I set you up on a blind date, and you've managed to overcome all the weirdness?

A piercing scream echoed through the passage.

The boy and girl, a couple, were supporting each other, their faces pale.

"Is it him? The one who came in with us..."

"I think so."

The boy was filled with doubt and uncertainty. He was more concerned about his arm than a stranger he had only met once.

"Step back against the wall, don't block the way."

Lin Yan pulled the two of them aside.

He gripped the demon-slaying revolver in his right hand, strode to the entrance of the passage, and stood ready.

He was rehearsing what he imagined: a swarm of baby frogs might burst out at any moment.

Or it could be a bunch of baby frog balloons.

however.

Time ticks by.

Nothing came out of the passage.

Finally, with a gasp from the girl in the couple, a person appeared in the passageway.

Or rather, half a person.

The man in the plaid shirt limped out of the shadows.

There was nothing behind him.

There were no pursuers, and no frogs.

But the moment the girl saw his appearance, she immediately covered her mouth, her stomach churning.

Even Lin Yan narrowed his eyes slightly.

The lower half of the plaid man's body...

He has lost his human-shaped legs.

At this moment, he was wearing a mascot costume of a frog selling baby frogs.

It's like they came out to work wearing only half of what they were wearing.

But that mascot costume wasn't actually worn by him.

Instead, it was forcibly grafted in from below his waist.

At the junction, a ring of outward-turned skin intertwined with the mascot costume.

The area where the two met was covered with granulation tissue the size of rice grains.

At the same time, he was holding a string of red and green baby frog balloons in his left hand.

The strangeness of this half-human, half-frog creature lies not only in its physical form.

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And his expression.

He was clearly crying his heart out, his face covered in tears and snot.

But the corners of his mouth seemed to be forcibly pulled upwards by something, distorting them into a smile more exaggerated than a clown's.

He was crying in despair on one side, and being torn apart and laughing maniacally on the other.

"You! You have to save me..."

The plaid-clad man seemed unable to control his new body; like a slime, he moved step by step toward Lin Yan and the others.

As he got closer, he held up the baby frog balloon in his hand and handed it to the boy in the couple.

He pleaded desperately:

"Please, just take one, please!"

"The radio said that as long as I share happiness with others, and as long as you take it, I can turn back into my original form."

"It won't grow any taller..."

He suddenly ripped open his plaid shirt.

Lin Yan noticed that several dark red tendons were hanging from his body, extending from his waist upwards.

As the mascot costume writhed and tightened, it continuously squeezed out thick pus.

"Hurry up and take it!"

"Hurry up and take it!!!"

The programmer's smile grew wider, but his voice became increasingly sorrowful.

At that moment, the boy in the couple looked at the balloon being handed to him.

The green downy hairs on his forearm suddenly seemed to sense a call from the same frequency and came alive on their own.

The boy's eyes suddenly became somewhat unfocused.

At that moment, a strange thought flashed through his mind.

This balloon looks so cute. If I take it, will I not be so scared?

Would that make me as happy as him?

The boy slowly raised his forearm and reached for the string of balloons.

He didn't even know what he was doing.

"Don't touch it!"

Lin Yan sensed something was wrong and let out a loud shout.

He took a big step forward and kicked the man in the plaid shirt in the wrist.

The string of frog balloons slipped from his grasp and rolled to the side.

One of the balloons hit the stone edge of the wading pool.

There was a loud cracking sound.

A clump of dark green fluff burst open.

The rubber skin of the balloon scattered.

A blood-red mass fell out and rolled to Lin Yan's feet.

Lin Yan looked down and his scalp tingled instantly.

It was a human eyeball covered in blood.

There are also dense nerve roots on the back of the eyeball.

But the front of that human eyeball is a frog's horizontal pupil.

Lin Yan is now locked down.

Noisy!Noisy!Noisy!

The moment the balloon burst and the eyeball hit the ground.

A sudden, urgent alarm sounded over the entire water world.

Suddenly, red emergency lights illuminated the area above everyone's heads, making the entire water world look like a hellish inferno.

"Alarm! Alarm!"

The sweet, childlike voice that used to be on the radio was no longer there.

"Some people refuse to be happy."

"Someone's ruining my happiness!"

"Initiate the forced hug therapy."

The voice just fell.

"Glug glug glug..."

Damn!

Lin Yan sensed something was wrong.

The wading pool in front of us.

Passageways on both sides.

Even in corners that were never noticed before.

Heaps of green fluff gushed out like a fountain.

Dozens of baby frogs, each holding a balloon, slowly crawled out from all directions.

They lay on the ground like frogs, and the eyes on their headgear had all been turned into frog pupils.

They are gradually gathering at this moment.

They spread their arms out and their lower bodies bounced like frogs.

They hopped and skipped as they surrounded them.

"It's over."

The boy gave up running away and collapsed to the ground, while the girl closed her eyes resignedly.

Lin Yan analyzed the surrounding situation.

Damn!

There are too many.

shot?

Even if the exorcising revolver has unlimited bullets, even if one shot can destroy a physical entity, the time it takes to fire the shot is enough for the remaining monsters to overwhelm them.

run?

Their escape route is blocked. Even if they abandon these two weak-legged burdens, they will eventually be overtaken by these ever-increasing grotesque creatures.

All of them are dead ends.

This sheer number of attacks left Lin Yan with absolutely no room for error.

One wrong step and you're plunged into an abyss.

Lin Yan did not hesitate for a moment.

He immediately took out his phone, opened the matchmaking group, and found Saya's private chat.

Meeting in person!

【Ding! 】

[A deadly threat has been detected against the host!]

[Invitation to meet in real life has been sent. Target: Slit-Mouthed Woman - Saya!]

[Spatial causality locking in progress...]

"Boom!"

A thunderclap suddenly sounded in mid-air above the water world.

A blood-red crack was forcibly torn open.

A chilling aura poured down from the crack.

The terrifying pressure of the absolute ruler descends.

"They're here."

Lin Yan breathed a sigh of relief.

In his imagination, the aloof older sister wearing a mask would appear before him like a goddess descending to earth.

Then cut all these grotesque frogs into pieces one by one.

however.

Lin Yan's beautiful fantasy was shattered.

The crack in the sky flickered briefly before fading away, as if it were about to disappear prematurely.

Could it be that……

Lin Yan suddenly had a bad feeling.

Could this grotesque, demonic creature possibly block the call of matchmaking groups?

If that's the case, I'm doomed today.

Just before the crack disappeared.

A tall, slender figure flew down from the crack.

With a muffled thud, dust flew up from not far away.

just.

Her location coordinates have shifted slightly.

It did not land directly next to Lin Yan.

Instead, it fell more than ten meters away, right in the center of the densest group of frogs on the field.