The Little Alien’s Infinite-Stream Mukbang - Chapter 4

「Hunter ‘Mushroom’ has opened the hunting ground. Area: Haicheng Food District.」

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Bureau of Supernatural Incident Management, Haicheng Branch.

An Wumeng, with dark circles under his eyes, finished a dungeon and walked out of the office covered in blood, gun in hand.

The rich aroma of food filled his face, and An Wumeng paused slightly.

In the public lounge outside, all the team members were gathered together, eating takeout.

A team member saw An Wumeng and greeted him with a smile,

“Team leader, you’ve worked hard. Want a bowl of vermicelli?”

They had all watched An Wumeng’s livestream and knew that the blood on him, though it looked terrifying, wasn’t his, so they weren’t worried.

“Vermicelli?” An Wumeng looked at his blood-stained clothes, hesitated for a moment, but still walked forward.

In front of each person was a bowl of thin vermicelli, topped with a generous amount of red chili oil. Even the team members who normally didn’t eat much spice had bowls that were a deep scarlet.

An Wumeng observed the expressions of the few people and saw that they all seemed relatively relaxed, some even smiling. He could not help but say,

“Everyone’s got a good appetite today.”

For people like them, who see bloody scenes countless times every day, having a good appetite was truly no easy feat.

Several team members smiled at each other and said, “I just watched a food broadcast and was tempted.”

An Wumeng put away his gun, took off his coat, and found an empty seat to sit down.

He took the takeout handed to him by a team member, calmly and unhurriedly opened the bag, and asked,

“Whose food livestream is this effective? Set it up, let’s have it play in the restaurant every day from now on.”

“I’m afraid that won’t work. He’s still a newcomer, and the next live stream won’t be until a month later,” said a team member.

An Wumeng reacted immediately, looking at the team members with dark circles under his eyes, “There’s a new Survivor?”

It was no wonder he was surprised, almost every day, new people were pulled into the Paradise dungeon, but a Survivor, who could clear the novice dungeon, was hard to come by, maybe one per week.

The team member sitting next to An Wumeng nodded and replied, “He’s a very special Survivor.”

An Wumeng became interested and said, “Tell me about it.”

The team member struggled to form his words, “He’s that special…when I see him, I can’t help but want to yell, ‘Mommy loves you!’“

“……”

An Wumeng scrutinized the team member, whose biological sex was male, several times, swallowed the vermicelli in his mouth with difficulty, and said,

“Let’s talk about something else.”

“Other than that…” The team member reined in the overflowing ‘maternal love’ on his face and said seriously, 

“He encountered a Hunter called the ‘Spider’, and he cooked and ate the Spider’s bloody webs.”

An Wumeng’s expression changed, “Tell me in detail, no, just send me the screen recording so I can watch it myself.”

As he said this, he stopped eating the takeaway, stood up and quickly walked back to the office.

The team member responsible for information collection turned on the computer and sent the screen recording to An Wumeng’s account, along with Yi Xing‘s detailed information.

After finishing all this, he looked at An Wumeng’s almost untouched takeout and asked hesitantly, “What about this bowl of vermicelli?”

“Team leader probably doesn’t want it anymore. Give it to me, I can eat a double portion,” said a team member, devouring it greedily.

No one had any objections.

Just as that team member finished his bowl and was about to start eating An Wumeng’s, the office door suddenly opened.

An Wumeng walked out, looked around, saw the vermicelli still left on the table, and immediately strode over, picked it up, and returned to the office.

The computer on the desk was on, showing a recording of Yi Xing’s livestream. The screen happened to be paused at the moment Yi Xing took his first bite of blood spider silk.

An Wumeng placed the vermicelli on the table. The vermicelli, dyed red by the chili oil, looked somewhat like blood spider silk at a glance.

He sat down at the computer, picked up his chopsticks, and the video continued playing.

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Yi Xing slept until he woke up naturally. When he opened his eyes, he saw a faint light seeping through the gap in the curtains, and he was still unsure of the time.

He raised his hand over his stomach; he didn’t feel hungry and was still in a state of fullness.

For the first time, he wasn’t woken up by hunger, which put him in a good mood today.

If he was awake, he should get up and wash up. If he had woken up hungry as usual, he would also quickly start preparing breakfast for the food livestream.

Yi Xing was not hungry today, so he brushed his teeth slowly while pointing at the screen.

After discovering that the light screen could bring him real food, he became thoroughly fascinated by it.

The top of the light screen displayed his points and an icon that resembled a house.

Clicking the icon would make rows of shelves appear.

The shelves were stocked with clothes, weapons, food, and other items, with prices marked at the bottom in points.

Bread, buns, cookies, chocolate…the food on the shelves was far too ordinary, so ordinary that he had no desire to buy any of it.

Swiping the screen, Yi Xing exited the points shop and looked at the large number in the very center of the screen.

——29.

Before going to bed last night, the number in that spot was still 30.

This was clearly another countdown.

Unlike his previous indifference when hearing the electronic countdown, Yi Xing was now particularly looking forward to the countdown ending.

He can’t wait to find new delicacies.

Yi Xing seemed to already smell the aroma of that new delicacy, extremely delicious, with a hint of truffles after the rain.

A moist breeze blew in through the half-open window, carrying an even richer aroma that lingered at the tip of his nose. Only then did Yi Xing realize that the scent wasn’t something he had imagined, it was real.

“What a delicious aroma…Who’s cooking mushrooms?”

Yi Xing’s Adam’s apple couldn’t help but roll up and down.

It smelled so good, as tempting as blood spider silk, and he wanted to eat it for free.

Yi Xing walked to the window, sniffing the aroma as he looked outside.

It was foggy outside from some unknown time.

Thick fog obscured everything outside the residential complex, while visibility inside the complex remained unaffected.

「Di——」

「Hunter ‘Mushroom’ has opened the hunting ground. Area: Haicheng Food District.」

「Hunter: Mushroom」

「Survivors: Taotie, The Dreamer, Gamer.」

「Hunter clearance requirement: Kill at least one survivor.」

「Survivor clearance requirement: Survive for 3 hours.」

「Do you want to start live streaming?」

The three Survivors and one Hunter inside the complex all heard the electronic sound at the same time.

“There are actually three Survivors in one community…”

A voice echoed softly, but there was no one around, only lush flowers and plants, and an ancient tree that was half withered, half thriving.

“Wait until I get the blood spider silk, then I’ll take care of the other two Survivors…”

A gust of wind blew by, and one by one, the little girl running on the road, the security guard patrolling on a bike, the man holding a dog leash, and the dog on the leash all sneezed in succession.

After a moment, their eyes, which were either innocent, determined, or excited, became dull and stiff, and then they walked in the same direction together.

Outside the elevator on the first floor.

An Wumeng was sweating anxiously as he watched the elevator taking so long to come down.

“That hunter must be after Yi Xing.” An Wumeng kept glancing back at the staircase beside him, his bloodshot eyes full of anxiety.

Yi Xing lived on the 33rd floor, he didn’t know if he could make it in time if he ran up there.

“Taotie…Yi-zai’s codename is Taotie, the legendary beast known for its gluttony. No wonder he eats so much every day and gets hungry so easily.”

The girl following An Wumeng sighed.

An Wumeng glanced back at her and saw that she was using hand sanitizer. He couldn’t help but say, “You still have the mood to wash your hands at a time like this?”

“If your hands aren’t clean, how am I supposed to draw a good card for my Cub?”

The girl put the hand sanitizer into her bag while raising her hand and grabbing at the air.

A blue card appeared in her hand.

“D-level card, Godspeed.”

The girl breathed a sigh of relief and handed the card to An Wumeng, “I’m counting on you, Team Leader An. You must protect my cub.”

“Don’t worry.” An Wumeng grabbed the card and ran toward the stairs, moving so fast that only an afterimage could be seen.

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On the balcony, Yi Xing closed his eyes and took a deep breath of the fragrance brought by the wind.

Suddenly, he snapped his eyes open and looked toward an ancient tree in the center of the complex.

“Found it.”

He reached out, braced himself on the windowsill, and flipped right out.

Several blood spider silk suddenly emerged from below, wrapping around the doorknob.

Yi Xing fell to the ground and retracted all the blood spider silk into his body.

He walked toward the ancient tree while raising his hand to tap on the screen.

「The livestream has started.」

「Please set the number of points required to watch this livestream.」