Chapter 517 Killing and Punishing the Heart

Chapter 517 Killing and Punishing the Heart

Babel's once neat and tidy dormitory has become a mess and disorganized place.

She frantically rummaged around the room, shouting, "Where is the key to my safe? I shouldn't have hidden it two days ago. I should have kept it with me all the time!"

As she spoke, Babel suddenly pulled open a drawer in front of the dressing table. Because her movements were too rough, she pulled the entire drawer out, and even the interlayer of the drawer was damaged.

At this moment, a stone key flew out from the broken layer and fell directly to the ground.

When Babel saw this, her eyes lit up instantly, and she quickly bent down and held the stone key in her palm.

Looking at the key in her hand that could open the door to the vault, she couldn't help but feel secretly delighted.

"Haha, I finally found it! I must take this money and run away to another country where no one knows me and start a new life."

This is the last way out Babel leaves for herself, to run away with the money.

Teyvat is so big, there must be a place for her to stay. As the saying goes, as long as the green mountains remain, there will be no shortage of firewood.

After getting the key to the safe, Babel did not dare to delay for even a second and hurriedly prepared to leave the dormitory.

However, the moment she stepped out of the door, a strong and pungent smell of blood suddenly hit her nose.

Then, Babel's eyes widened as she witnessed in disbelief the shocking scene before her that was like a fairy tale.

Ying was seen alone, like a Valkyrie, holding two Scofield revolvers, one gold and one silver, fighting with the people of the Tanit tribe.

Every time the trigger was pulled, a sound that Babel had never heard of was heard, and along with this sound, the Tanit "Falcons" that rushed towards Ying recklessly fell to the ground one after another and lost consciousness in an instant.

The bright red blood from the dead bodies flowed like streams of red blood, flowing continuously along the cracks in the stone road.

In the blink of an eye, the blood had spread to Babel's feet.

She looked down at her high heels stepping on a patch of scarlet, and an indescribable fear surged in her heart.

Babel could never have imagined that the "falcons" that she had trained so carefully and was so proud of would now be so vulnerable!

Just like a clay chicken and a clay dog, it lasted less than ten minutes before being killed by Ying without a single piece of armor left.

Now Babel felt a little regretful. If she had known earlier, she would not have been so greedy for money. Now she finally understood the saying that "money is something outside of the body".

But even if Babel didn't cling to her money, it would be useless; no matter how fast she ran on her own two legs, she could not outrun the horse's four legs.

At this moment, there was only one thought left in Babel's mind: escape!

This thought instantly occupied her entire mind.

So, Babel turned around without hesitation, started running as fast as she could.

However, after running only a few steps, she heard a crisp and sharp gunshot from behind, and all her beautiful fantasies of escape were shattered in an instant.

Shao Yun raised his gun and pulled the trigger. The bullet whizzed out at an astonishing speed and hit Babel's left leg accurately.

This sudden blow made Babel feel a piercing pain as if she was pierced by millions of steel needles at the same time. The pain quickly spread throughout her body, causing her to howl in pain involuntarily.

Due to the effect of inertia, Babel could not control her forward leaning body and fell straight to the ground.

The impact caused by the violent collision with the ground further aggravated her already injured left leg.

Blood splattered on the ground, staining her clothes and skin, making her already disheveled appearance even more miserable.

At this moment, Babel's face was distorted with pain. Where was the arrogant attitude she had just now?

She no longer cared about her image and yelled, "Ah! How could I possibly lose to you guys! Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

After cursing, Babel endured the severe pain in her legs, turned over with difficulty, and sat down on the ground.

She supported herself on the ground with both hands and tried her best to drag her body slowly backwards.

At the same time, she stared at Shao Yun and the others, and kept shouting: "I have clearly eliminated all the obstacles that hinder me! I have spent so much effort and energy, and it is not easy to achieve what I have today!"

"But in the end, I actually fell into the hands of the lackey I raised with my own hands and you three ignorant outsiders! I won't accept it! I won't resign myself to it..."

Facing Babel's clamor, Shao Yun just smiled coldly and responded expressionlessly: "Humph, whether you are willing or not, the ending has been decided. Jade, it's your turn to take action."

After saying that, he nodded slightly to Jade beside him, indicating her to take the next step.

Jade still limped a little as she slowly came over from behind.

Although her leg injury has healed, it will still take some time and careful recuperation to completely get rid of the sequelae of the gunshot wound.

Babel stared at Jade's figure gradually approaching her, her heart trembled suddenly, and panic surged into her heart.

She hurriedly repeated her old tricks, like a cunning and treacherous poisonous snake, and once again used all her tricks to seduce Jade, attempting to rely on her eloquence and silver tongue to persuade Jade to turn against her.

"Jade, I have always treated you like my own daughter and loved you with all my heart. Do you have the heart to kill me now?"

"I do this all for the sake of our tribe, so that everyone can live a better life! I believe you can understand my painstaking efforts..."

Babel spoke tearfully, trying to move Jade's heart.

However, Jade was unmoved by Babel's hypocritical performance.

She shook her head coldly and responded, "I once sincerely regarded you as my mother, but in the end I found that in your eyes, I was just a running dog for you to use at will!"

"You have never cared about anyone's life or death, and I am just a tool you use to eliminate dissidents!"

At this point, Jade became more and more excited, and her voice couldn't help but tremble slightly.

Seeing that Jade had made up her mind, Babel acted decisively and quickly turned her attention to Ying and Paimon standing beside her.

She pretended to be pitiful and affectionate, and made empty promises to the two of them in a hypocritical manner.

"Dear guest of the tribe, I will leave the Tanit tribe and never appear again. I can give you all the wealth of the tribe. Please let me go."

Babel was very smart. She knew very well that she could not use herself as a bargaining chip to tempt Shao Yun to spare her life in front of Ying.

If she dared to do so, Ying would raise the gun in his hand and kill her directly.

Before Ying could say no to the ridiculous deal proposed by Babel, Shao Yun said, "If we kill you, the money will be ours. Are you scared?"

"Besides, do you believe what you said? You can't even fool Paimon with this!"

Seeing that she was at the end of her rope, Babel cursed, "You despicable outsiders! If I had known earlier, I shouldn't have let you live here. Maybe I would have succeeded!"

Facing Babel's arrogant scolding, Shao Yun just smiled coldly and said sarcastically: "Your ability cannot support your ambition. Even if you unify the desert tribes, what will happen? Have you thought about what will happen next?"

"Do all desert people believe in the flower god? The desert people in the south believe in the Red King."

"Even if you really unified the desert, can you defeat the thirty-man group in the rain forest? Can you defeat Senor? Can you defeat Nashida? Have you really become blind after wearing the eye patch for so long?"

Although Shao Yun talked a lot of truths, Babel was like a narrow-sighted toad trapped at the bottom of a well, repeating herself over and over again in an unrepentant and short-sighted manner.

"I will never accept defeat to traitors and outsiders like you! If you give me another chance, I will definitely win!"

Shao Yun looked at Babel and found that she still held on to the last bit of her dignity.

Then, an evil idea came to his mind. He wanted to completely shatter her remaining self-esteem.

"You keep accusing us of being outsiders and traitors, but may I ask, are you really sure that you are a pure member of the Tanit tribe?" Shao Yun questioned with a sneer.

As soon as he finished speaking, Babel became extremely excited and shouted, "What do you mean by that?"

Shao Yun raised his chin slightly, looking down at Babel who was slumped on the ground with a condescending attitude, and responded contemptuously: "In fact, you are no different from Jade, and you are not a real tribesman at all."

"It's just like a crow laughing at a pig, or a person who has taken fifty steps but has taken a hundred steps."

At this moment, Shao Yun's sharp words accidentally hurt Jie De who was standing nearby.

Jade asked with an unhappy look on her face: "Hey! Who are you calling a pig? I'm very slim, how can I be fat!"

Seeing Jade picking on him, Shao Yun was speechless and didn't know how to respond.

"No...Jade, why are you the same as Ying sometimes? You both like to pay attention to these weird places?"

Afterwards, Shao Yun gathered his emotions again and continued speaking to Babel.

"Your mother is a scholar at the Church of the Lord, and seems to be from a sage family of the Cause Theory School. Your father seems to be a desert person, so he should be mixed blood."

"Your mother went on a pilgrimage to the Sea of ​​Nectar Flowers while pregnant with you, but was blocked by the tribe there, so your father left the team to explore alone. During this time, your mother died of complications during childbirth."

"After that, your father came back injured. Because he couldn't pay the wages, the mercenaries wanted to use you as collateral. Your father didn't want to, so a conflict broke out and he was accidentally killed. You became the collateral and stayed in the Tanit tribe!"

After hearing this series of shocking facts about her life, Babel looked incredulous and murmured to herself, "No, it's impossible... What on earth are you talking about?"

"How can there be foreign blood flowing in my body? No, according to what you said, I am basically a foreigner!..."

Seeing that Barbelle was almost on the verge of collapse, Shao Yun knew that it would be difficult to make her believe it just by telling her the story verbally.

Then, he took out some yellowed papers, which were the notes of some mercenaries that he had picked up on the way when he and Sesos went to look for his brother-in-law.

"Here's the evidence. These things are still well preserved in the desert. Take a look for yourself."

With trembling hands, Babel tightly grasped the slightly yellowed and old-looking pieces of letter paper that Shao Yun handed over.

Her eyes fell anxiously and nervously on the densely packed text, trying to find the falsification.

As she read further, the expectant expression on Babel's face gradually turned into dullness and despair.

When she learned about her own life experience, she felt as if the whole world was collapsing in an instant, and the beliefs that had supported her all along also collapsed.

"I... I actually have... foreign blood flowing in my body! Haha... this is so ironic..."

Babel's voice was full of self-mockery and bitterness, and her laughter echoed in the empty environment, which was creepy.

Shao Yun took the opportunity to add insult to injury and mocked, "In fact, your father and mother are really stupid. They were pregnant but still took the risk to enter the dangerous desert."

He paused, then continued, "Otherwise, with their identities and backgrounds, you might be staying in Xumi City to study peacefully now."

"Perhaps with the help of your mother's sage family, you will have a good chance of growing up to be an outstanding scholar, or even a respected sage."

However, Shao Yun suddenly changed the subject, his tone becoming extremely cold and ruthless: "What a pity, fate always loves to play tricks on people. Now that things have come to this, do you have any last words to say?"

Faced with such a huge blow and the ensuing questioning, Babel could not bear the heavy pressure for a while.

Too much information flooded into her mind, bringing her mental state to the brink of collapse.

At this moment, she had lost her mind and was grinning foolishly.

"Hahaha, I didn't lose, I was just born at the wrong time..."

Shao Yun stared coldly at Babel's almost insane appearance, with a sneer on his face.

Then, he turned his head slightly and winked at Jade beside him, indicating that she could take action.

Jade stepped forward and grabbed Babel's collar with her right hand. Her arm muscles tensed instantly and she lifted Babel up easily.

At this moment, the special eye mask of the Gilded Brigade on Babel's face suddenly and silently slipped off.

Under the blindfold, the pair of charming pink pupils like gems were displayed to everyone without reservation.

Although Babel was smiling foolishly at this moment, the deep helplessness and sadness revealed in the depths of her eyes could not be concealed no matter what.

Jade looked coldly at Barbelle's pink pupils, and stabbed her right eye with a knife.

There was a muffled "puff" sound, and the blade instantly sank into Babel's right eye.

In an instant, Babel let out a heart-wrenching, horrifying scream.

The severe pain made her instinctively start to struggle frantically, waving her hands wildly and instinctively grabbing Jade.

However, in the face of Babel's resistance, Jade remained unmoved.

She exerted force on her hands again, continued to penetrate deeper, and penetrated straight into Barbelle's brain.

Following this fatal blow, Babel's scream that had been resounding through the sky suddenly stopped, as if someone had suddenly strangled her throat.

At the same time, her body completely lost all strength, and her hands, which were waving wildly in the air, fell down weakly.

Jade expressionlessly stirred the tip of the knife in Babel's head a few times, then shook her wrist slightly and loosened her grip on the handle.

Babel, who lost her support, fell backwards like a lifeless doll and landed heavily on the ground with a dull thud.

After falling to the ground, Babel's body spread out limply like a puddle of mud, without any sign of life left.

And from the shocking bloody hole in her right eye, a large amount of bright red blood mixed with white brain matter gushed out, flowing down her cheek like a flood breaking through a dam.

Not only that, blood continued to flow out of her mouth and nose, and the blood gathered together to form dark red streams, which blended with the blood spilled by other tribe members around her, and finally gathered together to form a winding blood-red stream, slowly spreading into the distance...

The crocodiles at the bottom of the canyon caught the bloody smell spreading in the water.

The stimulating smell ignited the wildness that had been hidden deep in their hearts for a long time, causing the group of crocodiles that had been lurking quietly to become restless and twist their bodies excitedly.