Chapter 91: A Heavy Burden and a Long Road
“Luxianbei stared at the little girl clutching his thigh, pondered for a few seconds, then turned to Huaxie Yu and said, ‘Miss Hua, you go in and find a place to sit. I need to have a good chat with this stinky sister.’
Huaxie Yu glanced at the fierce Jumeng and then at Luxianbei, nodded, ‘Then you two have a good chat, no need to mind me.’
She could tell that the atmosphere between Luxianbei and Jumeng was a bit off. As an ‘outsider,’ it would be too inappropriate to meddle in their matters at such a time.
However, she had just heard Luxianbei say that this girl was an urban legend, and it seemed she was also a tree or something?
Getting a child out of a tree is quite impressive.
Huaxie Yu thought to herself and silently gave Luxianbei a thumbs up in her heart.
She gradually understood why her appearance, which could compete with Luxianbei’s sister, couldn’t catch his attention at all.
This guy probably wasn’t even interested in humanoid beings, right? Huaxie Yu thought.
As she watched Huaxie Yu enter the house, Luxianbei bent down to pick up the little girl, pulled Jumeng to the side, and lowered his voice to ask, ‘Stinky sister, shouldn’t you explain to me where this child came from?
Having a child suddenly appear at home is quite a serious matter.
What if Miaomiao Sauce finds out?
Her gaze will cut me into pieces, for sure!
‘Wait!’ Luxianbei suddenly seemed to realize something, squinted his eyes, shot a sidelong glance at Jumeng, and asked, ‘Stinky sister, in your understanding, is there no difference between a human infant and the infants of other species?’
Jumeng crossed her arms, raised her chin slightly, and watched Luxianbei, rolling her eyes after he finished speaking. ‘Are you stupid, dog? I’m a deity responsible for offspring, do you think I wouldn’t know the differences between various young beings?’
‘Just so you know, I’m better than genetic screening, okay?’
Luxianbei froze for a moment, glanced at the little girl in his arms who was trembling in fear and had red-rimmed eyes, looking pitiful, and frowned, ‘So this child was abducted by you?’
‘No, typically, if you pick up some kittens, puppies, or little birds to play with, that’s fine, but good heavens, you actually brought a person back?’
Kidnapping children is a serious crime wherever you go, and the severity of the situation just escalated several levels.
Even in the Siye Society, those urban legends who enjoy hunting children are often prioritized in danger assessments of similar levels.
‘Dog! What do you mean by ‘brought back’? Can’t you tell this is your child?’ Jumeng’s hands were crossed over her chest, slightly raising her chin, ‘Can’t you see this is your child?’
Huaxie Yu,
Is this plot trying to evade responsibility? d*mn, how scummy! How thrilling!
Fight, fight!
Luxianbei, ‘???’
What on earth is this? My child? How did it get more absurd?
I haven’t even kissed a girl, how could…
Wait, I think I might have?
Luxianbei thought, looking at Jumeng, lingering for a few seconds on her slightly pouting pink lips, then glancing down at the little girl in his arms, his eyes widening gradually.
The little girl looked about two or three years old, her skin pink, features delicate, her round face a bit chubby, giving off a blush.
Her dark red hair was slightly wavy, resembling a big mushroom, as if crafted by someone, adding a touch of adorable charm to her.
Perhaps because she had just been frightened by Jumeng and had cried, her long curled eyelashes held a few tiny droplets, fluttering slightly. Below those eyelashes, her bright silver-gray eyes shimmered with moisture, filled with a hint of anticipation and a touch of caution.
She was a good girl, beautiful and lovable.
But the problem was, looking at her face, Luxianbei inexplicably recalled the moment he swallowed the witch’s egg, fleeing from the Huayu Sunlight Hotel, when he saw that face reflecting back at him in the mirror in the little park on Jiang Road.
Upon closer inspection, there were indeed some similarities between her brow and Jumeng, distinctly reminiscent of the [Calamity Red x Jumeng collaboration MINI] style.
The longer he looked, the more Luxianbei, who had previously been certain this child had nothing to do with him, started to doubt himself.
‘Luxianbei! A child resembling a mythological species and Jumeng, and you still say she’s not yours?’
In a daze, a voice in Luxianbei’s mind yelled at him.
No, why does this girl look so much like me? Could she really…
No, that can’t be right! Even if she did, this child must have a mother, right?
Up to now, my closest interaction with a girl has been at the Dream Come True Entertainment City, helping Miaomiao Sauce rub her back.
Luxianbei thought, sneaking another glance at Jumeng, his mood growing heavier.
He recalled the video on his phone recorded by his coat and thought about that one Schrodinger kiss with Jumeng when he was drunk, his heart sinking.
He never expected that ‘as long as you kiss, you’ll have a baby’ – something he thought was undoubtedly a line to fool children – would one day become a reality in his life.
Even if they are all urban legends, this is still too outrageous, isn’t it?
Moreover, he felt there was something a bit fishy about this? Luxianbei thought.
It felt like playing a few rounds of games with an online girl, and then half a month later, she tells you she’s pregnant and wants you to take responsibility; that’s pretty d*mn annoying.
Taking responsibility is fine, but I’d never enjoyed the benefits; it feels a bit like bullying an honest person.
Speaking of which, that guardian guy probably bears some responsibility too.
If he hadn’t been scheming and poured so much alcohol into me, how could I have ended up with this child out of nowhere?
If I had been sober, at least I could have enjoyed the process of making a baby, Luxianbei thought.
Seeing him lost in thought for a while, his frown easing as if he had grasped the situation, Jumeng raised an eyebrow and asked, ‘Dog? Are you getting it now?’
‘Uh-huh!’ Luxianbei nodded, not daring to meet Jumeng’s eyes.
‘Hmph!’ Jumeng slightly lifted her chin, made a soft hmph ‘Well, as long as you understand. This Wang Ying — wait?!’
Luxianbei froze for a second and suddenly looked up to interrupt, ‘Did you just say who this child is?’
‘Wang Ying!’ Jumeng said earnestly, ‘It’s the meatball Wang Ying that you keep at home! Did I get the name wrong?’
‘Didn’t you just say you understood?’
Hearing her name, the little girl in Luxianbei’s arms responded.
She grabbed the collar of Luxianbei’s shirt with her small hands, gave it a gentle tug, and when Luxianbei lowered his head to meet her shy gaze, she raised her chubby little hand and pointed to her own little nose.
That expression seemed to say, ‘It’s me, it’s me, I am Wang Ying.’
Luxianbei,
Got it! I understand completely! No wonder she looks somewhat like me in my mythological form, and also a bit like the stinky sister.
After falling into a deep sleep, her previous copying abilities must have faded completely, and to re-construct her body, she needs a template.
As I and stinky sister were the two who interacted with her most closely before her awakening, it seems reasonable she would use us as a template.
Luxianbei pondered, remembering when Wang Ying had turned around, lifted her clothing to reveal her pure white, delicate back.
Right after, he saw the flame-shaped familiar mark on her back that was exceedingly familiar to him, and his eyelids twitched.
The familiar mark is indeed Wang Ying. So I was just jumping to conclusions… No, one thing is certain, that guardian guy is definitely at fault. After all, the [Moonlight Plan Contract] was crafted by him alone.
It was precisely because he established the contract with Wang Ying through modifying his contract that I couldn’t perceive the familiar mark on her.
Therefore, to have such an embarrassing misunderstanding, that guardian guy at least has to take a third of the blame!
While he was thinking, Jumeng suddenly noticed the lifeless expression on Luxianbei’s face, which actually flushed a hint of crimson, and she snapped back to reality, unable to help but laugh out loud.
‘Puff haha! I can see it now, you didn’t just think that this was a child I gave birth to for you, did you? Dog, you were thinking pretty beautifully!’
‘Moreover, even if I were to give birth, it wouldn’t look like this.’
Luxianbei, ‘How should I put it? Social d*ath often comes so suddenly.’
While talking, Jumeng leaned slightly closer to Luxianbei, whispering in his ear, ‘I’ll tell you a secret, even if I were to give birth, what I would produce would only be an egg! Remember that, dog!’
Hearing this, Luxianbei pictured himself anxiously waiting outside the delivery room for a long time, after which the doctor came out holding an egg roughly the size of a soccer ball, saying to him: ‘Hello sir, the maternal egg is safe, it weighs eight pounds and six ounces.’
He felt goosebumps all over his body.
What kind of beautiful girl laying eggs plot is this?
d*mn, how strange! Why is she telling me this?
Isn’t this the same as exposing your XP to the opposite s*x?
Luxianbei’s face turned even redder.
Then, to escape this social d*ath situation, he steadied himself, switched the topic, and asked, ‘But that doesn’t make sense. When I left, she was still a ball; how did she suddenly…?’
At this point, he seemed to realize something, squinted his eyes, looking at Jumeng and asking, ‘Honestly, what did you do to her?’
Hearing this, a hint of panic flashed in Jumeng’s eyes as she turned her head away, avoiding Luxianbei’s gaze, and her tone when she spoke was no longer as assertive as before.
After all, she had secretly given Wang Ying so many ‘poisonous’ chicken wings.
‘I, I just injected her with a bit of good luck! Didn’t you tell me before?’
‘You said this child has been unlucky since she was born, captured by some strange laboratory to become a test subject. Just when she finally escaped, she got caught by the Solar Eclipse Society again.’
‘That’s not true.’ Luxianbei waved his hand to interrupt, ‘It can’t be that simple. You definitely, absolutely, one hundred percent did something else.’
Previously, he had asked the Void for help to investigate how to wake Wang Ying.
And since Peach Source was a key focus of the Urban Legends Chat Group, the Void should have had some understanding of Jumeng’s powers after the ‘new life’, and it knew about his close relationship with Jumeng.
If Wang Ying could awaken simply due to Jumeng’s powers, the Void would have told him long ago and wouldn’t have waited until now.
‘Did you feed her something strange?’
Jumeng opened her mouth, about to deny it, when she heard ‘food’, Wang Ying responded again.
She tugged on Luxianbei’s shirt again, and when he looked down at her, she pointed to her little mouth and began to call out ‘yi yi ya ya’ while gesturing wildly with her hands and feet.
After a while, as it seemed Luxianbei couldn’t guess what she meant, her small body suddenly started writhing violently.
Accompanied by a wet, sticky sound, flesh and bl**d surged and twisted, astonishing Huaxie Yu, who was secretly watching and snacking.
A few breaths later, Luxianbei found himself holding a large mass that looked like a vast quantity of fresh chicken wings, piled together in a grotesque manner.
White as snow, exuding the smell of chicken and bl**d, accompanied by incomprehensible ‘yi yi ya ya’ sounds, the mass slowly squirmed, as if it were a sacrilege against nature’s creations.
Atop that meat mound, a pair of clear, bright eyes stared straight into Luxianbei’s, sparkling with anticipation, resembling a little animal wagging its tail, waiting to be fed.
Thus, Wang Ying, in a manner ‘primitive and simple like a prehistoric evil god’, informed Luxianbei that she had eaten those beer-braised chicken wings and wanted more.
Huaxie Yu, ‘Amazing! Huacheng truly is a place of gifted people; ever since I came to this cursed place, I haven’t had a day free of SAN drops!
What kind of poultry hell scene is this? Luxianbei glanced at Wang Ying in his arms, the corners of his eyes twitching, almost throwing this monstrosity away.
Jumeng facepalmed, ‘…
This little brat is truly exhausting.
So I was too lenient earlier; I should have beaten her until she couldn’t transform anymore!
Wang Ying Luxianbei cradled Wang Ying without expression and lightly called out.
‘Yi ya.’ That mass of chicken wings squirmed even more.
‘You did very well just now; don’t change back next time.’
‘Yi ya?’ Wang Ying blinked, seeming confused.
Luxianbei, ‘It seems that educating Wang Ying is a heavy burden and a long road ahead!’
