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True to his reputation as a monster puppet master, Dong Rui’s experiments were bizarre, grotesque, and deeply unsettling.
He Lingchuan quietly turned his head away and chose not to watch.
Once a monster puppet master lost himself in his work, he seemed to stop caring about his situation at all. The five spider monsters lasted only three days before Dong Rui was already barking at the guards, “Next batch!”
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In the blink of an eye, fifteen days passed.
He Lingchuan either assisted Dong Rui in the workroom or answered the spider queen’s summons to keep her company and talk.
The giant monster had lived in Demon Nest Swamp for a hundred years and had only left twice in all that time, yet she seemed to know a great deal about the outside world.
This meant that she still had channels of communication beyond the swamp.
He Lingchuan had visualized countless times how he might slip Zhu Erniang one gentle, clean strike while she was not paying attention, but no matter how he ran the scenario in his head, it never felt safe. Zhu Erniang’s twelve eyes were spread along both sides of her head, giving her nearly a full 360-degree view, with almost no blind spots.
Moreover, it was not just sight that he had to think about. Ancient greater monsters like Zhu Erniang kept their spiritual...
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