On the dining table.
The little orange cat, completely unaware of the disaster it had caused, was happily eating its share of meat, and its eating behavior was no different from that of an ordinary kitten.
Xi Nian, who was sitting on a chair nearby, was only wearing pants and had his upper body naked.
Diana, who had changed into a new set of home clothes, stood behind him and asked softly, "Now, how do you feel?"
"I feel like eating it all." Xi Nian said as he faced the food on the table in front of him.
"Then eat." Diana took a few steps back.
Xi Nian took a deep breath, and then——
The skin on his back suddenly split open, like a hideous, bloody mouth. Eight tentacles twisted and grew, rushing towards the dining table in front of him, devouring not only the food but also the plates, knives, forks, and tablecloths.
Everything is done in just one second.
After retracting his tentacles, Xi Nian looked like a normal person again, except that his pupils were flashing with a soul-devouring cold blue light.
"How is it?" Diana continued to ask, her slender white fingers sliding across Xi Nian's back skin.
"I don't feel anything." Xi Nian touched his stomach: "All the things that the tentacles swallowed just now didn't go into my stomach."
"That should be correct." Diana nodded and looked at the little orange cat happily eating: "It's a Yuan-devouring Beast."
"Yuan-devouring beast?" Xinian blinked.
"That's right. It's a species from outer space. My mother mentioned it before, but I don't know much about it. I only know that the Devourer looks like a cat on Earth, but it possesses a terrifying ability. It can devour vast quantities of things into its own unique dimension."
"This species is very dangerous." Diana squinted her eyes and pondered, "I don't know why this alien species appeared on Earth."
"Really? I don't think Little Emperor is as dangerous as I imagined." Xi Nian recalled: "If it was really dangerous, it would have used its ability to devour me the first time we met it near the park. Besides, just now in the bathroom, it just bit me like an ordinary cat, and it also didn't use its ability to devour me."
Diana asked, "Do you want to keep it?"
Xi Nian looked at the little orange cat on the ground: "Since it is an alien species, wouldn't it be more dangerous to leave it outside? If it stays with us, we can at least stop it and teach it a lesson."
"That's true." Diana agreed with him.
She thought of another thing.
If the Yuan-devouring Beast really has a good impression of Xinian, or even becomes dependent on him, then it can provide close protection to Xinian in the future, or act as a medium to activate his abilities.
"So what are you going to do tonight? Can you completely control the tentacles?" Diana asked a question.
"Probably... not." Xinian spread his hands. "Whenever I get close to something, the tentacles will instinctively want to devour it, just like a person breathes. This instinct to devour essence is not that easy to control."
Just like he had obtained the demigod power from his aunt before.
These powers and abilities were not innate to Xi Nian, but acquired suddenly, so he could not turn his abilities on and off at will.
"I don't know if it can be finished in four hours." Xinian was a little unsure.
This time, it was not the indirect triggering ability as last time, but a direct liquid exchange with the Yuan-devouring Beast.
If this continued all night, he would have no chance of sleeping - lying on the bed, the next second, the bed might be swallowed by himself and exiled to an unknown dimension.
Who can withstand this?
"I have an idea," Diana said suddenly.
…
Next to Xinian's room, there is a room filled with a unique scent of violet.
Xi Nian lay on an ice-blue duvet, his upper body still naked, only faintly gleaming with a hazy golden light. A golden lasso bound Xi Nian's body, including his arms, and wrapped around his entire upper body in circles.
Diana, wearing a suspender nightgown, leaned against the bed next to her and flipped through an archaeology book under the dim light of the bedside lamp.
"I say, aunt. Is this the way you mean to deal with it?" Xinian, who was unable to move, felt a headache for a moment.
"Yeah." Diana replied softly and continued to look at the archaeology book: "Seal your second mouth, and the tentacles will not be able to escape."
Xi Nian was speechless.
He understood the principle. However, this scene looked a bit like bondage play.
"Go to sleep quickly," Diana said.
"Okay." Xinian closed his eyes, but his attention was still attracted by his aunt next to him.
It's been a long time since I slept with my aunt.
So warm - no way.
In the dim and warm light, my aunt was only wearing a thin suspender nightgown, revealing her graceful curves, and her two long, slender, white legs were crossed together.
Who can sleep like this?
Xi Nian twisted his body uneasily, and his face suddenly froze. It turned out that in addition to his back, another tentacle on his body reacted instinctively.
"What's wrong?" Diana was still turning the pages of the book.
"Nothing..." Xi Nian was about to make an excuse, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he changed his words: "Aunt, you are so beautiful, I am XX there."
In an instant, the air in the room suddenly became quiet.
Diana's hand that was flipping through the book stopped, and her beautiful face froze slightly.
Xi Nian's mind was completely blank.
He is stupid!
I'm stupid!!!
What did he just say?!
What I would never say to my aunt, I just blurt it out like that?
"You." Diana blushed slightly and said, "Don't mind it. You are bound by the Lasso of Truth. Anyone bound by it will reveal the truth when questioned."
"Oh, really?" Xi Nian laughed and wanted to crawl under the bed.
Don't mind? How can I not mind?
"How was school for you today?" Diana deliberately changed the subject.
Bound by the Lasso of Truth, Xi Nian said bluntly, "Nothing much. Gwen got angry for some reason. Also, a girl from the lower grade, Kara, confessed her love to me in public."
Suddenly, the room fell into subtle silence again.
Diana didn't know what she was thinking. She was silent for a moment, and then asked softly, "So, do you like that girl?"
Xi Nian continued to speak his mind without hesitation: "I've only met her twice, so I can't really say I like or dislike her. However, I have a pretty good impression of her."
"You are indeed old enough to fall in love."
Diana closed the archaeology book and smiled slightly: "If you think a girl is good, you must take the initiative to seize the opportunity!"
Xi Nian suddenly said, "I think my aunt is very good."
Diana's body trembled slightly.
She put down the archaeology book in her hand, reached out to turn off the bedside lamp, and said calmly in the darkness, "Go to bed early."
Xi Nian didn't say anything else.
Was that last sentence a truth forced out by the power of the Lasso of Truth? Was it something that could only be spoken after ignoring taboos, common sense, and the relationship between them?
He doesn't know.
Xi Nian only knew that those were the words he most wanted to convey at this moment.