Chapter 44: Peace?

“We can set a time limit. During this period, in your words, I am willing to be under your control, and I will provide information to help you eliminate those of my kind who advocate violence.”

Faced with such sincerity, Chen Fengshi could not deny her words.

This was almost certainly true. The only thing left to guess was what she really wanted. Was she truly a bit naive, thinking they could coexist in peace for a long time?

No, Chen Fengshi found it hard to believe.

So, what did she really want?

“If you can help us eliminate two Fungal Demon Main Bodies, the agreement for peaceful coexistence is on!” After her shock, Little An made the decision very simply.

Chen Fengshi did not turn back to look at her. He did not want to show the uncoordinated disagreement between them, and he did not think he could change her decision. More importantly, he believed that Little An must also be well aware of the lack of sincerity he saw in this Fungal Demon Main Body.

The fact was obvious. Even if this Fungal Demon Main Body had ulterior motives, the basis for cooperation still existed. They could better eliminate the Fungal Demon Main Bodies, and through her, they could greatly deepen their understanding of the Fungal Demons.

But the price was that he and Little An would very likely put themselves in an irreversible desperate situation.

Once this cooperation began, at any time, this Fungal Demon could leave them dead without a burial place.

So, this was almost at the cost of risking self-sacrifice. Of course, Chen Fengshi had to think about it. He did not have such great and holy sentiments.

He did not expect that Little An actually had such great sentiments. It was so unlike her!

“Deal!” The woman with wine-red short hair happily stood up. Then, the red mist threads connected to her body suddenly accelerated for a moment, and immediately after, all of them disconnected.

On Canyue’s end, she saw the tide-like crowd surging toward the Hongye Building on the street suddenly freeze for two seconds, and then, they turned back and scattered.

“Queen, the Parasites outside have all withdrawn!” Canyue was surprised and delighted. Of course, she had been listening to the conversation the whole time. She had thoughts, but she did not dare to interrupt. One useless word cost a hundred bucks!

The woman with wine-red short hair took a long dress with a gradient color from red to black from the coat rack. After putting it on in front of them, she smiled and said, “I am very glad that we can seek a way to coexist. Let’s officially get to know each other. I am Queen Huang.”

“Fungal Demons have names too?” Little An’s tone was not friendly. She did not like Fungal Demons, and of course, she would not change her attitude because of the current situation. After saying this, she also loudly said to Canyue on the other end of the phone, “From today on, call me Empress!”

“Yes, Boss! Yes, Empress!” Canyue immediately agreed cooperatively. She was getting paid, after all. Whatever the boss liked to call herself, she would just shout it out. As long as she was happy.

Little An was very satisfied with Canyue’s cooperation. She said coldly to the Fungal Demon Main Body who called herself Queen Huang, “He is Golden Blood. As for more, I won’t let you know for now. Come with us—”

“Empress, please—” Queen Huang wore a smile and unexpectedly called Little An that very willingly.

The Empress was above, looking down at all the kings.

Queen Huang seemed unaware that this obviously upgraded title was just to suppress her. She took a few steps, and then, suddenly felt her energy draining rapidly. It was as if there were invisible vortices around her body, continuously sucking her life force outward!

Queen Huang stood there, not daring to move.

“What is this?”

“I am thinking again whether I should temporarily make a deal with the tiger as she decided, or if I should kill you right now.” Chen Fengshi pretended to be calm, maintaining his original sitting posture. He did not even turn his head to look at Queen Huang, who was standing a few meters away by the sofa.

He had said that after Queen Huang expressed her thoughts, he would decide how to deal with her, so he had to put Queen Huang in this situation right now.

The red mist on Queen Huang’s body was draining rapidly, being crazily absorbed by the golden mist released by Chen Fengshi that filled the living room.

As a result, countless red mist threads quickly connected to Queen Huang’s body one after another.

Little An watched from the side but remained silent, saying nothing.

This tacit understanding surprised Chen Fengshi, and he was also very glad, because the scariest thing in the world was having a pig for a teammate.

“Judging from this situation, it will take you at least ten minutes to kill me. Because of replenishing my losses, at least six thousand Parasites will die! Between a fight to the death and a peaceful coexistence that can avoid unnecessary casualties, is choosing the former really good?” Queen Huang did not directly fight back. She only maintained a self-protective state. She unhurriedly reached out and pressed a key on the laptop on the coffee table. The image on the monitor changed into clear videos of the residents household by household.

The people inside, whether male or female, all showed bizarre changes—they were rapidly losing weight at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if they had been cursed! Especially striking was a very fat man. His body was visibly becoming slightly fat, then standard, and then immediately becoming skinny…

“My survival energy comes from the Parasites. The more energy I lose, the more energy I need to replenish, which will lead to being forced to accelerate snatching the survival energy of the Parasites! Before I die, at least six thousand Parasites will die first—” Queen Huang’s voice became low, and even, a bit cold. Because of fear, this feeling of her life force draining rapidly made her afraid.

It was precisely because Chen Fengshi and Little An made her afraid that the current situation existed.

“First: killing you does not need as long as you think!” Chen Fengshi said, further driving the Activation of the golden mist. Thus, the speed of absorbing the red mist rapidly and continuously climbed! And this, of course, was the effect he deliberately created, just to make Queen Huang feel that his lethality was unfathomable and that it was completely impossible to predict where the limit of this climb was.

This high-speed climb made her so terrified that she could not help but consider fighting desperately for self-preservation, when the speed suddenly slowed down. It slowed down quickly, only slowing down for two seconds, and then suddenly climbed at a high speed again—quickly exceeding the previous highest point of absorbing her life!

And Chen Fengshi, at this moment, turned his head, faced her, and said coldly, “Second: in the face of life-and-death issues, if you think that the deaths and injuries of the innocent can threaten me, that is simply ridiculous!”

Queen Huang feared that state of rapid loss of life force. While thoughts of fighting back desperately to save herself kept swirling in her mind, suddenly, the loss of her life force stopped.

Without any buffer time for her to adapt, Chen Fengshi instantly retracted the golden mist, and then stood up, smiling, “You do not have any capital to bargain with me, because it is easy for me to kill you! The reason you are still alive is simply that I am more interested in the value brought by cooperation!”

Queen Huang did not speak, but the red mist threads connected to her body retracted.

Little An’s voice showed no emotion. From the two Fungal Demon Primordial Bodies she held in her hands, the extending red mist threads stretched out again, connecting to the top of Queen Huang’s head. “Since we are cooperating, the first step of sincerity is to eliminate the threat. Do not resist. I will not use a deep-level connection.”

This was a necessary insurance. Little An had thought of it long ago. This Fungal Demon Main Body was willing to use her power to clear the information in the memories of the Parasites and Demon Generals that was unfavorable to her and Chen Fengshi, which was an inevitable condition.

But this kind of connection was divided into many levels, and the Fungal Demon Main Body itself had the power to resist. Little An deliberately said that she would not use a deep-level connection, which meant she would not connect to the control system. Of course, the Fungal Demon would not have enough reason to resist, otherwise it would mean she intended to harm them.

But in reality, Little An would definitely not let the Fungal Demon know that she did not possess the ability to control connections like the Fungal Demon could…

Queen Huang was silent for a while, and then, smiled slightly, really letting those two red mist threads connect to both sides of the top of her head.

Thus, Little An, just like the way of borrowing power from the Fungal Demon Main Body, redirected the ability to use the Power of Life. Through Queen Huang, this Fungal Demon Main Body, she realized the issuing of commands to the Demon Generals and Parasites under her. This command needed the assistance of the Fungal Demon Main Body, but whether it was issued and the feedback of its execution, Little An could also clearly know at the same time the Fungal Demon Main Body received it.

The Fungal Demon Main Body did not play tricks. The relevant information was all processed, including the surveillance footage in the Hongye Building and so on… Having resolved this danger, the Fungal Demon Main Body was now under her surveillance and would not have the chance to connect information with the Parasites and Demon Generals again.

After a period of time, the Fungal Demons inside the Parasites that lost the information from the Fungal Demon Main Body would die.

Precisely because she understood all this, Little An, even though she hated Fungal Demons, was still willing to try to establish cooperation with Queen Huang. Because she knew that what Queen Huang gave was indeed the greatest sincerity.

Chen Fengshi was safe, and Little An was safe. The problem was solved, and there were unexpected gains to look forward to. Little An took the lead walking back and said, “Let’s go.”

Queen Huang then followed behind, letting Chen Fengshi walk at the very end.

Chen Fengshi actually really wanted to turn back and look more at those rapidly thinning people on the screen. He was not so great as to think of sacrificing himself, but he was not so cruel as to be completely indifferent to the situation of those people.

He just calmly knew that if he exposed his weakness in front of the Fungal Demon Main Body, he would be targeted and used. So, he had to pretend to be cold-blooded.

But in reality, he was just an ordinary person. He had times of being soft-hearted, times of sympathy… and also times of being cold and ruthless for his own survival.

Because of this, although he was walking, the photos sent by Skinny of those people in the school who became abnormally thin overnight kept flashing in his mind… He suddenly realized a fact more deeply. Little An had said he was lucky.

Yes, he was really lucky enough.

If the Fungal Demon Main Body he had solved had been a mature Fungal Demon, if what he possessed had not happened to be the Golden Power of Life.

Then, in that battle on the mountain outside the school, how many parasitized schoolmates would have had their life force sucked dry and died? Among them, would Shen Ai have been included?

Thinking of these, he became even more afraid in retrospect; thinking of these, he also realized that Little An did not talk about the truth of this matter, originally because she did not want him to feel guilty; thinking of these, he realized the coldness behind Little An’s decision to come to Hongye to deal with the Fungal Demon Main Body with him for survival, even though she clearly knew this situation.

Was Little An also just like him, both ordinary people, without holy sentiments, and without demon-like eternal cruelty?

Chen Fengshi looked at Little An’s back walking in front, and suddenly felt that she had come alive. Those cold shells seemed to be peeled off layer by layer in his eyes.