“Senior, what do you want to eat? I’ll go find Ah Jiao to make it for you!”
Xu Xingyuan still hadn’t realized that the blood he drew every day all went into Gu Nian’s stomach.
Seeing Xu Xingyuan about to get up again, Gu Nian held his wrist with one hand.
This time, having caught it, he didn’t let go.
Gu Nian’s thumb gently pressed against the skin on the inner side of Xu Xingyuan’s wrist, feeling the flow of blood beneath the blue veins.
Honestly, drawing blood and biting directly into the skin were two completely different ways of eating.
The texture was different, too.
It was the difference between a human eating a pre-packaged meal and eating something made on the spot by a Michelin 5-star chef.
When feeding, the top-tier spot to bite was the skin of a human’s neck.
It was the most tender there, and the texture of the blood was also top-notch.
However, biting the neck was the most intimate way of feeding. Only people who were intimate enough would use this posture.
Before meeting Xu Xingyuan, Gu Nian had been hungry for a very, very long time.
He was an extremely picky eater.
He wouldn’t eat blood he didn’t like, even if he died.
This worried the Doctor to death!
Thinking of Gu Nian’s health, he had found all kinds of precious and rare blood, placed them before Gu Nian, and begged him in every way possible, coaxing:
“Ancestor, just take one bite!”
Gu Nian refused to eat even if it killed him, nearly angering the Doctor to death.
Having starved for so long, Xu Xingyuan’s appearance was like placing a pile of top-tier gourmet food in front of a starving man.
Because Xu Xingyuan was human and would die from excessive blood loss, Gu Nian could only eat a little bit every day, like tasting a pre-dinner snack. He couldn’t get full at all.
Seeing Gu Nian holding his wrist without speaking for a long time, Xu Xingyuan thought he was really hungry and asked carefully:
“Senior? Shall I go to the kitchen and ask for you?”
Gu Nian lifted his eyelids. beneath his originally black pupils, a trace of scarlet faintly surfaced. Like a cat’s eyes, his pupils constricted into thin slits.
To not scare Xu Xingyuan, Gu Nian gently closed his eyes. He lifted Xu Xingyuan’s wrist and pressed his lips against it.
Like Gu Nian himself, his lips were cold.
Xu Xingyuan’s skin was soft and warm. Suddenly touching those cold lips brought an inexplicable shiver.
“Mm… S-Senior?”
Xu Xingyuan bit his lower lip lightly, reflexively wanting to pull his hand back.
However, a sharp pain suddenly struck the delicate skin of his wrist!
At first, the pain was obvious, but only for an instant. Then, Xu Xingyuan felt as if he had fallen into a sea of clouds.
His head became dizzy, and his body went soft, falling backward uncontrollably.
Gu Nian had anticipated this. He wrapped one arm around Xu Xingyuan’s slender waist ahead of time, half-holding him in his embrace.
With his thick lashes lowered and a deep longing in his eyes, his fangs pierced deep into the skin, swallowing the warm blood in large gulps.
The situation was a little out of control.
Xu Xingyuan could maintain some consciousness at first, but with the massive loss of blood from his body, he soon fainted.
“Beast! Worse than a beast!”
The Doctor looked at Xu Xingyuan lying on the hospital bed with a face full of grief, pointing at Gu Nian as he continued to curse:
“Look at what you’ve done! You sucked the poor guy dry until he passed out!”
Gu Nian remained silent for once, leaning back on the sofa without saying a word.
“I know you were hungry, and I know it’s rare for blood that suits your taste to appear, but you can’t eat so excessively!”
The Doctor pointed indignantly at Xu Xingyuan’s pale face from a distance.
“Xingyuan is already malnourished, and you! You grab his wrist and just start eating like it’s an all-you-can-eat buffet!”
The Doctor nagged on and on.
Gu Nian listened quietly, not refuting a single sentence the entire time.
It was indeed him losing control.
Self-control had always been the thing Gu Nian was most proud of.
In front of Xu Xingyuan, he had nearly lost it completely.
“Luckily, we have Ah Jiao’s candy, otherwise he wouldn’t be able to regenerate blood in large quantities in a short time.”
Gu Nian was one-eighth full, and the sleepiness on his face had diminished significantly. He finally spoke:
“I can feed him back.”
“Boss, give it a rest.” The Doctor’s mouth twitched. “He can’t handle that blessing. One drop of your blood would take Xu Xingyuan’s life.”
Everyone wanted Gu Nian’s blood.
It just depended on whether he was willing to give it.
Demons wanted to eat monk meat for immortality; Gu Nian’s blood had the same effect.
His blood didn’t just extend life; it could also rapidly increase a person’s strength in a short time.
One drop of blood could save a hundred years of struggle.
Back then, someone had offered an astronomical price to buy Gu Nian’s blood, but no one dared to take the order.
“Boss, where’s your self-control? Aren’t you the best at enduring?”
Hearing this, Gu Nian coldly looked away, seemingly giving the Doctor the silent treatment.
Seeing him like this, the Doctor self-consciously shut his mouth.
Xu Xingyuan slept until nightfall before waking up.
As soon as he woke up, he was latched onto by Berus.
“Xingyuan, Bro is taking you to a good place!”
Xu Xingyuan’s head was still a bit dizzy. Yawning, he followed Berus with a dazed face.
In his trance, Xu Xingyuan seemed to remember everything that happened in the infirmary.
The senior said he was hungry.
He wanted to get food for the senior, but the senior wouldn’t let him leave.
In the end, the senior treated him as food, his cold lips pressing against the inside of his wrist.
He had his blood sucked by the senior.
Before Xu Xingyuan could delve into why the senior wanted to eat him, Berus had brought him to a room.
Pushing the door open, Xu Xingyuan was shocked by the scene before him.
The walls of this room were hung with a massive pile of weapons.
Swords, shields, spears, lances, whips, pistols, rocket launchers…
Whether cold weapons or firearms, everything one could expect to find was there. It was overwhelming!
“You’re entering a dungeon soon. You gotta have a handy weapon, right?”
Berus waved his hand, acting super lavish. “Pick whatever! Take whatever you like!”
Xu Xingyuan was now considered half an NPC of the Monster Apartment and a human NPC with official status, on the verge of becoming a Ferryman.
This made him different from those players who were selected and forced into dungeons.
Xu Xingyuan had no system panel, so naturally, he couldn’t see the levels and heaven-defying values of the weapons on the wall.
Like picking out a toy, Berus first grabbed a silver-white dagger and handed it to Xu Xingyuan.
“This suits you. See if it feels right.”
Xu Xingyuan held the dagger carefully and waved it twice.
His strength was small, and he wasn’t good at sports. The dagger would probably make him bleed before he could hurt anyone else.
So Xu Xingyuan returned the dagger and shook his head.
If the players outside saw this scene, their eyeballs would definitely pop out onto the floor!
[Item Name] Silver Dragon’s Fang
[Item Rank] S-Rank
[Item Info] Rumored to be the first milk tooth lost by a Silver Dragon in its infancy. As a Silver Dragon governing space magic, this dagger can even tear through space.
Such an awesome item, and Xu Xingyuan rejected it just like that?!
The lowest rank item in the entire room started at A-Rank, not to mention the S-Rank items that made people green with envy.
Outside, a single A-Rank item could cause people to fight until their heads bled and brothers to turn against each other.
But as long as Xu Xingyuan didn’t like it, Berus tossed it back casually like throwing trash.
“Xingyuan, choose whatever!”
Berus put his arm around Xu Xingyuan’s shoulder, taking him to look inch by inch.
“Bro has plenty of these gadgets. Take whatever you like!”
At this moment, while the players in the Infinite Flow dungeons outside the Monster Apartment were still scheming and arguing over a D-Rank item…
Xu Xingyuan was gradually getting dazzled while choosing from S-Rank items.
What is “miles ahead”?
This is being miles ahead!