Chapter54

If there was anything stranger than Jiang Che calling these monsters mom and dad, it was the Blood Nurse handing him a clean cup and filling it with fresh water.
Pristine, crystal-clear water—completely at odds with everything else here.
"Is that your friend?" The Blood Nurse glanced at Ya. The human's reek of terror had soaked the whole room.
"She's not my friend, but she said she knows where my wife is and promised to help me find her."
"You have a wife?" The Blood Nurse froze, then frowned. "Then you'd better find her quick. This place is not safe."
She couldn't help feeling a weird fondness—she hadn't even met the girl, and already didn't want her to die out there alone.
"Do you know where she is?" She looked at Nurse Ya, puzzled.
"Y-yeah, we agreed to meet up somewhere." Ya didn't have time to think, and didn't dare admit the wife was a total lie.
Her mind whirred. If she took Jiang Che to another evil spirit, say he was her "wife," let that spirit kill Jiang Che—
—then when Blood Slaughter found out, he'd kill that spirit in revenge. Let the monsters tear each other apart, maybe she'd survive the chaos?
The Blood Nurse's face creased deeper—she could sense Ya's emotions but not read her mind. All she felt was a flash of strange joy and relief.
She wondered if she was imagining things—her thoughts felt ridiculous now.
It actually seemed like this whole Blood Slaughter family really saw Jiang Che as their son!
But how the fuck could that be possible?
Jiang Che's human!
"Alright, eat before you leave. Take some food for the road." The Blood Nurse knew time was tight; in this cursed dungeon, who knew if the wife might die the next second?