I Don't Agree to the Terms

Chapter 954 503: Survival, But Not Human Survival (Part 2)

"I want to study your body structure. Don't worry, I have my limits; I won't slice you, at most I'll only dissect you."

"Because this matter involves you, I need to ask for your consent. What do you think?"

The other party spoke kindly, but what he said made the Red Shoes feel terrified.

"I... can I refuse?" the Red Shoes asked shakily.

"Of course, I respect you a lot." Gu Shanhai nodded, then turned to look at Datianwei and Shura, saying, "She's not cooperating, so dinner is settled."

"Wait! I'll cooperate, I'll cooperate!! Please don't eat me!!!" The Red Shoes' voice was very sharp and loud, afraid she would be cooked on the spot.

"Ah? No pressure." Gu Shanhai looked at the Red Shoes trembling and wondered if what he was doing might be a bit wrong. Although it was either dissecting or cooking, seeing how she resisted dissection, he thought it might be better to choose cooking.

"I... I'm willing." At this point, what else could the Red Shoes do?

Being dissected by Gu Shanhai might mean she could still survive, but if she was cooked, there'd really be no way to live.

She regretted it now, thinking she shouldn't have opened the door. But once she did, she was met with such horror.

"Willing, huh? That's good, that's good." Gu Shanhai nodded and continued, "I didn't bring an operating table, so let's make do."

"Ahem, about that, the shoes, the shoes." Datianwei still had his mind on the high heels of the Red Shoes to give to Cui Yingying.

"Seriously, why give your wife second-hand shoes? Can't you buy new ones?" Gu Shanhai teased.

The Red Shoes initially thought she was done for when Datianwei asked for her true form, but luckily Gu Shanhai intervened.

"Besides, Shura was thinking of taking advantage while it's hot. After my dissection, he'll quickly take his turn, so you're not in a rush." Gu Shanhai added another comment.

Shura didn't know what to say at that moment, helplessly responding, "You just can't let that joke go, right?"

Back then, neither Lan Qiushui nor Base Station Old Liu had said Gu Shanhai could talk such nonsense. Maybe it's because of some strange chemistry when he's with Datianwei.

"Don't you want to become the Undead Knight while it's hot? That's too bad." There was regret in Gu Shanhai's tone.

"By the way, besides the Red Shoes, are there any Red-clothed Ghosts, Comb Ghosts, Mirror Ghosts, or the like here? I want to get my wife a complete set." Datianwei asked again.

This question was directed at the Red Shoes.

"There are, there are, definitely some, but I don't know where they are." The Red Shoes could not care too much, just wanted to save her life first.

As long as she doesn't die immediately, there's still a chance to live.

"Damn, you shouldn't have contacted him in the first place. Now look, three out of his five sentences are about his wife, don't you think he's mocking us?" Gu Shanhai turned to Shura, speaking with a tone of displeasure.

"You're anxious, you're anxious." Datianwei teased Gu Shanhai.

Shura sighed, "We were supposed to find Mr. Qin, but once he heard he'd be teaming up with you, he bolted. What did you feed him back then that made him dislike you so much?"

"Nothing much, just made him a full fish banquet, but he couldn't handle it. How can you blame me?" Gu Shanhai pushed the blame onto Mr. Qin.

No one knew what Mr. Qin ate back then, and he never said; when asked, he always showed a complex expression.

"By the way, you two get over here and hold this thing down. I'm about to start the dissection." Gu Shanhai didn't want to tangle with these two, directly stating his intent.

"Wait, you're not going to anesthetize for the dissection?" Datianwei asked, puzzled that they needed to hold down the Red Shoes.

"No, he doesn't anesthetize. Previously, when he operated on Lan Qiushui, it made him die very unpeacefully, now Lan Qiushui wants to introduce him to a psychiatrist." Shura, having previously teamed up with Lan Qiushui for an instance, knew some inside information.

"Don't slander me, he died unpeacefully indeed, but that was his own fault."

"If I hadn't saved him, he might still be wandering trying to regain his strength. Although the process was painful and the results weren't great, at least it saved him decades, maybe even centuries."

"If he hadn't gone all out against the final BOSS, he might not have met his end so soon."

Gu Shanhai argued in his own defense.

"But he said that fighting the BOSS with you would lead to a team wipe." Shura replied softly.

"There are reasons for that. I'll explain later; for now, help me hold down the Red Shoes." Gu Shanhai indicated he didn't want to discuss the topic further.

The two didn't refuse this time and put the Red Shoes down, one holding the head, the other holding the feet.

Gu Shanhai picked up the scalpel and began to work on the Red-clothed Ghost.

"By the way, why are you dissecting ghosts and monsters?" Datianwei asked curiously.

"I just want to see if they have any other value besides consumption." Gu Shanhai spoke quite candidly.

"Do they?" Datianwei asked again.

"I just opened this thing up, how would I know if there's value."

"Also, stop thinking about her high heels. That's her true form; you'll have to wait until I'm done studying before you can dismantle it."

Gu Shanhai noted Datianwei's keen interest in the Red Shoes' high heels, eager to get his hands on them.

"Alright, but hurry up, I'm waiting for her shoes." Datianwei regretted that he had been found out.

"Don't you think this behavior is a bit perverse?" Shura felt he was quite out of place.

Datianwei looked at Shura with a weird expression and said, "No, this matches our identity."

At first glance, it does seem quite perverse, but if you think of it another way, with human and ghost roles not reversed, when ghosts consume humans, they don't care in the slightest, randomly plundering and collecting human body parts while humans just live on edge.

Now what they're doing is actually a normal development in the plot, given that in the eyes of ghosts, the three of them are these terrifying personalities.

"Hmm... that kind of makes sense." Shura understood from the literary prompts providing explanations and information, getting Datianwei and Gu Shanhai's point.

Because of this, the two were able to let loose so freely.

Shura still felt a bit reserved; after all, he usually focused on battles, and had only encountered this kind of unique instance a few times over the years, especially one with human-ghost reversal, something so against the norm he was experiencing for the first time, so not adapting was quite reasonable.

Fortunately, his two teammates were competent, so he didn't need to intervene too much, only focusing on fights, intelligence gathering, and solving puzzles while leaving the rest to his evidently very at home teammates.

"Damn, press her a bit tighter, or if I cut the wrong place, we'll end up splattered with blood." Gu Shanhai watched the Red Shoes tremble and shake, and looking at the chaos of her innards.

There was sure to be pain, otherwise, the Red Shoes wouldn't struggle.

"What? This thing has major arteries?" Datianwei peered at the Red Shoes' innards, most of which resembled energy-like lines.

"Ghost energy, a special substance used by ghosts to maintain life, comparable to a health bar."

"As for the innards, they're more like special structures formed by ghost energy, primarily enhancing abilities, kind of like level or skill boosts."

Shura, using the literary prompt, briefly outlined the Red Shoes' situation.

"That's a pretty good name, sounds powerful." Through dissection and research, Gu Shanhai knew much more than Shura, only lacking a name.