229: Chapter 229 "You don't remember me at all?"

Tang Ruan looked at the knife in her hand in a daze, her brain still suffering from oxygen deprivation.

Although she had indeed learned to breathe underwater just a moment before losing consciousness while submerged earlier, she was still disoriented due to the lack of oxygen.

Suddenly, Tang Ruan heard Guo Guo crying behind her.

"Wuwuwu... Mama... Ma..."

Her thoughts snapped back in an instant, and she immediately understood the words of the Female Beastman before her.

Tang Ruan gripped the dagger in her hand tightly and slashed out suddenly.

The Female Beastman didn't seem to expect her to do such a thing.

She dodged immediately, but her arm was still scratched by Tang Ruan.

She stared at her wound in disbelief.

"How dare you hurt me!"

As Jiao Luo's voice fell, water currents surged toward Tang Ruan from all directions.

Like a spiderweb descending from the sky.

Dozens of water currents collided, forming a giant sphere of water that engulfed her.

Tang Ruan was trapped in the center, unable to breathe.

She desperately tried to recall how she had managed to breathe underwater just before she had started suffocating earlier.

But she couldn't remember no matter how hard she tried.

The seawater, as if alive, forced its way into her nasal cavity.

The sensation of suffocation struck, and Tang Ruan's consciousness gradually fell into chaos...

Outside the water sphere, Guo Guo's crying grew fainter and fainter...

Suddenly, she heard an indifferent voice, as if it came from another world.

"If you kill her, no one will be able to help you extract the blood; you should think it over carefully."

The water sphere burst in an instant, and Tang Ruan fell onto the ground in a disheveled state, gasping for air.

Only then did she realize that they were located in a massive room, and looking out from the window, she could see sea fish swimming in the distance, suspended in mid-air.

So, she was currently in the deep sea, and was there some kind of "Water-Repelling Bead" or something similar here that prevented the seawater from coming in?

"You really do care about her?"

Jiao Luo's voice interrupted Tang Ruan's train of thought.

Tang Ruan followed her gaze.

She saw a Male Beastman of the Jiao Clan tied tightly with iron chains to a white stone pillar at the end of the room.

Even his eyes were blindfolded.

Even so, Tang Ruan recognized him at a glance.

"Heng Zhou?"

That Male Beastman of the Jiao Clan slowly turned his face toward her, then turned it away again.

He seemed not to recognize her.

Tang Ruan: ...

Had she mistaken him for someone else?

But after Fentian was reincarnated, his appearance had not changed.

Seeing Tang Ruan's bewildered expression, Jiao Luo suddenly burst into laughter, facing the Male Beastman of the Jiao Clan.

"Prince Jiaoli, oh Prince Jiaoli... You don't actually think that just because you pretend not to know her, I will let her go, do you?"

As Jiao Luo said this, she took a step toward the Male Beastman of the Jiao Clan.

Suddenly, she seemed to have thought of something.

Before she could even pull her foot back, she heard Prince Jiaoli say: "Kill yourself!"

Jiao Luo suddenly grabbed her own throat, rolling on the ground in agony.

Tang Ruan was dumbfounded.

She remembered Fentian saying that Heng Zhou could make beastmen see the things they feared most deep in their hearts.

But he hadn't mentioned that he also possessed a Supernatural Ability of speech command; had she really mistaken him for someone else?

She gripped the dagger, intending to rush up and deliver a finishing blow.

Suddenly, Jiao Luo rolled out of the range of Prince Jiaoli's Supernatural Ability while struggling.

Her neck was already covered in bloody scratch marks from her own grip.

She saw Tang Ruan, who was holding the knife and about to strike her down.

She grabbed her by the throat.

Tang Ruan tried to activate her Supernatural Ability, only to discover that it seemed to be completely under a Seal, and she couldn't use it at all.

She thought about how the Seal on her own body originally came from the Jiao Clan, so had it been reinforced?

Under Jiao Luo's grip, Tang Ruan once again gradually felt herself suffocating.

"Enough..."

Even hearing that Tang Ruan's life was hanging by a thread, the Male Beastman of the Jiao Clan's voice remained indifferent.

"If you don't want to extract the blood today, I'm going to sleep."

As he said this, he actually yawned.

It also seemed as if he truly didn't care in the slightest about whether Tang Ruan and Guo Guo lived or died.

But Jiao Luo didn't believe it at all.

If he really didn't care, he wouldn't have stopped her from attacking her twice.

She let go, and Tang Ruan fell to the ground.

Jiao Luo shouted outside: "Someone, come in!"

Immediately, seven or eight tall and burly Male Beastmen of the Jiao Clan walked in.

Jiao Luo picked up the knife Tang Ruan had dropped on the ground and threw it to one of the Male Beastmen.

"If she refuses to extract the blood, cut her Cub. If one cut doesn't work, then do two. I don't believe she doesn't care at all about her own biological Cub."

Tang Ruan looked at her with some confusion.

When Jiao Luo said the first half of the sentence, she had thought she was talking about that Male Beastman of the Jiao Clan who looked like Heng Zhou.

She thought Guo Guo was his Cub.

After hearing the second half, she realized that Jiao Luo was talking about her.

Tang Ruan pointed at herself, "I am not her mother!"

Although she knew that Jiao Luo wouldn't let Guo Guo go just because of one sentence, she still wanted to struggle a bit.

Jiao Luo ignored her completely and walked out, laughing.

Guo Guo was immediately restrained by a tall Male Beastman of the Jiao Clan.

Another Male Beastman of the Jiao Clan shoved a conch cup and the knife into Tang Ruan's hands.

He also gave her a push, making her take two steps toward Prince Jiaoli.

"Go extract the blood quickly!" he said fiercely.

Tang Ruan had no choice but to walk toward that Male Beastman of the Jiao Clan.

Was that Jiao Clan Female Beastman who looked so much like Princess Jiao Yi trying to play her to death?

She clearly knew he had the ability of speech command and that he could make people die just by speaking, yet she still made her go extract blood.

She didn't know how this Jiao Clan Male Beastman named Prince Jiaoli had offended her.

He looked very powerful; even tied up like this, no one dared to get close to him.

Tang Ruan suddenly thought, if she could join forces with Prince Jiaoli, would she be able to escape?

It was just that before she could persuade him to join forces, would she be "spoken" to death by him?

Tang Ruan walked cautiously.

It wasn't until she heard Guo Guo's crying again from behind that she quickened her pace.

Prince Jiaoli was trapped on the stone pillar, with many crystalline scales scattered around him.

It was unknown whether it was because of pain or fear.

As Tang Ruan approached, the tail fin he had curled on the ground began to tremble slightly.

"I—" Tang Ruan had just said one word when she swallowed the rest of her words.

She couldn't very well ask, "May I extract your blood?"

Even if she asked as politely as possible, he wouldn't agree, would he!

"I'm sorry, if I don't extract your blood, she will kill my daughter."

"She is your daughter?"

His voice rose slightly, as melodious as the sound of trickling water.

He turned his face and met her gaze through the white cloth.

"Mm."

"When did she hatch?"

Tang Ruan: "I don't know, I adopted her; I actually thought Guo Guo was your Cub."

Tang Ruan's words left Prince Jiaoli completely stunned.

Even if her consciousness was chaotic because her Beast Form evolution had failed, causing her to not remember things from when she was a Servant of the Beast God.

Did she not even remember the time she had spent with him when she was in the Jiao Clan?

Suddenly, he thought of the real Prince Jiaoli's Supernatural Ability—memory modification.

Damn it! That brat must have done it!

He had finally managed to find an opportunity to avoid Fentian and be with little A-Wu.

Now, she had forgotten everything!

However, as long as she recovered her Energy, she should be able to break through the Seal on her memories.

But he still asked one more question, unwilling to give up.

"Do you not remember me at all?"