After vomiting everything from his stomach clean, Yang Yi finally caught his breath. But his belly had ruptured, which was surely a fatal injury. Yang Yi reached for his abdomen, covering the wound to keep his intestines and organs from spilling out. Only… the sensation was wrong. There was now a mouth on his stomach, replacing where his navel used to be. It was wide enough to swallow a person whole. He couldn’t fully control it; right after vomiting, it opened again, trying to eat the pile of sticky vomit nearby. Yang Yi was so startled he backed away quickly. Seeing Suna about to approach, Yang Yi quickly shouted to stop her. Circling around the mound of white, viscous sludge, Suna finally saw Yang Yi, and the gaping abyss of a mouth on his round belly, opening and closing as if craving food. "Why do you have a mouth on your stomach?" "I don’t know either. But don’t come near, I can’t control it!" Yang Yi immediately checked his activity log and personal status panel. There were some garbled characters: 【????????? Look ???? directly ???? upon ???? the great ???? existence ???? and ???? your ???? sanity ???? # ???? @ ????! ￥ ???? @ ????! ???】 【Warning: Your Corruption depth has increased to 21%】 【Warning: Your Corruption depth has reached 27%. You have developed a new mutation: Gluttonous Maw. Please check the Corruption Interface for details.】 "As expected… a new mutation." Yang Yi’s expression darkened. The last warning had appeared just seconds ago, exactly at the moment his belly had “burst”. So it wasn’t that his stomach had ruptured, rather, the mouth on his stomach had vomited. Yang Yi immediately pulled up the Corruption Interface. Yang Yi ,  Corruption: 27% (A large human diagram; left eye is black, stomach is black) Warning: If Corruption depth reaches 100%, the player will be dragged into the Abyss. Contaminated Areas: Left Eye, Stomach P.S.: You can control the mouth above… but not necessarily the one below. Yang Yi scanned the information quickly, finally understanding what the mouth was. It kept opening and closing, even tugging his body forwards, and it was lined with neat teeth, always trying to swallow nearby food. Furious, Yang Yi transformed into his wolf form and punched his own belly hard, doubling over in pain. Since the Gluttonous Maw was part of his body, they shared sensation; it was like punching himself. The maw bit his wolf paw in retaliation, but didn’t bite down hard, as if recognising it as part of itself, spitting it out with a disdainful splash of saliva. Carrying around a mouth that wanted to eat everything was far too inconvenient, Only Suna seemed unable to resist getting closer, curious to examine it. To her, the mouth was downright fascinating. "Suna, do you have needle and thread?" Yang Yi kept his distance from the pile of vomit. But by now, the Gluttonous Maw had already eaten several sausages that had fallen from above. It seemed to share Yang Yi’s vision, and its tongue, three metres long, snaked out to curl around the falling sausages, devouring them with relish. Suna rummaged through her treasure pouch for a while and found a set of needle and thread she had DIY-ed from fabric and steel. "Throw it to me. Don’t come closer, it might eat you!" Yang Yi’s voice was tense as he kept as much distance as possible from everything nearby. Even when the mouth on his stomach stretched out its tongue, it could barely reach anything except a ham sausage that had fallen on the deck. "But… do you even know how to sew?" Suna had guessed Yang Yi’s intention, he was planning to stitch the mouth shut. "I can. No problem. I can even knit sweaters!" Yang Yi replied instantly, grabbing the Gluttonous Maw’s long tongue with his right hand to keep it from snatching the thrown needle and thread. After catching the sewing tools, Yang Yi sat down on the deck. First, he gave the Gluttonous Maw’s tongue a sharp smack with his claw, forcing it to retract and close. Then he immediately began the stitching work, right hand clamped tightly on the maw’s lips, left hand poised to sew. As if aware of its fate, the maw struggled violently, making his belly heave so much he almost couldn’t hold it down. "You hold it, I’ll sew!" Suna rushed over, tossing her crystal greatshield aside. Yang Yi realised he couldn’t possibly stitch this cursed mouth shut on his own, so Suna’s help was the only way. He hunched forwards, using his tall frame to block the falling “rain” of food so Suna could work in peace. As for the Gluttonous Maw, Yang Yi used both hands to pin it completely still, leaving it no choice but to be stitched up. After about twenty minutes, Suna wiped the sweat from her forehead. The mouth on Yang Yi’s belly was finally sewn shut. "Let go and test it," she said, looking up at him. Yang Yi handed her the crystal greatshield and backed away several steps until they were at a safe distance. Only then did he release his grip. The maw began to thrash, writhing across his belly, but its lips were sewn tightly with dense stitching; it couldn’t open at all. After struggling for a few minutes, it finally quieted down and stopped moving. "Hu~" Yang Yi let out a long breath. "What on earth happened to you?" Suna asked. "I had just fallen asleep when I heard a commotion on deck. Then I saw you stuffing yourself with all sorts of nonsense, you even smashed a hole straight through the captain’s cabin." She pointed towards the cabin behind them. Yang Yi looked back in disbelief. The room had suffered enough over time, now there was a new hole right through the middle, big enough to see the bow of the ship from inside. But he had no memory of it, only recalling what happened in the hallucination. It must have happened while he was in that trance, pushing and shoving among the “diners”, destroying things in the struggle for food. But… was he really capable of that much destruction? He was doubtful. After all, while conscious, he hadn’t taken his wolf form, he’d still been in human shape… Could it be that the hallucination… had boosted his strength? Yang Yi stopped thinking about it. It wasn’t the time. He dispelled his wolf form and led Suna back into the ship. "What exactly happened to your body?" Suna clearly wanted the full story. Yang Yi gathered his thoughts and told her what he had seen in the hallucination. "There’s something like that up in the sky?" Suna was stunned. She turned and bolted toward the deck, but Yang Yi grabbed her tightly. "There’s nothing worth looking at!" "How do you know if you haven’t seen it? Besides, why should you be the only one who gets to look?" Suna’s voice carried a hint of excitement. "You’ll die. I’m not letting you see it!" 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