When Jim’s ceremonial knife stabbed towards Xu Yintang from behind, Xu Yintang was actually quite curious about where he had been exposed. After all, he was dressed in a black robe, wearing a mask, and had altered his voice and walking posture. His disguise should have been perfect.
But as long as he briefly recalled Jim’s focus, his question could be immediately answered.
It was the hands.
Jim would never mistake those hands, from the color and texture of the skin to the contours of every joint to the smooth curve of the fingertips. He had imagined and fantasized about every detail of those hands in his mind too many times. Just one look, and he knew to whom those hands belonged.
They should never have appeared in the patrol team; those were the hands of sacrifice number 6.
Jim had never told anyone about his little obsession. Of course, he also appreciated the beauty of 6’s face, chest, and buttocks, but those hands were different. He wished he could cut them off and keep them by his bedside to admire and play with day and night…
He couldn’t resist it.
So when he saw Xu Yintang, he knew he should expose his identity in public. He should return this escaping sacrifice to where he should be, knowing that this was the duty of a true believer. But uncontrollable desire overtook him, and the devil whispered in his ear, tempting him to avoid the others and secretly kill this sacrifice. It told him that this way, he could possess the treasure he had longed for forever.
Under the crimson crescent light, it always aroused the craziest desires in humans.
Xu Yintang had to repeat it. Jim was indeed an innocent and cute young man, who couldn’t even hold a knife properly and actively delivered himself.
The ceremonial knife coming from behind trembled due to excitement or nervousness. Xu Yintang deftly dodged the blade, grabbing Jim’s wrist with one hand and covering his mouth with the other. He forcefully pressed Jim against the wall. Jim’s head collided with the wall with a muffled sound, concealing the faint moan from his throat.
Jim stared wide-eyed. The intensity of his struggle forced Xu Yintang to squeeze his neck to keep him quiet. However, the commotion caused by their struggle also attracted the attention of someone just around the corner.
“What’s going on, what’s going on?” Immediately, someone peeked around the corner, both vigilant and curious, especially when they saw the two figures entangled against the wall.
Their voices immediately rose, “Hey hey hey! Aren’t you two in a hurry? At least go to a room!”
“Um…” Jim struggled to make a sound to alert his companion. But the hand covering his mouth made it difficult to breathe, and the dim light in the hallway made it hard for anyone to notice anything unusual. When the hand squeezing his throat suddenly tightened, the feeling of impending suffocation gripped his heart, and his consciousness suddenly detached from his body, leaving his mind in a state of confusion…
At this moment, he gasped desperately. Was it to stay alive or to smell the scent of those hands?
His mouth opened, revealing the embarrassing sight of saliva flowing uncontrollably. Was it because of suffocation or the madness of confusing dreams with reality?
How much of the blood pumping from his heart contained fear and despair, mixed with the greed and ecstasy closely connected to those hands.
“Shh…” Xu Yintang chuckled softly in his ear, seemingly intimate as he embraced him tightly, then he raised his voice to shoo away the people looking for excitement around the corner, “Stop staring, or he’ll get angry.”
“In the name of the Goddess, give us some face.”
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Jim was already standing on the brink of suffocation and couldn’t stand. Xu Yintang’s embrace gave him a little breathing room. He gasped desperately, trying to make some sound. But before he could utter a word, Xu Yintang grabbed his hair and forced him to meet his gaze.
“I’ll support you over?” The voice in his ear was low, hoarse, and tender, like the flirtation of a lover. “Don’t be stubborn, my dear. You have to relax a little.”
[Skill “Blood Moon’s Gaze” successfully used, value check in progress…]
[Player’s Mysterious +2]
[Mysterious: 57]
[Target’s Rationality -3]
The red, gigantic blood moon—
Jim’s pupils dilated as he stared lifelessly at the blood-red moon in those blood-red eyes, a fear larger than death kissing his cheek.
Amid the watchful eyes of the crowd, Xu Yintang bent down and lightly kissed Jim’s forehead and cheek, satisfying their desire to see some intimacy.
No one doubted him anymore. Behind him, there were discussions about how superb his skills in bed would be. These people just let Xu Yintang half-support, half-carry Jim away, as if Jim had just dragged him away by the wrist.
—Go straight ahead, turn left, and the small room at the end of the corridor.
Xu Yintang pushed the door open, and a musty odor and rising dust hit their faces. This was a storeroom that hadn’t been used for who knows how long, with all sorts of strange figurines, bizarre paintings, old and inexplicable odds and ends piled high.
Although the dining environment was a bit lacking, Little Darling and Second Treasure were both easygoing kids. Especially when Xu Yintang’s hand grazed Jim’s skin, the sudden burst of desire and greed was like squeezing ketchup on French fries, making the taste double to the point where Second Treasure completely forgot the pain of being spanked by Xu Yintang earlier.
From the skylight, the crimson new moon broke through the clouds and landed by the window. Under the moonlight, the jumbled odds and ends, the damaged and abandoned deformities gradually merged into one, casting huge, twisted, grotesque, and terrifying shadows that shouldn’t exist in the world.
He watched and couldn’t resist his curiosity, so he quietly approached.
Shadows enveloped Xu Yintang, but long before the moonlight came in, Xu Yintang had forced himself to close his eyes and clear his mind. Even though that existence was so huge that it seemed to squeeze into the room, occupying all the space, and even the air was squeezed to the brink of exhaustion, he forced himself not to look or think.
Little Darling and Second Treasure, who were eating, also sensed something and became quiet, crowding around Xu Yintang.
He should be afraid.
Xu Yintang thought that no matter who it was, they should be so scared that they couldn’t think at this moment.
But his slightly problematic brain had its own ideas about this. So, at this critical moment, he actually laughed happily.
“Don’t be afraid!”
“Don’t think! Look into my eyes and don’t think about anything!”
Separated by a thick floor from the storeroom, Zhou Qian was hugging her teammate, whose belly was severely swollen and on the verge of fainting. She forcefully pried open his tightly clenched teeth and dripped a few drops of medicine.
The small bottle was almost half-empty after just a few drops. Zhou Qian, nervous and wincing at the expense—this medicine was ridiculously expensive. Before entering the instance, she only dared to take one drop. If this teammate didn’t seem like a newbie who couldn’t handle the pressure, she would never have brought out her last-ditch treasure.
This type of potent pain relief, morale-boosting, and slightly restorative elixir was created by only a very small number of players. Its price was exorbitant, and even though the seller found Zhou Qian adorable and gave her a discount, allowing her to pay in cash, this tiny vial had already emptied most of her earnings from the previous dungeon, in addition to all the savings from her childhood through college.
Thankfully, her family didn’t monitor her spending, or they might have suspected she was into drugs.
However, this ridiculously expensive elixir had an immediate effect. Just a few drops made her teammate’s pale face regain some color. The young man stared blankly at Zhou Qian and made a faint response to her voice.
“…” He bit his bleeding lips and moved his mouth, but his dry throat produced no sound.
Zhou Qian hurriedly tried to comfort her teammate. “It doesn’t hurt anymore. Not at all. It was just a dream… Yes, it’s all a dream! Close your eyes and listen to my voice, okay? Relax, relax…”
Yes, relax, I can do it. Don’t cry, I’m not scared at all, I can do it…
I can do it…
Zhou Qian felt that the smile on her face was probably uglier than crying, and the twisted blood patterns in the room were constantly eroding her sanity. Maybe she was close to going crazy; otherwise, how could her brain suddenly become so clear?
Help… Who can come to save her…
“Take deep breaths, think of something that makes you happy. Nothing happened, it was just a dream…”
The young man closed his eyes and appeared calmer under Zhou Qian’s reassurance. His previously swollen and writhing belly also settled down. Zhou Qian gently opened his clothes, and through the stretched belly, she could see the bulging blood vessels and the moving contours of tentacles.
Even though she had mentally prepared for this, she couldn’t help her stomach turning, and she felt nauseous.
Her shaky emotions also affected her comforted teammate. The young man’s eyelids quivered, and a hint of unease immediately made the monster in his stomach active. If it weren’t for the painkiller’s effectiveness, even a pain that felt like a drilling, scraping agony could drive a person to collapse.
Unexpected developments made Zhou Qian rush. She covered her teammate’s eyes, wracking her brain to recall the clearing strategy, while suppressing the quiver in her voice. “Think about your home! Take deep breaths, deep breaths! Don’t be afraid, everything is fine! Let’s think about your room, the pattern on your bedsheet, the freshly sunned scent of your pillow… Where do you live?”
“Jing… Jing City…”
“Jing City, huh? It seems like it’s been snowing in Jing City recently.” Zhou Qian blinked away the tears in her eyes and let her teammate follow her voice, imagining a city adorned in silver, where he was nestled in a warm and secure home, dozing off in a half-dream state. Tomorrow was a day off, with no need to wake up early, no traffic jams, and world peace. All the pain was just something from the dream.
“And… a cat…” The young man’s voice was feeble and incoherent, murmuring like a dream. “Yuzu, don’t sleep on my belly… You’re so heavy…”
Feelings of satisfaction, joy, and happiness, emotions contrary to fear, spread and grew. They tightly strangled the monster’s throat in his abdomen, making it temporarily weak and suffering.
Zhou Qian watched her teammate’s state, and once she was sure he was half-asleep and completely relaxed, she sat down on the ground, exhausted.
She couldn’t waste any more time. After catching her breath, she stood up and took a surgical knife from her system backpack. She carefully marked a spot on her teammate’s swollen belly—every clearing strategy emphasized that to save someone, you had to cut open the monster inside the belly and kill it. Right now, the monster was weak, making it the best time to act.
If she missed this opportunity, the monster would immediately break free from the abdomen in a desperate bid for survival. At that point, not only would her teammate not survive, but this newbie who could only sneak around would be in great danger.
Zhou Qian didn’t think that wolf-repellent spray would be of any use against the monster.
Her teammate, in a state of lethargy, would not feel anything even if she cut him open with a powerful painkiller in effect. Zhou Qian reassured herself, but she couldn’t stop her trembling hand.
The knife cut through the flesh like she was cutting her own nerves. One cut was too shallow, so she had to make a second, then a third. The bright red blood flowed out, wetting her hands, and it felt like it was sticking to her brain.
When she cut her teammate’s belly and reached inside according to the strategy, she felt nauseous with the warm, sticky, and slimy sensation, which clung to her throat and wouldn’t go up or down.
Zhou Qian didn’t know how she managed to pull the lump of rotten, fleshy monster out. All her senses were reduced to the disgusting, slimy, still-alive mass…
[Warning! Warning! Player’s sanity is about to drop below the safety level! Please take action as soon as possible!]
Zhou Qian couldn’t stop herself from screaming. She waved the knife, stabbing the monster’s body, and the thick, viscous liquid splattered everywhere.
She couldn’t smell the scent of blood, only the nauseating stench.
So smelly! So smelly! So smelly, ahhhh!
So stinky, so stinky, so stinky, ahhhhhhhh!
Author’s Note –
Mother Xu Yingtang is gentle and virtuous, attracting the attention of the child’s father.
It was caught off guard and became a father, but the child’s mother is so refreshing and special.
Let me take another look. [Peek]
…
On the other side –
Zhou Qian: Sanity check failed! Sanity check failed! Sanity check is a big failure!
Indeed, everyone is not in the same instance. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Somebody go save that girl 😭
The contrast here is kind of hilarious
I need to remind myself that our mc is the gong. He seems so cool and suave that I’ll also fall hard for him ( ＞Д＜；) he even got others discussing about his bed skills just from intimidating Jim.
Thanks for the chapter~~~
Pfft! Two different realities in the same game… Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣
Girl, you’re cool
Thank you for your translation ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Poor girl
I love the fact that our mc is the gong. He’s just ugh so suave and cool with this direct flirtatious behavior
go girl 💀
“The intensity of his struggle madebhim squeeze his neck”
How? Do you have a secret third hand?