A Slacker, a Nobody, but the Mother of Monsters
Chapter 214

Filming Him.

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Unable to find it, she chose to complain.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Pei stood up straight. "Who's so bold as to bully our Waiter! I'll beat her up for you!"

Ye Jiang then gave a brief, mixed account of what happened at the villa, saying that the villa belonged to a woman whose child had turned into Living Dead. Ye Yanran brought people to find the Living Dead, and the homeowner hid in the basement with the Living Dead. However, a woman came in, found the homeowner, knocked out the homeowner, Ye Yanran, and her colleague, killed the Living Dead, and ran away.

She emphasized that the woman had promised her not to kill the Polluted in the villa, but then secretly planted a weapon that killed one of the Polluted.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Pei's expression darkened. "The number of people affected by the magnetic field fluctuations of the Watch Mountain Range is neither too many nor too few. These people are tossed around by the mountains in one illusion after another. Sometimes there are relatively few outsiders gathered in an illusion, and sometimes there are a lot of outsiders gathered in an illusion by chance."

And it seems there are quite a few outsiders in this illusionary realm they are in now.

Moreover, it seems that some people are still restless. This illusion has not been formed for very long, but the protagonist has already encountered two misfortunes.

It seems that simply being an observer won't work now. In order to get out of this illusion as soon as possible, she has to provide some protection for the protagonist.

Thinking of this, Xiao Pei stretched out her long arm to stroke Ye Jiang's hair, but Ye Jiang turned her head away with a blank expression. Xiao Pei didn't mind and discussed with Ye Jiang, "I've remembered about that woman. Next time I see her, can I help you beat her up?"

And now, she has the most important thing to do—protect Ye Yanran.

Ye Jiang didn't really want Xiao Pei to help her beat someone up; she just wanted... wait, what did she want to do?

Ye Jiang didn't know why she had complained, and after hearing Xiao Pei's words, she felt inexplicably satisfied and less angry with that woman.

Ye Jiang thought to herself, "I seem to be acting a little strange."

Feeling a little dazed, Ye Jiang remembered that Ming Chun was still looking for someone and casually asked, "Where's Ming Xia?"

"Xiao Xia? I sent her to look for the missing citizens," Xiao Pei said. "We encounter one or two citizens in each world. Once we find them, we just need to bring them with us, and they'll be thrown into the next world along with us. We've already collected quite a few, and since we're in this world, we should do the same."

So, Ming Xia is alright?

Ye Jiang deduced this conclusion, said "Oh," and didn't reply.

Of course, she could help Ming Chun Ming Xia reunite, but she wasn't a doting mother who wanted to handle everything. They could do these harmless tasks themselves, since there was nothing about them that interested her.

Ye Jiang stopped talking about Ming Xia and went to the young woman. She squatted down, stretched out her slender arms, and easily picked up the woman with her small frame.

Xiao Pei: "..."

"Where are you going?" Xiao Pei asked.

Ye Jiang said curtly, "Take her back to her room and give her some treatment."

She wanted to cleanse the woman of the Pollution and erase a part of her memory, about her child.

The latter is the most important.

She couldn't protect the Polluted; the Polluted was already dead, the deed was done, and she could only try to make her forget it, not wanting her to see the Polluted's corpse again.

For some reason, Ye Jiang felt an unusual urge to do something to this woman.

Xiao Pei watched Ye Jiang carry the woman away, wanting to tell her that this was an illusion, and the woman was just a phantom, so there was no point in being so kind to her. But seeing Ye Jiang carrying the woman, she opened her mouth, but couldn't bring herself to say it.

Sometimes, some people do things that seem meaningless.

In the first world, she repeatedly tried to make up for the regrets; wasn't that the same thing?

*

When Ye Yanran woke up, she felt as if she had had a wonderful dream. She tried to recall it but couldn't find the memory. She was in a daze when she suddenly remembered that she and Sister Xiu were still in the strange ghost wall. Her eyes widened in shock.

"Woke up?"

A voice came from above. A woman stood on the stairs above her, arms crossed, leaning against the railing. She was tall and slender, with bulging, powerful muscles and a fierce demeanor, like a soldier from a special forces unit.

Ye Yanran immediately became wary, until she heard the other person say, "I'm Ye Jiang's friend; she's the one who called me here."

Ye Jiang!

Ye Yanran became worried. "Where is Ye Jiang?!"

Xiao Pei gestured upwards with her lip. "In the room upstairs, take care of a lady."

"Huh?" Ma'am?

Ye Yanran confused. She looked to the side and saw Sister Xiu, who was turning her eyes as she woke up. Her gaze went further and she saw... the corpse of the child suffering from the Living Dead. Her pupils constricted, and she stared blankly at the corpse.

this...

What exactly happened?

Xiao Pei recounted Ye Jiang's account to the protagonist, Ye Yanran listened in silence. Who was the intruder? Was she a superhuman? Was the ghost wall in the villa her doing? Why did she kill the Living Dead?

Ye Yanran was puzzled by these things, but they were not suitable to discuss with the ordinary citizens in front of her.

After silently processing this for a while, Ye Yanran suddenly stood up and walked towards the elevator.

"Where are you going?" Xiao Pei looked up at her.

Ye Yanran, "Go to the basement."

Xiao Pei said, "The basement is empty; the homeowner is in a room upstairs."

Ye Yanran suddenly paused, and after a few seconds, she repeated in a flat tone, "Go to the basement."

Xiao Pei: "?"

Isn't something a little off about this situation?

Xiao Pei straightened up, keenly sensing something. She thought for a moment and repeated, "The basement is empty; the homeowner is in a room upstairs."

"Go to the basement," Ye Yanran repeated, as if a tape had stuck.

Xiao Pei: "..."

Ye Yanran's condition is definitely not right.

But she roughly knew what was going on.

It's a correction to the illusion.

Because Ye Yanran's story underwent some troublesome alterations, deviating too much from the actual events, the illusion abruptly corrected it for her. Xiao Pei had encountered a similar situation in another world.

In the basement of the villa, there must be something crucial to Ye Yanran that could influence her fate in this illusion.

Xiao Pei became interested and followed Ye Yanran to the basement.

As they entered the elevator leading to the basement, countless invisible energy particles drifted, gathered, and then formed a... "person."

bite.

When the elevator stopped and the doors opened, Xiao Pei and Ye Yanran simultaneously saw a "person" sitting on the basement floor, whose height was only about one meter.

One-eyed, with snow-white skin and long, thick, black-red hair that fell to the ground, she resembled a handmade doll, appearing very... very thin.

No, she's not human. She only has one eye, located on her forehead. It's very large and takes up most of her face.

Her hands had long, slender fingers, and upon closer inspection, they had an extra joint compared to normal hands, with webbing between her fingers.

And... she's really thin.

It is flat, and its body is half the thickness of an average person.

Xiao Pei: "..."

Ye Yanran: "..."

This shouldn't be considered human; it only has a rough human shape and appears deformed.

It's a distortion that truly challenges human imagination.

Is it Living Dead?

The "doll" looked at them, or more accurately, she only looked at Ye Yanran. Her gaze was clearly not human; it lacked normal human emotions.

But it's different from the malice seen in the eyes of the Living Dead; it gives people the feeling of...

Nothingness.

The Pollution on the "doll" was very low, so low that it was almost imperceptible. She looked at Ye Yanran, and Ye Yanran eyes. In that instant, they didn't know that in a room upstairs in the villa, Ye Jiang had erased the woman's memory and cured the Pollution. Just as she was about to open the door to go out, her body suddenly went limp, she lost consciousness, and her body fell to the ground.

At the same time, the "doll" in the basement moved a finger.

Chapter 154 Photographing Him.

Ye Jiang moved her fingers and immediately felt something different. Her body felt very light, as if she had taken off a heavy garment, and her breathing became smoother and more natural.

A second ago, she didn't feel her body was that heavy, but compared to now, she clearly felt the restraint her body had previously imposed on her.

what happened?

Ye Jiang rolled her eyes and saw her own hand, a hand with long, slender fingers connected by webbed fingers... a very unfamiliar hand.

"..."

Her hands don't look like this. What happened to her body?

As Ye Jiang was thinking this, it was as if a mirror had been placed in front of her, and she saw her current appearance—

Very short, one-eyed, and very thin.

She became hard to say whether she resembled a human being or something else entirely.

A fragment of memory flashed through his mind. He tore open the world barrier, his full form obscured. His enormous body looked down from the Sky. Strange life forms bustled about in his eyes, as weak as ants, yet for some reason, they were not afraid of their weakness. Their joys and sorrows were not related to their ant-like origins.

They were a very strange group of beings, completely different from the beings He observed from His own world.

He gazed at it coldly, yet a wisp of wind and a wisp of cloud stirred something inexplicably within his empty heart.

His gaze was drawn to the swarm of ants.

A colossal body descended from the sky, shrinking upon landing. The ethereal, smoke-like body gained substance, and He sculpted the body of an ant for Himself.

The bodies of ants must first have a smooth membrane to enclose everything. The top must have long antennae, the color of which can be chosen by the ant. The container for their thoughts is round, with pits and slopes on its surface. Ants are generally similar in shape; their creator was quite stingy with them, making them appear as if they were all molded, narrow, flat, and with very little individuality. Furthermore, the creatures of this world are too weak, so each ant must have two long, flexible legs for survival, and two more long legs for movement, which must be firmly planted on the ground.

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