The Consequences Of Being A Tyrant Chapter 5

Lin Yu opened his eyes in surprise, then rubbed them again, but everything before him remained.

This was actually real.

It appeared after he wished for a comfortable sleeping environment tonight.

At the second doorway, he saw a soft bed.

Could it be that there really was a god?

Lin Yu subconsciously glanced toward the main hall, then quickly lowered his gaze.

He clasped his hands together and continuously thanked the heavens: “Thank you, thank you.”

What a great god!

Once he had money, he would buy many offerings to present.

Lin Yu reached out and tugged hard. The blanket was not small in size or weight, and it was as solid as a boulder.

He used the leverage to climb onto the pristine white mattress, which was almost as tall as he was. As soon as he got on, Lin Yu was almost overwhelmed by the softness. Although this was partly due to his small size, he felt as if he were floating on a cloud. Everywhere he looked was a snowy white fleece.

Was this what it felt like to wake up on a one-hundred-and-eighty-square-meter bed, as the legends claimed?

Lin Yu happily rolled around several times on it.

The soft, comfortable sensation enveloped him. In a trance, all his fatigue seemed to surge back, but he still hadn’t found food.

Lin Yu decided to push his luck a little.

So, he carefully climbed off the mattress, approached the sacred human-headed snake-bodied statue, and began to pray devoutly.

“Oh, great spirit who saves the suffering and the distressed—”

Lin Yu’s eyes darted around, showing a hint of cunning, and he loudly and sincerely made his wish.

“I hope to receive some food that can fill my stomach.”

In the deepest corner, Yanyan paused, his gaze falling upon the trembling food below.

—

After making his wish, Lin Yu obediently returned to the bed.

He buried his face deep into the long-haired blanket, a look of vigilant contemplation on his face.

Lin Yu did not believe this was a coincidence. He strongly suspected there were other intelligent beings here besides himself. Otherwise, how could he explain the source of this mattress?

It was so new, imbued with a softness that was completely out of place here.

However, the mysterious person did not seem malicious toward him.

Since no one had come looking for him with a wanted poster yet, it meant he was temporarily safe. That person likely didn’t care about the small amount of gold coins he possessed.

Or perhaps they hadn’t seen him yet.

To make his wish clearer, Lin Yu had to speak it out loud in front of the statue. After the initial panic, he began to suspect that the creatures in this world similar in size to him could not speak a communicative language, which was why the person he encountered on the street was so surprised to hear him talk.

As Lin Yu gradually calmed down, combined with the information he had seen and heard afterward, he was able to roughly analyze the situation of this world.

Creatures roughly his size here seemed to play the role of Pets.

Lin Yu saw many ‘Giants’ carrying small, furry creatures when they went out. Their fur was smooth and glossy, and their mental state was infinitely better than his own.

Although he might currently be seen as a somewhat strange creature in their eyes, strangeness sometimes equaled rarity, and rarity meant value. Combined with some of the world’s peculiar preferences, Lin Yu felt he might be able to leverage the situation.

Hitching a ride on someone powerful and living a life of ease wouldn’t be bad.

If he wanted to pursue a career, he could become a Pet Communicator. In that house, the owner of the white fur ball clearly couldn’t hear the creature’s voice, but he could.

As long as there was demand, there was a market, and this market could be said to be extremely vast.

This way, even after finding his little Pet, Lin Yu could ensure he could continue to afford to keep that lazy snake.

However, all of this had to be taken slowly.

The most important thing now was that he needed to find himself an owner.

As Lin Yu pondered, he unknowingly drifted off to sleep.

The mattress was simply too soft, perfectly soothing the fatigue Lin Yu had accumulated the previous night. Every strained part of his body was comfortably supported, and it seemed even his heart found peace in this softness.

Even the wind was quiet. Sunlight, like scattered gold, streamed through the tilted skylight. The pale-skinned little person slept peacefully on the soft blanket, looking even more delicate than the pristine white fabric.

The door opened silently.

The sound of scales scraping against the floor was like fallen leaves caught by the wind.

Lin Yu slept soundly with his eyes closed. Under the warm light, a massive shadow completely enveloped him.

Yanyan looked down at the little person sleeping soundly in the middle of the white blanket, tilted his head, observed for a moment, and then regurgitated the food he had swallowed not long ago.

—

It was a long sleep. When Lin Yu woke up, he no longer felt hungry. He first looked out the window. The sunlight outside had become much softer, and the gentle light diffused the surroundings like an oil painting.

If he could continue living here, it would be a good choice.

But soon, following the sunlight, he noticed a brown object not far away.

Lin Yu focused his eyes and realized it was a creature that had been crushed into a ball by something unknown. It had a strange, hard carapace, and its brown fur was covered with some peculiar mucus.

In terms of volume, it was more than ten times larger than him.

Lin Yu was stunned.

He stared for a long time before slowly getting out of bed and walking over. In his line of sight, a dull eye, devoid of any life, stared straight at him.

Lin Yu’s hairs stood on end! He almost turned tail and ran.

This was his food?!

Had the person feeding him made some kind of mistake?

Perhaps this food chain was fundamentally flawed?

Lin Yu tentatively tried to pull a few hairs from it, only to find he couldn’t pull them out at all; he could only pluck them out one by one.

Lin Yu: “?”

Lin Yu, who almost collapsed trying to pull out a few hairs: “…”

He looked around. The mysterious person hadn’t provided him with any other tools.

Fine, then he would have to make primitive roast meat.

So, Lin Yu had no choice but to venture into the forest outside to find some dry leaves and branches for primitive fire-starting.

Driven by his desire for food, he quickly gathered the branches that seemed suitable.

But one minute passed, two minutes passed…

Lin Yu, his hands trembling and weak, stared at the branches that hadn’t even produced a speck of dust, deep in thought.

Then he looked up at the “food,” which resembled a small mountain, and then down at its leg, which was about the size of his entire body.

He might as well go back to sleep.

Lin Yu: “…”

How could he be this weak?

In a corner Lin Yu couldn’t see, Yanyan changed his posture, wrapping himself tighter around the stone pillar. His tail hung lazily, his gaze inadvertently falling on the little person in the room.

When the other party first saw the food, a hint of surprise flashed across his face, but now he looked as if he had suffered a tremendous blow. Yanyan tilted his head, slightly puzzled. He watched the little creature’s staggering movements and his figure almost being swallowed by the brown fur. Suddenly, he understood why.

So weak.

He suddenly felt that giving his food to this creature was a very foolish thing to do.

He had never seen such a weak creature. Were all the Pets outside this weak?

Or was this little thing that had strayed into his territory an exception?

Yanyan initially felt indifferent to the creature’s presence, but now he thought it best to send him away from here.

So frail, unable to even process the fur of a dead Star Beast, let alone consume it.

And for such a weak creature, a predator’s breath was like a hurricane.

Thinking this, Yanyan flicked his tail. Instantly, accompanied by dust raining down like falling rain, the entire Palace shook violently.

Lin Yu: “???”

An earthquake?

He had no other thoughts, only feeling that his luck was truly terrible.

Lin Yu quickly hid in the corner triangle against the wall. It was too late to rush to an open area outside. However, he squatted down, hugging his head until his legs went numb, but the second tremor never came.

He slowly stood up and looked toward the deepest part of the structure.

A contemplative expression appeared on his face.

Not an earthquake.

Was someone inside?

The person who gave him food?

This place didn’t look like somewhere multiple people lived, but the statue was dust-free. He thought the person was highly likely a follower of the human-headed snake-bodied deity.

However, people here didn’t seem to have much faith in deities, so it was reasonable for only one person to guard this place.

Lin Yu looked back at the motionless brown creature, then at the soft, white mattress.

He trusted his judgment: the other party definitely held no malice toward him.

This was a great opportunity.

He needed to figure out the situation here; otherwise, how could he live in peace?

Most importantly, this person was the provider he had found for himself.

Having made up his mind, Lin Yu headed toward the source of the loud noise. Passing through the central hall, he repeatedly glanced at the majestic statue, clasped his hands, and began to pray.

He hoped the spirit was watching. If that person harbored ill intentions or malice, it would be best to strike them down with lightning.

Of course, Lin Yu thought this possibility was small, but he had to be cautious.

Since he had already transmigrated, the presence of divine power here wasn’t too strange, was it?

It would be best to live comfortably. If not, well, he would just die.

After all, no creature here had formed a bond with him yet.

No one would mourn his death.

His slightly tense mood made Lin Yu unable to feel hunger, and the path ahead seemed endlessly long.

Yanyan’s mood was even more complicated than his. He couldn’t fathom why his actions would cause this little person to move closer to him instead.

What was he doing?

In all the years Yanyan had been conscious, the eyes of those who looked at him were invariably filled with fear and dread. Even this little person had shown surprise when seeing his sculpture.

So why did the creature dare to advance toward him now?

Yanyan was at a loss.

But he didn’t want to hear the screams of other creatures.

It was too noisy.

So, when Lin Yu finally arrived after his long journey, he only saw walls covered in three-dimensional reliefs and even more massive stone pillars. The brilliant sunset, like a thousand miles of burning fire, echoed the scene, resembling a giant’s kingdom placed among the clouds in a myth.

There was no one.

For some reason, Lin Yu felt half disappointed and half relieved.

On the other side, An Qiao was sound asleep, hugging his Pet. Suddenly, his body shook violently, and he immediately began flailing his arms wildly, muttering something incoherently.

The white fur ball irritably flipped over, opened its eyes, a flash of panic and worry in its gaze, and rushed up to bite its seemingly possessed owner!

“Ah!!”

Perhaps the physical pain woke An Qiao, or perhaps the scene in his dream exceeded his tolerance.

An Qiao’s eyes snapped open!

He muttered like a ghost, “Damn it, that really was a dream.”

“But why would I dream about that Tyrant… er, that adult?”

As if remembering something, his expression grew increasingly distorted, and he immediately rushed outside.

To interrupt his harmonious time with his little Pet! He cursed the person responsible to one day have to sleep separately from their own Pet!!

Wait, the Tyrant wouldn’t have Pets; he would only have food.

As his indignant emotions intensified, An Qiao’s steps suddenly halted.

He looked at the information he had hastily recorded upon waking up.

It read: Super soft, milky small cake (Pet exclusive).

An Qiao: “???”

Author’s Note: