Chapter 150: Chapter 135 Liya: Let me see what you have done to my daughters_1 Chapter 150: Chapter 135 Liya: Let me see what you have done to my daughters_1 Lady Liya’s pull suddenly brought Luo Xi close to her. Her fingertips lightly touched Luo Xi’s arm, many strange runes emerged from her hand, entered Luo Xi’s body, and then quickly came out again, returning to Lady Liya’s hand.

Was she checking his body?

Luo Xi felt his scalp tingle; he could neither advance nor retreat.

“That… Yue… Lady Liya, what are you trying to do?”

[Note: Damn Traveler, you should be yelling: ‘Mother-in-law, don’t! The one I love is your daughters!’]

You damn text really want me dead, don’t you!

Soon, Lady Liya’s purple eyes lit up with interest as she stared at Luo Xi, as if she wanted to dissect his body and take a look.

Perhaps it was just an illusion, but even though they were close, Luo Xi couldn’t smell anything from Liya. Faced with such a beautiful woman up close, the initial heat in Luo Xi’s heart completely dissipated.

He even felt his body shaking.

It was the feeling of a weak prey being targeted by a hunter.

[Note: It’s like a wild boar caught stealing the master’s white cabbage!]

That’s not called stealing! The master is already gone!

Lady Liya curled her right index finger and lightly touched her chin, looking like a curious young girl.

“Strange, even though the original lineage was that of a pure ordinary person, the dragon species’ mutant factor is volatile and unstable to begin with. Once infected, the erosion will only deepen, and even a pestilence-level dragon factor would be enough to make one suffer unbearably, let alone a king-tier mutant factor.”

“Such a factor’s initial erosion and infection could easily lead to death; aren’t you feeling any discomfort at all?”

Luo Xi shook his head blankly.

[Friendly Reminder: The Great Will has perfectly helped the Traveler synchronize with the initial fusion of the factor, so you won’t have that feeling of dying at the start. Praise the Great Will!]

Luo Xi: “…”

Praise my hammer, what the hell is this Great Will anyway!

Truthfully, he felt almost no discomfort, except for growing horns on his head which were a bit of a hassle. If these horns grew any longer, probably no hat could cover them.

Wondering if there was any way to get rid of them.

“Typically, mutant patients with dragon species factors suffer until the moment of death. Your situation is quite atypical.”

Lady Liya withdrew her hand and sighed softly, “If my real body was here, it would definitely be very interested in you.”

Luo Xi: “….”

[Note: Traveler, now that mother-in-law has taken an interest in you, the path of Cao Zei has opened! Keep in mind that the combined x2 of two Lolitas is nothing compared to mother-in-law!]

Damn text, stop your nonsense! What Liya’s talking about is dissecting him for research! And what are you saying with all those scandalous words!

“Mom, I’ve noticed it too.”

Wei’er spoke from behind Luo Xi: “This guy is really strange, the factor in his body awakened soon after I met him, and the degree of mutation seemed to deepen today, but he’s been acting very normally all along, only showing some changes in his mutation features.”

Lady Liya pondered, “Perhaps he has a high compatibility with this factor. I’ve heard of people who were infected by high-tier Origin Beast factors and didn’t suffer much, eventually transforming silently into new Origin Beasts while retaining their former intelligence.”

Luo Xi: “!”

Human could turn into an Origin Beast?!

Seeing Luo Xi’s shocked face, Liya explained, “Dispersing mutant factors is the only way for pestilence-level and above Origin Beasts to produce offspring, infecting and eroding other living things to induce mutation in their direction. Those who successfully mutate become its progeny. That’s why many men abandon their children who are infected during pregnancy. They feel that the Origin Beast has … basically given them a green hat.”

Luo Xi instinctively turned back to look at Cat Cat, whose expression was equally astonished.

Why would Cat Cat’s father abandon his own daughter, forcing his wife to leave home with her?

Although he still couldn’t quite understand, he felt that he might have grasped some of the reasoning.

Lady Liya waved her hand and pushed Luo Xi back to Wei’er’s side.

“Your issue can wait; we’ll talk about it later. Since you came here today, you must be in a very dangerous situation. Tell me what you’ve found out – what’s the situation outside? My time is limited, I’ll try to give you some advice.”

Luo Xi looked toward Cat Cat and said, “Cat Cat, you tell the story.”

Wei’er nodded and started to quickly tell their experiences from entering Winter City up to now.

At this moment, Luo Xi suddenly noticed the clarity of his surroundings rapidly declined.

[Ding! Talent: Immersion duration has ended, restored to ordinary synchronization status.]

A few minutes passed before Wei’er roughly finished narrating the events of the past few days.

After listening, Liya’s expression became somewhat gloomy, but also a bit relieved: “You’re really lucky, to have met Lena right from the start. Otherwise, things could have been much worse.”

Wei’er nodded lightly: “Sister Laina has helped us a lot, and she’s been looking for you, too, Mom.”

“Ah… I owe that child an apology. Next time you see her, say I’m sorry on my behalf.”

“I have to tell you something. Noss might have been watching you, Wei’er, all along. His ability can control all the rats in the city as his spies. He knows everything here. But he definitely can’t monitor this place, so you can rest assured for now. He wants to use you, Wei’er, as the key to breaking the seal, but if that seal was set by me, it won’t be so easy for others to break it. He definitely needs something else as a medium, something related to me. Remember, don’t touch anything he gives you.”

“The automated device I left should have been the last alteration to internal runes via remote control just before my true self disappeared. It’s a pity you didn’t get even a staff in time; you might have been able to avoid Noss’s surveillance and leave Winter City earlier, instead of being in the situation you’re in now.”

“And Delkus, that guy has become the Grand Magistrate now. How many people did we lose that time? Haven’t all of Winter City’s higher-ups disappeared? The residents of the dead forest and Grey Stone Street… perhaps he wants to use the Variants of Grey Stone Street to complete his Tier Four Omen.”

Lady Liya’s expression grew worried: “The current situation is truly bad. Actually, the best thing for you now would be to hide here. The rune seal I’ve set here can fend off Tier Four powerhouses, but I’m afraid they may become desperate when time is up… I should have sent you out of Winter City earlier; it was my arrogance.”

“Mom, don’t blame yourself any longer.”

Wei’er glanced at Hill and approached, lowering her voice, “There’s something else I need to tell you.”

Soon, Cat Cat relayed some of Hill’s affairs to Liya.

Liya fell silent for a moment before looking at Hill and chiding, “Hill, that so-called foster father of yours… Listen, you don’t have a foster father at all! No one dares to become the acknowledged foster father of someone recognized by the Divine Tree! That would be a blasphemy against the Divine Tree!”

“I know Mazar, he was the First Governor appointed by your father. I wasn’t clear on his identity before, but since he dared to be your foster father, he must definitely be someone from the Church of Truth.”

“He might have used some high-tier skill to influence your mind. Normally, the custodian of the Divine Tree shouldn’t be affected by ordinary skills, but with the True Canon currently in trouble, it’s not necessarily the case.”

“You must remember, Hill, you have no foster father!”

Hill’s pupils dilated in an instant.

Painfully groaning, he crouched down and covered his head with his hands, but he still took out his notebook and started writing with difficulty.

—I, have no foster father, the Lord who is called my foster father is fake.

Hiss—

Suddenly, the voice of Liya speaking became noisy. Her body, which had already solidified, started showing many cracks, with the runes that composed her body constantly popping out and dissipating into points of light.

Wei’er exclaimed, “Mom, what’s happening to you…”

“Wei’er, my time is running out. I hope… we’ll have a chance to meet again.”

Liya looked regretfully at her body that was fading away.

Then, she turned to Luo Xi and said, “Since you can use the Furnace Core, perhaps you can try some of the other things I’ve left here.”

Luo Xi: “?”

Try what?

With a wave of her hand, a box buried under many books on a distant table flew towards her. She said, “The Yuan Su Furnace Core is absolutely unusable by ordinary people. It requires extremely pure fire-element Yuan Su to operate. The king-tier Dragon Species Mutant Factor inside you gives you the fitting conditions.”

“It is the power furnace I designed for the rune armor, but back then, I only completed the Furnace Core. The rest of the components were only roughly outlined, and actually, the Furnace Core wasn’t even fully completed.”

“However, since you’re capable of using the Furnace Core, perhaps the other components may also be usable. At this time, they might offer some aid. Close your eyes, and whatever you feel, do not resist.”

“Okay…”

Although Luo Xi felt something was off about her words, he obediently closed his eyes.

In the blink of an eye, Luo Xi felt his body suddenly plummeting.

[Ding! Traveler, you are under the influence of an unidentified skill. Assessment in progress… You have no intention of resisting this skill]

[Skill approved]

Liya’s voice rang out, “Open your eyes.”

Luo Xi opened his eyes.

Then, he found the environment around him had changed. All the accumulated dust and dirt had vanished, leaving everything bright and clean.

Looking back, he saw that Cat Cat and Hill were gone.

“Don’t worry, this is your dream.”

Luo Xi: “.”

A dream again?

What is this?

A dream within a dream?

He looked around in confusion.

Liya, in her light blue dress, appeared to his right, the disintegration of the runes on her body having ceased.

Bewildered, Luo Xi said, “I thought you said you were almost out of time…”

Liya turned her face toward him, looking very much like Wei’er, her eyes squinting in a fox-like smile.

“I am nearly out of time, so I need to use the last bit of it to find out exactly what you’ve been doing to my precious daughters. The runes I drew are also on the Furnace Core. As its current master, I can replicate some of the experiences you’ve had while using it.”

Luo Xi: “?!”

This was a trap!

Indeed, the more beautiful the woman, the better she plays with people’s hearts.

No wonder the old City Owner became Liya’s fawning dog.

Liya raised her hand and pointed forward, “First, let me see what you did to Aina.”

A projection-like image appeared in front of them.

In the image, Luo Xi was seen at the inn, casually petting Aina who lay on his leg while talking to the informant shopkeeper, rendering Aina into a daze.

From someone else’s perspective, this scene was quite… If the police officers from the real world saw this moment, they would, without a second thought, pick up handcuffs and arrest the perpetrator on the spot.

[Note: The damn loli-con traveler is about to be judged by his future mother-in-law!]

Luo Xi: “…”

He felt the gaze from the side piercing and icy.

What’s the best way to not feel pain when getting rid of oneself?

Online, urgent.