At Team Cangyou Wildcat’s dining table, unlike the previous six-person guild meals, with the three weakened boys hospitalized and the addition of Mo Yu as a guest, today’s dining table had turned directly into a gathering of beautiful girls.
As a former boy, Su Qi had once fantasized about becoming the male lead of a power fantasy novel.
He would be surrounded by beautiful girls, with girls fighting over him and competing for his affection. And today, Su Qi’s past ambition had, in a sense, come true.
After bringing the dishes to the table and clinking their drinks together, the four began to eat.
“Wow, A Qi, the food you make is so fragrant and even more delicious!” Following Mo Yu’s casual praise, it was as if some strange switch had been flipped.
“Sister Su Su, I hope to eat the dishes you make every day from now on!”
“Su Qi Junior Schoolmate, let me feed you, ahh~~~”
An Xiaoling and Lin Xue both leaned in to praise him, and not only that, they also used their chopsticks to put food into his bowl.
In a short while, a small mountain had piled up in his small bowl.
Faced with the proactive approach and feeding from the three beautiful girls, Su Qi quite enjoyed it at first.
After all, whether it was Mo Yu, Lin Xue, or An Xiaoling, all three were beautiful girls, smelling sweet and feeling soft.
Since every dish he made was delicious, being fed was also a form of happiness.
However, gradually, Su Qi noticed a sense of discord.
After locking eyes with the three beautiful girls, Su Qi noticed a faint competitive glint in their gazes.
Compared to the male lead of a male-oriented novel, he felt more like the female lead of a female-oriented novel being pursued by three male leads.
Instead of being overwhelmed, they seemed more interested in overwhelming him!
Ugh… it was just weird in every sense!
“I can’t… I can’t eat anymore!”
Under the forceful feeding of the three, Su Qi’s small stomach bulged cutely like a small ball.
To digest the meal and take advantage of the attribute buff from the Shuxi Bento, the group of four soon took the elevator to the Adventurers’ Guild on the 25th floor.
Perhaps because this was his third time heading to the Saint Ruins, Su Qi already had some exploration experience and was no longer a complete newbie.
Today, Su Qi wasn’t nervous at all as he watched the rising elevator.
However, once the elevator reached the 25th floor and they entered the Adventurers’ Hall, Su Qi’s mindset underwent a change.
“Ah… damn, it hurts~”
“It hurts! Be gentler.”
“Healer, I want a Loli healer, not a big guy like you.”
After entering the hall, unlike the usual leisure, there were dozens of stretchers laid out in the Adventurers’ Guild.
Adventurers lay on the stretchers, being treated by various healing-type healers.
Hearing the continuous screams of agony in the hall, Su Qi’s brow couldn’t help but furrow slightly, instinctively sensing that something was wrong.
After all, although Su Qi was a newbie, he still understood some basic common sense.
When Adventurers took on Guild missions, they could not take missions above their Adventure Team’s rank.
Although this restricted the Adventurers’ freedom in a sense, it ensured their safety to a greater extent.
Now, there were at least ten or so injured Adventurers in the hall, which was the number of members in two Adventure Teams.
No matter how you looked at it, it meant an unexpected situation had occurred.
Just as Su Qi was wondering what happened.
Click-clack, click-clack~
Amidst the crisp sound of a girl’s small high heels, Su Qi saw the Front Desk Mascot, Lu Ran, whom he had just met this morning, walking anxiously toward… well, technically toward Mo Yu and Lin Xue.
As she reached their side, unlike her calm demeanor during their chat this morning, Lu Ran now carried an air of anxiety.
“Captain Lin, Mo Yu, you’ve come at the right time. Can I entrust you with a temporary mission? This mission is very urgent and is related to the pathway with the Succubus Statue you reported last time.”
Hearing Lu Ran mention the “Succubus Statue” and “Pathway,” the group of four exchanged looks, their expressions turning solemn. Under their gaze, the Front Desk Mascot Lu Ran continued.
“Two days ago, after the members of Team Cangyou Wildcat teleported back, the Adventurers’ Guild sealed the Succubus Statue to prevent men from accidentally entering. But starting from yesterday, some powerful monsters that originally inhabited the Third Plane began to crawl out of the Purple Spirit Snake Forest through that pathway and head toward the Second Plane. It seems they are searching for something, and they’ve already injured many Adventurers. So for this trip, we would like to ask you to explore that new pathway again to see what the source of the problem is.”
Hearing the intel provided by Lu Ran, as the Captain of Team Cangyou Wildcat, Lin Xue quickly realized why she had come looking for her and Mo Yu.
Unlike ordinary Adventure Teams, most of Team Cangyou Wildcat’s missions were completed on the Third Plane.
And Mo Yu beside her was a Magical Girl; not only did she usually hunt on the Third Plane, but she also had impressive experience pioneering the Fourth Holy Ruins.
Given her and Mo Yu’s strength, as long as the monsters of the Third Plane didn’t appear in swarms, there shouldn’t be any major issues.
Besides the combat power aspect, hearing Lu Ran mention they seemed to be looking for something, Lin Xue couldn’t help but recall the image that had flashed through her mind when they last encountered the Holy Ash Rabbit—an image of Su Qi turning into a gentle housewife holding a small baby.
Because that image was so beautiful and realistic, and thinking back to when Big Mountain mentioned the legend of the Holy Ash Rabbit, she couldn’t help but have an ominous premonition.
Could the treasure the monsters were looking for be the little bunny that escaped after they saw Su Qi teleport away last time?
After all, on the day Su Qi obtained the Patriarch’s Spatula, the cheerful little guy had led Team Cangyou Wildcat to find all the hidden treasures in the entire pathway.
With the hidden treasures all gone, and the invading monsters from the Third Plane still searching for something and wandering around, didn’t this silently point to one conclusion: the thing the monsters were looking for was that little guy?
Since the objective and the reason for the changes in this trip were identical, and with the addition of the Magical Girl Mo Yu, although the appearance of monsters from the Third Plane was unexpected, Lin Xue thought for a moment before accepting Lu Ran’s relatively easy temporary commission under Su Qi’s expectant gaze.
Just as the group of four, including Su Qi who had accepted the mission, walked to the Teleportation Array to prepare for teleportation, the Front Desk Mascot called out to Su Qi.
“Um, Sister Su Qi, don’t go to the Teleportation Array yet. Your Guild Badge hasn’t been retrieved from the Twilight Sun Guild yet. Take this temporary Badge for now; remember to return it.”
Taking the Purple Heart Necklace Pendant with a new-style heart design handed over by the Front Desk Mascot Lu Ran, Su Qi was slightly dazed.
Emmmmmmmm… why is the ring my mother-in-law gave me a purple heart, and Sister Lu Ran also gave me a purple heart necklace? Could it be that I and the purple heart < are very fated? What a strange coincidence!
Although Su Qi felt odd about the purple heart accessory, thinking that the little guy might be hunted by monsters and in danger, the second he got the necklace, Su Qi decisively hung it around his neck and stepped onto the Teleportation Array.
As the teleportation began, after a familiar bout of dizziness, Su Qi soon felt the ground beneath his feet; the teleportation was a success.
Just as the successfully teleported Su Qi was still dizzy and hadn’t opened his eyes yet, he heard a cry of alarm from An Xiaoling beside him.
“A Qi, look out!”
Driven by high agility instincts, Su Qi sensed something approaching from ahead and performed a nimble backflip.
Once the jump ended and he opened his eyes, Su Qi saw a purple, evil, slippery thing covered in slimy white liquid flash past where he had just been standing.
Just as Su Qi was wondering what it was, in the next instant, a flash of blade light passed by.
The purple object snapped and broke apart.
The severed limb began to twitch incessantly on the ground. It was only at this moment that Su Qi, snapping out of it, saw clearly what it was.
It was a squid tentacle covered in suckers of various sizes.
The surface was coated in a layer of slimy mucus, an evil purple color.
However, unlike the ten-dollar squid tentacles he usually ate, this severed section was exaggeratedly large—it was actually thicker than one of Su Qi’s legs.
Looking at this massive squid tentacle, just thinking about it sliding over his body made a damp scenario flash through Su Qi’s mind, and he couldn’t help but shudder violently.
If I were caught, wouldn’t it be the legendary tentacle play?
Wait, why have these kinds of strange thoughts been popping into my head lately! Is now the time to be thinking about that?
Just as Su Qi shook his head and threw away those strange thoughts—
Roar~
The monster whose squid tentacle had just been severed let out a cry of pain. Su Qi looked in the direction of the sound, and with just one glance, he froze in place.
Because this monster’s body wasn’t made of conventional limbs, but was woven together from countless squirming squid tentacles of various sizes.
These tentacles were densely tangled like a mess of yarn, making one’s head spin; it was practically a real Tentacle Monster.
The appearance of an abnormal monster like a Tentacle Monster was already enough to surprise Su Qi, but what made it even more unbelievable was that currently, on this monster’s body, there were many male and female Adventurers who were bound, their clothes in disarray and being violated.
Their bodies were being toyed with by the Tentacle Monster like kites with broken strings, occasionally letting out indecent and strange sounds like ‘oh… hngh… ugh…’.
Seeing this scene, Su Qi, who had just teleported in, couldn’t help but shudder violently.
Mmm… so the situation in the Saint Ruins is already this serious? Monsters have started camping the spawn and eating at a buffet?
Wait… these tentacles… why do they all seem to be coming for me?
Noooo!!!