Chapter 14
Chapter 14
The property manager pried open the lock and began to force his way in.
Suddenly, I felt a wave of despondency.
How much longer could I hold out?
In just a few minutes, they would rush in and kill both my mother and me. I had no ability to fight back at all.
Maybe I should beg for mercy? Would they give me a quick death?
But a second later, my gaze fell upon my mother in the bedroom again.
No.
I absolutely couldn’t give up like this.
Before she slipped into a coma, my mother had held my hand and told me:
“No matter what happens, you must strive to live on.”
“Mom will always be with you.”
Those words had sustained me as I grew up bit by bit.
I couldn’t let down my mother’s expectations for me.
Even if the end was already written, I couldn’t abandon the last shred of hope.
I immediately stood up, rushed into the kitchen to grab a cleaver, and stood guard at the bedroom door.
The people outside burst in.
Seeing the knife in my hand, the manager laughed dismissively.
“Little girl, why go through the trouble?”
“You’re going to die anyway. You might as well enter the game and let us kill you.”
“That way, the prize money goes to us, and you can earn some good karma.”
“We’ll even help take care of your mother for you when the time comes. How about it?”
I spat through gritted teeth, “In your dreams.”
“Like you said, I’m going to die anyway.”
“If you want to kill me, I’m taking at least one of you down with me!”
They seemingly hadn’t expected me to have such resolve, and for a moment, no one dared to step forward.
Right then, the mechanical female voice echoed from the sky once more.
“Ding-dong! Following a joint application by multiple BOSS entities, the company has approved the early descent of the Weird~”
“Please prepare yourselves.”
“3, 2, 1…”
The sky was torn asunder. From the black rift, countless eyes scrambled to peer down at the earth.
And from behind me came the sound of a yawn.
“Ah… I’ve slept for so long…”
“My dear baby Xiao Ran, how have you grown so big?”