“Brother, why did you suddenly think of coming over?”

Hei Y瑟琳 was easy to distinguish. She always liked to wear dark, black clothes, and when she had strong emotional fluctuations, charred black scars would appear on her body.

"Ah, I suddenly wanted to see you, so I came," Li Cheng颐 replied with a smile.

"Really? Is that how you trick girls outside?" Hei Y瑟琳 said with a smile.

"No, I have a bad temper outside, no one likes me," Li Cheng颐 said with a smile.

"It doesn't matter, I can get bigger. If no one wants you, brother, I will," Hei Y瑟琳 said seriously.

Li Cheng颐 walked closer and reached out to rub her head.

"Then I really have to thank you."

He looked around again at this time.

The bedroom was still the same bedroom, but it clearly felt different.

The furnishings hadn't changed, but the atmosphere had.

The view outside the window was no longer bright daylight, but pitch black.

"Y瑟琳, how did you manage to pull me in?" Li Cheng颐 asked curiously.

"I don't know... But I feel like it's easier for me to connect with you than with other people. I don't know why, but in my eyes, everyone else outside is blurry, only you are clear.

This feeling is most obvious when you help me apply the oil."

Hei Y瑟琳 frowned in thought.

"I think it might be related to you being a high-frequency flicker. Because in my eyes, the so-called dead-angle people are clearer than other ordinary people."

"That's possible," Li Cheng颐 agreed.

He belonged to the type who, as long as he wandered around the edge of a dead angle a few times, could be directly pulled in.

Looking at it this way, it was really quite natural for Hei Y瑟琳 to wander around him a few times and pull him in here.

"By the way, last time when I went to buy things, I encountered those monsters, do you know about it?" Li Cheng颐 suddenly asked.

"Um... sorry, I went to buy food before... I wasn't with you, brother," Hei Y瑟琳 quickly gave a ninety-degree bow.

"No wonder..." Li Cheng颐 thought to himself, Y瑟琳 had taken the initiative at the Blue Book Wolf Cave, so why was she silent at the Silent Little Shop?

It turned out this girl wasn't even there.

"You still buy food? Where do you buy it?" he asked curiously.

"I'm still a person, I definitely have to eat," Hei Y瑟琳 said matter-of-factly, "Of course, I hide under the bed and refresh the place to change it."

"Still refreshing the place... you think this is a game?" Li Cheng颐 was speechless.

He picked up the Heart of Greed in his hand.

"Can I exchange things with this?"

"I don't know," Y瑟琳 shook her head, "This purely depends on luck, some want it, some don't. So, brother, you didn't come in specifically to see me?"

She was immediately a little disappointed.

"How could that be? I came specifically to see you, I just asked about this thing in passing," Li Cheng颐 said without batting an eye.

"Okay, I believe you. Come with me." Hei Y瑟琳 turned around, quickly walked to the only large bed in the bedroom, then stuck out her butt and slipped under the bed with a whoosh.

"Right here, brother, come in quickly," she poked her head out and waved at Li Cheng颐.

Li Cheng颐 estimated his size and the space under the bed, bent over, and followed her inside.

The two of them lay on their stomachs in the dark space under the bed, looking side by side towards the door.

From here, they could only see a small piece of the wall and less than a quarter of the lower part of the door.

"When does it start?" Li Cheng颐 asked.

"Brother is so stupid," Hei Y瑟琳 patted him on the head, "It's in the back."

She turned her body and looked towards the opposite side of the bed.

Li Cheng颐 suddenly understood and turned one hundred and eighty degrees, looking towards the other side of the bed.

This time, it was indeed different.

The other side of the bed was clearly daytime, but the light was dim.

The lights flickered from time to time, as if the voltage was unstable.

Li Cheng颐 and Y瑟琳 lay side by side, and he suddenly felt that this girl seemed to be much bigger than before.

If she looked about ten years old before, then this time she was already about twelve or thirteen years old.

She was also taller, and her figure was beginning to show outlines.

"What do you eat to grow up?" Li Cheng颐 couldn't help but ask softly.

"It's coming soon, shh," Y瑟琳 raised a finger, signaling him to be quiet.

Then she reached out and pointed forward, meaning to look ahead.

Li Cheng颐 followed her finger and turned his gaze to the outside of the bed.

Time passed little by little.

Slowly.

A faint sound, like insects crawling, came from outside the bed.

On the silver-gray floor, a black spider, the size of a fist, slowly crawled out from the corner of the left side of the field of vision.

This spider was covered in fluff, with a large belly like a water sac, round and rolling, dragged along with difficulty by eight slender segmented legs, crawling forward little by little.

It looked like a mouse pulling a freight truck.

Li Cheng颐 was about to ask, but immediately, Y瑟琳 made a move.

She pulled a strand of pure golden hair from her head, carefully rolled it into a coil in her fingertips, and then shook it at the spider.

"Hey," she called softly.

The rows of neat black compound eyes on the spider's head looked at her.

Then it turned and crawled towards the bed.

The distance slowly narrowed.

As the distance closed, the spider's entire appearance was completely revealed.

Li Cheng颐 was surprised to find that there was actually a zipper on the back of the black spider's round belly!?

A silver-gray zipper with a zipper pull!?

It was as if someone had deliberately sewn it on.

"This, for you. I want, food," Y瑟琳 gesticulated towards her mouth with sign language.

Then she handed out the rolled-up golden hair.

The black spider looked at the golden hair on the ground in front of it, nodded, and very humanely stretched out a leg to pull the golden hair over.

Then, it twisted its round belly over, and a segmented leg, like a hand, opened the zipper on its belly.

Inside, red, white, blue, and green, all kinds of internal organs and silk sacs were clearly visible, and there seemed to be some miscellaneous items stored in a mess.

The spider rummaged around inside, and took out a dark, finger-shaped piece of unknown jerky.

At first, only the head of the jerky came out, and it wasn't very long.

But as the spider continued to pull it out, the jerky quickly exceeded its entire body length.

It wasn't until it was twice its body length that the entire jerky was completely pulled out.

It placed the jerky on the ground, gently pushed it, and let it roll to Y瑟琳's side.

Then the black spider raised its segmented legs and gesticulated in the same way.

One person and one spider, under Li Cheng颐's dumbfounded gaze, began to haggle.

Ten seconds later, Y瑟琳 conceded defeat, watching the black spider wave its segmented legs, cutting out a piece of jerky as long as an egg, and handing it to her.

She pouted her little mouth, obviously unhappy.

"Stingy!" she couldn't help but complain, "Dead spider, you deserve to be so poor that you can't afford a house, carrying all your belongings around all day. You deserve it!"

She began to curse the spider that it would definitely not be able to have children in the future, and that it wouldn't be able to find paper when it pooped.

But despite what she said, her body was still very honest, reaching out to pick up the cut jerky and stuffing it into her mouth.

She ate it with relish, making "bia ji bia ji" sounds.

The black spider put away the golden hair, stuffed it into its belly, zipped it up, and slowly went to other places again.

Gradually, it disappeared outside the visible area under the bed.

"Is this what you eat?" Li Cheng颐 couldn't help but ask.

"Yeah, I call that spider 黑妹 (Hei Mei/Blackie), it's a free-traveling merchant I ran into once by chance," Y瑟琳 nodded.

"Free-traveling merchant? Are there free-traveling merchants in the Black Sea?" Li Cheng颐 had his eyes opened.

"Yes, although the Black Sea is very dangerous, 黑妹 (Hei Mei/Blackie) is immortal. I've killed it many times, and it will still appear next time," Y瑟琳 said dangerous things while eating.

"How many strange existences like this are there in the Black Sea?" Li Cheng颐 asked curiously.

"I don't know. I've encountered many, and many have disappeared and never been seen again. There are also many new ones that have appeared. Sometimes the guys you often encounter suddenly disappear after a while. No one knows when they themselves will disappear," Hei Y瑟琳 said casually.

"Oh, right. Weren't you going to sell something, brother? Why didn't you take it out just now? I forgot," she suddenly patted her head, annoyed.

"It's okay, look, the opportunity is here again."

Li Cheng颐 suddenly said, pointing forward.

Y瑟琳 looked forward.

Outside the bed, the room began to turn black again.

This time, it only took a few seconds from dark to pitch black.

The two waited quietly.

One minute.

Two minutes...

Soon, the blackness outside the bed began to slowly recede.

What replaced it was a room with walls and floors covered with thick black wooden planks.

Dim yellow candlelight flickered uncertainly.

By the candlelight, from Li Cheng頤 and Y瑟琳's angle, they could see a bed and a desk placed against the window in the room.

The bed was a square single bed surrounded by a white mosquito net, and a figure could be vaguely seen lying inside.

On the edges of the wood by the bed, you could also see crooked, unknown strange patterns.

To the right of the bed was a gate-shaped desk.

The material was dark red, with signs of wear and tear on the edges.

Because of the upward angle, they couldn't see the full picture of the table, but they could see a stack of books placed on it, somewhat messy.

To the left of the books was a copper pot the size of a human head. The mouth of the copper pot was covered with spider webs, covered with a layer of grayish-white, obviously it hadn't been used for a long time.

Next to it was a white porcelain cylinder, very tall, as tall as a forearm.

It was filled with writing brushes, wooden rulers, and a withered, blackened flower branch.

Shh.

Hei Y瑟琳 obviously became nervous when she saw this room.

She quickly gestured to Li Cheng颐 to be quiet.

Li Cheng颐 nodded, lying quietly, waiting.

Time flowed little by little.

One minute, two minutes...

The person lying on the bed slowly sat up.

A fair hand lifted the mosquito net curtain, revealing a slender body inside wearing pearl-white pajamas.

From Li Cheng颐's angle, he could see that the other person was a male, and judging from his skin, he should not be very old, probably between twenty and fifty.

The person in white got out of bed, put on shoes that were also white, and stood up.

He walked straight towards the bed where the two were lying.

(End of chapter)