Chapter 48: An awkward reunion with Yudu, unexpectedly revealing crucial information! ^^……
The next morning, Pei Qing woke up feeling refreshed. "Whew!"
She stretched out a big yawn, feeling full of energy. Her previously parched mental sea was now incredibly full, and the wounds from yesterday had completely healed without leaving a trace.
Pei Qian touched her smooth abdomen in surprise. There should have been several penetrating knife wounds there, but now it was completely clean, and even the scars of the injuries had disappeared.
"Hiss... My little darling... Don't move around, I've only been asleep for less than an hour..." A low, husky voice came from below, and warm breath hit Pei Qing's feet as it spoke, startling her. She instinctively kicked it.
"What is that?"
"Ouch—don't move, it really hurts..." The voice became even lower, with occasional cries of pain.
Pei Qing recognized the voice this time; it was that old fox Youdu's voice!
Huh!? He hasn't left yet? And why is he in the infirmary?!
Help! This person is so persistent!
She turned to run, but as soon as she lifted her leg, her ankle was grabbed.
"I'm saying, isn't it a bit inappropriate to leave your partner here after a passionate night?" Yudu's voice was unsteady, as if he was in great pain.
Pei Qing looked down and saw that Youdu's condition was even worse than when she saw him in the dark room that day: his lithe, honey-colored body was covered in bloodstains, and some of his tender parts even had the scarlet flesh turned inside out, making him look particularly horrifying. There were also very suspicious mottled marks on his legs.
Not only that, but there were also several very deep ligature marks on his neck, a mixture of blue and purple, and abnormally swollen, very much like the marks of a failed suicide attempt...
Wait a minute, Yudo doesn't seem like the kind of person who would commit suicide, right?
Pei Qian reflexively dismissed the option that she might have caused.
She stared at the chaotic state of the infirmary, her mind reeling. Oh no, was she going to have to pay for it? She had no money!
Looking at the slimy residue left by the crawling branches, Pei Qing knew she had probably fallen into that strange, violent state again. Good heavens, this is a real headache, what am I going to do?
“Hey, instead of just spacing out, can you take this thing out? It’s been in there the whole time…” Two suspicious blushes appeared on Yudu’s face. “They… are very restless…” As he spoke, he slowly stood up, holding onto the metal frame next to him.
What is that? Pei Qing stared at the naked body in front of her and the still writhing escaped branch, two streams of blood silently flowing from her nose.
"Uh, um, sorry," she said, having a general idea of what was going on, a sense of foreboding creeping into her heart.
“I’ll… get rid of it now.” Pei Qing’s lips moved, and after a moment of hesitation, she chose a more tactful way of putting it.
“Or, you could lie down on—” Pei Qing looked at the abandoned object that could no longer be called a bed, and couldn’t bring herself to say the word. “Never mind,” she finally compromised.
"You can lie on my lap then." Sigh, no matter what, I made this mess myself, so I have to clean up my own mess.
Pei Qian groaned silently in her heart, but her hands moved swiftly and decisively, pinching out the troublesome tentacle branch, along with a lot of other random things.
"What is this?" she asked curiously, picking up an irregularly shaped, gel-like sphere about the size of a fist and examining it closely.
"You don't know?" Yudu managed to tidy himself up, grabbed some clothes to cover himself, and looked very strange, as if wondering why Pei Qing didn't know what it was.
"Yes, I really don't know. Is there a problem?" It wasn't her fault, how would she know...?
Wait, could this weird thing really be her doing?
Pei Qian suddenly remembered something, leaped up and tackled Youdu to the ground, tearing off the clothes he had finally managed to put on.
"What are you going to do now? Ouch, can you be a little gentler? Do you know I almost died in bed yesterday..."
Pei Qing ignored Youdu's incessant chatter and focused solely on searching for something. Sure enough! That strange pattern also appeared on his body!
Although not exactly the same as Xiao Jiu's, it definitely belongs to the same system. No wonder, no wonder her mental energy was so abundant when she woke up, no wonder...
All the questions were answered, except for that strange sphere.
She released Yudu's collar and turned around. The man rubbed his wrist, which had been pinched until it was red, and muttered something under his breath.
Pei Qing returned to the location of the strange sphere, bent down and picked it up. To her surprise, in just a few minutes, the originally gel-like grayish-brown substance had turned into some kind of hard crystal, shimmering with a fluorescent blue light.
Yudu straightened his clothes and came over. The ambiguous smile on his face froze the moment he saw the crystal, and his voice was anxious, "ISET? And a crystal with such high purity? Where did you get it?"
"Have you been driven crazy by X?" Pei Qing rolled her eyes, looked at him speechlessly, and said without any mercy, "This is the thing that fell out of your body."
Yudu's pupils dilated, and he looked even more shocked than she was. "That gel-like substance??"
“Although I don’t know exactly what happened, it seems to be as you see it now,” Pei Qing coughed twice, covering her mouth. “I’ve never encountered this situation before. Why don’t you tell me about what happened yesterday?”
"You don't remember anything?" Yudu narrowed his eyes, as if trying to confirm something.
"Hmm, I don't remember anything, so you'd better explain it clearly later." Pei Qing widened her eyes, trying her best to look more innocent and harmless. This was a skill she learned at the welfare center when she was a child, and she would usually get some preferential treatment when she did this.
Unexpectedly, after staring at her for a while, Yudu secretly moved away a little. "I get scared whenever I see your eyes now. I'm starting to have psychological trauma. You have to make it up to me."
Pei Qian looked at the man in front of her, who was covered in wounds but could still crack jokes, and felt a little relieved. Fortunately, he could still joke, so it seemed that nothing serious had happened.
Ten minutes later, Pei Qing asked, her face full of confusion and a hint of unspoken anger, "You just said that yesterday my eyes turned completely black? Like, with no whites at all?"
After Yudu gave an affirmative answer, she then examined her eyes against the broken glass. "Are you sure you didn't see wrong? After all, my eyes are naturally black, and it was dark, or maybe your eyesight isn't very good..."
Pei Qing muttered to herself, refusing to believe it. How could someone's eyes turn completely black? Even if she was no longer purely human, it couldn't be like this...
Having lived as a human for so long, she still finds it hard to accept.
Seeing Pei Qing's incredulous expression, Youdu tapped his knee and reminded her, "Do you still want to listen? There's something even more interesting coming up."
"Of course, I can only determine how the crystal came about after hearing the whole process, okay? Speaking of which, I didn't expect you to be so receptive. Didn't you even think about resisting back then?"
Pei Qing frowned. Even she, the perpetrator (in the amnesiac version), found the strange mutation somewhat unacceptable, while You Du, the victim, seemed to accept it well, which was truly puzzling.
"Hey, you were choking me so tightly, I couldn't fight back at all." Yudu pretended to be angry, and a few fingers affectionately climbed up and caressed the woman's shoulder, only to be ruthlessly slapped away.
What he didn't say was that the moment he realized it was her, all thoughts of resistance vanished completely.
It's really strange, even in that form.
"And then?" Pei Qing urged impatiently, eager to know what happened next.
The gentle atmosphere that had just been built up has completely vanished.
Yudu sighed and told him everything.
After listening, Pei Qing fell silent, a rare occurrence. She buried her head in her arms, looking as if she were about to die, muttering repeatedly, "Twisted@!#?/..."
It was all gibberish; she couldn't understand what she was saying at all. Yudu gently stroked the top of her head and pulled her into his arms.
Pei Qing's worldview was severely impacted, and she could no longer face herself.
Her mind was a complete mess. Was she even human like this? Even if the plan succeeded and she managed to escape, what if she continued to lose control so easily? She didn't want to become a federal fugitive for violent murder!
All she wanted was a peaceful and quiet life, and of course, having lots of star coins would be even better. Pei Qing suddenly missed her days at the welfare center.
Although the nutrient solution tasted terrible, at least my life was safe.
She was truly dejected this time, and didn't even bother to pull down the hand that Yudu was holding above her head.
“Actually,” Yudu observed her state and carefully chose his words, “I think you might be able to control that state on your own.”
"Really? Maybe..." The voice in his arms was muffled, and Yudu suspected that she probably hadn't even heard what he said.
Have you tried to control those tentacles?
"Of course, I can also control them to change into various shapes!" Pei Qing said, as if showing off, using her tentacles to simulate a small toy, the kind that was perfect in both shape and function.
Yudu closed his eyes tightly, hardly believing what he was seeing; the thing was even vibrating!
"Can't you come up with something useful? I really don't know what's going on in that little head of yours all day long." Yudu thought he was already quite unruly, but he didn't expect this little devil to be even more unpredictable.
"The main problem is that I can't do it with my current abilities," Pei Qing argued confidently.
Yudu thought for a moment, then continued, "When I was on a mission before, I encountered a very strange target. She was very strong, but her mental strength and physical strength seemed to be mismatched."
"What's the meaning?"
"That is to say, her body is too weak to bear the strong mental energy, which causes her to lose control of her mental energy from time to time. Your current state is very similar to hers, which may also be a manifestation of losing control of your mental energy."
"But why didn't I have this problem before? Why did it only happen after I came to prison?"
“It might be related to the gene serum you were injected with. Most gene serums nowadays contain ISET energy extract, and your physical condition might be…” Yudu didn’t finish his sentence. Subconsciously, he also felt that this guess was somewhat unbelievable, but at the moment, there was no other answer.
"Perhaps," Pei Qing said, still looking sullen.
“There’s another possibility: your body is less in a state of frenzy and more in a state of self-preservation, or perhaps in a state of passive feeding,” Yudu said as he pondered.
"You... you found out?" Pei Qing suddenly blurted out a question out of the blue.
"If you're talking about waking up to find that most of your mental energy has disappeared, then I have indeed found that."
Even after discovering such a shocking thing, Yudu still maintained a harmless, smiling demeanor.
Pei Qian knew that this cunning fox was very shrewd and knew her physical condition very well, so it was normal for her to have discovered it. Now that things had come to this, she was too lazy to hide it anymore.
"There are many races in interstellar space, and it's not impossible that there are even species that feed on mental energy."
"So, you're probably just acting out of self-preservation because you're not full. Don't worry too much."
"I hope so." Whether what he said was true or false, Pei Qing felt a little better.
What time is it now?
"It was around nine o'clock in the morning."
"?! It's been so long? No, I have to get to the lab right away."
Before leaving, Yudu suddenly called out to her, "I'll always be here. If you need anything, come find me anytime."
"……good."
Seven floors underground at the research institute, Pei Qing arrived at the laboratory, panting. "No, I'm sorry, something came up."
"It's alright, just come over here," the lab technician said without saying anything, and led her over.
"Okay." Pei Qing quietly extended a thin tentacles from her trouser leg and placed the miniature robots in a hidden corner. She waited for a while, and only left after no alarms sounded.
Today's experiment was quick; they only had to have a vial of blood drawn after exercising. Because she had something on her mind, Pei Qing naturally didn't spend time with Luo Yu as usual and left in a hurry, not seeing the resentful look in the man's eyes behind her.
The corridor seemed unusually winding today, and the researchers who were originally walking in front had disappeared without a trace.
Pei Qing was preoccupied and didn't pay attention, just walking with her head down. Suddenly, she could faintly hear soft conversations coming from ahead.
She paused, then hid in a concealed spot and listened quietly.
"Have the self-destruct program been finalized?" Linka's voice was cold, no longer carrying the gentle smile.
Self-destruction? Pei Qian frowned deeply, listening carefully, unwilling to miss a single piece of information.
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Author's Note: My darlings, I've been quite busy these past few days, so updates might be a bit late. If you can't wait, go to sleep now, and you'll see new content first thing tomorrow morning! [Heart][Heart][Heart]
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