Her Tentacles 93

Chapter 93: Afterword 2

Shu Yao waited in Lin Ran’s office until past eight.

During this time, her considerate girlfriend, in order not to let her go hungry, had specially called a restaurant under the Situ family’s name and had the chef make a few dishes to be sent over, so that she could eat first.

“What about you?”

Shu Yao saw her come back, turn on the computer, check a few records, and then get up. She couldn’t help but ask.

“I’m not hungry yet.” Lin Ran walked toward the door and added one more sentence, “The research institute asked me to go over this afternoon.”

This meant that she might have used [Parasites] as a snack to replenish her energy.

However, ever since Lin Ran had grown a fourth heart, she had become more like a human. For example, she now had two sets of taste systems and could also accept human food and obtain energy from it.

For this reason, Shu Yao was once at a loss as to whether she had become stronger or weaker.

However, when she thought about herself, because she occasionally had to go on business trips to other places, although most of the [Parasites] could no longer cause her any harm, Lin Ran still wanted her to be absolutely safe. For this reason, the ability that was most often [Shared] with her was [Restore].

According to Lin Ran’s analysis of this ability.

The [Restore] ability was closer to time regression, restoring things to their state before they were damaged.

That is to say.

If she had really obtained this ability when she was eighteen, in theory, she could keep her body in an eighteen-year-old state forever.

Thinking about it this way—

Lin Ran, who had a human heart, was an alien among monsters.

And she, who could share abilities with monsters, was a human heretic.

They were out of place with their own kind in any world. Only the scent of their embrace could build a small world that belonged exclusively to them. In this world, they were closely dependent on each other, their fates intertwined.

…

Until a few shattered stars hung in the sky, and the moonlight was hazy behind the clouds, Director Lin, who had been busy all day, was finally successfully picked up from work by her girlfriend.

Before getting into the car, Shu Yao specially pulled her and asked her to wait a moment.

Because she had always used the [Restore] ability on herself before, she could sense her own state. Now, facing a dead object like a vehicle, she was not very sure.

It was better not to accidentally injure her girlfriend.

Of course, Lin Ran had also seen the slight dent in the rear bumper, and then she turned her head to look at her girlfriend’s side profile. She found that Shu Yao’s eyes were filled with a bit of hesitation, and she timely said:

“Shall I?”

Although she had never tried to use her ability to repair these things before, after all, the abilities left by the [Lighthouse] were too many. This one was just particularly important to Shu Yao, but it was not one she liked to use.

“No need. I was just thinking that if I just reset the mileage in the car, wouldn’t we be able to enjoy the feeling of driving a new car every day, and also save on charging and car washing fees?”

At worst, the ability wouldn’t work.

She would just have to honestly pay for the car repair.

Shu Yao thought so, and put her hand on the paint of the rear of the car. Then, her ability was activated—

Bang!!!

A loud noise came from the parking lot at night.

The nearby passers-by all looked over this way, and even the security guard of the parking lot woke up from his doze and ran over from his plastic chair.

Until they saw, in a section of the parking lot, a car with its body collapsed, its tires rolled off, and its parts all neatly shattered on the ground…

Lin Ran noticed their raised mobile phones, and her dark eyes swept over there coldly. Any screen that had captured her began to sizzle with snow.

Then, Shu Yao belatedly took out her ID, asked the security guard to disperse the crowd, and then called the flower fish to help find someone to deal with this matter. Then she touched her nose and secretly glanced at Lin Ran:

“What should we do? It seems we have to take the subway home now.”

Facing her girlfriend, who had used too much force and had directly dismantled the car back to its pre-factory state, Lin Ran just smiled and then replied, “It’s okay. I remember there’s a supermarket that just opened near our home. If we go and have a look at this time, we can just happen to buy some discounted bread.”

After thinking for a moment, she asked again, “Is there any late-night snack you want to eat?”

Shu Yao’s eyes lit up, and she immediately said, “Barbecue?”

“Then let’s go and see if there are any lucky, leftover ingredients.”

As Lin Ran spoke, she had already taken her hand and was walking toward the subway entrance outside the parking lot, not caring at all about the new, completely wrecked vehicle.

Only Shu Yao, in pain, secretly made a resolution:

I should touch cars less in the future.

It seems she had inherited Mrs. Shu’s terrible driving skills, and also a constitution that was very difficult to get along with cars.

The little couple happily finished their shopping at the supermarket, and when they got home, they had a barbecue on the terrace. They smelled the fragrance of the last batch of autumn flowers, and the gurgling sound of the high-quality oysters in the chili and garlic sauce on the barbecue grill, and the enoki mushrooms and eggplants that were wrapped in tin foil and were slowly roasting—

By the time the honey and sauce brushed on the meat sizzled in the heat of the charcoal fire, the fatigue of the whole day seemed to have been fried away by the charcoal fire.

Shu Yao sat comfortably on a small stool, and her peripheral vision caught a glimpse of the place where this terrace was connected to the one next door. Some of them were connected by a large “x,” symbolizing the trace of it being re-stitched back into this community.

She remembered that when the house had just come back, the neighbor downstairs had been wearing the shredded material of a monster and had specially found a reporter to talk about the supernatural event of how his ceiling had disappeared overnight and had returned overnight. She couldn’t help but curve her lips.

A black and red tentacle suddenly broke its mimicry, and the tip of the tentacle touched her lips, accompanied by Lin Ran’s voice, “What are you smiling about?”

Shu Yao casually caught this tentacle, kissed it, and let it go, and replied, “I’m in a good mood.” She liked this kind of life.

Although her girlfriend’s busy schedule after returning to her post was beyond her imagination, she was very self-aware of being a kept woman and would never complain that her benefactor only gave her money and not love—

If the mountain won’t come to her, she will go to the mountain.

It’s not bad to be Director Lin’s little tail in the future.

Thinking this, she poked her head out to look at the chicken wings that Lin Ran had just roasted and had put on the side. The skin of the chicken wings had been scored twice and was roasted to a dark color. The domineering cumin smell exuded an enticing fragrance.

“Let me help you taste if the chicken wings are cooked, okay?”

As she said this, she extended her evil chopsticks toward the chicken wings.

Lin Ran looked at the beef she was roasting and asked her, “Then can you help me taste the beef later?”

Shu Yao was holding a chicken wing in her mouth, busy dodging the tentacles that had been kissed by her just now and were now clamoring to come over for a kiss. At first glance, it was hard to tell if she and they were fighting for food.

And so, she still didn’t forget to helpfully reply to her girlfriend, “Okay!”

…

By the time they had finished this late-night snack, Shu Yao, as the one who had not participated in the barbecue, chose to play rock-paper-scissors with the remaining eight tentacles first. The one who lost the most would be responsible for cleaning up the leftovers.

The tentacles were full of enthusiasm and loved this after-dinner project.

The black and red, colorful skin facing up was the back of the hand, and the side with all the suckers was the palm.

Then, in the largest sucker, two fangs were exposed, which was scissors. Nothing was fist, and all the fangs extended out was paper.

Because some of the little ones had also learned to cheat, this project unilaterally tested Shu Yao’s eyesight.

A few minutes later.

She, who had won the first round, sat by Lin Ran’s side with great delight, peeling a pomegranate, and watching the remaining tentacles fight among themselves, because they had lost the fairest referee, and were now beating each other up.

Lin Ran’s expression was very calm, as if she were not the parent of these embarrassing little ones at all. She even cooperatively opened her mouth and took a bite of the pomegranate that her girlfriend had fed her.

By the time they had finished watching the after-dinner performance, the two had already finished the full, and every seed of which was very sweet, Tunisian soft-seeded pomegranate.

And the tentacle that had lost miserably all the way was dejectedly cleaning up the most difficult-to-clean grill, pouring out the charcoal, and taking the grill to the sink downstairs. It also had to come back to tidy up the tables and chairs, and sweep the floor.

The other tentacles were just watching the fun on the side.

Shu Yao clearly knew that she shouldn’t go over, but she was moved by its pitiful “wuwu” sound, and couldn’t help but ask, 【Do you need help?】

The tentacle, which had just been pretending to cry, immediately stopped its sound.

The other tentacles, which had been acting as supervisors, watching the show, and even secretly wrapping around their girlfriend’s waist and ankles, all straightened up with a “whoosh.”

In an instant, Shu Yao felt as if a thousand gazes were on her.

And the tentacle she had asked, at this time, had wiped itself clean, and then leaned weakly on her shoulder, and replied:

【Yaoyao, no help, bath time!】

Shu Yao: 【Mmm? Am I going to take a bath?】

The tentacle tapped its tip.

Then it couldn’t help but reveal its truest purpose. 【Tonight! Me first!】

Shu Yao: “…”

The answer was a very light laugh from Lin Ran, and the sound of the other tentacles starting to wave angrily in the air.

When children don’t get along, it’s often the fault of the elderly.

For example, now.

Director Lin, as the one who had watched the whole show and had benefited the most, gave her instructions on this show. “Yaoyao, I reminded you before. Don’t bother with them.”

Shu Yao glared at her.

She thought to herself, who am I doing all this for?

Although she was rationally clear that the tentacles had separate nerves, after all, they were one with her. How could Shu Yao bear to see her girlfriend, after a long day of work, and after shopping with her, come back to cook and then have to do the dishes?

Now it was fine.

Although she didn’t need her help with the dishes, she probably wouldn’t get any sleep tonight!

Then, she fell into Lin Ran’s arms, holding her waist, trying to make a final struggle in her girlfriend’s arms. “Quick, help me.”

She didn’t want to agree to that tentacle!

Once this precedent was set, the other tentacles would make a fuss about fairness. After all, they were the ones who had just won at rock-paper-scissors. It was unreasonable to let the loser take such a big advantage.

It’s not about scarcity, but about inequality. They also wanted to eat meat!

But if she refused, that guy would definitely cry even louder.

Lin Ran looked at her girlfriend, who was trying to play dead in her arms and refusing to exercise all night. She held Shu Yao’s face and kissed her on the lips.

Then, she lowered her eyelids, her tone gentle, as if she were easy to negotiate with, and asked:

“If I don’t let it go first—”

“Then who does Yaoyao want to go first?”

Shu Yao was a little dazed by her light kiss, and subconsciously wanted to chase after it for more. Her lips uttered a reply, “As long as you…”

Then she suddenly realized something was wrong!

If the worst outcome just now was being played with by these eight tentacles in turn, then after she said this, the most tragic result would be to be first tormented by her girlfriend’s human body until she was weak, and then to be… by those eight tentacles…

She immediately put on a ruthless and cold face, got up, and was about to leave. “Pretend I didn’t say that.”

Lin Ran smiled and pressed her back onto her lap.

“Too late.”

“Baby.”