Chapter 41
Li Jingtang's worry about Chen Mo exceeded his fear of the darkness. Even though his wrists and ankles were rubbed raw, he still didn't give up struggling. His anxious mood made his head a mess. In fact, he had been exhausted and confused because of the constant reincarnation.
But now he had to cheer up, as a man's low growl could be heard from time to time in the darkness.
Chen Zui probably wouldn't really attack Chen Mo, right? After all, Chen Mo was his brother, and killing someone was against the law...
Li Jingtang had been pushed to the brink of despair. He'd actually remembered that there was still law in this world and placed his hopes on it. How long had passed? Had Chen Zui gone to Chen Mo's place? Where had he taken Chen Mo? And where was he now?
He didn't know the answers to countless questions, which made people anxious.
At this moment, he suddenly heard a scream, which made him stop struggling and raise his neck and head to listen. Is it nearby? Has the action been taken?
Damn it!
Damn Chen Zui, he actually did it!
How could there be such a heartless and inhumane person like him!
Li Jingtang was breathing so fast that his eyes seemed to be bleeding.
"Ah!" he roared, the blue veins on his neck were about to burst, and he used all his strength to try to free his right hand.
"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"
The man shouted and roared angrily.
He couldn't help but worry about why there was no sound. The silence after the scream also made Li Jingtang panic. He was anxious about what happened over there. What was the current situation?
This time he wasn't just saying harsh words, he really wanted to kill Chen Zui!
He deserves to die!
Li Jingtang used up the last bit of his strength. His body was drenched in sweat, and his tired eyes revealed despair and sadness. Was it his fault? It must be his fault... He had insisted on dragging Chen Mo out, but failed to protect him.
He is so useless...
Regret torments the man.
I don’t know how much time passed, but the door suddenly opened and light came in, startling Li Jingtang who was immersed in deep self-blame. He turned his bloodshot eyes and tried to look towards the door.
"Chen Zui!"
"You're not a human! You're a beast!"
He cursed in a hoarse voice, with a bloody taste in his throat, and he was almost vomiting blood in grief and anger.
He heard heavy footsteps running towards him, and the person who appeared in his sight was Chen Mo, wearing a milky white sweater, a mask and glasses. Li Jingtang was so stunned by the huge surprise that he lost the ability to react.
Chen Mo looked exhausted. He staggered to his side and almost fell on the bed. Fortunately, he grabbed the edge of the bed and managed to stand.
Li Jingtang looked at the person in front of him in disbelief, feeling a kind of joy of regaining what he had lost, and tears fell unconsciously.
"Chen Mo?"
Even though he saw the person right in front of him, he still found it hard to believe it.
Chen Mo nodded: "It's me, I'm here to save you."
A simple sentence stabbed Li Jingtang's heart.
Aotian: [Favorability 50%, wow~ This plan is perfect. ]
They only require 70% favorability for the Secret Bookstore, but the favorability between people is not limited to love. There is also favorability towards friends and family. However, the Secret Bookstore does not make such a detailed division to make things difficult for the tasker. As long as you have a good impression of the tasker, all the values will be accumulated and even if the other party's favorability towards the tasker decreases later, there will be no deduction.
After all, their purpose of secretly penetrating the bookstore is to attack it, not to make things difficult for the taskers. Most of the people who can become taskers are young people who died in accidents. They are already very pitiful, so there is no need to add to their suffering under the pretext of giving them a chance to be reborn.
At this moment, Li Jingtang saw the person he thought was dead. The great joy and the happiness of finding him again made Chen Mo become like a treasure to him.
Favorability soared.
Chen Zui untied the ropes that bound Li Jingtang. Seeing his bruised wrists and ankles, he felt a rare pang of guilt. Doesn't this guy feel pain? Why is he struggling so hard?
As soon as Li Jingtang regained his freedom, he hugged Chen Zui.
"I'm so glad you're okay!"
The passionate expression of emotion made Chen Zui a little uncomfortable. He opened his hands as if in surrender. Li Jingtang's hug was tight and passionate. He was happy that Chen Mo survived.
Chen Zui felt a little sour in his heart because he was Chen Zui.
Li Jingtang looked up after his joy: "Where's Chen Zui? I heard a scream earlier, are you hurt?"
Chen Zui shook his head: "I'm not injured."
The dark eyes stared at Li Jingtang: "I killed him."
Li Jingtang frowned, as if he didn't quite understand what he said. It was not his fault. After all, in his opinion, Chen Mo was weak and had no killing power, and Chen Zui was a guy who would probably need a reinforced company to kill him.
Just like an ant cannot kill an elephant.
People cannot understand things that are beyond their own cognition.
Chen Zui's tone was full of excitement: "I killed him, and from now on I am free."
Even with the mask covering half of his face, he looked a little crazy. He helped Li Jingtang get down from the bed and said, "Let's get out of here and go home."
Li Jingtang, who hadn't turned the corner yet, followed his movements and got off the bed. He took two steps toward the door and stopped. "What did you say?"
Chen Mo turned around and looked at him: "Chen Zui is dead."
Li Jingtang's pupils suddenly shrank, bewildered. Chen Zui was dead? That Chen Zui...
The memories of Chen Zui flashed through my mind. The tit-for-tat, the intimacy. That arrogant and confident Chen Zui... was dead...
Can't believe it.
"He...you..." Li Jingtang kept talking for a long time but couldn't say a complete sentence. The main reason was that this was too unbelievable. How could Chen Mo kill Chen Zui?
"My eldest brother is dead."
"I am free from now on."
"I am the master of this body."
Chen Zui straightened his back, looking at Li Jingtang from the same level to looking down at him.
Li Jingtang: "Did you kill him?"
Chen Zui nodded.
Li Jingtang's heart was in turmoil as he was pulled towards the door by Chen Zui. Chen Zui was dead. Being killed by Chen Mo always seemed like a fairy tale.
His eyes fell on Chen Zui, and he couldn't tell what was strange about him. When he walked out of the house and into the sunlight, the fog in Li Jingtang's heart was also cleared.
He knew what was strange.
Chen Mo is so clean.
The clean cream-colored sweater had no dirt or blood stains at all.
He wanted to kill Chen Zui, but it couldn't be that easy to kill him with just one blow.
Chen Zui stretched out in the sunshine, took a deep breath, and sighed, "So this is the taste of freedom."
Li Jingtang was confused: "Where is Chen Zui?"
Chen Zui turned around, his smiling eyes like two crescent moons: "I chopped it up and fed it to the dogs."
He spoke in a light tone.
Aotian: [I suddenly remembered a saying: men should be a little hard on themselves. You are a real man.]
Chen Zui: [Thank you for the compliment.]
Li Jingtang suspected that he was hallucinating: "What?"
996: [I'm back.]
996 really wasn't getting along well with this host. Originally, it was thinking of discussing with its leader offline whether it could bind to Yuan Man. However, no matter what it said, the leader disagreed.
There is really no humanity at all!
Chen Zui raised his hand to wipe away the dust on Li Jingtang's face: "Didn't you hear it clearly?"
Li Jingtang's heart skipped a beat. For some reason, he felt that two more words should be added after this sentence - baby.
996, who wasn't welcomed, continued to speak on his own: "Although I don't know much about Chen Zui's situation, I have some opinions about Chen Mo since I came online. His various behaviors seem to be like a split personality."
996 has experienced more than eighty small worlds and can be said to be knowledgeable.
Its words seemed to blow a gust of wind through the fog that troubled Li Jingtang.
What did you say? Split personality?
[The symptoms are very similar. From his mumbling, he is not the master of this body. It seems that he has split into other personalities. The situation is serious.]
"But he's just a marginal figure. Even if he splits into a hundred personalities, it has nothing to do with you. Now that you're free, go find Yuan Man."
[Between you...]
Li Jingtang didn't hear what it said later, the only words left in his mind were "split personality".
If this is true.
So which personality did Chen Mo separate out?
An incredible guess popped up in his mind, and Li Jingtang felt a gust of cold wind blowing violently, bringing a bone-chilling chill that made him cold from bones to flesh and blood, and his whole body was stiff.
Why did Chen Mo become free after killing Chen Zui? He originally thought that it meant that no one would control him.
But now thinking about it carefully, fear spreads.
This means that he has never seen Chen Mo and Chen Zui appear together.
wrong.
They appeared together last night. He and Chen Mo were hiding in the house, while Chen Zui was outside...
Li Jingtang recalled what he said when 996 came online: the bookstore was infiltrated by someone who secretly infiltrated it, and the suspect was Chen Zui.
[Does that Dark Bookstore also have a system? ]
Can the system simulate sound?
Li Jingtang's heart was in his throat as he waited nervously for 996's reply.
Chen Zui was stunned when he saw Li Jingtang's ugly face: "What's wrong with you?"
996: [Yes, simulating sound is the easiest.]
The winter wind was freezing cold, but for Li Jingtang, it was no more devastating than the 996 work schedule, which made him feel like he was falling into an icy cave.
If all this is fake... then what else is real?
Chen Zui wondered if his answer scared him, otherwise why did Li Jingtang's face suddenly become so ugly?
He grabbed Li Jingtang's hand: "Let's go back..."
The hand was violently thrown away.
Chen Zui looked at Li Jingtang with an expression of confusion and hurt.
Li Jingtang really came out of one chaos and fell into another.
As soon as he thought that Chen Mo and Chen Zui were most likely the same person, he...
He was almost going crazy.
He turned his stiff and painful eyeballs to look at Chen Mo in front of him. The eyes behind the lenses were sad and uneasy, so vivid that it made people feel guilty towards him.
His eyes fell on the mask he never took off. If everything else was fake, then the scar might be fake too.
"Chen Mo."
Chen Mojing waited for what was to come.
A lot of words were on Li Jingtang's lips. Should he question him directly? Or should he find a way to take off his mask first?
Thinking of this, he smiled bitterly in his heart. Perhaps under the mask was a face exactly the same as Chen Zui's, and the other party could even say that we were twins.
They really treat him like a dog.
【Author’s words】
Hehehe, is Chen Zui about to take it off? [Let me see]
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