CH 2.2

This… They were different species altogether.

Maybe he intended to fatten her up and eat her?

Mu Le retreated in a pitiful manner, hugging tightly the plush doll Gu Mingyuan had given her.

Gu Mingyuan showed a hint of helplessness.

He picked up the small bowl from the ground, set it to automatic insulation, and put the egg back inside.

Indeed, Gu Mingyuan had planned to keep a pet and live a peaceful retirement life.

However, that didn’t mean he intended to center his life around the pet.

After arranging the food, Gu Mingyuan opened the door to the adjacent bathroom… to take a shower.

Yes, when he started undressing, he only intended to take a shower.

As soon as Gu Mingyuan left, Mu Le continued to explore the room’s surroundings.

With a chain on her feet, her movement was limited.

The room was spacious, and when she ventured out of her small nest, she couldn’t even reach the edge of the bed before the chain pulled her leg.

She turned in another direction.

There was a large and long office desk in the room, with a bookshelf, pencil holder, and many electronic devices that Mu Le had never seen before.

She could reach the vicinity of the desk.

Mu Le opened one of the desk drawers.

The drawer contained a jumble of miscellaneous electronic devices. She carefully took out something that looked like a pen and examined it.

Suddenly, the “pen” popped open, revealing a small mechanical arm.

Mu Le:…

She tried to push it back but found that the mechanism wouldn’t retract.

After thinking for a moment, Mu Le took the pen back to where she was locked and inserted the small mechanical arm into the keyhole of the chain lock!

The size was just right, and even though she didn’t possess the skill of “lock picking” as a thief, she couldn’t resist giving it a try.

After forcibly inserting something that wasn’t a key into the keyhole, it made two beeping sounds and suddenly emitted a loud alarm—

Mu Le:…

She was frightened and immediately threw the pen back into its original drawer. At the same time, something in the drawer was hit by the pen, making a clattering sound, and a strong beam of light emerged from the drawer.

The beam of light found a suitable spot near the desk and expanded on its own, turning into a suspended screen.

Mu Le:…

What kind of terrifying high-tech world is this?

She suddenly remembered her friend’s pet cat.

She heard that when the cat first arrived at her friend’s home, it behaved meekly in front of people, as if wanting to disappear completely into a corner.

Once the people left, the cat immediately unleashed its full force, turning the house upside down.

In that moment, Mu Le suddenly understood the cat’s feelings.

The alarm continued, and within a minute, the electronic door in the place where Gu Mingyuan had just entered automatically opened.

“Demon King” hurriedly emerged from the bathroom, wrapped in a bathrobe.

He was still wet, clearly interrupted midway through his shower. Upon hearing the commotion outside, he simply put on his coat and came out.

Confronted with the opened desk drawer, the popped-up electronic account interface, the loud alarm from the pet chain, and the human cub sitting on the floor, looking panicked and somewhat helpless, staring at him…

Gu Mingyuan took a deep breath.

Stay calm.

He was barefoot, leaving a damp trail on the floor as he walked.

Under normal circumstances, this would be something he couldn’t tolerate.

The alarm was too loud, and the little one in front of him was clearly frightened by the noise.

Gu Mingyuan first went to disable the automatic alarm on the pet chain.

Then he checked his own drawer, closed the electronic account interface, and carefully stored the laser engraver—which was the pen—locking it in a drawer.

Mu Le sat on the floor, watching him. She felt so ashamed that she wished she could find a hole to hide in.

Once everything was taken care of, Gu Mingyuan approached Mu Le again and crouched down.

He was towering over her, and even when he crouched down, it didn’t make him appear any friendlier. On the contrary, his intimidating presence made Mu Le even more nervous.

Gu Mingyuan’s bathrobe was also loosely draped, and from Mu Le’s perspective, she could clearly see droplets of water falling from his hair, running down his neck and chest, and rolling down to his lower abdomen…

Due to nervousness or perhaps other reasons, Mu Le swallowed her saliva.

With hands still slightly damp, Gu Mingyuan reached out to Mu Le.

His expression was too serious, his entire body exuding an overwhelming aura of power. Mu Le even doubted if he could crush her skull with his hands.

She was frightened and tightly closed her eyes. But to her surprise, Gu Mingyuan’s hand simply landed on her hair.

He thought he was being gentle and tender as he gently rubbed Mu Le’s head, comforting her, “It’s alright, don’t be afraid.”

Mu Le felt as delicate as a sapling in a hurricane under his touch.

…Too bald.