Chapter 90
Even the “Demon World” main consciousness wanted to carefully poke A-Ran to check on him, seeing this scene.
He didn’t expect A-Ran to feel sorry for the big cubs in the instance, causing his emotions to linger even after leaving.
But Lin Ran instinctively burrowed into the big lion’s crimson gold fur, giving the main consciousness no opportunity.
[Ding… Compensation rewards for the unexpected instance situation will be settled separately!]
Knowing that A-Ran liked receiving rewards the most, a new notification quietly sounded after a few minutes.
But the “Demon World” main consciousness waited a few more seconds, there was no movement, and it found that A-Ran was really asleep this time.
“Don’t bother him when he’s asleep. You should spend your time improving your security system. If he really stayed inside, what would you do?”
The next second, it was slapped by Shao Mian’s paw. After struggling to materialize, it turned out to be a blue halo.
But being told off by Shao Mian, the halo didn’t struggle too hard.
As the main consciousness of “Demon World,” this halo had been seen by many senior demons before.
However, after the “Demon World” main consciousness gradually became less active and often didn’t appear for many years, many newborn demons became increasingly unfamiliar with it.
Now it was finally willing to come out again?
And it didn’t seem like it was about to be extinguished like before.
[Beep beep beep——beep beep beep——]
After the main consciousness protested with a series of “beep beep beep” sounds, Shao Mian reluctantly released his paw.
The halo quickly flew a few meters away, then turned and stopped.
It clearly wanted to continue looking at A-Ran, but didn’t want to be caught by Shao Mian. But A-Ran was hiding in Shao Mian’s mane, incredibly cute.
The halo seemed a little aggrieved.
It hadn’t anticipated this situation either…
And according to the system’s background calculations, it only allowed the Time Mirror to activate and travel through time because A-Ran had a 100% chance of completing the task.
How could it make A-Ran happy?
The “Demon World” main consciousness started to rack its brains.
And Lin Ran slept particularly soundly that night, feeling warm and comfortable all around, and squeezing further inside was even more comfortable.
It wasn’t until the sound of birds chirping outside the window gradually grew louder that Lin Ran groggily opened his eyes.
The small white ball had two big, watery eyes, and his small face was all features!
The next second, he met Yuanbao’s gaze as he looked up.
Yuanbao, getting up, directly lowered his head and picked up Lin Ran, the awakened white ball, in his mouth, shaking him so much that he subconsciously struggled.
But in the end, he was put back into the blanket by Yuanbao, who wagged his tail and stared at Lin Ran, as if asking him to continue sleeping.
After all, it was only a little past six in the morning.
Lin Ran, whose head was covered by the blanket, was stunned for a few seconds. He slowly crawled out of the blanket and saw that Yuanbao was still squatting beside him, seemingly dissatisfied with his action of lifting the blanket.
“Wait a minute, Yuanbao… I’m already awake.”
Lin Ran finally couldn’t help but transform back into human form, his face a little hot as he pressed down the blanket that Yuanbao was trying to cover him with, still a little dazed.
What exactly did he do last night?
“Still feeling unwell?”
However, Lin Ran’s dazed expression after transforming back into human form immediately made Shao Mian become vigilant. Could he still be affected after all?
After transforming back into human form, he learned from Lin Ran and reached out to touch his forehead.
He didn’t seem to have a fever?
After Yuanbao touched his forehead to check his temperature with a serious expression, Lin Ran realized that Shao Mian had misunderstood something and reached out to grab his wrist.
“I don’t have a fever, Yuanbao.”
However, Shao Mian’s body temperature was much higher than Lin Ran’s, who had a cold constitution.
So when Shao Mian felt the cold temperature of Lin Ran’s fingertips on his wrist, he subconsciously held the human’s hand and transferred the warmth from his palm.
“Are you cold?”
“I’m not cold, you’re too hot, Yuanbao. Your body temperature has always been on the higher side.”
Lin Ran looked down at his hand being held naturally, looked up at Yuanbao, and couldn’t help but laugh.
Or did all demons have relatively high body temperatures?
But this feeling of being cared for was strange.
“And you didn’t wait for me all night, did you?”
Although looking at the anxious Yuanbao in front of him, Lin Ran still asked uncertainly.
“…”
Shao Mian’s expression instantly became a little subtle.
He wondered if Lin Ran had forgotten after sleeping on him for a whole night.
Lin Ran, whose memories were gradually returning, noticed Yuanbao’s micro-expression and coughed.
Wait, what exactly did he do last night?
He actually had the nerve to let Yuanbao transform back into his original form and be his sleeping mat…
“But it seems like I was a little too tired last night and transformed back after overexerting myself. Have you seen my mirror?”
Transforming back into his cub form in “Demon World” was similar to a protective mechanism under extreme physical conditions.
“This thing is dangerous. You need to tell me in advance next time if you want to try it.”
Hearing this, Shao Mian finally handed the mirror back to Lin Ran.
“Do you want to go and see how that little guy is doing?”
“Yes!”
Although he didn’t have time to ask how Yuanbao knew, the first thing Lin Ran wanted to do after waking up was indeed to see how Little Feather was doing.
However, Little Feather had actually woken up long ago.
But the little guy’s mood was indescribably strange, and he didn’t even dare to see A-Ran, just sitting on the bed blankly, recalling the images that appeared in his mind.
“Mew…?”
Snowball, the first to wake up, blinked his eyes in surprise, finding that the scar on Little Feather’s face had shrunk a lot!
As for Sootball, who was woken up, he flapped his small wings, ran out from under A-Ran’s pillow, and flew to Little Feather to observe him carefully.
“Cheep cheep cheep!”
Little Feather’s scar had really faded a lot!
Only Ossi looked at Little Feather and touched his own face, feeling anxious about his appearance for the first time.
He never expected that Little Feather would be so handsome after the scar on his face disappeared?
Would A-Ran like Little Feather even more… QAQ
“Cheep cheep cheep!”
But just as Sootball wanted to tell A-Ran this good news, he found that A-Ran wasn’t in the room?
He had clearly slept with A-Ran, but A-Ran was gone!
“Eh, you’re all awake? Sootball, what are you doing flying out here?”
So, just as Lin Ran opened the door, he was bumped into by Sootball, who was looking for him. A group of fluffy creatures were having a meeting in the blanket.
Only Little Feather actually tried to hide in the blanket.
Lin Ran, holding Sootball, walked to the bed and hesitantly rubbed the small lump in the blanket.
“Little Feather?”
“Ee…”
Hearing A-Ran calling him, Little Feather trembled his wings with a sense of guilt.
His grown-up self was really a bit scary.
But he was also worried that A-Ran would be worried if he hid in the blanket, so after a few seconds, before Lin Ran could react, Little Feather obediently crawled out of the blanket and looked up at A-Ran.
The scar on the little guy’s face had indeed healed a lot, and there was no trace of it on the skin outside the eye mask.
Except for the eye under the eye mask, which still hadn’t fully healed and opened.
Could it be that the grown-up Little Feather deliberately didn’t use the remaining potion?
But what was the reason?
Lin Ran touched Little Feather’s eye, and such a guess suddenly appeared in his heart, but the answer was indeed difficult to know.
Perhaps even Little Feather at this age couldn’t fully understand his grown-up self?
“You really don’t make things easy after growing up, Little Feather.”
Touching Little Feather’s head with a helpless expression, Lin Ran was certain that the fluffy creatures at home were all dangerous, one more than the other.
Little Feather immediately lowered his head as if he knew he was wrong.
“It’s okay, go play~ You’re still very young, you haven’t even gone to kindergarten yet.”
After finally saying this to Little Feather with a smile, Lin Ran was pulled by Sootball’s clothes, signaling him to look downstairs.
He curiously opened the window and looked down, only to find that the building under renovation was completely finished, and even the surrounding green construction tents were gone.
[Ding——Instance completion reward: Upgraded Garden Fountain Courtyard!]
The originally beautiful waterscape had been introduced into the garden courtyard, becoming a small fountain.
The walls of the two-story hut were also covered with tender flower buds, and one could imagine how beautiful it would be when they bloomed.
The map outside the courtyard had also been expanded, having a dreamy feeling of a paradise.
“Isn’t this setup a bit too luxurious?”
Lin Ran vaguely remembered that when he was upgrading, it didn’t seem to be this exaggerated, right?
Or did “Demon World” inexplicably give him a compensation gift package again?
But as Lin Ran hesitated, a familiar shout suddenly rang out.
“Mr. Lin Ran——!”
“We’re here!”
It was actually Liya leading a group of White-rumped Munias, landing on the tree. The moment they transformed into their winged human forms, they greeted Lin Ran a little shyly and nervously.
When he was in the Feather Clan territory before, Lin Ran had asked Liya if any of her clan members would be willing to come and help him, but he never expected that Liya would actually do it.
So many nanny birds who were good at taking care of others were indeed the most suitable helpers for the kindergarten.
“Hello! Wait a minute, Pepe? Why are you here too?”
And Lin Ran was caught off guard when he saw the little sapphire blue bird fly out first, land beside him, and rub against his wrist affectionately with its long tail feathers.
“A-Ran!”
The next second, Pepe transformed back into her cub form and gently hugged A-Ran.
Seeing Pepe again in the real world, Lin Ran also squatted down, hugged the cub, and kissed her cheek.
Instantly making Pepe so happy that even the blue bow on her head trembled.
“Why did your grandpa let you come over?”
Lin Ran knew how much Gu Li doted on his little granddaughter, Pepe.
“…Just said, want to come!”
Pepe didn’t say the reason was because her grandpa had been trying to snatch one of the first batch of A-Ran plushies for a long time but failed.
So Elder Gu Li, who had lost face, couldn’t stop Pepe, who wanted to come and see A-Ran in person this time.
He couldn’t get the plushie for his granddaughter, he couldn’t stop her from seeing the real person, right?
“Then since you’re here, play for a while? Anvers actually didn’t come today?”
Lin Ran smiled, seeing this scene, feeling that Anvers should have also followed.
“Oh, the patriarch did intend to escort us here at first, but something happened in the clan last night. Several ancient trees that had no signs of life actually sprouted again, so he’s busy maintaining and taking care of them!”
“If they can successfully revive, the territory should expand again.”
Liya enthusiastically shared the clan’s situation with Lin Ran.
Hearing this, Lin Ran pondered and subconsciously exchanged glances with Yuanbao behind him.
And Liya was clearly a little afraid of Yuanbao’s presence. After noticing Shao Mian’s gaze, her feathers trembled.
“Okay, I understand. Then could you please take the little guys to play for a while?”
Lin Ran smiled and pulled Yuanbao, signaling for Liya to familiarize herself with the environment first.
After all, he had poached Liya, this professional talent, from the Feather Clan.
This way, when he was occasionally away, Liya and the other professional demons could take care of the little guys.
“Perhaps everything that happened afterwards was perfect, otherwise there wouldn’t be such obvious changes in the Feather Clan’s territory.”
Although Shao Mian couldn’t fully deduce what Lin Ran had encountered in the mirror world, the new changes in “Demon World” were undoubtedly very positive developments.
“But Yuanbao, do you know? The future I saw in the mirror at first was actually a bit bad.”
Lin Ran turned to look at Yuanbao.
“In the future in the mirror, the depletion of magic power caused the two worlds to merge…”
After hesitating for a moment, Lin Ran, who was somewhat uncertain, seriously recounted everything he had seen.
He was originally worried that Yuanbao would think he was talking nonsense, but he found that Yuanbao was not only listening, but listening very attentively.
[A-Ran’s Affection Level +10!]
Shao Mian, who was originally thinking about whether all this was related to the so-called self-repair of “Demon World,” was suddenly stunned when he received a notification.
His Affection Level had increased again?!
[Big lion wagging his tail vigilantly.jpg]
However, when Shao Mian looked at Lin Ran, he found that the young human seemed to have naturally looked away, if not for his slightly hurried movements.
“And then?”
Shao Mian inexplicably felt that the Affection Level system in “Demon World” was really interesting.
“And then… I hope that won’t really happen. If that’s the predetermined ending of ‘Demon World,’ I also want to try and see if there can be a different ending.”
Lin Ran seriously expressed his thoughts and even looked up at Yuanbao again.
He had the Monster Notes given by “Demon World,” perhaps he could become a very qualified demon observer.
Recording all the interesting and cute creatures in the Demon World!
“And Yuanbao, didn’t you ask me before, if I would be disgusted if I knew you were a monster?”
Shao Mian didn’t expect Lin Ran to still remember the words he said when his identity was discovered.
In the blink of an eye, vertical beast pupils flashed in his light golden eyes, and just as he was about to speak, he was answered by the human’s serious tone:
“But I’ve never thought of you guys as monsters, so of course I’ll never be disgusted.”
“If you ever show any signs of discomfort, you must tell me immediately, and we’ll find a solution together, can you promise me?”
Lin Ran didn’t continue to ask anything but just looked at Shao Mian purely.
Shao Mian had always known that Lin Ran’s eyes were exceptionally beautiful.
Like cold obsidian soaked in deep water, when he looked at you seriously and quietly, it even gave the person being stared at the illusion of being completely sucked in.
It was a subtle sense of excitement from being truly cared for and noticed.
“Okay.”
Without any other thoughts or considerations, the answer came out before reason could catch up.
The other party was clearly a human, more fragile than any other being.
But when Lin Ran said these words, it made you feel that he could really do all this.
He would believe that he was the only miracle in the Demon World.
Shao Mian inexplicably felt that if he also had an Affection progress bar above his head, it would probably be maxed out at this moment.
Because looking at Lin Ran in front of him, he even wanted to kiss him.
Just like how humans kissed those little cubs.
But when this thought appeared, Shao Mian found that Lin Ran’s gaze towards him had suddenly changed.
What Shao Mian didn’t know was that at the same moment, a new notification really did appear on the Affection Level page of Lin Ran’s notebook.
[Affection Level +1!] [Please note, the monster’s Affection Level has reached the limit!]
[He really likes being stared at by you, and when being quietly stared at, he is especially curious about what it feels like to be kissed… just like how you kissed the little cubs…]
Lin Ran’s eyes widened instantly after reading the notification, then looked at Yuanbao, whose expression remained unchanged, and wondered if the notification was nonsense.
This guy Yuanbao didn’t say anything, but his mind was so active!?
He was already an adult demon, and he actually wanted to be kissed like Pepe and the others?
And Shao Mian knew from the beginning that his thoughts would definitely be considered a violation by “Demon World,” so he didn’t even move his tail, trying to hide it.
“Yuanbao, are you thinking about something strange?”
Lin Ran hesitated for more than ten seconds, then couldn’t help but probe.
“…?”
Was he?
Shao Mian was certain that he shouldn’t have said anything, so he remained motionless, letting Lin Ran scrutinize him for a long time.
Lin Ran, whose probing was fruitless, suddenly felt that he should take out Little Feather’s Feather of Truth and see if Yuanbao could still remain silent.
But that seemed a bit too mean…
Lin Ran already felt that the Monster Notes in his hand were a bit of a cheat.
It was like exposing the softest weaknesses of all the demons in the Demon World for him to exploit.
Including Yuanbao’s.
“What are you smiling about?”
So Shao Mian noticed that Lin Ran suddenly smiled.
“I’m laughing because you don’t seem to be telling the truth.”
Lin Ran smiled and held onto the windowsill. The colorful sunlight filtering through the trees swayed gently with the breeze, and the black hair by his ear also swayed, making his skin look even more dazzlingly white.
Shao Mian suddenly felt very glad that “Demon World” had initially placed Lin Ran’s birthplace in his territory.
If it were in Anvers’ or those noisy demons’ territories, wouldn’t it be very troublesome to snatch him away?
It was already so difficult to just snatch a plushie.
The adult demon slowly wagged his golden tail, trying hard to hide his thoughts.
But at this moment, the long-awaited server-wide announcement from “Demon World” officially began.
[@All demons, expansion 4.0 has been updated! The NPC exclusive map “Demon World Kindergarten” is officially open to all servers – various interaction cards issued previously have been officially activated.]
[Two common cards, “Give you candy!” and “Rainy day~,” and one limited cub series card, “Chubby Bird A-Ran,” have been added to the dress-up card pool!]
With the release of the server-wide announcement, all demons quickly found that new icons had indeed appeared on their game panels.
After the kindergarten officially opened, a daily limit of 15 demons could randomly enter A-Ran’s exclusive map, and there was a certain chance of being discovered and recognized by A-Ran, triggering special interactions!
[Holy crap, “Demon World,” I’ll never say anything bad about you again, you’re my god at this moment——!]
[Pick me, pick me, pick me! I’m watching the number of registered demons double, gnashing my teeth]
But apart from most ordinary demons who were screaming, there were also a small number of lucky ones who had obtained various interaction cards in advance through previous limited-time events.
[Has anyone gotten an interaction card before? My card has been automatically updated, it’s a D-rank Grooming! Does this mean A-Ran can hold me and groom my fur!? Excited]
[Wow… mine is C-rank Belly Rub, hahaha, guess who’s lucky?]
[Holy crap, why? I also want A-Ran to rub my belly… no, “Demon World,” isn’t it reasonable to open an upgrade payment system for this?!]
The card-showing posts that appeared in the forum undoubtedly became the focus of the entire Demon World.
And Shao Mian also quickly remembered his long-stored S-rank interaction card.
It was said to be S-rank at the time, but the function hadn’t been fully updated and had no use at all. Was it finally updated now?
However, after opening his item bag, Shao Mian suddenly found that his card was a little different.
The overall color was light pink, but the golden border was very eye-catching, making it obvious at a glance that it was much higher level than the cards shown in the forum.
Not bad, this was in line with his noble status as the top spender.
And after looking at the card content…
Shao Mian: !?
[Detected that special Affection Level mode has been activated, congratulations on obtaining a limited card!]
[S-Rank Limited Fate Card · Pick Up and Kiss~]
Shao Mian wagged his tail and started to study it silently.
Was this “Pick Up and Kiss” literally picking up and kissing?
…Then could he pick up the person and kiss him?
[Warning: This card can only be used for one-way interaction initiated by A-Ran in demon form!!!]
But “Demon World” clearly knew what Shao Mian was thinking, and a new prompt instantly appeared on his screen.
Shao Mian: Heh.
Were they playing dirty?
They dared to issue an S-rank interaction card, but had to add so many restrictions!?
Of course, besides the demons who were discussing the first batch of lucky ones who had interaction cards, many demons started to pay attention to the new card pool.
The most important reason was none other than the fact that the cards this time were too tempting, and even new interactive items were added.
On the “Give you candy!” card, A-Ran held a few candies in his palm, and the prompt said that after activating the card, a special energy-restoring candy item could be obtained every day.
In “Rainy day~,” it was a rare scene of A-Ran wearing a raincoat and exploring the forest.
After completing the task and activating the card, the special equipment “Raincoat” could be obtained, which could be used as a one-time item equipment with Luck +0.001.
As for the last limited cub series card, “Chubby Bird A-Ran,” the dynamic image of A-Ran instantly transforming into a small bird ball on the card caused a huge stir.
[Why!? Why can he transform into a chubby bird A-Ran? Are we crocodiles not worthy!? I seriously suspect that the Feather Clan secretly paid money!]
[Crocodiles are already considered good, our race doesn’t even dare to speak. (Wide noodle tears)]
[Oh? What are you?]
[Toads. (Bleak smile)]
After this rare aquatic demon spoke, the entire forum was silent for a second.
If A-Ran transformed into a baby toad…
[No, daddies won’t allow it.]
[Mommies won’t allow it either, mm (serious face)]
