The Monsters All Covet Him - Chapter 12

For several consecutive nights, neither blood-water nor feathered arrows appeared in the sky. Lin Lin slept blissfully for several nights in a row.

During this time, 00 quietly crawled into Lin Lin’s belly to peek at Lin Yang. Upon waking, Lin Yang was busy stabbing silver needles, one by one, into the lifeless duplicate corpse of Lin. The sharp, cold tips of the needles pierced the flesh, yet this body could not even bleed.

“Inferior product,” Lin Yang mocked. However, his dark eyes were fixed intently on the body before him, his hands never pausing as he drove the silver needles into “Lin’s” skin.

When the needles pierced the duplicate’s body, a twisted sense of pleasure would arise in the depths of Lin Yang’s heart. This sensation felt as though he were trespassing into Lin’s territory, smashing its crystal palace and destroying its rare ornaments.

00 did not dare open its mouth to advise him; it huddled with its tail at Lin Lin’s feet and let out a troubled sigh.

In the temple, Lin received messages from the black silk threads.

The delicious human is using silver needles today to prick the duplicate body we left behind inside the giant rock’s belly

The delicious human cut the duplicate body into pieces today.

The delicious human is sewing the body together today; the delicious human’s hands are very beautiful.

Seven days passed in a flash. Every day, Lin’s ears were filled with the incessant chattering of those black silk threads that represented filthy desires.

During this period, Lin Yang had stepped out of Lin Lin’s belly to see Fu Bai and Zhuo. He had even encountered Qi Xun, who was full of hostility toward him, no less than three times.

The chains imprisoning the floating island reached every corner of the silt-covered ground; one could encounter a chain less than ten meters from the giant rock monster’s belly. Lin Yang avoided every single chain, his gaze refusing to linger for even a second, as if a single glance would dirty his eyes.

The silver-white eye beneath the floating island watched helplessly as Lin Yang brushed past the chains numerous times. The eye refused to give up. As Lin Yang stepped out and was about to tread on the next patch of silt, the eye abruptly raised the ground Lin Yang was stepping on by several meters, like a rising elevator.

Lin Yang stood atop the square pillar of silt and, without a moment’s hesitation, jumped straight down.

Splat—!

Lin Yang suffered a messy fall. Blood seeped into the silt. The humans and Silver Merfolk who witnessed the scene let out cries of horror, but half a minute later, Lin Yang’s body healed itself once more. Not even a scar remained on his smooth skin.

Lin Yang’s dark, drenching eyes flicked toward the high sky. Meeting that giant silver-white eye, he raised his middle finger. “Dumbass. You old, unkillable thing… sooner or later, I will torture you until you wish you were dead!”

The silver-white eye went dull.

In the temple, Lin opened its eyes. It felt somewhat bewildered. It remembered that Lin Yang had been very persistent about coming to the temple; why was he unhappy now that he was being “invited” to come?

Moreover, on the ground, Lin Yang could only stab his blades into a dead duplicate, whereas in the temple, he could stab the actual body. Lin could not understand why Lin Yang would rather smash himself into a mess than come up.

Lin was irritable. Since meeting Lin Yang, the frequency of its irritability had steadily increased. It began to wonder involuntarily: If the version of myself from a thousand years ago appeared here, would Lin Yang still be this unwilling to see me?

As this thought arose, a sense of discomfort manifested in Lin’s heart. It felt as though someone had thrust a hand into its body, clutching its heart and kneading it within their palm. Lin loathed this feeling.

It looked down; presumably, this heart was broken. Its sharp fingers sliced open its chest, reaching in to pull out the heart and crush it.

It felt pain. It was immortal and indestructible, yet it still felt pain. It felt pain when being hacked by a chaotic storm of swords, it felt pain when its eyes were poked out, and it felt pain when silt was poured into its ears. It had felt the most pain when it was being eaten alive by those humans and Silver Merfolk.

So much pain, so much pain.

Its pain receptors had not become numb through repeated agony; instead, they had become increasingly sensitive. However, its face would never again show an expression of suffering.

Lin crushed the heart in its palm; a new, vivid red heart quickly grew within its chest. To humans and Silver Merfolk, a heart was an existence that, once lost, resulted in death. But to Lin, it was merely a piece of throbbing meat; once lost, countless new ones would fill the void. It had no meaning and could carry no sentiment.

Once a heart was broken, replacing it with a new one should have been enough.

But it was wrong. That uncomfortable, aching, jealous sensation did not vanish; instead, it began to spread. It was as if that broken heart had left a pathogen within its body, causing its newborn heart to fall into that strange sensation as well.

Lin’s blood-stained hands did not cease their work. But the sensation at the location of its heart grew increasingly bizarre; it seemed the more the pathogen there was suppressed, the stronger its reaction became.

Lin sat amidst a pile of discarded hearts, its gaze vacant. How troublesome.

That night, as Fu Bai was researching knowledge recorded in ancient texts, a shadow suddenly fell before him.

Fu Bai’s hands stiffened. Immediately, he stood up with a respectful expression and bowed halfway. “Great Evil God, to visit in the dead of night… is there an important matter?”

Standing before Fu Bai was a duplicate of Lin. “Lin Yang is not a human of this world. Was he summoned here by you using an array?”

Fu Bai shook his head. “Great Evil God, Lin Yang has no connection to me. He appeared in this world out of thin air, carrying your aura upon him.”

“If one were to speak of the reason Lin Yang is in this world, I believe it is directly related to you. He appeared here because of you.”

Hearing this, Lin’s mood improved slightly, only to turn even more gloomy an instant later. Fu Bai did not speak further. Silence spread through the stone house.

Finally, Fu Bai spoke slowly: “Great Evil God, you have not descended a divine punishment during this period. Have you decided to forgive the humans and the Silver Merfolk?”

Lin’s expression instantly turned cold. The ground centered around its feet became covered in a bone-chilling frost. “Absolutely impossible.”

Fu Bai bowed even lower. “It is they who deserve to die. In that case, is your mercy during this period because of Lin Yang? Lin Yang says he is your lover, and that you even have a child. Great Evil God… do you like Lin Yang?”

Lin frowned. “Impossible.”

Fu Bai was at a loss for words. “Then why has the Great Evil God sought me out tonight?”

“Do you know… how to coax an angry human?”

Fu Bai was turned to stone.