Madam, I like you.

　After saying this, two wings rose behind him.

　Lisa Lisa struggled to get up from the ground. The gunshot wound had been stopped by the Ripple Wave. She was stunned by the scene in front of her. Mo Yankong had completely reversed the situation in less than five minutes after his appearance. The half-vampire, half-robot Shutroheim, who was a very troublesome person for her, the Ripple Wave Master, was killed by Mo Yankong with one shot.

　Of the two people in the pillar, one was turned into a statue by the ultraviolet radiation device, and the other was in a mess.

　escape.

　She frowned and asked softly, "Sora, how is Jojo now?"

　"There's no danger to your life. Rest over at the Spear Trial Field."

　Esdeath didn't kill Jojo, nor did he bring Jojo here. Lisa Lisa could guess the reason without thinking too much. As she breathed a sigh of relief, she looked directly into Mo Yankong's scarlet eyes for the first time and said with sincere gratitude: "Thank you, you should be careful too."

　Mo Yankong smiled slightly, flew away from the island, and found the remains of Esdeath who was still struggling in vain on the sea not far from the island. The headless corpse was soaking in the water, motionless, and the flesh tissue at the end of the neck was wriggling.

　However, the powerful life energy of the person in the pillar could not be sensed from this headless corpse. This was the life energy accumulated by devouring tens of thousands of lives over thousands of years.

　"Dead?" Mo Yankong raised his eyebrows in surprise. Are the people in the pillars such fragile creatures?

　The ripples attached to the bullet just now can kill vampires, but they have not reached the lethal level for the people in the pillar.

　"Assuming Esdeath isn't dead, the most likely scenario is that he abandoned this body and possessed another creature. This is the ocean, and there are plenty of living creatures." Mo Yankong surveyed the vast sea and shook his head speechlessly. "As expected of a Pillar Master, his vitality is even stronger than cockroaches. However, this short time shouldn't be enough for him to dissipate the ripple energy."

　Several kilometers away, a slender fish as thick as an arm swam towards Venice at an extremely fast speed, like a shot arrow, its head partially entangled with human brain tissue.

　"How terrifying! A monster like that can actually use the power of ripples! The decision to escape was the right one! The ripples have already penetrated into my body cells, but this is not the time to dissolve them."

　"My body's cells are weakening due to the ripples, and I will die! I will die before dawn! I must convey this message before I die."

　"Tell Lord Kaz about the Edge Red Stone! About that scary vampire!"

　Chapter 144: The Beast of Gluttony

　The battle ended and dawn came on Elsaprina Island. Mo Yankong wiped out the entire German vampire army, and one of the two pillars was killed and one was injured.

　On the Ripple clan's side, Jojo, Caesar, and Lisa Lisa were all injured. One of the Ripple warriors, Loggins, was killed. He was hit in the lung by a vampire soldier's bullet and could not use the power of Ripple. He died of excessive blood loss shortly after being caught by the soldiers.

　Lisa Lisa and the others were not overly sad. They had been prepared for death when they became Ripple Warriors, so they buried him in an open space on Elsaprina Island when the sun rose.

　Jojo and Caesar were both very depressed. They had undergone a whole month of special training in ripples, but still could not defeat the Pillar Man. They had to rely on the vampire Mo Yankong to take action.

　By the way, the poison rings tied around Jojo's neck and heart have not been untied yet, and the antidote for the nose ring hanging on Esdeath's nose disappeared forever into the sea when Mo Yankong shot her head.

　How to remove the poison ring has become the problem that Jojo is facing now, as there are less than two days left before the poison takes effect.

　-

　Mo Yankong didn't care what the Ripple Clan thought. After getting the body of the person in the pillar, he couldn't wait to start researching it.

　At noon, Mo Yankong moved Santana, who had turned into a statue, to the balcony of the room facing the sun, allowing the man in the pillar to continue sunbathing and reduce his cell activity.

　"Although the solar flashlight brought from the world of Parasyte can be charged with solar energy, it is not enough to provide continuous illumination for more than five hours. The whereabouts of the Pillar Man, Kaz and Germany, are currently unknown. The sooner we study the Pillar Man's body cells, the better." Mo Yankong pondered inwardly as he examined the Pillar Man statue in front of him.

　He grabbed the fingers of the Santana statue's right hand and gave it a hard pull.

　click -

　The statue shattered, the muscles inside the fingers squirmed, and then quickly turned to stone under the sunlight.

　"Ok?"

　Suddenly, something strange happened. The place where Santana's fingers touched Mo Yankong's skin suddenly fused, and the cells belonging to Santana's Pillar Man merged into Mo Yankong's body bit by bit.

　"What a strong vitality! It produces a feeding reaction the moment of contact, devouring its own body to replenish the lost life energy." Mo Yankong looked surprised, and his right hand directly turned into metal to resist the erosion of the cells of the person in the pillar.

　But just as Mo Yankong predicted, the human cells in the column easily broke through the metallized cells. The parasitic cells only mimicked the cells, rather than completely turning them into inorganic matter. As long as they were biological cells, they could not escape the control of the human cells in the column.

　"In that case, Ripple Run!"

　呲味——

　Ripple energy erupted from Mo Yankong's body, roasting his right hand and burning Santana's Pillar Man cells in the process. Mo Yankong clenched his right hand and fell into deep thought: "The unique phagocytic and imitation abilities of parasitic beast cells cannot imitate the Pillar Man cells. Even now, his cell vitality has been reduced to a minimum."

　"Continue the experiment. You can use ripples to block the cells of the man in the pillar from devouring them, preventing them from obtaining life energy, and continuously weakening the activity of the cells of the man in the pillar. Until the parasitic beast cells in your body can completely devour them." Mo Yankong took out a fingernail-sized fragment of the statue of the man in the pillar. The moment it came into contact, the cells of the man in the pillar sensed the huge life energy of Mo Yankong's body and began to activate.

　呲味——

　Feeling the cells invading his body, Mo Yankong released a weak wave to isolate the cells in the column and began to

　experiment.

　-

　The experiments on the Pillar Man's body continued until night. Santana's entire right arm was consumed bit by bit by Mo Yankong's experiments. Mo Yankong looked exhausted. The experiments at the cellular level were more energy-consuming than the battle with the Pillar Man last night.

　Hard work pays off. After devouring some of the extremely low-activity cells of the Pillar Man, Mo Yankong was able to change his own cell morphology due to the characteristics of the parasitic beast cells, simulating the cells of the Pillar Man.

　呲呲呲——

　Mo Yankong's arm turned to ashes under the ultraviolet light of the solar flashlight.

　"It is indeed possible to simulate the cell structure of the Pillar Man, but at the same time, it will lose its resistance to sunlight and ripples. It is a double-edged sword, and it is not worth the effort to use it normally." Mo Yankong frowned, analyzed the cell structure of the Pillar Man, and decisively smashed the statue of Santana's body with a punch.

　Under his feet, a bloody shadow spread, devouring the broken statue of the man in the pillar bit by bit.

　The shattered statue trembled violently, and Santana, who was continuously exposed to ultraviolet rays, had no way to resist.

　Mo Yankong looked at the shattered stone of the statue on the ground, its desire to survive astonishing, and said calmly, "Are you unwilling to accept this? Santana, it's a simple principle: the strong prey on the weak, just like you Pillar People. But now you Pillar People have become my food. I'll just praise you Pillar People for the life energy you've accumulated over thousands of years. It tastes good."

　The human body cells in the simulated column did not have much effect on Mo Yankong. It was entirely a preparation for using the stone ghost mask inlaid with perfect Ai Zhe red stone.

　Human + Stone Mask = Vampire.

　Ancient Clan + Stone Mask = Pillar Man

　Pillar Man + Perfect Azer Redstone + Stone Mask = Perfect Creature

　Vampire + Perfect Azer Redstone + Stone Mask =?

　Mo Yankong needed to ensure that the third formula could be applied to himself. Under his feet, the blood-red shadow with flowing eyes gathered into the shape of a wolf head, opening its big mouth full of fangs and swallowing the stone of the statue bit by bit, not even letting go of the small gravel the size of rice grains.

　Mo Yankong closed his eyes. After absorbing so much life energy and the advanced life form of the Pillar Man, Dead River's ability finally evolved.

　The Dead River Apostle walked out from the shadows, and more and more blood-red eyes opened on his body, which was terrifying. Blood flowed from his feet to his head, turning into a beast with a thousand eyes.

　Gradually, the blood-red shadow that made up its body faded away, revealing shiny black hair. Its scarlet, violent eyes became more rational. The Dead River Apostle gained a form and became a living being in the true sense.

　This evolution consumed most of the Dead River's stored life energy, but Mo Yankong didn't feel bad at all, as the evolved Dead River Apostle could finally be put to use.

　Mo Yankong stroked the Dead River Apostle's hair and laughed heartily: "Not bad! Not bad!"

　The ferocious-looking hellhound squinted its eyes and rubbed Mo Yankong's arm, looking very well-behaved.

　Dead River Apostle - Gluttony.

　I'm too lazy to give it some messy, middle school-like name. Its ability was conceived by Mo Yankong based on the androids in "Fullmetal Alchemist".

　"Chi chi chi——"

　The beast of gluttony turned its head and looked at a bird flying on a branch outside the balcony. The bird sensed the murderous intent and cried out in panic, flapping its wings and trying to escape.

　“Chichichichi!!?”

　The gluttonous beast opened its mouth slightly, and unobservable spatial power surged. Most of the bird's body disappeared out of thin air, and the air surged and whistled, and a few blood-stained feathers fell.

　This ability is similar to the stand bombing space (the hand) of the supporting character Nijimura Okuyasu in "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4".

　The ability of the Bombing Space is to cut off the space and all matter. Even the stand owner does not know where the cut things are. The ability of the Gluttonous Beast is to swallow all matter within 30 meters of itself into a dead river, but it cannot have any effect on the space itself.

　Mo Yankong scratched the Gluttonous Beast's chin and sighed regretfully, "Generally speaking, the Gluttonous Beast's ability is not as strong as the Bombing Space."

　The gluttonous beast understood the meaning of Mo Yan's empty words. Although he didn't know what they meant, it was definitely not praise, and he whimpered in grievance.

　Chapter 145 I Am Your Father

　Not long after testing the Gluttonous Beast's abilities, there was a knock on the door.

　Mo Yankong recognized the footsteps as belonging to Lisa Lisa and raised his eyebrows. Why did she come here now that she didn't need to use ripples to heal her wounds?

　"Come in."

　The door was pushed open, and Lisa Lisa, wearing a white long dress, walked in. The dress was sleeveless, revealing her snow-white arms. The style was simple, with a decorative lace ribbon tied around the waist, which was simple yet elegant.

　Mo Yankong sat on the chair next to him, thought for a moment, and then asked, "What do you want to talk to me about?"

　The cold and beautiful lady lowered her eyes and said softly, "Ah, there is something I hope you can help me with."

　Mo Yankong was in a good mood now. He put his hands together and nodded: "Just tell me, as long as it's not an excessive request."

　"Last night, when you killed the Pillar Man named Esdeath, did you find the ring hanging from his nose? It was similar in shape to a ring, and it contained the antidote to the poison placed in Jojo's body."

　really.

　Mo Yankong shrugged. "Unfortunately, that shot was aimed at his head. The antidote should have sunk to the bottom of the sea."

　"Can you still find it?"

　"The place where Esdeath was killed wasn't a shallow beach. It would take a professional diver at least a month or two to find something this small. Or, are you...

　Asking me for help?" Mo Yankong laughed playfully.

　Lisa Lisa bit her red lips, "Can you help me?"

　Mo Yankong said in a leisurely tone, "Our agreement should have ended from the moment Esdeath, the Pillar Man, arrived here. Furthermore, I've now mastered the Ripple technique. You, the Ripple Clan, are of no use to me. Not attacking you is the greatest kindness I can offer you. Haven't you always emphasized that you're the Ripple Messenger and I'm a vampire?"

　Lisa Lisa looked up and looked at Mo Yankong with a complicated look: "No, if we were really of no use to you, you wouldn't stay here, and you wouldn't have rescued us last night."

　"Are you begging a vampire to have mercy on you?"

　"I have already realized the need. As long as I can save Jojo, I can pay any price."

　Mo Yankong stretched out his right hand, and a white light gathered into a transparent card that fell into his palm. He said playfully, "Lisa Lisa, you are making a deal with a vampire and a demon. There's only one question: can your consciousness really afford the price of this transaction?"

　A transparent card floated in front of Lisa Lisa.

　"This is···"

　"A contract, a contract of offering your body, soul, everything. You need to sign it voluntarily. After signing it, I can remove the poison ring in Jojo's body and help your Ripple Clan wipe out the Pillar Man."

　Mo Yankong didn't need to explain much; Lisa Lisa knew what the transparent card was the moment she touched it. If she signed it voluntarily, then from the moment the contract was concluded, she would belong completely to Mo Yankong.

　The body, mind, and soul were like zombies transformed by vampires, and could no longer disobey Mo Yankong's orders.

　The price was higher than she had imagined, but Lisa Lisa had no choice.

　Lisa Lisa looked at Mo Yankong hesitantly, and the memories of the month they spent together came to her mind. She couldn't confirm whether Mo Yankong was deliberately acting for her. She admitted that there were several times in those months when she forgot that she was fulfilling her obligations as agreed, and she enjoyed it a little.

　The wonderful feeling when sucking blood, the disgust towards Mo Yankong's identity as a vampire was not as strong as she imagined, and she kissed Mo Yankong willingly some time ago. All of this turned into the devil's whisper to tempt her to sign this contract.

　The image of her husband, George, had faded from her mind. Late at night, all she could think about was Mo Yankong. Especially since that kiss in Venice, when Mo Yankong wasn't drinking her blood because he was absorbed in his ripple research, she tossed and turned in bed.

　"Sora, before you sign this contract, there's something I want to tell you."

　"Ah."

　"You are the second man who makes my heart beat faster after George. Although I don't know if it is because of the influence of your blood sucking, anyway, I have no more choices."

　Lisa Lisa touched the transparent card, and it shattered, turning into white light and merging into her delicate body.

　The contract was completed, Mo Yankong's identity, and the information that broke the fourth wall flooded into her head.

　“These are…”

　Lisa Lisa looked confused and surprised. Things were not as bad as she had imagined. It was difficult for her to understand all the information her consciousness received, but everything seemed so real. When she looked up and saw Mo Yankong, there was no need to hide her feelings. Her cold and calm eyes were filled with tenderness and affection. Her inner hesitation completely disappeared. She believed in her master wholeheartedly and was willing to give everything for Mo Yankong. She wanted to say something but stopped herself. After meeting Mo Yankong's eyes, she finally mustered up the courage.

　"Owner."

　Mo Yankong went over and embraced the beautiful woman's slender waist, kissed her bright red lips, and naturally possessed the cold and elegant lady in front of him. He greedily absorbed the powerful life energy of the Ripple Messenger and whispered in her ear: "Stay tonight."

　"Ah."

　Lisa Lisa smiled softly. Signing the contract meant that the two of them had essentially no reservations. All her concerns vanished. Regardless of her suspicions about Mo Yankong or anything else, she felt this relaxed and happy for the first time since being hunted by the British.

　-

　Nearing dawn, Lisa Lisa's delicate body lay on Mo Yankong's chest, her red lips breathing out a hot breath, her eyes were seductive, her gaze was blurred and absent-minded, and her thick, waist-length black hair was scattered on Mo Yankong.

　The satisfaction she hadn't felt for decades drove the lady wild for the entire night. She reluctantly ended the session only after her strength and ripples had been completely drained.

　Mo Yankong touched Lisa Lisa's hair and asked curiously: "Lisa Lisa, are you not going to tell Jojo the truth?"

　Lisa Lisa stretched lazily, moving her delicate body close to Mo Yankong's. She put her soft hands around Mo Yankong's neck, leaned over to whisper in his ear, and after a moment's pause, she said softly, "In Jojo's mind, his mother is already dead. I abandoned him and ignored him for decades. How can I be qualified to call myself his mother?"

　"You were forced to flee, the nature of the situation is different."

　"How would Jojo feel if he knew his mother was a wanted criminal all over the world?"

　Mo Yankong played with the lady's hair and consoled her, "I don't think he's someone with the personality to dwell on such things. If he possessed the courage to fight the Pillar People, how could he lack the courage to recognize his own mother?"