socalfunplaces Chapter 1385 Famine Terrifies the Grass God
Chapter 1385 Famine Terrifies the Grass God
Ke Ying simply stood there quietly, arms crossed, coldly watching the scene unfold before her, showing no sympathy, no pity, and refusing to utter a single word in her defense.
Her gaze was eerily calm, as if the Yae no Miko, who was being tortured to the point of unbearable pain, was merely an insignificant stranger.
Ying had her own considerations in mind.
She knew very well that everything Shao Yun did was to protect her, her brother, and their hard-won home.
If Yae no Miko and the others leave alive, they will definitely come back with a vengeance. In that case, the only ones who will suffer will be her and her brother, and their family.
Therefore, she would never intervene, much less plead for these enemies.
Looking into Ying's cold eyes, Yae no Miko's last hope was shattered. Tears flowed even more fiercely, and her desperate wails sounded even more mournful in the deathly silence of Floating Feather Bay.
"what--!!!"
Shao Yun suddenly exerted force with his wrist and pulled hard. With a muffled thud as flesh was torn, a fluffy, soft pink fox tail was forcibly pulled from the lower back of the Eightfold Divine Child.
The fox tail was still trembling slightly, and warm blood kept dripping from the severed end, falling onto the cold sand and spreading into dazzling blood flowers.
Shao Yun didn't even glance at the Eightfold Divine Child, who was in so much pain she was almost fainting, and casually stuffed the still-bleeding fox tail into the backpack at his waist.
The Yae no Miko, sprawled on the ground, trembled violently, drool uncontrollably dripping from the corners of her mouth. Tears mixed with blood streamed down her cheeks, soaking the sand beneath her.
His eyes rolled back slightly, his consciousness began to blur, and all that remained were instinctive convulsions and weak groans, making him look extremely miserable.
But Shao Yun showed no pity in his eyes; instead, he grabbed the second fox tail of the Eightfold Divine Child.
"Don't give up so quickly. This is only the first tail. You still have three more. The real show is just beginning."
Upon hearing this, Yae no Miko froze.
She never wanted to experience that excruciating pain again, let alone three more times!
Her survival instinct ignited a sudden urge to struggle; she wanted to escape, to flee this hellish torment.
However, his legs had already been smashed and were in a strange, bent position, making it impossible for him to exert any force.
With her last ounce of strength, she stretched out her slender hands and gripped the white sand beneath her tightly. Her fingertips dug deep into the sand, her fingernails filled with mud and sand, as she slowly crawled forward, her movements clumsy and desperate, like a small animal about to be slaughtered, yet still struggling in vain.
Shao Yun shook his head as he looked at her futile efforts.
He slowly raised his foot and stepped on Yae no Miko's fair and delicate back without hesitation, pressing down hard with his sole.
Yae no Miko's body was pressed firmly to the beach, her wriggling body instantly immobilized, leaving her at Shao Yun's mercy.
"Help! Help! Someone save me!" Yae no Miko completely broke down. Her desperate roar was hoarse and broken, filled with sobs, echoing repeatedly in the dead silence of Floating Feather Bay, but she received no response.
She looked at Alice, who was powerless to help; she looked at Ying, who remained indifferent, her eyes unwavering.
Looking at her distraught state, Shao Yun realized that Yae no Miko was neither the priestess of Inazuma nor the third Raijin, nor some seductive fox spirit who bewitched all beings.
Perhaps she was just an ordinary fox that could be slaughtered at will and whose fine fur could be taken from her, and she was not worth his pity at all.
He gripped the fox tail tightly in his hand and said coldly to Yae no Miko, "Clench your teeth and save your strength... because we're about to pull out the second one!"
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The piercing screams grew louder and louder, but gradually faded until they fell silent.
With each tearing motion from Shao Yun, the four pink fox tails of Yae no Miko were ripped off one by one, and warm blood stained her back and the sand beneath her.
The removal of all four tails not only caused excruciating physical pain but also inflicted devastating damage on her spine.
Her spine was forcibly pulled out of place and broken, and the meridians throughout her body were also completely damaged.
At this moment, Yae no Miko had already fainted from the pain.
She was no longer the alluring and lively woman she once was; she lay limp on the ground, like a lifeless dead dog.
No one knows what she will look like when she wakes up. Perhaps she will be paralyzed from the waist down; perhaps she will completely lose her ability to take care of herself; or even become incontinent.
However, none of this matters anymore, and there's no need to worry about it.
After a while, Shao Yun will gather the unconscious Yae no Kami, along with the unconscious Zhong Li, Alice, and the others together, and use the flames of the Apocalypse Horse's "War" to burn them all to ashes, leaving no trace.
If Yae no Miko were still conscious at this moment, he might hear a ridiculous word of comfort.
The bad news is that you will become paralyzed on one side and incontinent, rendering you a useless person; the good news is that you won't have to endure this humiliation and pain for long, as you will die soon.
Shao Yun casually stuffed the last, still-bleeding fox tail into the backpack at his waist and clapped his hands.
He turned away, leaving the unconscious and pitiful Yae no Miko behind, his gaze slowly moving until it finally settled on Nasita, who was not far away.
It is worth mentioning that from the moment Nasita first saw the "famine" of the Apocalypse Horse, she remained frozen in place, motionless, like a small tree frozen in time.
Or perhaps, a small shrub, utterly imprisoned by fear, so tiny and fragile that it dares not even twitch a single leaf.
The Tianqi horse "Famine" stood quietly not far away, its gray-black body covered with jagged bones, and countless locusts and mosquitoes still swarmed around its hooves, buzzing.
Its scarlet eyes remained fixed on Nasita's emerald eyes the entire time. It did not roar or make any attacking moves. It simply breathed normally, exuding an aura of desolation, yet it had already frightened the goddess of plants and trees into silence, her whole body stiff.
As the saying goes, when locusts pass through, not a blade of grass grows.
The Heavenly Horse "Famine" can be said to be a nemesis of Naxida, the goddess of plants.
Plants nourish all things, while famine devours all life. When the two meet, there is no need to fight; their mere presence is enough to completely suppress Nasita.
Nasida stared into the crimson eyes of the Apocalypse Horse "Famine," her consciousness being drawn into a despairing illusion.
Through those eyes, she saw countless scenes of devastation caused by famine: withered and shriveled ears of grain drooping from the branches, devoid of life; cracked riverbeds stretching for miles, without a trace of water.
The straw in the fields was withered and blackened, breaking easily; as far as the eye could see, bones were exposed in the wilderness, and for miles there was no sound of roosters crowing. The land was barren, without a trace of life.
She witnessed an even more horrific scene: a desperate mother, in an effort to keep her child alive, cut her wrists to feed him, the blood staining the child's lips.
Driven to the brink of starvation, humanity abandoned all morality and shame, staging the tragic act of exchanging children for food.
Family ties, friendships, and moral obligations all crumbled and shattered in the face of endless hunger.
That despair, that pain of watching life vanish and humanity perish, tormented her relentlessly—this grass god of Mount Sumeru, this wise god who knew all things and could distinguish right from wrong, this branch of the World Tree.
This is not a simple attack; it is a disaster, an apocalyptic catastrophe capable of destroying all life and obliterating all humanity!
It was a horrific catastrophe that instilled utter despair and even caused physical discomfort!
Nasita's body trembled slightly, her emerald eyes filled with tears, but she didn't even have the strength to cry. She could only let the despair and fear slowly devour her consciousness.
Under the powerful instinctive fear brought about by the "famine" of the Apocalypse Horse, Nasita's taut nerves finally snapped completely, and she collapsed entirely.
However, unlike Alice's hysteria and Yae no Miko's mournful wails, she didn't shout or struggle, but instead seemed... to have gone mad?
Nasita opened her mouth, but no clear words came out. Only her throat vibrated involuntarily, and her mouth opened and closed incoherently, producing a series of indistinct sounds.
“Aba…Aba…”
Shao Yun walked up to Naxida, stopped, and looked down at the white-haired loli with a stiff body and empty eyes.
He spoke softly, greeting her in a calm tone, "Naxi Da."
Naxi Da's empty eyes shifted slightly, slowly landing on Shao Yun.
A blank, bewildered expression immediately appeared on her face, drool uncontrollably dripped from the corner of her mouth, and she mumbled a sound: "Eee..."
Nasita showed no emotion, only a purely unconscious reaction.
Immediately afterwards, Shao Yun frowned, and the tip of his nose was the first to smell an unusual fishy smell.
He looked down and saw a pool of unidentified liquid flowing silently from beneath Nasita, slowly spreading along the crevices of the beach, appearing particularly glaring in the pale moonlight.
Shao Yun immediately pinched his nose, his face showing undisguised disgust, and said sarcastically, "What... are you up to?"
"I often tease you about being a diaper fairy... but you can't actually wet your pants!"
He rolled his eyes, his tone becoming increasingly rude.
"You're one of the seven rulers of the mortal realm, a god of Mount Sumeru. Can't you have some backbone? Getting scared like this, wouldn't people laugh at you if word got out?"
But his sarcasm and rebukes meant nothing to Nasita at that moment.
She had been completely driven mad by the famine of the Apocalypse Horses, losing her mind and no longer able to speak a complete human sentence. She could only keep her mouth open, making intermittent "abba aba" sounds, like a little baby who could not express her own will and could only rely on instinctive reactions, with empty and lifeless eyes.
"Ah... Aba..." she hummed indistinctly, unable to focus even on Shao Yun, staring blankly ahead.
Seeing her like this, Shao Yun snapped his fingers several times in front of her and scolded her impatiently:
"Hey! Stop pretending to be deaf and dumb, can you say something? I haven't settled accounts with you yet, stop playing dumb!"
Narcida seemed not to hear his words or see his actions. Suddenly, she revealed a silly smile, her mouth wide open and drooling even more. She laughed to herself in Shao Yun's direction, muttering to herself.
"Huh? Hehe... Aba..."
Shao Yun frowned, looking at her with a puzzled expression.
He couldn't tell whether Nasita was genuinely terrified or pretending to be stupid, like a certain Emperor Chengzu.
He patiently shouted at Nasita again, "Hey! Stop playing dumb! I'm warning you, it's no use!"
Just then, Yuan Shang, who had been hiding to the side and observing everything from the shadows, hesitated for a long time before finally mustering his courage and cautiously stepping forward. This time, he subtly upgraded his way of addressing Shao Yun.
“That… Mr. Shao Yun, or rather, Your Highness the Prince Consort,”
He paused, stole a glance at the mentally impaired Nasita, then quickly lowered his head and whispered, "I feel... Nasita isn't pretending to be stupid, she seems to have really gone insane?"