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Chapter 485: Chapter 485 Blood Clan Queen (14)
 

Blood Clan A, B, and C left with furrowed brows and distressed expressions.

“You all…”

“Master, we’re going right away!!”

Blood Clan A, B, and C ran away swiftly and disappeared into the jungle in the blink of an eye.

Chuzheng: “…”

I just wanted you to take the captured humans away.

Leaving them here is just in the way.

The four captured people were left behind, all staring at Chuzheng with fear and shock.

Among them was a girl I had encountered before.

She had been through a lot these days, her puffy dress torn and tattered, barely showing its original color.

It looked somewhat pitiful.

So Chuzheng decisively ordered Su Ji, “Throw them out.”

“Master… can’t we keep them?” Su Ji asked tentatively. “We’ve already caught them.”

Su Li silently watched him, her large eyes misty with tears, squatting on the ground, a small bundle of nerves.

Su Ji’s glance drifted to her and he suddenly froze.

Chuzheng’s tone was impatient, “Throw them out.”

“…Yes,” Su Ji dared not go against Chuzheng and could only feel regret in his heart.

But then again, it’s better not to touch these people carelessly, it’s better to just throw them out.

He threw all four people out without the slightest hint of kindness to untie their bindings.

But Su Li followed behind him and, in a voice as fine as a mosquito’s, said, “If you don’t let them go, they will be taken by other Blood Clan…”

“Then do you want to go keep them company?” Su Ji asked with a malicious smile.

Su Li’s face turned pale, and she turned and ran back.

“Coward.”

Su Ji’s voice drifted faintly from afar.

–

Blood Clan A, B, and C came back bedraggled, holding several fish, and Chuzheng rewarded them with Rose Dew.

Chuzheng, holding a cooked fish, walked over to the boy, “Eat.”

The boy, ravenous, was not pretentious.

His movements were not particularly graceful, but the boy was good-looking. Even the rough gestures were given a pass because of his looks, appearing especially attractive.

Indeed, good-looking people can do no wrong.

The fish was gone in no time, and Chuzheng grabbed another one.

She sat beside him, watching the boy eat.

After finishing the second fish, the boy wiped his mouth, “What do you want me to do?”

“Am I a good person?” Chuzheng immediately asked him.

The boy didn’t answer, but under the faint glow of the fire, he scrutinized the girl across from him.

Her back to the flames, the fire around her outlined a faint halo of light.

This Blood Clan…

After a while, he said, “You’re a Blood Clan member, not a human.”

Chuzheng: “…”

I feel like the Good Person Card is insulting me!

“There are good ones among the Blood Clan.” For instance, me, a person as good as I am can’t be found even with a lantern.

[…]I think so too.

The boy’s profile, under the firelight, was tinged with a warm hue, his tone slightly bizarre, “You’re talking about yourself?”

Chuzheng nodded earnestly.

Yes, exactly, it’s me.

A good person!

Truly a great good person!

“Blood Clan members only harm humans,” the boy’s voice was soft, filled with veiled hatred, “You’ll resort to any means to achieve your goals, you’re all the same.”

“Blood Clan members drink blood, the same way humans eat meat,” Chuzheng explained calmly, “The meat that humans consume, isn’t that also a living being?”

Just because humans are intelligent and can speak, does it mean that the Blood Clan’s hunting is abominable?

What about humans hunting animals?

When humans exterminate animals, how are they different from the Blood Clan?

In the eyes of animals, humans are equally monstrous.

Because animals can’t speak, can’t protest the harm they suffer, humans feel like they’ve done nothing wrong.

Chuzheng’s gaze lowered, “We’re just different species.”

The boy clenched his fists, his fingernails digging into his palms, as if a storm was brewing in his eyes.

After a moment, he asked, “If you say you’re a good person, can you let me go?”

Chuzheng spoke with an unclear meaning, “Do you really want to leave like this?”

The young man pursed his lips, “We were never on the same path to begin with.”

With an indifferent face, Chuzheng responded, “Then go.”

She stood up, looking down at him from above.

The young man was stunned for a moment.

Was she… really letting him go just like that?

Suspicious, the young man confirmed, “Are you truly letting me leave?”

“Didn’t you say that if I let you go, you’d think of me as a good person?” Chuzheng was very calm, “You can leave now.”

“…Are you sure, young lady? If he leaves now, he will be attacked by the Blood Clan, and being attacked will lead to physical injury, which can darken his heart. Young lady, could you not be so heartless?”

Before, she swore she would never let him escape.

And now she was letting him go?

Can’t you stick to your word just once?

Chuzheng ignored the roaring from King’s Account.

The young man stood up, asking, “Can I… have my weapon back?”

“Su Li,” Chuzheng called out.

“Yep!” Su Li, chewing on a grilled fish, came trotting over.

“Give him the knife.”

The knife was without a scabbard, something Chuzheng couldn’t touch at all.

Su Ji was also from the Blood Clan, so only Su Li, a human, could keep it.

“Oh oh oh,” Su Li took out the knife.

The young man looked at Chuzheng, then at Su Li whose eyes were spinning, hesitated for a moment, and took back his own knife.

With his weapon in hand, the young man felt much more at ease in his heart.

“…Thank you.”

He murmured his thanks, then resolutely turned and walked into the dark.

“Eh, where is he going?” Su Li’s surprised voice rang out.

“Does eating not keep your mouth shut?”

“…Won’t he be in danger by himself?” Su Li’s voice was very soft.

“Mind your own business.”

“…” Why is my roommate so fierce!

The voices gradually faded away, and the young man could no longer hear any commotion behind him.

He looked back one last time, and even the light of the fire had disappeared.

That member of the Blood Clan… kept her word and really let him go.

–

Half an hour later.

Zhi Kong turned around, looking at the person following him.

She was alone; the red-haired Blood Clan member and that human were nowhere to be seen.

“Didn’t you say you’d let me go?”

Chuzheng replied righteously, “I never said I wouldn’t follow you.”

You go your way.

I follow mine.

No contradiction.

Zhi Kong: “…”

Having already experienced the shameless nature of the Blood Clan, Zhi Kong knew she wouldn’t let him off so easily. He had previously thought she was a bit different.

Turns out it was all his illusion.

The Blood Clan were all the same.

Zhi Kong didn’t look at Chuzheng, continuing to walk forward, holding his knife tightly and concentrating, not daring to be distracted.

The nocturnal jungle was quiet and eerie, enough to make a chill rise in one’s heart.

The first light of dawn appeared on the horizon, and Chuzheng hated sunlight. These days she was hardly active during the day, and if she was, she stayed deep in the forest where the canopy blocked out the sunlight.

But now, Zhi Kong was heading towards the coastline, with fewer and fewer trees around.

Zhi Kong looked up at the sunlight and quickened his pace.

The forest exit was right ahead.

He ran towards it and bathed in the sunlight, the chill in his body instantly dispersed.

The young man looked back; the girl stood under the canopy of trees, with the sunlight just touching the ground at her feet, the boundary between light and shadow clear.

As expected, she dared not come out…

But the next second, he saw Chuzheng pull out a cloak, wrap her entire body in it, and walk unhurriedly into the sunlight.

Trying to outsmart me, little thing?

No chance!