The Real Heiress Just Wants to Be a Lazy Fish - Chapter 20

Chapter 20: Rescued

As time passed, the sky grew truly dark, and the disaster finally began to subside. Those trapped in the temple could look up and see the night sky through the shattered ceiling.

The rain seemed to have stopped unnoticed, and the silhouettes of stars appeared in the sky. Jiang Zitan prayed silently in her heart; from a perspective invisible to ordinary people, a single star gradually emitted a softer light, cascading down upon Mount Shuangyi.

“The rain has stopped!” Inside the temple, someone stood under the large hole in the roof to test the air. Indeed, there was no more rain. He called out excitedly to the group, “We can leave now!”

“So, our interests are aligned on this point. There would be no loss if the Tianxiang Star returned to its position one cycle later. She could stay with you for a lifetime isn’t that wonderful?”

Tao Yitong lowered her head. Under the reflection of the eerie green firelight, her eyes seemed filled with shadows.

The cannibal firmly believed that human nature was selfish; it didn’t believe Tao Yitong wouldn’t be tempted. After all, doing this wouldn’t harm Jiang Zitan’s interests, would it?

It watched her standing motionless, appearing to struggle in internal agony. Just as it prepared to add more fuel to the fire, the person standing there suddenly vanished.

In the next second, a cold, gleaming dagger appeared before its face.

Thunder roared in the sky. A priest is the spokesperson for a god; whether that god is true or false, hitting the priest is equivalent to slapping the god’s face.

The cannibal quickly blocked with its bone staff. The sharp dagger sliced through the bone, but while it blocked the blade, it couldn’t block the fist. Tao Yitong smashed her fist down, shattering half of the bones on its face.

“My master told me that you don’t need to listen to a single word spoken by monsters with monstrous sins.” Tao Yitong tore open the priest’s skin, searching for the parasitic entity. “You claim every word is for my good, but why don’t you mention what profit you stand to gain?”

The cannibal wanted to speak, but Tao Yitong gave it no chance to make a sound. There was no need to listen to the high-sounding lies it had fabricated. As the heavenly lightning fell, she threw the priest’s body upward to block the strike for her.

The power of this lightning wasn’t just physical; a fragmented soul being baptized by such a thing was an agonizing experience.

“Rather than letting her be targeted by things like you, I’d rather she become a god! At least she would have the power to protect herself.” After all, if there truly is reincarnation, in the next life… she might not be able to protect her. Her sister’s next life would surely be stalked by these monsters again.

Tao Yitong’s eyes seemed slightly red, but her gaze remained unwavering.

The priest’s body turned to ash under the baptism of lightning. As its head finally vanished, a lingering smile remained.

You shouldn’t have attacked the priest’s body. You have angered the most unique existence on this ancient battlefield.

I hope when you finally have a chance to leave this place, you still have enough breath left to protect the person you love deeply.

It hadn’t expected Tao Yitong to attack the priest while such a massive threat loomed overhead. This was an unexpected delight; even if Tao Yitong were lucky enough to survive, she would inevitably end up heavily injured.

However… that Deviant Demon was born from complex human emotions. She fed on emotions, and sometimes, to obtain higher-quality food, she would actively catalyze human emotions before harvesting them. The consequence of this often led to humans becoming increasingly indifferent, their lives severely impacted.

Considering her good attitude in confessing and her active help in the victims’ recovery with no deaths caused, the Bureau did not take her life. She was sentenced to 60 years. For a Deviant Demon, 60 years wasn’t particularly long.

More coincidentally, the person who captured this Deviant Demon back then was named An Zhiyue. If it wasn’t a duplicate name, then that was her master. Calculating the time, that woman should be out of prison. Could it be her? Did she want to go back in right after getting out? Was she here for revenge?

She remembered that for such newly released Deviant Demons, the Bureau had restrictive measures. Thus, Tao Yitong contacted the facility where she had been held.

While she was communicating with them, she didn’t know that Jiang Zitan, separated from her by only a wall, wasn’t sleeping as peacefully as she thought. On the contrary, Zitan felt as if she were drowning in that dream.

With so much happening today, her heart was still feeling uncomfortable. Jiang Zitan thought she would have insomnia, but she quickly fell into a heavy stupor upon lying down. The stifling feeling in her chest gradually turned into a heat, as if flowing through her entire body with her blood.

“Sister…”

She heard her sister’s murmur. The scent of honey-peach wrapped tightly around her, like an irresistible tactile comfort. Her desires and thoughts were easily controlled by the other.

Her sister licked and lightly bit her neck, then whispered in her ear, “Sister, I want to hear your voice.”

She refused, clenching her teeth tightly.

But she heard a light laugh. Because she did not comply, that little rasper pulled her into an even more unbearable abyss until she achieved her goal.

“Sister…”

“Sister?”

Jiang Zitan heard the repeated calls. Her body, which had been limp and weak, finally seemed to regain some strength. In the stupor, she vaguely saw that little rasper’s face and those soft, delicate lips.

With her consciousness still hazy, she used the last bit of strength she had found to pull the person toward her and bit “hard” on her lips. Since the little rasper had “tormented” her like that just now, she had to pay a price.

Later, Jiang Zitan fell into a deep sleep. But before her consciousness completely vanished, she seemed to hear the sound of a cabinet door being hit.

Thud!

Because she was excessively startled, Tao Yitong hadn’t controlled her force when backing away. Her head hit the wardrobe door, and she sat down hard on the floor.

But she could no longer feel any pain. Tao Yitong sat on the floor like a startled deer, one hand covering her lips while her eyes went wide, staring at the person sleeping on the bed. Afraid of waking her, she didn’t dare make a sound.

Because she had no strength, Jiang Zitan hadn’t bitten hard, but Tao Yitong felt as if her heart was about to jump out of her throat. Even when she was between life and death in Africa, she hadn’t been this panicked.

She didn’t know how long she sat on the floor. When she finally snapped out of it, she left the room in a panic, practically scrambling away on all fours.

Moonlight spilled into the room, illuminating a certain person crouching in a corner. She tried desperately to calm her heartbeat; it took a long while for her brain to start functioning again.

So Jiang Zitan has a habit of biting in her sleep too? Then we’re even, ha…

Tao Yitong felt she should smile, but she found she couldn’t. Not far from her were the funeral portraits of her adoptive parents. Looking at their gentle smiles in the photos, a sense of guilt expanded in her heart.

In that moment just now, she had actually been immersed in it, even almost wanting to continue… It must have been the influence of that Deviant Demon who can disturb human emotions, it must be!

“Gotcha!” Tao Yitong gripped a colorless, invisible mass in mid-air. Her hands were covered in scales; ordinary attacks couldn’t break free from her grasp.

“Found you.” Through that invisible mass, she locked onto the monster hiding in the distance.

The monster saw those scarlet vertical pupils locking onto it within its soul. It didn’t know how it had been caught. How could Tao Yitong lock onto that wisp of its soul?! It had clearly used a disguise…

It had underestimated Taotie’s sensitivity to all food. Under the baptism of divine lightning, if its disguise showed even the slightest flaw, Taotie could capture it.

Just as Tao Yitong guessed, if it wanted to lead the expansion of this ancient battlefield, it couldn’t be too far from the core. It hid in a place it considered safe, but no matter how safe, it couldn’t withstand that person chasing it down with the lightning rolling like a rainstorm behind her.

Tao Yitong snatched a warhorse from a ghost general in that tribe. The horse seemed to have the lineage of a Jiliang, running incredibly fast. Under the pressure of lightning striking behind it, it exploded with potential, always staying one step ahead of the bolts.

Since she was going to be struck by lightning anyway, how could the culprit not accompany her?

“Understood, I’ve had professional training.” After a few days of studying An Actor’s Self-Cultivation, Tao Yitong was quite confident.

Finally, the light of the operating room went out.

Jiang Zitan immediately rushed to the doctor. The usually calm, composed, and eloquent President Jiang’s lips moved, and it took a long time for her to tremblingly squeeze out a few words from her throat, “Doctor, is my sister okay?”

“The surgery was very successful. The patient was lucky; the wood didn’t hit any vital organs. The family doesn’t need to worry too much,” the doctor gave the good news.

“Thank you, doctor, thank you…” Jiang Zitan’s voice almost carried a sob. Soon, Tao Yitong was wheeled out.

Her face was still pale and sickly. Even though the doctor had provided a treatment with purifying effects, that evil beast which once possessed S-class power was no small fry. Its power’s influence couldn’t be removed so easily, so Tao Yitong still felt nauseous.

But the moment she stepped out of the operating room door, she smelled the sweet fragrance from Jiang Zitan. This scent seemed to have a magical power, even suppressing the nausea in her stomach a little.

When Tao Yitong saw Jiang Zitan, her expression softened considerably. Jiang Zitan tremblingly held her hand. When Tao Yitong saw the gauze wrapped around Zitan’s hand, her expression turned cold again.

Fortunately, nothing had happened while she was unconscious, but Jiang Zitan’s hand was still injured. She really should have chopped that dragon’s soul into fine mincemeat just now!

Drip…

Suddenly, she felt a water droplet fall on the back of her hand, and then she vaguely heard two suppressed, low sobs.

Tao Yitong immediately raised her eyes. The person who was cold to the world but exceptionally gentle to her was silently shedding tears. Tao Yitong instinctively raised her hand and wiped away Jiang Zitan’s tears.

“Sister, don’t cry. I’m okay.”

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