Chapter 200: Chapter 200: J Chapter 200: Chapter 200: J Su Jiyai stretched lazily, her blue-furred cat tail flicking behind her as she slowly blinked herself awake.
Lately, sleep had been consuming her far more than usual, leaving her groggy.
At first, she thought it was just muscle fatigue from the grueling workouts she had been doing for the past three days, but now the sleepiness was almost suffocating.
Yawning, she rolled off the bed and began her daily routine.
First came the workout—a series of intense drills designed to keep her in peak condition.
Push-ups, squats, sprints.
After the workout, she headed straight for a shower.
Warm water streamed over her fur, rinsing away the sweat and grime from her morning efforts.
She sighed, letting the steam relax her muscles.
Yet, the same creeping exhaustion tugged at her eyelids again, as if her body was demanding rest it couldn’t get enough of.
By the time she dried off, the heaviness in her bones had dulled somewhat, and Su Jiyai threw herself into the next part of her day: managing base affairs.
That gloom only intensified when she finally sat down to absorb the space zombie crystals.
Her breathing slowed as she began the familiar process, pulling energy from the crystals into her body.
But something felt… wrong.
Her chest tightened, and her vision blurred slightly as if the world was tilting.
A strange sensation built up in her chest.
It wasn’t pain exactly, but it made her want to cry.
Tears welled up in her eyes without reason, and her throat ached.
She blinked rapidly, confused.
“What… is this?” she muttered to herself.
Suddenly, the air around her began to shimmer.
Her fur stood on end, and Su Jiyai’s ears twitched in alarm.
The space around her seemed to bend and twist, distorting in ways that made her head spin.
A surge of panic shot through her, and she tried to stand, but it felt as though her body was anchored to the ground.
The very air hummed with an unfamiliar energy, and it hit her—she was the one fluctuating.
Her entire body felt as though it was being pulled apart and stretched.
“System, what’s happening?!” she gasped, her voice trembling.
But before the system could respond, a portal ripped open in front of her.
There wasn’t time to react—she was sucked through in an instant, her body yanked into a vortex of flashing lights and swirling colors.
Then, just as quickly, everything went dark.
Su Jiyai stumbled forward, trying to regain her balance.
She looked around and realized she had been teleported… somewhere.
The world around her looked like a giant toy store—a very creepy one.
Life-sized teddy bears with mismatched button eyes stared at her from every direction.
Some were missing limbs, others had sinister smiles sewn into their plush faces.
“This… doesn’t feel right,” she muttered, backing away from a particularly menacing-looking bear wielding a plastic chainsaw.
Before she could take another step, the space around her shimmered again.
She barely had time to brace herself before another portal yawned open beneath her feet, and she fell through, tumbling through space like a ragdoll.
She landed with a thud on something soft—too soft.
Su Jiyai pushed herself up and found herself on what appeared to be a giant cake.
The ground squished beneath her feet, frosting oozing out from under her paws.
She wrinkled her nose in disgust, trying to wipe the sticky substance off, but the frosting clung to her fur.
“Great, now I’m covered in frosting,” she grumbled.
“Could this get any weirder?” The answer was yes.
Without warning, a group of giant forks appeared in the sky, floating ominously above her.
They started descending slowly, their prongs glinting in the dim light.
“Oh no, no, no, no, no—!” Su Jiyai scrambled to get off the cake, slipping and sliding as the forks loomed closer, ready to “eat” her.
Just as one of the forks stabbed down, another portal opened, and she was yanked into the swirling void again.
Su Jiyai barely had time to catch her breath before the world around her twisted once again.
This time, when she landed, she found herself in a dimly lit, musty attic.
The air was thick with dust, and old wooden beams creaked above her head.
Cobwebs hung from the rafters like the decorations of some long-forgotten room.
Everything seemed unnerving still, save for the quiet murmur of voices nearby.
Her ears twitched, straining to pick up the conversation.
She crouched low, her blue fur blending into the shadows, and crept forward toward the source of the voices.
Su Jiyai pressed herself against a wall, her sharp cat ears catching each word.
A woman’s voice, soft and melodious, echoed in the attic.
“We have to leave,” the woman whispered urgently, her voice carrying a note of desperation.
“Please, J, we can’t stay here any longer!
I’m begging you, come with me.” The voice that responded made Su Jiyai’s fur stand on end.
It was cold, robotic, almost devoid of emotion.
There was something familiar about it.
You know that,” the man, J, replied.
“Just put down the scroll.” Scroll?
Su Jiyai thought, her tail flicking nervously.
What were they talking about?
Why was she even teleported to this place?
The woman’s voice wavered, on the verge of tears.
“No, I won’t put it down!
This is our only chance!
If we leave now, we can still be free.
We can escape all of this.” But J’s voice remained monotonous, unfeeling.
You must stop resisting.
They’ll find us either way.” There was a tense pause, and Su Jiyai’s heart raced as she crouched lower.
She still couldn’t see the two figures speaking, but she could sense the tension rising between them.
Then, suddenly, the woman’s voice turned defiant.
“I won’t let them take you from me, J!
I won’t!” she shouted.
There was a loud crash as something heavy was knocked over.
The sound echoed through the attic, and Su Jiyai instinctively pressed herself further into the shadows.
It was clear that a fight had broken out between the two.
Her thoughts were interrupted by a deafening explosion.