Chapter 854 - 853: Clues Becoming Clear

Chapter 854: Chapter 853: Clues Becoming Clear

To be honest, watching the vampire girl in front of him pull that thing out of her body gave Yu Sheng a bit of PTSD—it mainly reminded him of some unpleasant experiences, and he instantly felt his heart drop cold...

The reaction from the Little Puppet next to him was even more direct. Erin immediately jumped up on the spot: "Oh my gosh, what the hell did you just pull out—"

Miss Hu Li was also startled, with her large tail behind her exploding into a massive fluffy ball, her whole body puffing up like she just came out of a dryer. Even Luna, standing behind Yu Sheng, seemed calm but suddenly emitted some noises from within.

Yu Sheng felt unwell all over, instinctively covering his chest with one hand while pointing at the other: "You, you, what is this..."

"Sorry," Red expressed an apology, but didn’t have any intention to put that thing back inside her body. Instead, she directly placed her heart on the table, "But I think it’s necessary for you to see—this is my heart, its appearance is as you see."

The calmest on the scene, besides Baili Qing, was probably Lucrecia. The Star Sea Witch just slightly raised her eyebrows in surprise and focused her gaze on Red: "Doesn’t it hurt?"

"No pain," Red responded with a calm expression, "I often take it out to inspect it."

Yu Sheng, nearby with trembling pupils, recalled the scenes of himself frequently dying in various postures. For a moment, he didn’t dare spit complaints and had to force himself to focus on the table—his gaze moved back and forth between the two "hearts" for a long time before finally speaking with a subtle expression: "...almost identical."

"So what’s going on?!" By this time, Erin had calmed down too. The Little Puppet blinked her big eyes wide open, "Not that you can take this out, I won’t say anything, but why does your heart look like this? Why does it look exactly like the ’Moon Heart’ that fell out of that little moon?!"

"This is exactly what I want to ask," Red responded calmly, although her tone carried a genuine confusion, "I was just as shocked as you when I saw this ’Moon Heart.’"

Yu Sheng frowned tightly, pondering for a few seconds before asking: "Are all other vampires’ hearts like this?"

"Now I am the only ’vampire’ left," Red said slowly, "As for how my other clansmen’s hearts looked back then... Sorry, I have no knowledge of that either. I’ve been alone since I can remember."

While Yu Sheng and Red were conversing, Erin jumped onto the table again, ran straight to the ’Vampire Heart’ entangled with bright red thorns, furrowed her little face while staring for a long time, then suddenly looked up with an expression of horror: "Hey, damn it, this thing isn’t beating..."

"It is beating, but very slowly," Red explained patiently, "It usually beats once every seven days—and if it’s in a dormant state, it will only beat once a year."

Erin widened her eyes in shock: "Then why do you carry it around?"

Red’s expression finally turned a bit subtle: "Where else can it be?"

"Leave it at home, you won’t need it anyway..."

Red surprisingly started seriously explaining to this silly puppet: "If it gets lost, it’ll be very troublesome."

Erin: "Ah, that’s true..."

Yu Sheng listened to their increasingly absurd conversation by the side, and finally couldn’t hold back: "Cough, cough, can we talk about the main business first? Erin, you should come back about now."

The Little Puppet then wandered back, while Hu Li had been furrowing her brows since just now. She suddenly spoke: "If we say the little moon we saw contains a ’Vampire Heart,’ could it mean... the so-called ’Little Moon’ is transformed from a vampire? Or perhaps Red’s clansmen in the Hometown World were distorted into that form..."

She paused here, gently shaking her large tail behind her: "After all, we’ve seen quite a few similar things already. The ’old version’ of the Boundary Land is essentially a kind of Wandering Ark formed by Dark Angel clusters, and the remnants here can mutate into who knows what."

"This possibility is high," Yu Sheng nodded gently, raising a hand to rub his temples hard, "Anything related to Dark Angels is always so absurd... But if it’s true, doesn’t that mean the moon we killed was Red’s kin?"

His tone turned a bit awkward at this point. Although he knew, given the situation at the time, anyone would have no other choice, he still cast an apologetic glance at Red.

But clearly, the longtime Boundary Affairs figure wasn’t one to misconstrue such pedantic matters—Red simply shook her head gently, her answer evidently long understood.

"The ’lighthouse’ you mentioned, I haven’t seen, but I’ve been entangled with a nightmare of a church and town ruins for thousands of years. I know what the blood moon parasitic inside the Moonlight Church looks like... Insane, depraved, blind like a beast.

"If this is my kin’s end, I can only say death as a release is already their best outcome."

"Oh, right, you still have a Moonlight Church in your dream haunting you," Erin also recalled this, sitting cross-legged on the table while pondering," Next time Yu Sheng and I will try to solve that thing too, and see if the little moon inside the church also has a similar heart. Perhaps it will clarify many things..."

Yu Sheng didn’t speak immediately; he just frowned slightly, staring at the ’Moon Heart’ on the table entangled in pale thorns, lifeless. He still felt he had overlooked something, but couldn’t think of it for the moment.

Dark Moon Royal Court... Kill the moon... Heart... Blood Moon...

The red moonlight that covered the entire land quietly surfaced in his memory, and he recalled the dream he and Erin had experienced before, remembering the eerie ruins of a small town, and that giant Blood Moon hanging in the sky, enlarging with the progression of the dream, eventually almost obscuring the entire sky.

"...The largest moon?"

Yu Sheng suddenly became serious, asking in a solemn tone.

"The largest moon?" Erin didn’t react immediately, but she soon blinked, as if she understood what Yu Sheng meant.

"The largest one, the one hanging in the sky," Yu Sheng adjusted his sitting posture, leaning slightly forward, "the ’small moons’ we saw are parasitized in the church and lighthouse, they seem to be some kind of twisted mutated products - they may indeed have been Red’s kin before they mutated. But what is the source of all this? Erin, you should remember, in that small town ruin, there was a real moon in the sky."

Erin slowly widened her eyes, the little Puppet tilted her head, revealing an enlightened expression in her thoughts: "Ah! So, so that biggest moon in the sky..."

Yu Sheng: "Yes, that biggest moon in the sky."

Erin: "Must have a huge heart?"

Yu Sheng: "..."

He felt he shouldn’t have expected this silly Puppet to have a brain from the beginning.

"I mean, whether it’s the Moonlight Church or the ’small moon’ in the lighthouse, they are essentially some kind of derivatives. The Blood Moon we saw in the sky should be the source of all aberrations - it might also be the real reason for the abnormal area appearing in the depths of the forest this time. To be bold, the weird slumbering state of the Tree Angel might also be related to that thing."

"Then you should have said that earlier, I understand now," Erin nodded vigorously, "so when we go into that ’nightmare’ next time, should we fire at the sky? Or take the silly fox in and find a way to launch you to the moon..."

"No, you said it was a dream, it shouldn’t be the main body, the real main body..."

Yu Sheng paused as he said that, slightly raised his head and looked in a certain direction, his gaze seemingly penetrating the roof of the makeshift hut, looking over the vast forest at that Mirror Rift standing over the Forest Sea.

Then a pair of illusory eyes floated down from mid-air, Baili Xue bumped into Yu Sheng’s head twice, pointing with her gaze in another direction of the hut: "Hey, hey, the rift is over here."

Yu Sheng expressionlessly withdrew his gaze, then looked in the direction Baili Xue pointed, maintaining a deep and serious expression while quietly gritting his molars and muttering: "...I don’t have eyes like your sister, next time in such a situation, don’t speak."

Baili Xue: "I didn’t speak, I don’t even have a mouth."

Yu Sheng: "..."

He took a gentle breath, struggling to keep his expression, then awkwardly coughed twice and shifted the topic dryly: "Ahem, in any case, we now have a general direction, we have an idea about the source of the small moons, the next step is to consider entering that Mirror Rift."

"Yes, I’m here for that," Red nodded, "I checked that rift a couple of days ago, the ’mirror structure’ on the surface of the rift does indeed have some connection with my power, but I need some time to decrypt its encryption rules... Don’t worry, it won’t take too long."

"Alright, but can you put this thing away right now?" Erin suddenly interjected, pointing to the Vampire Heart still placed on the table, "Leaving this thing here is kind of creepy, you know!"

Red paused for a moment, as if suddenly remembering, then picked up her heart, cutting a rift on her chest again while stuffing the heart back in: "Ah, sorry, I almost forgot..."

Yu Sheng was now truly convinced, if this Vampire Lady wasn’t always carrying her heart, she might really lose it...

Sitting nearby, Hu Li suddenly asked out of curiosity, "Isn’t it dirty to leave the heart outside for so long, and directly on the table?"

Red, adjusting the heart’s position in her chest, waved her hand: "It’s okay, I’ll just wash it when I get back..."

Yu Sheng’s expression didn’t change much at this point, he just silently watched this scene, shocking elsewhere, but perfectly normal in Boundary Land, after a while, he slightly turned his head and muttered to Lucrecia:

"I’ll tell you, Boundary Land is a place full of unique talents..."

Star Sea Witch: "Indeed, I can see that."