Chapter 144 Pet +1 Mr. Mermaid in the Trash Can. ...

Chaomu originally didn't want to spend money.

She is quite familiar with the tactics of this kind of krypton-scam game - first give you a few six-yuan gift packages, put the first-charge benefits in the most conspicuous place, give you some newbie-exclusive SSRs that are actually useless, and the strength of the more useful SRs in the later stage can eliminate the benefits.

Many newbies actually know this truth, but this thing is only six dollars, and there are card draw coupons or equivalent diamonds and other props in the bag. It seems that it is not a loss no matter how much you top up, and it will always be there if you don’t top up.

But after you have recharged and got the props, but the cards you drew did not come out, you start to feel dissatisfied.

...I've already spent money on the game, so should I buy the monthly pass? What a steal! I've already spent money on the monthly pass, but what about the battle pass? What about the double bonus on the first deposit?

It's not so difficult to deal with those resources that will always be there. After all, they are long-term and can be left there and purchased when needed... Generally speaking, game planners have their own way of dealing with this - that is, limited-time gift packs.

Responsible games offer limited-time gift packs during promotions, lasting between ten and half a month. Unscrupulous games offer more: upgrades, weapon upgrades, and home game browsing. Gift packs are tailored to your specific activity. The best ones offer 24-hour promotions, while the less-desirable ones offer promotions of an hour, half an hour, or even ten minutes. The rewards are indeed significantly cheaper than the market price. Don't buy? A countdown will be displayed right on the homepage, making you anxious.

Chaomu is in this kind of tangled state right now - not only is she tangled, she also feels like she's been tricked.

Wasn't that a deceptive game setting the price of 648 to unlock the pet slot intentional? It knew no one would actually spend 648 to unlock it, so it started with an unacceptable price, then offered all sorts of temptations... and finally gave players a promotional price so that even if it sold for 168, players would still feel like they were making a killing.

...Not to mention this thing is only 30 right now, and comes with a monthly pass, first-time deposit bonus, and Raccoon Coins...

Even someone with strong self-control like Chaomu couldn't control his hand from pointing at the gift bag for a moment.

Uh uh uh ahh ...

Very quickly, she clicked on the gift package and rushed to read the content before the countdown ended: Oh, this gift package is called "Super Special Monthly Card", and you will get 1000 Raccoon Coins when you buy it, and there is also the free manual save and load function that she was a little greedy for before, which gives you 100 Raccoon Coins, 1 Energy Potion, and 1 Life Potion every day; in addition to the above benefits that can be obtained by unlocking the ordinary monthly card, the special offer is to unlock +1 in the pet column and unlock the function of summoning pets at any time (maintained only after renewal).

The little raccoon next to the gift bag held up a sign and shook his head: "Are you really not buying it? Can you resist buying this?"

Chaomu also failed to successfully cover his wallet. While cursing the krypton scammer, the balance was reduced to -30.

The Raccoon Coins poured into the account, and the joy of receiving a gift pack to offset the krypton gold was always indescribable. The player's attention was focused on the gift pack, and the rubbing of the lion's head with his hands was a bit perfunctory, which made Black Lion shake his head impatiently.

But Chaomu had no time to pay attention to his reaction.

After spending the money, plus the Raccoon Coins she had earned from completing previous tasks, her balance was over 10,000. It can be said that she is quite wealthy, and is no longer the poor little raccoon in the past. A large part of the destructive power of spending money on players' worldviews comes from this. After all, you work hard to complete tasks for half a day to save coins, but you may only be able to double the amount by spending money on a small gift pack.

...No, no, I can't think about it too much. This time I have to act according to the emergency, and there will definitely be no krypton gold next time... Let's take a look at the gift package first.

She glanced over the regular monthly card rewards and clicked on the first-charge rewards.

Congratulations to the player for unlocking the first deposit gift package: Get a random rare seed + 30 flower pots + 5 raccoon coins + 3000 SSR one-time skill "We Are Pure Love"

The first few rewards were pretty standard, but the skill at the end was probably the selling point of the first-charge gift pack. Chaomu rummaged through his backpack and didn't see the skill book icons he'd drawn from the previous card draws. Instead, he saw a pair of colorful ring icons in the "Latest Acquisitions" section.

...What is a one-time skill...is it similar to a prop?

She clicked on the details curiously, and the introduction was longer than she had imagined.

[Special Skill Item "We Are Pure Love" (SSR level, can only be used once): Some may call you a jerk who cheats on men and women, but this will not affect your deep affection and commitment to them.]

[Use: After selecting a target, use it to gift the ring. If the target accepts it, you can deceive their feelings and mark the target as a bound summoned beast, summoning it at any time through the ring (if the target dies, a beast with the same ability will be summoned). The player's ring token can also be given or loaned to others, and the effect will remain.]

The ring in her backpack looked unremarkable. Chaomu stared at the skill description and fell into a brief moment of contemplation. Although she always felt that first-charge gift packs usually didn't give anything good... but who said this skill was bad? This skill was too buggy, wasn't it?

First, the system doesn't elaborate on the question of "accepting," which suggests a loophole: If I put it in the other person's pocket while they aren't paying attention, that counts as giving it away, right? If they've already taken it home, how can that not count as accepting it?

If she'd bought this thing right after entering the game, she'd probably have stuffed the ring into Gin's mouth. If he'd swallowed it, that would have counted as acceptance, right? Wouldn't that mean she'd have a super-powerful fighter right from the start? She wouldn't have to learn any skills. Whenever she encountered a boss she couldn't defeat, she could just summon him and have Gin take on the fight.

Unlike this skill, acquiring a pet is a bit more challenging. Characters like XANXUS or Reborn, under normal circumstances, would be hard to knock out and dump in the trash. After acquiring a pet, you have to cultivate intimacy, and it's not always available—Mimi even has to climb through a window to get home! The newly unlocked ability to summon your pet at any time seems to have location restrictions.

In comparison, giving a ring only requires having hands, and the creature can be summoned at any time. This is no better than the pet system!

It's just that now that the level has been raised and the map has been unlocked, some spells and super-powered monsters like Death Flame have appeared, and their values ​​have inflated. Now let Chaomu see, she probably won't use this on Gin.

She happily tucked the ring away, thinking about using it someday when she encountered a big boss she couldn't imagine defeating. At her current level, she wasn't having any trouble beating levels, so she might as well save it.

She just read the skill description again. Why did she feel that some of the text was weird? Who would give this kind of ring to someone else or lend it to someone else...?

But no matter what, this first recharge is still worth it - the pet column also unlocks new grids. The most important thing for Chaomu next is to think about how to turn Squalo into her pet.

She wiped the black lion's head dry and watched the black "big cat" shake off its hair that had been wiped smooth, and then become furry again.

"It's still early," Black Lion turned around, raised his chin, and gave orders in a low voice, "Let's find some entertainment in the castle."

It was actually quite late, but he looked bright and energetic under the moonlight. Chaomu wasn't too surprised by this - after all, both lions and assassination troops sounded like "species" that were quite active at night, so it was normal for XANXUS to want to go for a walk.

This was undoubtedly a good opportunity for her. She rolled her eyes and decisively agreed to his "request": "That's fine with me, but if you and I go out together, Mr. XANXUS, what will happen to Mr. Squalo alone... a fish in the bathroom? He's in a difficult situation to move."

Black Lion's ears twitched back unhappily, and he turned his head away without any interest: "...Who cares?"

Chaomuxin said that wouldn't work, she definitely had to find a way to get Squalo out - the trash can in the room was too small to fit it! She had even taken Moroboshi's breasts to a large trash can on the street.

She knocked tentatively on the bathroom door, only to receive a resounding response from the merman: "Hey—you absolutely cannot leave me behind and take that stupid lion out! God knows what kind of trouble he could cause without anyone watching... Do you hear me?!"

Chaomu covered his ears in pain: "I heard it! I heard it with both ears!"

Judging from the decibel level, Squalo really didn't want to stay in the room... but it didn't have to be so loud! She thought he would be more willing to spend the next 24 hours quietly soaking in the bathroom than going out.

And Squalo naturally had his reasons for not wanting to stay here.

Although there are not many normal people around him, he is actually relatively normal and pays attention to some common human precautions: It’s okay for XANXUS to turn into a lion in front of Sawada and others, but what does it look like for him to stay in the bathroom of a girl’s room for a whole day before coming out?

But how to move on land without water was indeed a problem for him. He hugged his tail, his silver hair sticking to the edge of the bathtub, and he tutted in annoyance.

XANXUS was also annoyed. The active nature of cats made him not want to stay indoors at all - he would rather go out for a few laps.

His scarlet animal eyes stared unhappily at the girl's face in front of him, silently urging her to make a decision.

Chaomu pinched his chin and thought hard, when suddenly an idea flashed on his mind: "Wait a moment, Mr. Squalo, I have an idea!"

Brave players, don't be afraid of difficulties!

She rushed out the door and teleported to the Vongola kitchen. A few minutes later, she pushed a small cart and a huge glass tank and slammed the bathroom door open.

The mermaid in the bathtub jumped up in surprise at the sudden noise. "Huh?" Chaomu pushed the glass tub toward him, gracefully inviting him. She even changed into a raccoon butler's uniform, trying to add a little bit of charm to herself and improve her chances of success.

"Princess... Prince, please take a seat." She bowed slightly, speaking with great emotion, "This is the luxurious sightseeing car I prepared especially for you. Mr. Squalo, would you like to try it out? I've shown it to you, it's quite spacious."

Squalo: “…………?”

The tank wasn't completely empty; there were some seaweed landscaping, and the water looked freshly changed. He glanced blankly at the "Fresh King Crab" label on the side of the tank, then lay back in the tub, his actions expressing his protest: "Are you kidding me?"

"You're no better than a king crab," the black lion outside sneered, swishing his tail and making sarcastic remarks. "King crabs are delicious and quiet—the noise you make will only ruin diners' appetites."

The mermaid swung its tail angrily, but because of the intense emotions and excessive exhaustion, it sank back into the bathtub, and could only utter a series of muffled curses under the water.

"Alright, alright, Mr. XANXUS, please stop talking," Chaomu said, quickly tearing off the king crab label and pretending it didn't exist, while smoothing things over. "Mr. Squalo, please think about this. After all, if you don't come in, you might end up staying in the bathtub all day."

——It’s better to soak in the bathtub for a whole day than to soak in a tank like ornamental fish or seafood!

His palms and backs of his hands were covered in shit, and Squalo didn't want to make a choice at all.

He gnashed his sharp teeth and sank back into the bathtub, leaving only his tail exposed. "Can't you think of another way? Or maybe you could change the bathtub for me...?!"

The black lion, who had been reluctant to get close to the bathtub, finally reached its limit of patience.

The pitch-black "big cat" stomped across the dry ground at lightning speed and pounced on the bathtub, slapping the fish's tail on the surface with one claw. As the merman screamed and jumped up, he added two claws, grabbed the other's silver hair and combined the attack with his claws to throw him into the fish tank.

Squalo: “???”

He almost instantly adjusted his body shape in the water, swung his tail to steady himself, and cursed as he clung to the glass. The black lion glared at him coldly, and wanted to look away, but his tail swaying in the water attracted his attention, and he chased it and slapped the glass aquarium with his paw pads.

It was obvious that XANXUS had been patient for a long time, and Chaomu patted his shoulder in understanding: her cat Mimi sometimes couldn't walk when passing by places like fish tanks, which was normal for humans... and cats.

"Now that Mr. Squalo is seated, let's go," she announced briskly, taking the handle of the cart. "Let's go—"

The Lion, Mermaid, and Raccoon Squad, set off!

XANXUS had no interest in any squads, nor did he need her to lead the way. He was very familiar with the Vongola Castle, and after a few detours, he found the training grounds, jumped over the spikes, and planned to vent his excessive energy.

Chaomu pushed Mr. Jiaoren and followed behind. Seeing that he didn't run too far, the little devil in his heart began to stir again.

"Let him enjoy it more..." She casually took out a box, opened it, and released the flying swifts, whispering to Xiao Jiro, "Fly higher, Xiao Jiro, and go out... As usual, I'll give you a treat later."

The swift responded with a brisk chirp and flew towards the black lion, quickly attracting his attention and taking him away.

Squalo leaned against the glass wall of the fish tank, raising his eyebrows in surprise. "Is this Yamamoto's swift? How did you get his box?"

Chaomu answered quickly: "It's a secret."

Seeing that the black lion had already chased the swift and disappeared from her sight, she lowered her head, looked into the lead-gray pupils of the mermaid in the fish tank, and hooked her finger: "Do you want to know, Mr. Squalo?"

Squalo asked casually, not intending to delve into it further: "Who knows if this is just some young couple's play?" It's up to you to tell me.

He was just about to urge her to catch up with XANXUS quickly, lest the stupid lion wander off somewhere else, when he saw the girl's dull, expressionless face twitch slightly, revealing her teeth in a smile that looked like a smug villain's smile.

"This secret shouldn't be told to anyone else... but I can tell you later." She pushed the cart and suddenly sped up, turning a corner and running in the opposite direction. "You're welcome, Mr. Squalo. This is what I should do."

Squalo: “…………?”

He was originally sitting in the fish tank holding his tail, and the bump almost broke him apart.

But the girl who suddenly broke into a run obviously didn't care about his feelings. She just ran as she knew the way, passing through Reborn's secret passage, bypassing the training ground, and heading towards the huge trash can that was big enough to fit a mermaid who was 182cm tall and weighed 75kg.

Almost there! She was only a few hundred meters away from the trash can! As long as she put Squalo in the trash can, she could live a life of luxury, counting pearls every day!

With the grace and ease of a victor, the player, while walking briskly, considerately asked the mermaid in the tank: "Speaking of which, Mr. Squalo, which color garbage bag do you prefer? Black or silver?"

Squalo: “…………?”

Was it his imagination? He always felt that this guy said something terrible with a happy face... And what was the problem? Was she going to kill him and dispose of the body parts in a garbage bag?

He wanted to jump out of the jar and escape, but he was also worried that he would die from lack of water. He could only trust in the fighting power of the mermaid's body for the time being, and deal with it as it came: "I don't like garbage bags - where are you pushing me to? Hey! Do Judai and the others know that you are doing this..."

The cart stopped in front of a huge trash can with a whoosh. Mr. Mermaid braked suddenly and didn't dodge in time, so he hit his head on the glass tank and saw stars.

"You don't like garbage bags... I thought Mr. Squalo was a bit of a germaphobe." Chaomu stretched out his arms, stepped on the cart, and fished the still dazed chimaera out of the tank. He shook off the water droplets and gently threw it into the trash can in front of him. "Then I'll just put it in there—I can wash it in the tank later anyway."

She was quite familiar with this trash can, often finding scraps of paper there. Every day, the Vongola support staff would take the large box of shredded paper to be burned, then polish the copper-carved, European-looking trash can to a gleaming shine.

But even so, after realizing where he was, Squalo couldn't help but flutter in the trash can: What the hell! If he had known this kid was doing this kind of inexplicable performance art, he would have let her put a bag on her!

The Vongola was quite quiet at midnight, but even if it wasn't quiet, the mermaid's voice could be heard from miles away.

What do mermaids call?

"VOI - *Italian swear word*"

What does a raccoon call?

Chaomu: "Hehe."

After putting him in the trash can, she quickly fished out the silver-shining mermaid again and put it back into the fish tank.

Above the NPC's head, the name [Sperbi Squalo (Mermaid ver)] also quietly changed to [Squalo of Morning and Evening].

[Congratulations to the player for unlocking the special recycling item: NPC Sperby Squaro! ]

The merman in the fish tank was also stunned for a few seconds, his leaden pupils trembling in the waves: "You little brat...what did you do to me?"

At the same moment, a round raccoon emblem suddenly appeared on the smooth muscles of his left forearm, which only had a prosthetic limb left. But Squalo didn't notice it at first, his attention completely absorbed by the sounds and images that suddenly appeared in his mind.

"...Shh, I'll explain it to you later. We should go back to Mr. Xanxus." The strange girl raised her index finger and pressed it against Mr. Merman's lips through the glass, her golden eyes sparkling. "You don't want Mr. Xanxus to know about this, do you, little shark?"

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Author's words: Mu (winking): You don't want others to know...

It was too long so I posted it late. It happened to be Children's Day. I wish all my friends a happy Children's Day and always be happy!