Chapter 35: Optional

Sheng Shixian leaned against Pei Du without moving. After a while, he turned his head and kept the gag on his mouth against Pei Du's face.

Pei Du understood what he meant: "I'll pick some for you next time we eat."

Sheng Shixian was silent. He did not show much resistance on his face, and moved back to the sofa unconsciously. His mood suddenly stabilized during this time.

"If you behave well tonight, I will untie you tomorrow morning." Pei Du took a step back in his attitude.

Sheng Shixian likes to do little things at night, so Pei Du has to pay special attention to this aspect - to prevent Sheng Shixian from starting to think of crazy ideas again tonight.

Sheng Shi looked at Pei Du with a slightly subtle envy. He did not answer, but his eyes moved between the second and first floors. Finally, he chose to sleep on the sofa.

Pei Du intuitively felt that today was a little different from the past.

Sheng Shixian has gained controllable rationality in his speech and actions. He is no longer in a daze at any time and place like before, but has the ability to make choices and think.

His memory was coming back.

After a while, he will remember everything completely.

Pei Du didn’t know to what extent Sheng Shixian’s memory had recovered, but at least now he was no longer a beast that could not walk mentally.

Pei Du turned off the lights downstairs. He walked up the stairs, and when he turned around, the whole downstairs was already dark. Pei Du could only see the black lines of things in a blur, and the scene on the sofa was even more difficult to see clearly.

"Hmm." Sheng Shixian made an unclear sound inside.

Pei Du was helpless. He said, "I know where you are. Go to sleep."

Sheng Shixian didn't say anything else.

Pei Du went upstairs and closed the door. He sat back at his desk and picked up his phone only to find that he had missed several calls. Except for the first two calls from unknown numbers, the remaining three were from Qi Sheng.

Pei Du slid across the screen with his fingertips and called Qi Sheng back. Within a second or two, the call was connected.

"What is it?"

"Oh my god, Pei Du, you and I have been classmates for more than ten years, and this is how you talk to me."

Qi Sheng was somewhere unknown. There was a lot of noise coming from his place, with high-pitched rock music coming in from time to time. "What were you doing just now? I called you several times but you didn't answer. Don't go out and get bitten by aliens again!"

Pei Du turned the black book in his hand and said, "I'm at home. What do you want?"

"I heard you went back to the laboratory, boy, why didn't you tell me?" Qi Sheng's voice became clearer from the noise. He must have been walking out with his phone in his hand. "Are you feeling better? Don't be too tired."

Pei Du nodded: "I've been feeling much better recently and can go to work. You don't have to worry."

"That's fine. It seems my medical skills are pretty good." Qi Sheng said, "How is the alien you raised? Can he walk?"

"He..." Pei Du paused. The black book cover under his palm was hard, rough and prickly. "He ran away. He bit me and ran away. I don't know where he is now."

"Really! Damn, these aliens are so heartless! Pei Du, let me tell you, these aliens are all the same, you can't influence them at all, they are simply not human..."

Qi Sheng felt very resentful when he mentioned alien species. It seemed that he had been attacked by alien species before, so he hated these creatures the most.

Even though he is now a doctor, he still adheres to the principle of "three no-rescues": no saving bad people, no saving villains, and no saving mutants.

But as long as he is given the right amount of money, the above “three no’s” can be thrown away.

Pei Du had doubled the price before Qi Sheng reluctantly agreed to allow Sheng Shixian to treat him.

"Okay, don't mention him." Pei Du didn't want to listen to Qi Sheng's nagging anymore. Qi Sheng could keep cursing about aliens for half an hour, which was simply a waste of time. "I'm fine, don't worry."

Qi Sheng paused and said, "Okay, okay, if you don't want to talk, then don't talk. I have to go to KTV later. Do you want to come?"

Pei Du: “Not coming.”

Qi Sheng sighed and said, "What's the point of you staying at home every day?"

Pei Du's expression remained unchanged: "I have to work tomorrow, I'll hang up if you have nothing else to do."

"Okay, okay, okay... hang up, hang up. I have something to do too. Let's both stop talking nonsense." Qi Sheng's voice cut off. Pei Du put down his phone and found that Qi Sheng had hung up the call himself.

Pei Du didn't care.

He's already dead, why is he still out there? We can't find the murderer Pei Du, and not even his soul will be left behind.

Pei Du put his cell phone aside, opened the black book, and continued reading from the page he had read before.

Almost all the clues about the characters in this black book have been revealed. Pei Du now substitutes his own characters into the book, and the content he interprets is actually equivalent to Anjia's life on a certain level.

Since she met Ling Shu and Ling Yu in Xianghe Village at the age of 9, An Jia began to become involved in a complicated relationship with them.

[The master always said that he was different from me and Ling Shu. Ling Shu and I were the same kind of people, and he was just our foil, so he tried hard to get close to me.]

[I don't understand why he thinks this way. How can I be in the same category as someone like Ling Shu? I'm not crazy. But the master always says this, and every time I hear him say this, I feel sorry for him.]

Pei Du seemed to be thinking about something. Ling Yu had the white ball system on him. The PUA ball should have told Ling Yu about the settings of this world.

The reason why Ling Yu said this is because he knew that An Jia and Ling Shu corresponded to the heroine and hero respectively, and they were both at the upper level of the entire world, so they belonged to the same category.

And Ling Yu, in this world, was probably just a minor supporting role.

【Then, somehow, we ended up talking about Pei Du. Every time I mentioned Pei Du, I felt uncomfortable. After all, our relationship was complicated, and I didn’t want to make the host angry.】

[But the master didn't care about the relationship between Pei Du and me at all. Wouldn't he be jealous? Later, the master explained to me that he didn't care about Pei Du because he knew that Pei Du and I were not the same kind of people.]

Pei Du is numb. Yes, he is just a supporting role.

I asked him what kind of person Pei Du was.

【The host smiled. He said Pei Du was a dispensable person.】

Pei Du: “…”

Gouchu Tsousheng also scanned the contents of the book and sneered, "What is he pretending to be? How shameless! He is just a supporting role, but he thinks he is superior by pretending to be a fool! He even dares to pull you down!"

Pei Du didn't expect Gou Qie Tou Sheng to react so strongly. Before he could say anything, Gou Qie Tou Sheng turned the ball and raised a sign to Pei Du, saying, "Pei Du, you can't let him P you up. You are a dispensable person, but you are an ATM, okay?"

The words Pei Du was about to say were suddenly stuck in his throat.

"Without you, the heroine wouldn't have money to spend. Without you, Sheng Shiyan wouldn't have a house to live in. We need to be confident! Resolutely oppose ideological erosion, and insist on opposing P, fraud, and violence!"

Pei Du: “…”