Chapter 423 - 346: Then What Am I?
"Of all the humans who have come here, not a single one has ever left alive. But... I am willing to make an exception for you."
"Stop, stop, stop!" Wen Ying immediately held up her hand and waved it. "Why don’t you just change back to how you looked before? This form is honestly disgusting, and the sound of your voice makes me want to puke."
Hearing this, the Dean was displeased. "Isn’t this what you wanted to see? Well then, I’ll let you have your fill!"
Wen Ying found her head involuntarily turning toward the Dean, her eyes locked onto his body.
She couldn’t even close her eyes if she wanted to.
It was as if a powerful force was prying her eyes open and gripping her head, controlling the direction it faced.
"Disgusting? You dare call me disgusting? Human, I have been far too lenient with you."
Just then, Wen Ying’s body began to lift slowly off the ground, floating into the air.
Her expression was pained, as if someone had grabbed her by the throat and was hoisting her up.
It was a suffocating sensation.
"Human, wasn’t it you who wanted to see me? Why have you gone silent now that you have?"
"Human, did you think you could run rampant and destroy my territory just because you have some skill?"
"Human, you want to kill me to end this fog. Are you even capable of that?"
Taunt after taunt, sneer after sneer.
Wen Ying was currently experiencing the feeling of suffocation.
She remembered having a similar experience once, during a whitewater rafting trip.
That time, the entire trip took two hours.
But they would stop at four or five places along the way. At these stops, there were tons of people. It was like an unspoken rule—regardless of whether you were ready or wanted it, they would grab all sorts of ladles and basins and douse you with a relentless shower of water.
It came at you from all directions, an impenetrable, dense assault. In that instant, Wen Ying felt like she was about to suffocate.
Her mind went blank. Even fear vanished. She had no thoughts at all, only the agonizing sensation of being unable to breathe spreading through her entire body.
Back then, she had just been an ordinary student.
But now, she was no longer the person she used to be.
Wen Ying reached out, and a knife appeared in her hand. Without hesitation, she swung it at the empty space beside her neck.
Sparks flew as something shattered.
Only as it was being cut did the thing become visible—it was one of the Dean’s tentacles.
A foul, black liquid oozed from the severed end, dripping onto the ground below. DRIP. DRIP. DRIP.
But with a wave of the Dean’s hand, the shattered fragments all vanished.
"Human, what is that you’re holding?"
The Dean’s voice was icy as he looked down on Wen Ying with contempt.
Wen Ying brandished the knife and coughed a few times. "The Dog-slaying Knife. That’s what I named it."
"How crude!"
"As long as it can slay you, that’s all that matters."
The Dean instantly understood what "Dog-slaying Knife" implied.
"Human, are you looking to die?"
"You people say that way too often. Aren’t I still alive and well?"
"This is my—"
"I know, it’s your domain. So what? Didn’t I just chop off your tentacle? People... oh, no, monsters shouldn’t be so overconfident."
Wen Ying cut off the monstrous Dean.
"HAHAHAHAHA!" The Dean suddenly burst out laughing.
Amidst his laughter, the domain he had created began to crack apart inch by inch, as if it were a physical object.
It was cracking apart before her very eyes.
After the domain shattered, Wen Ying felt the pressure on her body disappear.
’Is this monster having some kind of fit?’
"Human, I quite like you. In your human terms, I admire you. I know you must feel honored to have earned my admiration. From now on, you may come and go as you please here. You have the guts and the ability. You can be my assistant."
Watching this disgusting monster, in its monstrous skin, say such things, Wen Ying couldn’t help but interrupt again. "Can you please change back to how you looked at the beginning before you speak?"
"Mm, you really are bold," the monstrous Dean added, a smile on his face that he seemed to think was handsome, charming, and all-knowing.
"Of course. You are my dear assistant, after all. How could I bear to make things difficult for you?"
With that, he once again transformed into the handsome, blond-haired, blue-eyed man.
The Head Nurse had been standing to the side, watching as the Dean and this human woman suddenly vanished, only to reappear just as suddenly. Hearing the Dean’s words, she looked at him with disbelief and resentment. "Dean, you’re going to make this human your assistant?"
"Then what does that make me?"