Overturned Tower

"Ha...ho..."

Xiaoya gasped deeply, her vision blurred.

can not breath.

Unable to move.

His eyes seemed to be covered with clouds, and everything in front of him seemed to be covered with a layer of gray fog.

Her body felt cold due to the blood loss, and she felt like there were hot needles pricking her body due to the violent heat. She lay on the cold floor, but she felt it was so hot, burning her like an iron plate.

She could no longer feel her fish tail.

— but she could see it.

Her beautiful, pure white fish tail was right in her field of vision.

Its cross-section seems to have been roasted, revealing a pale white color of cooked meat. And at the burnt and peeled scales, you can see how it was cut off.

She still remembered...it was a beam of light. A light she couldn't forget.

That was not an attack aimed at Xiaoya at all. She was just an innocent person affected. When the laser reached her, it was already close to the ground... If she had stepped back another meter or two, she might not have been injured at all.

But there is no if.

Xiaoya's fish tail was immediately cut off, and she fell to the ground in a panic. Like a fish being grilled on an iron plate.

But so far, she still feels that she is lucky...

——Because the owner of this store is dying in front of her.

He was a few steps further than Xiaoya and was about to pull down the rolling shutter door. Although that would make it impossible for them to observe the outside and therefore unable to avoid some attacks... But civilians like them do not have the strength to avoid such attacks.

In this way, at least he won't be discovered and attacked by those madmen.

But the rolling shutter door didn't fall down at all. Because just before the boss reached the door, he was affected by the same laser, and his whole body was directly cut off from the waist.

At that time, he still did not die or even fainted immediately.

He just let out a miserable wail in pain, and the upper half of his body rolled on the ground. The skin that was instantly burnt would not cause him to bleed to death in a short period of time. He barely bled much. But the many internal organs that were cut in half made it impossible for him to survive.

He struggled like that for a long time, and was finally blown up by the drone until he fainted.

Now...that old gentleman is probably dead.

Am I... too soon?

She thought pessimistically and suddenly felt heat rushing to her abdomen.

Xiaoya suddenly convulsed violently, and the rising heat in her body made her feel pain accumulating. She rolled around like a dead fish, and then suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

She originally just wanted to vomit, but even she didn't expect that what she vomited was bright red blood.

It was such bright red blood - as bright as fire, like the setting sun, and like melting glass. It's like a mirror, reflecting my own face.

…My blood is so beautiful.

Xiaoya's blank mind suddenly came to such an idea.

After coughing up blood, she suddenly became much more relaxed. She felt as if her body was no longer so hot, and it felt like it was starting to get colder.

But at the same time, she also felt that her originally clear consciousness... was quickly becoming blurry.

Her sense of time began to become confused.

It felt like a long time passed, but in fact it was only a moment; it felt like a moment passed, but a long time passed. She seemed to be asleep, as if she had had a long dream... or she just closed her eyes for a few seconds, and the sound of explosions was still coming from her ears.

Why, why...

Will it become like this?

At this moment, Xiaoya suddenly heard chaotic footsteps.

Her eyes suddenly gathered the light of hope.

"Save, save—"

I……

But when she saw the faces of those people clearly, the rest of her words were stuck and swallowed.

They were criminals wearing wolf-head hoods who suddenly attacked this neighborhood.

"There's a mermaid lady."

Someone saw her and sneered maliciously.

"Look, brothers, that cross section is so beautiful."

"Tsk, tsk, what a big tail."

"Look at that big tail...it feels like it can stew a big pot of fish soup."

"It's true. The meat on the tail looks very fat. Is that a meat-eating species?"

"It still has pure white scales... This tail should be that of a carp, right?"

"It looks like a white koi. A platinum koi, probably. After all, it can only be seen that the tail is white, or it could be another koi with a white tail..."

Those people also saw Xiaoya's embarrassed appearance now. They did stop in response to her call.

But they showed no mercy to Xiaoya, not at all. Instead, they laughed at her. Pointing at her.

Xiaoya only felt that her heart was like an ice cave, and she realized their identities.

——They will never save themselves. Because this "war" was caused by them.

Believers of "werewolves" hate the "lower people" of Fountain Island.

As a mixed-race or spiritually aberrated person from an outer island, he was born with the characteristics of a terrestrial spiritual relative...the so-called "Scaleless One".

You cannot enjoy various discounts and benefits, and you cannot even get a job normally. Either mining, felling trees, pumping oil, exploring...or enjoying the treatment of human beings on the island, or simply being expelled from the island.

Yongquan Island will not directly persecute them, nor will it actively enslave them. If they are willing to leave, we can even arrange for them to study and work on other empty islands.

——But everyone knows that Yongquan Island is the island with the best treatment.

As the only sky island with a giant dragon personally taking care of it, other sky islands have to give Yongquan Island some face.

If other sky islands are just "city-states", then they are "empires". And it is an empire ruled by a wise king.

At least for the aquatic species, Yongquan Island is indeed a paradise without pressure... Even though everyone knows that this kind of generous treatment is actually obtained by squeezing the "Scaleless", "Uncoded" and other empty islands. It was obtained by ordinary people, but those "scaled people" lived an extremely happy life.

The work day is only six hours, the work week is only four days, and there is no pressure to find a job - you can even find a good job after graduating from high school, and the job is not difficult. There are subsidies for education, medical care, elderly care, entertainment, and marriage, and everyone is full of smiles from birth to death.

They were born noble and were undoubtedly a nobler race. There is no need to worry about poverty and hunger, and you can develop various hobbies that you like.

——So, what’s the price?

The price of all this is paid by other spiritual relatives.

These scaleless people live like slaves. Their status is even lower than that of the uncoded.

On Yongquan Island, the poor people with scales do not hate the rich, and the rich do not discriminate against the poor - they unite together to discriminate against those "scaleless people who come from backward and degraded places."

They have very few spiritual relatives who can touch the sea, and they are also the only island in the sky that understands the knowledge that "more than 70% of the world's area is ocean."

Now that the land is polluted, they naturally feel proud.

Because their ancestors were sinless and did not have the blood of their compatriots on their hands.

Their ancestors did not directly participate in the religious wars, nor did they lead a life of cannibalism in the chaotic end of the world. Because they originally lived on the seaside and isolated islands, making a living by fishing. Whatever happened on the mainland had nothing to do with them.

Certain knowledge that is considered taboo on other islands is taught openly here. Because they are deliberately cultivating this innate pride.

And among these aquatic species, a brand new concept emerged.

--nationality.

While the society of the scaled people has become extremely united and friendly, those without scales also feel the same level of discrimination and alienation.

Although he was born on the developed and civilized Yongquan Island, who would be willing to be driven to other twisted, busy, dangerous and depraved empty islands?

Obviously everyone was born on Yongquan Island, why is it more noble to have scales?

Before "werewolves" appeared, people just felt aggrieved about it. Even if you live a hard life on Yongquan Island, even if you spend your life mining and cutting down trees on land, it is still better than being driven away.

But now, things are different.

Since Yongquan Island doesn't want them...

——Then let Yongquan Island be as twisted and chaotic as other empty islands. No matter how bad their situation is, it won't be worse than it is now.

In this way, they can also be balanced.

The attack they are launching now... is not so much that they have no regard for civilians, but rather that their goal is to attack the "scaled people".

Those with fish heads are the first group to be attacked - because this is a special aesthetic that only people with scales can understand, and it is a special aesthetic that is contrary to human aesthetics. Among people with scales, they also belong to the "bloodline type". "Pure" type, the offspring are more likely to have scales.

And the one with a human head and a human face... is easier to forgive.

Because of this, after they laughed at Xiaoya, they still chose to "feel pity."

But that was definitely not treating her, nor was it just leaving her—

A man with a younger voice took out a pistol.

"Forget it, seriously, brothers...she looks quite miserable," he sighed, "This child is quite cute, she must be still young."

"Come out and buy a cake."

Another person saw the strawberry cake on the counter and said casually: "Then let her be relieved. Let's eat the cake and then prepare to run away."

"Hey, are you planning to escape?"

"The next battle has nothing to do with us... How about we destroy this store? The old man who owns the store is also a fish head."

"It's not impossible."

The man loaded his pistol and walked over.

"no, do not want……"

Xiaoya sobbed and begged: "No... I don't want to die... The cake, the cake is for you... Please, don't kill me..."

The man wearing a werewolf hood said warmly: "Don't be afraid, Miss Mermaid. No one will come to save you. It will be easier to die this way. If you don't hide, it won't hurt..."

"—but you should be in pain for a while."

A low and hoarse voice suddenly came from behind them.

As a large shadow was cast, the man suddenly became nervous, lowered his body and looked back.

But he saw one of his companions fly over out of thin air and hit him high as if he had lost gravity!

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The cat goes to sleep—