A little girl at a magic school, she's a goofy troublemaker who can do anything.

Don't even think about it.

A sharp, piercing female voice slashed down from the sky, its unstoppable edge almost bursting forth. Without a second thought, Ji Moxuan refused outright and, along with the other members, formed a protective circle around Li Wenyin.

Xing Qi didn't seem to be in good condition either. Zhou Mixuan must have cast some kind of spell on him before he was corrupted. They had been fighting for a while now, and Xing Qi hadn't used any magic except to control the other people.

He estimated that he wouldn't be able to hold out for long, but he still had people under his control.

Li Wenyin observed her surroundings, carefully considering Xing Qi's words.

After Xing Qi learned that she had been a student at a disbanded school, he asked to exchange blood with her, which meant that disbanded students must have something special about them and that Xing Qi knew about it. Then he asked to be released back into the Monster Forest, without making any other requests.

Monster Forest, Abandoned School Students, Xing Rui Who Was There That Night, Disguised Animals, Blood, Mutant and Frenzied Monsters...

what.

Li Wenyin remembered.

At the same time, Li Wenyin felt a soft, warm sensation in the fingertips of her right hand.

An invisible little hand grasped her fingers and then slowly wrote words on the back of her hand.

"I am coming."

"I see."

-

"Vice President Ji Mo, can you handle Vice President Zhou?" Li Wenyin whispered to Ji Moxuan from behind the crowd.

Ji Moxuan stared intently at Xing Qi, without turning her head: "Of course you can."

"Then I'll leave it to you. I have something I want to ask Xing Qi."

After Li Wenyin finished speaking, she walked out from the crowd and faced Xing Qi directly.

"Li Wenyin?" Ji Moxuan exclaimed in surprise, "You're back? Are you out of your mind?"

Li Wenyin smiled calmly at her: "I want it, but not just for myself. I need to activate my invincible verbal skills now to save everyone's lives."

All student council members: "?"

How can you say that you're going to start talking nonsense?

Xing Qi is so crazy now, how can he be considered to have any sense or be able to understand human speech?

Li Wenyin took a deep breath.

She wasn't alone.

She held the hand of a certain Kyou who had retrieved the Invisibility Cloak, and Kyou was silently writing words into her palm.

"I'll explain briefly."

Li Wenyin nodded slightly.

-

"Xing Rui, this name is familiar to you, isn't it?" Li Wenyin looked directly into Xing Qi's eyes and spoke calmly.

Xing Qi remained calm and showed little reaction, simply looking at her and saying, "So what? Has the student council stooped to using innocent people to blackmail the enemy?"

"You really care about her."

Li Wenyin stared at him intently.

"She's my older sister, that's normal," Xing Qi seemed unwilling to elaborate, "but that doesn't seem to concern you guys right now, does it?"

"How can this be unrelated! If that's the case, you shouldn't treat me and everyone in the student council as enemies. You shouldn't be wreaking havoc in the Monster Forest and controlling the students."

Li Wenyin, unusually serious, spoke loudly.

"Shouldn't you be fighting against your family's contract magic?"

He finished speaking.

Xing Qi, who always carried a faint sense of death and whose eyes were filled with decay, stickiness, and a tasteless emptiness, was slightly moved. He weakly raised the corners of his mouth in a mocking smile, just like the evil spirit that had just climbed up.

He said softly, "I'm resisting."

-

At the same time, the nine students, led by Zhou Mixuan, who had already been alienated and controlled, collectively fell into an even more manic and frenzied state.

Xing Qi seemed to have completely relinquished control over them, allowing them to go wild under his influence, uncontrolled and without any regard for their physical condition, attacking endlessly.

Ji Moxuan gripped her magic wand and stomped down hard. A long, dark cloud stretched across the sky, and she summoned heavenly lightning, which directly obliterated one of Zhou Mixuan's clones.

However, the other students, mindful of the bodies opposite her, were restrained and focused on dodging and casting binding magic, unable to truly attack.

"Li Wenyin, what's going on?" Ji Moxuan asked during a break.

"Holy crap, Xing Qi, let me finish!"

Li Wenyin reacted quickly and tried to help, but the newly formed plant was directly knocked away by a mutated student council member. These gods were fighting, but luckily she was quite agile and nimble, dodging left and right. Although she couldn't help, she couldn't hold them back.

The difference in experience and personal charm among people of different ages is still too great.

She took a few steps back and answered Ji Moxuan, "It's the contract magic of the Xing family in the North."

"The Xing family of the North?" Ji Moxuan frowned.

The two of them, one fighting and talking at the same time, and the other pulling on a little invisible person, talking while hiding.

The two, who had only met recently, surprisingly developed a tacit understanding and quickly exchanged words amidst the chaos of battle.

"Yes, the Xing family in the north is a family of contracts. Every generation of children in the family will sign a contract with a baby of the same age who is not related to them by blood during their infancy."

Li Wenyin twisted her body and successfully dodged a lightning ball thrown by a member of the Discipline Department who was being controlled by the alien. Looking back, she saw that the wall was scorched and she couldn't imagine what would happen if that thing hit her.

She spoke very quickly, loudly reciting what Mu had told her, stroke by stroke, what she had just learned from the black file.

"Xing Rui is not Xing Qi's biological sister, but his god-sister, with whom he has a contractual relationship!"

This was the first time Ji Moxuan had heard about this. She kicked out, helping another student council member who was in a panic to dodge the sneak attack.

"contract?"

"Yes, it's a blood pact, a master-servant pact, and a life-and-death pact."

Li Wenyin continued.

"The Xing family will adopt a baby of the same age as their child and sign this contract."

"The two children are master and servant. The servant is required to support the master for all eternity, including but not limited to offering magic power. Every time the servant recovers magic power, it must be automatically supplied to the master through the contract. Nine out of ten parts of the magic power must be offered to the master."

"And also, to be obedient to one's master, to die if one disobeys, and to share in the master's suffering; if the master dies, the servant must also die."

This news is absolutely shocking.

Ji Moxuan is incredible.

"What era are we living in? Contract magic like this still exists? This is practically forbidden magic, even black magic! Doesn't the Magic Association care?"

Listen, the party in that contract who acts as the "servant" is simply a victim of injustice, a victim of being exploited.

Logically speaking, it should be strictly prohibited and considered illegal.

But......

Li Wenyin shook her head solemnly: "The association is difficult to manage. It is not widely known, but it has always existed within the Xing family in the north."

Ji Moxuan frowned deeply: "Because of family power?"

"No," Li Wenyin said, "it's because every generation of contracted servant babies carefully selected by the Xing family are born with incurable terminal illnesses and are on the verge of death. If it weren't for the Xing family's contract magic, none of them would have lived past the age of one."

Ji Moxuan: "This..."

They directly address the pain points of human nature.

-

The Xing family gave these infants, who would not have lived past one year old, a chance at life, by adopting them and making them servants under a contract.

By relying on contract magic, they can borrow a breath of their master's life and survive by clinging to life.

But they are also servants for eternity, becoming the stepping stones and energy supplies for their contracted masters, servants who can be summoned and dismissed at any time.

No matter how successful or great their achievements may be in the future, they will always be dependent on the contract owner.

They also have a choice. As the contracted servant, they can end the contract. Then, after the Xing family withdraws the contract magic, the slight respite that the master had lent to the servant will also be taken back.

In other words, for contracted servants, ending the contract means death. If they wish, they can fight for their final, passionate freedom in a grand manner, and the Xing family will not stop them.

They pull people from hell to heaven, then turn heaven back into hell, and finally, coldly and cruelly offer them this "choice".

Objectively speaking, given the choice between death and continuing to serve as a servant, and the fact that the Xing family had taken them in and provided them with good food and drink, how many would be willing to give up their lives for a little dignity and freedom?

Morally, they were not supposed to survive anyway; it was the Xing family who gave them a chance to live and were indebted to them.

How cruel and how helpless it is.

Even if people despise this and find it cruel and inhumane, there's nothing they can do about it.

Just like the Magic Association said, there's nothing they can do about it, nothing they can control.

This is an unsolvable problem.

-

Ji Moxuan was shocked after hearing this, and not only her, but also the student council members around her who came from upright and honest families were also shocked.

They couldn't believe that such a thing existed in the world, that there was such a magic that was neither black nor white, definitely not good, but also impossible to pinpoint exactly what was wrong with it.

No wonder it could only be recorded in a few words and could not be revealed to the world, and was eventually stored in the black archives in the forbidden room.

Ji Moxuan was at a loss for words to comment on the matter. Lost in thought, she asked, "So, Xing Qi is the contracted servant?"

That's why he hates this contract magic so much, wants to resist, yet is powerless to do so...

No, quite the opposite.

Li Wenyin said.

"Xing Qi is the young master of the Xing family in this generation, the master of the contract magic, and his sworn sister Xing Rui is the servant who is contracted."

"What?!" Ji Moxuan was stunned by the series of reversals and couldn't process the reasoning behind it all. "Then why would he do these things?"

Li Wenyin raised her head and looked at Xing Qi, who stood silently behind the crowd with cold, calm eyes.

"For Xing Rui."

"Everything he did was to give her her freedom."

-

After being quiet for a long time, Xing Qi finally decided to move.

He strode to the corridor railing and looked down at the students below, who were speechless from the sheer volume of information.

"You're meddling a bit too much."

Subsequently, the alienated students went into a more intense frenzy, their attacks became more ferocious, and their physical condition deteriorated.

"So that's how it is..." Ji Moxuan understood in a few flashes of memory. "He fused himself with the blood of a magical beast to rebel against the family's contract magic, right?"

"right."

Li Wenyin wove out a cloud of drops, then tumbled and crawled onto it, dodging left and right.

"If the contract magic is broken, Xing Rui will die, so he tried every means to study the loopholes in the contract magic, just like blurring the ink on the signature of the first party on a contract, making it impossible to identify who the first party is."

Li Wenyin had thought about this many times before: why did Xing Qi want to fuse so much demonic beast blood into her?

To become stronger? To modify his own body? That's why he fused with so much demonic beast blood, turning himself into a monster that was neither human nor ghost.

This is fundamentally wrong in terms of cause and effect.

Xing Qi fused with the blood of a demonic beast because he wanted to transform himself into a monster that was neither human nor ghost.

For him, strength was irrelevant; what he wanted was to blur the identity of the "master" without breaking the contract.

He had to transform himself into someone who was no longer Xing Qi, or even a human being, but had to live as a vague and ethereal "master Fang".

In this way, Xing Rui could retain the slight respite that the contract magic brought her, and because the master's identity was ambiguous, the magic power that should be supplied had nowhere to go and remained on her own.

Become an animal, become Ruiyuan, live like a ghost for her sake.

-

"We shouldn't be enemies."

Li Wenyin rode Didi Dayun and floated in front of Xing Qi, maintaining a certain distance, to confront him face to face.

"Since you already know, why stop me?" Xing Qi looked at her expressionlessly. "My intention was never to hurt anyone."

"But you've hurt so many people by mistake, the monsters that went mad because of you, and your blood, and now the senior students who have been mutated," Li Wenyin stared at him. "You can't go on like this. The monster blood in your body must be expelled little by little, otherwise it will become a huge disaster."

"No!"

Xing Qi said sternly.

"My method is working. Now, through contract magic, the amount of magic that can be precisely supplied to me is decreasing. I'm about to completely turn into an animal, and I'm about to give her freedom."

Li Wenyin also shouted sternly, "Stop being so stubborn, Xing Qi! Is everything you've done what Xing Rui wants? Does she even know?"

"She doesn't need to know," Xing Qi retorted stubbornly. "She said she wanted freedom."

Li Wenyin was furious: "Are you sure the freedom she wants comes at the cost of you becoming an animal, and the cost of so many people going mad and becoming alienated?"

Xing Qi stubbornly replied, "I don't care."

???

This stubbornness almost made Li Wenyin's face contort with anger.

This is the story of someone casually saying, "I really want a star, can you pick one for me?" and then sacrificing half of themselves to fly into space to pick a star, ending up with a bloody head and never coming back.

Even if Xing Rui really wanted freedom, Li Wenyin rationally believed that she would not accept such a high price to pay for freedom.

That's too obsessive, bordering on insane.

As a student of Canghai College, Xing Qi, where exactly did your composure and self-control go?!

-

Li Wenyin gathered her thoughts, took a deep breath, and remained calm.

"Xing Qi, what if you had almost killed her with your own hands?"

What?

Xing Qi's eyes widened in surprise as he looked at her with astonishment and confusion: "What are you talking about?"

"On the night of the full moon, the monster Lin'er Beaked Feather King went berserk and was infected by your blood. It was caused by you. You must have been afraid of being discovered, so you immediately abandoned it and left, which is why the student council didn't catch you."

Li Wenyin spoke each word carefully.

"Xing Qi, do you know that Xing Rui went to the Monster Forest that night?"

Xing Qi was stunned, as if he hadn't realized what Li Wenyin was saying.

Li Wenyin looked at her quietly.

In the novel, the monsters in the Monster Forest mutated and attacked unnamed students, whose fates remain unknown.

Li Wenyin had previously assumed that the student who was attacked was Senior Yu Zhiyuan, who lived in the Monster Forest.

But after that day, Pei Yuan told her that the King of the Evil Beak had not harmed Yu Zhiyuan.

It might be an instinctive act of protection, a lingering will to protect this human friend who had been with it for so long.

In the novel's monster attack incident, the victim was not Yu Zhiyuan, but Xing Rui, who was present at the time and was overlooked by everyone.

In the novel, the Evil-Beaked Feather King, who went mad and mutated after being infected by Xing Qi's blood, attacked Xing Rui, who was then harmed and whose fate is unknown.

This is truly the cruel twist of fate.

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(Although I couldn't meet the extra update requirement for the gift ranking yesterday, I've thought it over and decided to add an extra update anyway! To reward the hardworking readers! Hehe, I hope you'll give me more free gifts.)

These two chapters seem a bit angsty (?), but they're not too bad.