Free Web NovelChapter 128: Chapter 128: Important Person to Bai Wu
Just like a vampire sinking its teeth into its prey, Bai Wu didn’t deliberately chew the flesh; he only sucked in the crimson liquid.
He bit down upon the prey unrelentingly, and Ruan Qingyun, who watched this scene from afar, felt that Bai Wu was like a true starving wolf.
She had never seen such an animal, only having read about it in books when she was a child.
She had thought she had forgotten all that knowledge, but upon seeing Bai Wu, it all came back to her at once.
The ferocity displayed by Bai Wu greatly shocked Lilith as well.
No matter how she kicked or hit Bai Wu’s other weak points, this damned man’s teeth seemed to be glued to her neck.
What was most fatal was that Bai Wu hadn’t bitten through Lilith’s trachea; he was merely sucking the substance that could replenish his strength.
The benefits brought by Taotie were unimaginable.
Originally, just one bite would only restore a bit of strength, but now Bai Wu was like someone farming on the edge of the fountain of life, unconcerned about how ferocious Lilith’s attacks were.
Lilith also noticed that under normal circumstances, the force of her blows delivered on Bai Wu’s body would have been enough to daze him, but instead, Bai Wu seemed even more spirited.
The wounds on his body miraculously healed at a rate visible to the naked eye!
As she diminished, he grew stronger.
"Let... go..."
Lilith’s breath was already somewhat faint.
She remembered that once there was a child with a similar ability... In the description of an old friend, there was a disappointing disciple.
His name was Elijah, locked up in a hospital, one that the Masked Strange Person used for storing monsters.
Elijah had a similar ability to acquire vitality by devouring others, and not just vitality. With the ability of Evil Fallen to consume the opponent to strengthen oneself, being bitten by Elijah meant death.
But this old friend was not satisfied with Elijah, because that hospital had birthed an even more perfect monster.
"Let... go... please... let go!"
Lilith’s consciousness was getting blurry; anyone having their blood sucked for so long would experience a decline in bodily functions.
But Bai Wu did not let go. It was the first time he had sucked so much blood, and it brought back some painful memories for him.
"Daddy... I feel awful..."
"Remember this feeling. Shock caused by blood loss mainly depends on the quantity of blood lost and the speed of the loss," Mr. Bai’s voice was still magnetic, tenderly looking at Bai Wu.
"I feel like... I’m about to die, Daddy..."
"How could that be, don’t worry, you won’t die. Generally, if the blood loss is less than 10 percent of the total volume within fifteen minutes, the body can compensate to keep blood pressure and tissue perfusion stable."
Then, he continued in a pedagogical tone:
"But if the rapid loss exceeds 20 percent of the total blood volume, it can cause shock, and more than 50 percent can be fatally dangerous. It’s not ruled out that in the future, humans could have a blood production capacity far beyond what we have now, so these numbers could be increased. Keep this in mind if you encounter it in the future."
It was as if he were explaining a common knowledge to his child, while Bai Wu’s body trembled slightly.
Back then, he had fear and sorrow.
"Let go..."
Lilith tried to do something, but Bai Wu now realized that her strength had grown very weak.
He continued to suck on Lilith and, to prevent her from triggering the Legion with some special method to gain a series of extra Talents for a turnaround, he pinned down both of Lilith’s hands, rendering her unable to move.
This posture... in Ruan Qingyun’s eyes, looked like a man pressing down on a woman. freeweɓnøvel.com
Guzzling the blood greedily, regardless of how Lilith wailed, Bai Wu acted as if he couldn’t hear her.
He really wanted to reply:
"You are far from reaching the point of shock, no rush."
But he couldn’t open his mouth.
Lilith felt her head was heavy, and everything around her became oppressively dark.
Bai Wu then realized...
He might really be Unlucky. Maybe the Spirit Possession of the camera was Liu Chengzi’s good fortune, not his own.
Otherwise, why had he only managed to raise his Innate Force to the fifth level, without acquiring a single Talent Sequence?
Could it be that he needed to consume flesh? Bai Wu hadn’t done so. Up until now, he hadn’t felt his body bulging in places it shouldn’t, but if he chewed on something, it might indeed trigger something.
His Innate Force quickly broke through from the fourth level, fifth step, to the fifth level.
And then it rapidly broke through from the fifth level to the fifth level, third step.
Fifth level, fourth step.
Fifth level, fifth step. freeweɓnovel.cøm
As he continued to suckle on the blood, Bai Wu finally felt the immense power of Taotie.
Just one bite allowed him to recover quite a bit of his injuries, and within a mere few minutes, he was able to draw a significant amount of strength from his opponent...
Even without a Talent, even if he released his bite now, he had already secured victory.
But Bai Wu didn’t release his grip; he refused to engage in such a cliché villainous act.
He would only stop when he heard that Lilith had completely fallen unconscious.
He even didn’t mind killing Lilith.
Lilith also felt it; this ant that had escaped from the Tower God Society twice had become extraordinarily powerful.
"Are you... Elijah... or did you... kill it?"
As she felt an overwhelming sleepiness, Bai Wu finally confirmed, after hearing her words, that Lilith was indeed the disciple!
No response came as countless thoughts flashed through Bai Wu’s mind.
The one who sets the questions, and the one who answers them, if their roles aren’t changed, even if the latter’s strength far surpasses the former’s, the questioner always holds an invincible position!
Only by becoming the questioner could he reverse the predicament of being outwitted by Cain time and again.
Finally, after Lilith fainted from blood loss, Bai Wu stopped.
Fifth level, ninth step.
He didn’t acquire any Talent, but with this battle, Bai Wu now possessed the strength of a team captain.
He felt a bit regretful; if he had been able to obtain the Eye of Insight or Prayle’s Eye, he could even have had the power of the Eye of the Scales.
No... even stronger than that.
The Eye of the Scales could only foresee a few seconds into the future, but Prayle’s Eye, based on that, would combine the opponent’s actions and directly provide the optimal solution.
Grabbing the chest, spouting trash talk, these were proofs of that.
"What a pity."
But Bai Wu didn’t consume humans.
Taotie came with a fatal side effect; if it weren’t for the sake of survival, if he wasn’t trying to save Dwarf’s Wife, Bai Wu wouldn’t have risked using it.
Even though he couldn’t feel it himself, his demeanor had changed subtly. It was the kind that at first glance seemed the same as before, but upon closer inspection, one would find he had become even more "beautiful."
Not handsome or dashing, but beautiful.
It was very subtle; to sum it up, his attractiveness had once again increased by +1.
Bai Wu didn’t immediately go to save Dwarf’s Wife. At that moment, Ruan Qingyun, looking at the calm, blood-streaked face of Bai Wu, felt that this young man seemed somewhat stranger.
The Bai Wu she remembered was a calm and composed, yet occasionally mischievous and adorable young man.
But at this moment, as she watched everything Bai Wu was doing—calmly wiping the blood from his face, serenely checking Lilith’s body, searching for any means Lilith might have to turn the tables, and seemingly using her pulse to deduce the speed of Lilith’s recovery—
these images made Ruan Qingyun feel that deep down, Bai Wu was an incredibly insane individual.
Unlike those loudmouthed lunatics who spouted nonsense, Bai Wu’s madness was more tranquil yet more lethal.
Once he was sure that Lilith had no means of counterattack left, turned off her phone, and checked her body for any strange patterns unique to Cain, Bai Wu actually smiled.
The purer that smile was, the more Ruan Qingyun felt there was something off about Bai Wu. She even wondered whether when Bai Wu smiled at her in the past, he had the same kind of crazy thoughts in his mind.
Bai Wu had noticed Ruan Qingyun’s reaction, but he didn’t care.
After leaving his father, for many years he had been seen as a freak, the more someone got to know him, the more likely they were to think he was a pervert.
Sometimes at crime scenes, he would sniff the bodies with a calm, sometimes even excited, demeanor, and the police officers around him would whisper:
"Why do I feel like he’s more twisted than the murderer..."
Bai Wu had seen and become accustomed to this sort of thing many times.
As such, in his previous life, Bai Wu had few friends, only maintaining his meager social circle through the memories of various emotions he had before his "transformation."
He was also aware that people contacted him not because he was an interesting person, but because they needed him. They needed to solve cases, and he enjoyed solving them.
Without negative emotions, he naturally wouldn’t feel bad.
But that didn’t mean... loneliness didn’t exist.
It was only after coming to the Investigation Corps that Bai Wu felt something different from Wu Jiu.
Bai Wu often wondered—
The captain... probably noticed something wrong with me while I was in the infirmary. Perhaps he became even more sure of that during the flight.
But it seemed he had never seen any aversion or fear of madmen or perverts in the captain’s eyes.
This made Bai Wu very happy and cherished.
He even wondered if Dwarf would be the first one to feel sad if he died one day.
So to save Dwarf’s Wife, even if it meant revealing some of his secrets to her, Bai Wu didn’t hesitate too much.
He could have displayed more normal human expressions, after all, he was an actor of some renown.
But Bai Wu decided to gamble.
"Boss lady, did I scare you?"
"A little..." admitted Ruan Qingyun candidly.
"Our statures are not much different—I kept pressing down on her, biting only her neck to prevent blood from splattering on the clothes. Put on this bronze mask, and we’ll head to the Investigation Corps branch together," Bai Wu said as he untied the ropes binding Ruan Qingyun.
That really was a good escape plan, Ruan Qingyun nodded:
"Bai Wu, thank you."
"Can you keep what happened today a secret for me, boss lady?"
Ruan Qingyun looked at the ever-composed Bai Wu, feeling that something was off. Bai Wu had clearly been on the losing end, yet suddenly he bit Lilith and turned the tables completely in the battle.
It must be some kind of power, and a very powerful one at that.
"You trust me that much?" Ruan Qingyun asked in return.
"The captain is very important to me, and you are very important to the captain. I trust the captain, so I trust you," Bai Wu replied.
Those words touched Ruan Qingyun.
Bai Wu’s tone was so calm that for some reason, Ruan Qingyun instantly forgot the irrational behavior Bai Wu had just exhibited.
She suddenly thought... Bai Wu might be broken in some ways, just like that pitiful little girl.
But that did not mean they couldn’t love someone as a normal person would. Recalling all that Bai Wu had said and done...
Yan Jiu couldn’t feel joy, so his loneliness was easy to see, but Bai Wu was different... he might be more to be pitied because no one would ever perceive his sorrow, including himself.
Ruan Qingyun nodded, feeling ashamed of some of her thoughts moments ago:
"Qingyu is a very important person to me, and you are very important to him. Maybe one day, I’ll have some secrets too. Will you keep them for me?"
Bai Wu was slightly taken aback before nodding.
"Let’s go, we should leave this place. Oh, and this is for you, the little girl has been crying."
Ruan Qingyun returned the conch to Bai Wu.
Since the conch had always been with Ruan Qingyun, Yan Jiu could see the confrontation in the storage through her.
The continuous beating Bai Wu had undergone deeply distressed Yan Jiu.
Bai Wu thought over it and felt that he should say something to Yan Jiu...
Well... never mind, too troublesome.
He simply tossed the conch into his backpack.
...
...
Outside the tower, within the Swamp’s Monster Forest.
The temperature of the jungle was rising little by little. Likewise, the confrontation between Wu Jiu and the demon was heating up!
"Is this really something... a human can achieve?"
Yuan Du, the top expert of the Garrison Corps, watching Wu Jiu’s terrifying knife skills, felt somewhat bewildered.
He had always thought Wu Jiu was just fast.
Shouldn’t this kind of knife skill, capable of cleanly slicing through a hundred-meter-tall tree, be something that only a person who has reached the pinnacle of stacking power could execute?
Just one strike that could shatter his own defense, and Wu Jiu could actually withstand it frontally?
This was the first time, all members of the Garrison Corps and the Investigation Corps witnessed Wu Jiu’s true strength.
The blue figure, the white blade light, and the demon’s black figure were like three lines.
They couldn’t catch the trajectory of Wu Jiu and the demon with their bare eyes. They just felt the tricolor lines constantly slashing through the jungle.
Every now and then, a terrible slash would turn a giant tree into broken branches and fallen wood.
The sound of metal clashing and the demon’s excited cries were sometimes near, sometimes far!
"Perfect! This is the perfect disciple! As long as he’s willing to become Evil Fallen, he can definitely dominate the Black Zone!"
Not only the demon was impressed, but the Masked Strange Person standing behind the demon also marveled at Wu Jiu’s strength.
For a human to duel head-on with a Traveler-level Evil Fallen was an unexpected gain in the eyes of the Masked Strange Person.
It also solidified his determination to tempt Wu Jiu.
Lin Wurou, Wang Shi, and Shang Xiaoyi were also witnessing their captain’s true strength for the first time.
High in the sky, Wu Jiu and the demon were dueling each other along the branch of a massive tree, winding upwards.
They suddenly became worried, had the captain revealed any secrets that shouldn’t have been exposed for their sake?
(I have to go out tonight, might come back quite late, the update will be very late...)
