Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 314: For Your Majesty (129)

Dragon Raja 5

From the time she can remember, she has been surrounded by an overwhelming stream of information. She couldn’t ignore it or find peace. Whenever she wakes up, she instinctively begins to calculate.

She disliked going to crowded places. If she stood still on a busy street, her exceptional hearing would allow countless conversations to flood her mind, and she could discern the flattery and deception within them. Humans were the most vast flow of information; they were so adept at scheming and deception.

She knew she was an accident to her parents. This charming couple was forced into marriage because of her. They each had their own philandering ways and their own lives, only staying together out of pride and financial constraints. Whenever they complained about life’s hardships, Su Enxi was their biggest annoyance. When they argued, they didn’t point at each other, but at Su Enxi. This “lasso” forced them to endure their current life; without her, everything would be better. Su Enxi even knew who her parents’ lover was—a neighbor who lived nearby. So, when she encountered their child, Su Enxi would beat him even harder. But she never told her great-grandmother, who thought the young couple were just immature and had a misunderstanding.

Su Enxi ran away from home when she was five years old, but mentally she was probably eighteen or twenty. There was no particular reason for her to run away; she simply no longer had any reason to stay in that small town.

She always stayed where she could see her great-grandmother, not because she was afraid of being alone, but because she had to take care of the lonely old woman, like a cat taking care of its owner. Now that the owner was dead, she was free.

“The sky is dark, it’s going to rain; the Dragon King of the Sea wants to marry someone.” The only thing worth remembering was that children’s song. She really wanted to hear it again, to be held in that old woman’s arms. She was so withered and thin, yet so warm.

This was the only thing Monster Girl couldn’t analyze or understand. Only when she was in her great-grandmother’s arms was the world simple, clean, and clear. The blue sky was the blue sky, the white clouds were the white clouds, the raging flow of information was still, and only that song flowed slowly.

From the perspective of the TV series’ logic, this seems to be the effect of “love,” but even as a humanoid self-propelled computer, Su Enxi still couldn’t fully analyze love.

Su Enxi didn’t have any grand ambitions; she just wanted to travel to faraway places. Books said the world was vast, and she wanted to see it.

Thanks to her innate high intelligence, Su Enxi actually managed to live quite well during her days of wandering.

She could instantly tell who was friendly and who was hostile. With friendly people, she would act cute and tell lies. A young girl’s body housed the soul of an old woman; it was incredibly easy for her to please anyone. If she was tired and wanted a comfortable bed to sleep in for a few days, she could always find a kind family who believed her lies. Several families earnestly wanted to adopt her, but each time, Su Enxi would tearfully agree and then run away overnight.

She doesn’t need anyone; she was perfectly fine on her own. Pretending to be a little girl all the time was exhausting.

As the saying goes, “He who walks the path of life will inevitably get his feet wet.” She had encountered human traffickers a few times, one of which was quite dangerous. She managed to deceive them with her innocent smile, then knocked them unconscious with a brick. Afterwards, she even used the trafficker’s coins to call the police station. The police were at a loss for what to write in their case report. The victim had subdued the trafficker herself, given the credit to the police, and then slipped away, her good keeping deed hidden. Submitting that report would surely get her a severe scolding from superiors.

But Su Enxi was still too arrogant. This mysterious, wandering girl was a puzzle to the police and a temptation to some.

She was kidnapped on a long-distance bus. The kidnappers were prepared for the girl’s high intelligence. The driver and passengers on the bus were all in cahoots. By the time Su Enxi realized the danger, it was too late. She was taken to Macau by a cargo ship. Her captors, knowing the girl was a monster, blindfolded and deafened her, and didn’t speak a single word to her.

What awaited her was a rigorous IQ test, because if she didn’t cooperate, she wouldn’t get any food. Su Enxi didn’t resist too much, although she didn’t put in much effort either.

Experts couldn’t determine her IQ because every question was 11 for her. Even if you gave Einstein a test full of single-digit addition and subtraction problems, you still wouldn’t know what kind of genius he was.

The boss who kidnapped her was overjoyed, like finding a beautiful tea set after the rain in a garbage dump.
There were seven or eight girls like Su Enxi, all with intelligence far exceeding their peers. The boss treated them well, providing them with good food and drink, and even hiring special teachers to instruct them in probability and psychology, as well as clothing, grooming, and etiquette—similar to the ancient practice of raising “slender horses” in Yangzhou. While others learned Chinese, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and all sorts of skills in school, they only learned mathematics and charm. Coupled with their exceptional talent, they all became goddesses upon graduation. They were glamorous assassins at the gambling table, their beautiful eyes flashing while their slashes were ruthless. Some became so poor that they had to bet hundreds of thousands of Australian dollars to leave, and many were left penniless.

Actually, running a casino is a business to make money, there’s no need to make it so complicated, so Su Enxi guessed that the boss was a pervert, and he did this mostly out of hobby.

At that time, Su Enxi didn’t know the term “Stockholm Syndrome,” but she could sense the girls’ obedience to their boss. They possessed high intelligence but came from remote areas and lacked social experience. He was the only person in the world who was good to them, and they would even fight and be jealous to win his favor.

No matter how good their math skills were, they were bound to encounter lucky gamblers, and one day they’ll lose themselves and become toys. The boss doesn’t care; business was inherently about gains and losses, and besides, he wins most of the time. These girls were his toys too, and he doesn’t mind lending them to others to play with occasionally.

It wasn’t that no one had thought of escaping, but despite their excellent calculation abilities, they lacked any survival skills, and no one had ever managed to escape this city on the sea.

Su Enxi was different. Although she hasn’t seen much of the world, the old aunt’s soul was stubborn and hard, like a stone in a latrine, and won’t soften easily.

She was safe for now. First of all, not many people like a little girl like her, and her gambling skills were the best among girls. She wins money from pedophiles at the gambling table, just like she used to beat up children at the end of the village.

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