You are not monster girls!

Chapter 127 The Fallen Genius (4k, two chapters combined, bonus chapter should be released in the early morning or afternoon)

"No, why did you draw it like a ghost?"

"No, why would the ingredients steal the chocolate?" Emperor Roar said with a dark expression.

"what?"

Bai Mengqing was so stunned by the two soul-searching questions that she stood frozen in place, her tail wrapped around her snow-white, plump thighs, expanding and contracting with her breath.

She originally just came to ask for a guide, but somehow she ended up being the one being asked the question.

Is this reasonable?

"I saw that big-toothed uncle with sunglasses in your video saying that modern ghost-fighting methods use chocolate, ghost-catching methods use plastic wrap, and that you can see ghosts by applying cow tears to your eyes, so I thought I'd give it a try."

Seeing Lin Muran's expression as if she were looking at an idiot, Bai Mengqing quickly retorted, "I was just testing if it was true, it's definitely not because I'm scared!!"

Okay, now I understand.

"This chocolate...could it be stolen from Xia Li?"

Lin Muran felt the tail wrapped around her thigh tighten, knowing that she was about to have to be a mouth substitute again.

"How dare you slander Long's innocence out of thin air?!"

Bai Mengqing glanced at the chocolate in her hand, immediately blushed and put her hands behind her back: "Can you call it stealing when it comes to spirit beasts? It's called borrowing. When I get my allowance, I'll pay her back tenfold."

To cultivate a proper consumer mindset in this dragon, Lin Muran would regularly transfer some pocket money to her, letting her decide what to buy.

If you spend it all at once, you can only wait patiently for the next paycheck.

"Perfect recycling of pocket money!"

"A promise is a promise," Emperor Hou said excitedly.

Upon hearing this, Xia Li's droopy cat ears immediately perked up, and she gave Lin Muran behind her a high five.

"You two catgirls and catboys clearly conspired to scheme against me!!" Bai Mengqing realized she had been tricked and stomped her feet in anger.

"Correction! They are adulterers!" the Emperor roared righteously. "Gulp!"

"You haven't even grown all your fur yet and you're already thinking about becoming a woman?" Lin Muran tugged at Xia Li's two cat ears.

As expected, it was much more difficult to correct Xia Li's mistakes after being misled by that divine master than to Bai Mengqing, who was a blank slate.

"In my opinion, Xia Li is qualified enough."

Bai Mengqing was about to agree, but then her tail suddenly twitched and she immediately changed her mind.

"I've already told you about the ingredients," Emperor Roar protested to his elder brother.

"That's still not enough! When did you two become this close?"

Lin Muran glanced at Bai Mengqing, the word "strongest" bulging on her chest forcing him to seize the opportunity to speak: "And why did you steal my clothes again?"

That was a short-sleeved shirt that I had worn several times.

When they had no plans to go out, the two spirit beasts dressed quite casually at home, adding a touch of spring to the room that had been exposed to the autumn wind all day.

When he got up to cook this morning, he noticed that Bai Mengqing was wearing a very eye-catching white tank top.

I only watched videos for an hour or two, and during that time the dragon was just playing on its phone in the living room and didn't exercise or sweat much. Why did I have to change it?

"Ah, actually it's because it's too hot, I wanted to change into something cooler."

Bai Mengqing pretended to be observing the studio, then guiltily looked away.

"The air conditioning is already on," Emperor Roar said, clearly dissatisfied.

"Then why did you take your pants off too?"

He was the one who organized Bai Mengqing's clothes, so there was no such thing as hot pants. Right now, all that could be seen under the hem of her clothes was a pair of fair and slender legs, so the answer was obvious.

"I need to keep the scales ventilated!!" Bai Mengqing pulled her clothes down forcefully, trying to completely cover her thighs. She felt that Lin Muran must be so upset because her legs weren't covered.

"Okay, okay, stop it. You can see ghosts, so why did you draw yourself like this?"

Lin Muran noticed that the collar of the short-sleeved shirt was already torn, and the exposed area of ​​the snow-capped mountain was constantly increasing, with even the ravines clearly visible. He quickly called for the dragon to stop.

She was terrified that the dragon might tear her clothes apart on the spot. She never wore innerwear at home, and if her clothes were ruined, she would be in big trouble.

"Transformation weakens the perception of spiritual power. If you want to see ghosts, you have to spend extra spiritual power. It's better to just draw a cow's tear to save money."

Bai Mengqing deliberately closed her eyes to show Lin Muran her masterpiece and such amazing wisdom.

"Is it possible that you also need to use spiritual power to conjure ink?"

"It even consumes more spiritual energy than looking at it directly," Emperor Roar kindly reminded him.

Bai Mengqing frowned, then tilted her head and pondered for a moment: "That seems to make sense."

quack quack quack~
Eel Wave watched its master deep in thought, swaying its body and letting out bursts of strange laughter.

"Um-"

Bai Mengqing, cheeks puffed out, ran back to her room and whipped the Xiangzi doll's face twice with its tail before returning to her studio, feeling much better, to argue her point:

"What do you know? This is called 'when in Rome, do as the Romans do,' and it even has a bonus effect."

"So why are you checking if this house is haunted?"

Lin Muran couldn't figure out the dragon's motive for a moment.

Just like when I was in elementary school, I was confused as to why my classmates would put ants in a file box.

"As your master, I have a duty to protect my servant from being drained of his essence by the demon."

“What the ingredients said makes sense. Big Brother’s energy and strength are very important,” Emperor Roar sincerely apologized to the ingredients.

Lin Muran:???

Lin Muran held her head, and seeing Bai Mengqing's serious expression, she could only follow up by asking, "And how did you know there were ghosts here?"

With those two spirit beasts sitting there, only a poor wretch like myself dared to come near them.

"I just saw a video saying there are ghosts around here."

Bai Mengqing looked around the studio and nodded: "Luckily, there isn't one here."

"Are you sure that's what the video is saying?"

Lin Muran didn't disbelieve in ghosts, but Bai Mengqing's claim that she knew the house was haunted from a video was simply too far-fetched.

"What video?"

"Yeah, I saw it on my homepage after I watched the video of the haunted house you sent me."

After making Xia Li lose interest in playing, Bai Mengqing initially thought Lin Muran wanted to whisper something to her when she received the message. Full of anticipation, she clicked on it, only to find that it was a video about a haunted house.

But the content had nothing to do with the haunted house; it was about how the house became haunted, and the process was quite complicated, with various nested murderers. After listening to it, she still didn't understand who killed whom.

I initially wanted to reply with something I didn't understand, but after thinking about it, I decided to copy something I liked from my own recommendations and send it to the other person, hoping to win them over with kindness.

As a result, she only browsed for a moment and found a video with Ghost Princess as the cover. When she clicked on it, she found that the AI-dubbed video was actually showing a woman crying in the part where Lin Muran was dubbing, and it was even cut out separately.

Bai Mengqing, as the person involved, was also completely baffled. She originally thought it was just Eel Wave's voice that had been recorded, but upon closer listening, it was completely different from what she had heard at the time.

Moreover, Lin Muran said that every video she makes features monster girls she has personally encountered. She watched a bunch of horror movies and felt that the ghost she encountered this time was similar to the one in A Chinese Ghost Story. Not only was it powerful, but it also liked to absorb men's energy.

The main concern is that if Lin Muran falls in love with that female ghost and abandons him and Xia Li, things will get really messy. In the face of danger, only responsibility matters.

To keep the family together, Bai Mengqing must find the female ghost hiding in the house, beat her up with chocolate until she runs around in circles, and finally have Xia Li slap her to death.

So she hurriedly stole Xia Li's chocolate and ran to Lin Muran's room to catch the ghost.

When did I send you the video?

"Just now, via WeChat."

Lin Muran immediately picked up her phone to check and found that her chat with the female demon was still at the address she had sent, while the message she had just shared had been sent to the pinned "Living True Dragon".

No wonder the female demon didn't reply to the message; it turns out she sent it to the wrong dragon.

Normally, whenever Lin Muran sends a message to Yun Yifei, regardless of whether it's for a defense or not, the other party will always tease her.

But it's good that it was sent to the wrong person, at least it saves me from being asked all sorts of questions.

"Let me see."

Lin Muran curiously took the phone and pulled up the video Bai Mengqing had mentioned from the history—"A Review of the Most Popular Supernatural Events Online Recently."

It's a standard Level 3 account with AI voiceover, formulaic copywriting stolen from somewhere, and visuals reminiscent of Pinduoduo. It looks like a marketing account at first glance.

However, it has nearly 20 views and quite a few comments, most of which are tagging the viewer.

The gist of the story is that recently, some netizens submitted videos claiming that a woman's wailing could be heard in the Ghost Princess videos. However, because the caption was so funny, netizens couldn't help but suspect that it was a publicity stunt.

Am I deaf? This is just normal background noise.

[One glance at the thimble, and it's identified as Devil May Cry]

[It doesn't sound quite like the sound I make when I'm cutting meat.]

That guy above is pretty awesome.

[Hey kid, you know what, it really does sound like a ghost wailing.]

[Already looping]

[Bull Demon, how am I supposed to sleep tonight after hearing this?]

[@MonsterExpert, come take a look]

Lin Muran was aware that there was background noise in his voiceover while editing, but he didn't think it was a big deal at the time, so he just did some noise reduction and released it directly.

I never expected that it would be interpreted as me killing someone or that a ghost was calling out.

My place has all sorts of strange things like dragons, roars, and slimes, but there are no other people or ghosts.

Lin Muran couldn't help but want to report the video before he even finished watching it, but in the end, the video actually cut out the part with background noise. After listening to it carefully, he silently exited the reporting interface and went back to the homepage.

I immediately blocked this content creator.

“The voice is indeed different,” Emperor Roar said, puzzled.

Xia Li, who watched the video with them, twitched her ears. As one of the audience members present, she was certain that the strange cry that Manbo made at the time was completely different from the one played in the video.

It's so sharp that it can bring tears to your eyes three times.

“Right?” Bai Mengqing said smugly.

"It was just a problem during the transcoding process; these are just things netizens made up."

Lin Muran handed the phone back to Bai Mengqing: "Watch less of these kinds of videos in the future, they'll affect your IQ."

He felt that the marketing account must have slightly adjusted the sound, otherwise he wouldn't have missed it when editing.

"Affects intelligence!?" Bai Mengqing and Xia Li's tails twitched almost simultaneously.

"Otherwise, why do you think I wouldn't let you spend less?" Lin Muran was quite satisfied with Bai Mengqing's shocked reaction.

"Lin Muran, before you became mentally challenged, weren't you on par with Einstein? How come you can still remain normal after all that?"

Bai Mengqing was shocked. She even moved closer to the chair and played with the other person's head as if it were a rare object.

Every time she entered the studio, she saw Lin Muran watching these kinds of videos. According to the logic of "low intelligence," after watching them for a month, an ordinary person would have started babbling by now.

No wonder he's a chicken feet expert; his IQ is so high it's impossible to deduct it all.

"So, my elder brother was a fallen genius," Emperor Roar said with great regret.

Lin Muran:???

You two are even putting on a show together.

"Anyway, try to see as little as possible. Even if you come across it, think about whether it's true or not before you believe it."

Lin Muran coughed twice to end the topic of marketing accounts, fearing that if he continued talking about it, he might turn into Wenchang descending to earth.

"There might be ghosts, but not this many."

"But I saw that the YouTuber you posted about me has posted a lot of paranormal videos, and it seems like there are quite a few ghosts."

Bai Mengqing noticed that the paranormal content creator called "Uncle Duncan" had already uploaded over 500 videos, indicating that there are quite a few ghosts in the real world.

"If you look closely, you'll see that most of the material comes from conversations that circulated a long time ago."

While the unbridled creativity of the internet in its primitive era produced many presentations, there were also quite a few gems to be found, and none of them were the same.

Lin Muran explained, "There aren't many recent incidents. Even if there are, 99% of them are ghost stories made up on Douban, obviously fake."

"Why are there fewer now?"

Bai Mengqing's tail curled into a question mark, and Xia Li also turned her head to cast a questioning look at Lin Muran.

"Because there are more surveillance cameras now."

!!!

Bai Mengqing and Xia Li's expressions darkened simultaneously, and they suddenly understood why Lin Muran had told them not to reveal their identities in front of those eyes that were called surveillance cameras.

After all that, it turns out that thing also has the effect of captivating souls.

That's...that's terrifying.

Bai Mengqing felt a chill run down her spine as she thought about it. Combining the statements from Lin Muran and the marketing account, she became increasingly convinced that there might be something else in the house.

"But... but we don't think we have any security cameras at home, and the spiritual energy in our house isn't too weak. Maybe it'll attract something."

"Don't overthink it, we already have a glutton and a big-headed devil at home."

"where?"

Bai Mengqing looked around; she not only didn't see them, but she had never even heard of these two kinds of ghosts.

"Big brother is scolding the two of us," Di Hou reminded her. Xia Li's tone remained as calm as ever.

"Why did Lin Muran call you a big-headed ghost? Your head isn't that big."

Bai Mengqing walked around Xia Li and realized that her head wasn't that big, so why did Lin Muran call her "Big Head Ghost"?

"The moment the ingredient asked that question, it had already proven its own innocence," Emperor Roar said speechlessly.

(End of this chapter)