"Dad, dad... I’m sorry... sob sob..."
Fana trembled slightly, her mouth constantly muttering words expressing her regret and sorrow.
At her side, her mother’s hands tightly embraced her, as if a moment of carelessness would cause her to disappear from her side.
Indeed, that was the case.
Fana had several impulses to turn around, but her mother firmly suppressed them, obviously wanting to commit suicide to accompany her father.
Even so, even at a time , even with countless monsters behind them, how could a mother watch her own daughter step into the abyss?
Fortunately, facing such monsters required great courage. After being stopped by her a few times, Fana no longer sought death recklessly but just sat weeping in her mother’s arms.
However, the monsters behind them did not seem to want to let them go just like that.
A sound of collapsing buildings resounded, and the entire basement was suddenly alight.
The mother and daughter both trembled.
Although they did not turn back to look, they knew that the monster had finally pried open the bricks on the ground and made its way into the entrance of the basement.
The mother’s arm around her daughter tightened a bit more.
The two seemed to have already accepted their fate. They did not turn back but cuddled together, waiting for the moment to come.
"Bang! Bang Bang Bang!"
Behind them, a series of noises rang out again, sounding like the monster was enlarging the basement’s doorway to allow its huge body to pass through.
Fana tightly closed her eyes and remained in a tense state.
She felt like she could hear the increasingly approaching sound of the monster, just like the footsteps of Death, slowly walking toward them.
One step, two steps, three steps...
Eventually, she couldn’t bear the fear in her heart and secretly opened her eyes a slit.
Before her, the sunset cast a shadow. Fana gasped, obviously, le creature was already standing behind her.
A hand landed on her shoulder.
Fana let out a scream of despair.
Yang Yangyang was startled by her sudden scream and quickly withdrew his hand, saying,
"Ma’am, don’t be afraid, you are safe now."
At his words, the girl in front of him seemed to have her throat suddenly squeezed, abruptly stopping her scream, and then quickly turned her head, looking at him with disbelief and confusion.
Fana saw that behind her, there was no trace of any monster, only a man standing in the light of the sunset like an angel radiating a holy light.
Fana was stupefied by the scene before her, just quietly staring at him, unable to speak for a long time.
A tear unknowingly slid from her eye, yet she paid no attention to wiping it away.
The mother beside her also turned her head back.
After seeing the scene behind her, she, too, was stunned for a long while until the man reminded her again, prompting her to react.
"You, you... where’s that monster... did you save us?"
The mother seemed somewhat incoherent.
She could not understand why it had been a ferocious monster attempting to break in just a moment ago and in the next instant was replaced by a big boy dressed in white clothes.
Yang Yangyang, seeing this, smiled.
He shifted to the side, giving them a view of what was behind him,
"Rest assured, you’re safe now, that monster is already dead."
Fana followed his movement and looked, only to see at the broken basement doors, a gigantic headless corpse laying on the ground, starkly the monster that had killed her father.
Seeing this, both mother and daughter involuntarily widened their eyes, momentarily at a loss for words.
They could hardly imagine that such a ferocious monster had just died like that.
And it seemed, it was indeed the young man before them who had killed it.
Only then did the two realize, belatedly, that the person before them was holding a silver-white long spear more than two meters in length.
"The outside is very dangerous right now. Are there any other people here? We need to leave immediately and go to a safe place," Yang Yangyang said.
Fana, upon hearing this, quickly helped her mother to stand up, her mind also recalling her recently deceased father, which brought forth a surge of grief, and tears uncontrollably welled up in her eyes again.
"There’s no one else, just my mom and me now... Dad was just killed by the monster... sob sob sob..."
Yang Yangyang sighed softly upon seeing this.
However, now was not the time for sadness; he needed to lead the two to evacuate immediately as the battlefield here was becoming increasingly dangerous.
Upon leaving the basement with the mother and daughter, there lay two more corpses of Stone Statue Demons outside.
"Please wait a moment, before we leave, I must purify these monsters," he said,
He stacked the three corpses together, placed his palm near them, and began the absorption.
About twenty seconds later, accompanied by a painful sensation in his hand, Yang Yangyang successfully absorbed the three Stone Statue Demons, gaining twenty-seven Contribution Value.
At that moment, Hu Peng and Xun You also came running over from two other directions, each leading a few residents they had rescued from nearby.