"That mutated Alpha was only twelve or thirteen years old. He was practically still a child, yet he managed to kill two special forces soldiers before the sniper took him down… or so I've been told," Mo Feng added the last few words in a haste upon sensing the temperature in the room plummeted all of a sudden.
Marius' immediate reaction was to shoot a concerned glance at Ye Qiu, silently asking if she would prefer to wait for them somewhere else instead, as he did not want her to be bothered by this unsettling conversation.
But Ye Qiu reassured him firmly, "I'm fine." She lowered her gaze, her fists clenching by her side. "It might be a little difficult to bear, but… it's not like I haven't gotten used to it. After all, that's how my life was before I met you guys. Otherwise, the next person to be shot down could have been me or the children."