Jia Deka felt like dying on the spot...
"She just said 'Woof-yes,'" Ji Xiaoge said, her pretty face stern, as she cast a cold glance over.
A certain Beast-eared girl nearby nodded vigorously, looking quite silly: "Yes, woof-yes!"
Mo Tan chuckled dryly, rubbing Ya Ya's hair while shrugging at Ji Xiaoge: "This girl has a bit of a language barrier; that's just how she talks. Her meaning should be the same as ours."
"Is that so?" Ji Xiaoge pursed her lips, staring intently at Ya Ya, who was squatting beside Mo Tan, looking blissful. She asked, half-believing, half-doubting, "Then what exactly happened?"
Jia Deka sighed, pointing helplessly at the collar around Ya Ya's neck: "Although this girl is mostly well-behaved and obedient, if she gets agitated, she'll go uncontrollably crazy. We've caused a lot of trouble because of this on our journey, so she eventually suggested I tie her up..."
"Woof!" Ya Ya barked, exceptionally innocent and cheerful, then suddenly began rolling around on the ground: "Hungry! Woof-hungry!"
This incredibly cute girl has intermittent fits of madness?
Ji Xiaoge watched Ya Ya, who was now rolling around and acting spoiled, completely speechless, feeling utterly unable to comprehend!
"Then why does this girl keep saying she's hungry?" Although not entirely disbelieving, Ji Xiaoge still asked Jia Deka suspiciously, "Isn't it because you're not feeding her?"
The Old Mage immediately wilted, spreading his hands with a worried expression: "I'm hungry too! I brought her here to get something to eat, but you immediately started fighting..."
Ji Xiaoge thought about it and realized it was indeed true!
The Old Mage seemed to have started ordering food as soon as he entered, and then she started calling him shameless, but...
"Anyone would misunderstand the state you two were in!" Ji Xiaoge exclaimed, her face slightly flushed: "No normal person would lead a little girl around the world like that!"
Mo Tan also had to nod in agreement this time. Ji Xiaoge was right; the combination of Jia Deka and Ya Ya, this old man and dog duo, in their current state, was indeed too easy for others to misunderstand.
"Anyway, I still don't completely believe you." Ji Xiaoge wrinkled her nose at Jia Deka, then half-knelt in front of Ya Ya and asked softly, "Are you hungry?"
The latter's eyes immediately widened: "Woof-hungry!"
"Here, I made this myself. Have some." Ji Xiaoge reached out and stroked Ya Ya's ear, then took out a plate of still-warm ribs from her satchel and said with a smile: "Eat your fill, then tell me properly what happened. If that Old Mage is lying, I'll take you and we'll run away~"
The canine girl, who had just begun to bare her teeth because she wasn't familiar with Ji Xiaoge, was instantly captivated by the plate of ribs in front of her. Food stored by players in their satchels does not spoil or go bad over time; its texture, taste, and effects are exactly the same as when it was freshly cooked.
Yes, exactly the same as when it was freshly cooked...
Golden all over, fragrant, making one's mouth water just by looking at it or smelling it.
【The simulation level of this game is a bit unfair.】
Mo Tan couldn't help but think this. One should know that such mental simulation devices are not without flaws. At least, as far as he knew, the most advanced civilian technology currently could only accurately simulate about 80% of tactile sensations, while the simulation of smell and taste was even less than 50%. Only vision and hearing were completely unaffected.
But now it seemed...
"Awoo!" Ya Ya's excited cry interrupted Mo Tan's thoughts. The girl, who had been hungry for most of the day, stared intently at the plate of colorful and fragrant ribs in front of her: "Can I really eat it, woof?"
The answer was, of course, affirmative.
"Eat, eat!" Ji Xiaoge shoved the plate into Ya Ya's hands: "Don't be shy."
As soon as she finished speaking, Ya Ya 'woof-chomped' the top rib, swallowed it almost without chewing, and then...
The dog girl froze.
Completely, utterly frozen, as if a Great Mage had hit her with a full-powered Petrification spell, she was rooted to the spot.
"Ya Ya?" Jia Deka couldn't help but call her name, thinking how delicious it must be...
"How does it taste?" Ji Xiaoge also stared at the girl in front of her, a little nervous, and asked repeatedly, "How is it?"
Their voices seemed to be blocked by something. Ya Ya was aware that someone seemed to be speaking nearby, but for some reason, she couldn't understand at all, or rather, her consciousness was no longer in this body...
No, her consciousness was still here, and that indescribable taste was still spreading in her mouth, spreading wildly!
She could no longer receive external information! Because the amount of information from her mouth and stomach was too overwhelming!
If Mo Tan had been fortunate enough to take a bite, he would definitely have declared afterward that it was a taste that absolutely could not exist on the periodic table of elements!
Of course, for Ya Ya, her only feeling at this moment was... discomfort!
As for how uncomfortable, it's hard to say...
At any rate, her eyes, which had lost their sparkle, were already replaying past memories!
She wanted to vomit but couldn't open her mouth...
She wanted to faint but her consciousness remained clear...
She wanted to call for help but couldn't make a sound...
【Awoo, Grandpa, am I going to die, woof?】
The girl's consciousness gradually began to blur, and the worried expression of Mo Tan in front of her began to double...
That kind older sister wouldn't be trying to kill her, would she...
No, it wasn't her fault!
It was the world's fault!
Ya Ya's dull eyes gradually turned blood-red.
"Diffic..." She opened her small mouth with difficulty, her expression somewhat twisted.
"Difficult?" Mo Tan shook her shoulder uneasily, asking nervously, "What's difficult?"
Jia Deka also quickly leaned over, waving his hand in front of Ya Ya: "Are you alright?"
Ji Xiaoge, meanwhile, quickly picked up a rib and put it in her own mouth, chewed it a couple of times, then shook her head: "It should be fine."
"Diffic..." Ya Ya's mouth twitched downwards, then she actually showed a strange smile, stretching out her trembling hands and grabbing both Mo Tan and Jia Deka simultaneously, then chuckled twice, and suddenly let out a hysterical roar: "It's so disgusting, I could die! AHHHHHHH!!!"
Boom! Boom boom boom!!
"Ya Ya, calm dow—ah!"
"Deep breaths, deep breaths, Ya Ya, let go first, I'll go find you some—ah!"
Clang! Clang clang! Clang!
"For something this disgusting to exist! This world might as well be destroyed! Go to hell, go to hell! I must already be dead anyway! You all die with me too! Let's all die neatly together!!"
Crackle! Bang! Clang!
"Hey! Are you two okay? What's wrong with her... Oh my!"
Boom!
"You, whoever you are, run!" Mo Tan, who had one arm grabbed by Ya Ya and was being used as a human warhammer, shouted at Ji Xiaoge, then looked at Jia Deka, who was flapping in the wind on the other side, and yelled: "We have to find a way to stop her!"
Jia Deka, who had just been swung and smashed through half a wall, held his arm and said seriously: "Use my staff."
"Is that it?" Ji Xiaoge, flapping her wings in mid-air, pointed to a pile of rubble where a long stick was emitting black smoke.
"Yes, oh~~~~~"
Jia Deka had barely spoken a word when Ya Ya tugged and swung the iron chain wrapped around his hand, making him spin rapidly in mid-air like a meteor hammer.
"Hold on, I'll get it for you!" Ji Xiaoge now completely believed Jia Deka's earlier words; there was no way she couldn't believe it, considering the cute girl named Ya Ya was currently using her two companions as weapons to cause widespread destruction!
Since it was her fault, she had to try to make amends!
Clumsily dodging several unconscious blows from Ya Ya (using Mo Tan and Jia Deka as tools), Ji Xiaoge's wings vibrated slightly, and she flew horizontally, almost clinging to the ground, straight towards the unpretentious-looking staff.
...
Half an hour later
Deli Bapi looked at the small patch of ruins that was once called the 'Mistletoe' tavern and nearly died on the spot...
"What in the world happened here!?" He walked disconsolately into the rubble, muttering as he looked around for something still intact: "What in the world happened..."
Just then, a bald big man suddenly emerged from half a counter not far away, turned his head and grinned at Deli: "It seems the girl who came to apply for a job earlier fought with an Old Mage for a long time, and then something, I don't know what, fell from the sky and smashed half our shop, and a Half-Dragon emerged from it. Not long after, that Half-Orc girl, who seemed to have canine blood, went crazy again and smashed almost everything that could be smashed, and finally... Hey, can you still stand?"
Deli chuckled dryly, and said tremblingly to the thick-necked chef in front of him: "I can stand."
"Finally, for some reason, the Old Mage's staff suddenly knocked all those people down," said Armord Bratt Johnson, the chef of the Mistletoe Tavern, also known as A-Qiang, summarizing to his boss.
"What?" Deli's eyes widened: "A more ruthless one came out of the staff?!"
"No." A-Qiang shook his head, raising a hand to point not far away: "If I'm not mistaken, the staff exploded, and then it suddenly went silent over there."
Deli swallowed, then carefully walked over to take a look...
A Half-Dragon male, a human Old Mage, and a canine girl were lying crookedly on the ground, and not far away, a somewhat familiar girl with ankle-length hair and a pair of white feathered wings on her back was sprawled there, with feathers scattered all around her.
"What do we do, Boss?" A-Qiang staggered over to Deli's side and turned to ask him: "How do you want to handle this?"
The chef wore a pair of oil-stained coarse cloth trousers, with only an apron covering his muscular upper body, looking completely unconcerned, as if nothing had happened.
However, Deli was already used to the bald man's behavior, so he didn't show any displeasure, only gritted his teeth and replied: "You wake them up first, then I'll immediately start crying next to them. If these people are reasonable, we'll make them pay..."
"What if they're not reasonable?" A-Qiang asked curiously.
Deli's eyes widened: "Then I'll kneel down and kowtow a couple of times to them, and tell them to hurry up and leave!"
A-Qiang: "..."
Five minutes later
Mo Tan groggily opened his eyes, only to find that he had been moved to a relatively flat spot at some point. Jia Deka was sitting next to him, and the still-unconscious Ji Xiaoge was also there. As for Ya Ya...
"Ugh!" The little girl was half-kneeling behind them, throwing up a rainbow...
【Whew, thank goodness, no casualties!】
Mo Tan, whose HP was still over 20%, let out a relieved sigh, feeling that this game was truly exciting. Before he could finish his lament, a large, fleshy face suddenly appeared.
"You're awake?"
"Eeek! Uh, mm..."
The above was Mo Tan's reaction.
A-Qiang grinned, revealing a row of large yellow teeth (I accidentally typed 'big yellow duck' the first time): "Good that you're awake. Please wait a moment; my boss wants to talk to you all later."
"Hmm?" Mo Tan was startled, then immediately had a very ominous Premonition. He asked in a low voice: "Who is your boss?"
A-Qiang immediately replied: "Deli Bapi, the owner of this... um, Mistletoe Tavern."
The ominous Premonition came true!
【This place really does have an owner...】
Although he had mentally prepared himself when he crashed down, Mo Tan's mood at this moment was still very complicated. Of course, he (at this moment) was a person with proper values, so he immediately suppressed the idea of running away with Jia Deka and Ya Ya, and nodded with a wry smile to A-Qiang: "Where's the boss?"
"Crying in the back," A-Qiang shrugged, spreading his hands: "He should be done soon, I'll go check."
With that, he turned and left.
Mo Tan sighed lengthily with a Cordova-like charm, and patted Jia Deka's shoulder: "Let's catch up later. You go take care of Ya Ya, I'll check on that girl's condition."
"Alright." Jia Deka nodded, then whispered to Mo Tan: "Should we make a run for it?"
This shows that values have little to do with age...
"It's best not to." Mo Tan immediately shook his head: "The trouble was mainly caused by me. If they really pursue it, just say I was the one who crashed. That'll be fine."
He wasn't forcing himself to take the blame; after all, based on Mo Tan's observation immediately after his descent... or rather, fall, half of the building they were in was indeed smashed by the absolute safety express, so his explanation that he was primarily responsible was perfectly valid.
"Ya Ya and I are also responsible." Jia Deka chuckled awkwardly, supporting his old back as he stood up: "I'll go check on that girl first."
Mo Tan, meanwhile, immediately went to the still-unconscious Ji Xiaoge, took out a bottle of potion from his satchel, and prepared to feed it to her.
Although he didn't know what the other party's profession was in the game, this girl had been caught in the explosion at a very close range, and she seemed to be the most seriously injured among the four. Mo Tan decided to restore her health first.
Then, the moment he helped Ji Xiaoge up...
【She... was she always this beautiful?】
Chapter 114: The End
