Free Web NovelChapter 55: Chapter 55: Once the Soul Is Loved, Flesh Will Grow Madly
Maybe it was because her emotions had already been satisfied, or maybe it was just that she was too exhausted after two days without sleep.
After eating, Jiang Che’s eyelids started to droop.
Ding Ning waved a hand in front of his eyes, and he just closed them and fell asleep.
After moving Jiang Che to the bed on the second floor, the four supernatural entities gathered in the living room downstairs.
"Actually, we were all thinking that after this meal, we’d bring him to see you," the Blood Nurse said with a smile. "Even if the one he brought home today was just an ordinary human, we would still have brought them to you."
"I saw as much." Ding Ning pressed her lips together in a smile. When she opened the door earlier and saw the Blood Slaughter Couple hide their supernatural features, she knew they’d already prepared for the possibility that Jiang Che would bring back a human.
As the chaotic evil Blood Slaughter Couple, they never cared about others’ feelings, yet for the sake of one human, they ended up caring about the emotions of that human’s companion.
"Only... why did you..." Without Jiang Che present, they unconsciously used honorifics again.
They weren’t Lords, so even if they acted on impulse—even if they refused to slaughter humans—it would not be a big deal.
But Lords were different. Their identity represented their stance.
"Maybe it’s because..." Ding Ning involuntarily glanced toward the second floor, a touch of tenderness surfacing in her eyes. "Once a soul is loved, flesh and blood will wildly flourish."
She yearned for the beauty in humanity, so she shaped her territory to look like a human habitat.
And now, being loved so genuinely by someone, for the first time she felt the beauty of human emotion.
"From now on, just call me Ning," Ding Ning said openly, smiling. When she called out mom and dad, she just wanted to have a family, to have loved ones, just like Jiang Che.
"I want to go to the basement and check on that human." Turning around, Ding Ning’s disguised human form began to change, reverting to her true appearance.
Blood Slaughter and the others didn’t dare look at her true face, and even Tuantuan didn’t dare rush over calling her Mom now.
This was the Lord’s majesty, none dared to offend it.
Ding Ning led the way, and as soon as the basement’s iron door opened, Xiong Jie, who had collapsed in the corner from exhaustion, suddenly woke in terror.
That fear spreading from the depths of his soul was impossible to control. He could only vaguely sense something terrifying approaching from the basement door’s direction.
His heart started pounding harder and harder, and his whole body was drenched in sweat.
This terror was far greater than when Blood Slaughter had kidnapped him before.
Hearing footsteps approach, he couldn’t help but raise his head—but all he saw was a mist, and behind it, Blood Slaughter and the others followed, step by step.
"What does it feel like to be an outcast among humans?"
A hoarse, unpleasant voice drifted out from within the mist.
Hearing that voice, Xiong Jie felt as if someone was drilling holes into his skull over and over.
The more his head throbbed, the clearer his mind became. Xiong Jie dropped down to his knees, not daring to look at the mist. "To be treated as an outcast by humans... it means rejection, and..."
He didn’t say the word ’death.’
Xiong Jie didn’t know why these entities were probing about Jiang Che’s psychiatric history. He hesitated about whether to reveal that they’d been used as a living organ bank.
Ding Ning and the others could sense Xiong Jie’s mood, the undertone of despair in his words.
What he hadn’t said must have been: death.
"Is your food something everyone can eat?"
Ding Ning asked a question even Xiong Jie couldn’t comprehend.
"Yeah, this is the most common human food, there’s nothing wrong with it." Xiong Jie, terrified, shook his head hard while kneeling, thinking she was asking whether the food was safe or if it could harm supernatural entities.
How could he dare try to poison them with tainted food!
Besides, the food was what humans themselves ate. If another person laced the meal with poison and killed themselves, that clearly wasn’t his fault!
"Then... those ’outcasts’ you mentioned, have they eaten food like this?" Ding Ning thought of the way Jiang Che treasured his meal—she herself felt nothing about food, couldn’t taste its quality, but Jiang Che had looked like someone cherishing a rare treasure.
"If you mean delicacies and gourmet fare, they probably haven’t. Humans have differences in status, wealth, and position. Someone like Jiang Che, diagnosed as mentally ill, would already be lucky just to have enough to eat. The taste of the food is secondary." Xiong Jie replied honestly. Under such circumstances, he didn’t even have the energy to wonder why these entities were asking.
Ding Ning understood. She completely understood now.
She moved closer to Xiong Jie. "Among humans, do you count as someone with a high status or wealth?"
Xiong Jie was in utter turmoil. He felt something was wrong with the entity before him, though he couldn’t pinpoint what.
Her questions were bizarre, yet he somehow sensed a chance for survival inside them, though he couldn’t say where.
"Probably upper-middle." Xiong Jie gave a conservative answer.
Looking down at the kneeling Xiong Jie, she reached out and pressed her hand against his head.
Xiong Jie felt those five fingers closing firmly on his skull, but his head didn’t shatter like he feared.
Instead, some kind of notification flashed in his mind.
[You have acquired the skill: Scout]
[Vision: As the Lord’s Vision Spirit, you will scout for information, share real-time data, and your life and death are at the Lord’s command.]
At first, seeing the word ’skill’ didn’t mean much. But the instant he saw ’Lord,’ Xiong Jie felt blood surge up to his brain, almost turning everything upside down.
This fucker before him was the Lord of Dungeon 9!
And he’d just been granted a skill by this being!
All his struggles for survival, every desperate counterplay—
He nearly collapsed from the shock, because he’d survived, and maybe, just maybe, he could escape this dungeon alive!
"Master, please order me as you wish!" Xiong Jie knelt there. His name was Xiong Jie, but he wasn’t anyone important.
He never had any grand ambitions of dying as a hero or returning as a powerful spirit.
He just wanted to live, even if he had to sell his soul to survive.
"I’ll ask you a few questions, and then I’ll need you to do something for me." Ding Ning’s voice was soft, but carried a force that could not be refused.
"Master, what would you like to know?"
"I’ll answer everything I can. Also, Master, we’re under live surveillance for everything, should we try to do something about that?" Xiong Jie didn’t hesitate to spill about the livestream monitoring everything.
He was definitely acting as a traitor, but if possible, he wanted to do it discreetly—he didn’t want to be killed by humans either.
Ding Ning immediately sensed that feeling of being watched, those prying gazes everywhere.
So, every move they made was being broadcast live?
"Interesting. An item of this level shouldn’t have fallen into human hands."
Ding Ning mused to herself. Humans could indeed steal some neglected trinkets, or even kill supernatural entities to gain their abilities.
But many precious items weren’t so easily taken.
