Claire giggled and nodded.
"Undead Girl: Claire Bennet, Affection increased by five percent."
Alright? This can even increase affection?
Su Zhan shook his head helplessly and turned to enter the inn.
The inn only had three floors, and Su Zhan directly chose a room on the third floor. After entering, he looked around and felt it was pretty good; although a bit small, it was very clean. He walked to the window, pushed it open, and looked down; Claire was right below.
However, the back was very clean, with nothing for her to climb.
Claire was fretting about how to get up when she suddenly saw Su Zhan climb out of the window and jump down.
Su Zhan bent down, wrapped his arms around Claire's waist, then lightly leaped, directly jumping to the third-floor window, letting Claire enter first, with himself following closely behind.
Once inside, Claire looked around curiously, then somewhat nervously at Su Zhan.
She didn't know why, but she wasn't nervous before. However, after coming in, perhaps influenced by the environment, she felt inexplicably nervous. This was her first time in an inn, and her first time sharing a room alone with a man.
With just the two of them, and Su Zhan being very charming, Claire, though still a young girl, couldn't help but feel nervous.
"Shall we continue?" Su Zhan asked in a low voice.
Claire nodded, "Okay, I really want to return to normal. Mom, Dad, and my younger brother, sometimes I truly don't know how to face them. I'm afraid they'll treat me like a monster if they find out!"
"Believe me, they won't..."
Su Zhan smiled, pulling Claire to sit down. Claire took a deep breath and nodded heavily.
"Don't be so nervous, just relax."
Reaching out, Su Zhan began Devouring again.
The result was still resistance, and it seemed even stronger than last time.
"Ding! Side quest issued!"
"Side Quest: Obtain the Ability of the Undead Girl, Claire!"
Just as Su Zhan was diligently Devouring, the system suddenly issued a quest. Upon hearing the quest's content, Su Zhan was delighted. He hadn't expected the side quest to be this; it seemed to overlap with the main quest, but that was good, killing two birds with one stone.
Putting aside other thoughts, Su Zhan began to focus on activating his Devouring Ability.
He could feel it resisting fiercely. The two energies began to pull at each other. Sweat beads gradually appeared on Su Zhan's forehead. He could feel himself slowly gaining the upper hand; it was gradually being pulled out.
"Come out!"
Su Zhan gritted his teeth and roared, unconsciously tightening his grip.
Claire instantly let out a groan, her brows slightly furrowed. Su Zhan's grip was very painful, and not just painful, but also an unusual sensation. She bit her lip, enduring as Su Zhan's hand grew stronger. She seemed to feel something leaving her body. She slowed her breathing, not daring to disturb Su Zhan, and her heart began to feel subtly nervous. Was it... going to succeed?
"It's done!"
Feeling its resistance weaken and knowing it was about to be successfully Devoured, Su Zhan increased his strength.
"It hurts... it hurts..."
With his increased strength, Claire couldn't hold back anymore and trembled as she whispered.
"Don't move, just hold on a little longer, it's almost out..." Su Zhan roared in a low voice.
"Ah ah ah... It's... it's out..."
Su Zhan suddenly roared, and the Devouring Ability instantly returned to his body. As it returned, he could feel it coming with him; he had already obtained Claire's Ability!
"Bang!"
Just as Su Zhan subconsciously relaxed, the door was suddenly violently pushed open. Following closely behind, a middle-aged man wearing glasses angrily rushed in, charging in fiercely. When he saw the scene before him, he suddenly stopped.
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"Dad, why are you here?" Claire asked subconsciously, surprised, looking at the man who had rushed in.
Bennet, Claire's adoptive father.
"My dear, are you... are you... alright?" Bennet looked at Claire, especially at her intact clothes, hesitated for a moment, and asked.
"I'm fine, Dad. He..." Claire shook her head, just about to speak, when she heard Bennet say softly, "It's good that you're fine, my dear. Can you go downstairs and wait for me? I want to talk to him?"
Claire hesitated a little, but Su Zhan winked at her and smiled, "Go ahead, I also want to talk to your father."
"Mm."
Claire nodded, then turned and left.
Bennet closed the door, and the kind expression on his face instantly vanished. He suddenly reached out and grabbed Su Zhan's clothes, yelling sternly, "Who are you, and what have you done to my daughter?"
"What do you think I did?"
Su Zhan's impression of Bennet was quite good because he was a father, a true father. Although his life was full of deception and lies, it was undeniable that he was very good to Claire and truly tried to protect her.
Therefore, Su Zhan was not angry at Bennet's actions. He lightly grabbed his hand, making him let go, then unhurriedly straightened his clothes and said, "If you're worried that I've deceived your daughter into some super-friendly relationship, then you can rest assured. Although what you just heard, things like 'it hurts,' and 'don't move, it'll be out soon,' seemed a bit misleading and sounded like that at first, you also saw that it clearly wasn't!"
"Who exactly are you?"
Bennet was indeed mistaken; anyone who heard such a conversation at the door would misunderstand.
"It hurts... it hurts..."
"Don't move, just hold on a little longer and it will be out."
"Ah ah ah, it's out."
With such a conversation, plus that kind of seemingly explosive low roar, it would be strange if people didn't misunderstand.
"My name is Su Zhan, it's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Bennet," Su Zhan said with a smile.
"What did you do to my daughter?"
Bennet frowned. Although it wasn't that kind of thing, it was clear that this stranger named Su Zhan had definitely done something to Claire.
"Don't be nervous. Actually... your goal is the same as mine, and you should thank me." Su Zhan smiled, seeing Bennet's expression hadn't relaxed, and explained, "I know you nominally work at a paper mill, but in reality, you're working for a certain special department, aren't you? A department specifically looking for Ability users. At first, perhaps you only adopted Claire as part of the organization's arrangement, but people have feelings, so for all these years, you've been protecting her, protecting her Ability from being discovered, protecting her from leaving your side. Am I right?"
"I don't know what you're talking about!"
Bennet shook his head, finding it somewhat absurd. He turned around, but quietly pulled out a gun from his Pregnant. Suddenly turning back, with the gun pointed at Su Zhan, Bennet asked coldly, "How do you know these things? Are you an Ability user too?"
Looking at the dark muzzle of the gun, Su Zhan shook his head. With a slight flick of his finger, Bennet's gun instantly flew out of his hand and into Su Zhan's hand.