Chapter 80: Puling Alien

“How is it him?!”

Seeing the face he had once seen in the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley, Pink Jelly was instantly startled, his heart surging with tumultuous waves.

When acting alone, he hated most being discovered by ignorant children, but compared to this mysterious figure, he’d rather have been picked up by a brat even dogs despised!

“Don’t pay attention to me, don’t pay attention to me...”

Pink Jelly kept muttering to himself while contracting with all his strength, trying to pretend he was an inanimate object.

Perhaps his disguise truly worked—Lin Yu merely shook him in his hand, feeling the sparkly texture, and exclaimed happily: “Lucky find—even in this dump, I picked up a flesh lingzhi...”

Hearing this, Pink Jelly let out a sigh of relief, thinking Lin Yu hadn’t recognized him.

But then Lin Yu’s next words made his heart rise again.

“As the saying goes, when heaven offers something, don’t refuse it—or you’ll suffer the consequences. Since fate has brought us together, you’re my dinner tonight!”

Saying this, Lin Yu snapped his fingers, and flames burst forth from his fingertips.

The searing heat struck him, sending chills down Pink Jelly’s spine; he couldn’t help cursing inwardly.

“You’re the flesh lingzhi! Your whole family’s flesh lingzhi!”

“You want to eat me? See if you can even bite down!”

Thinking this, Pink Jelly reshaped himself again, subtly emitting a faint scent of stinkwood.

Smelling it, Lin Yu’s eyelid twitched; he flipped Pink Jelly over and indeed spotted a seam.

After a long silence, Lin Yu extinguished the flames and sighed: “Fine, you win. In terms of shamelessness, I’m no match—you can even pretend to be a Fiji cup...”

He tossed the jelly onto the ground, glancing at the still-silent jelly: “Stop pretending—you’re the one who hid inside Wang Zhen’s sphere back then, aren’t you?”

“...”

Pink Jelly fell silent for a moment, then leapt up from the ground, sprouting limbs and facial features, and looked down at Lin Yu with feigned profundity: “Since you’ve discovered me, then old man shall—Ow!”

Pink Jelly clutched his head and yelped: “You brat, why do you keep hitting people?!”

Brat?

Lin Yu squatted down, smiling at him: “Trying to act like a master before me? You’ve got a long way to go.”

“Last time in the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley, you hid inside Wang Zhen’s sphere—I couldn’t act then. Now that you’re in my hands, aren’t you going to answer a few questions?”

“—Tell me, what exactly are you?”

In his past life, Lin Yu had only watched “The Only One,” not the prequel “Great Love”; at most, through comments and pop-up spoilers, he vaguely knew Wang Zhen’s sphere was transferred from a department handling third-type contact.

Third-type contact... aliens!

Lin Yu stared curiously at the pink jelly before him.

The jelly swallowed hard, hesitated, then coughed: “Let me inform you, old man was a celestial being before ascending—”

Before he finished, Lin Yu punched his head, his brow darkening: “Don’t think I don’t know you’re an alien. Answer properly—don’t spout nonsense here!”

The jelly reformed, glaring at him: “I am a noble Puling alien! You, this lowly... Earthling, dare to treat me so disrespectfully!”

“Puling alien?”

Lin Yu’s eyes lit up; he grabbed the jelly and pressed further.

The jelly originally didn’t want to reveal much, but this mysterious figure was simply too terrifying.

Logically, Puling aliens’ bodily structure should be immune to any physical attack, yet for some reason, this man’s fist caused him a soul-deep pain.

“Could it be some kind of ‘mixed-ball massage’ technique?”

Grumbling, the jelly relented under Lin Yu’s pressure.

From him, Lin Yu learned that this world indeed harbored many aliens resembling humans.

Like the cat-eared Kati aliens, the extremely long-lived Qingyuan aliens who looked human, and the Dracula aliens who were the origin of vampire legends...

As for Puling aliens, the jelly revealed the most: they were alien lifeforms shaped like jelly or pork belly, capable of shape-shifting and possessing hosts by residing in their throats.

Hearing this, Lin Yu frowned slightly, seeming disappointed.

Various aliens sounded interesting, but from the jelly’s description, they merely possessed special abilities—otherwise, they were no different from Earth humans.

Lin Yu frowned: “What’s the technological level of these aliens?”

The jelly answered honestly: “Some high, some low.”

Lin Yu asked: “How high can they get?”

“2D sheets?”

“Light-particle strikes?”

The jelly looked bewildered: “What are those?”

Lin Yu smirked, changed tactics: “You and Wang Zhen’s sphere must’ve faced many aliens—what’s the strongest one you’ve seen?”

The jelly perked up, boasting: “Have you heard of Wu Zheng San Mei? That’s a famed interstellar circus. I once fought their leader—a battle that lasted seven days and nights, shaking heaven and earth, dimming sun and moon...”

“Stop. No need to continue.”

Lin Yu rubbed his temple, sighing inwardly: “Figures—another world where tech is all focused on interstellar travel, and combat means waving light swords on spaceships.”

Thinking this, Lin Yu shook his head, losing interest in these so-called advanced alien civilizations.

Of course, not entirely—interstellar travel tech still intrigued him...

At that moment, Lin Yu sensed a shift below on the battlefield.

Xiao Xiao suddenly emerged from the woods, attempting to ambush Zhang Chulan with a sneeze attack.

At this critical moment, the Lu siblings, also hidden in the forest, appeared to block Xiao Xiao for Zhang Chulan.

Lu Linglong was trained by the Quanzhen Longmen Sect, specializing in dual cultivation of life and nature; Lu Lin inherited the Three-One Sect’s Reverse Life Three Stages from her great-grandfather Lu Jin and had already reached the second stage.

With these two reinforcements, Zhang Chulan’s group felt much less pressure.

Both sides entered the second round.

“Judging by this, Qu Tong’s people are going all out—I should make my entrance too...”

Lin Yu stood up, glancing at the jelly beneath his feet: “If you want to tell Wang Zhen about today, I won’t stop you. But if anyone else finds out, you know the consequences.”

This ordeal was finally over!

The jelly sighed inwardly and hurriedly said: “Old man understands!”

Lin Yu nodded, then stepped forward—and vanished instantly.

Seeing this, the jelly was startled again; he quickly turned to look down at the battlefield.

In the mountains and woods, Chai Yan desperately held off Feng Baobao and Lu Lin, while the purple-haired youth and Xiao Xiao fought Zhang Lingyu and Lu Linglong, all racing toward Zhang Chulan.

Finally, through their reckless tactics, Xiao Xiao seized his chance and unleashed another sneeze attack on Zhang Chulan.

“Ha!”

With a loud shout, a soul-targeting airstream roared forth, striking Zhang Chulan head-on.

Zhang Chulan’s heart sank—he realized he couldn’t dodge—so he halted, turned, and charged forward.

At that moment, a tall figure appeared before him, catching the roaring airstream with his bare hands.

“Whoosh—”

The airstream slammed into the sudden figure and shattered instantly, scattering wildly in all directions.

Yet the young man who had taken the blow stood unharmed, casually brushing dust off his clothes, glancing at Zhang Chulan’s stunned face:

“What are you staring at? Haven’t seen me in a few days, and you don’t recognize me?”

“...Brother Lin?”

Zhang Chulan stared at him in shock.

Lin Yu smiled and whispered: “Taking that soul-targeting sneeze head-on? You’re trying to let that brat inside you take control, aren’t you?”

“I advise you not to—especially not in front of these two Lu kids...”

Hearing Lin Yu’s words, Zhang Chulan froze.

But quickly, he recovered, forcing down his confusion and shock: “Brother Lin, how are you here?”

Lin Yu smiled: “Why shouldn’t I be here?”

Zhang Chulan chuckled nervously: “I didn’t mean it that way...”

“Don’t be tense, little Zhang...”

Lin Yu turned his head, smiling lightly toward the front: “I’m not here to see you today.”

Following Lin Yu’s gaze, Zhang Chulan saw Zhang Lingyu, equally stunned, and Lu Linglong, who had just sprinted over and pinned Xiao Xiao from behind...

(End of Chapter)