Chapter 33: The Despairing Skeleton Monster

“Blackie, I really don’t want to say this, but…”
Li Changluo looked at him, torn.
Blackie stared back in confusion, not understanding what Li Changluo was getting at. In such a tense and dangerous moment, was he about to make a heartfelt confession?
Was he going to give him courage for the fight?
Was he about to cast a buff on him?
Did he have to be this sentimental?
How intriguing…
“You always complain that fate is unfair, that it made you both fat and ugly.”
“I’ve always comforted you, saying that a fascinating soul is one in a million, and you’re the best.”
“But here’s what I really think: fate is fair. It gave you an ugly face, and of course, it also gave you a dumb mind. Ugly and dumb, that’s a matching set.”
“….”
Blackie’s face grew even darker.
After saying this, Li Changluo quickly glanced at the glass orb in his hand. The green liquid inside surged up, suddenly rising a great deal, though it wasn’t full yet.
Li Changluo was absolutely delighted.
“Every time I dig a pit to sell out my teammates, you always jump in, clueless and adorable. Even now, I’m still thinking about sacrificing you and running away. Aren’t you scared?”
He looked again at the glass orb. Damn, it stopped rising?
Wasn’t I telling the truth just now?
“Blackie, I was the one who threw away your sticky rice. You still ate it even though it was moldy?”
The liquid in the orb didn’t move.
“Blackie, that foreign language teacher—I was the one who planned a honey trap, using you as bait on purpose.”
Still no change in the liquid…
Could it be that you can only tell the truth once?
That makes no sense.
“Fine, I’ll stop pretending. I… am just a shameless freak?”
Li Changluo spoke without a hint of shame, then looked again at the glass orb in his hand. It was now filled to the brim, shimmering with a dazzling green light that made his heart race…
It was almost overflowing.
What the…?
Li Changluo was dumbfounded, wanting to curse out loud but holding back.
Xiao Qing and Blackie were barely holding on. The black skeleton was starting to emit wisps of black smoke, icy and sinister.
Blackie’s claws trembled, still stained with fresh blood.
Xiao Qing, despite her monstrous strength, found nowhere to use it and could only defend herself, taking blow after blow.
The poor girl was on the verge of tears.
Li Changluo hastily raised the green glass orb toward the black skeleton.
He shouted some gibberish.
Li Changluo always thought that in every TV show or novel, the protagonist’s ultimate move had to have a grand, explosive name, as if the real power lay in how ridiculously hard it was to pronounce.
Just hearing the name of the move,
Everyone present would unconsciously…
Lose IQ points collectively…
And then, they’d all sit in rows, eating snacks, quietly watching the protagonist show off.
Even the villain, desperate for attention, would…
Calmly stand by and take the beating from the protagonist.
No matter how cocky he acted, just treat him like an idiot…
So, Li Changluo always believed the most important thing about a move was its name—make an impression first.
But his move’s name was meant to be…
Completely incomprehensible!
While the enemy was still pondering, “What did he say? Should I ask him to repeat it?”
They’d already been hit by the most vicious attack.
The element of surprise was crucial in a fight.
But now, Li Changluo was embarrassed. The black skeleton in front of him didn’t even bother to look his way, let alone ask any questions.
Frustrating.
Was it his pose?
Li Changluo raised both hands, holding the glass orb above his head in an adorable heart shape…
(づ￣3￣)づ╭❤～Love you!
But apart from the green glow above his head and Blackie getting pummeled by the black skeleton, nothing changed.
What more did they want from him?
Damn it, did this thing break?
“Li, I’m begging you, I’m about to get beaten to death. Stop fooling around, acting cute is disgraceful…”
Blackie groaned in pain, being ground into the smooth floor of the tomb passage by the black skeleton.
Li Changluo suddenly remembered: Xiao Qing had mentioned this skeleton had neither demonic energy nor life force, and the orb in his hand supposedly released a move that could confuse people’s hearts.
But if it had no heart…
What was there to confuse?!
Damn it, he’d insulted himself for nothing.
“Bro…”
Blackie was pinned to the ground by the black skeleton, its grip unrelenting. He had reverted to his original form.
Xiao Qing, using all her strength, transformed into a half-human, half-serpent form, pounding the skeleton with her fists.
A skeleton sat atop a fat hamster, while a snake demon pummeled the skeleton from behind.
What a scene…
If the situation weren’t so tense and chaotic, Li Changluo would have wanted to take a photo as a memento.
The orb was useless now, finished, it was over; all that was left was to wait for a total wipeout. Li Changluo’s heart was in a panic—soon, Blackie would be dead…
What kind of farewell gift should he prepare?
Maybe a blessing?
Congratulations to Big Brother Black Skeleton on acquiring a hamster monster?
Blackie’s shifty little eyes were about to be squeezed out like peas by the black skeleton.
He knew there was no escape. No matter how hard Xiao Qing attacked the skeleton, it was useless.
Li Changluo, ha, was truly a guy whose demon power barely registered—one, no, two at most. No help there.
Blackie tried to make his end a little more peaceful; he stopped struggling, even preparing to close his eyes and embrace death.
But then…
Before he shut his eyes, he saw Li Changluo sneaking up behind the skeleton monster.
Without a care for whether the rampaging black skeleton agreed or not, Li Changluo gently slipped something onto the skeleton’s two bony thighs.
When Blackie finally saw what it was, his eyes nearly popped out.
A pair of…
Paper underpants…
Li Changluo had put a pair of paper underpants on the black skeleton…
The whole tomb passage fell silent. Even the black skeleton, so intent on strangling Blackie, stopped moving.
Nothing is more awkward than a sudden stillness like this. In the tomb passage, everyone had their own thoughts, but surely the most embarrassed of all was the skeleton monster.
The berserk black skeleton instantly stood bolt upright.
Then…
With great shame, it started tugging at the paper underpants around its hips.
Any ordinary person would have just ripped them off and thrown them away.
But the black skeleton, as if programmed, tried to take them off the “proper” way—
Standing perfectly straight, tugging the paper underpants down, trying to remove them.
How could that work? Without bending its knees, there was no way to get them off!
Besides, Li Changluo had dressed it quite properly—the paper underpants were snugly fitted around its… hips.
“Such underhandedness!”
Blackie scrambled to his feet, casting a look of admiration at Li Changluo and giving him a thumbs up—then realized he only had paws, and put them down.
“How did you think of that?”
Xiao Qing, watching the skeleton stuck tugging at its paper underpants, burst out in a radiant smile.
They were finally safe.
Though the method was…
“Dogs hate wearing clothes. If you force them into an outfit, they’ll do anything to get it off. I just wanted to buy us some time—didn’t expect it to work this well.”
Li Changluo grinned, basking in the thrill of a successful stunt. He really had only meant to buy some time, and then…
Escape, just himself.
Survival comes first—what else could he do?
Sacrifice another teammate?