Chapter 6: Tube Building (VI) Is this... okay? ...
The landlord left.
Xiaotuan's mood improved slightly after he received a verbal promise from the landlord.
When Wen Yin sent him back to the tube-shaped building, the group of grandmothers who were picking vegetables were not there. Only a few children were running around and playing in the corridor.
"Thank you, sister."
Xiaotuan stopped in front of Room 109, carrying food and potions, and looked up to thank Wen Yin.
Those round eyes twinkled, smart and lively.
"Sister, would you like to come in and rest for a while?"
Wen Yin patted Xiaotuan's head and said, "No, I have something else to do. If you have any problems, you can go upstairs to find me. I live in room 501."
"Uh-huh!"
Xiaotuan nodded solemnly with a gray face.
"When my mother comes back, I will definitely invite my sister to dinner at home!"
"Um."
Wen Yin nodded gently: "Okay."
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[You seem very patient with children.]
028 Looking at Wen Yin’s slightly curved eyebrows, he couldn’t help but summarize it.
[I just think he's kind of pitiful.]
Wen Yin turned around and walked towards the outer courtyard on the first floor. When she approached a half-open door, she heard a few suppressed complaints.
"Why did I give birth to such an evil creature like you..."
"All you do every day is gamble... You've already squandered all your father's coffin, and you're still trying to take advantage of me..."
"Why don't you just die outside..."
"mom……"
"Help me one last time... If you don't pay me back, those people will chop off my hands..."
“You! You!”
"You evil creature..."
"Let go, I'll go raise money for you!"
There were a few hurried footsteps, and the door was slammed open. An old lady with a ferocious face and anger rushed out of the house and passed by Wen Yin.
Wen Yin instinctively turned her head to look at the open room, and her eyes met with a middle-aged man with a scruffy beard sitting on the edge of the bed.
It was originally just a casual glance, but the man suddenly seemed to be frightened by something and stood up suddenly. His movement was so big that the iron bed legs scratched on the concrete floor, making a sharp sound.
It was like seeing a ghost.
Wen Yin paused and stopped.
She stood outside the door and gave a puzzled look to the shocked man in the room.
"What's wrong? Do you need help?"
His expression was gentle and sincere.
In just a few seconds, several unusual expressions flashed across the man's face.
Under Wen Yin's gaze, he wiped the cold sweat that suddenly appeared on his forehead and stuttered.
"No, nothing."
After saying that, he stepped forward and quickly closed the door.
With a bang, Wen Yin's clothes flew up.
"Hey little girl, leave him alone."
A neighbor lady next door heard the noise and stuck her head out of the house.
"He's a gambler, used to making noises."
Wen Yin nodded when she saw this, and was about to turn around and leave when the old lady called her again.
"Hey, are you here to look for Xiaotuan? His house is over there..."
After saying that, he pointed to the room Xiaotuan had just entered.
Wen Yin was still standing in front of the man's closed door, and she shook her head.
"No, I'm just a new tenant."
"Ah..." After hearing Wen Yin's answer, the old lady looked at her carefully again, "I thought you were Song Wan's sister, here to take care of her children."
"Sorry, some of the expressions are a bit similar."
"It's okay." Wen Yin shook her head to indicate that she didn't mind.
The old lady also laughed awkwardly and closed the door.
No sound came from the middle-aged man's tightly closed door. Wen Yin stood there for a moment and then walked towards the stairs.
[Song Wan is Xiao Tuan's mother who has been missing for three days.]
[The neighbor said you look a bit like Song Wan.]
028 suddenly started analyzing.
[And the moment that man saw you, his behavior was clearly wrong.]
028's tone gradually lowered: [Host, why do I feel that there is a connection between these two...]
Wen Yin did not continue with 028's words, but asked another question.
[028, Do you know why these mission worlds are so "weird"?]
028 immediately flipped through its database.
[Host, I haven't found the answer. Although the "Strange Creature Correction Team" has existed for a long time, no host has ever successfully completed a single mission.]
[Those small worlds that were entered ultimately failed to be corrected due to various reasons, and were completely closed off, becoming slaughterhouses for strange creatures.]
[We cannot draw conclusions from our predecessors... Besides, this is a small world that has never been explored.]
028 paused, then continued, "Host, have you discovered anything?"
Ever since it saw Wen Yin kill the enemy with a single blow of his sword, it inexplicably developed a complete sense of trust in this seemingly delicate and weak host.
What's more, this person was sent in by the Lord God himself.
But its host just shook its head.
[Okay, host, don't be discouraged. After all, we've only been here for less than a day, so there's still plenty of time.]
028 comforted: [Host, where are we going now?]
[Let’s go back to the room. I feel a little tired suddenly.]
Wen Yin yawned and made quite a noise as she went upstairs.
After Wen Yin's figure completely disappeared, the door that was tightly closed suddenly opened a crack.
The sloppy and decadent man showed half of his eye from behind the door, staring at the direction Wen Yin left.
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Wen Yin didn't go out again and even took a nap in the middle of the trip.
When she finally woke up after a good sleep, it was already dark outside the window.
But it didn't rain.
Wen Yin lifted the thin quilt and just sat up when she suddenly heard a "bang bang bang" sound from under the bed.
Fast and rhythmic.
Wen Yin was startled and froze at the edge of the bed with her bare feet.
The next second, the sound of dogs panting could be heard one after another, and something sticky was licked up from Wen Yin's ankles that were hanging by the bed.
Wen Yin looked down and saw two black dog heads poking out from under the bed, licking her feet with their tongues.
Seeing Wen Yin looking down at her, the two dog heads raised their heads at the same time and gave her two crisp "woofs".
The banging and banging sounds became even more cheerful with the two barking sounds.
[It came as soon as it got dark, slipping in from under the door.]
028 Wen Yin frowned, as if she was very disgusted with the ugly thing under the bed.
[It stayed under the bed, motionless, so I didn't wake you up.]
Wen Yin moved her feet to the side. Her ankles were wet with the dog's saliva.
"come out."
Wen Yin had just woken up, and although her tone was reprimanding, her voice was still soft and lacked any intimidation.
Seeing Wen Yin frown, the two dog heads whimpered at the same time, and the dog bodies that were so black that it made people dizzy also moved out from under the bed.
The three tails were still swaying from side to side, making the edge of the bed clatter.
He even accidentally took a photo of Wen Yin's drooping calf.
"hiss……"
Wen Yin hissed immediately and looked down. Suddenly, several rough red marks appeared on the fair and delicate skin of her calves.
"Sit still and don't move."
Wen Yin raised her head again, her voice becoming more serious.
Like being angry.
The four round black eyes on the pitch-black dog's head suddenly widened a little.
It stared at the girl sitting beside the bed, trying to discern her expression, and finally sat upright in front of the bed with its buttocks on the ground and its front legs bent.
But the tail was still sweeping uncontrollably, making Wen Yin dizzy.
"Don't move your tail."
Wen Yin frowned again and started to scold.
"Woo..."
The dog, who was being scolded again, whimpered twice, and its tail gradually stopped wagging and hung quietly to the ground.
His eyes were still looking at her pitifully.
There was no remorse or uneasiness at all for trespassing into someone else's territory without permission, only confusion and grievance about Wen Yin's scolding.
This is a "ghost", an unreasonable "ghost".
Wen Yin sighed.
"You understand me, don't you?"
The two dogs barked at the same time.
As soon as the dog's voice died down, the tenant downstairs opened the door and complained: "Who has a dog? It was barking last night!"
"Can't you let me live in peace?!"
"Shh, don't bark," Wen Yin immediately pointed at the dog's mouth, "If you understand, just nod."
The two dog heads nodded quickly and took the opportunity to lick the thin white fingertips that Wen Yin extended.
Wen Yin was so shocked that she immediately withdrew her fingers.
"If you make any more moves, you'll be out."
Wen Yin pretended to frown and pointed to the door. She just wanted to test the obedience of this strange dog.
After all, this "ghost" looks much safer than those two "people".
Sure enough, the strange dog immediately shut its mouth obediently and pitifully.
Wen Yin looked him up and down and asked, "Can you change back to your original form?"
Two heads, three tails and five legs, it's still too ugly.
The strange dog tilted both of its heads at the same time, one to the left and the other to the right, as if trying to understand what Wen Yin meant.
Soon, the black shadow on the strange dog began to move again.
It melted into a pool of black shadow and then slowly gathered together.
The edges are sometimes sharp and sometimes round, and when pulled back and forth, it looks like an unknown creature being put into a black bag.
Trying to break free from that skin.
It took more than ten minutes before it slowly stopped.
The black shadow gradually dissipated, and a slender limb appeared in Wen Yin's vision.
He was naked, sitting on the ground with his arms folded.
Dark pupils, soft short hair, and a helpless expression.
It's a...human boy.
"you……"
Wen Yin opened her mouth, but before she could finish the word "you", the young man tilted his head towards her, knelt at her feet, and put his arms around her calves.
He gently placed his chin on Wen Yin's knees, and his bare neck and back extended an elegant and slender arc in Wen Yin's sight.
The skin feels cool and smooth.
Like a naive snake emerging from the mud.
He tilted his head back and showed Wen Yin his gentle and harmless dark eyes, which were as purely dependent as a puppy's.
His pale, thin lips opened and closed slightly as Wen Yin looked surprised.
"Sister, is this form... okay?"
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