The Consequences Of Being A Tyrant Chapter 14
byChapter 14: It’s Alive?! He didn’t like Jiao Jiao looking at other…
The gentle breeze was intoxicating. Lin Yu closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep. The fruit pit in his hand fell to the ground and was instantly snatched up by Yanyan.
Yanyan flicked his tongue, tracing the small person’s tightly closed eyes and furrowed brow, unsure how to comfort him.
Following the slight rise and fall of that worried brow, Yanyan gradually felt a trace of familiarity, but soon, this sense of familiarity, whose origin he couldn’t place, brought with it an even greater sorrow.
It seemed like a similar scene: the other person lying on the ground, brows tightly knitted. But they never opened their eyes again.
He thought he should go find that loudly laughing Star Beast.
He would transfer its happiness onto Jiao Jiao.
Although, at this moment, he really didn’t want to leave the other’s side.
Yanyan picked up the small person and placed him on the soft mattress, feeling the other’s breath brush against his tail, which calmed his heart somewhat.
He was just sleeping peacefully.
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In a certain part of The Palace, a large relief sculpture vibrated constantly, like a drum skin rebounding from the bottom. The space became illusory, faintly revealing another, unfathomably deep dimension. It seemed something was hidden deep within, urgently trying to break through the seal.
In an instant, this disturbance subsided.
Extended light projected from the doorway. Some flickering blue light spots acted as guiding attendants, occupying the field of vision first. The next moment, a heavy shadow abruptly swallowed all those light spots. In the dead silence, blue scales on the shadow shone dazzlingly.
Yanyan coiled around a stone pillar, looking down at the black abyss. Everything was nearly static in his eyes, but today he didn’t see that loudly laughing food.
This made Yanyan a little unhappy.
He thought of the unhappy small person, and this unhappiness doubled.
The Star Beasts hiding in the black abyss exchanged glances. Their small minds couldn’t figure out what the killing god intended to do. According to the brainwaves of their ancestors who had recently survived, they knew this killing god outside always liked to stare at them unblinkingly, occasionally rolling his eyes. Faced with such provocation, some newly arrived Star Beasts couldn’t tolerate it and fought back, never to return.
So, over time, no Star Beasts offered any opinions anymore.
They thought today would be the same, until a pair of lead-colored eyes descended into the abyss, breaking through the confined gap. The vertical pupils swept across like the eyes of a demon, locking onto a certain black Star Beast hiding in the pack.
Yanyan smelled a familiar scent.
It was in the other’s stomach.
He realized something, and those eyes grew even colder.
Suddenly, the gathered pack of beasts parted, and the Star Beast in the center was exposed directly to Yanyan’s sight. It let out a low, hoarse roar at its own kin.
Its fate was obvious. Since this killing god ate very regularly and never had snacks, the other Star Beasts, temporarily spared, felt a wave of relief. The tense atmosphere suddenly turned confrontational, and they began shouting, their completely different voices chaotic and noisy.
A verbal battle was about to erupt.
“Jee-jee-jee.”
“What the hell are you yelling about? As if you haven’t eaten one of our kin before.”
“We are all his reserve rations. If you hadn’t eaten that beast, why would he look at you, being so pitch black?!”
“Roar!”
“A bunch of idiots! Now he wants to eat me, and the next one will be you! None of us can escape.”
“It’s better that the noisy guy was eaten. His ability was useless anyway. It’s better to supplement my strength. If we don’t nurture a powerful leader, we’ll all die!”
“Da-da-da.”
“If we get eaten, we get eaten. Anyway, this planet can’t be held. This barrier will soon be fully repaired. I can already smell the lost Core Fragment. Going back is also a dead end. The Kings will eat us failures! It’s better to be swallowed by this killing god; at least we’ll be whole corpses.”
“Pi-pi-pi-pi!”
“I saw you even tore apart the Ha-ha Beast’s limbs! You’re even more despicable than the killing god!”
“His name is the Sreide Beast!”
“Wasn’t it the Four-Horned Beast?”
“I’m called the Six-Sided Beast, and I’m the only one in my family.”
“Who isn’t from a solitary incubation pod? As if others aren’t only children.”
Seeing these brainless Star Beasts stray further and further off topic, with no beast caring about or considering what he was saying, the black Star Beast’s eyes flashed with cruelty. It lunged and bit the nearest kin, trying to use this surprise attack to maximize its physical strength by gaining the power of the other’s flesh and blood.
Only then would it have a sliver of hope.
No beast could have imagined that it was a beast with a brain.
But the fervor and greed in its eyes hadn’t fully surfaced before turning into astonishment. Light spots spread from afar, exploding in its eyes like a scorching star!
It was being dragged out of the black abyss inch by inch. The light came from the outside world, and also from death itself.
But it couldn’t resist at all.
That was an unmatched, powerful force.
The pitch-black Star Beast completely extinguished any thought of resistance, preparing to accept its fate.
But instead of the impending death, it heard the other party ask a nonsensical question.
“Are you happy?”
Happy?!
A trace of confusion flashed in the black Star Beast’s two dark eyes. It was about to die, how could it be happy? This killing god was humiliating it by asking this question before eating it!
If it said yes, he would definitely mock its naivety and then eat it!
So it raised its head and said indignantly, “No!”
Visibly, the other party’s expression worsened by more than double. For a moment, the Star Beast felt the other’s face was nearly as dark as its own skin. Although under the light, those lead-colored eyes remained cold, and the blue scales were still dazzling and clear.
But the oppressive pressure filling the air crushed it like a giant boulder. In an instant, it forgot its pride of preferring death over submission, and trembling, changed its statement, “Happy, happy, I am very happy!”
It heard that voice again: “Can you laugh?”
The pitch-black Star Beast dared not say anything else and quickly followed up, “I can.”
It laughed, “Ho-ho-ho,” but the laugh was extremely forced.
Because the killing god’s expression became even worse.
Perhaps its brain suddenly cleared up right before death, because it started laughing, “Ha-ha-ha-ha.”
Yanyan nodded in satisfaction and began to consider how to make the small person eat this thing.
Although its laugh wasn’t as cheerful as the previous one, that cheerfully laughing Star Beast was also in its stomach. Regardless, it should still have some effect, like curing like.
Thus, the pitch-black Star Beast found that it hadn’t died. It had become the first beast in its species to step out of the black abyss and survive for 5 seconds.
It took everything in. The suppressed thought in its mind began to stir again. As long as it found a chance to kill this killing god, the barrier would naturally disappear, and then the creatures outside would be their food.
It had been in the black abyss for a very long time. The annoying beast wasn’t the first one it had eaten. And now, it was hungry again.
Because as the light and shadow shifted, it gradually smelled another particularly sweet scent.
That scent made its whole body tremble.
It looked over, craving and greedy, and saw a soft white mass not far away, like a cluster of clouds. Within this pile of long fur, a creature with even fairer, more lustrous skin could faintly be glimpsed.
Like the purest white pearl at the bottom of the sea.
The Star Beast had been to many planets, but it had never seen a creature that looked so fragile and delicate. And on the other party, that scent seemed mixed with something else—a unique sweetness belonging only to them.
It wanted to eat this small person.
To devour the other’s flesh and blood, and not just to obtain that Core Fragment.
Perhaps its gaze was too intense, as the other’s eyelashes fluttered, and they slowly opened their eyes. They were eyes darker than the black abyss, yet carrying a soft, shimmering light.
Very beautiful.
Perhaps it could keep these eyes as a trophy.
Lin Yu didn’t know that in just one glance, a creature had already planned the use of his body parts. He rolled over in the blanket, his mind still not fully awake. He slowly rubbed against the soft blanket before leisurely raising his eyes to focus.
Then he saw a pitch-black, massive creature staring straight at him.
The eyes, which let no light penetrate, appeared exceptionally dark and focused—the eyes of a bloodthirsty beast.
Lin Yu’s heart began to pound against his chest, as if a ghost had broken in. Fortunately, before his heart failed again, he heard a familiar voice, carrying comfort and apology.
“Jiao Jiao.”
“Don’t be afraid.”
“It is your food.”
A gentle stroke came over Lin Yu’s head at the right time.
It was his keeper.
Lin Yu let out a breath, his heart relaxing by half, only then realizing the meaning of the other’s words.
He repeated in surprise, “Food?!”
For him? Was there really no mistake?
Given the size difference, it should be the other way around—the beast eating him.
His keeper’s tone was very certain. “Yes, food for you.”
Yanyan added, “Eating it will make you happy.”
Lin Yu: “???”
Wasn’t this even more miraculous than eating a Ginseng Fruit for eternal life?
Lin Yu curiously examined the pitch-black creature by the door, finding nothing special about it, except that it was tall, large, and dark. The carapace on its body easily reminded him of a certain creature that used to jump around in his previous world.
It didn’t look very appetizing.
And under his gaze, the creature actually began to tremble.
Lin Yu: “…”
This was the first time he had found a creature in this world that was afraid of him.
Feeling nothing himself, he naturally didn’t know how profound the gentle aura wrapped around him was. To others, however, it was like torture. As the small person’s gaze lingered, the black Star Beast trembled even more violently. In its perception, the killing intent emanating from the killing god grew heavier.
It seemed the next moment it would become part of the other’s flesh and blood.
The bewildered beast instinctively wanted to beg the small person to stop looking.
Just eat it already.
Anything was better than being so anxious.
Lin Yu, however, grew more curious. Since he couldn’t see his keeper, Lin Yu’s eyes had no focus; he was vaguely looking at a spot in the air.
In the place he couldn’t see, Yanyan followed his gaze to that spot, and then slowly swam into the center of the small person’s vision.
He didn’t like Jiao Jiao looking at other creatures.
Living ones.