Just like a vampire sinking its teeth into its prey, Bai Wu didn’t deliberately chew the flesh; he only sucked in the crimson liquid.
He bit down upon the prey unrelentingly, and Ruan Qingyun, who watched this scene from afar, felt that Bai Wu was like a true starving wolf.
She had never seen such an animal, only having read about it in books when she was a child.
She had thought she had forgotten all that knowledge, but upon seeing Bai Wu, it all ca back to her at once.
The ferocity displayed by Bai Wu greatly shocked Lilith as well.
No matter how she kicked or hit Bai Wu’s other weak points, this damned man’s teeth seed to be glued to her neck.
What was most fatal was that Bai Wu hadn’t bitten through Lilith’s trachea; he was rely sucking the substance that could replenish his strength.
The benefits brought by Taotie were unimaginable.
Originally, just one bite would only restore a bit of strength, but now Bai Wu was like soone farming on the edge of the fountain of life, unconcerned about how ferocious Lilith’s attacks were.
Lilith also noticed that under normal circumstances, the force of her blows delivered on Bai Wu’s body would have been enough to daze him, but instead, Bai Wu seed even more spirited.
The wounds on his body miraculously healed at a rate visible to the naked eye!
As she diminished, he grew stronger.
"Let... go..."
Lilith’s breath was already sowhat faint.
She rembered that once there was a child with a similar ability... In the description of an old friend, there was a disappointing disciple.
His na was Elijah, locked up in a hospital, one that the Masked Strange Person used for storing monsters.
Elijah had a similar ability to acquire vitality by devouring others, and not just vitality. With the ability of Evil Fallen to consu the opponent to strengthen oneself, being bitten by Elijah ant death.
But this old friend was not satisfied with Elijah, because that hospital had birthed an even more perfect monster.
"Let... go... please... let go!"
Lilith’s consciousness was getting blurry; anyone having their blood sucked for so long would experience a decline in bodily functions.
But Bai Wu did not let go. It was the first ti he had sucked so much blood, and it brought back so painful mories for him.
"Daddy... I feel awful..."
"Rember this feeling. Shock caused by blood loss mainly depends on the quantity of blood lost and the speed of the loss," Mr. Bai’s voice was still magnetic, tenderly looking at Bai Wu.
"I feel like... I’m about to die, Daddy..."
"How could that be, don’t worry, you won’t die. Generally, if the blood loss is less than 10 percent of the total volu within fifteen minutes, the body can compensate to keep blood pressure and tissue perfusion stable."
Then, he continued in a pedagogical tone:
"But if the rapid loss exceeds 20 percent of the total blood volu, it can cause shock, and more than 50 percent can be fatally dangerous. It’s not ruled out that in the future, humans could have a blood production capacity far beyond what we have now, so these numbers could be increased. Keep this in mind if you encounter it in the future."
It was as if he were explaining a common knowledge to his child, while Bai Wu’s body trembled slightly.
Back then, he had fear and sorrow.
"Let go..."
Lilith tried to do sothing, but Bai Wu now realized that her strength had grown very weak.
He continued to suck on Lilith and, to prevent her from triggering the Legion with so special thod to gain a series of extra Talents for a turnaround, he pinned down both of Lilith’s hands, rendering her unable to move.
This posture... in Ruan Qingyun’s eyes, looked like a man pressing down on a woman.
Guzzling the blood greedily, regardless of how Lilith wailed, Bai Wu acted as if he couldn’t hear her.
He really wanted to reply:
"You are far from reaching the point of shock, no rush."
But he couldn’t open his mouth.
Lilith felt her head was heavy, and everything around her beca oppressively dark.
Bai Wu then realized...
He might really be Unlucky. Maybe the Spirit Possession of the cara was Liu Chengzi’s good fortune, not his own.
Otherwise, why had he only managed to raise his Innate Force to the fifth level, without acquiring a single Talent Sequence?
Could it be that he needed to consu flesh? Bai Wu hadn’t done so. Up until now, he hadn’t felt his body bulging in places it shouldn’t, but if he chewed on sothing, it might indeed trigger sothing.
His Innate Force quickly broke through from the fourth level, fifth step, to the fifth level.
And then it rapidly broke through from the fifth level to the fifth level, third step.
Fifth level, fourth step.
Fifth level, fifth step.
As he continued to suckle on the blood, Bai Wu finally felt the imnse power of Taotie.
Just one bite allowed him to recover quite a bit of his injuries, and within a re few minutes, he was able to draw a significant amount of strength from his opponent...
Even without a Talent, even if he released his bite now, he had already secured victory.
But Bai Wu didn’t release his grip; he refused to engage in such a cliché villainous act.
He would only stop when he heard that Lilith had completely fallen unconscious.
He even didn’t mind killing Lilith.
Lilith also felt it; this ant that had escaped from the Tower God Society twice had beco extraordinarily powerful.
"Are you... Elijah... or did you... kill it?"
As she felt an overwhelming sleepiness, Bai Wu finally confird, after hearing her words, that Lilith was indeed the disciple!
No response ca as countless thoughts flashed through Bai Wu’s mind.
The one who sets the questions, and the one who answers them, if their roles aren’t changed, even if the latter’s strength far surpasses the forr’s, the questioner always holds an invincible position!
Only by becoming the questioner could he reverse the predicant of being outwitted by Cain ti and again.
Finally, after Lilith fainted from blood loss, Bai Wu stopped.
Fifth level, ninth step.
He didn’t acquire any Talent, but with this battle, Bai Wu now possessed the strength of a team captain.
He felt a bit regretful; if he had been able to obtain the Eye of Insight or Prayle’s Eye, he could even have had the power of the Eye of the Scales.
No... even stronger than that.
The Eye of the Scales could only foresee a few seconds into the future, but Prayle’s Eye, based on that, would combine the opponent’s actions and directly provide the optimal solution.
Grabbing the chest, spouting trash talk, these were proofs of that.
"What a pity."
But Bai Wu didn’t consu humans.
Taotie ca with a fatal side effect; if it weren’t for the sake of survival, if he wasn’t trying to save Dwarf’s Wife, Bai Wu wouldn’t have risked using it.
Even though he couldn’t feel it himself, his deanor had changed subtly. It was the kind that at first glance seed the sa as before, but upon closer inspection, one would find he had beco even more "beautiful."
Not handso or dashing, but beautiful.
It was very subtle; to sum it up, his attractiveness had once again increased by 1.
Bai Wu didn’t imdiately go to save Dwarf’s Wife. At that mont, Ruan Qingyun, looking at the calm, blood-streaked face of Bai Wu, felt that this young man seed sowhat stranger.
The Bai Wu she rembered was a calm and composed, yet occasionally mischievous and adorable young man.
But at this mont, as she watched everything Bai Wu was doing—calmly wiping the blood from his face, serenely checking Lilith’s body, searching for any ans Lilith might have to turn the tables, and seemingly using her pulse to deduce the speed of Lilith’s recovery—
these images made Ruan Qingyun feel that deep down, Bai Wu was an incredibly insane individual.
Unlike those loudmouthed lunatics who spouted nonsense, Bai Wu’s madness was more tranquil yet more lethal.
Once he was sure that Lilith had no ans of counterattack left, turned off her phone, and checked her body for any strange patterns unique to Cain, Bai Wu actually smiled.
The purer that smile was, the more Ruan Qingyun felt there was sothing off about Bai Wu. She even wondered whether when Bai Wu smiled at her in the past, he had the sa kind of crazy thoughts in his mind.
Bai Wu had noticed Ruan Qingyun’s reaction, but he didn’t care.
After leaving his father, for many years he had been seen as a freak, the more soone got to know him, the more likely they were to think he was a pervert.
Sotis at cri scenes, he would sniff the bodies with a calm, sotis even excited, deanor, and the police officers around him would whisper:
"Why do I feel like he’s more twisted than the murderer..."
Bai Wu had seen and beco accustod to this sort of thing many tis.
As such, in his previous life, Bai Wu had few friends, only maintaining his ager social circle through the mories of various emotions he had before his "transformation."
He was also aware that people contacted him not because he was an interesting person, but because they needed him. They needed to solve cases, and he enjoyed solving them.
Without negative emotions, he naturally wouldn’t feel bad.
But that didn’t an... loneliness didn’t exist.
It was only after coming to the Investigation Corps that Bai Wu felt sothing different from Wu Jiu.
Bai Wu often wondered—
The captain... probably noticed sothing wrong with while I was in the infirmary. Perhaps he beca even more sure of that during the flight.
But it seed he had never seen any aversion or fear of madn or perverts in the captain’s eyes.
This made Bai Wu very happy and cherished.
He even wondered if Dwarf would be the first one to feel sad if he died one day.
So to save Dwarf’s Wife, even if it ant revealing so of his secrets to her, Bai Wu didn’t hesitate too much.
He could have displayed more normal human expressions, after all, he was an actor of so renown.
But Bai Wu decided to gamble.
"Boss lady, did I scare you?"
"A little..." admitted Ruan Qingyun candidly.
"Our statures are not much different—I kept pressing down on her, biting only her neck to prevent blood from splattering on the clothes. Put on this bronze mask, and we’ll head to the Investigation Corps branch together," Bai Wu said as he untied the ropes binding Ruan Qingyun.
That really was a good escape plan, Ruan Qingyun nodded:
"Bai Wu, thank you."
"Can you keep what happened today a secret for , boss lady?"
Ruan Qingyun looked at the ever-composed Bai Wu, feeling that sothing was off. Bai Wu had clearly been on the losing end, yet suddenly he bit Lilith and turned the tables completely in the battle.
It must be so kind of power, and a very powerful one at that.
"You trust that much?" Ruan Qingyun asked in return.
"The captain is very important to , and you are very important to the captain. I trust the captain, so I trust you," Bai Wu replied.
Those words touched Ruan Qingyun.
Bai Wu’s tone was so calm that for so reason, Ruan Qingyun instantly forgot the irrational behavior Bai Wu had just exhibited.
She suddenly thought... Bai Wu might be broken in so ways, just like that pitiful little girl.
But that did not an they couldn’t love soone as a normal person would. Recalling all that Bai Wu had said and done...
Yan Jiu couldn’t feel joy, so his loneliness was easy to see, but Bai Wu was different... he might be more to be pitied because no one would ever perceive his sorrow, including himself.
Ruan Qingyun nodded, feeling ashad of so of her thoughts monts ago:
"Qingyu is a very important person to , and you are very important to him. Maybe one day, I’ll have so secrets too. Will you keep them for ?"
Bai Wu was slightly taken aback before nodding.
"Let’s go, we should leave this place. Oh, and this is for you, the little girl has been crying."
Ruan Qingyun returned the conch to Bai Wu.
Since the conch had always been with Ruan Qingyun, Yan Jiu could see the confrontation in the storage through her.
The continuous beating Bai Wu had undergone deeply distressed Yan Jiu.
Bai Wu thought over it and felt that he should say sothing to Yan Jiu...
Well... never mind, too troubleso.
He simply tossed the conch into his backpack.
...
...
Outside the tower, within the Swamp’s Monster Forest.
The temperature of the jungle was rising little by little. Likewise, the confrontation between Wu Jiu and the demon was heating up!
"Is this really sothing... a human can achieve?"
Yuan Du, the top expert of the Garrison Corps, watching Wu Jiu’s terrifying knife skills, felt sowhat bewildered.
He had always thought Wu Jiu was just fast.
Shouldn’t this kind of knife skill, capable of cleanly slicing through a hundred-ter-tall tree, be sothing that only a person who has reached the pinnacle of stacking power could execute?
Just one strike that could shatter his own defense, and Wu Jiu could actually withstand it frontally?
This was the first ti, all mbers of the Garrison Corps and the Investigation Corps witnessed Wu Jiu’s true strength.
The blue figure, the white blade light, and the demon’s black figure were like three lines.
They couldn’t catch the trajectory of Wu Jiu and the demon with their bare eyes. They just felt the tricolor lines constantly slashing through the jungle.
Every now and then, a terrible slash would turn a giant tree into broken branches and fallen wood.
The sound of tal clashing and the demon’s excited cries were sotis near, sotis far!
"Perfect! This is the perfect disciple! As long as he’s willing to beco Evil Fallen, he can definitely dominate the Black Zone!"
Not only the demon was impressed, but the Masked Strange Person standing behind the demon also marveled at Wu Jiu’s strength.
For a human to duel head-on with a Traveler-level Evil Fallen was an unexpected gain in the eyes of the Masked Strange Person.
It also solidified his determination to tempt Wu Jiu.
Lin Wurou, Wang Shi, and Shang Xiaoyi were also witnessing their captain’s true strength for the first ti.
High in the sky, Wu Jiu and the demon were dueling each other along the branch of a massive tree, winding upwards.
They suddenly beca worried, had the captain revealed any secrets that shouldn’t have been exposed for their sake?
(I have to go out tonight, might co back quite late, the update will be very late...)
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