Chapter 433 Safe House
"Why?"
As if he had heard something funny, Xu Yan pushed his monocle, sat on the stool and laughed, his shoulders shaking.
"Guess why."
He didn't give a direct answer.
"If you want to see the cook one last time, open the box, but it may be difficult for you."
Perhaps he thought of something, and Xu Yan gradually stopped smiling.
"It is still very difficult for humans not to be controlled by emotions. It is impossible to do so without experiencing some things." He leaned back in his chair with a somewhat sad expression.
Seeing the child in front of him standing in a daze, Xu Yan threw the jar of money to the ground. His tone was gentle, which was inconsistent with his ruthless behavior.
"Don't worry, it's not just the cook."
"From today on, you will move in with me. You will no longer meet those humans you are familiar with. They will go to accompany the cook."
The tears that had been accumulating for a long time fell like raindrops.
As the man spoke lightly, Xiao Zhiyan finally couldn't hold back her tears, which flowed down her cheeks, soaking her clothes in an instant.
Xu Yan was not in a hurry either. He looked at Xiao Zhiyan crying with a relaxed look on his face.
After looking at it for a while, he took out a cigarette from his arms and lit it. He didn't reach out to Xiao Zhiyan again until the smoke dissipated.
His fingertips brushed across the corner of the eye, and Xu Yan gently rubbed the light-colored teardrop mole under Xiao Zhiyan's left eye with his fingertips.
"Let's find some time to remove the mole. I don't like it very much."
He asked as a matter of course.
In the eyes of mimics, humans are just containers, and age has nothing to do with them.
"I don't like your name either, but it doesn't matter, because one day, you will also be called Xu Yan, and you can only be called this name." Xu Yan smiled, withdrew his hand, and lit another cigarette.
No one responded.
Perhaps it was because Xiao Zhiyan cried too sadly, the system in the sea of consciousness jumped up and down without stopping for a moment.
[Too bad… This guy is really too bad! He even got a teardrop mole? What’s there to pick on? He has so many problems! Call the police! Can someone help call the police? He is killing people in the real world, violating the law! Death penalty! Sentence him to death, let him be shot…]
As a first-person perspective, it participates in the entire day's process.
At first, Xiao Zhiyan was very alert, but he was probably too eager for some family affection that he had never received. With Xu Yan's gentle company, he gradually smiled, but the result caught everyone off guard.
Thinking of this, the system cursed again, but it was not enough to relieve my anger.
[When I get out this time, I will definitely go online and download a collection of dirty words!]
[Is he sick? Since he was ready to kill everyone around his sweetheart from the beginning, why did he still do this...]
Maybe it's because I've been scolding for too long, the system is finally a little tired.
After a while, Xu Zhiyan's calm voice emerged.
"Because Xu Yan wants a container that has no feelings for any human being." If he had not known about the mimic species in advance, he might have directly defined the other party as a pervert with strange habits.
But just to get a suitable container, he resorted to such means...
As expected, when mimics look at humans, they never treat them as equals, nor do they care about any principles. Gan Mi and Wang Ying are the outliers among mimics.
Xu Zhiyan sneered, his tone making it impossible to tell the emotion.
"He's scared. He's afraid that the person will really run away." If it wasn't for the fear, Xu Yan would have no need to suppress a child so long in advance. His method is disgusting.
Xu Yan's action was a silent warning.
He was warning Xiao Zhiyan that all your actions were under my surveillance, and no matter what you did, you couldn't escape from my control. Don't try to escape in the future, and don't develop feelings for humans, because I will kill everyone who is close to you...
The system only then realized that these were the memories of its own host.
[Host, are you not angry?]
It asked carefully, using even honorifics.
"Angry? Maybe."
When this was mentioned, Xu Zhiyan chuckled.
"After experiencing the same thing too many times, my heart has lost its feeling."
His childhood experiences had already distorted his personality, and in the subsequent false memories, this content was replaced by even more sad memories, so sad that even after Uta, who was in his hands, cleared those memories and his memory became completely blurred, he still remembered the panic and helplessness at that time.
Just when the system didn't know how to comfort him, Xu Zhiyan chuckled and said in a very brisk tone: "Xu Yan, are you sure that what you break and reshape will really be what you want?"
Twenty years had passed between them, and his inquiring laugh was tinged with madness.
This is the first time the system has encountered a host in this mental state.
But with these words, Xiao Zhiyan's tears stopped flowing, and her eyes gradually changed...
As doubts piled up in the system's heart, it suddenly felt dazed. It didn't know if there was any connection between them. It wanted to ask the host, since the time feature was in effect and it could sense the other party's emotions, would Xiao Zhiyan be affected by the host? But it hesitated again and again, and finally kept silent and dared not speak.
Everything that happened next seemed to be a response to Xu Zhiyan’s words.
The sun sets and a bitterly cold wind picks up.
The amusement park has entered night mode.
Countless colorful lights lit up, the castle light show in the distance illuminated the night sky, the Ferris wheel shone with colorful light, and even the tracks and support frames of the roller coaster began to flicker continuously, emitting light pollution as if it were daytime.
Xu Yan watched all this calmly, and he no longer paid attention to the children around him.
Perhaps he wanted to pretend to be gentle and kind, so he tapped his fingertips on the handrail rhythmically and looked at the empty sky in the distance. Xu Yan asked with a gentle smile, "Little boy, shall we go home now, or watch the fireworks show first?"
He tugged at his collar, looking gentle but nonchalant, like a devil in human skin.
Just when Xu Yan thought he would not get a response, the child beside him who had been crying for a long time suddenly spoke.
"Mr. Xu, I want to watch the fireworks show before going home."
The voice was as soft as ever, without any hatred in it. After nearly two hours, Xiao Zhiyan spoke again, and he had completely returned to his previous state.
Xu Yan was stunned.
He turned to look at Xiao Zhiyan. If it weren't for the dried tear marks on the child's face, he would almost think that the other party was stimulated and mentally ill.
Seeing Xu Yan standing there in a daze without answering, Xiao Zhiyan asked back in confusion.
"What's wrong? Mr. Xu, don't you want to see it?" The sadness and pain disappeared from his eyes, leaving only indifference.
Seeing this, Xu Yan felt a little uncomfortable.
Obviously, the relationship between the two has not changed and he is still the dominant one, but the other party's actions have completely exceeded his expectations.
Under normal circumstances, people who have suffered a major misfortune will generally enter a state of decadence, and may even refuse to receive information from the outside world in order to protect themselves. Some people may even be stimulated to the point of amnesia...
It's so abnormal.
Anyway, how could a six-year-old child recover from pain so quickly?
While hesitating, Xu Yan saw Xiao Zhiyan suddenly jump off the stool, stand up, stretch his stiff hands and feet, pick up the plastic can thrown on the ground, and look over again.
"Since Mr. Xu doesn't want to watch, let's go home." He looked extremely well-behaved, as if he was holding just an ordinary doll in his arms.
With a slight frown, the relaxed expression on Xu Yan's face disappeared.
"Don't you want to see the other box of gift?" When he mentioned the cook, the confusion between his brows eased a little.
Xiao Zhiyan said indifferently: "It's all right, but the box looks dirty. If you think I should see it, go open the box yourself."
Time had passed so long that the lower half of the red gift box had been completely soaked in blood, and its color had changed from bright red to dark red. It emitted a fishy smell, which was completely inconsistent with the bright bow wrapped on the top, and it was full of hints of decay and death.
Xu Yan glanced at it, feeling a little disgusted, but ultimately decided not to open it.
Since the other party is no longer afraid of death, the bloody head he prepared in the gift box has no meaning.
By this time, the weather had become completely dark and the fireworks show in the amusement park had begun.
“Swoosh—bang!”
As countless golden lights exploded in the sky, the grand fireworks show began. Although it was only a fleeting beauty, people couldn't help but immerse themselves in it.
Xiao Zhiyan turned his head, as if enjoying the fireworks show.
“It’s a pleasant surprise.”
He spoke softly, and it was unclear whether he was talking about gifts or fireworks, or to whom he was talking.
Xu Yan looked at Xiao Zhiyan standing under the brilliant golden fireworks, slowly stood up, and smiled softly: "Yes, you are indeed a surprise."
Let him see what the surprise he created with his own hands will look like in the end!
…
As Xu Yan said, on the night when the amusement park trip ended, Xiao Zhiyan was taken to the main courtyard of the Xu family. Except for the tall bodyguard, all the people around him were replaced. The system could see at a glance that Xu Yan replaced most of the people around Xiao Zhiyan with mimics.
Now, the possibility of escaping by relying on people around him has completely disappeared.
However, Xiao Zhiyan behaved stably, did not resist any decision of Xu Yan, and did the same thing every day.
He ate three meals a day with the owner of the mansion. During the day, when Xu Yan was working, someone would come to teach him to read and write. In his free time, he would take books from the bookcase to read. Although he could not understand the relevant content, it did not prevent him from liking the gold and banknotes in the pictures.
The relationship between the two is strange yet harmonious.
The day at the amusement park seemed to have disappeared from Xiao Zhiyan's life and had no effect on him.
Xu Yan always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't find out what it was, so he just let it go.
In fact, apart from the system, even Xu Zhiyan himself didn’t know that every day after falling asleep, curled up in the quilt, he would start to cry as if he was trapped in his own dream, repeating those nightmares every time...
Winter goes and spring comes.
When the month turned to spring again, Xu Zhiyan saw a familiar face through his childhood vision.
The tall man with frizzy white hair was wearing a white T-shirt. He looked like he had not woken up yet, which was completely different from the luxurious and noble atmosphere of the entire Xu residence. He was holding an orange that came from nowhere in his hand, and he lazily walked into Xu Yan's private study.
It’s Yan Chengfan.
When he passed by Xiao Zhiyan, he took a curious look and exclaimed, "Oh! Where did this kid come from? He's quite cute. Is he a illegitimate child?"
Xu Yan, who was wiping his glasses, suddenly had his hand shaken and the lens was crushed, and the gold wire frame was also flattened.
"... Boss, you don't have to talk if you don't want to. Never mind, you go down first." He simply retorted, and the next sentence was addressed to Xiao Zhiyan.
Seeing the child put down the book and stood up to leave, Xu Yan didn't waste any more words and went straight to the point: "Did you find it? I heard that the loss of this copy was huge. Will it affect our plan?"
The voice became smaller and smaller, but the content was conveyed word for word.
Xu Zhiyan heard Yan Chengfan's answer.
"We found the fragments of the ghost god. They are stronger than we could imagine. Four core members were killed. Only Song Longchuan managed to survive. However, the original container cannot be used anymore. He is out of this round."
"Tsk, that's too tragic. When he was brought back, only half of his body was left."
"It's time to break the seal...Okay, I know it's risky, but no one can survive except Himself."
In the second round of the game, the mimics were sliced by ghosts and the battle was extremely brutal.
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