At this moment, Aurora's condition was actually quite bad.

It seemed that in order to mask the smell of blood on her and avoid drawing the Headless Giant's attention, Aurora smeared a thick layer of ash on herself, adding plenty of pungent chemical solvent, giving her a disheveled appearance as if she had rolled in the mud.

Indeed, her right hand was severed, leaving only an empty, blood-stained short sleeve below the elbow, but thanks to timely bandaging, there were no major issues.

However, the physical wounds were secondary; Aurora's biggest issue was that her mental state seemed unstable, acting erratically and mumbling two words continuously...

"Get away! Get away! You stinky bird!"

She seemed to see things invisible to others, entangled by doom and unknown entities, even her originally clear blue eyes had become cloudy.

Yet, even so, she wouldn't hesitate in the face of major conflicts.

Nobody knew how this girl, at most no older than 14, survived the Headless Giant's grasp, nor did anyone know how she got hold of C4 explosives.

But Aurora survived and, at the critical moment of a life-and-death struggle, precisely threw the C4 in her hand onto the Headless Giant's arm that pinned Yun You.

To enhance the hit rate of C4 explosives in combat, small workshops like the "Little Bird Gang" would add an excessive amount of biological magnets to the surface of C4 bombs, making them "highly effective magnetic bombs."

Once activated and adhered to a creature's skin, they would stick to the magnets in the blood, making it extremely hard to remove.

Unless you tear the skin apart and rip open the blood vessels, it would only stick tighter and tighter.

Being an experienced mutant creature, the Headless Giant could certainly sense the danger contained within the C4.

It could choose to abandon its arm, voluntarily severing and kicking it away to prevent the explosion from reaching itself.

After all, it had a high-speed regeneration ability, so losing an arm wasn't a big deal.

However, cutting off that arm meant Yun You, who was on the opposite side of the arm, would escape its control.

This little girl was as slippery as an eel, making it not so easy to catch her again.

So, the Headless Giant hesitated.

After all, no matter how intelligent biological weapons are, they can't compare to true warriors; they still hesitate when faced with difficult situations.

And this moment of hesitation resulted in the worst outcome for it.

Boom—!

Triggered by the electric detonator, the C4 was cleanly detonated, leaving the Headless Giant with little time to think.

A full 5 kilograms of TNT released all of its energy instantaneously, unleashing it at point-blank range on the Headless Giant's joint.

No surprise, the powerful explosive tore the giant's shoulder apart, blasting its right arm into pieces along the way.

Freed from the giant's arm's restraint, Yun You naturally escaped safely, falling from the ceiling.

Though she also suffered from the blast wave's damage, she was lucky because the giant's large fist conveniently shielded her body, absorbing most of the shockwave, so the little girl only spat a bit of blood and was not seriously harmed.

Plop~

Yun You rolled on the ground, slightly dampening the force of her roll.

She was amazed by Aurora's arrival, her mind repeatedly wondering: How did this girl survive?

But the Headless Giant didn't give her much time to think.

Almost the moment the explosion ended, the monster's shattered arm had already started regenerating, and it went into a frenzy, its originally silver-gray iron frame turning fiery red, its limbs bulging with veins.

"Roar...!"

It let out an enraged howl, no longer bothering with the more threatening Yun You, instead swinging its fractured right arm to slam down on Aurora beside it, determined to smash this pesky girl into pulp!

The speed of the Headless Giant was so fast that Aurora couldn't react in time... In the blink of an eye, the thick, smoking palm was in front of her, blowing against her face and hair.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, Jack fired a grenade launcher, slightly delaying the giant's movement with the explosion.

Then Yun You swiftly scooped up Aurora as if grabbing a doll, rolling away with her to dodge the attack, retreating to their previous position.

"Aurora Miles... you really are Aurora?!"

As soon as Yun You put Aurora down, Jack and Frost Moon couldn't help but crowd forward, examining the girl closely, even ignoring the advancing Headless Giant.

It's no surprise; the fact that Aurora was still alive was... a bit absurd.

Even though she demonstrated incredible wisdom, Yun You and the others still felt that intelligence and courage alone shouldn't be enough for her to survive the Headless Giant's grasp.

This shouldn't be...

The three wanted answers from the girl's mouth.

However, Aurora continued to ignore every question, simply holding her head and shaking it painfully, repeating the same phrases over and over.

"Get away... Get away!"

"I'm not your possession...!"

Her emotions were somewhat uncontrollable, her tone tinged with crying, making people's hearts tighten upon hearing it.

In this state, obviously, communication was impossible.

"It's okay, it's okay..."

"We're here to help you, girl. Things will get better."

Jack sighed, gently patting Aurora's head, trying to calm her emotions.

However, Aurora's condition didn't improve in the slightest.

She couldn't escape the "thing" she spoke of, her mind remaining in a muddled state.

Seeing this, Yun You couldn't help but sigh, and simply took out a wipe from her pocket, wiping the dirty neck of Aurora, just about to say something...

But at that moment, her peripheral vision inadvertently caught sight of a bizarre pattern emerging on the back of Aurora's smooth, fair neck.

The pattern was crudely drawn, composed of several broad blue strokes, with the main figure being a strange-looking double-headed bird—a head facing its own body and another facing the viewer, as if watching the events unfold...

Neither of the two birds had eyes, but there was a giant eye occupying half of their bodies.

Upon closer observation, the eye with the vertical pupil was identical to the eye on Aurora's severed arm, only with slight coloration differences.

"Double-headed bird..."

Looking at this odd pattern, Yun You couldn't shake a feeling of uneasiness.

She recalled Aurora's constant murmuring.

"Stupid bird... get away from me!"

Could the bird she mentioned be the creature represented by the pattern?

But what exactly was this thing?

She couldn't figure it out, particularly with no information about the double-headed bird pattern in her mind.

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