You are not monster girls!

Chapter 175 Where Will I Sleep Tonight? (4k Two-in-One)

It was already afternoon when Lin Muran finished packing her luggage and delivered it to Sally's house. She originally planned to assemble the furniture and then rest.

As it turned out, the house was dirtier and dustier than they had imagined, so they had to clean Sally's room again for free.

By the time we finished cleaning, it was almost 11 o'clock.

Lin Muran simply cleaned the dust in the nanny's room; there were piles of miscellaneous items on the table and beside the bed.

Considering it was getting late, he pulled out a plastic chair and sat down at the table to briefly list out the possible expenses before taking a break.

Sally's villa is not only old, but the furniture and appliances are also antiques that are over ten years old. Even the power strip in the corner of her room has been covered with yellow and brown spots due to the wear and tear of time.

For safety reasons, a major overhaul is necessary.

"New bed, property management fees, utilities, and several appliances. Wow, there's more to buy than I expected."

This expense is almost equivalent to half a month's income.

This doesn't even include other wear and tear and daily living expenses.

Lin Muran sighed, silently closed the notepad, and then glanced at the black notebook on the pile of books in front of her. Xia Li's words from earlier that day suddenly flashed through her mind.

Xia Li's power is indeed much greater than before.
When she first used the Triceratops-style punch to hit herself, she certainly didn't have the strength to lift a sofa with one hand without panting like she does now.

He opened his notebook and turned to the blank page where he had last read it.

I don't know if it's the effect of the overhead light, but the three blank bookmarks sandwiched in the middle seem to have started to turn a light blue.

After Lin Muran picked it up to examine it, it turned back into a blank sheet of paper.
However, with the help of the light, he still noticed several marks at the bottom that looked like fingernail scratches, and an extra line of text in the blank space on the page.

[Fun fact: People who are good-looking are more likely to be convincing, which is the basis of mind manipulation techniques]

If you don't believe me, turn to the next page.

Lin Muran didn't understand why this line of text would appear in a diary, so she curiously turned to the next page, where a line of crooked words stretched across two pages.

"You really trust me that much? Sigh, I'm such a sinful woman."

Lin Muran turned another page.

I know what your biggest concern is; the answer is below.

Could it be a technique related to distorting cognition?

Lin Muran was overjoyed.

Because the old master mentioned the art of manipulating minds earlier, distorting cognition is actually one of them.

He immediately turned to the next page, and his expression darkened.

"You really trust me that much? Being too beautiful is definitely a problem."

Lin Muran's lips twitched. Just as he was about to close the notebook, he noticed a small arrow in the corner, prompting him to continue flipping through the pages.

Let's explore the road ahead later.

屮!
No wonder he's Qingyi's master; he's even more eccentric and narcissistic than her.

He flipped through a few more pages, all of which were blank. He then quietly wrapped the three bookmarks in an extra layer of transparent paper before closing the notebook and locking it in the cabinet.

Lin Muran didn't know if this was related to Xia Li's recovery of power, so she could only continue to observe.

boom!
The door was suddenly pushed open roughly, startling Lin Muran so much that she instinctively put her hands behind her back. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that it was Sally, who was wearing a nightgown.

Are you asleep?

"What do you say?"

Lin Muran placed her hand on the table warily, keeping an eye on the other party's tail, ready to lock the door from the inside and pounce on them at any moment.

"I want to have a late-night snack."

Sally stared at Lin Muran's neck with dead fish eyes, tears already glistening at the corners of her mouth.

"You understand the concept of paying for a job."

Lin Muran said irritably, "I cleaned the other storage rooms for you without charging you, and now you're asking for money? What happened to the 'move-in ready' agreement?"

"There are beds available, so you can move in with just your bags."

Sally's tone was very impatient, but her hand had already secretly reached for the doorknob.

She was indeed full, but the food probably didn't even circulate in her body before it was all used up to recover from the injury caused by Xia Li's slap.

It's roughly equivalent to Pigsy vomiting ginseng fruit—he tasted it but didn't eat it.

Therefore, we must find Lin Muran again to supplement the information.

Kara!
Before Sally could finish speaking, a loud crash suddenly came from downstairs, followed by a scream.

The voice belonged to Qingyi, and the scream was as terrible as a toe hitting the corner of a table.

"Little Azure Dragon, what are you doing jumping onto my bed?! The bed collapsed, how am I supposed to sleep?!"

"How...how did I know the wood under this bed was hollow?!"

dong dong!

Paji——

There was another burst of noise below, which quickly subsided.

Lin Muran patted the gray suitcase that had fallen onto her shoulder and teased, "There's no bed now, are you still moving in with just your bags?"

"I'm tired, I'll rest first."

"Do vampires sleep at night too?"

"Don't humans take afternoon naps too?"

Sally rolled her eyes at Lin Muran and tossed three keys to him: "These are two spare keys to your room. One of them is for the fourth floor. I chose to take a nap today because there's a sofa available."

"Fourth floor? Where?"

"You can use this key to open the basement, then go through the secret passage to the fourth floor, and take the same route to the rooftop."

"Then why do you always come down from upstairs?"

Whether Lin Muran saw it herself or heard Xia Li say it, every time she entered the house, the other person would always be standing on the stairs with their back to the entrance.

Otherwise, he would hang upside down on the horizontal bar above the living room.

"Because you can climb the ladder to the third-floor balcony from the fourth floor, that's how it is."

Sally heard the footsteps on the stairs getting closer and closer, so she swished her tail and slammed the door shut as she left.

Who designed this apartment layout with such incredible ingenuity?

Lin Muran silently complained to himself. He had just put the key on the table when a black figure appeared at the door, which startled him so much that he immediately assumed the starting stance of American Iaido.

Holy crap, what's that Ni Ge doing here?!
"Sir, don't fire! We're on the same side!"

The figure, dressed entirely in black from head to toe, whose gender could only be determined by the reflection of the lamplight on their chest, raised their hands, tears welling in their eyes.
"I want to report this!!"

The only woman who could say such a thing is Qingyi.

"How did you turn into a black chicken?"

Lin Muran forced a smile and said, "You're not preparing to undergo tribulation and ascend to immortality again, are you?"

"Ask Little Azure Dragon about that yourself."

Qingyi was on the verge of tears, and pointed to Bai Mengqing and Xia Li, who were peering inside through the dragon head.

"Uh, well, I can only say it was an accident."

Bai Mengqing shrank back, leaving only a pair of dragon horns visible.

"The ingredients pounced and crushed the bed, then drew a bed, and Master pounced and crushed the ink bed," Emperor Roar lamented, scorning them all. In terms of positioning, Xia Li had already distanced herself from the other two spirit beasts to demonstrate her normal intelligence.

"Little Azure Dragon's technique of turning the illusory into the real is not even as good as Ma Liang's magic paintbrush."

Qingyi shook the ink off her ear and tail feathers like a hen shaking its wings, and finally she could make out some of the characteristics of the Azure Phoenix.

"It clearly bounced twice!!"

Bai Mengqing, hiding behind the door, offered a wry, somber reply: "It's already better than before."

Qingyi lowered her head with a disillusioned expression: "Sigh, all I wanted was to experience the feeling of sleeping comfortably in bed."

When I was working as a haunted house tester, I was often woken up by clients at night to fumble for water in the dark, so I couldn't really enjoy the soft bed.

After arriving at Lin Muran's house, the only time he slept in a bed was with Xiao Qinglong, and he was either elbowed or kicked off the bed in the middle of the night.

She just wanted to get a good night's sleep in her comfortable bed.

Why is it so difficult?!

She shook her head, her voice full of grievance: "Is this also a calamity?"

"Heaven has bestowed a great responsibility upon this person," the Emperor said, offering words of comfort. Xia Li walked over and stood on tiptoe to her limit before she could barely pat Qing Yi's shoulder.

She had also experienced the feeling of being choked by Bai Mengqing, and she resonated deeply with Qingyi's feelings.

"I'm sorry."

After Bai Mengqing finished her quiet apology, a sudden idea struck her. She clapped her hands and said, "I remember Lin Muran brought his single bed over too. How about the three of us make do for the night?!"

Yi Long takes responsibility for his actions; she wouldn't shamelessly break someone else's bed and then have the nerve to sleep in it herself.

Xia Li and Qing Yi trembled almost simultaneously.

"Wait a minute, my single bed, plus the bed in Bai Mengqing's room, makes exactly two beds, doesn't it?"

Lin Muran suddenly thought of this when Bai Mengqing said that.

Because there were so many things to do beforehand, and since there was already a bed available, he didn't assemble Yun Yifei's bed as originally planned.

Sally is going to sleep on the sofa bed again; she'd probably suffocate if she slept in that coffin.

Even though one bed has collapsed, there are still two. Qingyi and Xiali can squeeze in, which is just enough for the three spirit beasts.

As soon as Lin Muran asked the question, Qingyi and Xiali both turned their gazes to Bai Mengqing.

"Actually," Bai Mengqing said somewhat embarrassedly, wiping her cheek with her paw, "that bed collapsed too."

"Shouldn't you be on a diet?" Lin Muran teased. "Eating too much will make McDonald's as round as a dragon."

He was somewhat relieved that although the two beds in his old house were simple, they were of quite good quality and could withstand the dragon's death roll.

Otherwise, if the bed had broken during that time, one of them, Xia Li, would definitely have been in trouble.

"I... I will never become like that!"

Bai Mengqing's cheeks puffed out like a chubby little thing: "The dragon's size will always remain at its best."

"Then what should we do now?" Dihou asked urgently. Xia Li's gaze remained fixed on the spare key on the table, her tail already quietly wrapped around the table leg.

Lin Muran glanced at the fairly spacious bed in the nanny's room, then looked at the aggrieved Qingyi.

It's impossible for the three spirit beasts to sleep together.

Leaving aside whether that mattress could fit so many spirit beasts,

He didn't want to wake up one morning to find two extra corpses in his house to feed Selena.

"Qingyi, why don't you and Xiali sleep in my single bed tonight?"

Lin Muran shrugged and said, "After I set up my sister's bed tomorrow, you can sleep there until the new bed arrives."

Qingyi's ears twitched with excitement upon hearing this, but then she hesitated, thinking that it was Yun Yifei's bed and it might not be appropriate for her to sleep there alone. She asked, "Will Xiaoyun agree?"

She slept in the same room as Yun Yifei, but she never even sat on the other's bed.

It feels a bit offensive to suddenly lie down there like that.

"You can use my sheets, and since you're my sister's friend, I'll let her know in advance."

"This really works?"

"No one understands Shurima better than me."

Lin Muran nodded confidently, but then noticed the three spirit beasts looking at her with disdain: "What kind of looks are those? How could a younger brother not understand his older sister?"

You clearly can't even perceive the deep love Xiaoyun has for you.
The three spirit beasts rarely shared the same thoughts, but none of them spoke up to refute Lin Muran.

The sudden silence created an awkward atmosphere.

"You're right, haha."

Qingyi broke the awkward silence with a hearty laugh, taking the initiative to step forward and hold Lin Muran's hand.

She gazed at him with deep affection, her blue eyes becoming moist. Even though her face was so dark it seemed to disappear, Lin Muran was still somewhat moved.

Moreover, although Qingyi often plays the zither, there are no calluses on her soft fingers. When you press them down, they feel no different from those of a little girl, except that they are a bit more bony.

He couldn't help but press it a few more times.

Qingyi parted her red lips slightly and said softly, "Lin Muran, you're finally acting like a human being."

Is that a compliment?

"There's more."

Qingyi whispered in Lin Muran's ear, her breath warm against his skin, "Does it feel nice to touch? My hand. If you teach me a musical instrument, I can touch it all the time~"

!!!

Lin Muran suddenly felt the two gazes beside her become sharp, and immediately released Qingyi, coughing twice as she said:
"Ahem, Master Qing, it's getting late. After you take a shower, you and Xia Li can move that mattress to the room and make it up so you can go to sleep right away. There are still many things to do tomorrow, so get some rest."

"Good~"

Qingyi smiled and pulled Xiali, who had just hooked the key with her tail, to leave the room: "You mustn't peek at your teacher while he's taking a bath."

"If you don't go, I'll make Bai Mengqing sleep with both of you."

"Uh, goodnight, Lin Muran, you should go to sleep early too."

"Goodnight, big brother," Di Hou said, still shaken.

"Good night."

Upon hearing that she was to sleep with Bai Mengqing, Qingyi grabbed Xia Li and stormed out the door.

The sudden acceleration caused Xia Li to lose control of the tail's direction. The key traced a silver trail under the light, enticing Bai Mengqing's eyes to dart up and down.

After the master and apprentice left, Bai Mengqing noticed an identical key on the table and asked curiously, "What does this key open?"

"This is the one in my room, why is one missing?"

"It must have fallen into some corner."

Bai Mengqing waved her hands frantically, "My ink-painting bed exploded just now, and it almost shook the windows off."

"Is this some kind of new type of self-destruction method?"

Lin Muran didn't pay much attention to where the spare key was, since it was all indoors and there was no need to lock the door.

"that."

"what happened?"

Bai Mengqing stared at the keys on the table, then glanced at the bed, her tail swishing erratically, and asked hesitantly:
Where am I going to sleep tonight?

(End of this chapter)