Deviant: No Longer Human

Chapter 114: Making Supernatural Beings?

"Alright, let's trade. I'll tell you about Fairy Island if you tell me why you let me go alive," Yuexiu Anran suddenly proposed, her voice a blend of wariness and boldness."Hm?" Wang Xiao looked genuinely puzzled, his head tilting to one side as his eyebrows drew together. His intense stare sent an unexpected blush creeping up her cheeks. For a moment, her thoughts drifted, 'Is there a hidden significance to his lengthy hair?'

"What makes you think you can negotiate terms with me?" Wang Xiao's curiosity was piqued, not by her information, but by the mystery of her strange thought process.

Yuexiu Anran's eyes blinked back at him, equally baffled. "You won't...?" she ventured, her voice a mix of hope and uncertainty.

"Nope," he replied curtly, shaking his head for emphasis.

Yuexiu Anran sighed, then winced as she gestured to her leg with a strained smile. "Well, that's fine, but can we address this first? It's bleeding."

Without any preamble, Wang Xiao yanked the dagger out, prompting her eyes to widen in shock.

She gasped for air, trying to maintain her composure. Hastily tearing a strip from the hem of her already damaged dress, she wrapped it around the wound, muttering, "Quite gentle, aren't you?"

Wang Xiao merely watched, a faint smirk playing on his lips. 'She's got spirit,' he thought, somewhat impressed by her resilience. "Fairy Island first, pleasantries later."

Yuexiu Anran, "..."

She met his gaze, her silence speaking volumes. 'Is there no way out of this?' her mind raced,

"Tunnel to heaven?" Yuexiu Anran's eyes narrowed to menacing slits, and then she slowly shook her head, her lips pursed in defiance. "I don't know."

*Slap*

The sharp, chilling sound of a slap reverberated through the room as Wang Xiao's palm met her face with force.

His voice remained unnervingly calm, but it carried the weight of impending seriousness. "Do you want me to waste my time torturing you, just to get you talking?" His words hung in the air like an ominous cloud. "Shall I describe how I'd strip your skin, clip your nails, and force you to run naked before you even think of opening your mouth?"

'He is a professional...!' Yuexiu Anran shivered, her breath hitching as the gravity of his threats bore down on her.

She have been captured numerous times, but the seirousness in his eyes was too much even for her to bear!

Fear clawed at her, gnawing at her resolve. "I... I don't know anything directly... But I have overheard people discussing it..."

Wang Xiao's curiosity intensified, his brow furrowing. "Overheard what?"

Yuexiu Anran hesitated briefly before continuing, her voice tinged with unease. "In the neighboring country, Frostholm... They seem to have found something astonishing... Something that could turn the world upside down..."

Wang Xiao's frown deepened at her cryptic words. 'Something that could turn the world upside down?'

She nodded solemnly. "Yes... A source of great power. A way to become God."

"God?" Wang Xiao's mind rang with those words, his senses sharpening.

Yuexiu Anran quickly added, "Yes, anyone who goes inside comes back with superpowers! I don't know how true it is, it might as well be a rumor."

Wang Xiao couldn't help but press further, his thoughts racing, "Then why are they kidnapping children from all over the world for it?" He couldn't shake the unsettling notion that perhaps they were trying to create a supernatural army.

As the weight of Wang Xiao's questions settled in, Yuexiu Anran's disbelief grew. "How does he know so much about us?" Her mind raced, realizing that the information he possessed was highly classified.

Yuexiu Anran continued to suppress her curiosity about Wang Xiao, her gaze unmoving. "Well... The tunnel entrance is said to be quite small, not large enough for a grown-up man to pass through, so they are using children. As for an army, I don't think it's possible, as there is a reason they are kidnapping so many children."

Wang Xiao nodded thoughtfully, silently cross-referencing the information she provided with what he already knew. The fact that the tunnel was too small for adults to enter matched with his knowledge, making her words ring true.

He gestured for her to carry on, his curiosity unabated. "Why kidnap so many children from all parts of the world?"

Yuexiu Anran took a deep breath, her voice weighted with gravity. "Because most of them never return," she revealed, the somber truth finally revealed.