Yin Xiu reached out and took the small flower from his hand, rubbing the flower stem between his fingertips, and said in a low voice, "In this instance, you also have to abide by the rules and procedures of the Sin Gate, and only bind to me after I respond?"
Li Mo shook his head. "No, I don't need to comply. I just need your consent first. By human standards, I should get your consent first."
Yin Xiu raised his eyes, his gaze icy and unsettling. "So you disagree, and you're just going to keep me trapped here, huh?"
Li Mo smiled slightly, "I have other ways to get you to agree, but you definitely won't like them."
He's somewhat reasonable, but he doesn't talk much about it.
Yin Xiu didn't expect him to be any more polite; by human standards, his current actions were already quite reasonable for the strange creature.
"Alright, I'll agree to your request." Yin Xiu reached out and grasped Li Mo's outstretched hand. "Although I don't know how you managed to get into the Sin Gate, being a roommate in the Sin Gate is pretty much the same as being a roommate."
Li Mo smiled slightly, "Do you like the surprise I prepared for you?"
"Do you mean someone who's been working undercover next to me, or this little flower?"
"Yes, we have both."
"The flowers are alright, but forget about the sin gate." Yin Xiu pushed open the bathroom door and walked out. "If I had a knife in my hand just now, I would have chopped you down when you dragged me into the room. Unfortunately, I didn't."
"But I didn't hurt you."
Yin Xiu snorted lightly, ignoring Li Mo's explanation. After leaving the bathroom, he found himself in a clean and tidy changing room.
Yin Xiu clearly remembered that this thing had eaten a lot of players who tried to bind to him along the way, but there was not a trace of blood here.
A weirdo that cleans up after eating is a good weirdo.
"Oh, right, this is for you." Li Mo suddenly pulled a thin booklet from his suit and handed it to Yin Xiu. "It seems to be something that you guys have to see for the binding process."
Yin Xiu reached out and took it, unfolded it and glanced at it. There was a gold coin tucked inside the thin paper, the same type as the prop coin, and the paper was actually the Manual for Raising Sinful Entities.
[Sin Gate Rules:]
1. They are a greedy bunch. Please feed them what they need regularly, or they will turn on you.
2. Once the Gate of Sin is bound to you, it is an entity that is one with you in heart and body. However, it may change its mind occasionally. Please pay attention to its status at all times to ensure that it is still willing to help you.
3. You can have more sins, but be careful to bear the consequences of their weight.
4. Please be mindful of the feelings of the Sin Gates, as they may become jealous of each other and even kill one another.
5. Others can kill you and steal your sin gate, and you can do the same.
6. When a Sin Gate leaves its designated area, it needs a vessel to contain it. The host must use a part of the human body that facilitates its movement as a vessel for the Sin Gate in order to carry it outside its designated area.
Yin Xiu glanced through it quickly and could roughly understand that the Sin Gates had their own little emotions. If you didn't take care of them, they might run away or kill each other, or even kill you. In short, it wouldn't do you any good. While raising the Sin Gates, you had to feed them and prepare special equipment when you went out. It was just like raising pets, which was troublesome.
"Sigh... I really don't want to be bound." After reading it, Yin Xiu felt heavy-hearted. He still felt that this power was really complicated and troublesome, not as easy to use as his sword.
He's only ever raised his sister; he's never raised a pet.
Amidst Yin Xiu's indifferent complaints, Li Mo smiled and remained silent. Fortunately, he had already successfully bound himself to Yin Xiu, and now it was too late for Yin Xiu to back out.
"Fine, I already know. So be it. At least it's just you." Yin Xiu tossed the petting manual back, stuffed the coin into his pocket, and glanced around.
This is the bathroom. Since we're already here, we might as well take a shower and clean off the bloodstains on our clothes before we set off again.
It looks like he won't be able to leave this instance anytime soon, and he really doesn't want to be walking around covered in blood; it's too scary.
"You wait at the door, I'll go in and take a shower first, I'll be out in a bit." Yin Xiu pointed inside, left these words of advice, and walked in.
Li Mo nodded and stood in the doorway, blocking it.
The viewers watched the dark figure standing quietly and straight at the door for a while, but found it as boring as a still image, so they moved inside to watch Yin Xiu.
After a moment of silence, Li Mo suddenly remembered something, looked up, and the live stream went black.
"Aaaaaah! I thought I was going to see my brother Xiu taking a shower!! Why did the screen suddenly go black!!"
"Tsk, so there really aren't any perks, huh! It's one thing for players to have a black screen in a private bathroom, but why is it black in a public bathroom too?! We're all brothers! What's wrong with seeing this?!"
"Yeah! Other players' screens don't go black when they enter the public bathroom, so why did Yin Xiu's screen go black!"
"By the way, this Sin Gate guy was Yin Xiu's roommate in the last dungeon. Don't you guys have anything to say about that?"
"I... have so much to say, but in the end I don't want to say it anymore."
"Anyway, we could tell from the last instance that it wasn't human, so it's not too surprising that it appeared here. Just think of it as a weirdo that does odd jobs in all instances; it's normal to find them anywhere."
"Yes, yes, think about how many extras and cannon fodder roles in real TV dramas go to every film set, he must be doing the same!"
"As long as you find a suitable reason, you won't be shocked by anything you see."
"...Okay, are all the pros this calm? This newbie is shocked."
The comments were mostly... and I didn't dare to offer any suggestions, because if I said too much, the other person might actually crawl out of the screen and hit me a couple of times.
Just look at it... just look at it...
A short while later, Yin Xiu came out, his collar still wet. Since he had no clean clothes to change into, he could only wash his collar before coming out.
After tidying himself up and binding himself with Li Mo, Yin Xiu was about ready to leave the bathroom. Before leaving, he turned to look at Li Mo.
"According to the rules, once you leave your level, you have to choose a part as your carrier, right?" Yin Xiu looked at himself. It had to be convenient for both them to move and for him to move, so it could only be a part that he didn't use often.
He extended his left hand. "I need to hold the knife with my right hand, so my left hand should be more convenient for you, right?"
Li Mo smiled and nodded, his entire body instantly turning into a pool of black slime that crawled onto Yin Xiu's left hand and then slowly disappeared into the surface of his skin.
For a moment, Yin Xiu felt as if his left hand had disappeared, without any sensation. But his left hand was still moving. It waved freely in the air twice, and then the palm turned towards Yin Xiu. A crack appeared on the surface of the skin, and an eye stared at him.
After a while, the eye peeked into the back of the hand, and then a mouth appeared in the palm, saying with great pleasure, "I can sense your current mood, which is very bad."
Yin Xiu stared at him sullenly, "If you were a human, you would feel bad if you saw your left hand moving uncontrollably."
With a wave of her small hand, she nuzzled Yin Xiu's face and said, "Don't worry, I can give you back control of my left hand."
Yin Xiu tilted his head and pressed down on his left hand with disdain. "Let's talk about it when we need to. Just don't move around unnecessarily."
"Okay." He responded with his left hand, which immediately fell to his sides, swaying precariously from the handcuffs.
"Swinging on a swing here..." Yin Xiu muttered, letting go of his bound hands and getting up to walk outside.
As soon as the door opened and I returned to the corridor, the entire prison floor suddenly shook and tumbled again, disrupting the floor layout and time flow once more.
Yin Xiu gripped the doorknob, sighing as he waited for it to stop.
As he rolled along, he saw a familiar person rolling out of the floating corridor outside the window.
Across the void of darkness, in the other corridors opposite, Ye Tianxuan was standing on the edge of a window, pulling a player out with a smile as he pressed them against the window.
The player screamed in terror at the darkness outside the window, muttering pleas for mercy, "I'll give it to you! I'll give you the item you want right away! Master Yin Xiu, please let me go!!"
Yin Xiu: ...