Arc 4: Chapter 39
【Di! Congrats host, the villain’s blackening value has decreased to 30%.】
【Di! Congrats host, the villain’s blackening value has decreased to 27%.】
【Di! Congrats host, the villain’s blackening value has decreased to 23%.】
As the brilliant shower of daylight poured through the floor-to-ceiling windows, the system's notification chimed intermittently in Lin Yuan's ears, mingling with Lu Ye's heavy, heated breaths—quite unlike the indifferent machine-like voice from before.
Lin Yuan glanced secretly between the system’s prompt and the handsome and energetic young man in front of him. His warm fingertips rubbed together for a second, and then pressed on the other’s protruding Adam’s apple. He looked at it move with interest, and then his hand slipped down, past the collarbone, and over the chest, then finally rested on top of Lu Ye’s heart.
A powerful heartbeat thumped underneath his palm, as if it was trying to jump out and reach him.
Lin Yuan’s eyes curved. He liked this proof that the person in front of him was full of life and vitality. He wanted this moment to continue forever.
“... Lu Ye.”
Lu Ye blinked. He raised his hand to cup Lin Yuan’s flushed cheek, as if asking him what he wanted to say.
Lin Yuan really wanted to ask what the darkness left in Lu Ye’s heart was. He couldn’t wait to clear the blackening value, so that his lover would have no possibility of leaving him.
He squeezed himself into Lu Ye’s embrace and looked up at him. He said softly and carefully: “Lu Ye, whatever makes you unhappy or unfulfilled, can you tell me?”
He persuaded coquettishly: “Husband, tell me. I’ll do my best to make you happy, so can you tell me?”
Lu Ye slowly blinked his eyes, and thought hard with his chaotic brain to understand Lin Yuan’s question.
Is there anything that makes him unhappy?
What is happiness? What is fulfillment? As long as he can kiss and hug his Sui Sui, he is happy and fulfilled.
His only goal was to protect Sui Sui from this dirty and rotten world. He would never let blood stain Sui Sui’s soft and warm body.
Lu Ye’s human consciousness that was originally like stagnant water slightly rippled. And his originally blank eyes seemed to see far outside of this small apartment.
Outside, there were countless monsters and people that were worse than monsters.
Lin Yuan noticed his dark gaze and followed his line of sight. He suddenly remembered when they were in the city center, and Lu Ye also looked at the skyscraper like this. Lu Ye obviously didn’t remember that T7 zombie, but the eyes he looked at it with were filled with hatred.
Lin Yuan fell into contemplation, and some of his harbored suspicions finally floated to the top of his mind. Why did Lu Ye still remember him? Why did he treat him so well immediately?
After Lu Ye went crazy, he was clearly irrational and without human consciousness. Like that, how did he understand liking or love? How did he know the concept of hatred and revenge?
Lin Yuan tried to think from Lu Ye’s perspective. When Lu Ye was besieged by zombies, he would definitely not sit and wait to die. In the face of the horde of monsters that wanted to eat his flesh and drink his blood, if Lu Ye was not sure if he would survive, he would definitely leave something behind. With Lu Ye’s personality, it was impossible for him to let go of those who hurt him.
Later, his power went out of control. Lin Yuan thought carefully and came up with a possibility. Before losing control, Lu Ye might have left some spiritual hints on his mind. Lu Ye’s subconsciousness told him to get revenge, which was why he didn’t hesitate to kill that T7 zombie in the city center.
Similarly, Lu Ye liked him, was intimate with him, also because of these spiritual hints. Lu Ye feared that he would forget Lin Yuan, so in the last moments, used his mental power to engrave into his mind that Lin Yuan was his lover, he could completely trust him, he wanted to be close to him, liked him, listened to him.
Lin Yuan’s eyes gradually soured, and his heart was as painful as if it was being squeezed.
He buried his head in Lu Ye’s chest and hugged the young man tightly. Enveloped by the other’s breath, his smaller body trembled and small sniffles could be heard.
After a while, Lin Yuan straightened his back and sat up. He nudged Lu Ye’s cheeks and kissed the other’s eyes, nose, and soft lips. He said gently and solemnly: “Lu Ye, I will make you happy…”
Not surprisingly, Lu Ye liked this move very much, and his eyes brightened like stars. He happily leaned forward and kissed the small dimples on Lin Yuan’s cheeks that were soft like glutinous rice cake cheeks, and his love overflowed like honey.
Although Lu Ye couldn’t understand him, Lin Yuan still promised seriously: “No matter where you are, who you are, I will save you. You have to wait for me…”
Lin Yuan’s voice was light as if it could cross over life and death, but heavy enough to engrave his words in Time.
“Wait for me…”
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A week later, Lin Yuan saw Song Ting and another man and woman. When he opened the door, the three of them outside widened their eyes like saucers.
Although Lin Yuan was wearing a long sleeved shirt, it couldn’t cover up the marks on his neck. It wasn’t hard to imagine the colorful scene that was hidden. And the perpetrator was still stuck to his back and kissing his ear.
There was an awkward silence. Lin Yuan was a little ashamed to be seen now, but Song Ting and the others came so unexpectedly.
“Uh… Regiment Leader and… Mr. Lin, hello…” Song Ting couldn’t overcome the hurdle in his heart to call Lin Yuan the regiment leader’s wife.
The man and woman next to him echoed the greeting.
Lin Yuan asked: “Is something the matter?”
Song Ting tried to ignore how Lu Ye was sucking a new hickey on Lin Yuan’s neck, and said with his eyes stuck firmly to Lin Yuan’s face: “Yes, there actually is something.”
Lin Yuan ‘oh’-ed and said: “Wait a second, let me coax my husband first, and then we can talk.”
What else could Song Ting say? He said dumbly: “No problem.”
Lin Yuan closed the door, took Lu Ye to the living room and kissed for a while and coaxed him with a lot of sweet words before Lu Ye nodded reluctantly and agreed.
After opening the door again, Lin Yuan invited the three people inside to the sofa. Lu Ye wanted to hug Lin Yuan in his arms, but remembering what he agreed to, he hesitated and decided to lay down and rest on Lin Yuan’s lap.
Song Ting continued to pretend he was selectively blind. He introduced the other two people, the woman’s name was Zhou Yu, and the man’s name was Chen Shen. He said happily: “Xiao Zhou and I have advanced to level 5, and Xiao Chen is almost there.”
Lin Yuan studied the two people and told Song Ting: “Mr. Song, choose 19 power users to go on a mission with me, add Chen Shen, and we’ll leave tomorrow.”
Song Ting quickly realized that Mr. Lin was going out to harvest crystal nuclei, and agreed quickly: “Sure.”
When the military vehicles set off the next day, Lin Yuan was in the car sleeping in Lu Ye’s arms, a result of a particularly tiring night after Lin Yuan told Lu Ye he was not allowed to kiss him during the mission.
They drove to the central district of Nan City, which still had many zombies left. Lin Yuan dropped off the twenty other power users somewhere random, and then went straight into the center of the district with Lu Ye.
Lin Yuan’s goal was actually quite simple, he wanted to use the tactic of refining gu to create higher level crystals.
With Lu Ye’s overwhelming strong level 7 mental power, the zombies around them began to kill each other and devour crystals. Within ten days, the strongest level in the zombie horde had become a T7 zombie.
Lin Yuan looked at the zombie and pondered, and suddenly came up with an idea.
Why not refine a T8?