After Raising Monsters, I Became the Favorite in the Wasteland

[New stories coming soon: "The Beautiful NPC Has Maxed-Out Comforting Skills" and "I Have Every Kind of Salvation You Want"] Wen Xin has had an emotional disorder since childhood. On his doctor's advice, he starts keeping pets. One stormy night, he finds an injured little black fluffball and brings it home. The black fluffball is aloof, refuses to eat pet food, won't let him hold it, and keeps undergoing strange physical changes, letting out pained moans from time to time. But Wen Xin doesn't think anything is wrong. He puts a lot of thought into coming up with meals for the fluffball, and gathers the suffering creature into his arms, gently patting and soothing it. Later, more and more fluffballs appear in Wen Xin's home, each more vicious than the last. Even the aloof black fluffball starts acting out, beating up the others whenever Wen Xin isn't looking. Wen Xin is kept so busy that he no longer has time to feel down. . At last, after they make it through the difficult adjustment period, Wen Xin barely gets a few days to enjoy cuddling with the fluffballs before the apocalypse breaks out. He is accidentally separated from them and follows the crowd to a base to make a living. He hears that top-tier mutated creatures are appearing all over the world. They are powerful enough to claim territories as kings, and vicious enough to make people tremble. Yet they are all frantically searching the world for one human. That human is called "Wen Xin." Gold, wealth, fame, and power: anyone who helps them find "Wen Xin" will be treated as an honored guest by the mutated creatures. Humanity, struggling desperately to survive, seems to glimpse a ray of hope. A worldwide search for "Wen Xin" breaks out! At first, the mutated creatures all thought Wen Xin was a fragile, easily fooled human. None of them expected to gradually grow attached to this frail human themselves. So even when they met him, they kept their true natures hidden, afraid to reveal them in front of him. Until one day, Wen Xin's companion let the secret out: "Stop being so naive! They've been mutated creatures from the start. They only got close to you because they had ulterior motives!" In an instant, all the mutated creatures' expressions changed. None of them dared imagine how Wen Xin would react. Then the human they had always thought was so easy to fool spoke calmly: "I know." "I've known since the first time I saw them." It took the mutated creatures a long time to understand why Wen Xin was different from all the other humans. He was mortal, and he was divine, embracing all things. [Reading Guide] 1. 1v1, Wen Xin is the shou and the black fluffball is the gong. The other fluffballs are family-oriented. 2. Set in a fictional world. Some details have been changed to suit the plot. Here's another story coming soon. Look at me, look at me (￣▽￣)~* "The Beautiful NPC Has Maxed-Out Comforting Skills" Xie Xubai has only recently realized that he's an ordinary person in a world of horrors. The stray dog he's planning to adopt is growing bigger than a car, and the student he tutors part-time has hit a second growth spurt and now boasts forty-three teeth. The beautiful coworker at the next table finds it too troublesome and simply peels off her face to do her eyebrows. And if he looks at his boss for a little too long, the man will silently appear beside him. Slimy, cold tentacles writhe slowly in the vast shadow, almost filling the entire wall. In a silence as deep as death, Xie Xubai calmly holds out a steaming cup. "It's getting cold. I made you some ginger tea to warm you up." After a long silence, two tentacles reach out from the shadow. Their tips cautiously curl around the cup, then slowly carry it away. The world operates in a twisted, uncanny way. Ordinary people have no means of defending themselves and never know when they'll die. Fortunately, Xie Xubai takes things as they come. He lives every day as if it were his last, and somehow manages to stay safe. Until the third year, when players are pulled into the world of horrors. Seeing that most of the players are ordinary people, Xie Xubai feels a faint sense of kinship with them. * The players first get to know Xie Xubai in a narrow alley where monsters dwell. The monster is nearly as tall as a two-story building. Its furious roar shakes the heavens, and everyone flees in a panic, screaming until their voices crack. When Xie Xubai appears, struggling to carry a bucket of homemade dog food, the players are still in despair. They've already looked up this NPC's stats. He's a genuine marshmallow, and facing a monster would only make him an extra side dish. Who could have guessed that all he has to do is reach out, and the raging monster shuts its cavernous jaws, then snuggles obediently in his palm? The players think their first escape from danger is a fluke. Soon, they enter a second instance, where they have to tutor a middle-school student. The moment they explain a question incorrectly, the student flies into a rage and tries to tear them to pieces! Hearing the commotion, Xie Xubai comes over from next door and slips a candy into the mouth of the student, who has 123 teeth. "Getting angry all the time will stunt your growth." The student grumbles impatiently but doesn't lose his temper again. The ghoul director of First Hospital, the scissor-handed doll at the Toy House, the bloodthirsty and brutal evil god CEO of a publicly traded company... The players are shocked to discover that as long as Xie Xubai is there, even a boss in a berserk frenzy can calm down at once. One rescued player shares the experience on the forum, and the entire player community erupts! Xie Xubai, who can protect the players, becomes an unquestionable treasure in their hearts. * One day, after Xie Xubai's protection of the players finally enrages the evil god, cold tentacles sweep out and drag the beauty into the abyss. The players there can't save him in time. Just before the rift closes, they hear Xie Xubai let out a muffled, broken sob. When the news reaches the forum, the entire player community goes wild! Convinced that the beautiful NPC has been violated, they are furious and band together to storm the abyss. Instead, they see the beauty being carefully held aloft by tentacles, his cheeks flushed as if he were drunk. Xie Xubai gently pats his jealous, aggrieved boss and coaxes him with a smile. "All right, all right." Then he leans in and gives the face a passionate kiss. All the tentacles shudder together, rippling with waves of trembling. Theme: Love embraces all things