Zhu Yan's gaze crashed into those watery black eyes, and a sudden wave of dizziness hit his brain.
He instinctively tried to close his eyes, but a warm current suddenly seeping into the top of his head restored his clarity.
"Take it easy," Yang Zhanbai whispered. "I don't even dare look at them right now."
Zhu Yan felt a bout of palpitations.
Damn it, what kind of bizarre attack was this?
In just a few seconds, it had left his sanity teetering on the edge.
Zhu Yan's vigilance spiked again. He lowered his eyes, avoiding eye contact with this strange "child."
"What are you doing?" he asked, keeping his eyes fixed on the "child's" mouth.
The knife remained pressed tightly against its soft, greasy skin; he didn't dare relax his grip for a moment.
"We're lining up to buy yogurt," the "child" said in an innocent tone. "Aren't you here to buy yogurt too?"
The directness of the answer was somewhat unexpected.
Zhu Yan steadied himself and asked again, "Do all the stores have yogurt?"
He then added, "If you lie, I'll kill you."
The "child" grinned, revealing small, pearl-like white teeth, and giggled happily.
Zhu Yan heard Yang Zhanbai mutter a low curse, and immediately after, another wave of clear warmth seeped into the top of his head.
"All the stores only sell yogurt," the "child" said. "Aren't you buying any? It's very tasty."
"Do all the stores have berry-flavored yogurt?" Zhu Yan continued.
The "child" tilted its head.
"I don't know what berry-flavored is."
This time, it slowed down its speech.
It was still the innocent tone of a child, as if it could never tell a lie.
"We just buy whatever. We drink whatever the lady boss gives us."
Zhu Yan didn't believe this answer.
He pressed his knife a bit further forward and simply asked two major questions.
"How many stores are there in total here? Which one is the Solace Mother's store?"
This time, even though the knife had already pierced its skin, the "child" still shook its head.
"Don't know, don't know, don't know," it said.
Zhu Yan's mind raced, and he asked another question.
"Why don't you eat human flesh?"
The "child" fell silent for a long time.
About ten seconds later, it slowly simulated a look of confusion.
"What is human flesh? Why would we eat humans?"
Yang Zhanbai poured another two drops of potion onto the crown of Zhu Yan's head.
Zhu Yan felt better again. He began to realize that his sanity had been constantly dropping just now.
Otherwise, why would he feel like his brain was being repaired every time Yang Zhanbai poured the Universal Potion?
This place was too bizarre.
However, if the phrase "what is human flesh" wasn't a lie, did it mean these "children" wouldn't attack on their own initiative?
Gripping the knife, Zhu Yan asked his final question.
"What happens if I kill you?"
Unlike last time, the "child" answered very quickly.
"Hmm. Our order cannot be broken, big brother."
"If you kill me, a new me will naturally be generated."
"That me will line up to buy yogurt for me, eat the yogurt, and then buy yogurt again."
"I hope he gets to drink delicious yogurt today!"
Too bizarre, entirely too bizarre.
Zhu Yan had only asked this question because this "child's" fear of the level-five dining knife was much weaker compared to other terrifying creatures.
His original guess was that killing this "child" might trigger a swarming attack from the other "children."
He never expected to receive the answer that "the order cannot be broken, and everyone can be infinitely generated"!
Zhu Yan was about to break out in a cold sweat.
He twisted his hand to retract the dining knife, then changed the angle and forcefully stabbed the utensil into the "child's" chest.
The greasy, soft, and bouncy sensation actually made him gag. Zhu Yan hurriedly lowered his eyes, watching the "child's" body rapidly deflate like a leaking balloon in his field of vision.
A piece of skin fluttered to the ground, and then, as if propped up from the inside by invisible hands, it began to fill and expand at a visible rate.
A few seconds later, another identical "child" stood up!
Yang Zhanbai hastily dripped potion onto his head. Zhu Yan suppressed the churning nausea in his stomach and quickly stood up.
"This won't work," he said. "I think there's a huge problem here. If we keep dragging this out, no matter how many bottles of Universal Potion we have, it probably won't be enough."
Just asking an NPC a few questions caused their sanity to plummet, requiring the Universal Potion to heal.
Ask a few more questions, and their sanity would be completely gone.
In this situation, activating Roleplay probably wouldn't even work; they would still suffer from inexplicable mental attacks!
"Yang Zhanbai, show them your palm and tell them you are a Hunter and cannot be harmed."
Zhu Yan's brain spun rapidly.
The rule that no terrifying creature could harm a Hunter indeed existed, and mental damage was indeed damage.
Having Yang Zhanbai show the Hunter mark in his hand first might allow him to remain absolutely clear-headed without using the Universal Potion.
The Universal Potion was certainly useful, but right now they desperately needed a completely clear mind.
Wait until four hours later when the mark in Yang Zhanbai's hand disappeared, Zhu Yan would put on another act and reveal his own Hunter mark to see if he could be immune to this damage.
Damn it.
Zhu Yan gritted his teeth.
If it weren't for the need to maintain his lie in front of Yang Zhanbai, he would definitely have shown the Hunter mark in his hand immediately!
"I'll give it a try," Yang Zhanbai said. "Wait a moment, I have a theory."
Right now, the only thing Zhu Yan dared to look at directly was Yang Zhanbai.
Yang Zhanbai's condition didn't seem quite right either. His face was much paler than before, his forehead was covered with fine sweat, and a strand of hair stuck to his temple.
He led Zhu Yan a few steps toward the back of the line, grabbed another little girl, and extended his right hand for her to see.
Zhu Yan cooperatively pressed the level-five dining knife against the girl's neck. "Listen to him!"
Without the threat of a powerful item, these things didn't seem to pay them any mind.
"I am a Hunter," Yang Zhanbai commanded sternly. "Stop your indiscriminate attacks! Mental damage is still damage!"
Zhu Yan knew it had worked—
The entire scene actually shifted slightly, like a transition effect in a movie.
The laughter of those "children" abruptly stopped, then quickly resumed, and everything returned to normal.
He put away the knife and felt another wave of dizziness; Yang Zhanbai pulled him up, and a few drops of the Universal Potion brought him a bit of clarity once more.
"I'm good," Yang Zhanbai's voice trembled slightly, full of lingering fear. "Damn it, our brains were still affected before."
Zhu Yan looked up at Yang Zhanbai. In just those few seconds, his complexion had actually regained its color.
"Hunters cannot be harmed. It took us this long to realize we could use something so simple."
"I explicitly mentioned before we came in that the [Hunter] insignia could be used... If you hadn't reminded me just now, I'd probably still be standing there like a fool, draining my sanity."
The more Yang Zhanbai spoke, the more the lingering dread set in.
To think he had been so severely affected without even realizing it.
Damn it, thank goodness Zhu Zeyu had a sharp mind.
Yang Zhanbai clapped Zhu Yan heavily on the shoulder. "Keep your head down. I'm going to pour half a bottle of potion right over you. After that, don't look at anything. Just follow me, and I'll do the asking."
"If you think of anything, just tell me. It's much safer for me to interrogate them right now since I won't get hurt; it's a far better deal than having you do it."
Yang Zhanbai paused for a moment, then added, "Oh, by the way, did you notice something strange just now?"
ng to die together with you." Lin Xuan is dead, his body thrown into the river by his scumbag lover and her accomplice. She, the president of the Su Group, is decisive, ruthless, and ice-cold. For three days and three nights, she had his body fished out of the river, and without hesitation, she kissed the bloated corpse of Lin Xuan. She laid down beside him in a cold coffin, their fingers intertwined, a smile lingering on her lips as she closed her eyes. The noble and cold-hearted woman, only bending for one man—Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan, with his golden finger, is reborn and returns to the day of his wedding to the treacherous woman. Su Qiang comes to steal the bride. Lin Xuan's eyes light up, eager to pledge his loyalty on the spot, but instead, her kiss transfers a glass of drugged wine into his mouth, causing him to pass out... 【Male Protagonist with Single Female Lead】【Yandere Tycoon】【Action-Packed】【True vs. Fake Heir】
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
