In the dark room, the head dripping with blood rolled slowly, drawing a long line of blood on the floor.
The headless body that fell to the ground lay at Su Mingan's feet.
He confirmed again that this person's appearance was indeed the princess he had just seen.
He didn't panic, he just turned around and suddenly heard a knock at the door.
"Dong dong dong."
He stared at the door.
"Dong dong dong."
The visitor knocked on the door unhurriedly, as if he didn't think it was strange to knock on the door in the early hours of the morning.
"Who?" Su Mingan said.
What responded to him was the steady knock on the door.
Su Mingan took a step forward and suddenly felt something grabbing her leg.
He looked down and saw a face that suddenly began to decay.
The head on the ground slowly began to stand up, its round eyeballs staring at him silently.
The sticky blood and tangled skin slowly slid down from her cheek, and it was the hand of the headless corpse that grabbed Su Ming'an's calf.
"Uh-huh!"
Su Ming'an cut off the hand with a sword. At this time, the hand that was separated from the body also began to rot. It soon became bloody and bloody, and blood covered the entire floor.
...What the hell is this.
Rather than saying that this is the princess of the Praia royal family, he is more willing to believe that this is a demon that has invaded the princess's body.
He shook his legs, there was still a bloody fingerprint on his pants, and the knock on the door was still ringing.
While looking at the corpse, he walked towards the door and saw that the corpse had begun to squirm on its own. The broken flesh and beautiful clothes were mixed together, like a meandering semi-liquid.
The detached head was still staring at him closely, and the eyeballs in the two eye sockets seemed to be detached.
"Click."
Before Su Mingan's hand touched the doorknob, the door opened by itself.
He quickly turned his gaze back to the squirming mass of flesh and blood.
In the dark corridor, a girl in a gorgeous yellow dress was looking at him quietly, holding a red candle.
The dim light of the candlelight shone on her smooth face, and she still looked dignified and beautiful.
"……Princess?"
Su Mingan was stunned for a moment.
A person with the same appearance as the corpse inside appeared outside his door.
Wait, that one in the room is...?
"Good morning, Su Lin." The princess smiled slightly: "The maid said she heard some movement in your room. Are you okay?"
Looking at the princess whose expression was normal, Su Mingan gradually realized the complexity of the matter.
He had thought before that as long as he controlled the soul clan and the soul hunter, he could even push the entire Praia.
But now it seems that the royal family in Praia is not as simple as he imagined.
When chatting with Garde before, she said that in the previous royal family of Praia, the former king died suddenly and suddenly, and the former queen died on the same day, leaving only the young Princess Tulip. The barrier is unstable, foreign enemies are peeking in, and the situation of the royal family is not very optimistic.
But Princess Tulip quickly stabilized the situation and secured her position at a very young age. Even before she was crowned, she already had the power to rule Praia.
Judging from the Pope's attitude, he did not despise the princess in front of him at all.
The princess in front of him will be his biggest obstacle so far. If he can conquer it or transform it...
"...Su Lin?" The princess tilted her head slightly, and the arc of her smile looked just right: "What's wrong? Is there something wrong in the room?"
"..." Su Mingan turned aside and motioned for her to see by herself.
The princess slowly entered the room, and Su Mingan turned around with her and looked at the twisted and rotting corpse in the room——
He saw a clean floor.
There were no squirming blood clots, no crimson and black blood stains, and no heads staring at people eerily.
It's like nothing happened.
"What's wrong?" The princess looked sideways at him, looking a little confused.
"Just now, someone just like you assassinated me." Su Mingan said bluntly.
After listening to his words, the princess's expression became a little confused.
"It turns out it's her." The princess turned around and said, "Just in time, I want to talk to you about this. It's almost morning... Su Lin, come with me."
She handed the candlestick to the maid who was hanging her head, and then walked out the door.
Su Mingan was stunned when he saw the maid.
These maids always have their heads lowered so low that their bangs cover their faces, making it difficult to see their eyes. But now that the candlelight was shining, their faces were slightly raised, and he suddenly saw that the faces of these maids looked exactly like Princess Tulip.
If they change their clothes and hairstyle, they will look like they are carved from the same mold.
He immediately focused his attention and began to observe everyone coming and going, paying attention to the small half of their faces.
After observing like this, he gradually realized that something was wrong.
Everyone he passed along the way with the princess...whether it was the maid sweeping the house, the maid on duty, or the gardener in the garden, their facial features were almost exactly the same, except for the difference in skin quality caused by age. , there is no difference in the shape of other facial features.
...This entire royal castle is like a world of clones. And Princess Tulip, who is in her best years, the most beautiful, and the most upright, is the king who commands them.
Following the princess, he gradually walked out of the castle area, went down the stairs, and entered the underground.
Under the narrow stairs, the underground space is unique and looks quite large.
This is an underground prison.
The environment was somewhat dark and humid, with an unpleasant smell of water vapor in the air, and there were several shocking large bloodstains on the broken mud walls.
Behind the iron railings, there were several prisoners locked with dull eyes. Their eyes seemed to have lost their vitality, and they were just lying in the corner blankly.
...But they still look exactly like the princess.
However, unlike the maids and maids outside, they look younger and more beautiful. Even if they are locked up in prison, they still seem to be well taken care of.
Hearing the movement, they raised their heads slightly, and then their expressions suddenly became excited as if they saw something.
They stood up suddenly and rushed towards the iron railing as if they were bumping into each other, holding the iron railing tightly with their hands, their eyes full of desire.
Like several dogs with their tongues hanging out, they pressed against the iron railing almost impatiently, as if waiting for something.
"This is it?" Su Mingan looked at the princess.
"Su Lin, you haven't had a good meal since you came back." The princess lowered her head slightly and was carefully wiping her slender fingers with a white square handkerchief.
The soft white cloth slid across the back of her hand, revealing her bright red fingernails. She lowered her head and said with a gentle smile in her voice: "...please use it."
"What?"
"A meal to entertain you when you return." The princess smiled: "The conditions are a bit crude, but after all, this kind of thing cannot be put on the table, so please forgive me."
Su Mingan moved his eyes.
Following her line of sight, he saw that the "food" the princess was referring to was those young women who looked exactly like her.
...Does she know that she is a soul clan?
But since I started the dungeon, I have never felt the so-called hunger of the Soul Clan, and I have never attacked humans.
He glanced at these crazy, wild-looking girls and didn't want to do anything at all.
"What is it you want to tell me?" He changed the subject.
The square handkerchief slipped from the princess's hand.
She had no intention of picking it up, but slowly turned her head and looked at him.
"Don't you want to eat?" she asked.
"Let's get down to business first," Su Mingan said.
"..." The princess leaned forward slightly.
Her light-colored eyes, which were always smiling, were now full of aggression.
Like a wild beast that finally revealed its murderous intent, her eyes were fixed on him.
"...If you don't eat, they will commit suicide." Her voice seemed to be very tempting: "Do you know what they will do next? Their nails are very long and sharp. ... can easily scratch the bloody marks on their necks. Then, they will speed up and increase the strength to expand the blood marks... until they scratch their necks and bleed."
Her voice was very ethereal, echoing faintly in this underground prison.
The light from the top shone on her face, and there was a particularly obvious indifference in her eyes.
And the few women who heard this began to look disappointed and frustrated, as if they knew they were being disliked.
They actually started raising their hands and scratching their necks.
"After their necks bleed, they still won't stop. They will keep scratching and scratching... until the blood marks gradually expand, until the skin falls off, until a large amount of blood flows out, revealing a pale neck bone..." The princess was still talking.
Her voice was light and airy, as if she didn't know what weird thing she was talking about.
At the same time, the hands of the women had scratched blood marks, and blood began to appear.
From the beginning to the end, they did not scream or show any expression of resistance, as if they wanted to do this on their own initiative. In fact, their eyes were staring at Su Mingan with longing, as if they were begging him to eat them quickly.
Moisture swirled around him, as if it was slowly getting into his body. He looked at the scene in front of him, took a step back slightly, and stepped on a piece of coagulated blood.
"What on earth is this doing?" he asked.
The princess smiles.
"It seems you're really not hungry," she said.
She approached the group of frantically scratching women, took out the key in her hand, and opened the iron bars.
Under the eager eyes of the girls, she raised her hand and stabbed one of them in the chest.
Blood splattered.
Bright red blood splashed onto her fair face, and she took back her hand. There was a bright red heart of the Soul Clan in her hand.
The man fell down with a happy expression on his face, as if his wish had been fulfilled.
The princess licked the blood on her hand and ate the soul heart directly.
Her movements were slow and graceful, and she took small bites when eating, chewing her food carefully, as if she was eating some delicate snack.
The bright red blood slowly slid down her slender fingers and mixed with the blood-red nails.
Su Ming'an watched her enjoy the "delicious food" and watched her insert her hand into the next person's chest and eat their soul heart one bite at a time.
Suddenly, she turned her head and looked at Su Ming'an.
"What's wrong? You look like you're watching a farce." Her tone was like that of a simple little girl: "Isn't it weird for humans to raise soul races?"
"..."
"The soul tribe can raise humans, use them as slaves, and store them as backup food. So as a human, I raise some soul tribes for food, is it strange?" The princess smiled.
The light dimmed her eyebrows, and her blood-stained smile looked delicate and gentle.
"Look." She ate the Soul Clan's heart in her hand like a large finger biscuit: "These girls are born with the idea that 'being eaten by the Soul Clan is an honor'. Their whole lives are... They exist to be eaten - therefore, when I fulfill their wishes, I am fulfilling their wishes. Su Lin, you are too ruthless. They just knew that they were so rejected by the Soul Clan, and knew that their lifelong wishes were about to be shattered. , I was so sad that I wanted to commit suicide..."
"..."
"What? You think this is ridiculous?"
"No." Su Mingan said: "It's just that people's desires to follow their whole lives have been distorted. If you think about it carefully, it's no different from Praia's current situation. It's just that their desires seem more distorted than the soul hunting that they are fighting blindly. That’s all.”
"Yes." The princess smiled: "Besides, their deaths are far more valuable than soul hunting. The hearts of the soul clan are also helpful to human beings' cultivation. They are also fighting for Praia's future, and they are more 'deserving of death' .”
"Now can you explain to me why they all look the same as you?" Su Mingan asked
"Huh."
The princess suddenly paused for a moment.
She stopped wiping slightly: "Don't you know about this?"
Before Su Ming'an could answer, she added: "...It seems that the gods didn't tell you this, that's all. Let me tell you, these are some 'new gifts'."
"New gift?"
"It is a gift given to us by the gods." The princess said, "These people are the 'petri dishes' for my next generation."
Su Mingan frowned slightly.
He vaguely guessed what it was.
"You may have heard that the princess of the royal family has the blood of sirens." The princess said: "This legend is indeed true, but it is somewhat inconsistent with the facts. What she has is not the blood flowing in her body, but a siren." The soul of Siren. She merged with the soul of Siren. But unfortunately, this thing cannot be copied, and only the princess of her generation has it."
"generation?"
"That's the princess of the generation when you ascended to the sky more than sixty years ago." The princess smiled: "Didn't you meet her then?"
Su Mingan thought about it.
There is indeed such a scene in Su Lin's memory stone.
In the alley more than sixty years ago, before leaving, the princess of that generation cried and said "I'm sorry" to him for his sacrifice.
"It's a pity that the Siren soul of that generation was just an accident. It was an unexpected income obtained by the young princess who ran away to the sea. It cannot be passed down at all..." The princess said: "But at that time, Praia was in crisis. The siren soul can suppress the rebellious sea monsters, but what should we do once the princess of that generation dies... With the siren soul, she cannot be transformed into a soul tribe, and her lifespan is only a pitiful hundred years..."
When she said this, she looked distressed.
But Su Mingan already understood.
"So." The princess turned her head and looked at him with a dignified smile:
"——God blessed her with the ability to 'immortal life'.
"She has many petri dishes that are exactly like her. She uses her divine power to transform their bodies, making them become more and more like her...
"Among them, the body that is the most outstanding and most suitable for Siren's soul became her 'next generation' after killing all other copies.
"She gained a young body, and then, along with her soul, became 'eternal life' in the new body."
Su Mingan was silent for a moment: "The princess of that generation is the one in front of me, right?"
"That's right." The princess smiled:
“…That’s why I said, [Long time no see].
"Long time no see, Su Lin."
Su Mingan looked at the princess with blood on the corner of her mouth, slowly eating the heart of the soul tribe, like a madman.
He momentarily recalled the young princess in the Memory Stone who would hold her head and cry over the helpless sacrifice plan, and say "I'm sorry" in a panic, with extremely clear eyes.
...and the sunny, cheerful, young man-like Su Lin in the Memory Stone.
More than sixty years have passed, and time is like a powerful detergent that has changed all those who originally had their original intentions.
Eternal life has become the harshest yoke on them.
Without a firm will, "immortality" is not a lucky gift to people.
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