Chapter 37 Don’t blame me for not looking, okay
Xu Nuo paused for a moment, her mood calming down a bit, and patted his chest: "Compared to last time, the kiss was pretty good."
Wei Yan subconsciously raised his hand to shake hands back.
His heart was beating heavily and violently in his chest, just like the turbulent heart beneath his seemingly calm appearance.
Xu Nuo shook his elbow: "Why, you're holding on to it because you still want to..."
The big hand that wrapped around her clenched tightly, and before she could even utter a teasing sound, she was pulled over by the force coming from the other end.
“………”
It was a hug without any lust.
The young man buried his head at the side of her neck, his arms across her waist, tightening his grip. He used such force that even his fingertips worked together, as if he wanted to rub her into his bones and blood.
For no reason, Xu Nuo felt the depressed mood in him.
She patted the young man on the back and said, "Why, are you unhappy about having your secrets discovered? But if I don't tell you, how long do you plan to keep it a secret?"
"Come to think of it, I have no recollection of it. When did you first meet me? Was it at Yueshan—"
The arms around her tightened again, stopping her voice abruptly.
Xu Nuo laughed dumbly: "Okay, if you don't want to talk about it now, then don't talk about it."
In her opinion, now that the conversation was over, Wei Yan's reaction was so obvious, further confirming her suspicions. The person Wei Yan had wanted to protect and care about all those years ago—it was really her.
Although she had no recollection of their past encounter and didn't know why he considered her important, at least her feelings were clear.
"Xu Nuo..." The young man sighed, interrupting her thoughts, and rubbed her hair with his nose lovingly.
His erratic movements of his head tickled her neck. Normally someone who kept her emotions to herself, the darkness of the place caused him to let his guard down for a moment, letting his emotions spill out.
Xu Nuo comforted him: "I'm here."
He seemed to desire her very much, and his embrace was like a ball of solid iron that he could not break free from.
"Promise."
Xu Nuo said patiently: "What's wrong?"
“…………” The young man pursed his lips.
Xu Nuo raised his eyebrows: "There's something else behind your words, tell me."
Wei Yan hesitated and lowered his eyes: "I'm sorry."
Xu Nuo was suspicious: "What are you sorry for? Because you lied to me before that you had someone you liked?"
Wei Yan looked at her seriously, his brows slightly furrowed.
His pupils, like the wolf pupils of his spirit form, could see clearly in the dark. In this quiet and deserted cave, the girl's face and expression were even clearer to him than usual.
He looked at her unscrupulously and caught her beaming and slightly complacent expression, just like when they were children and had defeated a scavenger gang and successfully guarded the waste basket. She was so excited and cute.
She thought that his thoughts were exposed, which was why he acted abnormally, crossed the boundaries he had always adhered to, and showed his emotions.
And because she couldn't see, he smiled silently in the darkness.
From childhood to adulthood, Xu Nuo's attitude was taken for granted - he was a "younger brother", a tacit partner who had known each other for a long time, a forever family member, but he would never be a lover who was favored.
He hated his identity all the time, and often thought morbidly that if he didn't have this identity, perhaps they would be like other people, drifting apart over time.
And he still earned five years.
His bargaining chips only have these five years.
But the girl's memory was completely blurred. After their separation, it seemed as if she had more memories worth remembering. She was passionate yet ruthless, forgetting what she wanted and liking what she liked. He knew that she had long since let go, letting go of the past that he cherished and redeemed, and running joyfully alone towards a future that would forget him.
Wei Yan raised his hand and stroked the girl's earlobe, stroking and outlining it like she had just done, then slid to her chin and pulled her lips close.
The breath was warm and ambiguous. He lowered his head and pressed a series of small and dense kisses on the corners of Xu Nuo's lips, spreading his own breath like a stamp.
He did not deepen the kiss, but moved closer to this soft place that he had longed for for many years over and over again, like a silent and reserved believer, devoutly depicting its shape and temperature until it was deeply imprinted in his memory.
The light kiss lasted for a long time, so long that Xu Nuo was full of doubts. She turned her head away and was about to ask a question, but he tightened his arms again and whispered "I'm sorry".
This was an apology that would be questioned later. Xu Nuo didn't understand it yet. He even hoped that she would not discover the secret in the future.
"...Don't blame me." He said silently.
Even the insects on the edge of the abyss, having felt favor and attachment, could no longer allow themselves to hide in the long night of silence, let alone him who was born with sinful thoughts and evil desires.
He had harbored shameful and despicable thoughts for years, but he had not intended to drag her into the abyss. It was just that the moonlight was too noble and holy. It should have been like the distant and unreachable white cloud peaks in the sky, but now it had taken the initiative to descend and kiss his humble lips.
He could hardly resist, and could not control himself. His long-dead heart was beating violently. There had never been a moment more aware than at that moment that he had fallen into an endless dark prison from which there would never be any rest.
Swish——
From outside the darkness, Wei Yan's green eyes gazed into the cavern. Unbeknownst to him, the surging black energy surrounding him had already filled the entire cavern. The frequent dripping of water obscured the expansion of the tiny ice crystals, and a chill quietly permeated the air.
He closed his eyes in pain, and the ice crystals and black air entangled and danced in the silence, setting off a crazy and silent black storm, freezing and crushing all living things in an instant.
Xu Nuo heard a strange noise not far away and looked over and asked, "What's that sound?"
Wei Yan glanced at the mutant that was shattering into ice a few steps away, and moved sideways to block the cold air coming towards her: "It might be a similar monster as before. The situation here is unclear. Let's finish exploring and get out as soon as possible."
After saying that, he naturally took her hand that was hanging by her side and pulled her forward: "Be careful."
They had not walked for long when the ground beneath their feet, which did not seem to be made of natural material, became increasingly smoother. The abrupt stone pillars and protrusions no longer appeared, and the sound of puddling water above their heads disappeared. Instead, there was an increasingly narrow passage and a gradually dim halo of light in front of them.
"Going out?" Xu Nuo asked excitedly.
She suddenly turned her head and looked into the darkness behind her: "What about Zhou Xuanyi? We haven't found him yet."
Wei Yan's eyes flashed with displeasure, and he said softly: "He will be fine, let's go over and take a look first."
Xu Nuo: "That's right, he's an A-level, what can happen to him?"
They passed through the hazy light.
After staying in the darkness for too long, the sudden onset of daylight stung his eyes and brought out irritating tears. Xu Nuo raised his hands in front of his eyes to dispel the overly dazzling light.
She took in her surroundings. It was an abandoned laboratory.
The room was filled with numerous instruments and measuring cups of unknown purpose, all in disrepair and covered in a thick layer of dust. Stern and cold slogans were posted on the walls, advising people to strictly adhere to experimental regulations and not to leave the lab without permission and report the incident. The floor beneath their feet was made of an unidentified material, which turned out to be tile.
Since it was built in a cave, the laboratory was not large, but it was winding and had many doors leading to other areas.
They passed through several half-open or damaged doors and entered different experimental areas one after another.
"Raw materials area?" Xu Nuo stared at the door sign. "Is that where they keep sulfuric acid, hydrides, and the like?"
She walked tentatively into the room, her breath hitting her throat.
This was a playground-sized, pure white display area, with hundreds of metal incubators arranged in a certain order in the center. Approaching these pods, one could see they were filled with a rust-green solution. Beneath the thick, flowing rust-green, the faint outline of a human body could be seen in the center.
Xu Nuo said anxiously: "Is this a level designed by Fino? Or..."
Wei Yan knocked on the glass wall. "It's not a holographic projection, and there's no Fino logo on it. Do you want to open it and take a look?"
Xu Nuo hesitated for a moment and nodded.
After returning to school from the White Tower, she never forgot her most important task - to find the big boss and kill him in the cradle before the main storyline advances to the world-destroying war.
Ben was still worried about how to find clues about the BOSS, but the intelligent mutant that almost evolved into S-level that appeared in the capital base gave her a new idea.
At first, Xu Nuo thought that the riots in the capital base were caused by the plot of the destruction of Yueshan Base in the original novel being transferred to the capital base.
But in the White Tower, Tang Ningyue mentioned that this mutant was created by artificial catalysis. If it evolves to S-level, its destructive power will be devastating, and almost half of the human settlements will be massacred.
The appearance of S-class mutants is definitely not as simple as a city massacre. This is contrary to her speculation that it is a plot diversion. Instead, the level of danger is close to the world-destroying war in the later part of the novel.
...If the apocalyptic war was also man-made, could this unrest be a test by the forces behind the scenes? Before the actual war, they activated this mutant to test whether the existing established bases could react quickly. If they failed, they would lose nothing, but if they succeeded, they could advance their plans.
In this case, this mutant is a valuable clue that can be traced further.
To artificially catalyze the evolution of mutants, as shown in many movies, requires various experiments—human experiments, mutant experiments, and experiments fusing humans and mutants...
This immoral and unethical experiment will not be tolerated by the world and will definitely be hidden in an unknown place.
And now, in front of her, underground in the well-known wasteland, there is a huge, unowned, maze-like abandoned laboratory.
It's like God feeding a pillow to someone who is sleepy. He feeds suspected clues to my mouth.
"Most of the creatures in the incubator are humanoid mutants with no living features, so they can be opened directly." Wei Yan walked around the entire venue, returned to the control console at the beginning of the entrance, and casually flipped the instrument button above it.
Xu Nuo also imitated him and pressed the button: "Do you know how to open the cabin?"
Wei Yan's eyes flashed with reminiscence: "I know the process, but I don't have the key to open the cabin."
Xu Nuo: "That's difficult. If I break it directly, what if the solution is toxic or corrosive..."
She was answered by the sound of breaking glass.
Wei Yan turned around and punched back. A big hole appeared in the culture chamber wall beside him, and rusty green solution flowed out like mist.
Xu Nuo hurriedly pulled him to his side: "Be careful, we don't know what's in this."
Wei Yan casually scooped up a handful of liquid, leaving a little on his fingertips: "It's okay, it's just a culture medium made up of basic nutrients and other substances."
Xu Nuo: "Nutrients? The ones that sentinels drink to speed up wound recovery and ordinary people drink to strengthen their bodies?"
Wei Yan nodded. "Nutrients are a patented technology that Fino has monopolized. All the hot-selling tubular reagents on the market now come from them. Mutant research institutes around the world also require Fino to supply large quantities of nutrient concentrates. These concentrates can maintain the daily energy needs of mutants and ensure the stability of related experiments."
Xu Nuo: "A monopolist, no wonder he's so rich. How do you know all this?"
Wei Yan raised his eyelids and said, "The White Tower's laboratory often transports mutants for research. The Sentinels have heard about this a little bit."
Not only had he heard of it, he had also been there.
As he spoke, the mist dissipated and the solution flowed all over the ground, revealing the creatures immersed in the depths.
Xu Nuo was surprised: "Is this a human, or... a mutant?"
What appeared before my eyes was a creature that looked no different from an ordinary person. Its skin was smooth and delicate, its head was bowed, its eyes were closed, and its arms were folded. It had the beauty of a medieval classical sculpture, but six arms without wrist joints suddenly grew from its shoulders, standing upright and spreading out behind its head. It looked curious and weird.
Wei Yan studied it carefully. "It's probably a humanoid mutant, similar to humans, but with distinct inhuman features."
He broke into several more incubators and took Xu Nuo to visit mutants of various shapes.
Until I turned the corner, a special small culture chamber appeared in front of me.
The ceiling of this culture chamber was not even as high as Xu Nuo's waist. The culture fluid was a deep blue, clear and transparent, reflecting a small floating body.
Wei Yan approached, and the glass shattered with a loud noise. The floating little body slid out along with the solution.
Xu Nuo looked around it and frowned, "Does it have any inhuman features?"
Wei Yan lowered his eyes and shook his head.
The person lying on the ground was clearly a human boy with all the facial features, about two or three years old, with a lively and tender appearance, complete hands and feet, and nothing out of the ordinary.
He looked like he was asleep. If it weren't for the fact that his chest was still, one would have thought he would wake up in the next second with his eyes blinking.
"Does that mean..." Xu Nuo asked hesitantly, "that this lab is conducting illegal human experiments?"
The doorplate says "Raw Materials Area".
Wei Yan didn't jump to conclusions. He bent his knees, squatted, and raised his hand to press the boy's cheek. The boy's skin didn't lose its vitality, and it bounced back almost the moment he pressed.
Xu Nuo: "Still alive?"
Wei Yan shook his head: "No body temperature, no heartbeat."
Xu Nuo sighed: "That's right. There's such a thick layer of dust on the machines outside. Even if he was still alive when he was locked up here, he would have starved to death."
Humans can use nutrients to heal their wounds, but they cannot satisfy their hunger. Only mutants can survive on this stuff.
She felt a little reluctant: "Let's go, we're almost done. Let's go out and report to the organizers and see how to handle the follow-up."
Wei Yan stood up and turned towards the door with her. Suddenly, he felt something wet on his fingertips.
He stopped and lowered his head.
Xu Nuo hurried to the door and turned back to say: "Hurry, we still have to..."
She suddenly shut up.
In Wei Yan's sight, the little boy who had just been declared dead "came back to life" and stood up.
He was not even as tall as the young man's knees, his eyes were tightly closed, his neck stretched forward, and he stretched it out to a terrifying length. His head reached the side of the young man's hand, and he licked the rust-green nutrient solution stuck to his fingertips like a giraffe.
The scene was too weird, Xu Nuo didn't dare to breathe, and raised his eyebrows wildly to signal.
Wei Yan frowned, withdrew his hand with a hint of disgust, and stepped away from the boy.
"Wow----"
The boy couldn't lick the nutrient solution, so he raised his too long neck and cried loudly. He cried and tried hard to open his eyes, but his eyelids seemed to be stuck with something and he couldn't open them.
His cries became sharper and sharper, bringing with them a tide of murmurs from all directions, as if the beginning of some ominous sign.
Xu Nuo sensed the subtle changes in the surrounding environment and extended his tentacles to cover himself and Wei Yan's entire bodies: "The pollution is increasing, be careful!"
This sound startled the sobbing little boy. He reached out to wipe away the tears that kept falling from his eyes. He closed his eyes tightly, but his gaze seemed to be real, looking at her with hidden resentment.
Xu Nuo was startled and instinctively stepped back, stepping on something fleshy. Her back felt icy cold. Before she could react, a small, wet hand suddenly brushed her back, quickly reaching up, brushing her shoulders, and its sharp nails crawling up her neck.
Xu Nuo's steps softened and he almost fell to his knees.
"Wei Yan!"
The young man came over and took the person in his arms. The dagger flew in the air and he raised his hand to cut off the "hand" that attacked her. He even had time to pat the person on the back.
Xu Nuo was still in shock, and he buried his head in his arms, holding on tightly.
A low laugh came from her ear. Wei Yan seemed to enjoy this trick. He swung his knife and cut twice more, then turned and moved with her.
"Link," he said.
With a simple thought, the connection was instantly established. Xu Nuo quietly peeked out from the young man's arms, only to discover that the surroundings were already filled with densely packed monsters, all of them humanoid mutants that had been declared dead in the incubator that had just been broken into!
Among them was a "classical sculpture" with six arms on its back. It was the one that had just attacked Xu Nuo from behind. Three of its arms were cut off, and it kept grabbing at her.
Wei Yan's knife flashed, and the remaining three hands were all broken.
"Wow----"
The little boy's crying seemed to increase in volume. Cracks began to appear in the intact culture chambers, and then they broke apart, releasing a large number of mutants from the thick rust-green solution.
Xu Nuo was facing so many monsters for the first time. He nervously grabbed the edge of the young man's clothes and asked, "Can you fight? Do you want to ask Xiao Gu for help?"
Wei Yan tightened his grip on her arm, wielding the blade with one hand, and answered her with action—
Surrounded by hundreds of mutants, the young man flipped his dagger and rushed straight to the center of the vortex with the girl. The attacks from all sides were impenetrable, but he could always find a gap to dodge and move around. His steps were even light and quick. The blade in his hand spun and cut, and he shuttled between the mutants like a fish. In just a moment, the surrounding monsters fell down layer by layer like wheat in the autumn harvest.
They couldn't even touch the edge of the young man's clothes.
Xu Nuo lay in his arms, his eyes gradually widening from the initial shock to the size of bells.
Without summoning a spirit body, I can hold someone in my arms and defeat 1V100...
A few minutes later, the last mutant in the encirclement was killed, leaving only the little boy hiding behind and howling.
It hid secretly while other mutants were being harvested.
Wei Yan fiddled with the dagger with one hand, looked around, lost his patience, and a thick black mist emanated from his body.
The black mists seemed to have self-awareness and rushed towards a culture chamber in the distance. Soon, there was a panic movement in the chamber. The little boy stretched his neck and screamed in fear when he saw the black mist.
Panicking, it jumped out of the incubator and ran towards the door. Wei Yan scoffed and threw his dagger to block the way. Black fog surged in response, trapping the boy's limbs and dragging him in the opposite direction.
"Ahhhh!" As soon as the little boy came into contact with the mist, he struggled frantically, as if being violently bitten by something, his roars filled with pain and resentment. Gradually, his body seemed to be corroded and digested by the mist, becoming almost transparent.
Xu Nuo shrank his neck, and suddenly a warm hand covered his eyes. Wei Yan whispered softly in his ear: "Don't look, okay?"
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