Her Tentacles 44

Chapter 44: Monster

Shu Yao’s eyes were still wide open.

Her whole person was in a state of excessive shock, like a little rabbit with its ears pricked up.

It wasn’t until Lin Ran’s kiss was about to fall, and even the waving tentacles behind her were gradually approaching, that Shu Yao finally reacted—

“!”

She hastily raised her hands and crossed them to cover Lin Ran’s lips.

Then she let out a drunken hiccup. “Hic!”

The reason that had been clouded by alcohol in her mind instantly returned, and she didn’t even have time to reflect on what she had just said. At this moment, only one thought appeared in her mind: it’s over.

It’s over, it’s over, it’s over!

Her hallucinations had spread to the person next to her. It must be because her girlfriend was too perfect. Even when she heard her mention her ex in front of her, and her unconscious love for her ex, she could still forgive her with tolerance. This made Shu Yao’s heart filled with a deep sense of guilt for not being worthy of her, so now she was demonizing her girlfriend’s image!

Wuwu, she really deserved to die!

She was the kind of despicable person who was said to be in a quagmire, looking up at the white moonlight in the sky, but felt that the other person was too dazzling, so she had to pluck the moon from the sky and throw it into the quagmire to get it dirty!

Shu Yao had once again re-acquainted herself with herself.

Her tears fell even more fiercely as she cried out her girlfriend’s name. “Lin Ran… Lin Ran, wuwu, I—I think I’m even worse. When the ship docks, let’s go and find a doctor to get some medicine, okay?”

Lin Ran gently pulled down her hands. At this moment, she let the tentacles, which had been overly suppressed on a daily basis, follow their own will, and unscrupulously approach the person they most wanted to approach. She smiled and kissed Shu Yao’s lips, her tone pleased as she replied:

“I am a doctor.”

“Yaoyao, you’re not sick.”

…

No.

She must be sick.

Shu Yao was firm in her thoughts, unwilling to accept Lin Ran’s comforting words of indulgence. But, but the feeling of those clinging tentacles was too real.

They followed the wrist that Lin Ran was holding, like cold snakes, slithering up Shu Yao’s arm, and then coiled around it like old tree roots… but that wasn’t all.

The gap between her big toe, which had been pricked by the glass and had a speck of blood, was also pushed open by a tentacle. The slippery touch spread across the sole of her foot, and to make matters worse, the suckers on it were restless, wriggling and sucking on her skin—

“Ah!”

Shu Yao couldn’t hold back the terrifying feeling of having her ankle, the sole of her foot, and even her toes being licked by a pervert. She screamed and tried to hide in Lin Ran’s arms, treating her girlfriend as her safest haven.

But for the approaching tentacles, she was more like a prey that had voluntarily walked into a trap and could no longer escape.

【Kiss!】

【Cuddle!】

【Jar spirit! Mine!】

They cheered joyfully, and their childish voices entered Shu Yao’s mind, making her suddenly realize that this sound was exactly the same as the children’s voices she had heard on that rainy night.

Her brain felt as if it were also being squeezed by these sticky tentacles, and it was a little slow to turn.

But soon, a third tentacle also wrapped around her. It cunningly slipped beneath Shu Yao’s jacket. She had just put on a small, fragrant, checkered jacket when she went out, with a silk scarf, enough to cover the marks of her wild indulgence.

Now, the buttons of her jacket were being unbuttoned one by one by the person holding her, as if in coordination with the tentacle that had slid around her waist. When that cold feeling wrapped around her waist, Shu Yao couldn’t help but start to tremble, and she tearfully asked her girlfriend for help:

“Lin Ran, it—it got in, wuwu—”

“Mmm,” Lin Ran pulled open her jacket and saw the white spaghetti strap top underneath, with love bites all over her exposed skin. She kissed the tip of her nose with satisfaction, but corrected her, “I see it, but it hasn’t gone in yet. Don’t cry.”

Shu Yao kept shaking her head. This time, before her tears could fall, they were wiped away by the tip of a tentacle that had suddenly poked out from behind Lin Ran’s shoulder. The transparent tears spread on the black and red, colorful tentacle, and were then wriggled and coaxed into the sucker that faintly revealed sharp fangs.

But the sound it made was completely different from its master’s, excitedly urging:

【Cry!】

【Jar spirit! Cry!】

And this time, Lin Ran did not allow them to continue calling her by this nickname. She corrected them, “Not jar spirit, but girlfriend.”

Shu Yao, who heard her start to talk to her own hallucinations: “…!”

What was even more terrifying was—

The tentacle that was swaying in front of her, its soft tip bent. After thinking for less than half a second, it happily changed its address:

【Girlfriend! Cry!】

Shu Yao: “?!”

Then that tentacle was pulled out by Lin Ran and made to stand in the corner. “Don’t be fierce, and don’t order her around.”

But she never once coaxed her to stop her tears from beginning to end.

In the gap while her tears were being licked away by a new tentacle.

Shu Yao felt that she must be broken.

Although she was the one who was sick, seeing the dark heart shapes left on the delicate and thin skin of her inner wrist and next to her ankle after being sucked by the tentacles, which were the same as the shapes she had previously complained about being left on her skin by unknown crawlies at home.

More details of their time together came to mind.

For example, her girlfriend’s body temperature, which was as cool as jade even in the middle of summer.

For example, she never took the initiative to eat any human food in front of her. Every time, she would only open her mouth slightly after she had persuaded or fed her.

And for example, every time Lin Ran cooked, there would always be a lively clattering sound inside, as if she were not the only one there. And she could always make several complex dishes and soups in the shortest amount of time.

And.

That time they went to the industrial park, after she had separated from Lin Ran, she had found Situ Jin, but neither of them had ever seen that person who had turned into a monster again… And when they were escaping, at the critical moment when the building was collapsing, a terrifying red and black tentacle had blocked the rebar for her.

Looking back now, Shu Yao was shocked to realize that her girlfriend had already shown so many unusual things around her, but she had never noticed it once.

Lin Ran, who was particularly fond of beautiful bottles, Lin Ran, who would threaten to eat the flowers, Lin Ran, who had given her a red umbrella made of strange materials, Lin Ran, who could always find her no matter where she was…

She was sure that the person by her side had been so beautiful and alluring from the day they started dating, so perfect that she matched her image of a girlfriend in her imagination. But she had never thought that such a perfect girlfriend was not human.

Good news, Shu Yao finally didn’t have to worry about her mental illness anymore, because it seemed that she had never been sick at all, but had fallen into a world with a very high monster content.

Bad news, even her girlfriend was a monster.

Even worse news was—

Her monster girlfriend was explaining to her that the reason she could smell those foul smells before, and later could hear these strange contents sent by the monsters’ biological signals, and could even repel those so-called low-level [parasites], was because she had been with a monster for too long and had undergone some unknown transformation.

Could it be that she was also going to become a monster?

…

“No.”

Shu Yao would rather accept the fact that she was a mental patient than join that group of stinking monsters. She shook her head stubbornly and even wanted to correct Lin Ran. “That’s not it. Those are—those are hallucinations!”

Lin Ran didn’t know why she would rather hypnotize herself to love that terrible Lin Jingshu than to be closer to her. A storm seemed to be brewing in her dark eyes. Only when she brushed away the hair that was stuck to her girlfriend’s cheek with tears was her movement still very gentle:

“Then what about these now? Are they also hallucinations?”

As she asked.

The tentacles that had climbed up Shu Yao’s arms and wrapped around her ankles and waist, from spontaneously gathering toward her more sensitive skin, as if they had received a special pardon, this time there were no more taboos. They wanted to leave a deep enough brand on their girlfriend.

A brand that would make her soul remember the shape of a monster.

“Yes!”

Shu Yao answered resolutely, but she couldn’t be stubborn for more than two seconds before she let out a strange sound that made her own face flush red. She frantically wanted to retreat from Lin Ran’s arms:

“N-no… don’t touch, n-no, you can’t—”

This desperate escape finally touched the monster’s reverse scale.

Under the bewitching red dress, an even more brilliant color spread out like a carpet.

In the past, she had only let these extremely aggressive and very opinionated tentacles out for a walk. At this moment, the monster slowly revealed its original form. Between the colorful tentacles, there was a layer of membrane connecting them.

Compared to the simple hunting methods she had learned later, such as piercing prey with her tentacles and injecting venom, trapping the target like a net was Lin Ran’s instinctive hunting form from birth.

The black and red membrane flowed open like water, making Shu Yao, who had just stepped off the sofa with one foot, step on that sunken, strange softness. She even had some difficulty in exerting force, and slipped on this ripple-like area, finally falling back.

She was like a small animal stuck in a spider web, with no way to escape to heaven or earth. She could only be dragged back to the predator’s lair. The tentacles were the monster’s extended mouthparts for tasting food. At this moment, she also used them to taste Shu Yao with a pleased expression:

“They are different from human fingers. They will give you a memory a hundred times deeper than a hallucination.”

“Feel it well, my girlfriend.”