Barto had just clicked on the recomnded video when the screen switched to a successful team assignnt notification for a ga, along with a ten-second countdown to join.
He only had ti to glimpse a slender back, the sa one from the video thumbnail, before he was pulled into the ga.
Barto stood in the middle of a sandy wasteland, stunned for two seconds.
"BANG!"
A bullet whizzed past Barto’s ear, followed by the sound of dense gunfire.
Sparks flew. Barto reacted instantly, nimbly dodging the bullets flying from all directions, and temporarily pushed the matter of the virtual female video to the back of his mind.
’I’ll deal with that after this match.’
Barto raised his gun and took aim—
"RAT-TAT-TAT!" After spraying a wave of enemy Beastn, he quickly relocated.
’There’s no way I’m losing to a bunch of brain-dead Beastn who are all brawn and no brains!’
Gu Ning took a long, vigorous bath.
A hot bath was now more of a luxury than her next full al, so she scrubbed herself as clean as she possibly could, until her skin was red all over.
Lifting the bucket, she poured the last of the hot water over herself. Gu Ning let out a long breath.
’Ah, that feels good.’
After her bath, Gu Ning changed into her ruffian-style loungewear and stepped out of the bathroom.
As usual, the mont she opened the door, Cook pounced, nuzzling and licking her.
The degenerated Cook was acting more and more like a large dog.
Gu Ning laughed and pushed the enthusiastic dog’s head away. When she ran a hand over his body, his fur was still damp.
His fur had grown thicker with his degeneration; shaking himself off and a towel-down were no longer enough to get him dry.
Gu Ning found the hairdryer Barto had just used in the living room and prepared to blow-dry Cook’s fur.
"Just die already!"
"Hahaha, what a bunch of idiots. They fell for such an obvious trap."
Gu Ning saw Barto wearing a silver-and-black, semi-circular helt, leaping and tumbling around the living room. He held his hands in a gun-toting pose, shouting bloodthirsty words.
"..."
’Are foxes supposed to be this aggressive?’
Seeing Barto running back and forth playing his ga, Cook got excited and trotted over, wanting to play too.
Caught off guard, Barto was sent flying by Cook’s charge and was instantly headshot by an enemy sniper.
"Stupid dog!!!" Barto threw off his holographic helt, jumped up, and tackled Cook to the ground.
Before Cook’s head could be smashed like a walnut, Gu Ning rushed over to break up the fight.
Barto was fuming. He shoved Gu Ning back with a sweep of his arm. "Don’t stop ! I’m going to beat him up today, no matter what!"
This guy had been annoying him all day. He had no idea how Gu Ning could tolerate a Beastman who had degenerated this much.
Gu Ning was bent over trying to pull them apart when she accidentally stepped on the hem of her own robe. Pushed by Barto, she lost her balance and staggered forward, falling to her knees.
The loose, stretchy robe, which she had altered from a Beastman’s garnt, was pulled down by her foot, dragging the collar below her clavicle and baring one shoulder. Her slippers went flying.
Barto had Cook’s head in his grasp, ready to slam it down, when he saw Gu Ning fall in front of him. A casual glance took in the entire scene.
His eyes traveled from her slender yet rounded shoulder down to her fair, bare feet.
Gu Ning’s knees stung from the fall.
She pushed herself into a kneeling position, dusted off her hands, and turned to look at Barto and Cook.
"WOOF!" Seeing her fall, Cook shoved Barto over, then helped Gu Ning up from the floor.
The first thing Gu Ning did was check her head covering. Relieved to find it was still securely in place, she straightened her robe, found her slippers, and put them on before turning her attention to Barto.
Barto was sitting on the floor, head tilted up, looking at her with a bewildered expression.
Gu Ning made a "truce" gesture at him. Worried he was still angry with Cook, she tentatively reached out to pat his head.
Her palm barely brushed the top of Barto’s fluffy head before she quickly withdrew her hand.
Barto snapped out of his daze and instinctively bared his teeth at her.
He hated being touched by others. Even with soone he was relatively familiar with, like Cook, he would still lash out with a claw.
But Barto didn’t scratch Gu Ning. Instead, he began to circle her, sizing her up.
He stared at her floor-length robe for a mont, then reached out a paw, wanting to lift the hem to get another look at her feet.
"GRR-WOOF!" Seeing his movent, Cook let out a low, warning growl and stepped in front of Gu Ning.
Afraid they would start fighting again, Gu Ning grabbed the hairdryer and pulled Cook into the bedroom.
Barto sat where he was for a mont, then picked up the holographic helt from the floor.
He put on the helt and saw the end-ga screen showing his team had lost. Annoyed, he yanked it off, flopped into his nest, and picked up his gaming console.
As he played, Barto’s eyes kept drifting toward Gu Ning’s bedroom.
When the "ga over" music played, Barto’s attention finally returned to the screen.
The screen displayed a "Level Failed" ssage. Barto was in no mood to play anymore.
Suddenly, he rembered he had forgotten sothing. He opened his terminal and started searching for the virtual female video that had been recomnded in the ga lobby earlier.
He had already exited the ga, so he couldn’t imdiately find the recomnded video.
’What was that virtual female’s video called again? Gu De-sothing Ning? Miao Ning?’
Barto typed into the search bar:
Gu Dengning
The search returned a few cluttered pages, but no videos.
’That’s not it.’
Barto scratched his ear and typed again:
Miao Dengning
Still no videos, just a page recomnding stomach dicine for the Cat Clan.
Barto typed one more ti:
Ningde Miao
The screen was blank. Nothing ca up.
"..."
Barto didn’t usually spend much ti online. After searching for a long while, it occurred to him that he should look on a dedicated video platform.
Females were always one of the hottest topics online; a virtual female should be easy enough to find.
He thought for a mont, opened the most popular public video site, and tapped it with his paw.
Several gaudy video recomndations imdiately popped up, all of them the trendiest movies and shows of the mont.
Barto’s eyes imdiately landed on an annoying face on the recomndation page, wearing a smile that disgusted him.
He was supposedly boycotting virtual females, yet there he was, holding a virtual female’s hand as if to kiss it.
Barto scoffed internally. ’No wonder he’s getting flad. He totally deserves it.’
Just seeing that face annoyed him. Not wanting to look any longer, he shut off his terminal.
「In the bedroom.」
The hairdryer whirred.
Cook lay with his head in Gu Ning’s lap, letting her turn him this way and that to dry his fur.
"All done."
Gu Ning had been blow-drying Cook for nearly an hour before his thick coat was finally dry. The effort left her forehead beaded with sweat.
She glanced at the ti; it was already past nine o’clock.
After playing with Cook for a bit to soothe him, Gu Ning sent him to the living room to sleep with Barto, instructing him to keep an eye on the fox and not let him into her bedroom. Then, she began to film her next video.
This ti, she was planning to film a Bear Clan female.
The main background was still the area around her desk and bookshelf, but she intended to make this video a little longer.
She also planned to film a full-body shot.
The downfall of the official PawsUp account showed her how difficult it was to level up an account. Most Beastn were straightforward and hot-tempered; if they liked sothing, they’d show it, and if they hated sothing, they’d take action.
Moreover, due to their pack ntality, the Beastn were a united front and easily swept up by trends. While they might not all love the sa thing, they would dogpile on sothing collectively, showing her the true power of a group.
With the officials stirring up shit, there was no telling what kind of shenanigans they’d pull next.
She had to solidify her Beastman audience to the point where the official authority was weakened, or even rendered useless, against her.
Since these Beastn all wanted her to portray females of their own clans, she would give them what they wanted.
Gu Ning put on the pair of round, fake Bear Clan ears and a black face mask she had specially sewn a little bee pattern onto. She tied her hair into two low buns and began filming with her mobile cara drone.
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