Volume 2: The Church of Light Chapter 176: Transaction in the Ruins
"Mom, no."
The little girl next to him shook her head and said, "This big brother is different from other snacks. I brought him here to eat together."
The woman in the meat pool slowly opened her eyes. There were no pupils in her eye sockets, which were all milky white. She looked quite strange and terrifying. She seemed to be looking at Xu Shen. After a while, her body began to tremble slightly.
No words.
Xu Shen's whole body tensed up. Just when he was feeling surprised, he suddenly heard Maeve's gentle laughter beside him: "What beautiful eyes you have. You can barely catch my trace..."
Xu Shen was stunned.
"Mom?" The little girl also noticed her mother's strange behavior and called out in confusion.
The woman's trembling body slowly calmed down, but her voice changed a little. She said softly: "Welcome, I apologize for the poor hospitality."
After saying this, she lowered her head slightly, her posture gentle and virtuous, like a noble lady.
Then, the pool of flesh in front of her began to churn, and corpses emerged from it. These corpses were lifted up by some force and presented to Xu Shen.
"You can choose whatever you want."
The little girl was surprised and said, "Mom, you are so generous that you even took out 'Dad'."
Xu Shen saw a corpse in front of him that had a burly body and a head as ferocious as a bull's. Although the corpse had been gutted, Xu Shen could still smell the strong scent emanating from the corpse, even stronger than that of the little girl and the woman in front of him.
Perhaps it was because he was dead and couldn't suppress his power, which made him look even more terrifying.
Maeve smiled and said lightly, "You're so polite. I'll just have a small taste."
Then Xu Shen saw that the huge corpse with a bull's head had twisted internal organs in its chest, and a piece of it was missing.
Maeve, however, looked elegant, gently stroking the corner of her mouth, licking her fingers with her pink tongue, and then lifted her skirt to return the favor: "Thank you for the treat."
Xu Shen's heart was shaken. The beast woman in front of him seemed to be able to sense Maeve. This corpse... was there to entertain Maeve?
Seeing Xu Shen in a daze, the little girl urged him, "Big brother, eat quickly. Daddy's internal organs are the most delicious. Usually, mommy is reluctant to give them to me to eat."
As she spoke, her eyes glowed with greed and appetite.
Xu Shen was stunned for a moment and looked at the woman, only to see that her expression was extremely gentle, like a virtuous and kind mother.
"Eat." The woman said softly.
Xu Shen hesitated for a moment, but still slowly reached out and tore off a piece. A rich smell surrounded him. He glanced at the little girl beside him who had a look of longing on her face. He wanted to ask her why her father became like this, but after thinking about it, he did not ask any more questions.
After dealing with the market for a long time, Xu Shen understood that he should not ask too many questions or observe too much.
Some unintentional words may stimulate Xu and make him angry and out of control.
After eating the slices of meat, Xu Shen felt as if all his organs were relaxed. The appetite that had been suppressed before seemed to be activated at this moment, and every cell in his body was expressing desire and hunger.
In a small hut in the dark world.
Inside the tightly closed door, the "mother" looked gently at the boy who took the knife at the table, a smile on her face, and said, "Eat, eat. Since you left home, you haven't had three meals a day for a long time. You didn't do what you promised your mother. This is not the behavior of a good child..."
Good boy...
Be a good kid...
Xu Shen seemed to be getting more and more addicted to eating, and he lay down on the Niutou corpse and started to eat.
Maeve sat down next to the meat pool with great interest, looked around, and said softly, "It's really a nice table. There are all kinds of snacks."
The woman in the meat pool trembled slightly, her expression was gentle, and one could even see a hint of respect in it: "Yes, it tastes very good."
"Yeah, daddy's tastes really good," the little girl agreed.
But it was obvious that the mother and daughter were not talking to the same person.
Xu Shen soon felt full after eating heartily. When the crazy appetite driven by hunger faded away in his mind, Xu Shen came to his senses.
He looked at the sticky blood on his hands, chin, and neck and quickly wiped it off.
"Sorry, I lost my composure." Xu Shen said quickly.
The woman's expression was gentle: "You look very beautiful when you eat. That's how you should eat. It makes people hungry."
"Yes, Mom said, this is respect for food."
The little girl smiled and agreed, "You must eat with enthusiasm."
Xu Shen forced a smile. Such enthusiasm might be an extremely terrifying scene in the eyes of "food".
After Xu Shen finished eating, the woman sank the ox head carcass into the meat pool again. The little girl mumbled, "Mom , I want to eat too."
"You can just eat something else." The woman was obviously not so generous to her own children. The good wine and food were used to entertain customers, so it didn't matter if she saved a little on her own children.
The little girl was somewhat reluctant, but she still accepted it. She jumped into the meat pool and quickly scooped up other corpses and started feasting on them.
Xu Shen saw that there was no way to retreat. Unless he asked the little girl to take him out, there was no way to escape. If he forced his way through, it would definitely cause damage and alert the factory nest.
Things have come to this point. Facing two monsters that are most likely A-level or even more terrifying, Xu Shen has no intention of escaping. When fighting is hopeless, people will choose to lie down.
Xu Shen sat down by the meat pool, and Maeve also sat down. The two sat side by side with their legs and feet dangling over the meat pool.
"Don't those people know that you are here?" Xu Shen started chatting as if he was talking about family matters.
The woman had a gentle face and said, "They can't see us. Other than occasionally giving way to kings who come, there's no need for anyone else to care."
"You also know the king?" Xu Shen was a little surprised.
It occurred to me that the little girl also knew about "Xu" before.
The woman smiled slightly. Even though she was immersed in this purgatory-like pool of flesh, her demeanor was that of an elegant lady. “We have been dealing with humans for so long. They understand us, and we naturally understand them too.”
Xu Shen thought so too. It couldn’t be defined by humans as Xu, while Xu knew nothing about humans.
The more powerful the Xu, the more intelligent it is. Xu Shen has already understood this. The two Xu in front of him are obviously above level B, so it is normal that their intelligence is not inferior to that of humans.
"We avoid the king, not because we are afraid of him." The little girl who was chewing meat in the meat pool raised her head and said with a smile, "It's just that my mother said she didn't want to leave such a good dining place."
Xu Shen nodded slightly. This factory nest was indeed a hotbed for them.
But it also means that the king can see them, otherwise they don't need to avoid them.
And what the king can see is Grade A.
"You have been dining here for seven or eight years, and they know nothing about it?" Xu Shen asked. He always felt it was a little unbelievable. After all, the appetites of two A-level guys couldn't be worse than his, right?
The woman smiled and said, “As long as we distort their perception a little, we can cover it up.”
Distorted cognition? Xu Shen's eyes moved slightly. Is this tampering with memory?
"Big brother, look."
The little girl in the meat pool suddenly raised her hand, and a blue liquid appeared in her palm.
Xu Shen took a look and asked in confusion: "What is this?"
"This is the purifier they made." The little girl smiled and said, "It's just that it hasn't been assembled yet. What I made is a high-level purifier, which is second only to eating it directly."
Are purifiers divided into high-level and low-level ones?
Xu Shen had never heard of it, but the little girl in front of him was obviously very familiar with the factory nest. Xu Shen thought about the meal just now and felt waves of fullness in his body. This feeling was more comfortable than the injection of purifying agent, and it made him feel fuller.
The force refined from the flesh and blood is also purer, and there is a feeling of unobstructed flow in the body.
"Those kings come here occasionally to get this kind of purifying agent." The little girl said, "This one doesn't have that kind of rotten bone powder added in, so it tastes better."
"Corrupted bone meal?" Xu Shen was puzzled.
The little girl nodded and said, "Yes, there are two kinds of purifying agents made from ash here. One is the one I have in my hand, and the other is the ordinary one. The one with more rotten bone powder in it. If you eat too much, you will also eat the rotten bone powder, and it will be difficult to excrete it."
Xu Shen was stunned. He had never heard of such a thing.
High level, low level.
Low level has bone meal...why is there bone meal?
Many thoughts flashed through Xu Shen's mind. He came back to his senses and asked the little girl, "Can you make a purifying agent?"
"Yeah, it's not difficult. I secretly watched them making it before." The little girl said with a smile, "And I don't need that kind of machine to make it."
A trace of melancholy flashed across the woman's snow-white eyes, and she said softly: "The child is not very sensible, please forgive her, she just likes to play."
"you?"
The little girl looked at her mother in confusion.
The speaker may not mean anything, but the listener may take it seriously. Xu Shen's eyes flickered, and an idea popped up in his mind. He said to the little girl, "Can you help me make some purifying agents?"
The little girl's previous doubts were attracted by Xu Shen's words, and she nodded and said, "No problem."
Xu Shen shook his head and said, "I mean a lot."
"A lot?" The little girl wondered, "How much do you want?"
"The more the better." Xu Shen asked, "How many can you make?"
"As long as there is enough food, I can make a lot..." the little girl said with a smile.
Xu Shen's eyes couldn't help but light up slightly, and then he felt like he was a little crazy. He actually wanted to make a deal with an A-level fish?
But he understood that the reason these two girls, especially the woman in the meat pool, did not attack him was mostly because of Maeve's presence.
Maybe he could use this to really make a deal.
It’s difficult to deal with people, so I can only go to the market.
"Children are just playful, don't take it seriously. Although we can distort their cognition, losing a large amount of food will still attract some troubles..." The woman embraced the little girl with her hand in the meat pool and said to Xu Shen politely and tactfully.
Clearly, she realized something.
Xu Shen nodded slightly. He could think of this and said, "If I provide you with food and let you live in another place, would you be willing?"
Xu Shen didn't realize that his thoughts had unconsciously shifted to... the area of the breeding grounds.
"As long as there is food," said the little girl with a smile.
The woman hesitated, not knowing how to answer. If she followed her heart, she would naturally be unwilling to take risks. The experience accumulated over countless years made her understand how dangerous humans are.
Humans are afraid of ruins.
But didn't Xu understand the evil of human beings?
But she didn’t know whether she should reject Xu Shen.
If I refuse rashly... will the person next to me be angry?
"I need to think about it..." The woman answered cautiously and tactfully.
Xu Shen nodded and said, "Okay, don't rush to answer me. I'm not ready yet."
He came to the inner city this time just to find out the situation. If he could have a chance to get a purchasing line, that would be the best.
But if not, there will be another chance.
It is impossible to succeed in an unfamiliar field at once.
But the two ruins in front of him gave him some ideas. Although the production of ruins purifying agents is prohibited in the bottom city, as long as it is kept secret enough, who can know about it?
There are many things that are forbidden, but everything that should happen has happened.
Moreover, if we hire human elites to make the ruins-purifying agent, they may not be able to control it, and the two ruins in front of us will not leak the secret.
However, being with Xu is extremely dangerous after all.
If Maeve ever left him, they would probably... especially the little girl's mother, retaliate without mercy and throw this little snack of his into their mouths.
Seeing that Xu Shen was not angry, the woman breathed a sigh of relief. Xu Shen said to the little girl, "Can you let me see the high-level purifier in your hand?"
The little girl smiled and said, "No problem."
Seeing this, the woman no longer held her daughter and let her come to Xu Shen, but there was always a hint of melancholy in her eyes.
Xu Shen took the blue purifier from the little girl and asked, "Is this also injected for absorption?"
"Yeah." The little girl nodded: "If you eat it directly, the effect will be much lessened."
Xu Shen thought to himself that it was a pity that there was no thick fog here, otherwise he could call upon the purifier syringe in the anchor point to try the effect.
He returned the purifying agent to the little girl, intending to ask her to make another one before leaving, and then inject it after they left.
"You said before that it would be dangerous to go outside. Do you mean we might meet the king?" Xu Shen asked.
The woman was stunned and looked at her daughter helplessly. Why did she tell everything to outsiders?
It was also her father's fault that he died early and she didn't teach him well...
The woman sighed secretly.
"No." The little girl shook her head and said, "When we come to your world, it will cause some damage to ourselves and also have an impact on your world. My mother said that some people will be stranded in reality and can never come back..."
"stranded?"
Xu Shen was slightly startled, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised, "You mean, you can't travel back and forth to reality freely?"
The little girl corrected him, "It can travel freely, but it will be damaged."
Xu Shen couldn't help but glance at Maeve beside him, but his gaze went straight past without lingering, and he saw Maeve looking at him with a smile on her face.
"She's right." Maeve said softly, "But I'm different..."
Xu Shen was silent for a moment. Maeve was indeed the most unique one among all the ones he had seen.
"I just... don't want to destroy your world." Maeve said softly.
Xu Shen was shocked physically and mentally, and fell silent.
