Asabam looked at him. She was regurgitating the slave's incredible request. That was probably the most unreasonable and reckless request she had ever heard in her life. So she just stood there and watched, as if she thought there must be some kind of mystery here. Luo Binhan now felt neither nervous nor ashamed about her scrutiny.
"Eat, okay?" He patted his belly. "You, the god, don't eat. I, the human, eat. Understand?"
"You don't need to eat," Asabam said. "In the shortcut, matter is just illusion."
Luo Binhan didn't know what that meant, but he had already expected that Asabam would have a similar answer. That might be true, because he never felt tired or thirsty when traveling through the Shadow Mist, as if time had stopped passing in his body. He observed that Bang Bang was the same (Bang Bang was another passenger on the Silence who needed to use the toilet), so it was definitely not a problem with his personal constitution.
But that doesn't stop him from using the topic at this moment. "I get hungry quickly." He said calmly, touching the mucus on his face again, "And this thing. It said it was eating my body to make a living. Don't I have to supplement nutrition? Otherwise, What if it’s so hungry that it eats my brain?”
Garfield began to protest in his mind as he said this, emphasizing that he was not eating his non-renewable cells without a plan. Luo Binhan just pretended that he didn't hear. He patted his belly shamelessly, insisting on getting some food before they entered the Shadowmist again, because maybe he wouldn't be hungry while in the fog, but who knew where they might show up next? Since the Pelican was able to get him from Silence to Asabam's nose, maybe next time a space turtle would take him away from Asabam and put him on top of Zhou Wenxing's head. If he happens to have an empty stomach at that time, what a pain it will be!
Perhaps conquered by his theory, or perhaps simply fed up with him, Asabam finally raised his hand. Luo Binhan immediately closed his mouth, secretly waiting for her next step. Will she pull food out of thin air from her sleeve (or something close to it) like Jing Huang did? Or was this an initial move intended to punish him?
A shadow wrapped around Asabam's wrist. It wrapped around her wrist like a thin bracelet, then tightened suddenly, sinking into her skin. Amid Bangbang's screams, Luo Binhan watched helplessly as her left hand broke off from the wrist and fell to the ground with a soft splat.
No blood flowed from the fracture, instead there was a swollen and deformed shadow. It twisted into the shape of a hand on the surface of Asabam's severed wrist, and then gradually turned into a lifeless white like lime.
Luo Binhan stared at her hand for a while, then lowered his head to look at the severed palm on the ground. It looked similar to an ordinary dead man's palm.
"Eat." Asabam said without any emotion.
Luo Binhan still had a smile on his face and blinked at her. That was definitely not his intention, but at this moment he felt that the nerves in his face were dead, and it was difficult to change his expression to a more suitable one. But he had to say something about this, so he took a deep breath and said to her with a smile on his face: "Can I have something vegetarian?"
"No." Asabam said. She obviously didn't want to pay attention to this matter anymore, and calling her Luo Binhan was so popular. He originally just wanted to try if Asabam could take them to other places, such as a planet with food sources, or just to see if her shadow could be as omnipresent as Jing Huang's sleeves. It wouldn't be a big deal if Asabam refused his request. She could throw the man-eating monster in his face or break his legs, but not like this. Absolutely not. He couldn't explain the specific reason, but his anger at being humiliated was unprecedentedly strong.
"I'm not a fucking cannibal," he said coldly, desperately kicking the hand away from the ground.
I can eat this. Garfield said in his head. Luo Binhan told it to shut up and continued to glare at Asabam fiercely. That reaction didn't seem to make Asabam very nervous, she just acted a little strange.
"You have no taboo against eating meat," she said conclusively.
Luo Binhan said to her with a smile: "I will eat your whole family alive."
The effect of these words could not have been worse. Assabam looked at the hands on the ground and then at Luo Binhan, no doubt thinking why someone who could eat her whole family couldn't start with one of her hands. But what made Luo Binhan even more annoyed was that she seemed to think that even thinking about this puzzle was a waste of time. The shadow rose from her feet again, spit out something like a sauce bottle, and then threw it to Luo Binhan's feet. Luo Binhan stepped on it with his feet vigilantly, barely able to see its appearance clearly in the wind and sand. Inside the container is a ball of purple paste, mixed with a few chelicerae and broken shell fragments.
That looks like a bottle of bug pate. Luo Binhan picked it up from the ground, opened the lid and smelled it. It felt very similar to the insect food he had eaten before. It might have been some monster that laid eggs in his head, but it couldn't be worse than a freshly cut off dead man's hand. He scooped a little directly into his mouth with his fingers. It tasted pretty good.
He checked the container and found nothing resembling a trademark on it. Could it be that Asabam did this himself? Or maybe she has a slave who specializes in cooking in the shadows?
"Where did you get it?" he asked directly.
"On board." Asabam said. Those were the last two words she was willing to say to Luo Binhan, and then she walked away a few steps indifferently and looked at the sky with golden clouds again.
Luo Binhan handed the insect sauce bottle to Bang Bang, who was eager to try it, while secretly observing her reaction. He didn't know what was beyond the clouds, but Asabam didn't look like he had noticed a giant robot flying nearby. There must be a reason why she chose to stay here, and it was probably related to her hunting target. And if the traces on the ground indeed belong to Upsilon's spaceship, it means that there was some kind of conflict between Upsilon and the escapee here. Who has the upper hand? Where are the two parties to the conflict now?
He was anxious to know the answer, but Asabam just looked at the sky without giving away any clues. Luo Binhan could only pretend that nothing happened and said loudly: "These footprints are really strange! What is so big? Where is it now? Is this left by the person you want to kill?"
He could have shouted louder, but then there was a cramp in his lungs that made him double over in pain. It seemed that Assabam had finally endured him. Luo Binhan had no choice but to give up the next routine arrangement. He was about to raise his hands in surrender and look like a slave, but he saw Asabam's side face was bleeding.
The crack in her forehead burst open again, and vermilion gushed out like spring water, covering her pale face. Even the shadow tights that wrapped her body seemed to be punctured by invisible nails, and blood flowed everywhere. When Luo Binhan tried to see more clearly, the blood falling from his forehead also flowed into his eyes.
He suddenly couldn't see anything, but he felt pain and bleeding all over his body, as if thousands of nails had been added to his body. Bang Bang screamed next to him, supporting him tightly with his body to prevent him from falling to the ground.
"Luo! Oh! Look at the sky!" Bang Bang shouted in horror.
Luo Binhan wiped his eyes desperately. He hadn't regained his vision yet, but he could already sense a strange atmosphere from the shaking ground beneath his feet. After he could finally see the outline of the thing, he immediately raised his head and looked for the source of Bang Bang's exclamation.
He saw the constellations.
It's hard to find a better word to describe what was in the sky. Above the suddenly dissipated light clouds, he saw the night sky as clear and clear as a crystal cover that had been polished with concentration. There were many beautiful stars with golden light scattered on the sky, spinning around them. The distribution of those stars is very strange, there are always several clustered together, some are like triangles, some are like five-pointed stars, and some are more specific, like a fish or a wheel... Those shapes make Luo Binhan feel a kind of Very ominously familiar.
"Holy Observer," he heard Asabam say quietly, "turn off his hearing."
"What?" Luo Binhan said. Immediately afterwards, he found that the world had become completely silent, and even the wind stopped making any movement.
The golden constellation in the sky began to twist. They slowly swell as they rotate, splicing together, transforming from a few points into a three-dimensional and precise frame. When the dazzling reorganization was completed, seven strange collections of stars and lights lay on the sky canopy, eyes made of stars monitoring everything on the ground.
Asabam's hair finally fluttered, like a black veil sinking in the sea. The black gauze spread long and deep into the ground.
The "constellations" in the sky radiate thousands of rays of light, and flames like solar flares erupt around their bodies, forming brilliant and huge wings of fire that can cover the sky when stretched. The seven "constellations" flapped their wings of fire and roared silently in Luo Binhan's field of vision, shaking the entire earth.
