In the evening glow, Chi Liu opened his hazy eyes on the rocking chair.

Whether it was Xiang Xiang or Qi Teng, they covered him with a soft blanket that emitted a strange, cool fragrance.

The workers had already left work, and Xiang Xiang was squatting beside him, tilting his head and looking at him curiously and worriedly.

Qi Teng stood by the glass door, looking at the almost finished interior with his arms crossed and a satisfied expression. Hearing the movement, he turned around, smiling and showing his white teeth: “Boss, our store will be opening soon! I’m really looking forward to it!”

“I can not only mix drinks by then, but also help in the kitchen!”

His new life was about to begin!

Chi Liu smiled slightly, recalling the “flesh and blood body.” “There’s no need for that,” he said. He paused, remembered something, and asked, “Is your nosebleed serious? Are you okay?”

Qi Teng scratched the back of his head, still carefree: “Ah? When did I have a nosebleed?”

His most important advantage was that he was healthy and strong! How could he have a nosebleed?

Chi Liu was puzzled for a moment. Just as he was about to say something, someone knocked on the glass door. Qi Teng looked over and shouted, “Old Wen!”

This guy was an employee of Yingwang. Why was he here again?

Secretary Wen, carrying his corporate briefcase, walked in. He smiled at Chi Liu: “I’m here to pick up Xiang Xiang.”

Chi Liu raised an eyebrow: “You got off work early today?”

Secretary Wen pushed up his glasses, looking at Chi Liu with a subtle expression: “Ah, the boss is troubled by something… um, very unbelievable, I can’t play an effective role, so he kicked me out of the office.”

Chi Liu: “…” He sounded like a very willful guy.

At this moment, Secretary Wen took out a delicately packaged tin can from his briefcase and called out, “Little Xiang.”

Xiang Xiang squatted there, staring blankly at Secretary Wen: “???”

Secretary Wen curved his eyes: “Catch.”

The tin can flew in an arc towards the boy and landed accurately in his arms.

Xiang Xiang held the tin can; his blue eyes suddenly lit up: “Eye candy!” Super delicious!

Secretary Wen looked at the boy tenderly for a moment, then turned his gaze to Chi Liu. A rare look of hesitation appeared between his brows, and he carefully considered his words, asking, “Boss Chi, do you believe that men can get pregnant?”

“Pfft—”

Qi Teng, who was drinking water, spat it out, coughing and gasping for breath.

Chi Liu twitched the corner of his mouth and joked, “Did you work too much overtime and catch your boss’s madness?”

Secretary Wen pinched his brow: “Just think of me as crazy.”

He didn’t know what he remembered, his face full of a confused feeling of doubting life—he didn’t want to ask his friend such a question that would make him look like an idiot!

Although his boss wasn’t very social and often behaved in an incomprehensible manner, he never lied.

Their God never lied.

The boss had told him very seriously that Little Chi was gestating his child.

The embryo was almost a month old.

He now understood that the NPC in the boss’s room that night was Little Chi!

Secretary Wen didn’t want to pry into his friend’s privacy, nor did he want to force his friend to admit that he had a relationship with Boss; he was only worried about his friend’s health.

So he looked at Chi Liu and asked seriously, “Do you believe me?”

Chi Liu laughed softly and nodded without much hesitation.

This was the first friend he had made in this strange world.

A hint of warmth appeared in Secretary Wen’s inorganic green eyes. He said, “I know a doctor, would you be willing to let him examine your body?”

The doctor was also an NPC, but belonged to a special department.

In fact, this was originally Boss’s assignment for him.

He was also astonished at the time that Boss, who had never been very socialized, had learned this roundabout way—he knew that he and Little Chi were friends, so he sent him to convey this message.

Even without Boss, he would have mentioned it if he had known about his friend’s health.

Chi Liu blinked in surprise: This was the second person today who wanted him to re-examine his body.

This was a particularly unusual request, especially since Secretary Wen knew he had just been to the hospital.

But, perhaps there was no harm in checking again.

Chi Liu subconsciously looked at his abdomen, smiled, and said, “Okay.”

Secretary Wen was finally relieved.

…

After separating from Secretary Wen and the others, night had already fallen.

Chi Liu walked home as usual. After entering the community and passing the playground, he saw the twin-tailed little girl again, this time with two cat hair clips in her hair.

It was after dinner, and the play area was full of children playing, very lively, but the girl’s grandmother was holding the girl and walking home with a wary expression.

As he approached Chi Liu, he heard the old woman muttering hatefully, “Your mother! She’s really inhuman! She actually wants to take you away secretly! Three times in two days!”

“Your father finally turned over a new leaf!”

“It’s not that Grandma won’t let you play, child, what if your mother goes crazy again and comes to snatch you? Be good, Grandma will take you home, and Dad will be back soon!”

As the old woman passed quickly, Chi Liu caught a glimpse of the little girl’s expression, which was about to break into tears. He frowned slightly and looked thoughtfully at the building number the old woman entered again.

This time, he stopped in place for a while, his gaze fixed on the old woman’s figure.

Not long after the old woman went in, he saw the lights on the second-floor balcony from afar—the old woman and the little girl probably lived there.

Without lingering any longer, Chi Liu quickly returned to his home.

He made himself a delicious dinner as usual, but he was unusually absent-minded while eating.

For some reason, he couldn’t let go of the little girl.

That little girl was the same age as his niece. Children of this age should be the most carefree, but both times he saw her, she was full of worries.

Moreover, he always felt that the old woman’s words were strange: What did it really mean to finally turn over a new leaf?

And why was the girl’s mother so anxious to take her daughter away, attempting three times in two days?

Chi Liu lowered his gaze, and beneath his long eyelashes, a rare coolness lingered in his amber pupils. With a quiet sound, he set down his chopsticks and stepped outside purposefully.

…

Chi Liu initially wanted to go directly to that family to understand what was happening, but as he walked past the now-empty play area, a little girl bumped into him.

She was trembling all over; her coat and dress were covered in mud, one pigtail was loose, her face was streaked with tears, and her big black eyes were full of fear.

Chi Liu’s pupils shrank after helping her up, and his amber pupils were instantly filled with coolness.

Just as he was about to say something, the little girl’s trembling hand grabbed the corner of his clothes, her voice crying: “Big brother, run, run…”

Chi Liu softened his voice and said gently, “Don’t be afraid, I’ll help you. Tell me what happened.”

The little girl finally cried: “Mommy, please save Mommy, Daddy wants to eat Mommy and Grandma…”

Mommy came to the door again to take her away, but Daddy, who had just returned home, found out…

Daddy, he wants to eat Mommy, Grandma found out, he wants to eat Grandma too…

Mommy, with only one hand left, hurriedly pushed her out the door, only had time to cry and tell her to run and hide, and was dragged back home by Daddy, and the door was closed…

Chi Liu suddenly widened his eyes.

After a moment, he looked earnestly into the girl’s eyes and repeated, “I will help you.”

He borrowed the girl’s coat, neatly pulled the girl out of the play area, put his hand on her tender shoulder, and pointed in one direction: “See that? That’s the nearest gate, you go there now and find the security guard, tell him that your father is killing people, ask him to call the police, and immediately take the security team to your house to save people.”

It might be too late for the police to get here.

The girl widened her eyes, and Chi Liu had already pushed her forward, curving his eyes to look at her, a gentle and stern expression: “You can do it, Mommy is still waiting for you.”

The girl nodded, crying and gritting her teeth, and ran desperately towards the gate.

At the same time, Chi Liu’s always gentle and beautiful face instantly turned frighteningly cold, and he strode towards that building without hesitation.

Matters of life and death were a race against time.

It wasn’t far to go up to the second floor from the fire escape, and Chi Liu quickly stood in front of a metal door. He held one hand behind his back and rang the doorbell with the other.

A man’s voice quickly came from the electronic screen, his voice not vicious, but unusually gentle: “May I ask who you are? What’s the matter?”

Chi Liu’s heart raced as he inconspicuously glanced at the peephole. The man, very sensitive to sight, was staring at him through the peephole with an unsettling, sticky gaze…

Chi Liu held the removed fire extinguisher behind his back, with the bottle’s mouth propping up the girl’s coat and intentionally revealing a portion of her sleeve—as if a child were truly hiding behind him.

He smiled slightly. “I’m from the property management, I saw your daughter in the community, and I’m bringing her home now.”

…

Yingwang Tower.

Secretary Wen, who had returned to work overtime after receiving the news, rarely had any complaints.

He placed three portrait photos on Chu Qi’s desk, his face serious, and said, “These are the people who have gone missing in the city in the past three months. The number is indeed within the normal range, so the original department didn’t notice it.”

After all, no matter how safe a city may be, it is impossible for no incidents to occur.

“However, they recently discovered that these people share a common point: their personalities changed drastically for a time before they disappeared, often alongside murders occurring around them. They would then suddenly vanish as major suspects, leaving no trace.”

“Old Zheng checked the archives for a long time and discovered that one of the soldier players near the player commander had the ability to shapeshift. He is likely one of the players who cheated to enter the vacation world.”

Shapeshifting, as the name suggests, is the ability of a player to transform into the appearance of that NPC…

It was really a disgusting ability.

Secretary Wen’s expression was a little cold, and he pushed a photo of the community in front of Chu Qi: “We have narrowed the scope by massively detecting the degree of plant alienation; he is here.”

He was in the community where Boss and Little Chi lived…

Chu Qi suddenly raised his head, his dark pupils cold, and a scarlet light spread from the center of his eyeballs, almost filling his entire eye socket.

The next moment, his figure disappeared from the office.

…

Outside the metal door, the moment the man opened the door.

With a “bang,” Chi Liu slammed the fire extinguisher in his hand at the man’s head, a cold light flashing in his eyes.

The tall, thin man with blood on his chest tilted his head, said “Huh,” and fell straight down.

He crawled on the ground, convulsing, but did not pass out, his eyeballs rolling around, excitedly peeking at Chi Liu’s figure from the gap: So fragrant, so fragrant, so fragrant…

Chi Liu didn’t notice. The room was full of a strong smell of blood. His face was pale, and he quickly and neatly searched the space.

In less than a few dozen seconds, he came behind the sofa, decisively abandoned the old woman whose face was unrecognizable and had no signs of life, and only forcefully helped up the woman who had temporarily broken only one wrist and was almost unconscious—he recognized that this was the woman from the convenience store.

He put his arm around her and strode towards the door, whispering, “Hold on, your daughter is waiting for you.”

Various knives were scattered on the ground, and small bloodstains had been scratched on the woman’s neck, as if Chi Liu’s doorbell had just interrupted a more cruel cutting.

The woman was trembling with her eyes closed, but she still bit her tongue to prevent herself from falling into a coma.

They quickly came to the door; the next step was outside. However, Chi Liu’s steps halted—the man on the ground raised his face, revealing a greedy and terrifying smile, saliva pooling on the ground as he tightly grabbed his ankle.

“So fragrant, so fragrant, so fragrant…”

That person’s strength was astonishing.

He was unable to break free.

This was not the strength that humans should have.

…If it really wasn’t human?

Chi Liu, who immediately judged the situation, smiled gently at the woman: “Your daughter is in the security room.” After saying that, he pushed the other party out without hesitation and slammed the door shut.

In the confined space, the man had already gotten up, his overly slender arms still tightly clutching Chi Liu’s ankle, his pupils flashing with greedy light, his saliva-covered sharp teeth aimed at Chi Liu’s neck, about to pounce on him…

Chi Liu judged: Unable to dodge.

He subconsciously curled his body slightly, facing away from the man, completely exposing his back to the other party.

He just used all his strength to protect his abdomen—he couldn’t explain why… but a soft and sour emotion flooded his heart, he just wanted to do this…

At least protect…

Chi Liu closed his eyes, his long eyelashes trembling slightly: Protect who?

His abdomen was slightly hot…

“Mommy, Mommy…”

Who was crying…

Who was calling him so eagerly…

At least protect…

Suddenly, with a loud “bang,” the man who was about to touch Chi Liu flew out, his upper body slamming into the wall while his lower body became dust.

Internal organs flowed down, blue blood flowing from the man’s mouth, trying to tilt his head: Huh?

One of his hands moved, about to activate the bracelet on his wrist…

…

The loud noise echoed in his ears; Chi Liu’s pupils shrank, and his body fell to the side uncontrollably, curling up.

The next second, he fell into a cold, fragrant embrace.

The tall, handsome man in a suit pressed the young man tightly into his arms, his voice still distorted, but unbelievably gentle: “Don’t be afraid.”

The tip of his nose was frantically filled with a cold fragrance, and Chi Liu suddenly widened his eyes.

Countless deep blue tentacles broke through Chu Qi’s spine, frantically and angrily surging towards the thing on the wall, and the man’s body on the wall was devoured entirely in screams…

The tentacles were still chewing in a venting manner.

Chu Qi’s lower body had completely turned into a terrifying monster, but his hand carefully covered the young man’s ears in his arms.

He lowered his eyes and looked at him tenderly and remorsefully, repeating and murmuring, “Don’t be afraid.”

Chi Liu couldn’t hear what the man was saying, his breath trembling, he raised his head slightly, and a clear, pale jaw under the comical bear head was reflected in his narrow vision.

“Ah,” Chi Liu smiled weakly, “I owe you another favor. I don’t seem to have asked your name…”

His neighbor was indeed a good person. And so amazing, he didn’t see how he subdued that monster…

“Sorry,” Chi Liu’s hand was still gently stroking his abdomen, smiling at the man: “I seem a little tired…”

The unbelievably beautiful smile was entirely engraved in Chu Qi’s eyes.

He watched Chi Liu’s eyelids slowly close, and his body completely softened in his arms.

The thing on the wall had been gnawed away without a trace, and Chu Qi steadily picked up the young man.

The piercing sound of sirens had already sounded outside the window, and hurried footsteps were also thumping outside the door, but Chu Qi just imprinted a cool, light kiss on the young man’s forehead.

The next second, their figures completely disappeared from this space.

…

In the quiet moonlight, Chi Liu, who had been changed into soft pajamas, was trapped in the bedding, sleeping peacefully.

The tall man knelt by the bed, put the young man’s hand into the quilt, and lowered his head to look at the young man’s abdomen: “You saved him, you did a good job, little one.”

The little one was so sad that he could hardly breathe: “Wuwuwu…” It was all his fault for waking up too late, Mommy almost… QAQ

Chu Qi put his hand over the quilt and gently covered the young man’s abdomen. Soon, the emotionally intense little one was strangely soothed and fell asleep again.

Chu Qi was still talking to that child: “He loves you very much.”

Even if he doesn’t know your existence, he is loving you with his life.

“Sorry, I’m late.” His slender, pale fingers stroked the young man’s soft hair, and he murmured, “Perhaps, I shouldn’t be so cowardly and hide.”

“Dear, according to the rules of the vacation world, we’re having a child, we should get married, shouldn’t we?” He leaned over and imprinted another kiss on the young man’s fair forehead, his dark pupils full of a strange light: “If I propose to you, will you agree? Dear.”