Hidden Dungeon: The Past and Present of Panda Mouse
The gears in the mechanical panda's belly clicked twelve times, and Xiaodou was poking its eyes with his claws - they were two obsidians inlaid with gold wire, which looked very much like the rings Bai Shenyuan had given her at the wedding.
"Warning: Concept Rat Genetic Resonance Detected." Lin Shen's personality's data stream suddenly wrapped around the panda's paw. "The core of this toy may be connected to—"
Xiaodou bit into it before he finished listening. Obsidian's eyes suddenly cracked, and a golden stream of data gushed out, sucking her into a vortex. When she opened her eyes amidst a cloud of icing sugar, she found herself wearing a wedding gown embroidered with the word "sweet," with a heavy ring tucked into her paw. Bai Shenyuan was kneeling on one knee on a carpet covered in honey, his three soul personalities appearing simultaneously behind him.
"I, Bai Shenyuan," Ling Yuan's personality said, holding a giant sword, but the tips of his ears were red as blood, "I voluntarily become your food storage tank, and be eaten by you for life after life."
"Oh my, Brother Lingyuan is so shy to say something like that~" Bai Yange chuckled, and his fingertips helped her adjust the cream lace on her wedding dress, "But the ring should be worn on the ring finger, which is connected to the heart~"
Lin Shen adjusted his glasses, the lenses reflecting the arithmetic problems floating around him. "According to astrological deduction, exchanging rings at this moment will increase the cuteness resonance by 37.2%."
Xiaodou stared blankly at the three souls handing her rings simultaneously, then suddenly noticed a different word engraved on the inside of each ring: "Sweet," "Pamper," and "Stable." She unconsciously nibbled at Ling Yuan's ring, and honey oozed from the metal surface, drawing a rune array representing the Concept Rat Clan on the ground.
"Wait," she suddenly pointed at the mechanical panda statue in the distance, "Those eyes... are exactly the same as the GM's pet!"
Lin Shen's data stream suddenly penetrated the statue, revealing the Heavenly Dao Core within: "The emotional data of the Concept Rat Tribe is being converted into 'sweet energy'. The GM wants to create something that can control all worlds—"
The ground suddenly cracked, and countless golden data streams surged into a vortex, tearing the wedding scene into pieces. Xiaodou saw the virtual projection of the GM standing on top of the data stream. Under his white coat, he revealed the gear-shaped tail of a mechanical panda. In his hand, he held the "Concept Mouse Emotion Collection Manual." The latest record was: Panda Mouse makes a purring sound when chewing on a ring. Cuteness value +999.
"Thank you for your cooperation~" The GM snapped his fingers, and the mechanical panda suddenly went berserk, sparks flying from its gear joints. "Now it's time to collect the remaining souls of the guardians—like this one."
The panda's chest split open, revealing a translucent figure immersed in golden liquid. Xiaodou's pupils constricted—it was Bai Shenyuan's face, the teardrop mole at the corner of his left eye flickering in the data stream. Ling Yuan's personality's blade was about to strike the core when he realized his arm was fading, resonating with the remnant soul.
"The three souls are originally one," Lin Shen's voice trembled. "The GM used the cuteness of the Concept Rat as bait to revive the Guardian's previous life!"
Bai Yan suddenly hugged Xiaodou, and the fox fire condensed into chains at his fingertips: "Xiaodou, take the ring fragment and go first! We-"
The GM's palm pierced through the projection and grasped the neck of the real Bai Shenyuan. Amidst the holographic cabin's alarm, Xiaodou saw a blood-red countdown pop up on the live broadcast interface: Countdown to the destruction of the Guardian's physical body: 24 hours. The ring on her claw shattered into three pieces at some point, and on each fragment emerged the GM's face, chuckling in the voice of a mechanical cat:
"Come to Storybrooke to find me, Panda Mouse~
—With your sweetness, and the remaining soul of the guardian."
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