jdhmnovel Chapter 90 River Water
Chapter 90 River Water
"Since that's the case, then you can take it down."
Miao Yin lifted the glass cabinet, and as it leaped up and pounced, she burned it into a charcoal-grilled spider.
She pulled out a knife and stabbed Spider-Man.
The spider and the human were separated and cut into eight pieces.
A pile of loose bodies was thrown back into the glass case.
Miao Yin deliberately threw her head a little further away, so that if it wanted to recover, it would have to roll over and finish eating all of her own flesh first.
Spider-Man, once again punished, is stranded in the cabinet, too afraid to move.
Miao Yin closed the cabinet, then took out a black collar, hooked it with her finger towards Tu Hao: "Do you want to put it on yourself, or should I put it on for you?"
Judging from its appearance alone, this collar is quite nice.
Its black, crocodile-skin-like exterior gleams with a cold, sharp edge. A metal plate fastens to the Adam's apple, from which hangs a small black bell. Inside, however, is dark red genuine leather. The stark contrast between the red and black is as forbidden as an abyss and as noble as a swaying glass of red wine.
But the implications of this are hard to accept.
"A scholar can be killed but not humiliated. You might as well kill me," Tu Hao said with disgust.
“Speaking of which, you also lost one of my collars before. Such an expensive item, shouldn’t you make amends?” Miao Yin twirled the collar in her hand, the bells making a crisp sound.
"So what?" Tu refused to acknowledge it.
"Then wear it for a month. It's waterproof, so you don't have to take it off no matter what you do."
"If you're not going to wear it, get out."
Tu Hao turned and left, slamming the door shut in anger.
Miao Yin gazed wistfully at his retreating figure and sighed, "He never learns."
Seeing the curse surge up, Tu Hao knelt down on the stairs leading to the hut and fell straight down, rolling all the way to the soft, damp soil.
Miao Yin walked down gracefully with her arms crossed, then grabbed his collar and dragged him to the riverbank.
The water in the small manor is fresh water flowing down from the mountain. Yan Shuzhou had cleaned up all the dead fish in the river before, and now it is a crystal clear stream again.
The water reflected Tu Hao's pale, pained face. Miao Yin leaned close to his ear and said in a deep voice, "Tu Hao, open your eyes and look at yourself now. How pathetic and ugly you are. Were you like this before?"
Tu Hao supported himself with both hands in the mud and looked up.
The person in the water had mud on half of their body and collar, their hair was tangled together, and their bloodless face had a ridiculous biting device on it. Their eyes were full of pain and humiliation, like a slave pinned to the ground in some ancient arena.
A girl dressed in white grabbed his collar, whispered in his ear, and looked at him with a mixture of pity and mockery.
"In the end, my request wasn't unreasonable. If you hadn't attacked me in the first place, these little gadgets wouldn't have ended up on you. You started this whole thing."
"In the supermarket, all I asked you to do was protect me. Fighting that mutant wouldn't really kill you. But you, instead of protecting me, were thinking of using me to do your dirty work. If I didn't have superpowers, I probably would have really died."
"But you were trying to kill me, and I only made you wear a bite stopper for a few days as punishment. Isn't that lenient and generous enough?"
"Do you feel humiliated? Does obeying someone else's orders make you unhappy? Look at this world, it's a dog-eat-dog world, survival of the fittest, the strong are respected. Since you're not as good as me and I've captured you, isn't obedience the only right thing to do?"
"Why can you adapt to the constraints of pre-apocalyptic society but not to the new rules of post-apocalyptic society? What's the essential difference between being morally tamed and being tamed by me? Aren't they both just means of survival? What's the point of talking about dignity?"
"Look at this apocalypse. How hard it is for people outside to live, how tragically they die, living on the edge of death. I have a car and a house, I feed you and clothe you, so what if I let you do some work? So what if you wear a bite stopper? Am I going to kill you?"
Miao Yin's fingers brushed across the small black cage, her tone mournful.
"They're just small ornaments. I just want to see you wear them. What's wrong with letting me have them? I won't hurt you. Why do you keep provoking me? If you hadn't always gone against me, why would I have used a curse on you? Your pain is my pain. I really care about my subordinates."
"Think about it carefully. You brought this on yourself. Look at your face in the water. Is that the same spirit you used to have? Is lying on the ground like this, without any dignity, what you wanted?"
Her damp, cold breath brushed against Tu Hao's ear. Beneath her compassionate mask lay eyes that concealed malice. Her gaze was like a venomous snake crawling across him, sticky and piercing, sending chills down one's spine.
"A bright future is always within reach. You should understand whether you choose to writhe in pain on the ground or to be well-clothed, well-fed, and well-hydrated."
"—If you listen, you will be happy."
Tu Hao stared at his reflection in the water, breathing heavily, veins bulging on his arms, fingertips digging into the mud.
He gritted his teeth, his lips trembling silently, his stomach churning.
Finally, he sneered, turned to face Miao Yin, and got so close that if it weren't for the bite stopper, he probably would have bitten her directly.
His deep green eyes were brimming with the cold, dark fighting spirit of the forest's depths. He met those ghostly eyes without fear, and his disheveled appearance couldn't conceal his imposing aura.
Tu Hao's lips curled into a mocking smile, and his hoarse voice resolutely produced the rustling sound of a wild wolf running freely across the grassland.
He emphasized each word very heavily.
"I do not follow."
……
The mask of compassion faded, and a smile curved Miao Yin's lips.
"Tu Hao, oh Tu Hao..."
She spoke in a strange, melodious tone, and the next second she grabbed his head and shoved him into the water!
"Ugh!!" The icy river water rushed into my nostrils, bringing a bone-chilling cold.
Tu Hao instinctively struggled on the shore, trying to lift himself up.
However, Miao Yin was too strong. Whenever he tried to use his special ability to fight back, the curse would cling to him like a maggot, leaving him with no strength at all.
Cold, pressure, suffocation, pain...
Miao Yin pulled him up just before he was about to lose consciousness.
His hair was splashing water as he coughed violently, his eyes were red, and his breathing was rapid.
He shook his head, trying to break free from the devil's grasp, but was cruelly pulled back.
After he finally calmed down, Miao Yin pushed him down again.
Just once, twice, three times...
He suffocated again and again, only to be reborn again and again, the woman's joyful laughter echoing endlessly in his ears.
Finally, Tu Hao collapsed on the shore and completely lost consciousness.
Miao Yin hooked the collar around his neck, tightened it, and tapped a bell with her fingernail.
With a crisp, melodious ringing, the key was tossed into the river, disappearing into the ever-flowing waters.