flstandardbreds Chapter 138: Punishment of Wolfhound
Chapter 138: Punishment of Wolfhound
"By the way, what are your plans next?"
"I hurt my best friend, don't I have to pay any price at all..."
Lingyi's eyes changed from being gentle as water just now, and instantly turned into a cold-blooded poker face. He looked at the wolfhound. The wolfhound was glared at by Lingyi's eyes, and stared at Lingyi blankly, with his limbs shaking uncontrollably.
It was very scared, but for some reason, it had no strength in its limbs, and even its brain was resisting running away. It was as if it was being stared at by those eyes, and even if it ran away it would be futile and would only add to the pain.
The atmosphere immediately reached freezing point. Xiaojiu, Sheila and Pegasus didn't dare to say a word and sat there obediently. A blue light came out of Lingyi's left eye, and the azure light covered half of his left face, like a half-face mask.
"Xiaoyi..." Long'er's voice came out of Lingyi's mouth.
However, Lingyi slowly withdrew his hand and stood up tall. For some reason, the boy who was only fifteen or sixteen years old stood in front of him like a giant, looking at the wolfhound, with overwhelming murderous intent that seemed to dye the entire sky blood red.
"To be honest, I saved you because you were indeed treated inhumanely, but that doesn't mean you can atone for your sins." Lingyi said coldly, "Leo is in a coma because of you..."
"Xiaoyi, Leo is stable now and there is nothing wrong with her body. She is just following her master's orders and has no right to choose." Perhaps only Long'er can persuade Lingyi now. All the others dare not say anything. The three girls who are familiar with Long'er have no problem. The wolfhound who heard Long'er's voice for the first time was not shocked, because he had no time to think about these things now.
"But the actual action was taken by you. Do you know Leo's current situation?" Lingyi lectured him like a police interrogating a prisoner.
The wolfhound shook his head slightly and said, "I, I don't know... The master gave it to me..." The wolfhound's voice was trembling so much that it was extremely difficult to hear even a few words.
"Really..." Lingyi's eyes relaxed slightly, and the creepy murderous intent gradually subsided. "Sure enough, it's the same as what you thought, Long Er."
"Huh?" Xiaojiu, Sheila and Pegasus looked at Lingyi in confusion.
Lingyi also turned around to meet the eyes of the three women, scratched the back of his head and said: "To be honest, I wanted to teach her a lesson at first. After all, she injured Leo and made him unconscious all night. But Long Er silently reminded her that she was just a slave, working for her master, and she should not know about it. I tried to test her."
A drop of cold sweat hung down the heads of the three women and said, "Test it..."
"Huh, I was so scared. I thought Xiaoyi was going to get serious." Xuela patted her chest and said.
"Yes, ever since the two weeks since the battle between the Secret Realm and the God Worshipers, the master has not released such strong murderous intent." Pegasus said with some lingering fear.
"Did you get scared? Sorry, sorry." Lingyi smiled cheerfully again, squatted down again, looked at the wolfhound and said, "It seems that you really don't know anything."
The wolfhound was so frightened by the contrast between Zero One's before and after that it dared not move and just stared at Zero One blankly.
Lingyi asked in confusion: "Huh? What's wrong with you? Are you scared silly?" Lingyi said, slowly raising his hand.
At this time, the wolfhound closed its eyes out of habit, holding its head with its two front paws, begging and shouting: "Don't, don't hit me!"
Hearing the wolfhound's reaction, Lingyi and everyone else felt a little sad. Perhaps the contrast between Lingyi before and after would make strangers feel uneasy, but under normal circumstances, facing such an "unpredictable" personality, most people would run away to avoid getting into trouble.
But why? This wolfhound is clearly a behemoth over two meters tall, the same size as the big cats in Zero One's original world, but it behaves like a puppy, allowing itself to be slaughtered. Has even its sense of self-preservation and escape been castrated?
Lingyi did not continue to extend his hand, but slowly put it down and calmly comforted him: "Don't be afraid, I don't want to hit you."
Lingyi's words seemed to have turned on a switch. The wolfhound glared at Lingyi and roared, "You are lying. You are all the same. You said you would not fight me, but you lied to me and did the same thing after I got close to you! You humans... all deserve to die!"
The wolfhound roared and suddenly pounced on Zero One. Pegasus instantly teleported in front of Zero One. As a contracted beast, it was normal for him to protect his contracted master. Xiaojiu also released the power of the demon fairy and put a layer of shield on Zero One. Xuela instantly took out the longbow, hung two long arrows on it, and was ready to shoot.
However, before the three women could show their skills, Lingyi took action.
He first reached forward, put his hand on Pegasus' shoulder, and gently pulled Pegasus backward: "Ah?" Pegasus was shocked, but he trusted his master unconditionally, so he did not resist and let Zero One act.
Pegasus was pulled in front of Zero One and merged into Zero One's body. Then a layer of scales condensed on his hands, and one hand gently touched the protective shield in front of him.
The moment the protective shield cast by Jiuer touched Lingyi, it scattered like a dandelion and flew away immediately. Then Lingyi closed the palm of the thumb and middle finger of his other hand and flicked it slightly in the direction of Xuela.
The two long arrows made of pure wood elements on Xuela's longbow turned into leaves in an instant and scattered all over the ground. Before the three women could wonder, the wolfhound had already opened its mouth wide and pounced on Lingyi.
Relying on Long'er's silver dragon claw, his right hand was pointing upwards and just caught the wolfhound's mouth. Seeing that Lingyi's right hand was so hard that it could not cause any harm to him, the wolfhound immediately reached forward with its two front paws.
Lingyi was not willing to be outdone, and attacked the wolfhound's chest and abdomen with his left hand. The wolfhound immediately lost its ability to fight, its body instantly became weak, and fell down, but its eyes still stared at Lingyi stubbornly.
Lingyi raised his hand again and moved slightly closer to the wolfhound. Under the absolute suppression of strength, the wolfhound seemed to feel that the end was near and closed its eyes in pain.
However, an illusion of security came over him. When he opened his eyes again, Lingyi was looking at him with a smile, touching his head with one hand, comforting him.
"Take some sleep, you'll be fine soon."
……
After a moment, the rising sun dyed the sky red, like a sharp sword, piercing through the dark night, making the earth shrouded in shadow feel the warmth and sunshine again.
When the wolfhound opened his eyes again, he was resting his head on Lingyi's thighs. Lingyi's big hand was covering his head, soothing him slightly.
The other leg was occupied by Xiaojiu, and he seemed to feel unusually safe with his head resting on Lingyi's thigh. He had been sleeping soundly for quite a while, and a small drop of crystal saliva could be seen at the corner of his mouth.
Pegasus was hiding in Lingyi's arms, and he also fell asleep leaning on Lingyi's chest.
What is this? Why can they live so intimately with demi-humans and beasts? Why is there no hierarchy? In this world where demi-humans are inferior to humans, it is like a breath of fresh air, and it is out of tune with this world.
The wolfhound couldn't tell whether this was right or wrong, it only knew that leaning like this seemed to be a good idea.
"Awake? Feeling better?" Lingyi asked with a smile.
"Well, it's better now, right?" The wolfhound said hesitantly. After the outburst just now, the wolfhound himself saw clearly the oppression and trampling he had been subjected to. He had always wanted a chance to explode, but in front of that person, even confessing his pain became a luxury.
After the outpouring, the wolfhound suddenly felt much better, although it didn't even last a round...
But in the wolfhound's heart, it was already a huge breakthrough.
"Really? That's good." Lingyi smiled, but silently, the smile gradually disappeared. He lowered his head with a serious expression, thinking about something.
"Xiaoyi? Are you awake?" Xuela walked over from a distance, holding a longbow in her hand. She slowly retracted the bow after coming in front of Lingyi. Seeing Lingyi being surrounded, Xuela was both angry and amused.
"Well, I'm awake, but not completely awake." Lingyi smiled helplessly, looking at Pegasus lying in his arms and Xiaojiu resting his head on his thighs.
"Oh, that's great. I also want to sleep next to Xiaoyi for a while." Xuela said enviously.
"Uh, is that so..." Lingyi laughed awkwardly, "Ahem, by the way, did the Second Prince see it?"
"I see. They're in the jungle. They should be able to find their way here with a large army soon." Sheila put away her longbow and sat on the ground in front of Lingyi.
"Really..." Lingyi said, then turned back to look at the wolfhound and asked, "What are your plans next?"
The words were like an invisible sword, piercing deep into the wolfhound's heart: "Huh? Me, me?" The wolfhound's eyes were full of surprise, as if he felt incredible about Lingyi's words.
Lingyi also looked at the wolfhound in confusion and asked, "Yeah, what's wrong?"
The wolfhound lowered its head, and its ears that had been erected high drooped down in frustration: "I... I am my master's slave. In the human world, I have no right to choose. I am just a subhuman..."
"So? Because you are a sub-human, you are inferior to ordinary humans?" Lingyi's question confused the wolfhound. It felt surprised and confused. If someone had said such words to it when it was imprisoned before, it would have laughed at him without hesitation.
But now the wolfhound felt the relaxed neck, and the unprecedented sense of relaxation made it feel like it was in heaven on earth. Why did it have such an illusion? Now facing such words, it did not find it funny, but wanted to hear what he could say.
“When we analyzed and judged, and finally used Long’er’s Dragon God’s Eyes to intuitively see your badly damaged body, your previous master must have been unfriendly to you…” Lingyi’s eyes were a little ashamed.
From his perspective as a person from another world, he naturally had no problem looking at the humans and demi-humans of this world. However, this world was different. Public opinion and culture were very different from his previous world. But in the final analysis, the person who caused this wolfhound demi-human to suffer such cruel abuse was undoubtedly a human, a human like Zero-One.
When he thought of this, Lingyi felt a little ashamed. "There are such scums among humans." Such thoughts kept lingering in his mind.
Lingyi said in a deep voice: "I wanted to save you. I couldn't bear to see an intact life being abused like this, so I untied the slave chains on you and healed your body. You are free now, and you should have the final say on where to go. If you didn't have the right to choose in the past, you do now."
"Is that so..." The wolfhound did not burst into tears of joy at first. Instead, he was more hesitant and hesitant, with a little disbelief in his eyes, but also a little disappointment.
Seeing the wolfhound's abnormality, Sheila asked in confusion: "It seems that you are a little unhappy."
The wolfhound did not answer Sheila's question, but just lay on Lingyi's thighs and sighed in frustration. However, Lingyi understood the wolfhound's doubts, reached out and gently stroked his head, hoping that his comfort could make it feel a little more at ease.
He looked up at Sheila and replied, "It's probably not unhappy, but it's just more confused about what I said."
"Really?" Sheila tilted her head, still not quite understanding what Lingyi meant.
Lingyi smiled lightly and said calmly: "If I'm not mistaken, it should have lived for a long time under the shadow of its master. If it lives in the shadow all the time, it will naturally have a certain deviation in its understanding and cognition of the world."
"Its master has been instilling in it the value that demihumans are inferior to humans. This is completely different from our current way of getting along with each other. It is difficult for it to understand for a while."