The fluffy tail collapsed. There were no bones or muscles inside it, only tentacle after tentacle. Dark gray tentacles covered in suckers.
"Hic—" Yang Wanqing backed away three steps.
That round, adorable fox face was changing too. The contours of its cheeks bulged outward, something writhing beneath the skin.
Its mouth split open—not simply opening, but tearing from the corners all the way to its ears.
The torn mouth was packed with fine, needlelike teeth, three or four rows of them, all curving inward.
The pointed ears disappeared. Two dark gray feelers sprouted where they had been, each tipped with a tiny, pitch-black secondary eye.
Four legs became eight. The extra four grew from either side of its abdomen, their joints bending backward, their ends tipped with barbed hooks instead of paw pads.
Its size was changing too. Its fist-sized body swelled, growing from the size of a cat to the size of a dog.
Within ten seconds, the "Little Cutie" that had broken four hundred million hearts was completely gone.
In its place stood a gray-black alien creature covered in slime, with tentacles and compound eyes.
It was not pretty.
It was hideous.
Yang Wanqing's expression went from shock to blankness, then from blankness to something impossible to describe.
At that instant, the livestream chat stopped.
Completely stopped.
More than four hundred million people were struck speechless at once.
It lasted two seconds.
Then the comments flooded in like a tsunami—
"Holy shit."
"Am I blind?"
"What??????"
"It's not a cute little pet???"
"What the fuck is that thing?"
"I puked. I actually puked."
"I'm the clown who was sobbing my eyes out just now."
The transformed creature did not attack.
It crouched there, its gray-black body rising and falling slightly.
That layer of golden fur, that skin... lay