Successfully completed
The young girl wore thin black high heels, with a slit in her skirt up to the roots of her thighs. He Ruge had to walk very slowly to avoid any wardrobe malfunction or stumbling.
As he walked out of the room, he saw many young and beautiful girls in the corridor, with snow-white, tender skin and bewildered eyes, like lost lambs.
They were driven into small iron cages—cramped spaces meant for over twenty girls, packed shoulder to shoulder just to fit. Some were violently shoved, their clothes tugged and pulled in the chaos. Amidst this confusion, He Ruge, who had been politely ushered into the iron cage, stood out.
Screams and sobs filled the air intermittently. He Ruge looked through the iron cage at the absurdity around him.
He thought these girls should be studying in classrooms at their age, crying over failed exams, screaming and playing with classmates—not here. They could have had a youth similar to most children.
Everyone makes mistakes, stepping into the monster’s cage out of ignorance and confusion.
The consequences were too severe…
“Quiet,” He Ruge sighed, commanding with authority. Each word carried a strange rhythm, tugging at the hearts of those who listened, making everyone obedient like puppets on a string.
In an almost deathly silence, the iron cages were pushed through the corridor’s transport channel, swiftly moving in the darkness. In this era of interstellar transportation technology, akin to online shopping with the most expensive express delivery service, goods from other galaxies could be delivered within four star hours.
He Ruge thought, if gluttony was a hungry gourmand, then they were fresh and tasty cans, but among these cans was him—a volatile element that could explode at any moment.
Online shopping requires caution, smuggling carries risks.
When He Ruge used the possession technique, his body was protected by the game, even Xi Guican could not touch it.
Xi Guican looked at the team mode display showing ‘teammates are performing tasks and players must keep up! Don’t fall too far behind your teammates~’ and his aura gradually reduced.
Bai Ze and Qiong Qi were evenly matched in strength, so Xi Guican didn’t need to worry about He Ruge’s safety. However, despite knowing this rationally, his inner anxiety could not be stopped.
Xi Guican decided to complete his game mission as well. The belief value in Xuan Wulian’s task has risen to 80 points, all accumulated over these two days.
If you can’t reach full value just with money, what else can you rely on?
Xi Guican on the stands fell into thought.
With the holographic game cabin, Xuan Wulian’s speed increased a lot, but in the second-level arena, the opponent’s strength was stronger than the first-level arena’s chicken, so Xuan Wulian was still on the brink of winning every match.
“Double-edged dagger, left arm.”
Xuan Wulian suddenly heard the voice of the patron without preamble. He paused for a moment, missing an opening in his opponent—the exact vulnerability in the left arm. If he had executed a dual-blade dagger assault just then, he could have disarmed the opponent’s left arm.
Realizing this, Xuan Wulian was astonished and mentally dazed. He had always been proud of his predictive ability; once familiar with an opponent’s moves, he could anticipate their entire strategy based on their initial actions.
But just now, the opponent hadn’t shown any signs.
How did the patron in the stands guess it?
Was it a coincidence?
“Heavy smash, energy slot.”
Out of respect for the patron, even though the opponent was evading, the success rate of using heavy smash at this moment was certainly not high. Nevertheless, Xuan Wulian continued to control his mecha, changing from a planned aerial dive to a downward smash.
At that moment, the opponent’s mecha foolishly rushed forward, intending to use the energy slot on its arm for a small-range thermal energy attack.
The small and delicate energy slot met Xuan Wulian’s heavy smash head-on, and a thunderous roar erupted as the energy slot was crushed to pieces, instantly causing the energy lines of half the mecha to malfunction.
The outcome was decided.
Xuan Wulian, who had effortlessly secured victory, felt a surge of emotions. He watched as the man from the stands walked down. Every step the man took was as precise as if measured with a ruler, exuding an air of cold dignity and iron-blooded demeanor.
When this man removed his mask, revealing a face known across the entire galaxy, Xuan Wulian’s legs weakened, and he trembled as he spoke, “Your Excellency Marshal.”
Born on the Seventeenth Star, savior of the Seventeenth Star, the Marshal who allowed all Seventeenth Star people to return to their roots.
【Ding——The selected player’s belief value towards the player is 100/100 (You are the glory of the Seventeenth Star, Your Excellency Marshal)】
【Ding——Belief value meets the conditions for using the secret technique. Would you like to use the possession secret technique?】
【Yes】or【No】
【Ding——Possession successful】
【Phase Task 1: Help Xuan Wulian enter the three-star arena】
How long does it take to go from the second-star arena to the third-star arena?
Xi Guican remembered that over a dozen years ago, it took him twenty minutes. Because facing all enemies meant instant kills.
【Ding——Phase Task 1 completed, rewarded with ‘Mechanical Arm Suitable for Xuan Wulian】
【Phase Task 2: Destroy the ‘Savage Breeding Farm’, one of the breeding farms that breeds gluttony’s negative emotions】
Upon successfully entering the third-star arena, Xi Guican prepared to contact the underground arena’s manager based on his retrieved memories. First, he needed to exit the game and come out of the game cabin.
The silver game cabin was the cheapest, so cheap it required manual buttons, and Xi Guican, who was used to the game cabin opening automatically, lay for a while before realizing he had to press the button. He wanted to extend his left hand, but saw an empty sleeve.
Xi Guican, unaccustomed to sitting up from the game cabin, saw a basement smaller than his bathroom. This basement was neatly cleaned, even the tofu blocks folded neatly under the quilt, and the few pieces of clothing neatly folded and placed on the quilt.
Besides a hard-board bed, there was only the holographic gaming helmet placed at the head of the bed, and the holographic gaming cabin Xi Guican was sitting in.
Oh, no, Xi Guican also saw boxes of nutrient solution under the bed, the cheapest, tasteless nutrient solution. This nutrient solution made Xi Guican feel familiar; it was what he drank at the Starry Sea Orphanage.
Behind a box of nutrient solution, there was an old mechanical arm hidden, along with a piece of yellowed paper. Official essay competitions have electronic and paper versions. This piece of paper has been cherished and preserved since the Second Star War escape.
Xi Guican got up and left this cramped and damp basement. The area where Xuan Wulian lived was the slums of the Fifteen Stars. Most of the residents here were refugees who had escaped from neighboring star systems. They were so poor that they didn’t even have a dryer, so their washed clothes hung in front of the door to dry.
On the street, young children played with discarded weapons that could no longer be used as toys. Three or four of them acted as the “insects,” opening their mouths wide and making hissing sounds, with drool flying around.
The children surrounded by the “insects” held their heads high and played as “Marshal Xi,” saying in a childish voice, “You insects, when you see me, Xi Guican, why don’t you behave and die?”
The little buddies also cooperated very well, falling to the ground and crying out, “Ah, Marshal, spare us!”
“Marshal, you are really amazing!”
When Xi Guican heard his name, he couldn’t help but stop and watch these children playing Star Wars as if they were playing house.
The sunlight fell on these children, giving their fluffy bodies a layer of gold. A rolling child saw Xi Guican stopping and happily said, “Uncle Xuan, can you play with us! You can be the bug queen!”
The other children immediately surrounded Xi Guican, chattering, “Uncle Xuan, I want candy!”
“Uncle Xuan, Uncle Xuan, where did your iron hand go?”
“Play games with us, Uncle Xuan, you’re the best!”
Xi Guican didn’t say anything, but the children thought Xi Guican had agreed. The “insects” joyfully surrounded their bug queen, and “Marshal Xue” still wanted to be the marshal, but was criticized by other children, “You’ve been the Marshal for so long! No, this time it’s my turn!”
In this game, “Xi Guican” was the most popular figure, loved by all the children.
Suddenly, Xi Guican heard the words that Ruanruan had said to him that day, Ruanruan said he was a great hero.
Not the Blade of the Federation, not the title given to him by the Federation government. It was the hero in the hearts of the children, as sung by He Ruge.
The man tugged at the corner of his lips. This expression on Xi Guican’s originally handsome face must be sinister and arrogant, as cold as frost.
However, on the weather-beaten face of Xuan Wulian, it was closer to the true feelings of Xi Guican’s heart.
He raised his head and looked at the clothes in front of the door that had not yet dried. He looked down at the playing children. Xi Guican slowly smiled. He walked on this narrow and noisy street bathed in sunlight, listening to the repeated calls of “Uncle Xuan” behind him and “This time, let me be Xi Guican.”
“Why did Uncle Xuan leave?”
“Uncle Xuan has to work.”
“Uncle Xuan smiles so ugly, is he sad? But I think he’s a little happy.”
“I’ll be Xi Guican!”
“No, I want to be Marshal too!”
…
The underground arena is under a bar in the slums. Xi Guican walked into the bar and smelled a strong smell of alcohol. The whole room smelled of alcohol. A woman was kneeling on the ground, crying. She had no strength in her body and fell softly when pushed. The woman cried uncontrollably, shaking all over.
When she heard someone coming in, she asked repeatedly, “Have you seen my sister? She’s a tabby cat named Mu Lengying, fourteen years old, with gray eyes, looks a lot like me, small…”
“I’ve seen her.”
Xi Guican looked down at the woman and said, “She’ll be home tomorrow.”
A look of ecstasy appeared on the woman’s face. Her pale and slender fingers trembled and grabbed Xi Guican’s trouser leg.
“Where is she? Please tell me! I’ll do anything you ask!”
The deep crimson vertical pupils faintly appeared, and Xi Guican murmured softly, “You’re very tired. Go home and get some sleep. Tomorrow when you wake up, you’ll see your sister.”
The woman nodded as if bewitched. She leaned against the wall, stood up unsteadily, and staggered out of the bar.
“It’s okay, Xuan Wulian, you’re welcome here,” the bartender said, watching the woman leave.
“Zhang Lengyue, that crazy woman, has been ranting here for a long time just because her precious sister went missing. If it weren’t for pitying her and the lack of customers in broad daylight, we would have kicked her out long ago.”
He had intended to pat Xi Guican’s shoulder, but upon seeing his eyes, the bartender’s heart tightened, and he awkwardly withdrew his hand.
Xi Guican showed the game notification for advancing to the third-star arena to the bartender. Leading him inside, the bartender walked on the damp floor of the bar, traces of spilled alcohol marking the ground. Amidst the overpowering smell of alcohol that nearly masked everything else, Xi Guican caught a hint of faint, underlying bloodiness.
Next to the wine cellar was a small door. When it opened, a strong stench hit him — glaring red, blood everywhere, it was an entirely different world.
The ground was covered with densely engraved runes, glyphs that seemed like ghost drawings in the eyes of interstellar people, but in Xi Guican’s eyes, they formed an array gathering negative energy.
Murder, revelry, violence, bloodshed.
The curtain of death had fallen. The lambs brought to the stage used their delicate bodies to stain the array patterns red. Despair and ferocity rolled like mist, filling the underground arena.
This was an atmosphere loved by every fiend, though Xi Guican felt nothing towards it. Yet, the part of him belonging to Qiong Qi felt strangely comfortable, as if soaking in hot springs.
However, such heinous sorcery should be destroyed sooner rather than later.
At the same time, in the blood-soaked field, the dark high heels stepped on the bloodstains, indistinguishable between men and women, young and old. The voice, tender yet ruthless, seemed to transcend time and space, resonating in the Lust Breeding Farm.
He said, “Close your eyes.”
The trembling girls curled up together, crying as they closed their eyes.
He Ruge opened his eyes, looking at the filth before him. Gray eyes revealed a saintly pity for all living beings. He still had the body of a young girl, with two faint gray tear marks on his face. But at this moment, his expression was akin to a deity overlooking all beings.
He said, “Lust boundary, shatter.”
Thus, the invisible boundary shattered like strings on a harp, and there were hundreds of Lust Breeding Farms. Each farm was a crucial node in the array. However, with He Ruge’s simple sentence, one of the hundreds of nodes began to crack, like a domino effect toppling all Lust Breeding Farms.
Simultaneously, the power belonging to the Taotie forcefully occupied a position in one of the savage breeding farms and greedily extended along one of the nodes, dominating all the savage breeding farms with absolute power.
Thus, eighty percent of the Taotie’s food sources were completely severed.
【Ding——’Web of Desire’ mission successfully completed!】
【Rewarded with ‘Kill List’】
What does it feel like to wake up from a nightmare?
Mu Lengying opened her eyes and found herself lying next to her sister. In her hand was a medicine box, a medicine box given to her by He Ruge.
Was she still dreaming?
The tabby cat girl stared dumbfoundedly at the medicine box, then fed the pill inside to her sister’s mouth.
“This medicine can cure your sister’s illness,” He Ruge’s voice echoed in her mind.
Under her anxious gaze, her sister opened her eyes, tears streaming down her beautiful eyes as she saw her, “Lengying!”
They embraced each other.
The door of Xuan Wulian’s room kept knocking, but Xuan Wulian sat on the bed lost in thought. He remembered the memories that appeared out of nowhere in his mind, memories he couldn’t believe — was he dreaming or sick?
Otherwise, how could he think that Marshal Xi had once attached himself to him…
“I’ll borrow your body for a bit. You’ll be rewarded when you wake up,” Marshal Xue’s icy voice said.
The knocking on the door continued, and the children kept shouting, “Uncle Xuan! Your delivery!”
A brand new mechanical arm awaited Xuan Wulian to sign for it.
