Gu Rong, having made up his mind to lose weight, hopped to the side, not even looking at the wild fruits.

Zhuang Yu and Shen Hanxiao suppressed their laughter, not believing Gu Rong could really stick to it. After all, they had never seen a cub who loved eating more than Gu Rong.

Besides, Gu Rong had a lot of baby fat, looking round and chubby, but he wasn’t actually fat.

At least, not to the point where he needed to lose weight.

Shen Hanxiao smiled: “Little ghost, why diet at such a young age? Be careful, you won’t grow tall.”

Gu Rong shifted his little body, unmoved.

If he grew taller and fatter, Lord Devil could start the killing. He wouldn’t let Lord Devil kill him!

Zhuang Yu, seeing that Gu Rong was actually serious about dieting, couldn’t help but be surprised, and also amused.

For Gu Rong to voluntarily want to diet, it was truly rare!

By noon, Gu Rong hadn’t touched a drop of water. Lying in the bamboo basket, he had already fallen asleep from hunger several times.

Zhuang Yu fed him some water: “Rongrong, come, drink some water. Drinking water won’t make you fat.”

Gu Rong drank a large cup of water, gudong gudong. His little face turned pale, his little head lolled to the side, weak and listless.

Zaizai hungry!

Unlike Gu Rong, this Little Jiangshi cub, who could only eat food from the instance, players could buy food from the system store.

These players had all quietly bought food from the store and eaten secretly.

Seeing Gu Rong about to faint from hunger, Shen Hanxiao secretly opened a bottle of milk for him to drink.

Seeing the milk, Gu Rong instantly forgot about dieting. Just as he was about to drink, 006 said: [Little host, no! This is food bought from the system store! Little host can’t eat it!]

Gu Rong was already dizzy with hunger and ignored 006’s reminder, taking a large gulp.

But the moment it entered his mouth, it was bitter and astringent. He couldn’t… couldn’t swallow it.

Gu Rong spat it out again, his little face wrinkled up. He waved his small hands, gesturing.

Zaizai can’t drink it!

Zhuang Yu and Shen Hanxiao were both stunned. Their sign language wasn’t good enough, and Gu Rong’s gestures were vague; neither understood his meaning.

Zhao Jiuquan, watching from the side, rarely interjected: “He can’t drink it. It should be an instance restriction on NPCs.”

Zhuang Yu and Shen Hanxiao both widened their eyes simultaneously.

Wo cao, Zhao Jiuquan actually spoke voluntarily? How could he deduce so much information?

Gu Rong also had fifty speaking opportunities, but he was now too hungry to even have the strength to speak. Hearing Zhao Jiuquan’s words, he just nodded his little head.

Seeing Gu Rong nod, Zhuang Yu and Shen Hanxiao looked at Zhao Jiuquan with newfound respect. Truly worthy of being someone who “would rather use fists than talk.”

Just then, with a “Ding!”, the system issued a random task.

[Little Jiangshi, please receive a random task.]

[Task: Randomly scare one player, causing their fear value to exceed 5 (out of 10).]

[Reward: 50,000 points, permission to purchase food from the system store once.]

[Failure Penalty: None.]

[Restriction: Cannot use props.]

Seeing this task, Gu Rong’s eyes lit up: [Zaizai can buy yummy food! Zaizai is so hungry he could eat a whole cow!!]

006: […] So, the diet ended just like that, so quickly?

Gu Rong needed to scare a player, but couldn’t use props. With his soft little appearance, scaring someone enough to generate 5 fear points wouldn’t be easy.

But fortunately, there was no penalty for failure.

However, half a day passed, and Gu Rong still hadn’t found an opportunity to scare a player.

The main group stayed together. Zhuang Yu, Shen Hanxiao, and Zhao Jiuquan – Gu Rong couldn’t possibly scare them. He had to pick from the other players.

Gu Rong had already eaten several wild fruits out of hunger, but wild fruits weren’t filling at all.

They weren’t far from the mountain peak now. Having walked for most of the day, Wu Sandeng had everyone rest in place again.

Gu Rong remained sitting in the bamboo basket, too lazy to move.

Gu Rong whined in his milky voice: [Hungry!]

Seeing the little host constantly crying hungry, the diet completely forgotten, 006 found it amusing, but couldn’t help feeling sorry for him.

006 said: [Little host, we can’t use props to scare players, but that doesn’t mean we can’t use them for other things. Why don’t we use a prop to distract the group, making it easier to find an opportunity to scare a player?]

Gu Rong said: [Okay!]

He immediately rummaged through his system backpack, finally locking onto the [Little Jiangshi King] card.

Gu Rong’s mind was sharp, and he quickly came up with a good idea: [Zaizai become Little Jiangshi King, Big Jiangshi all obey Zaizai! Zaizai make Big Jiangshi lure players away!]

006 said: [Exactly! Little host is such a little smarty egg!]

Hearing the praise, Gu Rong’s perpetually sad little face finally broke into a smile. But accompanied by a rumble from his stomach, his little face fell again.

No time to delay, Gu Rong immediately used the [Little Jiangshi King] card.

After using it, there was no visible difference on the surface. In reality… There really wasn’t much difference.

Except for the ability to command Jiangshi.

[Little Jiangshi King Card: Can command all Jiangshi via thought.]

Gu Rong asked in his tender voice: [Thought command what mean?]

006 said: [It means you just think it in your head, and those big Jiangshi will do what the little host thinks.]

Gu Rong understood and immediately summoned the big Jiangshi in his mind.

Although it was daytime now, the mountain trees blocked the sun, and light couldn’t penetrate, so the Jiangshi wouldn’t be exposed to sunlight.

Gu Rong mentally ordered the big Jiangshi to come quickly. He looked around, but it was calm and peaceful, not the slightest sign of movement.

Gu Rong: [Big Jiangshi not come! Not obey!]

006: [Little host, wait a moment, don’t be anxious. It takes time for those Jiangshi to arrive.]

Gu Rong hummed in agreement and sat obediently in the bamboo basket, waiting.

Just then, with a “Swish!”, a black shadow darted over.

Gu Rong’s small voice was excited: [Big Jiangshi came!]

Looking closely, Laifu panted with its tongue out, prostrated on the ground, looking up at Gu Rong with its dog head, assuming a submissive posture.

Laifu was now a Jiangshi dog and also had to obey the Little Jiangshi King’s command.

006: […] Laifu, just stop adding to the chaos!

Seeing that he really could summon Jiangshi, Gu Rong gained some confidence and waited obediently for the other big Jiangshi to arrive.

Soon, rustling sounds came from the bushes, accompanied by the “Dong, dong, dong” of hopping.

Everyone immediately became alert, looking towards the surrounding forest and bushes.

Gu Rong also perked up his little ears.

But he only heard movement, without seeing the figure of any big Jiangshi.

Gu Rong issued the command again in his mind, telling the big Jiangshi to come out and lure the people away.

Receiving the command, the big Jiangshi immediately jumped out from the shadows.

Their eyes looked at Gu Rong with reverence and submission. Then, looking at the group of people, without hesitation, they charged directly towards them.

These Jiangshi had all gained intelligence, their combat power extremely strong, claws sharp, and breath lethal. Following Gu Rong’s instructions, they scattered the group, luring them away.

Gu Rong hopped out of the bamboo basket, turned his little head, and quickly locked onto a lone male player being chased by a big Jiangshi.

Gu Rong’s little face lit up. He immediately raised his little arms and hopped after them.

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Away from the group, Gu Rong ordered the big Jiangshi to retreat and stepped up himself.

He was tiny, couldn’t use props, hopped stumblingly, wobbling back and forth, looking particularly heart-wrenching.

006 and the livestream aunties watched with bated breath.

Forget them; even the player, after a moment’s pause, was startled seeing Gu Rong almost fall.

Seeing the big Jiangshi suddenly run off, the player hadn’t yet reacted when he saw the Little Jiangshi hopping towards him.

[Ding! Player generated 1 Fear Point. Please continue efforts~]

This 1 point of fear from the player was purely from being startled by Gu Rong nearly falling.

But Gu Rong didn’t know that. Seeing the player get scared so quickly, his little face immediately became fierce, looking fiercely cute: “Awoo— Awoo— Scare you!!”

Player: ???

Suddenly acting cute?!

The male player didn’t understand his meaning, thinking Gu Rong, like a child, was getting carried away playing and wanted to play a role-playing game with him.

Thinking about it, a two-year-old cub, how could he not be playful? He was a Little Jiangshi now, definitely wanting to scare him for fun. Should he pretend to be scared and play along?

The male player stood still for a good while. Gu Rong hadn’t even hopped close yet. Without using props, his hopping was especially clumsy. His legs were too short, only covering two centimeters per hop.

The male player’s name was Lin Lu. He knew about this NPC cub before, just hadn’t had a chance to interact with him. Now, seeing this cub actually take the initiative to play with him, his eyes lit up.

Gu Rong was still Awooing and Awooing as he hopped over.

Lin Lu, having figured it out, immediately cooperated, purely treating it as playing with a child: “Ahhh, save me! The little monster is here! Don’t bite me!!!”

Gu Rong paused his hopping, looked back, then turned back around, frowned his little eyebrows, and said in his milky voice: “Where little monster?”

Lin Lu: “…”

006: […]

Livestream Chat: …6

Dying laughing, could it be that the little monster is YOU, Zaizai!

Lin Lu immediately corrected himself: “The Little Jiangshi is here! Don’t bite me, I’m scared!!”

Gu Rong ignored the “little monster,” immediately got back into character, and started hopping again, Awooing and Awooing to scare the player.

Lin Lu ran left and right, back and forth, but stayed in the same spot.

Gu Rong saw him shouting about being scared, but the fear value didn’t increase. He was puzzled, his little face becoming fiercer—and cuter—as he hopped forward.

Seeing Gu Rong almost hopping up to him, the male player realized this child was really getting into it. He had no choice but to quickly walk forward a bit, increasing the distance.

He really couldn’t figure out how this had started so suddenly?

Besides, the other players were fighting Jiangshi, but they were here playing games? Wasn’t that inappropriate?

Ahead was a small ditch, about twenty centimeters wide. Lin Lu easily hopped over to the other side, waiting for the Little Jiangshi cub to come scare him, occasionally cooperating by shouting “Save me” a couple of times.

Gu Rong hopped to the edge of the small ditch, his little feet stopping. He looked down at the twenty-centimeter “chasm” before him.

Although it was only twenty centimeters, he could only hop two centimeters at a time. He absolutely couldn’t hop across.

Gu Rong stood before the small ditch, hesitating, not daring to hop over.

Seeing the player on the other side, he turned his little head left and right, realizing he had to take a detour. He continued hopping along, wanting to get past the ditch to scare the other person.

Lin Lu was stunned: “…?!”