Trafford’s Trading Club

Chapter 1342: Chapter 69: [Calamity] (12)

In the pale blue dwelling, gradually everyone began to sit around, forming an incomplete circle… Luo Qiu’s voice seemed to carry a peculiar magic.

But he just spoke as usual, and unknowingly, before everyone’s eyes, appeared to slowly unfold some image-like scenes… the past of those who once lived in this corpse pit.

The girl nestled beside Norman, unknowingly hugged her knees, resting her chin, her eyes unblinking, seemingly drawn into the contents of this diary.

The words written on this unknown beast-skin diary were very fine, requiring the use of fingers to guide them line by line to avoid dizziness. Perhaps, when writing these words, the diary’s owner was stooped over an oil lamp, meticulously, cherishing the moment.

His voice, like a mountain stream flowing, tinkling, tinkling.

“On the 820th day, something wondrous happened; it was the first time I did something with Bixisi that I’ve never attempted before. I don’t know why I did it; it… seemed like an instinct. I’ve never learned this knowledge, even at the Farm; we were never taught these things. But naturally, I kissed Bixisi’s lips, feeling my heart pounding splendidly; the blood seemed to boil crazily… I knew Bixisi felt the same. I tried to unbutton her clothes, and could even feel my hands trembling…”

The voice suddenly stopped… as everyone turned to look at the interruption of the story, Boss Luo blinked and said, “Hmm… let’s skip this part, shall we?”

“Continue, continue!” Miss Witch instinctively urged.

“Hmm… I have no objections.” The Golden Dragon said indifferently… what kind of diary is this? It’s practically an adult novel—Watching a beauty read an adult novel can’t be stopped, of course, it must go on!

Luo Qiu smiled, indifferent to these so-called awkward matters, and his voice grew softer, his fingers once again traversing the petite characters.

“I kissed her lips, and Bixisi began to respond to me. I started exploring her skin with my hands, and seemingly in response, her hands also caressed my body… as if unconsciously, as if eagerly. I could hear her panting, like the sound of piano keys, from pianissimo to fortissimo. My body began to undergo some change, leaving me at a loss… I’ve never experienced something like this before. Yet, I felt as if I were serving the noble Aristocrats in the castle, their fangs piercing into my body, that feeling as if suspended in air. It was then Bixisi suddenly reached out and held my…”

Reading up to here, Boss Luo paused, then slightly opened his lips, emitting a soft “ah” sound.

Not a sound of surprise or horror… merely akin to a groan.

At this moment, as everyone turned towards this soft “ah,” Luo Qiu smiled and said, “That’s what it says… shall we continue?”

“Continue! Continue!”

The Golden Dragon urged with an earnest tone, inexplicably starting to rub its nose.

Miss Witch instinctively swallowed… the Maid was composed, yet presumably, she was the most attentive listener among them.

Norman remained unchanged, not knowing when both eyes had closed once more… Mina maintained her initial state, appearing focused, occasionally showing confusion, seemingly not understanding what the diary described.

“Then I’ll continue,” Boss Luo resumed moving his fingers, “Bixisi’s body began undergoing changes that frightened me; she often vomited and couldn’t eat…”

“Wait!!” The Golden Dragon suddenly interrupted, “How did you suddenly skip? And skipped so much?”

“I mentioned before, this diary’s content was incomplete from the start,” Boss Luo lifted the beast-skin diary to show the numerous worn-out and moth-eaten places with a large gap in the middle.

“…continue,” the Golden Dragon said disappointedly.

Mina, on the other hand, seemed intrigued and suddenly asked softly, “Sir, what happened to Bixisi? Why was she uncomfortable?”

“Having done such things, she’s obviously pregnant!” Miss Witch rolled her eyes, “Shouldn’t even need to ask… Bixisi was having a baby!”

“Ah…” The girl instantly covered her lips with a finger, shyly saying, “Oh right! They kissed! The Supervisor said, kissing leads to having babies… it’s not allowed.”

“Thirteen Clans, huh…” The Golden Dragon suddenly sneered… it had already roughly understood the girl’s origin from Maria.

The girl once more eagerly turned her gaze to Boss Luo, seemingly curious about what happened next. Luo Qiu smiled and continued reading.

“…born a small life. We were unprecedentedly happy for the arrival of this small life, and yet… at a loss. A companion said, under such circumstances, raising this small life was incredibly difficult. But… this was a child between Bixisi and me, how could I abandon it…”

“…Unaware, many female companions also began experiencing symptoms like Bixisi, vomiting and their bellies swelling! I knew, aside from Bixisi and me, other companions did the same thing! Small lives would gradually increase in number, and those opposing voices seemingly stopped.”

Joy seemed to flow with Luo Qiu’s voice into everyone’s heart… perhaps the joy came from the diary itself, but in this desolate, gloomy, and difficult environment, the people who once lived here genuinely felt unprecedented happiness from new life being born.

Luo Qiu’s voice suddenly became low… like a sudden sforzando note.

The story took a sharp turn.

“…I, I personally killed my child! I personally killed my child! I personally killed my child! It… it was a monster! It was a monster!! All the children became monsters… killed them, all killed them… what did we do wrong.”

“Wait, what happened?” Miss Witch exclaimed in surprise, “What did they do?”

Luo Qiu quickly scratched a few lines on the animal skin with his finger, and then slowly said: “It seems that these children, when they are one or two years old, exhibit a strong aggression… Hmm, it mentioned bloodsucking here. Perhaps some mutation has made these born lives possess an instability between human and bloodsucker. Then the people here killed all these little lives and buried their bodies.”

“Mutation?” The Golden Dragon frowned, twirling the long hair in front of him with his fingers and pondering: “It shouldn’t be. The human species in the Thirteen Clans [Farm] have basically been domesticated since ancient times. After the [Non-Human Domain] was established, they were also moved in from the present world… According to the nature of the Thirteen Clans, they would definitely try their best to keep these ancients pure, so how could they allow such a mutant gene to appear.”

“Could it be because of living in such an environment?” Maria fell into deep thought.

The Maid, however, unbeknownst to anyone, picked some blue algae, rubbed it gently between her fingers, and also tried to sniff the scent emanating from the crushed algae.

“It’s because they’ve been consuming these algae that grow here for a long time.” Norman suddenly opened his eyes at this time and said calmly: “Later, we studied these algae, they contain substances similar to the [Noble Factor]. After the campaign, the [crops] recovered had quite a lot deposited on them and were later unusable.”

Unusable… What happens after becoming unusable, Norman didn’t continue, but what might happen next is pretty clear.

As a human, Maria remained silent at this time… She looked at the bewildered Mina, noticing her lack of resistance to Norman’s constant reference to [crops], and couldn’t help but feel a bit sad inside.

Wanting to say something… really wanting to say something, yet unable to open her mouth.

“So what happened next, sir?” Mina asked curiously at this moment.

Luo Qiu continued reading: “… I really want to see Bixisi, I really want to see Bixisi. But it’s forbidden, I don’t know what to do.”

He paused for a moment, then raised his head and said: “It seems that after that, they began to restrict contact between the sexes, with men and women living separately, and only interacting when distributing food. But even then, the parties involved needed to cover their entire bodies and couldn’t even speak. Because they feared that contact with the opposite sex would make them unable to resist doing that pleasurable thing again, leading to the birth of monsters… Subsequently, some suicides or instances of madness began to appear, and the population began to decrease again.”

Maria smiled wryly: “In this ghostly place, with no guarantees for tomorrow, absolutely celibate, and especially at a time when these humans are first tasting the forbidden fruit, at their most eager… It’s no wonder they went mad. The sexual repression is truly terrifying… I think someone surely couldn’t stand it and started meeting in secret.”

“Miss Maria seems to know a lot.” Boss Luo smiled and then said: “The author of this diary did indeed break the rules among his peers afterwards… He and Bixisi started secretly meeting, each time choosing a spot rarely visited by their peers, doing what they considered pleasurable things.”

“Tsk! Men.” The Golden Dragon sneered: “Indeed creatures that think with their lower halves! So I… ahem! No need to guess, probably this pair of adulterers created another monster. And at this time, the woman surely overflowed with maternal instinct, secretly giving birth to the child, eventually leading to disaster!”

“Actually, no,” Boss Luo said casually: “The diary’s owner was always very careful with contraception… It’s written here, to prevent the tragedy from repeating.”

“This man at least… has a bit of conscience,” the Golden Dragon shook his head.

“However, it did indeed lead to disaster.” Luo Qiu then continued: “The incident between the diary’s owner and Bixisi was exposed, and due to violating the rules, they were exiled by their peers.”

“And then?” Miss Witch blinked.

Luo Qiu shook his head: “The diary stops there… it should have been left by the diary’s owner before he was exiled.”

The Golden Dragon said rather uninterestedly: “The things in this place, although not remarkable, with only these ordinary human species, losing their shelter… the outcome is predictable. Probably the two skeletons on the way belong to them, right? If they were found embracing each other, it would even seem a bit romantic.”

“I wonder what the people living here have turned into next.”

The one asking was Mina, who listened attentively to this piece of history… at this moment she wasn’t looking at Luo Qiu, but at Norman beside her.

He simply said calmly, “The events with the diary’s owner probably happened not long before we came to exterminate this place, because the humans we brought back from here were still quite young at that time, generally between thirty to forty years old.”

At this point, Norman paused, then said calmly: “When we reached here according to what the escapee said, the humans here were almost in a state of rampant indulgence, scenes of mating could be seen everywhere. Perhaps if we had arrived a little later, they might have gone extinct.”

The topic seemed to fall into an abrupt silence… after a while, to lighten the atmosphere, Miss Witch started telling some rather cold jokes—probably a skill that people with British nationality naturally possess.

Everyone had their own thoughts.

Boss Luo had nothing more to say, only handing the animal skin diary to the Maid, letting her put it away.

This was one of her master’s hobbies, always liking to collect some little objects.

The two of them exchanged a smile, naturally understanding each other’s meaning—this small eye contact naturally stirred a little jealousy in the Golden Dragon, but it maintained its composure and elegance.

The Maid pretended not to see, acted as if she didn’t know, casually glanced at the animal skin diary, but her gaze stayed on the last line, the last sentence.

This was something her master hadn’t read out in front of everyone.

—Norman, the final words.

The Maid said nothing, only gently rolled up the animal skin diary, thoughtfully fastened it with a handkerchief, tied a delicate bow, and then put it away.