Great! I'm surrounded by villains!-Chapter 430 - 349: Your Past

"Long, long ago, an ogre diviner observed the starry sky at night and glimpsed an opportunity that fell from the sky, offering hope for his nearly annihilated tribe to return to their peak. They named this Chosen One who fell from the sky—ouch, ouch, wrong, wrong, stop pinching my tail!"

With her sensitive tail attacked, Jiuyue was on her tiptoes, the painful and ticklish sensation causing tears to seep from the corners of her eyes.

"Why are you always so fascinated with the topic of ogres?"

Before Jiuyue could give a satisfactory answer, Duan Mingyuan had no intention of letting go.

It seemed Jiuyue had already concocted a version of his past in her mind.

It even integrated elements from movies like "Tarzan" and "Planet of the Apes."

"Didn’t I tell you while we were on the Eco-Ship? Ogres are the oldest and strongest tribe on Blue Star!"

"What else?"

Duan Mingyuan tightened his grip a bit more.

"Ow, I confess, I’ve told you everything! Because every time we talk about ogres, your expression looks so amusing!"

Duan Mingyuan was an extremely emotionally stable person. Coupled with his seemingly limitless ability, he could easily handle all crises, and Jiuyue had almost never seen Duan Mingyuan angry in everyday life.

Except when she kept uttering the words "ogre."

From trying to ignore and restrain himself to being unable to bear it, this variation in his emotions always seemed very amusing to Jiuyue, so much so that, even at the risk of having her tail pinched, she couldn’t help being mischievous.

After all, having her tail pinched was temporary, but the resulting joy could last a long time.

"Just like that?"

Duan Mingyuan was skeptical.

He had thought that Jiuyue would share a touching story, perhaps how she had intersected with survivors of the Ogre Tribe in her childhood and had received their kindness, so she always remembered the Ogre Tribe afterwards.

But it now seemed, her reason was no different from that of a middle schooler trying to attract attention by teasing the opposite sex.

Perhaps this was related to Jiuyue being in her first love as a fox, keeping her ways of finding fun similar to those of a middle schooler.

Just like now.

Duan Mingyuan released the little fox’s tail, which, once freed, began to mischievously sway, occasionally rubbing against the back of his hand in a somewhat provocative manner.

"For the next day, I don’t want to hear anything about ogres." frёeωebɳovel.com

Duan Mingyuan had asked Jiuyue here not only because he trusted her but also valued her boundless imagination.

This little fox’s temperament seemed to be the exact opposite of his own, yet imagination itself is a double-edged sword, and he did not want any shadows of the Ogre Tribe to haunt his past.

"Understood!"

Jiuyue raised her right arm high, shouting loudly.

At that moment, the two stood on the street, surrounded by passersby who seemed not to notice their presence at all.

Before long, Jiuyue also sensed something unusual, tiptoeing over to an old man sitting on a stone bench at the roadside to rest, and waved her hand in front of the old man’s face.

The old man did not glance sideways, continued with his actions, unscrewed a bottle of mineral water, and began to drink.

"They can’t see us."

Jiuyue concluded.

"Because this is a memory segment, you and I simply do not exist within this memory,"

Duan Mingyuan stated calmly.

He had been here many times, standing across the street, gazing at the high school near dismissal time.

The time was 5:40 pm, and the school entrance was already crowded with parents picking up their children, a majority of them elderly.

The street vendors also sprang into action, with carts outside the school loaded with an eye-catching array of snacks. Duan Mingyuan’s favorite was one particular barbecue stall operated by a retired man in his sixties, who ran this small business to supplement his family’s income.

Three skewers of chicken skin for one shell, after school, just five shells of pocket money could buy a lavish feast.

"This is your high school!"

Jiuyue was immediately enthused.

Duan Mingyuan rarely took photos, and there were hardly any to be found at home. Most of the photos in his phone were of IDs, and the only one representing his high school days was a graduation group photo.

Jiuyue had complained more than once about how the high school Duan Mingyuan didn’t look good in photos at all. With a stern face and dead fish eyes, he gave off a somewhat fierce first impression.

In the midst of their conversation, the first batch of students burst out of the school.

They were often the after-school enthusiasts, who would pack up their bags less than five minutes before the last class ended, all so they could be the first to dash out the classroom doors the moment the teacher announced class was over.

This was strategically significant, as after-school enthusiasts always managed to secure a favorable spot among the vendors and enjoy the first batch of piping hot after-school snacks.

The reason Duan Mingyuan knew this so well was that he was one of the after-school enthusiasts himself.

Jiuyue recognized Duan Mingyuan from his high school days at first glance.

With his backpack, he was the first to rush out the school gates.

He pushed through the crowd and headed straight for the barbecue stall.

Clearly, Duan Mingyuan was a regular here. The old man recognized him, and even before he approached, he already had a beaming smile as he placed three skewers of chicken skin, five skewers of chicken hearts, and two skewers of roasted rice cakes on the griddle.

"Very good, quite tasteful,"

Jiuyue crossed her arms and nodded repeatedly.

If it were up to her, she might have added a few more skewers of chicken gizzards.

This was Duan Mingyuan’s dinner.

He had started ordering takeout earlier than most people. Already during his high school days, he had gotten into the habit of eating out before heading home.

Because in the hours between school and nightfall, he had other matters to attend to.

He had had a rich after-school life even during high school.

He had chosen this memory because it was a special day.

From all the events he had experienced in high school dealing with the Evil Spirits, he picked out the most thrilling and intense battle.

In this fight, he lost his usual backpack.

Latter in a conversation with Da Jiang, he had learned some additional information.

For instance, the people from the Royal Hunting Court had also been to the scene, and the appearance of an unanticipated Evil Spirit had led to the annihilation of this Hunter squad.

If his past memories had been tampered with, he would have to identify the clues from these familiar segments.

Duan Mingyuan slowly closed his eyes.

The next moment, all the sounds at the school gate were amplified.

Almost instinctively, Jiuyue covered her ears as countless voices overlapped, yet she could distinctly hear what each person was saying.

There were parents scolding their children for failing their monthly exam, children pleading with grandparents to buy them snacks and students walking home together discussing the latest popular games and animated series.

Until she heard a woman’s voice.

"Target spotted, he’s at the barbecue stand...

"Yes, I’ll keep close on his trail."

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