Chapter 2: No Little Penis (New Book, Please Recommend and Collect)

The cold wind blew in through the gaps around the windows and door frame, thread by thread, making the shabby little cottage unbearably cold.

So cold!

Li Xu was exhausted and drowsy, his eyelids felt glued together, and his body felt like he had just been fished out of a tumble dryer; his consciousness was groggy, and he had no idea when or where he was.

The bed beneath him was terribly uncomfortable, with uneven bed boards making his sleep restless, and the growing chill made his hands grope around the bed...

Where's the blanket, where's the blanket...

Expecting to find the blanket, he instead touched a smooth, bald head!

"Ah~~"

Anyone who, in a state between sleep and wakefulness, suddenly felt another person's strange head on their bed would be scared out of their wits, and Li Xu was no exception.

He cried out and sat up, his eyes snapping open, and as soon as he saw his surroundings, he shuddered again, his body subconsciously jerking back, but he failed to realize he was right on the edge of the bed, so he fell off!

"Ouch~!"

"Thud!"

"Xiao Lu Zi fell out of bed again..."

"Hehe, what a dummy..."

In a large communal bed slept three or four shiny-pated youths around twelve or thirteen, each with a braid of different thickness trailing behind their heads, all wearing simple clothes and covered with a thin blanket, atop which were piled messy clothes and cotton-padded jackets. A table with a broken leg leaned against the wall; beneath it sat a mottled wooden bucket from which a pungent stench wafted...

"What's going on, what's this, who are these brats..." Li Xu was baffled, completely unable to understand how he had suddenly ended up in this totally unfamiliar place.

"Xiao Lu Zi, did you dream of your parents again?"

"Parents, what's there to miss about such heartless parents?"

"You shouldn't say that, they were forced, they had no choice..."

"Sigh, I don't even know what my parents look like..."

"Alright, alright, it's getting late, we have to be assigned our duties tomorrow, everyone better get back to sleep!"

Just then, a faint coughing sound came from outside the door. At the sound, the youths jumped with fright, hastily lay down, and closed their eyes without moving a muscle.

Li Xu stared blankly in the direction of the cough.

In the narrow, dark room, a human silhouette loomed outside the door and windows like a prowling beast. The shadow, elongated by the gaps, cast a long, eerie aura that added a sinister and terrifying atmosphere.

Li Xu suddenly covered his mouth...

Damn, damn...

Whose hand is this?

Li Xu touched his own face, the smooth bald head, and the withered, sparse braid hanging in front of his chest!

The braid, damn it!

His body was also much smaller, and even without looking in a mirror, he knew this face was definitely not his own.

This is...

Shit, time-travelled, I've actually time-travelled, what do I do now, what do I do, should I pretend to have amnesia?

Li Xu was both anxious and terrified, and just then, a strong urge to urinate emerged, triggering a new, extremely unfamiliar sensation in his body!

He was stunned again!

This feeling...

I don't know how to describe it...

It's very uncomfortable, extremely foreign... and, amidst a vague fear, it was telling him of a terrifying reality!

He froze, then slowly reached toward the source of that sensation...

Nothing!!!

There was nothing where "Little Li Xu" ought to be!

Everything went black before Li Xu's eyes!

Eunuch?

Crap, you've got to be kidding me!!!

Maybe it's a dream!

He pinched himself hard, the sharp pain was so real, just as the cold around him was so clear.

Li Xu couldn't accept it, "Maybe I should just smash my head in and die, maybe then I could time-travel back!"

As he hesitated, planning his next move, suddenly, three pale blue lights appeared out of nowhere above his head, projecting in front of him and outlining the shape of a virtual screen, flickering.

This sudden change didn't cause any anomalies; the light from the screen didn't illuminate anything in the room.

It existed only in Li Xu's sight and didn't draw any reaction from the youths!

In the blink of an eye, the screen materialized, myriad dazzling dots flashed and coalesced, scores of incomprehensible symbols and figures flowed over it like a waterfall, then it stabilized, morphing into an interface that felt very familiar to Li Xu. It mirrored the room's interior and all his movements like a reflection in a mirror.

"Damn!"

Li Xu leaped three feet high; his movement caused the virtual screen to shift its position and angle as if it was a shadow. Okay, these weren't the main point; the main point was that the screen was divided into several sections, and the largest central one was recording a delicate little lad's ludicrous actions with the precision of a camera, thanks to which Li Xu finally saw clearly what he looked like at that moment.

A delicate little lad!

A slim body, features and a face in extreme shock!

Then, another row of blue text appeared, reading: "Spirit Live Streaming Room activating..."

Li Xu was stunned for a full five seconds, then cried out in joy: "I knew it, I knew it..."!

At that moment, there was no surprise, no panic, only the ecstatic thrill of an escape from a hopeless situation!

"Spirit Live Streaming Room activated successfully!"

"Current visitors in the streaming room: 0, current members: 0... spiritual power collection: 0/minute, faith collection: 0/minute, insufficient resources, limited functionality!"

"Plot World: Legend of Zhen Huan (television drama version), World Type: Type I space, Host Task One: Make oneself whole (find the missing part of the body), Task Two: Viewer count exceeds 100,000, Task Three..."

Li Xu could no longer see the content that followed, or rather, he could guess what it was!

"Are you kidding me, this is the setting of my new book, my outline!!!"