Reborn As A Villainous Cannon Fodder

“Look, doesn’t it all make perfect sense?”

Yino stood with his hands behind his back, smiling confidently.

For a moment, though Jinyue felt unconvinced—as if she’d really become like a little dog by Yino’s side—when she tried to argue back, she thought carefully and realized Yino was basically right.

All these years, She’d never considered that she might one day like someone, fall in love with someone, or curl up in someone’s arms acting spoiled and wagging her tail…

But looking at it now, Jinyue really had been conquered by Yino’s extremely clever methods.

In this world, besides Yino, probably no one else could have calculated Jinyue to this extent.

“Fine, you’re right.”

“But you already have two foxes, one silly deer, and you’re raising one silly flower. Who knows, you might even raise a dumb bird later…”

“So Yino, can you please not adopt that completely uncultured wild raccoon?”

Thinking through their journey together, Jinyue stared at Yino with narrowed eyes and unusual seriousness.

She was feeling a sense of crisis. As the spiritual marks on Yino’s hand multiplied, Jinyue could already envision him running a zoo at home.

[That’s right! Yino, you can’t keep making contracts with weird creatures!]

In the sea of consciousness, the little deer suddenly chimed in.

But soon she froze, and only after some thinking did she realize something was wrong—

[Wait, you stinky fox, which one of us are you calling a silly deer, you witch!]

“Sorry, sorry, you’re the smartest…”

Jinyue turned away and shrugged, but mostly she didn’t want to communicate with idiots.

Seeing his animalgirls getting livelier, Yino waved dismissively and declared:

“Alright, enough nonsense. I definitely won’t take in that raccoon this time.”

“She’s already run far. We should go chase her.”

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“Erlii, show everyone what you managed to swipe!”

In the dim sewer corridor, several black-robed figures surrounded the approaching raccoongirl.

Under everyone’s gaze, the raccoon girl lowered her eyes and said rather pitifully:

“Sorry… I was discovered by that guy. I couldn’t swipe anything…”

“Huh?”

“You didn’t swipe anything?”

“Hey, are you trying to keep it all for yourself?”

In the sewer corridor, several black robed cultists gradually rolled up their sleeves and started getting rowdy.

The bottom-feeders scraping by in Demon Abyss City were all desperate types at heart. After working all day with nothing to show for it, they naturally turned vicious like a pack of starving wolves.

Surrounded by the group, the girl called Erlii couldn’t help but grit her teeth nervously. She hung her head in fear and backed away step by step.

She clutched her hands to her chest, gripping tightly the pendant she’d stolen from that young man’s waist.

Just as the hungry cultists were about to lose patience and draw their blades, Erlii finally weighed her options—

“Wait, don’t hit me! I actually did manage to swipe some good stuff!”

The girl hung her head pitifully, her soft voice almost breaking into tears as she begged for mercy.

Seeing this, the crowd finally snorted coldly and lowered their clubs.

“Cut the act and hand it over! You think we came all the way out from the mining district just to watch you put on a show for free?”

The leader spoke impatiently while extending his hand toward the girl.

After a moment’s silence, Erlii pulled some scattered silver coins from her robes.

“This… this is all I managed to steal…”

“That’s it?”

The black-robed man asked coldly.

“Really, this is all there was!”

Erlii pressed her palms together, swearing earnestly as her innocent eyes looked pitifully at the black robed man.

“You might not know, but even though that guy was dressed like a righteous cultivator, his cultivation was really low… He only had this much loose silver on him!”

The girl continued racking her brains to explain.

But before she could finish, the lead black-robed man suddenly slapped her hard across the face.

“Ah….!”

The little girl sent flying, her whole body slamming into the wall as dark blood trickled from the corner of her mouth.

“I’ll ask you one more time—is this really all?”

“Really… if you don’t believe me, search me…”

Even wracked with pain, Erlii still bit down stubbornly and spoke with grievance.

For a moment, the black-robed man bent down and stared into her eyes from close range.

In the sewer, the atmosphere fell into deathly silence.

After a moment, the black-robed boss clicked his tongue coldly in boredom.

“Damn…”

He cursed under his breath.

At this, the watching black-robed cultists immediately grew impatient:

“Fucking hell, I thought that kid had decent skills and high cultivation when I saw him earlier. That sword of his looked pretty good too… Who knew he’d turn out to be such trash. If we’d known, we should’ve just robbed him outright!”

Everyone chattered among themselves, all dissatisfied with such meager gains.

After all… This bit of loose silver would barely cover drinks and a small barbecue for tonight—not even enough for a few cigarettes laced with magic crystal powder!

“Boss, since that kid’s such trash, why don’t we go back and just kill him? That sword of his might actually be worth something!”

One of the underlings suggested eagerly.

At this, everyone’s eyes lit up as they rubbed their hands together.

For a moment, no one seemed to pay attention to the little girl cowering and trembling in the corner.

After all… She was just a Qi Refinement stage petty thief. Getting them this much loose silver was already pretty good.

“Let’s go! We’re gonna kill that bastard!”

The boss raised his arm and shouted, and the cultists immediately responded in unison.

Behind the crowd, Erlii finally climbed up from the ground and asked cautiously:

“Um, do I still need to come?…”

“What use would you be? With your pathetic combat ability, you couldn’t even serve as a meat shield. Get back to the mines! If you don’t earn ten taels of silver by tonight, we’ll kill you and roast you for dinner!”

The boss coldly delivered his threat, then shoved his hands in his pockets and swaggered away.

After everyone dispersed, Erlii finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She slowly supported herself against the wall to stand up, carefully pulling out the jade pendant from her robes—

“Heh heh… what a bunch of idiots…”

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