Xyrin Empire
Chapter 555 Little Werewolf Appears - Mercury Lamp? Duan Ya!

Chapter 555: Chapter 555 Little Werewolf Appears - Mercury Lamp? Duan Ya!

Listen, the current situation is extremely dangerous, quirky, and... ball-breaking.

Watching Dingdang fluttering around in the water before me, I felt my cognitive abilities depleting by the second.

"Ah Jun, Ah Jun! Dingdang has new discoveries!"

The Little Goddess had no idea what she was actually doing. Instead, she gleefully waved at me as though I had turned to stone, then lay on her back on the water’s surface and rapidly swam without moving her limbs, reaching speeds of over two meters per second.

...I could tell straight away that she was using her wings as propellers, operating at full power underwater. Lady Goddess, with an IQ of `9`, found immense joy in this silly game.

"Indeed, this suits Dingdang! No more worrying about hands and wings getting tangled. Ah Jun, do you think my swimsuit looks good?"

As she spoke, the Little Thing came up with another amusement and twirled in the water to show off her "new swimsuit" to me – a super micro-sized school swimsuit.

School swimsuits are not evil, but the masses have endowed them with an evil connotation. So, as a member of the masses, I was once again struck by the Five Thunders Bombarding.

"Bubbles ordered lots and lots of figures online, then gave the complimentary clothes to Dingdang. They all fit so well! And this swimsuit has a low back cut, so there’s no worry about the wings not stretching out!"

Family education! The child’s mother needs to undergo a very serious and formal re-education from the start!

I grabbed Dingdang out of the water and looked around but couldn’t find a suitable place to confine her. In the end, under the puzzled protests of the Little Thing, I had to temporarily tip her into a bucket. Then I got up with a ball-breaking expression and draped a towel around me.

No worries, if your sense of decency is already at zero, there’s no need to keep worrying.

And strangely enough, even though I was invaded by a girl in the bathroom just like before, the shock Dingdang and Anwina had on me was not at all on the same level. The latter made me feel like Sandora and Qianqian could rush in holding a cannon, whereas the former only gave me a slight headache.

It was like a pet cat suddenly barging in while I was bathing – nothing but a bit of absurd amusement.

Dingdang’s image as a pet was so deeply ingrained in my heart, I found it completely impossible to see her as a girl...

"Pffft—Ah Jun, what are you doing?!"

"And you’re asking me?!" I was about to lose my temper over this senseless Little Thing, "I was taking a bath, and you suddenly barge in, what is that about?!"

"Because Ah Jun needs Dingdang!"

The Little Thing immediately puffed out her little chest, looking utterly serious.

I began to look for bottles and jars—today, I had to stuff this Little Thing into one!

"Otherwise, Ah Jun’s body won’t recover well!"

The words that followed from Dingdang made me stop in my tracks.

The Little Thing plopped onto my shoulder and clutched my ear tightly, chiding me loudly, "Ah Jun, you’re being too reckless, turning yourself into a Void Creature is very dangerous, do you know that? Not even the gods of the Star Domain would attempt such a risky experiment! Being immune to Void Erosion and turning oneself into a Void Creature are completely different concepts! Ah Jun, do you know how serious it was when you just returned? Dingdang could only see your body, not your soul—Your body and soul were almost completely isolated from each other! Split by Void Energy, although it looked like they were both self-repairing, Dingdang was still worried. The speed of the repair is too slow!"

That skill’s aftereffects... were they that severe?

I was startled by Dingdang’s description, knowing this little thing wouldn’t possibly lie to me, and immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

"So, starting from now, Dingdang must be with Ah Jun twenty-four hours a day, bathing, eating, sleeping, playing, all together! Dingdang will continuously supply energy to speed up the recovery of Ah Jun’s soul, um, just like that!"

"What about going to the bathroom?"

I blurted out the question, then instantly felt something was wrong.

A lifetime of reputation, soiled by the collaboration of an idiot maid and a silly goddess.

"This... this..." Dingdang’s face turned red as it looked at me, then resolutely said, "Dingdang will lie in Ah Jun’s pocket and absolutely won’t come out!"

"Okay, second question," I tapped Dingdang’s little head, wondering if I should remind this dummy, "Have you noticed that when I take a bath... I don’t wear clothes?"

"Eh? Oh yeah," it seemed the little thing hadn’t thought this through when it inadvertently barged in, only now realizing the gravity of the issue. After pondering for two or three seconds, under my gaze, Dingdang’s whole "person" began to gradually redden, started smoking, and finally with a "plop," fell straight from my shoulder into the water, "Puhah... I’m choking, Dingdang is choking!"

After frantically fishing it out of the water, the little thing had circles swirling in its eyes like incense smoke. Once it unsteadily flew onto my shoulder, it suddenly wailed with great distress.

"Uh... this is the end, we’ve seen each other completely, now I’ll never be able to marry... Ah Jun, you must, you must take responsibility! Otherwise, no one will want Dingdang!"

How am I supposed to take responsibility for a pet that’s the size of my palm! This situation is inexplicable from a physiological standpoint, you know? Besides, it seems like I’m the only one who’s really taken the hit today?

"It was just meant to be fun at first, and Bubbles suggested this was the time to come to Ah Jun, but I didn’t expect to fall into a trap completely." The little thing fretted, pulling at its own hair, both sets of wings drooping listlessly behind it.

Then came another round of hurried consoling. Honestly, I have no idea what I even said; my brain feels like it’s turning to mush right now.

I took a bath, and indeed, it was physically relaxing as anticipated, but this damned emotional fatigue weighed so heavily on me. As I sleepily walked past the living room after coming out of the bathroom, and saw Lin Xue’s mischievous smile filled with ill intentions, I suddenly realized that it might be better if this world just got destroyed.

"Phew, no one should have noticed, right?" A barely audible voice came from my chest pocket, the little thing, completely hiding itself out of shyness, adopted an ostrich policy like a fool.

Definitely, someone noticed, at least a particularly talented peeping tom like Lin Banxian saw everything.

"Eh? Ah Jun, are you done showering?" Big Sister’s voice brought me back to my senses, "Dinner might take a while, Anwina said she had something to deal with and left for a bit, only just got back."

"Oh," I made an effort to ignore the luminous entity full of grudges floating behind Sister, and scratched my head, "then I’ll go lie down upstairs for a while."

Back in my room, Dingdang and I both heaved a sigh of relief inside the pocket.

"Um, this feels so embarrassing."

That little thing still knows shame, normally flaunting its charm without limits, exposing itself heartlessly in front of me, even after being seen by me over and over again without an ounce of awareness. It was only after my reminder did it realize it had barged into the men’s bathroom... Moreover, if we’re talking about losses, it’s me who’s suffered, right? You silly little thing, you were just performing acrobatic swimming in my bathwater, weren’t you?

"Anyway, what happened today must be kept a secret!" With hardly a discussion, Dingdang and I exchanged glances and made a unanimous decision, "We absolutely cannot let anyone find out what happened in the bathroom!"

Let such dark history be buried in the sands of time...

"What are you keeping secret?"

A sudden voice erupted behind them, as if a conspirator was murmuring at a meeting, the Leader and the Goddess felt like they had been struck by "Five Thunders Bombarding Their Heads," their bodies stiffened into two statues.

In the corner of the room, a particularly large black box had been pushed open from the inside. Bubbles, who was rubbing her eyes with one hand and holding the lid of the box with the other, looked over in confusion: "Secret? Something about the bathroom? What are you murmuring about...?"

Then, the Leader saw the Goddess, or more precisely, the Goddess sitting awkwardly in my hands with a slightly flushed face, wearing a naughty figurine’s mini-school swimsuit.

After two seconds of silence, Bubbles calmly uttered two words: "Pervert."

To be honest, at that moment, I was considering whether it was more appropriate to commit murder to silence a witness or to slit my own wrists for convenience. This was just too messed up!

"Uh—", a whimpering sound, and Dingdang was about to cry again.

I dashed over to the big box, startling the doll girl inside. Then with an extremely serious tone and expression, I conveyed an eager plea to Bubbles: "Please, you must forget everything you just saw!"

"Dream on," Bubbles unexpectedly leaped out of the box, her head crashing forcefully against my chin, "Uh, I am definitely going to expose your perverted hobbies to the world! You’re finished this time, you stupid human!"

"Anyone would know I’m not that kind of person! How unreliable the Little Goddess usually is—who doesn’t know that (at this moment, Dingdang’s troubled whimper could be heard from behind the writing desk)?"

Bubbles held her head, her sharp gaze sweeping up from below, and if I wasn’t mistaken, it was mixed with tears of pain from the earlier bump: "Anyway, I have evidence! My Artificial Elf could use the mirror to record the scene just now... Hey! Put me down, you idiot! Put me down! Why do you always get so rude just because you’re stronger!"

I didn’t care about the doll’s protests, grabbing her petite body and shaking it violently while muttering, "Where is it? Where’s that Bluetooth version Artificial Elf with the high-definition camera, the stalking module, and wireless data transmission? I’m going to smash it to pieces, in the name of world peace... Ouch! You’re biting me!"

Bubbles clung to my arm and bit down hard, unlike Qianqian’s measured nibbles or Dingdang’s ineffective steel teeth attacks, Bubbles was chewing with a vengeance, clearly infuriated by my earlier shaking.

A set of silver teeth—I really didn’t understand why Luo Zhen would design such a pointless feature for a doll, and even gave Bubbles two exceptionally sharp Little Tiger Teeth. Although it’s unclear if they ever contributed significantly to Bubbles’ digestion, they clearly provided a powerful weapon for the doll’s revenge plan.

The standstill lasted for about five seconds. Just as I was considering whether to knock the back of this annoying doll’s head, something no one expected happened.

"Crack—crunch—"

After a weird noise, Bubbles let go of her bite swiftly.

Half of a Little Tiger Tooth remained lodged in someone’s arm, incapable of piercing the strong skin that could withstand meteor impacts, proving the difference between it and AAA starship armor-grade hardness.

"Bubbles?"

After a full half a minute, I finally managed to choke out those words. The other party just stared straight at me, her face neither happy nor sad, appearing extremely calm to onlookers. But in reality, both she and I were a bit dazed, so both slow-reacting individuals were stunned for a while.

"You this..." A visible black maelstrom rose behind Bubbles, filling the room with a terrifying murderous energy. No one could imagine how such a small body, only 92.3cm tall, could exude such pressure, but I knew, if I didn’t stop this nasty-tempered thing soon, I would have to sleep in the chicken coop tonight.

"Compensate for my tooth!"

The flailing doll was held aloft by one of my hands, but the feathers on her back were already standing up one by one.

"Calm down, Mercury Lamp, calm down! This was an accident, a misunderstanding, it was you who bit me first... Okay, okay, it was my fault, I bullied you first... You say how to solve it, anything goes!"

These words were blurted out without much hope that Mercury Lamp would actually quiet down, but to everyone’s surprise, she did indeed suddenly fall silent.

"You’ll agree to anything I ask?"

Eh? Has this kid switched up some kind of conceptual thing?

"Well, more or less, as long as it’s within my capabilities."

Although I had a bad feeling about this, I nodded anyway. This kid wouldn’t make an unreasonable request, right? After all, I’d already promised to help her find her dad, so what else could Mercury Lamp possibly wish for? A mom?

I don’t know what type would appeal to Luo Zhen, as long as it’s not a gay... What the hell am I thinking about.

"Alright, I’ll remember this promise," Mercury Lamp said, flipping her hair with an air of importance and showing off those little tiger teeth, half of which were already missing. "You’re pretty capable, and I’m not short-sighted... You, you might be very useful to me!"

Kids these days mature too soon! They start scheming against adults when they’re not even a meter tall!

"Keep this wish of mine safe, and I’ll tell you when I remember it!"

Why do I feel like I’ve been outwitted by someone who’s only 92.3cm tall? Has Mercury Lamp finally been led astray by one of us or a few people here?

A faint flapping sound came from behind, and Dingdang landed on my shoulder. The little creature had, at some point, changed back into her green dress and, judging by her expression, returned to normal—cheerful as if nothing had happened.

How I envy this foolish goddess’s simple and direct brain structure.

"Hey, Mercury Lamp, are you alright?" I finally managed to bring another farce to a peaceful end. I felt that coming home to rest for half the day had fulfilled my goal of utterly exhausting myself, and now I also needed to show timely concern for the doll to maintain that hard-earned but precarious goodwill. "There’s an Imperial Officer named Karini in Shadow City who opened a dental clinic in her spare time. Maybe you should see if she can fix..."

Mercury Lamp poked at her broken sharp tooth with a finger and glared at me angrily: "Idiot! That Imperial person used to sell bracelets, but when she found the competition too fierce, she switched to running a pet clinic. When she discovered that, aside from you, almost nobody in Shadow City keeps pets, she casually swapped the sign out front for a dental clinic. Are you trying to get me killed in a medical accident?"

I: "..."

I decided to give a slight retort to the widely accepted notion that I keep pets.

"Ah Jun," Dingdang suddenly jumped up to hug my ear, her curiosity ringing out, "Ah Jun, do you have a pet? Dingdang doesn’t know about this, pinch?"

For the first time in my life, I experienced a moment of understanding with Mercury Lamp: we both looked up at the sky together, contemplating how round the sun was.

"Right, Mercury Lamp, how come you were in my room?" Only now did I remember to ask this key question. It seemed this doll had always lived with Little Baobao. Of course, according to height, she was most suited to live in a children’s room, but now—it looked like she had even brought her own packaging box over. Was she planning to move in here long-term?

My question seemed to dredge up some unpleasant memories as Mercury Lamp shuddered all over and then spat out angrily, "Is there not one normal person around you? That girl called Little Baobao, before going to sleep every day, must do some kind of mainframe training, laying out plasma bombs all over the room and then disarming them one by one. The glittery nanny responsible for taking care of Little Baobao always escapes from the room in various ways, only to be caught and brought back by Little Baobao, or constantly reminiscing her glorious past, or endlessly clamoring for meat. And that Baobao, though she’s a young girl just like Little Baobao, insists that she’s Little Baobao’s mother, pestering me three times a day and forcing me to wear all sorts of weird clothes. Right opposite my room are your monster sisters, always fighting, sometimes even with gunfire heard from their room. Once, they left their door open, and I even saw them arguing over a world map about how to conquer humans as quickly as possible. Next to them lives your beloved maid—if having a room means anything to a being like her! I really don’t know what you were thinking, assigning a permanent room to a ghost that never rests and can move through walls anytime, and placing it next to your own daughter’s room, no less! Twice, when I was sleeping in my box, that maid just passed through it! On the other side lives your sister. She doesn’t do anything to disturb the peace... but I’ve always felt that my daily streak of bad luck has something to do with that Big Sister!"

At this point, I was at a loss for words... Mercury Lamp, your life has been so full of hardship every day?

"I’d already had enough before. After having a few relaxing days outside, the thought of going back to that life is a fate worse than death! Your place seems to be the only safe one. Even the Little Ghost knows not to go through walls in this room, so that’s why I moved over. But..." Mercury Lamp paused halfway and glanced at Dingdang, "I finally understand why that Baobao insists she’s your wife. You’re just a pervert who’s only interested in evil figurines! This place is not safe at all!"

If I could, please let’s not bring this up again—Dingdang, this time you’ve really done me in! (To be continued... For further details, please visit www.qidian.com. More Chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!)