Chapter 140 What's this for? Do you want to scare the little girl?
Lodge, in front of the main gate.
The crocodile-like horned demon mutant was still lying here, as if taking a nap, its body rising and falling rhythmically, showing great tension.
Around the scaly-horned demon mutant, Su Ming's phantom demon army was patrolling diligently, and they seemed to be much more loyal to their duties than the scaly-horned demon mutant.
Wulunmo stayed on the treetop, looking around.
The swamp demon hid underground, popping its head out from time to time.
The trolls moved back and forth with thundering footsteps.
The scaly-horned demon, which was from the same group as the mutant guarding the gate, was standing guard at the closest distance to it, with a vague feeling that it was the leader.
A group of phantom demons were doing such things in the deep mountains and forests, completely different from the bloodthirsty demons in the eyes of outsiders.
But even this group of phantom demons suddenly rioted at a certain moment.
"Guga!"
The first to react were naturally the mutant horned demons.
It suddenly opened its eyes, stood up abruptly, and let out a hostile and fearful roar as if it had sensed something.
"roar!"
"Guga!"
“Ga ga ga!”
The rest of the phantom demons also reacted violently in the next instant, roaring one by one, giving a feeling of appearing powerful but actually being weak.
In this situation, three figures appeared one after another in the direction where the phantom demons were roaring and threatening.
The people who appeared were naturally Su Ming, Xu Qianqian and the abducted mermaid girl.
"Mi Ling!"
The mermaid girl was so frightened by the grand welcome ceremony from her own people that she hid behind Xu Qianqian without hesitation, making herself disappear in front of the many ferocious "bad guys".
"Don't be afraid."
Xu Qianqian immediately comforted her.
"What are you doing? Do you want to scare the little girl?"
Su Ming also scolded out loud, completely forgetting how he had scared the little girl before.
"Guga!"
The mutant horned demon howled, as if explaining something, and looked at the mermaid girl with unspeakable fear in his eyes.
The same goes for the rest of the phantom demons, some even more exaggerated than the mutant horned demons. If Su Ming hadn't been here, they would have wanted to run away.
"What's wrong with you guys?"
Su Ming was a little stunned when he saw this.
Xu Qianqian suddenly thought of something and suddenly realized it.
"It seems that the existence of this child has suppressed the blood of these phantom demons."
Xu Qianqian's remarks made Su Ming suddenly realize something.
Human beings are divided into different statuses and classes.
Similarly, phantom demons are also divided into different levels.
At least, the suppression power of the upper-level phantom demon over the lower-level phantom demon is absolute.
Because the higher-level phantom demons are evolved life forms of the same species, for the phantom demons who feed on blood and regard blood as the source of their own power, the instinctive reverence and obedience to the evolved higher-level bloodlines is something that is engraved into their bodies and minds.
The so-called bloodline suppression refers to the suppression power of the superior phantom demon over the inferior phantom demon, making the inferior phantom demon instinctively fear and obey.
If they were of the same clan as this superior phantom demon, this kind of suppressing force would even make all the inferior phantom demons surrender.
For example, here, the scaly-horned demons will subconsciously focus on the scaly-horned demon mutants, because although the mutants failed to evolve, they have more noble bloodlines than ordinary lower-level phantom demons.
By the same token, although the mermaid girl did not evolve from the tribe of any phantom demon present, nor is she an evolved form of the same tribe as any phantom demon present, her own strength is only at the level of a lower-level phantom demon, perhaps even inferior to that of a mutant scaly-horned demon. However, as a descendant of a higher-level mutant phantom demon, the nobleness of her bloodline still puts pressure on these lower-level phantom demons.
Therefore, including the mutant Scale-Horned Demon, all the phantom demons present had a violent reaction the moment they felt the arrival of the superior bloodline.
This is an instinctive fear and vigilance. Even the mutant horned demon with stronger power than the mermaid girl cannot escape it.
If there were no corrosive water demons among the phantom demons present, the scene would have been even more chaotic.
After all, according to Xu Qianqian's previous test of the scales that Su Ming brought over, the mermaid girl evolved from the Corrupted Water Demon, or in other words, the ancestor who gave her the inheritance evolved from the Corrupted Water Demon.
As evolved individuals of the Corrupted Water Demon, if there were any Corrupted Water Demons on the scene, they would most likely rebel in an instant and join the mermaid girl's ranks.
This is blood suppression.
This is the reason why a higher-level phantom demon can become the leader of a race of lower-level phantom demons of the same ethnic group.
Of course, after seeing the mermaid girl, Su Ming was very skeptical as to why such a beautiful little girl could have evolved from those ugly water demons.
Perhaps, this is the possibility brought about by the evolution of the phantom demon?
After understanding this, Su Ming shook his head.
"Everyone, calm down. This kid is not an enemy."
Su Ming waved his hand and drove away all the phantom demons.
"Mi Ling!"
The mermaid girl nodded repeatedly, as if agreeing with Su Ming.
Seeing this, the phantom demons did not let down their guard, but left obediently under Su Ming's drive and continued to be on guard.
Only the horned demon mutant was left, staring at the mermaid girl with ferocity in his eyes.
"Mi Ling!"
The mermaid girl immediately hid deeper behind Xu Qianqian.
Xu Qianqian continued to comfort her and looked at Su Ming.
Su Ming was staring at the mutant horned demon and suddenly activated the [Demon Binding] technique.
"Guga!"
The scaly-horned demon mutant howled in pain, his voice full of bitterness.
"Go and guard the door."
Su Ming pointed to the side.
"Guga!"
The mutant horned demon didn't dare to do it again and ran away as if escaping.
“Done!”
Su Ming made a victory gesture towards Xu Qianqian.
Xu Qianqian glanced at Su Ming, then took the mermaid girl into the cabin without saying a word.
Su Ming shrugged and followed Xu Qianqian into the cabin.
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After entering the cabin, the mermaid girl couldn't resist the sleepiness and soon fell asleep.
Su Ming and Xu Qianqian looked at each other and realized that the mermaid girl acted like this not because she had let down her guard against them, but because she was weak.
"The child's injury has healed, but his blood and energy seem to have been damaged."
Xu Qianqian came to this conclusion.
It is true that phantoms have extremely powerful regenerative abilities, but every time they get injured and bleed, the power derived from their blood will be weakened.
This is the same as the spiritual spear of [Demon Binding], once it takes effect, it will suck blood from the heart of the phantom demon, causing the demon to lose power and fall into a weak state.
Therefore, although the mermaid girl's injuries have recovered, the lost blood and energy have not yet been replenished, so it is natural that she looks a little weak.
"I don't know who hurt her." Xu Qianqian frowned and said, "It's obvious that if the blood is depleted, the blood can't be extracted through the ritual. Does the person who hurt this child really not care about her blood?"
For those who covet her bloodline, hurting the mermaid girl is not something they can do lightly.
It was precisely because of this that the underground mercenaries were unwilling to harm the mermaid girl, so that the mermaid girl took the opportunity to escape again and again, forcing them to chase her again and again.
But this time, the mermaid girl was seriously injured. Before the lost blood and energy were replenished, it was impossible to use her for blood extraction.
As far as Xu Qianqian was concerned, there was absolutely no reason to do such a cost-prohibitive thing.
"Who knows?" Su Ming seemed to be indifferent and said, "Maybe this girl was just unlucky and was injured by a passing professional. Who knows?"
If you want to know who hurt the mermaid girl, there is only one way.
"Wouldn't it be alright if you asked her yourself after she wakes up?"
The solution that Su Ming proposed was not a solution at all.
"That's right." Xu Qianqian pondered for a while and said, "I'll ask in person."
In order to find out whether there were any high-level officials from Base City behind this incident, Xu Qianqian really planned to ask carefully.
The premise is that the girl will cooperate.
"Okay." Su Ming knocked on the table, attracting Xu Qianqian's attention, and said, "Compared to this, I think you should think carefully about how to deal with this phantom demon cub in the future."
This is an important issue that needs to be solved urgently.
It's a really troublesome problem that you can't throw it away, and you can't kill it either.
Xu Qianqian seemed to have thought about this question as well.
But she still said it helplessly.
"For now, we can only find a way to hide her and not let anyone find her."
Obviously, Xu Qianqian had no better solution.
The problem is…
"Before you hide her, you need to find a way to get her through the Huaming District battle."
Su Ming reminded.
To be honest, judging from the current situation, Xu Qianqian’s hope of hiding the mermaid girl is very slim.
Because Huaming District has been blocked, Longyao City has also launched a full-scale operation to clear out the phantom demons on the battlefield.
Under such circumstances, it would be very difficult for a phantom demon like the mermaid girl to escape from the encirclement of Longyao City.
Once discovered, chaos will immediately form a vortex, dragging in the entire Longyao City.
Unfortunately, the situation Xu Qianqian is facing now is not good.
The Xu family might still be chasing her and setting traps for her, intending to take her life.
The situation was already not good for Xu Qianqian. It would be extremely difficult for her to secretly send the mermaid girl out of Huaming District.
Anyway, Su Ming didn't think highly of her.
Who would have thought...
"It's actually not as difficult as you think to get this child out of Huaming District."
Xu Qianqian actually said such words.
"After all, there are many people in Huaming District who want to transport their captured phantom demons out."
Xu Qianqian's words were like a Bodhi initiation, which made Su Ming understand.
Indeed, if this is the case, it is not impossible to send the mermaid girl out of Huaming District.
Our baby is born! ～(￣▽￣～)~ I have to stay in the hospital for the next two days, so I may not be able to update! I hope my friends can grant Ruqing two days of vacation so that she can take good care of her wife and son!
After being discharged from the hospital, Ruqing will update everyone immediately!
I hope my friends will forgive me! (°з°)-
(End of this chapter)