Just as the sharp dagger was only a centimeter away from the girl, with a feint... the girl actually vanished into thin air.
The skeleton man stared in shock at the person who had disappeared before him, but he couldn't retract his movements.
His fierce slash only cut through the air, sending him stumbling forward, almost headfirst into the sand. Once he finally regained his balance, a different emotion finally appeared in his bloodshot eyes: "What, what, what is going on? Am I seeing, seeing ghosts? Where did that little brat go?"
He squeezed his eyes shut and then opened them again, as if to confirm if his vision was faulty.
"Are you looking for this child?"
A cold voice sounded behind him.
The skeleton-clothed man was startled and immediately turned around, taking two steps back to look at the source of the voice.
The moment he turned, he saw Bai Xi.
Bai Xi, dressed in a floral dress, stood less than two meters away from where he had been standing, still holding the little girl he had almost killed.
"Ha, a little girl, trying to play the hero. Since you want to save her, then hand over your own life!"
With that said, he lunged at Bai Xi with the sharp dagger.
Bai Xi remained in place, calm and collected. She held the child in one arm, and as he entered her attack range, she delivered a sidekick, knocking the dagger from his hand, and then punched him directly on the forehead.
With just one punch, the sound of breaking bone was clearly audible.
That sound came not from elsewhere, but from the skeleton man's nose.
Simultaneously, he fell unconscious, collapsing to the ground like a dead dog.
Her strike was precise; the man wouldn't wake up for at least two hours.
At this moment, the child's mother finally pushed through the crowd, tears on her face and countless scratches on her body: "Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. If it weren't for you, Ningning would have... would have... thank you so much."
The near loss of her daughter made the woman's speech incoherent.
She kept thanking her and bowing repeatedly, the panic and anxiety in her voice slowly subsiding, replaced by self-blame and guilt.
Bai Xi looked at her, her gaze gradually softening: "This was an unexpected incident, not your fault. However, you should still be more careful when you go out next time, and never let your child out of your sight."
The woman continued to thank her and bow, as if only this could express her inexpressible gratitude: "I understand, I won't stray too far from her from now on."
With this lesson learned, she would be very, very careful in the future.
Bai Xi nodded: "Hurry and take the child away, it's chaotic here."
After speaking, she looked into the distance.
She had subdued the person in the skull outfit and skull mask, so logically the commotion should be subsiding. But why wasn't it? Why hadn't the screaming stopped?
Bai Xi looked around and realized that it wasn't just one person, but a group!
At the same moment, another person wearing the same skull t-shirt and skull mask appeared. He also held a sharp dagger, his eyes filled with murderous intent, chasing and hacking at anyone he saw.
Two, three, four, five, six... the number of such people rapidly increased within visible range, more and more!
They were clearly organized and purposeful, like hunters, madly targeting prey on this beach, desperately killing, and even more like they were doing it for sport.
These people...
Bai Xi's gaze immediately deepened, and then with lightning speed, she flashed in front of another man in a skull mask, taking him down... then the next.
As she dealt with three of them, she suddenly heard a familiar voice: "Stop, don't hurt him!"
This was... Mother's voice!
Bai Xi's pupils suddenly widened as she looked towards the source of the sound.
As expected, not far away, was her mother.
Just three minutes ago, a man wearing a skull mask had appeared near Lin Yun, wielding a sharp dagger and slashing wildly.
The blade of the skull-man's dagger was aimed directly at Lin Yun and He Mu.
Lin Yun had an injury on her foot and had been in a wheelchair all day, but a wheelchair couldn't be pushed on the beach, which would be more troublesome. Therefore, when she came to the beach, she was naturally assisted by He Mu.
However, this meant the two couldn't move quickly, and because of this, they were caught up by the people in skull t-shirts.
Seeing the man with the sharp dagger about to attack Lin Yun, He Fang immediately turned and blocked Lin Yun behind him.
The long sharp dagger immediately slashed fiercely into He Fang's back.
In an instant, blood gushed out.
Lin Yun was stunned and looked at the person beside her: "Doctor He!"
He Mu furrowed his brows: "I'm fine!"
Lin Yun watched as blood flowed down He Mu's back onto the white sand, her eyes instantly reddening: "Doctor He, don't mind me, you run!"
If it weren't for her foot injury, how could she have dragged him down?
He Mu ignored what Lin Yun said and held onto her as they ran forward: "Don't worry about that, let's run..."
Lin Yun looked at the shocking red: "But you..."
As she spoke, the black skull man lunged forward with a triumphant smile: "Haha, you want to be a hero and save the beauty? Now I'll fulfill your wish and send you both to hell!"
With that, he raised his knife and swung at the two of them.
He Mu felt the black skull man getting closer and closer, frowning. He said in Lin Yun's ear, "Although your foot will hurt when you run, it won't be seriously injured. In a moment, when I let go, you run in another direction, don't look back, understand?"
Lin Yun was slightly stunned, her heart tightening.
What was he going to do?
"You can't..."
She had held him back; how could she let him be in danger for her again?
At this moment, the flashing cold dagger had already swung down.
He Mu directly pushed Lin Yun away and lunged towards the man with the dagger.
Lin Yun saw He Mu lunging unarmed at the black skull man with the dagger and shouted anxiously: "Stop! Don't hurt him!"
And this was what Bai Xi saw.
The black skull man's eyes were filled with mocking laughter as he saw He Mu charging at him.
Bare-handed, how could he compete?
He directly thrust his sharp dagger towards the direction He Mu was coming from.
He felt elated, imagining stabbing He Mu in the stomach as he charged forward, then stabbing him in both legs, and then dealing with the woman with the leg injury... He had to make He Mu watch the woman he wanted to protect die before his eyes, and then return to stab him twice in the chest, sending him to the afterlife.
This kind of game was exciting just to think about.
"Hero saves the beauty! Then I'll let you see the price of being a hero!"