She held a honeyed Ghost-arrow Pig with both hands and brought it to Meng Chao's mouth while looking at him sincerely.
"Um … What do you mean?"
"I'll treat you to it. I want to learn the Ultimate Style," Wu Wu said.
"Really?" Meng Chao was surprised and delighted. As one of the four specially recruited fighting courses in the alliance of the five universities, Wu Wu's fighting strength was obvious to all. She was also incredibly famous.
If she was willing to learn the Ultimate Style, it would be the best advertisement. He could also earn a lot of contribution points.
"Really." Wu Wu nodded and said methodically, "I was defeated by the strong, learned from the strong, defeated the strong, and ate the strong. This is the rule of survival. Of course, if you can defeat me, you can eat me at any time you want."
"Can we not eat each other all the time? Even if that's what you think, you don't have to say it so directly!" Wu Wu frowned.
"If I don't say it, won't you know that I want to eat you?"
"I can teach you the Ultimate Style, but the condition is that you don't say such ambiguous and strange things. If other people hear you, they'll think that something happened between us!"
Wu Wu thought about it. "Sure. Teach me the Ultimate Style, and I'll agree to any of your conditions. I'll also help you kill all the people you don't like."
"… I don't have anyone I don't like for the time being. Even if I do, I'll take care of them myself. Don't cause trouble for me!"
Meng Chao felt that Wu Wu was a dangerous person. It was no wonder why quite a number of monster controller course students kept their distance from her and called her Big Sis Leopard, even though she looked like a cat.
He thought about it for a while and said, "How about this? I don't need you to do anything overboard. I just want you to train hard and learn the essence of the Ultimate Style so that you can defeat Shao Jianqing and the other two specially recruited students from the military school's heroic spirit course on the ranking board at the east lake base. Can you do it?"
"Even if you don't say it, I'll still defeat them."
Wu Wu bared her sharp teeth and gave Meng Chao a smile that was half brutal and half adorable.
When she saw that Meng Chao did not want to eat the honey Ghost-arrow Pig she personally served, she decided to put it away. She opened her mouth and took a huge gulp before she stuffed her cheeks with most of the pig.
Wu Wu had a unique way of eating.
She preferred squatting on the bench to sitting.
Squatting wasn't well-behaved either. Instead, she held the food in her hands and turned her head around. She was constantly vigilant of her surroundings to prevent anyone from snatching the food from her mouth.
Her mouth seemed to contain an infinite dimensional space, and her cheeks expanded and contracted freely, bulging to the extreme. The little tabby cat had turned into an extra-large squirrel.
If Meng Chao did not see it with his own eyes, he would have a hard time imagining that the girl who was less than 1.6 meters tall would have a small and exquisite mouth that could fit half a pig.
His greedy and wary look made him look like a monster in the wild, and he did not fit in with the students around him.
Meng Chao found it interesting and curious. In the end, he could not help but ask, "Wu Wu, are you used to living in the human world?"
Wu Wu chewed quickly, and her cheeks quivered. She widened her clear eyes and stared at Meng Chao in puzzlement. She did not understand what he meant.
"Didn't you grow up in the wild? You shouldn't have had the concept of humans in the past, right? You were suddenly saved, and when you returned to Dragon City, you saw all these strange and unbelievable things. You must have been shocked. Now, you're back in the wild to kill monsters. Do you … find it hard to do it?"
Meng Chao was not speaking without thinking.
From the memories of his previous life, he noticed that during the later stage of the Monster War, many of the highly intelligent high-grade superbeasts who were skilled in mind techniques tried their best to infiltrate Dragon City in hopes of destroying the fortress of human civilization from within.
At that time, quite a number of people were controlled by the monsters and were even willing to work together with them.
Since Wu Wu had been in the monster research center for a few years and could enter Monster University as a specially recruited student, she had naturally gone through a series of strict monitoring and examinations. She was definitely loyal to human civilization.
But Meng Chao wanted to know just what the humans who submitted to monsters were thinking. Perhaps he could get some ideas from Wu Wu.
With just a few bites, Wu Wu finished a Honey-juicy Ghost-arrow Pig.
She was even faster than Meng Chao.
"I've killed countless monsters with the Ghost Leopards in the wild. Why can't I do it?"
She grabbed the second Ghost-arrow Pig, but she still could not grasp Meng Chao's main point. "Survival of the fittest. The strong prey on the weak. This is the law of survival. Before humans arrived in the monster world, there was eternal slaughter. The strong kill the weak, eat the weak, and enslave the weak. It's very normal. There's nothing wrong with it."
Meng Chao scratched his head. "That's true. But what if we run into a Ghost Leopard pack one day? Will you hesitate?"
"Why?"
Wu Wu pursed her lips. "When I was a Ghost Leopard, I attacked quite a few Ghost Leopards."
It was only then that Meng Chao remembered that Wu Wu had personally admitted to killing and eating at least two Ghost Leopards.
'Looks like I was thinking too much.
"Ever since I was young, I knew that I was different from the other Ghost Leopards. After all, we look completely different."
While Wu Wu wolfed down her food, she spoke in a muffled voice. "At that time, a lot of Ghost Leopards bit me, scratched me, bullied me, and treated me as a toy and a tool to train their young leopards.
"I don't think that I'm a deformed Ghost Leopard, but I don't know that I'm a human either. Every time I'm tortured until I'm covered in wounds, I'll lick my wounds alone and look at the sky and the horizon. I'll spend a long time thinking, thinking, and thinking.
"In the end, after I bit the throats of three young leopards who bullied me, I figured it out.
"I'm a god.
"I'm the god of Ghost Leopards. I'm an existence that's destined to rule over all Ghost Leopards!
"This is why I look different from them, and why my way of thinking is different. I'm much smarter than them. I know how to set traps, sow dissension, and attack them one by one. I have all sorts of abilities that allow me to toy with them.
"When my wish came true and I became the leopard king, I ran into the rescue team, and it was only then that I realized that I had so many of my own kind.
"However, my own kind also did not fit in with the world. They were different from all the monsters, and they were viewed with hostility by most of the monsters. It was just like how I did not fit in with Ghost Leopards and was viewed with hostility by most of the young leopards. What was going on?
"I continued thinking about it, and I finally understood. Humans are the gods of monsters. We're the strongest monsters, so we have the right to kill them, eat them, and rule over the world.
"So, when I returned to the wild and faced the monsters, I didn't feel conflicted or hesitant. I just used another method to do the same things as before. That's all."
Wu Wu's experiences when she was young made Meng Chao's heart clench.
However, the indifferent tone of his voice contained a natural killing intent, causing goosebumps to rise all over his body.
"We're humans. We're not the 'strongest monster'!"
"Is there a difference? Humans are monsters. "
"Of course there's a difference. We're not monsters. We have civilization!"
"I know that humans can write, sing, build houses, and have powerful weapons like Ping Pang Pang. Our sabers and swords are sharper than normal monsters' claws and teeth, but is that the difference?"
Wu Wu swung the hind leg of a honey-glazed Ghost-arrow Pig and said, "In the wild, I hunt Ghost-arrow Pigs and eat them alive. Among humans, I hunt Ghost-arrow Pigs, ask someone to smear honey on them, roast them carefully, and place them on a plate. Then, I eat them with chopsticks, knives, and forks. It's just a complicated process. What's the difference? "To Ghost-arrow Pigs, they're killed and eaten. So, in their eyes, aren't Ghost Leopards and humans monsters?"
Meng Chao felt that Wu Wu's train of thought was very unique.
And it formed a closed loop in her thoughts.
It seemed very difficult to break.
"After I returned to Dragon City, I observed it in secret for a long time. Even though everyone often mentions human civilization as if it's the dividing line between us and monsters, I don't think there's any difference," Wu Wu continued.
Wu Wu continued. "But I don't think that there's any difference between Dragon City and the Ghost Leopard nest I've lived in for more than ten years. It's the law of the jungle where the strong prey on the weak, and the victors are kings. Both of them need to continuously compete and struggle madly to survive in an incredibly brutal environment.
"Ghost-arrow Pigs curl up into a ball and use their stingers to hunt.
Hundred-eyed Toads jump high and use acid to hunt.
"Wolf Crocodiles bite down on their prey and use Death Spin to hunt.
"Ghost Leopards use Rotting Claws to hunt.
"Humans use swords, guns, steel, and machines to hunt.
"We're all monsters, so there's no difference. I use the method of Ghost Leopards to survive in the human world like a fish in water."
As she spoke, at some point in time, she had already finished eating the entire mountain of meat.
The stainless steel tray was completely empty. Not even half a broken bone or a speck of meat was left. Even the honey and oil had been licked clean by her. It was so shiny that it could reflect a person's shadow.
Then, she brought out a napkin from the napkin bag at the center of the table, wiped her mouth, and said with a smile, "The greatest difference between humans and monsters is that after we eat living beings, we need to use a napkin to wipe our mouths. What's so difficult about that?"
Meng Chao found himself speechless.
Then, he remembered how the instructor with the black skull had faked slit his throat. When he fell to the ground powerlessly and waited for death to descend on him in despair, he heard the screams of the Shrieking Fungi in the Other World civilization's village.
Just what was the difference between humans and monsters?
In his previous life, even though they paid a devastating price, in the end, humans still won the Monster War.
But that was just what Meng Chao remembered in his previous life.
'After the war, the Extraordinary Disaster that rushed to the Other World from Monster Mountain Range … Just what is it?' Meng Chao sank into deep puzzlement.
"You've become weaker."
Wu Wu looked at him. "Compared to the day we fought in the grove in the university, your thoughts have changed. You've also become conflicted and hesitant. You're no longer pure and resolute. If we fight again, I might bite you to death."
"… No, I've become stronger."
Even though he had not found the answer yet, there was one thing that Meng Chao was certain of. 'Humans have heads, and they use them to let their imaginations run wild. Humans have eyes, and they use them to discover the truth, even if it's not very bright. This is the greatest difference between us and monsters, and it's also the path of a superhuman that I want to take. I will definitely persevere to the end.
"Come, let's go to the cultivation room. I'll let you witness the power of the Ultimate Style!"
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