Old Domain Bizarre

Chapter 42 Sleeping
In Song Jianguo's bird's nest, made up of various kinds of garbage, the light of fireflies flickered, illuminating Song Jianguo's bewildered face.

"Could you say that again? I still don't quite understand."

"I've said it several times already, how come you still don't understand? Is your comprehension really that bad?" Zhang Wenda said helplessly.

He had already explained to Song Jianguo what had happened, but the other party seemed too stupid to understand at all.

“But you said that in the adult world, I am a cat, but I am clearly a human!” Song Jianguo replied with a furrowed brow.

"And what about skyscrapers built with people, and weirdos with all those rules? It sounds like you're just making that up. Is the adult world really like that? I don't really believe it."

Zhang Wenda sighed, turned his head to the side, and lay down on his side. "Sigh, if you don't believe me, then don't. Talking to you is really tiring."

Song Jianguo looked at Zhang Wenda with suspicion, then quickly walked away.

Zhang Wenda was not asleep at this moment. His mind was still filled with everything he had experienced, and he could not calm down for a long time.

So much has happened in the adult world, and even after so much time has passed, it's still hard to accept.

At first, he thought he had returned to his childhood, but after what happened at the Children's Palace, he realized he was wrong.

He thought he had come to a strange, parallel old world that was a mixture of many eras, but this adult world completely shattered his worldview once again.

He seemed unable to truly understand this world, as if it were constantly changing.

Just when he thought he understood the world, something even more unexpected would always happen.

However, at this moment, in his mind, that strange new perspective, strange people and strange buildings were completely insignificant in the face of the concrete manifestation of the rules that were constantly harming him.

He used to believe that the punishment he received from the rules was a curse of this strange world, a world law that this strange world could not explain or resist.

But when he saw the scythe monster, he suddenly realized that things were not as he had imagined.

It turns out that all the punishments I received from the rules were because a monster was attacking me.

Just as adults cannot see the youth center and the library, it is clear that children cannot see certain things in the adult world from their own perspective, and the monster that attacks them is one of them.

From my current perspective, the other party is completely invisible, which is why I misinterpret the various attacks they inflict on me as some kind of supernatural phenomenon.

After a while, Zhang Wenda felt someone kicking his leg. He opened his eyes and saw that it was Song Jianguo standing next to him with one hand on his hip.

"Hey, so what are you planning to do next?"

Zhang Wenda glanced at her sideways and said, "What else can I do? Now that I know it's a monster attacking me, I naturally have to find a way to get rid of this guy."

Upon hearing this, Song Jianguo's eyes widened, and he pointed a finger at his nose, saying, "Solve the monsters of the adult world?! You don't expect me to help with that too, do you?!"

Zhang Wenda slowly closed his eyes. "You can't help with this. You don't have an adult perspective. You can't even see it, so how can you deal with it?"

"That's good, that's good." Upon hearing that it wasn't her business, Song Jianguo's face lit up with joy. Ignoring what Zhang Wenda was doing, she went straight to a corner, put her finger in her mouth, and gently blew on it.

As the meows continued, the scattered black cats immediately surrounded her, forming a fluffy cat blanket around her. "Remember to continue eliminating pests tomorrow," Zhang Wenda's voice drifted over.

Upon hearing this, Song Jianguo's good mood vanished instantly. "Didn't I say I'd get a day off after helping out at the library?"

"What kind of day off is tomorrow, Tuesday? Who, as a corporate slave, is entitled to a day off on Tuesdays?"

"So annoying!" Song Jianguo turned around irritably and angrily covered his head with the cat blanket.

Zhang Wenda was calculating in his mind that if Song Jianguo's current rate of making money continued, he should be eligible to exchange for a minimum-level special ability every two days to feed the red core.

With Song Jianguo's exploitation, even if I do nothing, my strength can steadily improve.

But he knew that wasn't enough, far from enough. The special ability costing 10 yuan could only make the red core grow a little bit, but if it relied solely on the red core's abilities, it wouldn't be a match for the opponent at all.

Based on my previous experience, I can tell that the other party can appear next to me in an instant, and their movement speed is absolutely astonishing.

Secondly, the opponent is at least three times the size of me, and is definitely much stronger than me. In terms of combat, the opponent must be very strong.

Putting aside whether he could be evenly matched with his opponent if he upgraded the current Red Core several times over, the more important thing is that he is not sure whether he can still use the Red Core's abilities from an adult's perspective.

He hadn't forgotten that he now had a flashlight as thick as his forearm, which from an adult's perspective was just a laser pointer as thick as a finger.

What if lightsabers don't work in the adult world? You can't just grab a laser pointer and shoot it in the other person's eyes when it really comes to a fight, can you?
“I still understand too little about that world.” Zhang Wenda reached out and touched the empty yellow kernel on his arm.

"I must increase my strength until I am powerful enough before I go looking for trouble with that monster. Otherwise, if I completely break with it, it might really kill me."

Zhang Wenda hadn't forgotten that the other side was the adult world, and the adult world was always more cruel than the children's world.

After dawdling for so long, Zhang Wenda was also a little tired. "Let's go to sleep first, and see how Huang He is recovering tomorrow, and then ask Ouyang if there are any other ways to improve his abilities."

He yawned, lay back down, and prepared to sleep, but he felt uneasy no matter how he lay on his left or right side.

He simply sat up and looked for something to cover himself with, but apart from some simple cat toys, there was nothing else in Song Jianguo's old den.

He looked around and reached for Song Jianguo's cat blanket. "Hey, don't be so selfish, give me some of your cat too."

One by one, kitten paws with exposed nails emerged from the cat blanket and pulled Zhang Wenda's hand away.

“I command you to give me half of the cat.” After Zhang Wenda finished speaking, he was surprised to find that Song Jianguo, who was asleep, could ignore his command, which was something he had not expected.

Zhang Wenda simply lay back down on the ground, took off his school uniform to use as a pillow, and closed his eyes again.

He was indeed exhausted, and even in such an environment, he soon felt sleepy.

In his dazed state, he felt something furry snuggle into his arms.

(End of this chapter)