On my second playthrough, they were full of malice towards me.

It actually has nothing to do with porridge anymore.

More importantly, it's the meaning behind this bowl of porridge.

So

When was the last time someone cared about and showed concern for her like this?

Ah, I remember now.

A blurry image comes to mind; it must have been when she was just a few years old. The dining table wasn't as pretty back then, and the food wasn't as plentiful or delicious. But they were still very happy because she could get her father to hold her and feed her bite by bite after she acted cute, and her mother would spend several hours baking her younger sister's favorite cookies.

Until a great fire destroyed the painting, human soldiers rushed in, and under the crimson night sky dyed red by the flames, one by one, the tribesmen were captured and put into iron cages, and collars were put on them. She and her sister could only hide in the trees and watch everything happen.

Later, in order to survive, she and her sister went into exile. At one point, they even got separated. Fortunately, in her most desperate moment, she met the revolutionary army.

Although she had only been in the revolutionary army for a short time, only half a year, she quickly integrated into the group and gained everyone's trust thanks to her hard work and perseverance. However, it was precisely because of this that Ah Xue was able to better understand the oppressive atmosphere in the revolutionary army.

Although everyone seemed to be encouraging and helping each other on the surface, the perceptive Ah Xue knew that it was all an illusion and very fragile. Especially as the revolutionary army declined, more and more internal disputes and conflicts arose, and no one could see where the real way out was. Although they called themselves the "revolutionary army," they were nothing more than a group of people clinging to each other for survival.

Tick-tock.

Ah Xue didn't know what was happening to her, but her vision quickly blurred as a thick layer of mist covered her eyes. Several large teardrops couldn't hold back any longer and dripped down into the porridge.

She hated herself like this, especially when she thought about how everyone in the Revolutionary Army was counting on her. A deep sense of guilt would rise in Xue's heart. But on the other hand, in the current atmosphere, whether it was Miss Irene, the strange maid, or her master, everyone was caring for her in their own way. If possible, Xue even wished that time could stop at this moment.

Everyone says that you can bribe a destitute beggar on the street with a hundred dollars, which seems too easy, right? But in reality, everyone can think about it, but how many people are actually willing to do it?

At least for Xue, Liao Ji was the first person to cook a meal just for her since she lost her parents. Not to mention human nobles.

Even if it's just a pot of porridge.

Ah Xue buried her head deep in the porridge, gripping the wooden spoon tightly as she shoved spoonfuls into her mouth, hoping to hide her tear-streaked face in this way.

Master's porridge

It tastes so good.

Chapter 86 The Perils of Society

Ok

It seems that the cooking menus from the game are still usable here.

Although Liao Ji acted cool by placing the porridge in front of A Xue and then returning to his seat, he actually started glancing at the cat girl out of the corner of his eye after pretending to eat a few bites, worried about the taste of his porridge.

Liao Ji finally breathed a sigh of relief when Ah Xue started devouring the porridge, even burying her head in it. It was like the feeling of pride that rises in the heart of anyone who has cooked a meal and sees that their cooking is well received.

Speaking of

Both were demi-human beast girls, and both had cooking dishes with the effect of "accelerating life recovery." Gradually, the cat girl's figure on the other side began to overlap with another figure in Liao Ji's eyes.

That is the way

She is much larger than the current catgirls, looks more ferocious, and although she has a bad temper, she occasionally shows a vulnerable and delicate side. Of course, she is also much more "developed" than the catgirls.

Tang Jiuyou, as the third character he acquired among "them", is actually similar to Zero, as he extracted her from the "junkyard".

After all, at that time, he had just saved up his first pot of gold with the help of Styutia and barely made it through the initial stage. He was still short of resources and didn't have enough funds to recruit people on a large scale. Let alone, like when he later acquired Lena, he could directly lead an army to attack and seize her.

Ling and Tang Jiuyou, one he picked up from a robot junkyard, the other he bought from a slave arena.

Liao Ji still vaguely remembers the ecstatic feeling he had when he got Tang Jiuyou, the dragon girl. It was no different from getting a gold character in a single pull, especially since it was a gold character of the "Guard" class.

If you could only choose one of the five classes to command in battle, the Guardian would be the top choice for most situations.

With the addition of the Dragon Girl to the team, a powerful "Guard" character, Liao Ji's team's combat power has seen a leap forward, greatly enhancing the gaming experience.

That's why Liao Ji recalled that in order to level up the Dragon Girl and raise her faster, he deliberately let the Dragon Girl fight alone in many dungeons, so that Jiu You could enjoy the combat experience points and accumulate more skill proficiency.

This is something that none of the other four classes can do; only the "Guardian" class, with its maximum individual strength, can achieve.

However, no matter how strong Jiu You was, as Liao Ji became increasingly greedy and began to be dissatisfied with the low-level dungeons, he pursued higher-level dungeons that were more efficient and difficult, and made Jiu You solo them. As a result, Long Niang inevitably failed many times and died in the dungeons.

But it doesn't matter. As long as he dies suddenly, Liao Ji can just save and reload (restart) until he can solo the game with the Dragon Girl.

What impressed him most was a very rare [Insect Nest] dungeon, which contained a vast sea of ​​monsters. If Jiu You could absorb all of these experience points, he would definitely be able to break through and advance to the "Disaster-level" Evil Transformer in one fell swoop.

So that day, he did nothing but one thing.

SL!

Restart! Restart! Restart again!

Just to gamble on that slim chance of passing the game, from the moment he opened his eyes in the morning until he was so sleepy at night that he could barely keep his eyes open, Liao Ji lost count of how many times he had to restart that day—hundreds? Thousands?

Just when Liao Ji was about to give up, on the last try, a miracle happened. Heaven rewards those who persevere, and the probability he had bet on, which was less than 1%, finally came true.

Jiuyou successfully soloed the run.

And it was on that occasion that all the hard work paid off. While she was fighting off-screen, the character on-screen was also fighting. With their combined efforts, Jiu You underwent a qualitative transformation.

The [Dragon Blood Burning] skill that Liao Ji has now chosen and copied as a "protagonist skill" is precisely the super S-level ability that the Dragon Girl "specially awakened" after this dungeon.

Seeing the Dragon Girl with only a sliver of health left after her incredible victory, he was overjoyed and wanted to reward her. However, after searching through his inventory, he found that the only thing he could offer was a "white quality" cooking dish.

Right now, across from me, Ah Xue is eating that pot of congee.

Although Liao Ji gave Long Niang many items specifically for increasing her favorability after they returned to the base, strangely, even though he gave her "purple quality" gifts later, the favorability he gained for Jiu You was not as high as the bowl of white quality cooking porridge he gave her right after they came out of the dungeon.

At that time, Liao Ji, who was still "outside the screen," didn't understand at all.

But now

Liao Ji sighed inwardly.

He looked out the window at the night sky.

What is Jiuyou doing right now?

It's so late

Are you eating too?

Hmph, let's practice on this catgirl first.

Hopefully, when I make porridge for Jiuyou again by hand, she won't be disgusted with me.

Ah!

Having made up his mind, Liao Ji, who has always been a pragmatist, knew that given the lessons learned from Styutia and Zero, he could imagine that if he were really "captured" by Jiu You, the Dragon Girl would probably give him a "solo run" in order to help him regain his power.

Five hundred years from now, there probably won't be any monster lairs left, but with his current small frame, if Jiu You were to throw him into some arena full of prisoners and burly men...

Liao Ji's lips twitched at the thought.

It's not that he's applying double standards.

That's right, it's a dragon girl, so you can't save and reload for him!

If you're dead, you're really dead!

So, to put it bluntly, he still needs to "take down" her just like he did with Stiusia. However, this time it's the powerful Guardian Dragon Girl, so it's impossible for Liao Ji to replicate his battle with the nun.

Therefore, he had to avoid direct confrontation and collect Jiu You's "defeat" CGs in another way. He couldn't defeat Jiu You, but he could defeat Jiu You's forces and overthrow Jiu You's rule!

An empress whose kingdom fell

Hey

Hehe hehe

With an evil smile on his lips, Liao Ji was getting impatient. He needed to speed things up. Looking at the revolutionary catgirl opposite him, who was already so simple and about to be "corrupted" by him, Liao Ji decided to let Ah Xue see the wickedness and darkness of society again.

He wants

Give Ah Xue a good lesson!

"Once you're done eating, hurry upstairs. Don't go to sleep, and don't lock your door. Just stay in your room and wait, you know what I mean?"

After half an hour.

The catgirl's room door was opened, and standing outside was Number 86.

The maid was holding a stack of...

textbook.

Then, under A-Xue's bewildered gaze, the maid told the cat girl to sit obediently at the desk, opened the textbook, and began the teaching session.

"Given that you can't even write, in order to enable you to contribute greater value, your master requires that a portion of your evenings be forcibly occupied (no protests allowed) for me to help you improve your literacy and quickly transform you into a well-mannered, literate, and knowledgeable catgirl," Number 86, now in teacher mode, repeated his master's exact words in a serious tone.

Ah Xue: "."

"So, Miss Xue, are there a few words you'd most like to learn?" Number 86 said, believing that starting with what interests you would yield better teaching results.

The catgirl, sitting on the small stool, pondered for a moment.

But soon.

Its dark brown tail swayed under the light, and its two pairs of cat ears fluttered on its head.

"Could you please teach me how to write the characters '廖纪'?"

Outside the mansion, Irene, who was standing beside Liao Ji, stared at the light on in the catgirl's room on the third floor, speechless.

"That's it?"

"if not?"

"Alright, enough nonsense, we have other things to do."

"Now that the real revolutionary army has been found, the next step is to find the fake ones as well."

After saying that, Liao Ji led Yilin into the night.

Indeed, he could violently rule the revolutionary army, but how would that be any different from Jiu You's approach? Besides, both of them rule by violence, so what makes him think he can defeat Jiu You?

As an outstanding successor to socialism, Liao Ji's main focus was on ideological awareness. He wanted to control these revolutionary armies, and even the abandoned subhuman races and beastman tribes in the south, from a spiritual level.

But this is very difficult, extremely difficult, after all, his identity as a human is what it is, yet he wants to control a revolutionary army composed of demi-humans, which is not so easy.

Ah Xue is just one of the catalysts.

He needs an even bigger bombshell.