Fanwai (below) Come, I'll take you home.
Star Hell, not day or night
Starlight was soaked in a milky white liquid and stared blankly ahead.
This is the Star Prison, a place where the Xingche clan holds and punishes felons, but Xingxi is no stranger to it.
As part of the Weapons Project, all members spent a year here, learning about the structure of the human body, dissecting criminals who could not endure the punishment, and attempting the most brutal torture on their companions.
After that, if the training is not up to standard, or if the mission is not completed perfectly, the members of the Weapons Project often have the opportunity to return in order to develop their motivation for the mission.
Dawn is a regular visitor here, but often not as the one being punished, but as the executioner because of her excellent completion.
Of course, this time is an exception.
Because she was taken away by Xi Che and assisted in the entire palace coup d'Γ©tat under his orders, and was also in charge of Xi Che's security work for a period of time, although all this was done under the premise that Xi Che had reasonable command power over herself, the Star Rail Elders still ruled that she was guilty of harming the interests of her own clan, and was sentenced to three years in Star Prison, during which she could only stay in this Star Prison and accept the punishment except for every mission and the need for temporary recuperation due to serious injuries.
For example, the lotion that soaks the whole body at this time, its source is the poisonous saliva of the Netherworld White Snake, in addition to the slight corrosiveness, the biggest use is to stimulate the senses, magnify the sensitivity of the body to more than ten times, in addition, soaking the body in this viscous lotion all day long, is originally a kind of enhanced waterboarding.
And for Xingxi, only in this way can she accept the normal amount of punishment.
Her body had long been rejecting the effects of most magic and drugs due to her near-limit tempering, and although the growth-limiting drugs that Dark Star had used on her had an uplifting effect, the source of the drugs itself was part of the taboo. And for more, whether it is damage or gain, whether it is poison or medicine, her body has already spontaneously resisted all of this, and correspondingly, she has gained real resistance that is almost like a weapon, so that when she is injured and needs treatment, she can only rely on her own self-healing ability.
Even this self-healing ability is much stronger than that of ordinary humans.
However, because of this, when she accepts punishment, she also has to accept more pre-measures.
For example, soaking in the venomous saliva of the white snake at this time.
"How long?" A gloomy and cold man's voice sounded coldly beside her, and Xingxi raised her head indifferently and replied quietly, "Forty-eight hours." β
The man nodded, reaching out and poking his long, spiky, blood-stained nails lightly into the girl's chest.
Yes, in this field, all prisoners do not have the right to wear clothing.
The man's nails were sharper than most swords, or more often than not, he used his claws and teeth to cut flesh and blood, and as he thought, his nails effortlessly pierced the girl's now-translucent, thin skin into the flesh.
"You're a little tougher than before." The man pulled out his nails, looked at the red blood droplets flowing from there, and commented lightly.
"Because I haven't been back for a long time." Xingxi replied, the pain of being pierced in the chest seemed insignificant to her.
"I don't mind doing my art on you every day, if you like, after all, you are the best material I've ever seen in my life." The man looked at Xingxi's delicate body that would definitely make most men in this world crazy, but his expression was like looking at the pork belly lying on the chopping board: "But even a madman like me, who everyone hates, thinks that just being my test bed is too tyrannical, why are you so stupid to come back here again." β
"You can't remember him anymore. But why would you be willing to do so much for him? β
Xingxi was expressionless: "I just followed orders. β
"If you hadn't followed orders, you wouldn't have had a chance to soak in this stall." The man said coldly, as he spoke, almost graffiti, reaching out and slashing at the girl's delicate carcass, leaving several hideous wounds that were an inch deep, and then, within the man's vision, these wounds began to squirm and try to heal slowly.
This was already a tenfold pain, but the girl's expression was still calm, she did not look down at her wounds, but calmly looked at the shabby and dirty man in front of her: "You talk more than usual." β
The man smiled, reached out and grabbed Xingxi's long, soft and shiny silver-white hair, pulled it up and slammed it into the metal plate behind her head, the hoarse impact sounded deeply, and the back of the girl's head slowly flowed blood surging into the milky white venom under her body.
"Do you need to talk more?"
No matter how hurt she received, Xingxi's indifferent expression never changed, she lowered her head, under the influence of the Nether White Snake venom, such a heavy blow made her brain reverberate with a chaotic buzz, but her words still did not pause and hesitate.
"I'm sorry."
"I never understood and didn't want to discern human emotions."
The man grinned, and the smile was so hideous and terrifying that he could see that his handsome face had been cut in half with a knife and scrawled together with a clumsy needle and thread, so that when he laughed, it was not so much a man laughing as a patchwork of scary dolls hissing and laughing.
Xingxi looked at him and said lightly: "The first time." β
The man burst out laughing, the wound trembling as if it were about to open at any moment, splitting his head in two, and the hoarse laughter was like the neighing of an iron tool, and like the dying cry of a raven.
Then in the next moment, his smile stopped, and so did his laughter.
"That good brother of yours has come here."
Xingxi remained silent, not even the slightest tremor of her body.
"He has seen you tortured here, so he knows what kind of punishment you will suffer when you are recalled, so His Majesty has not hesitated to renew his friendship with our people, and is willing to fulfill all the agreements he has signed before, so he is allowed to come here to discuss the details of the agreement in person."
"He's definitely going to try to redeem your usufruction, but I don't think he's going to succeed, because we all know how much the Star Rail Elders hold you very seriously."
"However, I'm willing to make a bet with you, if he's really willing to grovel and get you out of here with all that an emperor can give, then."
"I'm willing to leave with him, with you."
At that moment, the sound of metal grinding against the outside of the closed cell suddenly sounded, and the man stood and turned calmly, watching a crimson knife tip slowly peeking through the two-foot-thick metal partition door.
Then, in the next moment, with the tip of the knife as the center, the alloy gate was melted into a three-foot square hole, and bright red and shiny steel dripped.
The man's indifferent voice slowly sounded from behind the door: "I'm sorry, I'm really not uncommon to be a monster of yours. β
Saying this, the crimson long knife was pulled out of the hole, and with a simple cutting action, the originally indestructible gate was reduced to metal scrap, and the blonde king stepped over the metal block, without even looking at the down-and-out man, and quietly looked at the **** girl who was soaking in the big pool in the middle of the room.
"In the name of Star Tracks." Xi Che calmly took out a small star-shaped gem from his arms, raised it high above his head, and then pulled his right hand back and threw it straight at the girl's chest.
"The decision on the imprisonment of Xingxi will be lifted immediately."
At the moment when the star-shaped gem touched Xingxi's chest, the girl raised her head indifferently, and her silver wings slowly opened from her back, and the sticky and heavy poisonous saliva around her body boiled instantly, and then flew away and hit in all directions, and was frozen into ice crystals in the next moment.
In the midst of the forest of ice crystals that spread radioactively throughout the room, Starlight floated out safely, and the injuries all over her body healed quickly under the nourishment of Starlight.
"Looks like I lost the bet." The man was on the sidelines, unusually angry.
Xi Che smiled and stretched out his hand to the down-and-out ugly man: "First order, kill him." β
Xingxi nodded indifferently, and the white moonlight began to slowly fill the room.
The down-and-out man laughed hoarsely again, laughing and coughing slowly: "It's really worthy of His Royal Highness the former prince, and now the Emperor Sturt, you are the only one who has this kind of mischievous mood." β
"Although I haven't fought with anyone for hundreds of years, it's true that I can't beat this little girl now, but it's true that the little girl can't kill me as a monster."
As he spoke, his body slowly blurred, and only the voice still echoed in place.
"Anyway, if you want to lose the bet, I will leave the City of Stars one day and serve you in a suitable way, although you still have no means to restrain me, but in time, I believe that this little girl will eventually have the ability to kill me, and before she can kill me, I will serve you dutifully, what do you think?"
Xi didn't reply: "When that day comes, I will let her dismantle your monster as soon as possible, so that you don't have a chance to escape." β
The man's voice was smiling wildly and confusedly.
"I'm looking forward to it."
When the weirdness finally disappeared completely, Xi Che looked at the girl wrapped in moonlight, and a soft smile appeared on the corner of her mouth for the first time.
"Alright."
"I can finally stand in front of you, qualified to say that."
"Come, I'll take you home."
(End of chapter)