Free Web NovelChapter 826: Chapter 735: Mad Dog
The rain drizzled down gently.
A gray, hazy sky, unfinished, improperly layered buildings, a web of pipes blocking out the sun, toxic fumes, corpses everywhere.
Sorrow and decay are the main hues of this world.
In the stinking garbage dump, where no one had planned or cleaned for years, the trash had long piled up into mountains.
Raindrops trickled down the face of the blonde girl. She opened her eyes from the ruins, her weary eyes reflecting the leaden sky.
"March 12th, Year 539 of the New Era Calendar..."
Xu Xiaoyou had a somewhat blurred perception of time.
For the past two years, she had been running around incessantly. With no one to rely on, she was wanted by the association and Cosmic Heavy Industries. She climbed to a high position, willing to leverage the entire world, and at the moment the balance was broken, everyone wanted her dead,
Yes.
On that night at the Red Weaving Workshop, not only Chichu Chun, but Xu Xiaoyou also used Reboot the Future at the moment before being killed by March.
She had drawn two Reboot the Future cards in total, one she gave to Chichu Chun, while the other she always kept in her hand.
She certainly couldn’t completely entrust her trump card to others, even the closest ones.
As the cost of using Reboot the Future a second time, she lost everything.
In this world line, everything in Light Chasing Garden turned into bubbles, her liquid assets were divided and annexed by major companies, and funds invested in various industries seemed to evaporate completely. As for the trust company...
Xu Xiaoyou laughed.
Light Chasing Garden was the biggest trust company. Whether it was past achievements or the Key of the Oasis, they only helped her make a name, but she truly started her fortune relying on the trust business.
Simply put, she bound with world-renowned banks and companies, guaranteed by her Dark Gold Rose reputation. Those rich people could buy her trust services and hand over all their wealth to Light Chasing Garden with just a little money.
After they passed away, Light Chasing Garden would ensure their money wouldn’t be seized by others and that their offspring couldn’t squander all their wealth. A portion was given to their offspring every month, as per the signed agreements.
It can be imagined how huge of a fortune she could gather with a Light Prism Tier as guarantor.
In name, she couldn’t use this money, but she could register a company behind the scenes, use the money for reinvestment, and establish her own physical industry...
One could say the entire world’s money was continuously flowing towards her. The balance of leverage had already tipped beyond the Cosmos, reaching a point where even the major families of Cosmos dared not mention it openly.
Xu Xiaoyou rubbed her forehead.
This was indeed like lifting a stone only to drop it on her own feet.
Xu Xiaoyou looked at the Skill Card in the card slot.
Fireball Bombardment x2.
Gone.
This was what she had left after eating sparingly.
In these past two years, from time to time, High Tier Cleaners would come knocking, wanting her bounty.
Without those Skill Cards, she wasn’t much different from an ordinary Fifth Tier Cleaner.
Avoiding whenever possible, and after many turns, she found herself in a corner of the world. To tell the truth, Xu Xiaoyou herself didn’t know exactly where she was.
"Want to eat?"
Looking at the buzzing mess of flies, an unidentified brown object full of mosaic. Xu Xiaoyou sighed softly.
"Be good, you eat."
The zombie-like figure scratched its head and walked away.
"Life Staff..." Xu Xiaoyou thought of something.
The Life Staff eventually fell into the hands of Life Daylight, and that lunatic initiated the ’Life Completion Plan’ to merge everyone in the world into one entity.
The battlefield of Chichu Heaven turned as stagnant as a dead pool, with battle lines retreating continuously, and major companies smelling crisis, contracting the survival space for common people.
The butterfly effect triggered by her accelerated the decline of this world line’s progress.
What more could she do?
Individual Power ultimately remains limited. She had no chance of starting over again; Bai Youyou elevated to an EVA, Angelina, Tang Xin, and Chichu Chun were missing. Her reliable subordinates all left her one by one, not to mention being unable to guarantee her own safety.
Xu Xiaoyou had imagined such a day would come, but when it truly arrived, she didn’t find it as unbearable as she thought.
On the contrary, she didn’t think the situation was that bad, merely absurd.
Returning to the shack she had built, Xu Xiaoyou sat on the old sofa. The crystal tube TV in front of her was broadcasting news, its black-and-white screen occasionally flashing and distorting due to unstable signals.
With the cold wind howling and the storm raging outside, the inside was relatively warm, as though a wall separated two worlds. Leisurely, Xu Xiaoyou opened the fresh food box offered by the junkyard natives, poured the synthesized meat into a copper pot, and began swishing it with chopsticks.
At this moment, the embedded teeth on a piece of unknown black head twitched slightly and leaped up, letting out a coarse roar!
Xu Xiaoyou, quick with her hands, clamped it with her chopsticks mid-air and, in the blink of an eye, pressed the meat back into the boiling soup pot.
"What fortune, we have food lion, an extra meal."
Xu Xiaoyou grinned.
Food lion, a very resilient creature living on the Desolate Stone Plateau, could eat almost anything, even stones. From organic to inorganic, it had the possibility of ’resurrection’ even if killed, its incomplete deactivated meat.
Xu Xiaoyou had heard stories of food lion cans fighting back against consumers. Because of its delicious, nutritious meat, such cans are still being produced on a large scale today.
As Xu Xiaoyou was about to indulge in the joy of forthcoming delicacies, a hobo burst in hurriedly, full of panic.
"There’s... someone barged in, we couldn’t stop her!"
Xu Xiaoyou raised an eyebrow.
Suspecting it might be some scummy dog that wandered in, for if it were an enemy Cleaner from the association, they couldn’t possibly show up openly before her.
"Dark Gold Rose has indeed fallen, but she isn’t dead. Her past atrocious deeds still make them dread her name."
Being a villain has its perks. Xu Xiaoyou thought.
"Let her come seek me."
She said without lifting her head.
The wanderer hesitated for a moment, just about to move, when a deep female voice echoed from the doorway.
"No need, the mean dog has come calling."
Hearing this voice, Xu Xiaoyou’s pupils constricted slightly, the chopsticks clasped with meat paused mid-air.
She widened her eyes mechanically, turned her head, looking towards where the ’mean dog’ appeared, the dazzling silver hair fluttered in her vision.
Angelina leaned against the door frame with her arms crossed, gazing at Xu Xiaoyou half-mockingly, half-sympathetically.
The blonde girl’s face was covered in dust. Amid her astonishment, a glimpse of brightness appeared in her dust-covered eyes, restoring their original charm.
Angelina’s mouth curved upwards:
"Need me to bark a few times?"
