“First, I must make a statement.”
Seeing Xu Qi already snugly hugging Xu Yintang’s thigh, it was impossible to shut his mouth at least for today. Shi Yuebai sighed, making a final defense for his own reputation.
“Zhong Hongzhuo is not some pursuer; he’s just a psychotic killer.”
When Shi Yuebai mentioned the words “Zhong Hongzhuo,” his expression was even more disdainful than when he saw the village chief revealing his true colors. It was probably the most contemptuous expression Xu Yintang had ever seen since knowing him.
“Alright, alright, he’s a psychotic killer.” Xu Qi went along with it, but when they weren’t on the training ground, Shi Yuebai could say whatever he wanted. Xu Qi took out his phone, scrolled through it, and showed Xu Yintang several photos of men.
Xu Yintang impartially commented, “Not bad.”
Thick eyebrows and big eyes, looking quite decent.
Xu Qi shook her head. “Psychos don’t have ‘psycho’ written on their faces. Anyway, remember this guy; he’s a psycho killer who’s infatuated with his own delusions of grandeur and ‘great love.’ But when we first entered the game, Zhong Sheng was definitely a prominent figure among players.”
He had good strength, a good temperament, and was even a core member of the largest player group, AFA, at the time. If there were popularity polls on forums back then, Zhong Hongzhuo would definitely have made his debut.
Apart from a very few who helped him dispose of bodies, no one knew his true nature. Shi Yuebai had even been brainwashed into thinking Zhong Hongzhuo was a good person. But even his closest aides didn’t know when he started targeting Shi Yuebai or how he became so twisted as to repeatedly kill dozens of people as substitutes for his romantic fantasies.
These were just the numbers admitted by Zhong Hongzhuo later and could be traced in reality. As for those who vanished without a trace after being refreshed in the copies, they remained an unsolvable mystery.
“He doesn’t just kill those who resemble me; he kills all potential rivals around him.” Xu Qi said, touching hid burning heart, evidently being one of the earliest good teammates who followed Shi Yuebai. He was also prominently placed on Zhong Hongzhuo’s blacklist.
If he hadn’t made the decision to exchange his human heart with the demon’s, his bones would have rotted away in the instance.
One could imagine that Zhong Hongzhuo’s crazy affection, which was placed so outrageously on the Boss, was impossible to achieve. Shi Yuebai didn’t even bother to investigate what kind of mindset Zhong Hongzhuo had. “In fact, it wasn’t until I was drugged and pinned to the bed that we truly came face to face for the first time.”
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Recalling the almost tragic incident where he almost lost his innocence, Shi Yuebai had no psychological shadow. Shrugging his shoulders indifferently, he spoke casually, as if he had been bitten by a bug on the road, without the emotional look of Xu Yintang, the onlooker.
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Xu Yintang chewed on the biscuit in his mouth, swallowed it, and thought the taste was good but a bit dry. He opened his mouth again from his backpack, took out a bottle of cola, unscrewed it confidently, and said, “Because it’s interesting.”
Compared to the three-piece set of purely psycho-enhanced crimes without any tangled love-hate vines, Xu Yintang found it more interesting. And there were classic scenes like the one where the laundry detergent team guessed the killer solely based on who had the highest favorability towards Shi Yuebai. Xu Yintang felt he could watch it hundreds of times over without getting tired.
Shi Yuebai sighed, unable to refuse, so he reluctantly fed him another biscuit and turned to Xu Qi, who seemed eager to speak but couldn’t get a word in, “Forget about Zhong Hongzhuo’s matters. Tell me something interesting.”
“…”
“Oh.”
Xu Qi swore that he had finally caught the opportunity to gossip loudly in front of Shi Yuebai and had prepared eight hundred pieces of juicy gossip to tell Xu Yintang. But when Shi Yuebai, the protagonist, seemed like a talent show judge asking him to perform, even the most sensational gossip suddenly seemed less interesting.
After all, what gossip could be more intriguing than the one involving him, Xu Qi, and the elusive figure of Bai Yueguang blocking the bedroom door?
With Zhong Hongzhuo, who had become outdated eight hundred steps ago, without riding on Shi Yuebai’s popularity, nobody on the forums would care.
“If you want to hear something interesting… the boss scratched his thing to pieces with his claws?”
Xu Yintang perked up and handed Xu Qi a bottle of happiness water. “What happened?”
“Well… when he wanted to force-play while under the Witch’s curse, his mental state was extremely unstable. He was wandering on the edge of animal transformation and madness every day. He was afraid that he would accidentally eat us as snacks, so he found a place to hide secretly. But Zhong Hongzhuo probably thought that he only hid during his weak moments in the main instance, so he wanted to take advantage of that…”
According to the psychological analysis by experts afterward, Zhong Hongzhuo, who had always been dominant, interpreted Shi Yuebai’s sudden low-profile retreat as an invitation, fueling his fantasies of mutual affection. The repeated torture and killing of substitutes gave him a sense of control, finally giving him the courage to face the real Shi Yuebai.
Of course, as a precaution, he drugged him. Shi Yuebai found it difficult to control himself sober, and indeed, he fell for it.
“He said it was for fun,” Shi Yuebai casually added the details he remembered. “The drug was a mix of hallucinogens and stimulants. A slight dosage could alleviate short-term symptoms of panic, suspend rationality temporarily, and plunge one into a state of trance dominated by bodily instincts.”
At that time, Shi Yuebai had just touched the edge of an S-rank instance, and his strength and experience were far inferior to what they were now. It took him quite a bit of effort to escape Zhong Hongzhuo’s clutches. Unfortunately, things were just so coincidental. The combat power bonus in the Witch’s state was directly proportional to the drop in sanity. When stimulated by the drug, the beastly instinct immediately gained the upper hand. Seeing his prey naked, wiggling like a teasing cat toy, wasn’t it inviting him to scratch it with his claws?
“That’s right, that’s right,” Xu Qi chimed in. “Moreover, that thing is just a piece of flesh after all. If it’s scratched to pieces, it’ll come back in minutes. And he’s acting as if he’s been wronged by us like a faithful spouse being cheated on. Ha!”
Zhong Hongzhuo had only lost a few oil sticks and eggs repeatedly. Shi Yuebai, on the other hand, had his claws covered in dirt from all the scratching. Coupled with the Witch’s state, he was completely driven by his animal instincts and couldn’t accurately recall whether he had felt his claws were dirty like a beast and licked them clean…
It’s better not to dwell on it. If he did, Shi Yuebai wouldn’t be able to kiss Xu Yintang.
Xu Yintang squeezed Second Treasure in his arms, making a happy giggling sound, then asked about the follow-up, “You said he escaped from prison… so you just locked him up? Why didn’t you kill him on the spot?”
“Killed him,” Shi Yuebai staunchly defended his innocence in the eyes of his beloved and his entire family, refusing to have even the slightest ambiguous connection with the psycho killer, “His alienation is quite unique. Unless he gives up, otherwise, killing him a few times won’t do much, he will just resurrect. It’s easier to cut him up into little pieces and lock him up.”
The only reason Zhong Hongzhuo got his attention was because he was a typical member of AFA who had been seriously violating the law and discipline and had been put on the national father’s hit list. Unfortunately, that mission list was ridiculously long, and Shi Yuebai wasn’t interested in wasting time cooperating with Zhong Hongzhuo’s psycho antics and delusions just to make him happy.
“Slicing him into pieces wouldn’t cause any trouble, and it’s convenient, quick, and easy to operate.”
Xu Qi observed Shi Yuebai for a moment, then clicked his tongue, “If he saw you in your current state, he’d probably go crazy and drag you down with him.”
To be precise, all those rotten peach blossoms identified by Shi Yuebai as wolves, if they hadn’t been killed and saw Shi Yuebai in his current state, they would have regarded Xu Yintang as a thorn in their flesh, and would have been at the top of the hunting list.
Don’t misunderstand, this has nothing to do with the ambiguous definition of love. It’s about seeing the treasure that one couldn’t obtain return to its rightful owner, the humiliation of being completely overwhelmed by control and dignity. They couldn’t bear the sense of defeat, so they had to kill Xu Yintang to prove that they were the ones worth living.
These kinds of patients were abundant in hospitals. Several of Xu Yintang’s former neighbors were of this type, and he had some understanding of their thought processes. After considering it for a moment while squeezing Second Treasure’s paw pad, he said, “In that case, let’s set up a trap for him to jump into, so we don’t have to search everywhere and deal with innocent casualties.”
Considering Zhong Hongzhuo’s past behavior, without giving him some bait, he definitely wouldn’t have the guts to face the real target. He would only use the weak ones who could be easily crushed as substitutes to vent his emotions. The huge failure of being killed until brain-dead and chopped up would simultaneously assist his humiliation and arrogance. Just like those severely ill patients who returned from solitary confinement, they wouldn’t even spare an ant.
“By the way, how did he escape after being chopped up?”
“Ha.” Xu Qi brought this up with a gloomy expression, “How else could he escape? Someone secretly took a piece of meat out for experiments.”
That’s why players on the blacklist were subjected to serious crimes of grinding bones and scattering ashes, while minor offenses were punished with labor reform. The traditional imprisonment and detention methods were never used.
In instances, a weakling could easily turn into a monster. Not to mention ordinary prisons, there were always those greedy and stubborn individuals in the world who believed that their warnings were exaggerated. They thought that the precedents were due to insufficient ability. As long as they were careful enough when taking out meat for experiments, nothing would go wrong. But unexpectedly, there were actually creatures that could revive with just a strand of hair and they sent everyone in their entire base to report to the underworld.
As such incidents became too frequent, Shi Yuebai couldn’t even muster a cold smile, let alone spare a thought for them.
He opened a box of colorful balls for the little ones as breakfast and asked Xu Yintang directly how he planned to lure Zhong Hongzhuo over.
Xu Yintang had already figured it out. “Just say you want to marry. He’ll come crawling.”
Shi Yuebai’s hand trembled, crushing one of the colorful balls. Before he could react to whether Xu Yintang’s idea of marriage was what he was thinking, the little ones let out screams of shock turning into panic.
Even the shapeless Fourth One shouted out objections from the depths of its soul, unable to accept the possibility of its mother entering into marriage with someone else.
They could reluctantly accept a lover outside the family.
But marriage was not acceptable!!!!!
The little ones disagreed!!!!!
No! Disagree!!!!!!
Wedding lover is here and I want it!!!
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Wedding! Wedding! Wedding!😆🧡🧡🧡
The fourth child has not even been born yet and they’re objecting the idea of a father already 😭😭