Chapter 9: Life and Death
#What kind of cafe doesn't even have stir-fried pork with green peppers#
Lu Yan directly pulled Yu Zechuan out of the cafe. Perhaps to hide his embarrassment, he coughed and said, "Forget it, let's go back and order takeout."
Yu Zechuan looked at the road ahead, not knowing what he was thinking. He silently put his hands into his coat pockets, fumbling with his fingertips for a moment, and suddenly said, "I'm going to buy a lighter."
Lu Yan subconsciously said, "Let me buy it for you."
As soon as he said this, he realized his identity as a "hostage". However, before he could change his words and say that he would go together, Yu Zechuan said calmly, "Stand here. If you dare to run, you will bear the consequences yourself."
He turned around and walked away, heading straight for the 24-hour convenience store at the corner of the street. Yu Zechuan was originally wearing dark clothes, and his back almost blended into the darkness when he left, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Lu Yan stood where he was and looked around. He saw a constant stream of cars and people coming and going in the brightly lit shopping mall, and the noise could be heard from far away.
He hasn't felt what normal life is like for a long time. Looking back now, he only remembers the torment of illness day after day, and even the smell of hospital disinfectant lingering in his breath.
Lu Yan simply found a bench and sat down, crossing his legs and looking up lazily. In the square not far away, there was a group of young people skateboarding. One of them was a short-haired girl who skated in front of Lu Yan again and again. She couldn't help but look at him. Her fair face gradually turned red, with the youthfulness and liveliness unique to this age.
Lu Yan smiled at her, gentle and handsome. The girl turned her head away embarrassedly, and then slid away with a "swish".
Liking someone means looking at them, wanting to get closer, and then running away in a panic.
“Buzz——”
The cell phone in Lu Yan's trouser pocket suddenly vibrated. He frowned slightly, somewhat surprised why the cell phone was on him. He took it out and saw the three big, bright words "Manager Chen" displayed on the screen.
Lu Yan pressed the answer button tentatively: "Hello?"
Before he could even bring the phone close to his ear, a deafening roar came from the other end of the line, as powerful as a speakerphone: "Lu Yan!!!! Do you want to quit your job?! Why didn't you reply to the message I sent in the work group yesterday?!"
Lu Yan turned his head away from his phone and picked his ear: "Sorry, Manager Chen, my phone was broken yesterday."
Unexpectedly, Manager Chen got even angrier and slammed the table on the other end of the phone: "Your phone is broken? If your phone is broken, you can still post to your friends about your breakup?! And you can still hang out with your friends until you're drunk?!"
Lu Yan: “…” Wrong decision.
Manager Chen: "Come over tomorrow and work overtime for me!"
Lu Yan's eyelids jumped, wondering why he couldn't avoid working overtime in the gaming world: "Is there overtime pay?"
Manager Chen: "It's good that I didn't fire you, and you still dare to ask for overtime pay?!"
Lu Yan refused decisively: "No."
Manager Chen was shocked and couldn't believe that Lu Yan would reject him: "Why?"
Lu Yan said impatiently: "Because I was kidnapped!"
Lu Yan hung up the phone and threw the phone into the shopping bag. You must be kidding. He didn't even know if he could live till tomorrow, and he was still working overtime. Who would work overtime after being kidnapped by robbers? !
【Why not escape? 】
A cold mechanical sound suddenly rang out behind me, which could scare a timid person to death.
Lu Yan regained consciousness and looked back, and as expected, he found that the system had appeared. Countless blue-purple currents were lingering around the black heart, as if that was the energy it relied on for survival.
Lu Yan tilted his head in confusion: "Why are you running away?"
The system flew directly to his ears, and the voice was seductive, like a devil luring people to hell: [Your mission is to stay alive, and of course escaping is also for the sake of staying alive. ]
[This is a busy city. If you run away, Yu Zechuan won't be able to catch up with you.]
Lu Yan fell silent after hearing this, and seemed to be a little moved. The system chuckled and said: [Why do you think Yu Zechuan left suddenly? He just wanted to give you a chance to escape. ]
[He is a person who can be soft-hearted for only a moment. If you miss this opportunity, you will never get the next one.]
The night was chilly, and as the sound of the system gradually dissipated into the air, it seemed as if even the wind blowing in one's face carried the smell of blood.
Yu Zechuan leaned against the fence by the roadside, his messy hair covering his eyes. He lowered his head and lit a cigarette, the grinding wheel of the lighter turned, and a cluster of faint blue flames ignited in the depths of his pupils. He closed his eyes and raised his head, slowly exhaling a puff of pale white smoke, as if he was spitting out his soul as well.
Yu Zechuan smoked very slowly, and he didn't seem to be in a hurry to go back, nor did he go to the convenience store to buy a lighter. He calculated the time, and waited for about ten minutes before throwing the long-burned cigarette butt in his hand into the trash can and turning back in the same direction.
Lu Yan should have run away, Yu Zechuan thought.
He deliberately brought her to the downtown area, deliberately slipped his cell phone into her pocket, and deliberately left with the excuse of buying a lighter. If he didn't run away after all this, it would be too stupid.
However, when Yu Zechuan was walking back, he saw a familiar figure sitting on the side of the road, and his expression changed involuntarily -
Lu Yan was sitting on a bench with his legs crossed, watching the old man and old woman dancing square dance in front of him with interest. He glanced at Yu Zechuan and suddenly found him. He stood up and walked over with the shopping bag in his hand: "How is it, did you buy a lighter?"
His tone was normal, as if he didn't notice anything.
Yu Zechuan stared at Lu Yan motionlessly, as if he wanted to see through his heart: "Have you been here all this time?"
Lu Yan was stunned for a moment: "Didn't you ask me to wait here? What's wrong?"
Yu Zechuan didn't answer. He turned his head away and frowned, "Nothing. Let's go back."
Yu Zechuan stopped a taxi on the roadside and got in with Lu Yan. They were silent the whole time. The system quietly appeared beside Lu Yan's ears, and the voice was sinister: [Why don't you run away? ]
Lu Yan has now learned to communicate with it through his mind: "Why should I escape?"
The system gnashed its teeth: [If you don't run away, you will die! ]
Lu Yan smiled slightly: "I will die if I run away."
He turned his head and looked out the window after he finished speaking, only to see a silver-gray car parked quietly on the side of the road. Sitting in the driver's seat was a gentle-looking man wearing a sophisticated blue suit. It was Xue Jin.
This scene passed by the car window so quickly that he could not catch it in time, but Lu Yan still recognized the other party and said to the system calmly:
"Yu Zechuan doesn't trust me."
"If he lets me go, I will go and inform Jiang Boyun, and his revenge plan will be ruined in an instant."
"How could he let me go?"
Quite the contrary.
"Yu Zechuan has always wanted to kill me."
"It was only because of the love I showed him and my care all night yesterday that he was wavering and couldn't find the right moment to make his move."
"If I had really escaped just now, Xue Jin would have caught me back immediately."
What awaits Lu Yan will then be a death even more tragic and hopeless than the one in the first game.
"And you," Lu Yan stared at the black heart that flew in front of him and said in an ambiguous way, "You want me to die too."
The system was stunned.
Although Lu Yan didn't know the reason, he could feel that the system was full of malice towards him. And how could such a malicious system be kind enough to help him survive?
This can only mean one thing, if he really escaped, he would die immediately.
Lu Yan smiled faintly and said silently: "I will never believe you, so you don't need to interfere with my judgment, you evil-minded devil."
Black-hearted ghost, this is the friendly nickname that Lu Yan gave to the system.
The system was a black heart, with no human expression on its face, but from its trembling body it was not difficult to see some suppressed anger, and it uttered coldly:
[Lu Yan, I hope you don’t let your cleverness lead to mistakes! ]
As it stopped talking, its body turned transparent and it disappeared into the air with a whoosh.
The car was dark, and the warm yellow street lights reflected on the window glass, casting a blurry light and shadow. Yu Zechuan couldn't help but glance at Lu Yan, and the latter turned his head at the right time, his eyes collided with his in the air, and the corners of his lips curled slightly, with circles of gentle ripples and admiration.
Look how much I love you.
Lu Yanhun's whole body was telling these words. His eyes were so doting that they seemed to be able to weave into an invisible dense web and firmly trap Yu Zechuan in it.
Yu Zechuan couldn't meet her gaze, and his hands on his knees tightened uncontrollably. At this time, a taxi happened to stop downstairs of the apartment building. Lu Yan took out his mobile phone to scan the code to pay, and then got out of the car with Yu Zechuan.
"I'm sorry, I don't know what happened, I accidentally took my cell phone out when I went out today."
Lu Yan's tone was self-blaming. He seemed to be afraid that Yu Zechuan might misunderstand him, so he handed the phone over directly: "Don't worry, I didn't do anything. I just answered a call from my leader."
Yu Zechuan took the phone and deciphered the password in front of Lu Yan. He casually glanced at the call record and asked, "What did you talk about?"
Lu Yan: "Nothing, just let me go back to work overtime."
Yu Zechuan asked back: "Are you sure you didn't tell others that you were kidnapped?"
“…”
Lu Yan paused, then he remembered that there was a listening device in his phone. He smiled at Yu Zechuan without panicking: "Don't worry, he won't believe it even if I tell him. Which kidnapped person can make a phone call by himself?"
It seems not.
Yu Zechuan didn't dwell on this matter any more. He glanced at Lu Yan calmly and turned to walk downstairs. He had a knife in his pocket, but because it had been hidden for too long, it was causing some pain to his skin, but he couldn't find a chance to draw blood.
Yu Zechuan had just been looking for an opportunity to kill Lu Yan.
As long as the other party ran away, it would mean that Lu Yan's previous words were all false. If the other party really liked him, why would she run away from him? If you like someone, shouldn't you be with them all the time?
But unfortunately, Yu Zechuan's attempt failed, and even Xue Jin, who was secretly following him, was of no use.
Yu Zechuan didn't know whether he was more disappointed or annoyed. After all, he still had a lot of things to do. It was really troublesome to keep someone by his side who he couldn't kill or let go.
Lu Yan followed behind Yu Zechuan and saw that the other party's pace was getting faster and faster, and finally he suddenly stopped. He didn't brake in time and almost bumped into him.
Lu Yanmin noticed something was wrong: "What's wrong?"
Yu Zechuan didn't turn around. He put his hands in his pockets, his sharp features hidden in the shadow of his hat brim, and suddenly uttered:
"Lu Yan, stop following me."
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