“There’s no corpse? So you’re telling me the body was moved away?”
“No way. If it had really been moved, the police would have come to arrest us long ago… tch, no, to save us from that group of gunmen!”
“That’s right!”
The people in the car discussed the current situation fervently.
Yao Ye was in shock and couldn’t comprehend what these people were discussing. He could only huddle in the corner of his seat, remaining silent. His pallid face looked rather pitiful.
Just as everyone on the bus discussed whether to escape by car, a barrage of intense gunfire erupted from the building ahead.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Fear coursed through everyone, prompting them to rush to the car windows to observe the situation.
“Quick! Retreat! It’ll explode in ten seconds!”
Wang Gang, his face drenched in blood, bolted out of the building with a roar.
In his wake, the remaining five soldiers scrambled out of the building, equally disheveled, running with all their might.
A mere second after their escape, a thunderous explosion echoed through the city center, and the ground quivered.
The Ming Tower was engulfed in a sprawling inferno, thick smoke obscuring half the sky.
The sight left everyone on the bus terrified.
They had never anticipated that these gun-wielding individuals would be so audacious and ruthless. They’d even deployed bombs!
The interior of the bus fell into an eerie silence. No one dared to mention the idea of escape, fearing they might be the next ones who were blasted to bits.
Yao Ye stared vacantly at the familiar building’s destruction beyond the car window, his expression tinged with melancholy.
In the past, when Ming An was still alive, the arrogant Yao Ye would frequently visit this building, flaunt his power, and berate Ming An’s employees, who had much higher educational qualifications, the spitting image of a villain.
Yet, Ming An harbored no ill will toward Yao Ye. He even convened a meeting to earnestly inform the staff that Yao Ye was his beloved sweetheart and the matriarch of this company.
If they angered his darling, they could pack their bags and leave.
Remembering Ming An’s endearingly clumsy demeanor, Yao Ye couldn’t help but feel nostalgic — though his feelings soon turned into anguish upon seeing the now-ruined building.
He couldn’t fathom how everything had suddenly taken such a grim turn…
He had killed his resurrected lover… and now, Ming An was haunting him like a ghost.
Did Ming An… want him to follow him to the underworld?
Yao Ye gritted his teeth as he recalled the people with glassy eyes he’d encountered earlier, and their ever-so-familiar fervent expressions.
But still, what right did Ming An have to request that of him?!
He was indeed a gigolo and had taken Ming An’s money, but that wasn’t enough to justify him remaining unmarried for the rest of his life, nor him forfeiting his own life!
He didn’t want to die! Absolutely not!
Yao Ye averted his gaze and balled his fists.
After much consideration, he decided to book a bus ticket and leave this city the moment he reached a safe area.
There was no way Ming An could chase him to the ends of the earth!
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Little Zhang, his arm dripping blood, stepped forward and transmitted the map stored on his watch to the driver’s mobile phone.
The driver gazed at the map with a puzzled expression and began driving, pondering when Keli City had acquired this villa.
“Daqi! Stay strong! You can’t falter after just one sealing point!”
Wang Gang addressed the soldier with the buzz cut who seemed out of it. The rims of his eyes had turned faintly red.
Though they knew death in this world wasn’t permanent, the pain was real and carried over to reality. Some with weaker resolve might even think they were truly dead and spiral into madness.
Many soldiers had been sent to psychiatric hospitals for this reason, and Wang Gang earnestly wished to spare his men from such a fate.
The soldier with the buzz cut struggled to staunch the bleeding of his neck wound and squeezed out a feeble smile to comfort the captain.
Upon seeing the soldier’s dire condition, Wang Gang assisted him in reclining on the back seat for some rest.
Yao Ye occupied a seat in the bus’s rear row. The soldier with the buzz cut sprawled across several seats, boxing him into a corner.
Yao Ye nervously glanced at the vacant seat beside him, where the soldier with the buzz cut lay, ghastly pale and dazed.
Only then did Wang Gang realize there was an extra passenger on the bus, and his expression turned grave.
“Who are you?”
Wang Gang aimed his gun at Yao Ye before glaring at the others on board.
“Didn’t I instruct you not to open the door?! Who is this person?”
Yao Ye timidly raised his hands to signal his harmlessness.
Zhao Bang, one of the young tourists, suppressed his disdain for these armed men who acted like thugs and explained, “He’s just an ordinary person who got frightened. He was terrified, so we let him in.”
Even after Zhao Bang’s explanation, Wang Gang maintained his vigilance. He activated the scanning mode on his smartwatch.
“The target is a character from the plot.”
A mechanized female voice emanated from the watch.
Wang Gang accessed the relevant information and discovered the character was named Yao Ye.
According to the plot points that had been discovered so far, this individual held an inconsequential role as the lover of a police chief who later became corrupt.
After learning this, Wang Gang lowered his weapon and no longer spared him any glances.
Thinking that there might be some use for him down the line, Wang Gang also refrained from shooing him off the bus.
Yao Ye breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the gun muzzle shift away.
He had finally escaped from his ex after much difficulty. If he died here, he would truly be aggrieved.
Yao Ye felt like he was riding in a thief’s getaway car this time.
He slumped into his seat in despair, wondering whether it was better to stay here at gunpoint, or alight the bus and return to the encircling “Ming An”s.
“Ugh… ugh…”
Beside him, the soldier with the buzz cut moaned in pain.
Wang Gang had been consoling Buzz Cut, and Yao Ye didn’t dare to say a word. He could only turn his head and gaze numbly at the street as they whizzed past.
The bus sped along, but the city center, which should be bustling with crowds, was surprisingly sparsely populated.
Yao Ye widened his eyes, watching the pedestrians pass by on the roadside. His attention was drawn to the faintly glinting glassy eyes.
Yao Ye bit his scarred fingers, the metallic tang of blood filling his mouth, making him slightly queasy.
What in the world was happening?
Why were there so many… Ming Ans?
Yao Ye couldn’t make sense of it. He had only disposed of the two Ming An brothers’ bodies in a small reservoir. Why did everyone in the city transform into them…
While Yao Ye grappled with these perplexing thoughts, he noticed the moans and groans from beside him gradually fading.
Instinctively, he turned to find the soldier with the buzz cut opening his eyes, revealing a pair of light-colored eyes.
Yao Ye gazed at him, perplexed, wondering if this person’s eyes had been this shade before.
Buzz Cut lay across the seat, fixing his gaze squarely on Yao Ye, his pupils dilating while their hue lightened.
Wang Gang sensed something amiss with Buzz Cut. His expression changed as he inspected the wounds on Buzz Cut’s body. He wasn’t surprised to discover a diamond-shaped wound.
It was a wound inflicted when fragments of the Proliferator took root inside a host’s body. Since it didn’t cause any pain or discomfort, it could easily go unnoticed.
Wang Gang raised his weapon once more.
“You’re so beautiful…”
Buzz Cut regarded Yao Ye with an enraptured expression.
Before Yao Ye could react, he heard a gunshot, and Buzz Cut’s head exploded before him.
BANG!!!
Yao Ye stared blankly at the head, which had burst open like a watermelon, his brains and blood splattering across his body.
He lowered his head, looking numbly at the blood staining his hands. His expression remained blank, his mind devoid of thought.
Just like that day… drenched in blood… Ming An and Mingyun’s blood…
“Daqi was infected! Toss him out of the car immediately!”
Wang Gang issued a cold command.
The remaining soldiers followed the captain’s directive without hesitation, lifting the cooling corpse, as if it did not belong to their comrade.
The other passengers in the bus were horrified, having never expected these individuals to be so ruthless towards their own.
Yao Ye was still staring at the blood on his hands in a daze. Choked sobs escaped his throat.
Wang Gang aimed his firearm at Yao Ye.
Yao Ye, sensing impending danger, raised his head sluggishly and cowered with his head in his hands, trembling in fear. “Please, don’t kill me… Sob…”
What evil had he wrought? Why were all these terrible things happening to him?!?!
Yao Ye, who had finally come back to his senses after the previous terror, cried until his eyes swelled shut. He deeply regretted not leaving Keli City immediately after disposing of the bodies.
It was all his fault for being greedy and for being unable to let go of the house he had mortgaged…
“Captain, he might still come in useful later…”
Little Zhang, standing nearby, took a step forward, trying to persuade the captain, though his expression appeared strangely startled and he spoke in a somewhat rigid tone.
“We can’t use him either way. He may already be infected…”
Unaware of the strange happenings around him, Wang Gang slowly squeezed the trigger.
BANG!!!
Little Zhang raised his gun and shot Wang Gang right in the heart.
Wang Gang was still in the middle of his sentence when blood flooded his mouth. He gazed back in disbelief, only to meet a pair of glassy eyes.
Little Zhang had been infected too.
This pollutant of the Proliferator had evidently learned to disguise itself!
Still shaken, Wang Gang’s vision sank into darkness.
Seeing their captain falling victim to a sneak attack, the few remaining soldiers clenched their teeth in rage, raising their weapons to fire at the rear of the bus.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Little Zhang shielded Yao Ye beneath his body. Eventually, his body became riddled with bullet holes as his blood flowed like a river.
Yao Ye watched in horror as this stranger protected him, frozen in place by the thunderous gunfire.
His pupils quivered, locking onto Little Zhang’s gentle, glassy eyes. After a momentary stupor, he burst into tears.
“Ming An… don’t die… Sob, I regret it…”
Yao Ye hugged Little Zhang’s body which was drenched in blood, his spirit collapsing completely.
“Please, please spare us…”
Yao Ye sobbed, begging for mercy. He had never felt so powerless and shameless. All he knew to do was survive under the protection of others like a wretched worm. His life was worthless.
Yao Ye regretted it.
He shouldn’t have discarded the bodies… Ming An never wanted to hurt him…
He had been… protecting him this whole time.
This is my karma, Yao Ye thought. He’d been so horribly self-centered. I’m sorry, Ming An, Ming Yun…
Yao Ye’s complexion drained of color, his pupils losing focus. He sensed the warm body beneath him gradually growing colder, and he found himself losing the strength to plead any longer. He even harbored the dreadful thought that perhaps it would be better to die like this.
On the other side, the soldiers continued to fire relentlessly, the surprise on their face morphing into profound shock.
Why? Why was that pollutant going so far to protect this character from the plot?
Just what exactly had happened?
Hi everyone! New translator here. This novel has been one of my favorites for a long time (yay, yandere MLs) and I thought I’d continue it since it’s been a while since the last update. I do have another ongoing project, so I can’t dedicate all my time to translating this, but I’ll try to release a chapter every week. Thanks for understanding! (´-ω-`)
Thank you for the update!!!
We’re back, I missed this so much 😭😭 Hopefully there’ll be some fluff with Yao Ye and Ming An? (Although that’s probably wishful thinking)
THABK YOU FOR THE UPDATE AAAA FINALLY!!
Thank you so much for this update! I’ve been looking forward to reading more of this! Thank you again!
Thank you!