“Don’t run into a fight the next time you see one, Xiaofeng. Look at yourself, how are you now?” Shen Ying sat beside Liao Feng and spoke to him in a low, soft voice. “When I saw you, you were covered in blood and mud. Your entire body was filled with cuts. I can’t even bear to look at you, tell me how can you bear the much pain? Why did you fight with them?”

  Liao Feng’s red face was bruised with a trail of tear streaks. With puffy red eyes he forced a laugh, “Big Sister Ying, I am alright, and I am not feeling the pain any more.”

  “Look at your face! Can I believe your words?” Shen Ying cried out. “Can’t you think about how we will feel if something had happened to you?”

  Liao Feng replied in a low voice, “I saw them, Big Sister, I understand. I am sorry to all of you for making you feel worried.”

  Shen Ying looked into his eyes, “From what I heard from them, you didn’t regret your actions. Can you say about that to me?”

  Liao Feng lowered his head as he saw her mood worsen visibly.

  Shen Ying’s face twisted with anger, “Have you gone mad, Xiaofeng? Will you fight on the road, risking your life to save someone you don’t even know? Can’t you look after yourself first? That’s all we want from you!”

  Liao Feng pursed his lips and replied, “He was about to be killed, I have to save him. It’s also those bad guys who came after me to kill me! I tried not to die and fought him to the end!”

  With those words, Shen Ying’s gaze intensified, “That’s what I am asking about! You don’t even need to take action in the first place. Haven’t you heard about news like this in the sect before? Haven’t you seen someone getting beaten to death in the sect before? What did you then? What is so special about this guy? Do you even know him?”

  Liao Feng’s muscles all over his body, “Hiss!”, he clenched his teeth. Liao Feng raised his head and his red, teary eyes stared into Shen Ying, “I don’t know him, I don’t even need to know him! If I can save him, I will save him, that’s it. Do I also have to hear his death from the mouth of others, even after I saw him about to be killed?”

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  The tears from his eyes followed the trail from before, “The crowd around that man was looking eagerly for his death! I saw that. No one wanted to step forward to save him. No one!”

  “That was a vulnerable, innocent man who was about to die. He was lying there without any resistance!”

  “No one stopped those maniacs!”

  “I had to do it if others are not willing to.”

  “If someone stopped them, I would have stood quietly, but no one had that intention.”

  “I don’t want others to question me just because I didn’t tie my hands!”

  “But now even you guys are pointing your fingers at me! Me!”

  “Weren’t you regretting coming to the sect after hearing about this type of news frequently?”

  “Or did you guys also started liking to hear about the death of people? From when?”

  “Was me saving that man made you lose your source of happiness for this week?”

  Shen Ying stood paralysed, her eyes reddened, overwhelmed by sorrow. Clenching her hands, she opened her mouth forcefully, “Did something happen to you, Xiaofeng? Why are you speaking like this?”

  Liao Feng realised the mistake after the outburst.

  Cold seeped into Liao Feng’s body, his sobs intensified, reflexively raising his hands to rub his eyes opened his wounds. His weeping grew louder. “I am sorry, Big Sister. I am sorry. I.. I… I didn’t mean to say those words.”

  Shen Ying raised her hand and patted Liao Feng’s head. She tried to soften her voice, “Did something happen during the mission? Did anyone say anything to you? Speak with me. Don’t try to hide it.”

  Her comfort hurt Liao Feng. His vision was blurred with the torrent of tears, “Sixty… sixty four people were murdered, Big Sister. No matter how much they begged and knelt, everyone was killed by them.”

  “They were too weak and defenceless when we caught them. They didn’t need to be killed any more, Big Sister!”

  “No one showed mercy for them. They played with them till they died!”

  “Our sect disciples are demons. They are devil.”

  “Our sect killed thousands of them, Big Sister!”

  “I caught them!”

  “I was the reason for their death!”

  “Those innocent people died unjustly!”

  “This is an evil sect! And I am its disciple!” Liao Feng covered his face with his hands desperately. The bandages turned red with oozing blood.

  Shen Ying hurriedly hugged Liao Feng’s head. She closed her eyes, tears falling down. “Don’t cry, don’t cry. Please, don’t hurt yourself.”

  Liao Feng hiccuped and coughed, “I am free from that mission… and then another man was about to die in front of me.”

  “Do I need to watch him die?”

  “I couldn’t do that!”

  “What should I be afraid of to fight any more? Death?”

  “His death was all that mattered.”