Chapter 51
Du Mingxing lay on the weeds, shaking the wine bottle, listening to the birds singing around him and looking at the stars in the sky. He suddenly felt that this kind of leisure was not bad.
Of course, working was not bad either. Although there were many messy and annoying things, being able to be herself as Shen Chumo said was enough to satisfy her.
She talked to Shen Chumo: "Is the chocolate sweet?"
"Um."
Seeing that Chen Chumo was still pinching the petals and saying nothing, in order to prevent the atmosphere from getting cold, Du Mingxing racked his brains and tried to find something to talk about.
"Right, it's amazing that you preserved it so well. I was shocked when I found it, and I thought I had to share it with you anyway..."
"Will you leave again?" Chen Chumo asked.
"ah?"
He repeated, "Star, will you leave again?"
Du Mingxing turned around in surprise. There were some emotions in his dark pupils that she couldn't read. She could only lower her head and avoid his eyes. She wanted to say something several times but stopped herself. In the end, she could only laugh dryly.
"What are you talking about? The setting of the inner demon is that once the obsession dissipates, I will disappear too."
Due to system regulations, she cannot reveal spoilers or her true identity. These will obviously be regarded as major deviations in the plot and will affect the operation of the entire small world.
She cautiously probed: "Besides, isn't this exactly what you want?"
Shen Chumo said: “The obsession will not dissipate.”
Du Mingxing was stunned for a moment, then slowly curled up his legs. An indescribable sour feeling surged in his stomach. He took a step back and the more he thought about it, the angrier he became. "Why? I just stabbed you. Why are you so stingy? Why do you hate me so much?"
"I apologized to you... and didn't you stab me back? I was open to you, and you didn't do it yourself."
"Or is it because of my past behavior? You were just bullied, but I... I bought you workbooks, those secret practice tests. I was thinking about your future. I put so much thought into it."
She kept complaining, driving away the singing birds, as if she was the one who was being let down.
As Du Mingxing was talking, he looked at the bouquet of flowers he had carefully prepared that morning and became angry. He snatched it away and threw it far away: "Return it, return it. Anyway, no matter how much I lick it, you won't forgive me."
Shen Chumo's gaze followed the parabola of the bouquet as it fell. When the flowers fell heavily to the ground, the branches, leaves and petals were scattered all over the place. He couldn't help but frown, his eyes full of regret.
"...It's not that I don't forgive you," he finally spoke with a difficult tone, "but before that, you have to answer me a question. I want to hear the truth."
Du Mingxing quickly sat up straight, pretending to listen attentively: "Go ahead."
"My memory of the past is confused and disorganized, so I won't talk about it for now."
His expression was solemn, like a taut string.
"I just want to ask you about something that happened recently. What did you mean when you said 'I lost everything after the college entrance examination'?"
Shen Chumo raised his eyes and looked directly at Du Mingxing, the figure in his pupils stained with ink: "In this world, pollution has already erupted before we even experienced the college entrance examination. Then why do you say 'after the college entrance examination'?"
Du Mingxing was stunned for a moment, completely unable to recall when she had said these words. After much contemplation, she managed to dig out the memory from the corner of her memory. It was when she had just crossed over and became the inner demon.
Due to her lack of biological knowledge, she mentioned it casually, but she didn't expect that it would be remembered by Shen Chumo.
This once again involves the secret of Du Mingxing's time travel, which she cannot tell, but...
Du Mingxing glanced at Shen Chumo. He was more cautious than ever, like someone opening a magic box, unsure whether it contained chocolate or the plague. In this situation, if she tried to fool him with some joke, it would seem... too cruel to him.
He finally let down his guard, acknowledged her as her real self, even calling her by her nickname and agreeing to let her stay at the former Shen family home. This was equivalent to showing some trust despite her persistent nagging. All he wanted was the answer to one question.
Tell everything? As soon as this thought came to mind, I received a warning from the system.
When Du Mingxing was in trouble, Shen Chumo suddenly said, "Someone is running towards us, followed by three wild beasts, and the smell of blood is very strong."
She subconsciously said: "Ah, then let's hurry up..."
"Change place?" Shen Chumo answered logically.
"Rescue." Du Mingxing said anxiously.
She pulled Shen Chumo's sleeve and looked at him pleadingly. Just as she was thinking about what reason to ask this great Buddha to help, he sighed lightly.
"Solved."
"ah?"
Du Mingxing wanted to ask more questions when he heard the sound of hurried running not far away, and a woman screamed for help.
"Help--!"
Du Mingxing shouted: "It's okay, it's okay, it's safe now!"
With her life at stake, the only sound in her eardrums was the whistling wind and her own chaotic and frightened footsteps. She couldn't hear what the other person was saying at all, and rushed towards the two of them. Shen Chumo frowned.
"Let's go somewhere else."
"No," Du Mingxing hurriedly shook her head, trying to stop him from leaving. "It's so unsafe out here in the wilderness, and we don't know if she's injured. We have to take care of her. Don't worry, as long as it's not about fighting monsters, I'll take care of everything else. I won't bother you."
"It's not a bother, it's a disturbance."
She said she disliked it, but Shen Chumo couldn't resist her in the end and sat back down.
Du Mingxing waved at the woman and comforted Shen Chumo: "I won't let her disturb your peace. I will sleep next to her and we will chat quietly. I promise not to bother you."
For some reason, after Du Mingxing's considerate persuasion, Shen Chumo's expression became even more unfriendly.
The woman rushed in front of the two men: "Help me! There's someone behind..."
"have……"
The woman suddenly realized something was wrong. It was so quiet here that not even the sound of birds was heard. She looked behind her but could not see any trace of the three monsters.
Her face was pale and she fell to the ground. Tears and sweat mixed together on her face. Dust and her companions' blood were smeared on her cheeks. It was obvious what a fierce fight she had been through. She looked miserable and embarrassed.
The woman covered her face, her body shaking like a sieve. "Pollution source... It's over. I must have entered the pollution source's territory..."
"Don't be afraid," Du Mingxing squatted down and patted her shoulder, "You are safe, the beast behind has been dealt with."
"Impossible! The source of the pollution that killed the beast instantly, I'm dead..."
The woman curled up into a ball, already frightened out of her wits.
"Xingxing, let her be quiet for a while, she will understand the current situation." Shen Chumo suddenly spoke.
However, if I can't understand, it would be best to take this opportunity to escape, he thought secretly.
Du Mingxing thought this made sense, so she took out some water and chocolate and placed them at the woman's feet. She raised her hands and slowly walked away to show that she had no ill intentions. To avoid scaring the woman, she walked on her legs as long as she could see her.
Du Mingxing added some firewood and, in the light, looked the woman up and down. Her down jacket was so stained it was no longer visible, a mixture of blood and dirt. She was wearing jeans and sneakers, and was shivering from the cold.
However, while the equipment was shabby, it didn't look like they belonged to a particularly low-level survivor. Furthermore, the fact that they were able to spend the night outside the base suggested the team was quite capable, even though they were wiped out.
The woman was covered in dust, her nose was red from the cold, and there were wrinkles at the corners of her eyes. She looked to be around 35, no more than 40.
At the same time, the woman breathed a sigh of relief, lowering her head while observing the terrain from the corner of her eye. Then, she saw the water bottle at her feet. It was completely full, filled with a transparent liquid that was so transparent that no impurities could be seen.
...pure water?
The powerful source of pollution didn't bother to set up a trap, but simply devoured her with its terrifying strength; and how could a survivor with bad intentions just take out a bottle of fake purified water just to deceive her?
All of a sudden, all her strength left her. She swallowed and realized her throat was filled with a sweet, fishy and dry taste, and she was almost unable to breathe.
The instinct of survival took over, and she snatched the water bottle, unscrewed the cap and poured it into her mouth. She choked when she drank too quickly, and a familiar sweet girl's voice soothed her gently.
"Don't worry, no one will snatch it from you."
After gulping down half the purified water, the woman belatedly began to feel embarrassed. After all, uncontaminated purified water was a valuable strategic resource, especially in the wild, making it even more precious. Drinking half of it in one gulp seemed rather rude.
Apart from gratitude and shame, she had nothing to say and could only bow her head heavily: "Thank you, thank you."
The woman raised her head and looked at her savior carefully for the first time. The beautiful girl in a gorgeous dress not far away looked like a fairy from heaven, with a kind expression and a layer of soft light all over her body.
"...Angel? No, that's not right." The woman's pupils shrank, her face turned pale, and her body trembled as she kept backing away. "Are you a ghost?!"
Du Mingxing felt offended, but he didn't know where he had gone wrong. It was obvious that something was wrong.
"Hey! Look carefully! I'm standing on the ground, not floating!"
"You're translucent!" the woman yelled, looking at the familiar girl in front of her with a growing sadness in her eyes. "Besides, you're already dead. Does this mean... I'm dead too?"
"Ah?" Du Mingxing was stunned. She herself really didn't know this, so she turned her head and looked at Shen Chumo as if seeking confirmation.
Shen Chumo nodded: "From other people's perspective, you are half-entity."
"Why didn't you say so earlier?"
Du Mingxing muttered, abandoning his disguise and floating into the air: "Don't worry, I'm not a ghost, and you're not dead either. If you don't believe me, you can feel your pulse."
The woman subconsciously followed her instructions, touched her wrist, and then touched her left chest as if to confirm. After feeling the rhythm of her heart, she was still a little frightened.
He encountered so much in one night, from the team being attacked by wild beasts, to fleeing alone after being wiped out, and finally encountering a soft-hearted god. Miraculously surviving, he looked up and found that the god was actually...
"Chen Huaixin, is that you?" The woman's eyes were red.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
