Screams, crashes, roars, arguments, and curses—chaos emanated from the small village, carried by the sea breeze to the ears of Xu Yintang and his companions.
The entire village was in chaos, just as Xu Yintang had suspected, due to the nightmare-like events of the raging storm. However, the chaos was different from what Xu Yintang had imagined.
To put it in simple terms, the people in this alternate world were all normal—“normal” being a rare and precious quality in this world.
When you wake up to find that all the villagers have mysteriously disappeared, leaving no trace of life or death, and you yourself have inexplicably lost all related memories, with only lingering shadows and fear in your mind, any normal person’s immediate judgment should be to flee from the place of danger, rather than becoming inexplicably excited and delving into investigations, digging deep to uncover the truth, and stubbornly confronting the boss who initially seemed harmless.
Or just standing there foolishly, as if the looming threat wouldn’t affect them.
However, unfortunately, players’ insatiable curiosity was never associated with the word “normal,” and most NPCs encountered in dungeons often lacked basic human instincts regarding danger. Thus, both Shi Yuebai and Xu Yintang misjudged the current state of the village.
They thought that wild beasts were rampaging everywhere, causing chaos in search of immortal pills, but in reality, people were scrambling to flee without even taking their luggage, as if ghosts were chasing them through the empty village.
Shi Yuebai couldn’t help but sigh, “It would be great if everyone was like this.”
It would save them so much work and reduce the collateral damage that couldn’t be avoided during fights.
Especially when facing certain bosses with self-resurrecting or blood-sucking skills, every time they were surrounded by layers of onlookers, he really wanted to take action against those who were providing the boss with blood bags.
Xu Yintang had not been harmed by a large number of onlookers yet, and he had reaped the benefits of live-streaming audiences in the previous dungeon. Therefore, he didn’t have a deep understanding of Shi Yuebai’s feelings. He just smiled and greeted Long Hao, who was running towards them with a desperate look on his face.
“You’re finally back!” Long Hao had been squatting by the seaside for half a day, waiting for them as per his system’s instructions. His face was numb from the strong wind and rain, and he spoke incoherently, “You guys have no idea what’s happening in the village! It’s a disaster!”
“A-Jin, A-Duo… those people! Those people have turned into monsters!” He gestured, the sight of the monsters transforming firsthand bringing back a tiny bit of forgotten memory. He wished he couldn’t remember anything.
“Such big mouths! Biting people! They, they… they swallowed, swallowed my head!” Long Hao stuttered, on the verge of tears.
Thinking of being preyed upon by two such monsters, and even with the mouth dripping with foul saliva… Long Hao felt layers of goosebumps crawling all over his body, feeling the lingering sensation of the wet and sticky skin rubbing against him. It was uncomfortable, making him want to vomit but unable to, just covering his mouth and dry heaving.
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Although initially, he was attracted by the pretty girl and her high points, and tried to seduce her… Long Hao felt that this time, his reputation might really be beyond redemption.
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Such an understanding little guy naturally received his mother’s appreciative caress.
Second Treasure squinted, rubbing against his mother’s hand, licking his lips with his pink tongue.
He smelled something faintly similar to his mother, the male mistress, and some other people he had seen before, on this human. It was the scent of that thing Mom called “the system.”
Second Treasure knew that his brothers could also smell it. For slightly older cubs, the scent of the system attached to the soul was very obvious, and at first sniff, it smelled sweet and tempting.
Back when he was not yet born, he was even enticed by this scent to the point of not listening to his mother and kept eating endlessly, which annoyed mother and almost got him abandoned on the spot.
This incident still cast a shadow over Second Treasure’s psyche to this day, making him shiver at the thought, so he instinctively hid in his mother’s arms, feeling disdain for his ignorant past self.
Now the smell of the system was even less appealing than the cocoon corpse he had eaten in the grave. Not to mention compared to the delicious dragon corpse from the seabed and the supplementary meals provided by his mother, it was hard to imagine how he had enjoyed it so much before, even forgetting his mother’s warnings.
With a bit of nostalgia for his childhood, Second Treasure tried to lick the taste of the system connected to Long Hao’s soul. However, he found the dry and unpleasant taste so disgusting that he spat it out, sticking out his tongue in a manner suggesting food poisoning, and rolled onto his back in Xu Yintang’s arms.
Hearing the system’s cry of distress in his consciousness, Long Hao instinctively took a few steps back, his face showing a terrified expression—he still hadn’t guessed the possibility that Xu Yintang and Shi Yuebai might also be players, thinking they were some demons with ulterior motives for the village.
Being able to attack the system, these demons were too terrifying…
Neither Xu Yintang nor Shi Yuebai bothered to explain this misunderstanding to Long Hao. Xu Yintang handed the cub who was eating indiscriminately in his arms to the nearby Little Darling’s tentacles, comforting Long Hao, “It’s just a lick, it won’t really eat him.”
He said this, somewhat similar to saying I’ll just rub it there not put it in.
Long Hao didn’t believe a word of it.
But Second Treasure’s lick actually allowed Xu Yintang’s system to capture a bit of code from Long Hao’s system through some unknown means, displaying messages like “Code Analysis in Progress” and “Code Deconstruction in Progress” on the system panel, while also generously increasing their progress bars for various tasks.
Compared to understanding the game of Dream Life, the system was more interested in the operational principles of another system.
Or you could call it… the source code?
Xu Yintang could even feel the moment when his system captured the code from the other system. His system had an extreme desire to persuade him to devour Long Hao’s entire system.
For this mere one million points task, Xu Yintang wasn’t willing to let his cub take such a big risk.
After all, no matter how much the cub licked and cried and trembled in fear, it was still just a system. Who knew if swallowing it would upset the cub’s stomach?
Xu Yintang blatantly ignored the urgent task reminders flooding his system screen, diverting the topic to the figure transformed from the dragon’s corpse beside him. The figure, reminiscing and feeling sentimental as he gazed into the distance towards the village, didn’t seem to mind being ignored by them for half a day.
“Let’s go retrieve A-Jiao’s body,” Xu Yintang spoke up.
The figure came back to his senses leisurely, as if familiar surroundings had triggered some warm and pleasant memories. Even the murderous intent he had when he first arrived at the village had calmed down a lot. “Okay, let’s go get A-Jiao.”
“She must really want to return to the sea.”
Little Darling didn’t need Xu Yintang to remind him; he obediently retracted into his mother’s wrist before entering the village, hiding his tentacles under his sleeves, wrapping around Xu Yintang’s entire arm.
Xu Yintang gathered a segment of the tentacle tips in his palm and kneaded them, knowing that this cub was clumsily trying to act cute.
No matter how stable and understanding the cubs were in their family status, they couldn’t avoid feeling a bit emotional towards the children who received more of their mother’s favor.
In this situation, Xu Yintang needed to spend more time with the cubs. He mentally sketched out a schedule, replacing a large portion of the time originally allocated to Shi Yuebai with parent-child activities.
Shi Yuebai was still unaware of the impending tragedy of his diminished happiness. He was leading everyone towards the direction of the underground passage based on the route they had tracked from the village chief. The once bustling village, now devoid of guests, was in disarray. Despite the bright sunlight after the rain, Long Hao felt a ghostly silence and eerie horror permeating the air.
He rubbed his arms and quickened his pace to keep up with the person in front of him, afraid that if he fell behind even for a step, he would be consumed by this stagnant and eerie atmosphere.
—He made the right decision.
Just as Long Hao took a step forward, he felt a damp, cold, and putrid breath licking his neck. The familiar stench emitted from the mouth of a monster scared him stiff, his scream choking in his throat, almost suffocating him. He dared not even think about what was on his body.
The next moment, a tentacle shot out from Xu Yintang’s sleeve like lightning, and Long Hao felt a cold, slippery liquid splatter on his back and hair. A sharp, hoarse scream, and all he could hear was the sound of tearing and chewing.
“Wipe it off.” Xu Yintang handed him two paper napkins. Long Hao mechanically wiped the foul-smelling mucus flowing down his face, numbly staring as the thick tentacle, thicker than his thigh, retracted back into Xu Yintang’s sleeve, the red and blue fine bracelets delicately wrapped around Xu Yintang’s wrist, indicating no danger.
What just happened… His mind was in chaos, and the more he forced himself not to think about it, the more terrifying imaginations emerged.
Second Treasure had to once again lift his head from his mother’s embrace, tapping into this human’s fragile consciousness. It was the first time Second Treasure had encountered someone so close to the concept of an ordinary person. Previously, he had used Zhou Qian as the baseline for a player’s will.
With Second Treasure nudging his sanity, Long Hao reluctantly regained control of his senses. He cautiously stole a glance at his surroundings, but as soon as he spotted the dark bloodstains spreading on the ground, he gasped in horror and quickly averted his gaze.
No, no, no, no.
It was better for him not to know anything.
Author’s Note –
Unconsciously, it’s already Chapter 120. [Dazed]
Mother Xu Yingtang’s “if” storyline… [Checking the outline]
If everything goes smoothly, you should be able to see sometime soon. [Looking into the distance]
I can’t wait for the fourth cub! ><
I wonder if this merchild will successfully become the fourth baby or if it’ll fail like the book?
Thank you for the chapter🧡🧡
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING AWESOME!!
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