Thump, Thump, Thump.
Yu Ying could clearly hear her own heartbeat; her heart felt as if it were about to burst through her skin.
She held the “jelly” that had shattered into mush in her hands. The “jelly” consumed the blood on Yu Ying, turning into a flesh-pink color.
The snake’s blood was too filthy; it must not stain Mother’s hands. He was currently too fragile and lacked the ability to protect Mother, but once he recovered, he would surely kill that snake with his own hands.
Yu Ying tore the lace from her skirt hem and wrapped the jellyfish’s body, tucking it into her inner lining.
The jellyfish, caught off guard, pressed against Mother’s warm chest. Mother’s scorching body temperature caused her to dissolve into water droplets; he gathered all the water droplets and clung tightly to Mother.
After settling the jellyfish, Yu Ying looked down at the bloodstains on her skirt. The stains were covered in fine, dense tentacles, like some kind of larva wriggling.
Yu Ying looked closely and could see the suckers on the tentacles; the suckers aimed at the bloodstains on her skirt, consuming the blood bit by bit.
Suddenly seeing the densely wriggling tentacles, goosebumps broke out all over Yu Ying’s body. She looked back at the ground, where the footprints stained with blood were also covered in tiny tentacles.
Yu Ying blinked, and the wriggling tentacles vanished; the bloodstains on her skirt disappeared as well.
Meanwhile, in Room 404, the blood and dense tentacles were mixed together, looking like thick, human vomit.
Sui Lin collapsed onto the floorboards, her red pupils rolled back, her red lips stretched to their maximum extent, the corners of her mouth tearing and seeping blood.
Pink, delicate tentacles emerged one by one from her mouth, writhing and twisting frantically; tiny tentacles also emerged from her ears. The tentacles parasitized Sui Lin’s brain, drilling into the central nervous system, with the tentacle suckers covering Sui Lin’s brain matter.
The octopus tentacle monster had completed the entire process of parasitism. During the process, Sui Lin’s consciousness had revived, and she reached out, trying to pull the tentacles out from her throat, but the tentacles latched onto the inner walls of her throat.
Sui Lin’s attempt to reject His parasitism was nothing short of self-destruction.
In the end, Sui Lin gave up struggling. The octopus tentacle monster replaced Sui Lin’s shell, temporarily becoming the master in control of this body.
The skin on Sui Lin’s back protruded; something was about to drill out from within. A series of tentacles pierced through the skin on her back, the suckers sucking on the mucus on the floor.
“Useless trash.”
He had sustained severe injuries and was temporarily unable to mold a human shell to enter this world. He had been lurking in the shadows, monitoring Sui Lin, and that included the human named Yu Ying.
He had warned Sui Lin long ago not to let humans discover them. He had not expected this stupid snake to cause such a huge problem, nearly allowing humans to discover their existence.
It wasn’t that there were no humans with innate supernatural abilities who could observe them with the naked eye. However, experts usually dismissed this group of “saviors” with special abilities as mentally ill.
To prevent the human named Yu Ying from causing them any trouble, the octopus tentacle monster decided to take action personally.
He was not like the snake, accustomed to solving problems with violence, nor was he like the jellyfish, possessing healing abilities. He was an ancient, bizarre entity with nine brains and three hearts; he was more accustomed to using wisdom to solve problems.
She opened the door and saw the human named Yu Ying for the first time.
Yu Ying’s long hair was loose and hanging down; her features were filled with panic. A piece of her skirt was torn, exposing the beautifully contoured muscles of her thigh, with a leather leg garter tied at the top of her thigh, the heart in the center of the garter pressing into the soft flesh of her leg.
A human, looking very delicious.
Eat her, eat her, eat her. The moment the octopus tentacle monster saw Yu Ying, he was thinking that this human must be exceptionally delicious.
His purpose in tearing through the game space was to find Mother, not to cause panic in the world. Naturally, he would not eat this human before him.
Yu Ying also saw Sui Lin. Furthermore, she discovered the changes in Sui Lin. The snake tail behind Sui Lin had disappeared, and several wriggling tentacles were emerging from the middle of her spine.
The skin of the tentacles was a deep color, becoming lighter near the suckers; the pink, delicate suckers opened and closed, spitting out sticky liquid.
Yu Ying stepped back subconsciously, fear occupying all of her brain’s thoughts. Sui Lin had only made her feel afraid, but the tentacles before her made her feel terror.
The octopus tentacle monster controlled Sui Lin’s body, closing in on Yu Ying step by step. Her cold fingers rested on Yu Ying’s arm; in an instant, the nerves on her tentacles coiled around Yu Ying’s brain.
He did not hurt Yu Ying; he only erased Yu Ying’s fragmented memories. Yu Ying’s ears were filled with sharp ringing, like sharp nails sliding across a blackboard; her brain resisted the tentacle invasion.
A memory that had been cleared by the tentacle monster was remembered once more by Yu Ying—she had just stabbed Sui Lin’s snake tail.
Yu Ying stared into the beautiful pink pupils in Sui Lin’s eyes. Sui Lin’s eyes were red, beautifully beyond compare, like rubies lost from the last century.
She suddenly realized a terrifying thought: perhaps Teacher Sui Lin was no longer the Teacher Sui Lin she knew. Sui Lin’s body had been occupied by monsters; first a silvery-white python, and later an octopus tentacle monster.
“Yu Ying.” He was calling her name, his voice seemingly coming from another dimension.
Taking advantage of the moment Yu Ying was distracted, his tentacles successfully invaded Yu Ying’s brain, consuming her memories and receiving Yu Ying’s current guesses.
He suddenly felt that the human before him was a clever, higher-order organism. He received Yu Ying’s thoughts; one moment Yu Ying was wondering if she was having a mental breakdown, and the next, she felt she was in a world of bizarre resurrections.
His tentacles caressed Yu Ying’s forehead, whispering, “Everything you see is your fantasy; you are just an ordinary mental patient.”
Tearing through the game space had cost him quite a bit of “Bizarre Energy,” but to deal with a human, only a little bit of bizarre power was needed to control them.
Yu Ying woke up again and found herself collapsed on the floorboards, her whole body aching. She seemed to have slept for a very long time…
She forgot everything that had just happened, remembering only that she needed to cook for Yu Mianmian. Yu Ying climbed up from the floor, bending down to pat the dust off her skirt. When had she torn her skirt?
Yu Ying did not remember.
She walked to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, and took out salted duck eggs and green vegetables. She turned on the faucet to wash the vegetables; the “jelly” wrapped in lace fell from her arms and tumbled into the vegetable sink.
“Soft candy?” Yu Ying poked the “jelly’s” body with her finger and hurried to find a glass jar to place the “jelly” inside.
Yu Ying grabbed the live shrimp with her bare hands, removed the shrimp veins, and twisted off the shrimp heads. She first put the shrimp heads into the pot to boil out the shrimp oil, then added water and put in the soaked rice before fishing out and discarding the shrimp heads.
After boiling on high heat, she turned it to medium-low, added the salted egg yolks and the chopped green vegetables. A bowl of fragrant, fresh shrimp porridge was successfully completed.
Yu Ying carried the fresh shrimp porridge back to Room 202, opened the door, and saw the little snake fighting with Yu Mianmian.
The little snake’s tail was wrapped around Yu Mianmian’s neck, strangling Yu Mianmian until her face was red and her throat was tight. Yu Mianmian was pinching the little snake’s “seven inches” (vital point) and opened her mouth to bite the little snake’s tail.
Yu Mianmian’s teeth were biting the little snake’s tail, and she said incoherently, “You stupid snake.”
The little snake wasn’t stupid! This jellyfish that snakes hated had occupied her spot and even made Mother cook for her personally.
The little snake was jealous; the little snake was angry; the little snake wanted to bite the jellyfish to death. But the little snake had become smart this time; she knew the jellyfish was poisonous and did not open her mouth to bite the jellyfish.
Yu Ying was at a loss, not knowing whom to pull away. She set down the bowl and spoon, hurried to pull the little snake away, and the little snake obediently coiled around Yu Ying’s wrist.
“Xiao Xue is usually very well-behaved and won’t attack people randomly.” Yu Ying defended her pet little snake, pinching its vital point to punish it.
“What did you just call it?”
“Xiao Xue,” Yu Ying replied.
Thinking that Sui Lin and an ordinary little snake shared the same name, Yu Mianmian couldn’t help but laugh.
“Try the fresh shrimp porridge I made.” Yu Ying picked up the fresh shrimp porridge, took a spoon, blew on it to cool it down, and handed it to Yu Mianmian’s mouth.
Yu Mianmian took the bowl and spoon, “I’ll do it myself. My hypoglycemia just flared up, but I’m much better now. Thank you, Sister Yu Ying.”
“Eat up.” Yu Ying reached out, wanting to rub Yu Mianmian’s head, but Yu Mianmian dodged Yu Ying’s touch without leaving a trace.
She hated anyone except Mother touching her head.
Yu Mianmian smiled at Yu Ying, “Sorry, Sister Yu Ying, I don’t really like others touching my head.”
“It’s fine, eat quickly.” Yu Ying sat on the side of the bed, watching Yu Mianmian drink the porridge.
Yu Mianmian held the ceramic bowl in both hands, staring at the fresh shrimp porridge in a daze. She picked up the spoon and took a big bite; the fresh flavor spread in her mouth, and the thick soup rolled down her throat.
“Did you put sea salt in the porridge?”
Mother often made fresh shrimp porridge for her, putting sea salt in the porridge to enhance the flavor. For a long time, the jellyfish had eaten the fresh shrimp porridge Mother made every day. Every day, it was fresh shrimp porridge.
She didn’t know that games required diamonds to purchase nutritious meals, and her mother’s diamonds were left with only three after feeding a certain snake, so she could only afford to buy fresh shrimp porridge for her.
She didn’t have a God’s-eye view; she only knew that Mother liked to make seafood porridge for her to drink.
Yu Ying: “Is there only sea salt at home? Don’t you like it? I’m going to Blackwater Town tomorrow to purchase supplies; do you want to go with me?”
Yu Mianmian lowered her eyes, feeling a little disappointed, but she still finished the fresh shrimp porridge. “Sister, can I ask you for one thing?”
“Tell me.”
“Can you make me a bowl of fresh shrimp porridge every day?” Yu Mianmian was best at acting spoiled; she smiled, revealing dimples on her cheeks and a canine tooth, shaking Yu Ying’s arm, “Will you, Sister~?”
“I can, but won’t you get tired of eating the same thing every day?”
Yu Ying had lived by the sea since she was a child, and she had endless seafood to eat every day; one day it was steamed seafood, the next it was boiled seafood.
Occasionally, when Mother couldn’t take care of her because she went out to sea, she would take pepper powder and a flamethrower to the seaside to find oysters; she could pry them open and sprinkle them with pepper powder to have a buffet.
Yu Ying was very envious of land-dwellers being able to eat all kinds of vegetables. After her mother found out her wish, she didn’t know where she got potatoes for her. During that time, Yu Ying constantly clamored to eat stir-fried shredded potatoes.
She ate it for a month without getting tired of it, and even now, she still loved stir-fried shredded potatoes.
“Alright, I promise you.”
Yu Ying looked into Yu Mianmian’s deep eyes, “I will make you a bowl of fresh shrimp porridge every day from now on.”
“Thank you, Sister, I knew you were the best!”
The little snake made a dissatisfied hissing sound, flicked its bright red tongue to lick the web of Yu Ying’s hand, and stared at the bite mark on her hand, tilting its head—when did she get that bite mark?
Damn jellyfish, she hadn’t even left a mark on Mother.
On the desk, the “jelly” in the glass jar watched Yu Mianmian darkly; one day, he would be able to replace the deity jellyfish body and return to Mother’s side.
Yu Ying was his mother, not Yu Mianmian’s mother. What Yu Mianmian was enjoying right now was everything that should have been his…
Mother’s scent, Mother’s warm embrace, the fresh shrimp porridge Mother made by hand; it should have been his, it should have been his!