The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician-Chapter 579 - 299 Deception Group! Smiling Face! Bounce Back! (Haha, Day 1 of 6000/day!)_2
Lolis, mature ladies, and monster girls.
The fox’s mind wandered to the familiar figures he knew.
Lang Tai.
Ancient Snake.
Painter.
Upon reflection, he shockingly realized that the people around him seemed to be an assorted collection of good-looking guys.
"..."
Anxiety suddenly sprouted in the fox’s heart, even though he was only twenty years old, he couldn’t help but consider his future.
Money wasn’t a worry, as his work as a Hypnotist provided enough that he didn’t have to fret over financial issues. Thus, the only concern left was about his other half.
He couldn’t possibly spend his days surrounded by men forever!
With this thought, he felt some melancholy towards Jiang Shu.
After all, it was Jiang Shu who had eliminated the only woman in the Deception Group, ultimately turning it into a monk’s assembly.
"Ah," he sighed.
It was all Mu Jin’s own doing, and it had even led to the death of his close friend.
"Hm? What are you sighing about?" Jiang Shu dragged the body of the fish lady into another private room and then ordered Xiao Jia to resurrect her.
"It’s nothing." The fox shook his head and watched Jiang Shu’s movements closely, asking, "Do they have to be knocked out to get through this table?"
"More or less." Jiang Shu looked at the sticky mess on the floor and instinctively didn’t want to clean it up.
However, the fox’s words also reminded him.
Ever since he obtained the term "Rebirth Technique," his attitude towards life and death seemed to have changed from before.
He had indeed killed two people beside him, yet it felt as if he had merely knocked them out.
He slightly furrowed his brow and began to scrutinize his inner self.
His disregard for life and death.
When unnoticed, it felt normal, but once he became aware of it, it was like a fishbone stuck in his throat, extremely uncomfortable.
It was like a splinter lurking between his fingers constantly pricking at his heart, or like cotton lodged in his veins, making his thoughts clogged and unclear.
Suddenly, he remembered the "Magician" tarot card that Du Yuyi had shown him once.
And Du Yuyi’s interpretation of the card echoed in his ears.
"Rose signifies life, lily signifies death, the life and death of man, the will of God."
Now, as a Magician, he had acquired the power to control life and death.
It was precisely because of this that he seemed to have lost his reverence for life and death.
In other words, it seemed that he had lost a part of his humanity and was moving towards the will of God.
Jiang Shu creased his brow and went into the bathroom, cleansing his hands of the sticky substance, then looked at himself in the mirror; for the first time, he felt he was somewhat a stranger to himself.
It was currently just the Rat King Phil and the fish lady being treated as tools for teleportation, so in the future, if needed, could such "tools" be Suo Jie?
Suddenly, he felt his heart beating violently, the loud pounding going from his chest directly into the depths of his brain.
No, he couldn’t do things like this anymore.
He would become strange.
Jiang Shu felt a strong resistance within him and then couldn’t help but look into the mirror and laugh, a laugh laced with mockery.
He often saw similar stories with different themes in the past, where a villain character would gradually become indifferent and lose their humanity after gaining powerful abilities.
Like Doctor Manhattan.
He had thought that as an adult with well-formed values, he wouldn’t be affected, but as it turned out, the change was insidiously gradual, had the fox not suddenly inquired about the condition of the fish lady and Rat King, he wouldn’t have examined his psychological state.
"Fortunately, I’ve noticed in time." He muttered to himself, then washed his face and exited the bathroom.
When he came out, there was no longer any confusion or doubt on his face, in front of the fox and the others, he always had to maintain a strong demeanor.
"I’m heading back." Jiang Shu said to the fox, gesturing to the gooey mess on the floor, "Since you seem quite free, clean up the living room for me. Some alkaline substances should do the trick quite nicely, just don’t use them around that octopus lady or you might end up tied up by tentacles."
"Eh?" The fox instinctively resisted, this slimy, slippery stuff...
It looked utterly disgusting!
But Jiang Shu didn’t give him a chance and teleported away with the Paper Card Technique.
At this moment, Xiao Jia also finished its work with the Rebirth Technique in the single room and slowly floated out, just in time to see the fox standing there.
The fox looked at it and then at the slime on the ground, just as he was about to say something.
Xiao Jia immediately retracted its limbs into the screen body and then flung itself onto the couch, bouncing a couple of times on the soft sofa before shutting down.
The fox: "..."
Heh.
This owner and pet were cast from the same mold, both had a knack for being repulsive.
However, as he looked at the thick layer of slime on the ground, he couldn’t help but sigh.
After all, someone had to bear it all.
"Bang—" At that moment, the door of the first single room burst open, and a mighty tide of rats scurried through, bypassing the slime swamp and rushing into the bathroom, one after another plunging into the toilet bowl.
"Plop—plop—" The continuous sound of splashing followed.
These trained and enhanced rats dove into the water, using all four limbs to swim expertly through the sewage pipes, infiltrating the drain systems of the Thirteen District.
