Judging from the price, the blood book is the best among all the redeemable rewards.
However, if viewed with the regular definition of a book, everyone can read it.
Luo Di’s plan was to first check if the book’s contents were suitable for him, and if not, he’d give it to Mia.
"You go ahead and read it~ I’ve never really been into books; I detest them."
Mia also proactively ceded the opportunity to read it first.
Given this, Luo Di did not hesitate.
He held up the cover, which felt like blood vessels, and when he tried to turn to the first page, he found it wouldn’t open at all, as if those vessels had locked the book tight.
Forcefully opening it might directly damage the book.
Luo Di noticed that there was no blood flowing through these vessels, causing an overall state of rigidity; perhaps there was only one way to read the book.
He bit his wrist with his front teeth,
letting blood drip onto the book cover.
Sure enough, as the blood permeated, the gaps between the blood vessels on the cover quickly filled, and the flowing blood revitalized the vessels.
The whole book even swelled slightly, and the vessels binding the pages automatically loosened.
It was Luo Di’s first time encountering such a cleverly designed book, and when he eagerly opened it, there were no pages inside;
there were only the blood vessels that had absorbed Luo Di’s blood, arranged in symbolic formations.
The end of the blood vessels astonishingly had lamprey-like mouths, always waiting for the reader to approach.
Once it confirmed the blood injected into the book matched the reader’s aura,
Sharp teeth pierced Luo Di’s finger skin and quickly burrowed inside.
As he was about to stop this action, Mia’s voice came:
"Ah~ so this is how it’s designed! Looks like there’s no chance to share it, but no problem, Luo Di, you should just accept it.
Blood is useful for us [murderers], though I lean towards decay, so this fresh thing might not be a good fit.
The book is yours; just give me the heart."
Luo Di no longer stopped the vessel’s intrusion and quickly realized this was the real usage of the book.
These external vessels that entered his body soon connected to Luo Di’s circulatory system, serving as a core artery departing from the heart, circling major body parts in a loop.
As the vessel’s endpoint bit onto the heart’s surface, a whole extra blood circulation system formed.
Every blood flow through this vessel would be purified, filtering out blood impurities.
Correspondingly, Luo Di’s seven orifices bled, yet his expression showed immense pleasure, and his body felt light.
His consciousness unconsciously traveled to the pituitary space,
heading to the gray Moon,
descending along the Moon Pit,
towards the dungeon imprisoning victims.
The dungeon suddenly had a bloody scent,
Luo Di’s consciousness followed the scent to the deepest part, the [Planting Room].
Black plants grew in soil filled with human faces,
Luo Di tread on the soil to the spot with the densest bloody scent, brushing aside the human face soil, and found the scarlet book buried here.
This meant the book was now bound to Luo Di, rooted to the pituitary, exclusive for his reading and couldn’t be lost.
Finally, Luo Di could open the book.
Between the title pages, a prologue was written:
≮The earliest humans felt fear when they saw their blood flowing≯
The subsequent content wasn’t teaching Luo Di any blood secret techniques like in martial arts novels, but merely expounding the meaning of blood.
the entire cellar slowly started to seep blood,
Luo Di gradually understood how to use tomato sauce in B-movies for better visual presentation,
how to splash blood to evoke greater "fear" in the "audience."
This reading didn’t last long before reaching its limit.
Even the planting room’s walls began to seep blood, and his consciousness blurred, with intense hemolysis reactions occurring.
『This book needs to be read slowly~ reading too much at once will result in blood backlash. No rush, as long as I survive this incident, there’s plenty of time in the future.』
Luo Di resolutely closed the book, burying it within the soil.
Though blood wasn’t his primary attribute, it was a "friend" always encountered as a murderer; burying it here could somewhat aid the growth of the "Victim’s Bud."
Consciousness returned,
but before him was no longer the sacrifice room on the villa’s second floor, but a dilapidated bathroom.
A candle was lit in the corner, a delicate hand helped to wipe Luo Di’s body with burlap, with a few flies buzzing around.
Mia, with her light golden hair and face full of freckles, was carefully wiping away the blood seeping from every pore of Luo Di’s body.
"You’re finally awake! Looks like you gained something... from the moment you fainted, your body continuously oozed blood, and the situation got worse.
I could only carry you to the bathroom, clean the blood off you, and use maggots to stop the bleeding.
I thought you wouldn’t endure the book and die."
Luo Di instinctively clenched his thighs, trying to change the subject, "Has much time passed?"
Mia noticed a hint of shyness in him, chuckling,
"Haha, I didn’t expect there’d be a shy big boy like you in the corner! What kind of bodies haven’t we murderers seen? Yet here you are, so coy.
I’m only interested in slaughter.
Of course, if you want to get more intimate and want to have a murderer baby with me, I don’t mind! I’m quite looking forward to a descendant born from our genetics.
The time has been fine; we are still on the [first day]. However, it’s already late at night; after your wash, you can go to sleep."
"What about the other two prizes?"
"I’ve already installed the heart, see! It’s such a good thing, greatly enhancing the survival odds; our painstaking slaughter wasn’t in vain."
Mia directly showcased her body, using her fingernail to tear open her right chest.
The crimson heart was pumping inside, and the maggots and flies around it were greatly invigorated, glowing a reddish hue.
Not only did it supply Mia more blood and physical functionality, it seemed capable of providing new life in a near-death state.
"Isn’t it beautiful?"
Luo Di nodded and diverted his gaze, amused by this rare display of youthful innocence in the corner.
Mia wasn’t melodramatic, quickly putting on her denim overalls.
"Oh! I’ve fed the blood to the girl in the tub; her body became younger, feeling just fifteen, yet she still hasn’t awakened."
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The day’s exploration, combat, and blood reading left Luo Di exhausted; he intended to rest in this villa for the night, heading to the city tomorrow.
As the two pushed open the bathroom door,
flies crawled out from Mia’s eye sockets, and she instantly shifted into a killing state.
The sliver of moonlight outside the window was now completely obscured.
The entire world plunged into absolute darkness, and the candle pre-lit in the room offered only minimal illumination.
The struggling candlelight climbing the walls cast exaggerated, twisted words.
The entire villa’s walls unknowingly had the same words painted in black paint: