In this moment, Huai Shi heard the sound of dice constantly ringing.
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Not only Huai Shi, but even Ai Qing saw it with her own eyes. The dice in KP's hand seemed to jump out of his palm, as if it could control the world, and started rolling and jumping on the table.
Once, twice, three times, four times, five times, six times...
The sound was fragmented and noisy.
But this time, she didn't see the usual malicious smile on KP's face. Instead... there was a hint of confusion and astonishment.
It was as if the story had gone out of control.
Each jump of the dice represented the judgment of an event, which meant that countless things were rearranged and modified in an instant.
The pounding sound on the chest made people dizzy and unable to help but break out in a cold sweat.
No, in fact, Huai Shi really started to feel dizzy and sweaty.
He staggered back two steps, violently vomiting. The painful feeling entwined between his lungs became even stronger, as if his soul was being burned by fire.
In an instant, even the strength to stand was almost gone.
Only cold sweat kept falling from his cheeks to the ground.
In the midst of heavy gasps, his vision went black, and he felt a dizzying sensation. He was on the verge of fainting, and even Ai Qing's voice became distant and blurry.
Am I poisoned?
He immediately reacted and ignored the corpse on the ground. He turned around and walked towards the exit of the storage room, wanting to go back to the room to find an antidote. But what he feared more was what kind of toxin was hidden in Yue Jun's body that made him, a third-order vampire, lose all his combat power in an instant.
In the midst of stumbling and swaying, he exerted all his strength and climbed up the ladder bit by bit, walking out of the entrance of the storage room.
Before he could even relax, he suddenly felt a violent shock at the back of his head.
As if someone had struck him hard.
But he couldn't feel any pain. Instead, he couldn't feel anything at all. He fell straight to the ground, his face hitting the floor, and faintly heard excited shouts behind him.
"I caught him!" a voice exclaimed with excitement. "This kid must have found something good in the storage room."
"Don't stay here, take him back. Take him back... No, take him to a place where no one is around and see if he has anything valuable on him. After that, throw him directly into the sea."
Another voice urged.
Huai Shi felt himself being pulled, his leg being dragged forward, and he felt his face rubbing against the deck.
To be honest, it felt cool and refreshing.
But it was still uncomfortable, to the point where he couldn't even move a finger.
Until he vaguely heard a familiar voice.
"What... are you doing?"
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"That's right." Across from KP, Crow nodded in satisfaction. "The plot should be accelerated by now. It's a waste of words to always focus on the atmosphere. The audience will say it's just filler."
"You... When did you..."
"When I saw my little one on TV through the dark web live stream." Crow pointed to his phone. "I'm your loyal subscriber, did you receive my tips? Ten bucks every day!"
"The audience should just sit in the audience seats."
KP's expression twitched for a moment. "When did you..."
"I'm just making some minor adjustments to your boring story." Crow whistled. "Even if it's realistic literature, there's no need to nitpick every detail, right? Or have you become one of those particularly rigid purists?"
"...You're just making it more difficult for him."
"Well, isn't that what you wanted?" Crow retorted. "As one of the former managers of Heaven, one of the three major human natures created by the Ideal Country, aren't you here because you doubted Huai Shi? Why pretend to be fair?"
"Every player is equal."
"But they face different difficulties, don't they?" Crow tilted his head and looked at him. "We're already so familiar, let's not play word games. To be honest... I don't mind if you want to increase the difficulty."
"Hmm?" KP's expression became suspicious, not knowing what she was up to.
"If he didn't have this talent, I wouldn't have chosen him as my contractor. So you can do whatever you want." Crow decisively reached a conclusion and told him, word by word, "No matter what tricks you have prepared, he won't lose."
"Is that so?"
KP looked at her quietly for a long time, then suddenly showed a pleased smile. "Well then, I'm looking forward to it."
He threw the dice in his hand.
With a tearing sound, the sound of paper being torn rang out again.
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A bucket of cold water was poured on Huai Shi's face.Huai Shi opened his eyes in a daze, feeling slightly more awake. He struggled to catch his breath and tried to get up from the ground, but failed several times and ended up lying there in a sorry state.
"Thirst-induced fainting."
A indifferent voice asked, "How long has it been since you last had blood?"
Huai Shi paused for a moment, carefully recalling that he hadn't had that stuff since he boarded the ship. "Um, quite a while?"
"Haha, a vegetarian vampire."
The girl named Haila seemed amused, watching him struggle to get up without offering a helping hand.
It wasn't until Huai Shi managed to turn over and saw the silver-haired girl standing beside him that he became somewhat uncertain. "I remember... I was... knocked out?"
Haila looked at the book in her hand coldly. "If you're talking about those two guys who were planning to drag you and throw you into the sea, then yes."
"Anyway, thank you."
"Just annoyed by the interruption." In this secluded room, the girl raised her amber eyes and looked at him. "If you can leave, please do so as soon as possible."
"Okay, okay..."
Huai Shi forced a bitter smile and struggled to get up from the ground, leaning against the wall.
After the initial excruciating pain subsided, the remaining dizziness improved slightly. But this was just a temporary relief. If he didn't replenish his blood plasma soon, his condition would worsen.
Vampires were called vampires because their excessively ferocious Holy Mark required regular consumption of life force to keep functioning.
If he ignored it, the backlash would become increasingly severe. In the end, his Holy Mark would start to devour itself, first draining him and then self-dissolving, leaving only a dried-up corpse.
He had to return to his room as soon as possible, regardless of any obstacles. The thought of the several vials of red liquid waiting for him in his room made him even more thirsty.
But as he leaned against the door, he hesitated and turned back after a moment. "About last night, I'm sorry."
"Hmm?"
Haila raised her eyes and glanced at him. "Are you talking about the incident where you assaulted my secondary sexual characteristics?"
"Um, yes."
Haila nodded and asked again, "So, what are you trying to do by saying all this now?"
"Probably... to apologize." Huai Shi forced a bitter smile. "Anyway, I'm sorry. I hope you can forgive me."
"Forgive?"
Haila frowned, seemingly contemplating something. She lowered her head and suddenly brought up the thick book in her hand. "Forgive, page 740, forgive..."
The thin pages of the book were filled with densely packed words, like an encyclopedia.
Soon, she flipped to the middle section and found the entry for 'forgive' and its related definitions.
Written in two different colors, black and red, the traces on the delicate pages were like two rows of dense lists. Huai Shi tiptoed to take a glance and found that they were indeed lists.
Soon, the girl buried in the pages looked up and coldly said, "I forgive you."
As if she had just stepped on him.
Just an ordinary occurrence.
"Huh?"
Huai Shi was stunned. Could such a thing be decided just by flipping through a book?
But immediately, the girl furrowed her brows. "No, harassment of secondary sexual characteristics falls under the category of unforgivable. I must have made a mistake—"
As the pages turned on their own, the girl's gaze jumped between countless entries, finally leading to a certain branch suggestion. In an instant, hostility appeared in her eyes.
Huai Shi's vision blurred.
A slender knife fell from her sleeve and was clenched by her five fingers, instantly pressing against his neck, precisely on the artery.
With a cold gaze full of vigilance, Haila asked in a cold voice, "What do you want to do to me?"
You only react now after accidentally touching me last night. Isn't your reflex arc a bit slow?
"W-wait, don't do anything!" Huai Shi was dumbfounded. "I just... wanted to... um..."
He stammered for a while and finally sighed helplessly. "I just wanted... to be friends with you, okay?"
"Friends?"
Haila frowned.
The dictionary in her right hand flipped again and finally settled on the earlier section. This time, the distance was close enough for Huai Shi to quietly see the definition of 'friends' in that column.
- [A scapegoat who will die for you at a critical moment, an object that needs to be guarded against and wary of, highly dangerous, ensure cautious use when necessary.]
Damn, is it really that hardcore?
What kind of dictionary is this?
I want one too!
Huai Shi's cold sweat was about to flow down. He could only widen his eyes and sincerely express his embarrassment.
"No."
Haila coldly refused, then retracted the knife in her hand. "Now, please leave."Okay, okay, am I not even worth taking the blame at a critical moment?
With a sense of frustration at being underestimated, Huai Shi retreated sullenly and closed the door behind her. She walked along the wall in a disheveled manner until she returned to her room and sat down on a chair, finally letting out a sigh of relief.
She felt cold sweat pouring out from her back like a faucet.
She drank all the blood plasma in the test tube in one gulp.
Feeling the mixed sensations of sweetness and satisfaction from Fan Haixin and the physiological disgust from herself, Huai Shi couldn't tell whether she actually found it delicious or wanted to vomit.
She just felt that the part belonging to Fan Haixin was gradually growing in her consciousness... gradually assimilated by that icy determination.
Along with the nauseating stench of the blood plasma and the spreading thirst in her heart.
It became increasingly difficult to distinguish between you and me.
After resting for a while, he finally caught his breath and knocked on Lao Xiao's door.
There was no response from behind the door.
He pushed it open.
A foul smell wafted out from inside.
In the silence, Huai Shi despairingly covered her face.
"Damn it..."
