Listening to what Xiao Yan said, Ye Taotao's eyes widened in horror, her pupils shrunk to the size of a pinhead, and she was completely paralyzed by fear.
Are all human monks so terrible? Would they do the same to themselves?
Xiao Yan was still saying: "A little monster like you, young and not very advanced, can't be defeated by anyone... They will capture you and force you to form a master-slave contract. Every day
I will order you around, beat you and scold you, and even take your blood and cut your flesh..."
"Ugh..." A pool of tears soon filled his ruby-like eyes.
The little monster raised its little face with two packs of tears and looked at Xiao Yan with a pursed lips: "Would you do the same to me?"
"Of course I won't do this to you." Xiao Yan stretched out his hand and touched the little monster's head, his eyes full of love and pity, "Zai Zai is so cute, how can my brother let him go?"
"However, this is not necessarily the case for others." Xiao Yan changed the topic and said, "So Zaizai, you must remember that although you can hide the identity of the monster after taking the elixir, you still have to be careful.
Don’t show your flaws in front of others at will.”
Ye Taotao stared at the two tears, nodded solemnly on her face, and her voice sounded more serious than ever before: "Taotao understands!"
She really likes people and hopes that she can become a human and live with everyone.
But why do humans hurt monsters like this?
Looking at the shark floating in the water, Ye Taotao drooped her eyebrows and looked a little depressed.
"No...cry..."
A stiff but extremely pleasant voice came from the front.
Ye Taotao looked up. Unexpectedly, the shark had swam to her side. He put one hand on the shore and raised his head towards her. His empty eyes seemed to be "gazing" at her quietly.
It seemed that he was not used to the human language. His voice was very soft and his enunciation was a bit awkward and jerky, but he still repeated: "Don't cry."
Ye Taotao quickly stretched out her hand to wipe the crystal in her eyes, pouted her mouth, and showed an expression of reluctance on her face: "I didn't cry!"
The shark stopped talking, and still raised his head, quietly facing her direction, motionless, like a dead sculpture.
Ye Taotao noticed that the hand resting on the shore had a short layer of translucent webs between its five fingers; there were also beautiful translucent fins on his elbows, which when spread out
Just like wings, flowing with colorful and magnificent light.
But whether it was the webs or the fins, there were mottled gray-white scars on them that never faded.
Ye Taotao couldn't help but squat down and reach out to gently touch the scars on the fish's fins.
The shark's shoulders trembled slightly, as if he was not used to being touched by others, but he still did not move away and allowed Ye Taotao to stroke his fins.
"What kind of injury is this? Why hasn't it healed yet?"
Ye Taotao discovered that even those deep-seated wounds that had been scattered on the shark's body had healed, leaving only faint red marks, and it would not take long for them to return to their original state.
But why do these seemingly minor injuries always leave marks?
Ye Taotao tilted her head and looked at it, stretched out her little hand to gesture, and said with some surprise: "It looks like a small flower, is it a peach blossom?"
The shark shook his head gently, said nothing, and just allowed Ye Taotao to touch him with a curious look on his face.
Xiao Yan also noticed these scars, and his eyes on the shark suddenly became more complicated.
"This is... the slave mark." He whispered.
Bai Xin, who was standing quietly by the side, couldn't help but be stunned for a moment: "Slave Yin?"
He lives in Zhulijie. Although the humans in Zhulijie are afraid of monsters, the two sides can still be regarded as on equal footing.
As long as humans do not easily step into the territory of monster beasts, monster beasts will not take the initiative to attack human towns.
Bai Xin only knew that some people would enter into master-slave contracts with monsters. However, when such contracts were concluded, no special marks would appear. Therefore, he had not heard of such a thing as a slave mark.
Xiao Yan comes from the upper world and naturally knows far more than he knows.
"You have lived in Zhuli Realm for a long time, so naturally you don't know what the situation of the monsters in the upper realm is." Xiao Yan sighed imperceptibly, and then looked at Ye Taotao with a look of worry.
Bai Xin couldn't help but ask: "Is the situation of the monsters in the upper realm very bad?"
Xiao Yan nodded, his always scornful and stern expression now becoming more worried and solemn: "If possible, I would rather the little monster be just an ordinary monster, so that there is no need to go to the upper world. But she is born so extraordinary,
If you don’t go to the upper realm, I’m afraid you won’t be able to awaken in your lifetime.”
"People in the upper world are very repulsive to monsters?" Bai Xin asked, "They will kill them on sight?"
Xiao Yan said solemnly: "It's not just that. I'll kill you on sight. Even if I die, I can barely keep my dignity and don't have to suffer such humiliation and bullying. But if they have a way, they don't have to make a contract to make the monster have to
How about being a slave or a maid?"
As he spoke, he pointed at the gray marks on the shark's body and said: "If I guessed correctly, this shark should come from a certain family in the upper world. These slave marks are the family crest of that family. They are burned with a soldering iron.
It's red and permed because a special potion has been applied on it, so it can't be removed easily."
"How do people in the upper world treat monsters like this?" Bai Xin frowned deeply.
Xiao Yan said: "The Yunhai Realm where I was originally belongs to the middle realm of all the worlds. It is indeed an upper realm for the Zhuli Realm. This kind of thing is not uncommon. But I heard that some realms further up the Yunhai Realm are not suitable for Zhuli Realm.
Monsters are even more cruel and harsh."
Then, he told those things one by one.
In some realms, the human race suppresses monster beasts very seriously. They relegate all monster beasts to slaves. They are inherently inferior to the human race and can be bought, sold and slaughtered at will.
These monsters are not allowed to walk around the world in a completely transformed form. They must maintain the characteristics of the monster at all times, and the owner will use a special potion to imprint the family crest on the monster's body.
In some realms, when the monsters are born, the spiritual bones of the monsters are shaved off, and their souls and wisdom are wiped out, so that they will never be able to transform into humans in their lifetime, and can only be killed by humans in the slaughterhouse.
And all of this is not unrelated to the death of a demon princess in the upper world.
Since the death of the princess, the monster clan has begun to decline. All human monks in the middle realm and upper realm have unanimously suppressed the leaderless monster beasts.
It's not that there aren't powerful monsters appearing, it's just that those ancient monsters and top-level monsters were all expelled to the demon world of ten directions. It was bitter, cold and barren, and there were no other races except monsters and demons.
However, only the monsters in the world of demons and monsters in the ten directions that are beyond the control of human monks have the opportunity to transform.
"Could it be that the little monster comes from the world of monsters in all directions?"