Just as the little tentacle ball was wondering what was going on, a knife handle above it poked and nudged it.
The tiny tentacles bared their teeth and claws, glaring at Yin Xiu's face.
Their eyes met, and for a moment they fell silent.
The little antennae writhed frantically while clutching the butterfly communicator. Before it could explain anything, Yin Xiu turned around and stomped down the wooden stairs, grabbing the butterfly huddled in the corner and pulling it into his arms to stroke it.
The tiny tentacles, crumpled into a ball, were bewildered.
Although my boyfriend always gave perfunctory answers when I asked him if he wanted it, his eagerness was already revealed in his first reaction when we met!
My boyfriend misses it! And he really wants to see it!
Nobody understands boyfriends better than it!
"What are you doing here?" After haphazardly rubbing the little tentacles, Yin Xiu carefully arranged them and stared at them.
"I've come looking for you," the little tentacle replied earnestly, then held up its coiled butterfly communicator. "I was afraid I wouldn't be able to find you, so I brought this with me."
Fortunately, she successfully found a boyfriend and was able to get to his side without asking him questions. Unfortunately, she was unable to surprise her boyfriend.
"You brought this, how am I supposed to contact Zhong Mu?" Yin Xiu stared at the red butterfly, which looked very familiar; it was the same butterfly he used to contact Li Mo.
"He...he has another me by his side! No, it's okay..." The little tentacles became more and more guilty as they spoke.
As long as a person is alive, that's all that matters! With the main body by Zhong Mu's side, his survival is definitely guaranteed!
Yin Xiu remained silent, grabbed the small tentacles, and returned to his room on the second floor. "Never mind, I'll deal with it tomorrow morning. I'm going to sleep now."
I was worried before, not sleeping all night, wondering if I'd have the energy to kill the god tomorrow. Now that the little tentacles have arrived, I can sleep normally.
"I'm going to sleep. Watch me." Yin Xiu hugged the little tentacles and lay down on the bed, whispering these words before closing his eyes.
"Huh?" The little tentacle was dumbfounded. It had just met its boyfriend and hadn't even had a chance to be affectionate with him yet, and its boyfriend was already ignoring it and going to sleep?
She used to feel that her boyfriend missed her a lot! Now she feels like he doesn't miss her that much anymore.
Nestled in Yin Xiu's arms, her little antennae went limp, and she began to stare blankly at the ceiling. "It's so warm in my boyfriend's arms."
Suddenly, it heard a small noise downstairs, as if someone was slowly pushing open the door.
The little tentacles twitched their eyes and looked at Yin Xiu. Her boyfriend was already asleep, and she couldn't let bad people disturb him, so she went to righteously eliminate all the chaos!
It scurried out of Yin Xiu's arms, then slid to the floor and slowly crawled out.
As soon as I reached the top of the stairs, I saw several lights shining into the room from downstairs, and then I moved closer to the top of the stairs.
"This dilapidated house looks really old. It's so eerie and scary at night. Should we really search it?"
"We have to search, otherwise we'll get yelled at when we get back. We can't even find a single person. This seems very strange. Maybe that man really is hiding here."
"Don't even mention that dangerous man here, I'd believe you if you said there was a monster."
"Stop scaring yourself. This city is blessed by the gods, where would a monster come from? Finding that person's whereabouts as soon as possible is the most important thing, otherwise you won't be able to sleep tonight."
"You're right."
The group searched hurriedly on the first floor for a while, then noticed the fragile wooden staircase on the second floor.
They first swept the area with their lights, then tentatively looked up. In the pitch-black night, the old wooden planks were very fragile. The quiet and dark depths of the deserted second floor seemed to conceal something eerie and terrifying, making people hesitant to look up.
"I feel...we should come back during the day. For some reason, this place always feels eerie and chilly, it's kind of scary."
"You think you can drag this out until daytime? If we don't find that man tonight, we'll be slaves tomorrow! You don't want God's blessing, but I do!"
"But it's really scary. I always feel like there's something watching me from that darkness..."
"No, you're just imagining things. This is just a small house that hardly anyone comes here. Hurry up and finish what you need to do and get somewhere else. Don't dawdle here."
The person who spoke took a bold step up the stairs.
The old wooden planks creaked softly after bearing the weight of a person, sending chills down one's spine in the dim night.
The speaker hesitated for a moment, but the thought of becoming a slave if he couldn't find the person made him grit his teeth, stare at the fear, and take another step forward.
With each creaking step, the man grew increasingly chilled as he climbed higher, but he still forced himself to look back at his companion, saying, "Look, there's nothing up there, is there? Hurry up and come on up, don't leave me standing here alone."
But his companions standing below seemed to have seen something; their eyes widened in horror, and they trembled, unable to utter a word.
His expression was one of utter terror, but the person standing on the stairs also felt their hair stand on end. "W-what's wrong... your expression is so terrifying... what did you see?"
The other party did not answer it, but simply took a step back in silence, as if it wanted to run away.
The person standing on the stairs swallowed hard, mustered up the courage to look back at the end of the stairs, only to suddenly discover a dense cluster of eyes floating in the air, staring intently at them.
No… that shouldn't be a cluster of eyes, but a terrifying thing with many eyes. It was pitch black, almost blending into the night, but those eyes could not conceal its location.
How terrifying... What is this thing... Why would Twin Cities harbor such a monster!
Has this creature... always been in Twin Cities?
He trembled as he tried to take a step back downstairs, but he clearly saw the monster open its mouth in the darkness.
In the blink of an eye, the man standing on the stairs was swallowed by darkness, and the person below didn't even see what it was before he disappeared.
The person, who was already terrified, completely broke down at this point, screaming and shouting as they turned and ran away.
The little tentacles hurriedly scurried downstairs to chase after him, but by the time they reached the door, the person had already vanished.
A person in extreme fear unleashed an unprecedented burst of power, which even a small monster couldn't catch.
"Never mind, no one's disturbing my boyfriend's sleep, that's fine." The little tentacle ball turned around and crawled back, satisfied.
No one dared to linger there that night, but the news of a monster in the slave quarters spread among the divine messengers.
Because the person describing the situation was so panicked and frightened, his emotions affected everyone else, and before dawn, no one dared to go and check what was there.