Three Souls Sacrifice: Guardian's Choice
As the dream-eating tapir's tentacles slithered toward the hamster nest, Xiaodou clutched the fragment of Bai Shenyuan's ring, feeling the power of his three souls boiling within him—Bai Yan's gentleness transformed into foxfire, Lin Shen's wisdom condensed into a stream of data, and Ling Yuan's fortitude coalesced into battle armor. With a wave of his hand, the cherry tree suddenly burst into golden osmanthus blossoms, each petal inscribed with the ancient seal script "Lin Shen Sees Deer."
"Concept Rat King, prepare to die!" The dream-eating tapir's voice was mixed with a thousand years of resentment, and its tentacles smashed towards Xiaodou.
Xiaodou dodged to the side, foxfire dancing on his fingertips. "Your target isn't me, it's the love and bond of the guardian." He spread his palm, revealing the crack he shared with Bai Shenyuan. "But now, our souls are one."
Three voices echoed in my mind:
- Bai Yan (chuckles softly): "Baby, roast its tentacles with fox fire. I remember tapirs are afraid of sweets."
- Lin Shen (calm analysis): "There's a rune weakness at the tentacle joints, attack there!"
- Ling Yuan (cold-faced command): "Seize the opportunity, I'll cover you!"
Xiaodou smiled, and his foxfire transformed into a missile shaped like an osmanthus cake, accurately hitting the Dream-Eating Tapir's joints. Amidst the black smoke, the hamster nest fell at his feet. He picked up the ring inside, and it suddenly emitted a strong light, projecting fragments of the memory of the three souls of the White Abyss:
- Bai Yan from the demon world carved Xiaodou's name under the osmanthus tree;
- Modern Linshen develops a non-shedding formula for adzuki beans in its bakery;
- Xingxing Lingyuan used candy battleships to spell out the outline of Xiaodou on the battlefield.
"It turns out that you have always loved me in different ways..." Xiaodou choked and put on the ring, and the crack began to heal.
The Dean of Studies suddenly stood in front of the Dream-Eating Tapir, pressing the rune dagger against Xiaodou's throat: "Concept Mouse must die! The Guardian's immortality is a gift from heaven, who are you to destroy it!"
"A gift?" Xiaodou sneered, "It's nothing more than exchanging my pain for your eternal life. I'm determined to break this law of nature."
The director's hands began to tremble, and his lenses slipped, revealing cracks under his eyes—marks of a life shared with Bai Shenyuan: "My daughter has a terminal illness, and only God can save her..."
"That's why you're being used by Heaven." Lin Shen's personality's voice echoed in Xiaodou's mind, "Look at his pocket!"
Xiaodou caught a glimpse of the conceptual Rat Tribe healing rune in the director's pocket. It was a folk remedy developed by Lin Shen in modern times. He waved his hand, and foxfire ignited the rune. Suddenly, the director's daughter's medical records appeared: "Miraculously healed, cause unknown."
"Your daughter's illness has been cured," Xiaodou said softly, "God has deceived you."
The director froze in place, the dagger clanging to the ground. The Dream-Eating Tapir seized the opportunity to entangle Xiaodou, its tentacles burrowing into his fissures, attempting to devour the power of the Three Souls.
The light point of the white abyss vibrated violently within his body, and the voices of the three personalities choked with sobs:
- Bai Yan: "Sorry, I can't accompany you to see the cherry blossoms..."
- Lin Shen: "I have some osmanthus cake hidden in the ring. Eat it when you're hungry..."
- Ling Yuan: "Live on and see the sweetness of all the worlds for me..."
Xiaodou felt his strength draining away, but suddenly heard the shouts of the entire school—they held up coins, osmanthus cakes, and even hamster food, cheering him on from across the barrier. Snowball, clutching the energy chip delivered by the robotic cat, leaped into the battlefield, "Hair-shedding monster, go for it!"
The moment the chip merged into the ring, Xiaodou's cracks suddenly reversed, and the power of the White Abyss surged back like a tide. He roared and swung his fist, and Foxfire transformed into three soul phantoms, each holding the Dream-Eating Tapir's limbs.
- Bai Yan used foxfire to weave a sweet-scented osmanthus rope and entangled the tapir's claws;
- Lin Shen uses data stream to decipher the tapir's runes;
- Ling Yuan used his sword to pierce the tapir's core.
The dream-eating tapir wailed and dissipated in black smoke. Xiaodou slumped to the ground, watching the white abyss's silhouette gradually coalesce in the sunlight, though a transparent portion remained—the curse of shared life had only been half lifted.
"You haven't fully recovered yet..." Xiaodou reached out and touched his face.
Bai Shenyuan switched to Bai Yan's personality and gently kissed his fingertips: "Because I still have half of my life left, I want to use it to accompany you to complete the last KPI."
“What KPI?”
"Of course..." He chuckled, his ears reddening, "Marry me."
The mechanical cat suddenly sounded the alarm: "Heaven's messenger has arrived! Bringing a new curse!"
Xiaodou looked up and saw a crack in the sky. A messenger of heaven descended, bearing the Concept Rat Clan's genocidal blade. The blade bore the same cracks as the White Abyss Ring. Behind the messenger floated the imprisoned souls of the Concept Rat Clan, each with the same teardrop mole in the corner of its eye as Xiaodou's.
The Dean suddenly knelt down and pulled out the Concept Rat Tribe's sacred object hidden in his pocket watch: "This is the last soul fragment. Perhaps..."
Bai Shenyuan held Xiaodou's hand tightly. The ring fragment resonated with the holy object, and actually gnawed a hole in the blade of the Heavenly Messenger: "It turns out that the loophole of the curse is love."
Xiaodou looked at Bai Shenyuan in his arms, then looked at the teachers and students in the distance, and suddenly smiled like a Concept Rat King: "Heaven thought we would despair, but it forgot-"
"——We have each other, faith, and the sweetness of the whole world."
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