Rumors About Monster No. 0: Who Ruined My Reputation?

"What?!"

The toy has awakened consciousness?!

It wasn't his imagination; the toys in the mall really did have their own consciousness. He'd thought so for a long time!

Yu Hai asked urgently, "How did you determine that?"

Rong Yin said calmly, "I'm sure."

This answer is seriously off-topic. He didn't explain how he was certain, he only said he was certain, as if his words were the yardstick of fact.

In short, the elite executives of the Ability Control Bureau shut their mouths.

Monsters are the most "abnormal" beings known to the Ability Control Bureau; they are mysterious and incredibly powerful.

Monster No. 0 is the largest of all monsters.

The shopping mall is considered "abnormal," and those who are "abnormal" understand "abnormal" better than anyone else—that much is beyond question.

Yu Hai most of it. Monster No. 0 wouldn't fabricate lies to appease humanity. To this monster, which had maintained a tenuous connection with the Ability Control Bureau for over three hundred years, humans were insignificant. Appease? Fabricate stories? What right did humanity have to do that?

Therefore, it is very likely true.

Yu Hai was secretly alarmed. How did these toys awaken their consciousness? If they had self-awareness, were they considered living beings? To which group should they be classified? Polluted? Monsters? They weren't human. Or... a new species?

Yu Hai swallowed hard at the thought; if it was a new species, then this matter was extremely important.

The monster Rong Yin didn't explain his concept of Quasi-Life to Yu Hai; he wasn't a particularly enthusiastic monster. Ye Jiang didn't mention it either, because in her understanding, life wasn't divided into such detailed categories. She was completely unaware of the intellectual frenzy that the elite from the Ability Control Bureau was experiencing beside her. Only Yu Hai was lost in his own shock.

Unseen life forms, Origin Power, former heroes, a strange marketplace that has existed for three hundred years... This marketplace desperately needs to be explored. A sense of urgency arose in Yu Hai's heart. He asked the Healer had arrived at this graveyard-like place before him, "Do you know how to leave this place?"

Does this place have an exit?

Could the skeleton before me have been trapped and died here?

Will they do the same?

Ye Jiang glanced at him upon hearing this, then pointed quietly in a direction where something familiar stood.

It's an elevator.

Yu Hai paused for two seconds. "Is this okay?"

Ye Jiang tilted her head, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. "Is it not allowed?"

Yu Hai: "..."

He never even considered leaving via the elevator; the stranger the place, the harder it is to think in a normal way.

Ye Jiang, however, was different. Only after being questioned by the Ability Control Bureau did she begin to consider whether it was possible. She stood up. "I'll go take a look."

She darted away, disappearing in the blink of an eye to the atrium, opening the elevator door, and then flashing back—the whole process taking only a second or two. She reported her success, "Great, the elevator says this is the basement level."

Yu Hai: "..."

Is that really possible?

He's overthinking it.

The Toy Mall even had a basement level, which wasn't shown when they took the elevator upstairs.

Regardless, the exit from the "graveyard" was still there, and Yu Hai felt relieved. He looked around the graveyard and said to Ye Jiang, "I'm going to wander around here and see if I can gather some information. Healer, you..."

Ye Jiang interrupted him, "I want to go upstairs."

There's a place she wants to visit.

Yu Hai was taken aback, then said, "Alright, then please wait for me on the 6th floor."

He has completed the toy task on the 5th floor and can now go to the 6th floor.

Reminded by these words, Ye Jiang recalled that this elite from the Ability Control Bureau had been doing a toy-related mission before, and asked, "How did you get to this place?"

Yu Hai, "I'm not really sure. I just finished the toy quest, and then I felt a suction force coming from around the toy that issued the quest. When I opened my eyes, I was here."

Ye Jiang didn't understand this, so she looked at the young man she considered a scholar and sought his answer. He understood her gaze and explained, "It must be that the toy had spatial magic sealed inside, but because it was poorly made, it was accidentally triggered."

Ye Jiang's eyes lit up; this monster named Rong Yin was truly knowledgeable!

Yu Hai had mixed feelings. It seemed that Monster No. 0 and the Healer had a really good relationship. He could even see a hint of tenderness in that cold monster when it looked at the Healer.

Not daring to think further, his thoughts turned to a question: Why were spatial magic sealed on the toys? Was it only that one toy that possessed spatial magic, or did all the toys have it?

Yu Hai was puzzled, but the question remained unanswered. The Healer didn't delve into the topic; she seemed to have overlooked it. Her curiosity abruptly ended, and she returned to the previous topic, saying, "I'm not going to the 6th floor; I'm going to the 99th floor."

She looked at Yu Hai and said, "Let's split up for now."

He paused, then added, "When you're playing here, help pick up any toys that have fallen over."

Get up for a moment.

She glanced around and saw that there were more than just one or two toys lying on the ground.

Yu Hai paused, his mind blank with a new question, and he was even a little slow to react. "... Huh?"

Splitting up is fine, helping each other with the toys is no big deal, but... going to the 99th floor?! Healer is going to the 99th floor?!

His expression was strange. "Healer, may I ask you again? Which floor were you placed on when you entered the building?"

Ye Jiang looked at him, puzzled. "100 floors."

Yu Hai: "!!"

"... It really is 100 floors?"

That's no joke, was it really dropped onto the 100th floor?

Ye Jiang didn't notice his surprise, because they had already discussed this matter. She replied with an "Mm" and headed towards the elevator.

Rong Yin followed her. She turned around and asked him, "Are you leaving too?"

Rong Yin said, "I'll go check out the 99th floor too."

Ye Jiang nodded, not asking why, but simply asked him, "Which floor were you placed on when you came in?"

"I wasn't on the floor; I was put in the elevator," Rong Yin replied.

"Oh."

Ye Jiang thought it was reasonable; if she could be placed on the 100th floor, it was normal for a young man to be placed in the elevator.

The two made small talk and headed towards the elevator, leaving Yu Hai alone, listening to their frantic conversation.

This... this...

Chapter 122 Misconceptions about Monster No. 0: Who's ruining my reputation?

As the elevator doors closed, Ye Jiang, with her eyes downcast, didn't see Captain Yu of the Ability Control Bureau belatedly rushing towards the elevator with questions in his mind. He had something to ask, but was stopped by a cold glance from the young man inside the elevator, missing his chance and watching helplessly as the elevator doors closed.

Ye Jiang didn't see it. She stared at the elevator buttons in front of her and suddenly a strange feeling welled up inside her. She felt that something was missing from this pile of elevator buttons. What was missing? She had no idea. Only that strange feeling bothered her.

Perhaps it was the sudden appearance of the elevator button on the basement level that affected her mood, making her feel that it was normal for there to be one more button among all the existing ones.

Lost in thought, she noticed the young man beside her watching her. Turning her head to look at him, their eyes met, and she saw the deep, unfathomable depths in his eyes. A thought struck her, and a hint of curiosity arose within her towards this fellow human. She asked him, "Rong Yin, why did you glare at Yu Hai when you saw him?"

Ye Jiang did see it. When she heard the noise and walked towards Yu Hai, who had fallen into the graveyard, the young man following her looked at the elite of the Ability Control Bureau and exuded a chilling aura.

Ye Jiang explained to the young man, "He's from the Ability Control Bureau."

Rong Yin: "."

"I can see that," he said.

"Why are you glaring at him?" Ye Jiang asked, puzzled. She had looked at the file, which clearly stated that the young man had established a three-hundred-year-old connection with the Ability Control Bureau, a relationship where he would lend a helping hand to the Ability Control Bureau when humanity was in trouble. However, during their recent encounter, she sensed that the young man's relationship with the Ability Control Bureau was actually lukewarm at best. And yet, he was glaring at him.

"He's come at the wrong time," the monster beside him said in a low voice.

"?"

"I didn't." The monster beside him slightly turned its head away.

Ye Jiang looked at him, while the monster stared intently at the numbers flashing on the elevator screen.

"..."

"..."

Okay, if he says no, then no.

Ye Jiang withdrew her gaze, also watching the fluctuating numbers. After a moment, she spoke again, "The Slaughter God of the Monster Realm..." The young man paused, looking at her. She continued softly, "Have you heard of him?"

The monster fell silent.

"Slaughter God?"

Ye Jiang looked at the scholar beside her with great interest and said, "Hmm, an evil and cruel monster."

Rong Yin: "..."

Ye Jiang noticed the young man's expression was a bit strange. She asked him what was wrong, and he twitched his lips, asking, "Who told you that?"

Ye Jiang sensed a chill in those three words. What was wrong with him? She replied, still somewhat dazed, "Three little monsters."

"The host's body is three monsters who are three human children? The three who just came to the fifth floor?"

"It's them, you know them too?"

"We've had some contact," he said quietly. "If the opportunity arises, I'll try to deepen our contact with them."

Ye Jiang didn't see the fleeting darkness in the young man's eyes, nor did she understand the hidden meaning in his words. Her thoughts were drawn into memories. Yes, it was recorded in the Monster Archives that No. 3, No. 5, and No. 7 had some interaction with the young man.

"What did they say about that Slaughter God?" Rong Yin asked, his eyes narrowing slightly as he spoke, a dangerous glint in them.

Ye Jiang's memory, usually as leaky as a sieve, was exceptionally sharp at this moment. She blurted out, "He said he was a madman, stirring up trouble, killing countless monsters, a fanatic of the Sky, driven mad by the Sky."

Rong Yin: "..."

"It's false. It's a myth." The space around him distorted, and a black hole almost emerged. He remained expressionless. "He's not crazy."