Chapter 74 Reality 02
Talos looked at the palm of his hand where his ID card had been taken away, his eyes lowered, his dark eyes revealing a sense of emptiness.
He said nothing and left the police station with Jane Bumian's cremation certificate.
Talos went to the nearby Hema supermarket to buy ingredients for lunch and returned to the institute.
The sight of Talos carrying a plastic bag full of vegetables and meat was incompatible with his cold and indifferent temperament.
At the same time, it surprised the researchers who saw Talos.
"So they were at home, and the professor was the one buying groceries and cooking? I can't imagine the professor being the chef, it's too disconnected."
"It seems that the professor really dotes on his lover."
"His lover looks very young, it would be strange if he doesn't dote on her."
Talos ignored their whispers and went straight into his private lounge.
The boy sat obediently in the wheelchair, just like when he left, with his back to the door and facing the floor-to-ceiling window.
Because of gravity, his head drooped, revealing a shiny white neck, and his soft hair made him look like a obedient and quiet little lamb.
But Talos would rather Jane Bumian was not so quiet. He ran over to hug him and complained in a low voice that the ingredients were not his favorite.
Talos put the ingredients on the table and took out a long, exquisite packaging box from the shopping bag.
After opening the box, a bright red rose in full bloom appeared.
The roses had just been picked from the garden, the thorns on the flower stalks had been trimmed, the petals were fresh, and they had a strong but not overpowering fragrance.
“When I came back, I saw a little girl selling roses, so I bought one.”
Talos leaned over, picked up the flower stem with his fingertips, and inserted the rose into Jane Bumian's chest pocket.
The rose bud rubbed against Jian Busian's pointed chin. The strong red formed a sharp contrast with his bloodless pale skin.
Talos frowned, raised his hand, and lifted Jane Bumian's chin.
The boy's hair fell down, revealing a quiet face.
Talos said calmly: "Mianmian, open your eyes and look at this rose. It's very beautiful."
Jane Bumian did not respond, her eyes were closed and her eyelashes were motionless.
His still nostrils proved that he had stopped breathing and was a complete corpse.
But Talos continued to ask questions relentlessly, his voice low and hoarse.
"Mianmian, open your eyes."
"Mianmian..."
The only response he got was the sound of the cold wind.
Talos was silent for a long time.
When it was getting dark, Talos helped Jane Bumian put her hat back on and pushed her wheelchair out of the lounge.
Because Jian Bumian's figure was so eye-catching and beautiful, many researchers secretly glanced at them as they walked out of the laboratory.
When they marveled at Jane Bumian's beauty and Talos's love for his lover, they couldn't help but wonder why Jane Bumian was in a wheelchair.
Is Talos's lover sick?
What a pity.
——These researchers could never imagine that Talos’ lover was not sick or disabled, but dead.
Talos directly brought out a corpse and treated it like a living person, helping him dress, buying food for him, and talking to him.
If this truth were to be revealed, those who lament the beauty of love would surely be terrified to the point of gasping for breath.
This is simply not something humans can do!
But Talos is not human.
After he brought Jane Bumian home, he parked the wheelchair at the entrance, then half-knelt down and silently changed Jane Bumian's shoes.
The skin of the corpse had no elasticity, and Jane Bumian's skin was already white.
Talos helped him take off his shoes and put on his slippers. After a round, the boy's thin white feet were covered with irreversible mottled red marks, which looked horrifying.
Not only his feet, but his entire body was covered with red scars, which were completely covered by cloth.
Talos had obviously been very careful to help him bathe and change his clothes, but because he was a corpse, his body always had these marks, as if he had been treated roughly.
But Talos had never done that to him.
Talos pursed his lips, looking a little sad.
He picked up Jane Bumian, put her on the sofa, and said calmly, "Wait a moment, I'll make lunch."
After Talos walked into the kitchen, several small black balls came out again and quietly floated in front of Jane Bumian.
They raised their heads, opened their small eyes, looked at the motionless boy, and started chirping.
"Alas, Your Majesty, what's the point of this? This human is already dead and has no soul left."
"Your Majesty the Evil God has never been so humble, and I never thought that he would die over the lives of humans."
"Your Majesty is so intimate with this human. He must have had sexual relations with this human when he was alive."
“…There’s something wrong with you.”
****
Talos was halfway through cooking his Cordyceps Flower and Black Chicken Soup when he realized that the salt in his house was all used up.
Talos put down the work in his hands, frowned, came to the living room, and said to Jane Bumian: "The salt at home is used up, I have to go downstairs to buy some, wait for me for ten minutes, okay?"
His tone was always gentle, with the low, hoarse voice of a mature man, which had a special kind of tenderness when he talked about the trivial matters of daily life.
Talos put on his coat and left the house.
Their home is in a nationally famous super-high-end residential area, which has all the necessary living facilities.
He quickly bought the salt and returned home.
——But he didn’t see Jane sleeping on the sofa in the living room.
The large leather sofa was empty.
The boy should have just laid there quietly, waiting for him to come home.
Talos was suddenly stunned, his face darkened, and his red eyes seemed to be filled with thick ink.
A small black ball flew in front of him in a panic.
Its whole body was shaking and its words came out stumbling.
"Your Majesty, you really can't go on like this..."
Talos's face was gloomy, and he spoke word by word: "Where is Jane Bumian?"
The little black group answered irrelevantly: "Your Majesty, humans are very fragile and will eventually die. You have to let go of it. The best way is to let Mr. Jian Bumian rest in peace."
Talos was like a robot, repeating the same sentence without any emotion: "What about Jane Bumian?"
The little black boy risked his life, kneeling in front of the man's leather shoes with his dark little hands and feet.
"Mr. Jian Bumian's body has been disposed of by us."
It closed its eyes and its body was shaking wildly.
Your Majesty will surely destroy it in an instant...
Unexpectedly, the little black group did not receive the punishment they had imagined.
It saw the man sitting on the sofa with his head lowered, with a bag of snacks beside him.
These were the snacks he bought for Jian Bumian when he bought salt.
At this moment, he was like the bag of snacks that had lost its owner, revealing a sense of decadence, like a trapped beast that had given up on itself.
The little black ball didn't dare to move forward and could only hide in shame.
Talos had no idea how long he was alone.
The soup that was half-cooked in the kitchen had gone completely cold and was no longer fresh and could not be eaten.
Talos didn't think to clean it up and just left the pot on the stove.
Jian Busian was already dead, so the food he had prepared for him these days had to go bad in the kitchen before being taken away by the little black group.
He raised his eyes and saw a rose on the floor of the sofa. It might have been dropped accidentally by Xiao Heituan when he was moving Jane Bumian's body.
It was the rose he gave to Jane Bumian in the morning.
This kind of rose withers quickly. Its bright red petals have turned a little yellow and hang limply on the ground reflected by the evening light, like a lifeless dead object.
The setting sun will dim, and this rose that represents the evil god's love will eventually be completely hidden in the dark night.
Talos sat alone late into the night until a new text message arrived on his phone.
——This text message was not asking him to deal with Jane Bumian’s funeral.
Instead, Bai Yue sent a text message, which seemed to be a group message and was an invitation letter.
All members of the Star Hunter Alliance will hold a party at nine o'clock tomorrow at a high-end hotel in this city.
Bai Yue somehow got hold of Talos' contact information, so that Talos also received this text message.
Talos frowned and raised his hand, subconsciously wanting to cross out the invitation.
But he couldn't help but look at the invitation letter and let out a dull sigh from his throat.
***
The next morning.
Bai Yue, who was waiting in the hotel, unexpectedly saw Talos coming.
Talos was wearing a black suit, and his chest-length silver hair was cut short, with neatly chopped hair, which made his facial features more handsome and handsome.
But the aura emanating from him revealed a sense of sadness and decadence, making him look like a cold setting sun.
Bai Yue and other members certainly knew why Talos became like this.
Any husband who loses his partner will be depressed for a long time, which may last a lifetime.
After they invited Talos to sit down, the dishes were served one after another.
The dishes are simple, all common Chinese dishes, crab roe shrimp soup, lotus leaf steamed pork, fish-flavored pork shreds...
They tacitly agreed not to talk about Jane's sleeplessness, but instead talked about other things.
After they returned to the real world, although they were a little uncomfortable with normal life, they were able to slowly get back on track.
Moreover, they can make a wish to the infinite world that is not beyond common sense, such as being admitted to graduate school, finding an ordinary job, or buying a house.
A player sipped a glass of wine and muttered, "I made a wish to cure my albinism, and I didn't expect that the infinite world would really make it come true for me."
The player who said this is called "Snowman" in the infinite world, named after his snow-white hair.
In the real world, he is a player suffering from severe albinism. He cannot see the light, his skin is itchy, and he lives a very painful life.
A female player laughed and said, "Why didn't you tell me earlier when we were in the infinite world? If I knew you didn't like your gray hair, I could have given you my hair dye item at that time."
“…”
Speaking of props, other players couldn't help but chime in.
They had a lot of interesting props, but they didn't have a chance to use them before the Infinite World was closed, which is a bit of a pity.
Talos remained silent, listening quietly to the conversation of this group of humans.
He captured a keyword "props".
He and Jian Bumian were busy. In the infinite world, there was indeed a prop that they had not had time to use, and it had not even been unlocked, so they didn't even know what its function was.
That item is obtained in the Lilliputian copy and is called the "Marriage Certificate".
But with the closure of the infinite world, the prop will turn into a string of cold data and disappear into nothingness, becoming useless.
Talos raised the corners of his lips in self-mockery.
——The only worldly proof that he and Jane Bumian had once loved each other was not left to him.
He really has nothing left.
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