Her Tentacles 63

Chapter 63: Consent

Shu Yao’s pupils quaked.

Just as the little octopus was halfway through its second action, she hastily raised her other hand and, with a gentle but firm force, carefully pulled it off her fingertip. “You can’t do this!”

She had thought that the little octopus she had bought was just a baby, but she hadn’t expected it to be already mature, a female adult who was still trying to catch the scent of spring in autumn.

By the time the little octopus had lost its high spirits from having its courtship rejected, and its round, black pupils had lost their light, its ears drooped, and its tentacles also drooped limply, Shu Yao realized that she seemed to have said something very harsh to it.

It’s just a small animal, a small animal whose actions are dominated by its instincts.

How could she use human standards to ask it to control its desires?

Shu Yao’s lips moved futilely.

Finally, she glanced at the Zhou family’s direction again, placed a clean tissue on the high platform, and put the little octopus on it again, saying, “Mmm… how about, when this matter is resolved, I’ll help you at home, okay?”

Before that, the warmth of being close to her might make it restless.

It was better to let the cold night wind keep it awake.

Hearing her words, one of the little octopus’s ears perked up. It stood up again from the high platform, thought for a moment, and found that she didn’t seem to be particularly interested in pink, so it began to change its skin color again.

…

On this night, while Auntie Zhou was temporarily asleep.

Shu Yao watched her pet’s color-changing performance all night on the opposite rooftop.

She had her arms crossed, wearing a black, tight-fitting combat suit, leaning against the edge of a corner of the rooftop, and would occasionally show a faint smile in the moonlight of the late night.

Until about five in the morning.

The sensor light outside the Zhou family’s corridor suddenly lit up. Shu Yao had just stopped the little octopus from turning into a fluorescent green slime when she turned her head to look and saw that the light in their master bedroom had also lit up. The shadows of Uncle Zhou and Auntie Zhou were clearly reflected on the drawn curtains.

Her eyes narrowed slightly. She raised her hand and scooped up the little pet, which was as cold as the night wind, and put it in her pocket. “Let’s go.”

By the time Auntie Zhou said goodbye to Uncle Zhou in the corridor and came out with her suitcase, Shu Yao had already put away the steel cable on her body and happened to meet her at the community entrance, her expression showing surprise:

“Auntie, why are you up so early? Are you going out?”

Auntie Zhou was also a little surprised. “Yaoyao?”

She said, “Why are you—you didn’t sleep all night, did you?”

“I just had an urgent matter to deal with,” Shu Yao smiled at her. “But I’m done now, and I can go back and rest for a few days. Where is Auntie going? Why don’t I give you a ride?”

Auntie Zhou didn’t think too much about it. Because she had already taken the initiative to pull her suitcase for her, she subconsciously followed her rhythm. By the time she reacted, she had already told her about her husband signing her up for a travel agency, and had even taken a taxi with her to the departure point of the travel agency’s bus.

After Shu Yao asked her what kind of food she could eat and bought her hot soy milk and buns, Auntie Zhou finally reacted. “Yaoyao, don’t you need to go home and rest first?”

“It’s okay,” Shu Yao still smiled. “I happen to be interested in the place Auntie is going. I’ve been too tired from work these past few months, and I finally got a few days off. Maybe I can ask your tour guide later and see if I can pay the difference?”

Auntie Zhou was a little overjoyed.

Although this tour group was very difficult to get into, she hadn’t wanted to come alone from the beginning. Now, hearing that Shu Yao was actually willing to go with her, she also made up her mind that if the tour guide refused to add another person later, she wouldn’t go either.

As Auntie Zhou had expected, the tour group refused to add another person at first.

Because it wasn’t just Shu Yao who was coming along. Perhaps it was because the recent missing person cases were so sensational, that many of the family members of the tour group members who had the same idea had also come along, and the tour guide said that there were no more seats on the bus.

“Then let’s bid for it.”

Shu Yao said calmly, “Let’s each bid for the remaining seats. The highest bidder gets to go. Anyway, you’re going to get a commission from every new project. You shouldn’t have a problem with money, right?”

As she said these words, she thought, as expected, birds of a feather flock together, and those who are close to Jin become rich. She had actually learned these tricks of the second-generation rich kids to throw money at people.

The tour guide was at a loss for words for a moment.

His gaze also began to dodge, and he said he had to talk to his leader.

By the time she returned, she was about to nod and say yes, but the travel agency’s bus parked on the roadside suddenly exploded at this moment. The sudden burst of fire and commotion startled the crowd here.

“This isn’t the bus we’re supposed to get on later, is it?”

“Oh my god, what’s wrong with your tour bus? The bus that’s supposed to leave later just exploded now. If it weren’t for these family members delaying us for a while, wouldn’t we have all died here?”

“Damn it, I’m not going. Refund!”

Originally, these members, who were both annoyed and scared because the travel agency was using hunger marketing and refused to let their family members sign up at the last minute, began to surround the tour guide, asking her to cancel the trip and refund the money on the spot.

…

In the crowd.

Shu Yao suddenly heard a very helpless sigh.

She turned her head to look, but saw a person who had taken off her hat and wig disguise. The two of them met eyes, and the girl smiled at her. “Teacher Shu.”

She was the newcomer Lu Ren had mentioned, who had some background in her family and was still thinking about the previous mission, Guan Tong.

Shu Yao hadn’t expected her to have her eyes on this tour group as well. She nodded at her lightly.

And at the same time, she understood.

This group of people today, including her Auntie Zhou, were not going.

While those people were surrounding the tour guide and making a fuss, other people who had called the fire department and onlookers also gathered around. Auntie Zhou said to Shu Yao with some uneasiness:

“Yaoyao, what… what should we do?”

“Call the police, register for a refund, and go home to rest?” Shu Yao saw that the matter couldn’t be resolved in a short time, so she first took her to a nearby McDonald’s to sit and rest.

Because it was still very early, there were very few employees in the shop, and no other customers. Shu Yao turned her head and looked at Auntie Zhou again, and asked thoughtfully, “Auntie, have you not been resting well recently?”

“Yes,” speaking of this, Auntie Zhou was a little troubled. “Xiaonan and I both think it’s the side effects of the new medicine, but your Uncle Zhou said it’s because the upstairs is being renovated and it’s noisy, and that I’m just overthinking it. Anyway, I’ve been having trouble sleeping again these past few nights.”

Shu Yao was thoughtful. “Then why don’t you book a nice hotel and try to sleep first? Maybe a change of environment will be good?”

Auntie Zhou quickly waved her hand, not letting her spend money recklessly.

Shu Yao just said it was a company benefit, and there were experience quotas.

In short, she managed to bring the person to a hotel. It wasn’t until Auntie Zhou sat on the edge of the bed, and because of her age and light sleep, she looked over with some uneasiness, that Shu Yao smiled at her faintly:

【Sleep.】

She gave this command with a will that human hearing could not capture.

Then.

Auntie Zhou, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, her eyelids immediately rolled back, as if she had accepted a mandatory command, and she entered a dormant state like a host.

Shu Yao raised her hand to catch her, her eyebrows couldn’t help but furrow.

As expected, the monster in Auntie Zhou’s body had already hatched, and had even begun to fight for the dominance of this body’s consciousness.

She walked to the side and made a phone call to the flower fish, asking him to come over and watch the person for a while. First of all, she had to make sure that the monster in Auntie Zhou’s body was under her nose—

Then she had to go and see what was wrong with the remaining members of the travel agency, and then think about how to deal with the monster in Auntie Zhou’s body.

The flower fish arrived very quickly. He was particularly active in all missions that did not require him to risk his life.

However, when Shu Yao arrived at the square where the members of the travel agency had been before, what she saw was a scene of chaos and blood.

More than a dozen different types of [Parasites] had all gone on a rampage, and the crowd was filled with wails and screams. There was even one that charged directly at Shu Yao, wanting to eat the freshest flesh and blood.

【Stop.】

Shu Yao raised an eyebrow. After giving the command, she kicked at his head. Because she hadn’t expected the situation here, she didn’t have any high-powered mission equipment on her.

But a second before she kicked that person, the other’s originally chaotic eyes suddenly became clear.

He almost dodged her attack.

Shu Yao stood up straight again and tilted her head slightly.

What’s going on?

Has her [Mental Control] failed?

In the short time she was thinking, a gunshot suddenly sounded by her ear, directly hitting another [Parasite] that was pouncing at her from behind.

She turned her head to look—

Guan Tong, who was clearly not on a mission but was able to hold a standard issue weapon, smiled at her.

Then she shook the thing in her hand. “Just in case, I went to the black market to buy it. The feel of it is still a little off compared to the one issued by the department.”

Shu Yao turned her head to look at the guy who had already melted into a puddle of deep blue water.

She, who had terrible marksmanship, didn’t quite understand this so-called feel.

…

The two of them cooperated in the battle, dragging it out until the members of the special department arrived. They urgently sealed off the scene and at the same time mobilized other departments in the city to jointly deal with this large-scale emergency.

While Shu Yao was busy with Guan Tong, she couldn’t help but think.

How did those [Parasites] manage to go crazy at the same time? And why did they choose this moment? Was it because they couldn’t be escorted to a specific location, so for the person behind the scenes, since they were exposed, they might as well be destroyed?

That’s not right either.

Since they had cultivated [Parasites] on such a large scale and with such great effort, there must be a goal they wanted to achieve. Could it be that none of these just now met the standard?

And how did the person behind the scenes conduct the inspection?

“Teacher Shu.” Just as she was brainstorming, Guan Tong, with sweat still on her forehead, walked over and handed her a black and gold invitation card. “Are you still interested in that mission? These are two I got recently. Mmm, maybe we can find some clues from this invitation. Do you want to go?”

Shu Yao looked down at the invitation card.

Then she looked at Guan Tong again.

A few seconds later, she reached out and took the card.

Guan Tong smiled at her again. “Then the next time we meet, Teacher Shu, don’t come empty-handed like today. It’s very dangerous.”

Shu Yao: “I know. Thank you for the invitation and the reminder.”

Guan Tong waved her hand and turned to leave.

After being drafted for most of the day, and after resolving the matter at the square, she returned to the hotel to hand over to the flower fish. She temporarily planted a mental suggestion in Auntie Zhou’s consciousness to ensure that the monster in her body would enter a forced dormant state for a short time, and then had Uncle Zhou come to pick her up—

When Shu Yao returned home, she felt extremely tired from over-exertion.

She decided to take a nap first.

After throwing her combat suit into the laundry basket in the bathroom, Shu Yao took a quick shower, put on a bathrobe, and went to the bedroom. She even just randomly fell down on the edge of the bed, no longer having the posture of a good girl when she slept before.

Until she was about to fall into a dream, her fingertips were pulled by a cool and sticky force.

She moved her fingers slightly.

“Good girl.”

Her nasal voice was hoarse, and she didn’t even lift her head as she patted the spoiled little pet.

The little octopus, which had been waiting for her to come home and was still hoping that she would fulfill her promise, poked her again, its eyes full of anticipation.

Unfortunately.

Shu Yao was already fast asleep.

Because she was completely unguarded against the little pet’s scent, and was really too tired, no matter how the little octopus wrapped its tentacles around her fingers, she had no reaction.

…

The little octopus, which had been stood up by its owner and was overflowing with desire with nowhere to relieve it, was angry.

It sulked for a while.

But then it suddenly remembered something—

It seemed that it was not the type that could reproduce with a male’s hectocotylus. If it did that, it would die.

But if it didn’t do that, what other way was there?

Memory fragments were mobilized, falling one after another.

A large part of them was about Shu Yao. Her shy self, her smiling self, and her crying self.

Her flushed face, the corners of her eyes wet, saying “not enough, I want more,” refusing to drink water in its arms, trying to escape but being caught every time.

The color on the little octopus’s body gradually changed.

Finally, it settled on a dangerous black and red, and its tentacles became more brilliant and colorful than before.

It looked again at the person in front of it, whose eyebrows were relaxed and who was deep in sleep. The shadow that was cast on the bed began to gradually expand, until it completely enveloped the person on the bed in its scent.

Just as the bed was about to let out a muffled protest under the weight and volume of the monster, the tentacle that stored its paralyzing ability had already wrapped around the woman’s snowy white nape.

The person who was almost woken up fell into a deep sleep again.

And its other tentacle easily lifted the unfastened collar of her bathrobe and went straight for the forbidden zone that was usually not allowed to be touched.

First, the butterfly bones on her back, the spine, and the thin skin on top.

Then the soft chest, the slender waist and abdomen.

It righteously patrolled all the places that could and could not be touched.

—Shu Yao had promised.

She had promised that she would help it when she got home. So, it could do whatever it wanted, right?