Chapter 266: Come Alive

When Meizier woke up, Jiang Xia was sitting on a chair eating breakfast.

A slightly chilly breeze drifted past outside the window; it was already morning.

After the night's heavy rain stopped, the sky cleared up instead, and sunlight slanted through the window onto the floor.

According to common sense, Greed doesn't need to eat, but Jiang Xia still prepared an extra portion.

But at this moment, Meizier fell into an expression hard to understand.

She stood before a mirror as tall as she was, carefully examining her current appearance.

Just after one night passed, the world in her eyes seemed completely different.

In the mirror, her complexion was flushed, like the vigor after a full night's sleep, as if she had suddenly come alive.

The world became unusually lively in her eyes, and the warm sunlight made her body feel hot.

A smile appeared on her face, her heart filled with joy, and her reflection in the mirror looked lively, clear, and full of emotion.

"It seems the experiment was relatively successful."

Jiang Xia sipped warm milk while watching Meizier constantly make various strange expressions at the mirror.

She pinched her own face hard, leaving successive red marks on her fair skin, stopping only when it hurt.

Ding! Jiang Xia lightly tapped the edge of the white porcelain plate with her metal fork, producing a clear sound.

Hearing the sound, Meizier looked toward Jiang Xia, a hint of inquiry in her eyes.

Jiang Xia pointed with her fork at the other breakfast on the table and said in a calm but indisputable tone, "The breakfast will get cold—eat quickly, no wasting food."

As she sat down, she suddenly smelled a special fragrance, just as Meizier was about to put food in her mouth.

Her movements suddenly became quick, like a hamster's, continuously chewing the food.

She drank the warm milk on the table in one gulp, but because she drank too hastily, a little white spot remained on her lips.

Sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch all seemed to have recovered.

"Next we should proceed to the next test," Jiang Xia thought, looking at Meizier's appearance.

……

"Damn, both Ankus are the same, both so hateful."

Wu Fan looked at his bald body and let out a roar of anger.

Now they were like sewer rats, only able to hide in dark corners, with puddles on the road dripping from the manhole cover onto his body.

He stared at the faint light seeping through above, his eyes filled with raging fury.

Because they were really staying with rats now, even a Greed severely lacking the five senses would feel disgusted by their current environment.

Compared to Wu Fan, Kazhali was much calmer—not only not anxious or angry, but actively seeking a solution.

Judging by the current situation, the chance of retaking the Core Coin from the other Anku is small; we can only wait for an opportunity.

On the other hand, the Ouzi side actually has some possibility.

He turned his head to the still-irate Wu Fan and said, "Wu Fan, I've come up with a good plan that can retrieve the Core Coin while also causing trouble for the Anku."

"Hurry up and say—what exactly is the plan?"

Upon hearing that the Core Coin could be snatched back, Wu Fan seemed somewhat impatient, grabbing Kazhali's collar and shouting.

"These past few days I've roughly understood the composition and tools of the human world, and I think the Anku side is the same."

Kazhali looked at Wu Fan, whose collar he was gripping, not angry but smiling as he spoke.

"You mean the Anku with only a right hand left and the Ouzi?"

Wu Fan slowly released his grip, looking at Kazhali and waiting for what comes next.

"We need a companion who can temporarily resist the Ouzi, then use this little thing to lure the Anku out." Kazhali pulled a small phone from his hip-hop pants and pointed at the constantly changing news on it.

After seriously listening to Kazhali's plan, Wu Fan handed over the gravity-system hard coin he had snatched from the explosion, also giving him a large amount of cellular hard coins.

……

Fashion Specialty School.

Quan Binnai was about to go to class when she suddenly saw a high school girl wearing a black leggings under a white sailor uniform standing in front of the school gate.

Sunlight shone on her body, and a longing glimmer appeared in her eyes.

"Little sis, do you want to come in for a visit? I can take you inside to look around," Binnai said.

She could feel that this young girl was very curious about everything here,

just as she herself had been before enrolling, very interested in fashion design.

A few years earlier she had secretly snuck past her brother to come here several times, thinking this girl probably also liked fashion design in her daily life.

Binnai found it hard not to notice her at first glance, even though many people come and go to class here; she would likely still spot this former self who once strove hard for her dreams.

Seeing Quan Binnai initiate conversation, Meizier did not want to cause more trouble.

She assessed Quan Binnai's desire and found her to be someone very easily satisfied.

Such humans do not meet her requirements, and the Yummy created from them obviously cannot nurture many cellular hard coins.

What she needs is someone insatiably greedy, controlled by her own desire, not a smiling, angelic good person.

"No thanks, I'm just waiting for someone—still, thank you." Meizier said with a smile.

After gaining the five senses, Meizier grew to dislike her former self more and more, even the version from just a day before.

That fake mother-son role-playing game practically made her nauseous; for the first time she felt disgusted with herself for being a Greed.

Following human-world etiquette was indeed unfamiliar, but it allowed her to experience genuine emotions.

"My name is Quan Binnai; I study fashion design here. If you want to come in for a visit, you can find me—this is my phone number."

Quan Binnai glanced at the time, realized class was about to start, and although she still wanted to chat a bit more, she could only wait for the next opportunity.

"Thank you, hurry off to class." Meizier gently patted Quan Binnai's head.

"Huh?" Quan Binnai, recalling the recent sensation, walked into the school gate with a puzzled expression.

It must be an illusion, how come the appearance and age don't quite match?

Meizi'er watched Quanbinai's retreating back, silently noting down the phone in their hand.

The clear school bell rang, and a young woman dressed head-to-toe in brand names, adorned with various jewelry, had just stepped out of the car.

With a disdainful smile on her face, she stepped over the school gates, just like a young lady coming to a rural school, full of criticism toward the surroundings.

"Let's choose her."

Meizi'er saw through the inner self of this woman bedecked in jewels; compared to her dazzling outward appearance, her heart was filled with poverty and insatiable desire.

Forming a perfect contrast with the recently plain-dressed but kind-hearted Quanbinai.

If it had been a day earlier, Meizi'er might have preferred this woman who dresses herself up with money.

Because her desire could help her obtain more cell coins.

But now it's the opposite; Meizi'er now only longs for true love.

Perhaps she never changed; collecting Core Coins before was merely to become a complete body, to experience true love.

Now she can already experience sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy; compared to that, cell coins might not be so important.

(End of chapter)