Xu Yintang was very satisfied with this wedding.
Although it was somewhat regrettable that the wedding went on without any fun surprises because everything that needed to be prepared was prepared, he had a great time regardless. Whether it was the warm-up activities provided by Zhong Hongzhuo and another himself before the wedding, or the “honeymoon night” theme entertainment prepared by Shi Yuebai after the wedding, he enjoyed himself thoroughly.
In short, the marriage experience was excellent, and he wouldn’t mind doing it again.
As for waking up and finding something extra in bed, reaching out from under the blanket and finding Fourth Joy, it was an additional pleasant surprise.
Fourth Joy was a reliable and efficient cub. It only took a day for him to be born, and he hadn’t forgotten to leave behind the head that Kama Zuozi and his mother had asked for.
It could even be said that he wasn’t fully born yet.
From the body of Zhong Hongzhuo, who had turned into a puddle of mud, emerged a crystal-clear, round, and shiny egg-shaped object, with a soft and resilient shell and a touch as gentle as a breeze. Inside, there were sparkling sunlight-like fragments floating in a clear and translucent light blue.
Unlike other cub, which tended to have a dark style reminiscent of a moonlit night, the “Little Snack” from Qingxiao(the system) had completely dyed Fourth Joy into bright warm colors, akin to the brightness of the Orderly Sea, making one think of boundless clear skies and seas, clean to the point of being devoid of any impurities.
It even felt warm to the touch, just slightly warmer than Xu Yintang’s body temperature.
“It’s like a hot water bottle,” Shi Yuebai commented, propping up his head, with a rare hint of resentment in his tone.
—In the early morning, when he was sticking closely to his newlywed husband (emphasis on “husband”), just as the atmosphere was about to progress a bit further, suddenly, this ball squeezed in between their bare skins.
After being kicked off the bed, despite loving the cub, it was difficult for Shi Yuebai to persuade himself to remain calm and composed.
Xu Yintang glanced apologetically at him, and the tacit understanding that their private world was ending was evident in his eyes. Fourth Joy, on the other hand, hadn’t even noticed the other creature on his mother’s bed from the beginning, and was incomprehensibly expressing his supreme joy at truly becoming mother’s child.
It couldn’t wait to demonstrate its abilities to its mother, proving that although it was not yet fully developed and needed to undergo secondary development in the form of an egg, it was still capable and could thrive in this nurturing environment.
This segmented development pattern was deliberately chosen by Fourth Joy. In this way, it could reduce its nutritional requirements from the host body, saving mother the trouble of finding a new host for it. Furthermore, it could come into the world earlier and become a more useful child in its mother’s eyes.
A child who ate less, did more, and was considerate and sensible in its mother’s eyes was the one who deserved more love from him— which Knife reminded him, providing a small help.
Clearly, Fourth Joy was an egg, but Xu Yintang miraculously saw a little dog wagging its tail with joy.
So adorable.
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No wonder it was his cub.
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It carefully asked Xu Yintang for the mermaid cocoon he had obtained from the previous copy. This useless thing had been buried in Xu Yintang’s backpack for a long time, and the dirty meatballs emitted a foul odor of fish and shrimp. As Fourth Joy, the size of an egg, absorbed it, mist rose from its body, swallowing the meatball several times its size.
Once inside its body, the meatball turned into a gel-like mass like egg yolk. Then, Fourth Joy asked its mother for the souls that had no utility value.
For example, those in the third ward who could only be tied to the bed due to severe illness, or those souls too damaged to be restored.
In short, Fourth Joy could use any useless souls that couldn’t find a place to be discarded.
So Xu Yintang fetched the notebook made from the souls of Tian Jiao and Huang Shiping for waste utilization—now that he fully understood the hospital’s operations, this thing had no other value except taking up space and being disliked by the cubs.
Fourth Joy gladly accepted the gift from his mother. The souls in this notebook were of very high quality, as if his mother favored it exceptionally and deliberately gave it the remaining high-quality souls as waste.
The curses and malice in the notebook disappeared without a trace in Fourth Joy’s body. The souls were drawn out and fused into the mermaid cocoon, causing the gel-like egg yolk to wriggle, expanding and contracting from time to time. Before long, translucent “fish” appeared in Fourth Joy’s body.
At the same time, the volume of the egg yolk decreased significantly.
The initial “fish” were tiny black dots that couldn’t be clearly seen, so Fourth Joy kindly enlarged the image for his mother to observe.
In the blink of an eye, those fish grew into half-human, half-fish creatures, somewhat resembling the monsters transformed from villagers. Fourth Joy’s body was an endless sea to them, where they swam unknowingly, intertwining their bodies with instinct, and producing a long string of eggs.
Soon after, they visibly aged, died, and rotted away. And the eggs they laid hatched into more “fish”, which consumed their parents’ bodies, growing even uglier and fiercer.
They tore and fought, devoured each other—following the rules given to Fourth Joy by mother’s will, constituting its entire existence.
Chaotic, primal, instinctual.
Like the moment when all things began, the birth of the world.
In Xu Yintang’s hands, Fourth Joy rolled around cutely and cleverly manipulated those “fish” to rapidly evolve. They grew stronger and smarter as the ages changed.
Fourth Joy had already edited faith and worship into their genes. Just be patient for another day, and they would become creatures with the most basic civilization, able to devoutly serve mother endlessly.
Don’t be fooled by their small size in its body, they could reach up to three meters tall in reality, with thick flesh and a pleasant taste. Whether it was its noisy siblings or the great mother, they could all enjoy them to the fullest.
And if that wasn’t enough, when they became numerous enough, the decaying corpses would gather into blocks resembling land environments. Then Fourth Joy could drive some of the fish to climb onto the land, creating amphibious or purely terrestrial species.
Because it was a life environment created by parsing system data, strictly speaking, the inside of the eggshell was an ocean of data, which could also be connected to other systems or data streams. By releasing these creatures into the virtual world to fight for their mother.
However, its abilities were limited, and the adaptability of the creatures it created was not very good. Once released, they were disposable and couldn’t expand their population like Third Flora’s butterflies, flying and nesting wherever they pleased.
Pragmatically and cautiously, Fourth Joy looked ahead to the limits of these creatures’ evolution for his mother. As he spoke, he couldn’t help but feel ashamed, expressing that his abilities could only create such clumsy and incompetent creatures, far inferior to the other mother’s child who could endlessly offer prosperity and civilization to their mother.
And even if it hadn’t nibbled on that bite of nutrition from Qingxiao, it couldn’t even create intelligent beings.
Sigh… it was a useless cub…
The more Fourth Joy spoke, the more despondent he became, softening into a small lump in his mother’s hand. The school of fish in his body was engulfed by a sudden surge, and the several small groups of tribes were mostly dispersed in an instant, with large and small fish struggling to survive, as if experiencing an apocalypse.
“Um…”
Xu Yintang had never encountered such a serious and sensitive cub before. While comforting and kneading it, he pondered how to encourage the child. In his opinion, Fourth Joy was already very, very powerful. He even felt relieved for not taking the advice of the other self and chose to retain Fourth Joy’s consciousness.
Otherwise, the cub would be the kind that Fourth Joy envied, capable of “offering countless prosperity and civilization” to their mother.
Just thinking about it made him feel that the relaxed life of nurturing cubs occasionally interjected by instances like this would deteriorate, and the thought was terrifying.
Within the brief moment that Xu Yintang pondered, Fourth Joy’s school of fish had reproduced several generations again. In order to adapt to the ever-changing and turbulent tides, they transformed their limbs to shapes more akin to fish fins, and the number of offspring they produced each time increased to ensure the continuation of the population.
Shi Yuebai quietly observed Fourth Joy’s form for a while before calmly reminding, “This is great, we can clear out the intensive care unit.”
“That’s true,” Xu Yintang seized on this point and immediately praised Fourth Joy, “I’m already worried about how to handle the patients in the third ward. Even if Third Flora’s butterflies parasitize them, it only makes them quieter. They still occupy space and can’t live independently. It’s troublesome for the hospital to place them properly.”
“Fourth Joy is so amazing, really helping mom a lot!”
The soft and squishy water ripple egg in his hand quivered slightly, hesitantly confirming with his mother.
Really?
Was it a useful cub?
“Does Fourth Joy not believe in mom?” Xu Yintang pinched and rubbed it, shaping the round boiled egg.
Upon hearing this, Fourth Joy vigorously shook to express loyalty to his mother, then repented for doubting what his mother said.
How could it do such a thing… It was really not right…
Sob…
Seeing the boiled egg he had just tried so hard to shape about to turn back into a blob of water ripple, Xu Yintang decisively employed the versatile diversion tactic.
“Fourth Joy, come and tell your mother, who is the ‘Qingxiao’ who feeds you delicious food?”
His family’s Fourth Joy hasn’t even been born yet, and someone is sneakily stuffing food to him. It’s important to remember that civilized intelligent beings aren’t as easy to control as animals. Even the most basic intelligent beings can’t be underestimated. After all, they are nurtured inside Fourth Joy’s body, what if it backfired and harmed the child?
Tsk, it didn’t seem like a good thing.
—If the big ball of light, being silently criticized by Xu Yintang, knew that it was being blamed while peacefully drifting in the Orderly Sea, it would probably attempt to emit a speechless and helpless sigh, enlightening Xu Yintang about some common sense of their existence.
For example, if the created creatures developed excessively and became uncontrollable, it was a simple matter to reset them.
In any mature world, there had been thousands of civilizations restarting, much like playing simulation management games. Even if this round of development was perfect and everything went smoothly, one might still get bored and decide to start a new game.
Author’s Note –
Fourth Joy has taken many supplements, and it has nibbled its way to the main system, so it must be an impressive cub! [Thumbs up]
Although for now, it can only produce fish-headed monsters, but we must believe in its boundless potential!
I thought Fourth Joy would be a cyber child and I was right!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING AWESOME!!!
Cyber egg. So a tamagotchi
Omg, that’s exactly what he is. A tamagotchi. That is so funny.
A baby main brain and world simulator all in one. Amazing!
So it ended up being Fouth Joy that ate Grandma in the end~ (a reminder that the book was made from the souls of the old director and Yingtang’s ‘Mother’~)
Cute new child do not helping mother’s personal life
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