Ghoul

"You..." Fang Xiaowei opened and closed his lips, but in the end he only came out with this word. Although he always knew that Ruan Lin was not a person who liked to joke, the phrase "protect human beings" in the original room From Xiaowei's point of view, there is a lot of moisture, protection?How to protect?Keeping all human beings in cages, or simply killing all zombies... These are too broad and difficult to achieve, so Fang Xiaowei always thought that Ruan Lin meant that, as far as he could, as far as he could see, place, protect these humans from being killed by zombies.

But looking at it now, Ruan Lin seems to mean more than that.

If you just want to protect human beings in this way, you need to endure the torture of hunger all the time, Ruan Lin said, he wants to remind himself of his purpose and position.

The purpose is of course to protect human beings, so what is the position?What is the position.

"What's your position?" Fang Xiaowei opened and closed his lips for a long time, and finally came out this sentence.

Hearing Fang Xiaowei's question, Ruan Lin's expression was a little surprised, as if he didn't expect Fang Xiaowei to ask such a question, "My position?" He repeated it again, speaking very slowly, as if he was constantly As if chewing these words, the expression on his face softened a lot in the end, making Fang Xiaowei not sure if his brother Ruan had returned, "What do you think my position is?" He thought for a while, and put The question was thrown to Fang Xiaowei, "Or, what do you think my position should be?"

What should it be?Fang Xiaowei was taken aback. If he didn't know that Ruan Lin was not human, he might have felt that Ruan Lin's position was of course on the side of human beings, but now...he already knew that Ruan Lin was not human, and he should be with himself. A kind of creature, and judging from the cub he said earlier, he should be a higher-level existence than himself.

So what is his position?Humans or creatures like them?

Fang Xiaowei thought for a long time, and finally found some clues from Ruan Lin's previous words, he looked at Ruan Lin, as if he wanted to see the man's true heart hidden under the surface, "You are on the side of human beings. "

But he didn't understand why Ruan Lin chose to starve and stand on the side of humans. In order to protect humans, eating zombies is obviously a way to achieve the goal. The only explanation is——

His food is not just zombies.

This answer made Fang Xiaowei feel a little apprehensive. If Ruan Lin's food is not just zombies, then he should be the same. "Isn't our food just zombies?" He couldn't help asking.

Ruan Lin looked at Fang Xiaowei indifferently, and finally nodded.

"Our food is all moving things, such as zombies, sea beasts... Of course, there are also humans." Ruan Lin said.

When he heard the things in front of him, Fang Xiaowei's expression was still normal, but when he heard the human beings, his expression suddenly became very ugly. He looked at Ruan Lin and didn't quite believe what he said.

"A lot of things are caused by greed." Ruan Lin said, "I just said that after you lose your sense of smell, other senses will gradually disappear, and then your body will be covered by a layer of things, like a chrysalis Same thing that grows behind your ears."

Fang Xiaowei hastily stretched out his hand to touch the back of his ear, and a layer of hard skin really grew there... After putting down his hand, he looked at Ruan Lin, "What will I become?" He asked, he knew that Ruan Lin I won't say these things for no reason.

"Do you still remember the monster we saw outside the city?" Ruan Lin asked suddenly.

Fang Xiaowei knew that Ruan Lin would not suddenly mention this thing, so, "...will I become that thing?" He asked, looking at Ruan Lin, a little in disbelief. what is it

"If the evolution fails." Ruan Lin nodded, "You can't eat much now, only the heart of the zombie can provide you with the energy you need. The more you eat, the sooner you will turn into a cocoon."

"The blood of the sea beast is also our food." Ruan Lin said, "So at that time, when you lick the blood of the sea beast, you will feel the energy quickly filling your body."

Fang Xiaowei remembered the first time they hunted a sea beast, the blood of the sea beast splashed all over Ruan Lin, his disgusted expression, and the feeling of energy in his body when he licked the blood of the sea beast... He looked at Ruan Lin really didn't understand how much self-control this person had to use to restrain this instinctive appetite.

"What if I eat too much?" Fang Xiaowei asked.

"Your body will explode," Ruan Lin said.

Fang Xiaowei still didn't quite understand the reason why Ruan Lin restrained his appetite so much, so he asked.

"We will continue to evolve." Ruan Lin said, "The more you eat, the easier it is to evolve. For example, you evolved because you ate the hearts of these zombies, but evolution is not 100% successful. In fact , The success rate of the first stage of evolution is only 20.00%, and if it fails, it will become the kind of thing you see outside the city, unable to think like a human, only the instinct to eat, no different from those zombies." He paused For a moment, "If you succeed, then you will evolve again by eating the next food, then the chance of success will be smaller, and the interval between each evolution will become longer... If you are not careful, you will become into those monsters."

"Restraint is the best way."

"You can't change the probability of evolutionary success, so you can only restrain yourself and let yourself enter these evolutions less." Ruan Lin said, "The more greedy a person is, the lower the probability of evolutionary success."

"So you don't want to evolve yourself now?" Fang Xiaowei asked.

Ruan Lin acquiesced.

"When will I evolve?" Fang Xiaowei asked. He didn't know how he felt now. He thought he was the only freak in the world, but Ruan Lin told him that there were many such people. One of them is even the weakest one. After all, those monsters have undergone an evolution, but the evolution failed.

"When your remaining senses disappear." Ruan Lin said hesitantly.

"The thing you want to eliminate is not a zombie?" Fang Xiaowei asked suddenly.

"...Yes." Ruan Lin nodded.

"It's these monsters." Fang Xiaowei had already made up his mind.

Ruan Lin didn't speak this time, he acquiesced to Fang Xiaowei's guess.

It was indeed these monsters, those of his kind, that he wanted to destroy.

"You were in a hurry to leave because you recognized me as a creature like you?" Fang Xiaowei continued to ask.

Ruan Lin looked at Fang Xiaowei, and finally sighed, "Yes." He said, "Because I recognized you as my kind, so I was in a hurry to leave at that time." Sea beasts are all excuses, He originally thought that when the man heard the sea beast, he immediately flinched, but unexpectedly, he still followed.

Fang Xiaowei didn't understand Ruan Lin's thinking. If he wanted to destroy these monsters, shouldn't he strictly monitor them when they were still cubs?

"To be honest, I always wanted to get rid of you." Ruan Lin said to Fang Xiaowei, his expression was a little tired, "especially when I found out that you had eaten a lot of zombie hearts." He said, "In a short time The more hearts you eat, the less likely you are to evolve successfully..." He was far more troubled than Fang Xiaowei, because Fang Xiaowei didn't know anything, but he knew everything.

He knew that the more Fang Xiaowei ate the heart, the faster his evolution would come—then the faster he would be forced to make a choice.

If Fang Xiaowei evolves successfully, then everything will be fine.

What if Fang Xiaowei's evolution fails?How should he choose?He and Fang Xiaowei have been together for so long, can he still keep his promise and kill this newly born monster in the first place?

Or can't help but let him go in the end?

No matter what the result is, it will make him regret and suffer, so he would rather not know Fang Xiaowei at the beginning, and there is no need to make such a choice.

Ruan Lin sometimes thinks, if Fang Xiaowei is an ordinary human being, then he doesn't have to think about these things. Even if Fang Xiaowei is useless, he can protect him, but this is impossible, if Fang Xiaowei He is an ordinary human being, he will never save himself in the wild, and they will never meet.

It's just that Fang Xiaowei didn't know about it.

Now that Ruan Lin told Fang Xiaowei everything, he immediately felt a lot more relaxed. He felt as if the things he had been carrying all along suddenly disappeared a little, giving him room to breathe.

"...So every time I go out, you know what I'm doing?" Fang Xiaowei's head suddenly turned to this aspect, and he remembered that every time he told Ruan Lin that he was going out alone, What happened to Ruan Lin's sudden killing atmosphere, it turned out that he already knew about it, and Fang Xiaowei was relieved.

"I know." Ruan Lin said, "Including every time you go to Ling Hao's house to take a bath."

Fang Xiaowei's eyes widened, how could he know this.

Looking at Fang Xiaowei's expression, Ruan Lin was a little funny, and finally shook his head, "The smell is too strong."

Only then did Fang Xiaowei remember that he had been thinking about whether this smell could block the smell of blood, but forgot how good Ruan Lin's nose was, so he could naturally smell that it wasn't something from his own home.

Fang Xiaowei looked at Ruan Lin while thinking, and when he saw the mark on Ruan Lin's shoulder, he suddenly realized what he had forgotten.

"Brother Ruan?" Fang Xiaowei resumed his previous address to Ruan Lin.

"Huh?" Ruan Lin looked at him.

"When I was just sleeping, why did I suddenly bite you?" And why did he always feel that Ruan Lin smelled good and wanted to take a bite?Could it be that they even eat their own kind?

Fang Xiaowei's head came up with the image of himself gnawing on Brother Ruan, and then he couldn't help but shudder——

This is too scary.