Nathan looked at Xiao Yi, who for some reason suddenly broke into a proud smile, feeling somewhat speechless.
He had no way of dealing with Xiao Yi, so he had to change his strategy.
"Fine, think what you want, but I need your help to escape from this Western-style mansion! No matter what, I can't stay here anymore. That woman is deeply in love with that freak; although she's still sane for the moment, it won't be long before she goes mad! When that happens, I will surely be murdered by her. Do you really want to see a child die young? If you stand by and watch, my death is certain."
Live comments: "Oh? Nathan is changing his tactics, now employing moral leverage against Brother Xiao Yi. How will Brother Xiao Yi respond?"
Live comments: "Speaking of which, does Brother Xiao Yi understand morals? I can't really say."
"Death is certain?" Xiao Yi frowned slightly. "That seems a bit much."
"It's exactly that much!" Nathan said with a serious expression. "That couple is cut from the same cloth; they're both prone to violence but will extremely tolerate those they love. Now that the freak is dead, that woman's obsession, her extreme love, don't you think she could kill me in her madness? Think about their behavior during dinner, can you say they weren't violent?"
Xiao Yi thought back and indeed, what Maria did was indeed a bit too much; no matter what, it's not acceptable to chop off someone's hand.
Xiao Yi couldn't help but recall the excruciating pain when he bit his own fingers until they bled; a severed hand must hurt even more.
And Maria had also displayed madness in front of Xiao Yi, even her anger materialized.
Luckily, Xiao Yi was incredibly clever and successfully convinced her to calm down, but... Nathan didn't have the same IQ and ability.
"Um... indeed, that wasn't great."
Hearing Xiao Yi say this, Nathan thought he saw hope, but Xiao Yi's next words drove him mad again.
"But, isn't it quite normal for family to do this?"
"...What?"
"...What?"
Everyone in the live stream and Nathan were stunned once again.
"How is it normal for family members to do that!?" Nathan nearly shouted.
"It's quite normal, isn't it? Where I used to live, the couple upstairs always fought and broke things, keeping me awake at night. If they do it every day, it means that's how family members are."
Xiao Yi, who had no family, said so.
"You...!"
Now Nathan was not just mad but completely insane!
"I really...! How did I manage to come across such an idiot! Ah, Jesu! Why don't you believe me! I curse you@#￥%&*!@#￥%&*!!"
Live comments: "Look how angry the kid is, he can't even speak properly."
It wasn't that Xiao Yi didn't believe Nathan, but he didn't trust any child.
Xiao Yi once had a painfully tragic experience of being tricked by a child!
It happened during Xiao Yi's third attempt at the middle school entrance exam.
That day, Xiao Yi was very confident because he had resisted temptation the night before and had actually reviewed for an entire two hours!
That was a feat he hadn't managed the night before that, the night before that, or any night before that!
At that time, Xiao Yi was very confident he could break through the middle school entrance exam, but then a child spoke to him.
She was a candidate sitting behind Xiao Yi, a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, very adorable.
She proposed a deal to Xiao Yi, that was, to exchange test papers.
Because the rule for the middle school entrance exam was to only submit answer sheets, test papers could be taken away to check answers.
However, due to lax supervision in this area, some students thought of this as a way to cheat by writing the answers on the test paper, then exchanging papers.
The little girl said she wasn't good at Chinese and wanted to swap test papers with Xiao Yi, in exchange, her mathematics was good, so she could trade her math test paper with Xiao Yi.
Although Xiao Yi was quite confident in himself at that time, out of caution, he agreed. After all, he had only reviewed Chinese.
But what Xiao Yi didn't expect was to be tricked by that little girl!
Xiao Yi was shocked when he saw his math score.
Zero!
Because the results were released the same day, Xiao Yi went to confront the little girl!
And she even pretended to be incredulous, saying, "That's impossible. I myself got a perfect score, Brother Xiao... You couldn't have, written the answers in the wrong place, could you?"
Xiao Yi: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible! I wrote everything strictly in order! How could I have possibly got it wrong?"
But no matter what, Xiao Yi failed to advance to junior high once again.
That painful experience made him never dare to easily trust any child again.
He also swore never to cheat again, which is why he still hadn't made it to junior high to this day.
In fact, the teacher in charge of grading the exam papers was also confused at the time.
For some reason, there was an extra student named B.
It was later determined through process of elimination that this B was Xiao Yi.
That is to say, Xiao Yi wrote the answer for the first question in the Name column, and then continued in sequence, resulting in a total displacement of all the answers, naturally scoring zero.
In short, this painful experience is still etched in Xiao Yi's heart to this day, making him unable to forget. That's why he's been extra cautious with children ever since, never trusting them lightly!
This also led to Nathan's current frenzied state.
However, Xiao Yi wasn't an unreasonable person. Seeing Nathan like this, he changed the subject and said,
"However, it's indeed not good for you to continue living in this house. After all, your father has died, and your mother seems a bit unstable. It's best you leave for a while. You should have relatives you can stay with, right?"
"…Relatives?"
Nathan paused for a moment, then quickly caught on, nodding vigorously like a ticking timer!
"Ah yes yes yes yes yes! That's right, I was planning to stay with relatives!"
"That's good."
Although the Professor had died, his kindness was still remembered by Xiao Yi.
He thought he might as well lend a hand where he could.
Xiao Yi asked, "So, how exactly do you need my help? Should I persuade Aunt Maria?"
"Persuade? Oh, right... persuade. Thanks to you taking care of that old freak who was the strongest of them, this thing can come in handy now."
Suddenly, Nathan smiled, then produced a Dagger honed to a sharp edge out of Black Jade.
"This took me a lot of effort to acquire, a weapon that can truly harm them... heh, use this to 'persuade' them properly."
However, before Nathan had a chance to smile any further, the Dagger in his hand was snatched away by Xiao Yi.
"…You!"
"You what?" said Xiao Yi. "Kid, where did you get such a dangerous knife? I'm confiscating it. You're not allowed to play with it, it's too dangerous."
Nathan immediately became anxious.
"Do you know what that is!? Give it back to me!"
Nathan was about to snatch it back, but Xiao Yi shouted at him, causing Nathan to back off.
"Maria!"
"Holy shit! Don't call out!"
Seeing Nathan cower, Xiao Yi smiled smugly.
Indeed, the best way to handle bratty kids was to call for their parents. Although his dad was dead, luckily he still had a mom.
"You…" Nathan clenched his fists, hesitated for a moment, but ultimately gave up, "Sigh... forget it, take it. It might be miraculously effective in your hands."
The live streaming audience was also shocked by this scene.
"Holy shit! That knife looks no ordinary one!"
"Brother Xiao Yi might have gotten a crucial item for this instance!"