Human Skin Monster

"Your Excellency Xixi! You are my savior!" Torres knelt on the ground, his tone full of excitement.

"Come on, weren't you just full of things to say? Do you want to talk to someone else a bit more?" Ye Chuan saw Torres sniveling and trying to hug his leg, so he kicked the other person away and pointed at Irena beside him.

Torres blushed. "I... I'm not... I actually..."

"Ahem." Irena also calmed herself down and bowed deeply to Ye Chuan. "Mr. Xixi, thank you for saving us."

If it weren't for Ye Chuan, she and Torres would probably have died here.

"Remember to settle the medical expenses." Ye Chuan didn't forget to remind Torres.

Torres stood up and scratched his head. "Okay."

He felt all over his body but couldn't take out a single cent. Finally, Irena beside him reached out and took off the pendant on her chest. "Mr. Xixi, this is Torres' medical expense."

"Your Highness!" Seeing Irena take off the pendant, Torres immediately became anxious because he knew what this pendant was.

Irena just calmly shook her head.

"All right." Ye Chuan rather unceremoniously took the pendant. It still felt warm to the touch, as if it had been warmed by Xuezi.

[Item: Irena's Pendant * Gold

Blessed by the Elf King, it can immunize most abnormal states]

It was indeed a good thing. Could it immunize against abnormalities?

"I'll take it home for Xi Xi." Ye Chuan put away the pendant.

"Those adventurers..." Torres pointed at the large group of paralyzed adventurers on the ground, who had all fallen into a coma at the moment.

Ye Chuan glanced at them. "It's okay. They'll be fine after a good sleep."

Anyway, they were camping here. At most, those guys would get bitten by mosquitoes. They'd be okay once the toxins in their bodies dissipated. It wasn't a life - threatening thing in the first place.

After taking a short rest, Ye Chuan sat on the tree trunk and planned to study magic for a while, but he found that a figure had appeared beside him at some point.

He turned his head and saw Irena standing beside him.

"Your Excellency Xixi, can I sit here?" Irena asked.

It seemed that she had also learned to address Ye Chuan as "Your Excellency".

"Sit." Ye Chuan patted the space beside him and said.

Irena slowly sat down, and Ye Chuan took a second look at her appearance. She was a delicate, beautiful, cold - skinned elf with a dreamy look and was very cute.

Being stared at by Ye Chuan, a blush appeared on Irena's face. "I'm ugly, right... That's why I have to cover my face..."

"I don't know why it's so strange here. You're clearly very cute, aren't you?"

"But I'm a half - elf..."

"Isn't that even better?" Ye Chuan said. "Look at your long ears. They're so cute. Both you and that glasses - wearing receptionist at the guild."

"Eh?" It was the first time Irena had been praised like this. Her face was almost buried in her knees.

After a long time, she finally calmed herself down. She touched her ten fingers together and gave a sweet smile.

"Although I know Your Excellency Xixi is just joking with me, I'm still very happy..."

Joking with you?

It seemed that he had to investigate you.

"All right, let's get down to business, Princess." Ye Chuan said.

"Your Excellency Xixi really knows. After all, we didn't deliberately hide it." Irena stared at the burning campfire in front of her. "I'm Irena Hill, the ninth princess of the Hill Empire."

"I'm not from this empire, so I don't know about your affairs." Ye Chuan thought of what Irena had told him not long ago. "Isabella was just a fake name... Then do you really want to assassinate the king?"

Those two assassins seemed to be sent by the king.

Father - daughter harmony?

"Your Excellency Xixi isn't from the Hill Empire? Where are you from?"

"China."

"I've never heard of it..."

However, Irena didn't intend to dwell on Ye Chuan's origin. Even if she knew, it might not be of any benefit. She spoke softly.

"The king... My father is no longer himself."

"Is the current king your step - father?"

"No." Irena shook her head. It seemed that she had thought of something terrible, and her body curled up slightly.

"One day I went to the study to read. By accident, I found that my father had turned into a man - eating monster. He was all purple and directly ate the visiting count. I secretly witnessed all this happen."

Her voice was full of fear.

"I told my elder brother about this, but he thought I was having an illusion..."

"But later I found out that all my elder brothers and sisters had turned into monsters..."

"With human skins on, they smiled eerily during the day..."

Ye Chuan: "..."

It did sound quite scary?

"It's so creepy. Princess, hug me for warmth." Ye Chuan said.

Irena was stunned for a moment and blushed. "This..."

"Just joking. Go on."

Irena came to her senses and then roughly told the whole story. "I found that everyone in the royal family had turned into monsters, but I hadn't."

"I was very confused. Then one night, the king came to me and asked about my mother's whereabouts..."

"Looking at its eerie smile, I finally understood that it had set its sights on my mother, the Elf King Iliya."

Irena said quietly. "Maybe it doesn't know that I've learned the truth... Or maybe it does. But one night, I found an opportunity to escape from the royal city."

On the way to escape, I met Torres, the son of the knight - captain of the Reinhardt family.

"He was also escaping. After talking to him, I found out..." Irena's voice was full of endless fear.

"The various noble families and the royal family in the royal city seem to have been parasitized by that monster."

"They disguise themselves during the day and learn human behavior..."

"It's so scary. It's really scary..."

Seeing Irena's pale little face, Ye Chuan reached out and patted her on the back. "It is really scary that such a thing happened."

Ye Chuan couldn't even imagine that scene.

A monster in the skin of his own relative, smiling and talking to others, while only he knew the truth.

This feeling was really terrifying.

"It seems that the Aiser Continent isn't as safe as I thought..." Ye Chuan murmured.

Originally, he thought the Aiser Continent was a bit more peaceful than the Tianxuan Continent, but now it seemed that there were also some unexpected situations happening.

"So you want me to assassinate the king?"

"Yes..." Irena nodded gently. "I... I don't know what to do anymore."

"Going to the territory of Count Kangong was actually to ask him for help..." Irena said in a low voice. "I'm familiar with him, and this place is far from the royal city. I believe Count Kangong can give me a hand."

"What if he's also a monster?" Ye Chuan asked.

Irena bit her lip.