Chapter 16 Hunger
Hu Li sat on the steps of the dilapidated temple with his head hung, looking a little hurt.
Yu Sheng also sat on the steps of the dilapidated temple with his head down - he was really hurt, the fox fairy bit him and tore off a large piece of skin and flesh! He knew that canines guard their food, but he didn't expect the fox fairy to make such a noise when guarding food!
"My benefactor..." Hu Li at the side finally spoke. The white-haired fox sounded as if he was about to cry. "I'm sorry, I... I couldn't help it. I hurt you again..."
"Yes, you hurt me again, but the injury is much lighter than the first time we met." Yu Shengsheng sighed helplessly, looking at the blood on the corner of Hu Li's mouth, thinking that it was fortunate that it was just a bite. When he first met this girl, the wound from the subsonic headbutt was much bigger than this. It was an amputation below the neck...
After hearing this, Hu Li just tilted her head in confusion. She obviously still couldn't remember what Yu Sheng meant by "the first meeting" - Yu Sheng had asked her several times in a roundabout way, and she had a similar reaction every time.
"My benefactor, what you said... did we really meet outside the ruined temple before?"
"You have no recollection at all?" Yu Sheng couldn't help but frown. "I was fighting with a messy-looking thing at the time, and you rushed over and said you wanted to help, and then 'bang' - my eyes went dark, and when I woke up I was here, and you were wandering outside."
Hu Li narrowed her eyes, as if she was trying hard to recall something. After a moment, the pair of furry ears on her head slowly drooped down, as if the process of recalling was quite difficult.
Yu Shengze lowered his head and looked at the wound on his hand.
The place where he was bitten by the fox was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Countless tiny sprouts were growing between the torn flesh and blood, and the blood seemed to have an independent life, wriggling and circulating in the cracks of the wound. He... even felt that he could hear a tiny sound coming from the wound. It was the body tissue that was regenerating, the broken skin that was gluing together, and everything... was recovering to its original state.
After a few minutes, he no longer felt any pain, and only a slight tingling sensation remained around the wound.
This wasn't normal, of course he knew that, a human's wounds couldn't heal at this speed, but a wound that healed faster than takeoff - coming back from the dead was even more wrong.
The changes in his body made him feel a little uneasy. Although these changes seemed to be "good things" at the moment, he was always worried that there were some unknown hidden dangers behind these changes, or in other words... "costs".
People will instinctively resist the unknown and loss of control. For Yu Sheng now, his own body is gradually becoming the biggest unknown in his heart.
But at this moment, a strange feeling suddenly interrupted Yu Sheng's thoughts - he couldn't tell what that feeling was, he just felt like he heard some voices, or some thoughts that suddenly "invaded" his mind, some... thoughts and memories that did not belong to him. He felt that a small area in his mind was uncontrollably agitated, and then, he felt that in that small agitated thought, there was another thought -
Mom is gone, Dad is gone, all the uncles and aunts are gone, it’s dark, poisonous, cold, scary, hungry, very cold, very hungry, very hungry, the fruit is poisonous, the bark can’t be eaten, the leaves can’t be eaten, the soil can’t be eaten, the stones can’t be eaten… can’t be eaten, nothing can be eaten, hungry, very hungry, very hungry, very hungry…
The overwhelming feeling of hunger that almost seemed to crush his mind swept through Yu Sheng's mind. Although it was just a wisp of external information that broke into his mind, he still had the illusion that his own sanity was about to be completely devoured by the hunger - this frenzied thinking set off a roar in his mind, and when it finally gradually weakened, Yu Sheng gradually resumed thinking, and slowly looked up at Hu Li sitting next to him.
The fox demon girl was licking the corner of her mouth slowly. Yu Sheng saw that his blood seemed to have life and was wriggling on the tip of the fox demon's tongue, seeping into her skin, her teeth, and... her soul.
Hu Li noticed the gaze from the side. She licked the last bit of blood from the corner of her mouth, looked up at Yu Sheng, and gave him a simple and harmless smile.
However, when Yu Sheng looked at her, it was as if he was looking directly into her soul. He saw... the part that was on the verge of madness. He saw the frantic hunger beginning to surge and grow deep in that smile.
She was hungry, she was still hungry, hungrier than she looked, even... hungrier than she felt.
"My benefactor..." She looked at Yu Sheng's pocket carefully with a silly smile on her face, "Do you have anything to eat? I feel... my stomach doesn't hurt anymore, but I'm still a little hungry."
Yu Sheng felt a little chill on his back, and he seemed to have vaguely thought of something. At the same time, he was more curious about the process of "reading" information in his mind just now.
Why... could he see Hu Li's thoughts and memories? He thought of the scene he had just seen: his blood quickly seeping into the other person's skin.
Is it because of this? At this moment, he noticed that the expression on Hu Li's face changed rapidly several times.
As if she suddenly remembered something, her eyes were a little dazed, and then the daze turned into astonishment. Hu Li slowly stood up from the steps and stared at Yu Sheng blankly, as if she was "recognizing" the person in front of her. Then she shook her head violently and pointed at Yu Sheng in disbelief: "Benefactor...you...you are not dead?!"
Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment.
Hu Li raised her hand and pressed hard on her forehead. Her body was swaying. The chaotic and conflicting memories made her already unstable mind shaky. Then, she finally began to recall the "truth" that had once disappeared from her memory -
She recalled her first "encounter" with Yu Sheng, her terrible "mistake" at that time, the way her "benefactor" was torn into pieces, the warm blood of a living person, and then... the blood gradually turned into nothingness, the remains disappeared, and the process of Yu Sheng's "death" dissipated from her memory...
She slowly stood up, her golden red eyes were hazy, and she murmured to herself: "Ah, I remember, benefactor, we just met, in the open space outside, I accidentally gave you...but..."
She hesitated and paused, the second half of her words turning into an unclear mumble, her confused mind seemed to be taking over, causing her thinking to quickly fall into chaos.
Yu Sheng blinked. Obviously, Hu Li remembered the first time they met, and also remembered the subsonic headbutt. He didn't know how she suddenly remembered all this. Perhaps it was related to the fact that he suddenly saw Hu Li's thoughts and memories just now - but now was obviously not the time to delve into the details of the matter.
It was obvious that something was wrong with Hu Li's condition. Her body began to sway again, as if she would become unstable in the next second.
Yu Sheng subconsciously took half a step forward - but the other party's reaction the next moment made him stop abruptly.
Hu Li raised her head, her golden-red eyes seemed to be filled with blood. She stared at Yu Sheng, and a low whimper and growl like a wild beast came from her throat.
She gradually bent down, and the messy tail behind her stretched out little by little. The fox tail spread out and grew in the night, and the faint blue flame jumped and burned at the end of each tail.
She acted like a wild beast, wantonly releasing the aura of a predator.
The feeling of hunger was growing wildly in those bloodshot eyes. Through some vague connection, Yu Sheng even seemed to be able to hear the voice that kept echoing in the girl's heart -
My benefactor, you smell so good...
Yu Sheng swallowed hard and slowly took a step back. At this moment, out of the corner of his eye he finally noticed a... shadow behind Hu Li.
It was a huge shadow that spread out from the darkness and approached Hu Li's back. The fox demon's dark blue spiritual fire flickered in the night. In the light of the fire, the shadow gradually took on an outline - as if countless hideous and twisted wild beast limbs were randomly mixed together. The several-meter-high mass of flesh and blood was covered with criss-crossing mouths, eyes and claws, as if it was the embodiment of hunger and hunting. The monster issued a low and ambiguous roar behind Hu Li as if urging him.
Amid the vague roars and urgings, Hu Li's body crouched even lower, silver-white fur covered her skin, her cheeks deformed, sharp teeth grew, and her human features quickly faded. Almost in the blink of an eye, the girl who always smiled foolishly disappeared - a huge silver-white demon fox stood in the night, and the dark blue spirit fire of the fox tail reflected the ruins of the dilapidated temple and Yu Sheng's face.
Yu Sheng heard a voice that was so powerful and piercing that it could faintly convey his feelings.
"Eat...eat it, and you won't be hungry anymore...
"Eat...
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"Eat together, we...
"You are hungry, eat..."
At first, Yu Sheng thought that what he heard was Hu Li’s inner thoughts, but he soon realized that it was actually the sound that Hu Li heard - the real source of the sound was the messy-looking monster.
It was urging the fox to eat, urging the fox girl to succumb to hunger. Its tone was as if it was waiting for something it had been cultivating for a long time to bear fruit.
Yu Sheng wanted to warn Hu Li loudly not to be bewitched by that voice, because he had vaguely guessed some truths, but before he opened his mouth, he felt the terrible...hunger coming from the depths of Hu Li's mind.
That hunger was enough to devour all rationality and block out all external voices.
He could only smile bitterly and spread his hands in front of the fox.
"I'm telling you, your mouth and stomach won't be in sync soon, and you'll be embarrassed the next time we meet..."
After saying this, he seemed to have left his last words. His heart darkened and his face sank. He leaned forward, lowered his waist, and assumed the starting posture of a military boxing.
Of course, Military Boxing cannot defeat the Nine-tailed Demon Fox (or the Seven-tailed or Eight-tailed), but Military Boxing can allow one to die with some dignity.
And what if? His physique had inexplicably become much stronger, and Yu Sheng thought that maybe he could punch Hu Li in the nose before he died, making her feel sore for a while...
Such a boring thought flashed through his mind, and the next second, he felt a gust of wind blowing towards him, and the huge body of the silver-white demon fox suddenly flew into the air - the intense wind pressure made Yu Sheng subconsciously close his eyes.
The expected death did not come.
Yu Sheng opened his eyes in confusion.
He saw the silver-white fox turn its body in the air and pounce on the disgusting monster - she let out a roar that was so furious that it was almost crying, and then opened her mouth to bite the monster.
However, the next second, countless pitch-black keratin spikes and pitch-black bone fragments burst out from Hu Li's body, piercing through her body everywhere, impaling her and nailing her in mid-air.
Yu Sheng looked at the scene in astonishment. He saw the silver-white fox turning its head with difficulty in the air, and golden-red blood flowing out from the wounds all over her body, steaming under the night sky.
"My benefactor... run..."
{You smell so good...} "I'm not a monster..."
{So hungry...} "Run!"
{Run!}(End of this chapter)
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