leticia.
With her sharp eyesight, she could naturally tell that Anxi’s current physical condition was excellent, showing no signs of the pathetic state she was in last night.
“Of course, this is my unique skill,” Leticia nodded proudly.
The first recipient of this unique skill… ah, let’s ignore this topic that would make her sister sad.
After a night of mental adjustment and being allowed to sleep an entire night with Leticia holding her, Bai Ling’s mental state was quite good today.
Her mental state was good, but in her line of sight, the little girl sitting in front of her was in a terrible condition.
“Did you notice? That girl, she…”
“I’m not blind. The energy within her is very active, exceptionally active.” Leticia pouted. As soon as she got on the bus, she noticed this girl whose mental power was like a burning torch.
Very bright, yet extremely weak.
This girl could not control the energy within her. If Leticia guessed correctly, this girl’s superpower was already out of control.
“Can you help her?” Bai Ling asked softly.
If not treated promptly, according to the information in the Hero Association, this girl would certainly die within a few months.
No, more pessimistically, she might not even last a month.
This was somewhat difficult for Bai Ling to accept. She was a kind girl. Although she was ruthless when it came to killing异族, she was very compassionate towards her own kind.
To watch such a young girl die before her eyes was truly difficult to accept.
“If you mean completely cured, I can only tell you, no.” Leticia did not have such sympathy. She always enjoyed fun, but watching a little girl slowly die was not fun. ” However, extending her life is quite simple.”
“How long can it be extended?”
“Very, very long. The only problem is that it will keep this girl in a state similar to being dead.” Leticia knew what Anxin’s root problem was. “Her spirit has a natural defect. If she didn’t have superpowers, it wouldn’t be a big problem.”
But the problem was that Anxin’s talent was too strong.
“Uncontrolled energy is destroying her life force. I am not a doctor and do not know how to treat this condition in humans. What I can do is forcibly suppress the energy within her and seal her consciousness, so that her condition does not worsen.”
Leticia was just a demon king. She was good at fighting, but when it came to curing diseases and saving people, she still had to seek professional help.
“Instead of asking me, you might as well go find your old friends. I am a demon, would your head be kicked by a donkey to come and ask me for solutions?” Finally, Leticia expressed her contempt for Bai Ling’s thought process.
It was utterly ridiculous to ask her, a demon, for a solution to a condition that only appeared in humans.
“If you want to be kind, I don’t mind, just don’t involve me.”
Leticia could completely understand Bai Ling’s desire to save the little girl, and she could safely accept it.
She lacked sympathy, but she would not mock Bai Ling for her sympathy. The Demon King clearly distinguished between right and wrong.
“Hiss, then I’ll go talk to them?” Just as Bai Ling was about to pat Anxi’s shoulder, Leticia’s hand stopped her.
“This is not a good place to talk. Let’s find a quiet place where no one will disturb us,” Leticia said softly. She turned her head to the tour guide lady sitting beside her. “See if there’s anywhere to rest near the bus stops.”
Upon hearing Leticia’s words, the tour guide lady immediately opened her phone and started working. Soon, she had picked a place: “How about a coffee shop? Sitting on the balcony there, you can see the seaside. I was planning to take you two in a few days.”
“Okay,” Leticia nodded.
Then, she signaled Bai Ling to proceed.
Miss Bai raised her hand, mentally rehearsing what she was about to say.
Then she realized that her rather meager vocabulary, which was as sparse as the Demon King’s chest, made it difficult to extend the invitation.
So, her raised hands finally landed on Leticia’s shoulders, “Help me.”
Looking at those pleading, watery red eyes, Leticia’s breath hitched. How could she refuse?
Facing such eyes, let alone Leticia, who was a sucker for cute faces, even a stone couldn’t say no.
Although stones couldn’t speak in the first place… well, that’s not important!
“…You, you cheat, but not like this.” Leticia glared at Bai Ling fiercely. “This is the last time.”
“Mhm, the last time.” Bai Ling’s mood immediately lifted. Her eyes shone with bright light, which made Leticia stare blankly for a moment.
“Hiss… this guy’s destructive power is getting stronger and stronger,” Leticia muttered softly and reached out to pat the frail little girl.
“Big sister?” Anxin turned her head and looked at Leticia in confusion.
Then, her eyes widened slightly. Her mind-reading ability, which had been out of control for some time, had failed.
She couldn’t hear Leticia’s thoughts.
No, not just Leticia, but also the white-haired girl beside her. She couldn’t hear them either.
