An awkward emotion welled up in Shi Yunmu’s heart. His mouth twitched slightly, and he forced a sheepish, nonsensical excuse: “If I said I actually intended to rinse my mouth just to solemnly taste the midnight snack you made, would you believe me?”
Lu Que’s pitch black eyes gazed at him quietly without making a sound.
Shi Yunmu averted his eyes, wishing he could instantly turn into a slime and bounce away to escape this awkward situation.
“You just wanted to sleep,” Lu Que pointed out Shi Yunmu’s intention flatly.
Shi Yunmu decisively slithered into a verbal surrender: “Hubby, I was wrong.”
Slimes were always like this; they could admit their mistakes very quickly after all, in a monster’s mind, there was no real concept of dignity.
Ignoring Shi Yunmu, Lu Que turned around and walked toward the kitchen. Shi Yunmu grew anxious, thinking his hard-won midnight snack was about to fly away. He quickly put down his toothbrush and mouthwash cup, followed Lu Que’s footsteps, and asked in a soft voice, “Hubby, are you still making it?”
The man pulled out a kitchen knife and chopped green onions with a murderous aura.
Shi Yunmu stared at the chopped pieces of green onion corpses that had been hacked to pieces, looking at Lu Que pitifully: “Hubby, don’t ignore me. I really want to eat the midnight snack you make!”
Setting the water to boil for the noodles, Lu Que finally spoke up and asked, “Add spice?”
It was the question Shi Yunmu hadn’t answered just now.
Observing that the other party wasn’t actually too angry about it and that his portion of the midnight snack was still secure, Shi Yunmu hurriedly replied, “No spice, no spice! Thank you for your hard work, hubby!”
“…Mm.”
More than ten minutes later, one human and one monster sat facing each other, tasting the piping hot instant noodles.
Shi Yunmu looked at his own bowl: clear soup noodles, with tomatoes and a fried egg added. It looked very appetizing, but it still felt a bit bland.
He couldn’t help but raise his eyes, stealthily peeking at Lu Que’s bowl: it was filled with a striking red oil, chili flakes floating quietly on the surface, along with two or three Sichuan peppercorns.
Just looking at it aroused the cravings in one’s stomach.
Shi Yunmu watched with growing desire, poked his own clear soup noodles, and asked Lu Que, “Hubby, can you let me taste it?” Fearing Lu Que would refuse, he raised his index finger, “Just one bite.”
Lu Que lifted his eyelids to look at him, but still took a clean bowl and chopsticks to pick up a single strand of noodles for Shi Yunmu since he said he only wanted one bite, he really gave him only one bite.
Shi Yunmu: “.”
He desperately ate this precious single bite, chewing as he glared angrily at Lu Que. But before he could even swallow and speak, the youth suddenly covered his mouth: a sharp spiciness rushed straight to his forehead, and his tongue felt as if it had been paralyzed by a bitten peppercorn, completely unable to move.
Shi Yunmu felt like he was about to boil over from the spiciness!
Holding a water cup in his well-defined hand, the man calmly slid it into a range where Shi Yunmu could reach it. The youth hurriedly grabbed it, threw his head back, and poured huge gulps of water into his mouth.
The cold water finally managed to suppress the burning stimulation on his taste buds. After slowing down for a good while, Shi Yunmu still couldn’t rid himself of the state of having tears in his eyes, the corners of his eyes noticeably red. The entire slime withered, looking as if it had shrunk.
He stuck out his tongue, as if doing so could dissipate the interwoven spiciness and numbness on his tongue: “Cough, cough… Clearly, the barbecue also has chili, why is this so much spicier than the barbecue?”
The man, who had just thoughtfully handed over the water, continued to lift his chopsticks to gather noodles, not even raising his head: “I put millet chili.” He said matter-of-factly, “It’s normal that you can’t handle it.”
Shi Yunmu was about to cry again.
He became completely obedient, lowering his head to eat his own clear soup noodles. Having washed through Lu Que’s super spicy noodles, Shi Yunmu felt that even the egg noodles tasted much better.
Slimes got angry quickly, and they calmed down quickly too. As he slurped the noodles, he gave a thumbs up and praised Lu Que indistinctly: “Hubby, your cooking is so delicious! This is the most delicious instant noodles I’ve ever eaten, the first time I’ve ever tasted such delicious ones!”
Lu Que gave a faint “Mm,” though he felt somewhat doubtful about whether the other party’s “first time eating” was real.
After finishing, Lu Que cleared the two bowls away and urged Shi Yunmu to wash up.
By the time Shi Yunmu returned to the bedroom, Xiao Wei was chewing on cookies with a world-weary look: Shi Yunmu could openly eat food cooked by humans, but it couldn’t. It could only eat some small snacks Shi Yunmu bought to stave off hunger.
Fortunately, Xiao Wei had a small appetite. Eating like this, it actually managed to keep itself alive.
Shi Yunmu changed into his pajamas, collapsed onto the bed, and instinctively picked up his phone.
He first browsed the forum for a while and discovered quite a few interesting posts.
Some said they encountered a monster with twenty sharp teeth under a streetlight at night, others said they saw a huge moth, and still others claimed they saw a flower running on the road, swallowing humans bite by bite.
Floor 1: I swear I saw it clearly. That flower was crawling on the ground using its huge roots. Its blood-red petals were extremely gorgeous, but the more I looked at it, the more it felt like a vibrant color nourished by blood… The woman eaten by it only had a head left. The head was still screaming, but the body was already gone.
Floor 2: Maybe I will disappear too. It seems to be looking over here.
Floor 3: It found me.
Floor 4: It’s coming upstairs.
Floor 5: The elevator is on the 6th floor.
Floor 6: The elevator reached the 9th floor.
Floor 7: The elevator door opened.
Floor 8: I don’t seem to be able to escape.
Floor 9: OP, can you call the police? You can clearly report this directly.
Floor 10: @Administrator, come look, there’s a monster report here! Call the police quickly!
Floor 11: If this is a fabricated ghost story, please turn left to the Ghost Story Forum, thank you.
Floor 12: Is the OP still alive? If you’re alive, make a sound.
The netizens diligently built up the thread floor by floor, but the original poster who made the thread stopped replying completely. Perhaps, just as the netizens speculated, after being found out that it might be a fabricated ghost story, the person quietly deleted the account and stopped replying.
Shi Yunmu glanced at those posts, not paying much attention, and turned around to play games.
Human games were indeed more fun!
The crystal-clear slime wrapped itself in the quilt. Considering that his account had been banned last time, this time he only used two tentacles. The tentacles performed their respective duties, watching in all directions and listening to all sides, moving so fast they left afterimages.
Rising in rank was just that simple.
After staying up late to win nine stars in a row, Shi Yunmu put down his phone, suddenly entering a period of sage-like reflection after finishing a game: “I think I’m being very bad like this.”
Xiao Wei was half-awake. Hearing its boss suddenly start to reflect on himself, it suspected whether the other party might be falling sick like humans do: “Ah? Boss, why do you say that?”
Shi Yunmu said, “I always let a human raise me…”
Listening to this, Xiao Wei continued to speculate: Was its boss planning to learn how to do housework?
In the next second, he heard Shi Yunmu continue to mutter, “To repay him for taking care of me so wholeheartedly, how about I carry him in a game? Anyway, it’s a guaranteed win.”
Xiao Wei: “…?”
You actually just want to play yourself!
But no matter how Xiao Wei complained internally, it certainly wouldn’t dare to tell Shi Yunmu this directly.
It could only watch as the other party sincerely put this thought into practice. The next morning during breakfast, he asked Lu Que in a roundabout way, “Hubby, do you still have to go to work this afternoon?”
He, on the other hand, had no classes in the afternoon or evening, which made him completely free.
Lu Que raised his eyes slightly. Not knowing what bad idea was brewing in Shi Yunmu’s little head, he first said alertly, “Yes.”
Shi Yunmu was somewhat disappointed: “Ah? Is that so?”
He poked the bun in his bowl and sighed with a murmur, “Looks like we won’t be able to play…”
Lu Que stared at him for a long time. After a good while, he added, “In the evening… if I don’t work overtime, I can accompany you.”
The fox ears that had slumped down seemed to perk up again: “Really? Then it’s a promise!”
Seeing Shi Yunmu beam with joy, Lu Que gave a light sigh and curled his lips slightly: “Mm, it’s a promise.”
Perhaps because the Special Security Section had just killed a lizard-like monster, those disruptive and aggressive elements felt threatened and quietly went into hiding. This allowed Lu Que to return home on time and also cook on time for the slime in the house who was physically lazy and ignorant of basic life skills.
Just after he finished washing the dishes used for dinner, his phone was stuffed into his hand.
Shi Yunmu stood beside him, urging him to open the phone: “Hubby, hubby, quickly unlock your phone. Do as I say, and I’ll teach you how to download it!”
Lu Que glanced at him, wiping the moisture off his hands: “How do I download it?”
“Here, the App Store. Yes, yes, yes, just search for this name! Alright, we just have to wait for it to finish downloading…”
The youth pulled him over to sit on the cushions in front of the sofa one cushion was shaped like a hamburger, and the other was shaped like a bag of potato chips. Both were purchased online by Shi Yunmu, showing elements he liked at a single glance.
The man folded his long legs, patiently listening to Shi Yunmu’s endless instructions, his slender fingers tapping around on the phone screen. After waiting for a while, the game finally downloaded completely: “Is it done like this?”
“Mm!” Shi Yunmu nodded, “You just need to register an account and log in.”
Lu Que took a look. The game Shi Yunmu made him download was a famous domestic 5v5 tower defense game. Ming He and Qi Tao also liked to play this, and sometimes they would pull Chen Fangshu and Shen Xiangyu along to play together.