Chapter 1 Lily's Shout

Lily's shout interrupted the conversation between Hao Ren and the data terminal. Even Gun, who was curled up in the cat nest scratching his belly, perked up when he heard the word "Dou Dou." Hao Ren paused for less than a second before grabbing the data terminal and rushing to the door.

"Let go, let go, this device can fly on its own... Damn it, you bumped me into the doorframe!"

Hao Ren ran to the living room in a few strides and saw Nangong Wuyue and Nangong Sanba running down from the stairs, while Lily stood in the middle of the living room with wide eyes, staring at the coffee table.

"What's wrong, what's wrong," Hao Ren asked as he rushed over, "What happened to Dou Dou?"

"I don't know," Lily said, pointing at the little mermaid on the coffee table, "I was changing Dou Dou's water, and she suddenly jumped out of the pot and then...like that...looked like she was possessed, so scary!"

Hao Ren looked closely and saw Dou Dou on the coffee table. The little one was standing upright, holding a small flame of holy fire the size of peanuts in each hand, staring warily at the opposite side of the living room. Her tail was tense and pressed against the table, and every few seconds she would slap the coffee table hard, making a "bang" sound.

Hao Ren had never seen the fish baby react like this before. She looked completely frightened by something, even revealing her battle form—though the little one's battle form wasn't very intimidating.

"Dou Dou? Dou Dou?" Hao Ren asked the little mermaid anxiously, while turning his head to look at the opposite side of the living room. "Lily, go see what's over there."

The little mermaid finally reacted to Hao Ren's voice. She stared blankly at her father, her tense tail relaxed slightly, and then she burst into tears, "Waa—Papa, Aunt Vivian was eaten..."

Hao Ren's mind was filled with various versions of fish disease prevention guides, and the little one suddenly blurted out such a sentence, startling him, "What?!"

Vivian, who had just run out of the basement to check the situation, was also startled, "What? What ate me?"

Dou Dou's wailing stopped abruptly. The little mermaid looked at Vivian, who was standing at the door with a puzzled expression, for a while, looking completely confused, and then she slapped the coffee table hard with her tail, "Spit it out! Spit it out!"

It seemed that most of the little one's ways of expressing emotions was to slap things with her tail at different frequencies...

"Is Dou Dou acting crazy from eating something she shouldn't?" Nangong Wuyue looked at the little mermaid and then at Vivian with a puzzled expression, "I told her a long time ago that the ink on the newspaper isn't clean, and she shouldn't eat it—is she hallucinating now?"

No one knew what the little mermaid was doing. Hao Ren talked to her for a long time but couldn't get any answers. Dou Dou was obviously still in shock, and her ability to express herself was limited. She gesticulated for a long time and kept repeating that Vivian had been eaten by something. On the other side, Lily moved all the furniture and appliances on the opposite side of the living room and searched around, finally finding a deck of cards that Hao Ren had lost last year. There were also Dou Dou's teeth marks on the cards, which was obviously not the reason for the little one's fright.

"I didn't find anything strange over here," Lily said, clapping her hands. "Unless you want me to smash the wall again."

Hao Ren touched Dou Dou, who was curled up in his arms, "Is there anything else over there?"

The little mermaid peeked out timidly, the tense expression on her face not fading at all. She grabbed Hao Ren's sleeve tightly and nodded gently, "Yes... there's a strange thing, Aunt Vivian was eaten by it..."

Lily started rolling up her sleeves when she heard this, "Then I'm really smashing the wall?"

Vivian immediately pushed the husky girl aside and went to the base of the wall to look carefully, "Don't make trouble, let me see, I seem to feel something vaguely... Hmm?"

"What did you find?" Hao Ren immediately went over.

"Looks like a mouse hole," Vivian pointed to a corner of the wall that everyone had ignored. There was indeed a hole the size of a fist there. "It used to be blocked by the cabinet."

"Mouse?" Hao Ren was stunned, suddenly thinking of something, he turned to glare at the cat girl who had followed along to watch the fun, "Gun! How can there be mice in the house? Why didn't you report it?"

The cat girl puffed out her chest, righteously, "I'm raising them as our emergency food, you can't even find food yourself, what if we're about to starve to death one day, we'll still have something to eat, meow! And what if you don't want me anymore after I catch all the mice in the house at once?"

Hao Ren: "..."

What's going on in this simpleton's head? And you're just a cat, why are you so scheming?!

"Don't yell at her, this mouse hole should have been there for a long time," Vivian interjected, "The mice inside have already run away... probably scared away by the aura released by a group of supernatural creatures who moved in."

Gun immediately showed an unbelievable expression: "My emergency food is gone? It's gone after not looking for a while, meow?"

"Stop thinking about your emergency food, use this time to practice how to eat with chopsticks," Vivian muttered, bending down to check the situation in the mouse hole. "There's something in here, but it's very strange... my senses seem to be interfered with, and I can't even probe a mouse hole. Someone go find a soft tube."

Nangong Wuyue stepped forward: "No need to bother, I'll do it."

Then she watched the siren girl squat in front of the mouse hole, put one hand on the hole, and a stream of water that seemed to have life condensed into a bundle and flowed out of her hand. This stream of water quietly drilled into the fist-sized hole. Nangong Wuyue controlled it while casually saying, "It's quite dark inside, and it seems to be quite deep. It's probably been around for more than ten years. I... Aiyah, something's biting me!!"

Wuyue exclaimed and pulled out the water hand in a flash, and along with a splash of water, a black-red figure was also brought out by the water!

"Something came out!" Lily exclaimed in surprise, "It looks like... um, a bat, your mini version."

Hao Ren stared blankly at the black-red figure that Wuyue had flushed out with water, feeling that his worldview was about to face a challenge: it was a super mini little person only ten centimeters tall, kneeling on the ground soaking wet. She was wearing clothes exactly the same as Vivian's, and even her appearance was 100% identical. She looked completely like a Vivian scaled down hundreds of times.

This figure-like Vivian was a little dizzy from being flushed with water. She shook her head and sat on the ground for a while, then struggled to stand up. At the same time, she looked up at the circle of big faces around her, and made a threatening hiss from her throat as if very angry.

"Aiyah, it's really a little Vivian!" Nangong Wuyue also exclaimed in surprise. She compared the appearance of the "figure" with the real person next to her, feeling very surprised. "Exactly the same! Vivian, did you throw another little bat out and forget to take it back?"

Vivian was also completely confused at this time. Nangong Wuyue's words made two Hesperanas standing together appear in her mind, and this terrible scene made her feel bad all over: "Don't talk nonsense! I've been very careful about the bat's recycling lately..."

"Stop messing around, this is not a bat spirit!" Hao Ren suddenly interrupted the others' aimless guessing. He stared at the "figure" who was trying to stand up with a tense face, "Look at her hair and eyes!"

"Hair..." Nangong Sanba was the first to react, "Red?!"

The sudden appearance of the mini Vivian had confused everyone, and some extremely obvious features had been subconsciously ignored by them. At this time, Hao Ren reminded them, and everyone noticed the strange appearance of this "figure":

In addition to her appearance being exactly the same as the original, her hair and eyes were completely blood-red. The eyes were especially strange: although Vivian's eyes were also red after transforming, only her pupils turned red, but this "figure's" eyes had no whites at all, the entire eyeball was a chaotic red!

She finally stood still at this time, raising her hands and making a hissing sound at the people around her. At this time, Hao Ren heard that the sound was not "being angry", but a kind of irrational roar—it was just that the momentum was too weak when shouted from a figure's mouth.

"It's a Malice!" Lily exclaimed in surprise, followed by even more surprise, "Why is it so small?"

"A Malice actually ran into our house!" Nangong Wuyue also had a surprised expression, "Why is it so small?"

"But no matter what, this is indeed my evil spirit clone," Vivian frowned. "Why is it so small?"

In the past, Hao Ren and Lily used an ancient book to summon Vivian's Malice clone in a confused way. The chaos caused at that time was still fresh in people's minds, so everyone was extremely afraid of this incarnation of evil power split from Vivian. Under normal circumstances, as long as a Malice appeared, it would definitely trigger a high degree of vigilance, but the problem was that abnormal situations always occurred around Hao Ren:

Suddenly a Malice of this version popped up, what the hell should they do?

At this time, the figure-sized Malice had been hissing and threatening everyone for a long time, and seemed to be finally ready to take action. She raised her hands and rushed towards Hao Ren, who was closest to her, and a circle of cold and bloody aura suddenly surrounded her!

"Careful!" Vivian woke up from the confusion, suddenly realizing that even a mini Malice was dangerous, and quickly reminded.

But just as her voice fell, the little figure ran halfway and pia ji with a sound... fell down.

Everyone: "..."