Li Fan stayed up all night and only had a brief chat with Yang Yan before going back and falling asleep.
He didn't know how long it took, but he was suddenly awakened by a sudden sharp pain. He turned around and looked with fear on his face.
At some point, a ferocious monster with a goat body and a human face and tiger teeth appeared on the left shoulder. It was glowing with strange blood and was eating his own arm.
It exudes a terrifying aura from a weird thing, like a born butcher, making all living creatures tremble in front of it. Even though Li Fan is now different from what he used to be, facing this terrifying threat that looks like a high-ranking creature, Despite the pressure, his body still trembled uncontrollably, as if he was encountering a natural enemy and suffered death obediently.
The intense pain came from the arm that was being eaten, like thousands of steel needles piercing it, or like an iron brush rubbing violently, trying to scrape off all the strands of flesh.
His eyes were frightened, and he suddenly burst out with unwilling thoughts. He wanted to struggle and escape, but his whole body seemed to be frozen and hardened by a nightmare. He could not move at all. He could only watch the monster take another bite.
In a terrifying sound like the tearing of cloth, the bones and flesh were separated, and the bones of the formidable arm were exposed.
Li Fan screamed in pain, but could not escape.
The monster chewed vigorously, and its saliva was like thick acid smeared on it, making a sizzling sound.
Soon after, another bite came.
Cluck cluck...
Amidst the numbing chewing sound, the arm bones were violently broken, and then they were swallowed into the mouth and chewed to pieces.
"ah!"
Li Chuan sat up suddenly.
"Master!"
Li Ao looked intently, and what appeared in front of him were the beautiful maids Ru Yue and Ying Tao in his room. Their faces were filled with concern, but also a bit of inexplicable surprise.
"Sir, what's wrong with you?"
"Is my left hand okay?"
Li Fan turned around and saw that his arm was still intact.
No monsters, no gnawing, everything before was just a dream.
"fine……"
Li Fan couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Sir, are you having a nightmare?"
Ruyue came over with a fragrant handkerchief and wiped it for him carefully.
"Look at you, you're sweating a lot."
Li Chuan rubbed his shoulders, but the next moment, Yingtao took it over and gently kneaded it for him.
"Master, are you feeling uncomfortable here? I'll give you a massage."
Li Fan nodded, leaning on the bedside and enjoying the tenderness and consideration from the maid.
But the more he rubbed the cherry, the more he felt something was wrong.
Why do I seem to have no feeling in my left hand?
"Sir, your hands are so hard..."
Cherry couldn't help but exclaimed.
"Isn't that arm causing trouble?"
Kisaragi asked with some worry.
Li Chuan looked solemn and nodded.
Soon after, Li Fan got up and found that it was already night.
The eldest maids Shuzhen and Shuxian in the east courtyard came in together and reported: "The Marquis has sent the Yamen back to the house. I want to ask the young master if you have woken up here."
Li Fan said to them: "I know, I'll be there soon."
When they arrived at the side hall in the backyard, Li Xinzheng and Xiao Qingyue were chatting there. When they saw him, they called him over to have dinner together.
Li Fan didn't say anything in front of Xiao Qingyue. After she left, he talked with Li Xin about the nightmare in private.
"It seems that it is even hungrier than expected!"
Li Xin also looked helpless.
Li Fan said: "Didn't I say before that it would be fine for the time being after feeding it?"
Li Xin explained: “People know about 30% of weird things, but 70% more are still unknown!
This is also the reason why I hesitated to let you take this road in the past. Even if the ancestors have mastered safe and reliable driving methods, there will still be many unknown factors that will change and lead to deviations.
My previous judgment should still be able to persist for a few days, and it will be solved when you control the tiger arm, but now it seems that you have to feed again before activating the tiger arm.
The black tiger's blood in the mansion is temporarily sufficient, but as a result, the level of awakening will be greatly increased. "
Awakening means a strange resurgence, but also a loss of control.
This trouble of pressing the gourd and lifting the ladle will lead to a series of unpredictable consequences.
Hearing this, Li Fan also nodded solemnly.
Li Xin gave Li Fan a bottle of black tiger blood and told him to go back and deal with it himself.
You don’t need to feed too much this time, just two or three times as much as last time.
Ruyue, who had been watching and studying, helped Li Chuan, and the arm problem was successfully solved.
Li Fan immediately felt that his entire left hand came to life again and was owned by him again.
"Sure enough, it's better to be born in a marquis mansion!"
At this time, he couldn't help but sigh to himself, if he was not born in the Hou family, where would he find such a thing in a hurry?
I'm afraid that I will have to endure inhuman torture one after another and become no longer human.
Li Fan had read some secret files in his father's study and Lantai Institute, and knew that some strangers were tortured by various negative consequences, and their temperaments became distorted and abnormal.
That is not without reason. The human spirit is inherently very fragile and heavily dependent on the functions of the physical body.
Being in fear and pain every day, it would be strange not to respond when something happens.
That was one of the reasons why the Demon Suppression Division was originally established, not only to deal with evil spirits, but also to deal with those aliens who were on the verge of despair and on the verge of madness and stupidity.
The Hou Mansion still has some wealth, and a continuous supply of black tiger blood is not a problem. If you think about it from a darker perspective, there are even spare blood packs like Xue An's.
Judging from the method of raising arms, the ancestors of the Hou Mansion definitely considered some inhumane ways of providing support!
But that is never a long-term solution. Controlling the Black Tiger Arm mentioned before is the real solution.
In the next few days, Li Fan experienced several more nightmares of monsters biting his arms. He almost became numb and felt that his arms were no longer his.
If this continues, his arm will completely lose feeling, and it is logical that he can only rely on strange power to move it.
Fortunately, his background in the Hou family provided him with sufficient margin, and he could get timely relief every time, and his physical and mental health could still be guaranteed.
Li Fan also took pleasure in the hardships and regarded this as a kind of patience exercise.
Another day, Li Xin sent his servants to summon him.
Li Fan guessed that the Black Tiger Arm mentioned before was ready.
Sure enough, as soon as he brought Xue An to the study, he saw several foreign masters from the mansion gathered nearby, guarding something as if facing a formidable enemy.
Guarding the door were Zhong Ke and Xue'e, whom Li Kuang had met before.
They left Xue An behind and signaled Li Fan to walk in alone.
Li Xin was already standing in the open space in the courtyard waiting, with a huge figure on the big table in front of him.
It was a giant beast forearm as thick as an elephant's leg, with extremely developed muscles. Judging from the pattern on the surface, it was cut off from a mutated tiger with black markings.
