The skeleton held the paralyzed black-haired young man in his arms, and his soft black hair fell from between his pale finger bones.

Suddenly, a voice sounded above their heads: "Meow?"

The strong sense of being watched made Xiu raise his head reflexively. He instinctively held Du Ze in his arms and covered him with a black robe. Then he saw the creature.

Is that a... cat? It was completely black, with one eye being golden and the other being blue. Xiu's attention was immediately drawn to the tail behind it. Although the creature in front of him looked like a cat, it had nine tails. The nine-tailed monster was squatting on the broken statue, tilting its head to watch the skeleton's almost protective behavior. Seeing Xiu looking up at it, the monster twitched its ears, and its round eyes were full of joy and love.

"Meow~"

Xiu stared at the monster warily. At this time, the last bit of light element was expelled from his brow and limbs. The thick death energy began to boil. It absorbed and assimilated the soul it had just devoured, becoming more and more viscous and violent. The black death energy wrapped Xiu up and delicately covered the pale bones. It began to weave flesh and blood, weave out dirt, and fill up the entire skeleton bit by bit. In the end, the death energy that covered the sky and the earth dissipated without a trace. The abandoned temple once again returned to its former silence, with only a monster and a black-robed lich holding a sacrifice facing each other silently.

Xiu pushed his black curly hair back, revealing a pair of dark and deep eyes, with a faint blue light flashing in the depths of his pupils. His expression was very gloomy, and the pale skin unique to the undead added a hint of morbidity to him, but it still did not detract from his handsomeness. This lich looked no different from a human, like a noble from an ancient oil painting. However, when Xiu stretched out his right hand to push his hair back, his right hand, which was still made of bones, revealed his undead nature.

The last swallowing was interrupted, the souls swallowed were not enough to restore the whole body, and his right arm was still bones. Xiu wrapped Du Ze tighter, as long as he chased the monster away and swallowed the rest, he would be able to recover completely.

Xiu grabbed the huge sickle of death and drew an arc in the air. A crescent-shaped dark light rushed straight towards the monster. The cat-like monster nimbly avoided the dark light, jumped down from the throne, and landed lightly in front of Xiu. Its eyes were sparkling, and it looked at Xiu expectantly as if it wanted to "play" with Xiu again.

"Meow~"

The dark light silently broke through the last bit of the abandoned temple's ceiling, revealing the inky sky. At this moment, the purple and yellow moons just climbed up directly above, and the light shone directly down from the hole, enveloping the statue and the lich underneath it, like some kind of pilgrimage.

The monster's ears twitched, and suddenly its eyes widened. It glanced at the black-robed lich opposite it with great reluctance, and then ran away again with a whimper. Xiu did not look at the monster's actions. He almost felt the fluctuation of the soul at the moment when the moonlight shone down - in his arms.

Xiu lowered his head, his black robe spread open, and once again met those pure black eyes. This time, he saw a pale-skinned, black-haired human figure in those eyes that were so black that there was not a trace of impurity.

He was still a horrible, evil, hideous undead, now clothed in human skin.

The lich thought so, and then heard the owner of those eyes say, "Let me go."

Xiu first tightened his grip on Du Ze's hand, then slowly loosened it. He looked at Du Ze gloomily as he left his arms, his right hand still holding the sickle of death, ready to strike.

Du Ze fumbled for his glasses and put them on. When he saw the protagonist in front of him clearly, a brainless fan of "Mixed Blood" froze.

This guy is not a ghost. This guy is not a ghost. This guy is not a ghost. Emma is really a ghost. Oh my god! So handsome that it’s unscientific!

In the setting of "Mixed Blood", the Undead are divided into bone, ghost, and corpse. The representative of the bone is the skeleton, the main body of the ghost is the soul without a body, and the corpse is the moving corpse. The strongest lich of the Undead belongs to the corpse. Although the corpse is relatively closer to the human form, it is also relatively speaking! Even if it is a fresh corpse, it still cannot change the fact that it is already a corpse! The Undead are just lifeless inorganic matter! So why does an inorganic matter look more vivid and eye-catching than this organic matter? It's unscientific!

What about the lich's sunken eye sockets? - Although the protagonist's eye sockets are indeed deep, that is the deep eye shape that is unique to Westerners!

What about the pale skin of the lich? ——Although the protagonist's skin is indeed unhealthy white, it is directly interpreted by the protagonist as morbid beauty!

What about the gloomy and unpleasant personality of the lich? ——Although the protagonist's expression is indeed gloomy, the protagonist's extraordinary appearance turns that gloom into depression!

At this moment, Du Ze deeply realized how jealous the author was of the golden finger he gave to the protagonist. In addition, the miserable Du Diaosi said that facing the humanoid protagonist (?), his social barriers would come back...

A geek who stays at home and indulges in the world of the second dimension will basically have this one attribute: social activities equal to or less than 1. They can chat very happily on the Internet, showing off their cuteness, showing off their power, and flirting with others without any moral integrity, but in real life, they will become a magical creature who will stutter and blush when a girl asks for directions. Du Ze is such a magical creature, and because of his ears, his social disorder is more serious than that of an ordinary loser. This cute social disorder is specifically manifested as: no words, but a heart and no expression, abbreviated as two nothings and one something (PS: adapted from the "no words, no heart, no expression" of three nothings), in other words, [emphasis line] stuffy [/emphasis line] - even if he roars a thousand times or ten thousand times in his heart, he will completely look like a dead man to the outside world, and he can't hold back what he wants to say.

Now a certain silly reader who is having a seizure is staring at the protagonist with a straight face and expressionless face. Du Ze is already crying inside. What should he say? Is the weather good today? Is the young hero good at fighting? Hello protagonist, this is the reader (who caused you to be tortured and hunted)?

Who can give him an opening line? He can save the world (which is about to be destroyed by the evil protagonist).

Du Ze's miserable mood is hard to describe. He now has to please the cruel protagonist who tried to kill him twice. It is impossible to say that Du Ze does not feel resentful in his heart, but... if he now says to the protagonist in a cold and noble manner, "Damn, I saved you, but you are repaying me with hatred?", then... there is no then. I can't afford to be hurt, dear! The protagonist on the opposite side is now extremely powerful! His blackening value is also infinite! Even though he was almost broken after being killed twice, he can only put on an expression of indifference now!

Come on, protagonist, after you have become cute, I will talk to you about life... Now I will hold back. =皿=

In addition, there is another reason why Du Ze tries to build a good relationship with the protagonist. A silly boy wants to make plans for the future. He traveled to this world. There is no sign or clue that can let him go back, so he will stay in this world for a long time. Since this is the world of "Mixed Blood", no one's thigh is as thick as the protagonist's. Du Ze has analyzed that "Mixed Blood" is a high-level martial arts world. If you want to stay by the protagonist's side to run the plot, you must pay attention to the high mortality rate. In YY novels, the safest person in the whole book is the protagonist. Others, whether enemies or the minions around the protagonist, have a high probability of being cannon fodder. But it's better than those passers-by who died without any sense of existence. After getting the title of "Brother of the Protagonist", although you may still not escape the fate of "death makes the protagonist explode", but at the same time there will be a higher chance for the protagonist to receive a branch quest of "saving a good (useful) brother" and try to resurrect a good (useful) brother.

In fact, in YY novels, there is another creature that can stay by the protagonist's side safely, and that is the heroine. Even if she dies, the protagonist will try to revive the girl who died in order to ensure the diversity of his harem. This point was selectively ignored by Du Ze. In short, staying by the protagonist's side will not only have a good future, but also allow you to witness the 3D version of the "Mixed Blood" reality show, and you can also influence the protagonist to return to the original cute master. Du Ze remembered the goal of "saving the cute master" set before, and his enthusiasm was instantly rekindled, once again calming the frustration of being almost killed by the protagonist.

This child is hopeless.

Du Ze looked at Xiu, his eyes wandering to Xiu's right hand which was still skeletal, and a voice in his heart whispered softly: In fact, the reason is not important, the most important thing is that this is his favorite novel "Half-Blood", and the person in front of him is his favorite protagonist, isn't it?

So here, in this world, he has advantages that no one else has: "Mixed Blood" is a novel for readers; it is a prophecy for the world; but for the protagonist, it is a life, including all his feelings and experiences. The current protagonist is a hedgehog, who gets angry and shoots arrows at people without distinction, AOE (PS: AOE is a group attack that does not distinguish between enemies and friends). He is completely unwilling and dare not trust others. You can't talk about feelings with the current protagonist, you can only talk about interests. Du Ze decided to borrow from a story he had seen before, "Madmen, Roosters and People" (PS: If you haven't heard of it, you can Baidu it). The blackened protagonist is a sick prince. Only when he says that he is also a madman who wants to destroy the world, the protagonist will listen to him.

Du Ze put his hand on his earphone and spoke slowly and flatly. He tried hard to break through his social barriers and squeezed out a sentence: "I will make your wish come true."

Du Ze's voice has a slightly strange tone, and the sticky and soft nasal sound is like a pure piano piece with a cello accompaniment. Although it does not achieve the normal effect of the piece, it is not inconsistent or abrupt. Since his hearing loss became more and more serious, he has not spoken to others for such a long time, so long that even the sound he made just now seems a little strange.

The dark blue in Xiu's pupils jumped, and he stared at Du Ze without saying a word.

Du Ze organized his words once again, coldly and stiffly showing Xiu the value of keeping him.

"I know a way to leave the Lost Land." Although I learned the method from you.

"I know a way to make you stronger." Although I learned the method from you.

Du Ze said that this behavior of using the advantages that will belong to the protagonist in the future to seduce the protagonist... is really cool. Spoilers are really a magical tool that can defy the heavens. Are you still worried that your favorability will not be improved in the future? Xiu on the opposite side seemed a little hesitant, but still looked at him with some hesitation and vigilance. The value has been reflected, so now he has to expose his weaknesses to reassure the protagonist who has a strong desire for control.

"I don't know magic, I don't have any martial arts skills, my only special feature is resurrection, you can easily kill me." Facing the cold and taciturn undead lich, Du Ze felt that he had nothing but became very talkative: "If you don't believe me, then sign the contract."

Xiu no longer just stared at Du Ze in silence, he finally spoke, his voice was a very strange hoarseness, not like something a human could make, but it was not unpleasant.

"…What is your purpose?"

[See how the young cultivator awakens his bloodline, takes revenge, and finally embarks on the road to conquer the throne of God.] The copy of "Mixed Blood" once again appeared in Du Ze's mind, but it has never made his blood boil more than this time, and his heart beat so fast that it doesn't seem like his own.

"I want to see you become a god."

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Belief in darkness, desire for power, loyalty to evil.

Skeletons spread death, ghosts harvest souls, and zombies are immortal.

We are called the Forgotten, people from the past, the Undead.

——Excerpt from "Half-Blood: Poems of the Dead"

The author has something to say: Protagonist: (silently takes out a piece of paper) Let's sign the contract. Reader: ... Do you think I didn't see the three words "marriage certificate"? Author: I approve = =.