owlsbooks Chapter 2: The Fool Forced to Grow Up
Chapter 2: The Fool Forced to Grow Up
"Thump!"
A scalding heat surged through his body in an instant, causing Cao Xing to convulse in pain.
The tender flesh was scalded open, and fresh blood instantly stained the area in front of them.
"Ouch! It hurts! Glug glug glug..."
Cao Xing opened his mouth and screamed, but as soon as he opened his mouth, scalding liquid rushed down his throat and into his lungs.
It burned him so badly it was excruciating, and the pain was excruciating.
In a daze, Cao Xing could feel his flesh being slowly boiled apart, as if it were about to detach from his bones.
You beast! You beast!!
You two are both fucking animals!!
I'll fuck your mother!
Cao Xing cursed inwardly. He knew that Baihua Xiu didn't like him, the child of a monster, but he didn't expect that the Yellow Robe Monster would throw him directly into the pot.
Soon, under the excruciating pain, his consciousness began to blur.
He didn't know how much time had passed when, accompanied by a strong feeling of suffocation, Cao Xing suddenly opened his eyes. His survival instinct made him unconsciously reach out and grab, while simultaneously kicking his legs.
"Splash!"
He actually stood up from the iron pot.
I'm not dead?
Cao Xing looked around blankly. The little monsters that used to surround him were nowhere to be seen, and the huge cave was eerily quiet.
Looking down, he saw himself standing naked in the pot. The boiling water in the pot had cooled down, but his body had actually grown into an adult.
That beastly yellow-robed monster, did you throw me into the pot just to make me grow up faster?
Cao Xing thought about it again and found it strange.
People grow up, but if there isn't an adult soul inside their body, what grows up is just a physical body, while the mind is still that of an infant who knows nothing.
What's he after?
Just as Cao Xing was wondering about this, a small head peeked out from the corner.
"younger brother!"
She called out softly, and Cao Xing looked in the direction of the sound.
is her!
The half-human, half-beast face was very recognizable; it was the girl who had poured wine for the yellow-robed monster earlier.
This must be my older sister.
At this moment, the girl ran over from the corner. She first looked Cao Xing up and down, then leaned forward and sniffed him carefully a few times.
Having confirmed that the taste was correct, the girl excitedly grabbed Cao Xing and pulled him out of the pot.
Cao Xing instinctively wanted to resist. He didn't know what the girl was going to do, but his body was too weak to exert any strength, so he could only let the girl drag him along.
The light inside the cave was very dim.
Several oil lamps made of bone hung above the cave passage, flickering with a greenish phosphorescent light.
When the girl pulled him into a cave, Cao Xing instinctively wrinkled his nose.
This taste!
That's too much!
Upon closer inspection, the small cave room in front of them was covered with a thick layer of straw, and six or seven children were lying on the straw.
They looked very similar to the girl beside her; most of them were half-human, half-beast.
Some have the upper body of a wolf and the lower body of a human.
Some of them were covered in dark wolf fur.
"Could these all be my brothers and sisters?"
This idea exploded in the depths of Cao Xing's consciousness like a thunderclap.
Previously, when Baihua Xiu mentioned those "sex slaves born of lowly people" in Huangpao Guai Guai's arms, he was still puzzled. Now, seeing these so-called sex slaves with his own eyes, Cao Xing was immediately shocked.
No wonder, in the original story, when Pigsy and Sandy killed two of the Yellow Robe Monster's children in front of him, he didn't fight Pigsy and Sandy to the death.
So he had a whole bunch of kids?
But soon, Cao Xing became even more puzzled. In the original story, only two people died from the fall, but why was there not a single word about this whole bunch of little monsters?
"Phew~~"
A cool breeze blew by, its chill hitting Cao Xing's face, making him shiver and immediately banish the question from his mind.
It's bad enough that the temperature in this cave is low, but why is it also drafty from all sides?
Before long, Cao Xing was shivering from the cold.
"younger brother!"
At this moment, the girl realized that her brother did not have thick wolf fur to keep warm, so she quickly pulled Cao Xing up onto the haystack.
Dry straw was laid on Cao Xing's body.
However, the straw was covered with a thin layer of water mist, and instead of making Cao Xing feel warm, he couldn't help but sneeze.
"Achiu!!"
The sound of sneezing echoed in the cave, immediately waking the other brothers.
"ah!!"
The young man on the left, with a wolf's head and a human body, raised his head and made a sound like a baby crying.
His crying triggered a commotion among his brothers.
Some started baring their teeth and throwing a tantrum, while others got up, crossed their legs, and peed on the head of their subordinate.
Soon the entire cave was in complete chaos.
Seeing his brothers and sisters in complete chaos, Cao Xing quietly took a few steps back, worried that these guys might go berserk and bite him.
However, it was clear that his own thoughts were unnecessary.
He observed them carefully for a moment and found that these brothers and sisters had very low intelligence; some were only two or three years old, and some were like infants who were not even a month old.
It seems they, like me, are products of being "forced to mature".
However, I am different from them. Inside my body is the mind of an adult, not a confused child.
A cold wind blew in gusts from inside the cave, and Cao Xing could only curl up and retreat as far as possible, hoping to find a sheltered spot and gain a moment of warmth.
Suddenly, he felt a warm sensation coming from behind him, soft and thick. This feeling startled him, and he slowly turned his head to look behind him.
In the shadows, a pair of emerald green eyes opened and stared straight at him.
"Wh...what is that?"
Cao Xing's body stiffened, and cold sweat instantly seeped out from under his skin.
"Shhh!!"
The surrounding straw swayed, and a huge shadow slowly rose from the straw.
He dared not move, and even unconsciously held his breath.
The eyes gradually drew closer in the darkness, and slowly a thin human face was revealed.
He winked at Cao Xing, staring at Cao Xing's naked body, making Cao Xing feel a little embarrassed, but not as nervous as before.
At least there was no intention to attack him on that person's face.
Cao Xing looked the other person up and down and found that he only had a human face, but his body was that of a huge wolf.
Unlike his brothers, his fur was a fiery red.
The girl who brought Cao Xing here seemed to sense the commotion. She stopped trying to calm the other noisy brothers and turned to Cao Xing.
He pointed to the wolf-faced man in front of him and said in a deep voice, "Brother."
Then he pointed to Cao Xing: "Brother."
"younger brother!"
A smile appeared on his thin face, and before Cao Xing could react, his thick tail curled up from under the haystack behind him, wrapping Cao Xing in its arms.
The warmth from the thick fur helped Cao Xing relax his tense nerves.
This made Cao Xing suddenly realize that having such a group of brothers and sisters wasn't so bad.
Holding the big tail in his arms, Cao Xing closed his eyes and quickly fell asleep.
In a daze, Cao Xing felt someone pick him up. A sense of alertness flashed through his mind, and he suddenly opened his eyes.
However, what lay before them was a polished stone wall, flanked by exquisite candlesticks with two red candles inserted on them.
Various fruits were laid out on a stone table to the side, while he lay on a soft couch.
Cao Xing recognized at a glance that this was Bai Huaxiu's room.
"woke up?"
Before Cao Xing could even think about why he was in this place, he looked up and saw Bai Huaxiu sitting to the side, staring at him with a look of disgust.
Seeing that he had opened his eyes, she impatiently reached out and pulled him up.
She continued to complain, "Running around everywhere? And even going to that dirty, smelly place and hanging out with those skewers? I had to look for you for ages."
Cao Xing did not speak, or rather, he could not and dared not speak.
His observations last night made him realize that both those "cross-breeds" and himself were products of being forcibly brought out of infancy.
Seeing Cao Xing's dazed and silly appearance, Bai Huaxiu immediately lost her patience and pushed Cao Xing in front of the mirror.
Baihua Xiu looked Cao Xing up and down and sneered, "He does have a handsome face, but unfortunately, he's an idiot."
Cao Xing felt a sense of disgust as he listened to Bai Huaxiu's sarcasm. Although the woman in front of him was his mother, Cao Xing could not feel any affection from her.
Especially from Baihuaxiu's tone, Cao Xing could tell that she definitely knew in advance that he had been thrown into the boiling soup pot.
Regardless of Baihuaxiu and Huangpaoguai's motives, Cao Xing couldn't help but curse them under his breath, "Beasts!" at the thought of being thrown into boiling water.
On the contrary, the skewers that Baihua Xiu mentioned were more humane than her, the mother.
At this moment, Baihuaxiu walked up behind Cao Xing, reached out, and put a fur coat on Cao Xing.
Baihua Xiu didn't care whether Cao Xing could understand her or not, and continued speaking to herself:
"Come on, let me see if it fits. This is a dress that was just made. If that bitch sees this dress, she'll be furious."
Cao Xing remained expressionless, his eyes slightly closed, like a wooden doll, letting Bai Huaxiu put the clothes on him.
The clothes were made of thick fur, but Cao Xing soon sensed that something was wrong.
The smell on these clothes is so familiar.
Cao Xing opened his eyes wide, and when he saw the fiery red hair on his clothes, he suddenly had a bad feeling.
"Madam, what should we do with this?"
At this moment, the maidservant who served Baihua Xiu walked in.
Cao Xing looked through the bronze mirror in front of him and saw that the maid was carrying a corpse that had been stripped of all its fur.
It has the body of a hunting dog, but the face of a human.
An iron hook pierced through its lower jaw, suspending it in mid-air.