007. Heart of the Corrupted Skadi: The way to serve a god is to wear silk stockings and step on them with your feet
Chen Ran went out.
He had people fetch some small hamster-like animals, and at the same time ordered a batch of clothing to be made—intended for Heart of the Corrupted Skadi to wear.
Because Heart of the Corrupted Skadi lacked human shame, she never intended to put clothes back on once she took them off.
While this certainly could ramp up one's sex drive in a short time, making a person feel like cotton swabs, cat teaser wands, and ribbed gloves ought to be arranged immediately...
Still, pretty faces are all alike, and after looking at them for too long one truly grows tired of it. It lacks the hazy beauty of a shy maiden half-hiding her face behind a lute.
When Chen Ran returned holding a cardboard box, he found that Heart of the Corrupted Skadi had not run around, but was still sitting obediently on the table.
A mobile phone was placed in front of her, propped up with a phone stand, and Heart of the Corrupted Skadi was extending her two little hands and sliding them back and forth across the screen—
Even though the phone was larger than Heart of the Corrupted Skadi's entire body.
"What are you looking at? Is there anything that interests you?"
Chen Ran placed the cardboard box on the table and asked.
Just as he had denied being a god right from the start, Chen Ran had no intention of hiding things or playing coy either; he simply tossed a phone over, planning to let Heart of the Corrupted Skadi figure out this world on her own.
Hearing this, Heart of the Corrupted Skadi turned her head to look, and said, "I have learned your language, Lord God."
"Oh, then you learned quite fast. But didn't Arknights have a country called Higashi, if I recall? Their language isn't the same as mine here, is it?"
While asking, Chen Ran also placed a small cardboard box in front of Heart of the Corrupted Skadi.
In truth, Heart of the Corrupted Skadi was quite puzzled as well. She was very certain that she was speaking the language of the Sea Creatures mixed with a bit of Sargonian, while Chen Ran, this Lord God, spoke a language she had never heard before.
Yet the two of them could communicate without any barriers.
Perhaps... this was the mighty power of the Lord God?
However, Heart of the Corrupted Skadi did not care about such minor details, and instead focused her attention on the cardboard box in front of her.
"Lord God, what is this?"
"Clothes for you to wear."
"Clothes...?"
Heart of the Corrupted Skadi opened the cardboard box, and sure enough, she saw that the contents were women's clothing like skirts and silk stockings.
"Thank you for your generosity, Lord God."
Though Heart of the Corrupted Skadi still did not understand what meaning there was to wearing clothes.
Was it like dressing up a Barbie doll? Or like a removable figure?
Anyway, it was quite interesting to Chen Ran.
Seeing Heart of the Corrupted Skadi squatting in front of that cardboard box, sticking out her little hand to pick and choose inside, Chen Ran sat down before the desk, gripped the mouse, and opened a web page on the computer.
Chen Ran had actually considered many ways on how to better exploit... oh right, on how to better help that Sea Creature evolve and ascend.
Throwing some small animals inside to turn them into so-called prehistoric fierce beasts was one method, but the problem was that it was uncontrollable.
If he wanted something controllable, something that targeted only that Sea Creature, coming wave after wave in endless succession, and something that couldn't just blindly rush forward but required changing strategies so that the Sea Creature could gain all-around elevation and evolution because of it...
To this end, Chen Ran had skimmed through quite a bit of material, to the point where he even wondered whether he should turn that newborn planet model into a VR game where players entering the game would essentially project their consciousness onto that planet model, and then treat the Sea Creature as a boss for players to team up and farm.
However, just as Chen Ran hadn't decided whether or not to actually do it, and how to implement it even if he did—
Paji.
Chen Ran felt the hand holding the mouse get poked by someone.
Pulling his thoughts back, he subconsciously turned his head to look, only to see that Heart of the Corrupted Skadi, who had just been picking and choosing earlier, had now outfitted herself in an urban-career-woman style of dress.
A little shirt, a cinched skirt, and beneath the hem of the skirt and those lace-trimmed garterized black silk stockings, an absolute territory was formed.
It was certainly pretty, but for some reason Heart of the Corrupted Skadi wasn't wearing shoes, and she had lifted up her thigh wrapped in black silk, using her silk-clad foot to lightly step on the back of Chen Ran's hand.
This was the reason why Chen Ran had felt someone poking him earlier.
There was no helping it; one of Heart of the Corrupted Skadi's thighs was only as thick as Chen Ran's pinky finger, and no matter how soft that silk-clad foot was, the surface area it could step on was only that big.
Chen Ran didn't understand what this Heart of the Corrupted Skadi was doing for a moment, and Heart of the Corrupted Skadi didn't understand why Chen Ran wasn't reacting either.
The two of them stared at each other in a daze for a while, and then Heart of the Corrupted Skadi used her silk-clad little foot to actively rub against the back of Chen Ran's hand.
Alright, Chen Ran understood now.
Yet while finding it amusing, Chen Ran still couldn't help asking, "What are you doing?"
"Serving Lord God." As she spoke, Heart of the Corrupted Skadi continued to rub with her silk-clad little foot: "I saw in that glowing little box that it's written this way."
"I gave you a phone for you to understand the world, what on earth have you been learning?"
Chen Ran continued enjoying Heart of the Corrupted Skadi's foot massage while speaking... if this could even be called a massage,
at the same time, he reached out his other hand and picked up the phone on the table.
He flipped through the browsing history on the phone:
"Give me food to eat, give me water to drink, and give me a place to live. Is he my Lord God?"
"What does financial support mean?"
"What does it mean to please a man?"
"What does it mean that to capture a man's heart you must capture his stomach?"
"How to capture a man's heart?"
"Anatomy tutorial"
"Why is murder illegal?"
"How to please Lord God?"
"What is a shrine maiden?"
"What is roleplay?"
"What is BDSM?"
Chen Ran: *...*
Alright, no need to look anymore.
After all, this Heart of the Corrupted Skadi claimed with her mouth that she was serving the Lord God, yet her method of service was to wear black silk stockings and step on him with her feet...
He knew right away that this Heart of the Corrupted Skadi had definitely been led astray.
So, turning off the phone screen, Chen Ran looked back at Heart of the Corrupted Skadi, who was still stepping on the back of his hand with her silk-clad foot.
"Alright, I pretty much understand what's going on."
Chen Ran reached out and poked Heart of the Corrupted Skadi's little head with his fingertip, causing her to step back a few steps, and the silk-clad foot that had been stepping on the back of his hand thus hit empty air.
"Lord God? Do you not like this?"
"I like it just fine, it's just that your little feet are too small, so stepping on it doesn't really feel like much. Besides, with how crystal-clear yet a bit foolish you look right now, acting like you don't understand anything, it gives me quite a bit of guilt."
Hearing this, Heart of the Corrupted Skadi tilted her little head.
Seeming to have figured something out, she stepped forward again on her silk-clad little feet, and then stretched out her small hands to gently hug the very finger Chen Ran had used to poke her little head earlier.
Seeing Heart of the Corrupted Skadi tilt her little head to look at him, Chen Ran couldn't help laughing: "So after all that I said, the only thing you heard was "too small", is that it?"
You could say Heart of the Corrupted Skadi was a bit slow, yet she actually knew to use her body to hug Chen Ran's fingertip to increase the surface area.
Still, if she could hug a single finger now, would she be able to hug something thicker in the future?
008. A huge eyeball is observing the miniature people in the jar
With one hand gripping the mouse to click on web pages and browse articles on low-dimensional games and sandbox simulations, Chen Ran fed Heart of the Corrupted Skadi like he was feeding a hamster with the other.
While popularizing sex education for Heart of the Corrupted Skadi, he watched her swap through white silks, black silks, fishnets, and lace one after another in front of him, much like dressing up a Barbie doll.
Though he had no idea how Chen Ran was teaching—clearly it was supposed to be a sex-ed lesson, yet as he taught, he watched Heart of the Corrupted Skadi float up, land on Chen Ran's shoulder, and then start trying to stuff her little foot into Chen Ran's mouth.
Fortunately, it was harmless, and this kind of life was actually quite enjoyable—
Provided that the Sea Creatures over there didn't go crazy.
After tossing that Sea Creature onto that newborn planet, although Chen Ran had treated it like an idle harvesting game and left it alone on the side,
that translucent pop-up box still faithfully performed its duty:
"Your Sea Creature Number One is eating like crazy"
"You acquired a new ability: Appetite Increased"
"Your Sea Creature Number One is stuffing its face like crazy"
"You acquired a new ability: Appetite Increased"
"Your Sea Creature Number One is..."
Chen Ran: *...*
Seriously, this made Chen Ran laugh out loud.
Because the more mentally deficiently that Sea Creature stuffing its face like crazy behaved, the more idiotic the Aegir people in that worldline of Sea Creature destruction appeared.
So this kind of thing, huh? Just this kind of thing that only knew how to make rice more expensive—just how far down the path of courting death were those Aegir people to force a bottomless pit of an appetite into issuing an extinction order?
If not for the fact that all humans in the worldline of Sea Creature destruction were completely wiped out, Chen Ran would have grabbed an Aegir person right now to ask—
"Huh? Wait, were the humans in the worldline of Sea Creature destruction really all wiped out?"
"Probably not?"
"To say the least, Kal'tsit should be able to survive. Oh right, and Mizuki."
Not remembering the settings too clearly, Chen Ran picked up Heart of the Corrupted Skadi—who had already crawled all the way to his mouth—by the scruff like a hamster and set her aside.
He clicked open a web page and opened the wiki.
"Mizuki's roguelike fourth ending..."
"Ah, as expected, humans really aren't completely wiped out? They're all hiding inside the final city?"
"But the fourth ending doesn't seem to have anything to do with Isabella? It's another primal Izumik."
So were Mizuki's roguelike fourth ending and Isabella's ascension the exact same worldline?
Chen Ran turned his head to glance at Heart of the Corrupted Skadi, who was floating back and forth nearby, and said, "When you ascended, were there still humans on that Terra?"
"I do not know."
Heart of the Corrupted Skadi floated from Chen Ran's left to his right, from his right to his left, and then gently landed like a feather, lying down comfortably in Chen Ran's opened palm: "The Great Swarm only seeks continuation."
"Simply put, humans living or dying has nothing to do with you lot, is that it?"
Chen Ran nodded in understanding, then stood up and walked over to the solar system model set.
Earlier, he had assumed that since Heart of the Corrupted Skadi had already ascended, humans must have died out completely, leaving this solar system model set as nothing more than an empty frame, so he had just left it here alone.
As for now—
Just like before, he reached out toward the planet model of Terra, making it continuously enlarge and zoom in.
He kept zooming in until he once again saw the dense swarms of Sea Creatures outside that planet model,
only then did Chen Ran stop, and he leaned in close to the exterior of that planet model, searching for the tiny creatures inside much like observing an ecological bottle or a culture chamber.
However, because he had already muted the entire swarm of Sea Creatures, Chen Ran remained unaware that upon seeing their Lord God appear once more, the entire Sea Creature swarm had thrown themselves into chaos all over again—
"Sea Creature 1: I'm hungry..."
"Sea Creature 2: Little Flower says it seems to have been caught and taken to a paradise filled with food everywhere, where you can eat endlessly and never finish..."
"Sea Creature 3: I want to eat too!"
"Sea Creature 4: When is Lord God going to catch and take me away too... I want to eat too!"
"Sea Creature 5: Lord God has appeared!"
"Sea Creature 6: Lord God! Catch me! Catch me! I want to eat! Eat!"
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