David picked up a piece of jerky with an expressionless face, chewed it in his mouth, and quickly grabbed another after finishing the first one.
The jerky was really fragrant, and the fruit was truly sweet.
Delicious, he wanted to maintain the demeanor of a leader, but his hunger wouldn’t allow it.
He glanced around and seeing that he wasn’t the only one feeling this way, he felt reassured.
Gu Nian: "...Is it really that good?"
He truly doesn’t know the plight of the starving.
People from the Western world thought this superior scene was all there was, but a new shock was coming.
The speed of the birds and beasts was really fast, barely slower than the airplanes of the last world.
They were quickly approaching their destination.
A huge city appeared before everyone.
Especially from a bird’s eye view from the sky, the shock and beauty could take one’s breath away in an instant.
What they saw before them was like another world compared to where they had been.
Here there was peace, order, tranquility, and an abundance of resources...
This was a new type of civilization city that was no less than a modern society.
What was most terrifying was how they achieved harmony between the fierce animals and plants and humans here.
Only then did everyone realize, could these people with black hair, black eyes, and yellow skin really be of a different species than them?
Were their genetics even more superior than theirs?
Su Li: Just telling the plain truth.
In the vast, primitive Otherworld, Su Li had stayed for a total of thirty years before she chose to leave.
The continent she had claimed was already built up with the most splendid houses and had the most convenient infrastructure set up... When there was nothing left to improve, she withdrew from the management of the city.
To her, the fun was in the process, not in the result.
Over the remaining ten years, she traveled throughout the Otherworld, teasing beasts, walking fierce birds... and feeling her cultivation soar with glee.
It was like play to her.
What a great world, untouched by pollution, pure and crystal clear.
One day, Su Li suddenly had a realization.
The fusion of the two worlds stemmed from the self-rescue of a world.
The people of the past were like its diseased cells, making it sick.
But it was still forgiving; as long as they could change for the better, it would still give humanity a chance to live.
As for the current human society, how far it would develop, Su Li no longer cared.
On her departure, the Otherworld’s Heavenly Dao gave her an extra beam of Merit Golden Light as a token of gratitude for her efforts.
Su Li made this world a better place and even provided more infinite possibilities for the evolution and changes to come.
"My lord, it’s time to get up..."
Su Li was sleeping comfortably when the shouting, as incessant as a death knell, suddenly irritated her to no end.
The voice from before stopped abruptly, and the person outside didn’t seem surprised, merely replying respectfully, "Then I will withdraw."
Su Li pulled the blanket over her head, blocking out the annoying noise, and slept soundly.
When she gradually awoke and stretched with a hearty yawn, she suddenly remembered... What had that voice called her?
Su Li clutched her head and let out a mournful howl, swiftly pulling back the blanket to look inside.
When her mouth involuntarily twitched, there was also a constant itch on her chin.
Her eyes, like fighting cocks, looked downward, and what she saw was even more outrageous—she still had a long, beautiful beard.
She tugged at it with her hand, ow...
It was truly attached to her flesh.
In the previous world, she had transformed into a man, but everyone close to her knew that beneath the appearance of a brawny man lived a delicate "Princess" in a piggy girl’s body.
Later on, as the productivity greatly improved and material life became much richer, all sorts of trinkets also emerged. Based on her preferences, Mu Jun and Xu Chengming, those Little Cuties, would often bring her gifts, sometimes a tube of lipstick, other times an ice cream.
They treated her completely like they were pampering a Little Fairy.
But in all the times she had become a man, she had never experienced having such a long beard on her face.
Ouch, her hand movements were too vigorous, and several long whiskers were forcibly plucked out.
However, this phenomenon also seemed to be one of the hallmarks of this era.
Generally, once men reached a certain age, they would deliberately grow their beards long.
Did this look good, handsome even?
She applied force with her hand again, and several more whiskers were yanked out, causing Su Li to grimace in pain.
This time, there were barely any whiskers left on her chin, so Su Li decided to do a thorough job and felt refreshed and clear.
Standing in front of the copper mirror, Su Li scrutinized her new appearance in the reflection for quite a while. Indeed, being clean and tidy made one feel more cheerful.
However... she didn’t seem to have any deal with this person, so how did she end up here?
A faint chanting sound echoed in her mind, so that was it.
But this wasn’t right, just a second ago she was sleeping soundly in Chaos, and being abruptly abducted to a new small world was bound to upset anyone.
Benefits, substantial benefits, only these could satisfy her wounded little heart.
She hadn’t expected this world’s Heavenly Dao to be so capable to actually break through her space and transfer her silently to this place.
Detecting Su Li’s thoughts, that voice from earlier issued a discontented and somewhat guilty rumble in response.
Only today did she discover that these world consciousnesses could actually contact each other.
Among them, she seemed to have a bit of a reputation and was honored with a title like "Cleaner..."
Well then, she was really thankful for that.
All these pieces of information, she had fished out by continuously setting traps for the other party.
Kidnapping and still reasoning? That certainly wouldn’t do...
There was another bout of indistinct muttering, and a consciousness directly imprinted itself into Su Li’s Conscious Sea, and then her face broke into a pleased smile.
Good, the deal was struck.
As for the sound of someone coughing up blood she heard... it must have been her imagination, right?
As Lady Liu pushed open the door, she saw her husband with a strange smile on his face, staring intently at his reflection in the copper mirror.
And his chin was so clean...
Lady Liu was shocked and looked even more closely.
The beard that her Lord cherished the most had been shaved completely clean.
What was this? Too much of a shock?
Lady Liu gently called out, "Lord, are you all right?"
Su Li turned with a smile and replied, "Yes, very good, better than ever."
Lady Liu, however, did not feel the same, and with an even softer tone said, "It’s way past dawn; we’ll be having lunch soon. I’ve instructed the kitchen to prepare your favorite vinegar fish..."
No matter how grievous the situation, if it couldn’t be resolved with a delicious meal, for the Lord, that was a profoundly true maxim.