Chapter 86 - 83 Demon Master An Ran

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Chapter 86: Chapter 83 Demon Master An Ran"Speak up, kid, or is it that you’re scared and planning to run away?" The lynx slowly approached, revealing its sharp fangs and arching its back, ready to attack. Xiao Jie felt a chill in his heart and hastily tested, "You’re a player, right?" "Player?" The lynx showed a puzzled look, as if trying to remember something. "It seems so, I am... a player, from Old Soil... Nine States, I seem to have forgotten something very important... Damn, why can’t I remember?" But first, let me fill my stomach and then think slowly, I haven’t had a full meal in days, and since you’ve entered my territory, be prepared to become prey." "To be exact, this place is under municipal control, plus, if you dare to hurt me, you won’t get away, remember the Player Management Act, right? Killing someone in reality means you’ll be caught and eliminated." The lynx’s claws stopped abruptly in mid-air, "Player Management Act? Reality?" The wild and fierce expression on its face disappeared in an instant, "Player Management Act? What is that? That’s right, I seem to remember now." The lynx looked confused one moment and fierce the next, as if it would pounce any second but also as if it were recalling something. Xiao Jie was puzzled, this creature seemed not quite lucid, but it did seem to be a player for sure. Since it worked, he might as well try to wake her up. "Hey, do you remember your name? Your human name?" "Name? My name? I’m called... I’m called... I’m called An Ran, yes, that’s my name! I’m a player." She shook her head, her expression like someone waking from a dream; then she looked down at her claws, noticed feathers and blood, and seemed taken aback. The next second, the lynx’s body suddenly grew taller, the fur quickly shedding to reveal a woman. The woman had messy short hair and a well-built figure, her eyes bright and expressing a raw beauty. Only the blood around her mouth made her look somewhat frightening. Still somewhat dazed, the woman looked around confusedly, her mouth covered in blood. Her body wasn’t too dirty, except for the woolen sweater that seemed to have been licked by cats, all pilled up. She touched the dried blood on the corner of her mouth, glanced at the bones on the ground, and suddenly retched violently. Coughing, she finally spat out a hairball and stopped. "Damn it, what the hell have I been eating these past few days?" She rummaged through the bones and feathers, then sighed with relief. "Thank goodness..." Xiao Jie wondered what she meant by ’thank goodness’. She couldn’t be worried she had eaten a human, could she? "So you really are a player?" "Yes, and you are a player too?" Xiao Jie nodded. The woman smiled with relief, "Ha, it looks like I’m in luck. My master warned me that practicing the Shape-shifting Demon Technique could affect one’s mind, but I thought it was just talk. After all, there was no such mechanism in the game, but who would have thought that after transforming in reality, I almost forgot who I was. Thanks, I could have been lost without you, better be more careful next time." Indeed she was a player, and from what she said, one specialized in Demon Art. "So what’s all this commotion about?" The woman wanted to explain but her stomach growled, "Are you hungry? Let’s go eat something first." —————— Fifteen minutes later, Xiao Jie and the woman were sitting in a braised pork bone restaurant, watching her devour a large pot of meaty bones, both in silence. This woman really could eat; half of the large pot of braised bones disappeared in a blink. Her sharp, white teeth tore off large chunks of meat, chewed a couple of times, and gulped it down. The sight of her eating heartily even astonished two uncles drinking nearby. Ugh! The woman put down her bone and let out a satisfied belch. "Why aren’t you eating?" "I’ve already eaten." "Then I won’t be polite," she said, taking the bones in front of Xiao Jie, and this time her eating was somewhat more normal. "So you’re also an Old Earth player?" "Of course, who else could it be but a player? By the way, I should thank you for earlier." "Thank me?" "Let’s introduce ourselves properly, I’m An Ran." The woman extended a greasy hand. "Xiao Jie." He shook her only slightly less oily hand nonchalantly. The woman didn’t mind and continued gnawing on her bones. "My master told me, the first Transformation could be dangerous, and I didn’t take it seriously, but after becoming an animal, suddenly the world didn’t feel like the same anymore. The streets, buildings, people, suddenly seemed very dangerous. Only the small mountain and the woods in Huqiu Park felt somewhat familiar. I just ran and ran until I reached the mountain. During the day, I hid in the observation tower and at night, I’d hunt for squirrels, pigeons, or whatever for food. Ugh, just thinking about it makes me sick." She shivered reflexively, looking amused and slightly traumatized at the recollection. Listening to her story, Xiao Jie seemed contemplative and slowly said, "The world looks different to humans and animals. For wild beasts, life is only about survival and predation, only the distinction between prey and predator. There’s only their own territory and strange, dangerous areas. But humans, after millions of years of evolution, have these memories of wilderness survival only as a subconscious. That’s why when you turned into a lynx, you felt fear, because your human cognition became subconscious, while the beast’s cognition became the primary consciousness."

Chapter 86 - 83 Demon Master An Ran

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