Chapter 70: Special
Shu Yao thought her heart was already hard enough.
However, when faced with the monster’s abyss-black eyes, which were filled with a fiery and pure love, she did not dare to look at it.
Her heart’s defenses, which had been forged for several months and were as hard as the ice in Antarctica, were thus easily melted by the warmth of the little octopus, which was like its disguised color, letting the blood flowing from her heart also turn into the gurgling stream in a spring mountain stream.
The umbrella she had been holding steadily suddenly tilted unintentionally.
As if she suddenly couldn’t support the weight of this umbrella.
The raindrops that had fallen on the surface of the umbrella were thus bounced onto the banana leaves behind the nearby bushes, making a crisp sound. And the rain curtain that had been originally hanging down from the edge also suddenly broke a layer.
The next second.
The little octopus tried its best to extend a tentacle and wrapped it around the white umbrella rib under her palm, pouring a force into it, and holding up this umbrella, which was once made of its own broken tentacles and cartilage, with her.
It never moved its firm gaze away from her, until Shu Yao had managed to regroup in her heart and had barely managed to not show her true expression in front of it, that she finally moved her own gaze back.
Then she said, “Let’s go back.”
She said, “I don’t have the habit of abandoning a pet halfway through raising it.”
Although she had bitten the word ‘pet’ harder than before, intending to remind Lin Ran not to casually change her size in the future, and to preferably always use this disguised form.
However, the little octopus seemed to have received a special pardon. Its ears, like a puppy’s tail, moved as it used the tentacle that had climbed onto the umbrella handle as a pivot, and thus it suspended its round little body in the air.
Until Shu Yao’s figure had once again disappeared into the corridor, one could still vaguely see the orange little octopus pendant swinging happily on the umbrella handle, like a swing.
…
After seeing the little octopus control the thundercloud, Shu Yao was sure that Guan Tong’s subsequent matters should be related to it. But when she was sitting in front of the computer, preparing to type a report, she still asked one more question.
【How did you handle it?】
At that time, the little octopus was holding a large bowl of scallion and pork rib noodles with its head, and was using two of its tentacles to hold the bowl, not letting a single drop of soup splash out. Then four tentacles were used for walking, and it was now thinking about how to climb the slope at the side of the table.
Hearing Shu Yao’s question, it immediately answered with its plan, and at the end, it assured her: 【I have enough energy now. I can grow a new one very quickly. Don’t worry.】
Shu Yao’s nose was filled with the smell of this bowl of late-night snack, scallion and pork rib noodles.
It should have also been fried with scallion oil, and the aroma was strong and domineering.
She looked down at the bowl of late-night snack with its clear soup, the white noodles decorated with fresh green scallions, and the tenderly stewed pork ribs. She couldn’t quite imagine how the little octopus, which was not even as tall as the pot, had made this bowl of noodles.
She bent down to bring the noodles up.
And then she also placed the little octopus, which was hanging on the bottom of the bowl, on the table.
Shu Yao didn’t remember how long it had been since she had cooked at home. Now, facing this bowl of fresh, steaming hot pork rib noodles, her eyes were softened a lot by the rising steam.
Only the voice of her reply was still trying to be tense.
【I’m not worried about you,】 she said. 【I’m just afraid that the scent of that tentacle of yours will let those jellyfish know that you’re still alive, and thus cause me trouble.】
Standing on the table, at this moment, the little octopus’s black pupils, which could be level with hers, showed a hint of a smile.
It looked straight into her beautiful, light-colored pupils. 【If it’s about this, then when I destroyed that altar and ate the abyss scent on it, the ‘Lighthouse’ already knew that I was still alive.】
After saying that, its ears drooped, and it let out a very light sigh.
Then it turned around, with its back to Shu Yao, and said, 【As expected, I shouldn’t have insisted on staying by your side, right?】
Lin Ran was doing it on purpose.
Just like deliberately appearing downstairs in this small and lovable form. Even if Shu Yao hadn’t gone out tonight, as long as this rain continued until tomorrow, as long as the little octopus kept waiting there without leaving—
She would always encounter the pitiful it.
Shu Yao found that she seemed to have no way of dealing with her ever since she had met her. Before, she couldn’t resist Lin Ran smiling at her with that beautiful, soul-stirring face. Now, she couldn’t resist the pet she had raised for a long time, facing that group of vicious and always-ganging-up [Martyrs] alone.
She lowered her eyelids, pretending not to see the little octopus turn around, and then, like a pixelated character, its movements were jerky, as if it wanted to reduce its moving speed to 0.5x.
A moment later, she asked, “Where are the chopsticks?”
This time, the little octopus shot out directly from the desk, rushed toward the kitchen, and at the same time, happily replied, 【I’ll go and get them now.】
By the desk lamp, the open computer screen went black, and the reflective screen showed the slightly upturned corners of her lips.
But Shu Yao herself didn’t see it.
By the time the little octopus had washed the chopsticks and handed them over, she had taken them, quietly finished the bowl of noodles, and opened the computer again to start writing today’s report.
After ‘Guan Tong’s’ whereabouts had been witnessed by other members of the special department, Shu Yao happened to save the part about meeting the other person on the island. She only said that there were some [Parasites] on the island, and that she had just happened to encounter an underwater earthquake after she landed.
The earthquake had caused the island to initially emit a strange light, and then it had begun to shatter and sink. She had barely escaped, and on the way, she had found that the moon in the sky had become very strange.
Shu Yao concisely blurred out the unimportant information, and didn’t even give the famous [Styx] a chance to appear, only extracting the content that needed to be brought to the attention of the special department.
Then, she caught a glimpse of the little octopus, which had finished washing the dishes and had come back to the computer, quietly accompanying her as she worked overtime. She suddenly asked again:
【So, what exactly is the old grudge between you and the ‘Martyrs’?】
【Your name is different from theirs. It seems to be listed separately. Is there some origin to it?】
…
Lin Ran began to slowly tell Shu Yao about the things in the abyss, which was a field of information that was still blank in the human world at present.
In this process.
Shu Yao uploaded the file, looked at the time, and perhaps it was because of the late-night snack, she was too full and sleepy. She no longer had the ruthless energy to go to the training ground and work overtime all night. The laziness in her bones slowly emerged.
She walked into the bathroom and changed into another set of pajamas that were convenient for sleeping.
She crossed the open, fluffy white collar, tied the long belt around her waist, and when she was tying it, her movements suddenly paused. She turned her head to look at the direction of the bathroom door.
Through the door, the little octopus outside knew nothing about the movements inside and was still telling her about the time she had gone back to fight with that group of jellyfish.
Shu Yao changed her clothes and walked out, casually replying, 【Oh, so that’s why they didn’t tell you about their plan to destroy humanity, and isolated and bullied you? Because you would pose a threat to… mmm, to their god as soon as you were born?】
The little octopus, which was just standing on the bathroom doorknob and wanted to maintain the closest distance with its girlfriend at all times, showed a tearful expression, its black eyes filled with mist.
Its voice also became wet. 【It’s okay. I just need to get Yaoyao’s love.】
Shu Yao: “…”
This again?
Her heart was cold and hard, and she was too lazy to bother with this guy whose acting was getting more and more careless, and whose words were getting more and more mushy.
After Shu Yao stepped into the bedroom, the little octopus also followed her with a patter.
In fact, when Lin Ran had been dating her in her human form before, she had not come to her bedroom many times. On the contrary, it was only after she had been brought back from the auction that she could sleep in the same bed with Shu Yao every day in this house.
Until the bedside lamp was turned off, and the room was plunged into darkness for a long time.
Shu Yao sensed that the other side of the bed, which had been at a distance from her, had suddenly sunk a little. At the same time, a palm quietly reached for her waist—
【Do you have any clue about the special ability I have?】
In the darkness, she opened her eyes and asked calmly.
Lin Ran knew that her steady breathing rhythm just now was all an act, but she could only blame herself for not being able to resist the temptation. At this moment, she regretfully withdrew her hand and tried to answer:
【Because—because your constitution is special?】
Shu Yao had thought so before.
It wasn’t until she had gone to that island before and had seen through the illusion that [Styx] had carefully disguised that she had gradually gotten a clue.
It wasn’t her that was special, but the [Monarch Slayer].
On the cruise ship, their intimate contact had been too frequent, so Shu Yao’s ability had been able to undergo a great change every day.
In the three months after they separated, she had thought that her ability had stabilized. But on the island, she, who had been powerless against [Styx]’s illusion before, had become completely unaffected by the other’s ability in this aspect.
At that moment, Shu Yao understood that as long as Lin Ran returned to her side, this uncontrollable mutation would continue.
In the future, would it only be a mental mutation, or would her body also change?
Would she become like those strange-looking [Parasites]?
As long as she thought of this, she could no longer accept Lin Ran’s touch, even if she had mimicked into a harmless little octopus.
Previously, Shu Yao had thought that she had discovered this, which was why she had not been as clingy as before after coming back with her. But it turned out that she was waiting here.
…
From Shu Yao’s silence, Lin Ran vaguely realized something.
She seemed to have found the truth of being rejected.
She was racking her brains to think about her own constitution, and was recalling if she had missed any details of the story in the abyss.
In the room filled with the night.
Hearing the rain stop outside, and only the sound of water droplets falling from the iron railing of someone’s window nearby, dripping, Shu Yao suddenly asked again:
【The day before my medical examination, when anesthetic drugs were detected in my body, what did you do to me?】
Lin Ran: “!”
For a moment, she didn’t know how this question was any safer than the last one.
For her, the degree of fatality was comparable.
The bed was deathly silent.
It was unknown how long had passed before the sound of someone getting out of bed came from the other end.
In the darkness, where it did not affect her vision at all, Shu Yao saw the woman with pale skin and a faint glow, holding a pillow, standing by the bed with her head bowed, and answering in an obedient tone:
【I’ll just sleep in the living room from now on, Yaoyao.】
【You’re too tired from work now. I’m a bad sleeper and will easily squeeze you.】
Shu Yao: “…?”
She stared at the woman’s retreating back, and watched as she turned back into that small and harmless octopus the moment she stepped out of the bedroom. However, at this moment, under the skin of her lower abdomen, which was covered by her palm, she once again recalled the strange experience of a faint sourness before.
A moment later.
She bit her back teeth with a blank expression.
