Chapter Fifty-Four: Is There More?
After Shen Xue left, Gu Yu lectured Xi Yang for more than ten minutes, telling him that he must practice martial arts diligently from now on so that he wouldn’t be held hostage by others.
Xi Yang didn’t argue with Gu Yu’s lecture.
It was indeed time for him to practice diligently.
He almost lost his life in Tianxiang Town this time, and after returning home, he was even held hostage by Shen Xue… Xi Yang felt that his luck recently had been too bad!
Perhaps visiting a temple afterwards might help wash away some of his bad luck.
After lecturing Xi Yang, Gu Yu watched him leave dejectedly. Gu Yu didn’t delay any further and immediately zipped into the space.
When he arrived at a small world within the space, the elf was still soaking in the spring water, motionless.
If it weren’t for the small bubbles constantly rising around the elf’s location, Gu Yu would have thought that the spring water had directly annihilated it.
Estimating that the time was about right, Gu Yu immediately controlled the elf to emerge from the water. Looking at the elf before him, Gu Yu felt as if his eyes were playing tricks on him.
What had he seen!
Why had the terrifying elf from before changed its appearance so drastically now???
Not only that, but it had even grown facial features.
It looked quite handsome…
It’s just that its skin was mottled with black and blue patches, making it impossible to discern its original color.
And the tail on its back was still there!
“Elf, how are you feeling now?”
Seeing such a significant change in the elf, Gu Yu immediately and curiously opened his mouth, wanting to ask for the affected party’s opinion.
Even though he had wanted to kill the elf before, research was the most important thing now!
Even if he couldn’t understand what exactly the elf was, it wouldn’t stop Gu Yu’s research spirit from burning intensely!
“Better than ever. I was always feeding on blood. Although it could fill my stomach, I felt so uncomfortable! It made me constantly want to kill people and take their blood as food.”
“And now!”
“Now? I don’t want to touch human blood anymore. I find it particularly disgusting.”
“Don’t try to trick me like last time…”
“If you don’t believe me, you can keep me here indefinitely. It’s quite good too! Perhaps if I stay here for a few hundred years, I can break through my limitations and become a higher-level existence!”
Now that the elf had facial features, Gu Yu could clearly see its thoughts.
When it mentioned blood just now, the disgusted expression on the elf’s face was very obvious and didn’t seem faked.
Of course, unless the elf was a natural acting master who could control its facial expressions freely.
However, given the elf’s ruined credibility, Gu Yu didn’t fully believe it.
He decided to put it directly into the space and prohibit any of its actions for now, observing it for a while longer.
But before putting it into the space, there was one more thing he wanted to clarify.
“Elf, if someone’s blood is completely drained by you, but they retain their clear consciousness, what is that about?”
“Retaining consciousness… it’s possible that when they were being drained of blood, the person received my blood, thus becoming my servant.”
“Your servant? So, they are no longer human?”
“You could say so. Because after they are revived, they won’t die even if their heart is pierced by a sharp blade. Even if their head is cut off, they can still speak… However, if I want my servant to die, they won’t live to see the next day.”
“…”
Because of Zitan, Gu Yu questioned the elf further. But after receiving the elf’s answer, Gu Yu was speechless and didn’t know what to say.
What the hell, the elf wasn’t a vampire! Was it playing a joke on him by suddenly creating a vampire system?
“Also, if I die, my subordinate servants will no longer be alive! But because I was too busy feeding on blood before, I didn’t create any servants.”
“Is that so! Can humans be freed from this state? That is, to no longer be your servant but to return to being human?”
“No, because their blood has already been drained. If they don’t want to be my servant, then they can only die.”
After obtaining the desired information from the elf, Gu Yu’s internal questions were resolved, and he now understood Zitan’s current situation.
The reason she, who should have died, was still alive was because she had accidentally consumed the elf’s blood.
However, she probably drank too little, causing her body to remain stiff and immobile. Only her consciousness remained clear, seeking their help.
If they hadn’t traveled to the glacier, it would be hard to imagine what Zitan, with her consciousness clear, must have endured amidst the corpses. She couldn’t die even if she wanted to, only enduring desperately… Even ancient tortures were not as terrifying as this!
Thinking of this, Gu Yu immediately prepared to test if the elf’s words were true.
But considering that when he obtained blood and flesh from the elf before, it was still feeding, it was unlikely that the blood could be used on Zitan.
He should draw it again.
As he was thinking, Gu Yu’s gaze immediately became fervent as he looked at the elf. He thought it was fortunate that he hadn’t killed the elf before. Otherwise, he would have lost such a good opportunity for an experiment!
…
After placing the elf into the space, Gu Yu directly took out his tools and began to draw blood from the elf.
He didn’t know if it was an illusion or if the elf had truly begun to change, but the blood drawn this time was more blue than the last!
Placed in a bowl, it was crystal clear and very beautiful!
Having already come out of the space by now, Gu Yu didn’t dare to conduct experiments openly in the courtyard. Instead, he secretly went behind the house alone.
He directly took a long table out of the space, then released Zitan and placed her on the table.
Because time was frozen for everything and everyone in the space, Zitan was still in the state she was in at the glacier. Although she could perceive everything in the outside world, she was like a living corpse, unable to make significant movements. Only her consciousness remained clear.
Driven by curiosity, Gu Yu held the bowl filled with the elf’s blood and began to ponder how to feed this blood to her.
Zitan couldn’t move now. Should he pry open her mouth?
Just as Gu Yu was struggling with this, he didn’t expect that Zitan would actually regain her mobility at this moment. She immediately sat up from the table, snatched the bowl from Gu Yu’s hand, and gulped down the blood until it was all gone.
This completely stunned Gu Yu, who was thinking, “Didn’t you say you couldn’t move!!!”
Afterwards, Zitan placed the empty bowl on the table, then immediately jumped down from the table and stretched out with a big yawn.
Looking at her lively appearance now, it was clear that she had fully recovered.
“Is there more?”
However, what Gu Yu didn’t expect was that Zitan’s first words were this…
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