"Of course." Zhong Mu replied without hesitation. "After all, the doctor came here because of me, so I have to be responsible to the doctor."
Mu He smiled without saying a word. Judging from his actions, Zhong Mu truly wanted to take responsibility for him. He was willing to give up following the reliable Yin Xiu and Ye Tianxuan and travel thousands of miles to find him. He was serious enough.
After drying her hair, Mu He was completely cleaned up by Zhong Mu.
From sitting on the street, a pitiful little thing with severed limbs and covered in blood, to now being clean and beautiful, it's all thanks to Zhong Mu's hard work.
"Can you walk now?" Zhong Mu helped Mu He up and let him try to walk on his own two legs again.
"Hmm..." Mu He responded, and took two tentative steps on the ground. Her legs had fully recovered and she was able to walk freely.
Watching the person he was supporting walk shakily from his arms to walking steadily, Zhong Mu felt a little disappointed. He quite liked the doctor's dependence on him.
"Let's go, let's go to the main city of Lifefall City." In the blink of an eye, Mu He quickly walked back, took his hand, and smiled, "Without you leading the way, I wouldn't be able to find it."
"Hmm!" Zhong Mu, who had been feeling down, suddenly perked up again. "Doctor, you'd better stay close to me, or you'll get targeted again."
"Okay." Mu He nodded silently with a smile, and was led away from the dark alley by Zhong Mu.
The citizens of the City of Fallen Life are exceptionally good at judging people. When they see someone like Mu He, who seems easy to talk to and has a missing limb, they will approach him without hesitation, put on an innocent face, and beg. Their reasons are always the same: to pretend to be pitiful and then try to gain his trust by borrowing his belongings.
"Kind person, please lend me your arm! I have never held my beloved in my arms before."
"Please lend me your legs, I haven't experienced the joy of running and walking yet."
"I want your head. Your head looks so beautiful. I bet a lot of people like you. I also want someone to like me."
A large group of people surrounded them, with all sorts of reasons.
Zhong Mu gripped the axe tightly with a cold face and swung it, "Get out of my way! If you dare to come up and ask for anything, I'll chop it off!"
His menacing appearance drove away the group, but some still recklessly approached Zhong Mu and tentatively asked, "Can I borrow your limbs?"
Mu He quickly grabbed Zhong Mu's arm and turned towards the source of the voice, "No, his limbs are mine."
They even spoke in a polite tone, explaining things earnestly to others.
The person who received the response was stunned and couldn't say anything. In the end, Zhong Mu swung his axe and chased the person away.
"Doctors, you don't need to be polite to them anymore. If these shameless swindlers dare to come, I'll kill them all!" Zhong Mu said angrily, deliberately raising his voice so that the people around him who were eyeing him would hear.
He never expected that these people would have such a scheme against him. If he didn't retaliate with threats, they would definitely think he was easy to bully and would target him.
Mu He nodded silently and was pulled away by Zhong Mu from the gaze of a large group of people.
Once they reached the vicinity of the main city, the residents' demeanor changed again. This time, instead of coaxing or asking questions, they directly inquired about prices, offering to trade limbs. However, Zhong Mu glared at them and refused.
Throughout the journey, Zhong Mu kept an eye on the city walls, confirming once again that the city indeed had no rules and no information about a high priest. The city dwellers traded, stole, and deceived each other, all as if it were their own choice, without any instructions from the high priest.
This made Zhong Mu even more curious: where had the city's high priest gone?
When the two arrived at the main city, the locals presented a completely different scene. They were gathered in a queue within the city walls, shouting towards the city, "When are we getting ours for this week?! My arm is almost useless!"
"Yeah, in two more days I won't be able to come to the main city to queue up! What am I going to do without legs!"
"Is the distribution of limbs getting slower and slower? Are they going to stop distributing them altogether in the future?"
"I knew that without God, it wouldn't work. This method won't last long."
Faced with a group of people grumbling and complaining impatiently, Zhong Mu was completely confused. He led Mu He closer to the crowd and randomly stopped someone to ask, "What's going on here in the main city? What do you mean by 'distributing limbs'?"
Those who turned around and saw that Zhong Mu was unharmed became even angrier. "You're from another city, aren't you? Don't come to the main city of Mingyun City to meddle. Go back to your city. I'm annoyed to see people like you all intact."
Zhong Mu remained silent. As expected, being polite was pointless to the people here. He glanced around at the people, not wanting to cause a commotion, and pointed to an empty spot nearby. "You want a limb, right? Come over there with me. If you answer my question, I'll give it to you."
When the topic of body language came up, the other person paused for a moment, then immediately beamed with joy, "Okay, okay, whatever you want to ask, I can tell you."
As he spoke, his gaze swept over Zhong Mu and then fell on Mu He. He was clearly pleased, as he felt it wouldn't be a loss to take either body part. So, without a second thought, he excitedly followed Zhong Mu to a secluded spot.
The three left the vicinity of the main city and entered a deserted area. The other party immediately turned around, wanting to ask Zhong Mu what information he wanted to know. As soon as he turned his head, he was met with an axe swinging towards him.
"Aaaaah!! My head!" the other person screamed, but Zhong Mu had already swiftly and decisively chopped off their head with an axe.
Zhong Mu even made the clean Mu He take two steps back to avoid getting blood on her, then stepped forward, picked up the head from the ground, and shook it in the air. "If you honestly answer the questions I asked, I'll sew your head back in. I don't have much time left, so think it over carefully."
"Ask! Ask! Ask now!" The other person was impatient; having his head chopped off, he only had a moment to live, and he was terrified.
Where is your god?
"They've vanished! The gods of all the cities have vanished!"
"And what about your high priest? Do you have a high priest?"
"Is that even a question?! Which city doesn't have a high priest?! Stop asking these pointless questions! What exactly do you want to know?!"
The other party is even more anxious than Zhong Mu right now.
"I want to know what happened to the City of Destiny after the gods disappeared, and what was that limb you just asked for?" Zhong Mu asked slowly, the calmer he was, the more anxious the other party became.
"Why are you asking this..." The person whose head was being held clearly didn't want to mention too much about the hidden things in the City of Destiny to Zhong Mu.
But Zhong Mu also decisively put his head down, "Fine, don't tell me then, I'll just go chop off another one."
"Tell me! Tell me right now! Don't leave me here!" The head on the ground gritted its teeth, truly never expecting that after deceiving so many others with their limbs in the City of Fallen Souls, it would one day be the one being deceived with its own limbs!