Online Game: Evil Dragon Against The Heaven - 200
“Because I missed Yaya, so I came back,” Ye Tian Xie said with a grin, pulling Su Fei Fei along as they walked toward Yaya.
“Yah! Big Brother, that’s such a lie. Anyone can tell it’s fake. Yah! Is this pretty sister beside you your companion?” Yaya wasn’t buying it, bluntly calling out Ye Tian Xie’s hollow excuse, leaving him feeling a bit hurt.
“Tian Xie, who is this little girl?” Su Fei Fei asked, equally confused.
“She’s a quirky NPC guarding this place…” Ye Tian Xie said, then lowered his voice to a whisper, audible only to Su Fei Fei and himself. “Shh, don’t say anything. Watch how I handle this little fox.”
“Hah! Yaya is a good girl, not a little fox!” Yaya puffed out her cheeks in indignation.
Ye Tian Xie opened his mouth but couldn’t find the words to respond… this little girl’s ears were way too sharp.
“Ahem, Yaya, you must have misheard. Of course Yaya is a good girl… such a good girl. We’d like to enter the Ice Abyss Wolf Den.”
“You’re not allowed to enter twice within three days! That’s what the Creator Goddess said, and no one can disobey her rules. No, no, no!” Yaya shook her head emphatically, outright rejecting Ye Tian Xie’s request with a firm attitude that left no room for negotiation.
【Ding…】 A lollipop appeared in front of Yaya—a very particular lollipop. Of course, Ye Tian Xie had wisely removed the wrapper beforehand; otherwise, Su Fei Fei would have certainly caught on.
The sight of the lollipop, a treat that had no business existing in this world, immediately stopped Yaya’s words in their tracks. Her eyes went wide as saucers, and her gaze fixed on the candy. Then, a small stream of drool began dripping from her mouth, flowing all the way down to her chest. Ever since tasting a lollipop yesterday, she had spent an entire day and night obsessing over its flavor.
Realizing her 【embarrassment】, Yaya quickly sucked the drool back into her mouth, but as soon as she opened it again, the unstoppable stream resumed, pouring out in such a shocking volume that both Ye Tian Xie and Su Fei Fei were left wide-eyed.
Yaya reached out to grab the lollipop, but Ye Tian Xie pulled it away, leaving her grasping at air. “Be a good girl and send us into the Ice Abyss Wolf Den first, and then you can have it,” Ye Tian Xie said, shaking the lollipop in front of her and smiling wickedly. His expression and actions left Su Fei Fei with a clear understanding of what a candy-bribing creep looked like.
“I… I… I’ll let you go in! Big Brother… I want it…” Yaya stammered, swallowing her drool as she stared longingly at the lollipop in Ye Tian Xie’s hand. Even her words came out muddled.
“Yaya is so obedient,” Ye Tian Xie said with satisfaction, finally handing the lollipop to Yaya. Turning to Su Fei Fei, he made a triumphant 《V》 gesture with his fingers. Su Fei Fei, however, responded with a rather peculiar look. Leaning close to his ear, she whispered, “Tian Xie, you wouldn’t happen to trick little kids like this all the time, would you? And… where did you even get that lollipop? I’ve never seen anything like it in the city’s shops.”
“Secret.”
“…” Su Fei Fei was speechless. Another secret!
“Yaya, stop focusing on eating and send us to the Ice Abyss Wolf Den already,” Ye Tian Xie urged, watching Yaya eagerly pop the lollipop into her mouth.
“Mmm… Yaya promised you could go today, but Yaya didn’t promise to send you in right away,” Yaya mumbled around the lollipop, her words accompanied by the sound of her sucking on it.
Ye Tian Xie felt a headache coming on.
With a loud 《pop》 the lollipop slipped out of Yaya’s mouth. Holding it up, Yaya cheerfully said, “Big Brother and Pretty Sister, for your safety in the Ice Abyss Wolf Den, you must buy Yaya’s carefully crafted, beautiful snow-walking shoes before entering! If you don’t buy them, Yaya can’t let you in. Yaya’s snow-walking shoes are so pretty… look at them! And they’re very cheap—only 1,000 gold coins per pair.”
Looking at the pile of shoes Yaya laid out with a flourish, Su Fei Fei nearly fainted. Shoes that looked this shabby and poorly made… and they’re selling for 1,000 gold coins each!?
“Fine, I knew you wouldn’t miss a chance to force people to buy your shoes,” Ye Tian Xie said calmly, quickly paying for two pairs of snow-walking shoes: a black pair for himself and a white pair for Su Fei Fei.
“Tian Xie, do we really have to wear these shoes? They’re so ugly…” Su Fei Fei said weakly, holding up the offensively plain white shoes.
“…They’re definitely ugly, but they’re practical. You’ll see in a bit,” Ye Tian Xie replied. Then he turned to Yaya and asked, “Yaya, can you send us in now?”
“Dun-dun-dun-dun! Now it’s time for Yaya’s intelligence challenge mode! To enter the Ice Abyss Wolf Den, you must pass Yaya’s intelligence challenge! Only the smartest people can go in to save the poor wolf mother…” Yaya raised both hands triumphantly. “Let’s begin!!”
Ye Tian Xie stumbled, his mind immediately flashing back to yesterday’s fiasco where he failed six times in a row dealing with this little girl. Gritting his teeth, he muttered, “Yaya, you’re cheating!”
“Yaya’s not cheating! Big Brother wasn’t even supposed to go into the Ice Abyss Wolf Den today, but Big Brother is such a good person and gave Yaya a lollipop. That’s why Yaya is giving Big Brother this chance… Big Brother, you have to try hard and pass, okay?” Yaya said cheerfully. She had thoroughly tested Ye Tian Xie’s abilities yesterday—there was no way he could pass today.
This meant she technically wasn’t disobeying the Creator Goddess either.
“Yaya, you…”
“Dun-dun-dun-dun! First question… listen carefully! Two dogs are racing. The black dog runs fast, and the white dog runs slow. When they reach the finish line, which dog is sweating more? Now for the super exciting lightning-fast answer mode! Each question has only five seconds to answer… countdown starting: 5… 4… 3…”
Yaya didn’t give Ye Tian Xie any time to protest. She squeaked out the question and immediately began the countdown. Su Fei Fei opened her mouth to speak but stopped, remembering how Ye Tian Xie had told her to let him handle it. Silently, she watched to see how he would respond.
“…The one running faster will sweat more,” Ye Tian Xie hastily blurted as Yaya’s countdown reached “1.”
“Wrong answer! Dogs don’t sweat at all!” Yaya exclaimed triumphantly.
Ye Tian Xie: “…”
Su Fei Fei: “…”
“Next question!” Yaya immediately shouted. “If a martial arts genius and a magic genius get married, what will their son become when he grows up? Countdown starting… 5… 4… 3…”
“He’ll become a martial-magic dual-class genius,” Ye Tian Xie replied through gritted teeth, forcing himself to stay composed.
“Wrong answer!!” Yaya yelled gleefully. “Their child will grow up to be… an adult!” She punctuated her declaration by giving her lollipop an exaggerated lick.
Ye Tian Xie had to resist the urge to yank this little girl off her snowman perch and bury her in the snow.
Yaya’s questions were classic lateral-thinking riddles, designed to challenge anything but conventional logic. For someone like Ye Tian Xie, who had never encountered riddles like this before, they were downright maddening. If he answered using normal logic, he was guaranteed to be wrong 100% of the time.
“Third question! Why is it that when Xiao Ming walks, his feet never touch the ground?”
“Because Xiao Ming is a Little Bird, and he flies, so his feet never touch the ground,” Ye Tian Xie answered excitedly, drawing from his experience yesterday when the answer involved Xiao Ming being a dog. This has to be it! It’s definitely right this time!
“Wrong answer!!” Yaya declared mercilessly. “Big Brother is a super big dummy. Birds fly in the sky—they don’t walk! Xiao Ming isn’t a bird! Xiao Ming is a very cute little boy, and when he walks, his feet don’t touch the ground because… he’s wearing shoes! So his feet don’t touch the ground!!”
The answer made Ye Tian Xie want to slam his head into the ground.
What kind of ridiculous questions are these?!
And yet, the answers were flawless, not even remotely far-fetched… Was he truly just too dumb to solve them?
“Fourth question!! There’s a bow with a shooting range of 100 meters, and there’s a little bunny 200 meters away. But the arrow shot from this bow still hit the bunny. Why is that? Countdown… 5… 4… 3…”
How would I know why it hit?!
“…2… 1… 0! Time’s up! The answer is… the bow is 100 meters long! Plus its 100-meter shooting range, that makes a total of 200 meters!” Yaya said, chomping on her lollipop as she revealed the answer.
Ye Tian Xie felt dizzy.
“Big Brother, you have to get at least five out of ten questions right to enter. You’ve already gotten four wrong, so you really need to try harder! The fifth question is super easy… Mmm, who is the most disobedient person in the world?”
“It’s little brats like you, Yaya!” Ye Tian Xie growled through gritted teeth.
“Wrong answer! The most disobedient person in the world is… a deaf person! Because a deaf person can’t hear anything!” Yaya grinned mischievously, licking her lollipop and sticking her tongue out at Ye Tian Xie. “Big Brother, you’ve already gotten five wrong. If you mess up again, you won’t be able to go in today!”
Right now, the thing Ye Tian Xie wanted most was to pick Yaya up and give her a good spanking. This little girl clearly knew he couldn’t get the answers right, which was probably why she had so happily agreed to let him try earlier—all for one measly lollipop.
Those questions… How is any human supposed to answer them correctly?!
Watching the smug Yaya and the furious Ye Tian Xie grinding his teeth, Su Fei Fei finally couldn’t bear it anymore. Tugging on Ye Tian Xie’s sleeve, she whispered, “Tian Xie, if I answer her questions, will it still count?”