Crying out Pearls
As He Ruge reached for his phone to call for help from Mr. Xi, he suddenly remembered that he had lent his phone to his little desk mate.
… What a stroke of bad luck.
Footsteps sounded behind him, the clicking of leather boots on the ground, which reminded He Ruge of Mr. Xi’s straight boots.
Do aliens also like wearing boots?
The footsteps drew closer, and he could feel the antagonist stop behind him.
“Tsk, so short,” the antagonist mocked.
He Ruge: “…”
Believe it or not, I’ll jump up and kick your knees!
Initially reluctant to turn around, He Ruge gritted his teeth and finally turned his head. He wanted to see just how tall aliens typically were!
First, He Ruge saw a plain military uniform, simpler than Mr. Xi’s, with shoulder epaulets adorned with seven stars, made of a material visibly inferior to Mr. Xi’s.
He Ruge felt a sense of superiority, thinking, “What kind of cheap trash dares to compare with my Mr. Xi?”
The antagonist was tall, about the same height as Mr. Xi, probably around two meters tall. If the antagonist hadn’t lowered his head, He Ruge wouldn’t have seen his face at all.
The antagonist’s appearance didn’t match He Ruge’s original character design in the story. He Ruge found this unexpected yet oddly fitting, considering that protagonists and antagonists often changed.
The antagonist had thick eyebrows and big eyes, with black hair and eyes that should have looked honest but now exuded malice and malevolence. Clearly caught off guard by He Ruge suddenly turning and looking up, the antagonist’s face momentarily showed blank surprise.
At that moment, He Ruge recalled the scene he had written when the antagonist first saw the female protagonist, captivated by her cuteness:
He first noticed the Earthling pet’s soft black hair, the same color as his own, but smooth as silk. When the Earthling pet turned its head, revealing its small face and innocent black eyes, a strange emotion struck him.
This petite Earthling pet had the same hair and eye color as him, yet possessed a completely different innocent aura.
Fragile, timid, and endearing. It made one want to cherish and destroy.
He Ruge couldn’t help but take a small step back, wondering if, like in those shameful plots, his cuteness had actually won over the antagonist?!
His retreat woke the antagonist from his daze.
The black-haired officer smirked, “You want to run? Go ahead, run. How will you escape my grasp?”
He Ruge, thunderstruck by this old-fashioned dialogue, began to miss Mr. Xi’s quiet and reserved demeanor.
Thus, He Ruge’s fondness for Xi Guican slowly increased.
Knowing he couldn’t overpower the antagonist and that Mr. Xi would come to rescue him, He Ruge’s survival instinct wasn’t particularly strong.
He felt like a salted fish resigned to life, saying, “I won’t run. I just need to use the restroom. Can you let me use the restroom?”
He Ruge’s attitude was calm, his gaze steady, in stark contrast to the female protagonist in the original story. When she was abducted, she thought she was about to be sold by human traffickers and screamed and tried to flee with her short legs, only to be grabbed and cruelly silenced.
The female protagonist desperately tried to bite the antagonist’s hand, kicking wildly with her short legs, appearing in the antagonist’s eyes like a cute little cat, all fluffed up and adorable.
Now playing the antagonist, the glutton saw He Ruge’s fearlessness and thought to himself:
“Not bad, very brave. I like that.”
Taotie wasn’t really Taotie but a character altered by the game to awaken He Ruge’s memories. Thus, his personality had changed somewhat, blending traits of the antagonist with his own.
Though his deviant nature had softened, it was still there. Taotiw crossed his arms and sneered, “No.”
He Ruge: “…”
Damn, did you hear that?
He finally understood the female protagonist’s urge to curse the antagonist. What goes around, comes around.
If only he hadn’t written such a stupid antagonist!
Now, it was too late for regrets. He Ruge was taken aboard the spaceship, still unable to use the restroom.
Not only that, he was also going to be shaved bald.
The idiot antagonist brought out a camera, a tiny fly-sized machine buzzing around He Ruge. Then, with a wicked grin, he brandished a sharp blade—or rather, not just a blade but a laser beam that could melt steel with a single touch.
If the antagonist’s hand trembled, He Ruge might lose his head then and there.
“Xi Guican, your little pet is in my hands. If you don’t want him harmed, come to me, admit your guilt, and rebuild my breeding farm.”
At the start of the video, the glutton smirked in triumph.
Fixed in a machine chair, He Ruge: “…”
Stupid antagonist.
But what was this breeding farm?
Was Mr. Xi secretly a large-scale breeder?
Did he compete commercially with this antagonist, leading Mr. Xi to ruin the antagonist’s farm?
Well, Mr. Xi’s demeanor wasn’t fit for pig farming at all.
He Ruge imagined Mr. Xi rolling up his sleeves and entering the breeding farm, smiling kindly at the well-fed pigs… He involuntarily imagined his own face on a pig’s.
Actually, pig farming and Mr. Xi were somewhat compatible.
“Distracted?” The glutton clicked his tongue.
A strand of black hair fell on his forehead, and He Ruge felt a cool sensation on his head. He looked expressionlessly at the glutton, mentally cursing a thousand times.
Calm down, take a deep breath. A real man shouldn’t be bothered by a bald head—it’s just a matter of time before it happens, so he might as well experience it now.
He Ruge’s reaction was too calm, neither angry nor sad, as if the hair being cut wasn’t his own. This lack of reaction gave the glutton little satisfaction.
He crouched down, curious, and asked while He Ruge was held in the machine chair, “Why aren’t you angry? Upset?”
He Ruge: “…”
Unhappy with He Ruge’s lack of reaction, Taotie didn’t shave him completely bald. Instead, he used his fingers to force a fake smile on He Ruge’s face.
His touch wasn’t gentle, and He Ruge felt his cheeks reddening. Once again, he yearned for Mr. Xi, who had never treated him harshly, even when transformed into an animal, retracting his sharp nails and using the pads of his fingers to touch him.
Away from home, Mr. Xi feared messing up his hair, never mind running his hands through it. Certainly not like this idiot antagonist shaving his head!
At that thought, He Ruge couldn’t help but roll his eyes.
Seeing He Ruge’s eye roll, Taotie burst into laughter, “Roll them again.”
He Ruge closed his eyes, playing dead.
“Roll them one more time, and I’ll let you use the restroom.”
Hearing the glutton’s words, He Ruge snapped his eyes open, rolling them at the antagonist half-squatting in front of him.
Having lived so long, he had never heard such a ridiculous request!
Why did he have to write such a brain-dead antagonist in the first place?!
The antagonist laughed like he’d just received a flirtatious wink, keeping his promise and letting He Ruge use the restroom.
He Ruge walked to the bathroom, feeling almost physically sick with anger. Especially after using the restroom and trying to see his current state of dignity, only to find he couldn’t even see his reflection in the mirror. At that moment, He Ruge’s mentality completely collapsed.
He had never missed Mr. Xi this much before!
On this side, Xi Guican also received the video sent by Taotie. Beneath the brim of his hat, his blue eyes were as cold as ice. Xi Guican took away the cellphone from He Ruge’s desk partner, leaving the classroom as the classmate was on the verge of tears from fear.
He Ruge knew about this storyline, and so did Xi Guican. He couldn’t bear to let He Ruge suffer even a bit. Therefore, despite the game suggesting that He Ruge follow this plotline, Xi Guican’s heart still refused.
He installed a locator on He Ruge’s phone so that he could track him down if Taotie kidnapped him. However, despite human planning, in a world created by the game, even the most careful considerations could still leave loopholes.
Xi Guican watched the entire video with a solemn face, and the ambient pressure seemed to drop several degrees. Currently, Taotie had the face of Hang Shikuang.
Initially, He Ruge had shaved Hang Shikuang’s hair. Whether it was a coincidence or not, now He Ruge had also been ‘shaved’ by ‘Hang Shikuang’. The melancholic appearance of his little lover shattered Xi Guican’s heart.
Only those who have been bald before understand how heart-wrenching it is. And this time, it was his little lover’s head that got shaved.
However, this incident wasn’t entirely bad. At least for Xi Guican, it was like this—He Ruge’s fondness for him inexplicably increased by three points.
After a year of being together, it was difficult for fondness to grow further. Whether he took He Ruge out to play or cooked for him personally, He Ruge’s fondness had remained unchanged at 89 points.
No wonder they say children should be well-raised—only well-raised children won’t easily be deceived by bad people’s sweet words.
Xi Guican replied to Taotie, ‘Fine, as long as you don’t harm him.’
Naturally, Xi Guican wouldn’t help Taotie rebuild the breeding farm. His current goal was to stabilize Taotie and then, when the other party relaxed, snatch He Ruge back.
‘I want to have a video call with him,’ Xi Guican requested again but was flatly refused by Taotie.
‘I have another request: you can’t withhold food from him. He doesn’t have any dietary restrictions except that he can’t eat spicy food and doesn’t drink alcohol. He likes sweets, enjoys sweetened egg custard for breakfast, likes drinking hot milk, and enjoys eating fish, crabs, and grilled meat. Oh, and he also likes cold dishes with pig ears…’
A dense message was sent over. Taotie originally thought he would outright reject it, but for some reason, he actually read Xi Guican’s message seriously.
Earthlings truly are such fragile beings.
—Strange, why am I taking this so seriously?
I wasn’t paying attention to what he likes to eat; I was focusing on what he dislikes.
After finding a good reason for himself, Taotie felt refreshed and started preparing the food that He Ruge dislikes the most.
He understood Xi Guican and knew that Xi Guican wouldn’t sincerely help Taotie rebuild the breeding farm right now. However, it didn’t matter because he still held Xi Guican’s weakness in his hands. He wanted to see how much Xi Guican valued this Earthling pet.
So when He Ruge came out later, he saw two nutrient solutions—one with bright red chili peppers added and one with alcohol added. He asked He Ruge how he could tell—The pungent smell of alcohol was almost overpowering the chili pepper!
“Which one do you want?”Taotie asked.
He Ruge: “…”
How did you manage to get chili peppers and alcohol on a spaceship?!
That’s not scientifically plausible at all!
He Ruge lowered his head, pretending he hadn’t seen anything, and planned to bypass Taotie and quietly sit in a corner.
However, Taotie grabbed the nape of his neck. That dead pervert said softly, “If you don’t choose, I’ll pour both into your mouth.”
He Ruge: “…”
Did you hear that?!
Did you hear that?!
Did you hear that?!
He Ruge took a deep breath to prevent himself from getting angry and fainting on the spot. Since he had to choose, he chose the one he could tolerate the most.
The nutrient solution with alcohol looked the same as adding an electric current. He Ruge had a poor tolerance for alcohol, so he would fall over if he drank this nutrient solution.
This won’t work.
Although the one with chili peppers was spicy in the throat, his brain wouldn’t get drunk. Spiciness was only temporary and definitely wouldn’t have the aftermath of getting drunk.
After weighing the pros and cons of both, He Ruge said with a stern face, “I want the spicy one.”
Taotie handed the bright red nutrient solution to He Ruge. Just as He Ruge’s little hand was about to touch it, Taotie suddenly raised the nutrient solution above his head and looked down at He Ruge, contemptuously saying, “Since you chose the spicy nutrient solution, then I can only give you the one with the taste of alcohol.”
The nutrient solution filled with the pungent smell of alcohol was thrust in front of He Ruge’s eyes,.
“Drink it,” Taotie commanded.
He Ruge: “…”
Ah ah ah ah ah ah!
What kind of ultimate idiot is this?!
Mr. Xi, where are you?!
Finally seeing He Ruge’s collapse, Taotie activated the video camera again to start filming, “Drink quickly, don’t force me to take action.”
When heaven places a great responsibility on someone, it must first torment their minds, exhaust their bodies…
He Ruge began to hypnotize himself, enduring and taking the nutrient solution.
Before drinking it, he wanted to try to save himself again, “I don’t drink alcohol.”
Taotie’s dark eyes were full of malice. He pinched He Ruge’s cheeks, leaving a few red marks, and stretched out his tone slowly, “So what?”
Yeah, so what?
Why did he say such a weak thing to this idiotic villain?
This person wasn’t Mr. Xi, not the one who would personally cook for him, tell him bedtime stories every night, and crouch down to tie his shoelaces.
Someone who doesn’t care would cut off an arm, but it couldn’t compare to someone who cares cutting their finger and feeling heartbroken.
During this time, Mr. Xi’s unconditional pampering made He Ruge start to feel that this love was taken for granted, so much so that he overlooked Mr. Xi’s daily efforts for him.
He Ruge felt choked up inside. He reached out to push away Taotie’s hand, but Taotie’s strength was astonishing, like it was cast in iron. He Ruge’s strength could only be used to tickle the other person.
Mr. Xi’s strength was definitely stronger than this idiotic villain’s, but Mr. Xi would never use force to harm him; he would embrace him.
He missed Mr. Xi…
He Ruge looked down at his toes.
He felt like he might cry. The He Ruge from before crossing over was never someone who cried easily; even in the face of difficulties, he wouldn’t cry.
Because he knew that crying wouldn’t make anyone pay attention to him, so this kind of crying was meaningless. But now, He Ruge was being increasingly childish and spoiled by Mr. Xi, as if he had truly become a child named He Ruge.
No need to worry about food, clothing, shelter, or transportation, no need to worry about academics, and even less need to worry about the future.
The small camera circled around He Ruge, and as he thought about the video call at the other end, where Mr. Xi would worryingly look at him, he pursed his lips and suddenly reddened around his eyes.
Taotie looked at the Earthling pet he had finally bullied into tears, feeling somewhat puzzled. He had initially wanted to see this poker-faced Earthling cub cry, but when it actually happened, Taotie didn’t feel particularly happy about it.
He Ruge snatched the nutrition liquid from Taotie’s hands with determination, closed his eyes, clenched his heart, and guzzled down the liquid in big gulps.
The nutrition liquid laced with alcohol poured down his throat, feeling like a fire burning from his throat to his stomach.
Once He Ruge was down to a small size, his tolerance for alcohol also shrunk. If the adult He Ruge was a lightweight drinker, then he was now completely unable to hold his liquor.
The glass bottle slipped from his palm and shattered on the ground into shards.
He Ruge felt dizzy and disoriented, seeing everything in double vision. He staggered and fell to the ground with a thud.
Instinctively, Taotie reached out to grab He Ruge, but then he remembered his intention to torment him after, the black-haired officer withdrew his hand stiffly, freezing like a statue.
The high concentration of alcohol quickly got to him. He Ruge’s face turned bright red in no time, like a ripe peach ready to burst, despite his chewed-up hairstyle, it couldn’t hide how cute he was.
He Ruge cradled his rosy cheeks, wondering why everything he saw seemed to be spinning. He hiccupped and saw military boots and trousers in front of him.
In a world full of double vision, the difference between the marshal’s uniform and the general’s uniform wasn’t big. After all, He Ruge couldn’t even count how many stars were on the epaulettes. He could only see little stars that came with double vision, perfectly fitting the lyrics:
“Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are, Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky…”
He Ruge couldn’t help but sing, his childish voice naive, yet when he sang, the childish voice turned into the beautiful voice of a mermaid. Even if he didn’t use his spiritual power, his singing was still as beautiful as a heavenly sound.
In reality, Taotie had once been fascinated by the heavenly voice of a mermaid.
The black-haired officer couldn’t believe the singing voice he heard. He slowly half-squatted down, looking at the drunken He Ruge.
The little drunkard hiccuped when he saw him, not continuing to sing, but looking at him drunkenly and asking stupidly, “Mr. Xi, why did you dye your hair?”
The child’s voice was soft and his hand was soft too. He staggered over and pulled Taotie’s hair. He might have been drinking lightly, and pulled Taotie’s scalp a little.
He had to suspect that this Earthling was pretending to be drunk. But the moist black pupils showed no maliciousness, like the night sky washed by water.
“Mr. Xi, can you change into tiger ears so I can touch them?”
Taotie’s shape was like a sheep-headed human-faced creature with eyes under his armpits, tiger teeth, and hands. He didn’t have tiger ears, but he had goat horns. By some inexplicable means, he turned into a pair of goat horns.
The huge goat horns topped the marshal’s hat, snow-white goat horns emerged from the black hair, bent into a bizarre and harmonious shape on Taotie’s head.
He Ruge tiptoed to touch the goat horns, commented shaking his head, “Hmm, the ears have grown bigger and harder…”
He exhaled a warm breath of alcohol that was not unpleasant.
Goat horns have no sensory perception. Logically, Taotie wouldn’t feel anything no matter how He Ruge touched them. Yet at this moment, he seemed to really feel the warmth from the other party.
This feeling was not unpleasant, quite novel, and even made him want to continue to be touched.
“Mr. Xie, take me home…”
The Earthling pet murmured, with a trace of pleading in his eyes.
Taotie suddenly remembered someone saying that the reason they liked pets was because of the way pets looked at their owners: admiring, loving, and pure eyes, as if you were their whole world.
His heart was struck again by this strange feeling. Before Taotie could think about what this feeling might be, the pet fell asleep drowsily.
He held the Earthling pet, stood still for a long time, reached out and pinched the pet’s cheek, the smooth touch, like water, easily left fingerprints on the cheek, blue in color, ruining the original skin color.
Taotie withdrew his hand.
Earthlings are very fragile, can’t be pinched randomly, maybe a little pinch will kill them.
I still want to keep him to torture Mr. Xie, so I can’t just pinch him, I have to control my strength.
In case I kill him, I can’t threaten Mr. Xie.
Taotie found a reason for his unusual behavior. He put the Earthling pet in his own bedroom.
There was only one bed on the spaceship. Taotie didn’t prepare a place for this pet to sleep. He originally decided to let the Earthling sleep on the floor.
But Earthlings are very fragile.
What if they die sleeping on the floor?
After thinking it over, Taotie reluctantly gave his own bed to the pet, then he stood by the bed, looking at the flushed face of the little pet.
The other person slept uneasily, muttering “Mr. Xi” in his sleep.
Taotie felt inexplicably that the word “Mr. Xi” was extremely harsh. He thought he might really hate Mr., and hated this poor little creature. At first, he wanted to eat this poor little creature, get his power, but after a long time, he finally failed.
It doesn’t matter if he fails, he’s setting up a farm, so he can barely eat. In the end, the poor creature was destroyed…
The black-haired officer frowned, covered his mouth with his hand, and covered the mouth of the little pet, but didn’t think that the face of the little pet was too small, his hand could cover the entire face.
Really small, really fragile, why would anyone like Earthlings like this kind of waste pet?
The warmth in the palm was scalding, accompanied by the faint breath of this small pet.
Suddenly, Taotie remembered information he had seen about Earthlings—it seemed that a high body temperature indicated illness.
He opened the light brain and checked the data for a while, discovering that Earthling infants should not drink alcohol. Alcohol affected intelligence and was harmful to the body.
Instead, infants should quickly be given pure cow’s milk or egg whites to reduce alcohol absorption. They could also be given boiled water or rice gruel to quickly expel alcohol from their bodies and protect their gastrointestinal system.
Taotie stared at the screen for a long time, recalling what Xi Guican had told him.
This Earthling seemed to like drinking hot milk.
He was only afraid that this Earthling pet would die from alcoholism, so he gave him hot milk. After consoling himself, Taotie brought the hot milk over, intending to make the pet drink it.
However, the other party was completely drunk, unable to open his eyes, let alone open his mouth to drink milk. Taotie fell silent for a long time. Lacking experience in feeding, he spooned the still-hot milk into He Ruge’s mouth.
He Ruge reflexively “pfft” Taotie in the face.
Taotie put down the cup with a gloomy expression, wiped his face with his hand, which was covered in milk stains. His temples throbbed as if he were about to erupt in the next moment, but he forcibly held back his brewing bad temper when he looked at the carefree little pet lying on the bed.
Frowning, he cooled down the milk. This time, when he went to feed the pet again, there was no splashing in his face. After a lot of effort, he finally finished feeding the hot milk. Taotie looked at the peacefully sleeping little pet and felt like he had just been bewitched.
He stared at He Ruge with complex eyes for what seemed like three or four hours. Finally, Taotie edited the video of He Ruge drinking alcohol, cutting out the part where He Ruge mistakenly identified him as Xi Guican after getting drunk, and sent the new abusive pet video to Xi Guican.
…
When He Ruge woke up again, he was already on an alien planet, locked in an iron cage. Inside the cage were soft blankets and many small toys, but this couldn’t hide the fact that it was an iron cage.
He Ruge woke up feeling a headache, taking three seconds to realize that he had been imprisoned by a stupid antagonist. Strangely, he smacked his lips and could taste a hint of milk.
Must be an illusion.
There was surveillance in the small room. As soon as He Ruge woke up, that stupid antagonist appeared with a nutrient solution spiked with chili peppers in hand.
Seeing that nutrient solution, He Ruge’s heart was full of curses. He felt that if he stayed in the hands of this antagonist for a few more days, he would develop a stomach problem at a young age.
When would Mr. Xi come to rescue him?
He Ruge increasingly missed Mr. Xi.
Noticing He Ruge’s guarded and disgusted expression, Taotie suddenly stopped in his tracks.
He Ruge turned around, back to Taotie, out of sight, out of mind. He stared at the wall, letting his mind wander as he thought about the plot.
When He Ruge originally wrote the plot, on the third day after the female lead was captured by the antagonist, she would be rescued by the male lead hero. If the plot hadn’t changed too much, he would be picked up by Mr. Xi in another two or three days.
He still remembered that the antagonist would start to treat Earthlings as slaves from the second day. At that time, as long as the female lead cried a bit, she wouldn’t be “abused” by the antagonist. But she couldn’t act too pitifully, because if she did, the antagonist would want to “compensate” her, and his compensation was no different from abuse.
When the antagonist turned Earthlings into slaves, they could make some minor requests, which the antagonist usually wouldn’t refuse.
Thinking of this, He Ruge’s deMr.e to survive ignited again. He turned slowly and whispered to the black-haired officer outside the cage, “I don’t want to drink this nutrient solution. It hurts my stomach, and I have a weak stomach.”
In fact, He Ruge’s stomach was perfectly fine; he was just testing the antagonist’s current attitude towards him.
“… Spoiled.”
The mocking words came from the antagonist’s mouth, although his face was full of impatience. Surprisingly, the antagonist actually replaced the nutrient solution with another one, without any additional condiments.
For a moment, He Ruge was somewhat pleasantly surprised.
He thought of Stockholm syndrome and suddenly understood those people. But when he thought of his shaved head, He Ruge couldn’t bring himself to like this antagonist.
Someone who truly cared would be like Mr. Xi. This nutrient solution was probably developed by aliens, with no particular taste. He Ruge missed eating with Mr. Xi, sometimes Mr. Xi would cook himself, and Mr. Xi’s grilled meat was delicious. Sometimes, the chef would cook.
Regardless of which, He Ruge always enjoyed it.
After finishing the nutrient solution, He Ruge felt the urge to use the bathroom again…
Why did being human involve eating, drinking, and excreting, and spending a quarter of life sleeping?
When He Ruge wrote, he never mentioned that the male and female leads needed to do these mundane things; indeed, paper characters were the perfect beings.
“I want to use the bathroom,” He Ruge whispered.
“You have to sing me a song before you can leave the cage,” the antagonist demanded.
Singing was worse than rolling his eyes. He Ruge wasn’t in the mood to sing in front of this stupid black-haired officer, but being under someone else’s roof, he had to lower his head. He casually picked a nursery rhyme and started singing. Mr. Xi had told him that infusing spiritual power into the throat would evoke a mermaid’s song.
But singing for this idiotic antagonist didn’t require so much attention to detail. He Ruge hurriedly finished singing and looked at Taotie.
Taotie opened the iron cage and let He Ruge out.
The room was dark, although the light was on…
No, He Ruge suddenly noticed that under the light, the shadow of the black-haired officer was large and long, like a bloated monster.
The enormous shadow covered not only the floor but also swallowed the walls and ceiling, making the entire room unusually dim.
A chill ran down He Ruge’s spine as he felt like he had stepped into a horror novel.
After the door opened, the hallway was narrow and dim, with only a small window at the end of the corridor. He Ruge tentatively walked towards the window, realizing that the antagonist didn’t stop him. He sighed in relief, standing in the only brightly lit corner.
It seemed the monstrous shadow feared the light, hence why it didn’t pursue him.
He Ruge really wanted to see the view outside the window, but he wasn’t tall enough to see anything. Standing at the window, He Ruge thought of “Rapunzel,” but unfortunately, he didn’t have long hair, just a bald head that looked like it had been chewed by a dog. He couldn’t let down his hair from the window to make a ladder for Mr. Xi to climb up.
Around the corner was the bathroom, and He Ruge wanted to take a shower. He had been forced to drink alcohol yesterday, and now his whole body smelled like it.
He Ruge didn’t want to report even for a shower with this stupid antagonist, yet he feared the antagonist might suddenly break in. Such a situation was very likely, after all, this antagonist didn’t play by the rules, even resorting to grabbing people from the bathroom…
“I want to take a bath,” He Ruge said.
The black-haired officer glanced at him with folded arms. “Troublesome.”
Taking a bath is a perfectly normal thing, right?
Could it be that this antagonist only bathes once a month?
He Ruge silently complained in his heart.
He really wanted to change his clothes, but after some thought, he decided against it. Although the clothes he was wearing now smelled of alcohol, He Ruge preferred enduring the current school uniform rather than having to approach that antagonist.
He adjusted the water temperature and comfortably soaked in the bath. Transforming into his original form would relax his body, so He Ruge secretly transformed into his mermaid form. His chubby fish tail gently swayed in the water. He had gotten used to the existence of his fish tail. He looked at the water’s surface and suddenly saw his own lush black hair.
Wait a minute.
He Ruge suddenly realized something he had forgotten. Once he transformed into his mermaid form, his hair automatically grew longer, reaching down to his waist. The hair that had been shaved bald by the antagonist had grown back, glossy and black.
Wouldn’t this expose him?
His intuition told him that exposing himself as a mermaid in front of the antagonist would definitely do more harm than good.
The only thing comforting He Ruge now was that when he transformed back from mermaid to human form, his hair would also shrink and shorten.
He clung to this last hope and transformed back into human form, only to sadly discover that while his hair had indeed become shorter, it hadn’t become as short as it was before the antagonist shaved it bald. The current short hair was the length it had been before the antagonist’s interference.
Although I’ll never go bald, I don’t really want this ability now.
He Ruge languished in the bathtub, lamenting for the first time about having excessively dense hair.
There came a knock on the bathroom door. It was the antagonist urging him to hurry up. He Ruge could only hope that the antagonist was blind and wouldn’t notice anything different about him.
But what was meant to happen would happen. He Ruge calmly opened the door, meeting the antagonist’s dark eyes.
Taotie saw this little pet washed clean like a freshly steamed bun. He reluctantly acknowledged one advantage of Earthlings: they could eat and bathe on their own without much trouble.
However, Taotie looked at this little pet and always felt that something was not quite right.
What was wrong?
He fell into contemplation.
After a while, Taotie softly asked, “Your hair, why has it grown back?”
He Ruge: “…”
I’m just a kid, I don’t know anything.
“Answer me.”
Taotie’s voice suddenly rose, and the shadow monster at his feet opened its bloodthirsty jaws, eager to devour.
He Ruge played dead.
Taotie sneered, “Not going to answer? Fine.”
He lifted He Ruge onto a mechanical chair like he was picking up a chick, secured him, and then took off He Ruge’s shoes.
He Ruge’s short legs couldn’t reach the ground, and his dangling feet kicked aimlessly at Taotie a few times.
Blood-red tattoos coiled around his ankles, and Taotie thoughtfully stared at He Ruge’s tattoos.
He Ruge had no idea what Taotie was planning. As the cameras circled around him, a terrifying thought arose in He Ruge’s mind…
Is this antagonist going to chop off his feet?!
In He Ruge’s terrified gaze, Taotie pulled out a feather and cruelly tickled He Ruge’s feet with it, causing them to flutter rapidly.
Earth-shattering laughter filled the room.
He Ruge: “Hahahahahaha!”
Damn it!
Asshole antagonist, can’t you hear me?!
He Ruge laughed so hard tears were streaming down his face, tears falling like pearls off a broken string—this wasn’t an exaggeration…
Pearls clattered to the floor, and Taotie picked up one, asking He Ruge, “Care to explain?”
He Ruge: “…”
I’m just a little mermaid, I don’t know anything.
“A mermaid?”
Taotie squinted his eyes.
“Transform into a mermaid so I can see.”
He Ruge continued to play dead, mentally chanting for Mr. Xi to appear quickly.
The antagonist stared at He Ruge for a long time, then abruptly stood up without warning. Just when He Ruge thought the antagonist was letting him off, the black-haired officer returned carrying a box.
He Ruge had a foreboding feeling.
A box full of spirit stones appeared before He Ruge’s eyes, a rich fragrance permeating the air. Taotie grabbed a handful of spirit stones and stuffed them into He Ruge’s mouth.
He Ruge was forced to absorb a large amount of spiritual energy, which surged chaotically through his body, then particularly rushed towards He Ruge’s legs.
Taotie released He Ruge from the restraints of the mechanical chair. The abyss-like black eyes stared silently at He Ruge. No one knew what he was thinking. His eyes held deep malice yet also conveyed inexplicable emotions.
When the little mermaid appeared, his black eyes brightened momentarily, revealing an inevitable desire.
Xi Guican piloted the mecha towards the Eleventh Star at top speed.
In his mind, images of He Ruge being forced to drink alcoholic nutrient solution and the pitiful expression when his head was shaved kept surfacing.
His blue eyes were icy cold, yet beneath the ice surface, a red fire was burning.
He pinpointed Taotie’s location from the video Taotie had sent. As Xi Guican approached his destination, his unease grew heavier.
The mecha broke through a civilian building. As Xi Guican rushed in, he saw an empty iron cage. The people in the house had already left, not long ago.
A lingering scent of mermaid lingered in the air.
Xi Guican lowered his head and picked up a pearl from the ground.
