The King of Black Fog

"The situation is turning grim," one said.

"Hasn't it always been like this?" came the reply.

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Eagles soar through the sky, fish dart in the shallow waters,...

Chapter Seventy: The Strange Guests

"Now we'll start drawing lucky players. Xiaoyue, after I counted one, two, three... What?! It's already over? I haven't even started yet...!"

"Brother—" Li Qianxia opened her eyes and rushed towards her brother.

When she was little, she was bullied and mocked (because she had no parents). This is what she did: she ran into Li Changzhou's arms, and then he scolded her: "Don't cry!"

She was chosen, and Yang Qinglan was also chosen.

Li Changzhou's face was grim. He had a black identity card and a white identity card, giving him twice the chance of being selected as an ordinary player, yet he still failed.

Li Qianxia was always luckier than him. She even won a tablet, a suitcase, and a semester's worth of Tencent Video membership in a Weibo raffle when she started college.

Of course, Li Changzhou would never admit that he was less lucky than his sister; instead, he accused Weibo's lottery of being problematic.

Whether being selected for this full moon event is good or bad luck depends on the individual; for him, it was bad luck.

"Brother, I can't live without you." Li Qianxia acted as if her brother had died.

Li Changzhou immediately understood that he was still in the mood to act.

"Your twins?" he asked.

"Mmm." The younger sister pouted and nodded pitifully.

“Pull me up.”

Even knowing he would say that, Li Qianxia couldn't help but feel overjoyed, her heart pounding several times, and she felt so at ease.

Li Changzhou's tone was calm, but to her ears it sounded incredibly domineering.

She recalled the summer after graduating from high school when she got her first mobile phone and couldn't help but play with all sorts of things.

Once, I was playing King of Glory with my QQ friends (we hadn't grown up enough to use WeChat yet). We got crushed by the opposing team and our teammates were laughing hysterically. Just then, Li Changzhou happened to pass by.

"Brother! They're bullying me!"

Li Changzhou dragged a stool over and sat down next to her, took out his Xiaomi phone from his pocket, and said, "Pull me up."

Then he...they (this "they" is important) beat the other side up and made their teammates laugh hysterically.

King of Glory is completely different from value games, but Li Changzhou's "Pull me" is still so domineering, so inspiring, and so reassuring!

Soon, the emotion subsided, and my heartbeat calmed down.

After all, they are siblings. She would only feel that it is only natural for her brother to help her, and it is only natural for her to help him. It's just that the latter is less likely to happen, and she has no chance to prove it.

Yang Qinglan glanced at them, and after confirming that Li Changzhou could be pulled into the event by the "Geminis", she closed her eyes again and continued watching Xiaoyue's live stream.

A lucky player has appeared.

"Um," Xiaoyue asked tentatively, "excuse me, can you talk?"

Before the ant could answer, she turned to the camera and said:

"Everyone can understand what I'm saying, so don't worry about communication barriers between species. Once you enter Prague, don't worry about the language either; the game will automatically translate it into Czech."

The ant fiddled with its antennae, trying to understand the situation.

"Looks like they can't talk," Xiaoyue said after observing the ants for a while.

The ants began to lay eggs, and the tiny ants quickly became soldiers, forming ranks.

"Uh... this doesn't feel right! Let's find a different guest right away!"

The ant and her soldiers disappeared from the desktop, and a rabbit the size of a pig appeared.

The rabbit was very large, with an even larger belly, and looked pregnant. But once they arrived at the studio (or rather, the studio), its large belly suddenly began to deflate.

"Ahhh!" Xiaoyue shouted excitedly, "I know this! I know this! I've raised rabbits! This is called fetal absorption!"

"When rabbits encounter adverse situations such as food shortages or illness, they will directly reverse the absorption of the fetuses in their wombs and turn them into their own nutrients!"

"Life is truly amazing!"

Without the fetus, the rabbit transformed from a pregnant woman into an Amazonian warrior, her white fur flying, her eyes bloodshot, and her sharp incisors fiercely biting at Xiaoyue's neck.

"Change, change, change!" Xiaoyue shouted, covering her face with both hands and closing her eyes.

The rabbit disappeared.

Xiaoyue patted her chest, her heart pounding with fear, a real pounding of her heart. The way she patted her chest clearly indicated a sexual purpose.

“That scared Xiaoyue to death,” she said. “Xiaoyue has a little advice for non-human players: whether you want to become human or not, you can learn human language and wisdom, because overall, they are the most successfully evolved species.”

"Oh, some players who aren't human don't know what a human is, so let me explain it to everyone."

"A human body built vertically on two hundred and six bones, filled with fat (she touches her chest), blood vessels (shows her neck) and muscles (raises her thin arm), covered with a thick and elastic skin (pats her cheek)."

“Furthermore, at the top of the human body, right here,” she pointed to her head, “there is a highly efficient nerve center that can capture images, sounds, touches, tastes, and smells.”

"Through humankind, life has experienced wisdom. What? Still don't understand?"

"Okay, Xiaoyue, keep it simple."

"Hmm!" She cleared her throat. "Everyone, non-humans, listen up, Teacher Xiaoyue—before the game begins, humans have three attitudes toward you: dominating you, ignoring you, and caring for you, just like the value game before the value game appeared."

"Is this explanation satisfactory? Did you understand?"

"As for whether or not to change into human form, Xiaoyue will not comment. Xiaoyue is also very interested in non-human players and wants to try it! Non-human players who are interested in human appearance, please try it on your own."

"Okay, that concludes our science lesson. Now, let's welcome our third guest."

Xiaoyue clasped her hands together, closed her eyes, and prayed as if drawing cards: "Someone, someone, someone..."

As she muttered, a long worm appeared—a creature that could easily be used as a prototype for a monster in Ultraman.

It has a long body covered in bumps, with countless small oval feet arranged on both sides of its abdomen, and a pair of eerie black tentacles on its head.

Velvet worm.

"Okay, I'm not human. Hello, can you speak?"

Below the velvet worm's antennae extend another pair of short, transparent antennae from which mucus spurts out.

"ah!"

"Change it! Change it! Change it!"

The velvet worm disappeared, and Xiaoyue was sprayed all over her body and face with slime, which quickly solidified and fixed her to the chair.

"I'm not playing anymore, it's not fun at all! Waaah, next one!" Xiaoyue cried and shouted.

The fourth guest.

"Wow, what a pretty young lady! Hello, are you into lesbian stuff? I'm all for it – I'm a perpetual motion machine, I'm a pillow princess! No problem!"

"Oh, by the way, you don't mind how I look right now, do you? This thing is pretty sturdy." Xiaoyue said, strapped to the chair in a rather awkward position.

In the studio, Li Qianxia sat trembling in the guest seat.

Brother Pigeon, help, help, help, help me!

This child has been lucky since he was a child.