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On the island where the Orb trials had just been held not long ago, two figures were locked in a desperate struggle in a pile of grass half a man's height on the edge of a cliff.
"Is this the condition you mentioned? Don't you have anything important to do?" Shi Youchen was covered in a thin layer of sweat, but he had to admit that there was still a special kind of excitement in this environment.
Ying Yungui's voice was hoarse: "Yes, you count as one."
"You guy..." Shi Youchen was pushed down a little more, and suddenly remembered that when he was lying here to catch up on his sleep, he was also pressed like this by Ying Yungui.
Ying Yungui noticed his momentary distraction and felt a little jealous: "Why, you're so absent-minded when we're alone together, who are you thinking about?"
Shi Youchen pressed his knee against his lower abdomen, his eyes full of meaning: "Thinking about the last person who pressed me like this."
Ying Yungui exploded instantly: "What?! Who?! Who dares?" As he spoke, he saw the playful look of the person under him quietly change.
"He's not that gentle. He really wants to kill me." Shi Youchen teased deliberately, and felt a sudden jump somewhere in Ying Yungui's body. "Hiss, be gentle."
Ying Yungui also remembered what happened between the two of them here before. He bent down and nudged the side of Shi Youchen's face in a flattering manner: "I was like crazy at that time. I only wanted to resurrect you and didn't care about anything else."
"Don't be angry with me."
Shi Youchen patted his warm cheek with the back of his hand: "If I were angry, would I let you mess around here?"
Such tenderness softened Ying Yungui's heart, but his body became even harder. He gently stroked the legs of the person under him, spread them apart a little, and hugged him.
The world seemed to spin as they breathed in and out. Fortunately, the occasional sound of waves reminded them where they were.
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Ying Yungui cleaned up and dressed Shi Youchen, and the two of them lay side by side on a piece of grass that was not flattened.
"I have something to tell you." Ying Yungui rested his arms behind his head and tilted his head to look at Shi Youchen. He found that the other party had his eyes lazily closed and replied softly, "What?"
"The Li family was attacked by modified organisms, and all of them died."
No matter how tired or sleepy Shi Youchen was, he still opened his eyes: "What kind of modified body? When did it happen?"
"The attacks on the district association bases were orchestrated by Aisha Kalanka, the same day we sealed the Crow Totem."
Shi Youchen looked at the twinkling starry sky above his head and pondered for a moment: "She had worked with 11 before, that is, Wolf Feller. Maybe this is a relic from that time."
Ying Yungui turned sideways, tracing Shi Youchen's eyes, nose, and mouth with his gaze, and said leisurely, "The other day I went to the Lu family to pick up Morrill, and Red Ryan showed up. He said he was following the decision-making committee's order to investigate the Lu family."
"Rui En..." Shi Youchen's lips moved as he muttered, "These two things are most likely directly related. I'm afraid the people in Rui En's family are getting restless. You have to be careful."
"They will probably find you soon."
Ying Yungui extended two fingers and placed his fingertips on Shi Youchen's lips, rubbing them twice with clear meaning: "Well, it will come eventually. Don't worry, I'll be fine."
Having his thoughts seen through, Shi Youchen felt the softness in front of his lips, and his eyelashes trembled slightly: "I believe you, but don't forget that when you are free, there are some things that you don't need to do in person."
Ying Yungui was startled for a moment, then chuckled. "Why, don't you blame me for disrupting the plan and leaving him with nothing but a shell?" Shi Youchen glanced at him, then gently bit his fingertips. "Stop being a little darling, do you hear me?"
"I hear you. Since it's already like this, I will make good use of him. It won't be a waste."
"The next target is the Feller family's wolf totem. The carrier... has already been chosen." Shi Youchen said. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed Ying Yungui's expression stiffen, as if he had a premonition of something. "It's He Xian."
"..." Ying Yungui withdrew his hand without much reaction, "Really? It seems that he brought it up on his own initiative. Then let him do as he pleases."
Shi Youchen thought about it and felt the need to explain to him: "Because he knew that the power of the scorpion totem had been absorbed by Pei Chanbai, so he took the initiative to come to me." Ying Yungui said "hmm": "Oh, so what does Pei Chanbai's life or death have to do with him?"
Shi Youchen slowly turned around and approached him, until his nose was almost touching his face, then he said in a very subtle tone: "Don't you know, they are in love."
"?"
Ying Yungui was even more stiff than when he heard that He Xian was the next carrier, but because he knew that Shi Youchen would not lie to him, he accepted and digested the news for a while.
Pei Chanbai? The Pei Chanbai who wasn't interested in anything besides games? And He Xian? The guy whose ex was always playing games?
Finally, Ying Yungui uttered, "How on earth did he deceive people?"
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After Shi Youchen returned to the Mirage Abyss, he was stopped by Yan Zhiyuan halfway before he had time to check on Mollier's condition.
Yan Zhiyuan looked a little nervous and panicked. He said hurriedly, "There's something wrong with He Xian. His energy is declining, just like..." "Just like the captain of the case."
Shi Youchen's expression was slightly solemn: "When did it start? Where is he?" So the two of them rushed to He Xian's residence while exchanging known information on the way.
"Not long after he came back from outside, he started to feel strange. First he had a fever, then his energy fluctuations became disordered. He couldn't even enter the laboratory."
"He said he didn't want to tell you, that he was just feeling a little unwell and that he would be fine after some rest, but Molly and I both felt something was wrong."
"I couldn't contact you before, luckily you're back."
Shi Youchen bit his lip as he listened to Yan Zhiyuan's report. He hadn't received any contact because he was on that island, and He Xian didn't want him to know, probably because he didn't want to affect his plans.
Shi Youchen felt a little guilty. "Go to the energy cabin and bring a group over. Anyone under T100 will do. Hurry." Without even noticing Yan Zhiyuan's reaction, he pushed open the door and walked in.
Mollier was standing guard nearby. He Xian lay on the bed, his face pale, his chest barely rising or falling. "Go and bring the energy separation and conversion equipment over here," Shi Youchen said, clearly giving Mollier an order.
Suddenly, they were the only two people left in the room. Shi Youchen grabbed He Xian's wrist and checked the energy level in his body. It was bad, worse than he had imagined.
"Why didn't you say anything?" He was clearly genuinely angry, because this level of annihilation couldn't have happened suddenly. He must have felt uncomfortable before. And before returning to the Mirage Abyss, He Xian had been with him the entire time.
The last action they took together was to erase Lu Zhiqi's memory of the basement. "You already had a feeling by then, right?" Shi Youchen exerted a little more force on his hand, causing He Xian to no longer pretend to be dead and open his eyes.
"It's not a life-threatening matter, why are you so nervous?" He forced a weak smile that was uglier than crying. "Look at you, you don't even look like you have the upper hand."
"Fuck you." Shi Youchen frowned and cursed, which made He Xian stunned again and again. "Wow, you actually do this for me. Am I more important than Young Master Ying?" Seeing that he still had the energy to joke, Shi Youchen shook off the cold wrist and rolled his eyes.
"It's because you suffered backlash when you sealed the crow totem, and then immediately used the reverse energy of mental invasion, which caused the two energies in your body to become unbalanced, resulting in this elimination reaction." Shi Youchen quickly determined what was going on and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Fortunately, it's just the body's automatic protection mechanism. It's not irreparable damage. You're lucky."
Although he said so, Shi Youchen did not expect that the seeds of backlash would be planted in the process of using his supernatural powers in a positive way. Such a one in ten million probability actually happened to He Xian. I don't know whether this person is lucky or unlucky.
"I've already sent them to get the backup energy source. Once you're done absorbing it, just rest in peace." Shi Youchen looked down at He Xian and said, but He Xian actually frowned and shook his head, "It's better not to use it. You spent so much effort to collect all that energy. You might need it in the Mirage Abyss one day. I can recover slowly. It would be a waste to use it on me."
"Shut up. Do you still want to be the bearer?" Shi Youchen interrupted him, "This is my order." Then he added, "If you don't obey my order, don't even think about seeing him again in the future." He Xian immediately realized who he was talking about and shut up angrily.
Yan Zhiyuan and Morrill came in one after another, packed the things next to He Xian, and the four of them fell into a silent silence.
Mollyl secretly observed the expressions of several people and spoke cautiously: "Well... why don't we go out first? Let him have a good rest, it's not too late to talk about it later if there is anything?" In fact, if Yan Zhiyuan was not fully aware of the maintenance plan, she would not have to test him like this.
Shi Youchen glanced at her and said, "You go back first. I'll contact you if there's anything. If you really have nothing to do, go and help Fren with the assimilation test." "Oh, okay." Mollyl heard that he didn't mean that, but for a moment she didn't understand the deeper meaning, so she left silently.
He Xian was completely immersed in the equipment, oblivious to the outside world. Shi Youchen suddenly spoke up, "I've been overlooking something. If it weren't for He Xian's incident, I probably wouldn't have remembered it in the future."
Yan Zhiyuan knew he was talking to him, so he stood beside him. "The places where those totems are located are naturally the most easily absorbed nodes in the world for natural energy. If a person spends enough time in such a place, awakening superpowers is not difficult." Shi Youchen's fingers tightened in an invisible place.
Since regaining all his memories, he'd been single-mindedly focused on rapidly launching the maintenance plan, sealing totems one after another without even giving himself much time to rest. Under such high pressure, it was perfectly natural for him to completely ignore the conditions for the totem's creation.
And precisely because he knew so much, this thing that he had always tacitly accepted in his heart seemed less important.
Yan Zhiyuan's eyes lit up instantly: "What do you mean?"
Shi Youchen nodded and said, "I know a place that's very suitable. You can find a way to take Lin Zhouze to live there for a while."
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After He Xian regained consciousness, his face no longer looked so pale. He opened his eyes and found that Shi Youchen was the only one left by his side. He asked, "Why are you here? Where are the others?"
"I've assigned them a task." Shi Youchen held his shoulder, stopping him from getting up. "Until you're fully adjusted, the next step will be postponed."
"Postpone it?" He Xian's eyes were filled with worry. "Is it okay? Will there be any accidents?"
Shi Youchen said, "The order of the last three totems is fixed. I've already decided which one you'll absorb, so just focus on your recovery." Seeing He Xian still wavering, he threw out one last bait: "The location of the wolf totem requires the power of creation. Once you've adjusted your condition, I'll take Pei Chanbai over and tell him everything."
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