Chapter 436 Who said playing house is childish?

Chapter 436: Chapter 436 Who said playing house is childish?

"Oh no!"

When Darian saw Wanda’s status bar, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.

Without needing to guess, it was definitely Parallax’s final counterattack that poured too much fear into Wanda’s mind, making her see some scenes she was most reluctant to face, causing her emotions to completely collapse.

Wanda’s Chaos Magic is closely tied to her own mental state; once her mental fluctuations exceed the threshold she can bear, her abilities will accordingly spin out of control.

Darian didn’t expect that he also had Boss Cao’s identical glib tongue.

He had just finished saying that Wanda’s emotions were unstable and her abilities were prone to getting out of control, and yet it came true so quickly.

At this moment, Wanda’s eyes lit up with a scarlet glow, and the red energy of Chaos Magic surged out from within her body as if a floodgate had been opened, rapidly spreading all around.

Wherever the red energy passed, space began to twist and deform.

The originally colorful objects were gradually fading at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning from vibrant hues into black and white little by little, and even the styles of the furniture were quietly changing into the look of that old-fashioned United States family from decades ago.

The entire scene looked just like an old black-and-white movie currently being screened.

Clearly, Wanda’s Chaos Magic was altering reality.

Seeing the scarlet wave rushing towards him, Darian did not hesitate; he immediately mobilized the fear energy he had just obtained, turning his magic white robe into a yellow garment, and bright yellow light gushed out from around his body, spreading out in all directions in an attempt to suppress the scarlet energy.

This is Sokovia; if this reality-altering power were allowed to spread outward, the consequences would be unimaginable.

But Wanda’s Chaos Magic was simply too powerful, coupled with the fact that Darian hadn’t had time to absorb much fear emotion, his reserves of fear energy were inherently scarce; before long, the bright yellow light was suppressed and retreated step by step.

Darian had no choice but to take out the energy storage gem and release all the fear energy he had previously absorbed in one breath.

The yellow energy transformed into an inverted giant bowl, covering the entire nearby area and trapping the scarlet wave tightly inside, not letting a single trace seep out.

Then, Darian wrapped a layer of bright yellow protective shield around his body, braving the erosion of the scarlet energy, and raised his foot to walk towards Wanda.

"Wanda, wake up!"

Darian came before Wanda and shouted loudly, trying to awaken her willpower.

But Wanda at this moment was like a Beast completely dominated by emotions, unable to see a shred of rationality in her eyes, fundamentally unable to distinguish between enemy and friend.

The red light in her eye sockets grew increasingly intense, and a terrifying magic fluctuation swept toward Darian, its power even fiercer than usual.

The moment the scarlet energy pressed up, a crack burst on the surface of the protective shield condensed by the fear energy, followed by the crack rapidly spreading like a spiderweb, crawling all over the protective shield in the blink of an eye, creaking and about to shatter at any time.

Darian’s mouth twitched: "As expected of Marvel’s Civil War phantom god, Chaos Magic has a bonus when hitting one’s own people, right?"

Seeing that even the power of fear couldn’t resist the Chaos Magic, he decisively prepared to retreat first, intending to think of a way after getting away.

But Wanda clearly didn’t intend to let him go.

Before Darian could make a move, countless red chains shot out from the void, entangling his limbs, tightening around his torso, and nailing his entire person firmly in place.

The scarlet energy then surged up, the protective shield could no longer hold out, shattering into countless points of light across the sky, and the Chaos Magic directly seeped in.

The next moment, Darian’s entire person was swallowed by the red light.

But he found that he didn’t suffer any injuries; it was just that the clothes on his body began to change.

The yellow garment disappeared, replaced by a suit, with a very old-fashioned style, exuding a sense of the last century.

At the same time, the scenery around him also changed.

The ground beneath his feet turned into old-fashioned wooden flooring, and the surroundings turned into a living room. On the TV cabinet sat a heavy curved old television, and the style of the entire house was old yet warm, as if it had been directly moved out of an United States family drama from the 1940s or 1950s of the last century.

Wanda, standing in front of him, had also become completely different.

Her originally smooth long hair was curled into a retro hairstyle, and she had changed into a plain-colored dress, completely styled as a standard housewife of the last century.

The red light in her eyes had completely dissipated, a soft smile hung on her face, and her whole person looked gentle and calm, completely different from her berserk and out-of-control appearance just now.

Wanda looked at Darian with a gentle and natural gaze, and said: "Dear, you’re back. Dinner is ready, go wash your hands quickly."

Darian: "???"

No, who is your dear?

Darian said with a serious expression: "Wanda, we are in a proper superior-subordinate relationship. Although I can understand your desire to climb up, you can’t pull this kind of crooked stuff. If you really want a promotion, we can find a place to chat properly tonight."

Wanda gave him a reproachful look: "What are you talking about? We are a married couple. Even if you want to play that boss-and-subordinate game, you’ll have to wait until tonight."

Darian: "???"

Well, well, Wanda, I really underestimated your ambition.

This isn’t just wanting to climb up, but wanting to go all the way in one step, directly transforming from a subordinate into the boss’s wife.

However, Darian also saw the clue and asked tentatively: "Wanda, I am your husband?"

Wanda rolled her eyes: "Of course, who else could it be?"

Darian: (...)

He roughly understood; this was most likely a script woven by Wanda using Chaos Magic, which had been corrected into reality.

Wanda had lost both parents since childhood with a shattered family, and her greatest obsession in her heart was to be able to possess a full, complete home.

Precisely because of this, in her out-of-control state, Wanda unconsciously used Chaos Magic to construct such a scene, solely to live the life she dreamed of.

Simply put, it was a high-end version of playing house.

And needless to say, relying on his outstanding character model, he was directly chosen by Wanda, who doubled as director and lead actress, to star as the male lead of this script.

Darian felt quite helpless about this.

He was clearly a powerhouse of substance, but alas, this was a World that judged by appearance; people ignored his talent and only stared at his handsome face, which was simply too superficial.

Wanda suddenly tilted her head, seemingly recalling something important: "Right, dear, do you still remember what day today is?"

Darian said casually: "I don’t remember—"

With all 365 days of the year stuffed full of various holidays by those capitalists, how would he know what holiday today was.

As soon as the words left his mouth, he caught sight out of the corner of his eye that although Wanda still wore a gentle smile on her face, her body faintly exuded a devouring red glow, and he instantly gave a start.

He immediately changed his tune: "Of course I remember, today is our most important day after all."

Wanda instantly became happy, clasping her hands together and looking at him with full anticipation: "It seems you still remember our wedding anniversary. As for the anniversary gift, you should have prepared it, right?"

"Uh, of course I’ve prepared it."

Darian’s mouth twitched as he reached into his game inventory and pulled out a sparkling, huge diamond.

[Item: Heart of Africa (A very expensive diamond; although named the Heart of Africa, people in Africa have never seen it)]

Seeing the Heart of Africa, Wanda’s eyes instantly lit up, and she took it pleasantly, looking at it back and forth a few times before a brilliant smile blossomed on her face.

"Such a big diamond, I love this gift so much, thank you, dear."

She carefully put away the Heart of Africa, stood on tiptoe, and directly hugged Darian to give him a kiss.

"Dear, I also have a commemorative gift to give you, wait for me a moment."

Finished speaking, Wanda turned around and walked into the house with light steps.

Darian looked at Wanda’s back and sighed: "It seems Wanda has already completely immersed herself in her own World and cannot extricate herself; we must wake her up again."

He definitely didn’t want to accompany Wanda in playing any house-playing games; it was too childish.

Just as Darian intended to step forward and forcibly awaken Wanda, the surrounding lights suddenly dimmed, and several candles appeared on the desktop at some point, emitting a faint light in the dimness.

Then, a pair of hands reached over from behind, gently covering his eyes.

"Guess who I am?"

Guess whether I’ll guess or not.

Darian moved those hands away, turned his head and said to Wanda: "Wanda, wake up quickly, actually all of this is—"

Halfway through his sentence, he suddenly stopped.

At this moment, Wanda had already changed into another piece of clothing—a translucent white long dress with her inner wear faintly visible. The dress was only buttoned at the middle button, open both top and bottom, generously displaying her proud modeling attributes.

(· V ·)

Wanda asked quizzically: "Dear, what did you want to say just now?"

Darian said with a straight face: "Ahem, nothing, I wanted to ask when dinner will be served."

Who said playing house is childish?

Isn’t this quite adult-oriented?

Wanda smiled slightly and leaned closer: "Oh, then do you want to eat dinner, or do you want to eat something else first..."

Darian said with a solemn expression: "Wanda, we are superiors and subordinates after all; office romances are inadvisable."

"You really are addicted to this routine."

Wanda gave Darian an amorous roll of her eyes, her fingers lightly tapping on his chest, sliding down slowly along his lapel: "Then dear boss, I don’t want to work hard anymore. Can you let me ride on your promotion elevator and let me rise all the way to the top?"

Darian gave a light cough and grasped her restless wrist: "Wanda, I must warn you, I am a proper boss and don’t like taking the back door."

"Then let’s take the front door."

As Wanda spoke, her whole person pressed directly up against him.

"Wait, subordinates aren’t allowed to kiss the boss’s mouth... Mmm mmm—"

[Game Highlights Playback]

[Click to Play]

In the game screen, the character controlled by Darian was attacked by the BOSS, which started off with an atomic breath.

Fortunately, Darian reacted quickly, immediately using a parry skill to return an atomic breath to the opponent.

Immediately afterwards, he rushed forward, his hands releasing an armor-stripping skill, stripping away all of the BOSS’s defensive gear in one breath.

Unexpectedly, the BOSS also knew this skill, similarly stripping Darian’s equipment completely clean, and the two sides directly faced off with bare stats.

Fortunately, Darian had a trick up his sleeve, hiding a natal heavy sniper rifle on his person.

The BOSS clearly knew the power of this weapon, immediately reaching out to grip the barrel, attempting a forced disarmament.

Darian was an old gamer proficient in games after all, still calm and collected. Disregarding his natal weapon being grabbed, he circled and maneuvered closely against the BOSS, searching for flaws on the opponent’s body while launching attacks, causing the BOSS to emit repeated wails.

However, during the struggle between the two, Darian accidentally misfired, a bullet blasting onto the BOSS’s face.

Although the damage wasn’t high, the explosion flash plunged the BOSS into a brief blinding state.

Darian’s eyes lit up, and he immediately grasped this rare opportunity. Taking advantage of the obstructed vision, he accurately locked onto the opponent’s two-point flaw, activated the charge skill, and executed a flick-shot directly attacking the weakness.

Caught off guard, the BOSS’s weakness suffered continuous fierce attacks, instantly triggering a series of negative statuses such as dehydration, weakness, and paralysis. Its health dropped rapidly, and it couldn’t help but issue sounds of begging for mercy.

But who was Darian?

He was a player without any emotions.

His heart was colder than a fishmonger who had killed fish for half a lifetime; completely unmoved, he continued to relentlessly pound away at the BOSS’s weakness.

As the BOSS’s health dropped grid by grid, the execution prompt finally popped up on the screen.

Darian did not hesitate at all, directly filling bullets into the heavy sniper rifle and decisively pulling the trigger.

A fully prepared bullet roared out, accurately hitting the BOSS’s weakness and directly clearing out the last shred of health.

Amidst a wail of reluctance, the BOSS crashed to the ground, losing all combat capability.

As for Darian, he posed in a victory stance beside the BOSS, displaying the settlement screen.

[Game highlights playback has finished playing]

"It seems my skills haven’t regressed yet."

Darian leaned back against the head of the bed, admiring the brilliant operations he had pulled off on the computer screen, and nodded in satisfaction.

But to be fair, AI and games really are a match made in heaven; even the BOSS is made to be so intelligent, its reactions are almost indistinguishable from a Zhenren (Immortal).

Yes, Darian was playing a newly released game by his own company.

This game was equipped with Ultron’s subsystem, which could make all NPCs extremely intelligent—simply a gospel for players.

Given time, it might even be able to make this Marvel game that Darian was playing, achieving the matryoshka doll achievement of "playing the same game inside a game."

"What is this thing?"

Wanda was lying prone on Darian’s chest, completely naked with her chin resting on his collarbone, staring curiously at the laptop screen.

Darian answered casually: "A computer, an invention from decades in the future."

Wanda looked surprised: "Your abilities are truly magical, to actually even have things from decades in the future."

Darian:....

Through preliminary observation, he found that Wanda would automatically rationalize everything that did not conform to this era, classifying the computer as various magical items he usually casually pulled out.

Simply put, it was self-deception.

Darian had a bit of a headache.

Wanda’s current mental state was not quite right, and she had completely immersed herself in the World she had woven.

If he woke her up rashly, it might trigger some unpredictable danger.

Forget it, it was better to observe for a period of time first and slowly figure out a way to let her walk out of the script on her own.

And during this period, he could only continue to play this house-playing game with Wanda.

Darian let out a soft sigh.

Bosses who cared about the physical and mental health of their subordinates like him were truly few and far between.

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