I Became the Savior on the Fourth Day of Disaster - Chapter 42:(11k Nutrient Fluid Bonus Update) Horse.

Chapter 42:(11k Nutrient Fluid Bonus Update) Horse…

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol Yanovsky, an ordinary child.

It was precisely because of his outstanding appearance, pure white hair, and special heterochromatic eyes that he was targeted by a human trafficking village, kidnapped, sold to a circus, and was now undergoing training to become a future clown.

Yes, a currently completely unqualified future clown.

Boss, this guy tried to escape, said the animal trainer pressing down on the young Gogol with a vicious tone. What should we do? Should we teach him a lesson?
When the trainer spoke, the first thing Yunxi noticed was his foul breath, followed by the sound of his voice.

Ugh, Russians from the last century.

Yunxi instinctively frowned, but this action appeared perfectly reasonable since the circus master was known for his impatient temperament, so no one present suspected anything.

The act was going smoothly, but that didn’t stop Yunxi from finding this plot disgusting and wanting to get through it quickly.

So Yunxi reached out his hand: Trying to escape? Of course he needs to be taught a lesson. Here, give me your whip.
The trainer’s eyes immediately showed a trace of fear.

As expected of the master! Not only was he the only Esper, but his methods were indeed ruthless!

After all, his whip was used for training animals – not only was it heavy, but it also had barbs. If used on a person…

But to be honest, he himself was quite curious to see the pretty child’s skin torn open. Just imagining it was exciting. Not only could he have some fun himself, but later he could even put the boy on display alone to satisfy those adults with more peculiar tastes!

Thinking this, the trainer almost eagerly handed his whip to the master, adding: Master, he really deserves a good lesson. It’s his fortune that you’re personally teaching him discipline.
Just don’t hit his face, hehe. I want to play with him later…
Yunxi didn’t comment. He first swung the whip through the air to test its weight.

Throughout this, the young Gogol watched Yunxi with a strange, excited expression that made Yunxi feel like if the trainer loosened his grip even slightly, the boy would immediately stab himself with a knife.

If it had been the original circus master, he might have actually been provoked into directly attacking Little Gogol.

But who was the circus master now? A player who liked Korya so much that he naturally felt affection for Little Gogol too!

Even if this player were to destroy the entire world in this DLC, he would absolutely never take such cruel initiative against Little Gogol!!!

Thinking this, Yunxi raised the whip, closed his eyes, steeled his heart, and fiercely lashed out.

Thwack! Along with the whip’s impact came the sound of torn clothing and ripped flesh.

Yunxi: Running away! I’ll teach you to run away!
The trainer who had been brutally whipped: ?

Yunxi didn’t give him time to react. He delivered another lash: Who said you could run? Haven’t we treated you well enough in our circus? Ungrateful dog!
The trainer finally reacted and began screaming: Ahhh it hurts! Master, open your eyes and look! You’re hitting the wrong person!
Yunxi struck a pose that said I won’t listen, don’t interfere with me disciplining the newcomer. Tracking the sound, he lashed out with his whip again: Still running? Still running? Being taught by the circus master is a blessing! How dare you refuse such a gift?!
Yunxi still kept his eyes closed, but now his ears seemed to have stopped working too: What? You’re saying you’re scum? Then you deserve even more beating!
The animal tamer dragged Little Gogol through several more dodges, but the whip consistently avoided Little Gogol and accurately struck the tamer instead. When the tamer dodged left, the whip struck left; when he dodged right, the whip struck right. Several times, the whip even landed directly on the tamer’s existing torn wounds.

After enough repetitions, even someone as dull as the animal tamer should have realized the master was deliberately targeting him.

The tamer began to suspect that the master had discovered his theft of circus funds and the deaths of several recently acquired children, and was using this opportunity to eliminate him.

Fortunately, the master’s feet hadn’t moved, and he kept his eyes closed. If he could just ignore this little brat and make a run for it…

The animal tamer immediately released Little Gogol, struggled to his feet, and charged toward the exit.

Little Gogol had been prepared. The moment he was released, his hand twitched slightly and a sharp blade appeared between his fingers.

Bang! With a gunshot, the animal tamer fell to the ground, dead.

Yunxi calmly opened his eyes, twirled the gun that had unexpectedly accompanied him from his player inventory, and casually blew on the barrel.

Kid, times have changed! Yunxi declared triumphantly. Within seven steps, my gun is fast. Beyond seven steps, my gun is both accurate and fast!
The already dead animal tamer: .

Little Gogol, who had planned to kill the master after dealing with the tamer: …

Little Gogol suspected the master was sending him a message. He quietly put away his blade and stepped aside, allowing the master to walk over and kick the tamer several times.

The animal tamer was quite large. After just two kicks, Yunxi grew tired. He simply raised his pistol and emptied the magazine into the tamer.

After five consecutive gunshots, Yunxi felt satisfied.

Yunxi put away his gun and turned toward Little Gogol with his whip.

Looking at the thin, small version of Korya before him, Yunxi’s eyes unconsciously softened, and his voice unconsciously gentled: Are you hurt? Let me see…
A game notification that had never appeared in the main SimLife: Yokohama game suddenly popped up.

[Warning Player! You are currently using the Circus Master Identity Card. You may act freely, but excessive OOC behavior will cause the game to end prematurely!]

Accompanying this pop-up was the health bar on the player panel flashing red and continuously decreasing: [-1], [-1].

Yunxi: .

Well, isn’t this something? No warning earlier, but now it pops up. So the circus master can treat human life like dirt, can deny brotherhood, but just can’t show kindness.

Fine then.

Yunxi had originally planned to burn the animal tamer’s body immediately, but now he decided to keep it around for a while.

Yunxi picked up his whip and began vigorously lashing the corpse, while continuing to ask Little Gogol in a gentle voice: What’s your name? Does your wound still hurt?
[…] This time the game’s built-in artificial idiot behaved.

Little Gogol: …

He grew even more suspicious that this beautiful troupe leader with sea-green eyes was using this method to intimidate him, yet something felt off.

He’d wait and see.

With this thought, Little Gogol obediently put on an innocent expression: Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol Yanovsky. The wound hurts terribly.
Yunxi’s hands never paused in their work, but his eyes grew more pained.

With his free hand, he randomly pulled out a bottle of his commonly used medicine from the player inventory and tossed it over: Medicine. Apply some yourself.
Little Gogol caught it, glanced at the unfamiliar packaging, then applied it without changing expression.

Yunxi asked again: Is your name really that long? Don’t you have a simpler version?
Little Gogol: Nikolai, or Gogol.
Yunxi: No, I meant…
Little Gogol looked up, interrupting confusedly: Are you referring to a nickname? Do people in the circus even have such things?
Yunxi: ?

No nickname? Then where did the name Korya come from?

Yunxi suspected Gogol was lying again.

Sure enough, Gogol had loved deceiving people since childhood, growing up to constantly trick the Savior in circles!

But since the other wasn’t willing to talk, Yunxi decided not to press the matter.

Thinking this, Yunxi delivered one final heavy whip strike to the mangled beast tamer. Flames traveled down the whip, turning both the whip and the beast tamer to ashes.

Immediately after, Yunxi performed an instant attitude shift: Alright, Gogol was it? If there’s nothing else, get lost. Your troupe leader needs rest!
Little Gogol didn’t move.

Only when Yunxi’s game panel began warning about OOC again did Little Gogol speak: Troupe Leader, the beast tamer was quite important, wasn’t he? Now that he’s dead, who do you plan to replace him with?
Yunxi: ?

That’s it?

Yunxi feigned impatience: Isn’t it obvious? He died because of you, so of course you’re taking his place!
Little Gogol blinked his heterochromatic gold and silver eyes: But there’s no whip now, and I don’t know how to train those large animals.
Like I care? If you can’t handle large animals, go catch some birds to train! If you can’t manage even that, get out of my circus! And stop hogging the air in my room – get out, out, out right now!
Urged by the game panel, Yunxi roughly shoved Little Gogol out of his room and slammed the door shut with a bang, cutting off Little Gogol’s surprised exclamation.

Yunxi stared at his panel: Surely no violations this time?!
He’d been so harsh to little Korya!

Game Panel: […]

Game Panel: [Detected minor OOC behavior from player. Issuing standard warning.

PS: Accumulating three standard warnings will result in early termination of DLC gameplay. Standard warnings can be removed through actions more consistent with character setting…]

Yunxi: .

Enough! Enough!

He was completely fed up! He’d go out and cause trouble tonight, how about that?!

The moon was dark, the wind high – perfect night for murder and arson.

Following the information on the circus’s official members found in the ringmaster’s room, Yunxi tracked them down one by one. Whether through ambushes or direct assaults, he beat them all up and forced them to wear collars provided by ACE.

Naturally, those who managed to become formal employees under this circus ringmaster were hardly decent people—most had engaged in murder, arson, organ trafficking, and abuse of women and children. Thus, Yunxi felt no psychological burden in dealing with them.

When some employees dared to resist, Yunxi directly activated [Jewel King’s Aberration], performing a live demonstration of turning warm people into cold jewels.

Facing the resentful glare of the last official employee he confronted, Yunxi, eager to wrap up the day’s work, stomped on the other’s kneecap, grinding it forcefully a couple of times while letting out a sinister chuckle:

What’s wrong? Can’t stand being controlled by me? Because you were planning to betray me?
The next second, Yunxi’s expression turned icy cold, and the pressure under his foot intensified:

I’ve known all along that none of you are any good! I shouldn’t have even given you a chance to reform! Turning you all into jewels would’ve been so much simpler—I could’ve made a fortune too…
Employee: !!!

The employee immediately complied.

Yunxi then smiled with satisfaction at the game panel notification: [Congratulations, Player! You’ve completed an outstanding role-play! General Warning -1! Keep up the good work!], and hummed a tune as he left.

Indeed, dealing with a mere artificial intelligence was as easy as pie for a player!

Unbeknownst to Yunxi, just on the other side of the wall, Little Gogol was curled up in a corner, holding his breath and calmly waiting for Yunxi to leave.

Only after Yunxi had gone far enough did Little Gogol stop using his [Overcoat] to perceive everything within 30 meters.

He said to the Little White Bird he had just retrieved, He’s quite interesting, isn’t he?
The Little White Bird merely stared back with its dark, beady eyes, its tiny head seemingly incapable of processing human words.

But Little Gogol still adored this little bird. He patiently continued:

Those shimmering turquoise earrings that sway when he moves, and eyes even more beautiful than the earrings…
The Little White Bird finally reacted, tilting its head and letting out two soft chirps.

Little Gogol chuckled softly for a while before suddenly looking up: I’ve decided—I’ll keep my newly awakened special ability a secret and stay here a bit longer!
He wrapped himself tightly in the cloak he had acquired for beast-taming purposes.
In the next instant, both he and the Little White Bird vanished from the spot.

Only a faint whisper remained: Who knows, maybe something even more interesting will happen next!
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Author’s Note: Next chapter update today at 18:00 [throws confetti]

PS: The two Gogols are one and the same Gogol—not parallel versions or a fusion of two Gogols. It’s always been one person. The reason why the adult Gogol doesn’t recognize Yunxi will be explained later [cat paw]