In the minor worlds, there's a special kind of villain: non-human. They might be hidden among people, in visible, tangible places. They might be ghosts, demons, gods, evil beings, fleshless and...
Chapter 101 Zombie Shadow Guard (9)
Shan Shang walked upstairs, entered the bathroom, put the person in his arms in the bathtub, turned on the shower, and the warm water brushed over the person's shirt, and blood mixed with the water flowed down.
He was still sobbing softly, but he didn't dare shed too many tears, as his tears would turn into blood if they came out.
The pale hands touched the clothes on the body, unbuttoned them little by little, and took them off.
Tao Xing stood by the bathtub, watching him absentmindedly but reverently help her clean herself, dry herself, put on her clothes, and then carefully put her on the bed.
He washed himself, changed his clothes, then knelt beside the bed, staring at it in a daze.
Another tear fell on the back of the hand of the man on the bed. He wiped it away hurriedly, then lowered his head deeply. His bones creaked and he couldn't help but let out a suppressed cry of pain. When he looked up again, the alienated features disappeared.
He returned to his normal appearance, and tears rolled down his eyes again, this time they were clear tears.
He kept crying, his body convulsing with grief.
In the dim room, there was a slight sigh, which the crying person did not notice.
Tao Xing sat beside the bed. Several times, he almost impulsively helped Shen Shang wipe away his tears, but he couldn't do that and could only sigh softly.
I'll wake up soon, stop crying, okay?
After crying for a long time in the middle of the night, Shan Shang raised his head. He lay on the edge of the bed, murmured and said something.
His voice had already become hoarse, and every word he spoke sounded like a razor blade rolling over him.
"I failed to protect my master again." He said, "I deserve to die."
Hey, Tao Xing sighed again, you protected me very well, really.
Besides, how can I always rely on your protection?
"I will follow my master. I want to die again. I..."
Um?
No, no, no, Tao Xing stood up alertly, don’t do anything stupid, just wait a little longer… He looked at the time, it would be less than two hours.
"How should I die?" Shen Shang sobbed, "I want to be like my master, pierced by thousands of arrows and chopped into pieces. I should experience the pain you have suffered..."
ah?
Don't be too pessimistic.
He didn't suffer. He was dead and couldn't feel any pain. Tao Xing stared at him closely.
"Then I will definitely never wake up again, but...will I still have a chance to be buried with you?"
If you can't bury it, don't even think about it, so don't...
Tao Xing's thoughts were interrupted by the increasingly heavy crying. Shen Shang trembled like a sieve: "I was not chosen, I recommended myself. I want to be your undertaker. I want to block the road to rebirth for you. I am willing to die for you..."
What!
Tao Xing was stunned, his thoughts suddenly becoming confused.
"I..." The shadow guard raised his head tremblingly, staring at the face on the bed infatuatedly, and opened his mouth several times before speaking again. He said, "I love you."
Tao Xing: “!!”
"I love you." Once the words were spoken, they were like a torrent that could not be stopped. Shen Shang sobbed and repeated, "I love you, I love you..."
He lowered his head and held the hand of the person beside the bed against his forehead: "No one knows that I love you."
Shadow guards cannot appear in the sun, they are nameless when alive and ready to die at any time. Once they die, they will be immediately replaced by someone else and no one will recognize them.
They always guard the king, but the king has never met them.
So close, yet so far away.
He fell in love with someone who was out of reach.
It is wishful thinking, treason and an unforgivable crime.
It will always remain a secret.
Now, I can only admit it in front of the king’s corpse. Anyway, no one will know it anymore.
His tears wet the back of his hand, and when he came to his senses, he realized that he had been holding the king's hand without knowing when.
He quickly let go and said, "I'm sorry, your subordinate..." But before he finished his words, he raised his head again, staggered to his feet, and took a step forward.
Tao Xing moved aside to make room for him, her expression still in shock as she stared at him in amazement.
you love me?
"Host." 080 suddenly received a reminder from the program, "The key plot has been triggered, and the task details have been unlocked. Now I will inform the task subject of the reason why he became a villain." It read, "In the original plot, you did not delay that moment, and died according to your predetermined fate, so this world did not derive, and you did not return, but... the small world is still running, and a thousand years will still pass. In that plot, there is no you in the world a thousand years later.
He woke up from the mausoleum and searched for you frantically, but couldn't find you. He then learned in the museum that the burial method was ineffective, and he immediately lost control and mutated. The mutation was very serious. He bit people crazily, and his toxins infected the entire city, so that everyone in the city turned into zombies. The relevant departments had no choice but to lock down the city and destroy all the zombies. The mission of this world is to prevent him from infecting the entire city, and then... I just received a notice that the mission is completed. "
"Done?"
"Yes, Shen Shang has no intention of going crazy and biting others. The system judges that he will not cause a disaster for the whole city."
Tao Xing looked at Shen Shang deeply: "Yes, he will not cause disaster to the whole city. He just said that he wants to die with me."
A world without me, are you searching frantically for it?
It turns out that you love me!
Then why do you refuse to admit it?
The grief-stricken man walked to the head of the bed. Perhaps the hand holding just now gave him courage, or perhaps it aroused other thoughts, he reached out his hand again and gently touched the face of the person on the bed.
His fingertips touched and then retracted, and only dared to touch again after a moment, gently stroking the cheek as if it were a treasure. Then, he trembled even more violently, but he also bent down.
Their lips were about to touch, but then they stopped.
Even in this situation, he still didn't dare to offend.
He trembled and moved upwards, placing a kiss lightly on her forehead.
Then, he retreated in panic and knelt down beside the bed: "I deserve to die, I deserve to die..."
He kowtowed continuously, and when he reached the end of his kowtow, he remembered that the man could no longer hear him. He was stunned for a moment, then slumped to the ground, his eyes lifeless, staring blankly at the person on the bed.
This situation lasted for a long time.
Tao Xing also sat beside him for a long time.
Shen Shang was looking at his corpse, and he was looking at Shen Shang.
He really wanted to ask Shan Shang if he remembered that he had kissed him yesterday.
The spell actually had the effect of arousing passion, but when he just kissed her, Shen Shang had already broken it.
Looking at it now, he probably doesn't remember it. Otherwise, why did he only dare to kiss his forehead until now?
Since you love, why not dare to say it?
It's almost dawn.
Shen Shang's eyes finally moved, he stopped crying, stood up quietly, stood by the bed for a while, then turned around and looked around.
Tao Xing also stood up and looked around with him: What are you looking for?
I saw him walk to the closet, open it, glance around for a moment, and suddenly pull out something from under a thin blanket.
Tao Xing was startled.
That's his sword.
What are you doing with the sword?
He circled around Shen Shang and said, "Put it down, put it down quickly!"
With a "clang" sound, the sword was unsheathed. Shan Shang grasped the hilt and rotated it a few times. The blade turned back to face his chest. He narrowed his red eyes and was about to stab down.
"No..." Tao Xing was shocked.
080 notifies that the time is up: "You can return to your body, but you need to buffer. You can't enter so quickly. You have to enter little by little..."
"I can't care about that." Tao Xing turned around quickly and leaped into his own body.
The real body returns to the main world, the invisibility spell disappears, and the death escape return spell takes effect.
He sat up suddenly from the bed.
The man holding the sword looked up, his hand shook, and he almost dropped the sword.
Fortunately, he hadn't stabbed her yet. Tao Xing heaved a sigh of relief, threw off the quilt and got out of bed: Shen Shang, listen to me...
He didn't say anything and didn't go down.
Tao Xing lowered his head in astonishment... His head didn't even lower, only his eyeballs could move. He lowered his eyes and saw that his body was still stiff, his back was straight, and his legs were not bent. He was actually getting out of bed, but his limbs were not coordinated, as if he was still being controlled by something, and he got down very slowly.
When he stood beside the bed in a daze, trying to raise his hand but couldn't move, trying to walk to the left but his feet went to the right, trying to speak but couldn't open his mouth, Tao Xing said: "This means I'm still being manipulated!"
"What's going on?"
080 quickly checked: "The puppet manipulation technique still has some power left. It originally had no power, so it was waiting to dissipate slowly. But host, you just returned too hastily, and there was no buffer, so the remaining power was gathered again. It has some power again and controls your body."
"What can I do if I'm not in a hurry? Shen Shang is about to stab himself. Now I can't act according to my own will. I can't solve the problem even if I want to."
"Yeah." 080 said, "But it's okay, it's just a little bit of residual energy, it will dissipate in a while."
"How long is a while?"
"About half a day."
"I won't run to Boss Wang again in the next half day, right?" Although that man was dead, his manipulation skills were meant to make Tao Xing come to him, and Yu Li's goal would not change.
080 thought for a moment and said, "Shang... probably won't let you go. He only needs to block you for a while, that's enough."
"How would I know if he dares to stop me? He doesn't even dare to kiss me." Tao Xing shook his head. Never mind. Who cares? The Wang guy is dead anyway. Even if he comes to the door, what's the big deal? At most he just has to walk a little further.
"Oh, by the way." Speaking of Boss Wang, Tao Xing still had something to do, "I'm back alive, so I can handle things normally." Previously, he was in the small world in his true form, and excessive intervention would affect the world. Now he doesn't have to worry about that.
"080, use my cell phone to notify the manager and secretary, call the police, explain clearly what Wang has done, and send the address of the lair." There are still many living people who have been bewitched there, and they will probably wake up soon.
The communication equipment has been authorized, and the system can help with the operation. The message was sent quickly, and the other side responded quickly, saying they would dispatch immediately.
Tao Xing breathed a sigh of relief, raised his eyebrows and smiled... but his eyebrows were not raised and he didn't smile. He forgot that his body was now under control and was walking out.
Fortunately, he didn't have much strength left and his steps were very slow. It took him a while to reach the door.
Shen Shang followed beside him, also walking very slowly. He first circled around him a few times, and then stared at his face.
As soon as he woke up, Shen Shang staggered over.
The sword still fell and rolled to the ground with a clang. But he didn't care about that. He tried Tao Xing's breath many times, checked his pulse, and called him master several times.
Tao Xing ignored her and there was no way to deal with her.
Shen Shang was so excited that he didn't notice his abnormality at all. He just followed him tremblingly and carefully.
As he was about to leave the door, Shen Shang sniffed his breath again to confirm that he was alive: "Master, has that person done anything to you these past two days, causing you to be in a state of suspended animation?"
After all, he is a shadow guard, and my guess is actually pretty close, except that Tao Xing did it himself, and it can't be said to be a fake death. Judging from the vital signs, the body is really dead.
But since he guessed it this way, there is no need to explain it deliberately.
"You're well again, aren't you?" asked Shen Shang.
Perhaps he really realized that Tao Xing was not dead. After asking, Shen Shang suddenly smiled. All his sorrow and pain disappeared at this moment. The vigorous emotions settled peacefully. Tears rolled down his eyes again: "You are not dead. That's great, that's great..."
Yes, I’m not dead, and Tao Xing was also laughing, but it was not normal.
"I... I brought you back, and that man has been killed by me." Can Shang said, "You... do you know?" His face flushed slightly, and his eyes were evasive. When he asked this question... In fact, he should have wanted to find out whether Tao Xing had heard his confession.
Tao Xing could only roll his eyes and his gaze fell on the man's face. Seeing the panic flashing in his eyes, he knew that this man was still afraid of being seen.
I dare not admit it again.
If a person is alive, confession is of no use, right?
Tao Xing glanced at him unhappily and moved forward uncontrollably.
Shen Shang quickly followed: "Master, where are you going? You are well now. Tell me what to do and I will do it."
Tao Xing stopped walking stiffly.
He can even stop and react according to circumstances. Why didn't I realize before that this manipulation technique is quite capable?
I felt my mouth open again, and a harsh sound came out of my throat.
He is really capable, he can even control his speech.
He heard himself say, "Looking for Mr. Wang."
"He's dead." Shen Shang said, "What do you want to do with him?"
Tao Xing heard himself say again: "Let him do whatever he wants."
Tao Xing: “!!”
He claimed to be very well-mannered, but he couldn't help but swear: "Fuck..."
Even if he already knew that Wang had ulterior motives in making him a puppet, it was too disgusting to hear it said so openly.
You bastard, that Wang guy died easily.
He was cursing when he suddenly felt a murderous aura.
When I looked up, I saw an expression on Shen Shang's face that I had never seen before.
The respectful and docile shadow guard had an unusually stern look on his face, his hands clenched tightly, and his voice was filled with shock and disbelief: "What... did you say?"
"Look for..." Tao Xing opened her mouth again, but the following words were covered by the heavy sound.
"Bang!" Can Shang suddenly closed the door.
Tao Xing instead breathed a sigh of relief. Well, he still dared to block it.