Yaohi Hill

His name is Thad Hughes.

This name is very common, but anyone who has stayed in Youkexin City for a long time will definitely know the meaning behind this surname.

"Hughes" represents a powerful and wealthy family that has occupied Youkexin City for many years.

The Hughes family had a glorious past, and even in today's declining state, its strength should not be underestimated.

Sade is one of the candidates for the family's next successor.

It's just that he is not very interested in all this, and the affairs of the family are completely controlled by others.On the contrary, when he is nearly fifty years old, he is more interested in "hunting" himself.

The target of the hunt is a young girl.

He likes girls with black hair and black eyes, the skin must be fair enough, and the age is preferably around 20 years old.

The scent of young girls is as moving as their blooming youth, always reminding Sade of the youthful years he no longer has.

Over the years, as he grew older, his fear of death became more and more deeply rooted in his bones.

His father and brothers also died suddenly at his age.

Even going back to the past, when he was very young, he saw people in the family fall straight in front of him.

For no reason, it seemed like a curse that could never be unraveled.

Those of his lineage, male or female, would soon encounter accidents or die suddenly for various reasons.

It's as if the god of death has quietly stood in front of you, but Sade is not sure when he will drop the sickle on him and take his life away.

I don't know where, when, and in what state I will die quietly.

This fear turned into an obsession with living.

Every day he can't sleep, afraid of the arrival of a new day.

But every day when he faces the mirror, he feels as if he is getting older.

Fearful of seeing himself grow old and then associate a series of things, Thad ordered the servants at home to break all the mirrors.

This is of course useless.

Even without a mirror, Thad can still see the signs of his own aging.

The hour hand is flowing, and the time that cannot be saved is gradually disappearing in my unwillingness... Maybe I shouldn't think so much, there is one thing that cannot be changed.

The fear in Sade's heart did not decrease because of the facts, but his personality became more hysterical because the people around him left one by one.

Until one day, Sade met a collector.

This person's name is Cowlett, who often goes to various auctions held by Youkexin, and has many years of collecting experience.

Most of his collections are weird, from all over the world, and there are even many treasures unearthed in unnamed ruins.

The reason why I know this person is because Cowlett has a very good reputation among the rich. It is said that he not only has a unique vision and a rich collection, but also can see other people's troubles and make people happy again.

Collett obviously also saw that the person in front of him was very afraid of getting old. He just told Sade very mysteriously that he had a way to make Sade regain his youth.

"You have to know that there are many incredible things in this world." Cowlett said, "Although time cannot be reversed, body functions can be changed."

He handed Thad a clear glass vial.

Soaked in light blue liquid, there are pieces of very fresh and tender scales.

"What is this?" Sade asked with some distrust.

"This is the legendary monster—the scale of the mermaid." Cowlett smiled, "For people with the power of mind, its function is quite strange...but ordinary people can regain their body functions if they eat it. Get back to your best 20s."

Obviously, time cannot be turned back, but this thing... can make him younger?

Sade looked at him suspiciously: "You are not lying to me, are you?"

Cowlett sighed: "How could it be, Mr. Sade. After so many years, there are countless rich people looking for me. Have you ever heard any bad rumors about me?"

After hearing this, Sade felt relieved, and he bought these scales at a high price.

Then that night, he couldn't wait to ask the chef to put these shimmering scales in the ingredients and cook together.

But before that, Cowlett warned him that he could only eat one piece at a time. If he ate them all at once, the body of an ordinary person would be completely unbearable.

He was very afraid of death, so of course he would not take risks, so he also put away the rest of the scales, and put them in an extremely secret place like a collection.

When he woke up the next day, he felt that his aging and weak body seemed to be injected with vitality again.

This feeling is like returning to the time when I was 20 years old.

But the change in body function also brought about extremely serious consequences. After eating the scales of the mermaid, Sade was unfortunately disfigured.

Gills grew out of his face, and his eyes were terribly big, like a monster.

But these can be changed, Sade doesn't care, he went to a well-known doctor in the industry for plastic surgery.

After reinstalling all the mirrors, the high-spirited Sade looks younger than before.

The mermaid scales only change his body functions, and the appearance of aging cannot be changed, but... Sade clearly felt that his aging speed was much slower.

The appearance became younger, and he has a new hobby-collecting human organs.

This kind of hobby is not uncommon in the upper class of Youkexin City. Rich people will have one or two strange hobbies. As long as they don't go too far, basically no one will intervene to investigate.

Most of the young girls that Sade hunted had their eyes gouged out by him, and their bodies were disposed of like waste products.

The method of Sade's "hunting" is very simple.

He likes to pursue young and beautiful girls, and after the invitation is successful, let them be bewitched by him willingly, and then it is the last step.

The reason why he only dug out their eyeballs was because Sade believed that the eyes were the most important part of human beings, and the most important soul must be hidden in them.

When he was with young girls, he felt very young, so he took their lives at their most beautiful moment and kept their eyes, as if preserving that beauty forever.

It's not like I haven't met a hunter who thinks his behavior is disgusting and wants to kill him.

But in the end, under the protection of his family, he escaped.

Thad vaguely remembered the feeling that he couldn't breathe and that death was close at hand.Just like at this moment, that deep fear haunted him like a nightmare.

After he finished all this, he saw the girl with black hair and white skirt looking at him almost angrily. Her expression was very calm, but there was an unconcealable killing intent in her words.

"Is that why you killed so many innocent girls?"

Sade lowered his head: "Of course you don't understand... When I was as young as you, I didn't care about getting old at all, and I wasn't afraid of death..."

Shi Kui suddenly smiled, her smile was tragic: "Do you think it's good to be alive?"

"There is no place for me anymore, I just keep looking for..."

Only because I still have obsessions in my heart, I will keep searching, but I can no longer become the original appearance.

Shi Kui heard that Sade regained his 20-year-old body functions because of the mermaid's scales.

It reminded her that she was here because of the well.

A village destroyed by mermaid flesh, a well leading to another world, and the scales of a mermaid that turned a human into a demon.

Mermaids really shouldn't exist.

Speaking of which, is there any connection between all of these?

However, Shi Kui can be sure that there should be more news about mermaids in this world.

Maybe that's why she came here.

Somewhere, it seems that there is a hand called fate, driving all the processes behind it.

"Where did you put the thing that guy gave you?"

Shi Kui asked Sade.

The other party trembled and looked up at her.His gaze suddenly became sharp: "Do you want to take away what belongs to me?"

The mermaid scale is his most important thing. Ever since he got it, for some reason, it seems that many people have known the magical power of the mermaid scale.

Not only ordinary people want to get it, but even people with various mental abilities also want to get the mermaid scale.

But at this moment, he suddenly forgot about the dangerous situation he was in, and focused on caring about the baby that belonged to him.

Shikui didn't speak, she just summoned Shikigami.

Summoning shikigami from the ghost world for her own use is a skill she learned from the onmyoji she knew in the past 50 years.

Since Cuizi's death, although monsters and humans do not live in harmony, at least they do not interfere with each other.

"Human beings with strong spiritual power, like you, Mr. Aoi, can summon ordinary monsters to work for you like me. Although it is only for a short period of time, it is unexpectedly quite useful."

The onmyoji told her so.

She summoned the monster in charge of dreams, and Thad fell into a long nightmare.

He saw himself dying again and again, and then opened his eyes to see the scene just now.

This kind of long-term torture made his spirit on the verge of collapse, and the pain of the blade cutting against the edge of his body and finally piercing his heart almost drove him crazy.

Shi Kui is not hard-hearted, she also struggles when she sees the other party's face covered in cold sweat.

But soon she figured it out, the other party didn't hesitate at all when killing people, and there was no need to sympathize with him, this guy was no longer human, he was not as good as a monster.

"I... let me tell you, where is the mermaid scale..."

Finally, Sade's angry voice came out of his mouth.

The author has something to say:

When writing this, I refer to the fate of the Kennedy family curse...

Well, I agree with Sade about this sentence: death is really terrible, that's it.

The plot is basically not very much linked to the original work, and there are many private settings, so you don't need to delve into it if you read it and laugh.

I can't let the brigade and the characters in the original work force them to appear on camera without reason, so please take your time.