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Thanks to “SunsettClouds” for the Ko-fi’s. I’ll upload 2 extra chapters today.
This is the 2nd. (~￣³￣)~
In the afternoon, the polluted sea area still showed no signs of improvement, instead emitting a foul-smelling mist under the scorching sun.
The stench spread to every corner of the village with the sea breeze, causing dizziness and discomfort to anyone who smelled it, making their skin feel sunburned and itchy.
Such direct physical reactions were hard to conceal, so some guests chose to leave the village—most of them were people like Long Hao who were not aware of the village’s secrets, seeing it purely as a social gathering to expand their social network, naturally unwilling to take the safety risk of staying for the so-called “elixir”.
Who knows what’s in the sea, it might be nuclear pollution.
Scared stiff, they fled.
If it were Long Hao who wasn’t conscripted by Xu Yintang and Shi Yuebai as a tool, he would have definitely run away at the first sign of trouble, but under the current circumstances, he couldn’t afford to run away, and could only reluctantly use his all to comfort the scared A-Duo, and as he comforted her…
Long Hao didn’t know how, but he ended up rolling into a blanket.
Okay, he knew this excuse sounded really bad, but he genuinely couldn’t recall what happened between A-Duo enthusiastically kissing him and him waking up feeling utterly exhausted and depleted, nor could he remember when A-Jin walked into the room, and what happened between the three of them.
He meant, that segment of his memory was completely gone, and try as he might, all he could recall was a blank, burnt-out feeling.
When Long Hao opened his eyes, he found himself surrounded by A-Duo and A-Jin, the sunlight streaming in through the window, illuminating her face in every detail.
Clearly a seductive and wild beauty, enough to make any man’s heart flutter upon seeing her, but for Long Hao, it made his back chill, rendering him completely powerless, as if he was being hugged by two huge pythons. That beautiful face gradually turned into a blurry and terrifying monster in his eyes.
In an instant, he already figured out how he would handle his aftermath—here he felt he had to thank the nightmarish experience Xu Yintang and Shi Yuebai gave him last night, which instead of leaving him terrified and peeing his pants on the spot, somehow, under the stimulating effect of survival instinct, brought out his immense potential, allowing him to barely put on a smile and sweet-talk her.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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He truly didn’t remember what happened, but the sense of relief and uncontrollable trembling in his hands told him that it definitely wasn’t some romantic story of mutual consent between a hero and a beauty.
Long Hao trembled all over for quite some time before finally connecting to his system’s signal and inquiring about what happened just now.
His system, much more humane than the Nightmare Time system, tactfully stated: “From a positive perspective, you didn’t expose any of your intentions to gather information or approach her for other purposes. She is very satisfied with your performance.”
“And you’ve gained valuable information about the village from this, I’ve already edited the message and sent it to BlueMoon.”
In other words, it meant, “I think it’s better for you not to know the truth.”
Long Hao swallowed nervously and asked, “Was it very scary?”
[Extremely, extremely, extremely scary.]
“Okay,” Long Hao nodded, “then I don’t need to know.”
The terrifying extent to which the system even deleted chat records made him unwilling to challenge his limits and preferred to remain an ignorant ordinary person.
…
“So our game won’t have people like Long Hao as players.” Shi Yuebai said, ending the conversation with the assistant system that claimed to be a dream life player on Long Hao’s phone.
It was well known that the more comprehensive, intelligent, and all-inclusive an assistant system was, the more it meant the player was incompetent.
And the most prominent feature of the players in his game was an insatiable curiosity and desire to explore, almost to the point of madness.
Xu Yintang leaned over and flipped through the chat records, casually saying, “But that game is very suitable for him.”
Only mentally stable individuals without underlying craziness can do well in that type of game. Nightmare Time players often loved diving headfirst into the crazy, unpredictable future.
If the roles were reversed, both games would probably collapse.
After all, even Xu Yintang, who had seen the most players who resembled weak ordinary people so far, such as those who had just passed the first stage like Lin De’an and his friend Zhou Qian, who hadn’t even met in person yet, was unconventional in her approach—before entering this instance, she had sneaked into the Evil Cult’s camp alone and even performed an emergency caesarean section on her teammate.
Just nineteen years old, the girl had a promising future.
And the reason Xu Yintang knew so much about this was naturally because he had carefully reviewed the compressed file sent to him by Xiao Qing.
Xiao Qing highly recommended adding Lin De’an and Zhou Qian to his list of potential fixed team members. Both of them had been inspected and guaranteed by the national dad, their identities were safe, and their potential was not bad.
A seven-member team was the most conventional configuration for a fixed team, and the interest system was not easily imbalanced, so internal cliques wouldn’t form too easily, and they could pull people together in various situations.
But Lin De’an and Zhou Qian were still in the probation period, before reaching C rank.
Xu Yintang’s thoughts drifted towards the formation of the fixed team, then quickly returned to the present.
Long Hao’s system had guided him in company propaganda PPT production for so many years, deeply understanding what it meant to distill key points and make them vivid with graphics and text, so even though Xu Yintang had already listened to Third Flora’s oral broadcast once, he was still very interested in seeing it.
Forgive him for lacking the appropriate sympathy when looking at the picture of Long Hao, terrified to the point of becoming a meme. As someone who either slept with Second Treasure on the Little Darling mattress or engaged in pleasant intimate conversations with Shi Yuebai every night, he found it difficult to empathize with the fear of suddenly seeing your bedside partner turn into a monster.
After all, Xu Yintang himself was not exactly a normal human.
And with his perspective on the popular threads on the forum, such as #818 Those Monsters Ugly Enough to Hurt Your IQ#, #Experience Sharing: Survival Records of Monster Posts (Updated to Deep Sea Giant Squid)#, the monsters that A-Jin and A-Duo had turned into were hardly worth mentioning.
They even retained their complete human form, with only their skin becoming pockmarked and sticky, with black, yellow, and green spots resembling toads or rotting fish skin. Their mouths split open, occupying their entire faces, with small, dense teeth-like files filling their mouths, and their drool dripping foul-smelling.
Well, drooling and bad breath was a bit disgusting, but it was still better than being a low-level undead whose intestines might fall out while doing things.
So Xu Yintang couldn’t help but laugh at Long Hao’s comically distorted expression, sharing with Shi Yuebai the spicy hot posts he had come across on the player forum. Shi Yuebai’s expression twisted slightly for a moment, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated. “That post—”
“Hmm?” Xu Yintang looked at him puzzledly, and Shi Yuebai hesitantly rubbed his nose, showing a slightly embarrassed expression of being a victim of rumors. “That post was partly written by Noah—the teammate who came to inspect the hospital before, and partly by Ellos from the Cat Team.”
He added, “Noah wrote the part with normal fur.”
For example, catgirls, winged people, and other conventional cute settings that the masses loved to see were at most furry spiders with eight legs like Arachne.
XPs were a bit strange, but compared to the other part contributed by Eros from the Cat Team…
That was something people couldn’t, or at least shouldn’t, handle.
Xu Yintang thought about what connection Shi Yuebai had with this matter that was worth being embarrassed about, nodded in understanding, and reached out to ruffle Shi Yuebai’s hair. “It’s okay, I believe you’re not.”
“Cough, cough, cough.”
Seeing the scene about to develop into a sweet and romantic kiss, Casey Cat quickly coughed twice to remind them that this wasn’t a secluded room with just the two of them, but a polluted area filled with unknown substances. The village chief’s boat was only a kilometer away from them. Even if he was wearing the legendary invisible cloak that could escape the pursuit of death, even if the village chief wouldn’t notice anything, please consider the presence of the young cubs!
It was so frustrating!
Author’s Note –
Actually, if Xu Yingtang and Shi Yuebai didn’t give Long Hao a protection buff, he wouldn’t remember anything after being messed with. He would just think he’s had a stroke of luck. But now…
Let’s give him a little wax.
I wonder if they’re going to free the mermen or if there are going to be new employees at the hospital
Thank you for the chapters!!🧡🧡🧡
Let’s assign them to pond and fountain cleaning duty!
Maybe fish farming too?👀
Long Hao knows himself well!! Better not to know!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING AWESOME!!
Good food for kids
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