A wish: she didn't seem to be human.

Huh?

Ye Jiang looked slightly surprised. What happened?

The Polluted was lost in his memories.

Two months ago, a human girl suddenly mutated into an F-Rank Polluted. As her consciousness faded, she made a promise...

One wish she had was for someone to kill her; she didn't want to become Polluted.

The girl's wish was not heard by the townspeople outside, but it was heard by the creatures on the Other Side the Other Side. For the creatures on the Other Side, this was like a windfall. Basically, as long as she accepted the wish, she would get a body for free, because once the human mutation ended, it meant that they would already be dead.

The creatures on the Other Side appreciate and accept it.

However, after the anomaly ended, the girl's consciousness remained. She became Polluted, but her human consciousness did not die. She lived between life and death.

The creature from the Other Side never expected to face such a situation upon its arrival. The host hadn't died, but it was trapped inside a human body and couldn't do anything; the pie had turned into a trap.

With two souls in one body, the creature from the Other Side became depressed, while the girl was overjoyed to find that she was still alive!

Unfortunately, the Polluted's body was very inconvenient and not accepted, but fortunately the girl's superpower made it easy for her to evade capture.

Until she decided to use the factory to help the townspeople make medicine.

The creature from the Other Side had always wanted to take over a human's body, but unfortunately, the initiative wasn't in her hands. She was forced to "share a room" with the human, listening to his nagging. What a noisy fellow he was! He had endless nonsense to say every day. The little human brat kept nagging about how wonderful the outside world was, saying that the people in town would go out once they had saved up enough medicine.

A month passed, and the creature from the Other Side was still inside the human body. She gradually figured out the ecology of this town and became a little curious, wondering if the townspeople would really leave once they had collected enough medicine, just as the little brat had said.

The creatures on the Other Side didn't get to see the outcome; the girl was found in the pharmaceutical factory and then killed by the townspeople.

The creatures on the Other Side did nothing, and she truly arrived as she had wished.

But I wasn't as happy as I had expected.

Perhaps because she didn't get the result she was looking for, she even felt a little angry.

It's too quiet. The noise of those human brats will never be heard again. It's too quiet.

What did that little brat say to her in the end?

Oh, she said it's her birthday today.

She said she heard that people outside of the area eat something called cake when they celebrate their birthdays, and their friends gather together to sing "Happy Birthday," which is very lively.

She said it was a pity, a pity that she couldn't go outside.

For the past month, the creature on the Other Side has been listening to the little cub chatter about the outside world; she longs for it.

The little girl could have left on her own, but she preferred to go out with the townspeople.

Because they are family.

The girl was born alone, grew up eating food from the villagers, and considered them her family. She wanted to go out with her family.

The little human fool clearly longed to go outside, but she only sighed with regret. In fact, even at the end of her life, she remained optimistic, her voice full of vitality.

She was still gossiping until the very end, asking her on the Other Side:

What about you? Do you celebrate birthdays?

When is your birthday?

"I have nothing, I have nothing to give you for your birthday, only my body, you can take it..."

The girl's voice disappeared.

A silly child who longed for the outside world, she remained here forever.

On the high wall, the "Polluted" snapped out of her reverie and said calmly to the humans around her, "I saw that guy mutate, and I saw her killed. She was a complete idiot."

If he weren't a fool, why would he have failed to leave his isolated town because of others?

If she weren't a fool, why would she still be thinking of giving her body to a being from the Other Side at the very end, unaware that the being from the Other Side had always coveted her body?

"That's so stupid," even the "Polluted" couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to... want to do something for her.

She planned to help the little fool fulfill her wish: to send the townspeople away from the town.

So she used a snowfall to inspire the townspeople's unity and give them the courage to defeat the A-Rank Polluted. She encouraged the townspeople to resist the Guard and gave them the courage to defeat Guard.

But she also glimpsed the limits of the townspeople's courage; they lacked the courage to leave the town.

To be precise, she misunderstood. The necessary condition for the townspeople to leave the town was not courage at all, but that something went wrong elsewhere, and the suddenly appearing Moon Tree solved that problem.

The Moon Tree helped her fulfill the girl's wish!

Thinking of this, the "Polluted" felt a surge of emotion.

The miraculous giant tree, the moon falling from the sky, strange and beautiful, brought a beautiful dream, fulfilling the townspeople's most urgent wish, and also the "Polluted's" wish.

The "Polluted" couldn't help but glance at the human beside him, the Moon Tree, and this human...

"So you're a monster who descended to earth in Mei Ti's body," the human suddenly blurted out, his tone flat.

"Polluted": "!!"

Ye Jiang tilted her head and asked, "Really?"

monster. "..."

It cannot be denied.

"How do you know about 'the monster'?" the monster asked, eyeing Ye Jiang suspiciously. "Could you be...?"

"I'm not," Ye Jiang interrupted, her face expressionless.

You presumptuous fellow, she's a human being.

The monster chuckled. She remembered that this person seemed to be connected to the Ability Control Bureau and probably knew some secrets.

"Yes, I am a monster, are you afraid?" The monster curled its thick tentacles, deliberately trying to scare people.

Ye Jiang: "."

"What's your name?" she asked, turning around to ask Dong Zhen if she knew this person.

It seems they're not afraid.

The monster waved its tentacles listlessly. "Monsters don't have names."

She glanced at the humans and casually said, "Why don't you name one for me?"

Ye Jiang's eyes flickered, her gaze momentarily unfocused. Choosing a name... choosing a name...

Suddenly, a person came to mind.

Don't you have a name? Would you like me to give you one?

The figure stood with his back to her in front of a field of wild ginger, only a voice tinged with laughter could be heard. "Hmm... how are the Jiang Ye?"

"..."

"Don't like it? Then let's change it. Her name will be Ye Jiang. Her surname will be Ye, the same as mine."

Like fragments of memory, it shatters at the slightest touch.

The monster noticed the sudden change in the human's expression; her waving tentacles froze. She was somewhat ashamed and indignant. "... Is it really worth putting you in such a difficult position? I didn't really ask you to take it, and I don't care anyway..."

"Shi Li." Ye Jiang's voice rang out, sounding colder than usual, because she hadn't completely shaken off her memories.

The monster froze.

This is...

Is this the name she gave her?

The monster looked at the human, whose unfocused gaze landed on a pile of broken rubble at the corner of the high wall. Gravel, pebbles, Shi Li... could it be...?

monster. "..."

Isn't this a bit too perfunctory?

￥*@&!

never mind.

Well, that works too.

The monster was stunned; she... had a name.

What kind of feeling is this?

Although it was just a name, it made me feel that she was now distinct from the group of monsters, and my feelings towards her became much stronger...

Like being reborn.

The monster glanced at the human who had named her; she hadn't expected to actually receive a name, and her heart was filled with complex emotions.

It feels great.

I'm very happy.

She coughed lightly, pretending not to care. "Oh, okay then, I'll be called Shi Li."

After saying this, she was slightly lost in thought, remembering the last words the human child had said.

Monsters do have a birth date, and so did she, but it was so long ago that she no longer remembers it.

And no monster celebrates its birthday.

Now that she has a name she didn't have before, let's consider today her birthday. That way, she'll have received two birthday gifts: one from a human child whom she gave away in advance—a body; and the other from someone who gave her a name.

Two gifts!

Thinking of this, the monster—no, Shi Li— glanced at the human in front of her, happily wriggling her tentacles. As she curled up, a Blood Moon silently appeared at the end of her tentacle. Shi Li paused, her alert gaze instantly fixed on it. Ye Jiang noticed it too, her gaze following suit.

Um?

Chapter 102 Wish She doesn't seem to be human.

Like Blood Moon mark, it appeared, gradually deepening and becoming increasingly obvious until it was impossible to ignore. Its crimson hue was like darkness; a mark generally believed to belong only to human superhumans was now on the body of a monster.

Top-formed.

Ye Jiang had actually seen several such exceptions, such as the S-Rank Polluted, the Mushroom Man, and the Invisible Man, and the monster Dong Zhen. But even with the Mushroom Man, the Invisible Man, and the monster Dong Zhen, Ye Jiang only saw their Blood Moon after they took shape. The difference is that what she is seeing now is the process of the Blood Moon taking shape!

Almost reflexively, she activated her Ability System.

Superpower: Sewing Box (can re-knit any torn garment as if it were new).

Grade: C-Rank.

Rank:??

The ability level displayed on the interface remained unchanged, which was normal, as it was said that abilities became increasingly difficult to upgrade at higher levels. Ye Jiang ignored this and quickly entered the [Domination] section. The [Domination] section still had three item storage slots; the first slot contained a "sesame seed ball," the second contained two watermelon-sized orbs of light, and the third...

In the third compartment, a dark red dot of light was becoming increasingly solid as it flickered. It appeared out of thin air and quieted down under Ye Jiang's gaze, becoming a solid dot of light in the storage compartment. At the same time, the Blood Moon symbol on the monster Shi Li's tentacles fully appeared. The dust settled, and a mysterious relationship seemed to connect the dot of light and the Blood Moon symbol, connecting Ye Jiang and the monster.