The Creatures That We Are-Chapter 1173: Nagging

“Hmph, works for me!” Nainai declared, finding it undignified to make the first move. She hovered up to the level of the moon—no, slightly higher—positioning herself to watch Sloth from a different angle in case it attempted anything unexpected.

None of them expected Sloth to do nothing.

Twenty minutes passed in inaction. During that time, Liao Liao had figured out the truth of the Three Double-Hours of Heavenly Tribulation and formulated several solutions. She also speculated about Sloth's intentions and its reasons for remaining passive.

Finally, Liao Liao concluded: Sloth was determined to buy time with its second form until the Three Double-Hours ended.

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It was a solution that required the least work, yet also the surest way to ensure victory. The battlefield put the death monsters at a disadvantage, but they didn't need to end things during this time. It would benefit them to wait until the Three Double-Hours was over.

“Is it buying time?” Old Seven realized, too.

“Very likely,” Liao Liao said calmly.

Impatient, Old Seven shot a dozen air bullets at the fake moon overhead. They had no effect. The fake moon seemed more illusion than tangible existence.

Old Seven anxiously said, “We must move now, Liao Liao! I don’t feel good about our chance if things go on like this.”

Liao Liao nodded. She had decided to take action as well.

“Let’s go over our Talents. I’ll go first,” Liao Liao said with a clear head. “My Air Man, Disorientation, and Follow Heart are restricted. Cheating, God of Firearms, God of Archery, Intangibility, and Keen Ear still work.”

Hong Xiaoxiao followed, “My Divination and Telekinesis are restricted. Phantom, Gamer, Invisibility, and Muscles seem to be working fine.”

“I can use everything other than Six Senses Judge,” Old Seven said.

“Hmph!” Nainai put her hands on her hips and shouted, “Mere death monsters aren’t going to seal this Empress’ power. It’s more than it can bite off!”

In other words, all her Talents are working.

Liao Liao quickly listed the still usable Talents and came up with a strategy; more precisely, she had chosen one from the many strategies she had formulated beforehand.

“Hm—” She stretched and sat down, crossing her legs.

“Wait, why are you sitting down?” Old Seven jumped. “Aren’t we going to fight?”

“Patience.” Liao Liao smiled cryptically. “Old Seven, introduce yourself. It’s impolite to start a fight without greetings, isn’t it?”

Old Seven broke into a smile after two seconds, catching on. He activated Nagging and struck up a conversation with the fake moon in the sky like the most extreme sort of extrovert chatting up a stranger.

“Hello, beautiful lady. I’m Old Seven, twenty-nine years old, a Libra, type O blood, single since birth. It’s fate that we get to confront each other in such a romantic place! They say it takes ten years of karma from our past lives to share a boat in this life, and a hundred years to share a bed. This fateful battle must require at least ten thousand years...”

“Should I call you Death Monster Sloth or Wang Shu? I’d say Death Monster Sloth sounds cooler, but just calling you Sloth is weird. It’s like I’m calling you lazy. Why don’t I call you Wang Shu? It’s a nice name. I think it’s supposed to represent the moon[1]. Whoa, as expected of an educated lady, having such a well-thought-out name...”

“Miss Wang Shu, do you have a boyfriend? Haha, you’re so pretty. You must have a lot of suitors...”

“I’d suggest you date more and refrain from getting married easily. Avoid a flash marriage, especially. I have a friend who did, and it ended badly...”

“I believe two people should go on a trip together before getting married. It’s the best trial for a couple. It’ll expose all the problems of both parties...”

“Although I like pets, I believe the aggressive breeds of dogs shouldn’t be kept in cities. They pose too great a risk...”

“The problem of our time is rapid development. Technology advances continuously, while our mental state remains fallow. There are many intelligent people who lack wisdom. They pursue material gains and neglect what their hearts actually need. The poor and the rich, the successful and the failing, no one leads a happy life...”

“What is true and what is fake? Is false freedom true? Is a free falsehood false? Does existence equate to free will? Does free will actually exist?”

...

For ten minutes, Old Seven rattled on and on without pause. Hong Xiaoxiao and Nainai had to cover their ears when their temples began to throb. They were nearly losing their minds.

Liao Liao shut off her hearing with Keen Ear, but even so, she couldn't completely block Nagging's influence due to its psychic corruption.

Another ten minutes passed. Liao Liao opened her eyes, breaking into a smile. It was the right decision to bring Old Seven!

She had activated Cheating as soon as they entered this battlefield, but it had been too slow to take effect. With Old Seven's indiscriminate interference through Nagging, she was able to identify the bug in the Domain of Night more quickly. And the bug confirmed her speculation.

With that done, it was time to go all in.

She rose to her feet and looked up at the moon, her lips curling into a confident smile she hadn't shown for years—the last time was during that summer in her childhood when everything changed.

“Plan 4, let’s go!”

1. Wangshu is said to drive the moon in mythology. The word is thus used to refer to the moon. ☜