Late-Night Transformation

That's some incredible showering speed! It's almost as fast as a man's.

"I just wanted to say a few words of farewell. You showered too quickly; don't most women take at least fifteen minutes to shower?"

"Where did you get this 'general' conclusion?" Auntie Liu immediately retorted.

"There are women in the orphanage too." Si Ming wasn't ashamed of this.

Auntie Liu observed Liu Qingqing for a moment and said, "No hickeys, it seems you really were just chatting... Alright, even if you had more to say, let's talk about it tomorrow." Her demeanor was that of someone guarding against a thief.

At this moment, the door to Liu Qingqing's room on the second floor was pushed open, and Xie Xiaomei staggered out, her face looking slightly unpleasant.

Seeing this, Auntie Liu asked with concern, "What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"

Xie Xiaomei nodded. "I can't sleep..."

"Would you like something to drink? How about milk? It's said to have a calming effect."

Xie Xiaomei shook her head and asked timidly, "Can I sleep with you?"

Auntie Liu smiled and said, "Of course... By the way, I'll read to you."

Xie Xiaomei's eyes lit up, and she nodded, saying, "I want to hear a story."

"Then you go back to bed first, I'll go find some stories suitable to tell children."

"Um."

Liu Qingqing was a little annoyed. "You've never read me a bedtime story."

Auntie Liu said irritably, "That's because you always fall asleep as soon as I start reading. I don't know who you inherited that ability from, falling asleep within half a minute of lying down on the bed. During those days when I had insomnia, I really wished you could pass that ability on to me."

She then glanced at Si Ming and said, "When you marry a chicken, you should follow the chicken; find a man who will cherish you in the future."

After saying that, he went to the study, leaving the two of them looking at each other in bewilderment.

Chapter 623 A Night of Terror

When Si Ming arrived at Liu Qingqing's house the next morning, he happened to meet Auntie Liu as she was leaving.

"I'm working all night tonight, so I won't be back. Don't wait for me. Go to sleep when it's time, and don't stay up late, okay?" Auntie Liu instructed Xie Xiaomei.

"I see."

"I'm heading out now."

Auntie Liu hurriedly put on her coat and went out, seemingly using some kind of light-footed skill, walking in a great hurry. Xie Xiaomei kept waving until she could no longer see her back.

"I feel like our intimacy level has increased significantly. Just looking at today's scene, you would never imagine that just two days ago, she would be so scared that she would hide under the covers after just one meeting," Si Ming remarked.

Liu Qingqing also said, "I feel like I've become an outsider in this family."

Si Ming quickly comforted her, "In Auntie Liu's eyes, you're an adult now and don't need much advice, while Xie Xiaomei is still a child, so she treats you like you used to be... Just think of it as having a little sister. Parents always like to use 'You're the older sister, so you should give way to your younger sister' or 'You're the older brother, so you should give way to your younger brother' to persuade people. It's hard to say whether this perception is right or wrong, or fair, but that's what everyone thinks, so you can only accept it."

Liu Qingqing said, "I'm not jealous; on the contrary, I'm a little moved. Seeing my mother now feels like going back to the past... although we can never go back."

"If we can't go back, then let's look forward. The reason why human eyes are located in the front of the head, instead of in the back of the head, is so that we can look forward." Si Ming presented a bowl of steaming hot chicken soup.

Liu Qingqing thought for a moment and said, "Wouldn't it be covered by hair if it's on the back of the head?"

"That's not the key point at all."

Although Si Ming could retaliate with his bald head, there was no point in arguing about it any longer, so he turned to Xie Xiaomei and said, "Let's continue our chivalrous deeds, but this time we don't have a specific target; we'll have to find them ourselves."

Xie Xiaomei didn't mind at all, and said earnestly, "Patrols are very necessary."

That being said, the three of them didn't encounter any unexpected incidents throughout the day. After all, none of them were the famous detectives who caused deaths wherever they went, and the security situation in Tange City wasn't so bad that crimes occurred every day. Besides, there was also the Mohist Knight Guard, so it wouldn't be an easy task to snatch a mission from them.

Of course, Si Ming wasn't foolish enough to patrol all day. He took Xie Xiaomei to the zoo halfway through. Because of the existence of Demon Beast in this world, the animals were incredibly diverse. There were rhinoceroses that were completely black, called "Si", horses with white heads and red tails that sounded like songs, called "Lushu", and hermaphroditic foxes called "Pinmu"... Not only did Xie Xiaomei scream with excitement, but Si Ming also found it fascinating and his eyes opened wide.

During the journey, Si Ming did not have Liu Qingqing hide as a drop of blood. Instead, he had her transform into a human and then put on a hooded cloak to cover her entire body. No one would notice anything amiss unless they observed carefully. Although such attire was quite suspicious, and she would certainly have been questioned by passing Mohist Knight Guard if she were traveling alone, with Si Ming and Xie Xiaomei accompanying her, others would only assume that she had a quirk or some kind of disease that prevented her from being exposed to light.

This time, Si Ming didn't stay out late like last night. After having dinner together, he went back to the orphanage. He had other things to do, such as asking for leave from school and asking his mentor Yan Jinghong if there were any new tasks for the next semester.

However, a phone call woke him up in the middle of the night.

"Come quick, Xiaomei's condition has changed!"

Could it be that the Vengeful Transformation has begun? That's too fast! It's only been seven or eight days!

Si Ming was anxious, so he immediately used his lightness skill to get to Liu Qingqing's house as fast as he could. What usually took him ten minutes to walk, he arrived in half a minute this time.

He had already prepared for the worst, but when he arrived at Liu Qingqing's room, he found that the situation was not as bad as he had imagined. Xie Xiaomei was not as frantic as Wan Ziling, and her shadow was normal, without any wild, flailing movements. She was simply sitting on the bed, covering her face in pain.

What happened?

Liu Qingqing shook her head helplessly. "I don't know the reason either. She might have had a nightmare. In the middle of the night, she suddenly screamed, and her eyes first shot out a red light, but it quickly disappeared. Then, wounds kept appearing on her body, but they healed in an instant. There seemed to be nothing wrong with her, but she just kept crying. No matter how I asked her, she didn't respond."

Si Ming thought for a moment. The red light flashing in her eyes was a sign of Vengeful Transformation, but how could she return to normal? It couldn't be that Xie Xiaomei stopped Vengeful Transformation on her own, could it? Even Wan Ziling didn't have that ability; she had to rely on external stimulation to recover.

Unable to figure out the reason, Si Ming stopped thinking about it and decided to treat her first. Anyway, he only knew one method. He originally planned to try to save Xie Xiaomei when she first Vengeful Transformation. He immediately formed hand Law Seals and began to perform the ritual steps.

"Manipulating the Heavenly Dao, transforming Yin and Yang, creating yin and yang, turning the universe around, should... Oh no, Technique Method can't be used in the Sea Continent!"

It wasn't until halfway through the journey that Si Ming realized he had forgotten this point: the method of transforming yin into yang was completely useless in the Sea Continent. He had just returned from the Barbarian Continent and hadn't yet changed his common sense and habits.

Seeing Si Ming's predicament, Liu Qingqing asked, "What should we do next? Is there any other way?"

Have you tried forcibly pulling her hands away?