I, the little cat, am a substitute for others who are starving and thin

"Lost it."

"Oh, that's how it is."

Asuna, having seen through everything, pulled out a crocodile hand puppet she'd bought from somewhere from her inventory and put it on her hand. "This is Mr. Crocodile, the liar detector. Say hello to him first."

She had already anticipated this situation.

Yimi looked at the hand puppet warily, because no matter how she looked at it, she felt that the crocodile looked like a dinosaur.

"Now, please put your hand into Mr. Crocodile's mouth and repeat what you just said."

"If Yimi tells a lie, Mr. Crocodile will bite you and eat up all your future connections with snacks. Yimi will never be able to eat delicious snacks again."

Yimi quickly put her hand behind her back: "I used it."

"Really? How can you lie at such a young age?"

Asuna tried her best to make her expression stern, but she couldn't act like her mother no matter what.

During the time they were completing the strategy, this little guy actually ran to the maze and wandered around. Although the maze area on the current floor should not pose much threat to her, what if she encounters a bad player?

Yimi's ears drooped as she sadly picked up the cloth on the table.

Asuna was puzzled: "What are you doing?"

"You don't even teach me how to make clothes."

Asuna held her forehead, amused by her. "I'll let you off this time. Have vegetables for dinner. There won't be a next time, okay?"

Then she saw the kitten's ears stand up again, staring intently at the crocodile puppet in her hand.

"Do you like this?"

Asuna misunderstood her gaze.

Yimi shook his head: "Mr. Crocodile, why didn't it bite you?"

You lied! I said before that if the kitten came out without asking, I wouldn't teach you how to make clothes, but the crocodile didn't bite you. It turns out you two are in the same group!

This time, it was Asuna who turned her gaze away, using her adult wisdom to change the subject: "Why are you suddenly interested in treasure chest monsters? Have you encountered any?"

"A box that bites people, weird."

Actually, you mean curious, right?

"Didn't I give you a cardboard box to play with?"

Things like treasure chest monsters are generally traps, and are more dangerous than ordinary boxes on the same floor. Few players are willing to fight to the death if they find a treasure chest monster with only one life.

"But it's weird. I move to a room, then a crack, then I crawl in, then I can't go back, and then the treasure chest bites me..."

"I don't understand it at all."

Unfortunately, Asuna was not able to figure out this key information on her own like the people she met in other worlds, so she naturally didn't know that what Yimi was really curious about was the spatial phenomenon that caused the bug on the top floor.

Yimi pointed at her head and said, "It's just that the treasure chest bites people, which is strange. Why are you so stupid?"

"Okay, okay, don't worry. It's a very dangerous thing anyway. Don't run around like this without saying hello in the future, okay?"

"understood."

No, this little expression definitely meant that he didn't take her words to heart.

Asuna pinched her brows.

This kid's inexplicably interested in treasure chest monsters. Is it because cats like boxes? Judging from her expression, this curiosity doesn't seem to have subsided. It would be terrible if she ran out and got into danger again while I'm away.

Asuna thought for a second. How could she reasonably stop a child's curiosity about dangerous things? Even in real life, this was something that needed to be taken seriously, right?

She sent a message for help to Kirito who had just left: Yimi has become curious about dangerous things, you should educate her.

23

Chapter 23 Ouch——

What kind of education? It's only been about a week. A week ago, this strategy ghost was still forcefully demanding that everyone use NPCs as bait in the meeting.

A week later, he was called back from the new floor to deal with the NPC's education issues.

In fact, Yimi has been locked up in the guild for a week, so it's natural that she would want to go out and play, right?

Kirito turned around and glanced at Asuna, who was walking at the back.

"What are you looking at?"

Asuna pressed Yimi who was walking in front of her.

Kirito smiled and said, "It feels like a family outing."

Asuna nodded. "Outing? It's been ages since I've been out and about in a relaxed manner."

"..."

Kirito turned his head back and continued walking forward.

No rebuttal?

Boys' thinking is more unconventional in many areas. Kirito deeply understands that the more you forbid children from doing something, the more curious they will be.

Asuna didn't understand what Yimi said, and Kirito, who was told by her, naturally understood that Yimi had a strong interest in treasure chest monsters.

At this time, they were at the entrance of a cave dungeon in a wild area on a lower floor. There were actually fewer treasure chests in this kind of place than in the maze area, but the maze area was really too large.

In order to ensure that he would not encounter outsiders, Kirito deliberately chose a less popular floor, and Asuna also made a small cloak for Yimi to cover her appearance.

Of course, the characteristics of being short cannot be concealed.

This happened on the first day of the server opening. There were only 10,000 players in the entire server, and with the emergence of sacrifices, there are only a few thousand left. Naturally, there will be a shortage of people on many floors.

Places with unattractive scenery or no special features are basically deserted all year round, and this floor is almost like that.

"found it."

Kirito, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped.

Yimi walked around Kirito and looked ahead, only to see an ordinary treasure chest that had been opened, and no gaps in the surrounding scene.

She pointed blankly in front of her: "This is an ordinary box."

Asuna also looked at Kirito blankly, curious about what he was going to do.

Kirito coughed twice and began to speak: "This is the corpse of the treasure chest monster."

Asuna: "?"

Kirito continued, "It's nothing special, right?"

"But that's not the case."

Yimi looked left and right in confusion.

I didn't see any cracks in the wall, nor did I see any teeth growing in the treasure chest.

Kirito shook his head slightly: "It's true, the treasure chest monster becomes like this after it dies. If you don't believe me, go over and take a look inside the treasure chest."

"Well."

Yimi leaned over to look inside.

Then Kirito suddenly closed the treasure chest, using a little less force to avoid hurting Yimi: "Oh, how did this treasure chest monster come back to life! Ah, how could such a terrible thing happen? It bit Yimi!"

"Meow!"

Yimi kicked her calves quickly.

Kirito gave Asuna a look that was stunned by his actions.

Asuna understood and quickly grabbed Yimi's legs and pulled her out: "Don't be afraid, I will rescue you immediately!"

At the same time she glared at Kirito.

What's this person's mentality? What kind of bad advice did he come up with? What if he's frightened and has psychological trauma? Are you responsible?

"Don't be afraid, I'll pry its mouth open right away."

Although he was controlling the treasure chest to gently clamp Imi, Kirito pretended to be struggling to pry open the "mouth" of the chest, allowing Asuna to successfully take Imi out of the clutches of the "treasure chest monster".

Asuna patted her back to comfort her: "It's okay, it's okay, don't be afraid. Okay."

Yimi's tail stood up and he blew air at the empty treasure chest.

Kirito, the culprit, propped himself up on his knees and pretended to be exhausted. "I've never heard of dead treasure chest monsters being so dangerous. See? There's nothing fun about such a dangerous place."

Yimi broke free from Asuna's hands, and Platinum's stand appeared from behind, staring at the treasure chest suspiciously.

Now she was more interested in the boxes than the cracks. It turned out that the boxes used by humans were the corpses left behind by a creature called a treasure chest monster!

Compared to the actual famine, the world is a real stand-in that ordinary people cannot see, so Kirito and the others didn't feel anything.

But seeing Koneko staring at him like that, Kirito felt a little guilty and tugged at her: "Now that we've seen the danger outside, let's go back quickly."

"Well."

Yimi cautiously reached out and poked the empty treasure chest.

There was no movement.

Kirito just said that this was the first time he had seen a dead treasure chest monster bite people, which meant that the corpse of the treasure chest monster in front of him was even more bizarre.

After thinking about it, Yimi took out the treasure chest monster that he had installed not long ago from the storage space, made room for it, and then put the "corpse of the treasure chest monster" into the storage space.

Compared to a treasure chest that bites people, a treasure chest that can revive (she doesn't know what revive means) is even more rare, so she has to take it back and study it carefully.

"Eh? Did you do something?"

The operation was so fast that Kirito and Asuna only saw another treasure chest suddenly appear above the treasure chest in front of them, and then the treasure chest below suddenly disappeared, causing the one that suddenly appeared above to fall down.

I don’t know what the principle is, but the real treasure chest monster that entered the storage space once still did not attack Yimi at such a distance.

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In a murderous guild, players who directly kill people will never be able to remove the orange mark, and can only survive in a few "out-of-circle villages", that is, towns without system protection. Unable to use the resources of the town, their speed of becoming stronger is actually not as fast as that of a regular guild.

But the Smiling Coffin is an outlier. Ninety percent of the various strange killing methods came from them. Even if the strategy team encounters them, they dare not be careless.

Even if killing orange-named monsters would not be considered a crime, most people in the strategy group are not mentally prepared to kill people directly. Moreover, when the level difference is not big, players who have advanced by killing people may have an advantage in the fight. People who are used to killing monsters and those who are used to PvP certainly have different skills.

In addition, the most troublesome thing about the Smiling Coffin is their whereabouts. Their base has always been a mystery. In fact, it is just a safe area in the wild cave dungeon on the lower floor.

The strategy team focused on the maze area, and mid-level players only went to the maze with more people. Their place was a remote place, so they could just kill off a few ignorant people who came in occasionally.

The members of the Smiling Coffin who had just walked out of the base looked at the treasure chest in confusion.

After the game was launched, there seemed to be no maintenance except for those two times. Some items that were originally refreshed during the internal test have also become unique items.

He remembered that this box should have been opened by someone. Could it be that someone closed it manually?

The Laughing Casket member reached out to touch the box in confusion.

Then the treasure chest monsters on the ninety-fifth floor opened their mouths: "Ah——"

24

Chapter 24: Defeat the Smiling Coffin.

Poke ~ then turn around and run.

Hiding behind the chair, Yimi stared vigilantly at the treasure chest placed there quietly.

"..."

It has been like this since that day. She brought back the box that was supposed to be in a fixed location, and after trying it for several days, there was no reaction.

Kirito's parenting method is not very good. Once, Asuna was awakened by Imi who crawled out of the bed in the middle of the night. After pretending to be asleep, she saw Imi secretly took out Mr. Crocodile from her inventory and threw it into the treasure chest, presumably to kill the fish and silence it.

"Yimi-chan, can I have another forty servings of rat stew? I've prepared a specialty from the 61st floor for you."

"it is good."

Yimi let the treasure chest go and turned to run towards the kitchen.

This little guy is very active as long as it involves stewing rats. Now everyone basically knows how to coax her.

In addition to special BOSSes and terrains, stewed rats is still the most popular one. In order to ensure safety, no one in the strategy group is spared from stewing rats except the team leader. Middle and low-level players say that the strategy group must be crazy, and they can often be seen gathering together to kill rats.