Chapter Ninety-Eight: Feeding
Time flies, more than ten days have passed in the blink of an eye, the weather is gradually getting hotter, people's clothes have become lighter, and when they go out, a short sleeve is enough. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Just a few days ago, our bar reopened.
I don't usually feel it, but once a major disaster occurs, I find that the speed at which human beings recover from the foundation of suffering is absolutely unexpected. It has been less than a month since the catastrophe occurred, but all the dilapidated buildings in the small city have been initially removed, the damaged houses are being repaired in an orderly manner, the basic civil facilities have been put into use, and the city has entered the most basic normal operation.
Lichun once told me that human beings seem so small and fragile, but no matter how tragic things happen, as long as there is a breath, the human race as a whole will always survive and reproduce tenaciously, and eventually prosper again.
I stood on the streets of a city that was recovering from a serious illness, and I felt a little sad in my heart. If that is not the end, but only the beginning, then can we afford this and again tragedy?
After the bar opened, customers often came here to drink all night and still cry after getting drunk.
The bar is open because it doesn't open and there is nothing else to do, and in my understanding, this bar is the bond that Liqing uses to understand human beings. There are some special human beings in this period, who are extremely fragile and extremely strong, so Li Qing often sat all night, listening to one guest after another tell about their misfortunes in this disaster.
Since many people lost their precious things in the disaster, the bar did not open without customers as I imagined, on the contrary, there were many people who came alone late at night to buy drunk.
I quietly observed them, and found that at least more than half of these sad people were occupied by dark monsters.
If this is the case, they will become more sensitive, irritable, selfish, and dark in their daily lives in the future, and they may infect more people with their low mood, and even directly cause misfortune to others. Now I no longer run away, I have to observe this, but I find that after the catastrophe, the monsters attached to human beings alone, the dark attribute has begun to increase overwhelmingly, making those light attribute monsters look as rare as the dim stars in the night sky of the city.
Is this what the mystery man said, the world tends to be dark?
Sometimes I wonder if I spend my whole life destroying these dark things, will I win back a glimmer of hope for the human world?
I'm seriously considering what the mystery man has offered me. In other words, I wasn't thinking about it, I was thinking about how I could do it better.
If I want to protect Liqing, I need strength, in addition to my own strength, I also need him. Needless to say, the real strength of this mysterious man should be terrifyingly strong, and if we can awaken his power, it will become our best hole card, and from a rational point of view, I must also work hard for this.
But my intuition tells me that it's better not to let Liqing and them see this matter, so the implementation of the plan must be strategic. If I could tell her everything, I think this mysterious person wouldn't need to secretly inhabit my body and make all this happen through me.
I pretended that nothing had happened, and in the small bar, I still took my duties as a waiter and treasurer seriously.
Only I know that I am completely different from before.
On the day the mystery man made that proposal, I couldn't sleep tossing and turning, thinking about it. The next day, when I went out to the street to see the recovery of the temporary vegetable market, I followed a man into the alley without others noticing, and finally gritted my teeth and swallowed the monster attached to the man's body.
Ever since I devoured and purified the blackened psychic tape, I knew what to do with the monsters. Monsters are one level lower than demons and demon gods, so all monsters, even high-level monsters, I can deal with them easily.
My decision is to hunt only dark monsters, as well as demons and demon gods who are hostile to humans and invade humans. If possible, I don't want to actively hunt down any thinking beings, even if they are enemies of humanity. From their point of view, perhaps killing humans is like killing other animals. But now, I have to overcome this mentality and make myself a "hunter", because this is for the safety of Liqing's life.
I didn't have any kind of communication with my prey, and I struck directly behind it. I opened the suction hole in my body, and the strange screamed in horror in a space that humans couldn't see, quickly peeling away from the host and being sucked into my body.
During the whole process, the host only stopped for a few seconds, as if stunned, and then, he came to his senses, took another step, and walked off into the distance.
And when he walked into the distance, there was no more strange thing about him physically.
The monster was broken down within my body, and gradually turned into a silver-white flow of energy. But this time, I don't seem to be able to be the ruler of this energy, because the moment it is purified, it is pulled towards a bottomless black hole, like another huge mouth of hunger and thirst in my body, which swallows it all at once.
I didn't feel strange, because I knew in my heart that it was him. It was he who was hungry and thirsty for energy, and in a corner of my body in the form of a strange flow of energy, he kept growing and growing.
I decided to start with the monster and gradually implement this "hunting" plan. The level of the monster is lower, and the spirit, essence, and energy it can provide are relatively low. However, the number of monsters is large, and if you find a random person on the street, you can see the shadow of the monster on his body, and the demon and the demon god, that is something that can be met but not sought.
So for a while, I've been talking less. I also have my own little secrets.
In the blink of an eye, it was half a moon again, and it was the day of the solar term "Xiaoman".
It's six o'clock in the morning when the bar closes, and after finishing breakfast, I wonder what kind of celebration Liqing will have today, and I don't know how I should get another item from her. Thinking about it, I suddenly felt a wave of exhaustion hit me - I have been very nervous for a while, probably because the string in my spirit has been stretched to the limit, and I can't hold it anymore now. I leaned on the quilt in the dormitory, and I didn't lie down very comfortably, so I fell asleep hunched over with the folded quilt.
Unexpectedly, in such an awkward posture, the dream still found me. (To be continued.) )