Chapter 36

“French kiss” “Hidden blind box.”

Those who have played blind boxes and those who haven’t were all silent.

What the heck is a hidden blind box? What kind of shady merchant blind box is this? Too much of a rip-off!

It’s like spending a lot of money but not getting what you want, just opening a bunch of junk.

But when you realize the one drawing from the blind box is the fish monster, and the “normal gifts” are themselves, everyone cheered again.

Well done, just throw out more junk blind boxes! How many times have we said it—blind boxes carry risks, enter with caution.

Tell me, which blind box has been worth it?

Everyone smiles on the outside but thinks “mmp” inside.

Shi Jian’s move helped everyone open their minds, and suddenly spirits lifted. Heated discussions broke out.

“We need to make the fish monster really feel how cruel society is. Hopefully it’ll leave soon.”

“There’s a sack of junk over here.”

“I’m next to a trash can. Give it the trash can too, it has nowhere else to put the garbage.”

The fish monster was about to become everyone’s trash hauler.

Shi Jian nodded, feeling very confident. “Next time the tongue stretches in, I’ll hand it over.”

“Maybe I can offer my slippers?”

Shi Jian: ???

Everyone else also turned sharply toward the source of the voice.

It was truly dark inside; people couldn’t see each other clearly, only roughly, but they didn’t need to see clearly.

The smell had a unique presence, allowing people to detect it even in the dark.

What a terrible stench.

Shi Jian instinctively held her breath; of course, everyone else did the same.

Those slippers really stank!

The person holding the slippers was a bit embarrassed.

Shi Jian decisively said, “You hand it over yourself.”

She didn’t want to handle this special chemical weapon.

…

The live audience and the streamers on site all saw that the fish monster roughly went through this process—

Attracted by Shi Jian’s shady blind box, it spent retaliatory points.

It just didn’t believe it couldn’t draw anything good!

Of course, it really couldn’t.Unable to draw what it wanted, the fish monster was embarrassed and angry. It had been lazily lying aside digesting, occasionally drawing a human blind box for extra meals, but now it suddenly started banging fiercely against the ship’s hull.

It wanted to smash the “blind box” directly.

Bang—bang—bang.

The fish monster’s body collided with the hull with a huge noise, causing the entire ship to tremble. Shi Jian instantly felt the earth shake and the sky quake. The ship rocked relentlessly on the sea, and the people in the basement also began to jolt with the motion.

“Momma!”

“Damn, can’t stand at all…”

Shi Jian stayed in the corner, terrified, half her body pressed against the wall to prevent being thrown out. She even suspected the cruise ship might be flipped by the fish monster.

Fortunately, the captain had previously bragged that the royal cruise used the most advanced technology, so the ship was sturdy—not all talk.

The fish monster raged for quite a while. Apart from exhausting everyone and causing chaos in the basement, with a few people suffering minor scratches, there was no other damage or casualties.

This was already very rare.

Some streamer even noticed, “Does its tongue have blisters?”

The fish monster was still probing its tongue toward the ventilation shaft. Its tongue was red, covered with a thick layer of coating. This tongue was especially hard to deal with; neither knives nor guns had any effect.

The sword that had previously “tongue-kissed” it was also thrown off.

But now, it really had a lot of blisters, densely packed, enough to trigger trypophobia.

Another streamer wearing glasses pushed up his glasses, looked up carefully, and said, “Looks like athlete’s foot.”

“I’m a doctor by profession,” he added.

Everyone simultaneously recalled the crystal shoe Shi Jian had handed to it.

So Shi Jian’s previous worry about infecting athlete’s foot was actually true?!

The crystal shoe really carried athlete’s foot.

“…”

Even after leaving this game instance, the streamers felt they could no longer look directly at the crystal shoe from the fairy tale.

Besides the fish monster’s tongue being infected with athlete’s foot, it also started emitting light.

Shi Jian thought this lighting effect looked very familiar. After some thought, this was the prince’s special effect.

Could it be that after the fish monster ate the prince, it inherited his lighting effect? It hadn’t appeared at first because it hadn’t fully digested him, and now that it had, it gained it?

Shi Jian felt this made a lot of sense.

…

After raging, the fish monster probably got tired and temporarily stopped drawing blind boxes.

It looked exactly like a consumer who had lost all hope.

The “gifts” almost wanted to set off fireworks on the spot. The curly-haired girl even pulled Shi Jian, saying, “Finally, we can relax a little.”

They still had some junk gifts to supply the fish monster’s blind box draws.Shi Jian remained skeptical: Could she really relax?

She could clearly sense that the people in the basement were much happier, but Shi Jian herself wasn’t very happy.

On one hand, because whenever she looked up, she would meet the fish monster’s eyes peering in, as if preparing for another attack. That constant feeling of being watched made her very uncomfortable.

On the other hand, the basement was just too dark.

It wasn’t that there were no lights, but to prevent the fish monster from eating people too easily, the basement had to remain in darkness.

But in the dark environment, Shi Jian’s appearance couldn’t be shown at all — even her gem-like beauty needed light to shine!

Shi Jian felt sad: her beauty hadn’t seen the daylight for quite some time.

Shi Jian wasn’t so selfish as to do things that harmed others’ interests or lives for her own benefit. To her, that was utterly foolish. So, she turned her gaze to the fish monster outside the ventilation shaft.

Although she could only see a small part of the fish monster, Shi Jian felt that the light was nearly perfect. She had personally experienced the prince’s lighting effects.

Whoever used that lighting knew — anyone near it naturally looked filtered and enhanced.

Now the lighting effect had shifted onto the fish monster.

Shi Jian showed a longing look: she really wanted to try it out.

Actions speak louder than thoughts; Shi Jian had already planned. The basement door could be opened. She still remembered the surroundings from before—

The basement’s location was awkward, at the edge of the deck. Since the fish monster was leaning against the ventilation pipe, it was blocking the only path out. The other side led straight to the sea, making escape difficult.

This was also why, even when the blind boxes could only draw people, no one dared to venture outside.

After all, one side was the boundless sea, the other the fish monster—escaping was impossible. What was the point?

But Shi Jian wasn’t trying to escape. She just wanted to get close to the fish monster to soak in the light. She still remembered standing next to the fish monster’s leg before, and it had completely ignored her.

Was it because the fish monster was focused only on the prince and the guards, overlooking her existence?

Shi Jian recalled that when she was close to the fish monster, its eye placements seemed strange. Could it be that because the fish monster was so huge, and its line of sight was blocked, its legs were actually its blind spot?

The more Shi Jian thought about it, the more excited she became. The odds weren’t high, but Shi Jian decided—she’d take the gamble!

Rather than anxiously waiting to die in darkness, she’d rather die gloriously under the sunlight, or the special lighting effects, beautifully.

Eventually, the supplies in the basement would run out, and then people would be eaten anyway.

Shi Jian signaled to the curly-haired girl, “I’m going out for a bit.”

The curly-haired girl was momentarily stunned, confused, “Where to?”

Shi Jian repeated, “Outside.”

Curly-haired girl: !!!

Can you even go outside?!

But Shi Jian was already walking briskly toward the basement door. She first adjusted the crown on her head—she was still wearing her crown, after all, she had just been dancing with the prince, wearing that same outfit.

After confirming she was still in good shape, Shi Jian pushed the door open.

Light instantly poured in. The sunshine was brilliant and scorching, giving Shi Jian the illusion of stepping from backstage into the spotlight. She felt the happiness within her rapidly revive.If it were anyone else suddenly encountering light after being in darkness for a long time, they would instinctively squint. But Shi Jian was a popular star trained under countless flashing cameras.

Shi Jian was unafraid of the sunlight; her eyes did not squint at all—quite the opposite of normal—and her expression was perfect, worthy of being captured as a screensaver.

Of course, her hands and feet were not idle. She closed the basement door as fast as possible to avoid involving innocent people; her steps quickened with clear purpose, heading straight toward the fish monster.

The fish monster was not far from the door. Its attention was entirely fixed on the ventilation shaft. Shi Jian took just a few strides and was right next to its leg.

It was here on the deck that Shi Jian had witnessed the fish monster devour the prince.

Other streamers: !!!

What is Shi Jian doing?

Is she courting death?

The viewers had just started to relax their nerves, and frankly, this calmness had made some viewers complacent.

After all, the streamers felt the path ahead was bleak and were at a loss, very worried. But from the viewers’ perspective, the situation seemed deadlocked.

On one side were the streamers huddled tightly in the basement, refusing to come out; on the other side was the fish monster that had no trouble handling them for now.

Yet Shi Jian resolutely stepped out of the basement, like throwing a big stone into still water.

Instantly, things became exciting—there was something to watch.

【Holy crap, is my eyesight okay? A streamer actually charged out?】

【Not only did she charge out, she’s heading straight toward the fish monster. Is she trying to escape? There’s no way out there, right? Won’t the fish monster discover her?】

【Ahhh, that’s my favorite streamer! Why come out when you’re safe in the basement? My heart is pounding fast, palms sweaty—please don’t get hurt.】

【Going to die for sure, not wise.】

【How is she standing right next to the fish monster’s leg? What’s going on? Can any experts analyze this?】

While everyone else hid in dark corners, too afraid to make noise, Shi Jian did the opposite. She attracted all attention and gaze; no one understood why she was suddenly so reckless.

Shi Jian: Of course it’s to soak up the light!

Shi Jian felt her luck was good. Just as she had expected, she successfully stood by the fish monster’s leg, right next to it.

Although the fish monster twitched its two whiskers, it didn’t notice Shi Jian’s presence.

Shi Jian knew she had bet right!

This fish monster, though impervious to blades and bullets and having extremely thick skin, was also slow and lazy. Its vision was limited; its legs were its blind spot.

Dressed in a gorgeous poufy gown, crowned, Shi Jian bathed in special lighting, breathtakingly beautiful.

The fish monster was larger than the prince, and the lighting effect was even more spectacular.