Floating on its back, Gou Fugui looked at his round, short, furry little paws and mulled over life.
Even if a few more waves came over and knocked him up and down, spinning him in circles, he would have nothing to fear ——
Sea otters are naturally adept at diving and can easily dive up to 50 meters below sea level in search of food. They spend almost their entire lives at sea; even when they sleep, they stay afloat on their backs, bound together with seaweed. Thus, the sea is not a plight but a hotbed for sea otters.
In addition, sea otters have the thickest fur in the world, with 160,000 hairs per square centimeter. Clothed in 100 percent authentic leather, let alone a few waves, he wouldn’t get wet even after soaking in water for several hours.
Therefore, even if the weather is a little harsh, sea otter Fugui is now comfortably floating on his back, as if he was lying on a massive waterbed no first-class wealthy family could ever have. Of course, it would have been nice to have an overhead shelter to protect him from the heavy rain pouring all over him.
All in all, Gou Fugui didn’t have to worry about drowning anymore.
But there were many things he was confused about.
For example, why had he suddenly become a sea otter? Could it be that his deceased father or mother had the bloodline of some ancient sea otter demon?
Could he turn back into a human after becoming a sea otter? Although it’s nice to be a sea otter while floating on the sea, he can’t just keep floating until the end of this world, right?
Also, what kind of doomsday will this world face? When he came, he was ready to chase the zombie army for 3,000 miles, but at this point, there were no zombies in sight. It was more like the 2012 blockbuster disaster.
And his backpack…
“F*ck, my backpack!!!”
Originally lounging on his back, the sea otter Fugui only at this time suddenly thought of the backpack he was carrying with him. He didn’t care much about the other things, but the “Gou’s Quirky and Adorable Creatures Handbook” he had worked hard for years to complete was still inside aah!!!
The little sea otter rolled over in a frenzy and began to use his short and round paws to reach for his backpack, but he didn’t hold out much hope— he had fallen from mid-air, hit by the waves countless times and had been lying on his back for almost five minutes. The quality of his backpack was good enough that he hadn’t yet torn it apart, but it wasn’t waterproof, and his handbook of oddballs may already be a puddle of torn paper.
But Gou Fugui didn’t find his handbook inside the backpack.
The sea otter’s sensitive paws rummaged around. Sea otter Fugui found: his wallet, his mobile phone, even a small wooden comb and mirror set, and a few coins, but the big <<Gou’s Quirky and Adorable Creatures Handbook>> was missing.
It wasn’t destroyed or turned into a puddle of rotten paper; he couldn’t even find anything paper related in his backpack.
Gou Fugui was a little flustered.
He thought of the rare photos of various cute oddballs he had taken with his high-end camera inside the book and grimaced wryly.
To capture his beloved little oddballs’ most beautiful side, he had gone up mountains and out at sea, experiencing all kinds of hardships. He had been bitten by mosquitoes in the woods and chased by wolves on the snowy plateau, and he had even developed excellent escape skills as a result. If not for his poor innate constitution, Gou Fugui felt that he could even go to the Olympics.
So! The photos in his oddballs’ handbook are all superb! Many of them had been snapped up by various geographical and scientific magazines, but now they are all gone.
At this point, sea otter Fugui is like a dumb sea otter who has lost all the shells and sea urchins in his pocket, and his little grape-like black eyes are glazed.
It was so pathetic.
But soon after, sea otter Fugui flipped on his back. He thought of the heat he had felt coming from his backpack when he had crossed the Doomsday Gate, and he rubbed his face with his little paws in excitement, his little black grape-like eyes filled with life –
The heat he had felt at that time was about the size of his oddballs’ handbook!
So, was it his quirky cuties’ handbook to glow with heat? Recalling that the first cutie photographed in the oddballs’ handbook was a sea otter who loved to rub its face and groom itself, who liked to busk in the sun floating on the sea every day, and who enjoyed knocking on rocks and boats with all kinds of shells and crabs…, oh, sea otter Fugui showed a look of realization… —
The end of the world is coming, and the Earth’s consciousness can speak to their brains to issue tasks. What’s wrong with him suddenly awakening a golden finger?! Not to mention, this golden finger was something he had spent years and years of dedicated work to build on his own.
Maybe after a while, other people on Earth would awaken their bloodlines, unleash their powers, and then everyone would become superhuman.
Gou Fugui’s ability to adapt and brainwash himself is so strong that even though he has no idea what the truth is, as long as he finds himself a reason that is credible enough, he can go on living half-heartedly without panic.
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Anyway, he firmly believes that a man is as his name suggests – Gou Fugui, to seek wealth and honor. As long as he is still alive, he will definitely be rich in the future!
So now all he has to think about is how to get to shore or find a few living people.
And then, find out what kind of doomsday this world is facing and what can be done to save it or live to the end of it.
After all, he had come here of his own accord, so he had to do something. Even if he couldn’t be a hero and save the world, he still had some survival skills.
The moment Gou Fugui had this thought, he felt a sudden heat between his eyebrows. He heard that familiar, indescribable voice again. Only this time, the voice seemed much less energetic and more feeble.
[Thank you, Saviour, for coming to this doomed world.
Please find the “World’s Core”, which is gradually falling apart, and repair or retrieve it.
The “World’s Core” is the source of the world’s energy, supporting the world’s operation and the growth of all things.
The “World’s Core” can exist in any form… It can be a living creature, a tree, a mountain, a river, and so on.
The “World’s Core” has a self-protection function and it’s extremely difficult to find in the early stages. However, the core of the world is closely related to the state of the world, and the more serious the collapse of the world, the more visible the core is.
The day before the world collapses completely, the “World’s Core” will reveal itself.
Please find the “World’s Core” before it breaks apart completely. If you fail, the doomsday gate in this dimension will collapse, and the destructive forces of this dimension will invade the Saviour’s world, affecting the “World’s Core” of the Saviour’s world.
To repair the “World’ Core”:
- Solve the root cause of the apocalypse;
- Survive the catastrophe and preserve enough life force for the world’s regeneration.]
[Also.]
[…Considering that you are the first human being to “actively” enter a Doomsday Gate and that you are actively responding to the call of your world’s consciousness, “World Consciousness 09” has given you a little preferential treatment.
Please try to survive, find the “World’s Core” and do not disgrace World Consciousness 09.
Otherwise, you will be targeted by World Consciousness 09. You do not want to experience that feeling.
Finally, I wish you good luck.]
Gou Fugui blinked at the last paragraph displayed in his mind, so the golden finger was a gift from his world? Sure enough, the world’s father was really generous.
But the world’s intention to target seemed a bit bad, would being targeted by the world cause you to walk and fall into a pit and be possessed by the god of bad luck? I can’t imagine a life like that.
So, not to disgrace his world and not to live a life of being targeted by the world’s consciousness, he had to try his best to save this doomed world.
Thinking this, he felt his brain heat up again, and his wrist burned. Gou Fugui froze for a moment, and then he extended his left paw as if he had been instructed to do so. He tapped his left wrist with his right paw.
Instantly, the “Gou’s Quirky and Adorable Creatures Handbook”, which had previously disappeared from his backpack, appeared in his sea of consciousness.
At this moment, the book, which had required five years of Gou Fugui’s painstaking efforts, was emitting a lovely golden glow. The moment Gou Fugui looked at it, the book flipped open automatically; all the information and photos of the ninety-nine quirky and adorable animals of the sea, land, and air that Gou Fugui had recorded and photographed inside it were all displayed in Gou Fugui’s mind in succession.
Gou Fugui soon discovered that ninety-eight of the ninety-nine oddballs’ pictures in the book were grey and dim, except for the picture of the sea otter lazily basking in the sun and rubbing its face, which shone with a golden light, conveying its peculiarity.
Then the cute oddballs’ handbook abruptly closed, and on the front cover appeared its instructions.
[How to use the <<Gou’s Quirky and Adorable Creatures Handbook>>:
1. Three different oddball transformations can be activated in each doomsday gate.
After the transformation, you’ll possess the three most obvious characteristics or skills of the little oddball, as well as one useless or negative characteristic.
2. There are two types of oddball transformations: “Full Body Transformation” and “Bloodline Bonus”.
“Full Body Transformation” is the full animal form, with all the characteristics/skills of the race fully active.
“Bloodline Bonus” maintains the human form but only displays the characteristics of a slightly transformed oddball, and the skills of the cute oddball can initially be used up to 50%. The percentage can be upgraded by further use.
3. The cute oddballs’ characteristics/skills can be upgraded. There are three levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced.
Note 1: Each ‘full body transformation’ restoration will consume a lot of energy, so please remember to bring food.
Note 2: The ability to transform will not significantly alter the user’s physical fitness and cannot create “superhuman” beings beyond their biological limits. No pie will fall from the sky, and even if it does, you need to be physically fit to catch it and not be crushed to death.]
Gou Fugui looked at the last two “notes” and smiled softly. This is how it should be. What is too easy to get is more dangerous.
And even if you can’t become a “superhuman“ that exceeds biological limits, being able to possess and learn the characteristics and skills of those animals is already quite impressive. For example, even the best swimmer in the world can’t survive in the vast ocean as well as a few months old sea otter.
So, sea otter Fugui was very satisfied and rubbed his face again. In his consciousness, he turned to the first page of his quirky and adorable creatures handbook. There was the backstroke face-rubbing sea otter that looked almost identical to his current appearance. However, the information and introduction were new.
[Fugui, the Sea Otter: Marine little cutie.
Characteristics/skills.
1. O Sea, My Home!
Full Body Transformation: Dive down 50m without obstacles and float to the ends of the world as long as there is food.
Bloodline Bonus (beginner): Dive 10 meters for 10 minutes without equipment; backstroke skills surpass most humans.
2. I have a lil pocket!
Full Body Transformation: Located in the front, under the armpit. You can put rocks and other shell-opening tools. Occasionally releases pups.
Bloodline Bonus (beginner): Humans cannot have pockets under their armpits. But there can be a small hidden carry-on type pocket. Don’t expect much for beginners, as it can only hold three basketballs.
3. Master Beater.
Full Body Transformation: Good at smashing everything from sea urchins, crabs, shells, and so on.
Bloodline Bonus (beginner): When you hold an object of a certain weight in your hands and make a smashing action, you can make your enemies feel more pain.
4. Useless characteristic: Born to love beauty, obsessed with rubbing your face and combing your hair.
The head can be broken, and the blood can be shed, but the hair must never be ruined! Rubbing my face every day is a sign of my love for cleanliness].
Sea otter – I don’t know how many times I rubbed my face – Fugui stiffened and sighed in a human-like manner, “…fine.”
Since you have the benefits of the quirky cuties’ bloodline, you shouldn’t despise their nature. Isn’t it just rubbing your face and combing your hair? He carries a small mirror and a comb set with him too!
After reading the Sea Otter Fugui’s profile, the handbook was still flashing in Gou Fugui’s mind, seemingly waiting for him to choose the next quirky cutie to transform into.
However, this wasn’t the time to choose his next transformation, as he would be floating at sea for at least ten days or half a month, and no other cute oddball would be as convenient as the sea otter.
Although he still has a sea battle god like the mantis shrimp in his handbook, it would leave only one more chance to transform; in case the “world’s core” he is looking for is not in the sea but on land, then turning into a shrimp would be asking for death.
And…at this time, a disgruntled expression suddenly appeared on Gou Fugui’s sea otter face – in fact, mantis shrimps and sea otters are still good, after all, his oddballs’ handbook also has Tibetan foxes, marmots, huskies, fainting goats and many other… oddly cute but totally useless guys.
If you think about it this way, probably half of his golden fingers are already scrapped from the start.
If he had known better, he wouldn’t have looked for odd and cute creatures– the King of Beasts handbook would have been his best choice!
Unfortunately, a thousand pieces of gold can’t buy early knowledge.
For the following few minutes, sea otter Fugui tried to sniff around in the storm, trying to get a whiff of people or land.
Unfortunately, the wind and waves were too strong, and the rain poured down as if the sky was leaking, blocking sea otter Fugui’s already poor eyesight and preventing his supposedly good sense of smell from working as well as it could.
Another huge wave hit, and sea otter Fugui was tossed several times by the currents. He was feeling quite unloved by this merciless sea.
“Fortunately, Laozi can transform.” He said, clutching his backpack and lying dead on his back. “Would a normal person have survived for five minutes in this situation?”
Sea otter Fugui had just finished muttering when he saw several figures suddenly appear in mid-air above his head, and then these people fell from mid-air wailing as he did an hour ago. They ‘plop’ ‘plop’ in the water like dumplings.
Huh.
There seemed to be one person who was a bit different.
He didn’t scream but fell into the water with a bit of… calm pretentious grace.
Even though sea otter Fugui couldn’t see the man’s face clearly, he could feel it! That must be a sassy and handsome man!
Sea otter Fugui rubbed his paws together with some excitement and then deflated in reaction to the fact that he was not a human being at the moment.
While he was rubbing his paws, the four men emerged from the sea one by one. Three of them paddled around nervously, and only the one closest to him remained calm. Even though his forehead and face were covered in water, with droplets of water sliding down his forehead and hair, and falling on his high nose and thin lips, he didn’t look wretched.
Instead, it added a sense of cold and sharp oppression.
“We’re in the sea!”
“There’s a storm! Open your buoyancy aids!”
“Tie yourselves together with ropes! Big waves are coming! Report your names!!!”
“Second team Qin Feng!”
“Second team Lu Hu!”
“Second team Song Sanchuan!”
“Sea Otter (hǎi tǎ)?”
The man Gou Fugui judged to be sassy and handsome reached out and pinched the back of the sea otter’s neck with precision, uttering the name that left his teammates dumbfounded.
“Who? Say it again? What pagoda (tǎ)?”
The handsome man and sea otter Fugui stared wide-eyed and small-eyed at each other. He squeezed the back of sea otter Fugui’s neck tightly, his sharp eyes staring into the small, black grape-like eyes as he tsked softly.
“First team, Xie Tianlang.”
“I’ve caught a food reserve.”
The sea otter Fugui: “……”
Food reserve your ass! Xie Tianlang, right? Dad remembers you!
ML is here. Poor MC being treated as a food reserve
Thanks for the chapter
Hhhh our cute sea offer, how can ML bear to call MC a food reserve 🤣🤣
Don’t eat that otter—it might just be your love! Hahahaha! Can’t wait for the otter to speak again… Ty for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🦦👀
Bite him, he is a really bad boy
Thank you for your translation 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
Gou Fugui is a comrade in loving animals!! i need his book of Quirky and Adorable Creatures even without its transformation powers
I’m thinking he’ll find food in the sea as the title says, it turned out he’s the food reserve?🤣
Turn him into a food reserve lolol Crack him open with a seashell xD
Thx for the ch (ㅅ˘ㅂ˘)
Otters are vicious and dangerous. Be careful who you are calling food
Emergency food hahahahaha poor MC
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
Hahahhahahaha
Thank you for the chapter 🤍
idk but if i remember correctly there’s a myth about this guys just like mermaids, i think they’re called selkies? otters who can transform into beautiful human beings. no one asked ikik
It kinda remember me of Paimon’s title “Emergency Food” in Genshin Impact 🤣
Sassy but handsome ML wants to eat our cute and adorable MC 🫡🫡 good luck to our MC 😂
where can i read the rest of the chapters??
Why this is so funny 🤣