Being the Wife of a Fluffy Creature [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 26

Chapter 26: The First World (26)

Whether playing Wu Shiyi or Adam, Noah’s disguise was flawless, without a single crack.

The more Wu Yao looked, the more envious he became.

He asked the system to apply for a “golden finger” cheat for him.

The system advised him to go to sleep early; in dreams, anything is possible.

Adam walked straight toward Wu Yao, pulled out a chair, and sat across from him. “Why are you looking at me like that? Is my appearance to your liking?”

Wu Yao sized him up.

Just so-so. Not as good-looking as the dark-skinned silly dog.

The system was drooling, “Give me three minutes, I want all the data on this beauty.”

Wu Yao thought it had no taste.

“Since Noah is going to replace Adam, he wouldn’t give anyone a chance to recognize him. The real Adam is already disfigured.”

Thinking of the victims hung in the basement in the last cycle, Wu Yao sighed.

If the fighting dog that whimpered at him ten times was truly Adam himself, then he was far too pitiable.

The system also came to its senses.

Recalling the fighting dog tortured beyond recognition, and then looking at the exquisite and perfect Adam before it, it jumped up and down in a cursing fit.

Wu Yao blocked it out, afraid he wouldn’t be able to resist joining in the cursing.

The man glanced at the ingredients on the table. “You’ve ordered quite a lot. Can you finish it alone?”

Wu Yao blanched a piece of beef tripe. “I bought the set for two.”

“Why hasn’t your friend arrived yet?”

Wu Yao looked up at him. “Since you are sitting here, it means my friend has already arrived. Your appearance is quite a surprise to me. I thought the person who did those extreme things would be a lunatic.”

“You think I’m extreme?”

Wu Yao didn’t answer his nonsense.

Adam used the public chopsticks to poke at the vegetables in the pot. “In that case, why didn’t you book a private room? If someone else hears extreme talk, we’ll both be in trouble.”

Without waiting for Wu Yao to reply, Adam tucked away his smile and lowered his voice. “You and Wu Shiyi…”

“He is no match for me.”

“It seems the rumors were wrong. The internet says you weren’t the one beaten into the hospital.”

A fish ball fell onto the table. Wu Yao took a deep breath and put down his chopsticks.

Adam poked the fish ball regretfully. “It’s dirty. What a shame. Do you want me to help you pick it up?”

The atmosphere suddenly became heavy. Wu Yao stared at that fish ball, his gaze growing colder.

After a long silence, he raised his hand to call the waiter. “Change us to a private room.”

Adam looked at him with a smile. “You’ve finally made up your mind, my friend.”

As a mayoral candidate, Wu Shiyi also had his own network.

According to Wu Yao, it was currently the early stage of the cycle, and the Mayor had not yet fully gained control of Paradise Island.

Wu Yao would keep the Mayor steady, while Wu Shiyi could take the opportunity to contact manpower.

No. 3 had taken her assignment from him and was on her way to the gray areas of District C. She was a street-smart type with her own circles.

Since these were extraordinary times, Wu Shiyi was uneasy and wanted to accompany her, but No. 3 flatly refused.

The reason was strange: she said a pure-hearted young man like him would be too conspicuous there and would be targeted the moment he entered. There were plenty of emotional scammers there; some attacks could strike directly at the heart.

Wu Shiyi touched his collar.

He wasn’t that easy to fool.

After settling the seriously injured No. 4, Wu Shiyi began to contact his acquaintances.

His relationship with those people was very subtle.

He found it hard to recall what they had been through together, but those few people were especially obedient to him—to the point of following his orders blindly. He considered himself a modest person, yet he enjoyed communicating with them in a commanding tone.

There were four trustworthy people in total. The first three could be reached by phone, but the last one was a wanted criminal whose contact information was constantly changing.

He was a murderer, and the person who accused him was Adam. Wu Shiyi believed he was innocent.

A friend provided Wu Shiyi with money and a phone. He changed out of his usual black trench coat for a disguise, but only the collar on his neck was not taken off.

Noah had spread news saying No. 12 had fled to District C, and police cars were constantly patrolling the streets. Wu Shiyi’s disguise could fool ordinary residents, but it couldn’t hide from the eyes of the police.

To avoid the police, he kept ducking into rarely visited back alleys, and didn’t arrive at his destination until evening.

The abandoned children’s amusement park was filled with tents. A group of people from the bottom of society were eking out an existence here. There were too few police in District C to bother with them, and ordinary residents didn’t dare come this way.

It was Wu Shiyi’s first time here as well. He stood at the entrance hesitating for a long time, then took a deep breath and walked in cautiously.

A few men holding machetes were squatting at the ticket booth smoking. One of them sized Wu Shiyi up. “Looking for someone or looking for goods?”

“Looking for someone.”

“50 to find someone, 100 to find goods. You have to buy a ticket to enter.”

The hoodlum with a mouth full of yellow teeth tapped a nearby sign. Seeing Wu Shiyi pull out an exquisitely made wallet, he instantly became enthusiastic. “Brother, you look like a stranger. Don’t come here often?”

Wu Shiyi paused. “Is there something?”

“Not going to buy more goods? A new batch arrived today, extra pure and extra potent. ‘Forgetful Sorrow,’ ever heard of it? Guaranteed one hit and you’ll forget all your worries. I can give you an insider price, have a look…”

He made a money-counting gesture. Wu Shiyi frowned slightly. “I’ve bought the ticket. Move aside.”

The hoodlum looked at his build and didn’t dare get physical with him. “Don’t be in such a hurry to go in. It’s early, let’s chat. A shop recently opened over by the merry-go-round, lots of clean young ones inside. The owner is a friend of mine.”

“I’m not interested.”

“What’s the rush? No man isn’t lustful. If you’re into that, there are men too. Strongmen, sissies, little boys—whatever you want, we have it.”

Wu Shiyi looked up slightly. “Little boys? How would the parents agree to that?”

“Huh? What?”

The several hoodlums looked at each other and laughed simultaneously.

“Parents agree? Hahahaha!”

“What kind of joke are you telling? Does it matter if his mother doesn’t agree? We don’t just fuck him; every single person in their family is included in the ‘family bucket’ set.”

Wu Shiyi gritted his molars and looked at him coldly.

One hoodlum explained patiently, “The kids here are all born of prostitutes, born to do that. What’s it called… right! Family inheritance, ancestral craft! They aren’t like the kids outside. Those kids are kids, these are just playthings. You don’t need to feel any psychological burden.”

Wu Shiyi took a deep breath and clenched his fists. “Stop talking. I’m not interested. Move aside.”

For the sake of the referral fee, the hoodlum made a final struggle. “Surely you’re interested in making a fortune? How about a gamble?”

“No.”

“Tch. He really is here to find someone. Wasting my damn time.”

This place couldn’t be found online; District C residents only treated it as a gathering spot for the homeless.

If it weren’t to find that friend, Wu Shiyi would never have come here, nor could he have known that an abandoned amusement park hidden so much filth.

Prostitution, gambling, and drugs—not one was missing. How could a town with a resident population of less than thirty thousand be this chaotic?

Wu Shiyi hid the murderous intent in his eyes and walked in with a cold face.

Several hoodlums exchanged glances and suddenly crossed their knives to block the entrance again. “Wait, you kid look quite upright; you wouldn’t happen to be a narc, would you?”

“Take off the mask. Dare to move and I’ll hack you to death!”

The crimes these people had committed were enough to have them shot several times over. They couldn’t possibly call the police.

Wu Shiyi silently took off his mask.

He didn’t speak, afraid that if he let out his breath, he wouldn’t be able to control his fists.

A hoodlum leaned in to size him up.

“Never seen him. There’s no one like this in the District C station.”

“I still think he looks like a cop, like he’s going to pull a gun and shoot me at any moment.”

“He looks familiar. Last time some cop came running in here all scatterbrained to go undercover, and now his corpse is growing maggots. How do you still dare to come over?”

They whispered for a while. The leading hoodlum’s eyes suddenly lit up. “I remember now! You’re Wu Shiyi! My, how did a mayoral candidate end up in a small place like ours?”

“Heard you raped a tourist? If you wanted a man, why go through the trouble of force? Come to our place and pick whoever you want, satisfaction guaranteed!”

“A powerful master like you must have seen all sorts of beauties. Is that guy named Wu Yao really that good-looking?”

Wu Shiyi froze.

How did the topic shift to Wu Yao?

The hoodlums surrounded him and discussed, asking him if Wu Yao was “exciting.”

Wu Shiyi gradually formed a bizarre thought. “The tourist I… violated is named Wu Yao?”

The hoodlums started laughing again, mocking him for playing with someone until they were hospitalized without even remembering their name—what a piece of trash.

The news didn’t mention the victim’s name, and Wu Yao hadn’t mentioned this to him.

Wu Shiyi only knew he had been framed, but he never expected that the “tourist” mentioned in passing in the newspaper was his friend.

Wu Yao was full of spirit; he didn’t have a stress reaction when touched, but he did have obvious external injuries.

This meant Wu Yao had won the fight against Adam and hadn’t suffered further harm.

Did he want to use this opportunity to pretend to break with him in order to gain Adam’s trust?

Laughter interrupted Wu Shiyi’s thoughts. The hoodlums believed they had seen through his nature and thought they were the same kind of people.

They put their arms around his shoulders, wanting him to go for a round of prostitution so they could get a referral fee.

The filthy language made Wu Shiyi feel annoyed. He repeatedly told himself: I cannot fight, I cannot cause trouble.

“We have everything here. I’ll arrange an all-access pass for the park for you. Go to the merry-go-round first to play with a young one, then go to the haunted house for a few rounds of gambling to test your luck, and finally go to the spinning coffee cups for a few hits. A little breeze and it couldn’t be more beautiful.”

The hoodlum pulled a small black-and-white ticket from his bosom and stamped it. Then he dug out a small booklet from the security room for Wu Shiyi to “order dishes”—who to sleep with, what to play, which kind to inhale, all could be booked with him.

“The men are all here. I heard that guy Wu Yao has long hair and wears little glasses. See if any of these will do.”

“If you want to experience other attractions, you can go to the west side of the park. That dead narc is hanging from a swing, free viewing. The dog fighting competition just ended not long ago; a few dogs are dead or injured, nothing worth seeing, not recommended.”

Wu Shiyi listened quietly, feeling a string in his head stretching tighter and tighter until finally, with a snap, it broke.

His gaze was no longer cold, and he even had a smile on his face.

Wu Shiyi put his arm around the hoodlum leader’s shoulder and led him toward a small grove nearby.

“You know, someone with power and influence like me has seen everything. Isn’t there anything more stimulating? I can see you guys are honest people. There are too many eyes and ears here; some business is hard to conduct. Why don’t we go over there and have a good chat.”

Wu Yao originally thought Adam would lead him directly to District A for “talk therapy” or knock him out and send him to the Truth Society for electric shock brainwashing. He didn’t expect Adam’s schedule to be so packed.

He had a speech at the downtown elementary school tomorrow morning and had to go to the police station in the afternoon. The day after tomorrow he was going to a nursing home, and the day after that to the hospital to visit injured police officers. He wouldn’t return to District A for three days at the earliest.

“Managing a Paradise Island this large is no easy task. Even though I’m only a candidate right now, there’s still a lot to do every day. Just thinking about it gives me a headache.”

Adam swirled the red wine in his glass, his movements elegant and his expression arrogant.

Wu Yao translated his words to the system.

“He’s saying: ‘I was already coming to District C for business; I didn’t come specifically for you. I advise you not to think too highly of yourself. Don’t get any other ideas, either; the Mayor this time will still be me.'”

The system put down the kidney skewer in its hand and turned to start grilling brain flower, preparing to eat something useful to supplement itself.

Wu Yao didn’t pick up on Adam’s words. “You should know very well what I want.”

“Of course. I can bring Wu Shiyi to you at any time.”

“If it were just that, would I still need you?”

Wu Yao tapped his finger on the table. “I want to truly capture him, and then kill him forever. Since you know about the cycle and can control monsters, you must have a way to completely kill someone.”

Adam narrowed his eyes. ” I can send him to you at the start of every cycle for you to torture repeatedly. Isn’t that enough to vent your anger?”

“Isn’t that just adding to my frustration? Is it that you don’t want to cooperate with me, or that you lack the ability to cooperate!”

The atmosphere in the private room instantly froze. Adam sipped his red wine quietly while Wu Yao added another plate of tripe to the pot.

The old bone broth at this shop was indeed good. He’d have the system buy some hot pot base another day; he was already tired of eating barbecue and grilled meat every day.

Adam stared at him for a long while. “I want to see your intestines.”

“That’s boring. I’ll show you something interesting.”

Wu Yao fumbled in his pants pocket for a bit and pulled out a small baby that was obviously much larger than the pocket.

Adam was about to reach out to take it, but saw that the baby’s umbilical cord was still attached, and the other end of the cord was connected to a back-to-back conjoined twin.

The conjoined twin’s cord was connected to another conjoined twin. Wu Yao pulled babies out of his pocket in strands like colorful ribbons.

A minute later, Wu Yao dug around his pocket to make sure it was empty. He bunched up the bundle of umbilical cords and stuffed it all into Adam’s arms.

The blonde man held the baby-skewer with both hands, his expression a total blank.

The system stood proudly with its hands on its hips, “How’s that? Perverted enough? I’ve won the best prop award at the Infinite Flow company for five consecutive years. Many dungeon designers specifically come to me to buy props!”

“Too bad the ‘subtle horror’ style has become popular lately. These pure blood-and-gore props don’t have much of a market. My colleagues all say I’m an old-fashioned system that can’t keep up with trends, and the leaders are starting to make things difficult for me to force me to resign. Even if I don’t jump ship, I’ll be unemployed sooner or later.”

Wu Yao snorted coldly. “They’re just jealous of you. In my heart, you’re amazing.”

“Hehe!”

Perhaps the shock brought by the baby-skewer was simply too great; Adam stopped beating around the bush with Wu Yao.

He required Wu Yao to accompany him for a few harmless small experiments and then help him with some tasks. Once it was done, he would tell Wu Yao the method to completely kill Wu Shiyi.

The two of them spent over four hours in the private room. It was dark by the time they came out.

Adam invited Wu Yao into the car.

The scenery outside the window grew increasingly desolate. Wu Yao asked suspiciously, “Did you buy a villa in the suburbs?”

“No. The suburbs of District C have another owner; it’s not a place people like us can live. Even if your skills are good, don’t come here casually. This is my advice to you as a friend.”

In the last cycle, Wu Yao arrived too late and spent most of his time in the apartment building; he had only explored a small portion of the Paradise Island map.

The suburbs were a place he had never been.

The road was narrow without streetlights. One could vaguely see figures in the darkness. The car lights swept past, illuminating pale, frenzied faces.

They were either squatting by the roadside trembling or swaying forward like zombies.

In the wild grass, two people were piled together, their bodies twisting occasionally. From a distance, it looked like they were making love. When the car got closer, Wu Yao saw that it was a homeless man eating a corpse.

A town with a population of less than thirty thousand actually had so many addicts. If he told Officer Xiao Liu about this, he would surely be full of drive.

Oh, he forgot. The young officer was gone.

Wu Yao suddenly understood Officer Qin’s feelings a bit.

A man’s gentle voice came from beside him. “Yao, what do you think of them?”

“Hateful and pitiable. You should call me Mr. Wu.”

“Then do you want to save them?”

Working all these years, Wu Yao had seen plenty of addicts. “It’s not a matter of wanting to save them or not; I don’t have that ability. The only ones who can save them are themselves. My suggestion is to round them all up.”

“And then a mass execution?”

Wu Yao turned his head in shock. “Don’t project your lunatic thinking onto me. Those people outside are clearly out of control. It’s too dangerous without supervision. It’s best if they can quit; if not, control them so they don’t hurt people.”

“Why not kill them? They’re beyond saving anyway, they only cause trouble for others, and living is just a burden on society.”

Wu Yao didn’t want to discuss such a neurotic topic with him.

Adam stared fixedly out the window. “Yao, humans are actually imperfect creations. They don’t understand negative commands; the more you tell them not to do something, the more they do it. Greed, lust, cowardice, stupidity—in my eyes, there is no difference between people and dogs.”

Since that was the case, Wu Yao really wanted to make a “zuo zuo” sound at him to see if he would respond.

Having stayed around villains for a long time, he could finish the second half of these little canned speeches after hearing the first half.

“I often think: since the Creator was willing to give the goodness of human nature, why didn’t He just create humans as a perfect species? Without the evil of human nature, the whole world would be as beautiful as paradise.”

Wu Yao listened absentmindedly.

He didn’t like his previous job. Staying near the Mayor awakened bad memories.

It was still more comfortable to be with Wu Shiyi. The most “crazy” thing that silly dog had done was secretly licking him twice.

If the silly dog could poison the Mayor into silence, Wu Yao would be willing to let him lick whatever he wanted for a minute.

Wu Yao knew there would surely be a surprise in District C, otherwise Adam wouldn’t have brought him. But when he saw the abandoned amusement park before him, his brain still stalled for a moment.

In such a small town, there was actually such a large criminal amusement park?!

Those previous villains were still too weak.

He couldn’t help but look at Adam. “In your eyes, doesn’t Paradise Island belong to you? Since you hate the evil in human nature, why would you create something like this?”

Adam straightened his clothes and signaled the bodyguards to pull out their guns. “It has nothing to do with me. This formed naturally. If the police don’t care, why should I?”

Wu Yao gave a cold sneer. “Sarcastic.”

If it weren’t for the police officers disappearing one by one and the severe understaffing at the station, would they allow such a place to exist?

The system was a bit worried, “Will there be trouble if you talk to the big boss so sharply?”

“It’s fine, don’t be afraid. If I suddenly gave him a friendly face, it would actually seem suspicious.”

Several hoodlums were squatting at the entrance cursing. The grandson who was supposed to be on the night shift had gone out to play, and they had to come and fill in.

Seeing Wu Yao and Adam, the hoodlums’ eyes instantly lit up.

One of them stood up and rubbed his hands. “Where did these two little bitches come from, coming here to look for—”

A gunshot interrupted his words. The hoodlum slumped down with an extra bloody hole in his forehead.

Wu Yao glanced at the bodyguard who fired.

The Adam before him was Noah’s disguise. Based on the last cycle, the Mayor had to use external forces if he wanted to kill people in the surface world.

Being able to kill a hoodlum at will had only two possibilities.

Either this amusement park belonged to the scope of the inner world.

Or the bodyguards were members of the Truth Society.

Seeing their companion dead, the other hoodlums pulled out their knives to attack.

Adam pulled out his phone and made a call. The park manager ran out hurriedly and bowed obsequiously to Adam.

Adam tilted his head arrogantly, and Wu Yao looked at him thoughtfully.

With the manager leading the way, no one dared to block the two of them again.

Adam walked beside Wu Yao, his voice lowered. “I call this place Hell Park. The ugly side of human nature is expressed most vividly here.”

“I established a laboratory here to find out why some people become kinder and more loyal after turning into dogs. How the evil of humanity is produced, and how to thoroughly eliminate it.”

Wu Yao’s brow furrowed.

This was absolutely not the Mayor’s true intention. He was lying to him.

To hide the biggest lie, Noah had begun to tell lies.

The further in they went, the stranger Wu Yao felt.

There were no houses here, only tents and cardboard shacks. The screams and pleas for mercy of victims were everywhere. The surrounding people kept eyeing them with disgusting gazes, their greasy stares scanning Wu Yao’s skin inch by inch.

Everything was logical. Where exactly was the problem?

Wu Yao’s eyes flickered.

No.

There shouldn’t have been a Hell Park in the previous cycles, otherwise the dog fighting arena and the hot pot city’s corpse storage could have completely moved to the suburbs.

Furthermore, this place was too clean—hardly any smell of rotting corpses could be detected. It was clearly not something original to Paradise Island.

It was something newly appeared in this cycle.

The Mayor had fabricated memories, artificially concentrating all the scum on Paradise Island into this abandoned park, making them mistakenly believe they had always lived here.

What was his purpose?

Could it be…

An absurd thought flashed through, and Wu Yao only felt a chill run through his body, making him involuntarily gasp.

The system chased him with questions.

Wu Yao rubbed his arm blankly. “He’s creating new memories. He’s a total lunatic.”

The system knew every word, but put together, it just couldn’t understand.

Adam’s destination was the circus in the park.

When the two came in, the audience seats were already full of people. They were shouting frenziedly at the stage.

A group of naked young people stood in the center open space, holding hands and singing, their eyes dull and with bizarre smiles on their faces.

Several staff members holding machetes were hacking at them strike by strike, as if cutting vegetables.

There were no screams and no resistance. The crowd stepped in blood, spinning and dancing as if possessed.

This bizarre image made Wu Yao’s spine go cold, and it also left a deep impression on the hearts of the audience.

Noah’s murmur faintly reached his ear. “It’s still not enough. Do you want to go up and try?”

Wu Yao turned to look at him. “What?”

Noah had a bizarre smile on his lips. “Yao, do you want to go on stage and perform?”

At the same time, in an inconspicuous corner of the audience seats.

A middle-aged fat man was pinning down the man beside him, one hand covering his mouth and the other patting his chest to help him breathe. “Boss, calm down. I know you can’t stand this. Killing those few hoodlums is enough. There are so many eyes watching right now, you must not be impulsive!”

The shouting drowned out the fat man’s words. Wu Shiyi stared at the circus entrance in shock.

Wu Yao? Why would he appear here?