Text Game: It All Began when a Cat-eared Girl Took Me In-Chapter 196 - 166 The oppressive feeling brought by Mother-in-law! Luo Xi(;꒪ꈊ꒪;)! Scared!_1
"Ow, ow..."
Luo Xi pressed his head and sat up, his consciousness gradually clearing.
Damn, this broken place is a total trap.
After walking for a while in that ice cave and seeing a bright light, he thought he had found the exit. He didn’t expect to step out only to be attacked by a bunch of strange runes and then directly fall from a towering ice cliff.
With his current physique of 55 points, a fall from several tens of meters—even head down—shouldn’t have been a big deal, but many of those runes were aimed at his head, knocking him out cold.
"Where is this?"
Luo Xi looked around and found that he wasn’t below the ice cliff outside the cave but appeared in a room, currently lying on a wooden bed.
Someone brought him here?
Who?
Luo Xi got up and rolled off the bed.
Squeak—
The door to the room opened.
A red-haired woman peered in; seeing Luo Xi up, she immediately shouted outside, "He’s awake!"
Moments later, a fat man rushed in and in Luo Xi’s baffled expression, warmly hugged his body and even touched the horn on his head.
"Damn! Finally, a new living person! I can’t believe I’m feeling so intimate seeing Mutant Patients now. Brother, how did you get in here? Can you take us out?"
The red-haired woman said in exasperation, "Ricker, don’t touch people like that! It’s disgusting, okay? And didn’t you use to hate Variants?"
"I’m not disgusted! Variants or whatever, if they can take me out, they’re my family!"
"I meant the other person will feel disgusted!"
Luo Xi: "..."
He looked at the two talents on the text.
[Ding! Talent: Mutual Exclusivity has been triggered, Ricker’s Favorability towards you -50]
[Ding! Current Ricker’s Favorability towards you: 50 (excitement from not seeing a living person for many years)]
His Favorability went down by fifty and there’s still fifty left.
Absolutely ridiculous.
How come there are so many Gays in Winter City, and he happened to encounter them all?
Then, a somewhat familiar voice rang out.
"Ricker, if there’s nothing to do, don’t get in the way. Uli, you all go out first, I want to have a talk with him alone."
This voice...
Luo Xi shivered, stiffly lifting his head to look over.
The beautiful face, strikingly similar to Wei’er’s, appeared before him again.
Liya!
This actual Liya wore a light Blue cotton jacket, but the proud peaks under the thick cotton couldn’t hide the undulations on her chest. Her black hair fell over her shoulders, and a pair of amethyst-like eyes evaluated Luo Xi, devoid of any warmth.
This was Wei’er’s mother, Liya, the intangible, untouchable Projection, a larger version of Cat Cat!
[Note: Certain parts are indeed much larger than that poor Cat-eared Girl~]
You vulgar thing, Damn Text, I was talking about the overall size!
"Okay, then let’s go find Mr. Charles and continue playing cards."
The red-haired woman forcefully pulled the somewhat reluctant fat man out of the room and shut the door.
Liya’s cold gaze fell on Luo Xi as she asked, "Who are you? How did you get in here? What’s the situation outside right now?"
Luo Xi: "0ДQ!"
Getting straight to the point right away.
This Liya seems quite fierce.
Even the sense of oppression was greater.
Is it because that rune Projection was just a Projection after all?
[Note: Garbage Traveler, have you considered reclassing as a Cao Zei and taking down your real mother-in-law? Then you could tell Wei’er and Aina, from now on you two should call me dad~]
Fxxk! Damn Text, you really don’t want me to live, do you?
This Liya doesn’t have the memories of that Projection toward him; her Favorability must undoubtedly be zero.
If I say something I shouldn’t, I fear I might vaporize on the spot.
Luo Xi hesitated for a moment, then said, "Well... I don’t know how I got in here, I just suddenly ended up here, and when I opened my eyes, I found myself in an ice cavern, and not long after walking, I fell from the ice cliff..."
He rambled on with a bunch of words.
"Ice cavern? Oh, did you come out from there? From that ice tomb..."
Liya sighed with a complicated expression.
This young man might be hiding something, but he likely wasn’t lying. After all, as a First-tier Mutant Patient with such weak strength, it would have been impossible for him to do anything to the Winter Divine Tree.
Luo Xi continued, "However, I do know what’s happening outside. There’s a Variant named Noss who wanted to take the Truth of Divine Tree from the Winter Divine Tree, but he failed."
Liya’s pupils shrank, "Noss failed?"
Luo Xi nodded.
"That’s good."
Liya’s hanging heart eased a little.
This news was very important to her.
Her biggest fear was Noss resorting to anything to break her seal.
With Wei’er being her blood-related daughter, her blood and life could be used to reverse-engineer her rune seal. Combined with her lost Yuan Qi, it could even guarantee the seal’s break.
If Noss had let them out now, it would mean he had already disposed of Wei’er...
Since she wasn’t sent out, it suggests that Wei’er might still be alive.
As for what their situation is like.
This young man might know something.
It’s worth asking him.
[Ding! Lady Liya’s gratitude towards you +10]
[Ding! Lady Liya’s favorability towards you +5]
Lady Liya’s gaze toward Luo Xi also became slightly warmer.
Luo Xi: "..."
Favorability increased!
This big Cat Cat doesn’t seem as aloof as she appears.
This is more like the Lady Liya I saw in the rune projection.
Lady Liya softly asked, "How did Noss fail? And how do you know all this?"
It was highly unusual for this young man, being a Mutant Patient himself, to have entered Winter City’s Inner City and to have approached the Divine Tree.
This guy definitely has some issues, or there’s something wrong with Winter City.
After thinking for a moment, Luo Xi said, "What if I said that in the end, I smashed him to pieces? Would you believe me?"
"What did you say?"
Lady Liya looked at Luo Xi with an expression that said, ’Do you think I’m an idiot?’
Luo Xi: "..."
He knew Lady Liya definitely wouldn’t believe him.
Honestly, if their roles were reversed, Luo Xi wouldn’t believe it either.
"How should I put this..."
Luo Xi pondered whether he should first mention that he knew her daughters.
But he didn’t know how to start.
There was always a feeling that once he brought it up, Lady Liya might judge him on the spot.
"Forget it." 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖
Lady Liya shook her head, "It’s good that Noss failed. I guess so, with people from Signo and the Church of Noah outside, Noss shouldn’t be able to cause too much of a commotion. Your arrival here might just be an accident, much like how I managed to carve out this space here years ago. The world is vast; accidents are bound to happen."
"Since Noss has failed, there’s only one thing left for me to consider now. The same goes for you; now that you’re here, no matter the reason, you can’t just leave freely."
Luo Xi’s body stiffened, and he asked as if he didn’t know, "Um, may I ask who you are first?"
"My name is Liya, Liya Sofia."
Lady Liya glanced at the black-red dragon horns on Luo Xi’s head and said, "And you? A member of the Red Dragon Species with Mutation Syndrome. The last time I saw one was when I met my youngest daughter’s mother. Are you one of the new residents who moved to Grey Stone Street in recent years?"
"I’m Luo Xi. I’ve only lived in Grey Stone Street for a few days..."
Luo Xi feigned surprise, "Lady Liya, you already have daughters? I had thought you were not even twenty years old."
[Note: Garbage Traveler, your honeyed words are too sweet; are you planning on wooing her with flattery? Sadly, your charm only works on beast-eared Little Lolitas~]
Damn Text, shut up! Didn’t you see I’m just trying to please her to prevent her from vaporizing me in a fit of anger?
Women around thirty or older are usually quite pleased if you guess their age to be a decade younger.
In truth, Liya does appear to be around twenty something.
It’s just that the mature, peach-like quality in her demeanor doesn’t make one think of her as an inexperienced young girl.
Lady Liya smiled, "Yes, I have two lovely daughters. By the way, has anything else happened outside? Like... the aftermath of the Origin Disaster, or a precursor to it?"
Luo Xi paused, then nodded, "Yes, first came the aftermath of the Locust Disaster Lakast, followed by signs of an impending Snow Disaster Mislat. The Variants from Grey Stone Street have been sent into Winter City’s Inner City these past few days, and we were frozen solid for nearly two days by the Snow Disaster."
Lady Liya’s expression darkened, "I see... No wonder a Mutant Patient like you has turned up here. Damn it, with the precursor to the Snow Disaster surfacing, can it truly not be suppressed any longer?"
"Speaking of which, do you know a pair of sisters from Grey Stone Street? One is from the Cat Clan and the other from the Wolf genus. They are both my daughters, and the older one looks very much like me."
"I do know them..."
[Note: Of course, you’ve already met them! If it weren’t for a few days delay, they were almost swayed to become the Traveler’s life partners~]
Damn Text, shut up!
"Since you know them."
Lady Liya looked at Luo Xi with an almost-smiling face: "Then you should have recognized me the moment you saw me, right? I felt something off about your gaze when you first saw me. Why didn’t you speak up sooner? What is your relationship with them?"
[Note: Hehe, Garbage Traveler, now’s your chance to call her ’Mother-in-law’!]
Luo Xi: "..."
He braced himself and said, "We are friends."
"Friends, huh."
Just as Luo Xi thought Lady Liya would continue to press for answers, she sighed softly, "They must be alright then?"
Luo Xi was taken aback, then nodded.
"Have they been bullied at all?"
Lady Liya spoke gravely, "My biggest regret now is not having arranged a proper way out for them three years ago. I was too arrogant, just as I was sixteen years ago, and that’s why I’ve ended up in this situation today."
"If one day I can solve the problems here and get out, I will certainly repay tenfold all the grievances they’ve suffered to those who have wronged them."
Luo Xi: "(((;꒪ꈊ꒪;)))!"
Scared (jpg.)
Now he dared not say anything more.
[Note: Garbage Traveler, hurry up and tell your Mother-in-law that you’ve managed to coax her youngest daughter into becoming your future wife, and you’re nearly there with the older one too. Do you want one dowry or two?]
Damn Text, why are you so eager for me to die!
