Chapter 42: Illusion

After Situ Mu walked away with Daisy, the five remaining individuals started discussing frantically. Huang Yu speculated, "So, during the time Dr. Situ went missing, he was looking for the Blood Queen?"

"Need you ask? Of course!" Zhou Lanxun retorted unenthusiastically.

"How can even Dr. Situ be abducted by outsiders?" Ding Chao still couldn't believe it, feeling like their worldviews were collapsing.

"Now what? The entire leadership is going to be alarmed, right..." Huang Yu added.

"No way!" Zhou Lanxun kicked the tree trunk again with frustration. "How many humans have the Blood Clan abducted to serve as blood slaves? In the castle where Daisy lives, who knows how many human blood slaves there are? I thought Dr. Situ established M.R. to strengthen our human power and resist outsiders. I never thought he would end up with the Blood Queen!"

"I hope Dr. Situ wasn't serious," Ding Chao silently prayed. It wasn't that he disagreed, but revealing their relationship as a human and a vampire would undoubtedly face strong opposition from both the human and vampire communities!

"Sigh, no matter what, Dr. Situ dissected her before; isn't that settling the score?" Zhang Qisheng tried to play peacemaker again, although his heart was also in turmoil. He had to console himself.

"If it weren't for her being dissected at M.R. before, I feel she doesn't owe us anything. I said that directly just now!" Zhou Lanxun was still agitated.

"This won't do. We must respect Dr. Situ. Who is he? Much smarter than us. He definitely has his own plans. It's not up to us to interfere," Zhang Qisheng retorted.

Then he thought of something and quickly changed the topic, asking Liu Yi, "Hey, girl, how did your niece and Prince Danny get together?"

Speaking of Danny, the other three were willing to save him mainly because of Liu Yi and Zhang Qisheng, and there was also a principled reason—though he was a Blood Clan prince, he was a cat person. The cat people and humans had no conflicts, so they were willing to overlook many things and come to his rescue.

"I don't know the details," Liu Yi replied to Zhang Qisheng. "My niece said they've known each other for a long time and got together because they liked each other."

Completely trusting Tang Yinyin, Liu Yi was unaware that Tang Yinyin had casually made up this story to avoid suspicion about her pregnancy.

To clarify, when she claimed to be pregnant, she had only found Danny a week ago! Moreover, reproduction among other races was relatively difficult, and crossbreeding was even more challenging. Therefore, she knew about her pregnancy within a week, making it difficult to avoid suspicion.

"Do you really approve of them being together? Danny is a Blood Clan prince. If he takes your niece to the Blood Clan, can you rest easy?" Zhou Lanxun frowned, loudly questioning Liu Yi.

"Of course, I won't let her go to the Blood Clan. If Danny is unwilling to stay with her in my family, I won't agree to them being together."

Joking, the Blood Clan considered human blood as food. How could she agree to let her own niece go there?

However, what she didn't anticipate was that one day, the situation would develop beyond her imagination...

...

Behind a certain yellow maple tree, Situ Mu pressed Daisy against the trunk, kissing her with a touch of roughness.

Daisy's hands wrapped around his neck as they engaged in an intense, passionate kiss.

Gradually, her hands moved to his chest, gently pushing him away a bit.

Breathing slightly heavily, she glanced around and said, "I always feel something strange about this place."

Situ Mu didn't look around because he had already surveyed everything when he arrived. He focused solely on her lips, glistening with a watery glow, using his fingertips to caress her chin, and said, "It does feel a bit strange."

"Do you know?" Daisy looked at him suspiciously. Did he bring her here with prior knowledge?

At that moment, Situ Mu began counting, "3, 2, 1..."

In an instant, the large maple leaves above Daisy's back turned into golden butterflies, surging out like waves.

No, they were butterflies to begin with, just resembling maple leaves from a distance, making it difficult to distinguish between the two.

"Dreaming Butterflies?" Daisy raised an eyebrow.

"Yes." Situ Mu nodded with a smile.

"So, shouldn't we avoid them?"

"Avoid for what?" Situ Mu couldn't resist and didn't want to resist. He kissed her lips again, savoring her sweetness, and didn't let go.

"Shoo!"

Dozens of sharp wind blades swept past. Daisy clung tightly to his waist, leaping to avoid them.

However, unexpectedly, when she landed, she felt the ground collapsing.

She spread her bat wings and soared into the air. When she was about to touch the branches, they suddenly all moved, coiling into a large net. It seemed like a vortex, accompanied by a tremendous pulling force, as if attempting to suck them in.

Relying on her instincts, Daisy swiftly maneuvered through the gaps in the vortex. Then she realized that the edges of the fallen leaves had become as sharp as knives, tearing through the swift wind, ceaselessly tracking them.

Scattered leaves on the ground and floating leaf fragments from the trees formed a sky-covering trend, dancing in the air. Occasionally, they gathered into bundles, resembling golden dragons with open jaws, heading towards them.

Daisy focused her mental energy on sensing the dangers around her, paying little attention to the actions of the man beside her. At a certain moment, Situ Mu, who had been holding her, finally released her lips. She naturally leaned her chin on his shoulder and asked, "Is all this the effect of Dreaming Butterflies?"

"Yes," Situ Mu replied. He then kissed her neck and began undoing her dress. "And there's more."

Daisy realized how adept he was at this. Was it because he was the one who dressed her in the first place?

In this tense environment, she couldn't help but recall the scene when he helped her put on the dress. At that time, it didn't feel embarrassing, but now, in this anxious situation, she surprisingly found herself growing more and more shy.

The snow-white dress fell from the sky, the ground still collapsing as the soil quickly buried it. Daisy felt waves of heat sweeping over her. When a certain point was touched, her delicate body trembled even more violently. Her mind went blank, and her soaring movements slowed for a moment. A large cluster of razor-sharp fallen leaves followed closely, emitting piercing sounds as they cut through the air, narrowly avoiding her bat wings.

Daisy quickly regained her focus, accelerating her evasion. She shot him a sideways glance, lightly patting his arm with her boneless jade-like hand, and said with a coquettish tone, "You're not allowed to move."

"Isn't it exciting?" His warm voice flowed out from his throat, unusually deep at this moment.

As he spoke, his actions became more and more excessive, even to the point...

Daisy exclaimed, a tremendous stimulus causing her brain to go blank, as if poppies were suddenly blooming in her mind.

Unconsciously, she flew through the air, the air cold and slapping against her back. At this moment, she resembled a small boat floating up and down in a stormy sea, with an intensely burning sensation within.

Leaves converged rapidly from all directions, launching a dense and relentless attack, weaving into an impenetrable net. They seemed like prey about to be captured, tightly surrounded in the midst of a storm.

...

"Sweetheart, wake up." Situ Mu held Daisy, stroking her cheek and softly calling her.

A faint layer of sakura-colored blush appeared on her snow-white skin. Her butterfly-like eyelashes fluttered a few times, and her eyes slowly opened, as if holding a pool of spring water.

Upon waking up and seeing him, her rosy cheeks became even more abnormal. She buried her face shyly in his arms, and her red lips trembled as she spoke with a soft and melodious voice, "Did I just faint?"

Situ Mu seemed perfectly normal, still refined and elegant as ever. He sensed something off about her but truthfully answered, "Yes, you just entered the illusion created by the Dreaming Butterflies."

"Uh... huh?"

Hearing his words, she suddenly realized something. With a slight shock, an illusion?

Daisy lifted her head from his embrace and saw her white dress still intact. She carefully recollected. Just now, it seemed... not painful... indeed, it was abnormal...

"After encountering the Dreaming Butterflies, your thoughts will come true in the illusion," Situ Mu explained. Then, seemingly casually, he asked her, "What did you see just now?"