When the developer designed Jiang Hou's residential complex, they left a beam between the living room balcony and the side bedroom's wall, allowing the enclosed balcony to be divided into a small one three meters long and one meter wide.
The spot faced the sun and had good ventilation. Above it was the neighbor's small balcony, which happened to provide shelter from wind and rain while leaving space to dry clothes.
Before long, Jiang Hou carried the clothes into Qin Siyu's room, folded her dresses, socks, and stockings, and placed them on her bedside table so they would be easy to put on tomorrow morning.
Next came the pink bras and underwear carrying the scent of laundry detergent, which he hung in the wardrobe.
This girl liked pink way too much. Everything was pink. Looking at the rows of pink personal items in the wardrobe, Jiang Hou shook his head and left with his own clothes.
The two had grown up together, so Jiang Hou had long become immune to a girl's personal belongings.
To Jiang Hou, aside from their different shapes, those things were essentially just two pieces of cloth. They had none of the mysterious charm those shut-in men imagined.
That evening, a little after seven.
After showering, Qin Siyu came over and sat on the sofa in pink pajamas resembling an oversized hoodie. She sat cross-legged, exposing her fair thighs.
The girl turned her head and looked eagerly at Jiang Hou. "I heard the Celebrity Gathering show at Lake Mountain Stage is really funny. Let's watch that today."
"Anything is fine," Jiang Hou said indifferently.
Whenever they had nothing to do after dinner, he and Qin Siyu would watch television together for a while. But today, as he watched, Jiang Hou's attention drifted to the Smart Watch.
Aside from its detection functions and stored basic information, the watch could also connect to the internet, though it required authorization, including linking it to a phone.
There was also an app called Combat Power Ranking in the corner of the screen, but he could not open it. It required authorization as well.
"Hahaha... Jiang Hou, that Sha Changshan is so dumb. He guesses wrong every time." Qin Siyu pointed at the television, her delicate, beautiful face blooming with laughter.
"True." Jiang Hou smiled as well.
Of course, Jiang Hou knew those celebrities were not really that stupid. There was a high chance it was all part of the show's script, but there was obviously no need to tell Qin Siyu that.
That included the information he had learned today.
It was more or less what Jiang Hou had guessed before. The authorities had sealed off information about the supernatural to prevent panic.
After learning that Ruins Monsters existed, most ordinary people would feel fear and terror, while a small number would develop intense desire and greed for supernatural power.
These negative emotions would continue to accumulate. When those people actively or passively came into contact with contaminated power, the original three percent chance of successful evolution would drop to one in a thousand, or even lower.
Moreover, that three percent was the highest probability obtained through official experiments. Under normal circumstances, ordinary people only had a one percent chance of surviving contamination.
To avoid creating more monsters and triggering large-scale panic and chaos, suppressing information about the supernatural clearly did more good than harm.
In a dim and oppressive world, at the edge of that bone-covered ruin, Jiang Hou's figure appeared out of thin air.
However, today he had an additional gray waterproof canvas bag in his hand.
The moment he arrived, Jiang Hou cautiously scanned his surroundings as usual. Only after confirming there were no monsters did he quickly remove his clothes and pack them into the canvas bag.
Roar! The air trembled. Amid howling winds, a Black Tyrant Ape standing six and a half meters tall appeared. The giant ape stood upright, with narrow eyes, pointed ears, and a protruding muzzle. It looked demonic and vicious.
Every time he entered, Jiang Hou immediately transformed into Behemoth Form to prevent accidents.
After all, the gap in strength between his human form and Behemoth Form was simply too great. More than ten times the strength and enhancements to his other attributes translated into a difference in combat power of dozens or even hundreds of times.
After transforming into the Behemoth, Jiang Hou bent down and carefully pinched the elastic cord, which was as tiny as thread, wrapping it several times around his left shoulder to secure the canvas bag.
Then it was time to get to work.
A Black Tyrant Ape ran across the ground with huge strides and soon reached the edge of the Twisted Forest, where he had killed the first nest of Black Ant Ferocious Beasts yesterday.
But as soon as he arrived, the Black Tyrant Ape narrowed its eyes.
The Ferocious Beast remains it had eaten yesterday were all gone. There were also long, winding crushed tracks on the ground, resembling the path left by snakes.
"Snake-type Ferocious Beasts?" The Black Tyrant Ape's gaze turned thoughtful.
Within the tree forest shrouded in black mist, the giant ape moved carefully. This time, it still followed the forest's edge, but headed to the right.
The ground within the forest was bare, without a single blade of grass. The tracks left behind by those snake-type Ferocious Beasts were extremely obvious, and after walking only three kilometers, it found something.
Coiled around an eighty-meter-tall "small tree" were two monsters roughly thirteen meters long. They resembled snakes, but their middle sections were bloated, and their bodies were covered in gray scales.
Their heads resembled lions, surrounded by a ring of black manes. Their slightly open mouths were full of fangs, and long forked tongues flicked in and out.
The instant the Black Tyrant Ape spotted the Lion Python Ferocious Beasts, the two Ferocious Beasts that had been sleeping suddenly opened their eyes and looked over, their tongues flicking.
Hiss hiss!! The two Ferocious Beasts let out snake-like hisses. Their eyes were cold as they stared at the Black Tyrant Ape that had intruded upon their territory, their bodies slithering downward.
However, the Black Tyrant Ape ignored their warning. The moment the two Lion Pythons reached the ground, the soil beneath its feet exploded.
Boom! Borrowing the recoil from the ground, the giant ape became a black blur and flashed forward, its speed nearly reaching fifty meters per second.
In an instant, the air boomed. Before one Lion Python could react, it was smashed into the tree by a punch.
Bang! Under that terrifying force, the Lion Python's head shattered. The great tree shook, and the bark on its trunk exploded apart, mixing with blood that sprayed through the air.
Its long arm was like a spear, and its punch like a cannon blast.
Though it had never learned any kind of boxing technique, strength seventy or eighty times greater than an ordinary human's made every punch from the Black Tyrant Ape terrifyingly powerful.
Hiss hiss!! Sensing the ferocious Evil Qi radiating from the giant ape at close range, the remaining Lion Python's tail immediately went limp as it let out a terrified hiss.
But before the Lion Python could attack or flee, a thick, enormous palm reached out.
Its hand struck like a claw, grabbing the Lion Python by the neck with a backhand motion.
Hiss hiss!! The Lion Python immediately began struggling violently.
This Ferocious Beast was more than ten meters long and even larger than the Black Ant Ferocious Beast. The force erupting from its struggles made the Black Tyrant Ape's arm shake.
That was while its neck was being held and its upper body could not exert any force.
As the Lion Python struggled madly and even twisted its body around the giant ape's arm, the Black Tyrant Ape let out a brutal roar and extended its other hand.
Roar! The vicious roar shook the air. With overwhelming strength, the Black Tyrant Ape directly tore off the Lion Python's head, and orange-red blood sprayed like a fountain, dyeing the giant ape's body red.
However, snake-like creatures could remain active even after death. Even with its head torn off, the body in the giant ape's grasp continued twisting wildly.
The corpse of the Lion Python whose head had been smashed apart was also writhing crazily on the ground, scattering blood everywhere. The Black Tyrant Ape found the sight somewhat enjoyable.
In Behemoth Form, it was not just its strength that changed. Its consciousness was affected as well. With every kill, Jiang Hou in Behemoth Form became increasingly violent.
He naturally noticed this, but he did not care, because he—it—had been a Behemoth from the start! First update, more to come.
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