The 98th one, pink.
99, pink.
Zhu Yan kept count out of sheer boredom, his lower back already aching slightly.
The endless storefronts swayed before his eyes. The green and yellow shop signs connected end to end like a long, colorful snake.
Muffled conversations and laughter continued to pour into Zhu Yan's ears without pause, making him gag involuntarily.
The same scenery kept repeating. Now, even one more glance made him feel sick!
Zhu Yan hurriedly shifted his gaze from the monotonous sights to Yang Zhanbai to rest his eyes.
Yang Zhanbai was about 20 meters ahead of him.
An hour ago, he had come over to discuss things with Zhu Yan. They decided to split up to search—one from the front to the back, and the other from the back to the front—so they could shorten the time it took to leave.
With a twisted sense of humor, Zhu Yan pretended to be a manipulated puppet, nodding numbly in agreement.
Yang Zhanbai wasn't following closely, so his movements were relatively free.
He could even sneak a glance at his phone from time to time when Yang Zhanbai was looking down to inspect things.
There was no cell signal here, but the phone could still display the time.
He wasn't afraid of Yang Zhanbai acting suspiciously.
Anyway, he was currently cooperating with the Solace Mother.
If anything went wrong, there would always be puppets to tell him!
It was already almost four in the afternoon—
Zhu Yan sighed, walking quickly past those children with blurred details, heading toward the 101st line.
The fifth child in the line was fiddling with a hairclip on her head.
Just as Zhu Yan was about to inspect it, Yang Zhanbai's voice overpowered the layers of laughter, forcefully piercing his ears.
Zhu Zeyu!! Come here, I found it!!
Oh, damn, like music to his ears!
Zhu Yan straightened his back, bumped past those swaying, giggling lines, and strode toward Yang Zhanbai.
Here.
Yang Zhanbai raised his hand. As soon as Zhu Yan arrived, he pointed to the hair of the child next to him.
Look. A red hairclip.
The sweat on his face stood out clearly against the blurry, greasy, warm yellow patches of color.
Zhu Yan carefully looked down to examine the child and felt a surge of joy.
Sure enough—
It was no longer a small pink hairclip, but a large red one of the same style.
Amidst the black hair, this splash of red was exceptionally vivid and striking!
This is it. Zhu Yan straightened up and pretended to look at Yang Zhanbai blankly.
In Yang Zhanbai's eyes, he was still just a poor, manipulated victim.
He still had to keep up the act!
Let's go.
Yang Zhanbai stared at his face, carefully confirming his condition.
Hmm... sluggish, stiff, mindless.
Just like when he suggested splitting up, he seemed to react to spoken words, but completely lacked his usual sharpness and vitality!
Damn it.
Yang Zhanbai lowered his eyes. In his peripheral vision, the children and the unextinguished lights blurred into a hazy patch of color.
These damn thriller creatures. He only hated that his abilities weren't strong enough.
Once he got Zhu Zeyu out, he would definitely try to see if he could slaughter his way straight through these things!
Yang Zhanbai swallowed nervously. Hey, what are you zoning out for?
Zhu Yan wanted to punch him.
Zoning out, his ass. He was waiting for Yang Zhanbai to go first.
The Solace Mother was still watching.
Its goal was to eat Yang Zhanbai, the Hunter. And the story told to Yang Zhanbai was that the location of the giant mouth is the exit.
No matter how you looked at it, Yang Zhanbai should be the one walking in front.
Act, bro, act!
Feigning dullness, Zhu Yan explicitly stated, You go first, or I won't move. Go into the shop. The exit is inside.
Fuck.
Yang Zhanbai cursed inwardly.
He was the Hunter; the thriller creatures couldn't hurt him anyway.
Even if he forced Zhu Zeyu to walk in front, these thriller creatures couldn't do anything to him.
Because of this fearlessness, Yang Zhanbai had absolutely no sense of acting.
Who knew that the thoroughly manipulated Zhu Zeyu wouldn't be willing!
Fine.
Yang Zhanbai decisively changed his strategy. Turning his head to stare at Zhu Yan, he strode toward the glass doors of the store.
Then you follow behind me.
As long as he was willing to follow, it would just take a hard shove at the final moment.
To his delight, Zhu Zeyu silently followed behind him like a wooden puppet.
It worked!
As Yang Zhanbai walked forward, Zhu Yan keenly noticed a momentary change in the surrounding noise.
For a single second, all those children let out the exact same laugh in unison—
Like a celebration, a heartfelt joy coming from deep within!
But everything quickly returned to normal, making that brief moment seem like an illusion.
Zhu Yan's heartbeat involuntarily sped up.
The moment he followed Yang Zhanbai and stepped onto the floor of David's Kitchen, with a thought, he activated his ability, Humiliation!
Behind the wall was directly the inside of the giant mouth.
In this situation, life and death could be decided in a single breath.
Complaint was a level-five ability, but it took a bit longer to take effect; it wouldn't save his life in such a short window.
Although Humiliation was only level four, it was fast. It could instantly drain the strength from that mouth!
By using Humiliation, there was a high probability he would have time to shout the words, I am the real Hunter!
Having made up his mind, Zhu Yan followed Yang Zhanbai, slowly walking through the dining area.
The children here were no longer eating their yogurt bowls—
Over a dozen pairs of hollow, greasy eyes stared fixedly at the two of them. The corners of all the children's mouths maintained a standard smiling curve, like a room full of lifelike dolls.
Zhu Yan noticed Yang Zhanbai tightening his grip on the knife in his hand, the veins on the back of his hand bulging clearly.
At this time, the mark on his hand shouldn't have disappeared yet.
Zhu Yan drafted a script in his mind, figuring out the lines he was going to say to Yang Zhanbai.
Ahead, Yang Zhanbai had already pushed open the door to the back kitchen.
There was no woman here, or rather, there was nothing here at all.
Behind the door was only a blank two-square-meter empty space and a pure white wall.
This was it!
His heart throbbed strangely for a moment, soon swept up by a surging wave of joy.
But this time, Zhu Yan didn't stop it—
Inside the giant mouth, he didn't need to be calm.
He watched Yang Zhanbai, who had stopped ahead with his body tense with nerves, and decisively took a step forward.
That level-five dining knife pressed against Yang Zhanbai's back in a threatening posture for the first time!
Yang Zhanbai froze.
Before he could react, Zhu Yan quickly leaned in and whispered to him in a voice only the two of them could hear.
Yang Zhanbai, listen carefully.
The Hunter cannot safely reach the end of the instance. This identity seems useful on the surface, but in reality, it's just meant to be expendable.
Yang Zhanbai was stunned.
What did that mean?
What did Zhu Zeyu mean?
No, rather, what did the Solace Mother controlling Zhu Zeyu mean?
Did it want to use Zhu Zeyu's hands to kill him?
For a moment, Yang Zhanbai wanted to turn around and immediately shove Zhu Zeyu against the wall—
However, the continuous whispering kept pouring into his mind, bringing even more explosive news.
I volunteered to become the next Hunter in exchange for this information.
The Hunter mark in your hand will disappear very soon.
"The exit is a death trap. They lied to you."
"Listen to me. The moment the scene changes, run!"
As he spoke, Zhu Yan grabbed Yang Zhanbai and yanked him forcefully backward.
Then, moving with blinding speed, he took two quick strides and charged straight into the solid wall!
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
lan, the Luo family, tracked him down - along with the babies in their arms. Mo Xuan stared pensively at the paternity test results from over a dozen top institutions, both domestic and international, showing a 99.99% match between himself and the two baby girls. At 23, Mo Xuan, a doctoral student, had become the father of two three-year-old children. The kicker? The mothers weren't even the same person! He gradually realized he was being lured step by step into an elaborate trap designed by these two yandere sisters. "Be good, little Xuan. Sister's life belongs to you entirely." "Brother, if you try to run away, I'll have no choice but to tie you up." Mo Xuan: "Do whatever you want, ladies. I give up."
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
