Chapter 301 I Don’t Mind Being a Monster
Yin Xiu touched the tentacles, "When have I ever hated you?"
The monster hesitated, then used its huge tentacles to hook Yin Xiu and lead him to the beach.
A sticky crawling sound came from beside him, and with a huge noise, the cricket pupae dived into the sea. Accompanied by the surging water, the darkness in front of Yin Xiu's eyes instantly changed, and day and night intertwined, turning into day.
The sudden blinding light made it difficult for him to open his eyes. He subconsciously squinted for a moment, then slowly looked around.
This real sea village is even more dilapidated than Yin Xiu had imagined. After so many years, the wooden houses have completely decayed and are in ruins, and many things have disappeared in the torrent of time.
This is the real sea village abandoned by monsters. The only one living here and accompanied by these rotten things is the monster Li Mo.
Yin Xiu turned his head to look at the sea, and saw half of a huge head emerging from the shimmering sea surface.
It has hair, but it is made up of long twisted tentacles. It has eyes, but they are a little too many. Compared with the image in Yin Xiu's memory, this appearance is very close to a human. Its dark skin reflects light in the sunlight, and except for the eyes, it is difficult to recognize other facial features.
But it tried hard to use everything on its body to piece itself together into a human form. Although it was far from the appearance of a real human, it was even more terrifying, but Yin Xiu didn't care.
"Is there anyone... who looks more like a human?" The monster's questioning voice came from the sea, cautiously, for it was afraid of scaring Yin Xiu and losing the only person who wanted to come here to see it.
"It looks quite similar." Yin Xiu nodded, then pointed to the open space beside him, "Come up."
The monster hesitated, but still slowly floated its body and crawled onto the beach.
Its upper body barely maintained a human outline, but its lower body was a complete monster. Countless long, pitch-black tentacles replaced its feet, crawling and surging stickily on the sand, leaving behind black liquid.
The waves caused by coming ashore were overwhelming and slammed against the coast violently. Yin Xiu's figure seemed so small in front of the huge monster.
When Li Mo, who had a human form, was in front of him, he did not feel the racial gap between them so clearly. It was not until this not-so-complete non-human body lay obediently beside him that Yin Xiu realized that the monster's body was really big and one tentacle could easily kill him.
But after the monster came ashore, it didn't dare to move. Its eyes were fixed on Yin Xiu. With such a big body and so many pairs of eyes, its sight was focused on Yin Xiu, who looked so small in front of it, like a grain of sand.
"You've really changed a lot." Yin Xiu looked up at the monster lying motionless beside him, and looked at the huge tentacles that stretched out to encircle him. He suddenly felt that it would be more convenient to have a human form. He couldn't take such a huge creature to see many things.
"You have changed a little too." The monster touched Yin Xiu with the tip of its tentacles. The heavy and cold tentacles touched him, causing Yin Xiu to stagger and fall to the ground.
"Are you okay?" The monster quickly picked up Yin Xiu with its tentacles and held him in front of its huge eyes, looking at him carefully.
Yin Xiu was like a very delicate doll in front of it. If it wasn't careful, parts would be missing. It became extremely nervous and started to worry when it was touched, but it also liked to touch him.
"I'm fine." Yin Xiu hugged the huge tentacle in front of him and patted it gently.
The monster immediately began to twist its body, and its dancing tentacles could hardly conceal its emotions.
"I can receive the memories transmitted from the outside world. I have tried very hard to find you." The monster's tentacles around Yin Xiu unconsciously tightened, encircling him. "I am now Yin Xiu's family. We can always be together."
"I'm still not used to you not calling me your boyfriend anymore."
The monster stared at him with sparkling eyes and let out a loud howl, "I like boyfriends!"
It was very happy to touch Yin Xiu with its tentacles again, and couldn't let go of him, touching him here and there, marveling at the subtle changes brought about by the human's small body.
Yin Xiu noticed that it liked to touch him, so he sat back in the pile of tentacles without moving, allowing the monster to touch him with its sticky touch.
Even though they could no longer sleep in the same coffin, the monster still loved sticking close to him.
The brief reunion made them forget everything outside, and their hearts and eyes were filled with only each other.
On this desolate coast, the huge monsters and the small figures seemed to have disappeared, as if the copies, weirdness, and everything had disappeared, leaving only the coastline on the horizon to accompany them.
Yin Xiu told it why he came here and the situation outside.
The monster froze after hearing that.
Its eyes went from joy as it listened to Yin Xiu's description to slowly drooping with loss, and even the tentacles that were wrapping around Yin Xiu stopped.
"What's wrong?" Yin Xiu stared at the monster in front of him who didn't hide his emotions at all.
"You're going to turn into a monster because of me..."
It murmured, then carefully placed Yin Xiu on the ground and quickly crawled into the sea.
"Now that you've become my believer, you can't get close to me... Otherwise, you'll soon become a monster..."
It still remembered that Yin Xiu did not want to become a monster, and was still upholding Yin Xiu's wish.
Yin Xiu immediately reached out and grabbed its tail tentacles, which had not yet completely submerged in the sea, and pulled them, saying, "I don't care anymore. Before, I couldn't turn into a monster because I had to spend the rest of my life with my sister. Now I have no reason not to turn into a monster."
"That's not possible either." The monster seriously pulled back its tentacles from Yin Xiu's hand and buried itself completely in the sea water. "You can't become a monster. Everyone hates becoming a monster. They all hate becoming a monster, and I, who made them become a monster."
"I don't want Yin Xiu to become a monster, nor do I want Yin Xiu to hate me..."
No one understands better than it the long and lonely life and the unacceptable fate of becoming a monster. It hates its current situation, so it doesn't want Yin Xiu to become a monster even more.
"It's okay with me. I don't mind being a monster."
"No." The monster buried itself deep in the seabed, seriously rejecting it, and was even unwilling to come out to see Yin Xiu, for fear that seeing him one more time would deepen Yin Xiu's changes.
The reunion was so heartwarming just now, but in the blink of an eye, Yin Xiu was left alone standing on the shore, facing the surging waves.
He looked at the sea. "But if I didn't turn into a monster, what would you do after I died? Would you stay here alone until you died?"
The monster didn't respond.
Yin Xiu slumped his shoulders slightly. "Or... do you want to stay here and wait for the next person who will accept you?"
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