Jiufeng suddenly smiled, her pale face coming to life, a hint of envy flashing in her eyes, and she spoke in a soft voice with a touch of emotion: "Jiang Si, your relationship with Shu Xubai is truly enviable. You don't love each other, you're even enemies, and you can't stand each other, but when one of you is in trouble, you'll both give up everything for the other, overcome all difficulties to find each other, and protect each other."
"The same things you said to me, Shu Xubai once said to Marshal Agares, and even to my face more than once, that if it weren't for you, Marshal Agares wouldn't have enough lives to play with."
"You two have shown me what it truly means to love someone so much that you love their dog too, what it means to be a true mortal enemy, and what it means to be a true friend."
Jiang Si withdrew her index finger pointing at Jiu Feng, leaned back in her chair, crossed her arms, and adopted a casual and lazy posture, raising her eyebrows: "Thank you for the compliment, Your Excellency Jiu Feng, but let me state in advance that I really have no feelings for him. As for why I was so determined to let him die by my hand, it's because we are essentially the same kind of people."
"We're both very picky about food; not just any food will satisfy us. So, if he died at someone else's hands, it would be a waste. But if he died at my hands, I can make the most of him and ensure he dies a worthy death. Do you understand?"
If two creatures are each other's food, it would be such a waste if they were killed and thrown away by someone else, rotting in the ground and turning into a pile of bones. It would be better if they died at each other's hands, so that the other could have a good meal and make the most of each other's resources.
Anyway, they are different species, so there's no need to worry about prions from eating each other. After all, they came from the same laboratory and have a revolutionary friendship that others can't see.
"I'm going to die!" The smile on Jiu Feng's lips turned into a self-mocking expression: "Lord Jiang Si, I've lost my spiritual body, I'm going to die!"
Jiang Si was cold and ruthless, devoid of any emotion, and said icily, "What does your death have to do with me? From the moment you sat down, I offered to take your pulse, and you refused."
"Refusing to take my pulse is refusing to treat you. If you die, what does it have to do with me? Do you expect me to plant roses on your grave?"
He was able to appease that old geezer within an hour, making him stay obediently in the hotel. He certainly had some skill, some ability, and the old geezer must have taken a liking to him.
But thinking about it, it makes sense. The old man is a picky eater. From the moment he became a vampire, he was very picky about food. Ordinary blood simply cannot enter his mouth. If he can't find any blood that he can drink, he would rather starve than eat.
Later, I don't know if it was because he was too arrogant or what, he was captured and put into a laboratory, which was even worse. Those insane people in the laboratory not only forced him to drink the blood of various creatures, but also injected the blood of various creatures into his body.
Then strip him naked and throw him into a huge glass cabinet, watching him vomit and struggle like a ghost, his face hideous, white-faced and fanged, roaring as if he were dying because he had drunk all kinds of blood and injected with the blood of various creatures.
Jiufeng chuckled and politely declined, "You don't need to plant roses on my grave. They'll grow on my grave by themselves in the future!"
Jiang Si chuckled and said, "You're quite humorous. However, usually when your own grave grows a mound, it's more likely that the mound has already been leveled."
Jiufeng smiled palely and said leisurely, "It doesn't matter. When a person dies, nothing remains. There is no past life or afterlife. Anyway, I can't see it anymore. Let it be leveled. Being able to be fertilizer for the roses is the greatest honor I leave behind in this world."
Jiang Si gave an "oh" and asked very bluntly, "Your Excellency Jiufeng, you said you are going to die. How many months do you have left?"
Jiufeng's smile faded slightly, and she said truthfully, "At the current rate of my body's decline, I will die in less than 5 months."
He was about to die a horrible death, and he had always believed that he would grow old and perish together with his spiritual form, the Fire Phoenix.
But he never imagined that his fire phoenix would escape him, betray him, and become its own independent entity without him, able to live on and even materialize.
He raised an eagle only to be pecked by it; even his most trusted phoenix spirit betrayed him; and because of his desire for immortality, he was manipulated and kept in a daze. His life was a pathetic joke.
Jiang Si leaned back in her chair, arms crossed, and leaned slightly closer to Jiu Feng, sniffing the air. "The aura of death, the aura of a decaying body, is indeed very strong. No wonder I was the one who noticed something was wrong just by looking at the photo."
"Is that so?" Jiufeng remained seated and asked in return, "So you met with Shu Xubai alone today to tell him that I'm going to die."
Jiang Si narrowed her eyes: "You think he doesn't know you're going to die?"
Jiufeng paused for a moment: "No, he has already realized that my body is failing, but he probably doesn't realize that I will die within 5 months."
Jiang Si felt that her question was unnecessary: "That's true. First-generation vampires are more picky about food than second, third, fourth, and fifth-generation vampires. Once they have chosen their food, the taste of the food itself is irrelevant; it's what attracts them to it."
"But he can detect it immediately once the food has spoiled, and he can tell why the food has gone bad and why it doesn't taste as good as before."
"Has he not eaten anything for the past few days...?"
As Jiang Si spoke, her gaze fell on Jiu Feng's high-necked shirt. The shirt collar was buttoned up to the top, even covering his Adam's apple. It seemed like this was his style on purpose, but it also seemed like he was trying to hide something, making something all the more obvious.
Jiufeng did not reply to Jiang Si, but said, "He noticed that my body was deteriorating and my spirit was getting worse, but he resisted saying it out loud."
“Jiang Si, I’ve discovered that even someone as strong as him, who cares about nothing but you, has moments of running away and fear.”
Jiang Si couldn't possibly tell him that the old man cared about him. Just like Shu Xubai, she said one thing but meant another, trying to save face for him: "He doesn't care, he's not afraid, and he's not running away. He's just a picky vampire who has high standards for food. Good food and food with heart are hard to find."
"It's like you meet a sheep with lots and lots of wool, and only that one wool grows fast, beautifully, and exactly to your liking. Wouldn't you just grab that sheep and fleece it to death?"
Jiufeng was amused by her analogy, her eyes reddening and her face regaining some color: "What Lady Jiang Si says is true, but I still want to ask you for help with this sheep."
"I don't……"
"Please don't refuse me again." Jiufeng interrupted Jiang Si first, about to refuse again: "Please let me finish speaking. If you refuse me again after I finish speaking, I will have nothing to say and will not ask you for help again."
Jiang Si raised her arms, which were crossed over her chest, and rejected him again: "Your Excellency Jiufeng, it's not that I don't want to listen to you, but what you want to say is nothing more than that you have never lived for yourself all these years, and that no one has ever loved you."
"Now that someone finally cares about you, even if they see you as food, you don't want your death to have a negative impact on them, so you want to ask me to erase you from their memory, so that they'll mistakenly believe they've never encountered such delicious food as you, right?"
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