The Real Heiress Just Wants to Be a Lazy Fish - Chapter 30

Chapter 30: The Complaint

In the middle of the night, a person startled awake from a nightmare is at their most psychologically vulnerable. Jiang Zitan felt as though she might be lightheaded from being immersed in that comforting, faint fragrance, which was why she allowed Tao Yitong to remain in her room.

Of course, it was also possible that she was still shaken by what had happened in her dream. It had been too real; she could even feel the warmth of the blood… Only the gentle, repetitive murmuring of the person beside her could give her a sense of peace.

When Tao Yitong said she would stay by her side on behalf of their mother, Jiang Zitan felt a stir of emotion deep in her heart. However, in the next second, the image of that blood-stained, scratch-filled dress resurfaced in her mind.

She didn’t know how much of Tao Yitong’s words were true or false. Jiang Zitan felt her own deductions were somewhat outlandish, yet the things occurring around Tao Yitong were even more absurd.

Jiang Zitan thought of her dream Tao Yitong had turned into a monster. Was it simply a case of “what one thinks by day, one dreams by night”? Yet, she inexplicably felt the dream was a warning. She did not know that her deductions, while seemingly far-fetched, were actually very close to the truth.

Within the movement of the constellations lies the trajectory of every human’s fate, and among the masses, there are special existences who represent individual stars. Most of them have extraordinary origins, and under certain circumstances, they can even receive direct revelations from their celestial fate the so-called precognitive dreams.

The Tianxiang Star (Celestial Aspect) had issued a warning about certain future events, but unfortunately, the current Jiang Zitan did not know what this dream signified.

Right now, she had only bitten herself, but next time was uncertain. She had almost bitten her sister earlier; when encountering others, she would only be less merciful.

“Go, An Yu, take Xiao Zheng with you.” Tao Yitong didn’t forget to assign the girl with extremely low self-protection abilities to her most trusted subordinate.

“Okay. You… you must stay safe!” For some reason, An Yu felt slightly uneasy seeing Tao Yitong’s expression. She rarely saw a trace of fatigue in her captain’s face. “Miss Jiang is still outside waiting for you.”

Tao Yitong seemed to daze for a moment when she met her eyes, then she smiled. “I know. You guys stay safe, too.”

They had no time for further pleasantries. Seeing Tao Yitong pull herself together, An Yu led the other two team members toward the eastern corner of the power source. It was now the early hours of the morning; once the sun came up, those monsters would naturally be suppressed, making things a bit easier on their end. By the time reinforcements arrived, the captain wouldn’t have to hold the line alone.

An Yu thought about the upcoming plans and arrangements, praying that everything would go smoothly.

Aside from herself, there was no fresh human flesh around Tao Yitong for Taotie to consume. Her tense nerves relaxed slightly, and with that came a magnified sense of hunger.

Tao Yitong immediately braced her spirit to suppress the desire that threatened to occupy her reason. She was in agony so much so that she wished she could pull out her two fangs. She felt her pocket; there was still a piece of candy Jiang Zitan had put in there. Tao Yitong tore open the wrapper and placed the solitary candy in her mouth. This sort of thing couldn’t satisfy hunger, but it allowed her to fantasize about drawing in her sister’s scent, using this self-deception to combat the clamoring Taotie.

Just hold on a bit longer. Once that hidden threat was dealt with, she could go back and hug, lick, or suck on her sister however she wanted. She could even “eat” it was much sweeter than candy.

Perhaps another kind of desire suppressed the urge to eat; Tao Yitong felt her head clear up a bit, and she quickly approached the center of the erupting abnormal power.

Her journey was smooth, encountering no monsters along the way. The area had already been “cleared.” This was naturally not the work of humans; the things here had likely either become fertilizer or been scared away.

Taotie, Taotie, there is food here that you need… Good child, come and eat it!

“There’s something ahead!” Xiao Ran had previously been afraid to make any noise for fear of affecting An Yu, but the object glowing with a faint white light in the distance was too conspicuous. It looked like several glow sticks stuck in the ground? And there seemed to be something on the sticks?

It looked like a section of a tattered burlap sack, narrow and round at the top, wider at the bottom, with two strips of cloth fluttering on each side in the wind. Why did it look like half a piece of human skin?

“Don’t look!” An Yu pressed someone’s head down. A vampire’s vision far exceeds that of a normal human, so she could clearly see what the “tattered sack” hanging there was.

It was indeed a piece of human skin specifically belonging to Yang Fu, whose snake tail she had just severed. He was now brutally impaled in the air by bone spikes. She didn’t know what had happened there after they left. Those bone spikes were still moving; whatever was controlling them must be a sentient entity. A massive creature likely hid beneath the earth.

An Yu carefully retracted her power to avoid disturbing the thing. However, this monster’s sense of territory was strong; even an ant passing by might be crushed.

When An Yu sensed the danger from underground, she immediately held Xiao Ran and dodged. A bone spike erupted toward the sky, and the air pressure knocked the person who hadn’t stood firm over.

This bone spike, protruding over ten meters from the ground, would probably require five or six people to encircle it. If the spike was this thick, it was unimaginable how large the thing beneath the ground was!

The thing’s attacks didn’t stop. The bone spikes could bend like spider legs, and the sharp tips continued to jab down toward where they were. An Yu felt the thing’s strength was likely on par with her own peak. If she weren’t injured, it wouldn’t be hard to handle, but right now…

She managed to break one bone spike, but two and then three more continued to emerge. Not far away, the spikes holding the “tattered sack” shredded the trophy and retracted into the ground, likely looking for an opportunity to ambush.

She couldn’t stay and fight; if her physical condition was dragged into a war of attrition, it would be a dead end! Moreover, she had to protect someone. She used the severed bone spike as a weapon. As the home was stepped on repeatedly by outsiders, the master of this place seemed truly angry. A “large lump” bulged on the ground, the soil cracked inch by inch, and a monster as large as a small hill rose from the earth.

It looked like a skeletal horse, but its mouth was filled with sharp teeth, and its maw could grotesquely split open all the way to its throat. There were eight bone spikes on its back, looking as if a spider were growing out of it. There was a mass of black-red flame where the skeletal horse’s eyes should be that was its soul.

An Yu suddenly felt a strong sense of unease. How could such a thing appear outside the ancient battlefield? Or rather… had they unknowingly stepped inside the ancient battlefield?

Xiao Ran couldn’t help at all. All she could do was not distract An Yu. So, although she felt the wound on her ankle becoming increasingly wrong a numb sensation climbing up from her foot she forcibly swallowed her fear and showed no abnormality.

In the darkness, she couldn’t see the state of the battle; she could only hear An Yu’s breathing becoming more rapid and the sound of something piercing flesh.

The voices occasionally appearing in her mind became clearer, and they gradually became soft. To delude her, they naturally used the voice she trusted most.

Tao Yitong suddenly heard Jiang Zitan’s voice, and her pace faltered slightly. But how could her sister be here? She looked toward the center of the power; there was a void like an abyss. Countless ghosts were twisted and crowded together, half their bodies already fused into a fleshy sphere, while the other halves struggled to get out.

Jiang Zitan’s voice came from one of the monsters within. They saw Tao Yitong and wore expressions of wild joy. They thought this young Taotie had already been deluded by them, so they called to her desperately, asking her to eat the embryo developing inside the fleshy sphere.

Tao Yitong heard a sound like a heartbeat inside the sphere; a Pseudo-God was being nurtured there. What would happen if Taotie ate this embryo? The eyes of all the ghosts were filled with malice; clearly, it wasn’t as simple as wanting Taotie to save them.

The original strength of these ghosts was very high, likely no weaker than S-class. Currently, they were restricted. If they were freed from their bonds, these ghosts would attack in a swarm… and the target would naturally be her. These monsters wouldn’t make a losing deal; having suffered once, they would likely only plunder more.

Tao Yitong approached the fleshy sphere floating at the mouth of the abyss. It was large, its diameter taller than she was. The skin of the sphere was very thin, so she could see the “fetus-like” thing inside. As the external enemy approached, the sphere began to release attacks to protect the “fetus.” Tao Yitong dodged while suppressing the frantically struggling Taotie, looking somewhat disheveled.

“I can’t get close to it. If you don’t help, I’ll just have to give up,” Tao Yitong said to the ghosts. She knew they understood.

Soon, the ghosts compromised. Although the subsequent attacks were dense, most were blocked or redirected by other ghosts.

“Captain Tao! We are ready on our end!”

Tao Yitong received four consecutive transmissions. Once she determined the direction of the “fetus’s” neck, she rushed forward, tore open the skin of the sphere, and reached inside to grip the “fetus’s” neck. The little monster inside opened its completely black eyes and let out a shriek.

“Surprised? Unexpected? I got out of there so fast!” Tao Yitong thought this cannibal had probably never calculated that there was such a celestial deer beside her sister; that deer had brought her out of the inner ancient battlefield with zero effort.

Eat it! Devour it! Eat quickly, you can only grow up after eating.

The ghosts with hideous faces were almost pressed against Tao Yitong. she could feel the bone-chilling cold, their faces perhaps only centimeters away from hers. They urged her to eat the “fetus,” but Tao Yitong only gradually tightened her grip, without a single trace of power belonging to the concept of devouring.

Snap! She broke the monster’s neck, silently enduring the “corrosion” of the liquid inside the sphere on her arms. A neck wasn’t a fatal weakness for the monster, but Tao Yitong had prepared more “surprises”—for example, the “poison” she had smeared on her hands beforehand. It was a medicine specifically for dissolving monsters; it was expensive, and Tao Yitong only had a little, and now she gave it all to the creature.

Half of the “fetus’s” head was dissolved, but its power had reached a threshold at the peak of S-class; this poison couldn’t kill it completely. However, the moment the soaring power was suppressed by Tao Yitong, the four-cornered barrier rose simultaneously. When the filthy power erupted again, the barrier shook but stubbornly refused to break.

Fortunately, just in case, she had brought the latest high-tech equipment from the Capital Research Institute. If it were an older model, it would have been shattered instantly.

Tao Yitong looked at the sky and sighed in relief, but her actions successfully enraged the “fetus” in the sphere. It had to pause its evolution to deal with this troublesome human. The ghosts finally realized Tao Yitong had lied to them; she hadn’t devoured the core at all. Deceived again, the ghosts went mad. If they couldn’t survive, this Taotie who had played them wouldn’t leave alive either!

Tao Yitong felt pressure like never before—worse than when she was forced to face Xiangliu as an A-class. Back then, Taotie was at least on her side, unlike now where it only knew how to be a “mad dog.”

How pathetic, Captain Tao. Your strength seems significantly weakened. Let me guess, has Taotie lost control? The “fetus’s” voice was sharp and piercing, like needles pricking her eardrums.

A glow appeared in the eastern sky; it was about to be dawn. After dawn, the strength of these monsters would be weakened. Even if she couldn’t kill it temporarily, reinforcements would arrive soon.

She was certain she hadn’t shown that form in front of Jiang Zitan. Was that simply a dream? No, impossible. How could a normal dream construct that form of hers out of thin air?

She instinctively thought Jiang Zitan had been targeted again, with this dream being implanted. But she had been by her side just now and hadn’t noticed any abnormality. Then the problem… might be Jiang Zitan herself.

“In the dream, you seemed to want to eat me.”

Tao Yitong’s pupils constricted. What’s with this dream? Seeing her beast-like form was one thing, but how was the “perverted” no, the “appetite” hidden in her heart exposed too?!

Give a girl some privacy!

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