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Chapter 359. The Strange Infant
"Why is this happening..."

In the mortal realm, the Crown Prince looked at the red and yellow sky, his mutilated body trembling violently, almost spilling from the bottle.

He forced out a barely audible groan through his teeth, his face contorted with extreme rage.

He murmured:

“A traitor…a traitor has emerged from management…”

A sharp, chilling light flashed in the Crown Prince's eyes, and he gave the order in a hoarse voice:
"Blind Master, immediately take all the puppets and turn this entire courtyard upside down! Even if you have to dig three feet into the ground, find that traitor..."

"Pfft-"

Before he could finish speaking, a muffled thud of a sharp blade piercing flesh abruptly interrupted him.

The Crown Prince's body stiffened abruptly, and he lowered his gaze in disbelief.

A blade tip, gleaming with an eerie light, protruded from the fabric of his clothes, and warm blood quickly spread across his skin.

Then, the tip of the knife cruelly and slowly rotated and stirred inside his body, bringing excruciating pain.

"you……!"

He struggled to turn his head and look at the figure behind him who always kept his head down.

The blind masseuse behind her gripped her long knife tightly. Her external eye looked at the black head in the vase, and a shy smile slowly spread across her face.

"Prince."

Her voice was soft, but her hands never stopped moving.
"You've been clinging to life in this vase for so many years, it's long overdue... to set off on your journey."

The shadow completely enveloped the Crown Prince, yet amidst this extreme pain and betrayal, he suddenly chuckled softly, a twisted smile curving his lips.

"Heh... As expected of you, Tantai Hui. I knew all along... you've never been a docile dog."

The seemingly frail blind girl, wearing a linen-grey shirt, has an increasingly pure and innocent smile:

"I understand what you mean."

"What you're trying to say is that you don't actually have a heart in your chest—back when you severed your limbs to save your life in this vase, you already sacrificed that beating heart to the 'Mechanic,' and from then on, you coexisted with the gods. So even if I pierce your chest, I can't kill you at all... Am I right?"

The smile on the Crown Prince's face gradually faded.

But the blind man's lips curled up higher and higher, and his smile began to reveal undisguised malice and pleasure.

"What a pity... the mechanic you rely on is itself... about to be in danger."

Her voice remained soft, yet every word was like a knife, slashing at the Crown Prince's last psychological defenses.

"Right now, my mother, the Hundred-Eyed Demon, is enjoying the feast she has been longing for. Tell me, does your symbiote... even care about you now?"

The color drained from the prince's face in an instant, and his pupils contracted sharply due to extreme fear.

He seemed to have heard the most terrifying words in the world; even his voice changed tone:

"You...you're actually the 'child' of the Hundred-Eyed Demon?!"

"No wonder...no wonder the Tantai family met back then..."

The blind fortune teller chuckled softly, his tone icy:
"How could a family of strategists with a history of centuries suddenly produce an anomaly like me? The answer, of course, is..."

“I am not of their bloodline at all.”

Let's rewind to a few years ago.

In the season of falling leaves, the renowned Tantai family, a lineage of strategists, welcomed the birth of their second daughter. This should have been a joyous occasion for the entire clan, but the family elders soon discovered a faint red mark on the newborn girl's forehead, resembling a closed eye slit.

What's even more unsettling is that, as the offspring of a family of strategists, she enjoyed the best educational resources from birth, yet she still couldn't speak by the age of three.

Her later awakened talent further confirmed this anomaly—the Tantai family had a lineage of strategists passed down through generations, and this child's inclination was "control." Because of these unusual circumstances, the usually cautious elders took her for a bloodline test.

The test results showed that she was a strategist.

If that's the case, why is there such a strange discrepancy between her behavior and her bloodline?
Drawing upon the accumulated wisdom of generations of strategists, the Tantai family, through meticulous deduction, ultimately arrived at a chilling conclusion:

This generation—they may have given birth to a "monster baby".

Although the baby is named "wei" (meaning "wei"), it is actually a human being.

However, when the embryo was in the contaminated culture vessel, it was contaminated by an extraterrestrial god, which caused changes to its bloodline genes.

These kinds of strange infants are born as innate agents, and even enjoy greater powers than agents transformed by later corruption.

Most deities belonging to the side of light are suspicious, and they prefer the strange infants raised from childhood to the agents they later tamed.

Who will raise the baby born from the ghost?
That, of course, involves randomly selecting lucky human families.

It is clear that the Tantai family is the chosen family.

The "demon" that chose them is most likely an entity that uses eyes as a contaminant—the "Hundred-Eyed Demon."

As the truth came to light, the Tantai clan was thrown into panic. They placed people under close surveillance of the child, watching as she easily entered the Radiant Academy, their control growing ever more refined and terrifying.

Finally, one day, the family decided they could no longer let things go, so they used the excuse that Tantai Jing had suddenly gone blind and needed an organ transplant to gouge out his eyes.

According to newly obtained information from the family elders, destroying the eyes of the Hundred-Eyed Demon's infant could sever the connection between the two.

However, to their surprise, the Hundred-Eyed Demon contacted Tantai Hui earlier than they had anticipated.

When Tantai Hui lost her eyes, she had already become the most trusted child among the many ghost infants raised by the Hundred-Eyed Demon.

So on that snowy night, the Tantai family used all their connections to send Tantai Hui to a mental hospital as quickly as possible.

Bound by his limbs, Tantai Hui lay on the cold operating table, hearing the hiss of a red-hot dagger approaching his eyes, and also hearing that strange and indistinct whisper echoing in his mind:

“My child…you’ve finally arrived at the mental hospital…”

"After you lose your eyes... I will grant you the power of 'Eye Erosion'..."

"Lying in wait...taking each step with care...until we step into the heart of the Mechanic's power..."

"And then...help your 'mother'..."

"Eat it."

After the excruciating pain from the removal of her eyeballs subsided that night, Tantai Hui "opened" her eyes again and found that the world was unfolding before her in a different way—she had lost her own eyes, but she possessed the eyes of millions of others.

These eyes helped her gather information and conceal her identity until—she reached where she is today.

"Pfft-"

Tantai Hui drew his sword and saw through the puppet beside him that the Crown Prince's eyes were wide open, as if he had died with his eyes open.

Even though she had just stabbed someone, her smile remained shy and introverted.

"What a misfortune, Your Highness."

There are countless rules for the path that good people take.

But the only rule for bad guys is the law of the jungle.

Tantai Hui shook his head and said regretfully:

"you are out."