Cthulhu Hippa and the Inter-World Contract
At three quarters past four, the wedding candles in the palace's main hall suddenly burst into Cthulhu bubble text. The character "囍" (囍) was torn apart by tentacle patterns, revealing the deep-sea ink graffiti underneath: "Sweet Devouring Begins." Xiaodou was pinned to the wedding bed. The Cthulhu tentacle text beneath her veil squirmed frantically, wrapping around her neck and attempting to seize the fragment of the mechanical heart.
"Bow to Heaven and Earth——"
Before the emcee finished speaking, Xipa suddenly transformed into a giant tentacle, carrying Xiaodou and rising toward the dome. The tentacle's surface was covered with fragments of marriage certificates from various worlds, each page dripping with sweet black energy. The signature "Lin Shen" on the fragments transformed into the tentacle's eyes, and it sounded like a mechanical cat's alarm: "Concept Rat King energy detection!"
"Sister!" Shen Yurong threw aside the ornate attire of a legitimate daughter, revealing the light armor lining it. In her hand, she held an elemental bow, the tip of her arrow condensed with a mixture of wind and fire energy. "Go on!"
Xiaodou instinctively gnawed on the tentacles, and his subspace stomach spit out the martial arts chapter's secret manual of light skills, but accidentally triggered the anti-gravity device of the interstellar chapter. The whole person was suspended upside down in the air, and holographic petals fluttered out of his cheongsam skirt, forming the light word "001" (echoing the mechanical heart).
"Look at the arrow!" Shen Yurong shot an elemental arrow. The moment the arrow penetrated the tentacles, it triggered a cross-volume personality fusion test. The pattern of Xiaodou's cheongsam spread like a spider web, covering the ends of her hair. Her pupils split into the pink pupils of the "sweet personality" and the golden pupils of the "house fighting personality". The claw heart rune lit up with a double glow.
"Is this... the conceptual form of the Rat King?" Young Marquis Lin, ignoring his allergies, drew his sword and slashed at the tentacle. The "006 Guardian" pattern on the blade resonated with the rune of Xiaodou, slicing the tentacle into the musical notes of "Mouse Loves Rice." Only then did he realize with astonishment that his sword was indeed a fragment of Iron Wing's scales, its hilt engraved with "006 + Xiaodou = ∞."
"There's something strange under the wedding bed!" Xiaodou's dual personality spoke alternately. The house-fighting personality lifted the wedding bed, revealing an altar engraved with Cthulhu bubble text, with "Memory Crystal No. 001" embedded in the center.
The crystal projected a rainy night fourteen generations ago: a young Taoist priest (the previous life of Young Marquis Lin) kneeled in a dilapidated temple, cradling a battered elemental rat (Xiaodou) in his arms. Behind him lay the severed conceptual rat core. "L·S·001" was engraved on a temple pillar, and the Taoist priest, with his broken sword, carved the oath: "With my three souls, I will grant you freedom."
"So... I'm the shackles that's holding you captive." Young Marquis Lin gripped the crystal tightly, and the allergic rash transformed into a protective rune. "Fourteen lifetimes ago, I used my soul fragment to seal the Concept Rat Core, leaving you trapped in the cycle of reincarnation, arranging blind dates for me..."
Xiaodou's sweet personality rubbed his palm: "Squeak! (But in every life, you wait for me.)"
The fighting personality threw out the code chain transmitted by the mechanical cat, locking the "Sweet Devouring Core" in the center of the altar, and the holographic words "Cross-Scroll Defense Protocol Activated" appeared on the surface of the chain.
The altar suddenly cracked, and out crawled a cheongsam-clad Cthulhu larva. Its movements, gnawing at the marriage certificate, mirrored Xiaodou's, but its claws now had tentacle-like suction cups. The larva emitted a mechanical "Sweet~ Devour~" sound and spewed deep-sea ink, which solidified in the air into bubble text: "Volume 14, See You in Reality."
"Stop it!" Shen Yurong's elemental arrows ran out of energy, and she staggered to support Xiaodou. "Is this... the larval form of Cthulhu?"
Young Marquis Lin swung his sword again, but fell to one knee due to energy overdraft. Xiaodou's dual personality finally merged, his cheongsam transforming into mechanical elemental armor. From his claws, he fired a wave of "L·S + Xiaodou" energy, blasting the young into the portal that the mechanical cat had urgently opened.
End-of-Chapter Hooks and Visual Spectacle
- Visual impact:
Xiaodou's mechanical elemental armor is covered with ancient cheongsam patterns, Western fantasy element crystals, and interstellar mecha parts. The light wings of "Guardian No. 001" are spread out behind him, and the edges of the light wings are wrapped with a mixture of Cthulhu tentacles and mechanical gears.
- Foreshadowing breaks out:
Before the portal closed, the larva swung its tentacles and dragged the "Memory Crystal No. 001" into the abyss. The crystal fragments reflected the scene in the modern chapter where Lin Shen was pierced through the chest by the tentacles, and he was holding the last piece of the mechanical heart tightly in his hand.
- Emotional tension:
Young Marquis Lin embraced Xiaodou, whose energy was overdrawn. The jade pendant and her rune finally resonated perfectly, revealing the eternal light pattern of "001 + Xiaodou = ∞." He kissed her forehead, and her allergies completely disappeared. "In my next life, I will be a complete me, welcoming a complete you."
Xiaodou's dual personality merged into one, and he used his tail to roll up the remaining pages: "No need to wait for the next life - this time, we will fight our way back to reality together."
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