Chapter 067

Chapter 67: Foxy’s New Life

Anyway, Yu Sheng now understood why Foxy could launch her tail.

He did not know how other demon foxes worked, but Foxy’s line clearly took the super beast gear route.

Right now, the fox maiden sat across the table, clumsily holding chopsticks and shoveling the food into her mouth fast.

It was only the simplest noodle soup with some greens, sliced ham, and two fried eggs, yet Foxy ate like it was the best delicacy on earth. Her table manners were not pretty, but she was enjoying every bite.

Strictly speaking, this was the first hot meal she had eaten in years. The cookies and instant noodles Yu Sheng had brought before were nice, but sitting at a safe table, eating hot food from a bowl, was a completely different feeling.

Yu Sheng watched her finish almost a whole bowl in a blink. He felt a bit of pity, tapped her hand, and said, “Slow down. There’s more in the pot. Also, that is not how you hold chopsticks. Watch me.”

Foxy looked up from the rim of her bowl, glanced at Yu Sheng’s right hand, then adjusted her grip while chewing egg, awkward at first but quick to learn.

She learned fast.

After the whole bowl was gone, Foxy lifted her head and said, a little shy, “Benefactor, am I eating too fast?” She saw that Yu Sheng had only eaten half his noodles, and the bowl in front of Irene had not been touched at all, and she added, “I always feel that if I do not hurry, it might be gone.”

Yu Sheng smiled and said, “It is fine. You will adjust. With your constitution, eating a lot for a few meals will not hurt. If it is not enough, I will get you more.”

Foxy said, “Mm.”

Before Yu Sheng stood up, Irene, who was sitting on the table, said, “Let her eat mine first,” and pushed her untouched bowl to Foxy.

Foxy thanked her, did not ask why a doll who could not eat needed a bowl at all, and bowed her head to eat again, fast.

After the meal, Yu Sheng found that Foxy’s bowls and chopsticks almost did not need washing. She had licked them clean enough to see a reflection.

He tidied the kitchen and changed into clothes for going out.

He also found a set of his own clothes for Foxy. To be honest, they did not fit. He was much taller than the fox maiden, and no matter how he adjusted, his clothes hung loose on her.

Sleepwear could be a few sizes off and still work, but going-out clothes were harder. In the end, Yu Sheng used a lot of hidden pins and quick stitches so his clothes would sit on Foxy without slipping and without looking too wrong.

Even so, a girl a bit over one sixty wearing a suit of men’s clothes would normally look odd outside. Thankfully, Foxy’s looks covered for it.

It turned out that a pretty face opens many doors, and a demon fox’s face is very pretty. On the street, she would only look like a stylish pretty miss with unusual taste.

While Yu Sheng busied himself with adjustments, Irene sat cross-legged on top of the shoe cabinet, chin in her hands, watching with interest. When Yu Sheng was almost done, she could not help asking, “Foxy, you can hide your ears and tail, so why not change your height? And your clothes. My clothes are all ‘changed’ by myself. Can’t demon foxes do that?”

Foxy answered at once to defend her people: “A strong demon fox can. Father said a strong demon fox can become as tall as a mountain in a blink. She can run across mountains and the forest with several thousand Public Security Immortals chasing behind. If they catch her, she could get five hundred years. But I cannot. I only learned to refine my ears and tail.”

Irene listened, blinking, and her face twisted a little as she said, “Uh, that does not sound like something to brag about… hey, your speech is getting smoother.”

Foxy squinted happily and said, “I get used to it as I speak.”

Irene turned her eyes to Yu Sheng. No one knew what she was thinking, and then she said, “You two are going out together…”

Yu Sheng nodded and said, “Of course. She has no clothes or shoes or socks. She cannot shop alone. I will go with her.”

Irene propped her chin in her hands and said, “I want to go too.”

Yu Sheng froze. Now he knew what she had been plotting since morning. It still caught him off guard. He said, “You? How? A living doll of just over sixty centimeters strolling around? You would scare people.”

Irene said, righteous as ever, “You carry me. I will disguise.”

Yu Sheng blinked and said, “How will you disguise?”

Irene went limp, arms and legs slack at the joints, eyes open with no light in them, like a doll that refused to die properly.

Her voice sounded in Yu Sheng and Foxy’s heads as she said, “See, this looks normal. Doll shops have lots of one third scale dolls. If you toss me like this into a shop window, I could sit there all day and no one would notice.”

Yu Sheng was dumbfounded, amazed by her idea.

Then he felt even more awkward and said, “But a grown man carrying a one third scale doll around town… that looks kind of creepy.”

The light flicked back into Irene’s eyes. She hopped off the shoe cabinet and pounced onto his head, and said, “You were not creeped out when you carried me into the Otherworld to fight monsters. Now you are shy about taking me out the door. Believe it or not, I will bite your head full of teeth marks. I will make it so bandages cannot stick.”

Yu Sheng flailed and finally pried the doll off his head. He tossed her to Foxy and said, “Fine, you can come, but she has to carry you.”

Irene was satisfied at once. She only wanted to go out. Anyone could carry her. In fact, she would not mind riding in a suitcase, peeking at the world through the zipper.

She had not seen the outside world in a very long time.

Yu Sheng frowned and said, “Your frame is a problem.” Because of the frame on Irene’s back, Foxy had to hold the doll’s body in an awkward pose and try not to block her view. “It draws attention, and it gets in the way.”

Irene reached behind her, took the frame off, and said, “Then carry it by itself. Just do not let it get too far.”

Foxy nodded. Without waiting for Yu Sheng, she took the frame. A big spread of tails bloomed behind her with a soft boom, and she slid the frame into one of them.

Yu Sheng could not hold it in anymore. He realized the way Foxy stored things in her tail was not what he first imagined. He said, “…How did you get it in there? Is that a special storage space?”

Foxy blinked, then finally turned around and fanned her tails open to give her first real explanation. She said, “This one is for storage. These two are for hugging to keep warm when sleeping. These few can be used as a blanket, and they can grab things flexibly. Except for the storage tail, the others can be used in a fight.”

Yu Sheng stared and said, “…Do you mean you can fire them?”

Foxy said, “Yes.”

Yu Sheng asked, “All this is from refining?”

Foxy said, “Yes.”

Yu Sheng thought for a moment and could only sigh that demon foxes were amazing.

More amazing than the human body.

…

At the Special Affairs Bureau, Second Unit, Song Cheng arrived at the office more than twenty minutes later than usual.

Almost as soon as he sat down, the monitor on his desk lit up. Director Bai Li Qing’s forever cool, calm face appeared on the screen.

Bai Li Qing’s voice came from the speaker as she said, “Looks like you already went on the Train. Not smooth?”

Song Cheng was not surprised by the sudden call from the director. He just looked a little embarrassed and said, “Yes, but nothing went wrong. Today the Train’s carriage layout was more complex, and when I returned to the real world I found I had missed my stop.”

Bai Li Qing asked, straight to the point: “How did your talk go with Passenger 22?”

Song Cheng adjusted his posture at once, leaning forward a little, and said, “Director, something feels off. About Wutong Road 66, the passenger answered ‘no such stop.’ That is unusual but not outrageous. What is most wrong is what happened when I asked about Night Valley…”

He paused, his face very serious, and said, “Passenger 22 said that stop has been canceled.”

For the first time, he saw clear surprise on Bai Li Qing’s face.

He had always thought the director’s face was frozen in place.

Song Cheng said, careful and steady, “This is the first time we have gotten that answer. What do you think…”

Bai Li Qing spoke fast and firm as she said, “Arrange for a Deep Diver to carry out a Deep Dive at once.”