Chapter 67
"…Where are you taking me?"
Several minutes after leaving the cafeteria, Gu Liangyi's confused mind finally regained its composure.
He asked breathlessly to Yi Yan who was still pulling him forward, trying hard to ignore the burning heat on his cheeks, not even daring to look at their clasped hands.
But he got no answer.
They had now arrived at a grove near Lover's Hill. The shade of the trees overhead blocked the sun, and fragments of golden light shone through the gaps between the leaves onto the ground. The fallen leaves underfoot made crisp sounds. The deeper they went, the faster Gu Liangyi's heartbeat became.
He...Yi Yan, what on earth does he want to do?
Just when Gu Liang was feeling anxious, Yi Yan suddenly let go of his hand.
He stopped, stood in the shadows of the trees, and turned to look back at him.
Gu Liangyi swallowed nervously, and Gu Liangyou, who was pretending to be calm in his consciousness, couldn't help but change the posture of crossing his legs.
"Turn off the live broadcast."
Unexpectedly, Yi Yan's first sentence was this.
Gu Liangyi: "Ah? Oh, oh."
Inside the Earth's live broadcast room, hundreds of millions of viewers were immediately excited!
"Yi Yan, you are so mean! I asked my boss for half a day off just to wait for you to confess, and now you do this to me?"
“Bad review! We must give the anchor a bad review!!!”
"I'm so pissed! What can't you show us? I'm warning you, Yi, don't go too far!"
"If you dare to bully the leader, we will never forgive you, Yi Yan, did you hear that? We, hundreds of millions of people, are the leader's backers!"
"Bullying? What kind of bullying? The kind that makes you cry (little face turns yellow.jpg)"
“Ahhhhhhh damn it! I really want to see what happens next! What on earth does Yi Yan want to do by bringing people to the grove?”
"A place like this would have no meaning if it weren't for kissing."
"+1. The top trending searches these days are all about this. According to big data statistics, major radio stations at home and abroad played "What Kind of Man" a total of 1,678 times that night, and the audience requested the song either from Yi Yan or a friend of mine, which is enough to prove everyone's strong indignation at his behavior."
"You actually let Gu Liang confess first. Yi Yan, why are you still secretly in love with her? If you don't seize this opportunity, you really are not a man!"
The audience waited anxiously for nearly half an hour, and the bet had changed from "did Yi Yan confess his love" to "did they kiss each other", and finally went straight to "whether it was illegal to have in-depth communication with a sixteen-year-old teenager in a school in another world".
At this moment, the picture in the live broadcast room finally returned to normal.
Everyone was immediately cheered up!
But when they excitedly picked up the microscope to watch the live video, they were disappointed to find that the two people's condition was not as blushing as they had imagined.
His clothes and hair were not messy, his lips were not broken, and even Gu Liangyi's expression and tone when he spoke had become much calmer than before. He even began to discuss with Yi Yan about the school's arrangements for Zhou Qingzi!
The only difference was probably that Yi Yan silently pulled up the zipper of his collar.
But is this what they want to see?
Who cares where that old guy lives behind the scenes? Even if he can fly in the sky on a flying sword, it doesn’t matter!
For a moment, countless spectators were slamming their keyboards at home, feeling as if they were being excited for nothing.
But in fact, probably only Yi Yan and Gu Liangyi in the world knew what happened in this half hour.
Although Gu Liangyi appeared calm on the surface, his heart was already in turmoil.
"What he just said," he asked You uncertainly, "is it a confession?"
Gu Liangyou also hesitated: "It shouldn't be considered... at most it's just a confession preview?"
Yi Yan's original words are:
"I have been suppressing my emotions for some time, but I didn't expect that I would end up causing you extra pressure... This was not my intention, but I still want to say sorry to you."
The young man's eyes were more serious than ever when he spoke. His focused gaze and low, gentle voice made Gu Liang, who was still in a tense state, relax unconsciously. He continued to speak: "I understand your concerns very well. In fact, I think so too. It's me who failed to keep up with you. Perhaps one day when the crisis comes, I will become a burden to you."
Gu Liangyi said hurriedly: "That's not what I meant..."
"Don't comfort me, I know this is the truth."
Yi Yan interrupted him. He smiled softly, and suddenly stepped forward to stand in front of Gu Liangyi, looking down at the man in front of him: "But this is not your fault, Gu Liang."
Gu Liang couldn't help but hold his breath.
Yi Yan was too close, so close that he couldn't even hear what the other person was saying. The face-to-face conversation at such a close distance brought him the discomfort of having his intimate distance violated, as well as the swelling and fermentation of certain emotions in his heart.
He... did have desire for the person in front of him.
"You've been avoiding me again recently," Yi Yan sighed, "Didn't we agree before that you can do whatever you want to me, even if you hate me - but don't avoid me."
Gu Liang started with a tilt.
"Serves you right." He muttered. When he recalled the day when Yi Yan subconsciously avoided him in surprise, he couldn't help but feel a heart attack.
This was his first kiss, was he so disgusted?
"It's not that I dislike you," Yi Yan laughed deep from the depths of his chest. Because the two were too close, the resonance made Gu Liangyi's ears numb. "It's just that I was surprised, that's all."
He suddenly stretched out his hand, lifted up the loose hair with his fingers, and inserted his fingers gently and without question into the slightly cool hair along the position where the glasses frame was placed above the black-haired young man's ears.
The feeling of being touched by Yi Yan's hands with gun calluses made Gu Liang's scalp tingle, but for some reason there was an addictive magic of attachment. This thought was too entangled, and he didn't know whether he should resist or not.
But it was this moment of hesitation that made him fail to notice Yi Yan's next move.
By the time Gu Liangyi reacted, Yi Yan had already taken off his glasses with his other hand and gently kissed him between the eyebrows.
Gu Liangyi:!!!
Yi Yan watched with interest as the black-haired young man's entire face turned red from his ears in just a few seconds, his lips trembled, and he even had trouble standing.
"Look," he lowered his eyes and laughed, "your performance makes it hard for me not to be surprised that you were so courageous back then."
"……Shut up!"
Gu Liangyi said this out of anger, with a hint of guilt in his voice.
It was obviously You's fault!
"Okay, no more jokes."
Yi Yan looked at the young man who was already half held in his arms with regret, bit his cheek, and forced himself to calm down.
To be honest, he wanted to kiss her hard more than anyone else, and use a proper kiss to tell Gu Liangyi how crazy the desire buried deep in his heart was - but he couldn't.
Gu Liang was being watched by countless eyes all the time. If he did this, anyone who was paying attention would be able to tell at a glance that something was wrong with him.
He is not yet magnanimous enough to share his treasures with the whole world.
Even if it's just a kiss, they have to save it until they have time alone with each other... Right now, there are too many things occupying Gu Liangyi's heart: the safety of the school, the life and death of his classmates, the future of mankind, and so on.
Perhaps when that time comes, Yi Yan thought, he will become more generous and won't mind letting others witness that moment.
"Listen, Gu Liang." He rested his forehead against the young man's, his tone gradually becoming serious, "I have always said that you are very good, but your biggest problem is that you take all the responsibility on yourself too easily, which will crush you."
"You do have the strength to protect everyone now, but it is not your responsibility. You should protect yourself. Do you understand me?"
Gu Liangyi felt the heavy weight on his shoulders - Yi Yan grabbed his shoulders tightly while speaking. He opened his mouth, but finally just whispered: "I know. But I can't help but worry about you."
"I see."
Yi Yan stared deeply into his eyes: "It would be useless to just say sorry and ask you to trust us a little more. I brought you here today because I want to ask you something."
"What?"
Gu Liang stared in amazement as Yi Yan took his hand and pressed his palm against his throat. The young man's Adam's apple moved as he spoke, burning hot and almost burning his skin - he subconsciously shrank, but was firmly pressed back by Yi Yan.
"Before leaving the previous world, I asked Alpha about the mark of the death row slaves," Yi Yan's voice was a little hoarse due to being pressed. Gu Liangyi suspected that he deliberately made his Adam's apple protrude more obviously when he spoke. "He said that in order to increase the viewing experience of the death row slaves during duels, the fallen mages would give them some of their own power through the mark."
"Of course, the premise is that the total amount of their own mana will not change. This price will be compensated by the death row slaves' own physical strength and energy."
Gu Liangyi widened his eyes slightly: "So, you want to...?"
"Curse me again," Yi Yan raised his lips and showed him a faint smile, "I said a long time ago that if it were you, I would be willing to accept it all, even if it was disgust and hatred."
Gu Liangyi stared at him with a complicated expression.
"That's not a good thing," he said. "Are you sure you've thought it through? If anything happens to me, you'll be the first to suffer."
"If anything happens to you, all of humanity will suffer together. What difference does this make?" Yi Yan couldn't help laughing. "And I've already said that I volunteered."
He wanted to have the power to protect Gu Liangyi, no matter what method he used.
Gu Liang thought about it and felt that what Yi Yan said did make sense, so he discussed it with Gu Liang You: "You, what do you think?"
"I have no objection either." As a secondary personality, Gu Liangyou rarely disagrees with the main personality. "I also know how to curse him, but I don't know what specific price the curse will cost the target. Are you sure that he will only have to pay a certain amount of physical strength and energy in the future? The kind that won't cause damage to his body?"
Gu Liangyi immediately realized that You was worried that Yi Yan was lying to them!
So he asked Yi Yan this question seriously, and got the same affirmative answer: "Don't worry, it will be fine. Alpha's teacher was there at the time, and she said the same thing."
Really?
Since Yi Yan had a criminal record, Gu Liangyi didn't dare to trust him too much.
"Don't forget, once you are marked by the Death Slave Mark, you can't be resurrected by the base's core," he was still hesitant, "Forget it, at least you can return to the living point if you encounter danger."
"What's the point of that?" Yi Yan asked back, "Don't forget that the purpose of the special action team is to protect you. If we return to a safe place when we encounter danger, it would be better to fight to the death after we have the power."
His attitude was very firm, and he said that as long as Gu Liangyi gave him his mark, his strength would be far beyond what it is now, and he would be able to find a way to resolve any crisis he encountered.
Gu Liangyi was gradually persuaded by him, and finally, he sighed and said, "Okay, I promise you."
Without waiting for Yi Yan to be happy, he spread out his hands: "But you have to give me that bullet."
Yi Yan was stunned for a moment before he remembered that the bullet Gu Liangyi mentioned was issued to them by the special operations team, to be used when they were unable to escape or in other extreme situations during the mission. It was the last bullet that shot at his solar plexus.
"good."
He solemnly placed the bullet that he had been hiding on his body into Gu Liangyi's palm.
The black-haired young man stared at it for a while, then his expression suddenly turned cold. He clenched his fists and put the bullet back into his pocket.
"Remember, this is your own choice," he said, and stretched out his hand again to pinch Yi Yan's neck, "You have no way out."
Yi Yan lowered his head obediently.
"I understand," he said.
Feeling the familiar tingling sensation on his neck, Yi Yan half-knelt on the ground, clenched his teeth, cold sweat already seeping out of his forehead, but his eyes were fixed on the face of the black-haired young man, as if he wanted to engrave his appearance in his mind.
"Get up," Gu Liangyou put down his hand, and seeing Yi Yan still kneeling on the ground, he couldn't help but be a little speechless, "Why, do you regret it? Let me make it clear first, if you regret it, come to me anytime, I don't want to impose this kind of curse on others casually."
"No," Yi Yan zipped up his collar, buried his chin in his collar, lowered his head and smiled, "How could I regret it?"
Unlike the previous curse, the curse cast by the devil himself allowed him to feel more clearly the hidden emotional changes and the power fluctuations of the same origin.
His heart is now filled with ecstasy.
"Then what are you still doing kneeling there... Hey! Are you a pervert?"
Gu Liangyou suddenly took a step back and shouted in horror.
It was nothing. Yi Yan had just suddenly grabbed his hand and put it to his lips, then lowered his head and kissed it. If it was just a normal hand-kissing ceremony, it would be fine. Gu Liangyou thought he had a brain cramp, but this guy actually dared, dared...
Thinking of the wet and hot touch, Gu Liangyou wanted to kick him on the spot!
What kind of pervert is this guy?
When he thought that both he and his main personality were interested in him, Gu Liangyou became even more desperate. He refused to admit that there was something wrong with his vision. He could only glare at Yi Yan, who had already stood up from the ground and was trying to control the wind to sweep up the fallen leaves. He and Gu Liangyou both had wind as their magic attributes. He asked sarcastically, "Does it feel good to use my power?"
"Yeah," Yi Yan admitted readily, looking up at the falling leaves flying all over the sky, "It's great."
He suddenly tightened his five fingers, and in the blink of an eye, the fallen leaves turned into sword blades, piercing the trunk of a tree next to him one after another, and most of the leaves were deeply embedded in the trunk.
With this power, plus the flexible use of modern firearms, even if he and Zhou Qingzi were to face each other again, he would be able to completely crush the opponent!
Yi Yan withdrew his gaze and looked at Gu Liangyou, with a deep smile on his lips. Because he felt the young man's inner annoyance and anger, as well as the worry about him that he could not ignore.
Because of joy, the curve of his mouth gradually widened.
That’s great, he thought.
Even to the almighty gods, as a believer, he is a unique existence in the other's heart.
But perhaps his gods didn't know, he thought.
——What I want from him is much more than just power.
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