A Little Monster With A Wife Is Amazing – CH70

Chapter 70: Can I Subtly Shed My Vest…?

The group chat was still filled with “hahahas.” Not a single monster took the little spider’s warning to heart. After all, it was fundamentally impossible. They had never dealt with task-takers in their daily lives, so why would a task-taker go through the immense trouble of breaking open a spatial entrance just to find a bunch of F-rank minor monsters like them? What would even be the point?

Jian Tang thought so too.

Yet, looking at the chat history in the group, a faint sense of unease lingered in his mind. Especially when he saw the words “Bloody Butcher” and “plant-type monster,” he felt like his PTSD was about to act up again.

I-I must be overthinking things, right?

Even if that weirdo is incredibly strong, there’s no way he happens to be the Bloody Butcher, right?

The Bloody Butcher is currently busy getting married. How could he possibly leave his new bride behind and run off to a backwater little plane like this to act as a gate-bombing criminal…

Jian Tang forced himself to put down his phone, stopping himself from paying attention to the news that made his mind restless, hoping that as time passed, this matter would slowly fade away.

Unfortunately, things went contrary to his wishes.

Fewer than two days later, the local underground monster circle exploded again—that weirdo had appeared once more!

This time, the perpetrator’s crime occurred at noon. He suddenly attacked Weiyi Second Town, which was located on the outskirts of the city. As before, he violently broke open the spatial entrance, violently floored a multitude of guards, and violently dragged out the town mayor, who was nearly wetting himself, forcing him to hand over the town’s resident registry.

When he saw this news, Jian Tang was sitting at the dining table at home eating dinner. He was choked directly by a mouthful of rice, and it took Feng Xun patting his back for a long while before he managed to recover.

“What’s wrong?” Feng Xun handed Jian Tang some warm water, casually glancing at the phone that Jian Tang had face-downed onto the table.

“N-nothing, I just ate too fast and choked.”

Jian Tang drank a sip of water to calm his nerves. While continuing to shovel rice into his mouth, he recalled the news he had just seen.

This time he caused trouble at noon? In broad daylight, is that task-taker really that arrogant?

Speaking of which, he and Feng Xun hadn’t managed to have lunch together today. Because the company’s business had been very hectic lately with a large volume of shipments, according to what the Realm Lords meant, it seemed every shipment required “President Feng” to go to the site and oversee it personally.

“Was the delivery this afternoon smooth?” Jian Tang asked.

Ever since Feng Xun shed his “task-taker” vest, he no longer hid many things from Jian Tang. He felt there was no need for a family to conceal things from one another, not to mention that Jian Tang was also a reserve “task-taker” who would find out about many things sooner or later anyway.

“Very smooth,” Feng Xun said.

“Lately outside… is it still peaceful?”

“It’s fine.” Feng Xun had also encountered a few plundering Calamity Seeds during his deliveries, but it wasn’t a big deal; they were all easily taken care of by him.

Jian Tang kind of wanted to ask Feng Xun if he knew about that bizarre task-taker who was blasting open monster town entrances everywhere, but the words traveled to the edge of his lips, spun around, and were swallowed right back down.

In case the other party asked where his source of information came from, he wouldn’t be able to explain it.

Sigh… A faint sorrow rose in Jian Tang’s heart.

Wearing a vest is so inconvenient.

Should I find an opportunity later to test Feng Xun’s views on supernatural monsters?

A task-taker’s level of acceptance toward supernatural monsters was definitely stronger than that of ordinary people, and Feng Xun was clearly the more gentle and inclusive type among task-takers. If the other party wasn’t very repulsed, he could also subtly shed his vest. After all, they were about to get married; a family should know each other thoroughly and love one another.

Jian Tang planned as such, but he had never been able to find an opportunity.

Lately, Feng Xun had clearly become very busy. Not only was it difficult for the two of them to have lunch together at noon, but sometimes he even had to work overtime until very late at night to return.

Despite the busyness, the other party had always been very attentive in preparing for the wedding. They had already selected a wedding planning company with a good reputation. After repeated communication, they finally chose a version of the planning proposal that both Jian Tang and Feng Xun were very satisfied with.

Because the budget was ample, that company took care of all the subsequent coordination work. Jian Tang and his partner only needed to go to the company once a week to review the other party’s progress and finalize a few decoration details. Feng Xun had never been absent from this weekly meeting.

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Time flowed gently, and the wonderful weekend arrived once more.

This week’s time to visit the wedding planning company was set for Sunday. Today was Saturday, and Feng Xun said he had to go to the school to work overtime. Jian Tang was bored idling at home by himself, so he planned to look for his friend to hang out.

Little Yu had invited Jian Tang several times, telling him to come to Weiyi Ninth Town to play, saying the coral flowers at the bottom of the town’s sea had already bloomed. Right now was when the sea of flowers was at its most beautiful. If he missed this year’s viewing period, the next time he could catch the flowering season would require waiting three years later.

The two minor monsters agreed on a meeting place and meeting time. Jian Tang put on his little backpack, brought along his protective amulet, and took the subway to the water park in City A.

Although they agreed to meet at the water park, the spatial coordinates of Weiyi Ninth Town had actually undergone a change. The spatial entrances at the parking lot and the deep water area had long been invalidated. Under Little Yu’s guidance, Jian Tang went to the top-floor rooftop of the water park. After wandering around in a shaded, wind-shielded corner of the rooftop for a long time, he finally found the spatial entrance to Weiyi Ninth Town.

“Little Tang! I finally get to see you!”

Little Yu had already been waiting for his friend inside that massive blue oil painting. Seeing the youth pass through the spatial entrance and drop into the blue room, he immediately swam out from the oil painting, happily circling around Jian Tang.

“Long time no see.” Jian Tang smiled and patted the little pink dolphin’s head. “You have a lot of energy.”

Previously, Little Yu’s energy depletion during the evil sacrifice had been too great, shrinking his body size to something similar to a koi fish. After several months of recuperation, the other party had finally grown back up again, his body size already restoring to a state similar to when Jian Tang first saw him.

“My family says I just have a big heart. Having suffered such a severe injury, I can still eat, sleep, and play, so naturally I recovered very quickly,” Little Yu said with a grin. The tip of his tail dug twice into the oil painting’s waves, rolling out a seashell from inside and presenting it before Jian Tang.

“This is a gift I prepared for you, Little Tang. Wishing you a happy marriage in advance!”

Little Yu knew about Jian Tang getting married at the end of the year, though he didn’t know Jian Tang’s human wife was a task-taker. He only regretted that his transformation wasn’t perfect, making it impossible to attend a human wedding. But he absolutely had to send a wedding gift; this was also a piece of his and his family’s heart and gratitude toward Jian Tang.

Jian Tang opened the seashell and saw that it contained a string of a pearl bracelet inside. Every single pearl was massive and plump, the pearl luster brilliant, and it even carried a healing effect that calmed emotions—it was a famous specialty of Weiyi Ninth Town.

“Wow, thank you!”

Jian Tang also gave the gift he brought along to Little Yu. It was a human snack that Little Yu had always really wanted to eat. It wasn’t convenient for Little Yu to go to human society, so Jian Tang straight up helped him buy two big boxes, guaranteeing the other party could eat his fill.

The two minor monsters happily finished exchanging gifts. Jian Tang turned into a slender little vine, wrapping himself around the little dolphin’s fin. Little Yu carried his good friend as he leaped into the oil painting ocean, swimming toward the direction of the town’s entrance.

This oil painting ocean was immensely vast. Jian Tang felt it was comparable to the wide ocean in reality. He was carried by Little Yu to swim for at least twenty minutes before he finally saw a section of the oil painting’s frame within the deep blue seawater.

That section of the frame was inserted into the sand at the bottom of the sea, like a ruler lying horizontally in a sandpile. Hovering around the oil painting frame were several massive great white sharks.

Noticing the little dolphin’s approach, the great white sharks immediately looked over vigilantly, while simultaneously noticing the little vine monster wrapped around the little dolphin’s body, baring two rows of sharp, large teeth at Jian Tang with an unkind expression.

“One of us! One of us!” Little Yu hurriedly flashed his pass. “This is my friend. He is a resident of Weiyi Fifth Town, and I invited him over to play.”

Jian Tang immediately presented his monster resident card too—it was a thin, small shiny piece, which was inserted into his vine’s little leaf, taken out to give the town guards a “beep—” whenever needed.

After verification was complete, the great white sharks swam away. The little dolphin carried the little vine past that section of the picture frame. Jian Tang only felt his vision blur. The original boundless seabed vanished, and what appeared before his eyes was a prosperous and beautiful monster town.

“Wow—” Jian Tang was stunned by the beauty.

Unlike the gloomy and cramped Weiyi Fifth Town, a portion of Weiyi Ninth Town overlapped with the supernatural world’s famous “Sea of Healing.” The town’s main body was a small island floating on the sea. The sun couldn’t be seen here, but the Sea of Healing itself could emit light, so it illuminated the entire town brightly, like a massive pearl floating on the sea.

The position where Jian Tang and his friend were standing right now was on the wooden trestle bridge of the island pier. The exit was equipped with a security checkpoint. Jian Tang saw several burly large crabs and fully armed large octopuses patrolling near the pier. In the seawater beside them, megalodons could also be seen swimming back and forth from time to time, each one looking majestic and filled with murderous intent.

Walking off the wooden trestle bridge, Jian Tang, whose identity had been scrutinized once more, put away his identity card and whispered to Little Yu.

“The alert level on your side is so high.”

Unlike their Weiyi Fifth Town, where the entire town just had a single large eyeball gatekeeping monster, and there were usually no patrolling guards at all. The town’s security system was virtually nonexistent, pitifully crude.

“Sigh, don’t mention it. It actually wasn’t like this before.” Little Yu turned into the appearance of a little merman. Fearing that turning into human form would cause the guards to capture him as a human, Jian Tang still maintained his little vine appearance, sprawling on Little Yu’s shoulder.

“When the High Priest was doing the full moon divination a few days ago, he saw a bad result. He called on everyone to close the spatial entrances and live in seclusion and silence for a while, waiting for the divination results to turn good before opening the town entrances again.”

“Close the spatial entrances?” Jian Tang was very surprised. “At this time? Can the residents in town agree to that?”

Although he no longer worked on the production line of the waste factory, he had never broken contact with Little Mushroom and the others, knowing that the business of the monster towns in the entirety of City A was currently booming.

Because for some unknown reason, the spatial cargo channels of other cities would always be intercepted by the Calamity Seeds, yet their City A’s spatial pathways had never experienced such an accident. Right now, the Realm Lords over at the Abyss Prison had an immense purchasing demand. Not only did the factory orders of their Weiyi Fifth Town surge wildly, but the production factories of other towns were also operating at full throttle, making a fortune.

Weiyi Ninth Town was adjacent to the Sea of Healing, and the healing-type materials it produced were already highly sought after. Now that deliveries were stable, the demand was skyrocketing even further. If they closed the spatial channels at a time like this, it would be equivalent to actively giving up a massive amount of business. Even if the townspeople of Weiyi Ninth Town generally didn’t lack money, they certainly wouldn’t be able to stand the psychological drop of letting a large amount of points flow away for nothing.

“Of course everyone didn’t agree. They argued about this matter for several days,” Little Yu said. “Later, the mayor stepped in to coordinate. The spatial entrances weren’t closed, but the defense force at the entrances was strengthened, resulting in what it looks like now.”

Jian Tang asked curiously, “What kind of bad divination result did the High Priest see? Is it related to the Calamity Seeds?”

He had been surfing the forum with high intensity recently, knowing that the Calamity Seeds were driven to desperation and ran to many planes to cause destruction. In response to this situation, the system had already issued new wanted missions. Many monsters and task-takers who hadn’t participated in the frontline territory construction had begun to accept these types of missions, and the rewards were said to be very good too.

Little Yu shook his head, lowering his voice.

“Have you heard of that weirdo task-taker roaming around locally, blasting town entrances everywhere? It seems to be related to him.”

Jian Tang’s heart suddenly gave a violent thud, and he hurriedly followed up with a question, “How so?”

“The High Priest said a weirdo breaking into the town appeared in the divination images, and he would bring disaster to our town. However, I can’t be sure if the person in the divination is indeed that weirdo either; it’s just a guess at present.”

“Was there no more other information in the divination?”

“No.”

“The reason why the other party attempted to break into the town isn’t known either?”

Little Yu shrugged: “The High Priest attempted to divine it, but couldn’t obtain more information. Instead, it exhausted him to the point of collapsing, and he’s still recuperating in bed up until now.”

Jian Tang didn’t continue asking.

Looking at Little Yu’s indifferent appearance, they probably didn’t believe the High Priest’s prophecy. Even if Jian Tang had doubts in his heart, he felt embarrassed to say words that threw cold water on them.

He turned his head, quietly sizing up those advanced large monsters patrolling at the town’s entrance. His originally somewhat apprehensive heart gradually settled down again.

It should be fine.

Weiyi Ninth Town hadn’t completely slacked off. They had already prepared for a rainy day, deploying so many advanced large monsters to hold the fort. Looking at these large monsters’ equipment, there seemed to even be monster mercenaries hired with high salaries inside. Even if an accident occurred, it wouldn’t lead to too severe consequences for the town.

Little Yu carried Jian Tang through the town’s streets, arriving before a bay on the west side of the island.

The seawater here was as clear as crystal. Looking out, the entire seabed was covered with a boundless sea of coral flowers. The colors of the corals were richly vibrant, the tips of the branches blinking with fine fragments of fluorescence, swaying gently with the water current. Many small marine-type monsters swam back and forth within the sea of coral flowers, laughing and playing.

Little Yu turned back into the appearance of a little dolphin, leaping into the sea with a single bound, happily wagging his tail at Jian Tang.

“The scenery here is only at the shallows. I’ll take you to a deeper place to take a look! Come on!”

Just the beautiful scenery of the coral flower sea before his eyes had already stunned Jian Tang. He really didn’t know what kind of peerless scenery the deeper seabed would hold. Jian Tang was both pleasantly surprised and excited, unable to wait to leap onto Little Yu’s body, shouting happily.

“Let’s gooo!”

The little pink dolphin carried his good vine friend and swam into the sea of coral flowers. The small monsters acquainted with Little Yu gathered around one after another, swimming back and forth around him, chattering away.

“Hey, it’s a new face!”

“Little Yu, who is this? Is he your good friend?”

“Can I touch your little ears? They look so cute!”

Jian Tang had always been naturally familiar with others, quickly becoming acquainted with these small monsters in the ocean. Everyone was talking and laughing, freely wandering and playing happily within the flower sea when—

With a “boom,” a earth-shattering loud noise echoed from the pier trestle bridge, shaking the entire small island to the point that it seemed to tremble.

Following the shocking noise were several consecutive heart-stopping explosive sounds, accompanied by more and more panicked shrieks.

“He’s here! He’s here!!!”

“It’s that gate-blasting weirdo!!!”

“He broke in—!!!”

A Little Monster With A Wife Is Amazing