Chapter 344
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It took a whole week for their mysterious visitor to regain consciousness.
Well, he said visitor, but technically, they actually did rather kidnap him.
But he had been on the verge of death at the tiome, and he looked like he hadn't been about to get any help from the guards any time soon, so it was fine, wasn't it?
This was pretty much liberation, not abduction!
Alec continued to read as the man on his bed moved and twitched. There was definite movement behind his eyelids now, so he should be waking up soon.
It took another half an hour before the man's head moved as he blinked blearily at the ceiling.
Alec took note of the page that he was on before reluctantly shutting the book and placing it to the side.
Really. He had to wake up while Elysia went out to divert people's attention?
Should he call this good timing or bad timing?
Rather than saying anything, he would rather the man regain consciousness by himself before he thought that something was wrong and potentially trigger him to do something he may or may not regret.
The man continued to blink, before lurching upwards, almost sending himself tumbling off the bed.
Alec didn't make a move to help him, eyeing him.
Now that the man was awake, the sense of déjà vu was striking him harder than ever.
The thing that stood out the most was those light green eyes of his. It was a shade that wasn't easily forgotten. The young man in front of him had a blend of features that he found very familiar.
Alec took a closer look at him before it finally clicked. "What's your name?"
The man finally snapped out of it hearing his question, and he regained his bearings remarkably quickly.
"Hello! Thank you for helping me!" he said, bowing low from his seated position. He would have tried to get up, but his body wasn't quite cooperating smoothly with him at the moment.
Then, he looked confused. "Why does my neck hurt so much?" The man's hand raised as if he was about to touch his neck, and Alec quickly interrupted him.
"What's your name?" Alec repeated.
"My name is Mason." Although the man's expression was bland and slightly confused when he said this, giving off the impression that nothing was wrong, Alec hadn't missed the fact that he deliberately didn't mention his last name.
As expected, it was Mason Woods, whom he'd been searching for all these years in vain.
Was it because he was in a place like this that he couldn't find him?
Even after utilising all of the Cookie Sect's connections, he wasn't able to find anything about Mason Woods.
He'd found his name on the organization's list, but he was nowhere to be found at that time.
Nor was there any more mention of him.
Even when asked by Blanche, no one there ever said that they'd known a Mason with them inside either, which had killed off his leads.
The main reason why Alec was going after the organization so hard was because of this man here.
Mason Woods.
But still, he didn't say anything about it to him.
"Why are you in this ship? Can you tell me anything?" Alec asked Mason.
Mason looked confused. "I have no idea, benefactor. I really don't. My life is mostly a blur, and I lose days on end without any hope in sight. Even my memories about the time I'm awake are vague and blurry."
Alec looked at the man, and he really did seem like he had no idea. His heartbeat was slightly unstable, but Alec chalked it up to him being upset about what he was saying.
At this moment, Elysia returned from her pleasantries outside.
"Alec!" she said cheerfully as she entered, only to pause when she saw that their mysterious guest was awake. "You're awake!"
"Yes. I thank you for helping me," Mason said solemnly. "I can still remember the pain that I went through as you detoxed by body, and I feel better than I've been for many years. I also know that the two of you have helped me avoid re-capture."
Alec nodded. Now that he had finally achieved his goal of finding Mason Woods, he knew that he was still going to go after the organization. They were definitely involved in something much bigger than just the slave trade.
He had to find out what they knew about transmigrators.
"Are you going to go back to find your parents?" he asked casually.
Mason jolted, and there was a look of surprise on his face that he couldn't hide fast enough. "You know my parents?" He paused. "No, I guess you could also make that conclusion from seeing my circumstances."
Alec inclined his head slightly, leaving him to guess.
"I don't think so. There are still things that I want to do, and I'm unsure about whether or not my whereabouts will bring trouble to my parents. I'd hate myself if anything happened to them. Not when they've already suffered so much after my disappearance. I know my parents. There's no way they would give up hope of finding me."
A reasonable conjecture.
"Are you going to take down the organization?" Elysia asked with curiosity.
There was a flash of surprise in Mason's eyes. "Ah…"
"Looks like I'm right?"
"Mm…" Mason said hesitantly. He didn't seem to know how to respond to Elysia's straightforwardness.
Elysia and Alec exchanged a glance.
It was as if Mason didn't want them to tell him he should stop. But neither Alec nor Elysia were the type to interfere with someone's decisions once they'd made them.
"Well, now that you're awake, you should be able to hide yourself from the guards." Alec could see that the man's cultivation wasn't too bad, so he should be able to hide himself relatively well.
"I can do it," Mason said firmly.
Alec took a look at Mason again and didn't feel reassured at all.
The young man looked more like a teenager with his large eyes. His skin was so fair that it bordered on looking sick. But now that Loeri had extracted all of the poison that was dwelling inside him, he didn't look like he was on the verge of death anymore.
He just looked more delicate than a normal person. Almost like he was suffering from a frail body since childhood or something. Or indulging in decadence. Something that wasn't too uncommon within the people on this ship.
Loeri had even went to sleep for more than three days after eating all of his poison. It made Alec wonder just how potent the poison the was inside Mason's body previously, that it made a Thousand Poison Mushroom of all things have to sleep for a few days to digest it.
It was a poison that he'd never heard about, and Loeri told him that the effects of the poison were hard to notice.
It had been slowly killing him over the years, and it had been hard to get it out of him, which was why he was in so much pain while Loeri literally sucked it out of his bloodstream.
By some miracle, the man hadn't died in the process, which Alec almost thought would happen when he saw how painful the process seemed to be, never mind that almost all of his blood contained traces of it.
Alec had to use some emergency seals to increase the replenishment of his blood.
For some reason, he felt as if he shouldn't Awaken anything on this man, but he did it anyway.
He really would have died if it hadn't been for Alec.
However, he could now feel something akin to a bond coming from Mason towards himself now, but the other man didn't seem to be aware of it.
Alec wouldn't call it to his attention either.
For now, he would wait and see.
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It took a whole week for their mysterious visitor to regain consciousness.
Well, he said visitor, but technically, they actually did rather kidnap him.
But he had been on the verge of death at the tiome, and he looked like he hadn't been about to get any help from the guards any time soon, so it was fine, wasn't it?
This was pretty much liberation, not abduction!
Alec continued to read as the man on his bed moved and twitched. There was definite movement behind his eyelids now, so he should be waking up soon.
It took another half an hour before the man's head moved as he blinked blearily at the ceiling.
Alec took note of the page that he was on before reluctantly shutting the book and placing it to the side.
Really. He had to wake up while Elysia went out to divert people's attention?
Should he call this good timing or bad timing?
Rather than saying anything, he would rather the man regain consciousness by himself before he thought that something was wrong and potentially trigger him to do something he may or may not regret.
The man continued to blink, before lurching upwards, almost sending himself tumbling off the bed.
Alec didn't make a move to help him, eyeing him.
Now that the man was awake, the sense of déjà vu was striking him harder than ever.
The thing that stood out the most was those light green eyes of his. It was a shade that wasn't easily forgotten. The young man in front of him had a blend of features that he found very familiar.
Alec took a closer look at him before it finally clicked. "What's your name?"
The man finally snapped out of it hearing his question, and he regained his bearings remarkably quickly.
"Hello! Thank you for helping me!" he said, bowing low from his seated position. He would have tried to get up, but his body wasn't quite cooperating smoothly with him at the moment.
Then, he looked confused. "Why does my neck hurt so much?" The man's hand raised as if he was about to touch his neck, and Alec quickly interrupted him.
"What's your name?" Alec repeated.
"My name is Mason." Although the man's expression was bland and slightly confused when he said this, giving off the impression that nothing was wrong, Alec hadn't missed the fact that he deliberately didn't mention his last name.
As expected, it was Mason Woods, whom he'd been searching for all these years in vain.
Was it because he was in a place like this that he couldn't find him?
Even after utilising all of the Cookie Sect's connections, he wasn't able to find anything about Mason Woods.
He'd found his name on the organization's list, but he was nowhere to be found at that time.
Nor was there any more mention of him.
Even when asked by Blanche, no one there ever said that they'd known a Mason with them inside either, which had killed off his leads.
The main reason why Alec was going after the organization so hard was because of this man here.
Mason Woods.
But still, he didn't say anything about it to him.
"Why are you in this ship? Can you tell me anything?" Alec asked Mason.
Mason looked confused. "I have no idea, benefactor. I really don't. My life is mostly a blur, and I lose days on end without any hope in sight. Even my memories about the time I'm awake are vague and blurry."
Alec looked at the man, and he really did seem like he had no idea. His heartbeat was slightly unstable, but Alec chalked it up to him being upset about what he was saying.
At this moment, Elysia returned from her pleasantries outside.
"Alec!" she said cheerfully as she entered, only to pause when she saw that their mysterious guest was awake. "You're awake!"
"Yes. I thank you for helping me," Mason said solemnly. "I can still remember the pain that I went through as you detoxed by body, and I feel better than I've been for many years. I also know that the two of you have helped me avoid re-capture."
Alec nodded. Now that he had finally achieved his goal of finding Mason Woods, he knew that he was still going to go after the organization. They were definitely involved in something much bigger than just the slave trade.
He had to find out what they knew about transmigrators.
"Are you going to go back to find your parents?" he asked casually.
Mason jolted, and there was a look of surprise on his face that he couldn't hide fast enough. "You know my parents?" He paused. "No, I guess you could also make that conclusion from seeing my circumstances."
Alec inclined his head slightly, leaving him to guess.
"I don't think so. There are still things that I want to do, and I'm unsure about whether or not my whereabouts will bring trouble to my parents. I'd hate myself if anything happened to them. Not when they've already suffered so much after my disappearance. I know my parents. There's no way they would give up hope of finding me."
A reasonable conjecture.
"Are you going to take down the organization?" Elysia asked with curiosity.
There was a flash of surprise in Mason's eyes. "Ah…"
"Looks like I'm right?"
"Mm…" Mason said hesitantly. He didn't seem to know how to respond to Elysia's straightforwardness.
Elysia and Alec exchanged a glance.
It was as if Mason didn't want them to tell him he should stop. But neither Alec nor Elysia were the type to interfere with someone's decisions once they'd made them.
"Well, now that you're awake, you should be able to hide yourself from the guards." Alec could see that the man's cultivation wasn't too bad, so he should be able to hide himself relatively well.
"I can do it," Mason said firmly.
Alec took a look at Mason again and didn't feel reassured at all.
The young man looked more like a teenager with his large eyes. His skin was so fair that it bordered on looking sick. But now that Loeri had extracted all of the poison that was dwelling inside him, he didn't look like he was on the verge of death anymore.
He just looked more delicate than a normal person. Almost like he was suffering from a frail body since childhood or something. Or indulging in decadence. Something that wasn't too uncommon within the people on this ship.
Loeri had even went to sleep for more than three days after eating all of his poison. It made Alec wonder just how potent the poison the was inside Mason's body previously, that it made a Thousand Poison Mushroom of all things have to sleep for a few days to digest it.
It was a poison that he'd never heard about, and Loeri told him that the effects of the poison were hard to notice.
It had been slowly killing him over the years, and it had been hard to get it out of him, which was why he was in so much pain while Loeri literally sucked it out of his bloodstream.
By some miracle, the man hadn't died in the process, which Alec almost thought would happen when he saw how painful the process seemed to be, never mind that almost all of his blood contained traces of it.
Alec had to use some emergency seals to increase the replenishment of his blood.
For some reason, he felt as if he shouldn't Awaken anything on this man, but he did it anyway.
He really would have died if it hadn't been for Alec.
However, he could now feel something akin to a bond coming from Mason towards himself now, but the other man didn't seem to be aware of it.
Alec wouldn't call it to his attention either.
For now, he would wait and see.
It took a whole week for their mysterious visitor to regain consciousness.Well, he said visitor, but technically, they actually did rather kidnap him.But he had been on the verge of death at the tiome, and he looked like he hadn't been about to get any help from the guards any time soon, so it was fine, wasn't it?This was pretty much liberation, not abduction!Alec continued to read as the man on his bed moved and twitched. There was definite movement behind his eyelids now, so he should be waking up soon.It took another half an hour before the man's head moved as he blinked blearily at the ceiling.Alec took note of the page that he was on before reluctantly shutting the book and placing it to the side.Really. He had to wake up while Elysia went out to divert people's attention?Should he call this good timing or bad timing?Rather than saying anything, he would rather the man regain consciousness by himself before he thought that something was wrong and potentially trigger him to do something he may or may not regret.The man continued to blink, before lurching upwards, almost sending himself tumbling off the bed.Alec didn't make a move to help him, eyeing him.Now that the man was awake, the sense of dj vu was striking him harder than ever.The thing that stood out the most was those light green eyes of his. It was a shade that wasn't easily forgotten. The young man in front of him had a blend of features that he found very familiar.Alec took a closer look at him before it finally clicked. "What's your name?"The man finally snapped out of it hearing his question, and he regained his bearings remarkably quickly."Hello! Thank you for helping me!" he said, bowing low from his seated position. He would have tried to get up, but his body wasn't quite cooperating smoothly with him at the moment.Then, he looked confused. "Why does my neck hurt so much?" The man's hand raised as if he was about to touch his neck, and Alec quickly interrupted him."What's your name?" Alec repeated."My name is Mason." Although the man's expression was bland and slightly confused when he said this, giving off the impression that nothing was wrong, Alec hadn't missed the fact that he deliberately didn't mention his last name.As expected, it was Mason Woods, whom he'd been searching for all these years in vain.Was it because he was in a place like this that he couldn't find him?Even after utilising all of the Cookie Sect's connections, he wasn't able to find anything about Mason Woods.He'd found his name on the organization's list, but he was nowhere to be found at that time.Nor was there any more mention of him.Even when asked by Blanche, no one there ever said that they'd known a Mason with them inside either, which had killed off his leads.The main reason why Alec was going after the organization so hard was because of this man here.Mason Woods.But still, he didn't say anything about it to him."Why are you in this ship? Can you tell me anything?" Alec asked Mason.Mason looked confused. "I have no idea, benefactor. I really don't. My life is mostly a blur, and I lose days on end without any hope in sight. Even my memories about the time I'm awake are vague and blurry."Alec looked at the man, and he really did seem like he had no idea. His heartbeat was slightly unstable, but Alec chalked it up to him being upset about what he was saying.At this moment, Elysia returned from her pleasantries outside."Alec!" she said cheerfully as she entered, only to pause when she saw that their mysterious guest was awake. "You're awake!""Yes. I thank you for helping me," Mason said solemnly. "I can still remember the pain that I went through as you detoxed by body, and I feel better than I've been for many years. I also know that the two of you have helped me avoid re-capture."Alec nodded. Now that he had finally achieved his goal of finding Mason Woods, he knew that he was still going to go after the organization. They were definitely involved in something much bigger than just the slave trade.He had to find out what they knew about transmigrators."Are you going to go back to find your parents?" he asked casually.Mason jolted, and there was a look of surprise on his face that he couldn't hide fast enough. "You know my parents?" He paused. "No, I guess you could also make that conclusion from seeing my circumstances."Alec inclined his head slightly, leaving him to guess."I don't think so. There are still things that I want to do, and I'm unsure about whether or not my whereabouts will bring trouble to my parents. I'd hate myself if anything happened to them. Not when they've already suffered so much after my disappearance. I know my parents. There's no way they would give up hope of finding me."A reasonable conjecture."Are you going to take down the organization?" Elysia asked with curiosity.There was a flash of surprise in Mason's eyes. "Ah""Looks like I'm right?""Mm" Mason said hesitantly. He didn't seem to know how to respond to Elysia's straightforwardness.Elysia and Alec exchanged a glance.It was as if Mason didn't want them to tell him he should stop. But neither Alec nor Elysia were the type to interfere with someone's decisions once they'd made them."Well, now that you're awake, you should be able to hide yourself from the guards." Alec could see that the man's cultivation wasn't too bad, so he should be able to hide himself relatively well."I can do it," Mason said firmly.Alec took a look at Mason again and didn't feel reassured at all.The young man looked more like a teenager with his large eyes. His skin was so fair that it bordered on looking sick. But now that Loeri had extracted all of the poison that was dwelling inside him, he didn't look like he was on the verge of death anymore.He just looked more delicate than a normal person. Almost like he was suffering from a frail body since childhood or something. Or indulging in decadence. Something that wasn't too uncommon within the people on this ship.Loeri had even went to sleep for more than three days after eating all of his poison. It made Alec wonder just how potent the poison the was inside Mason's body previously, that it made a Thousand Poison Mushroom of all things have to sleep for a few days to digest it.It was a poison that he'd never heard about, and Loeri told him that the effects of the poison were hard to notice.It had been slowly killing him over the years, and it had been hard to get it out of him, which was why he was in so much pain while Loeri literally sucked it out of his bloodstream.By some miracle, the man hadn't died in the process, which Alec almost thought would happen when he saw how painful the process seemed to be, never mind that almost all of his blood contained traces of it.Alec had to use some emergency seals to increase the replenishment of his blood.For some reason, he felt as if he shouldn't Awaken anything on this man, but he did it anyway.He really would have died if it hadn't been for Alec.However, he could now feel something akin to a bond coming from Mason towards himself now, but the other man didn't seem to be aware of it.Alec wouldn't call it to his attention either.For now, he would wait and see.
