“Mount Gouwu is filled with jade above and copper within. Around it roams a beast with the body of a goat and face of a man. Its eyes are beneath its armpits, with fangs and claws of a tiger. Its cry sounds like the wailing of an infant. It is known as the paoxiao, a man-eating beast.”

This was a record from the ‘Classic of Mountains[1] and Seas’ from ancient China. Its description was way too similar to the beast that they were seeing below them.

The paoxiao had a name that was more commonly used, which was the taotie!

What the hell is going on today? First, I run into all these weird snakes, and then I run into an ancient beast?! My luck is bloody terrible!

Wait a moment. Does that mean that, by the laws of moral conservation, I am destined to draw something amazing from the lottery?

Of course, this was just an idle thought. He wouldn’t dare let himself be distracted right now by drawing the lottery.

Pei Mianman’s arms tightened around his neck. People were most scared...