VII. Pets
The wrench was too heavy and dragged on the ground, making a screeching sound as it was moved.
One step, two steps, three steps...
The girl's steps were neither hurried nor slow, each step resonating in the man's heart.
Seeing that she was about to do it for real, the man who had been calm and composed on the bed finally showed fear on his face, and even his breathing slowed down involuntarily.
Having been successfully amused by the man's reaction, Pi Min decided to tease him a little more.
She deliberately mimicked the yandere and crazy character from movies and TV dramas, coldly sneering as she used a wrench to lift the man's chin.
The moment the cold wrench touched his face, the man's body trembled, his chest heaved, and his breathing became erratic.
"No wonder he's the man I used to like, he's really handsome!"
A rusty wrench grazed the man's fair skin, leaving a patch of light brown dirt. Beneath the dirt was the man's sexy Adam's apple, which was forced to be exposed as he tilted his head back.
Pi Min's breath hitched, and she suddenly moved closer, grabbing the man's chin with her left hand. The unexpected action caused the man to instinctively open his mouth slightly.
Red lips, white teeth.
For the first time in her life, Pi Min understood the infinite beauty hidden in the simple idiom "red lips and white teeth".
"It's one thing to have a good-looking face, but even your teeth are so beautiful." Pi Min smiled maliciously, his aggressive eyes full of the teasing of a cat playing with a mouse.
Which tooth should we start with?
Watching her coldly raise the wrench, the man, who had just experienced her fighting prowess not long ago, took a deep breath, his expression visibly turning panicked, and his body involuntarily twisting.
Unfortunately, his bound hands and feet rendered his struggles futile, and he had no choice but to give up and beg for mercy.
"No, no, no! Being toothless is really, really ugly, super ugly. Didn't you want me to stay with you? You don't want to face a toothless ugly monster all day long, right?"
"Look at me, look at my face. If you lay a hand on me today, you'll never see such a handsome face again."
"Honey, we really didn't need to go this far, really!"
...
He was indeed terrified; the man on the bed was not only flushed and on the verge of tears, but he was also somewhat incoherent.
That's enough for now; going any further would be impolite.
Pi Min smiled as she put away the large wrench in her hand. The smile on her face, which she couldn't hide, made the man on the bed instantly realize that he had been tricked.
"You've gone too far!"
"I just want to remove all your equipment to prevent you from escaping."
Upon hearing this, the man, who had been bristling with anger, was instantly calmed down.
He stared at Pi Min for a long time, and the expression on his face softened visibly: "You really want me to stay?"
“Yes!” Pi Min nodded readily, having nothing to hide.
The man frowned slightly: "But I'm not a participant in the game; I don't have a quota in the game."
"It's okay, I'll take care of you."
From a man's perspective, this is definitely a love confession. Upon hearing this, the way he looked at Pi Min was beyond tenderness.
Pi Min felt uncomfortable under his intense gaze and hurriedly looked away, explaining fiercely, "You sowed the seeds yourself, so you have to bear the consequences. Since you've done something bad, don't think you can get away with it. You have to stay and stay with me. If I live, you live; if I die, you die."
"Fine, I'll stay with you. If you live, I'll live; if you die, I'll die with you!"
The man's gaze remained fixed on Pi Min's face, his voice gentle and tender, so sticky it made the man feel uncomfortable.
Pi Min glared at him coldly, only to find that he was actually smiling. His smile was as bright and sweet as a child's, as if the child had just received the toy he had been dreaming of.
She immediately flew into a rage: "You lunatic! You'd better get this straight, I'm punishing you, not rewarding you!"
Unfortunately, the man opposite her couldn't suppress the corners of his mouth.
Just as Pi Min couldn't help but reach out to hit someone.
"Gurgle." Someone's stomach was the first to protest.
"Honey, I'm hungry."
"Who's your wife?" Pi Min glared at him fiercely.
The man retorted with an air of utter defiance: "Who just tied me to the bed and stripped me naked, leaving me not even a pair of underwear?"
"Stop, stop, stop! I didn't do anything to you. Don't say anything ambiguous that might cause misunderstandings."
Pi Min quickly covered his mouth. She had felt like she had forgotten something, and then she suddenly remembered that according to the game rules, everything in the room would be broadcast live to the entire universe.
Wouldn't the scene of her taking off his clothes have been seen by outsiders?
She quickly opened the game panel and glanced at her live stream screen. After seeing what it showed, she breathed a sigh of relief, extremely glad she had chosen to use animal effects.
In the live stream, not only did she herself have the white lop-eared rabbit effect applied, but the system even automatically applied the effect to the uninvited guest.
At this moment, the person lying on the bed in a starfish position is not a man, but a cow cat.
Pi Min originally thought that since the man in front of her was such a scoundrel, the special effect would definitely be a dog. Considering his personality, it would most likely be a Siberian Husky. However, what appeared in front of her was a big-eyed cow cat with round eyes.
That's true. Dogs are man's best friend. Even a husky wouldn't betray all of humanity. On the contrary, the black and white cat, often called the husky of cats, is more in line with its ruthless and mentally unstable nature.
The black and white cat on the bed has a big, round face that is black on top and white on the bottom. Its four paws peeking out from under the sheets are snow-white. At this moment, it is lying on its back on the bed like a cat pancake, looking miserable after being trampled. At first glance, it is surprisingly cute.
Pi Min was staring intently at the cat in the live stream when a man's voice suddenly sounded behind her.
"Great special effects. I didn't expect that even our special effects would match so well. Cats and bunnies are a match made in heaven."
"Shut up!"
In the live stream, the blushing lop-eared rabbit grabbed a pillow and threw it hard at the face of the cow cat.
"Since things have come to this, let's eat first."
Pi Min felt mortified and indignant at the thought that what she had just done to the man might have been seen by outsiders.
People always seem particularly busy when they're embarrassed. By the time she came to her senses, she had already opened a vial of nutrient solution and put it to the man's lips.
Unfortunately, the man's face clearly showed his rejection.
"what you do?"
"Let me feed you."
The man frowned, sniffed it, then gave a disgusted look and stubbornly turned his face away.
"I won't drink the nutritional supplement!"
"You're full of bad habits!" Pi Min withdrew his hand sullenly and reminded him coldly, "There's only nutrient solution at home. If those six goldfish don't count as food."
Upon hearing this, the man looked heartbroken and asked, "What kind of life have you been living since I left?"
The man's concern made Pi Min's breath catch in her throat, and she quickly said lightly, "I'm only eating my fill, so I don't care about anything fancy. As long as I can fill my stomach, that's enough."
This was how she lived before she met him.
The appearance of this man was like a ray of light shining into her dark and dreary life, filling her originally monotonous and dull existence with surprises.
Later, the light disappeared, and her life returned to stagnation. It was less about living and more about maintaining the inertia of living day after day.
If she hadn't met him, she would most likely have lived this boring life day after day until she died.
She had always treated him as a wonderful surprise in her life, wanting to offer him all the beautiful things in the world. But now, looking at the face before her that was filled with rejection, Pi Min deeply regretted why she had spoiled him so much in the first place.
She couldn't let him starve to death, so she had no choice but to grit her teeth and shove the nutrient solution into the man's mouth again: "Try it, it's strawberry flavored, it's delicious, and it won't kill you."
The man didn't speak, but just pursed his lips tightly, his stubborn and determined look just like a child refusing to take medicine.
"Eat if you want, or starve if you don't!" Pi Min's patience ran out instantly, and she immediately turned and left.
Now it was the man's turn to feel aggrieved: "You just took more than 60,000 points from me, but now you won't even give me a decent meal. Do you think that's fair?"
Thinking of the 60,000+ points she had just taken from the man, Pi Min suddenly felt guilty. In the end, she could only sigh and open the shop to redeem a normal meal for him.
Considering that the man in front of her was a class enemy, Pi Min exchanged for the cheapest egg fried rice in the mall, which cost 10 points per serving. Miss Tyrannosaurus Rex could exchange ten servings for one of her green plants.
She had exchanged the food with the mindset of feeding the dog, but to her surprise, the egg fried rice, which was so cheap, was golden in color and each grain was distinct. As soon as she held it in her hand, a fragrant aroma of eggs and rice wafted over, almost making her drool.
"You got off easy!"
Just one serving?
"right."
Afraid of drooling and embarrassing herself in front of the man, Pi Min grabbed the vial of nutrient solution and drank it all in one gulp. The warmth from the solution entered her body, and the fried rice in front of her suddenly didn't seem so tempting anymore.
"Every little bit helps. Who knows if the points I save might save my life someday?"
This is her survival wisdom as a poor person.
Upon hearing her words, the man in front of her immediately wore a bitter expression: "What you're doing makes me seem very inconsiderate. How am I supposed to eat like this?"
Pi Min rolled her eyes at him and sneered, "You've been ignorant for a long time. Eat if you want, or starve if you don't!"
After saying that, he went to the window to tend to the red Eden he had just acquired.
Flowers are much more appealing than men in bed.
"So, you were lying to me all along! You told me you ate it, but you didn't, right?"
Pi Min heard a sobbing sound behind her. She turned around and found that the man on the bed was crying.
The man stared intently at her, his eyes red and swollen, tears streaming down his cheeks like broken beads. He looked both pathetic and ridiculous, a stark contrast to the man who had sat on his throne in the live stream, swirling his wine glass and strategizing with such confidence.
He cried, but Pi Min laughed.
"Who lied to you? You asked me if I ate, and I did, but it was just a nutrient solution. If I had known what kind of person you were, why would I have bothered to cook for you? A madman like you who is an anti-human doesn't deserve to eat, and he doesn't even deserve to drink nutrient solution!"
"Wife..." The man sniffed, and tears began to flow even more profusely.
"Stop, stop, stop! Don't get too emotional yet, and don't imagine any selfless sacrifices or tragic stories. Buying the best cat food for a picky cat while drinking nutritional supplements yourself only proves two things: First, I'm poor; second, I'm a good pet owner and can't bear to see my pet starve to death!"
"A cat? The owner?" The man's touched expression froze instantly.
"What are you looking at? Does that mean poor people don't deserve to keep cats?" Pimin awkwardly touched his nose. "Okay, now that you know, I'll lay it all out. I'll stop pretending. I admit that I did initially keep you as a pet."
"A pet?" The man frowned, his face filled with disbelief. "So, from the beginning, you didn't treat me like a man, you didn't even treat me like a human being?"
Pi Min raised an eyebrow, leisurely appreciating the expression on the man's face: "What, hurt? No pain, no gain, except for the elderly, children, and pets. Is that so hard to understand?"
"Oh, I almost forgot, besides the elderly, children, and pets, there is also you, the noble ruler of the earth."
Back then, he was an unregistered resident in the underground city. To avoid suspicion, everyone she knew in the neighborhood thought she owned a large, picky dog.
She did indeed treat him like a pet at first, until one day when their eyes met, the man suddenly looked at her with a dreamy gaze, leaned in and kissed her. Only then did she finally realize that, oh, the person standing in front of her wasn't a large cat, but a man.
"The food's getting cold, are you going to eat it or not?"
"Eat! Untie me, or you feed me."
The noble ruler of Earth swallowed hard, gazing pleadingly at the girl before him, seemingly oblivious to the shame of being treated like a pet.
Pi Min has already given in.
Since he was so flexible, she decided to oblige him. She immediately picked up the plate and began feeding the man in front of her with the disposable spoon that came with the meal.
One spoonful after another.
The man obediently opened his mouth and swallowed hard, his eyes and brows filled with a tender smile.
Seeing him laughing so happily, Pi Min felt annoyed: "What are you laughing at? Are you mocking me in your heart again?"
The man's smile froze, and he was speechless.
First, he swallowed the mouthful of rice that Pi Min had shoved into his mouth as revenge, then he said with a wry smile, "Can't I be happy if the girl I like feeds me? If you hadn't met me, a blockhead like you would definitely have been single for life."
Pi Min scratched his head awkwardly.
She's destined to be alone; a friend once told her that in her past life.
It wasn't until today that she suddenly realized that the reason the handsome boy with big eyes and somewhat girlish features in high school always hung around her might not have been to copy her homework. Because the way that boy looked at her was exactly the same as the man in front of her now.
Realizing she had drifted off into her own thoughts, she hurriedly shook her head, trying to banish the jumbled ideas from her mind.
Not being in a relationship won't kill you; it's the wrong relationship that will kill you.
Thinking about the trouble the man in front of her had caused her, she unconsciously began to feed him faster.
The unfortunate man was stuffed with a mouthful of food, unable to spit it out or swallow it down, and almost choked to death.
"Ah, a supply depot!"
After the grueling feeding session ended, Pi Min realized that the supply depot, which had seemed so far away, was now right in front of him.
From the game system's top-down perspective, the sleek, silver, futuristic-looking supply pod was less than 500 meters from her house.
Based on the supply pod's flight angle, it will reach the closest point to the house in three minutes, and then pass by it.
Good news: the supply depot is almost here.
The bad news: even at the closest point, the distance to the house is still more than 50 meters.
In the pitch-black, abyss-like universe, the rapidly approaching supply pod resembled a giant, perfectly round, and unbelievably beautiful silver egg hurtling towards them.
Unwilling to simply watch it drift away, Pi Min gritted her teeth, opened the in-game store, and spent 500 points to redeem a spacesuit, then another 100 points to redeem a 100-meter-long safety rope. She prepared to retrieve her first supply pod.
If she doesn't even have the courage to retrieve treasure chests, she might as well commit suicide and stop playing this game.
Upon seeing the complete set of equipment that suddenly appeared, the man on the bed exclaimed in surprise, "A spacesuit?! You've decided to do a spacewalk? That's insane!"
Seeing that Pi Min had already started putting on her spacesuit, the man shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, don't go, let go of me, I'll go retrieve it!"
Pi Min smiled and shook his head: "If I let you go, what if you run away?"
The man pleaded, "Trust me."
Unfortunately, despite his sincere gaze, Pi Min shook his head firmly and refused outright: "Sorry, I'd rather believe in myself than believe in an anti-human madman!"
The man's voice behind me continued: "The game's beginner protection area is limited to the living quarters; outside is a pure zero-gravity vacuum environment. You haven't had any training in spacewalking; it's too dangerous!"
Pi Min shook his head, then coldly retorted to the concerned man behind him, "Of the billions of people in the world, who do you think has undergone such training?"
After putting on her spacesuit and fastening her safety harness, Pi Min took a deep breath and opened the door.
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