I'm a villain, not a devil

What Xiao Ci did made everyone stunned.

Her body was covered with horrible scars, but she did not show any pain at all. She just looked at Sean with serious and eager eyes.

It was not until Sean took the tree heart in his hand that Xiao Ci finally smiled slightly.

Then, she slowly closed her eyes and fell down.

Subconsciously, he dropped the tree heart he had just taken and hugged Xiao Ci's thin body firmly.

Only then did he see that there was an enormous wound on Xiao Ci's back. The white bones and flesh on the edge were clearly visible, and in the center there was a group of black nematodes devouring and biting something.

Sean's pupils contracted violently.

Black nematodes... Did Xiao Ci really go to look for the plague saliva?

The soft moonlight covered him, and Bai Ye's face was solemn: "This is a fatal injury, but she was able to hold on until now... and how did she get it?"

She couldn't understand why the strange tree man who was chasing the golden light was so weird and powerful. Bai Ye suspected that even if she and Sean joined forces, they might not be able to suppress the other party, let alone a little girl like Xiao Ci who was at the king level.

How did this little girl do it?

Seeing Sean standing there, Bai Ye said anxiously, "Don't just stand there, Sean. Your sister is in danger now. This is a temporary camp and there are no high-end medical equipment."

It was the first time she saw Sean looking so confused and panic-stricken, so she became increasingly anxious.

Sean, who was holding Xiao Ci, slowly hooked his fingers to cover Xiao Ci's wound.

There, the flesh and blood were recovering rapidly, and the biting black nematodes were dying one after another.

……

imperial capital.

Seeing Xiao En coming out of the medical room, Bai Ye went up to him and said solemnly: "It was my mistake that caused Xiao Ci to be injured..."

Xiao En waved his hand to interrupt her: "I didn't expect Xiao Ci to ignore your moonlight and sneak away. It's not your fault."

Bai Ye's eyes looked a little strange. When did Sean become so easy to talk to?

However, since he has said so, there is no point in chasing him anymore. I should compensate Xiao Ci more in the future.

Glancing at the door of the medical room, Bai Ye asked again, "What's going on?"

Sean shook his head. "It's not a big deal, it just looks scary. At first glance it seems like a fatal wound, but actually the props I left for her worked. Use the nanomedicine to repair the wound, and then just rest for a few days and you'll be fine."

Bai Ye breathed a sigh of relief after hearing him say that.

Sure enough, Sean would leave things for people around him to prepare for unexpected events...

"Okay, there's no point in you just standing outside. It's time to go to the military headquarters and find someone to take credit for the work." Sean smiled.

Bai Ye nodded and left quickly.

After everyone in the yard had left, Sean pushed open the door of the medical room again.

He didn't leave any life-saving items for Xiao Ci... To be precise, Xiao En himself didn't have any either, and the life-saving moonlight he just got was given by Bai Ye...

Xiao Ci was indeed fatally injured, but...

On the operating table in the medical room, Xiao Ci, wearing a loose surgical gown, was sitting on the edge, her two white and tender legs swaying in place.

Apart from looking a little tired, how could he look like he was seriously injured?

The largest wound on her back was now only left with a few red marks, which could not be seen without careful observation. The other smaller scars were impossible to find.

In fact, after Sean brought her back, he didn't perform any surgery or use nano-repair agents.

I just helped her change her clothes and take a bath.

Somehow, Xiao Ci had an incredibly strong ability to recover.

Seeing Sean come in, Xiaoci jumped off the bed and jumped into his arms.

"Brother." She called affectionately.

After rubbing the little orange cat's head, Sean carried her to the side and sat down.

"Are you chasing the plague?" he asked.

Xiao Ci tilted his head: "Is that tree called Plague Saliva?"

"Ah."

"Oh, then I'm going to chase the plague saliva."

Sean didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This girl didn't even know the other person's name.

But how did Xiao Ci fight against the plague saliva... Although she was very special, she was still young after all, and the power she absorbed was not enough. She was not on the same level as the plague saliva.

If being able to break free from Bai Ye's moonlight could be explained, then fighting against the plague saliva that was almost at the peak of crimson was a bit incomprehensible.

"How did you get this thing?" Sean took out the tree heart that was shining with golden light.

He could feel that this tree heart was more complete and more powerful than the one he had already absorbed.

Moreover, what puzzled him was that the tree heart he absorbed did not continue to escape because of the ritual of the tree people, but the one that Xiao Ci brought back seemed to be very stable.

Xiao Ci blinked innocently and said, "I asked him for it, but he refused to give it to me, so I beat him."

"……Then what?"

"He didn't hit me, so I took it."

Sean was speechless for a moment. Never had a fight?

"Can't the plague beat you?"

Xiao Ci nodded: "He couldn't beat me...Originally I wouldn't have been bitten by him, but those black nematodes made him lose his mind, so I was bitten several times."

Sean asked, "Why?"

Xiao Ci obviously didn't quite understand what he meant. The little girl tilted her head and asked, "Why?"

Sean didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I mean, how did you beat Plague? To be honest, I can't beat him."

"Well..." Xiao Ci suddenly realized, and then said as a matter of course, "I don't know either."

Sean: "..."

Perhaps feeling that what he said was not clear enough, Xiao Ci added: "He is born unable to beat me."

"Born?" Sean captured the uniqueness of the word.

Xiao Ci nodded, tilting her head as if trying to organize her words, and spoke after a moment: "I don't know why... well, but I can feel that the golden light is very precious, and the tree must want it very much. However, I don't want to give it to him, I want to give it to you, so he can only give it to me... because he just can't beat me, I have this feeling."

Sean narrowed his eyes slightly. It sounded like the superior was suppressing the inferior without any reason.

He had only seen related content in certain materials, and it appeared in the information about Crazy Beast.

The levels of some crazy beasts are much higher than others. At this time, the lower-level crazy beasts of the same kind as these upper-level crazy beasts will be completely suppressed by their innate bloodlines. It has nothing to do with strength, but only with level.

A similar example is the socially insane creature known as a bee colony and its queen.

Sean suddenly remembered the book he got from the secret room in the Earl's study.

It contained content related to black nematodes, but Sean and the others could not understand the free words on it. Only Xiao Ci could understand it. But at the critical point, something in Xiao Ci's body reminded her that if she fully understood it, she would attract some terrifying attention.

Sean did not let Xiao Ci continue to understand the contents, but he had already written down the information he had seen before - it was a story about cutting down his mother's tree, and it seemed to be related to the predecessor of the empire.

Mother tree, old people who cut down trees...

In addition, there is a translucent leaf in the book. If you overlap the leaf and the firelight to observe the person opposite, you will find various symbols on the forehead.

That symbol seems to represent the bloodline of this land from ancient times to the present.

The strange thing is that the symbol on Zhu Zhu's forehead is an ancient royal symbol, and Xiao Ci's symbol emits a dazzling light, which represents the purity of her bloodline.

However, this is not the case for the current royal family. The symbol on Bai Ye’s forehead is similar to the national emblem of the empire today.

This can probably be understood as, the royal bloodline today is no longer the same as the original noble bloodline.

Considering that Xiao Ci was able to completely suppress the Plague Saliva, this seems to explain something...

Sean lowered his head and looked at Xiao Ci, who was playing with her fingers in his arms, with a strange look.

It seems that this bombshell sister that he picked up for free has a more powerful background than he imagined.

Don't forget, in addition to blood, Xiao Ci's body also has a deep blue-level chip from an ancient shelter.

The energy of this chip has gradually merged with her own huge energy. The use of multiple elements and the unique purification ability, after combining all these together, Xiao Ci will almost certainly become one of the strongest people in the world in the future.

But I didn't expect that she would give me a surprise right now.

"By the way, what about Plague? Was Plague killed by you when you stole the golden light?" Sean thought of a question and asked.

Xiao Ci blinked and stretched out her right hand: "Here it is."

"here?"

The tendon at Xiao Ci's right wrist suddenly moved. She stretched out her left hand and pressed it lightly, and a tiny, barely visible cut opened automatically.

A drop of blood and a black seed drilled out from it.

"Yes, that's it."

Xiao Ci jumped down from Sean's arms, found a bag of nutritional supplements, threw the blood and seeds into it, and shook it.

The roots spread in the bag at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then quickly grew into a small sapling.

The sapling's head popped out of the bag of supplements. Its limbs squeezed the bag hard and it jumped steadily to the ground.

With the nutritional supplement bag wrapped around his clothes, this miniature tree man just stood on the ground.

However, looking at the mouth on its abdomen and the cell-like fruits hanging on the branches, they are exactly the same as plague saliva.

Isn’t this just the plague saliva that has been shrunk many times?

Sean, who was watching, was stunned.

Xiao Ci waved her hand as if teasing a dog, and the little monster immediately trotted over to her side and rested on her ankle.

"Yes." Xiao Ci blinked.

Sean's eye twitched, and he pointed at the sapling: "Is this... the big tree we saw in Black Pigeon?"

Xiao Ci nodded: "He couldn't beat me, and I cured his illness. He wanted to follow me. I thought about it and decided that since I had robbed him of something, I should let him follow me - and that's it."

"what?"

"Ah."

So... sloppy?

Sean suddenly noticed that all the black nematodes that were entangled in the roots and had been eroding him when the plague was in its giant form had disappeared.

He suddenly realized where the nematodes that had been gnawing at Xiao Ci came from...

hiss……

The nematode could even continuously erode the plague saliva, but it seemed to have only caused some physical damage to Xiao Ci...

In fact, when Xiao Ci recovered, all the nematodes had turned into mist and completely dissipated.

This proves that the thing has basically no killing power on Xiao Ci.

The black nematode is the disease of plague...

Sean looked down and saw that the sapling-shaped plague lily didn't seem to have much intelligence. Without the entanglement of the black nematodes, it was still quite ugly, but not disgusting.

Moreover, he noticed that the air around him seemed to have become much fresher since the time when Plague Sin woke up.

Does this thing also have some purification effects?

Thinking about the connection, Sean thought for a while and took out the large ball of black nematodes that he had cut off.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he took it out, the plague saliva in the form of a sapling suddenly shook, and a huge and terrifying aura emanated, and an extremely strong sense of oppression directly stared at Sean.

This little thing still has some strength left?!

However, before Sean could react, Xiao Ci, who had been expressionless all this time, suddenly lowered his eyes, a fierce look flashed across his face, and then he kicked the plague saliva that was emitting a terrifying aura away.

"What's your attitude towards my brother?" She suddenly became angry.

What was even more shocking was that Plague Saliva, who could oppress Sean with just his aura, was like a pet that had done something wrong. He immediately restrained his breath and walked pitifully to Xiao Ci's side.

The powerful tree man who was once the crimson peak is now like a puppy wearing a urea bag...

Xiao Ci looked up at Xiao En: "Brother, do you still want him? If not, I will just throw him away."

The branches of the little plague tree all drooped down.

"There's no need to throw it away..." Sean looked at him in surprise, "He still retains his previous strength?"

"Not all of it was retained, but there should be some left." Xiao Ci didn't seem to care much about this.

Sean suddenly realized why all of a sudden they were staring at him when Plague and the prisoner were fighting fiercely on the top platform.

At that time, he had just used the purifying light ball given to him by Xiao Ci.

Which one attracted the attention of both?

Sure enough, this is all related to Xiao Ci's bloodline...

Sean asked again: "Can he communicate now? Can we find out anything about the Black Pigeon?"

Xiao Ci turned to look at the flattering sapling, and raised his head after a moment: "We can communicate a little, but not much. He was in a semi-crazy state before and has no memory."

"Is that so..." Sean smacked his lips with some regret.

He picked up the black nematode ball in his hand, and Plague Saliva became alert again.

"This thing is the prisoner he is guarding, right?"

"It should be. He is very hostile to this, and it is instinctive hostility."

"What about the golden light? Is it also an instinctive attraction to him?"

"Well, and..." Xiao Ci thought for a moment, "It seems that all trees will like this. Also, I don't know why, I think this thing will be very useful to my brother."