"Have you ever seen a gargoyle in human form?"

Chapter 77

Night.

Shi An frowned and sat on the edge of the bed in deep thought.

The air was very quiet, with a touch of tightness.

Finally, after a long time, the demon worm slowly spoke, "So, Your Excellency you ...... did not succeed?"

Shi An nodded slowly.

"???"

The three demons in front of them looked at each other.

"Why?" Demon Bug asked, greatly confused.

Shi An: "......"

I would like to know that too!

Although the three demons are still at odds with each other, they are united in the face of a foreign enemy.

Eyeball asked, "How did that ...... you offer to keep your distance?"

Shi An recounted what had happened earlier.

The three demons fell silent in unison.

Magic Worm: "......"

Yes, it's a random excuse to say we're not right for each other, and it's true that it suggested it, but it doesn't like the clothes ......

This is too casual!

Anyone who is an individual would think this is a joke!

Eyes glaring hatefully at the Demon Worm aside, "Look at the bad idea you had!"

The Demon Worm quit and furiously locked horns with it, "What do you mean? Speak as if you had a good idea! Burn the Mu Hang? Try burning one yourself!"

The two demons fought once again.

Black Smoke looked at his two unreliable cohorts and sighed wearily.

Tired, destroyed.

Shi An : "...... You guys be serious!"

With Shi An's words, the two demons reluctantly stopped fighting.

Magic Worm took a deep breath, slowly said, "This, this time is indeed my fault, did not give you a good science about casually find a reason exactly how to find ...... However, then what? Later you have to mention again?"

After all, that had happened just after Shi An had come downstairs, but he had been gone long enough to think of bringing the subject up again?

Shi An was deep in thought.

After a long time, he opened his mouth in shame, "...... No."

The three demons: "????"

The eyeball's heart was broken and he cried out, "Great, my lord! Could it be that you really still have lingering feelings for this human!

Shi An got a headache from the noise, "Shut up."

Eyes hiccuped and looked over with a bubble of tears in his eyes.

Shi An thought for a moment, his voice getting smaller and smaller:

"...... is, I really forgot."

Even now when he thinks about it, Shi An still feels puzzled, and it seems that every time he thinks about mentioning it, he always gets distracted by something else, and by the time he finally ...... reaches the end of the day he has basically forgotten about it completely.

Eyeball said decisively, "That human definitely did it on purpose!"

It glared viciously, as if it wanted to stab the human through and through with its own sight from a distance, "He must have been unsettled with His Lordship for a long time!"

"You know again?"

The Demon Worm sneered, "Look at yourself before talking about others, you're no good either."

The two demons once again wrestled.

Black Smoke had seen this coming for a long time.

It floated over and landed in front of Shi An, coming up with an idea, "If you ask me, you can think about what the other party hates and then lean in that direction as much as possible, rather than you, my lord, saying it yourself, you should let the other party take the initiative to mention it, right?"

Shi An thought about it.

Hmm, seems to make sense eh!

He nodded solemnly, "Yes!"

*

After returning home, Shi Rui vomited while holding the toilet.

Though there wasn't a single wound on his body, it was as if the phantom pain he had experienced earlier in the simulation was still writhing under his skin.

He wiped his mouth, all weak and limp, and lifted his head to the sink.

In the mirror was a twisted face covered in snot and tears, his eyes were red and bloodshot, no longer the clouded look he had once put on, and he twisted his fingers together in a deadly grip as he gazed into his own sinister eyes reflected in the mirror.

There is no proof, but Shi Rui just knows.

That must be Shi An.

There can't be anyone else.

Shi Rui washed his face and dragged his two legs out of the bathroom.

He fished a communicator out from under his bed.

A man whose face was blocked by shadows appeared on the screen, and his voice, processed by a voice changer, came out, "Did you get the stuff?"

Shi Rui took a deep breath, "Right."

"Good." The man on the other side said, "We'll send someone to get it."

"Still the old way."

"...... good."

Shi Rui said through his teeth.

This is not the first time.

The first time the other party had taken the initiative to contact him, the man on the other side of the communicator had simply asked Shi Rui a question:

"Do you want to change what you are?"

Shi Rui grabbed the straw that was reaching out to him.

The next day, he was picked up by the Shi family, and went from being a poor, penniless, illegitimate child who didn't know who his biological father was, to the second youngest master of the Shi family, and maybe even the future heir of the Shi family.

If it wasn't for the other party, Shi Rui might never have passed the Ability Academy's test.

It may always be that wild seed struggling in extreme barrenness.

One step to the top is just too good to be true.

--The kind of flavor that, once tasted, you never forget.

That day at the Toki family dinner, the man with the Abyssal Seed in his body was brought in by Shi Rui.

He didn't recognize who the man was or what for, Shi Rui just knew that if he did what he was told, the opposite side would continue to help him.

Shi Rui is willing to do whatever it takes to maintain the status quo.

So, after realizing that Shi An is not the loser he originally thought he was, Shi Rui really starts to panic.

He began to ask for help across the street more and more frequently.

Whether it's collecting the bug corpses that invaded Shi An's house party and cultivating them without anyone's knowledge before releasing them into the simulation field, the pouch that attracts magical creatures, and the poisonous gemstone he keeps in Shi An's bed ......

The power and resources required for this are beyond the capabilities of Shi Rui, a bastard with no background.

The borrowed power was so powerful and dangerous and addictive to him.

Even though he knows that working with such a mysterious force is akin to working with a tiger, Shi Rui can't help but take the initiative to seek cooperation time and time again.

Shi Rui doesn't pay attention or want to pay attention to what the other person really wants.

Like a man possessed, the only thing he wanted to see was for the man who had been in his way to disappear.

Shi Rui lifted a hand and wiped his face, thick malice growing rampant under his eyes.

He clenched his teeth and said in a hoarse voice, "This time, Shi An must die."

The man on the other side of the room seemed to smile, his voice masked by the voice changer carrying a hint of an extremely subtle emotion:

"Naturally."

He cut off the video feed.

Behind it was a huge room, the entire room was shrouded in darkness, only the center of the room was lit up with a faint glow, a bright red totem was clearly branded on the floor, looking as if it was a spell written in blood.

Faintly visible in the darkness that encompassed the surroundings were black-clad men in the same attire standing a short distance away:

"Did he agree?"

"Naturally."

"Everything is ready."

The four sides of the room resounded with murmurs in unison, as if they were ramblings of extreme frenzy:

"My Lord, the Dragon, comes again to destroy the world."

*

For the next few days, Mu Hang seemed to be very busy, and Shi An did not see each other again.

However, I don't know if it was because Mu Hang talked to the school authorities, but Shi An found that he no longer needed to go to class with the regular students, and the doors of the school, which he was not allowed to enter and exit freely, were open to him, so that he could either choose to rest in the dormitory or go back to the cottage where he had been living.

Moreover, the private cafeteria, which had previously been reserved for Mu Hang's use, was opened to Shi An alone, so he could eat whatever he wanted.

But apparently, Mu Hang seems to have greeted the people in charge there just the same.

No matter what Shi An asks for, there is only one cup of ice cream a day, and no more.

During this time, except for helping Principal Pei to translate and translate ancient books, Shi An was free to allocate the rest of her time.

Workroom.

Shi An flopped down on her desk, her eyes staring listlessly at the stacks of old papers piled up in front of her, and yawned wearily.

Elder Principal Pei pushed the eyes on the bridge of his nose, and a pair of old, wise eyes looked over from above the frames of his glasses:

"Tired?"

Shi An shakes her head, "It's okay ......"

While the recent progress of the translation has been free of the strange content that made the dragon uncomfortable, there has been nothing of real value to be seen.

Elder Principal Pei put the translation down and said amiably:

"And that's enough work for today, so go back if you want."

Immediately afterward, he seemed to have thought of something and added, "By the way, Mr. Mu Hang should send someone to pick you up later."

Shi An: "?"

He blinked and asked, "What for?"

Old Headmaster Pei squeezed his eyes at Shi An and revealed a mysterious smile, "That's a matter between you young people."

Shi An : "......?"

I don't know if it's just him, but I always feel that the words sound weird.

Soon, Shi An was sent to the Mu family's training grounds.

Zhuo Fu is waiting there.

His testing machine is ready to go and a customized training program for Shi An is out.

Shi An gets into the training ground and tries it.

Although it wasn't his own Dragon Flame that was being used, even so, Shi An was still able to keenly sense that his absorption of the various magical powers from the previous abyss was progressing at an accelerated rate.

Sure enough it wasn't his illusion last time, this is really working eh!

After the first round, Shi An stretched his legs and got ready to go for a breather outside the arena.

He had just raised his eyes when he saw a familiar figure waiting at the edge of the field.

Shi An: "!"

I can't believe it's Mu Hang, who I haven't seen in days!

The man's figure was erect and slender, his dark coat almost blending into the darkness behind him.

Deep eyebrows and radiant silver hair.

"How does it feel?" Mu Hang asked.

Shi An's nose condensed with a bit of shiny, fine sweat on the tip of her nose, and her eyes narrowed slightly as she nodded and laughed uninhibitedly, "It's quite nice!"

He sat down in a chair and Mu Hang handed him a glass of water in his hand.

Shi An took it naturally, holding the cup and sipping from it.

He raised his eyes to Mu Hang and asked, "Speaking of which, have you guys had any leads on dragons lately?"

Mu Hang lowered his eyes, his eyes skimming over the teenager's moist lips:

"Not yet."

The man's voice was calm and unruffled, and he seemed to just casually continue on with the topic:

"What, do you like dragons a lot?"

At that moment, Shi An remembered the advice given to him by Black Smoke and was immediately energized.

If you want to say what a dragonslayer hates the most, it's got to be dragons!

After all, dragons were enemies to him!

Shi An thought hard and said, "Of course!"

Mu Hang's eyes were deep, as if they were a vast, boundless ocean: "Oh?"

Shi An nodded and began to rack her brain to recall the adjectives the eyeball had used earlier, "The dragon ...... is tall and magnificent, magnificent and fascinating, in, in being a dragon even the sun is not as brilliant as his scales when it is a human... ..."

Shi An stammered more and more, and her face reddened a little.

Although dragons are arrogant, self-absorbed creatures, ...... the wording of that eyeball is really too meaty!

It was nothing when it came out of its mouth.

When he said it himself ...... it was, just so shameful!!!!

Mu Hang lowered his eyes, his eyes falling on the other man's reddened cheeks.

The teenager's skin was fair, and the scarlet color became more and more noticeable, as if it were a ripe fruit that could ooze out sweet juice with a pinch.

His voice was extremely calm, "You've seen a gargoyle in human form?"

"What's he like?"

The fastest way to make a man hate himself is to praise his enemies!

Shi An thought for two seconds and said with finality, "Very tall and very handsome."

Mu Hang's eyes were dark and inscrutable, devoid of joy or anger.

His voice was soft, like a sweeping breeze, with no audible fluctuation of emotion:

"...... Yes."