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Access Denied Ch31

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Author: 年终 / Nian Zhong

Translator: Kinky || https://kinkytranslations.com/

Chapter 31: First Encounter

They didn’t spend too much time on buying weapons—it was just for show, so they didn’t need to be too picky. The greatsword Monday was uniquely styled, while Marshal Zhu’s weapon was too advanced to be used directly, so they had to make do with something else.

Seeing that they were efficient, Uncle Xiong simply waited outside the store. After shopping, the three of them headed straight to Yu Jin’s residence.

Given how proactive Zhu Yanchen was and knowing the jargon of the settlement, Shu Jun subconsciously assumed that there was some connection between Yu Jin and Zhu Yanchen. But when they met the real person, he wasn’t so sure.

In appearance, Yu Jin and Zhu Yanchen were completely different people.

Yu Jin was slightly shorter than Shu Jun but had an unusually sturdy body, easily one and a half times Shu Jun’s width. His protective suit made of mutant beast skin was covered in bright patterns, and was bulging. Judging from his physique, there weren’t many signs of deformity.

He had a crew cut and his hair was dyed an eye-catching golden color. The skin around his left eye was flat indicating there was no eyeball. It was clear that Yu Jin cared about this defect, as he had tattooed the left half of his eye with patterns to make up for it. Unfortunately, the settlement’s tattooing skills weren’t that great. With the real eye and the fake eye so close together, there was a stiff and terrifying feeling, as if the left half of his face was made of paper.

There were four purifiers in the room and Yu Jin didn’t wear a mask. As the three of them entered, he was using his teeth to tear apart a braised chicken leg.

“Lao Xiong.” He lifted his greasy hand and greeted Uncle Xiong. “And who are these two?”

“Guests of my brother’s. They can outrun a Corpse Parasite. They’re interested in this NPC mission. Your last partner was quite useless. I’m introducing two reliable ones.” Uncle Xiong got straight to the point.

It seemed that both sides were trading favors, but Uncle Xiong didn’t dismiss them during their conversation, which could be considered fair dealing. Shu Jun shifted his gaze from Yu Jin and turned to Zhu Yanchen, who had returned to his usual statue-like state, showing no signs of recognition of an old acquaintance.

“The last guy could also outrun a Corpse Parasite, but when it came to the mission, that coward could do nothing but run. When he saw a dangerous mutant beast, he ran faster than a thief. ” Yu Jin spat out the hard bone and looked the two of them over. “These two are different. At least they have a good physique..”

Uncle Xiong was a master at sales and struck while the iron was hot. “Exactly. Hasn’t Lao Xu just received a large shipment of good skins today? My brother sold them, and these two brothers hunted them.”

Yu Jin finished the chicken leg and smiled wryly. “I don’t like to work with newbies, but since they’re friends of Pan Ge, I’ll give them face. Let me make it clear, those skins better not be stolen—when the time comes and you ruin the mission, I’ll shoot you both first.”

Then he turned to Uncle Xiong without any hesitation. “If they’re really reliable, I’ll give you an introduction fee when we’re done.”

“Hey, you’re really straightforward.” Uncle Xiong smiled widely as everything was settled.

If they were really new recruits, it could be considered finding a big thigh to hug, so it was hard to say anything. But in fact, they weren’t new recruits, which was even better—they had originally planned to pass the test while also disguising themselves. With an experienced teammate to draw attention, it was much easier to deceive.

Shu Jun looked at Yu Jin intentionally, and the vague familiarity grew stronger. But this person’s appearance was too flashy; if he had seen such an NPC before, he wouldn’t fail to have an impression.

How strange.

Until the test officially began, Shu Jun still couldn’t figure out where the familiarity came from.

The testing site was a wasteland right next to the settlement, with the remains of a small town that had been there for hundreds of years. The towering billboards were buried deep in the ground, with only the top edges visible. The electric wires on the poles were tangled together, clinging to the mud, like hair stuck to bathroom tiles. The exposed parts of the buildings were scattered about, with only some dilapidated walls leaning in various directions.

Most of the people were grouped into teams of three, with a few confused individuals wandering alone.

There weren’t many military personnel present, and they had set up a small tent against the wall. The test itself wasn’t complicated. The military released a high-level mutant beast, and each person was given a recording device. The more detailed the footage captured and the less injured they were, the higher the evaluation they would receive.

“Don’t even think about attacking. This test subject is quite brutal.” The invigilator’s expression was serious. “We’ve placed military purifiers nearby, and if necessary, we’ll escape back to base. As for whether you can make it back… You all should have signed a waiver. Since there are other mutant beasts nearby, we have put a fluorescent collar on the test subject’s neck, making it easy to identify. The test will last five hours, and you have to prepare your own weapons—the test starts now!”

People scattered around, but Yu Jin didn’t rush to run. He crouched down and began looking at the footprints on the ground.

“I’ll track it. You two handle the troublesome beasts. Can you do it?”

Shu Jun responded and drew out a makeshift greatsword. Zhu Yanchen looked in the direction of the military tent for a while before taking out his gun a few seconds later. Shu Jun skillfully swung the sword around, but the more he swung, the more he felt that the sword was awkward in his hands. He flipped the sword over and found that there was a large area of severe erosion on the back, which looked new and somewhat familiar.

Shu Jun poked at Monday, who was wrapped tightly in cloth. It was always together with his greatsword which he always carried on his back.

Monday sensed the tapping and lowered its voice, using a hissing sound. “Pfft…!”

Shu Jun: “…” It was clear that this thing was doing it on purpose.

Well, he could still make do with it. Shu Jun kept a straight face and turned the erosion part towards himself. With Yu Jin’s experienced nose, they didn’t encounter many dangerous mutant beasts along the way.

Shu Jun had thought that they could easily pass this small test, but as soon as they entered deep into the small town, things went wrong.

“Give it back to me!” A female voice screamed from not far away. “I took that shot!”

A woman leaned against a rusty billboard, covered in blood. Two men stood in front of her, with one holding a blood-stained recording device. All three were dressed similarly, clearly part of the same team.

“You’re already so injured, so you’re just dragging us down,” the man holding the device sneered. “What could we do?”

“Bullshit! You didn’t offer me any support at all!” The woman coughed up a mouthful of blood, gritting her teeth. “If we had stuck to the plan, I wouldn’t have… cough.” She broke off, clearly in pain. “We agreed on this before we started.”

“Look, you have to understand that if we get injured, our score will go down.” The other man sang with a red face*. “At least we didn’t just leave you to the beast, did we? How about this. If we all make it, we’ll give you 3% of our compensation.”

*One sings with a red face, the other with a white face (一个唱红脸一个唱白脸). Idiom referring to one person acting as the “bad guy” while the other acts as the “good guy” or the mediators (aka good cop, bad cop). || In this context, he’s acting as the “good cop”.

“Don’t waste your breath. Just find someone else to group up with. We just got our hands on one, and we still have to take more pictures.”

“Give it back to me!” The woman grabbed one of the men’s ankles and pulled him back, clearly desperate.

“What the fuck? Are you still not done?”

The man was about to kick her when both Shu Jun and Zhu Yanchen got ready to fight. However, someone else was quicker than them—Yu Jin was closest to the woman and grabbed a large stone, accurately hitting the man’s chest. The man stumbled back two steps and fell into the mud.

“I was just thinking, why are there so many useless NPCs in these missions lately, and now I know why.” Yu Jin snatched the recording device from the man’s hand and tossed it to the still-dazed woman. “To risk your life for a good score—even a pig would laugh at that.”

Then he sneered and kicked the man a couple more times. Seeing Yu Jin approach, the red-faced man had already disappeared without a trace.

“Sorry about that. I can’t stand this kind of bullshit.” Seeing that both Shu Jun and Zhu Yanchen were about to take action, Yu Jin’s attitude softened. “Let’s continue—continue… Gray Claw, what’s wrong?”

Shu Jun stood still. His vague memory gradually became clearer. Along with a slight headache, some images floated up from the depths of his mind.

[Are you Yu Jin? That’s a really interesting name. Does it refer to tulips*?]

*Clarity: Yu Jin’s name is (郁金) which is the first two characters of tulips (郁金香).

Before his eleventh birthday, he had gone on his first field mission. The mission was located near a stronghold, and the content was quite simple.

The mission required them to search for a boy who was lost on the edge of the erosion zone. They quickly found their target—a chubby boy covered in black mud, who only had a right eye. When they came to rescue him, he covered his left eye with his chubby hand, looking very resistant.

And so the above conversation took place.

Children were always innocent. Shu Jun brought the conversation back to the target’s name, and the team members began to chat about this interesting name, ignoring the nonexistent left eye. The chubby boy looked at himself for a moment, stood up obediently, and limped along with them.

This was just the most basic training mission, not even lasting two hours.

However, there was a problem on the return trip.

There was a clever little girl on the team who was a bit younger than the other members—just nine years old. Perhaps because her resistance to erosion was relatively low, her whole face had turned pale so she hurried back to the base. By now, they were quite close to the stronghold, and there would be no more mutant beasts nearby. After thinking for a moment, Shu Jun agreed to let her walk ahead.

Then she was attacked.

The attackers weren’t mutant beasts, but three kids around their own age—two boys and a girl. They were hiding behind a rock and had shot her with a small gun. Then they gathered around her as they fired several more shots, not aiming for her vitals, and let her struggle on the ground as if torturing a kitten.

The little girl was wearing protective gear, so the bullets didn’t penetrate her body. However, the impact was still quite scary, and she struggled in pain and couldn’t get up.

Shu Jun, who was far away, was unaware and didn’t arrive in time. But the girl later clearly recounted what those kids had said.

[You see, this girl is numbered K-786. The number is already up to K! Her ability must not be very good.]

[Are you sure nothing will happen?]

[Well, she’s young, so she won’t waste too many resources. They… Oh, no, I can’t say that. Anyway, if something happens, my family can afford it.]

[Wow, it’s the first time I’ve seen one.]

[You see, it’s not that big a deal up close. Even a girl like you dared to come out yet that loser from the Zhu family was against it. Speaking of which, where did he go? My mom asked me to take care of him for a bit, and if he gets into trouble, I’ll get scolded…]

[Didn’t you snatch his protective mask? He can only stay at the stronghold. Nothing will happen to him.]

[He’s such a wimp. He gets scared even when we’re talking about hunting. No wonder the leader doesn’t like him. I’m telling you. He’s the type of wimp who wouldn’t even step on an ant. Oh, do you want to try hitting its neck? I’ve heard that it might kill it.] The boy handed the gun to another boy.

[Huh? But, but it really looks like…]

[Looks “like” doesn’t mean it “is”. You said you could afford it, so let’s test it out. Then you can tell people about it. How cool is that?]

[Who pushed me?!]

When the sound of gunshots reached him, Shu Jun rushed over and saw the scene from afar—

Three children stood near the struggling girl, and a fourth child staggered towards them, pushing the others aside to help the girl up. He wore a full-face hood that clearly didn’t fit, with the seal not even properly closed, indicating that he had rushed over in a hurry.

The child didn’t have a number, so he should also be a member of the NPC. He awkwardly comforted the little girl, then put her arm on his shoulder, and walked towards the direction where Shu Jun was.

Shu Jun was too far away to hear the child’s voice, but he could hear the angry shouting of the boy with the gun.

[You told my parents? You traitor who tattles! Scumbag! Garbage! Are you even a man?!]

The boy threw the gun to the ground and picked up a stone, then started to hit the back of the hooded boy. The hooded boy was also wearing protective clothing, so these stones couldn’t hurt him, but he had to support the girl while also dealing with the heavy hood, so his balance was unstable. After taking a few hits on his back, the hooded boy fell to the ground.

[This is your own fault!] The boy with the gun yelled, clutching the stone tightly and preparing to throw it again.

Seeing that he was still some distance away, Shu Jun immediately fired his gun. At that time, they were still too young, and they didn’t have customized weapons—only a small self-defense pistol that was uniformly distributed. The bullet had little power, but it was enough to hit the stone accurately and send it flying. The boy with the gun’s hand was shaking with blood, and he screamed and ran away. The other two children followed him, and they ran away together.

The hooded boy was still lying in the mud, unable to get up. 

Shu Jun walked over quickly and checked the injuries of the two people. His teammate was hit by the impact of the bullet and had a rib injury, but other than being a little frightened, there was no major harm. The hooded boy twisted his foot and couldn’t stand up.

[Go find a stretcher. She should lie down. I’ll carry this one.] Shu Jun pointed to the boy lying on the ground.

The hooded boy clutched his hood tightly, trying to stand up. But after a few tries, he just cried in pain. As he couldn’t successfully get up, he had to let Shu Jun carry him.

[Write this down in the report when you go back. We are not supposed to encounter random events until we are 13 years old. There was a problem with this mission arrangement.] Shu Jun calmly gave instructions. [You go first and take Xiao Yu back. She isn’t used to being outside.]

Yu Jin blinked his only right eye vigorously and walked to the girl’s stretcher while mumbling incoherently. [We, um, I… I should say thank you… um…]

He stammered for a while, but in the end, he got stuck and watched the stretcher being carried away.

[Does it still hurt?] Shu Jun felt the arm around his neck tighten and turned his head. [If it hurts, just say so.]

[……] The hooded boy suppressed his rapid breathing and remained silent.

It seemed like he wasn’t much of a talker. Shu Jun adjusted his posture so that the person behind him would be more comfortable. [It’s the first time I’ve encountered such an unexpected situation.]

[…But you did a good job.] The boy finally responded in a rather low voice. [I couldn’t even take her a few steps.]

[What are you talking about?] Shu Jun stopped in his tracks. [If you hadn’t bought us time, she would have been more seriously injured.]

[……] The boy remained silent.

[I’m not bragging. I’ve seen a lot of N… people in this world, and you’re the coolest person I’ve ever met!] Shu Jun said seriously. [Much cooler than those crazy guys. Have some confidence, okay?]

[……] The boy continued to remain silent.

They weren’t far from the stronghold and soon reached their destination. Several adult NPCs were waiting at the gate, likely to deal with the sudden incident. As they were about to enter, the boy tugged at Shu Jun’s clothes, indicating for him to put him down.

[Is someone coming to get you?] Shu Jun looked at the beautiful woman rushing over. [If someone is coming, then that’s fine. Be careful. I’ll put you down now.]

When the boy’s feet touched the ground, he let out a gasp. He swayed a bit and then leaned his head against Shu Jun’s body, causing the ill-fitting headgear to fall to the ground.

The boy was about the same age as Shu Jun, with handsome features and slightly long hair. He looked at Shu Jun with a nervous and cautious demeanor, as if not used to looking directly into someone’s eyes.

[Can I…] He glanced at the fallen headgear, struggling to speak. [Can I touch your gun?]

[Huh? Sure, go ahead.] Shu Jun generously took out his gun. The boy touched the gun through his gloves, with a complicated expression.

[Thank you.] He said softly after withdrawing his hand.

Shu Jun blinked. He had wanted to say a few more words, but the boy was immediately taken away by someone.

Compared to the farewells he made to his teammates one by one later on, this was a distant, small event. It was buried deep in his mind, as if it had never existed. However, for the present Shu Jun, it wasn’t just a simple memory.

He recognized that face.

On the day he defeated the Sweet Edge, he had seen that boy in that strange dream.

The author has something to say:

Heheh (?)

Shu Ge will slowly remember!

Kinky Thoughts:

Ahh, I love childhood sweethearts.

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Access Denied Ch30

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Author: 年终 / Nian Zhong

Translator: Kinky || https://kinkytranslations.com/

Chapter 30: One Eye

Luo Dan glanced at the empty vase without answering. Since he found out that Ai Xiaoxiao wasn’t his doctor, he closed his eyes and pretended to rest. Ai Xiaoxiao was too lazy to make fun of him, so she touched the wall a few more times, turned around, and left while humming a little tune.

As expected, just as the door closed, veins seeped out from the wall, and droplets of liquid fell once again.

“I…will…help…you…” Its voice was intermittent, like an old radio with poor reception.

The air became slightly sweet and pungent with pus, but Luo Duan didn’t respond to the invitation. He ignored it as if it were just a phantom. When the droplet saw that he wasn’t responding, it slowly retracted back into the ceiling, and the wall returned to its original state.

It didn’t leave and still lurked behind the wall as Luo Duan could still feel its breath. For the time being, it seemed that the thing didn’t intend to harm him, nor did it want to expose itself to people. Luo Duan decided to ignore it and see what it would do.

There was no such thing as a free lunch*, and even in his despair, he wouldn’t accept the support of a monster.

*Idiom referring to everything has a cost or trade-off, and nothing comes without effort or sacrifice.

Ai Xiaoxiao was unaware of what happened in the room. She left the ward in large strides and casually flipped through Luo Duan’s medical records.

All indicators were abnormal. This person’s body was on the verge of collapse. Some of his organs even showed signs of slight erosion. If Luo Duan failed to die on the battlefield in the next six months, he would only face even longer torment.

Ai Xiaoxiao chewed on her bubblegum and took out a tattered notebook to write down Luo Duan’s name and medical record number. When she arrived at her destination, she stuffed the notebook into her pocket before pushing open the door.

“Miss Ai.” The researcher inside the door nodded at her.

“Let’s get one thing straight, I won’t be here for too long.” Ai Xiaoxiao’s opening remarks were quite blunt. “I have a contract with Zhu Yanchen. When the time is up, I’ll leave… You guys will still be paid on time, right?”

The researcher’s expression twitched. “You don’t have to worry. Marshal Zhu has an account reserved.”

“Oh, good. Then let’s stick to what was agreed in the contract. After Zhu Yanchen’s death, I’ll be responsible for the maintenance of synthetic humans for a year. Even if the leader personally requests it, I won’t extend or shorten my working hours. The pay will be exactly what was agreed upon. You’re welcome to add a bonus to the remuneration, but there’s no way I’ll accept a deduction.”

Ai Xiaoxiao’s tone was quite indifferent. She counted on her fingers as she spoke.

“I won’t participate in your discussions, provide information about synthetic humans outside of my work scope, or accept treatment recommendations from the research institute. During this year, the relevant team must absolutely obey me, and I have the right to make personnel adjustments to my subordinates. That’s all. It’s all written in black and white. To prevent you from reneging, please sign in the ‘I Acknowledge’ section.”

The researcher took a deep breath as he felt a toothache. Despite Zhu Yanchen’s death there was still no peace—Dr. Ai’s greed and arrogance were well-known, yet Marshal Zhu had brought her on and thrust an aunt onto them.

If Zhu Yanchen were still alive, there would be room for negotiation. But with this contract, even Yi Ning couldn’t interfere. Ai Xiaoxiao was highly skilled and well-known in the civilian world. If she were forced out, not only would they offend the people, but the Zhu family wouldn’t let it go for fear of losing face.

Forget it. They had endured Zhu Yanchen for so many years, so enduring Ai Xiaoxiao wouldn’t be a problem.

“It’s not like it’s your money that was spent.” Ai Xiaoxiao saw the researcher hesitating and spoke up again. “Hurry up. I still have to clean up my new room.”

“Miss Ai, I’m a little curious. How did Marshal Zhu persuade you?”

The researcher quickly signed the contract and pushed it back. He couldn’t help but ask this question—Ai Xiaoxiao’s was notorious for her disobedience. The research institute had tried to hire her before, but they never even saw her shadow.

“Persuade?”

Ai Xiaoxiao stuffed the contract into her bag.

“I learned a lot from him, so this is considered a favor. You’ve worked with him for so long, yet you really haven’t noticed anything?… Tsk tsk, it seems that I was right not to join the research institute. I always felt that you guys had poor eyesight, but now it’s even worse than I imagined.”

With that, she left the researcher standing there, stunned, and walked straight out the door.

Researcher: “…”

He had heard that Ai Xiaoxiao was straightforward, but this sounded like she had a grudge against the research institute. Noticed anything about Zhu Yanchen? He thought of Marshal Zhu’s research reports that were off-topic and shook his head hard.

Forget it. Maybe Ai Xiaoxiao just didn’t like them, and her attitude problem wasn’t a big deal.

“Oh, and about your special ward.” Just a few steps out the door, Ai Xiaoxiao twisted back, and the researcher’s half-shaking head froze in mid-air. “It’s best to have someone test the concentration of erosion inside. The air in there doesn’t seem right.”

“We’ve installed military-grade purifiers at the entrance. An Erosion Swamp will never enter. It’s impossible to completely eliminate erosion as there’s a lot of erosion in the players’ bodies…”

“Testing won’t take much time, and I’m sure there’s a problem there.” She gritted her teeth. “If possible, please try to do it today—”

Her tone softened, as she had to use the word “please” for the first time, but unfortunately, the other party didn’t let her finish.

“That may have to wait until you take office and test it yourself. The special ward has an environmental test every month, and that’s the rule.” The researcher pulled out a polite smile. “Currently, you have no right to command us.”

Ai Xiaoxiao coldly shot a few glares and left with a flick of her sleeve.

Picking faults from the start and nitpicking about such trivial matters. He had at least gained a victory, and the researcher heaved a sigh of relief.

Ai Xiaoxiao arrived at her temporary residence and threw her bag onto the table. She had to admit that the quality of the room at the command center was quite good. The television in the room was also on, but unlike the special ward, her television was broadcasting a popular entertainment program.

It was Xia Liang’s tour. Xia Liang, the young miss of the Xia family, dressed elegantly and beautifully with exquisite makeup. She stood on the smoke-filled stage and sang soft, sentimental songs. Her voice was clear and pleasant, but unfortunately, Ai Xiaoxiao felt annoyed. She never liked young misses who were ignorant of the world, and even more so, she despised canaries that sang while treading on corpses*.

*Metaphor referring to someone who behaves in an insensitive or disrespectful manner, especially when it’s done in the context of someone’s misfortune or tragedy. || In this context, she showing her contempt that Xia Liang lives a comfortable life touring while ignorant of all the sacrifices and suffering from the people and “players”.

She turned off the TV aggressively.

Nothing was going smoothly.

Perhaps luck was such that it had its ups and downs. It was a great joy that Zhu Yanchen survived, but from then on—on the day the news of Zhu Yanchen’s death was released—she tried to contact Dong Lao, but he said that he could only meet her in at least a week.

There was no battle right now to command, so what was that old man doing?

As a result, Ai Xiaoxiao had to deal with the research institute first, which wasn’t a pleasant task. She detested it here to the bone and was too lazy to hide her emotions. She would definitely not have a good time here in the future. But…

Ai Xiaoxiao pulled out the contract and silently read the amount on it a few times, finally feeling a bit emotionally balanced.

It was almost time to meet Dong Lao, and she hoped that her luck would improve. After tidying up the room, Ai Xiaoxiao sat down on the bed. She fiddled with the cover of her notebook and began to ponder the possibility of secretly taking some equipment and inspecting the special ward.

Border settlement.

Shu Jun and Zhu Yanchen walked into the Longevity Tavern one after the other. Although it was called a tavern, it sold all kinds of things.

It was now breakfast time, and the tavern was bustling with people. Steaming baskets of buns and crispy fried dough sticks were displayed on wire racks. Small side dishes were neatly arranged on the table, with marinated meat soaked in thick sauce, filling the entire tavern with the fragrance of oil.

After selling the mutant beast skin and having some income, Shu Jun felt more carefree. He happily bought a lot of food and led Zhu Yanchen to a corner. However, they were still particularly eye-catching among the group of people, and the people didn’t even bother to hide their gazes.

One was a military leader and the other was a celebrity player so they had long been accustomed to this kind of scene. As usual, Zhu Yanchen pushed his mask down a bit and calmly drank his porridge. Shu Jun stretched out his claws and happily poked the bun skin.

Most people had a habit. If the person being observed avoided their gaze nervously, the observer’s interest would increase; but if the observed object remained indifferent, the observer’s enjoyment would be greatly reduced. People watched as the gray-haired youth finished a basket of buns and began to crunch on the fried dough sticks. Gradually, their attention returned to their breakfast.

“The fried dough sticks are pretty good.” Shu Jun took a big bite of the fried dough stick, leaving the other half, and gestured it in front of Zhu Yanchen. “These are a bit soft. I plan to go buy some more. Do you want one? Or do you not like things that are too oily—”

Zhu Yanchen naturally grabbed Shu Jun’s wrist and took a small bite of the fried dough sticks.

“It’s indeed a bit oily. No need. Just help me get another bowl of porridge,” he said.

Shu Jun glanced at where Zhu Yanchen had bitten, feeling a bit uncertain. Marshal Zhu’s actions were too straightforward that he couldn’t really tell if this was the practical style of a realist or if it had a hint of intimacy.

…Well, he could’ve just bitten the other end. That way, Shu Jun wouldn’t have to worry about this issue. He stuffed the fried dough stick into his mouth and looked deeply at Zhu Yanchen.

The latter was still drinking his porridge at a steady pace, expressionlessly.

Forget it. They were sleeping in the same bed. What did it matter? Shu Jun shook his head. “How about I get some steamed buns?”

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sudden silence in the tavern. Shu Jun immediately shut his mouth and instinctively lowered his body.

“Listen up, everyone, there’s news! There’s news!” A thin man with shifty eyes slipped into the store. “The Blackbirds is recruiting three NPC guides. They’re leaving in five days. They’re going to the northwest of the ruins of X City. The work is tough so they want experienced hands that can pass three assessments!”

After that, the man swiped electronic money from the tavern owner and quickly ran away.

Shu Jun: “…”

He could understand the first part, but the latter half was complete gibberish. He was completely confused. Zhu Yanchen pointed to the rim of Shu Jun’s bowl with his chopsticks, pulling his attention back.

“Did you understand?” Amidst the clamor of discussion, Shu Jun lowered his voice. “What are the three assessments?”

“Good physical condition, recommended by someone, and willing to undergo a combat assessment for free.” Zhu Yanchen lowered his gaze. “In short, those who are too abnormal are not wanted, those without a local sponsor are not wanted, and those who cannot participate in combat are not wanted. This is the highest standard for recruiting people on the edge of society by the United Government.”

They didn’t have to worry about being abnormal or combat effectiveness, but as for sponsors…

“Oh, you two are here too?” A loud, sturdy voice rang out, and the two were slapped on their backs by a big hand the size of a cattail fan. Zhu Yanchen barely managed to maintain his composure, but Shu Jun almost choked on a bite of his steamed bun.

“Uncle Xiong.” Shu Jun wiped his chin. The other person wore a mask, but the two brown lumps on his head were easy to recognize.

“You call my brother Pan Ge but call me Uncle Xiong? Is that the correct way to address me?” Uncle Xiong grumbled unhappily. “Just call me Xiong Ge—what’s going on with you two? Want to try an NPC task?”

“Thinking about it. What about you, Xiong Ge?”

“Hey, my brother won’t let me go even if he dies. He says he’ll break my legs if I dare to go. This job is really dangerous. You two have to think carefully.” Uncle Xiong rubbed his nose. “But if you really want to go, I can introduce you to someone.”

“What do you mean?” Shu Jun immediately pulled up a chair for Uncle Xiong.

“I know the toughest guy around here. He’s done over a dozen NPC missions, and he’s still alive. Impressive, right? I heard before that they wanted to make him a fixed NPC, but he refused. He’s a real master… Of course, you two are masters too. So I thought, if you really want to go, my brother can vouch for you. Then you can just watch that guy and do whatever he does during the test. You’ll definitely pass.”

“His nickname is ‘One Eye’—his real name is Yu Jin—and he’s a big shot around here. We’re a bit friendly, so I can introduce you to him later.”

Yu Jin—the name sounded familiar to Shu Jun, but he couldn’t remember where he heard it from. He smiled and agreed, intending to continue chatting with Uncle Xiong, but he unintentionally looked over at Zhu Yanchen on the side.

Then Shu Jun forgot what he wanted to say.

Marshal Zhu was looking at him with unusual concentration. His gaze was quite complicated, mixed with restraint, nostalgia, and inexplicable expectation, as sharp as an icicle. Their eyes met head-on, and Zhu Yanchen didn’t look away. After a few seconds, Zhu Yanchen turned to Uncle Xiong and spoke up for the first time.

“Thank you. We’ll go buy weapons later, and please help us set up a meeting time…”

“…If possible, it would be best to meet today.”

The author has something to say:

Marshal Zhu: …The old way of getting along seems to have no effect, what should I do?

Shu Ge: Is he flirting with me, or is he really straightforward? Anyway, let’s focus on the important stuff first. We both have leftover feelings from our confession flags.

Question: Who is more straightforward?

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Criminal Psychology Ch197

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Author: 长洱 / Chang’er

Translator: Kinky || https://kinkytranslations.com/

Chapter 197

In the face of illness, any attempt to hold on was like a praying mantis trying to stop a moving car*.

*(螳臂当车) Idiom referring to a futile attempt to stop something much stronger or more powerful than oneself, akin to an insect trying to stop a vehicle.

Lin Chen no longer struggled. His breathing gradually stabilized, and the soft-packed saline water was injected into his body drop by drop. He seemed to have passed the most severe shock period, but Xing Conglian knew that the matter was far from over.

He brushed the wet locks of black hair on Lin Chen’s forehead with his hand, but Lin Chen didn’t even have the strength to react.

Duan Yang patted him on the shoulder and said calmly, “Captain Xing, please come out.”

Xing Conglian didn’t know whether this was a necessary ceremony that every patient’s family member had to go through. They could clearly speak in the ward, and, given Lin Chen’s condition, he wouldn’t even hear them. Yet, he must be called out by the doctor and, through a thin door panel, make decisions that would determine the life and death of the patient.

He and Duan Yang walked out the door numbly. Every step he took was like stepping into a winter’s night that only got colder.

The hatch closed gently.

The people waiting at the door also looked concerned. He had seen those familiar faces one by one, whether it was Wang Chao or Xiao Wu, Zhang Long or Kang An… Those subordinates and friends who had fought side by side with him now seemed meaningless to him, making him unable to feel any sense of affection.

Wang Chao cautiously called out to him. The expression on his face seemed to hope that he would bring some good news. Xing Conglian turned his gaze to Duan Yang, and the doctor shook his head.

Zhao Hu handed over a pack of cigarettes. “They have been notified, but Zaratul is crazy. The entire area west of the Xazi Mountains is blocked. Those who deliver medicine can only come from the seaside, and the fastest way is to go against the current. It will take a day and a night.”

Xing Conglian looked at the warning “Smoking is harmful to your health” on the cigarette pack and didn’t pick it up. He stretched out his other hand and cut the cigarette in advance. He saw Duan Yang’s calm and lifeless face.

The young doctor looked at the stern of the boat and then walked over to him.

Duan Yang had obviously never smoked a cigarette before, so when he walked to the stern of the boat with the cigarette, he only stood there awkwardly. Xing Conglian took out a lighter and threw it over.

The hot and humid wind blew across the young man’s face. Duan Yang trembled with both hands as he lit the cigarette. After taking only a puff, he choked and coughed violently. Xing Conglian didn’t care about him. He just stood there against the stern guardrail, letting Duan Yang kneel on the ground, coughing desperately as if he were crying.

Xing Conglian turned his head and looked at the constant green trees on both sides of the river. He suddenly realized that they were actually beasts cornered by this terrifying greenery, struggling to find a slim way out.

Duan Yang was quiet. Although he trembled all over, he covered his face from beginning to end, and not a single tear flowed. He was just immersed in deep pain and helpless confusion, and Xing Conglian knew this feeling very well, because he was now almost only one foot away from falling into the same abyss as Duan Yang.

Now, he really needed someone who could tell him clearly that Lin Chen could survive through this.

Even if someone opened a horoscope and told him that Lin Chen would be in danger today, he would definitely turn misfortune into good luck. He would take it as a lifeline, but it was a pity that there was no such thing. They could only get through it by themselves, and no one would help.

Half of the cigarette in Duan Yang’s hand burned, and the wind was strong, speeding up the burning of the second half.

Xing Conglian squatted down, took out a cigarette, and flicked it into the dirty river.

Duan Yang took his time to glance at him with only dead silence in his eyes.

“Duan Yang.” Xing Conglian spoke slowly, calling the young man’s name for the first time. “No matter what you want to say next, I can only say that I don’t want to give up yet, and neither does Lin Chen. Therefore, I won’t accept any verdict-like words. Can we still think of a solution…doctor?”

Duan Yang clung to the railing tightly. When he heard the word “doctor”, Duan Yang suddenly looked up at Xing Conglian. After calming his emotions, Duan Yang sobered up and spoke with extreme difficulty. “Consultant Lin’s allergic reaction is too serious. Using penicillin again will inevitably lead to a more serious acute shock than just now, and he will die immediately.”

“So now what?” Xing Conglian asked quietly.

“Now, I still have a small amount of erythromycin* available.” When Duan Yang said these words, he didn’t bring any hope, but a deep sense of despair.

*Antibiotic used for treatment of a number of bacterial infections. This includes respiratory tract infections, skin infections, chlamydia infections, pelvic inflammatory disease, and syphilis.

“Sounds pretty deadly,” Xing Conglian sneered then laughed.

“First of all, penicillin is almost always the best choice for sepsis. Erythromycin is generally only used as an adjuvant medicine, and the dose I have now is too small to reach the amount required for treatment. This is why I didn’t choose erythromycin in the first place.”

“Continue,” Xing Conglian said.

“Now, Consultant Lin’s immune response has been triggered. Almost all literature guidance will say that the medication should be stopped immediately and similar drugs should be avoided to prevent further serious immune chain reactions. And his case clearly states that he’s also allergic to erythromycin, which means that if I try to use the desensitization method I just mentioned to treat him with erythromycin, there is a high probability he will immediately go into acute shock and die…” Duan Yang paused and looked at him solemnly. “I’ve just used up the last dose of epinephrine. If he goes into acute shock again, I will definitely not be able to save him.”

Xing Conglian quietly listened to Duan Yang’s narration. The doctor told him the cruelest facts in the simplest and most understandable terms. He thought for a while and asked, “What if we don’t use antibiotics?”

“He’s already had the incision on his hand, and I’ll do a drainage procedure on it later. Without antibiotics, he might not make it through the day, unless a miracle happens. Of course, if your people can bring the medicine earlier…”

“There will be no miracles, right?” Xing Conglian asked as he looked at Duan Yang’s bloodshot eyes.

“Do you think I will still believe in such a thing?” Duan Yang asked rhetorically.

Xing Conglian couldn’t answer. He thought the decision was difficult before, but it turned out to be just the beginning. Now the question of choice had become: should he let Lin Chen die immediately, or watch him slowly die in front of him?

Seeing that he didn’t answer for a while, Duan Yang said, “I’ll ask Consultant Lin. I also need to respect the patient’s opinion…”

“No need,” Xing Conglian interrupted. “The choice is in my hands. Let’s try again.”

Duan Yang looked at him with deep shock. They all knew that whoever made the choice would have to take responsibility for the death and live with the heart-wrenching regret that may come in the future.

……

When Lin Chen regained some consciousness from his severe allergy, he felt that there was a lot of crowding around him.

It was strange that in the short period of time when he was in a coma or fell asleep just now, he didn’t dream and there were no chaotic visions of dead people. He seemed to just be a traveler after a long journey. He saw a very comfortable and soft bed at the end of the desert, so he laid down and took a nap for a while.

It wasn’t too hot or too cold around; just a little crowded.

He opened his eyes slightly and looked around him. He saw someone lying on the other side of his narrow hospital bed with his head resting on his hand. Naturally, it was Xing Conglian.

He glanced at the hanging IV bag. The remaining amount in the pack and the sky outside the window told him that the scene he had imagined of sleeping and waking up cured of his illness had not happened and that only a short amount of time had passed.

“When can you stop being so smart?” The low, hoarse voice of Xing Conglian came from his left. “I was even thinking of tricking you into thinking you were better just now.”

Lin Chen glanced at Xing Conglian, who was still lying carelessly, while he could only express his dissatisfaction with a very slight and almost imperceptible voice: “I am a patient…”

“I know.”

“You’re sleeping here…and I sleep…where?”

“In my arms.”

Before he could react, Xing Conglian turned around, gently grabbed his waist, and dragged him into his arms with an attitude that couldn’t be rejected.

Lin Chen subconsciously wanted to struggle, but Xing Conglian clung to him tightly. He leaned behind his ear and said only two words in an extremely cold tone, “Don’t move.”

Lin Chen shuddered and calmed down in Xing Conglian’s arms.

Xing Conglian really did what he said.

He still had his cold lips pressed behind Lin Chen’s ear, trying to talk to him. “Where did you pick up such a kid?”

Lin Chen thought for a while and asked him, “Duan Yang?”

“Yes.”

“It’s a long story…”

“I don’t really want to hear it either.”

The strange jealousy in his tone was quite cute. Lin Chen shrank into Xing Conglian’s arms a little more, recalling the things they experienced together, and said to Xing Conglian, “He’s very good, but… just unlucky.”

“His brain isn’t very good either.” Xing Conglian’s tone was obviously poor.

“Do you need me… to intercede for him?” Lin Chen asked tentatively.

“No.” Xing Conglian’s voice was extremely cold. “Consultant Lin, I think we really need to deepen our understanding. Please believe that no matter how good a person is, if you put the lives of others before your own safety next time, I’ll definitely lock you up in chains, and you’ll never have to think about walking out the door again.”

Lin Chen didn’t know why the topic had shifted back here again, but if there was really another time, that would be really nice, so he said, “Well… be sure to lock me up.”

“You can only be by my side.”

“Okay.”

He felt that if he were physically allowed, they would probably talk together for a long time like they used to, as if it would never end.

When Xing Conglian was talking, he kept kissing Lin Chen’s ear. When Lin Chen said “no”, he lightly bit his earlobe. Lin Chen felt his ears were hot and his whole body was numb, so that he couldn’t move any longer.

He blinked, but Xing Conglian’s embrace was too warm, making him want to sleep again.

At this moment, Xing Conglian spoke slowly, and Lin Chen knew the most critical part was coming.

But there was no seriousness in Xing Conglian’s voice. He just said lightly, “Duan Yang said that penicillin can no longer be used, so we have to try again. But the next drug may provoke a more serious immune response. Once the desensitization fails, you will die immediately. However, you have no choice. I will let him come in for the medicine later.”

Lin Chen was stunned for an instant. He didn’t know where Xing Conglian had the courage to make such a decision on his behalf. It was too difficult. His lips trembled, and he could hardly speak.

Xing Conglian’s hands around his waist were tight. He turned around with difficulty, trying to reach out to hug Xing Conglian, but the moment he raised his head, Xing Conglian’s kiss fell.

The back of his neck was gently hugged, and the man smelled of mint tobacco. His lips and teeth were clean and chilly, like the coldness of the forest.

However, the kiss was soft and warm, like feathers brushing across the water or grass soaking in the sun. Lin Chen thought of the daisies and geraniums on their balcony and the scene when the petals slowly unfolded when the sun rose.

Xing Conglian sucked his lips gently, without making any further aggressive movements. Because they were so close, their breaths entangled, and even their heartbeats were almost audible.

Finally, Xing Conglian let him go.

“Lin Chen, come with me.”

Xing Conglian’s voice was so calm and indifferent, as if he were just asking him what they were going to have for dinner tonight.

Stay with me, live with me, and die together.

Lin Chen looked at him quietly without shedding any tears.

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Evil As Humans Ch125

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Author: 年终 / Nian Zhong

Translator: Kinky || https://kinkytranslations.com/

Chapter 125: Dividing Into Two Groups

Zhong Chengshuo froze on the spot.

Before he had time to put away the long needles around him, the transparent barrier between the red strings flickered. The huge “fish tank” divided the small space into two floors. The outside was the smelly, chaotic corpse cavity, but the inside was quiet.

In the chaotic shadows, the touch on the lips was extremely vivid. Yin Ren’s hot and humid breath rushed towards his face, immediately covering the rancid smell around him.

Should he attack? Stay away? Or…

Zhong Chengshuo felt as if countless small fireworks had exploded in his brain. It was like the light flick of a goldfish’s tail. The feeling wasn’t intense, but it lasted forever.

It was just lips meeting. In the past, Zhong Chengshuo didn’t understand this intimate way of “feeding organs sticking together*”. Now the burning heat of swallowing each other made him dizzy.

*It’s a euphemism for kissing. Feeding organs is referring to your mouth.

Seeing the two of them being sticky, the hazy black shadow on the phone made a weak grunt. Zhong Chengshuo naturally couldn’t see the changes on the phone, but he could hear the complaining “Woof woof”.

Zhong Chengshuo instantly recovered a bit of clarity.

“Mr. Lu… Just now… Um—”

No, the two strikes he made just now definitely weren’t enough to remove the negative effects. Yin Ren had just changed from an “irrational approach” to a “relatively restrained approach”.

Thus, Zhong Chengshuo tried to continue, “Tell me, Yin Ren. He just… Huh?!”

Yin Ren didn’t give him a chance to speak.

He didn’t close his eyes, so the pair of red pupils shimmered. He pressed his soft lips further, accompanied by slightly sharp teeth, giving Zhong Chengshuo a strange sensation. The tips of the teeth gently moved with just the right amount of pressure, bringing a slight sourness and softness. Strands of hair carefully surrounded Zhong Chengshuo as they swayed gently.

Yin Ren kissed awkwardly but firmly. His hands tightly hooked the nylon strap on Zhong Chengshuo’s chest.

The two maintained a seemingly uncomfortable distance, but Zhong Chengshuo no longer struggled. He raised his hand and slowly lowered it, then tentatively raised it again.

His fingertips pressed on Yin Ren’s shoulder, touching the fabric soaked in body heat, then they slid down to Yin Ren’s arm, probing back.

They slowly tightened and finally turned into an embrace.

Zhong Chengshuo tried to concentrate with his remaining rationality. He firmly gripped Dog Thing and continued the “attack” just now. This time, however, the “blade” slid against Yin Ren’s back.

It was like he was teasing but also dissecting.

In the world that was invisible to Zhong Chengshuo, the dark shadow on the phone tentatively squirmed, peeling off the “white monsters” on Yin Ren’s body little by little. Their fragments were as light as willow flakes, swaying and falling around the two of them.

The remaining little monsters may have noticed the existence of Dog Thing and retreated like the tide, beginning to crawl away from Yin Ren’s body.

The brilliance in Yin Ren’s eyes was returning, but his kiss didn’t become lighter but instead got heavier. Zhong Chengshuo’s lips felt some pain. His teeth were pried open, and the other party’s breath was pierced directly into him with a sweet, bloody aura.

A warm and lingering strange touch.

That weird alert reappeared, but he wanted to continue this hair-raising contact. Zhong Chengshuo took a compromising approach—he exerted force from his waist and legs, his arms twisted, and he pressed the Yin Ren to the ground, so that he could free himself at any time.

Under the light impact, the two of them knocked their teeth slightly, and the bloody aura became a bit stronger.

Amidst the faint blood, they kissed each other quietly and jerkily.

Zhong Chengshuo had never felt this way before. He even forgot the nature of the “ground” under him. His heart was beating wildly because of the tension, and his spirit was frozen on the feelings of his lips.

When Yin Ren pushed back, the sky spun around, and the two of them flipped. Zhong Chengshuo had his back on the ground, and he reflexively tried to get up, but black hair had wrapped around his ankles.

There weren’t many strands of hair, so he could tear them off by force, and there was an opening in the left side, so he could easily escape with some force.

However, Zhong Chengshuo didn’t move.

Every nerve of his was tense. Instinct prompted him to avoid. Curiosity forced him to continue. Attraction and vigilance, safety and danger, survival and death; the junction between them was so blurred and was twisted into a weird and strong excitement.

Yin Ren’s kiss gradually changed flavor.

The kiss slowly moved; first to his slightly cool lips, then to his chin.

At a certain moment, the heat on his cheeks suddenly disappeared. The evil tilted its head slightly; its warm breath flowing down his skin, and quickly stopped at Zhong Chengshuo’s throat.

Yin Ren’s sharp teeth gently pressed against the skin, making him feel a little itchy. The itching in his throat ignited his nerves and penetrated all the way into his bones.

Zhong Chengshuo’s mouth was finally free. He knew what he should say, but his vocal cords didn’t listen. All he could do was move his right hand and squeeze the back of Yin Ren’s neck, not too lightly nor heavily, with a bit of warning force.

As if awakened, Yin Ren’s biting abruptly stopped.

The tip of Yin Ren’s nose rubbed against Zhong Chengshuo’s Adam’s apple. His breathing completely stopped, but his heartbeat was too fast to be normal. In his dim vision, Zhong Chengshuo could only see Yin Ren’s black hair scattered all over the ground. Yin Ren’s grasp on him loosened, and there was a vague sound in his throat as if he were struggling.

Zhong Chengshuo pursed his lips instinctively and tasted the warm and slightly salty liquid.

There were no wounds on his lips. This was Yin Ren’s blood.

“Yin Ren.”

It was a pity that before he had time to continue, an excited voice exploded in his ears.

“Hey, hey, hey?” Lu Xiaohe cried happily. “Can you hear me? Can you hear me?”

Zhong Chengshuo sighed, continuing to let Yin Ren stick to his body. He just laid on the ground like this and replied solemnly, “I can.”

“Where’s Yin Ren?”

“Here, here.”

Yin Ren shook his head. He felt a little dizzy as he silently propped up his body.

He tied up his scattered hair, took Dog Thing from Zhong Chengshuo’s hand, and pinched Yellow Millet from the gap between the nylon straps—while the two had kissed passionately, this thing shrank itself into the size of a peanut, pretending to be air as it clung to the nylon belt buckle.

Lord Ghost King maintained the posture of sitting on Zhong Chengshuo’s waist and abdomen while holding his phone as he looked around.

“Ahhh… Don’t want to die… Ahhh…” The little monsters hugged the fragments of their bodies and huddled together on the edge of Zhong Chengshuo’s seal, tremblingly.

It seemed that it no longer had a desire to fight.

Yin Ren lowered his head and looked at Dog Thing again. The blurred black shadow on the phone had disappeared, and only [Evil Force, Evil Force, Evil Force] was frantically swiping on the screen.

He absent-mindedly replied, “Wait until we get home.”

“I rebuilt the contact line, hehe.” In the headset, Lu Xiaohe was completely unaware of the situation. Her joy was palpable. “When you’re active again, I can calculate the space map!”

“Okay.” Yin Ren coughed twice.

Zhong Chengshuo had been staring at the wound on his lower lip. Yin Ren hurriedly withdrew the blood and healed the wound.

Lu Xiaohe continued enthusiastically, “…The two of your reactions are too cold. Can’t you be happier? Speaking of Xiao Zhong, you should be able to guess the winning condition of this competition.”

Zhong Chengshuo finally looked away and glanced at the dark corpse cavity not far away. “Yes.”

In fact, Yin Ren also had a rough guess in his heart.

Shian threw them here by surprise without giving any background information or hints, which was typical of a skirmish arrangement.

There was only one way out of this “skirmish”, and that was to survive. Considering that Shian wouldn’t really kill them, as long as they could escape, the competition could end.

…But that was just the “end of the competition”.

“According to my guess, this is a free scoring competition. ‘Getting out’ is only considered a pass. There are other performance factors to consider, including—escape time, escape method, physical and mental condition, and any important performance.”

Just in case, Lu Xiaohe enthusiastically explained.

“The fewer the rules, the more things you need to judge for yourself. It’s best not to wander around like a headless fly. Even if there’s no monitoring here, basic location tracking and evil qi detection are indispensable.”

Making sure that those little monsters had no intention of approaching, Yin Ren put Dog Thing away. “We know.”

Zhong Chengshuo looked at him intently, to which Yin Ren tried to avoid his gaze for the first time.

It wasn’t like it was a big deal to sit on his lover’s stomach, since he did it all the time, but when Yin Ren tried to stand up, Zhong Chengshuo grabbed his wrist.

Zhong Chengshuo looked at Yin Ren persistently as he responded smoothly, “Lu Jie, give me your location. Let’s meet up.”

“No,” Lu Xiaohe answered crisply.

“As the rear commander, I have to give priority to collecting intelligence and directing combat forces to escape. If I run around, the efficiency will be seriously reduced… My guess is that if I escape first, my points will be deducted.”

“Understood.” Zhong Chengshuo replied perfunctorily.

Yin Ren hummed approvingly. Lu Xiaohe’s judgment was correct. She had no combat ability, and “prioritizing self-protection” and “supporting the combatants” should indeed be her priorities.

Just like now, “stand up from Zhong Chengshuo” was what he should be doing. Yin Ren shook the wrist that was grabbed by Zhong Chengshuo, but the man still held it tightly and insisted on using it as a cushion.

Zhong Chengshuo said, “Explore the surrounding situation first and contact us later.”

“Hey, hey. Wait a minute. We can still chat casually for a while—” Comrade Lu Xiaohe understood, but in this hellish place, it was good to have a living person to chat with.

“We need a ‘two-person world’,” Zhong Chengshuo replied solemnly.

“Xiao Zhong, do you know that Shian can also hear our communication?”

“Then Yin Ren and I have some personal issues that need to be dealt with.”

“…Okay, you guys deal with it first.” Lu Xiaohe squeezed out a response between her teeth.

She knew those two little rabbits… Those big brats were unreliable. Lu Xiaohe turned grief and anger into strength and began to search for Ge Tingting and Huang Jin, who were farther away.

And the two big brats were facing each other in a not-so-graceful posture.

“I should have picked a clean place to kiss you. I was wrong. I’m sorry,” Yin Ren said uncomfortably. “There’s also good news. Dog Thing is quite good, so those things won’t approach again.”

As for Zhong Chengshuo, Yin Ren suspected that even if this person was covered in layers of paste, his emotions probably wouldn’t be affected.

“The problem isn’t the kissing. I like your kiss very much.”

Zhong Chengshuo pointed to his throat, and there was still a light red mark on his skin.

“I just want to know, why did you bite me just now? Your state isn’t right.”

Yin Ren inwardly twisted.

If this was switched to someone else, he might be able to get away with this problem without getting caught. Unfortunately, Comrade Xiao Zhong didn’t know what euphemism was. After they started dating, instead of making progress, this person became even more candid, which was a bit scary.

“I just had the urge to ‘swallow you’.”

Yin Ren forced himself to withdraw his gaze and looked directly into Zhong Chengshuo’s eyes.

“Swallow you down and combine us into one so we’ll never have to separate again… It’s just a thought similar to a person being under the influence and ‘wanting to beat his boss’. I just took a bite, and I definitely don’t have any intention of putting it into practice!”

Lord Ghost King showed all his sincerity as he spoke at his fastest speed to explain.

However, it was similar to what he thought. In face of such a shocking statement, Zhong Chengshuo simply let out a sigh.

“Then why didn’t you bite all the way?” Zhong Chengshuo continued to ask with interest.

Yin Ren looked at this person in shock. “Don’t you think such a thought is too perverted? I definitely don’t really want to hurt you.”

Although he did feel that this impulse came a bit weird.

As a sunny and sound evil, Yin Ren had never had such thoughts before. When thinking about the difference in lifespan, he only thought about how to keep this person “scientifically”. Even if he was affected by deep “attachment”, he controlled it very well, turning the emotion that was magnified thousands of times into a kiss.

But not long ago, the moment he kissed Zhong Chengshuo, this aggressive thought came down from the sky and rolled around in Yin Ren’s mind.

“In other words, this is the first time you have the idea of ‘obviously like it but want to hurt me’.” Zhong Chengshuo objectively summarized, as if it wasn’t himself who was almost nibbled on.

“That being said…”

Yin Ren was a little confused. He didn’t understand what Zhong Chengshuo wanted to express. It seemed that his person didn’t plan to make trouble with him at this point, right?

“If such an idea appears in the future, can you tell me directly? Just treat it as an evil thing to observe.” Zhong Chengshuo loosened his grip on Yin Ren’s wrist.

Then he took out a hard-cover book and, in front of Yin Ren, wrote down several lines.

Yin Ren: “……”

Got it. So you created a special journal for observing biology, right?

But as the one who acted first, he couldn’t say a word of refusal.

After he finished writing, Zhong Chengshuo seemed to be aware of something and turned his gaze to Yin Ren again. “It’s okay. I really don’t mind… I’m going to release the spirit weapons. Are you sure you won’t get caught again?”

“Sure.” Yin Ren covered the surface of his body with a layer of evil qi that was almost solid, which could be considered an anti-monster cream.

With a bang, Zhong Chengshuo’s “sealed fish tank” shattered.

The white monsters saw that there was nothing to gain. Sobbing, they burrowed back into the carrion and ran away. Yin Ren scratched his head vigorously to calm down from his trance.

“Sorry, it seems like I need to be more serious.” He stretched his muscles.

It seemed that this game couldn’t be easily handled. Fu Xingchuan had thrown these weird techniques and unknown monsters in front of him, so he had to show a serious attitude. They would have to mix in with Shian in the future, so they obviously couldn’t be too lazy.

“Nn.”

Zhong Chengshuo nodded solemnly. His lips were slightly red and swollen. Coupled with that handsome and wistful face, there was a subtle attraction.

Yin Ren couldn’t help but take out Dog Thing again and took preventive measures by patting the dead corners of his T-shirt.

Just when the two of them had sorted out their clothes and were ready to leave—

“…Xiao Yin…” A dry and shocked voice floated out of the dark cavity. “You two… Why are you two…”

Yin Ren and Zhong Chengshuo: “……”

Oh right, Fierce Ghost Grandpa Lu was still there.

Lord Ghost King silently raised his hand and slowly covered his face.

……

It was rare that Wei Huaqian wasn’t in the dim underground headquarters of Sunken Society.

He was staying on the top floor of a luxury hotel in Haigu. The rooms here were famous for their excellent views. Looking out from the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, the central park in Haigu was lush and green, and the city was surrounded by mountains with gently undulating peaks. The Shian building stood not far away, like a nail that couldn’t be pounded in, which was a bit unsightly.

Wei Huaqian picked up a piece of stewed and soft fish lips and chewed absentmindedly.

His phone was on speaker and was placed on the edge of the table.

“…What I just said is exactly what Mr. Qiu meant.”

A gentle female voice echoed in the empty room, as standard as the customer service voice of a listed company.

Wei Huaqian didn’t answer immediately. He took out a napkin and wiped his mouth slowly, then swallowed a sip of wine. As soon as his Adam’s apple bobbed, it took a full half a minute before he spoke.

“What does Mr. Qiu mean?”

Wei Huaqian turned the glass of wine with his fingers.

“Shooting the Charon I want to cultivate is Mr. Qiu’s intention. It was Ms. Qi’s intention to destroy our research in Gengsheng Town. Twice—twice in a row—as ‘collaborators’, you have caused us extremely heavy losses.”

“Now there’s no shadow of the next Charon ability user and the research materials in Gengsheng Town are also cognitively polluted. We can’t make another imitation—isn’t this funny? As the leader of thousands of years of research, no one ever knows the name of the ‘Imitation’.”

The only good thing may be that this cognitive pollution applies equally to all beings. Sunken Society may not be able to read it, but that same applies to Shian as well… Mr. Qiu’s gang could provide a large number of sources of Evil Force, so it wasn’t surprising to have such special ability.

Unfortunately, Wei Huaqian wanted to be more cautious, but these guys went too far. Taking such a big loss and not saying a word wasn’t the style of Sunken Society.

After listening to what he said, there was no sound on the other side of the line. He couldn’t even hear the sound of breathing.

Wei Huaqian took another sip of wine, then spoke with a little more coldness in his voice.

“You provide stable Evil Force corruption, and we share the human data of those corrupted to you. This was supposed to be a fair trade, but now it seems that you have interfered too much.”

“…So this time, we came to greet you in advance.”

Ten seconds later, the woman on the other line spoke as if nothing had happened; her voice was still gentle like before.

“Mr. Qiu decided to test those two little people, and they happen to be the object of your attention. The fact that we informed you in advance is also a kind of sincerity on our side, don’t you think?”

We Huaqian looked at the sunny city outside the floor-to-ceiling window and snorted.

“You want to start with Zhong Chengshuo and Yin Ren…”

Now he could be sure that those two boys were definitely not so simple.

Those two had received a lot of “attention”, so Shian must be aware of this. The Haigu branch suddenly participated in a joint exercise competition, and the venue was at the Fu residence. Not to mention, the C-level investigation team didn’t even leave the yard of the Fu family.

That old weasel Fu Xingchuan most likely used the Corpse Cage inherited from the Fu family.

In this regard, Sunken Society had no choice but to quietly wait for the next opportunity.

This was almost a public statement—”Sunken Society has continued to keep an eye on those two, and it’s not just a momentary impulse. The purpose of the attention isn’t so urgent that we will take risks.” Even Fu Xingchuan should know these two points.

Wei Huaqian stared at the delicious soup in the exquisite porcelain bowl as the spoon stirred out sticky bubbles.

After they popped one by one, Wei Huaqian hummed.

“Your Mr. Qiu wants to play, and I can’t stop him, nor do I want to. We only have one request—when he’s ‘playing’, it’s best to show his name in disguise so as to save Shian the trouble of looking for us.”

It would be best if Shian could also catch these guys with some small clues. Wei Huaqian thought this maliciously despite being collaborators.

He had been curious about these strange “suppliers” for a long time.

“We will.” There was a hint of laughter in the gentle female voice. “This was originally our unilateral action.”

“I’m still a little curious, and I hope you can answer,” Wei Huaqian said.

“How do you plan to break through the ‘Corpse Cage’? Given Shian’s personality, the Corpse Cage will definitely be placed in a closed underground room, with several experts guarding it. Not to mention the Fu family itself has various protection techniques that have been passed down for thousands of years, including the immortal old man Fu Wuya sitting in command.”

For generations, the Fu family had sat on the top levels of Huajisi, and their status in the metaphysical world wasn’t low. The Fu residence could be considered the alternate headquarters. For thousands of years, Sunken Society had used countless means but failed to penetrate it. In modern times, Sunken Society gave up on this hard-to-chew bone.

To break through the defense of the Fu family, one would need a Charon ability user who could shuttle through space, which the mysterious “supplier” might possess. Together with those unknown sources of Evil Force pollution, the opportunity was quite tempting.

If these people were restrained by Shian and revealed their true colors, there was no telling how much Sunken Society would be able to swallow up…

“Hehe, trade secrets.”

The gentle female voice responded; the smile in her tone was obvious this time.

“Like you said, this is a fair deal. Please don’t interfere too much, Mr. Wei.”

The call hung up.

Wei Huaqian sneered and flipped his phone over. He pulled out the laptop that was placed on the table and clicked into a certain folder. Inside were photos of Zhong Chengshuo and Yin Ren, tightly packed.

“Okay.”

He looked at them for a moment and narrowed his eyes.

On the screen was a photo of Zhong Chengshuo and Yin Ren. When they were photographed, the two of them were shopping and eating at the night market. Yin Ren was stuffing a spoonful of coconut jelly into Zhong Chengshuo’s mouth while half a spoon was in his mouth.

The surveillance was too far away, so the picture was blurry, but it couldn’t cover the intimacy between the two of them.

Wei Huaqian’s wrinkled fingers tapped on the screen and scratched around the two men’s brows.

“Is this a ‘romantic relationship’? That’s a pleasant surprise… I hope Mr. Qiu can drive them crazy. The crazier, the better.”

……

“I’m really going crazy,” Yin Ren said.

It was past 1 p.m. and he hadn’t eaten lunch yet.

Even a Ghost King had no habit of eating human carrion. After wiping his hand thoroughly with alcohol, Zhong Chengshuo chewed on a compressed biscuit as if nothing had happened, with the aura of eating a regular diet even at the end of the world.

But Yin Ren didn’t want to eat that kind of dry stuff. He held his beloved chocolate chip package and didn’t know whether to open it or not.

He also didn’t want his previous memories to be tarnished by the rancid smell.

Especially after they had passed the fifth hurdles of beetle and the six general of maggots, Yin Ren decided to keep his mouth shut and maintain the noble character that a ferocious evil should have–the Resentment Basket could be eaten, and bad tributes as well, but not bugs; absolutely not.

“Is the map still not ready?” Yin Ren asked Lu Xiaohe pitifully.

“You two are done with your own world” Lu Xiaohe dragged her tone.

Yin Ren: “It’s still not finished. It’s going to take years.”

Lu Xiaohe: “……”

Mental abuse on teammates was prohibited.

She coughed frantically. “I was dropped in the lungs, and you guys are near the heart. As long as you move in a general direction, you should be able to enter the esophagus smoothly.”

There was another clacking of keyboard sound in the headset.

“I just confirmed the location of Huang Jin and Ge Tingting. The two of them ran near the kidney, and there are other Shian signals around them. They’re probably acting with people from other branches and want to escape from here. Theoretically, it’s faster going through the intestines…”

Yin Ren sympathized with the two in his heart for a few seconds.

“The specific situation is sent to your phone,” Lu Xiaohe said. “I’m going to enjoy my one-person world. Bye bye.”

She hung up the call aggressively.

Yin Ren laughed. In such a weird and terrifying environment, Lu Xiaohe could still maintain a relaxed conversation state. It had to be said that this young girl had astounding potential as the rear commander.

“Ahhhh… wuwu…”

Not far away, there was another low whimper.

Again? Yin Ren added several layers of thick evil qi to his body.

This time, Zhong Chengshuo also stopped.

“Someone is crying,” he said firmly, with a hint of excitement on his face.

The corner of Yin Ren’s mouth twitched.

“Someone crying in the wilderness” and “Someone crying inside a carrion” were completely strange in two orders of magnitude. Seeing Zhong Chengshuo’s subconscious reaction, this person really didn’t feel any fear at all.

“Wuwu…. Wuwu…”

The faint crying continued, and there were more little white monsters nearby. Yin Ren had already sent Lu Tanfei away, so he used a levitation spell and moved together with Zhong Chengshuo.

“Wuwu… I want to go home. I miss my parents…” A somewhat hoarse female voice sobbed. “Luoluo, can we stop comparing? I’m so homesick…”

“Come on, have another bite! Mmm. It’s very good!” Another energetic female voice encouraged. “When we run out, you can ask for leave to go home to see your parents and I’ll go with you—”

“Mm… I want to go home… I really want to go home…”

Yin Ren made a gesture to Zhong Chengshuo and floated around the corner like a ghost.

Not far away, in the empty meat cavity, Luo Wanxiang and Sang Jie were waiting. Several mechanical rods surrounded a tight laser net, and the two girls were eating lunch inside.

To be precise, it was Lu Wanxiang who was feeding Sang Jie. Although the latter was full of tears, she didn’t stop waving the bone staff in her hand. Behind the two girls, about six fierce ghosts were brutally attacking the Yandu group without mercy.

There were also many white monsters lying on Sang Jie’s traditional outfit. She probably took some remedial measures, as there weren’t too many monsters that gathered on her body.

However, the price wasn’t small. Their faces were covered in grime, and they looked quite tired. Judging by the number of insect corpses nearby, they should have been trapped here for a while.

Yin Ren shrank his head—it seemed that everyone’s performance of being crushed by “attachment” was different. Sang Jie’s performance was “extremely negative”. In comparison, his reaction of “gnawing on Zhong Chengshuo” seemed quite alright.

For now, “not being favored by the white monsters” wasn’t entirely due to Zhong Chengshuo’s physical condition. The impact on the science post was indeed smaller.

“Hey, there’s a Shian signal response near you. They are probably people from the other branches.”

Lu Xiaohe’s vague voice suddenly came out. She had taken advantage of carrying a large luggage and was able to bring many things. It sounded like she was chewing on some delicious meat products.

“I don’t know the specific situation. It’s up to you to judge whether you want to act together or not.”

Yin Ren turned his head knowingly. “Zhong…”

Zhong Chengshuo was floating crossed-legged, folding the empty compressed biscuit bag into small pieces. He ignored the fact that he was inside a corpse and took out a small bag with “trash” printed on it, carefully packing the trash and putting it back into his backpack. His posture was so upright that he looked like a primary school student on a spring outing.

Yin Ren cleared his throat amusingly. “Do you want to act together?”

“What do you think?” Zhong Chengshuo asked a little jerkily.

They were in an advantageous situation, and acting together wasn’t much different from “rescuing your opponent”. Logically speaking, this may score them points, and they may lose points for “not actively cooperating”.

There were pros and cons, so it was difficult to choose. Out of confidentiality considerations, Zhong Chengshuo would mercilessly choose to act alone, but…

“Let’s go together,” Yin Ren whispered. “If it’s really a skirmish, it’s never wrong to unite all fighting forces.”

“And they all have very strong combat capabilities. If I put in more effort, you can use this to conserve your strength.”

Seeing Zhong Chengshuo’s surprised expression, Yin Ren was also shocked. “You haven’t thought you can be lazy, have you?”

“Nn.” King Yama, who was used to acting alone, hesitated for a while and slowly turned his head.

Yin Ren’s expression twisted for a bit before settling on a “disappointed” look.

Click.

While the two of them were fooling around, there was a very light sound in the shadows.

Yin Ren grabbed Zhong Chengshuo and flew up abruptly. A cobweb-like white net exploded nearby, and a small mechanical ball spun rapidly, with a small red light flashing in the darkness.

“Which branch’s friend? Eavesdropping isn’t good behavior. Warning! Warning!”

A rigid mechanical sound came from the small ball.

Despite their efforts to suppress their aura, they were still discovered? Yin Ren cleared his throat, intending to speak up…

“Meow meow meow!!!” There was a sharp cat cry full of displeasure that came from the net. “What the hell. My fur is all dirty—!”

Yin Ren slowly shifted his gaze and spotted Dr. Cat struggling frantically within the net. The cat was making human-like sounds and clawing at the net with all its might. To be honest, Machinist Luo Wanxiang didn’t use too much force when setting up the net, so it wasn’t really a threat to humans. However, for a cat, the difficulty was on another level.

Luo Wanxiang obviously realized this too, so she hurriedly got up to make amends.

Before her hand could touch Dr. Cat, the black cat was picked up by the nape of its neck and held in his hand.

“Miss Luo, Miss Sang Jie, and Mr. Meiqiu.”

Yin Ren smiled and removed the net from the black cat.

“Do you want to act together?”

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Evil As Humans Ch124

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Author: 年终 / Nian Zhong

Translator: Kinky || https://kinkytranslations.com/

Chapter 124: Goldfish

A bright red goldfish was floating in the water.

The young Zhong Chengshuo was lying in front of the fish tank, staring at the goldfish sinking to the bottom. Its tail had a beautiful arc that scattered in the water like a red veil. Through the cold glass, it seemed to be floating in another world.

It was dying.

He didn’t know why it didn’t eat much. Zhong Chengshuo watched as it weakened little by little, and its dull fish eyes stared at the outside world without blinking, avoiding his gaze.

In the round fish tank, the beautiful tail slowly loosened. Zhong Chengshuo stretched out his hand and lightly touched the surface of the water. He thought for a while, then drew his hand back again.

There was nothing he could do.

His adoptive parents were busy and wouldn’t have time to accompany him to see a vet for the goldfish.

This goldfish didn’t show any typical symptoms; it just went on a hunger strike for no reason. They hadn’t kept it for long, so there weren’t any deep feelings for it. Even if they took it to the hospital, the cost of seeing a vet wasn’t as good as just buying another one.

The fish had no expression and wouldn’t make noise. Zhong Chengshuo liked it, which meant he didn’t have to worry about reacting to the goldfish. If possible, he hoped it could live a little longer.

But if it couldn’t, it didn’t matter.

He stared at the fish quietly, watching it die. At the end of countless inferences, its fate was already predetermined.

‘This was the “most reasonable” development,’ Zhong Chengshuo thought calmly.

In the end, Zhong Chengshuo grabbed the beautiful tail and threw the fish in the trash can. It was colder than when it was alive.

The lid of the trash can closed, and it was filled with odor and darkness, just like at this moment…

Zhong Chengshuo threw out more than a dozen fine needles again. This was his last inventory—since this was an official competition of Shian, he didn’t bring the Evil Fruit, and he didn’t carry any high-end spirit weapons with him.

He only brought some medium-sized goods for defense.

The thin needles stacked on the first wave of long red threads. The gaps between the red threads began to slowly produce transparent diaphragms, which intersected and fused with each other, with a texture somewhat like glass.

In the corrupted, dark flesh cavity, a deformed, rough “glass fish tank” appeared.

Watching the battle, Lu Tanfei let out a “huh”—this time it wasn’t just the evil qi that was sealed, but the little monsters whispering outside could no longer enter the internal space. The two of them were completely isolated from the world, and their aura seemed to have disappeared.

“Xiao Zhong, why are you locking yourself in?” Lu Tanfei said anxiously. “It’s hard to…”

“I can’t stop Yin Ren. Right now, Yin Ren is interested in me, so he won’t run around.”

Zhong Chengshuo took out a lighter from his pocket and clicked it. Cyan flame jumped in the darkness.

As the flame waved and shook, the spirit weapon needles moved at the sound, and the red ropes intertwined again. This time, they returned to their respective positions, and the “glass fish tank” became incomparably neat, as if it had obviously been calculated with precision.

The cyan firelight was reflected in Yin Ren’s red eyes, turning into a little shimmer.

“Ah……”

Yin Ren let out a long sigh from his throat.

His head wasn’t a mess, but the attachment was so huge that he couldn’t think smoothly.

In the Archive, he used his mental strength to resist the corruption of the Evil Force… However, this time, the abnormality broke out precisely inside his mind, and it was the first time he had dealt with this situation.

No wonder this kind of underworld competition venue was created… No wonder all the “No. 1’s” of Shian’s three occupations were present… This kid, Fu Xingchuan, was quite tough…

Yin Ren desperately wanted to stop, but his legs automatically walked towards Zhong Chengshuo.

One step, then another.

His “attachment” to Zhong Chengshuo had magnified hundreds of times, and the other party’s vivid state made him unable to look away. Just as a person who was about to die of thirst saw water or a person who hadn’t slept for five nights saw a bed, it was an irresistible desire.

Fortunately, no matter how crazy Fu Xingchuan was, he wouldn’t let his own residence blow up… The space here was distorted, which provided a natural protective barrier, so the Evil Force had little impact on the outside world. Minister Fu probably had backup…

Zhong Chengshuo’s head was always clear. If he sensed any risks, he would surely escape…

Immediately afterwards, Yin Ren saw the cyan light of fire, as well as the three-dimensional seal array all around.

Zhong Chengshuo also sealed himself inside the array.

Lord Ghost King’s trance was instantly dispersed by several points. This was the second time that the smart person chose the dumbest path.

Didn’t you say, “I don’t know what to do”?!

The soft white “hyphae” stretched into Yin Ren’s eyes, nose, ears, and mouth, bringing agitation from his heart. Yin Ren forcibly stretched out his hair strands so that they wouldn’t entangle Zhong Chengshuo’s legs. The desire to be close and the idea of protection entangled each other, causing Yin Ren’s vision to blur.

“You can get close to me.” In the dimness, he heard Zhong Chengshuo say.

“No… No…”

Under the huge emotional coercion, his body had long been numb, and he couldn’t control his strength. Even a hug may seriously hurt Zhong Chengshuo.

“You need to vent your emotions.” The cyan light went out as Zhong Chengshuo’s voice echoed in the darkness. “Compared to simply suppressing, you can let go.”

“I… don’t want to…” Yin Ren was still struggling.

Zhong Chengshuo didn’t know how to conceal his concern. This person’s awkwardness had the opposite effect, only causing Yin Ren’s attachment to grow wildly like weeds. A lively person, an unpredictable person, so clumsy and cute… He wanted to keep him forever…

Yin Ren bit his lip. In the dull pain, he stopped the thoughts that were gradually getting out of control.

“It’s okay. I won’t be caught by you. It’s just a normal fight—fighting is the best way to vent.”

Zhong Chengshuo even took a bold step forward.

A surge of hope suddenly rose in Yin Ren’s heart, and he forcibly held onto the burning and chaotic emotions. “Do you have a solution…?”

“No!” Zhong Chengshuo turned on the lights and declared, “We’ll figure it out as we go along.”

Yin Ren: “……” Wow. It’s the familiar behavior of Zhong Chengshuo. At this moment, he really wanted to fight with him.

As the thought crossed his mind, his thinking became clear for a moment. Yin Ren hugged his trace of clarity and let go of the suppression on his legs.

He pounced at Zhong Chengshuo like a leopard.

The latter didn’t use the chain, but strangely flew in place and floated in the air. “Puff puff puff.” Muttering complaints came from behind Zhong Chengshuo—

Yellow Millet, the great Class A-A evil, shrank itself into the size of a backpack at this moment and was tightly bound behind Zhong Chengshuo’s nylon belt. It flew quickly with Zhong Chengshuo and continued to mount in disguise.

Yellow Millet couldn’t suppress Yin Ren, but facing a Ghost King who hadn’t used his full strength, it could still temporarily hide.

The distorted emotions instantly had an outlet.

Yin Ren no longer suppressed his emotions and was immediately relieved. He stepped on the corpse and bounced straight to Zhong Chengshuo.

The latter smiled and passed him again. The two drew fuzzy afterimages in the narrow seal. The two afterimages entangled with each other, almost winding into a ball of thread, but never intersecting.

Lu Tanfei was stunned.

Forget about Yin Ren, but was Zhong Chengshuo really a normal human?

At this speed, humans theoretically couldn’t see anything clearly, let alone react, but Zhong Chengshuo not only reacted in place but even paused from time to time, as if observing something.

Yin Ren’s fingers slid over the fabric around Zhong Chengshuo’s waist, and he flipped while flying at high speed. Zhong Chengshuo flew past him, sticking close to his ear, and the warm breath brushed against Yin Ren’s earlobe.

Zhong Chengshuo’s lower lip grazed over Yin Ren’s hair tips. He gathered his body and swam like a fish in the darkness. When the distance was close enough, he could even feel Yin Ren’s heartbeat—even though it was a corrupt object tainted with death, that lively heartbeat felt like it was pounding in his own chest.

Zhong Chengshuo let go of the baton, and the heavy metal slammed to the ground. He pulled out a few talismans from his pockets to suppress the power of the Evil Force and familiarly clamped the talisman between his fingers.

In the shadows, they were like two fish entangled together. Zhong Chengshuo passed by his side again, and Yin Ren abruptly felt a trace of clarity…

There was an extra talisman posted on his neck to suppress his Evil Force!

Zhong Chengshuo was slowly reducing his mental pressure little by little and freeing up his energy.

Wrists, collarbone, exposed waist.

The warm and moist paper was tightly attached to his skin, like someone’s palm, pushing away those annoying attachments. This was indeed not a solution, and Yin Ren tried to concentrate—this wasn’t “yet” the solution, but…

But as an “accomplice”, they should think together.

They would write down the answers together.

“Zhong Ge… come a few more times.” His voice was almost blown away by the fast-moving wind.

Zhong Chengshuo undoubtedly heard what he said.

“Dog Thing, bite!”

Zhong Chengshuo flew over again. His command was ringing in Yin Ren’s ear.

Zhong Chengshuo opened his eyes slightly. He instantly took off Dog Thing stuck on Yin Ren’s nylon belt, only to see its response viciously bounce on the screen.

[Siren: That’s a weak that I can’t eat!!!]

Zhong Chengshuo said sincerely, “It said those things can’t be eaten.”

“Can’t eat or bite?” Yin Ren hummed with difficulty.

As the same kind, since these weak strange things could survive in this place, so can Dog Thing. Zhong Chengshuo couldn’t see them, but Dog Thing could.

“I’ll give you Evil Force. Hurry up…”

“Woof woof!” Dog Thing barked weakly.

Zhong Chengshuo’s eyes lit up as he gripped Dog Thing like a dagger in his hand and stabbed straight towards Yin Ren. Yin Ren broke through the airflow and, in the almost uncontrollable sticky attachment, opened his arms towards the other.

“Ah… Ah… I don’t want to die…”

The white monster almost covered Yin Ren’s body, and those bud-like eyes kept dropping liquid. Those transparent liquids washed away the dirt brought by the corpse, making it seem like Yin Ren’s body had an extra layer of weird white gauze.

“…I don’t want to part… I don’t want to part…”

Unfortunately, these prayers couldn’t reach Zhong Chengshuo’s ears.

He rushed straight to Yin Ren with an imperative momentum.

With a wave of his right hand, a translucent black shadow appeared from the phone. It bit the monster on Yin Ren’s shoulder with one bite, and after the sound of silk tearing, a large piece of the thick “white monster” on Yin Ren’s shoulder was missing.

They made a sound that was close to sobbing.

“No… No… Don’t…”

“I don’t want to die…”

With tactile feedback of Dog Thing, it was as if Zhong Chengshuo could see those monsters. His hand quickly slashed along Yin Ren’s shoulders to his chest, breaking away most of the white monsters. Yin Ren seemed as if he were peeling off the lower half of his white robe.

The black thing on the phone spat out monster fragments, making exaggerated retching sounds from time to time.

Half of the monsters on his body were lifted off, and Yin Ren was able to finally breathe smoothly.

Seeing that those red eyes had some focus, Zhong Chengshuo slowly breathed a sigh of relief, and for the first time, he slowed down his flight speed. The clothes on his back were already drenched in sweat. However, before Zhong Chengshuo could speak, one hand suddenly grabbed the nylon strap on his chest.

“Yin…?”

Countless strands of hair gently gathered together and hooked Zhong Chengshuo’s waist. Yin Ren’s entire body was close as he pressed the back of Zhong Chengshuo’s head with force.

Zhong Chengshuo’s eyes widened in surprise…

Unlike that firm strength, Yin Ren opened his eyes and gently bit his lips.

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Evil As Humans Ch123

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Author: 年终 / Nian Zhong

Translator: Kinky || https://kinkytranslations.com/

Chapter 123: I Don’t Understand

In the ancient ancestral hall, the huge tree closed its eyes tightly.

The mist lingered, and the air was stagnant. Unlike the outside world, this atmosphere was like an old record, and everything that happened here would leave deep or shallow marks.

For instance, the conversation that occurred not long ago.

“Fu Xingchuan.” Fu Wuya called out to his many generations great-grandson. “I know what you’re thinking, but my corpse cage technique isn’t that simple. There are things…”

“There are ‘those things’ that exude Evil Force.”

Fu Xingchuan didn’t look back.

“Minister Jiao also mentioned them… Well, there’s also such creatures in the ‘Archive’ of the mentally ill. I know that they probably belong to the ‘other Side’.”

After all, Fu Wuya was a Charon.

Unlike Jiao Lian, who physically moved around, Elder Fu used his abilities to forcibly merge spaces of “this side” and “the other side”, twisting out a “junction door”. His first door wasn’t big, and it was difficult for people to travel through, but it had the powerful effect of distorting space.

And in this process, there would always be nefarious things from “the other side” who would be attracted to the junction.

These types of nefarious beings were fixed. Not only were they tiny, but they were also pitifully weak. When the corpse cage technique failed, they would instantly dissipate in the air, leaving only a little bit of Evil Force behind.

Fu Xingchuan once donated five corpse cages to Shian for research, but unfortunately, after this thing left the corpse cage, it was unable to survive stably on “this side”, and the research fell into a bottleneck.

“If that evil is really Zhong Yi, perhaps there will be some new discoveries beyond the ordinary.”

Fu Wuya was silent for a while. He stretched out a trembling branch and pressed the mute button on the TV remote control.

“This is a risky move. You may irritate him.” There was a little more unhappiness in Fu Wuya’s voice. “And if that person is really Zhong Yi, your approach is disrespectful…”

“Disrespectful? I don’t think so.”

Fu Xingchuan still didn’t look back. He scratched the back of his head, and the tassel earring on his ear swayed with his movements.

“Those little things aren’t destructive. We have tried them ourselves. The game’s design isn’t only for him. If something goes wrong, we can immediately intervene… It’s better than going into a serious battle.”

“If he is really Zhong Yi, at most he will dislike me and won’t spread his hostility to Shian as a whole.”

Fu Xingchuan didn’t go on.

As the former leader of Huajisi and as a thousand-year-old fox, Fu Wuya understood the implications behind these words.

Thinking that Unit 9 had been in the Archive, let alone Fu Xingchuan, Fu Wuya was a little nervous—ordinary metaphysicians would at most experience a short-term psychological trauma when they came into contact with those things. As Yin Ren was a powerful evil, god knew what kind of special reaction he would have.

The unknown in battle was the worst. Commuting to and from work with a nuclear bomb wasn’t scary; the scary thing was when this nuclear bomb exploded as soon as it was touched.

It was hard to say if Shian could prevent Yin Ren from being exposed to “unknown creatures” from Sunken Society, so it was better to give him a “vaccine” in a controlled environment and see his possible reaction in advance.

Whether it was a physical response or an emotional response, they would all become valuable basis for judgment…

Judging whether they could have a “deep cooperation”.

……

He understood the truth, but still, it could be Zhong Yi. Fu Wuya ended his memories and maintained the corpse cage technique in melancholy.

“Ancestors forgive me. Ancestors bless me…” The evil tree muttered as its branches dug circles on the nearby stone wall.

Perhaps it was his illusion, but Fu Wuya felt that since Fu Xingchuan knew his remaining lifespan, his temperament was that of a dead pig not afraid of boiling water*.

*Refers to someone who has no fear and isn’t afraid of danger or consequences.

At the same time, in the ground floor of the Fu family’s main house.

Zhong Chengshuo fiddled with the talisman buttoned on his clothes, and the levitation technique suddenly failed. He landed on the ground, bent his back, and looked warily at Yin Ren.

Yin Ren’s state wasn’t right.

The Evil Force detector on Zhong Chengshuo’s body didn’t show a warning that this person was out of control, but Zhong Chengshuo could see that Yin Ren was in a trance. His eyes were staring straight at him with no inner light.

Affected?

…By what?

Zhong Chengshuo quickly made a decision. He abandoned his excess luggage and bounced out like a beast. While Yin Ren was still in a daze, he grabbed Yin Ren’s phone that he was holding.

Zhong Chengshuo decisively launched the Coffin Nail app and turned on the voice call mode.

“Yin Ren’s state isn’t right. Lu Tanfei, are you still there?”

Zhong Chengshuo tightly fixed Dog Thing to his nylon belt pocket and pulled down Yellow Millet.

As a competent old cushion, Yellow Millet immediately noticed something was wrong with Yin Ren. It allowed itself to be pinched by Zhong Chengshuo without making a sound.

“Lu Tanfei, please answer if you can hear me.” Zhong Chengshuo raised his voice.

“…Sss…Sss… I can hear… Sorry, I’m not familiar using voice…”

An old man’s hoarse reply came from the phone.

Zhong Chengshuo sighed with relief. Sure enough, this thing could turn what he couldn’t see into visible text messages, and it could do the same with sound.

“What happened to Yin Ren?”

“I don’t know, but there are a lot of strange things on the ground… The aura isn’t like an evil being. They look like white silk everywhere, and their eyes are like flower buds. They keep repeating, ‘I don’t want to die’, ‘Someone is waiting for me’… What are these things? What should I do?”

The old man sounded at a loss.

In the shaking light, Zhong Chengshuo looked at Yin Ren, who was stumbling towards him, and took a few steps back.

In the thick darkness, those eyes were dazzling. It was just that there was no will to fight or malice in them—only a strong sense of powerlessness.

“They—they have entangled Xiao Yin’s feet and are still climbing up!” On the phone, Grandpa Lu was broadcasting in real time.

Zhong Chengshuo lowered his gaze. He swept the light across but found nothing on Yin Ren’s smooth ankle.

…It was still a bit troubling that he couldn’t see.

Zhong Chengshuo whisked his hand to the back pocket of his waist. Hearing two clicks, a folding baton engraved with runes appeared in his hand. A chain hung from the end of the baton, and the metal grip on the chain dangled slightly.

This was the gentlest weapon he wielded.

“Yin Ren!” Zhong Chengshuo tried to awaken his lover. “Yin Ren, can you hear me?”

However, Yin Ren’s gaze became more lax, and his breathing gradually became chaotic. He looked up and down at Zhong Chengshuo, whose back was drenched in sweat.

Hearing Zhong Chengshuo’s call, his steps paused a little. Unfortunately, in the next second, his hands stretched out together and reached for Zhong Chengshuo. The fingernails on his fingertips had turned an ominous black.

They were surrounded by brownish-red walls of flesh, covered with broken holes of varying sizes. Zhong Chengshuo knew that he could at least make a quick escape by turning his back and hiding in the darkness.

In the face of unknown conditions, fleeing was the most foolproof approach.

But…

King Yama stepped on the dirty corpse with his bare feet, motionless, but he didn’t even bother to be concerned about it.

“It climbed up to his knees, and those little buds are still dripping water… It’s like it’s crying. How scary,” Grandpa Lu said. “Xiao Zhong, do you understand? What should I do?”

“First, find a safe place to hide and continue to report.” Zhong Chengshuo’s entire body tightened as he readied himself to exert force at any moment.

One step. Another step.

Those hands were getting closer to him.

As an evil, Yin Ren could teleport. This slow and struggling way of moving forward should be the result of Yin Ren’s hard struggle.

Yin Ren was still sober.

Zhong Chengshuo reached up with his metal claws and grabbed onto the ceiling, suspending himself in mid-air. Yin Ren’s grasp missed, and he looked up bewilderedly. With a swing of the thin chain, Zhong Chengshuo swung behind Yin Ren.

As soon as he landed, Zhong Chengshuo lowered his center again and assumed a combat posture.

“Zhong Cheng…shuo…”

Yin Ren spoke in a distorted voice. Under the light, those red eyes stared wide without blinking.

“Why…did…you…leave…?”

Lu Tanfei floated high in the flesh cavity, sending thoughts towards Coffin Nails. “It’s climbing to his waist. It’s climbing to his waist! Xiao Yin is acting like he can’t see anything. It’s terrible!”

“Why…?” Yin Ren was still murmuring. His fingers twitched, and the black hair on the back of his head was about to move.

Zhong Chengshuo was leaning against the wall of flesh. He forced himself to adjust his breathing, and his head was spinning rapidly.

Attacked by the bizarre “non-evil object” and having no perception of the attacker… suddenly becomes extremely confused emotionally and is unable to think properly…

He had seen such symptoms before.

In the Archive, Huang Jin was attacked by a fleshy xanthium, and his symptoms were exactly the same as Yin Ren’s. Judging from Huang Jin’s later description, it should be that a certain emotion had been extremely magnified.

But after that, Zhong Chengshuo couldn’t reason any further.

At the beginning, Huang Jin was worried about Ding Lizi, so he could understand that logically, but for Yin Ren… He was someone who deeply understood human emotions.

At this time, if this person were sober, he would explain the source of those emotions with a smile and then come up with a smooth way to resolve them. Yin Ren seemed to have never had serious troubles. What kind of “emotional weakness” did a person who had traveled through hundreds of years have?

Under the extreme amplification of “emotional weakness”, what would Yin Ren do to him?

They had only been dating for a short time, and their relationship was far from the point of death. Some just approached cautiously and tentatively. Zhong Chengshuo couldn’t find any special signs, and there were too many unknowns.

Zhong Chengshuo clenched the baton in his hand. For the first time, he found that the weapon he held was incredibly heavy.

The other party hadn’t released his will to fight yet, so he should escape. He should take precautions… He should…

Some kind of feeling he wasn’t familiar with tied his feet and put a heavy weight on his heart. Logic and instinct were strongly advising him to leave, but Zhong Chengshuo’s legs were firmly nailed to the ground.

In the darkness full of corruption, the surrounding things were soaked in thick, dead air, as if everything no longer existed.

Zhong Chengshuo tried to raise the weapon with his right hand, but his left hand moved first. He grabbed the nylon strap vaguely, but unfortunately, the chocolate chips he had packed in the luggage bag weren’t on him.

He couldn’t even use the old method to appease this person.

“Yin Ren.”

Looking at his lover, who was approaching step by step, Zhong Chengshuo spoke with some confusion.

“I don’t know what to do.”

“I…” Yin Ren spat out his words with difficulty. His red eyes were already muddy. “I don’t want to…”

“I don’t understand,” Zhong Chengshuo said softly.

He couldn’t understand Yin Ren’s abnormality at the moment, just as he didn’t understand why Yin Ren was angry before… He had seen so many works and documents in which people expressed their emotions, but none of them could analyze the heart of a thousand-year-old evil.

“Zhong…” Yin Ren’s hair began to slither on the ground.

Zhong Chengshuo moved.

He held the chain in his mouth and flung his hands. Dozens of long needles pierced in all directions. They extended into red lines and sealed in the small cavity of the flesh. In an instant, the spreading aura was completely sealed off with no overflow.

“Those things are about to completely wrap Xiao Yin!” Lu Tanfei coughed nervously again. “Xiao Zhong, aren’t you invulnerable to ghosts and spirits? Can’t you tear them off?”

“They don’t have a physical body. I can’t do it.”

Zhong Chengshuo stared tightly at Yin Ren and pinched Yellow Millet as if by magic.

“Yellow Millet, I’ll throw you out. Immediately grow bigger and hold Yin Ren back,” Zhong Chengshuo said quickly. “I’ll contact Fu Xingchuan.”

The problem was difficult to solve, so it was “most reasonable” to obtain support as soon as possible.

Yellow Millet let out a grunt as if unafraid of death and turned completely black, like it was simulating closing its eyes. But it waited for a long time and was still held firmly in Zhong Chengshuo’s palm.

“No.”

Zhong Chengshuo had deformed Yellow Millet’s shape from the pinching.

“If a better solution can’t be found…”

These things appeared here because Shian deliberately did this. He and Yin Ren weren’t contestants in the ordinary sense. If their performance was too bad, Fu Xingchuan would reassess Yin Ren’s danger and stability.

Indeed, the danger of “Yin Ren”.

Zhong Chengshuo froze in place. He suddenly understood where the “difficulty” of his thinking came from.

“I’m only used to thinking about how ‘I’ can get back in one piece… This is the first time I’ve tried thinking about ‘we’.”

The red lines on the long needles flickered as Evil Force rushed back and forth in the narrow space. Yin Ren’s godless red eyes were locked firmly on Zhong Chengshuo, and a vague murmur was coming from his throat.

Zhong Chengshuo stuffed Yellow Millet, who was puffing, back into his pocket. His baton swung in a circle in the shadows, and a dim light flashed across the edge.

“Yin Ren, I’ll come up with a more suitable solution.”

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Evil As Humans Ch122

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Chapter 122: Attachment

Yin Ren felt the remaining Evil Force in the corpse. Something was swimming in the depths of the carrion, exuding a slight hostility. The good news was that it was still far away from them for the time being and obviously didn’t have the ability to act quickly.

…So it had nothing to do with them.

Shian’s idea was good. Whether it was an ordinary creature or a small evil, after everyone “shrank”, the threat wasn’t the same. It was just that 99% of the current seriousness from Lord Ghost King stemmed from “I don’t want to eat in a hellhole like this”.

“We’re in the main vein.”

Zhong Chengshuo carefully observed the remaining “mud” on the wall.

“When looking for our colleagues as we explore, we can figure out the placement of the body and try to find the exit from the esophagus or near the respiratory tract.”

He automatically avoided the option of the “intestine”.

Those medical terms were hard for Yin Ren to understand, but he generally knew what Zhong Chengshuo was saying.

“It’s a pity that we have to be more careful in finding people.” Yin Ren sighed.

Right now, he could only give orders like a ghost master. “Hu Tao, you take Grandpa Lu to look for the living—mainly Lu Xiaohe, Ge Tingting, and Huang Jin. Don’t bother with the others.”

“It’s not over yet?” Hu Tao pulled on her eyelids in despair. “An abandoned amusement park, then an abandoned mine. This time, you finally started to explore an abandoned corpse? Can you adjust to a normal place next time…”

“Find three dolls. I remember.” Lu Tanfei didn’t say much. He was anxious to go back to accompany his grandson. “Hu Jie and I will split up, so it’ll be faster.”

……

The first one to be found was Lu Xiaohe.

When Lu Tanfei followed her aura, Lu Xiaohe was carrying a bag full of investigation machinery on her back while wearing indoor slippers.

She quickly found a small space where she piled the detection machines crookedly on the dry flesh film. Lu Xiaohe sprayed the surroundings with potions to eliminate the odors and repel insects, then sat crossed-legged and turned on the computer.

She didn’t seem to have the slightest intention of finding a way out, but just explored and searched to her content.

“The distance is only 20 centimeters? …Have we shrunk? Well, the machines can still operate normally, so it’s not shrinking proportionally, and the possibility of space disorder is higher…” She took out a clip from her pocket on her pajamas and clipped her bangs together while muttering, “No wonder the location is still in the Fu residence, but the environment has changed so much.”

In the dim corpse cavity, the shimmer of the screen illuminated her solemn face. For some reason, Lu Tanfei sensed a feeling of déjà vu in this girl.

Lu Xiaohe tapped on the keyboard as she muttered “prize money”.

Suddenly, there was a loud rubbing sound nearby. Something seemed to be crawling from the outside. The machinery in the meat cavity rattled and vibrated, and the stench in the air became more intense.

Lu Xiaohe narrowed her eyes and stopped her fingers.

A dazzling metallic blue was exposed from the gap in the meat cavity, and there were also pitted shadows embedded in it. Saw-toothed and hairy worm legs slid across the shadows, making a clear sound. It stopped suspiciously when passing by Lu Xiaohe, but fortunately, it didn’t do anything.

A huge hard-shelled beetle. Considering the environment here, that thing was probably a species of beetle in the Histeridae family.

Shian’s insect repellent was still useful. Lu Xiaohe solemnly put the spray at hand. Although the original intention of this potion was to get rid of poisonous insects in an unknown environment… using it like this wasn’t bad either.

Lu Xiaohe’s expression didn’t fluctuate.

In view of the inability to communicate with the science post, Lu Tanfei planned to leave. Lu Xiaohe’s mentality was good. Given a certain amount of time, she would certainly contact her teammates directly.

“Prize money… Prize…” Lu Xiaohe stopped suddenly halfway through her words.

Thinking that something unexpected had happened, Lu Tanfei hurriedly turned around.

He saw Lu Xiaohe stretch her body and take out two cans of energy drinks and a mask from the bottom of her backpack. Comrade Lu Xiaohe first drank the drinks, then patted her face and applied the face mask.

“Alright!” Facing darkness in all directions, she cheered herself up.

Lu Tanfei: “……”

Do young people work so hard nowadays that they’re incomprehensible?

Well, it didn’t matter. He would go back and report as soon as possible. As a newly dead ghost, he wanted to maintain his sanity for as long as possible, so he had to maintain a good relationship with the ghost master.

Compared to the conscientious Lu Tanfei, Miss Hu Tao wasn’t so lucky.

She did run to a place with a strong living aura, but before her feet stood still, her body was bound by a paper chain…

“A ghost.” Fu Tianyi’s face was pale.

His pajamas were dirty, his slightly long hair was scattered, and he wasn’t wearing a mask. However, as a ghost, Hu Tao was able to see through the darkness. She saw a handsome young man with a human face on the other side, which made her anger fall from 9 points to 7.

A woman in her 40s or 50s was standing next to this person, but her face wasn’t very good-looking. Only then did Hu Tao see a normal person—it turned out that people would panic if they were suddenly thrown into such a place.

She almost forgot.

“Let me go. I’m a registered ghost of Shian!” Hu Tao tried to be reasonable.

“Not a spirit that a shaman can control. From Haigu?” Fu Tianyi’s voice was a bit hoarse.

Hu Tao: “I’m a ghost who was born, raised, and died in Haigu. I have a registered ghost ID number. Where’s your rear commander? I’m sure they can check it.”

Fu Tianyi’s face became paler. “Unfortunately, they haven’t contacted us yet.”

This was the first time he had lost contact with the rear commander.

“Forget it. I’m not looking for you anyway. Let me go. I have urgent things to do,” Hu Tao said loudly. “Bye bye!”

As soon as her voice fell, the paper chain became scorching hot, causing her to frown.

In the darkness and stench, Hu Tao turned to Fu Tianyi again. She opened her eyes wide, and bloodstains gradually appeared on her body—she gradually returned to her “unfriendly appearance”.

“…What is your intention?”

“We lack combat power.” Fu Tianyi sighed.

‘Things are bad,’ he thought.

He studied under Zhou Gong—simultaneously studying two profession branches of the corpse servant and spirit smith. As a result, there were no corpses and few spirit weapons, so the situation was overwhelmingly unfavorable.

This was completely different from the competition he expected.

If Fu Xingchuan was the first genius of the “Xing” generation of the Fu family, Fu Tianyi was the first genius of the “Tianyi” generation. The elders of the Fu family named him “Tianyi”, which meant they expected him to be on par with Zhong Yi*.

*Clarity: His name [Tian] (天) means heaven/god/divine (etc..) and the [Yi] (异) is the same character in Zhong Yi. Since Zhong Yi is revered (like a god), that’s why they combined Tian + Yi and named him Tianyi.

Fu Tianyi was also capable and ambitious. Unlike Fu Xingchuan, who was running around during the “Divine Descent” era, he had smooth sailing from childhood to adulthood. His abilities were flawless, and he always achieved the best results, ranking first in all simulations and real battles.

There were also cases of disconnection from the rear commander in simulated battles, but experiencing it in real life was a completely different state of mind.

Indeed, Shian wouldn’t kill anyone, but in this kind of competition, the competitors—especially the non-science posts who were responsible for offense—were extremely vulnerable to injury.

Fu Tianyi became more irritable. If he was seriously injured in a match while in the Fu residence, he would truly lose face. Since Haigu had leeway to allow ghosts to come out, then “expropriation” was definitely not a violation of the rules.

After all, “ghosts” were the same as “spirit weapons”. Bluntly put, they were all weapons.

“Sorry, I still have tasks to do!” Hu Tao said sternly. Her goodwill that was aroused by this person’s appearance had disappeared without a trace. “I’m going to tell Yin Ren!”

“You know, we’re currently in a competitive relationship.” Fu Tianyi rolled his eyes. “According to the ‘Regulations on the Behavior of Ghosts Registered by Shian’, Shian will protect you, and in case of an emergency, you also have an obligation to obey Shian employees. Aren’t you breaking the rules?”

With blood-stained hair, Hu Tao stared at Fu Tianyi with one eye and snorted bitterly.

“Before getting in touch with Professor Cat, you have to act as a guard.” Fu Tianyi pulled on the paper chain. “Ghost, take us to the direction where the evil qi is weakest.”

“Tsk.” Hu Tao clicked her tongue loudly.

But she kept her wits about her, knowing she could choose her own path. Even if she couldn’t rebel against this kid, she would still make him suffer a bit.

Just because a place had the weakest evil qi didn’t mean it would be less hostile.

……

At the same time.

Ge Tingting and Huang Jin were running desperately. They panted as if they were going to die at any moment, and the slippers they were wearing had been long lost. The cockroach rustled after the two of them; its thick and long tentacles flicked back and forth, and the tip brushed against Huang Jin’s lower back.

Suddenly, three catties of goosebumps appeared on Huang Jin’s skin.

I can’t wear this anymore!

The two of them didn’t care about whether the corpse was decomposing or not. They buried their heads and ran, stepping on the sticky, rotten flesh with a squelching sound under their feet. Although the cockroach didn’t seem to be an adult, and they could probably still handle it if they worked together… But who would want to engage in hand-to-hand combat with a cockroach as tough as a boxing champion!

Ge Tingting: “Ahhhhh—”

She waved her hands as hard as she could, trying to direct the surrounding carrion to gather so as to trap the cockroach behind them. Unfortunately, she lost her concentration while running and the little bumps on the ground became useless.

Tsk!

Huang Jin gritted his teeth. He made his best effort to rip off his t-shirt, bit his finger, and put a blood symbol on it. Then he used the t-shirt to wipe over the corpse wall so that it was stained with the smell of the dead.

“Stop for me!”

The cursed spirit weapon that was made in a hurry was stuck on the cockroach’s head, causing it to suddenly stop in its tracks.

Huang Jin panted for breath. His heart was slamming against his ribs frantically. Amid the buzzing tinnitus, he turned his face and tried to speak to Ge Tingting. “No… It’s okay…”

Before “okay” was finished, it was interrupted by another wave of meaningless shouts from Ge Tingting.

Huang Jin turned his head stiffly…

Crack, crack, crack. The cursed cloth was slowly disappearing into the cockroach’s mouth.

Ah, yes. Shian’s uniform was made of pure cotton. Thanks to this, he would be sure to propose to Shian to use chemical fiber instead.

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!” This time, Huang Jin yelled louder than Ge Tingting.

What was this? What? A nightmare?

When he was chased by Yellow Millet, Huang Jin never felt so powerless and ridiculous. An unknown fire rose from the bottom of his heart, and the next moment, a light flashed in his chaotic mind.

With his fingers still bleeding, Huang Jin gritted his teeth and wrote a mirrored rune on his palm. He stumbled and took a few steps forward, slapping his palm hard against the flesh wall.

Blood-written spells could use human corpses as talismans. Spiritual weapons should have countless forms. Right now, they were just materials that have been enlarged!

Before the blood was dry, Huang Jin did a few more slaps on the “wall”.

In the shaking phone light, Ge Tingting scanned the corpse wall printed with runes.

“It’s what you’re thinking.” Huang Jin saw through Ge Tingting’s chaotic thoughts. “Do whatever you want!”

Ge Tingting stopped.

She turned around, put her hands on the wall of flesh closest to her, and closed her eyes. She was short of breath, and her thin body fluctuated violently.

Huang Jin subconsciously slowed down. He hesitated for half a second…

“Damn it!” He stomped his feet, turned his head, and ran to Ge Tingting’s side.

Under the light of the phone, the cockroach rushed towards them with its mouth quickly twitching.

Huang Jin endured the nausea and forcibly opened his eyes. “One, two, go!”

At this moment, Ge Tingting didn’t need a translator. She could understand the meaning of that roar.

Black and red blood needles pierced out of the bloody handprints and pierced straight into the cockroach. Unfortunately, the cockroach’s body was stained with a layer of corpse fluid and was about to slide past the tip of the needle.

The “wall” moved.

The evil qi around Ge Tingting exploded, and all the nearby flesh walls concave into a bowl shape under her command, semi-fixing the cockroach in place. In just a moment, four sharp blood needles pierced the cockroach’s body, nailing it to the carrion like a specimen.

The cockroach’s legs were still moving, but its body stayed in place.

Ge Tingting swayed. She looked like she was about to sit down on the ground. Perhaps considering the materials of the ground, she staggered a few steps but managed to stay upright with determination. Huang Jin finally let out a sigh of relief and gave her a forced smile.

In the next second, the two of them hung their heads to one side and vomited.

As soon as Hu Tao turned the corner with the Yandu pair, she witnessed this scene of “a man and woman vomiting in front of a cockroach specimen”.

Hu Tao: “…Fuck!”

It turned out the hostility had been resolved. What a pity.

“Hu Tao?” Seeing the familiar ghost, Huang Jin’s eyes lit up, and he raised his voice. “…Yin Ren? Zhong Chengshuo?”

If those two were there, the cockroach definitely wouldn’t survive for over five seconds. Regardless of whether it was an evil or King Yama, at least those two didn’t have cockroach tentacles, so they wouldn’t cause such great mental damage.

However, the next moment, he noticed a paper chain on Hu Tao’s body.

Huang Jin staggered and took… a half step back. The cockroach behind him was still kicking its legs, so he had to retreat with great restraint.

“Haigu’s supplementary combat force,” Auntie Tao said indifferently. “They are not the core partners. One is too young, and the other has a criminal monitoring anklet. Both of them should have criminal files.”

Ge Tingting wiped her mouth and took a step back.

“We’re not very lucky.” Fu Tianyi looked around gloomily and said, “A spirit smith without a shirt and a corpse servant who can’t speak. I know all their techniques. Whether they come or not makes no difference.”

“It sounds like you’re choosing vegetables at a farmer’s market,” Huang Jin muttered.

“We want to act with you.” Ge Tingting’s AI voice sounded first. “The two of us can take care of each other, and you’ll also have more combat power.”

The benefits of AI were highlighted. Though Ge Tingting’s face was sweaty, causing her hair to stick to her face, and she hadn’t caught her breath, her AI voice was gentle and calm, with plenty of confidence.

Fu Tianyi glanced at her lightly. “That’s fine.”

Are you scared?

Huang Jin subconsciously turned his head and read her thoughts.

[Fu Tianyi is a master of the Fu family and also an excellent member of the special investigation team of the Yandu branch. He’s definitely a strong combat force, so it’s safer to act together.]

Ge Tingting turned her face toward Huang Jin, and her thoughts were turning steadily.

[Their attitude towards Miss Hu Tao isn’t good. They are probably forcing her. Once she has an opportunity, she can take us to Yin Ren and Zhong Chengshuo.]

[In summary, I think it’s better to temporarily act together.]

Just after killing the cockroach, the blue veins on Huang Jin’s head were still pulsating. Seeing this bunch of rational thinking, he was a little stunned. “You don’t care…”

Don’t you care about their contempt?

[I know what you want to ask. I have been working outside for some time, and I’m used to this attitude.]

Ge Tingting’s thoughts remained stable.

……

34 centimeters away.

Messages in the Coffin Nail app flashed frantically.

[Hu Tao: @Yin Ren, @Yin Ren, @Yin Ren]

[Hu Tao: Fu Tianyi is too much!!!]

[Yin Ren: Were you intercepted by him?]

Finding that Hu Tao hadn’t returned for a while, Yin Ren quickly had a guess.

[Hu Tao: Yes, but I found Xiao Ge and Da Huang, and now we’re acting together.] Although she also ran into the cockroach, it wasn’t easy to tell the boss this kind of thing.

[Yin Ren: That’s enough. Take good care of Ge Tingting and Huang Jin. We’re not in a hurry here.]

[Hu Tao: Where’s Xiao Lu?]

[Yin Ren: Grandpa Lu has gone back to see his grandson.]

[Hu Tao: …I hate this so much!]

Yin Ren empathized with Ms. Hu Tao’s failure to get off work, but she could only endure her grievances for a while longer.

Lu Xiaohe found a stronghold for herself. Considering her physical condition, this decision was quite wise. Ge Tingting and Huang Jin were acting with the people from the Yandu branch for the time being. Even if the sky was falling, with Fu Tianyi there, things should be safe.

Yin Ren turned off his phone and felt a sense of emptiness in his stomach.

Lord Ghost King was now in a very mysterious state—hungry but without appetite.

He approached Zhong Chengshuo and sniffed the refreshing scent on him, as if trying to revive his numb sense of smell. If Zhong Chengshuo wasn’t here, he would have wished his nostrils would simply die.

“You better call the other ghost back,” Zhong Chengshuo said as he floated beside him.

Yin Ren: “Then won’t our two-person world be gone?”

“Oh, yes.” Zhong Chengshuo contemplated for half a minute. “…But it’s more appropriate to call it back. Fu Xingchuan stuffing us in here isn’t just so we can ‘win the game’.”

“Mm, he’s testing us, or is using us to test something.” Yin Ren had thought about Fu Xingchuan’s motives earlier.

Zhong Chengshuo nodded. “I’m afraid it’s more than that. He will be curious about what exactly is going on with me, the ‘Zhong Chengshuo’ who fell in love with an evil. Next, there may be special attacks capable of targeting you and me.”

“Makes sense.” Yin Ren looked away a little uncomfortably.

Not to mention anything else, this corpse was enough to target him. Standing here, Yin Ren couldn’t help being upset.

Thousands of years ago, Yin Ren had seen many human corpses. It was better to say that the only thing he could touch “during his lifetime” was human corpses. At that time, they were just the concept of “corpses” to him.

But now it was different.

Yin Ren couldn’t help but glance at Zhong Chengshuo beside him.

Healthy body, smooth skin, clean hair, good smell.

He didn’t care that Zhong Chengshuo’s face would get old or that his skin would become something else. If Zhong Chengshuo minded, he could grow old with him—for an evil, changing his appearance was easy.

But Zhong Chengshuo would eventually die.

At some point in the future, his dear partner would stop breathing and become as cold as this corpse. Zhong Chengshuo’s body would swell due to corruption, and his fair and strong skin would fester and emit a human’s least favorable stench.

Or before that, it would be burned into crumbling ashes.

How long could they live together? …Fifty years? Sixty?

Yin Ren shook his head vigorously, trying to get rid of the cobweb-like distractions—as the time when they determined their relationship became longer, these annoying thoughts appeared more frequently.

“Ah… Ah… I don’t want to… die…”

A voice whispered.

“That’s right.” Yin Ren sighed. “You don’t want to… huh?”

He instantly called out Lu Tanfei. Grandpa Lu had just returned from getting off work to take care of his grandson. When the old man appeared, he was still holding a children’s book in his hand.

Lu Tanfei looked blankly at what was in front of him.

“Those things” came from rotting flesh with a dozen or so “legs” resembling the hyphae of a sticky fungus. Some of the filaments had completely broken away from the decaying flesh, free from the contaminated fluid. The wriggling hyphae emitted a slightly translucent white color.

The human eye-like structure was embedded in the hyphae, like a vine budding. Transparent liquid dripped from those eyes and fell to the ground in drops.

“Someone… is waiting… Someone… want to see… Don’t want to die…” The thing crawled on the rotting flesh and made a thin, human-like voice seemingly from nowhere.

“Don’t want to die…”

“Don’t want to die…”

“Don’t want to die…”

More voices whispered in the darkness. Seeing Yin Ren suddenly behaving abnormally, Zhong Chengshuo turned his head curiously. Obviously, he was oblivious to those strange ravings.

[Siren: Be careful.]

[Siren: It’s the weak that can’t eat.]

Yin Ren put away the vibrating phone and moved his wrist.

These things weren’t oppressive, and they were much the same as those things crawling around in the Archive. He just had to be careful…

“Don’t want to die…”

As if seeing through his thoughts, those white monsters no longer squirmed like snails. After a brief stagnation, they suddenly rushed forward. The dirty white hyphae twisted into waves.

Ignoring Zhong Chengshuo, who was close at hand, they rushed to Yin Ren.

Yin Ren retreated instantly. Unfortunately, since this place was a hellhole, space was limited. Unless he gave up hiding his identity and transformed into an evil brand drill, he couldn’t escape the wave-like attack that was incoming.

“Shit, Fu Xingchuan, that bastard—”

A strand of hyphae touched his bare toes, causing Yin Ren’s mind to become suddenly dizzy. If the distracting thoughts he had before were just a spider’s silk, at this moment, they began to turn into an inescapable web, gradually enveloping his thoughts.

I don’t want to see Zhong Chengshuo die…

I don’t want to see Zhong Chengshuo disappear…

I don’t want Zhong Chengshuo to become such a corpse…

After just a moment’s pause, more hyphae climbed onto Yin Ren’s feet.

Yin Ren’s thoughts were as if they had been soaked in sour wine. He forgot all the words he hadn’t finished, and his heart overflowed with trance and warm fondness. His reason was still able to suppress the Evil Force, but waves of emotions washed through his heart.

Yin Ren stretched out his hand towards Zhong Chengshuo uncontrollably.

…With a hint of twisted desire.

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Access Denied Ch29

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Author: 年终 / Nian Zhong

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Chapter 29: Special Mission

After having a satisfying meal, people tend to feel sleepy.

Nowadays, Zhu Yanchen was very healthy, so Shu Jun was no longer polite with him. He circled around the bed and said, “I have terrible sleeping habits so I’ll sleep on the outside.”

Anyway, he didn’t need to hold onto Monday anymore. It was wrapped in a cloth strip and lying on the sofa near the purifier, blowing and sucking air in dissatisfaction into the cloth strip that covered it.

“Call me at six sharp tomorrow morning,” Shu Jun instructed it.

The two had been investigating the erosion zone for more than a week, and Shu Jun had figured out Monday’s temper. Monday didn’t like him, but it had also tasted the sweetness of victory against Sweet Edge. Its brain capacity was limited, and it couldn’t understand too much intelligence, and since the obvious benefits were right in front of it, at least it wouldn’t want to run away anymore.

Shu Jun crawled into the bed and felt the soft mattress behind him. Tears welled up in his eyes.

Zhu Yanchen was more particular and didn’t sleep topless. He used his last shirt as pajamas and lay steadily on the side against the wall. The two had to share a bed, but it was spacious enough that there was more than an arm’s length from each other, and they even had extra space.

Shu Jun murmured “goodnight”, then happily wrapped himself in the blanket and fell asleep almost as fast as fainting.

…Things were still normal at this point.

Around four in the morning, Zhu Yanchen opened his eyes and felt cold all over. He touched his chest and only felt the thin shirt.

Zhu Yanchen: “…”

When they were in the erosion zone before, they had to take turns keeping watch, so Mr. Shu didn’t have a chance to fully display his skills. Now he finally found the opportunity to “steal” the covers—this bad habit of his hadn’t changed in more than ten years.

Marshal Zhu sighed in his heart, turned from lying flat to lying on his side, and prepared to drag back his own blanket. Who knew that the other party hadn’t revealed any flaws—Shu Jun had no cover on him at all, as both blankets were rolled into a ball, with his arms tightly wrapped around it. Moreover, he would occasionally wrinkle his brows, obviously not sleeping soundly.

“…Don’t die…” Shu Jun muttered intermittently.

After a moment of silence in the darkness, Zhu Yanchen quietly reached out and stroked Shu Jun’s wrinkled brow. When he saw the shadow disappear between his eyebrows and his body stretch a bit, Zhu Yanchen grabbed a corner of the quilt, carefully and cautiously pulled it outward.

It was a close call, as Shu Jun rolled over and narrowly stopped at the edge of the bed, with his back facing Zhu Yanchen.

This was quite nostalgic. Zhu Yanchen propped himself up, took a deep breath, and was about to continue, but his arm stiffened in mid-air.

Shu Jun wasn’t wearing a shirt when he slept. Now his entire back was exposed, and his skin shone with a glossy light in the dim light. He had no excess fat on his body, and the contours smoothly glided through the night, tightly wrapped in the fabric that hugged his narrow waist. The lines of his muscles were light and beautiful—not too thin or too heavy—and didn’t give off any sense of clumsiness or bulkiness.

At this moment, his waist and back were slightly arched, like a beautiful wild beast.

Zhu Yanchen’s palm was hovering about one centimeter away from Shu Jun’s shoulder, allowing their body temperatures to mix together. Maintaining that distance, his palm followed Shu Jun’s shoulder down and slowly moved to his wrist. In the end, without touching him, he withdrew his hand.

‘My state is really not right,’ Zhu Yanchen thought to himself. ‘I’ll just not cover myself with the blanket.’

But before he could close his eyes, there was a loud bang as Shu Jun had rolled off the bed. After two or three seconds, there were a few unhappy grunts from under the bed. Shu Jun climbed back onto the bed, facing Zhu Yanchen’s questioning gaze.

“Huh?” Shu Jun’s voice was puzzled as he was used to sleeping alone. He looked at Zhu Yanchen for a moment, then relaxed. “Oh… it’s A’Yan.”

Then he suddenly exclaimed, “Why do you look like a big clump!… Oh, you took a shower… so that’s why…”

Zhu Yanchen touched his still damp hair speechlessly. This person was probably half-asleep, talking nonsense. While Shu Jun was busy climbing onto the bed, he stretched out his arm and salvaged the blanket under the bed for the two of them.

Then he was tackled by Shu Jun.

Shu Jun hugged him recklessly, with a momentum that replaced the pile of blankets with Zhu Yanchen himself. He was no longer as friendly and cheerful as before, and his tone was obviously dissatisfied. “A’Yan, where’s my goodnight?”

Zhu Yanchen froze in place. A mixture of shock and sadness swept over him. The scene from more than ten years ago gradually overlapped with the present. He embraced Shu Jun with some uncertainty and kissed the top of his head.

Shu Jun hummed contentedly and fell asleep again. This time, he slept quite soundly.

Zhu Yanchen didn’t close his eyes; he kept holding onto the other person and stared at the void in the darkness. He was familiar with this side of Shu Jun, which he had thought was a period that had been completely erased. Now it seemed that perhaps things could still be salvaged.

Originally, he just wanted to silently live through this life, but he didn’t expect to really save Shu Jun, and even more unexpectedly, Shu Jun turned around and saved him. Things had developed far beyond his expectations, and now he still wanted more.

Perhaps this was the side effect of being too close. At this moment, Zhu Yanchen, for the first time, understood the feeling of “greed”.

And it felt pretty good.

Zhu Yanchen reached out his hand again and caressed Shu Jun’s cheek. Shu Jun was quite handsome, but his eyebrows and eyes didn’t look sharp. Instead, they gave off a comfortable sense of closeness. His mutated hair color added a touch of wildness to him, but when he closed his eyes, that hint of danger turned into a peaceful trust.

Shu Jun clearly still had impressions of that period of time. Even if only a few fragments of those impressions remained, they could piece together the possibility of recovery.

He had to seize the support of the people and the position of leader through a non-violent outcome. Since that was the case, why not grab everything he wanted… like the memories that had been crushed.

“Goodnight.” He whispered to Shu Jun.

Unfortunately, an hour later, the sound of a thud and the sound of flesh hitting the ground once again echoed through the room, and the warm embrace was gone forever. Zhu Yanchen pulled the covers back onto the bed and rolled Shu Jun into a ball inside them.

At six in the morning, a mournful cry from Monday was heard.

“Get up—”

“From bed—”

Shu Jun had a good sleep, feeling refreshed and clear-headed. The bed was still the same bed, and he hadn’t kicked the covers off during the night. Zhu Yanchen’s side, on the other hand, was rather strange—Marshal Zhu had wrapped himself up like a mummy, lying stiffly on his back and pressing his body against the corners of the bed.

Did he have this habit before? Shu Jun yawned and got out of bed. The mattress shook, and Zhu Yanchen woke up immediately.

“Let’s go, let’s go. To the morning market.” Shu Jun put on his coat, and his tone was light and cheerful after a refreshing sleep.

Zhu Yanchen sat there for a few seconds, then nodded slowly. Shu Jun put on his mask and handed one to Zhu Yanchen, who put it on quickly.

“Are you two awake?” Just as they were leaving, there was a knock on the door, and Uncle Pan’s voice came from the other side.

Shu Jun handed the mask to Zhu Yanchen and quickly put his own on.

Somehow, Uncle Pan had sobered up despite drinking into the early hours of the morning and even managed to take care of the mutant animal skin early this morning. He glanced at the two people wearing masks, puit the electronic wallet that was the size of a lighter on the table, and rubbed his hands.

“You wouldn’t believe it, but early this morning I heard they’re recruiting NPCs. I really don’t know what those big wigs are in a rush for.”

“What kind of work?”

“I heard about it when I went to sell the skins. Someone will be coming tomorrow to recruit people. If you’re interested, you can go to the ‘Longevity’ Tavern later to check it out and avoid being taken advantage of. Brother Gray Claw, listen to me. With your skills, you can make a good living just by selling pelts…”

“Thanks, brother. We’ll go check it out.” Shu Jun smiled. “Did they say which team the mission is for?”

“The Blackbirds.” Uncle Pan pursed his lips. “The strangeness lies here. It’s only been a few days, and they’ve been sent on another mission. I say it must be Yi Ning’s idea to merge teams. Look, Blackbirds is the strongest team, but now the captain and the manager, Zhu Yanchen, are both gone. They’re so eager to make Blackbirds suffer, so they can find a replacement manager later…”

Shu Jun secretly clenched his fists, causing his sharp nails to cut into his palm. He kept his smile behind his mask, so his voice sounded cheerful. “Anyway, it has nothing to do with us. It’s good to have a bigger team. More reliable that way.”

Uncle Pan didn’t notice anything unusual. “Okay, that’s how it is. Oh, about your anti-erosion remedy…”

“We’ll be in the city in a while. We’ll definitely ask for you when we see them.”

“Okay, good.”

The morning for the other captain wasn’t very pleasant either.

Luo Duan knelt on one knee as dark red blood continuously poured out of his wound, almost dripping in a line.

“Stop!” the doctor outside the training room shouted. “He can’t fight anymore and must be treated as soon as possible!”

Luo Duan hung his head, smiling to himself in the shadows. As he had expected, after challenging for more than a week in a row, he finally suffered a serious injury as a matter of course.

The medical team sent him to the treatment room. As the emergency bed slid past the corridor, Luo Duan turned his head and looked towards the road leading to the underground.

All the game-related information explained that the lowest level of a stronghold was always the storage level used by the NPCs. No one had cared about this before. However, the command center was located in the material-rich Y City, yet they specifically constructed a storage level below the training level where dangerous mutant beasts were kept. No matter how one thought about it, this seemed quite unnatural. 

He had succeeded in sneaking in and he just needed to be patient.

Luo Duan withdrew his gaze, closed his eyes, and began to silently plan his invasion route.

Until the nurses sent him to the special ward, he remained calm with his eyes closed. To be fair, the layout of the special ward was quite good. It even had vases decorated with brightly artificial flowers.

A TV was hanging on the wall opposite the hospital bed, tuned to the intelligence channel that players often watched, playing the morning news. When he confirmed that everyone had left the ward, Luo Duan lifted his eyelids and glanced at the screen.

“…At 5 this morning, a large Erosion Swamp appeared 300 kilometers northwest of X City. The results of the blurry scan are quite strange, and experts are doing their best to interpret the data…”

“…We have decided to send the strongest team to investigate. The Blackbirds will depart in five days…”

In the past, Luo Duan might have envied the Blackbirds—that was a “special mission” only accessible to the team that won the championship, which allowed the Blackbirds to get a lot of contribution points and unique field experience. Moreover, the task sounded more like a test than actual combat, so their combat power loss wouldn’t be too great.

Now, it seemed that the enemy on the other side may not have been arranged by humans in advance. It was unclear what the Blackbirds, which had lost Shu Jun, would encounter on such a mission.

Luo Duan sneered.

Beside the sickbed, there suddenly came a rustling sound, somewhat like a mouse nibbling on paper. Luo Duan turned his head and was taken aback by the sight before him.

The flowers in the vase were melting.

The colors of the flowers gradually melted away, dripping stickily down the vase. Afterwards, they spread in all directions like fungi, leaving thin veins on the walls. After a while, the color of the veins gradually turned black and gray, contrasting with the pale walls like dead capillaries.

Something was condensing on the ceiling, slowly dripping down into an apple-sized globule hanging in front of Luo Duan.

“Ah…ah…”

The falling object kept wriggling and made a hoarse sound. Its movements were strange and stiff, like a legless spider.

Luo Duan didn’t scream, but his eyes were cold. Everything in front of him was too bizarre. Perhaps his illness was too severe, and he was having hallucinations.

“Ah…”

That thing sighed again.

“I…will help you… I’ll help…you…”

Unexpectedly, the thing could actually speak. Luo Duan was taken aback. Before he could react, the door was roughly pushed open. The globule quickly shrank back into the ceiling, and the veins seeped into the wall as if they had never existed.

“You’re Luo Duan of the Groundwater, right?”

Ai Xiaoxiao walked into the ward and glanced at Luo Duan. “Hmm, your injuries aren’t too bad. You won’t die, so don’t mess around.”

“Are you my doctor?”

“No, just passing by.” Ai Xiaoxiao blew a bubble from her gum and shrugged indifferently. “I heard there was a seriously injured patient here, so I came to take a look.”

Luo Duan: “…”

Ai Xiaoxiao ignored Luo Duan’s complicated expression and frowned, touching the nearest wall. However, the wall was cold and smooth, and there seemed to be nothing unusual.

“If you feel uncomfortable, remember to call the doctor at any time.”

She muttered to herself and wiped her hands.

“Also, why is there an empty vase in the special ward?”

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Access Denied Ch28

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Author: 年终 / Nian Zhong

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Chapter 28: Mood Swings

Shu Jun froze.

They hadn’t even started discussing the plan’s details. He was just bragging a little. As the captain of his team, Shu Jun was used to making such comments to adjust the atmosphere, such as “Let’s make Groundwater cry this battle” or “What a great terrain. We can end the fight in a day”.

Of course, even if they eventually won, Luo Duan wouldn’t really cry, and the Blackbirds had never ended a battle in a day. Zhu Yanchen had been chatting with him for years, and he thought the other party was just casually responding, but he didn’t expect the other person to answer so seriously.

At this point, Shu Jun could still understand if Zhu Yanchen was trying to joke with him, but the later actions didn’t seem like it—

Zhu Yanchen’s fingertips were still on his skin, and the movement was extremely natural.

Whether it was flattering or with ulterior motives, Zhu Yanchen’s movements were too skillful, so much so that Shu Jun almost thought it was some kind of common etiquette. He opened his mouth, and all the jokes that followed got stuck in his throat.

This isn’t right, is it?

When Zhu Yanchen was in trouble, he lost control of his emotions for a while. Looking back now, it wasn’t too exaggerated. Facing real death for the first time after knowing the truth, and Zhu Yanchen was also his friend, his reaction was understandable.

Shu Jun didn’t intend to deny his feelings and interest in Zhu Yanchen, but they didn’t necessarily represent a confirmed love. Even though they had been chatting for years, there was still a big difference between real people and words. Moreover, there were still a lot of urgent matters pressing on them, and normal communication and understanding would suffice.

As a result, when the other party took action, his heart almost skipped a beat. Half of it was due to surprise, and the other half was a feeling he couldn’t figure out.

Zhu Yanchen’s face was also bloody. He had just hunted a group of mutant beasts with him so his clothes were slightly sweaty, sticking to his skin, and his breath was warmer than usual. The two were only a palm’s distance apart, and the atmosphere became a bit strange.

…No, it was probably his own romanticism that hadn’t been snuffed out, and he was thinking too much. A’Yan was originally thoughtful, so maybe he didn’t know how to behave appropriately in reality after being in a high position for a long time.

Watching Shu Jun frown and then retract his chin, Zhu Yanchen: “……”

Shu Jun couldn’t remember the past. For the current Shu Jun, his actions might have been too direct. Zhu Yanchen was about to withdraw his hand, but Shu Jun’s paw had already reached out.

“There’s a little blood on your face. Let me wipe it off for you,” Shu Jun said cheerfully, using the palm of his hand to wipe the blood off Zhu Yanchen’s face. There was nothing wrong with this behavior on its own, but Zhu Yanchen suddenly froze in place, and the two of them ended up touching each other’s faces, making the atmosphere even more awkward.

The two stood like sculptures against the background of the mutant beast’s corpses. Fortunately, there were more than two people present, and someone knew how to break the silence.

After having a full meal, Monday finally had the strength to speak. “Tsk.”

This sound was long and loud, full of disgust, allowing the two to seize the opportunity and quickly withdraw their hands.

“I’ll deal with this pile of things. We can roast and eat them later.” Shu Jun laughed. “We can talk while eating.”

“Mm.” Zhu Yanchen had already started dealing with the mutant beast’s corpse. Whether he was nervous or simply making a mistake, he applied too much force and got sprayed with blood from the beast’s insides.

Shu Jun: “…”

Zhu Yanchen: “…”

Finally, in the midst of Shu Jun’s carefree laughter, the awkward atmosphere completely dissipated.

A week later, at the border settlement.

It was late at night, and Uncle Pan was dozing off in front of the counter as usual. The sound of a mud sled stopping outside the shop woke him up, and he immediately put a smile on his face.

The two young men who came in looked somewhat familiar. Both wore masks that covered their faces and had uncommonly strong and handsome builds. The shorter one had gray-white hair, carried a large sword on his back, and had strange, pointed nails that were easy to recognize.

Seeing Uncle Pan turn his head, the gray-haired young man swung the bag on his back. “Uncle Pan, we’re back—look. How much is the skin of these mutant beasts worth?”

Upon hearing there was money to be made, Uncle Pan’s last bit of sleepiness instantly vanished. He agilely went around the counter and took the bag.

It was packed full of high-level mutant beast fur. If properly handled, these things could be made into excellent protective clothing. Uncle Pan took a deep breath. “Back then, when my brother left you two outside, I scolded him for a bit. He should’ve at least sent you off with a dog. You guys are amazing. How did you manage to deal with the Corpse Parasite?”

“We ran fast enough.” The gray-haired young man laughed. “So, Uncle Pan, will you help us handle this? We’re willing to pay you a ten percent commission, since we’re considered friends.”

“Sure, sure! If you two trust me, just leave the goods here and I’ll write a receipt. If everything goes smoothly, I’ll take care of it tomorrow.”

Since business had come to him, Uncle Pan couldn’t help but sincerely smile. “Hey, after so many years, I’ve also made mistakes. You two don’t look like newcomers. Welcome to our area. Although it’s a bit late to ask, how should I address you both?”

“Gray Claw,” Shu Jun answered very smoothly, then looked towards Zhu Yanchen beside him.

“Smoke.” Zhu Yanchen stubbornly held onto that name.

The settlement wasn’t a clean place, so no one used their real names on a regular basis, thus Uncle Pan was very accepting. “To be honest, this bag of stuff is really valuable. Since we’re now friends, I’ll only take a five percent commission for any services, whether it’s the skin or the goods you dig up. I’ll also discount your rent by half too. How’s that?”

Moved, Shu Jun reached out his hand. “Deal.”

Then he grinned and added, “My brother and I plan to stay here and make a living. Uncle Pan, you’ve cut the rent so much. Don’t regret it later.”

“Many friends, many paths*, right?” Uncle Pan shook hands with him cheerfully. “I’ll go get some wine. Let’s celebrate your return—your room has to be the best, right? I’ll leave the key here for now.”

*(多个朋友多条路嘛) Proverb that implies having more friends can provide one with a wider range of opportunities and options in life.

After speaking, Uncle Pan dragged his bag and bent down to go into the back room behind the counter. When he came out again, the bag in his hand had been replaced with three bottles of dusty wine and a large bag of pancakes.

Although Marshal Zhu didn’t put on airs, he still wasn’t comfortable with extravagant drinking. Zhu Yanchen pushed up his face mask and took a piece of pancake, slowly eating it.

His body was now so full of erosion that even sulfuric acid could be drunk, so a little alcohol was nothing to him. However, Zhu Yanchen had just recovered from a serious illness, and even if he was immune to erosion, he still had a normal human body—after seeing Uncle Pan hand him the bottle of wine, Marshal Zhu’s movements stiffened.

Shu Jun didn’t miss this bit of stiffness. He naturally intercepted the bottle of wine, pushed up his mask, and smiled quietly at Zhu Yanchen.

Then he downed almost half the bottle with his face unchanged. “It’s not that my brother doesn’t give face, but he’s allergic to alcohol. Come on, Uncle Pan… Ah, Pan Ge*. I’ll drink his share. Cheers!”

*(哥) When used with a name, it’s a familiar way to address someone who is male that you’re close to whose usually older or higher rank than you (like jie but for a man). || Note: Moving from calling him Uncle Pan (as a general polite term) to Ge means their “closeness” has increased.

“Cheers! I’m not the kind of person who makes things difficult for others. Brother* Smoke, I’ll go get you some water later.”

*Note: He’s using [Xiong di] (兄弟) which is a general term to refer to a close male friend. You can think of it as “bro” or “brother”.

It was late at night, and they had earned a lot of money. Uncle Pan was in a good mood and closed the store. He turned on the purifier and took off his entire face mask. Naturally, normal humans couldn’t outdrink an Erosion Swamp, so after drinking four or five glasses of strong alcohol, Uncle Pan was about to burst with laughter.

“Brothers, I’m not prying or anything, just asking casually.” After three rounds of drinking, they chatted about a lot of things, and Uncle Pan finally slyly asked the key question. “How do you two keep your bodies so…burp…healthy? It’s not just exercise. You guys are veterans, but your bodies are still so normal. Do you have any secrets or anything?”

This was what they had been waiting for. Shu Jun smiled.

Although Uncle Pan was a bit shrewd, he had a good character and a sharp mind. This kind of person was easy to get along with. Since Uncle Pan could sell information about his surroundings, he could naturally also sell information about them as well. Of course, it wouldn’t be negative information.

“My brother knows reliable people who can get some prescriptions.” Shu Jun lowered his voice mysteriously. “But we can’t get them immediately. If you need it urgently, we can discuss it.”

“That’s loyal of you. Just speaking on their behalf… I can manage myself, but some of my acquaintances are struggling. I can help you make some introductions, and of course there will be compensation…”

“Deal. Speaking of which, I have a little favor to ask of Uncle Pan.”

“What is it? Just say it.”

“Didn’t we have that kind of job before? The top brass here needs a few people to guide the ‘players’ team. I remember that job pays well, and we want to try something different…”

“Oh, NPC work.” Uncle Pan waved his hand, and the smile on his face faded slightly. “Listen, don’t do that kind of work. I heard from someone that you have to sign a bunch of messy confidentiality agreements and you have to be careful with everything you say and do. If this job is supposed to be easy, and the army people would have already taken care of it. Why should we do it? If ten people go, it would be lucky if one or two come back…”

“I don’t necessarily want to go. I just want to see what’s going on.” Shu Jun smiled. “Just let us know if there’s any news, and we’ll think it over.”

“Okay…burp, okay. Oh, I’ve had too much to drink. I need to write it down.”

Uncle Pan bent down and fumbled around under the counter for a while, almost bumping the lump on his head.

“You still have to manage the store tomorrow, so let’s call it a night.” Shu Jun decided to stop while they were ahead and downed the last of his drink.

They were full and drunk, and now all that was left was to rest. After spending a week in the erosion zone without any human contact, Shu Jun couldn’t help feeling a little emotional now that they had returned to normalcy.

Even though neither he nor Zhu Yanchen needed a purifier, he let the one in the room run anyway—it was just an old civilian model that couldn’t affect the alpha-class Erosion Swamp; at most it would feel like a tickle.

“Next, we just have to wait for the intelligence to spread.” Shu Jun took off his old shirt, letting out a bit of alcohol scent. “Your bags are almost empty. Let’s go shopping tomorrow, and remember to remind me to buy some clothes.”

“Nn.” Zhu Yanchen’s reply was a bit dry. After locking the door, he also took off his mask, revealing his expressionless face.

“There are still some pancakes left. I’ll make some fried pancakes later, and we can have them as a snack before bed. Do you want some?”

“Nn.”

Shu Jun paused, sensing that something was off with Zhu Yanchen’s demeanor.

“Do you like Monday?”

“Nn.”

Shu Jun: “……”

As if he had reacted to Shu Jun’s question, Zhu Yanchen quickly snapped out of his daze. “I zoned out just now, sorry.”

“If there’s anything you’re worried about, just tell me. We don’t need to monitor each other anymore… I’ll go wash up and then make the fried pancakes. By the time you finish showering, it’ll be ready.”

Although he felt that the other’s behavior was suspicious, since Zhu Yanchen didn’t want to talk about it, Shu Jun had no intention of delving any further—he knew A’Yan’s character; he wouldn’t hide anything important. After pouring himself a glass of water, Shu Jun wrapped the towel around his neck and happily went to take a shower.

Indeed, Marshal Zhu wasn’t thinking about the plan.

The plan of the two went smoothly, and their physical condition was stable all the way. The reality developed far beyond his initial expectations, and his most cherished person was by his side again. This was the happiest week for Zhu Yanchen’s mood in many years.

However, just now, his comfortable mood suddenly fluctuated.

Shu Jun and Uncle Pan were talking and laughing, having a very enjoyable conversation. Zhu Yanchen wasn’t used to the drinking culture and had to maintain a low profile to hide his identity. In the end, he didn’t even say a word and quietly nibbled on a pancake for two hours.

If it had been before, he would have wanted to reduce unnecessary socializing. However, seeing Shu Jun laughing happily at the small counter, he even had the idea of joining the conversation.

‘A rather strange emotion,’ he thought. It was not anger or dissatisfaction, but rather a peculiar longing.

However, Shu Jun and the Blackbirds held countless gatherings over the years. He would always see him with his teammates, laughing happily every time. He had never felt a similar emotion himself. At that time, he only hoped that Shu Jun could maintain that smile and live longer.

‘Perhaps my body has undergone some changes,’ Zhu Yanchen thought seriously.

When they successfully infiltrated the city later, he would definitely give himself a comprehensive check-up.

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Criminal Psychology Ch196

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Author: 长洱 / Chang’er

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Chapter 196

The stubborn figure stood still at the door, hesitant to take a step over the threshold.

Xing Conglian moved his gaze upward. The young man at the door had a numb, shocked expression on his face, and time seemed as if it were frozen with his speechless movements.

It wasn’t until his arm was heavy that Xing Conglian recovered from an unspeakable emotion. He looked down and saw that Lin Chen had fallen into his arms and lost consciousness.

“Come in,” he said coldly to the person at the door while standing with Lin Chen in his arms. He made room and gave him the chair.

However, to his surprise, the young man who walked in slowly wasn’t as upset as he expected. Although the young man kept staring at the middle-aged doctor on the bed, he gradually recovered from the shock. As if guessing something, the young man’s face showed a bitter smile at what was going on.

Xing Conglian wanted to explain; at least he felt that if Lin Chen was sober, he would try to say something to this young man, but at this moment, any words seemed superfluous.

The young man named Duan Yang knelt down in front of the hospital bed and took his teacher’s thin hand. Although Xing Conglian obviously saw the frightening redness in Duan Yang’s eyes, he was surprised not to see a single tear fall.

Duan Yang first subconsciously and procedurally checked Duan Wanshan’s heartbeat and pulse, and then he gently closed his eyes.

He lowered his head and kissed Duan Wanshan’s fingertips carefully and cautiously, as if any more little movement would cause the dream in front of him to shatter.

Xing Conglian felt unbearable watching this scene. He hugged Lin Chen and turned around, trying to give space to the two in front of him. However, at this moment, he suddenly heard a very calm voice from behind him. “Please wait a minute.”

Xing Conglian turned his head and saw Duan Yang standing up with difficulty but decisively. Duan Yang couldn’t even bear to look away from Duan Wanshan as he said calmly, “Is there a medical room on board? Consultant Lin must receive treatment immediately.”

Xing Conglian was taken aback and saw Duan Yang leaned down. Like a dragonfly, he kissed the forehead of the middle-aged man on the bed, then resolutely got up and walked towards him.

At that moment, Xing Conglian only felt that this was truly a fucking student of Duan Wanshan.

Duan Yang didn’t even look at him. Xing Conglian obviously saw him holding back his grief as his lips pursed into a line like he didn’t want to leave if he looked back again, but even so, Duan Yang still checked Lin Chen’s heartbeat with calm and stable hands.

It was only then that Xing Conglian realized that the person in front of him was a doctor; the only person on this ship who could save Lin Chen. In fact, before Duan Yang told him about Lin Chen’s condition, Xing Conglian had no idea that his condition was not much better than the Duan Wanshan he saw 24 hours ago. He thought it was just a lack of nutrition or some random illness that made him weak, and not sepsis. In the rainforest, where medical conditions were lacking, severe sepsis undoubtedly meant death. He suddenly looked at Lin Chen’s swollen hand. He remembered very clearly that when he first met Huang Ze, the latter clearly told him that Lin Chen was allergic to antibiotics.

Now, when Duan Yang explained everything, Xing Conglian could obviously feel Lin Chen’s life gradually passing in his hands; something that even he couldn’t save.

Wang Chao, who was standing at the door, was already flustered and at a loss. Xing Conglian kicked the teenager. “Where’s the medical room? Lead the way.”

Wang Chao bit the back of his hand hard and then desperately ran to the other side of the cabin.

“Tell me what you need,” Xing Conglian said to the young doctor who hurried out of the cabin beside him.

Duan Yang’s face was frozen, trying to keep himself from being affected by the pain. “I need a hospital with complete facilities and medicines. Do you have one?”

As he looked at the person in his arms who had completely lost consciousness, Xing Conglian thought to himself that it was fucking ironic that he had the best hospitals at his disposal, but now he had nothing! What was even more ironic was that just because he had recently blown up Zaratul’s territory, he now knew without any detection tools that the air defense level of the Dana Rainforest must have been raised to the highest level. Any helicopter that dared to take off would be seen as a provocation by Zaratul and had a high probability of being shot down. Therefore, he had no way to send Lin Chen to a hospital in such a short time. He suddenly realized that he had nothing and could only ask the doctor, like all powerless relatives of patients, “How much time does he have left?”

As he spoke, Wang Chao, who was running in front, had already pushed open the door of the medical room. It was a relief that this light-duty ferry was equipped with a medical room, but there was no need to expect any remarkable medical conditions.

Xing Conglian put Lin Chen down on the hospital bed, only to hear Duan Yang say to him, “Get out of the way.”

The next moment, Duan Yang began to examine Lin Chen’s hand wounds, eyelids, and the ends of his limbs. He looked at the rash and bleeding spots on Lin Chen’s hands and told him, “It doesn’t make sense for you to ask me how much time he has. If he doesn’t receive treatment now, he will die.”

This was really a cruel diagnosis.

While speaking, Duan Yang had already regained his senses and began searching through the entire medical room. The doctor opened a cabinet and dug through a large pile of medicines used for preventing and treating snake and insect bites. From there, he found a large number of antibiotics. Xing Conglian took a quick glance and saw that almost all of them were penicillin, with a small amount of azithromycin and some other medication that he couldn’t even name.

“He’s allergic to many antibiotics.”

“I know,” Duan Yang said coldly. “I also want to avoid broad-spectrum antibiotics and give him other medicines if that damn bridge hadn’t collapsed!” Duan Yang checked all the medicines, stood up quickly, and asked him solemnly, “Are you a family member of the patient?”

Xing Conglian was once again stumped by the question. He couldn’t even spare a thought about the issue of the bridge because he never imagined that he would not only experience the most brutal thing in just one day but also be asked the world’s cruelest question.

“I am,” he replied.

There was obviously an incredulous look on the doctor’s face.

“If you insist on complying with some damn medical regulations, I can tell you that we are now in the Dana Region, which means that there’s no marriage law here. I can unilaterally declare my marriage with Lin Chen is established. Do you have any more questions?” Xing Conglian retorted.

Duan Yang’s calming emotions flared up again. Xing Conglian saw the doctor rubbing his eyes, then forcefully held back his grief and said, “Family, do you have the case of Consultant Lin?”

“Wang Chao!” Xing Conglian shouted.

Before his voice fell, the young man seemed to have checked everything and had already pushed the laptop over in advance. “Here it is.”

Xing Conglian felt that this quiet moment was simply maddening.

Finally, Duan Yang looked up and asked him calmly, “I have two questions. First, how soon can you get a large dose of other types of antibiotics?”

“And the second?” Xing Conglian asked.

“Answer the first question first.”

“Wang Chao!” Xing Conglian shouted again.

The teenager was already crying, but he still took out his laptop and retrieved the large medical sites before telling him. “Boss, we are now heading towards the most deserted part of the rainforest. Through the rainforest and then to the port, counting the speed of the boat trip, unless there’s a helicopter to deliver medicine…”

“No helicopters,” Xing Conglian said coldly.

Wang Chao choked back a sob, unable to answer the question at all.

“Speak!” Xing Conglian looked at the teenager.

“It will take more than six hours to mobilize manpower as soon as possible.”

“Did you hear that?” Xing Conglian looked at Duan Yang.

“That’ll be too late. His condition is deteriorating too quickly. So here’s the second question. Right now, there’s enough penicillin to meet the therapeutic dose, and the remaining drug therapeutic dose isn’t enough. The only treatment plan I can give is to take a risk and perform a 3-hour penicillin desensitization treatment on Consultant Lin, gradually increasing the penicillin dose every half hour, starting from the smallest dose of penicillin until the therapeutic dose is used. If successful, it may save his life, but it may also cause acute shock followed by the patient’s death.”

Duan Yang’s tone made Xing Conglian unable to even say “Are you kidding me”. This kind of plot only happened in the bloodiest movies. He was forced to face the moment of deciding the life of his lover, but unlike a movie plot where one knew the result by dragging the progress bar, no one could give him the correct answer. He suddenly felt that no matter how many things he had done and how many things he possessed in life; he couldn’t match this moment when he had no choice. He really failed to the extreme.

Xing Conglian looked at the person on the hospital bed who had been hugging him just a few minutes ago and telling him how he missed him. He bent down and took off the black ring on Lin Chen’s hand, then turned around and said to the doctor, “Let’s get started.”

“Have you considered it clearly?” Duan Yang asked him.

“With me around, he’s not willing to die,” Xing Conglian said lightly.

There was no sterile operating room, no large number of medical staff, no oxygen machine, no monitor, and no reliable technological means. The detection of Lin Chen’s life could only be relied on the most primitive stethoscope.

After almost all preparations were made, Duan Yang’s movements stopped.

“What’s the matter?”

“Without epinephrine*, if there’s an allergic reaction, he’ll have to tough it out with his willpower, but there’s almost no chance he can endure it.”

*Also known as Adrenaline, it is a hormone and medication. It plays an essential role in the fight-or-flight response by increasing blood flow to muscles, heart output by acting on the SA node, pupil dilation response, and blood sugar level. As a medication, it is used to treat several conditions, including allergic reaction anaphylaxis.

The doctor’s mind turned. He looked at the camouflage uniforms on them and said, “If you’re on a mission, you should carry an emergency medical kit with you. Take a look.”

Soon, all his life-saving kits were unfolded in front of the doctor. Xing Conglian knew exactly what was inside. After Duan Yang checked carefully, he took out some of the medicines and nodded at him.

Afterwards, Duan Yang opened the penicillin, and Xing Conglian watched as Duan Yang sucked up the medicine that might take Lin Chen’s life into the needle tube. “If he has an allergic reaction, it may be serious and painful. You have to be mentally prepared.”

Xing Conglian nodded and watched as Duan Yang sterilized Lin Chen’s skin with iodine and then plunged the needle in extremely cruelly.

The liquid was quickly injected into Lin Chen’s body.

Living a day like a year* probably felt like this. Lin Chen lay there calmly for a minute, five minutes, ten minutes… He wasn’t awake, but he didn’t have any adverse reactions. Xing Conglian felt a little happy.

*(度日如年) Idiom referring to a long, tedious, and agonizing wait.

Nearly half an hour later, Duan Yang began to prepare the second penicillin dose, then the third and fourth…

For the first two hours of the three hours, Lin Chen was just lying there quietly, but probably all bad things would only come suddenly. When the fifth injection was injected into Lin Chen’s body, Xing Conglian soon witnessed for himself how serious the so-called allergic reaction really was.

First, a large bright red rash spread over Lin Chen’s white limbs like paper. It seemed like some kind of monstrous creature was gnawing away at his life, and the itching sensation even caused Lin Chen, who had already fallen into a coma, to suddenly open his eyes.

Xing Conglian’s heart suddenly sank. Duan Yang immediately injected the epinephrine used for first aid into Lin Chen’s body.

Lin Chen’s eyes were full of confusion and pain. He opened his mouth wide to yell, but only some slight whimpers came out.

Xing Conglian could only hold Lin Chen’s limbs down to prevent him from scratching his skin. Lin Chen had really lost too much weight, as if there were only bones under his skin.

However, as time slowly moved forward, Lin Chen’s reaction became more serious. He opened his eyes wide, and the skin reaction caused by the suffocation and allergies made him want to scratch every inch of his body.

Xing Conglian pressed him tightly on the bed. He stared at Lin Chen’s dark eyes and saw his cold face.

“Do you love me?” He leaned into Lin Chen’s ear and asked word by word.

“I love you.” Lin Chen turned his head with great difficulty. His lips moved, insistently trying to answer this question with all his strength, as if it were something extremely important.

“Then hang in there.”

At that moment, some tears overflowed in Lin Chen’s calm and dark eyes, as if accusing him of cruelty but also more like helpless tolerance. It was only now that Xing Conglian knew that there was really a gentle and affectionate gaze that could pierce a person’s heart like a sharp blade.

As time passed, Lin Chen’s body trembled violently due to the pain and allergic reaction. Gradually, Lin Chen even lost his last bit of strength and stopped shaking. Xing Cong watched as Lin Chen’s eyes were about to gently close, as if in the next second that faint spark of life would truly slip away from his hands.

“Do you want to hear me say I love you?” Xing Conglian leaned close to Lin Chen’s ear and shouted, waking him up once again.

Lin Chen opened his eyes slightly with a smile at the corner of his mouth and then blinked slowly.

Xing Conglian’s heart was filled with extreme bitterness. It was the first time he knew what it meant to be unable to return someone’s deep love and affection. But the only thing he could do now to repay Lin Chen was to use his extremely crude means.

“Hang on. If you die, you’ll never hear it.”

He pressed against Lin Chen’s nose as he said it blankly.

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