Chapter 11: The Tree is Flying

Chen Fengshi was glad that he came. If he had waited another day, how terrifying would the muscles on Liu Shuzhi’s body become? Would Sister Yao also turn into a female muscle killer?

Chen Fengshi took a deep breath and adjusted his emotions. The muscles on Liu Shuzhi’s body up the slope, as bulky as an elite bodybuilder’s, were indeed very scary. His arms were even thicker than Chen Fengshi’s thighs. Even though he knew he had superhuman strength, how would he compare to the Liu Shuzhi in front of him?

Anyway, judging from the comparison of their physiques, Liu Shuzhi’s muscles could easily crush him to death, pinch him to death, and kill him in all sorts of fancy ways!

‘Don’t be afraid. No matter how terrifying the muscles are, they are still muscles. I can even easily kick a bollard bent, so there is no need to be afraid of him!’ Chen Fengshi adjusted his emotions, suppressed his unease about Liu Shuzhi’s unknown strength, and continued walking up the slope. As he walked, he looked at Liu Shuzhi with a guessing expression and asked, “What is this situation?”

Liu Shuzhi looked at him approaching with no expression in his eyes, and instead of answering, he asked, “Have you thought it through?”

“Of course I’ve thought it through.” Chen Fengshi agreed very quickly, with a forced relaxed smile on his face, as if he had come to make peace. But in fact, he was not sure whether he could fool the red mist. By the time he spoke, he had already strode up the hillside, and only then did he realize that Sister Yao had actually changed.

Sister Yao did not have exaggerated muscles like Liu Shuzhi, but the lines of her figure were actually more curvy than before. The skin on her bare thighs and arms looked very elastic. When she suddenly opened her eyes, the muscles under her skin showed their traces with a slight effort. Although they were not bulging, they looked very tough.

Sister Yao also held two knives in her hands in a reverse grip. The shapes were different. One looked like a slightly thicker fruit knife, and the other was about the craft dagger she usually played with, decorated in a fancy way, with alternating gold and silver patterns, and a skull at the end of the hilt.

Probably because she couldn’t find more practical weapons, but these two were sharp weapons after all. Coupled with Sister Yao’s current tough body, Chen Fengshi was certainly afraid of being stabbed.

Chen Fengshi came up to find the main body of the red mist. However, the woods behind Sister Yao and Liu Shuzhi were completely covered by the red mist. The dense red light beams extending from the outside were connected to the trees covered by the red mist at different positions.

Where was the main body of the red mist? In Chen Fengshi’s eyes, the woods were full of red mist, and in the night, the depths were dark red. There were birds on the closer trees, and bugs on the leaves. These two kinds of animals did not bother each other and lived in harmony? But he didn’t think this was strange anymore, because the birds and the bugs were all covered by the red mist!

Chen Fengshi increasingly felt that the mysterious thing manipulating the red mist was too terrifying. Liu Shuzhi in front of him took a step and blocked the way, clearly not letting him continue forward.

“What is the result of your consideration?” This was asked by Sister Yao. Her eyes revealed a half-smiling emotion, lacking her usual arrogant pride. She looked much more pleasing to the eye, which made people in the mood to appreciate her originally pretty face.

“You gave me a big gift and made Shen Ai deeply grateful to me. What else can I choose? However, before officially forming an alliance, I must see your true body. At least I can’t be completely confused, and even more so, I can’t have a day in the future where you break the alliance and I still don’t know who to settle the score with, right?” Chen Fengshi continued to talk nonsense. He didn’t know if he could trick the other side. This probably depended on how much the red mist feared him.

“Using your human definition, everything you see is me. Any single one can multiply endlessly. If you can see it, you should know.” Liu Shuzhi answered in a cold tone, staring at Chen Fengshi without blinking.

‘Is this trying to get information out of me? Could it be that this monster from who knows where doesn’t know what it looks like in my eyes?’ Chen Fengshi felt there was a chance, so he slowed down his speech and said, “What I see in my eyes is yellow energy.”

“Yellow energy?” Sister Yao laughed, her expression very mocking. “If that’s the case, you have no right to talk about an alliance at all.”

“And blue energy.” Chen Fengshi continued to make things up, and thus he knew that the state of existence of the red mist might really have other ways, presenting other forms or colors.

“…” Sister Yao and Liu Shuzhi were silent for a while. Chen Fengshi didn’t know if his answer had shocked the manipulator behind them, or if his made-up story had confused and messed up the main body of the red mist.

“Every single one is me. Using your human definition, the main body you are looking for does not exist for me. You can enter the woods to check.” Sister Yao said, and Liu Shuzhi had already moved to the side, signaling Chen Fengshi to go in.

This time it was Chen Fengshi’s turn to be confused. He didn’t know if he had bluffed the red mist, or if the other side was using his trick to set a trap for him.

But he had to go in anyway. Moreover, since the red mist had intentionally blocked him just now, it meant that going in shouldn’t have greater danger. Otherwise, they would have let him in right from the start.

Chen Fengshi walked into the woods filled with red mist. When he passed by Liu Shuzhi, he secretly stayed on guard. Fortunately, the latter did not attack. Moreover, Liu Shuzhi stayed where he was, and only Sister Yao accompanied Chen Fengshi as they walked deeper.

In the dim woods, the red mist was clearly so visible, yet it didn’t seem to serve the purpose of lighting the way. It was only at this moment that Chen Fengshi suddenly realized that the way the red mist existed in his eyes was not what he had intuitively thought. So even though the red mist was clear, he still couldn’t see the ground in the forest clearly.

But Sister Yao walking beside him had a graceful gait, her hips twisting with her steps. In the faint light, one part was clear and one part was hazy, which instead made her look even more elegant and charming.

Before this moment, Chen Fengshi would only use words like slutty to define Sister Yao, so he sighed and said, “She under your control is much more attractive than usual.”

“Using human control is not appropriate. This is an emergency borrowing under abnormal conditions. Under normal conditions, I will not control the parasitized ones. When there are enough parasitized ones, even the abnormal situation of increased appetite will not exist. I have a relationship of symbiosis and coexistence with humans, not a stance of life and death.”

Chen Fengshi was very happy to know more about the red mist, but he didn’t dare to fully believe these words. He just cared a lot about the issue of control, so he puzzledly asked said, “Putting other things aside, although Sister Yao’s nickname is Public Bus, she usually wouldn’t walk in such a slutty way.”

“This human desires to walk like this, but fears others talking about her. This human’s nickname of Public Bus originated from her getting back at her first love for cheating. She deliberately rolled in the hay with her first love’s good friend, provoked a fight, and finally got her hurtful first love beaten up three times, and in the end, he was sent to a juvenile detention center for accidentally killing someone.” It was clearly Sister Yao speaking, but she was talking about herself from a third person’s perspective.

This made Chen Fengshi feel a bit creeped out, but what he cared about more was that the red mist actually knew how to say these things.

Chen Fengshi knew about Sister Yao and her first love, but he didn’t know there were these conspiracies behind it. So he remembered that Sister Yao had also actively seduced him back then. He felt a wave of fear and then a wave of relief. If he hadn’t been a silly boy who believed in love at the time, he wouldn’t have righteously rejected the temptation, and he would have been involved in the conspiracy of the killing.

His life trajectory had once been at such a crossroads… If it weren’t for the red mist, he would probably never know this truth that was bound to be sealed away by Sister Yao. However, he still soberly wondered, why was the red mist telling him this?

Could it be that it understood the human way of chatting to get closer? Or was it to make him sympathize with Sister Yao, so that he would go soft and hold back in a fight?

In just this short while, Chen Fengshi found that he had already walked out of the area of the woods filled with red mist. He looked around and found that the range of the woods affected by the red mist was not as large as he had thought. Unwilling to give up, he turned back into the area filled with red mist. Relying on the light of his phone’s flashlight to illuminate the way, he tried hard to search for anything suspicious.

“You can keep looking, but there won’t be any results. There is no such thing as a main body or true body defined in human cognition here.” Sister Yao calmly accompanied Chen Fengshi as he moved quickly through the woods.

In the area of the woods covered by the red mist, there were really no monsters, aliens, or any abnormal creatures visible to the naked eye as he had imagined.

There weren’t even more bird tracks seen in the woods, as if there were only the ones on the trees when Chen Fengshi came in.

‘This is really bad—how can I eliminate the monster if I can’t find its main body?’ The development of the situation at this moment put Chen Fengshi in a terrible position. Pretend to agree to peace to delay time? But that would do him more harm than good. It was obvious that Liu Shuzhi would become even more terrifying, and he didn’t know what Sister Yao would be transformed into by the power of the red mist.

Delaying was definitely not an option. But the blame for breaking the agreement had to be shifted to the red mist. So Chen Fengshi pretended to be angry and said to Sister Yao, “If you don’t reveal your main body, how can the peace agreement be confirmed? If you want peace, show your true body! Even if it’s from a distance, as long as you let me see it clearly and know who to look for when you go back on your word in the future, that’ll be fine.”

Sister Yao wore a faint smile on her face. It was hard to tell if it was good will or malice, and she looked a bit unpredictable. Before she could speak, Chen Fengshi suddenly heard an abnormal sound, and then the ground seemed to shake.

“What’s the situation?” Chen Fengshi was very on guard as he paid attention to his surroundings. When he shouted the question, Sister Yao shrugged and smiled, “Didn’t you want to see my main body?”

Chen Fengshi was half-believing and half-doubting. He carefully paid attention to the situation around him, and couldn’t help but picture a monster bursting out of the ground. In the red mist around him, it was as if something dangerous would rush out at any moment.

The silence did not last long. Soon heavy footsteps sounded. Chen Fengshi was secretly startled, suspecting that Liu Shuzhi was coming over, because the footsteps were too heavy. It would take someone of Liu Shuzhi’s size to make them.

“Your main body?” Chen Fengshi asked with his mouth, but remained vigilant in his heart. Sister Yao smiled without saying a word.

Suddenly, a tree flew over and crashed through the red mist!

Although Chen Fengshi was prepared and hurriedly dodged, he still didn’t have time to drop to the ground. The tree trunk sweeping through the red mist hit him. In his rush, he could only raise his palm to block it, but before he could exert any force, he was already swept off the ground by the tree. He was thrown several meters away, broke a branch as thick as a forearm, and then fell to the ground.

Chen Fengshi only felt dizzy and his vision went black. Then, the scene before his eyes became as chaotic as colorful sand being quickly stirred in water. His consciousness was blurry and his senses were dull, but he didn’t forget that he was in a dangerous place at the moment. He tried his best to attempt to run. No matter where he ran, he absolutely could not just stand still!

When his feet moved, the scene in his field of vision was like the sand and water stopping their stirring. The moment he could see roughly, he only saw the muscle-killer-like Liu Shuzhi holding a tree that was twice as thick as his thigh. He had probably missed the hit and was beside him, and then changed to a horizontal sweep, knocking him flying to the side again…

‘This guy actually pulled up a tree to use as a weapon!’