Dawn had barely broken when Yang Yan returned.
She had a girl in a black trench coat slung over her shoulder.
The girl had long dark green hair. When she saw Queen Bee, she awkwardly waved at her.
"Hi..."
Queen Bee looked puzzled.
"Who are you supposed to be?"
"I... am probably human?"
Hearing the girl's words, Queen Bee expressionlessly waved a hand. "Human? Then find somewhere and bury her alive."
The girl froze. "Wait, actually, I'm not human!"
Queen Bee thought for a moment.
"Then bury her somewhere farther away."
"Huh?"
The girl was dumbfounded, but Yang Yan did not indulge her. She hoisted her up and headed outside.
Just then, the girl suddenly had an idea and began singing softly without accompaniment.
The moment Yang Yan heard her song, her body suddenly stiffened.
Queen Bee frowned. "Yang Yan, what are you doing?"
Before Queen Bee could say anything else, Yang Yan suddenly turned around.
At the same time, ten black spikes instantly appeared around Queen Bee's neck!
Ten Guardian Bees had actually moved at once, surrounding Queen Bee. This enraged her. "Are you trying to rebel?!"
For some reason, the ten Guardian Bees' eyes were utterly vacant.
"Cannot... harm... her."
A mental technique?
Queen Bee immediately unleashed mental control. "You've got some nerve, controlling my people."
"And you lot, have you forgotten who your master is?"
As soon as Queen Bee finished speaking, she forcibly took control of the ten Guardian Bees' minds and made them turn their weapons on the girl!
The girl instantly shut her eyes, and her song gradually took on a note of fear.
The ten Guardian Bees' heads began twitching wildly at that moment!
Watching them waver, it was clear that the two forms of mental control had not canceled each other out, but instead stacked on top of one another!
After a clash of minds, Queen Bee ultimately prevailed. After all, those Guardian Bees had been hers to begin with.
"Who exactly are you?"
The girl opened her eyes. "I am one who follows fate, saved by that lord and granted a new life."
That lord?
Could it be... Tch!
She had thought that dead fish was behind this, but it turned out to be Lord Aus.
Hah...
"Lord Aus gave you such an ability, yet you still got captured by those foxes. Heh."
"No wonder that lord never mentioned you to us. I suppose you're just a failed product."
Siren stood up. "From the sound of it, you're like me?"
Queen Bee's expression turned cold. "Don't put me on the same level as you. What right do you have to compare yourself to me?"
"Since that lord was the one who made you, I won't make things difficult for you. But if you know what's good for you, find somewhere deserted and end yourself."
"Next time, no one will save you."
Queen Bee sent Siren away. A group of people stuffed her into a shipping container and tossed it straight into the sea from the docks.
She was a Merman, after all. She would not drown.
Queen Bee hated Number 002, and by extension, she now hated fish.
Even after being thrown into the container, Siren did not crawl out for a long time.
The container was swept into the deep sea by the currents, and poor Sequence 007 was exiled just like that.
One night much later, a crude fishing boat sailed across the sea.
A protruding reef rose from the water, and sitting atop it was a girl with a human body and a fish tail.
Everyone aboard the fishing boat cried out in shock at the sight. They tried to approach the girl, only to hear a song drifting along with the sea breeze.
"Ah~ why did you exile me~"
Rather than a song, it was more like melodious muttering to herself.
Every sailor on the fishing boat was entranced upon hearing her voice.
Then, that very night, the fishing boat sank.
That same day, within North Ridge City.
Chen Ye completed two masterpieces overnight.
A pale-skinned man walked down the street. His pupils were blood-red, his teeth sharp, and his hair as pale as his skin.
He walked with stiff steps until the clouds covering the moon dispersed, and the pale-skinned man suddenly raised his head.
Then, he actually began dancing gracefully beneath the moonlight.
With a turn, his black suit became a white gown, and his hair began growing into long white locks.
The crimson in his eyes faded, and his features began to soften into something feminine.
When she stopped dancing, he had somehow changed from a man into a woman.
The black leather shoes on his feet had turned into white high heels as well.
On the empty street, the woman grinned, then turned and walked into an alley.
Several drunk men in the alley laughed too.
"People still throw themselves at you these days?"
The woman smiled and spread her arms. "Do you like it?"
One man licked his cracked lips. "Like it... How could I not? Come on, let your big brother see how well you've developed."
As he spoke, the man reached out and put an arm around the woman's shoulders. But at that moment, dark clouds covered the moon once more.
As the light was swallowed, darkness enveloped the street again.
And at that very moment, a pair of blood-red eyes suddenly lit up in the darkness!
"If you like it, why not come a little closer?"
A man's voice came from the darkness.
The drunk men had yet to react, still believing the person in front of them was the woman from earlier.
One of them reached down and touched her, only to find her chest completely flat.
"Hm?"
"Is this your back? When did you turn around, sweetheart?"
Thinking the woman had turned around, he spread his arms, preparing to embrace her from behind.
But at that moment, a sharp finger suddenly pierced his throat!
Pshk!
"Urgh... urgh!"
The man's eyes instantly widened, his expression grotesquely exaggerated. He hurriedly clutched his neck as blood seeped through his fingers, flowing more and more heavily!
In the end, blood directly gushed out like a fountain!
It felt as though a pump had been stabbed into his heart, frantically draining the blood from his body!
The man let out incoherent cries as his body instantly shriveled up!
Before long, he became a dried corpse.
"Hey, what's going on?"
The men behind him had no idea what had happened, until the clouds covering the moon drifted away.
Moonlight fell once more. A white-haired man with blood on his hands sneered at them. Seeing those blood-red eyes and the dried corpse at his feet...
The erections of the men instantly wilted.
"V-Vampire?!"
The white-haired man sneered, then instantly draped his arms around their shoulders.
His skin had not a trace of warmth; it was as cold as a corpse.
"Didn't you say you liked me just now? What, are you scared?"
They struggled desperately, trying with all their might to break free from the man's arms, but his grip was astonishingly strong, like a mechanical arm!
"Do you know? Humanity's greatest motivation, aside from interest, is humiliation."
"So, gentlemen, are you interested in becoming my dogs?"
Psh! Psh!
Blood splattered across the wall. After a moment, the man took out a handkerchief and wiped the blood from his hands.
Then he spun around and transformed into a white-haired woman.
"Doggies, bark."
As soon as the woman finished speaking, dried corpses opened blood-red eyes in the darkness.
"Arf!"
Number 008: Three Corpses (True Ancestor)