An invisible blade pierced through Dan’s heart, and blood dripped down Bai Yi’s fingertips.
Everything had happened too quickly, too suddenly. It was clearly beyond everyone’s expectations.
No one had imagined Bai Yi would choose to attack Dan.
After all, just moments ago, he had still been standing in front of Dan in a protective posture, blocking the attacks from the Saint Clan royal guards for him.
Bai Yi’s every action and attitude had undoubtedly shown that he stood on Dan’s side.
And yet now, he had aimed the blade in his hand at Dan’s heart.
In truth, the ones with the most complicated feelings were undoubtedly Fenrir and Spider Woman.
They both wanted to kill Dan. They both wanted to break free of the research institute’s control.
But they also knew very clearly that once they no longer had the medicine provided by the research institute, they would not live for much longer.
Spider Woman was still a little better off. She had not belonged to the research institute from the very beginning, and she did not have any thoughts of loyalty toward it.
But Fenrir and Bai Yi were “weapons” created by the research institute. From the moment they gained awareness, they had always stayed inside the research institute. Most of their emotions had already been stripped away.
What remained was only obedience and compliance with orders.
A dog that had already been tamed would rarely turn back and rebel against its original master.
As the dog that had once been the most obedient in the entire research institute, Bai Yi’s defection was naturally even more unexpected.
Yet there was not the slightest trace of surprise on Dan’s face. Even though his body had already been pierced through by the blade, his gaze still fell distantly on Wen Yuzhi.
Perhaps in Dan’s eyes, there was no creation in this world more perfect than him.
The young man possessed the gifted abilities of royal-blood, yet did not bear the well-known defects of the Saint Clan.
He seemed delicate, but he was like a warm sun, radiating a warmth that continuously drew in monsters who lived in the darkness.
They gathered around him of their own accord, listened to his commands, protected him, and were loyal to him.
The young man seemed born to become a sovereign.
If the gods had favorites, then They must have loved this child most of all.
His very existence was a miracle that could not be replicated.
Dan did not lack weapons in his hands. What he lacked was a sheath capable of controlling those weapons.
And Wen Yuzhi, who could draw these monsters toward him, was the sheath he had long awaited, the one capable of restraining those weapons.
Unfortunately, although he could hardly wait to obtain this treasure, now was not the best time to take him away.
The cub always had a guardian watching over him. That powerful, proud sovereign was wary of everyone who approached his child.
So if Dan wanted to seize this precious cub from beneath the fangs of a giant beast, he first had to find a way to deal with the beast that held the cub so tightly in its arms.
Thinking of this, Dan ignored the wound on his body. Up until now, everything had proceeded perfectly according to his plan, and his goals had already been achieved.
He could leave at any time.
Only, before he left, he still wanted to do one very impulsive thing, one that might even draw danger to him.
Wen Yuzhi only saw Dan’s eyes begin to turn red. He closed his eyes, and tears like blood flowed down.
The other man’s hair gradually lengthened. His skin also turned pale, and the torn wound on his chest began slowly healing.
This situation was clearly abnormal.
But after having seen a whole series of experimental subjects, everyone present immediately seemed to guess something.
Wen Yuzhi frowned and said softly, “He turned himself into a monster too...?”
The young man was clearly shocked.
No wonder Blood Shark had said he was insane.
Dan really was insane enough.
Not only had he experimented on stray beasts, he had also modified his own body.
And the form he turned into...
Everyone could not help freezing when they saw it.
Something extended from Dan’s shoulder blades.
It was a pair of black, enormous wings, faintly carrying an ominous aura.
Everyone present, including the viewers in the livestream room, was no stranger to them.
Because not long ago, they had seen the same wings behind the young man. Only Wen Yuzhi’s had been white. Those pure-white wings had been beautiful, looking so holy and radiant beneath the firelight.
They were completely different from the feeling Dan’s black wings gave off now.
Dan’s eyes remained tightly shut.
He clearly should not have been able to see, yet he seemed able to precisely sense everyone’s emotions.
Especially Wen Yuzhi’s emotions.
That emotion was anger.
Wen Yuzhi had recognized it. The genes Dan had fused into himself were clearly Saint Clan genes.
He had stolen another Saint Clan member’s genes!
How could the young man not be angry?
Bai Yi’s eyes grew even colder, and he wanted to use the same method to kill Dan once more.
However, when those blades fell, they failed.
After becoming this way, Dan seemed to have grown far stronger as well. Ordinary damage could no longer injure him.
Instead, Bai Yi suffered because he had attacked Dan again and again. Under the researcher’s authority permissions, tremendous pain surged through him.
Aside from the collar around his neck, the chip implanted in his brain was also one of the research institute’s methods of control.
The method was simple and brutal, but very effective.
The pain brought by his disordered mental sea made Bai Yi’s pupils tremble and contract tightly, but his body still remained in front of Dan.
Unfortunately, no one knew exactly how far Dan had modified himself.
But there was no doubt that his strength had already far surpassed what humans could reach.
Even Bai Yi could not stop him.
“You were once my most perfect work. Out of so many embryos, only you survived. In other words, I was the one who gave you life, and I poured no small amount of effort into you. Are you certain you want to betray me?”
Dan looked at Bai Yi and spoke as if sighing.
Hearing Dan’s words, Bai Yi’s face did not show the slightest emotional change.
He merely said expressionlessly, “I won’t let you have any chance to hurt him.”
Both Dan and Bai Yi knew who “him” referred to.
“But in his eyes, you’re only a monster. In the eyes of the other Saint Clan members, you’re an ill-omened mongrel with tainted blood. And in that person’s eyes... your existence may very well be a threat to his child.”
Dan spoke with a smiling expression, every word seeming to shake Bai Yi.
“And if I take him away, then in another place, you will be his only family. He will only be able to rely on you... Even then, are you still going to stop me?”
Dan’s words were like the temptation of a devil.
First, he told Bai Yi how much hatred his identity as an experimental subject would draw from the outside world. Then he told Bai Yi that as long as he let him take Wen Yuzhi away, in another place, they would become the closest family.
This temptation was very attractive to Bai Yi.
He had been created as a weapon. From birth, he had never experienced any emotion. The only warmth he had ever felt had also been brought to him by Wen Yuzhi.
Under such circumstances, Bai Yi’s heart naturally wanted to possess that warmth.
It was like a child who had never once received candy.
But after he had tasted sweetness once, he would treat that piece of candy as the thing he desired most and wanted to possess most.
He wanted to treasure it and not share it with anyone.
What Dan offered Bai Yi was exactly this kind of chance.
And yet, between possessing it alone and giving it up, Bai Yi chose the latter.
Beautiful candy should stay in a bright, clean display case, not be possessed by a monster like him.
So no matter what Dan said, no matter how well he said it, Bai Yi would not let him have any chance to approach Wen Yuzhi.
Dan looked at Bai Yi, who still refused to back down in front of him, and knew he no longer had a chance now.
And this little delay was enough for that difficult guardian of the cub to arrive.
He had to leave.
Dan finally glanced in Wen Yuzhi’s direction.
The young man’s figure was blocked tightly by those Saint Clan royal guards, but Dan seemed able to see his angry expression at this moment.
“Little highness, we will have a chance to meet again,” he said with a smile.
And the moment his words fell, the invisible “shell” trapping them here seemed to be abruptly broken by something.
Crack.
Along with that shattering sound came segment after segment of pale bone spikes.
Jagged, winding bones gleamed with a piercing, cold luster. Their shape looked like the spine of some large animal, pale and chilling, without blood, without flesh. Only those bone blades, sharp to the extreme, carried unstoppable killing intent.
The bone spikes fell extremely fast, piercing through the wings behind Dan almost in an instant.
Dan let out a pained muffled groan.
He lifted his eyes with difficulty. In the torn sky above, Dan saw that silver-white, ice-cold figure.
The other party was also looking at him.
Those golden vertical pupils, brighter than the sun, held not the slightest warmth. There was only pure coldness, and... the violent hostility of a silver-haired sovereign whose reverse scale had been touched.
So powerful.
So terrifying.
Almost the moment this sovereign’s figure appeared, everyone present felt a suffocating fear.
He was angry.
Angry that someone dared covet his child.
The bone spikes sensed the sovereign’s wrath. They roared, carrying brutal fury as they pierced through Dan’s heart.
And this time, Dan’s body had no time to repair itself at all. Starting from the wound, his body shattered piece by piece like broken porcelain.
Those fragmented limbs fell from the rooftop, and the flames below that had yet to go out instantly swallowed them.
Dan was dead.
But no one present cared about whether he was dead or alive.
Their attention was all fixed on that figure... cold in aura and overwhelmingly powerful.
The moment he walked in, the bone spikes that had just killed Dan immediately lowered their bodies obediently. They submitted beneath his feet.
Like a pale throne gathering beneath him.
His expression was indifferent. He clearly had not opened his mouth to speak. He only stood there, yet the pressure around him made everyone present, including the viewers in the livestream room, feel somewhat breathless.
The bullet comments in the livestream room also fell silent at this moment.
Tap, tap, tap.
At this moment, when both the scene and the internet had fallen into an eerie synchronized silence, Wen Yuzhi walked forward in hurried steps.
In front of everyone, the young man slowly approached the other party.
Seeing this, Lottie still wanted to call out and stop Wen Yuzhi.
But then she saw the young man, like a swallow impatient to return home, throw himself into the other party’s arms.
“Dad!”
