Chapter 348 · "Gift of Eternal Life"

In the dark room, the **** head rolled slowly, pulling a long line of blood on the floor.

The headless corpse fell to the ground, lying at Su Ming'an's feet.

He confirmed again that this person's appearance was indeed the princess he had just seen.

He didn't panic, 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, and he didn't seem to find it strange to knock on the door in the early hours of the morning.

"Who?" Su Mingan said.

What responded to him was a knock on the door with a steady frequency.

Su Mingan took a step forward and suddenly felt that something was grabbing his leg.

He looked down and saw a face that suddenly began to rot.

The head on the ground began to stand up slowly, and the round eyeballs were silently staring at him.

The sticky blood and the tangled skin slowly slipped from her cheeks, and it was the headless corpse's hand that grabbed Su Ming'an's calf.

"Shh!"

Su Ming'an chopped off the hand with a sword. At this time, the hand that was detached from the body also began to rot. It soon became bloody, and the blood dripped all over the floor.

...what the **** 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 who has invaded the princess' body.

He shook his leg, there was still a blood-red handprint on his trousers, and the knock on the door was still ringing.

He walked towards the door while looking at the corpse, and saw that the corpse had begun to squirm on its own, the broken flesh and beautiful clothes mixed together, like a meandering semi-liquid.

The head that was detached from the body still stared at him closely, and the eyeballs in the two sockets were vaguely detached.

"Click."

Before Su Mingan's hand touched the doorknob, the door opened by itself.

He quickly turned his gaze back, his back to the wriggling mass of flesh.

In the dark corridor, a girl in a gorgeous yellow dress was looking at him quietly with a red candle.

With the dim halo of the candle on her smooth face, she still looked dignified and beautiful.

"……Princess?"

Su Mingan was stunned for a moment.

A person with exactly the same appearance as the corpse in the room appeared outside his door.

Wait, the one in the room is...?

"Good morning, Su Rin." The princess smiled slightly: "The maid said she heard movement in your room, are you alright."

Looking at the princess with the same expression, Su Mingan gradually realized the complexity of the matter.

He had previously thought that as long as he controlled the Soul Clan and Soul Hunter, he could even push the entire Praia flat.

But now it seems that the royal family of Praia is not as simple as he imagined.

Chatting with Garde before, she said that in the previous royal family of Praia, the former king died suddenly, and the former queen died on the same day, leaving only the young Princess Tulip. The enchantment is unstable, foreign enemies are peeping, and the situation of the royal family is not very optimistic.

But Princess Tulip quickly stabilized the situation, sitting very firmly at a very young age. Even if she has not yet been crowned, she already has the tendency to dominate 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 Rin?" The princess tilted her head slightly, and the smile looked just right: "What's wrong? Is there something wrong in the room?"

"..." Su Mingan turned sideways, motioning for her to see for herself.

The princess slowly entered, and Su Mingan turned around with her, looking at the twisted and rotten corpse in the room

He saw a clean floor.

No crawling blood clots, no crimson-black bloodstains, no heads staring grimly.

Like nothing happened.

"What's the matter?" The princess looked at him sideways with a puzzled expression.

"Just now there was someone exactly like you who assassinated me." Su Mingan said bluntly.

Hearing his words, the princess' expression became a little stunned.

"It turned out to be her." The princess turned around: "Just right, I want to talk to you about this, it's almost morning now... Su Rin, come with me."

She handed the candlestick to the maid who bowed her head and walked towards the door.

When he saw the maid, Su Mingan was stunned.

These maids have always kept their heads very low, with bangs covering their faces, making it difficult to see their eyes. But now when the candle light lit up, their faces lifted slightly, and he suddenly saw that the faces of these maids looked exactly like Princess Tulip.

If you change the clothes on the body and change the hairstyle, they are like carved out of a mold.

He focused immediately and began to observe everyone who came and went, noticing the small faces they showed.

After such an observation, he gradually realized that something was wrong.

On the way he and the princess, everyone who passed by... whether it was the sweeping maid, the maid on duty, the gardener, their facial features were almost the same, except for the difference in their skin quality due to age. , the other facial features are no difference.

...This whole royal castle is like a world of replicants. And in her best years, the most beautiful and most upright Princess Tulip is the king who commands them.

Following the princess, he gradually walked out of the castle area, went down the stairs, and went underground.

Under the narrow stairs, the underground space is unique, and it seems that the area is not small.

This is an underground prison.

The environment was a bit dark and humid, the air was filled with an unpleasant smell of moisture, and there were several shocking large bloodstains on the broken mud wall.

Behind the iron railings, several prisoners with blind eyes were locked, and their eyes seemed to have lost their vigor, and they just lay in the corner blankly.

...but they still look exactly like the princess.

It's just that, unlike the maids and maids outside, they have to look younger and more beautiful. Even if they are locked in prison, they still look well taken care of.

Hearing the movement, they raised their heads slightly, and then seemed to have seen something, and their expressions suddenly became excited.

They stood up suddenly and slammed into the iron railing, holding the railing tightly with both hands, their eyes full of longing.

Like a few dogs with outstretched tongues, they cling to the iron railing almost impatiently, as if waiting for something.

"This is?" Su Mingan looked at the princess.

"Su Rin, you haven't had a good meal since you came back." The princess bowed her head slightly, she was wiping her slender fingers carefully with a white square handkerchief.

The white soft cloth slipped over the back of her hand, revealing her bright red fingernails. She lowered her head, and her voice still contained a gentle smile: "...Please use it."

"what?"

"A meal for your return." The princess smiled: "The conditions are a little rough, but after all, this kind of thing can't be put on the table, please forgive me."

Su Ming'an moved his gaze.

Following her line of sight, he saw that the "food" the princess was referring to was the young women who were exactly like her.

...she knew she was a soul clan?

But starting from the copy, I haven't felt the so-called hunger of the soul clan, and I have never attacked humans.

He glanced at these crazy, beast-like girls, and didn't want to do anything at all.

"What are you going to tell me?" He changed the subject.

The square handkerchief in the princess' hands slipped.

She didn't mean to pick it up, just turned her head slowly and looked at him.

"Aren't you going to eat?" she asked.

"Let's get down to business first." Su Ming'an said.

"..." The princess leaned forward slightly.

Her light-colored, always smiling eyes were full of aggression at this time.

Like a beast that finally revealed its killing intent, her eyes were fixed on him.

"...If you don't eat, they will kill themselves." Her voice seemed to be very inductive: "Do you know what they will do next? Their nails are very long and sharp. ...can easily scratch the bloodstains on their necks. Then, they will speed up, increase the force, and expand those bloodstains...until they scratch their necks and bleed."

Her voice was ethereal, echoing faintly in this underground prison.

The light from the top shone on her face, and there was an especially obvious indifference in her eyes.

And the few women who heard this also began to show disappointment and frustration, as if they knew that they were rejected by others.

They actually started raising their hands and scratching their necks.

"After the neck bleeds, they still won't stop, they will keep scratching and scratching... until the bloodstains gradually expand, until the skin falls off, until a lot of blood flows out, revealing a pale neck bone..." The princess was still talking.

Her voice was soft, as if she didn't know how weird she was talking.

At the same time, the group of women's hands had scratched blood, and blood began to appear.

From beginning to end, they didn't scream or show any expressions of resistance, as if they wanted to do so on their own initiative. Even, their eyes were staring at Su Ming'an longingly, as if they were begging him to eat them quickly.

Moisture lingered around him, as if it gradually penetrated into his body. Looking at the scene in front of him, he took a slight step back and stepped on a patch of coagulated blood.

"What the **** is this doing?" he asked.

The princess smiles.

"Looks like you're really not hungry," she said.

She approached the group of women who were scratching frantically, took out the key in her hand, and opened the iron railing.

In the eager eyes of the girls, she raised her hand and poked into one of them's chest in an instant.

Blood splattered.

Bright red blood splattered on her fair face, she retracted her hand, with a bright red soul clan heart on 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 Race's heart directly.

Her movements are very slow and elegant, and when she eats, she also takes small bites, chewing slowly, as if she was eating some delicate dessert.

The bright red blood slowly slid down her slender fingers and mixed with the blood-red nails.

Su Ming'an watched her enjoy the "food", watched her insert her hand into the next person's chest, and ate their soul clan's heart in one bite.

Suddenly, she turned her head to look at Su Ming'an.

"What's wrong? An expression like watching a farce." Her tone was like that of a simple little girl: "Is it strange that humans raise souls?"

"..."

"Soul clans can raise human beings and use them as slaves and store them as spare food. So, as a human being, is it strange that I raise some spirit clans for food?" The princess smiled.

The light dazzled her brows and eyes, and her blood-stained smile looked delicate and gentle.

"Look." She ate the soul clan's heart in her hand, like eating a large finger biscuit: "These girls were born with the thought that 'being eaten by the spirit clan is an honor'. I exist in order to be eaten, so I fulfill their wishes, which is to fulfill their wishes. Su Rin, you are too ruthless. They just knew that they were so despised by the soul clan, and they knew that their lifelong wish was about to be broken, really. So sad that I want to commit suicide..."

"..."

"What? You think it's ridiculous?"

"No." Su Ming'an said, "It's just that people's desire to follow their whole life has been distorted. Thinking about it carefully, it's no different from Praia's current situation. It's just that their wishes are more distorted than the soul hunters who are fighting blindly. That's it."

"Yeah." The princess smiled: "Besides, their death is far more valuable than soul hunting. The soul of the soul family is also helpful for human cultivation. They are also fighting for the future of Praia, and they are even more 'death in the right place'. ."

"Now can you explain to me why they all look the same as you?" Su Mingan asked

"what."

The princess paused for a moment.

Her wiping movement stopped slightly: "Don't you know about this?"

Without waiting for Su Mingan to answer, she added: "...It seems that Lord Shenming didn't tell you this, that's all, let me tell you, these are some 'new gifts'."

"A new gift?"

"It's a gift from the gods," the princess said. "These people are my petri dishes for the 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 the siren." The princess said: "This legend is true, but it is somewhat different from the truth. What she has is not the blood flowing in her body, but a plug. Ren's soul. She is fused with the Siren soul. But unfortunately, this matter cannot be replicated, only her generation of princesses have it."

"generation?"

"It was the generation of princesses who rose to the sky more than 60 years ago." The princess smiled: "Didn't you meet her at that time?"

Su Mingan thought about it.

There is indeed such a picture in Su Rin's memory stone.

In the alley more than 60 years ago, when leaving, the princess of that generation cried and said "sorry" to his sacrifice.

"Unfortunately, that generation's siren soul was just an accident. It was a young princess who escaped to the sea, and it was an accidental gain. It can't be passed down at all..." The princess said: "But at that time, Praia was in crisis. The siren soul can suppress the chaotic sea monsters, but once the princess of that generation dies, what should I do... With the siren soul, she cannot be transformed into a soul clan, and her life span is only a pitiful hundred years..."

She said this with a worried expression on her face.

But Su Mingan already understood.

"So." The princess turned her head sideways and looked at him with a dignified smile:

"The gods blessed her with the ability to 'eternal life'.

"She has a lot of petri dishes that are exactly like her. She uses divine power to transform their bodies, making them more and more like her...

"Among them, the most outstanding one, the one most suitable for the Siren's soul, became her 'next generation' after killing all the other clones.

"She gained a young body, and then, with her soul, was 'immortal' in a new body."

Su Mingan was silent for a moment: "That generation of princess~lightnovelpub.net~ is the one in front of me, that's right."

"That's right." The princess smiled:

"...That's why I said, long time no see.

"Long time no see, Su Rin."

Su Ming'an looked at the blood-stained corners of her mouth in front of her eyes, as she unhurriedly ate the heart of the soul clan, like a crazy princess.

He instantly remembered the memory stone, the young princess who would hug her head and cry at the helpless plan of sacrifice, and said "I'm sorry" in a daze, with her eyes looking extremely clear.

...and the bright, young Su Rin in the memory stone.

More than 60 years have passed, and the years have been like a violent metamorphic agent, which has changed all those who had their original intentions.

Immortality becomes the harshest shackle on them.

If there is no firm will, "immortality" is not a lucky gift for people.