As soon as the cigarette was lit, Cen Yu stepped back a little, while the match in Chi Jiazhen's hand was almost burned to the end... He seemed not to feel anything, letting the flame burn to his fingertips.
Cen Yu, with a cigarette between his fingers, just stared at Chi Jiazhen as if he were in a daze, letting the flames burn his fingers.
He held the match, seemingly feeling no pain... until the last bit of the matchstick burned out, leaving slight burn marks on his fingertips, and the air was filled with the smell of burnt flesh.
"Doesn't it hurt?" Cen Yu asked.
He just looked indifferent, as if he didn't care.
Chi Jiazhen stared at her finger and said, "Blow on it and it won't hurt anymore."
Cen Yu snorted coldly, "Dream on."
Chi Jiazhen didn't care.
Doing this in front of Cen Yu is a way of showing that he no longer intends to hide anything—and Cen Yu understands this.
Chi Jiazhen didn't quite understand Cen Yu. In his opinion, after learning that Cen Yu was a Zerg, he should have either cursed him or immediately parted ways with him.
Just like his treatment of Li Chonghe.
After learning that the Beta Second Prince, whom he disliked, had become half-human and half-insect, shouldn't he have immediately reported it to Wen Xihe? Why would he deliberately help him conceal it?
Everything that happened inside the 'nest' could not escape Chi Jiazhen's perception, so he knew that Cen Yu had deliberately destroyed the recorder in order to avoid exposing the "ugly appearance" of Li Chonghe's elytra growing out of his back.
"You like Li Chonghe?" Chi Jiazhen was genuinely confused. He looked at Cen Yu, his expression one of undisguised bewilderment. "Because he is the second prince of the empire?"
He wanted to say that he could do it too.
He was the last of the royal insects he belonged to.
From some perspectives, he could be considered a prince.
"..." Cen Yu was so startled that he almost dropped the cigarette in his hand.
He looked at Chi Jiazhen speechlessly, "Don't go crazy."
"Then why?" Chi Jiazhen's tone was now tinged with jealousy. "He clearly turned into an ugly insect, grew elytra in front of you, and completed his transformation, but you're willing to help him cover up the truth?"
"After the signal was interrupted, the voice in my earpiece was yours, wasn't it?" Cen Yu took another drag of his cigarette and looked up at the sky—in the distance, neon lights flickered, and the Zerg signs shone brightly. Although he was asking a question, his tone was very certain.
"yes."
"You led me to the fifth basement level because you know Li Chonghe is there?"
"yes."
Now that things have come to this, Chi Jiazhen has nothing left to hide.
He stared at Cen Yu as if waiting for some kind of judgment—he knew he was selfish and dark, and he knew his identity was awkward, but he stubbornly needed Cen Yu to give him an answer.
"Pretty impressive." Cen Yu's tone was ambiguous, neither sarcastic nor anything else.
"What is that underground building? Your birthplace? Or your lair?" Cen Yu asked, looking around. He wanted to find an ashtray, and if that didn't work... he decided to throw it on the ground.
Chi Jiazhen handed her hand.
“?” Cen Yu didn’t understand why he reached out his hand.
Chi Jiazhen faced him with her palms up.
“Here.” Chi Jiazhen’s gaze fell on the cigarette in Cen Yu’s hand.
"..." Stop messing around!
Just as Cen Yu was about to ask him if he was mentally unstable, Chi Jiazhen reached out and grabbed Cen Yu's wrist, pulling him to stub out his cigarette in his own palm.
"You know I'm a bug, so I don't feel pain."
Chi Jiazhen held Cen Yu's wrist, preventing him from letting go. He glanced at the cigarette butt in his palm and Cen Yu's hand. "You guessed right."
"That's my hometown, and my old home."
"I was born in that underground laboratory."
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