"......" slowly opened his eyes, and what appeared in his vision was a brown wooden roof in the dark night. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

I sat up, but the quilt was pressed to the side, and I looked to the side to see Rust lying on the edge of the bed, apparently waiting for a long time.

After the previous killing of Monterrey, the clergy were hastily defeated by me, but I also fell asleep shortly after...... Can the undead power hurt the soul if used too much? If that's the case, isn't it devouring......

…… No, with the character of devouring, how can this kind of thing that hurts others and oneself be used indiscriminately, it should be just a simple physical overfatigue...... But I can't be sure until I ask about it.

"Hmm...... Master? Just as I was pinching my chin and thinking, Rust raised her head in a daze, and noticed that it was only me who woke up, so she shook her head to dispel the sleepiness, "Mr. Ye, are you awake?" ”

"Rust, where is this?" "In a nearby village, I found a house with no one in my house." Ruster replied, "Sarah and the girl are in another room. ”

“…… If you're sleepy, just sleep a little longer. I rolled over and got out of bed, "I'll go out and get something to eat." ”

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By the time I had recovered my weapons from the ruins of the battlefield miles away, fed my heart's content, and finally returned to the village, it was already dawn.

The villagers who lived in the village were busy with their land and work and did not notice me as an outsider...... It's weird.

"Little brother, who are you looking for?" Surrounded by a crowd, a woman who should be around twenty to twenty-two years old crouched in front of me, smiling and asking.

Behind her, discussions abounded such as "This is obviously a little girl", "No, it should be a boy", "Yes, it must be a boy who is so cute", "Anyway, I don't know who has such a lovely distant relative", and although they are quiet enough, they still can't escape the capture of my ears - after all, I am not human.

"Well, can you let it go?" Although I don't like to be surrounded by people, this group of people obviously has no malicious intent, so I don't have any need to do it...... Wait, the preface refuses! The eyes of those people are disgusting! Can it be killed and eaten?

"Of course!" The woman smiled and agreed, while putting her right hand behind her back and making small movements. It didn't take long for the crowd to get out of the way. I nodded in thanks, and walked around her towards my temporary accommodation.

"Look, sure enough, you mistook it for a boy, and now the little girl is making an awkward ......" "Who can tell the difference?" "Please, an eight- or nine-year-old child, you must be shy to be surrounded by so many people......" The whispers from behind me made me a little uncomfortable, and the strange gaze that flickered was even more unbearable.

But then again, even for a person like me, who has not developed well since childhood, a height of 1.4 meters is a matter of twelve years old, and if it were a normal human being, this figure would indeed be only eight or nine years old...... Coupled with the cloak on my body that concealed my weapons, I really looked like a harmless child now.

…… I was a little troubled by the fact that even my voice had completely changed back to a child's voice, making it easy for others to misunderstand my gender, but given that I needed a post-war recuperation, I couldn't care so much about hiding my eyes.

Slowly pacing to a corner at the pace of a child, as soon as he turned around, he immediately used the speed of a silver high-level pure warrior to bypass the other villagers who were not participating in the onlookers, and finally jumped and climbed through the window into the remote abandoned hut - because the movement of the door was too great.

Ignoring the surprise on Salad's face, I looked at the woman still lying on the bed and asked, "She's not awake yet?" ”

"Not yet." Sarah came back to her senses, "Sister Rustle says that her injuries are more psychological, and that she will have to sleep for at least a few days. ”

…… Looks like it's going to be necessary to stay here for a few days. But counting the days, the devouring who said that he was going to sleep for "ten days and half a month" should have woken up completely, could it be that the trick that tore through the space before made his condition worse?

"Hey." Just as I was getting my chin up again, the salad suddenly called me.

"How?" I looked at her, and the little girl looked like she wanted to say something, and she struggled for a while before she spoke, "That...... What should I call you? ”

"Karma, brother, father, anything." I glanced at her, "As long as you feel that this title is in line with my place in your heart, call it whatever you want." ”

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As he woke up yawning, I asked him about the condition of this body during this free time, but I didn't expect that after thinking about it for a while, I actually started talking directly about it when I was in the lab.

"In that lab, the experiments and modifications you usually do have only one ultimate goal, and that is to make the [container] that will load me."

"I admire their imagination and creativity, but they miss a little bit - my soul is not complete, and even the body of the living cannot support it, let alone the more troublesome body of the undead."

"Remember what I said to Gaust?" Yu Qing covered his mouth and rested his right hand on the table, "As long as the soul of either of us dissipates, the other will not be far from death." This statement is not a lie, nor is it alarmist. ”

"The undead power that was first injected into you with my soul only bears the imprint of my soul, and they have been endowed with devouring attributes from the beginning of the experiment, and in the process of completing the transformation of your body from a living to a ghoul, they have also eroded a piece of your soul."

"But the chaotic soul power that was not 'digested' in the previous thousands of devours attracted you and my souls together, and completed the connection in an extremely strange way, so that the power of the undead stopped eroding because it could not 'discern' your 'identity'."

"When you used the body of the deceased before, the reason why you felt weak after releasing the combat skill was because the undead power that manipulated the corpse was not stable enough after being consumed, and they were not branded with your soul, so it was naturally difficult to control. However, it wasn't until the day I met Xiaola that I finally succeeded in getting the power of the undead to accept your 'existence', and the endless life force you obtained from signing a contract with that girl in Geost added double insurance to your soul, so to speak, the Sun Eclipse Demon is a life forged with the power of the undead! ”

"That'...... Did your previous coma hurt your soul? "I'm a little worried," and that Yata-ku-no ...... from the previous two days."

"Oh, that." Yu smiled, "It's just too tired, after all, to maintain such a large body of the undead and at the same time manipulate them to solidify, the consumption of spiritual power is very large, and then naturally you have to sleep well for a while, but the soul is so easy to be injured." ”

"As for the coma of the first two days, then there is no need to worry. The great consumption of the power of the undead naturally creates an extreme exhaustion of the physical body, which is the same as that of the living. And I thought that with half my head and one right hand, even if I hold out for a few more minutes than you, it is useless, I might as well go to bed early. ”

Listening to Devour's almost mocking tone, I was relieved to know that both sides were safe and sound—since everything was under Eater's control, what else was I worried about.

"It's just a small business." Suddenly put on a worried expression, "I suddenly thought of an extremely serious problem. ”“…… What's wrong? "Inexplicably, I'm starting to worry too.

"If it was the kind of behavior I used to do in your body, it would be much better to explain to that girl of Hill, but now this state of being half a person......" The words "play off" were written on his face.

…… Was it just worrying about this kind of thing? "Wouldn't it be nice to explain?" I suddenly relaxed, "Or are you worried that you'll also suffer when I get touched and rubbed on the face by Hill?" ”…… I'm not disgusted, though.

"Ahhh......h Xiaoye, you actually laughed! The thought of being ravaged by others shamefully shows such a sunny warm smile! You're a girl! You're definitely a bearer! Sensing the switch of expressions on his face, he collapsed.

"Hmm...... How so? Salad poked Rashter, who was examining the body of the unconscious woman, "This kind of performance that switches expressions in an instant, no matter how many times you watch it, you won't get tired of it." ”

"Okay, Xiaoye......" sighed, "I'm worried about... With the usual attitude of the girl with Göosst, will she cut us straight in the middle...... "I can take the master's half?" Rust looked back with a smile.

“…… Xiaola, do you dare to make such a terrible joke again, believe it or not, I'm going to rip your stupid hair off? "Eat shuddered, then threatened viciously.

"Alright, devour." I lifted my head and leaned back in my chair to stop the conversation, "What will happen after meeting Hill is later, all we have to do now is to recover and prepare for the next battle or retreat." ”

"Rust, I'll leave that woman to your care." "Understood." "I'm in charge of the hunt." I turned to look at Salad, "Sala, follow me tomorrow and practice my bow and other fighting skills." "Got it......"

Then, I heard a salutation that surprised me a little.

"Senior.";