Chapter 351 Similar Flowers
Chapter 351 Similar Flowers
Compared with the upgraders who feed ghosts directly with their bodies, the granters who borrow the power of evil spirits indirectly have many advantages: they often do not need to bear the cost of the backlash of the rules, and there is no life-and-death struggle over the core rules among the upgraders, because they have not embarked on the spiral upward "road to upgrade" from the beginning.
It is precisely because of the existence of this core contradiction between the spiral nature of the path to advancement and the flaws in the rules that, for a long time, apart from the aristocratic clans that rely on blood ties to connect with each other, it has been difficult for the upgraded people who are suspicious of each other to form large-scale organizations.
Those who are granted the status will not have such worries. As the saying goes, when the granaries are full, people will know etiquette. Without evil spirits chasing their lives, they can naturally maintain relative decency for a long time.
However, the way the granters indirectly use the rules is not perfect. For example, at this moment, in front of Lan Shiwen, who was acting unintentionally, they exposed their biggest weakness.
——weak.
In front of the 'absolute' power of the Ascended One who feeds ghosts with his own body, the Granter is too weak.
If mortals are no different from ants when facing the weirdness, then the person who grants the power holding the granting tool has at best evolved a little more formic acid than mortals.
Is there a threat, of course? But it's not that big of a threat. The means that granters have are at most used to bully mortals who are also ants. When facing serious upgraders, especially top upgraders like Lan Shiwen, they really have no power to fight back.
Tradition wins!
Xia Yubing watched Lan Shiwen walk to the center of the room, put a gun to Pédang's head and confiscated all the remaining empowering props on him. Then another shortcoming of the empowered was exposed - their power was highly dependent on external objects, and once they were disarmed, they would be nothing.
After doing all this, Lan Shiwen turned his gaze to Ji Boying who was leisurely drinking tea at the side.
"Except for this set of clothes, I have nothing on me." Ji Boying said with a smile.
"Then take off your clothes." Lan Shiwen said lightly.
Ji Boying was stunned for a moment, then he shook his head with a wry smile, took off his coat, unbuttoned the off-white vertical collared linen shirt he was wearing, folded it in half, and handed it to Lan Shiwen: "I still can't hide it from you."
"Thank you for your cooperation. I hope you will continue to cooperate in the future." Lan Shiwen nodded. The two spiders straightened their pale spines and crawled along the trouser legs to Pétain and Ji Boying. The open ribs were like the eight legs of a spider, holding the two tightly in their arms, and their cold lips were pressed against his ears.
Ignoring the pain of his ribs piercing his chest, Pétain stared with wide eyes at Maryline, who was sitting on the sofa with her head down and not saying a word, her eyes full of disbelief.
Lan Shiwen did not attack Meilin.
"So it was you. You actually betrayed us..." Petain gritted his teeth and said, "Why? What benefits did the people of Kyushu give you to make you betray the family that gave birth to you and raised you?"
Meilin still kept her head down and said nothing.
Lan Shiwen put the pistol behind his waist without saying a word, and used his free hand to punch Pétain in the lower abdomen. The severe pain made his face pale and his facial features distorted.
"If you have anything to say, you can tell me later, my friend. I am happy to chat with you." Lan Shiwen patted Pétain's face and put away the props on the table one by one, leaving only two bronze mirrors numbered 3 and 7.
After doing all this, Lan Shiwen said indifferently, "See you later," and left the room with the two people who were bound by the snake.
As the door was clicked shut, the long snake of human bones covering the ground receded like the tide, leaving behind only three bloody headless skeletons with their flesh eaten away, and a mess of cups and plates on the floor.
Xia Yubing finally heaved a sigh of relief and collapsed on the sofa, still terrified, "What was that just now? It was too weird..."
A pale dead head, with a snake-like white spine with bloodshot underneath, and ribs baring their teeth and claws like spider legs. The sight of it made her feel physically uncomfortable. It was even more sinister than the stone statues in Zanju Town.
"That thing is called a snake. It's what a person turns into after dying again."
Ning Zhe flapped his wings and landed on the sofa, returning to his original form. His eyes fell on the two bronze mirrors turned upside down on the table.
Sensing Ning Zhe's arrival, Meilin raised her head abruptly, staring at him with bloodshot eyes: "I did what you said, I did everything you said, what about Miss? Can you really save her? You better not lie to me, Jiuzhou people, can you really save her from that state of being a walking corpse?"
Xia Yubing was stunned: "What is she talking about..." Ning Zhe picked up the bronze mirror numbered '3' and played with it as if nothing had happened. He said slowly: "Whether I can save her or not, and to what extent I can save her, does not depend on me, but on you."
Meilin slammed her hands on the table: "What do you mean?!"
"Literally." Ning Zhe put the bronze mirror upside down on the table again and said with a smile: "You are so anxious that you are willing to sell out your accomplices to make this deal with me. This shows that the girl named Plumeria is very important to you, and not ordinary important. So... what is your relationship?"
"It has nothing to do with you!" Meilin gritted her teeth and said, "I don't want to talk to you about these things. Can you fulfill your promise?"
"I've already said that this doesn't depend on me, but on you." Ning Zhe shook his head and said, "Answer my question first. What is your relationship with Plumeria? How much do you know about her?"
Meilin was about to slam the table, but then she heard Ning Zhe say, "This is directly related to whether your young lady can come back and how much she can come back, so I urge you to answer solemnly."
Hearing this, Meilin, who was like a female leopard just now, immediately stopped and her whole mood became depressed: "I watched her grow up."
Ning Zhe raised his eyebrows slightly: "Go on."
Xia Yubing also sat next to Ning Zhe with a look of excitement on her face.
Seeing that he seemed determined not to give up until he got an answer, Marylin, who was worried about Plumeria's safety, had to suppress her anxiety and tell the story:
Meilin is the daughter of a maid, which is the illegitimate daughter of a big family that is common in novels, but her father is not a noble, but a son-in-law of a foreign family who married into the Flim Misret family. Therefore, as an illegitimate daughter, she not only has no bloodline and inheritance rights of the Flim Misret family, but is also hostile and disgusted by her father's wife, and she almost died in an accident shortly after she was born.
If it weren't for her father's secret protection, she probably wouldn't have lived to adulthood.
As far as Meilin knew, her father was a cannon fodder criminal who was thrown into a strange incident to test the rules. He was doomed to die, but with his strong psychological quality, thinking ability, and some luck, he managed to survive the strange incident, mastered the rules and became an ascender, so he was absorbed into the family by the Frimmisret family as a son-in-law.
It was precisely because of her status and value as an upgraded person that her father, as a son-in-law, was able to have a certain say in the family and worked hard to protect her, an illegitimate daughter with no family blood, allowing her to grow up in difficulty under the scrutiny of many different eyes.
The price was that the maid who gave birth to her disappeared forever.
In 2003, when Marylin was 12 years old, her father's wife, the noble lady from a wealthy family, gave birth to a daughter. She was her half-sister, a legitimate daughter of a noble family: Plumeria Frimmisret.
"I don't know if it was out of the lady's bad taste or my father's own considerations, but I was arranged to be with the young lady as a personal servant. From the day she was born, I was responsible for taking care of her daily life. We ate and lived together every day, and we were inseparable no matter what we did. It is still the same until now."
"Later, my father died due to the backlash of the rules, and the ghosts he controlled during his lifetime were also imprisoned. After losing my father's protection, I thought that the lady would get rid of me, or at least expel me from the family. After all, she never liked me. But to my surprise, my sister liked me very much. When she heard that she was going to separate from me, she cried in front of our mother. The lady was very cold to outsiders, but she doted on her own daughter, so I stayed."
“She doesn’t know I’m her sister, but she’s my most important sister.”
Meilin thought for a moment and said, "Maybe this is why my father sent me to the young lady?"
"That girl named Plumeria grew up beside me. I know all her preferences. I understand all her likes and dislikes, including her favorite colors, music, and clothing styles... I mean, everything. I know everything about her."
Ning Zhe nodded with satisfaction: "Very good answer, then... congratulations, she will come back."
And it will come back complete.
As for whether it is the real person who comes back, or a similar flower, that is a philosophical question.
Ning Zhe hates philosophy. He thinks philosophers are all nitpickers.
(End of this chapter)