Want to be human, but cube-like

According to Xiangzi's complaint, the rotten meat was so smelly that when she first opened the box, the strong stench from the dozen or so pieces of rotten meat inside almost made her faint.

Alex herself didn't find it particularly unpleasant; perhaps she had already gotten used to it?

Recalling the scene of Xiangzi watching her eat a piece of rotten flesh with a look of horror on his face, she pursed her lips in confusion.

Alex had forgotten how she felt when she first ate rotten flesh, but she did remember that her mother had questioned whether it was safe to eat.

However, when the mother couldn't find anything else to eat, she indifferently stuffed the rotten meat into her mouth.

.

Actually, once you get used to it, it should be alright.

Alex opened the box and quickly shoved the overflowing pile of rotten flesh into her backpack. Just as she was about to take the rotten flesh to the edge of the sky island and throw it all away, she caught a glimpse of a few pieces of meat that looked somewhat familiar in the corner of the box.

I just saw her...

"Strange meat?"

After a moment of surprise, Alex took out the monster meat and looked at it for a moment.

In .;?;; :,,?- ,.:_- ?,_~_ !-_-- -~~-_ _~:!, ~~_-: ,;?!, should

It is indeed the same kind of item as the strange meat she just processed from raw villagers' flesh.

But where did this thing come from?

Somewhat bewildered, Alex turned her head to look at the mob farm.

Could it be that a wandering merchant was hiding in that pile of zombies?

But the number of items dropped isn't right...

Looking at the eleven pieces of strange meat in her hand, she thought for a moment that even if each piece dropped two or three pieces, there must be at least four wandering merchants among them.

She looked down at the iron knife in her hand, and just then, a new zombie fell from a height and landed right in front of Alex.

But if it's a zombie dropping monster meat, then that makes sense.

The number of zombies just now seemed to be six to eight.

So, what caused the zombies to drop monster meat?

With that in mind, she stepped forward, brandished her iron knife, and took away the last two bars of health from the zombie that had just fallen.

This time, Alex opened the box and watched as a piece of rotten flesh was fed into the box through the funnel.

"It's not because of the knife?"

Alex was taken aback. She thought the monster meat had dropped because she had killed the zombie with a knife, since she had seen materials with this kind of drop mechanism before.

So, it's probably because of the [half-demonization] buff that caused this effect.

Using a very basic process of elimination, Alex immediately went back to get the materials and synthesized another monster meat sushi.

This time, she was fully prepared. Holding the milk bucket in one hand and the sushi in the other, she took a deep breath and gently took a small bite.

"It doesn't seem to have any strange smell... It just smells rotten, like rotting flesh?"

Unlike the last time, this time, if nothing unexpected happens, it is indeed the rotting flesh on the zombie's body that has turned into monster flesh and fallen out.

"However, it tastes better than rotten meat...like raw mutton..."

She chewed carefully, made this assessment, and then swallowed it a moment later.

She opened the status bar, but found that nothing had changed.

Not only was there a [nausea] effect, but there was also no [half-monsterization] effect.

Is it because I'm not eating enough?

Frowning, Alex perked up again and, as before, tossed the entire sushi into her mouth and swallowed it whole.

"..."

Nothing has changed.

Could it be that it occurs by chance?

She paused for a moment, then synthesized two more new monster meat sushi.

This time, with plenty of materials, it doesn't matter how much we squander them.

We can't possibly eat all eleven pieces of this strange meat and still not experience a single instance of [half-monster transformation], can we?

Then you'll have to wait for a new wandering merchant to spawn so you can get meat.

Well, the wandering merchant has another great use besides obtaining ropes. Mom will be very happy if she finds out.

With the thought that she might have to eat two more pieces of the strange meat sushi, Alex ate her third piece of strange meat sushi that night.

To her surprise, this time there was a reaction; the nausea came as unexpectedly as ever.

To understand the specific effects, Alex endured the visual distortion and opened the status bar. After confirming that there were indeed only two buffs on it: [Nausea] and [Half-Monsterization], she immediately gulped down the milk in her hand.

[Half-Yokai Transformation (01:17)]

Based on the duration shown by this buff, it seems that not only is the probability of obtaining the buff random, but the duration of the buff is also random.

As she thought about it, she turned and walked towards the monster-spawning tower, where three or four more zombies had already fallen.

Alex quickly took down one with a few punches, and seeing another piece of rotten flesh in the box, she cut out her iron knife and wiped out all the zombies in the mob farm once again.

Sure enough, this time, what was sucked into the funnel and sent into the box were several pieces of strange meat.

"So, you have to kill zombies with a knife during the [Half-Monsterization] buff to get monster meat?"

She muttered something to herself, took out a few pieces of strange meat from the box, and then noticed that there was an extra description in the item's properties.

[How to obtain: While in a semi-youkai or youkai state, use a knife to kill humanoid creatures.]

"It wasn't there just now!"

Alex exclaimed in surprise, her eyes widening.

Now I completely understand what's going on.

"But what exactly is this 'monsterization'?"

After confirming once again that she was in a half-monster state, Alex was about to turn around and flip through the recipe book to search for recipes related to monster meat when she saw that not only had the item attributes of monster meat changed, but even the monster meat sushi had an additional [Nourish (3:00)] effect.

This was also something that wasn't there just now, probably because of her "half-demonization" that caused this change.

Alex tossed the remaining piece of strange meat sushi into her mouth, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it. She thought she would need to drink a bucket of milk to relieve the nausea, but she found that she only had a new "Nourish (02:59)" on her body.

The duration of [Half-Monster Transformation] has been increased by one minute.

After all that commotion, the [Half-Monster Transformation] which had only lasted half a minute has now been extended to a full minute and a half.

"Could it be that……?"

Considering the monster-like transformation mentioned in the item's attributes, Alex had a guess in her mind.

She quickly made all the remaining strange meat into strange meat sushi, ate one, and glanced at her status bar.

The duration of [Nourish] has been refreshed back to three minutes, while the duration of [Half-Monsterization] has been increased by one minute.

This stark change made her even more certain of her guess, so she ate another sushi.

The duration of the [Half-Monster Transformation] lasted for more than three minutes and twenty seconds.

She didn't linger and swallowed another piece of sushi.

The moment the fifth piece of monster meat sushi entered her stomach, the duration of the [Half-Monster Transformation] exceeded five minutes.

Alex suddenly felt a lightness in her body, and even her vision became much wider. She quickly stopped what she was doing and opened the status bar.

The [Half-Monster Transformation] buff has disappeared and been replaced by a new buff.

[Monsterization (19:59)]

Not only that, Alex also discovered that her health bar had increased by a full twenty bars.

She casually took two steps, which was definitely more than the 20% increase in movement speed from level one.

The speed is fast, but it should not have reached 40% of level two yet.

After hitting the zombies in the mob farm a few times with my bare hands, the damage increased from one bar to 1.5 bars, which should be an increase of 50%.

After jumping a few more times, I felt a bit higher than before.

Alex's eyes lit up immediately.

This increase can be described as exaggerated. Not to mention the changes in speed and strength, the health points alone have more than doubled.

If Alex had been in this state when she first faced the witch, she wouldn't have ended up in such a sorry state.

You can simply stand still and take a few hits to craft the Nameless Sword [Puppet].

Attacking with bare hands felt nothing. Alex drew her sharp blade, the White Sheath, and aimed it at the zombies and skeletons in the mob farm. After a few chaotic sword dances, the area was instantly cleared out.

After clearing out the monsters, she realized that even without the [Yokai Transformation] state, she could still easily defeat these low-health monsters with a single strike using her katana, so she wouldn't experience the amplification effect of [Yokai Transformation] at all.

We still need to find some creatures with enough health to test our attacks on.

Unfortunately, if you don't use a knife to kill the zombies, you can no longer get monster meat; instead, you'll only get the familiar rotten flesh.

However, this gives the mob farms, which should have been abandoned, a new purpose.

Alex had been wondering what the point of getting monster meat was, since it only dropped when the wandering merchant spawned and the drop rate was so low. Now, it was practically the same as rotten flesh.

Since it fell from a zombie anyway, it was no different from rotting flesh to her.

It looks and tastes much better than rotten meat.

Shaking her snow-white hair, which felt slightly heavier for some reason, Alex picked up her sharp knife, [White Sheath], with great interest and ran up to the tavern on the upper floor.

She needs to find a creature with high health to test her knife.

Someone like an adventurer would be quite suitable.

As Alex ran up the stairs, she suddenly felt a slight discomfort, as if something was pressing against her tailbone.

Is it because you're not used to wearing the new clothes that Aine made for you?

She thought about it for a moment, puzzled.

But I wore it all day without any problems, so why am I only starting to feel uncomfortable now?

Moreover, my head seems a bit heavier.

Shaking her little head, and relying on her hearing, which seemed to have also become much stronger, Alex quickly found an adventurer wandering outside the tavern.

She walked over, first patting the other person with one hand, triggering the hostile judgment of the sword draw, then immediately drawing her sharp blade [White Sheath], locking onto the latter, and then launching a series of satisfying combos starting with a dash and upward slash.

"Sure enough, why don't I just go out tomorrow and see if I can find a witch?"

The adventurer vanished with a mournful cry halfway through the aerial combo. Alex landed on the ground, somewhat disappointed. She sheathed her sword, White Sheath, muttered to herself, turned her head, and raised her hand to tidy up her slightly disheveled hair from the aerial maneuver.

"Ok?"

But he was stunned.

She felt as if she touched something furry above her head.

"how do I……"

With a gentle squeeze, a soft, tingling sensation, like an electric shock, coursed through Alex's entire body.

"...An extra pair of ears?"

…………

P.S. I felt the first half of this chapter would be quite boring if I split it in half, so I decided to combine them. This should be the only chapter of 4,000 words today. I'm not sure if there will be another chapter, but you don't need to wait.

I didn't expect that even though everyone could accept it, they still told me not to write it because of other readers who didn't like the plot. I'm so touched!

So I simply changed "human creatures" to "humanoid creatures." For example, I changed the rotting flesh dropped by zombies to monster flesh dropped by half-demons or monsters when they transform. Anyway, I've already changed the monster transformation to alter physical appearance, so changing this a little more is perfectly fine. It's my novel's setting, my rules.

This is essentially just eating rotten flesh. Eating rotten flesh shouldn't be a problem, right? It shouldn't be disgusting, right? I've never seen a Minecraft player feel disgusted by eating rotten flesh.

Finally, I'm wondering, which is better, the bunny girl Alex or the cat girl Alex?

I heard that female rabbits are active from February to April, and during that time they will mount other female rabbits?

Hehe...it was all for this dish of dumplings wrapped in vinegar.