Chapter 117: Worldly Wisdom

"Yellow Hair" Joseph shuddered upon hearing the name, "Impossible, you are Thief One Blade of Grass? You couldn't have gotten on the ship, no, when did you follow me?"

"What the hell, you're the thief, your whole organization is a bunch of thieves!" Liu Mu, an honest person who collected scrap and did business, hated being wrongly accused of being a thief more than anything; back when she traveled the streets, she had even been chased by dogs because of it.

The word 'thief' was a major taboo for Liu Mu, even if she had indeed 'borrowed' quite a few things over the past few months.

She could 'borrow', but others could not say it.

The two, who were hiding separately, saw a figure fly over—no, to be precise, a corpse.

But it was not just a corpse, because before the corpse landed, a pitch-black gun barrel actually extended from behind it. Joseph was a man who listened to advice; before Night Owl left, he told him not to underestimate Liu Mu and to try to avoid or negotiate if he encountered her, so he only rolled in time to the other side of the console, dodging the attack.

Not only did he dodge the attack, he also shattered a glass window, flipped out, and escaped.

Joseph was never a person who would put himself in danger; his only purpose for coming on the ship was to protect Red Flower, and the lives of others were unimportant. Besides, Night Owl, whom he treated as a son, was not on the ship, so he was even less likely to risk his life fighting.

As for why Liu Mu would appear on the ship?

This woman... was more terrifying than their predicted upper limit!

"DAMN!" Joseph left the deck via the nearest staircase, rushed into Red Flower's independent Laboratory in one breath, and only let out a fierce sigh of relief after closing the stainless steel door.

"What kind of monster is that woman? She was clearly blown to death, I couldn't have seen it wrong, she was clearly blown to death... No, at the time the plane was attacked, Night Owl said it was her... but she was blown to pieces..."

"Who are you talking about? What woman, what monster?" Hong's voice interrupted Joseph's nervous muttering from behind; seeing this man, known as the godfather of mercenaries in the organization, in such a disheveled state, he suddenly felt it was meaningless.

"Liu Mu, Liu Mu followed me onto the ship. I don't know how she did it, but... what are you doing?"

Joseph wanted to take Hong away, but as soon as he turned around, he saw a gun barrel, so familiar, "Hong, don't joke around, I must take you away safely. We can leave the things on the ship, let's go now."

"But..."

Bang, bang, bang...

Amidst the splashing blood, the boy saw the terror on Joseph's face, "I don't want to leave, Mr. Joseph. I have already decided to go with the big sister. Sorry, would you mind dying first?"

Joseph had no chance to express his opinion; the magazine was emptied, and the boy calmly opened the Laboratory door and then walked in front of Joseph and knelt down.

Only after his body was stained with enough blood did he crawl backward on his knees, as if fleeing.

Ordinary crew members would not come here, and when footsteps approached, Hong hugged himself, tears almost instantly streaming from his eyes.

"Help, save me..."

Like a kitten begging for help, filled with terror, yet not daring to make a sound.

Liu Mu rushed in and saw Joseph covered in blood on the floor and a long trail of blood; the blood trail extended all the way to the wall, and the frail boy was so terrified that he was startled by her movement, trying his best to curl up and minimize his presence.

"You killed him?"

They had clashed twice, but this was their first close-range contact, yet Liu Mu could see that Joseph was no pushover; on the contrary, he should have had quite formidable skills, "Why are you here?"

"I," Hong seemed to only just recognize the person who had arrived, hurriedly trying to hide his blood-stained hands behind his back, "I, I came up to look for you, and was bumped into by this person. He, he gave me a gun and told me to stop the person chasing him. I was scared, and he said if I didn't help, he would kill me..."

"He also said the person chasing him was named Liu Mu, I thought it must be big sister, so I fired. Big sister, did I kill someone? I'm so scared."

This kid was lying; Liu Mu could not see fear in Hong's eyes that matched the emotion, making her even more certain that there was something wrong with him.

"Kid, I don't have much education, but I have seen quite a lot of people. What is the purpose of lying to me?"

Liu Mu raised her hand, stopping Hong's teary-eyed act, "By the way, I have killed quite a few people too, and I can easily tell if a gunshot is fake."

With things said to this point, Hong wiped away his tears and lowered his head, but within seconds he spoke as if nothing had happened, "I want you to save everyone and leave this ship, otherwise everyone will eventually become like that."

Hong raised his hand to point inside the Laboratory; those several glass boxes contained the mutated ones he had collected from various places.

Actually, he didn't need to point it out; Liu Mu had noticed those transparent boxes the moment she walked in, and she could determine seven or eight-tenths of what was inside with just a glance.

Of course, these were not enough to make her afraid; one had to know that in terms of grotesqueness or disgust, they were still far behind that inhumane Laboratory in downtown Haicheng.

Seeing Liu Mu not speaking, a flash of panic crossed Hong's eyes; he was a little afraid that Liu Mu had really seen through something, so he continued, "They will grab people from our lower decks and bring them up after a while. I had secretly slipped out to follow them before, and they were sent to this place. I recognize the faces of some of them, but their bodies... have become too strange, I don't know what happened..."

"Big sister, if you don't save us and leave, they will definitely turn everyone into such monsters."

Monsters?

Liu Mu was stimulated by this word; the people before her all had partial body Mutations, and if viewed from the perspective of a normal person, they were indeed monsters.

But she knew, this was Mutation.

As long as it was a place where a Giant Sun Fragment had fallen, most people who had direct contact would mutate.

If these people were monsters, then was she the same?

This kind of question... was of course meaningless; Liu Mu didn't even spend a second thinking about the answer.

"Say something useful. I'm one person saving so many of you, kid, do you think that's realistic?"

The mutated ones in the glass boxes were not all dead; Liu Mu discovered that some seemed to be surviving on some substance input through those tubes, but their vital signs were not very strong.

Perhaps startled by the earlier gunshots, the people in a few of the boxes even opened their eyes, but their movements were very slight, and they were unable to make any useful reactions.

"I'm not a kid, I am Hong," Hong did not like the tone Liu Mu used to treat him like a child, and took the opportunity to say, "Can't we just seize this ship? Anyway, the positioning can't be used now, as long as we take the ship away, we will be saved."

Hong's words were said so matter-of-factly that Liu Mu once suspected he knew her plan. However, she still asked in disbelief, "Such a big ship, and I can take it away by myself? Kid, have you never been beaten down by knowledge and skills? I really have no culture."

Hong was still a bit young, his talents were all spent on professional research; how could he be a match for an old fox like Liu Mu who was so well-versed in the ways of the world.