I was terrified! Raising a colossal star beast in the Beast Taming World

Su Wanrou's lips moved a few times.

Her voice was squeezed out with difficulty from deep in her throat, hoarse and broken, each syllable like a shard of glass polished by sandpaper, harsh and fragile.

"It's fake...it must be fake..."

No one answered her.

Because no one could answer her.

At this moment, everyone's brain is in a state of self-protection blank.

They stared at the scorched, barren land on the screen, trying to piece together a complete sentence in their minds, only to find that all their words crumbled into dust before reaching their throats.

Lu Yutang's body began to tremble.

At first, it was just her shoulders trembling slightly, then her arms, then her fingers, and then a very suppressed, almost breathy sob emanating from deep in her throat.

"Mom...Mom..."

Her voice was so soft that it was almost inaudible.

But those two words were like two knives, piercing the hearts of everyone present.

"Mother……"

Lu Yutang's voice changed from a breathy whisper to a sob, and from a sob to a hoarse cry.

Her legs buckled, and she collapsed to her knees, covering her face with her hands. Tears streamed down her face, dripping onto the cold floor.

"Aa ...

Su Wanrou also broke down.

Her eyes were so red they looked like they were about to bleed, and tears had been welling up in them for a long time before finally bursting forth.

Unlike Lu Yutang, she didn't break down in tears. Instead, she bit her lower lip hard until it turned white and bled, but she still couldn't suppress the sobs that welled up from deep in her throat.

"How could this be... how could this happen..."

Her voice was broken and fragmented, each word sounding like it was being squeezed out of her chest with all her might.

Her fingers gripped the hem of her clothes tightly, her nails piercing the fabric and digging into her palms, but she was completely unaware.

Cui Yelan's face was deathly pale.

She stared at the scorched earth on the screen, her lips trembling as she tried to say something, but found herself unable to utter a single word.

Her eyes reddened, but she didn't cry—not because she didn't want to, but because her body, in the extreme shock, had forgotten how to shed tears.

Her entire family lived in Lanzhi City.

Now, that place is gone.

That small town with its cobblestone alleys and the fragrance of blue irises, the weeping willows by the river she passed every day on her way home from school, the courtyard where her mother would stand at the door waiting for her to come home at dusk—gone.

Everything is gone.

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"

A hoarse, tearful scream rang out.

Cui Yelan's hands clenched into fists, his whole body trembling violently. His face, which was always competitive and argumentative, was now almost distorted by anger and grief.

She also has a seven-year-old sister who admires her and is waiting for her at home.

"brute!!"

Cui Yelan slammed her fist against the wall. Her knuckles instantly swelled and turned red, the skin torn open, and blood slowly trickled down the white wall. But she seemed oblivious to the pain, and punched again and again.

"Why! Why! Why the hell?!"

Why Lan Zhicheng of all people?!

At that very moment, the voice of the Hero King girl rang out again on the screen.

Her expression was neither joyful nor sorrowful, and her tone carried an extremely calm compassion.

"Let me see, the place where the evil red moon just struck seems to be Lanzhi City."

She tilted her head slightly, making a "let me think about it carefully" expression, and then nodded, as if confirming her memory.

"That's right, it's Lan Zhicheng."

"Lanzhi City has disappeared from the map of Yuelan Prefecture. If you don't believe me, go check it out. If you fly there now, you can probably still see smoke rising from the ground~"

Her tone was light and cheerful, as if she were talking about the weather, not announcing the deaths of millions of people in a city.

"If left unchecked, this disaster will continue indefinitely."

She raised a finger and gently drew a circle in the air.

"Every day, a city disappears at random."

"Until Yuelan Prefecture is completely destroyed."

Her finger hovered in mid-air, then suddenly slashed downwards, making a "cut off" gesture.

"That's it."

The room fell into a deathly silence once again.

But this time, the silence was no longer one of bewilderment and shock, but rather something hot and heavy that was slowly gathering in despair.

Just then, the Hero King girl frowned slightly and pursed her lips gently, as if she was feeling sorry for these dying creatures.

"Finally, I know what everyone wants to know most right now is how to stop this purification ritual."

Her voice softened, taking on a gentle, almost soothing quality.

"There are still solutions."

Everyone held their breath at that moment.

"If we want to end this disaster—"

"Let the Beastmasters marked with the Crimson Moon of Evil come to the Moon Goddess Palace for the appointment."

The marked beast tamer.

Xue Youyou lowered her head and glanced at her lower abdomen. Through the thin fabric of her pajamas, she could feel the red moon mark radiating a faint, cold temperature. It was the mark chosen by the Emperor's Sacrifice, proof of being marked by the "Red Moon of Cursing Evil."

The other five people chosen by the Emperor in the room also subconsciously touched the location of the mark on their bodies.

Su Wanrou's waist.

Lu Yutang's inner thigh.

Meng Yanqing's calves.

Cui Yelan's buttocks.

Luo Yan's back.

They were all people marked by the evil Red Moon.

They are all people who must go to the Moon Goddess Palace.

"Of course, time is limited."

The girl's voice became cheerful again, and the trace of pity she had just felt was like a ripple on the surface of water, fleeting in an instant.

"If you're too slow, it might be too late to turn things around!"

She blinked and gave a sly smile.

"Don't ask me questions like where the Moon Goddess's Palace is. If you're so stupid that you can't even find it, then its destruction is only natural, right?"

She flicked her finger lightly in the air, as if brushing away a speck of dust that didn't exist.

"So——"

"I, the King of Heroes, hereby declare—"

"This imperial festival belonging to Yuelan Prefecture has officially begun!"

The screen went dark.

Instead of a sudden blackout, the screen gradually closes in from the edges towards the center, like the curtain falling on a play.

The smile of the heroine, the outline of the throne, the flowing moonlight on the ground, the two kneeling dukes—all were swallowed up bit by bit by the darkness, until the last ray of light disappeared.

Then, the screen lit up again.

The same blue background with white lettering displayed the "No Signal" message, emitting a faint glow, as if everything just now was an illusion.

Only the crimson crescent moon outside the window still hung silently in the night sky, proving that everything that had just happened was real.

No one spoke in the room.

Lu Yutang's crying stopped at some point.

Her cheeks were still wet with tears, but her eyes—those eyes that had just been filled with sorrow and despair—were now burning with an extremely faint light that refused to go out.

Su Wanrou loosened her grip on the hem of her clothes. The wound on her palm was still bleeding, but she seemed not to feel the pain. She just looked down at her stained fingers, her lips pressed into a thin line.

Cui Yelan's fist was still pressed against the wall, and blood slowly flowed along the slightly cracked plaster lines.

Of course, they weren't the only ones who were sad.

Strictly speaking, apart from Xue Youyou and Meng Yanqing, everyone present had family members in Lanzhi City.

Looking at the group of people who were overwhelmed with grief, even Lu Yuan, the only adult among them, had lost the light in her eyes. Meng Yanqing didn't know how to comfort them for a moment, and could only stand there anxiously. Finally, she turned to Xue Youyou for help.

Xue Youyou could certainly read the meaning in Meng Yanqing's eyes.

In fact, she had been racking her brains trying to figure out how to comfort everyone since just now.

After a long silence, once the sobbing in the room subsided, Xue Youyou finally spoke, "If you... are homeless, then consider me your mother."