Chapter 19: Big Monster Baba~
Shen Lin’s secret snacking on flowers was eventually discovered.
The head maid’s expression looked as if the sky had fallen. The cub, feeling guilty, hid his plump little paws behind his back and lowered his head. Only after the healer gave the “all clear” did the head maid’s deathly pale face finally regain some color.
From then on, the head maid watched the cub even more closely, especially regarding anything that went into his mouth.
Shen Lin didn’t realize that simply eating something would trigger such a massive reaction from the head maid. In his cognition, anything edible was food; whether it was poisonous or not didn’t make much of a difference to him. Especially since his body had been tempered, he wanted to test where his physical limits were.
Furthermore, Shen Lin knew the taste of starvation all too well. Consequently, he wanted to try anything he found; he had even sampled the leaves of the Ghost Vine.
It made his mouth numb, and it tasted terrible.
His powerful healing ability gave the cub a stomach of steel. However, his new family wouldn’t know that, so the cub could only give up on his plan to “taste the hundred grasses.”
It was mealtime again.
Halfway through the cub’s focused eating session, a scorching gaze shot toward him. He subconsciously glanced over. Today, his third brother’s school uniform jacket was dirty, with a clear footprint on it. Beneath that flamboyant white hair, a bruise had appeared on his wild-looking face.
However, his gaze was still as punchable as ever.
Shen Lin had originally felt a bit soft-hearted and intended to secretly help heal his injuries, but now it seemed unnecessary.
“For you.”
A rolling glass marble slid straight across the table to the cub. The cub’s paws could just barely encircle it. At the moment he held it, the marble emitted a burst of dazzling light.
When Shen Lin opened his eyes again, a vast, lush green forest and crisscrossing rivers appeared before him. Looking down, he actually felt a sense of falling.
Having just plummeted from a great height, his adrenaline hadn’t faded yet. He crawled out from a giant flower and, with a wave of his arm, accidentally found the mechanism for this jungle. The scene shifted; the clouds and mist dissipated, and a large swarm of dancing butterflies appeared in the valley.
Plink.
A drop of ice-cold water hit his face. Looking up, a waterfall hung like a hundred streaks of white silk in the air. Between the forests on both sides of the river came the cry of deer. A magnificent tiger lunged out with a series of roars, startling a large flock of red birds nesting in the trees, which swarmed toward him in a dense mass.
The cub instinctively reached out to block them, and a crisp cry rang out. The birds turned into vast stretches of red sunset clouds in the sky. A lone bird dove down from the midst of them, carrying a trail of cloud-glow.
“Li!”
Its cry pierced the heavens, causing the sunset to sink. The perspective snapped back rapidly, and all the scenery shrunk down to fit back into a tiny glass marble.
Shen Zejue observed the cub’s expression. Seeing him unable to put the marble down, his demeanor immediately grew relaxed. He picked up the water beside him and took a large gulp.
When the cub glanced over, he took the initiative to explain: “A friend gave it to me. I thought it was childish, so I’m giving it to you.”
Sitting in her seat and drinking soup, Shen Zexi lifted her eyelids and swept a glance.
Angel Ball, also known as the Cub’s Dora Box. Barely passable.
However, this item was brought by interstellar merchants from a mechanical star tens of trillions of light-years away and was quite expensive. This tiny thing probably nearly emptied the Third Brother’s “small vault.”
Shen Lin’s gaze fell on the small ball. He liked it quite a bit, but looking up, he saw Shen Zejue looking at him through his nostrils.
He wanted to hit him!
Shen Lin took two last looks at the small ball, gave it a push with his fat paw, and the small round ball rolled back along the table. As it tumbled, the small world hidden inside dutifully played different sceneries.
The cub crossed his fat paws over his chest and looked elsewhere.
The cub isn’t looking. The cub isn’t envious at all.
Shen Zejue was amused to the point of laughter by the little fat cub’s appearance, his canine teeth grinding. He—Shen Zejue, the third young master of the Shen family and the hardest bone in the Federation First Academy—had never lowered his head to anyone.
Now, not only did he have to humbly apologize to a little fat cub, but to buy the apology gift, he had squatted at the interstellar merchant’s door for several days. Not only did he empty his pockets, but he also fought his rival, Tali’er, to finally snatch an Angel Ball.
In the end, the little fat cub didn’t even want it!
Heh, this really pissed him off.
Shen Zejue stood up with a start, grabbed the small round ball, strode to the cub, and stuffed the item directly into the cub’s arms.
“The gift has been given. Take it or leave it!”
His voice sounded exceptionally aggrieved.
Crack!
Not long after Shen Zejue ran out, the cup of water at his seat was squeezed with visible finger marks, and countless tiny cracks exploded along the indentation. Flying fragments pierced a maid who had just stepped forward to clear the tableware.
The maid let out a scream, and blood-holes of various sizes appeared on her body.
Shen Zexi instructed, “Take her down to apply medicine. Double her bonus.”
Uncle Chen responded, his gaze looking in the direction Shen Zejue had left, worriedly saying: “The Third Young Master’s temper seems to have become manic; he can’t even fully restrain his bloodline power. Perhaps we should have the healer take a look.”
Shen Zexi’s eating movements paused: “Old Three hasn’t been using his medicine lately?”
“He has, but the effectiveness of the suppressors seems to have shortened.”
Shen Zexi thought for a moment: “Check the people around Old Three. Specifically, check his diet thoroughly.”
“Understood.”
Shen Lin played with the small ball, quietly listening to the conversation between his second sister and Uncle Chen.
His third brother’s emotional instability was something he had noticed from the first moment he saw him. Linking to Shen Zejue’s mental sea, he could see dense black pollution sources clogging the mental blood vessels in his brain, with some peripheral vessels already half-eroded by blackness.
Those black pollutants were like bacteria, constantly expanding the infection. Eventually, they would devour the host’s brain and further affect their reason, causing them to sink into madness while still conscious.
Shen Lin walked around the mental sea area. A row of silver-white iron nets “installed” at the edge should be the suppressive medicine commonly used by beastmen. These silver nets kept the pollutants out, but he could see that the silver nets in some local areas had already turned black.
Over time, the silver nets would no longer be able to block the intrusion of the pollution source. Once the mental sea was filled with pollutants, Shen Zejue would turn into a frenzied beast.
But what did that have to do with Shen Lin?
His relationship with Shen Zejue wasn’t very good, especially after their conflict; the relationship had dropped to the freezing point. A cub raised by monsters was naturally a monster. Lacking empathy and being cold-hearted—they were the cold-blooded monsters denounced by those humans.
Humph~ The name “little monster” isn’t just for show. I won’t pick up trash for you!
Shen Lin pouted, and the speed of the holographic images in the small round marble increased. He fiddled with the tassels of his small bag; several small wind chime flowers were still lying inside. These were the few he had secretly hidden when he was caught snacking on flowers.
Counting them carefully, there were exactly four, no more and no less.
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