"I asked you what was good to eat, did I tell you to talk nonsense!"
Oudenaire's forehead bulged with veins, and he roared loudly, his mouth emitting a disgusting stench that almost made the sensitive Tao Qingqing faint.
However, if she had experienced the power of Chu Wei's bad breath pills, she would have known that Oudenaire's breath was only mildly unpleasant.
Tao Qingqing covered her nose and taunted him, "Your breath is so foul, did you eat shit? And your teeth are yellow, I suggest you buy an electric toothbrush, dear."
Oudenaire froze for a moment, then replied in a tone as if sharing a delicacy, "How did you know I just ate shit? There were still corn kernels in today's portion..."
Tao Qingqing: "This... um..."
A moment of silence passed between them, and Oudenaire's expression grew increasingly ferocious.
Because his mind was not quick, he only now realized that Tao Qingqing's words were actually mocking him.
So he strode forward and quickly rushed to Tao Qingqing, his disgustingly yellow teeth biting towards her throat.
A sharp glint flashed in Tao Qingqing's eyes, and she kicked Oudenaire in the face, stopping his momentum.
Then she delivered another kick to his stomach, sending his body crashing through the ceiling and onto the second floor, cracking the third-floor ceiling before bouncing back onto the second floor and falling still.
After the kicks, it was Tao Qingqing who let out a scream, desperately rubbing the sole of her shoe against the floor.
Though it seemed her kick to his face hadn't made contact, she still felt incredibly disgusted.
Who knew if that guy had rinsed his mouth or wiped it after eating...
After cleaning her shoe, Tao Qingqing jumped upstairs, only to find Oudenaire had disappeared, and she didn't know if he was dead or alive.
Frankly speaking, Tao Qingqing felt relieved when Oudenaire ran away.
She would rather let a potential threat go than face Oudenaire again; the smell had left too much of a psychological shadow on her.
Now that the inn had been mostly explored, Tao Qingqing walked out of the inn's entrance, wanting to see the difference between the night and day in the Muzu District.
The blind old man who had been sitting by the entrance was still in his original position, on a small stool, leaning on a walking stick, trembling slightly. In this eerie environment, he looked somewhat frightening.
However, in Tao Qingqing's eyes, the blind old man seemed unaffected by the strange environment, appearing just as he did during the day.
Hearing Tao Qingqing's voice, the blind old man turned his head and looked at her.
Even though his eyes, which were just two empty sockets, should not have been able to see anything, Tao Qingqing felt as if the old man was scrutinizing her from head to toe.
"Little girl, you're not human, are you?"
"I know you're different from others, but you shouldn't have come here, nor should you have walked out of the inn... Now, you can't go back!"
Tao Qingqing's initially upturned lips immediately flipped downward. She stuck out her foot and kicked over the walking stick, sending the old man tumbling ungracefully onto the ground.
After being provoked, the old man didn't get angry, but merely pointed towards the city bathed in the night.
"Go and see for yourself what kind of hellish world this place you're in truly is!"
As he finished speaking, Tao Qingqing's pupils dilated slightly, and her eyes turned blood red.
A dense ghostly aura seemed to fill the entire city. White-clad vengeful spirits with pale faces drifted through the streets. Skeletons setting up stalls by the roadside were skeletal ferocious spirits, and the one hawking pork in the distance was a red-clad malevolent spirit!
And Oudenaire, who had escaped earlier, was watching her from a third-floor window with a sinister gaze!
...
The night in Lingyuan County town was quiet and leisurely.
Tao Qingqing had been missing for two days, but San Zai'er didn't know yet.
This was because it had gone out to play on its own three days ago. It didn't like being with Tao Qingqing; that woman always fought for its attention.
San Zai'er wasn't indulging in mischief. It had discovered that the number of mice in this small town was excessive, and they were usually quite large. Some of the larger ones were almost half the size of a cat, and the largest individuals were even bigger than cats, almost like a different species.
However, such giant mice were generally very cunning and never appeared in front of people, so they hadn't attracted the attention of the locals.
But as a snake, San Zai'er was very sensitive to this, so it discovered it almost immediately. For it, such a place was simply a self-service buffet.
Thus, for the past two days, San Zai'er had been shuttling through the streets and alleys of Lingyuan County town, preying on mice. Its stealth abilities also ensured that it was never discovered.
San Zai'er's food requirements were not high; it could even sustain itself on Wenwen's foot skin.
But sometimes its appetite was enormous, and it wouldn't feel bloated even after consuming over half the mice in the entire city.
As a result, it alone had caused a sharp decline in the mouse population of Lingyuan County town. Originally, the people of Lingyuan regarded mice as stray cats and dogs. Now, their sudden disappearance made them a bit unaccustomed.
At first, San Zai'er was just eating for fun, but as the number of mice it consumed increased, things began to change.
It liked eating these mice because there was a hidden energy within them that was beneficial to its strength.
But after the first day of hunting, San Zai'er found that consuming these mice had become an urgent need.
The more it wanted to eat more mice to satisfy this need, the more fervent its inner desire for the energy within those mice became.
So, it didn't just eat mice; it also targeted other small animals.
Then, the abnormal craving made it almost lose its mind, and it set its sights on a woman walking in the night.
San Zai'er's body continuously stretched and thickened under the streetlights, eventually transforming into a seven-colored, three-eyed giant python, as thick as a bucket and over twenty meters long!
It crept up to the woman silently and flicked its pink tongue.
The cold touch made the woman shudder. When she turned her head and saw San Zai'er's massive body, she didn't even have time to scream before rolling her eyes and immediately fainting.
Saliva dripped from San Zai'er's mouth. It approached the woman and was about to swallow her whole.
It knew that this woman's body also contained something it needed.
But at that moment, a scene suddenly flashed through San Zai'er's mind.
Wenwen, with narrowed eyes, placed it on a grill and then lit a fire...
This scene was not an imagined one, but something that had actually happened.
When it was first caught by Wenwen, it had tried to sneak out and attack humans. After being caught by Wenwen, it had almost died then and there.
Frankly speaking, if Wenwen hadn't failed to buy barbecue seasonings that time, it would have been dead.
This terrifying image sent a shiver through San Zai'er, and it managed to regain some of its rationality, realizing what it was doing. It then immediately dove into a nearby sewer and disappeared.