Chapter 173 Sleepless
[You tried to dig open my monster-like skin to explore what was hidden deep inside, but you found a rotten heart that no longer beats and only loves you day after day...]
Humans and monsters, is it possible?
Lu Yan sat on the sofa, eating potato chips and watching TV, but his mind was full of random thoughts. After they came back from the Devil City, Xing Yuan went straight to the director and did not come back for the whole day. He was probably discussing matters related to the priest. It was raining inexplicably in the gloomy sky, and the water drops slowly slid down the glass window, leaving a winding trail.
Lu Yan thought about it and still felt that this matter was a bit absurd, so he simply called Lu Xiaozhao. The ring rang three times before it was picked up. A sleepy voice came from the other end of the phone: "Brother, what are you doing in the middle of the night? I'm asleep..."
Lu Yan ignored his complaints, frowned and held a cigarette in his mouth: "I'm going to ask you something, answer it honestly."
Lu Xiaozhao lay in the quilt like a turtle, closed his eyes and said sleepily: "Ask."
Anyway, he has been staying in the hotel recently and has not gone out of the house. He has not caused any trouble and has been sleeping all day. Lu Yan has no reason to punish him.
Lu Yan thought for a moment before asking, "That is... I mean, after you became a wanderer, do you have any habits or nature that are different from humans?"
Lu Xiaozhao looked puzzled and said, "Why are you asking this?"
Wouldn't his brother want to kill his own relatives for the sake of justice?
Lu Yan slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, moved the phone to his other ear, and asked expressionlessly: "Want to know why? Do you want me to go to the hotel and tell you in person?"
Lu Xiaozhao immediately stood up when he heard that, shaking his head like a wave drum. Just kidding, Lu Yan would definitely cut him when he came. He stammered, "It's nothing, it's just... sometimes I really want to eat someone at night, the kind that makes me feel so hungry that I can't help grinding my teeth."
Lu Yan knew that Lu Xiaozhao grinds his teeth at night. That night when he and the other party slept together in the hotel, Lu Xiaozhao grinds his teeth all night long, and he finally quieted him down with a slap in the face.
Lu Yan asked, "Is that all?"
Lu Xiaozhao thought for a moment and said, "When I fall asleep at night, my legs will uncontrollably turn into a tail."
Lu Yan: "What else?"
Lu Xiaozhao: "Sometimes the eyes turn red."
Lu Yan: "Go on."
Lu Xiaozhao: "I can't sleep at night, and I especially hate the sunlight during the day."
Lu Xiaozhao: "I also particularly like the smell of blood. I get really horny when I smell it."
Lu Xiaozhao: "I feel sleepy easily after the red moon comes out, just like a hibernating snake. I can't help but turn into my original form several times when I sleep."
Lu Xiaozhao listed several points in one breath, and the more Lu Yan listened, the more confused he became. He usually didn't pay much attention to this, but Xing Yuan didn't seem to have anything to do with the above conditions. Could it be that he guessed wrong?
Lu Yan frowned: "Are you sure you're not fooling me?"
Lu Xiaozhao swore to the heavens: "It's absolutely true! If I lied to you, you'd better beat the shit out of me right now!"
"I find it disgusting."
Lu Yan put out the cigarette with a twitching expression and was about to say something when he heard the sound of a door opening outside. Guessing that it was Xing Yuan who came back, he quickly hung up the phone, got up and walked out.
Xing Yuan had been in meetings all day, and his eyes were slightly dark blue, and his handsome and sharp features were covered with a layer of fatigue and laziness. He took off his black uniform jacket and threw it on the hanger. He leaned against the entrance and slowly took off his shoes. He saw Lu Yan coming out and raised his eyebrows and asked, "Who were you talking to on the phone just now?"
Lu Yan stretched out his hand and pulled him into his arms. Although Xing Yuan looked tall and thin, he was still a little shorter than Lu Yan. His weight was relatively light among men of the same age. Lu Yan only needed to use a little strength to pick him up with one hand.
"Nothing. I was worried about my brother, so I just called him."
Xing Yuan rested his chin on Lu Yan's shoulder, too tired to even open his eyelids. Hearing this, he remembered that the other party had a younger brother in the hotel. He hummed lightly and said, "It's not peaceful recently. If you really can't do it, you can take him to live with you."
Sky City is about to make a big move. The core area where Xing Yuan lives has strict security, which is more than ten levels better than a hotel.
Lu Yan carried the person into the living room, and accidentally fell on the sofa with a stumble. He wanted to get up, but Xing Yuan hooked her legs around his waist and held him tightly. The two had to maintain that intimate posture while talking.
Lu Yan kissed Xing Yuan's eyes and said, "No need. Let him stay in the hotel for now."
Xing Yuan has a very strong sense of personal territory and hates those messy relatives coming to his house the most. The nanny must leave after buying groceries and cooking, and cannot stay for even a second longer. Lu Yan never thought that he would be willing to take Lu Xiaozhao in for his sake.
Although Xing Yuan was a wanderer, he was not completely unreasonable. He first approached like a puppy and sniffed the cigarette smoke on Lu Yan's collar, then slowly licked and kissed his Adam's apple, and casually uttered a shocking news: "The outer perimeter of Sky City is about to be lost, and there is a high possibility of fighting. Let your brother move over as soon as possible. The core area is heavily guarded, so at least it is safe."
Lu Yan paused when he heard this. Although he guessed the reason, he still made a surprised expression at the right time: "Sky City is about to be lost? Why?"
Xing Yuan said expressionlessly: "Don't ask too much. It won't do you any good to know too much."
Lu Yan raised his eyebrows slightly, thinking that he didn't need to ask, since he had plenty of information channels anyway: "You've been tired all day, go take a shower and have a good sleep after that."
Xing Yuan was lazy and didn't seem to want to move at all. He gently raised his chin, his dark eyes fell on Lu Yan's white neck, and said in an ambiguous way: "I'm hungry."
Lu Yan didn't think much and said, "I'll cook for you?"
“…”
Xing Yuan had no interest in human food. He was always craving for fresh flesh and blood. This symptom became more obvious after the red moon came out. He sat up from the sofa and licked Lu Yan's Adam's apple with his tongue like some kind of cold snake. The speed was so fast that the person concerned had no time to react:
"No, I'm going to take a shower, you go to bed and wait for me."
The implication of this sentence is self-evident.
Lu Yan sat on the sofa and watched Xing Yuan go into the bathroom. He felt a chill on his back. He glanced down at the message on his phone and saw a series of question marks from Lu Xiaozhao:
【？ ？ ？ Brother, why did you hang up the phone suddenly? 】
Lu Yan thought that he had to hang up, otherwise he would be the one to be hanged. He typed a line of words and sent Xing Yuan's residential address: [It's not safe outside recently, I'll move to this place tomorrow. ]
Lu Xiaozhao posted another question mark, obviously not knowing what Lu Yan was thinking in the middle of the night: [? ]
Lu Yan sent a shut-mouth emoticon and then turned off his phone. Xing Yuan just happened to come out of the bathroom in a bathrobe. Steam was rising and his short inky black hair was dripping with water, giving off a cool and alluring vibe.
"Didn't I tell you to wait for me in bed?"
Xing Yuan frowned and muttered something, seeming a little unhappy. He walked to the sofa, leaned over and stared at Lu Yan, his voice low, half reminding and half warning: "I know you sneaked out last night to clear out the vagrants. During this time, you stay at home honestly and don't let me find you running around. Do you hear me?"
Lu Yanrao asked with interest: "You are a superpower, and I am also a superpower, we are the same, why can't we go out?"
Xing Yuan sneered: "Who is the same as you?"
He is a wanderer, and Lu Yan is a fragile human being.
Since the sofa was spacious enough, it didn't matter if they didn't go to bed. Lu Yan was worried that Xing Yuan might be a wanderer, so his kiss was inevitably a little gentle and hesitant than usual. Xing Yuan, perhaps affected by the blood moon, showed a bit of ferocity. He kissed him hard and deeply, and there was a hint of blood between their lips and tongues.
The slight smell of rust stimulated him, and his dark pupils flashed a dark light, revealing a scarlet color under the crystal light.
When Lu Yan discovered this, he thought to himself that he was doomed. Could Xing Yuan really be a wanderer? But he still did not give up. What if it was due to the refraction of light?
Xing Yuan noticed his perfunctory attitude and quietly pinched Lu Yan's chin with enough force that it hurt a little. He asked without being able to tell the emotion, "What are you thinking about?"
"I was thinking... the sofa might be a little small."
Lu Yan held his hand and kissed him a few times before picking him up and walking towards the bedroom. It was pitch dark inside and he couldn't see anything as he rolled around on the bed, so he finally stopped his wild thoughts.
After tossing and turning for several hours, Xing Yuan finally fell asleep. He lay lazily on Lu Yan and licked the blood left between his lips and teeth, feeling an itchy sensation.
If a wanderer likes someone, he should let that person stay in his stomach, but that way he can neither touch nor kiss that person, so Xing Yuan couldn't help feeling a little regretful.
Lu Yan closed his eyes, not wanting to sleep at all, because in the second half of the night, a slight creaking sound suddenly came from Xing Yuan's mouth, which sounded like teeth grinding, but not quite. It was like the sound of a wanderer chewing flesh and bones, which made one's scalp tingle.
“Crack…”
“Crack…”
Forget it, maybe Xing Yuan was eating in his dream. Didn't he tell me he was hungry at night? Although he didn't eat anything in the end.
Lu Yan tried to comfort himself, pulled up the quilt that had slipped off Xing Yuan, and continued to sleep while holding him. Xing Yuan felt comfortable in his sleep, and unconsciously rubbed Lu Yan twice, then used his hands and feet to entangle him in the quilt.
entangled.
entangle...
Lu Yan finally couldn't hold it anymore. His usually calm expression showed signs of cracking at this moment, because he didn't feel that the things wrapped around him in the quilt were two legs, but more like something hard to describe, soft, cold, long, like a snake's tail...
It wrapped around his strong waist, round and round, until it loosened up a little when it reached his calves.
Even if Lu Yan was a vegetable, he should have noticed something was wrong. He glanced at Xing Yuan secretly in the dark, then lifted a corner of the quilt and tentatively reached in a hand tremblingly.
He didn't know where he touched in a daze. Xing Yuan suddenly frowned, clicked his tongue impatiently, and twitched his tail, breaking the decorative column at the end of the bed in half.
“Pah.”
The carved wooden decorative ball fell onto the soft wool blanket without making any sound.
Lu Yan froze in his tracks. He felt his eyes go dark and his breathing become difficult. He didn't know if he was frightened or harassed. Two words kept playing in his mind:
It’s over, it ...!
Xing Yuan was actually a wanderer! He actually slept with a wanderer? ! !
Lu Yan thought he was usually pretty good at playing, but never to this extent. What should he do now? He couldn't run away, nor could he stay. What if Xing Yuan found out? Would he kill him to silence him? After all, if the news that Xing Yuan was a wanderer got out, he might be killed. If the other party didn't trust him, he would definitely face a bad fate.
Lu Yan felt like he was living a year that night. The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. Xing Yuan, on the other hand, managed to have a good sleep. When the sky first brightened in the morning, the sun had not risen yet. The red moon was still hanging in the sky. It was cloudy and rainy, which was extremely strange.
Xing Yuan's tail had unknowingly turned into legs again. He woke up from his sleep in a daze, and saw Lu Yan staring at him, asking in a sleepy and puzzled voice: "What are you doing?"
Xing Yuan looked like a lazy big cat who had just woken up. He rubbed against Lu Yan's shoulder with a confused look in his eyes, which actually made him look a little cute.
Lu Yan's eyes softened, and he suddenly couldn't say anything. He ruffled Xing Yuan's hair and asked, "Did you sleep well?"
Xing Yuan stretched his waist and said, "Not bad."
Lu Yan patted his back and said, "Get up, wash your face and have dinner."
He finished speaking, threw off the quilt and got out of bed, preparing to go to the bathroom to wash up, but before he could stand firmly, he fell to the ground with a thud. Xing Yuan was startled when he heard the noise, and subconsciously stood up and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
“…”
Lu Yan exhaled slowly: "Nothing, I just tripped and fell accidentally."
Xing Yuan was originally going to lend him a hand, but seeing that Lu Yan didn't seem to be in any serious condition, he lay back down again, saying in a disgusted tone, "Did you just borrow your legs from someone else? You fell into Luo Yang's arms last night, and you fell to the ground again today. Is it your legs or your waist that's at fault?"
Lu Yan's eyelids jumped: "Do you think there is something wrong with my waist?"
Xing Yuan recalled how he was tortured to death in bed yesterday, and his eyes wandered: "Then there is something wrong with your legs."
Damn it, Lu Yan couldn't help cursing in his heart. Who can walk normally after having his legs entangled by a snake's tail for a whole night? He admired the other person for being a warrior! It was thanks to his ability that he had a good physique. If it were someone else, they would have had their legs amputated that night!
Lu Yan was angry but dared not say anything. He limped out, holding on to the wall, to brush his teeth and wash up. Xing Yuan took a while to get up. When he went out, he saw Lu Yan sitting on the sofa watching TV. He didn't even talk to him, and seemed to be angry.
Xing Yuan bit his toothbrush, raised his eyebrows, and deliberately walked to his side and asked, "What are you looking at?"
Lu Yan said in a firm tone: "The Legend of the New White Snake."
Xing Yuan frowned: "What are you talking about?"
He never watches TV dramas about humans, such as Black Lady and White Lady, whose names sound weird.
Lu Yan: "A story about a snake marrying a human."
Xing Yuan was puzzled by the heavy taste of human beings: "A person married a snake? How can a person and a snake marry?"
Lu Yan didn't know how to explain it, so he could only change the channel. As luck would have it, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was playing, and the scene was eerie and terrifying.
Xing Yuan: "What is this?"
Lu Yan: "A story about a ghost marrying a human."
Xing Yuan glanced at the TV, then at Lu Yan's handsome profile. He was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked curiously:
"Is there any TV show where people hang out with the Wanderer?"
Lu Yan: “…”
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