When the developer designed Jiang Hou's apartment complex, they left a beam between the living room balcony and the side bedroom wall pillar. When the windows are sealed, it can be separated into a small balcony three meters long and one meter wide.
This spot faces the sun and is well-ventilated, with a neighbor's small balcony overhead to shield from wind and rain, perfect for drying clothes.
Soon, Jiang Hou entered Qin Siyu's room, carrying clothes. He neatly folded her skirts, socks, and pants, placing them on her bedside table for easy access the next day.
Next were pink underwear and panties, scented with laundry detergent, which he hung inside the wardrobe.
This girl is so fond of pink; everything is pink. Seeing a row of pink personal items in the closet, Jiang Hou shook his head and left with his own clothes.
The two had grown up together since childhood, and Jiang Hou was long immune to the sight of young girls' personal belongings.
In Jiang Hou's eyes, these things are essentially just two pieces of fabric, devoid of the mysterious allure imagined by fanboys.
Evening, past seven o'clock.
After showering, Qin Siyu, wearing a long sweatshirt-style pink pajama, came to sit on the sofa, crossing her legs and revealing fair thighs.
At that moment, the girl turned her head, looking at Jiang Hou with excitement: "I heard the celebrity gathering show on Hu Shan Platform is very funny; let's watch it today."
"Anything's fine." Jiang Hou was indifferent.
Usually after dinner, with nothing else to do, he and Qin Siyu would watch TV together, but today, while watching, Jiang Hou's attention drifted to the smartwatch.
Apart from detection functions and stored basic data, the watch also had internet capabilities, but required permissions, including phone binding.
In addition, there was a combat ranking software icon in the screen corner, but it couldn't be accessed, requiring permissions as well.
"Hahaha... Jiang Hou, that Sha Changshan is so silly, he always guesses wrong." Qin Siyu pointed at the TV, her delicate and beautiful face smiling joyfully.
"Indeed." Jiang Hou also showed a smile.
Of course, Jiang Hou knew these celebrities weren't that dumb; it was most likely a part of the show's script, but there was no need to tell Qin Siyu about such things.
Including the information he learned today.
It was much in line with Jiang Hou's previous speculation; the official blockade of Extraordinary information aimed to prevent panic.
Ordinary people, upon learning of the existence of monsters in the ruins, mostly feel afraid and terrified, while a few develop a strong desire and greed for Extraordinary power.
These negative emotions would accumulate continuously, eventually reducing the original three percent success rate of evolution to one-tenth of a percent or even lower when they actively or passively encounter pollution power.
Moreover, this three percent was the highest probability found through official experiments, with ordinary people having only a one percent chance of surviving pollution under normal circumstances.
To prevent the emergence of more monsters and to avoid widespread panic and chaos, blocking information about the Extraordinary evidently does more good than harm.
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The dark and oppressive world, it's still the edge of that skeletal ruin; Jiang Hou's figure suddenly appeared.
However, today he had a waterproof gray canvas bag.
Upon arrival, Jiang Hou, as always, cautiously surveyed his surroundings, quickly taking off his clothes and placing them into the canvas bag once confirming the absence of monsters.
Roar!
The air trembles; amidst the howling wind, a six-and-a-half-meter-high black Giant Ape appears, standing upright. Its eyes are narrow, ears sharp, mouth protruding, looking bizarre and fierce.
Every time he entered, Jiang Hou would transform into the Giant Ape form immediately to prevent unexpected incidents.
After all, the strength differs vastly between human form and colossal beast form, bringing with it tens to hundreds of times the power disparity.
After transforming into a giant beast, Jiang Hou bent down, carefully picked up an 'elastic string' as small as a thread, and wrapped the canvas bag around his left shoulder several times to secure it.
And then, it's time to get to work.
On the ground, a black Giant Ape runs in strides, quickly reaching the edge of the Twisted Forest, where the first nest of Black Ant Ferocious Beast was slain yesterday.
However, upon arrival, the black Giant Ape's eyes squinted.
The remains of ferocious beasts it consumed yesterday had vanished, and the ground bore long, winding tracks, resembling snake paths.
"Serpent-type ferocious beast?" the black Giant Ape thought.
In the fog-covered forest, the Giant Ape tread cautiously, once again sticking to the forest edge but heading right this time.
The forest floor was bare, devoid of grass, making the tracks left by serpent-type beasts very noticeable. After walking just three kilometers, he made a discovery.
On an eighty-meter 'small tree,' two monstrous creatures, about thirteen meters long, resembling serpents but with bloated middles and grey scales over their bodies, were coiled.
The monsters had heads like lions, surrounded by black manes, with slightly opened jaws filled with fangs, emitting elongated forked tongues.
As the black Giant Ape discovered the Lion Pythons, the formerly sleeping duo suddenly opened their eyes, tongues flicking, gazing coldly at the intruder to their territory, their bodies slithering downwards.
Hiss hiss!!
The two creatures emitted serpent-like hisses, icy-eyed, and stared fixedly at the black Giant Ape; their bodies slithered downward.
Yet the black Giant Ape paid no heed to their warnings. As the two Lion Pythons reached the ground, the soil beneath shattered.
Boom! Utilizing the recoil from the ground, the Giant Ape transformed into a black shadow darting ahead, almost reaching a speed of fifty meters per second.
In an instant, the air thundered; one Lion Python hadn't reacted before being smashed against a tree by a punch.
Bang!
Under immense force, the Lion Python's head shattered, the tree swayed, and its trunk's bark exploded, mingling with the clouds of sprayed blood.
An arm like a lance, punches like cannon fire.
Evidently, lacking any formal boxing training, yet with power seventy to eighty times that of ordinary people, every punch of the black Giant Ape carried terrifying might.
Hiss hiss!! Sensing the fierce energy emitted by the Giant Ape at close range, the remaining Lion Python's tail abruptly softened, crying out in terror.
But before the Lion Python could either attack or flee, a massive, sturdy hand reached out.
Clawing like a paw, it reversed and grabbed the Lion Python's neck.
Hiss hiss!! The Lion Python instantly struggled fiercely.
This ferocious beast was over ten meters long, larger in size than the Black Ant Ferocious Beast, and the force exerted during its struggle caused the black Giant Ape's arm to tremble.
And this was under the condition of being grabbed by the neck, without any upper body leverage.
Just as the Lion Python was desperately struggling, even twisting its body to wrap around the Giant Ape's arm, the black Giant Ape emitted a violent roar, reaching out with the other hand.
Roar!
The menacing roar vibrates the air; under immense force, the Lion Python's head was directly torn off by the black Giant Ape, its orange-red blood spraying fountain-like, staining the Giant Ape's body red.
However, the serpentine creature, even dead, continued to writhe fiercely, its body still twisting in the Giant Ape's grip.
Including the Lion Python's corpse head was smashed, continuing to contort and splatter blood on the ground, somewhat to the Giant Ape's enjoyment.
In the Giant Ape form, not only physical changes occur, but also the influence of consciousness, and with continuous slaughter, Jiang Hou in beast form grew increasingly violent.
He certainly noticed this, but didn't mind, because he/it was inherently a giant beast!