"We came to the nearby area to conduct research."
Zhong Cheng said as he held the red-eyed black cat in his arms. Meiqiu was waving his claws and teeth at his feet: "Change back! You look so weird!"
"No, I have to remain anonymous."
Now Ai Yi thought the cub was Zhong Cheng, saying that this state was the most convenient. Yin Ren retracted his claws and narrowed his eyes contentedly. Zhong Cheng said that the strength of the embrace was just right, and he felt a little drowsy.
"I'll get something to eat... I'll start after you guys are done."
Coal Ball needed the protection of the Qingxin Talisman on Zhong Chengshuo's body. It looked at Yin Ren with a bit of fear, and continued to check while cursing -
The group of people did not make any noise, and there was no movement on the surface of the huge hemisphere. Countless arms collapsed softly on the surface, and only a slow and heavy sound came from deep inside the sphere.
Boom. Boom. Boom.
Coal Ball carefully used his paw to pry open the arm and pressed his forehead against the surface of the hemisphere, not knowing what he was exploring.
Boom. Boom. Boom.
Yin Ren moved his nose, and the brain-like substance in the bottle gave off a light fishy smell. It smelled like pheasant meat soaked in mountain spring water, and the taste was much stronger than those bland little Yuanwu. It might taste better if it was baked with garlic and tin foil, but unfortunately there was no condition.
Yin Ren: “…”
After that, Zhong Cheng added hesitantly, "Why don't you go eat at 'Satisfaction'?"
Zhong Cheng hesitated for a while before taking out a small bottle from his backpack. The bottle was filled with half a bottle of gelatinous liquid, which looked like melted brains. The liquid swayed in the glass bottle like honey, emitting a very light silver light.
After eating just a few bites, his wounds started to feel a little warm and a thin layer of healing had occurred.
“…Eat it.” Zhong Cheng said, bringing his hand closer.
Yin Ren was not surprised. Such a small bottle, to the entity of "Satisfaction", is less important than dandruff to humans.
"Why?"
Yin Ren already knew that his "fear" was not normal. However, since he only had Zhong Chengshuo as a reference in the world, he had no idea how abnormal he was.
Zhong Cheng stopped and said, "You have considered it."
"This is the flesh that fell off naturally." Zhong Cheng pulled out the plug and gently placed it on the black cat's nose. "Are you sure you can eat it?"
He frowned from time to time, pinched the lifeless flesh of his arms, and then pinched the tip of Yin Ren's tail, comparing them very seriously.
The flesh and blood of "satisfaction".
Boom. Boom, boom.
He poured the remaining flesh and blood into his palm: "Eat it."
Zhong Cheng said that he held Yin Ren tightly in his arms, and his attention was on the arms themselves. He would gently push away the mask and get close to sniff those arms that looked like dead people. After sniffing, Zhong Cheng said that he would bury his nose in Yin Ren's fur and sniff it twice.
Yin Ren was being sprayed by Zhong Cheng's hot breath, and he focused his eyes on the surroundings. He decided to pick out the fattest arm, and when Meiqiu and Zhong Cheng said they had reached the safe zone, he would take that arm and run away.
It would be a waste not to eat the food that is delivered to your door.
Yin Ren looked at the fingertips in front of him. The brain-like colloid did not disperse like water. It shrank like mercury and trembled at Zhong Cheng's fingertips.
After eating the salad ingredients for so long, Yin Ren almost shed tears - the base ingredients tasted like bland jelly or salad; the taste of happiness and disgust was just average, similar to biting into a pancake, Yin Ren didn't have any special impression.
Dr. Cat looked at the two of them with a sidelong glance, his eyes full of displeasure.
"Satisfaction" is so delicious. It really is a satisfying taste.
The cat's round eyes reflected Zhong Chengshuo's increasingly solemn expression.
"I've considered it. But it's just walking on the road, and it would be rude for me to cut a piece of it." Yin Ren said, "It hasn't offended me, so let it go."
"I will call those lonely ones to collect more together." Zhong Cheng said, touching his furry lover, and his palms were a little sweaty. "But you have to remember, never attack 'satisfaction'."
"Yeah, right?" Yin Ren wagged his tail. "After all, it's so big and looks delicious."
"Try it." Zhong Cheng said softly, "Theoretically it's safe, but if you don't like it, remember to spit it out."
Zhong Cheng said, pursing his lips. He opened the bottle, carefully dipped a little with his finger, and brought it to Yin Ren. Yin Ren looked at Zhong Cheng in confusion and stopped wagging his tail.
"Can I have some more? It's so delicious. My wounds are healing fast." Yin Ren's eyes were moist and he sighed. "If I abandon morality, I will hold back my satisfaction and eat until I'm full. Why should people have morality?"
"Zhong Cheng said he had tried it before, but it couldn't even help him heal his wounds if it didn't satisfy his recipe. The other side's ability to maintain ecological stability is not based on morality."
Zhong Cheng's tone was a bit strange.
Fear... He didn't want to taste the taste that Zhong Cheng mentioned, and just swallowed it without hesitation. If it weren't for the need to heal his wounds, Yin Ren would have no appetite for the Yuanwu.
"Isn't it obvious that fear doesn't eat satisfaction?"
"Back then, Fear and Satisfaction were both brainless. Devouring was Fear's instinct. If Satisfaction was so delicious, Zhong Cheng would have fought with it every day."
Yin Ren rolled his tongue, and the blood and flesh disappeared from Zhong Chengshuo's fingertips in an instant. The delicious and greasy touch exploded on Yin Ren's tongue, like the best foie gras with caviar, the taste was just right.
The barbed tongue dug into Zhong Chengshuo's palm and licked the crumbs clean in just a few strokes. Yin Ren licked his lips and looked at the arms around him more eagerly.
"I can get you some samples by the way." Yin Ren yawned, "You two hurry up, I'm hungry."
Zhong Cheng said, "Satisfaction will come over soon, and we will ride it to leave."
"No samples?"
Yin Ren: "Yeah, it smells edible."
Zhong Cheng looked at Yin Ren intently, even stopping to breathe: "How is it?"
"I understand. If I attack Satisfaction, it will only make Love more alert." Yin Ren sighed, "Don't worry, I didn't intend to make a big deal out of it. It's you two - it's better to find out more about Love first than about my business."
"Um."
The arm of "love" and Yin Ren's "ferocious" arm began to wave in front of Zhong Chengshuo again.
Before getting a definite result, Zhong Cheng said he did not want to make irresponsible guesses. He touched Yin Ren's ear and remained silent.
Even after turning into a cat, Yin Ren's ears still had fine wounds. Zhong Cheng lowered his head and pinched the tip of one of the black cat's ears.
Yin Ren: “?”
"Nothing." Zhong Cheng muttered and threw Yin Ren's empty bottle back into his bag.
"I've almost remembered the numbers, let's retreat," said Dr. Cat.
According to the agreement, today is the day that Zhong Chengshuo helps him collect love data. Next, it will help Zhong Chengshuo analyze Yin Ren's data. Coal Ball licked his paw and quickly arranged the next plan in his mind.
They had timed it just right, and Dr. Cat had just washed his face when satisfaction came over from afar. It was still beautiful, as magnificent as the twilight line, gently sweeping over everything on the other side.
It soon arrived in front of the white net.
Dr. Cat held his tail high, ready to dive into the contentment and take a ride away as he always did. Zhong Cheng said he also let go of Yin Ren and rubbed the cat's warm back twice.
Just as Yin Ren wanted to take a sip of his lover's body temperature, he suddenly realized something was wrong.
Boom boom boom.
The vibration in the lower hemisphere of the claw suddenly became several times faster.
Boom boom boom.
When it swept across the hemisphere, Mansat seemed to feel a little uncomfortable, and it twisted its body suddenly. In an instant, Zhong Chengshuo was entangled in the depths of the white vortex, and the Qingxin talisman on his body was thrown out.
Boom boom boom.
Without Zhong Chengshuo's protection, countless arms around Meiqiu woke up instantly. They shot towards the cat like bullets, and one of the arms was so powerful that it instantly pierced Meiqiu's abdomen.
Everything is just a moment.
Just when the cat's tiny body was about to be crushed, Yin Ren rushed forward quickly and bit the coal ball's neck. He didn't care about the hunting arm and rushed straight towards Zhong Chengshuo.
Zhong Chengshuo came to his senses very quickly and tried his best to steady himself. Manshen's body was like a broken washing machine, everything was spinning madly. Zhong Chengshuo hugged the two cats tightly and arched his body in the bottomless satisfaction. Yin Ren spread a layer of red yarn around his body. They were colliding with the other elements in Manshen's body, which could serve as a buffer.
The strange feeling of satisfaction lasted for two minutes before it subsided. By then, it had taken everyone far away from the white net. Yin Ren didn't even look at the situation around him. As soon as he regained his balance, he used the flesh and blood spell to return to the base.
"Hey, why are you here so early today?"
Fu Tianyi raised his head curiously, and the moment he saw Yin Ren in his arms, his smile disappeared instantly.
"Coal briquettes—?!"
Dr. Cat lay dying in Yin Ren's arms. Most of its soft abdomen had disappeared, leaving only a black and red cross-section and scattered internal organs. If it were in the outside world, it would have died long ago. But on the other side, it was just walking towards death at a slower pace.
Yin Ren had no time to pay attention to Fu Tianyi. He gently placed the coal ball on the ground: "Meng Huai!"
"The situation is not ideal." Meng Huai's expression changed slightly. "Injuries and diseases are not a big deal. Its internal organs are completely missing, which is a fatal injury. Delaying treatment will only make it suffer, not to mention that it is a scientific post..."
She didn't say anything else, but everyone could understand the subtitles.
Fu Tianyi didn't care about the meat on his hands, he stumbled to Meiqiu - just a few months ago, he lost his partner, and now, he was about to lose his rear commander.
"What's going on?" Fu Tianyi's eyes turned red. He raised his head and stared at Yin Ren. "Didn't it tell Zhong Cheng to team up? Didn't it come back with you? You two are here, you are clearly here..."
Yin Ren squatted beside the black cat, expressionless. The lonely cats crowded forward, but didn't dare to get too close, and watched tremblingly.
The black cat lay there softly, wiggling its whiskers with a very gentle sound.
"Don't blame them..." Meiqiu said softly, "High-risk research... there will always be accidents... this is my topic..."
"It's just a matter of time..." It half-closed its eyes, bleeding from the hole in its abdomen, "But my data, my data is not yet..."
"Move aside, I need treatment." Yin Ren suddenly spoke.
Meng Huai said nothing, she just sighed and cooperated to move away a little. Zhong Chengshuo stood still, looking at Yin Ren for a while, then at the limp Coal Ball on the ground, his eyebrows wrinkled tightly. In his judgment, Coal Ball could not be saved.
But in his opinion, Yin Ren would never give up.
Sure enough, Yin Ren didn't care whether his identity was exposed or not. His red robe fluttered as he immediately cast the blood and flesh technique to heal himself.
The meta-material version of the healing spell is useless.
The black cat gasped with difficulty, its tail and limbs twitching constantly, and the pool of blood beneath it grew larger.
Yin Ren still did not give up, he turned to chant various healing spells accumulated over thousands of years. His hands were stained with blood and flesh, and he changed them temporarily, kneading the spells at an extremely fast speed. The gentle waves were like a drizzle, stirring up continuous white ripples in the room.
The lonely cat cubs used their soft limbs to pull at the ripples, but were pressed down by the older ones.
Meng Huai's eyes gradually turned to Yin Ren, and the admiration in her eyes turned into surprise, and surprise turned into shock. She only knew that Yin Ren had an unclear relationship with Yuanwu before, but later he saved everyone's lives, so Meng Huai decided to turn a blind eye.
What is happening here
That is definitely not the level of evil objects or Yuan objects. If the target of treatment is a cultivator, these techniques are enough to revive the dead. Many of them are harsh and ancient, and Meng Huai even has difficulty identifying them.
Unfortunately, the patient he was treating was a cat that disdained humans and ghosts.
Still no use.
The hope in Fu Tianyi's eyes was completely extinguished. He leaned against the wall to support himself, and clenched his fists tighter and tighter.
Yin Ren pursed his lips and paused for a moment: "Zhong Cheng said."
"I am here."
"Take us to your imaginary base. Also bring Fu Tianyi and Gao Mengyu's cat."
Zhong Cheng's eyebrows moved as he spoke. He glanced at Fu Tianyi without saying a word. He took off his glasses and closed his eyes. Before anyone could react, the number of "people" in the room suddenly decreased by five.
When the coal briquettes were placed on the table in the basement, they were already dying.
The pain in my abdomen was so severe that after such a long time, the severe pain turned into a cold numbness.
Dr. Cat lay on the cold table, thinking back to the past. If it hadn't accidentally come into contact with a pollution source a few years ago, it might be wandering on a road right now. In the past, it had also seen stray cats that were crushed to death on the road.
It probably looked pretty much the same as it does now.
Either way, they died alone, watched by other species.
Death on the other side is really long, just like the torture of slow death in human language. If it weren't for always thinking about its data, Meiqiu would have wanted to give Yin Ren a bite and let him kill her quickly.
Why bother changing even the treatment location
"Qiqi, look at what's in front of you and remember all the images. I'm afraid I'll have to concentrate really hard from now on."
It heard the sound of Yin Ren.
"Meow." Gao Mengyu's cat responded quickly.
"There is one more method that I haven't tried! Zhong Cheng said that you used that method before - you once injected power into my body, and you also injected power into your body. This kind of physical transformation is not limited by cognition. Teach me."
Ridiculous! Coal Ball immediately came up with several short essays in his mind.
The fresh flesh and blood of the Yuanwu is more powerful than the evil force. Yin Ren is undoubtedly going to kill the cat.
"You'd better try it first." Zhong Cheng said without any rebuttal, "Its body is too weak, and there is still no research in this area. Come, touch its wound first..."
The next moment, a little power flowed into the coal ball's body.
pain!!!
The blood in its veins seemed to have been replaced with strong acid. Not to mention fusion, the pain of the coal ball instantly became a thousand times stronger. It screamed and twisted on the table, vomiting and twitching as if it had just been electrocuted. As it twisted violently, the wound on its abdomen opened wider, and its internal organs were thrown all over the table.
"… Stop torturing it!" Fu Tianyi's voice vaguely penetrated its ears, "I know you mean well, but Coal Ball—"
"Meigu, I know you can still hear me." Yin Ren quickly withdrew his fatal strength, and his voice was very close. "If you don't want to give up, meow once. If you want to give up, meow twice."
It hurts, Coal Ball thought.
But it's already halfway through the course...
"Meow." It hummed softly.
"The magic system is completely ineffective, and the only option is to transform the body." Yin Ren murmured solemnly, "I was able to survive at the beginning, and the body that Zhong Cheng mentioned can survive, there must be..."
"The strength is poor." Zhong Cheng said suddenly.
"what?"
"When I merged into the baby, I consciously suppressed my power, so the body didn't collapse." Zhong Cheng said in his usual calm voice, "But I couldn't control the power I gave you. How did you deal with it?"
Then, Zhong Cheng added in a low voice: "I didn't mean to hurt you at that time."
Yin Ren: "Why are you still talking about this now... Well, I used all my strength to suppress it at that time."
At the end, Yin Ren's voice stopped abruptly, as if he realized something.
Coal Ball's ears suddenly stood up.
It heard Zhong Cheng mention that the power that Old Fear distributed was exactly half of its own ability... It seems that that half of the power was suppressed by Yin Ren's own power, so Yin Ren was not killed on the spot.
Damn, it doesn't have the power like the great master Zhong Yi back then.
"The strength is not good enough. Yes, the strength is not good enough." Yin Ren's tone became happy. He covered the wound of Coal Ball with his hand. "Coal Ball is weak, and the flesh and blood of Fear is too strong for it... Qiqi, come here."
"Give me a piece of flesh, and I will heal you and give you ten times the food."
"Meow!" Gao Mengyu's cat was very happy.
Something else flowed into Coal Ball's body.
It still hurts, but this time the pain seems to be bearable - under Yin Ren's control, it is docile and slow, and slowly merges into its body in an almost submissive manner. I don't know if Yin Ren did it on purpose, but the whole process is so slow that it's outrageous.
After the pain comes a strange, lingering soreness.
After an unknown amount of time, the coal ball's vision suddenly became dizzy, and its body felt very strange. The numbness and pain disappeared, replaced by a strange sense of disharmony.
It eventually lost consciousness.
“… Briquettes, briquettes.”
Yin Ren's voice sounded tired.
"Dr. Coal, can you hear me?"
"Meow..." The coal ball made a dry cracking sound.
It stretched out its paw in a certain direction, and it smelled an indescribable fragrance. There was food there, and it was thirsty, hungry, and dizzy.
Something was brought to its mouth and the coal ball swallowed it hastily.
It was soft, slightly cool, and delicious. It was like drinking a big bowl of hot goat milk. Even the tip of its tail was warm. Coal Ball regained its strength. It struggled to get up from the table and barely saw what was in front of it.
A small piece of flesh, and the owner of the flesh was standing not far away, with fourteen eyes looking over curiously.
"Meow." Gao Mengyu's cat greeted friendly.
Coal Ball shook his head. Since regaining consciousness, his vision was very strange. For example, at this moment, he did not tilt his head, but saw Fu Tianyi, Yin Ren and Zhong Chengshuo beside him. The expressions of the first two were joyful and subtle, and the last one seemed to be thinking about something.
It struggled to control its vision and saw its own reflection on the desk.
In the blurry reflection, there was a black cat with fourteen eyes.
Coal Ball: “…”
It survived, but it was no longer a normal cat. Its infinite power was still there, and even became stronger, but the extent was really limited.
Meiqiu ignored Fu Tianyi who was hugging her and crying, and tried her best to analyze the current situation—
The creatures in the human world are a fusion of the living flesh and blood of the original things. They have the characteristics of the original things, but they are not completely original things. In a sense, this can be called an upgraded version of "pollution by evil forces".
This time it was lucky. If Yin Ren hadn't helped to suppress it, it might not have been able to endure the loneliness of its flesh and blood. In any case, judging from the result, Yin Ren's attempt was very successful.
If Yin Ren had survived in the same way back then...
Meiqiu turned to Zhongcheng with difficulty and said, the latter noticed its multiple gazes and nodded slowly.
Not long ago, the doubts about Yin Ren's race were classified and sorted out by it and Zhong Chengshuo.
Why didn't Yin Ren come into being through Satisfaction, and why is his form, abilities, and habits so different from Fear
Why is it that Yin Ren can walk around the world normally without fusing with any body
What fear of cubs, what special individuals. I'm afraid their thinking was wrong from the beginning.
The great master Zhong Yi was contaminated by evil forces in his mother's womb, and could be called a walking evil creature. Thousands of years ago, he had only relied on himself to survive the more terrifying and powerful blood and flesh contamination.
He is always a human being "seriously polluted by the other side".
It's just a personal thing.
Mortals are contaminated by a large amount of evil power. If they do not die, they may become "Charon", "Resonance", "Infinite"... Evil things are contaminated by evil power. If they do not die, they may become "evil spirits".
So what if a human being, a living person, somehow survived the pollution of the evil force, and also survived the pollution of the purer and stronger elemental flesh and blood
The man was forced to tame the power, to use it for his own benefit, and it continued to grow...
This special phenomenon has not been discovered by anyone so far, so it has no name.
It looks like they'll be able to bring out a heavyweight discovery this time.
Meiqiu slowly curled up on the table and closed his eyes tiredly.
Volume 11: Dusk
(End of this chapter)