Thousand-Faced Dragon

Chapter 25 Obscene
"Who are you? Who am I?"

The ethereal voice echoed in the dark room, the blood-red eyes were empty, and there was only Rean's reflection in those out-of-focus pupils.

The golden hair that was once as bright as gold completely turned into a light silver like faded mercury, and the pink lips also dried up due to excessive dehydration.

Only the skin was still rosy, but it was too pink like a baby's skin, making it look overly fragile.

Li En's gaze made her inexplicably frightened, and she subconsciously stepped back.

The naked girl looked particularly weak at this moment.

Is she trembling? Is she afraid? Is it an instinct of life? Or is it simply because of the cold?
"You are Lena Lana." After thinking, Rean gave her a new name.

"I'm Lana, Lana, but who are you?" The girl tilted her head. She liked this name very much, as if she had heard it before.

"I'm your friend."

Rean sighed, took off his coat and handed it over.

He took a quick look and saw that her original clothes were not only too big, but had also become rags with a strong smell. No wonder she threw them aside.

The young man lowered his head and looked at the girl who was curled up like a bird, feeling helpless.

People who have completely lost their memory should have lost more. Is there something left in their body?

"Friends, what are they?"

Feeling the warmth of the fabric, the innocent girl smiled instinctively.

The sweet smile without a trace of impurity was like sunshine, shining a little stinging on Rean.

".It is a good person who will give you food, clothing and shelter."

As he said that, Li En bent down and picked him up.

It feels quite light, as if the tentacles are made of only skin and bones.

The skin was so fragile that it felt like it could tear itself apart at any time.

"do not move."

The girl did not struggle, but curled up in his arms. Perhaps it would be warmer this way.

"Warm, friend! Good!" She even reached out and touched Li En's chin.

[Species Level: Inferior Stone. Strength: 2, Stamina: 2, Agility: 2.] Rean glanced at it and saw numbers that were even more hopeless than his own.

If a girl like this is released, she will probably die within a few days.

Or to be more realistic, die in a brothel, in the bed of a nobleman.

"Let's keep it for now, at least let it have the ability to protect itself."

More than half an hour later, in Li En's living room, he asked the doctor who had just finished the examination.

"How is she?"

"The boiling blood hasn't completely subsided, but the degeneration should have just finished. Your comrade is in relatively good condition, at least without obvious disabilities or symptoms. Aside from memory loss, his behavior and thinking are normal. Many degenerates have lost their ability to move or suffer from severe mental illnesses."

This period of time was enough for Rean to make up the other party's identity.

He is a degenerate species, and so is this one. Generally speaking, degenerate species are quite rare. After all, if the injuries are serious enough, they will really die. Even if they have taken the wrong path/evolved incorrectly, it is extremely rare for them to die completely.

Basically, it can be seen as someone who is a "lucky person" who should have died but survived.

The identity that Rean fabricated for them was that both of them were originally warriors from the same team, but they encountered crises and curses and fell into degeneration.

The other party came here specifically to seek refuge with me, but he couldn't control his injuries and completely degenerated. Now even his memory has been burned out.

"Then her memory" is what Li En is most concerned about.

"It's good to be alive. The mental illnesses of degenerate species are incurable."

Hearing that most of his memories were gone, although it was a bit immoral, Rean was indeed relieved.

The doctor who was invited left with the consultation fee, but the little girl was left to be taken care of by someone else.

Fortunately, the housemaid hired by the Chamber of Commerce has arrived. If Li En really had to take care of her personally, it would not only be very embarrassing, but would probably mess things up.

At least, someone can help teach her some common sense.

"My friend, my friend, this dress is so uncomfortable to wear. I don't want to wear it."

"puff."

The white shark came out directly, and Rean, who was drinking water, spat it out.

Looking at the girl who was just wrapped in a bed sheet, Rean sighed. In the background, a maid was hurriedly chasing after him with a maid uniform.

This is really not Li En's interest.

There really was no other women's clothing in this house, so they had to make do with the maids' clothes who stayed here.

"Friend, people have to wear clothes." Li En narrowed his eyes and refused to look at anything inappropriate.

"Ms. Lana! Don't do this! Don't run away wearing only your socks!" Fortunately, the maid behind caught up in time.

Oh, it’s not that I’m wearing nothing, but wearing white silk socks is worse than wearing nothing at all!

At this moment, Li En was completely numb. He might have to consider hiring a kindergarten teacher for him.

After leaving the newly "born" girl to the Chamber of Commerce maid, Rean fled back to his room.

He thought for a moment, went into the bathroom, and returned to the world in the book.

Some things still need to be confirmed.

"Isn't this just a pure metal chain? What kind of taming device is this? Are you kidding me again?"

The iron chair, originally used to restrain the beast, was still so hard that even the brave man's sword could not cut it, but the person who restrained it had already escaped, so it was no longer meaningful.

Perhaps, when we have the resources and skills in the future, we can melt it down and make weapons and equipment. This metal that even Brother Sur is helpless against should be quite valuable.

After the degeneration, Lena's hands and feet became slender, and her body size shrank several sizes. She slid out of the iron chair directly.

And considering that the chair design only restrains the limbs, this seems to be part of the design.

He was just waiting for her to degenerate. This bondage did not require a key or mechanism to unlock it.

".Sure enough, there are no traces of the supernatural."

When Soul possessed the body before, he checked this chair and confirmed that it was a pure metal restraint. Now Rean felt around for a long time but couldn't find any hypnotic magic.

This is just an iron chair to restrain Lena, there is nothing taming about it at all.

"Taming and the newbie gift pack are really Lee Eun-su's style of pranks."

Li En sighed. Like Brother Sur, he hated Li Ensu more and more.

However, at this moment, when he touched the light red gem in his hand, he felt warm all over, and he understood more and more about this overly horrifying "newbie gift package".

"I'm afraid if I absorb it, I'll be free from this crippled physical condition."

Perhaps, this was designed from the very beginning as a tonic to make up for one's own shortcomings.

The room where Lena was originally imprisoned now only has an empty chair, which can be used as a warehouse. The remaining "degraded materials" are all wrapped in rags, and there are quite a lot of them.

The tip of the broken tail still had burn marks from burning embers, and the three golden claws were incredibly hard. The ball emitted a strange black light, and when it was placed, it seemed to be plundering light. Although there were some small things here and there, these three were obviously the most abnormal.

Whenever Rean touched any of them, he would feel a strong discomfort, as if they were highly radioactive and could kill him.

“None of this will ever see the light of day.”

Rean has already found out that the species of the brave Lena is "Arvak", a very powerful evolved species, which means the fiery war lion of the sun god.

After the disintegration of this unique quasi-mythical species, its materials contain more or less essential power.

This is a highly dangerous radioactive substance, and only evolved species on the same path can use it safely.

If it is put up for sale, there is a possibility that it will be deduced to be Lena.

However, this bag of red gems, as calm as ice and as red in color as blood, should be the hero's blood that Long Shou mentioned.

Touching them, Rean could feel his body's instinctive desire.

Perhaps, this is the reason for the "Newbie Gift Pack". According to someone's design, if you successfully sneak into this city and wait patiently for a while, you can use them to replenish your fragile body.

According to Rean's personality, he would not use the Heroic Soul Card so early under normal circumstances. He should be able to wait until Lena can no longer hold on and get the novice gift pack.

Then, once the body is replenished, it will be easy to find a job or something. However, the two novice thieves and the black shop completely disrupted the original plan.

Li En still shook his head. It was pointless to think about these things. No matter what he wanted to do, at least he had to be confident in his own strength.

If we really have to face the possible mastermind, at least he should be better than the distressed Lena.

"Or, just lie down." It seemed a bit too difficult.

With a helpless self-deprecating smile, Rean returned to the house.

But when he opened the door, he was stunned.

The girl was waiting for him outside.

Watching him come out, smiling sweetly.

"Friend, friend, Asha (the maid) said that you will be very happy if you wear this, is that true?"

The dress is mainly black, paired with a white apron, white cuffs and a white scarf. The ordinary maid outfit with a strong black and white contrast, when worn by a young girl, has a rare purity and liveliness.

Maybe the original owner thought it was too plain, so she embroidered various cute cat heads on the lace, neckline, and hem, with lace patterns showing smiling, angry, or making faces.

The girl tilted her head and lifted her skirt as the maid instructed.

But because she was not used to the round-toed black leather shoes under the skirt, she almost fell down.

Li En supported her, but what he got was a sweet and silly smile that was too pure.

Those black cat ears were twitching. Wait, why are there cat ears?!

"It's not good to always let that ear show. I happen to have a fake ear here." The maid behind hurriedly explained.

With this curious look in his eyes, Li En touched it and found that it was indeed a cloth headdress.

As for why in a world where everyone has animal ears, there are still fake cat ears?
Well, the evil feudal lords always want to change their taste and try something new. Although rabbit ears are good, cat ears are not bad either.

But little Lana was still a little uncomfortable, and she kept subconsciously tilting her head and shaking it, as if she wanted to get rid of the thing on her head.

Looking at the "cute little maid" in front of him, Rean silently looked up at the sky.

Well done, Asha (maid), give you a raise!
"The silver-haired, red-eyed cat-eared maid actually exists. I suddenly feel like there's hope for my time-travelling life again."

Ahem, putting aside all the trivial things, Li En noticed that after a few minutes, the girl started shaking again.

"Cough cough cough." The girl started coughing again, obviously feeling a little uncomfortable.

The inferior stone-level species level is not simply due to low basic attributes, but rather the downward deterioration of the normal flesh of the beastman at the original stone level. In simple terms, the whole body is fragile in all aspects, and most of them are weak and sickly and most likely to die young.

Li En sighed, and under the maid's subtle gaze, took her directly back to her room.

He took out a blood-colored gem and placed it close to her body. After a while, there was no reaction. It was completely different from the slightly glowing and hot feeling when it was on his body.

It seems that the degenerates that Long Shou mentioned cannot use their own "materials", which also includes universal materials such as hero's blood.

"Perhaps, we should spend some money to find her a private teacher and doctor." The doctor before also said that the degenerated species needed long-term care, and hinted that although he could not handle it, he could provide the contact information of more powerful doctors or even pastors.

Well, just give money.

"It's hard. Let's wait for the rent to arrive. Tsk, my salary is gone too."

Li En did not go to work today, partly because of this little accident, and partly because he was fired.

Just this morning, a sudden order from a high-ranking police officer was delivered to the task force.

Not to mention Li En, who was kicked out of the consultant position before even receiving his weekly salary for a week, even the task force was affected and had to stop operating for a few days.

It seems that someone above is dissatisfied with Rean for disrupting the "order" in the dock area.

"Such a quick reaction, it seems that the interests of certain people have been affected. Could it be that the report was filed by those corrupt police officers?"

Rean didn't care at all, as this was within his expectations. However, Talia was extremely angry and ran over to curse for a long time after receiving the order.

Rean could see that she was trying more to comfort herself, but as they talked, it turned out that Rean, who had let go of things, was the one comforting her.

"Don't worry, if nothing unexpected happens, the task force will be restarted soon." At this time, there was no need for Li En to act anymore.

"I hope so. Hey, sometimes I really feel that the greatest pressure in this job never comes from my opponents. Hey, this is your new maid."

At some point, little Lana came over again, and seemed like a newborn cub, very attached to Rean the first person she saw.

"No, she is my comrade, a former comrade."

"what?!"

Lana's presence instantly distracted her attention and anger.

After hearing Rean's "introduction" of the identity of her former comrade, she imagined the difficult crusade against evil and the price it cost, and she was very moved and hugged Lana, comforting this poor girl who lost everything for justice.

When faced with Rean's request to get Lana an ID, she agreed immediately.
"You're too trusting." He was so gullible that he believed half of the story, which made Rean feel a little embarrassed.

He also wove a long story about how Lana had held on all the way, sneaking into the city before finally giving in and starting to degenerate, but there was no need to finish the story.

Even the resolute look in her eyes when she left made Li En a little worried that she would go to extremes and explode.

If he heard in a couple of days that she ran to criticize her superior and was fired directly, Li En would not be surprised at all.

Having her help also made Rean feel relieved. At least she agreed to help get some normal women's products and clothes, and she could also personally teach Lana not to run around naked.

"Ding Dong."

As soon as Talia left, another visitor arrived.

Then, the lady who was brought in by the visitor made Li En a little unbearable.

"I, I came to see you. I heard that you were fired." The ex-fiancée, Ms. Sallyman Sudar, the current executor of the honey trap, was obviously not professional enough, and her lines were not read professionally.

Especially when the next moment, a silver-haired girl wearing only a bed sheet ran past behind Rean.

The poker face she had managed to put on collapsed on the spot.

"Dirty!!"

(End of this chapter)