Apocalypse Star House Hoarding-Chapter 269

The moon on gjgw Star also had color—a pale shade of purple-blue.
The white cloud-shaped room was suspended among the branches and leaves of the “giant tree.” The curtains on the terrace were left open, allowing the purple-blue moonlight to filter through the glass doors, casting a glow on the person (?) pinned beneath her knee.
A tall, human-like body, furry ears, and a gray, menacing wolf head.
Being invaded in the middle of the night by an NPC that might not even be human was downright creepy.
So, Yu Xi didn’t hold back—the dagger in her hand had already drawn blood.
The wolf-headed man didn’t answer, nor did he struggle. He simply remained pinned beneath her, exposing all his vital points without resistance.
Yu Xi frowned.
His strength was formidable, almost equal to hers. Back in the game, she had seen him snap the climbing rope like it was nothing. He could have easily broken free, yet he hadn’t struggled at all during the game.
She wasn’t sure if he genuinely feared her fire or if he had simply chosen to cooperate.
But precisely because of this, she didn’t immediately drive the dagger into his neck—she gave him a chance to speak.
Otherwise, just based on the fact that he was an NPC and had tracked her into her room, she would have acted much more ruthlessly.
“Speak.” Yu Xi still held his nape with one hand while using the dagger in the other to tap against his furry face. She was growing impatient. She had a full day ahead, needing to visit another amusement area, and she had no patience to waste time on a mysterious wolf-headed stalker.
He turned his head slightly under her fingers, gently rubbing his massive gray wolf head against her fingertips, letting out a low whimper from his throat—like he was either acting spoiled or feeling aggrieved.
Yu Xi: …
Did she just get nuzzled by a dog—no, a wolf—no, by something that was neither fully human nor fully animal?
Aggrieved?
What the hell was he feeling aggrieved about…?
“I know you deliberately let those tourists live in the game just now, but that doesn’t mean I won’t kill you.”
As she spoke, the dagger in her hand vanished, replaced with something even deadlier—[High-Temperature Perfume]. Her tone was sharp with warning. “Last chance—who are you, and why are you following me?”
The wolf-headed man finally spoke again, but this time, it wasn’t in that rough, raspy growl. Instead, it was the same clear, familiar voice from before:
“Don’t you think this scene feels familiar? You can hear my voice, yet you still can’t recognize me? But look at you—you’ve changed completely, from head to toe. Yet, the moment I saw you, I recognized you immediately…”
As soon as he spoke, she realized it hadn’t been her imagination earlier—he really
was
feeling aggrieved. Aggrieved that she didn’t recognize him.
But—she stared at his enormous gray wolf head. She had absolutely no recollection of encountering a creature like this in any apocalypse world she had been to.
Yu Xi thought for a moment, frowning as she reached out to tug at the fur on his face.
Maybe she pulled a little too hard, because he let out a pained yelp.
Unlike when the other tourists yanked at his fur in the night amusement park, his voice didn’t deepen—it actually softened into an even more pitiful whimper, like a helpless little cub.
“Yu Xi, you’ve always bullied me, from the very beginning… You told me you’d never abandon me, but you still disappeared without saying a word. You didn’t even say goodbye when you left…”
Yu Xi froze. “Xi Yuan?”
The large wolf head, still pressed sideways against the floor, turned to look at her.
Taking advantage of her momentary shock, his mouth parted just slightly, and his tongue flicked out to lick her fingertips.
The next second, she smacked that furry face. “What the hell are you doing? Do you really think you’re a dog?”
“Whimper…”
A wolf acting spoiled—who could resist that?
Yu Xi reached out again, this time not only tugging his fur but also giving his wolf ears a rough rub. She was stunned to realize that everything—the fur, the warmth, the twitching ears—was real.
This wasn’t a mask. This was an actual wolf head.
Her shock deepened. “How are you here? What… happened to you? How did you end up like this?”
“Are you really planning to keep pinning me to the floor while I explain?” He didn’t seem to mind being restrained at all. In fact, he seemed to enjoy it—his head and ears kept inching closer to her palm, seeking more contact. “Why did you suddenly remember me?”
She wasn’t sure how long it had been for him, but for her, their last goodbye had been only a few months ago.
That reasoning was difficult to explain, so she simply offered another: “Because you’re the only one I ever promised that, as long as you wanted, you could always stay by my side.”
And she had kept that promise—bringing him along until their old world ended, until they rebuilt their lives in a new world. Only then did she finally leave that apocalyptic world.
Her intention was to correct his claim—what did he mean by “never abandon him”? He made it sound like she was some heartless betrayer who had ghosted him.
But somehow, he was suddenly delighted by what she said.
Beaming with joy, he rubbed his head against her palm again, even more enthusiastically than before.
Yu Xi: …
Enough already…
You know how scary your “wolf head” is right now?
As expected, Xi Yuan’s appearance in the Endless Train world was indeed because of Leng Mian.
He kept the details of his entry into the system tower quite simple. In short, he entered the system tower world through an “appointment card,” and quickly realized that he was different from other missioners.
Later on, he met Leng Mian in an apocalyptic world, and she told him that he was a “wanderer”—which meant, due to his human identity, he wasn’t under the complete control of the system tower.
He was relatively free. He didn’t need to do missions and could stay in the system tower world indefinitely or go to mission worlds at will.
But conversely, he was also trapped because the only worlds he could go to were the apocalyptic worlds inside the system tower.
“She said she might have a way to end all of this, but she didn’t explain how exactly,” Xi Yuan said, leaning back on the sofa in her room, his long limbs sinking into the soft cloud sofa, while above his neck was an out-of-place wolf head. He spoke while drinking bubble tea with a long, custom-made straw.
Yu Xi: …
The scene was a little hard to look at. She felt she would never get used to it no matter how long she stared.
Xi Yuan noticed her hand on her forehead and seemed somewhat upset. “Go ahead, do you think I’m ugly?”
“How could I…” Yu Xi touched her forehead again and put her hand down. “So, what is this now…”
“I’m not sure, but it should be related to my wanderer status.” Xi Yuan told her that he had been in the Endless Train world for quite some time.
Like her, when conscious, he was on the train. He also had a phone, a ticket, and a different name. His space was gone, but he still had an item compartment with some items stored inside.
He quickly realized that when within the station’s range (including the train), he appeared as himself. But once he stepped outside the train’s range, his phone would still contain personal info, but he would gain some bizarre native identity (appearance), or what you might call an NPC.
To understand it, it was like having two SIM cards in one device, existing at the same time, without interfering with each other.
And now, this wolf-head appearance was his native identity at the “Fairy Tale Amusement Park” station—a worker from the pet planet.
“So, you were really an NPC in that game just now?”
“Yeah, the native identity has some limitations. Every station is different. At this one, I have to do a certain amount of work each month. After Nightmare Amusement Park appeared, some of the daytime staff are drafted at night to become NPCs in the night amusement park.”
“But most of the NPCs in the night park are travelers who couldn’t find a ticket and got stuck at this station. Of course, I’m different. I don’t need to find a ticket, I have an unlimited ticket mode.”
“But I still need to find the hidden station; it just has no time limit. That means I can stay at any station indefinitely—as long as it doesn’t close.”
It was incredibly shocking information. Xi Yuan’s situation was equivalent to being half an NPC in this Endless Train world, but unlike true natives who couldn’t see the truth of the world and were trapped at a station, Xi Yuan had the freedom to move between stations.
Yu Xi looked at him and asked, “So, can you team up?”
“Sure.” He grabbed her, rubbing his wolf head against her arm. “Do you want to team up with me?”
“Mm.” She responded expressionlessly and immediately pushed his furry wolf head away.
Although pushed away, Xi Yuan was still happy.
In fact, no matter how she treated him, whether she disliked his current appearance, or whether she wanted to team up with him or not, it didn’t affect his current mood—he was just happy to see her again.
In fact, he wasn’t interested in saving the world at all. After all, for him, the original world was an alien testing ground, constantly repeating various disasters. Compared to that, staying in the system tower, he was freer.
He came only because he could see her—still as his true self.
Though Leng Mian didn’t say anything, he probably knew what she intended to do.
He wasn’t interested in saving the world. He didn’t care if someone wanted to end the system tower, but he did know that once the system tower no longer existed, Yu Xi would never have to enter a mission world again.
He was willing to do anything beneficial to her.
Yu Xi took out her phone, preparing to invite him to the team. “What’s your name?”
“Xi Yuan.”
“Didn’t you change your name?”
“Yes, I did.” He looked at her and showed her a standard husky smile. “Yu Xi’s ‘Xi,’ Xi Yuan’s ‘Yuan.’”
**
Xi Yuan wanted to stay the night, but she kicked him out of her room and told him to get another room downstairs.
Not only because it was inconvenient for a man and woman to stay alone, but also because after the Nightmare Amusement Park at night, she would inexplicably fall into a deep sleep.
She knew it was Xi Yuan, but after the incident with Lou Rui, she couldn’t trust him completely in the short term after their reunion.
After all, this was an apocalyptic world, the system tower world.
However, after reuniting with Xi Yuan, he was even clingier than before, giving her absolutely no space. At the break of dawn, loud knocking pounded on her door. Yu Xi rubbed her temples and went to open it, only to be visually assaulted the next second.
Right… she had forgotten. The Xi Yuan standing before her was no longer the delicate and refined young man from before. Now, Xi Yuan had a massive gray wolf head.
“I brought you breakfast,” the big gray wolf said, his blood-red tongue hanging between his sharp teeth as he grinned like a husky. “I got a lot of different kinds of breakfast. I want to eat with you…”
Yu Xi: …
He immediately sensed her emotions, and his two furry ears drooped. “Do you hate me? Do you think I’m ugly? Wuu wuu wuu…”
Yu Xi smacked him on the head. “Enough. Get in.”
“Oh.” Mission accomplished, Xi Yuan happily pushed the breakfast cart into the room.
In truth, coming this early wasn’t just about having breakfast together. “By the way, after we eat, I’ll take you to confirm the hidden station.”
Yu Xi looked up. “You found the hidden station?”
“I’ve been at this station for months, of course I found it. Besides, thanks to my NPC identity, I get access to information that regular travelers don’t.”
“You stayed in this district for months?”
“No, I’ve been all over the Fairy Tale Amusement Park star system.”
“You can go to other districts?”
“Of course. My native identity here is a worker. A job is just a job—I can transfer to another location anytime.”
Yu Xi understood. The native identity was just a station-specific role, but within it, Xi Yuan could choose what to do, as long as he didn’t suddenly go on a killing spree or cause large-scale destruction.
After breakfast, they checked out of the hotel. Xi Yuan took her on a shuttle car, leaving the “Little Red Riding Hood” district and heading toward the “Frog Prince” amusement district. He then led her to a bar in the plaza called
True Love’s Kiss
.
Standing at the entrance, Yu Xi opened her phone to check the station. The next second, she saw that the hidden station had been confirmed.
“If you keep participating in the night games here, you’ll gradually piece together the information to find the hidden station,” Xi Yuan said, lowering his head to look at her surprised expression, his mood clearly pleased. He was completely unfazed by the way other tourists glanced at him.
People from the pet planet appearing in the Fairy Tale Amusement Park usually used their advantages to work in specific venues. Plus, he was now accompanying a female tourist, making it easy for onlookers to draw their own conclusions.
“Is that a rented pet lover?”
“Of course. You can’t bring your own pet lovers inside.”
“Wow, this woman’s tastes are pretty wild. It’s one thing to go to a bar with a guy first thing in the morning, but she actually picked one with a fully animalized head?”
“Shh, quiet. Stop being so ignorant. People who rent pet lovers are into this kind of thing. If they weren’t going for a fully animalized head, what, were they going to pick a human-headed, wolf-bodied one? That wouldn’t even fit right. This is perfect—look at his broad shoulders, narrow waist, those long legs, plus that wolf head… I can totally see it.”
“…”
…
Yu Xi: …
Her hearing was too good. No matter how much they tried to lower their voices, she could still hear everything.
But as she listened, her expression started to crack.
She had only come across the term
pet lover
when reading the park’s entry rules. At the time, she thought she was just overthinking it. Turns out, it really meant what she thought it did…
As her expression cracked, Xi Yuan lowered his big furry wolf head onto her shoulder, shaking with laughter.
His ears twitched as he trembled, brushing against her cheek again and again. Yu Xi grabbed one of his ears and gave it a hard tug. “Move!”
**
Yu Xi found a quiet bench and sat down, making a voice call to Lin Wu and the others.
Yu Zhenzhen: “Huh? Why are you doing voice today instead of video?”
Yu Xi: …
Lin Wu: “It’s so early. What’s up?”
Ya Tong: “I haven’t even gotten out of bed yet…”
Yu Xi: “Well, I just confirmed the location of the hidden station. It’s in the ‘Frog Prince’ amusement district on gjgw. So, I wanted to discuss with you guys—are you going to keep searching your own district planets, or do you want to take a spaceship over here directly?”
This wasn’t an easy decision to make. After all, if they chose the latter, it would take seven days of travel on the spaceship.