11 A Completely Different World

"An Awakened organization? What's that?"

Aiden had a puzzled look on his face. He had yet to recover from Sophia's change in attitude. Right now, Sophia was like a grim reaper who could explode and kill him at any moment.

"It means literally that it's an organization formed by the gathering of Awakened like you," Sophia explained with a smile as she played with the dagger in her hand.

"Since you're an Awakened and if you want to live, you have to join the organization. Otherwise, you might die in the mouth of the beasts one day."

"Beast? What's that?"

"What you encountered yesterday was a ferocious beast. It can also be called a devouring beast."

"Swallowing beast?"

"It's a name for vicious beasts. There are many kinds of vicious beasts, each with different living habits and appearances. The Devourer is one of them. In short, all the beasts are greedy and very cunning. They are good at pretending."

Aiden was stunned when he heard this. These concepts of vicious beasts and devouring beasts really exceeded his understanding.

Seeing that he was in a daze, Sophia Harley said in a seductive tone, "How about it? Join me. If you join, you can become teammates with a beauty like me."

Aiden didn't relax at her teasing. On the contrary, he became even more nervous.

"Did you… want to kill me just now?" Aiden couldn't help but feel a lingering fear when he recalled the feeling of having a sharp blade pressed against his throat.

"What? Are you still angry? How petty." Sophia pouted and rolled her eyes at Aiden.

"That was just a test."

"Test?" Aiden was stunned for a moment before he had a guess. "Could it be that you're testing me to see if I'll sleep with you, but what kind of test is this?"

If it was any other time, he would definitely be happy to have a beauty throw herself at him. However, if this beauty wanted to kill him several times, it would not be a good thing.

"I'm just confirming that you're not a ferocious beast." Sophia pursed her lips.

"Why are you so sure?" Aiden's face was filled with disbelief. He really couldn't connect Sophia's actions with her identity. No matter how he looked at it, she was trying to take advantage of him.

Yes, that was definitely the case.

Faced with his skepticism, Sophia said only one thing.

"Direbeasts are different from humans. They don't have sexual urges, so their reproductive systems have imitations. As for their erections, they are completed in an instant. Humans are different…" Sophia glanced at Aiden's lower body and didn't continue.

Aiden came to a sudden realization. Although he still found it unbelievable, he no longer found it strange when he thought of the beast's weird appearance.

"Have you considered it? Do you want to join?" Sophia was very persistent. This made Aiden a little curious about what that so-called Awakened organization was. However, he still shook his head and refused.

"No. According to what you just said, as long as I don't have sex with strange women, I won't be in danger. In that case, why should I join any organization?"

As if she had expected him to say this, Sophia smiled coldly. "It seems that you still don't know your situation. Do you know how many ferocious beasts there are in this city?"

"How many?"

"The ratio is one in a hundred thousand."

"One in a hundred thousand? How many can there be? There's only one vicious beast in a hundred thousand people. I can't be that unlucky to encounter one all the time, right?" Aiden heaved a sigh of relief. He recalled that he had been worried that there would be vicious beasts outside the park. Now that he thought about it, it was really funny. However, what Sophia said next made him unable to laugh anymore.

"You're mistaken. When I say one in a hundred thousand, I mean one in a hundred thousand Ferals."

"What?!" Aiden sat up and cried out in shock.

"You… How is this possible? You must be joking!"

"Joking?" Sophia laughed disdainfully.

"Why would I joke about this?"

"No, that's impossible." Aiden found it unbelievable and felt his scalp go numb. This was too ridiculous. There was only one in a hundred thousand beasts. What kind of concept was that? Didn't that mean that the school he was in now might already be a playground for beasts?

However, Sophia did not look like she was joking at all. She said word by word, "This is the truth. Now, do you understand your situation?"

"…" Aiden's entire body trembled as his worldview rapidly crumbled.

Sophia turned a blind eye to his reaction and said, "It's already a small probability for our school to have two humans like you and me. As for your family, your friends, your neighbors, and 99% of the people you've come into contact with in the past 20 years, if nothing goes wrong, they're all ferocious beasts. All kinds of ferocious beasts."

Aiden stood rooted to the ground, his back drenched in a cold sweat. Terror coiled around him like a cold viper.

Father, mother, teacher, classmates, friends… Everyone might be that terrifying cannibalistic monster, but he had been with them for 20 years!

At the thought of this, Aiden's stomach churned, and he retched.

"To tell you the truth, you're the first human I've seen so far. Other than my father, the first few humans were either torn apart by ferocious beasts or committed suicide after having a mental breakdown."

"No, that's impossible." Aiden shook his head vehemently. He was still hoping for a fluke.

"If I was surrounded by ferocious beasts… I would have died long ago!"

Yes, if it was as Sophia had said, he would have been reduced to food for the monsters if he had lived among them all year round. How could he have survived until now?

"Because you have never noticed their existence before. Vicious beasts will not harm humans who have yet to awaken. They only kill Awakened ones." Sophia pointed at herself and then at Aiden.

"Only people like you and me."

"Why?" Aiden didn't understand. Were monsters picky when it came to eating people?

"I'm not sure." Sophia Harry shook her head. "They seem to have their own set of rules. I don't know much. What I just said came from my father."

"Mr. Hall? Is he also a member of the Awakened?" Aiden was shocked. His impression of Sophia's father, Hall, was still from when he was young. At that time, Mr. Hall was still a kind man and was very friendly to everyone. However, he did not expect that the other party was also an Awakened. Then how did he get along peacefully with those beasts?

"Yes, my father went to look for Awakened organizations many years ago," Sophia explained.

"As for what the Awakened organization is, I'm not too sure. I only know that if an Awakened wants to survive in this world, they would have to join the organization."