Chapter 613 – The Reason for Eating You (1/2)
Chapter 613 – The Reason for Eating You
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
The girl's appearance was like a painting, her beauty peerless, a newly-bloomed black lotus. Yet her eyes were apathetic, their depths holding cruelty. Paired with those pitch-black vertical pupils, her beauty was particularly strange.
Chen Changsheng could not speak for a very long time—at this point, he had naturally guessed at the identity of this black-clothed girl, especially after seeing that line of blood on her forehead like a bead of cinnabar.
He knew that with the lifespan of the Dragon race, she was just a little girl.
He had once heard Xu Yourong say that she was a little girl.
But he still did not expect that she really would be a little girl.
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After what seemed like a very long time, Chen Changsheng finally stirred from his shock.
He began walking over to her. His actions were somewhat slow because he was rather nervous.
The little girl raised her head to glance at him, seeming somewhat impatient and utterly majestic.
Chen Changsheng saw the apathy and cruelty in her eyes and felt like he was being looked down on from up high. He felt somewhat uncomfortable, but he knew that this was just her nature, not because she felt a deep disdain for him.
It was the instinctual looking down that higher level beings had for lower level beings.
Just like when humans looked at oxen or horses in the field. Perhaps there would be fondness, sympathy, respect, but those would all be granted from up high. This was a matter that was impossible to change.
As Chen Changsheng walked up to her, she slightly lowered her head, seemingly not desiring him to get a clear look at her face, or perhaps because she wanted to conceal the feigned indifference that was a result of uneasiness in her heart. Yet she did not know that to human males, a lowered head was most liable to fill their heads with impressions of tenderness and shyness.
”I didn't know…you…could do this.”
Chen Changsheng didn't know what to say. He clearly understood why she was willing to take human form to meet with him. Because as he was going to die, she wanted to show something to him. He wasn't clear on what she wanted to show, but he had a vague guess and so naturally found it hard to not be nervous.
”I will not permit you to die.” The little girl raised her head and looked at Chen Changsheng.
She had already restored her composure and indifference. She was clearly sitting on the floor and much shorter than Chen Changsheng, but her gaze seemed to be looking down at him, her tone of voice like that of an order or command.
Chen Changsheng thought to himself, it's not like I want to die.He soon after remembered that earlier in the day, before Yourong left for the Imperial Palace, she had said something similar.
”I said just now that the Scroll of Time should be able to help you break through the restriction and leave. Ever since last year, Yourong and I have been constantly discussing the question of how to rescue you. This time on our journey, she also proposed many ideas. The array I will be laying down in a little while is actually a design drawn by her.”
For some reason, Chen Changsheng looked at her and seriously said these words because his vague guess made him not want her to have any sort of complaint against Yourong in the future.
The little girl twisted her head away, not willing to say a word.
She had not expected that Xu Yourong would help her, so she was somewhat shocked, but it was just that and nothing more.
Chen Changsheng said, ”I thought that you would at least say 'thank you' to her.”
”She's with you every day, but now it turns out that you're going to die, and you feel I should thank her?”
The girl's voice suddenly sharpened, thorny with rage.
Chen Changsheng didn't know how to respond.
Although logically speaking, they had already met many times and were already very familiar with each other, this was the first time he had met her in the form of a little girl, so it was difficult to avoid a somewhat strange and awkward feeling.
”This…Lady Zhizhi.”
”I said before that I'm not called Zhizhi!”
The girl glared at him and said, ”I have a name.”
Chen Changsheng recalled that Xu Yourong had once told him that the little Black Dragon did have a name back then. It seemed to be Zhusha, but before he could open his mouth…
”I am called Hongzhuang,” the little girl said impassively to him.
Chen Changsheng would naturally not argue with her over such a trifling matter. He said, ”I'm going to lay down the array. Do you want to come with me to see?”
From last autumn to this summer, he had come here many times and researched the array on the stone wall, contemplating how to break it and let the Black Dragon go free. He had never let her come watch before.
It wasn't because there was some secret behind his methods to break the array, but because she had no interest, or perhaps because she had no confidence that Chen Changsheng had the ability to break through the restriction laid down by Wang Zhice.