Chapter 284 Beauty Like Flowers (Part 21)
Snake Taoist was awakened by a ray of sunlight that projected into his room.
In the morning, his room had been pushed to the surface, receiving light energy from nature.
Hiss, why does the back of his head hurt so much?
Snake Taoist sat up groggily, touching the back of his head.
Under his powerful recovery ability, it had long since healed.
But looking back, he could still see a brown mark on the wall.
That was dried blood.
Snake Taoist’s vertical pupils constricted, and only then did he remember what had happened last night.
At this moment, his head snapped around, looking back at the direction of the bathroom, and that dark shadow was still there!
However, in broad daylight, the eerie feeling had vanished.
At this moment, as the entire room shifted position, a warm ray of sunlight happened to project onto it from outside the window.
Because of this ray of light, Snake Taoist finally realized that this was not some hanged ghost at all…
It was his Daoist robe!
He quickly got up and moved into the bathroom.
The Daoist robe he had worn out yesterday was hanging from the ceiling.
Upon closer inspection, and a touch with his hand,
the Daoist robe was still damp and wrinkled, clearly hung up without being wrung out or smoothed.
The way it was hung was also very strange; it was just the collar casually tucked into a ceiling crack.
As for the blood he had imagined…
It was just that the Daoist robe was of poor quality, and such a rough washing had caused it to bleed color…
At this moment, there was a large black stain on the bathroom floor.
The fastidious Snake Taoist’s temple twitched wildly.
“This, this, this!”
Thinking about how much trouble it would be to clean, Snake Taoist was so angry he stammered.
But why this Daoist robe was washed like this and hung up so carelessly, Snake Taoist couldn’t understand.
The only explanation was that he was sleepwalking.
No, there were several other possibilities—
He had amnesia! He was hallucinating! He was going crazy!
Could it be that his inhibitor injection was problematic?
He heard that such situations were not uncommon; the inhibitor injection would not work, and then he would turn into a madman, eventually becoming Universe garbage.
Thinking of this, Snake Taoist felt like he was truly going to go crazy!
No, he absolutely could not go crazy!
Snake Taoist was panicked, so he quickly took down the Daoist robe and threw it into the dryer.
After quickly washing up, as soon as Snake Taoist saw it was working hours, he immediately contacted a mental clinic to schedule a consultation.
However, even though it was quite early, Snake Taoist was not even among the first batch to connect; he had to wait for more than eighty people before it was his turn.
The only explanation was that too many people were experiencing mental problems now.
This was also a side effect of becoming a New Human.
Some people called it a sweet problem.
“I’m crazy, but I’m stronger!”
This saying was rampant on the Star Network, and some even took pride in their mental value hovering around the passing line, but old-fashioned people like Snake Taoist could not understand this mentality.
The consultation was scheduled for the afternoon, and he had no work during the day, so Snake Taoist could only force himself to calm down, turn on the TV, and start watching.
It was still a live broadcast of The Metamorphosis.
Although it was still early morning, the number of viewers had already reached an astonishing hundreds of billions; this was practically the entire Federal Empire watching.
At this moment, the light screen was broadcasting a scene of Xiao Xiao covering her mouth and crying bitterly as she watched her father, Lu Shousheng, disemboweled in the carriage.
The scene was extremely bloody; the entire carriage was red with blood, scattered with fragments of internal organs and splattered blood. Lu Shousheng was like a torn rag doll, slumped softly in the deepest part, his eyes wide open, as if he had seen something extremely shocking, dying with his eyes still open.
Xiao Xiao was sad and scared, eventually crying to the point of almost fainting. At the Lu family Old Madam’s hurried command, she was led away by the maids.
Such a terrifying and tragic scene, yet it led to a frenzy of celebration.
But some also regretted not seeing Lu Shousheng truly lay hands on Xiao Xiao, only some suggestive small actions, which was a great pity.
Snake Taoist looked at the bullet comments and cursed, “Lunatics!”
He was cursing true lunatics, after all, it wasn’t very fashionable not to have some mental issues now.
This was also why so many people were addicted to the Star Network, and why they liked to watch these melodramatic, crazy, and even violent shows.
Too many New Humans’ mental values fluctuated, requiring some outlet for release, but with the bottom line of the law restricting their behavior, they could only satisfy their desires through the virtual world.
And the current Deformation Plan · Beauty Season perfectly satisfied their psychology.
Without a guide like Snake Taoist protecting them, the production team brazenly arranged all sorts of tragedies, preferably with both red and yellow elements, repeatedly stimulating Xiao Xiao’s mind and the audience’s emotions.
“This is your fate. Without me, who will control the situation?” Snake Taoist’s face twisted as he muttered to himself, thinking of that rotten child.
“Ah!”
Suddenly, a tearing pain on his scalp caused Snake Taoist to cry out.
“What’s going on? Am I losing my hair?”
Snake Taoist was filled with fear and quickly ran to the bathroom to examine himself in the mirror.
No hair loss, thankfully.
But unfortunately, his head was covered in a bunch of tiny, tightly knotted braids.
No wonder his scalp hurt just now.
When did this happen?
Why couldn’t he remember anything at all?
Snake Taoist watched his face gradually fall, turning pale, with dark circles under his eyes, looking eerie and Guai Qi-filled.
What was going on? Was he really going crazy?
Was he really going to become some Universe garbage?
No, it seemed to be Abyss garbage?
Ah, ah, never mind!
A frantic scream echoed in the bathroom.
After a while, Snake Taoist emerged from the bathroom with his hair completely disheveled, like a bird’s nest, and a look of deep exhaustion on his face.
He couldn’t think about it anymore; he should just watch the show to relax.
Perhaps, by immersing himself, he could become like those perverted New Humans, who not only didn’t go crazy but became stronger instead.
Snake Taoist comforted himself, opened another bag of rat chips, grabbed a can of apple snail juice, and tried to relax his tense body, slumping onto the sofa.
Heh heh, let me see what fate awaits these rotten kids!
Snake Taoist muttered to himself, trying to immerse himself through self-suggestion.
The bullet comments were constantly pressing down on the light screen, like dark clouds, weighing down on Xiao Xiao’s world.
【Oh my god, I woke up and saw so many people watching, even more than last night. Don’t you all need to sleep?】
【This show is too good! I just took stimulants and watched all night!】
【Me too! I saw that yesterday’s delivery of stimulants and barbecue both sold out at the same time.】
【Sure enough, everyone is watching!】
【Fortunately, I’ve already evolved past the need for sleep; I don’t need to take drugs at all.】
【Envy the New Humans who have evolved nocturnal predation genes!】
Snake Taoist scoffed, “This is all just relying on youth!”
Like him, he also had the ability to hunt at night, but as he got older, didn’t he still have to go to bed at a certain time? If he didn’t get enough sleep, he would definitely be a Schrödinger’s snake the next day.
Just as he was thinking, pink bubbles floated in front of him one by one.
He waved his hand to break them, and was startled when he looked at the screen.
Now, the screen was frantically spewing pink bubbles; his entire light screen was filled with dense pink foam, making it impossible to see what the content was.
“My trypophobia is going to act up.”
Snake Taoist grumbled as he turned down the “gift effects,” and only then could he barely see what was being broadcast on the light screen.
And only then did he finally understand why everyone was so excited.
It turned out that Xiao Xiao had finally started dating!
Xiao Xiao’s love interest was an elegant and handsome young scholar.
The two met at a temple fair, and unexpectedly, a red thread of fate connected them.
Three chapters today, celebrating the release of the Elden Ring DLC.
Rubbing my hands, I’m going to play Elden Ring after finishing writing!!!!