"Wait, don't move!" Yin Xiu stepped back, trying to pull his hand away, but Li Mo grabbed him, the gap in his chest tightly enveloping Yin Xiu's fingers.
"I want you to touch me more as a reward, is that okay?" He stared at Yin Xiu, pleading softly, his slightly unfocused and dazed look adding a touch of humanity to the scene.
"Will you feel happy if I touch you?" Yin Xiu couldn't understand the monster's structure, but Li Mo would ask, so he must like it.
"Yes… perhaps this is one of the more comfortable aspects of human senses." Li Mo grabbed Yin Xiu's arm and slowly took a step closer to him, his wrist reaching into Yin Xiu's chest, where the cool, sticky sensation became even more pronounced.
Yin Xiu shuddered, feeling somewhat uncomfortable, but at the same time, he sensed Li Mo's emotions, which were also a source of pleasure.
The other person's emotions were intertwined with his own, becoming extremely complex, and Yin Xiu felt that his mind was about to break down.
"So... you're an organization that wears a human form but is full of monsters inside?" Yin Xiu took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down. "I've known for a long time that you're a monster. What I want to know isn't your physical structure, but other things about you."
"My other matters?" Li Mo narrowed his eyes with pleasure. "Let me think, what can I tell you?"
"My true form lives in a very dark environment, which is the depths of the ocean. If you go upstream, you can see the coast. There are many things left behind by the dead on the shore. I picked up many books on the shore, studied those books, and then learned about human knowledge."
Yin Xiu narrowed his eyes, "Is your place also in the instance?"
Li Mo seemed to be deep in thought. "It wasn't originally a dungeon. There was a village on the coast that would offer me good food. But later... it became a dungeon. At first, I could go to more distant places, but after the dungeon appeared, I could only stay where I lived."
"I tried so hard to get out, and after several years, I was finally able to enter the instance, but I still can't freely go to the town where you are."
Li Mo's description was vague, as if he himself was unaware of the changes around him; it was just a monster living in the deep sea.
How long have you lived?
"A very long time ago, I was very small at the beginning, without any concept of human time. I was so small that I could only keep eating. Later, when I grew up a bit, I was able to learn knowledge." Li Mo smiled and pointed to his body. "When I was in the dungeon, I found a newborn baby who had already died. It was a woman who was born in the dungeon, but he was abandoned."
"I merged with that baby and let his body grow, but his body was greatly affected by my pollution. Although my current body doesn't look like a human, it has all the organs that a human should have, and I can breathe and bleed."
He reached out and touched Yin Xiu's face. "I can also touch you like this, and then have emotions similar to those of a human, think with a human brain, and respond to you."
Li Mo smiled slightly, "But if it were my original form, it might not work, because I am a monster, lacking human emotions and without the organs to speak."
Yin Xiu nodded, seemingly understanding some of the illogical things about Li Mo, but this only increased his questions about Li Mo himself.
Because Li Mo himself doesn't even know what he is.
But after carefully analyzing Li Mo's words, he vaguely sensed some information.
For example, the instance was created because of Li Mo, but Li Mo is not the controller of the instance, because the instance even restricts Li Mo's actions.
As for the small seaside village in Li Mo's memory that offered him food, that's even more unclear; perhaps that's what the instance looked like at the beginning.
"I seem to understand your existence better now." Yin Xiu nodded. Although there were still many questions about this person, he was now much clearer about what Li Mo was than before.
So what if it's a monster? The person in front of me is not just a creature that devours, but also has a soul.
"Will you like me more than before?" Li Mo lowered her head and moved closer to Yin Xiu. He was smiling, but his eyes were more lively than before, and he seemed more human than when they first met.
"I can't say I like it more than before..." Yin Xiu could still feel the texture on his hands, which was very complicated. "But human feelings are developed through interaction, and we need to spend more time together."
Li Mo smiled and her eyes crinkled.
He didn't understand human emotions; he only heard Yin Xiu say that he wanted to spend more time with him.
"Okay." Li Mo leaned over and hugged Yin Xiu tightly, his arm suddenly enveloped by an even stickier and more twisted entity.
"…I'd like to pull my hand back first; it seems uncomfortable to stay there for too long," Yin Xiu suggested tactfully.
"Okay." Li Mo obediently stepped back, letting Yin Xiu take his hand back.
After Yin Xiu withdrew his hand, he could clearly see the black, twisted entity inside the crack. It contained human tissue and eyeballs, and it was still alive.
He abruptly turned his head away, realizing that he still needed some time to fully accept Li Mo.
Li Mo closed the crack, then slowly began to button his shirt.
At this moment, the barrage of comments began to fly by rapidly.
"Guys, my screen went black again for ages! What happened?!"
"I don't know, sometimes when it's about Xiu's roommate, the screen just goes black for no reason."
"Xiu's roommate is really weird. Generally speaking, the screen only goes black when it involves player privacy, such as taking a shower or changing clothes."
"Holy crap! Why is my roommate buttoning his shirt?! Did he take it off before?"
"Holy crap! Why is he taking his clothes off? There are two guys alone in the classroom! And he's taking his clothes off! Something's not right with you guys!"
"I also feel something's wrong! Why would my roommate suddenly take off their clothes? Could it be that they..."
"Waaaaah, no, Brother Xiu! Don't let a dark, creepy monster defile you, Brother Xiu!"
"Ahhh, how could this be! My holy Xiu-ge!"
The comments section rushed to Ye Tianxuan's screen, with tears streaming down their faces, recounting the black screen incident on Yin Xiu's side.
Ye Tianxuan was tiptoeing into the teachers' dormitory.
He was crouching under a table, while outside, the incredibly tall and slender teacher sat at another table, grading papers under dim light.
He paid no attention to the comments, focusing intently on crawling under the table and finding the teacher's drawer.
He managed to get some useful information about the teachers' dormitory from the cafeteria lady. He had seen comments on the live stream saying that Yin Xiu was in the experimental teaching building and might not be able to come back here, so he had to come and look for him himself.
But a quick glance revealed a new message: Boss Ye! My brother Xiu was found sleeping in the classroom by a creepy, dark figure! I'm so sad!!
"Huh?" Ye Tianxuan had never been so confused. He had always joked about Yin Xiu's relationship with her boyfriend, but he never expected that the two of them would develop their relationship so quickly!
But almost at the same time he spoke, the teacher who was grading homework suddenly turned around.