Chapter 38 Don’t come over here, I can’t promise what I will do to you…
Xu Nuo held his breath and remained silent, not daring to move.
Her vision was cut off, and the screams in the distance were extremely clear. The link allowed them to briefly share each other's thoughts, and she felt the high emotions coming from the other end.
Wei Yan was very excited, even... a little pleased.
He could have finished off the little boy like he had with other mutants, but he chose to consume him bit by bit with the black mist. Could this sudden surge of excitement be... the pleasure of killing?
Xu Nuo shuddered at this sudden speculation and moved involuntarily to the other side of the young man.
As soon as she moved, the hand around her waist tightened, and she lifted her up into her arms and pressed her against her chest.
Wei Yan held her neck and kissed the top of her head, a dark light flashing in his eyes: "Are you scared? Don't you like me? Huh?"
Xu Nuo's voice was as soft as a mosquito: "I'm not... scared."
"Then why are you hiding?"
"Because..." She rolled her eyes, "You feel a little cold."
Wei Yan held her hand and slowly put it into his sweatshirt pocket: "Are you still cold?"
Under the thin fabric, he held her against his burning abdominal muscles, and warmth climbed up along the place where they were touching.
Xu Nuo hooked his fingers and shook his head.
The young man looked at her for a moment, then picked her up, supporting her hips with his arm and holding her back with one hand like a child. "Then don't let go."
He turned and walked out, Xu Nuo lying on his chest, looking at the mess in the raw materials area.
The densely packed cluster of mutants disappeared, leaving only a little rusty green solution and traces of dragging and scraping on the wet floor, as if some terrifying predator had passed by and devoured everything.
Wei Yan held her in his arms and followed the winding corridor into a place called "Verification Center".
This area is more like a huge white room, with walls and floors made of gray metal. It is dimly lit and empty, with only a pair of ordinary wooden tables and chairs placed in the center.
Xu Nuo said unnaturally: "Put me down, I can walk by myself."
The young man looked down at her but didn't let go.
Xu Nuo caught a hint of doubt in his eyes.
Wei Yan took a few more steps inside, and suddenly the room seemed to sense something, and hundreds of beams of light were projected from the ceiling, concentrating on the central dot, illuminating the dark yellow wooden tables and chairs palely.
Wei Yan paused.
There was a hint of unexpected panic on his face, and his eyes were fixed on the wooden tables and chairs.
Xu Nuo asked tentatively: "Is there any mechanism?"
Wei Yan still looked up: "I've been here before."
Xu Nuo followed his gaze upwards and discovered that the dome of this room was extremely high and was covered with dense searchlights. The alternating beams of light spontaneously focused on the table and chairs, much like the strong light shining on the face of the criminals in the interrogation room in police and gangster movies.
Wei Yan frowned after he finished speaking, as if he was recalling a not-so-pleasant past.
Xu Nuo wanted to get off him, but he struggled secretly and couldn't get rid of the shackles. Seeing that the instigator was lost in thought, he interrupted him: "Wake up, let me down first. Don't forget that we are still in the game. The most urgent thing is to find the treasure chest and the key!"
Wei Yan suddenly came back to his senses, but his mind was not very clear. He took her hand and brought it to his lips and kissed it.
Xu Nuo felt an itch on the back of his hand, so he pulled it back and said strangely, "What are you doing? Why are you kissing me regardless of the occasion? Isn't that weird?"
Wei Yan looked at her in confusion, and felt that the opening and closing of those rosy lips was extremely annoying, so he lowered his head and blocked her way.
"You! Um..." Xu Nuo hammered him hard and tilted his head to resist, but the man's lips pressed tightly against his lips as if they had a tracking function. His hot tongue rushed between his teeth, biting and gnawing, forcibly depriving his mouth of the remaining air.
The atmosphere gradually became tense, and his hands moved restlessly from the back of his head to his back, outlining his figure along the fabric, and gradually sliding to the front and moving upwards.
Xu Nuo's expression changed and he slapped him without thinking.
This time he used a ruthless blow, and Wei Yan's left cheek was deflected, leaving five red and swollen fingerprints.
She said angrily: "Let me go, put me down!"
The young man's expression cleared for a moment, then he struggled with a frown, but soon fell into deeper confusion. He leaned in close to the girl's neck, licking and kissing her collarbone and neck. His overly hot breath sprayed on the small piece of exposed skin, stirring up a layer of goose bumps.
Xu Nuo said in horror: "Wei Yan, what are you doing! You can't do this!"
She struggled hard and kicked angrily, "You're crazy! Let me go!"
The young man ignored her, grabbed her ankles and pulled them backwards, forcing her to sit on him, pressing his body close to hers, and continued to lick and kiss her.
Xu Nuo felt an unbearable tingling and numbness on his neck, which brought him a strange sense of comfort. He couldn't help but let out a moan, but then quickly fell silent.
In any other scenario, she might have been reluctant, but now was not the time to think about anything below the neck, so she reluctantly extended her tentacles and pushed the man away.
Wei Yan was pulled by the tentacles to look up, his eyes were wandering and confused, his face was unnaturally flushed, and his skin under the clothes was frighteningly hot.
Xu Nuo raised her hand to his face and hesitated: "Why is it so hot... It's like I took medicine."
She looked out the door: "Something's wrong here. Please bear with it for a moment. Let's go out first."
Wei Yan didn't give her another chance.
He exerted force and broke free from the mental tentacles in an instant. The girl, who had just escaped the shackles, felt her knees sank and was picked up from behind by the man, who eagerly carried her on his shoulders and walked towards the wooden table.
"Wei Yan, get out! You're going in the wrong direction!"
Xu Nuo tilted the man's head toward the door, and suddenly her perspective was spinning. She was pressed against the long wooden table, legs spread apart. The man leaned in close, his back to the light, one hand grasping her waist, the other supporting her face. His breathing was heavy, his eyes fixed on her with longing.
Xu Nuo didn't dare to breathe, pursed his lips and said: "Wei Yan, do you know what you are doing?"
The position between them was truly terrible. Xu Nuo had browsed pornographic websites before, and he knew exactly what the other person's aggressive gaze meant, and what was pressing against him.
She also saw a flash of struggle in Wei Yan's blurred eyes, as if he was fighting against some unbearable will, but was powerless to resist.
The man exhaled hot air, pinched the soft flesh of her cheek and said blankly: "I don't know, it's very hot, you don't smell, it's uncomfortable..."
Xu Nuo hesitated: "My taste?"
He lowered his head and licked her lips: "I can smell the scent of many guides, why don't you..."
Xu Nuo frowned: "Do you want other guides to comfort you?"
Wei Yan rubbed her face unbearably: "No, only the smell of you can comfort me..."
Xu Nuo looked at him dejectedly.
If Wei Yan didn't lie - and he didn't need to lie, the smells he was referring to that were unique to guides were probably pheromones between different guides.
The guide's pheromones can slow down the sentinel's mental agitation and suppress the desire to combine. Conversely, overly concentrated guide pheromones can also trigger the sentinel's desire to combine.
Wei Yan's face flushed uncontrollably, unable to control himself. He became a hyper-skin-hungry person, desperately craving the guide's comfort... This was a typical symptom of union fever. Once the impulse of desire took over, he might even force the guide to union to suppress his restlessness.
——But here comes the problem. Xu Nuo had verified it earlier and found out that this novel does not have any pheromone setting at all, let alone the bonding fever caused by pheromones!
…First, the Fino Group inexplicably developed something called a guide agent, and now Wei Yan kept telling her that he smelled a special guide scent and sought comfort from her scent.
This is a huge plot change! Even the world setting has been completely changed. Could it be that some unscrupulous author changed the setting mid-writing?
Wei Yan was about to lose control of the desire in his body, and his body was about to move, but he still turned his head away with a low gasp: "I have never smelled the special scent of the guide before, but recently, I suddenly have it..."
Xu Nuo frowned in alertness.
The change happened recently.
...Fino has also recently announced the Guide Su preparation as a new product.
For some reason, these two originally unrelated pieces of information seem to be inextricably linked.
Wei Yan was still hesitant and murmured: "Why are you the only one who doesn't have..."
Xu Nuo held his face with both hands and rubbed it: "Now is not the time to worry about whether I smell good or not. You are like this...you should think about what to do first."
Wei Yan couldn't satisfy his desire. He covered her hand and pressed down her wrist with kisses: "Can you help me? I feel a little uncomfortable..."
Xu Nuo's face flushed, and he saw many colorful images in his mind: "How can I help?"
Wei Yan looked back blankly, and was actually stumped by the question.
His whole body was burning, his brain had turned into a mess, burning with unbearable temperature and boiling.
His thoughts were in a mess, being repeatedly burned, but they gradually pointed to the same idea - to get closer to Xu Nuo, closer, very close, so close that there was no distance at all.
But how can they get closer? Would Xu Nuo... be willing? They had just met again, and they hadn't... No, he was Wei Yan, not Qi Qian.
Pain flashed across the man's eyes, and he bit down hard on his tongue. Blood quickly trickled down the corner of his mouth. The pain brought a momentary clarity that briefly resisted the grip of desire. He forced himself to step back, his back to the girl.
"I'm sorry." His voice was trembling with the unbearable impulse. His body was clearly itching to move, but he just stood there motionless.
Xu Nuo quickly stood up and stepped back, running towards the door: "Come out first, there might be something strange in this room."
Wei Yan stood there in silence. After a moment, he took out a dagger with heavy breathing. The blade was still stained with rusty green nutrient solution.
Xu Nuo suddenly realized something: "No!"
The next second, the bottom of the dagger sank into the young man's shoulder blade. As if that wasn't enough, he turned the handle in the wound.
"Hiss--" The intense pain finally made consciousness completely take over the brain. Wei Yan knelt on one knee, his body shaking constantly due to the severe pain.
Xu Nuo was worried: "Wei Yan..."
"Don't come over here!" He yelled at her for the first time. "I can't promise I'll do anything to you."
Xu Nuo stopped and lowered his eyes: "Okay, I'll wait for you outside the door."
She turned and walked out, leaning against the wall to let the collapsed rubble cover her. "Is it better if I leave?"
Wei Yan didn't speak for a long time, so long that Xu Nuo thought something had happened to him. Then he heard a vague voice from far behind him: "I'm fine, don't worry."
She felt relieved and sat down against the wall with her legs crossed.
Outside was a long corridor, its walls and floor tiled, with numerous doors at either end leading to different areas. The overhead daylight flickered, making suspicious crackling noises, as if it would fail or go out at any moment.
Xu Nuo looked up at the light tube: "You said you've been here before?"
There was a moment of silence on the other end, and then a distant voice came: "When I was very young, I was trapped in the laboratory every day. This place is a bit like the room I often stayed in."
"What kind of room is it?"
"It was empty, with only a bed and a pair of tables and chairs. Outside the highest glass, a group of people were gathered in front of a monitor, watching me."
This doesn't seem like a good memory.
Xu Nuo said softly, "Were you in a daze just now because you remembered what happened here?"
"No, I'm just wondering why this lab can replicate such similar areas of memory."
Xu Nuo asked doubtfully, "Don't you think this is a place you've been to before?"
"It's different. Although my freedom was restricted at that time, I was still required to conduct tests in other areas. My memories from childhood to adulthood are very clear, and I can confirm that except for the layout of this room, everything else is completely different."
"Well," Xu Nuo said helplessly, "it seems that the clue is going to be broken again."
Wei Yan: "What clue?"
Xu Nuo hesitated: "Well... you may not believe it, but I am planning to save the world, but I haven't found the key clue to save the world yet."
"...Do you need help?"
Xu Nuo smiled sheepishly: "Don't you think saving the world is... a bit childish?"
"What is chuunibun?"
Yes, he was born in the wasteland era, a place where people couldn't chat and joke on the Internet, so of course it was impossible for him to come up with any Internet buzzwords.
Xu Nuo explained: "It's just... immersing oneself in one's own world, full of fantasy and passion, describing oneself as a comic book superhero, as if one is going to accomplish great things."
Wei Yanmo said: "Just do whatever you want to do. There's nothing wrong with being a little bit of a middle school student."
Xu Nuo lowered his head and hooked his fingers. "What if I say I had a very long dream. In the dream, the world will eventually suffer a great disaster that concerns the life and death of everyone. The level of danger is about the same as... the appearance of an S-class mutant. Now I plan to use the clues given by the dream to find the mastermind behind the disaster and prevent the catastrophe. Doesn't it sound ridiculous?"
"……Um."
Xu Nuo scoffed, "I told you, it feels like you're talking nonsense and going crazy."
"But I'll support you."
Xu Nuo was stunned: "What?"
Wei Yan: "From your tone, this seems to be very important to you. If you need help... you can call me, as long as you..."
Don't leave him.
"be safe."
Xu Nuo bit his lower lip and said, "Then I'll be frank. I suspect the Fino Group."
"Why?"
She hesitated, unsure how to explain her suspicions about the guide agent, so she said, "This lab is incredibly suspicious. They're conducting illegal human experiments, and they're fraught with danger. If an ordinary contestant came in, they'd either die or be injured."
"If the lab hidden beneath the competition area is a coincidence, then I doubt the organizers didn't conduct a thorough search before choosing the site. A group as large as Fino must have talented individuals. With such a large group of people focused on searching, how could they not find any clues?"
"Unless, the lab was originally built by them, and the competition area planning was intentional. The competition rules require us to search for treasure chests and keys. Perhaps they want the contestants to mistakenly believe that there is something underground, enter the lab, and achieve some conspiracy..."
She insisted on talking more and more outrageously, and Wei Yan listened quietly without rebutting.
He said: "It makes sense, but without solid evidence, it's hard to prove anything."
Xu Nuo whispered, "That's why I want to win the competition. If I win, I can visit their factory. I heard it's very secretive and only insiders are allowed in."
"Is this what you call...the clue to saving the world?"
Xu Nuo was amazed at his sharpness and said, "Actually, there's another clue. Chafino can't alert the enemy, so this is a hidden clue. The other clue is out in the open—the intelligent mutant at the base."
She explained to him her conjecture about the experiment that catalyzed the S-class mutant—the Doomsday—mutant.
Wei Yan roughly understood and added, "Regarding that intelligent mutant, Zong Lan has already rushed to the contaminated area where it was born to investigate. Remember? It's the Class C contaminated area west of the capital base. The night before the accident, I took you to look in that direction."
Xu Nuo: "Remember, what did she find out?"
"...The source of the pollution in that contaminated area has disappeared, and not a single mutant remains."
Xu Nuo was astonished: "The pollution source just disappeared?"
Wei Yan: "Tang Ningyue speculated that the intelligent mutant had evolved the ability to devour pollution sources. After devouring an entire Class C pollution source, it rapidly evolved in a short period of time, which gave rise to the idea of massacring the city."
"...In addition, they also discovered a laboratory underground."
Xu Nuo was shocked.
"That underground laboratory hasn't been fully explored yet, but the only thing we can confirm is... the research instruments and furnishings on display are highly consistent with those in the White Tower Laboratory."
Xu Nuo's mind was in a mess: "Wait, what do you mean by highly consistent with the White Tower Laboratory?"
Wei Yan pondered, "The instruments purchased have the same specifications and serial numbers, the experiments are performed to the same standards, the decor is a cool white hue, and they like to post slogans on the solemn walls..."
"It's like... a second White Tower Laboratory."
Xu Nuo's thoughts were in a mess.
Aren't we investigating the forces behind the catalytic mutation? How did this clue turn out to be related to the White Tower? Or was it Zong Lan, a member of the White Tower, who discovered it?
Wei Yan sighed. "In fact, this laboratory we're in also seems to be modeled after the White Tower. I took a quick look, and the instrument specifications and decor are similar."
Xu Nuo's brain is completely overloaded.
After a long while, she stammered, "You, you... you're not going to say that these laboratories were actually built by the White Tower. I suspect the mastermind behind the disaster is... the White Tower?"
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