Devouring the Devourers

Wei Ke still couldn't quite understand what Bai Wei meant, feeling that the concepts of obsession and not obsession were a bit too profound.

Before he could think about it, Wei Ke suddenly felt that the road beneath his feet looked familiar.

So he stopped and stared blankly ahead.

"I've been here before," he said to Bai Wei.

"Hmm?" Bai Wei looked at Wei Ke and said with a smile, "There's only one road here, of course you've been here before... What you're trying to say is, you remembered something, right?"

"Yes, yes, I remember now." Wei Ke took two steps forward and pointed to a stone step at his feet. "A De and I were here before, right here, on this step. Then A De suddenly stopped moving, it, it..."

Wei Ke seemed a little dazed, as if he couldn't quite remember.

But Bai Wei had already seen it in Wei Ke's memory: the Little Wolf was lying in front of this stone step, baring its teeth, but refusing to take a step forward, as if something terrifying was waiting for them ahead.

"Let's keep going." Bai Wei patted Wei Ke on the shoulder. "You'll remember more as we get closer."

Wei Ke instinctively followed Bai Wei, and after taking a couple of steps, he suddenly started to hallucinate.

It was as if the person walking in front of him was no longer Bai Wei, but... himself?

"Don't be afraid, A De," he saw himself saying to himself. "No matter what lies ahead, I will protect you."

So he followed them.

After turning the corner ahead, a majestic yet dilapidated building appeared before them.

He saw that his mouth was open and looked very surprised.

"This is... the Senro Temple?"

The voice that came out of his mouth was Bai Wei's.

Wei Ke snapped back to reality and found Bai Wei standing in front of the temple, looking at him with his body turned to the side.

"This is the Senro Temple," Bai Wei said with a smile, pointing to the temple in front of him. "You said you wanted to be Hunter, but you can't even recognize your own temple?"

"No, no." Wei Ke took a deep breath. "This is indeed the Temple of Senluo."

The temple stood in the very center of the road, like a gate to a mountain pass; only by passing through this gate could one continue forward.

"You don't look well," Bai Wei asked. "Did you remember something again?"

"Not yet, but..." Wei Ke hesitated, "Father Ulu, I don't know why, but many of my memories are not from my own perspective."

"Oh? Not from your own perspective?" Bai Wei asked knowingly. "Or from the dog's perspective?"

"Yes... no, it's A De's." Even at this moment, Wei Ke still didn't forget to defend A De. "I don't know why, but it's not the first time. Every time I recall it, I'm looking at myself from A De's perspective. This feeling is really... strange. Do you know why?"

"I have a guess, but it's just a guess," Bai Wei said. "But I don't plan to tell you... Don't look at me like that, because those unsubstantiated guesses won't help you right now; they'll only affect your mood. Think about what that Old Hunter told you back then."

Wei Ke's expression darkened. "He said... I might have eaten A De."

"Yes, so how are you feeling?"

"... I feel terrible."

"That's it." Bai Wei shrugged. "It's just a conjecture without evidence. It serves no purpose other than affecting your mood, so why keep asking? Wouldn't it be better to find the answer yourself?"

"...You're right." Wei Ke took a deep breath, his eyes gradually hardening. "I won't be confused anymore."

"Hmm, it seems you've made similar decisions many times before."

"Huh?" Wei Ke exclaimed in surprise, "Really?"

"Yes, but that's okay, as long as we can do it in the end." Bai Wei said with a smile, "Let's keep going."

"Good!"

Wei Ke quickly caught up with Bai Wei, and then pushed open the temple door before Bai Wei could.

The door was unlocked, so sunlight shone in, cleaving through the darkness of the temple like a sharp sword, and finally landing on the Senro Statue in the very center of the temple, giving people the feeling that the Senro God had returned to the world.

The two then entered.

For some reason, over the years, Wei Ke has entered countless dilapidated Senro Temple and seen countless Senro Statue, yet he has never felt anything unusual.

But the Senro Statue in front of him gave him immense pressure, making him subconsciously want to say something to relieve the feeling of being unable to breathe.

So he asked, "Why... why is there a temple of the Senro God here?"

"Huh?" Bai Wei turned around and looked at Wei Ke with an expression that said, "Are you kidding me?" "Is there anything surprising about having a temple of Senluo in the Senluo Sacrificial Ground?"

"No, no, no, I just..."

Wei Ke waved his hand subconsciously, but a conversation flashed through his mind.

"How could there be Senro Temple here?"

"Why wouldn't there be? This is the Sacrificial Ground of Senra."

He was suddenly stunned.

"What's wrong?" Bai Wei noticed the change in Wei Ke's expression. "Are you dumbfounded again?"

"No, no," Wei Ke murmured. "I spoke to someone here."

"Isn't it just me?"

"No, I mean... the last time I was here, I spoke to someone," Wei Ke shouted. "There are other people here!"

Bai Wei raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure?"

"...Of course!" Wei Ke felt more memories of this place flooding his mind. "There was definitely such a person. I remember, she was a woman."

"A woman? Or is it a girl?"

"Uh, yes, it's a girl." Wei Ke raised his hand to gesture. "About this tall."

"It's not that tall, it's about a head shorter."

"Okay, that seems to be the case." Wei Ke frowned. "And there's a gray one... uh?"

He was stunned.

How do you know so much?

"Because she's hiding outside," Bai Wei said with a smile, then turned his gaze to the door they had come from. "Don't hide anymore, just come in."

Wei Ke paused for a moment, then turned around sharply to look outside the gate, but saw nothing.

It's normal not to see anything, given the limited field of vision, but it's not normal that Wei Ke couldn't smell anything.

If someone were to get close, his sense of smell would be more than enough to detect it.

Did Bai Wei make a mistake?

Just as he was about to ask, Bai Wei calmly said, "If you don't come out, I'll kill you. Please believe that I have the ability to do so."

After Bai Wei finished speaking, Wei Ke suddenly caught a whiff of an unfamiliar scent.

The scent is very faint, as if it could dissipate into the air at any moment; you can't smell anything unless you sniff carefully.

After a while, a petite figure appeared in their line of sight.

She glanced at Wei Ke first, then her gaze quickly fell on Bai Wei.

"This is the Senro Temple," she said. "I am Yi Weina, the Senro Saintess. Outsider, don't you think your words just now were far too presumptuous?"

The outer perimeter of the Sacrificial Ground.

The devourers crawled toward the corpse that had lost half its head.

They have already sensed the presence of Visas.

It's right inside that head.

Tear it apart! Destroy it! Devour it!

Driven by boundless ambition, they stretched out their claws, intending to pry open the remaining half of the head as well.

So the remaining half of the head also became a bloody mess.

Finally, one of their fingers touched the sharp tooth.

This made them even more excited.

But...

With a "click".

The head, which was now reduced to just a few pieces of flesh, suddenly reacted. Its mouth bit down hard, and its sharp teeth instantly severed the devourer's entire finger.

But that wasn't enough. The head went a step further, biting off most of the devourer's head, causing rotting and fresh blood to splatter everywhere.

"You want to eat me... No way!"

Abeike let out a roar as he chewed.

"You're nothing but a bunch of monsters who died long ago! You want to eat me... impossible!"

He suddenly rolled over, pinning the devourers beneath him, then tore their flesh apart with his hands, stuffing pieces into his mouth, chewing them with his teeth, and swallowing them whole.

"I won't die here... I absolutely won't!"

He was like a starving man who had encountered delicious, unlimited meat.

So he ate and ate a lot.

When the Devourer tried to resist, he ripped off the Devourer's hand and ate it.

The devourer's mouth was murmuring as he chewed up and swallowed the entire oral system of the devourer.

The Devourer's heart was still beating, and so was that heart.

Anything edible can go into my mouth.

As long as you have this tooth, you can eat anything.

As he continued to gnaw, new flesh and blood quickly grew back from the damaged head.

"As expected... as expected." Abeike touched the bloodied flesh on his face and murmured, "As long as I eat these undead things, I will be immortal. As expected... as expected!"

He grew increasingly excited, displaying the same excitement as the previous devourers.

"I'm going to be immortal... immortal!"

He quickened his eating pace again, stuffing more flesh and blood into his mouth.

In the end, he devoured all the devourers, leaving none behind.

He devoured the Devourer.

"Huff, huff, huff..."

Abeike gasped for breath, his exhaled air still tinged with blood.

But it doesn't matter anymore.

He had never felt so healthy.

All the wounds have healed, and the missing flesh has grown back.

He felt an immense power.

"No need anymore," Abeike murmured. "I don't need to hide anymore, it's... no need anymore, hehehehehe, hehehehehe."

He laughed louder and louder, more and more maniacally, until his eerie laughter echoed throughout the entire forest.

"What should I do next?" Abeike murmured.

"Visas," a voice answered him.

"Huh?" Abeike was taken aback.

Before he could figure out where the voice was coming from, more voices answered him.

"Visas!"

"Visas!"

"Visas!"

The sound source was very close, so close that it sounded like it was coming from the same head.

Abeike suddenly turned his head and looked at the pool of water beside him.

He saw his reflection in the water.

Then I felt relieved.

Thankfully, there were no problems.

Abeike thought to himself.

The only things that were speaking were the other mouths on his face.

Bai Wei looked up into the distance, his brows furrowed tightly.

"What's wrong?"

Wei Ke noticed Bai Wei's actions, and when he saw Bai Wei's furrowed brows, he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

After all, in Wei Ke's memory, Bai Wei had never shown such obvious emotions before.

What's going on?

But Bai Wei didn't maintain that expression for long. His brows quickly relaxed, and he gave a helpless smile, "It's nothing, I was just disgusted."

"...ah?"

Wei Ke was very puzzled, but Bai Wei wouldn't say anything more.

However, Bai Wei really didn't expect things to develop this way; it seems like he created something extraordinary.

But that's not the key point. The more important point is... given all this, can he just throw away that tooth?

This was the first time he had encountered a body part that he didn't want to retrieve.

I really don't want to.

But what Bai Wei was thinking was naturally unknown to the other two, especially the girl Yi Weina who had just come out, whose eyes widened immediately after hearing Bai Wei's words.

"You call me disgusting?!" she shouted. "I am the Senro Saintess, how dare you call me disgusting?!"

"So what?" Bai Wei shrugged and said, "I am Father of the Rhine, and I dare say that the Rhine God is also a disgusting thing."

Yi Weina was speechless.

To stop Yi Weina and Bai Wei from continuing their entanglement, Wei Ke quickly stepped forward and asked, "Have we met before? Right here."

"Of course." Yi Weina also turned her gaze to Wei Ke, her brows furrowing slightly. "Just half a month ago, wasn't it me who guided you onto the path of seeking the Hunter? How long has it been, and you've already forgotten... Also, where's that Little Wolf you brought with you?"

Upon hearing Yi Weina's words, Wei Ke was so moved that tears almost welled up in his eyes.

"You remember? You actually remember!" Wei Ke exclaimed. "Can you tell me what happened? My A De is missing, do you know how?!"

Wei Ke and Yi Weina briefly explained their situation, and Yi Weina showed a hint of surprise after listening.

"I can't believe something like this happened." Yi Weina thought for a moment, then said to Wei Ke, "Don't get too excited. Since your Little Wolf got lost here, we can definitely find it. No one knows this place better than me. Just follow me."

Wei Ke nodded repeatedly as if he had grasped a lifeline. He subconsciously wanted to follow Yi Weina, but when he found that Bai Wei was still standing there without moving, he suppressed the thought.

"Miss Yi Weina," Bai Wei said with a smile, "Are you the only living person here?"