CH 134

"Do you still need to ask?" Ai Qing sneered. "I'm afraid my cousin is scared, right? Anxious to find someone to form an alliance."

Huai Shi looked at Yin Yan and asked seriously, "Why me?"

"At least you are more conscientious than my cousin, and you don't seem like a small-time thug like the others. Is that reason enough?" Yin Yan retorted.

From the beginning, he knew that Huai Shi was definitely up to something.

Using his Holy Mark, he hid and observed the whole process, knowing that Huai Shi's actions were genuine and not fake.

"You're a vampire, and you're a believer... Hey, what does the Holy Spirit lineage want to do on the ship? It has nothing to do with me, and my secret has nothing to do with you either."

Yin Yan asked, "I help you, you help me, how about that?"

"Alliance?" Huai Shi asked cautiously.

"To be honest, compared to others, I trust your magical conch shell more." Yin Yan said coldly, "It's not really an alliance, just an extra insurance."

"Don't let go." Ai Qing seemed to see something behind his cold face. "He's here to ask for help, force him to show something."

Seeing Huai Shi's serious expression, Yin Yan asked, "If I'm not mistaken, she should be asking you to put on a negotiating face to deal with me, right?"

Huai Shi remained silent, feeling like he had become the platform for the sibling rivalry between the two.

"It doesn't matter, I have some free information for you."

Yin Yan said calmly, "Last night, I hid at the entrance of the cargo hold and saw Lei Feizhou and someone else team up to cut off Yue Jun's head—how about that? Is this news enough?"

As he spoke, he admired the astonished expression on Huai Shi's face and showed a mocking smile. "In these years, it's not just you who has become capable, 'sister'."

This address always sounded meaningful, whether it was affectionate or resentful.

"What do you want?" Ai Qing asked directly.

"Help me kill that old man, Koschei, how about that?" Yin Yan suddenly said.

"I can't do it." Huai Shi conveyed Ai Qing's answer. "The price you want is too high."

He still hadn't reacted until now, and he couldn't figure out whether this was Yin Yan's trap or his true purpose, including the information he mentioned. He was somewhat skeptical.

"Just help a little when necessary, how about that?" Yin Yan said. "Just don't get in the way before that."

"Do you agree?" Huai Shi asked.

"Of course, why not?" Ai Qing said calmly. "At worst, we can just break our promise later."

Oh! You guys have such dirty tactics!

Huai Shi nodded helplessly.

"Very well." Yin Yan looked deeply at him. "I will come to you when necessary."

He took a step back, his figure disappeared, and only the door opened and closed.

After the last incident, it seemed that he had learned his lesson and left no trace for Huai Shi to follow. Huai Shi didn't even know if he was still in the room.

But time was running out.

He sighed and reached out to Hela. "Let's go, let's leave here quickly."

Hela stared at him intently for a long time.

It wasn't until Huai Shi couldn't wait any longer that she finally took his hand.

"Let's go," she said.

Huai Shi swung his arm and threw her into the ventilation duct.

During the short crawl, Huai Shi suddenly heard faint words coming from ahead. "Thank you."

"Ah, no need to thank me."

He instinctively looked up and saw a sole rapidly enlarging in front of his eyes, kicking him in the face. "Don't look!"

"Okay, okay."

Huai Shi suddenly remembered that she was wearing a skirt and quickly lowered his head, pretending not to have seen anything, and crawled forward. Soon, the ventilation duct came to an end.

Hela jumped down.

In the silence, Huai Shi sighed and wiped the shoe print off his face, then followed and jumped down.

Then, he froze in place.

He saw the boy leaning against the broken porthole, and the blood spreading beneath his feet.

An orange cat sat quietly in the pool of blood, bending down and slowly licking the lifeless corpse that still had a trace of vitality.

Leisurely having a meal.

Hela.

It was as if she had been torn apart, even before she hit the ground, she had already been broken into several pieces.

Her pale face stared blankly at the crack in the ceiling, until the last moment, until death arrived, a smile that Huai Shi had never seen before still lingered at the corner of her mouth.

Gently, like the morning dew, it was about to evaporate under the sunlight.

Huai Shi averted his gaze, unable to look anymore.

He looked up at the pharaoh from Egypt. The pharaoh was also looking at him, smiling with care and mockery.

"It seems like you were being held hostage by that woman. Come and help, is that okay?"

In the long silence, Huai Shi's palm clenched and then relaxed.

After a long time, he raised his head and showed a grateful smile.

"No," he bowed deeply, "Thank you, Your Excellency."

"That's good, hahaha, hahahaha."

The pharaoh appreciated his grateful expression and laughed happily, waving to the cat on the ground. "Let's go, Sphinx."

Reluctantly, the cat licked the warm blood for a moment, then turned and left with its owner.

Only Huai Shi was still standing in place, maintaining the posture of gratitude.

For a long, long time.He whispered, "Ai Qing, I must kill him."

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When Huai Shi returned to the scene, the trial had already ended.

Because not long after, someone discovered that the prisoner intended to escape and was then killed by the Pharaoh himself. Although they couldn't sentence Hela to death in the name of the Dark World, no one had the courage to go to the Pharaoh and say that what he did was disappointing, and everyone hadn't had a chance to enjoy themselves yet.

Bullies are afraid of the strong; the creatures of the Dark World are definitely experts.

Moreover, after being besieged by the Holy Mark lineage for so many years, the morally upright ones were probably long dead. The Pope, who often appeared, was a bad ghost, and it was almost impossible for any of the heroes to appear.

They were just a group of frightened birds, even scared to the point of losing their courage. They would scream for their mothers when they saw a believer appear on the ship.

Would the new world really give them a place to stay?

Huai Shi took a deep look at the empty trial platform, turned around, and left, returning to his room.

When he pushed open the door, he couldn't help but hold his breath.

"Sorry, that room was a bit dirty, so I came here."

On the chair by the window, the girl who was reading lowered her gaze, and her silver hair shimmered with a metallic glow under the light of the oil lamp.

It was Hela.

Huai Shi stared at her in a daze, his lips opening and closing, not knowing what to say.

"You...you're not..."

"Just a trick of the 'Doppelgänger.'" Hela tilted her head and looked at him. "Haven't you encountered it before?"

Doppelgänger.

It means two people who look alike, and can be understood as a doppelgänger or a double existence - simply put, it is the phenomenon of two identical people coexisting.

From memory to appearance, there is no difference.

Indistinguishable.

From Egypt to Rome, similar rumors are everywhere, and countless horror legends have emerged from them.

But for Sublimators, it is a rare skill. Usually only "scholars" attempt to study this trick of projecting the soul into a puppet.

After all, few people can multitask and control two bodies at the same time, and the materials that match the attributes of their own souls are often too rare and troublesome to create.

Due to the limitations of materials and innate conditions, they cannot even provide stronger combat power. They are just a convenient disguise that allows them to do two things at the same time. There are even more convenient alternatives. Therefore, except for a few fields, few people will study these things.

Huai Shi stared at Hela in astonishment, couldn't help but step forward, and cautiously tapped her shoulder with his hand. "You...you're really not dead?"

As if not used to this intimate contact, Hela couldn't help but frown. "If you don't mind, I can step on you again... I guarantee that the shoe print on your face will be the same size."

"Never mind!"

Huai Shi couldn't help but reach out to wipe his face, but after wiping for a long time, he couldn't see any dirt or ashes. It was only then that he noticed the faint smile in Hela's eyes, like dewdrops reflecting a light golden glow under the light.

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He coughed a few times and sat on the edge of the bed, carefully asking, "So...are we friends now?"

"Not really."

Hela shook her head and said calmly, "After we leave this ship, we will be strangers. There is no need to establish such an intimate relationship."

She said, "As long as we're not friends, everything is fine."

Huai Shi was at a loss.

"If you become my friend, I will have to be on guard and wary of you," she looked into Huai Shi's eyes, as if telling him the truth, "Otherwise, you will betray me when I trust you the most."

Huai Shi didn't know who taught her this hardcore logic, so he could only nod helplessly. "Okay, ally, is that alright?"

Regardless, having +1 ally is a good thing. At least it seems more reliable than his group of teammates who all seem unreliable.

"Then, what's your name?" Hela asked seriously, "As allies, we should exchange names, right?"

"Um...Huai Shi."

Huai Shi hesitated for a moment, but in the end, he reported his real name, "As you can see, I'm a vegetarian vampire."

Hela didn't speak, she just looked straight into his eyes, as if trying to discern whether what he said was a lie. After a long time, she nodded in satisfaction.

"Lily," she said, "Just call me Lily."

Lily.

"But aren't you Hela?" Huai Shi was surprised.

"HEL is my registered name."

Hela raised the heavy ancient book in her hand, "The rules of scholars - when I act as a scholar, I must tell others this name.

But as partners, just call me Lily."