Chapter 44: The villain's anti-mind reading, the system that cheats
Suddenly, there was a sound of electric current in his ears. Without any warning, Yin Zhiyi fell straight into the water.
[Ding——Data repair, system binding! 】
[The intelligent system is online, and the plot is being transmitted! Please prepare yourself. 】
[Side effects such as dizziness and fainting may follow. 】
…
At the last moment before falling into coma, Yin Zhiyi wanted to kill this unreliable system. It shouldn't have come earlier or later, but at this very moment!
The surrounding water demons were slowly approaching, as if testing them.
Yan Shiman put one arm around Yin Zhiyi's waist and used the other hand to deal with the water evil. The long rotten hair was dragging under the red mucus floating on the water, which was disgusting.
He tore apart a water demon that was rushing towards him with his bare hands, and his hands were instantly corroded by the mucus, turning into a brown spot.
Being underwater does not give one an advantage, not to mention that he had the unconscious Yin Zhiyi in his arms.
Yan Shiman looked unhappy. He hadn't felt this way for a long time.
This is the upper reaches of the Yishui River. The terrain is undulating, and there are not only many undercurrents, but also many rugged rocks. Only experienced boatmen dare not sail on this river. Needless to say, the underwater dangers are enormous.
If he was alone, he could have dealt with these things first, but Yin Zhiyi fainted without any warning.
Beneath the surface of the river, undercurrents surged. Before a turbulent wave hit him, Yan Shiman made a gesture and dived into the water with the person in his arms.
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When I opened my eyes again, the light was blinding.
Yin Zhiyi choked on a mouthful of water. There was fine sand beneath her body that hurt her. The real touch made her realize that this was not a dream.
The system's voice seemed to ring in her ears again.
[The mission target plot has been transmitted.] 】
【Host Mission: 1. Clear the name of the original owner and eliminate the villain’s hatred. 2. Stay away from the villain Yan Shiman and successfully survive until the end. 3. Complete the original owner’s storyline. 】
[Current task progress: 33%]
[Complete the task to return to the original world and get three rewards~]
[In order to allow the host to successfully complete the task, this system will give you a copy of the golden finger 'Mind Reading', which will take effect upon contact~]
…
The system did not dare to say that there was an error in the previous data, that the mind-reading system had always bound the wrong villain, and it did not dare to say that the previous system was an upgraded version that did not require contact to take effect.
The guilty system went offline after saying this, without caring how shocked its host was after receiving this information.
Yin Zhiyi felt that she was having difficulty breathing, so, the male lead she had always thought was actually the villain?
Or was it the villain who killed her in the end and made her into a human-skin puppet?
She actually thought that her mission was to capture Yan Shiman. What a misleading novel!
She has done so much, is it her bad luck? Fortunately, it was not in vain, after all, one of the tasks was to clear the original owner's name.
No wonder she felt that there was something wrong with Yan Shiman the first time she saw him.
She wanted to sit up, but felt a dull pain. The pain was so severe that she wanted to curse. She felt that her back must be covered with bruises, as if she had been beaten with a sack all night.
After she fainted last night, no one knew what Yan Shiman did. The two of them must have been washed here along the river.
Yin Zhiyi thought it would be best if the two were separated, so that she would not only be away from the villains, but she could also immediately find the protagonists, successfully complete the next part of the plot, and then call it a day.
After all, since Yan Shiman was willing to save her, he should not hate her anymore, so she is cleared of all charges, right?
But things don't always go as planned.
There was the sound of running water in her ears and the riverbank below her. She looked down and saw the half belt tied around her waist. The other end...
Her heart sank instantly, this belt looked so familiar to her. Wasn't it the one Yan Shiman was wearing?
Following her line of sight, she saw a pair of hands covered in scratches.
His gaze paused.
"Awake?" The boy's gentle voice was a little hoarse, and he seemed very tired. Yan Shiman noticed her gaze and hid his hands in his sleeves.
But his light blue robe had been torn to shreds, with half of his arms exposed.
The two men were lying not far from each other, and Yin Zhiyi saw the wounds on his body at a glance. Apart from the wounds caused by the bites and corrosion from the water evil spirits, most of them were external injuries. After being soaked in the river water all night, they looked even more horrible, with the skin and flesh turned out, and some were even so deep that the bones could be seen.
You can tell at first glance that it was scratched by a hard object, and the impact was quite strong.
The river was so turbulent, but she didn't have any external injuries on her body. It was obvious how Yan Shiman got all these injuries.
For a moment, there was a hint of complexity in her eyes.
Yan Shiman's face was so pale that he looked like a corpse that had been dead for three days. He could feel the evil energy in his body running wildly, and a bone-gnawing pain was surging in his meridians. In order to control those water evil spirits last night, he had used too much puppetry along the way, and now it was backfired.
After all, this is the price he has to pay for being a puppet and being able to act like a normal person.
But when he was looked at by Yin Zhiyi, he felt a little uncomfortable. It was a rare opportunity to save someone, so what was that look in her eyes?
Yan Shiman wanted to get up, but Yin Zhiyi rushed forward and held him down.
"Don't move! Your waist is covered in blood."
Yin Zhiyi saw that his forehead was covered with sweat and his lips were as white as paper, but he didn't care about his injuries. It was unclear whether he was anxious or angry, but his voice was trembling a little.
Yan Shiman lowered his head and found that there was a palm-length wound on his hip. The blood spread on his robe like a bright red flower.
Compared with the pain from the external injuries on his body, he felt that the bone-eating pain in his meridians was more torturous, as if it was constantly gnawing at his will. The pains accumulated together, and he felt a little numb from the pain. Or maybe he had already gotten used to the pain when he was trained as a puppet in his early years, and now he was no longer sensitive to the pain.
He hadn't even noticed the wound on his waist. No wonder he felt getting colder.
But when he looked up and met Yin Zhiyi's slightly red eyes, the feeling of discomfort became even stronger.
[Are you so worried about me?] I was so worried that I almost cried. 】
[If I had left her earlier, she would have been heartbroken. 】
The young man's voice came from his mind. Yin Zhiyi tightened his grip on Yan Shiman's sleeve, and the mind-reading technique that the system had just mentioned flashed through his mind.
Is this what Yan Shiman is thinking?
She touched her eyes in confusion. Where were she crying? Although she felt a little uncomfortable when she saw Yan Shi’s body full of wounds, but - that was clearly the water left on his hair!
[I'm the one who's hurt, why is she crying?] Humph, you really like me. 】
Yin Zhiyi: “…”
She didn't know that beneath Yan Shiman's gentle appearance, there was such a narcissistic heart.
but--
So, actually, before she woke up, he also wanted to just abandon her and walk away?
She felt inexplicably blocked in her heart.
But seeing the man covered in wounds, she fumbled in the secret pocket in her sleeve for a long time before she pulled out a handful of discarded talismans and the only remaining bottle of medicine.
"I'll give you some medicine first."
The boy had many wounds on his body, including scrapes on his waist and abdomen, as well as his back and legs.
It was a remote place, so there was no need for so many details. Yan Shiman took off his tattered clothes with great difficulty, revealing his back.
The young man had a bony spine and shoulder blades that moved like butterfly wings. Although he looked as thin as he was, the muscle lines on his back were just right. The flesh on his white jade-like skin was rolled up, and the tattoos of a black snake and hibiscus flower that Yin Zhiyi had admired so much were now stained with blood, making them look even more gorgeous.
Yin Zhiyi dipped some ointment on his fingertips and just as he touched the wound on Yan Shiman's back, he noticed that he was shaking all over.
"Does it hurt?" She subconsciously reduced her force.
He blew on the wound and said, "How about this?"
As a result, the muscles on the boy's back seemed to tighten even more.
When Yan Shiman felt the soft, boneless, wandering warmth behind him, his body tensed up involuntarily. He could even remember the details of his dream that day, when she was caressing him in the same way and whispering in his ear. He thought it was just an uncontrollable dream that would not have any effect on him, but now the dream and reality were strangely overlapping.
And he was actually a little greedy for this warmth.
Even the waves of pain in the meridians seemed to turn into an itch, an itch that penetrated the bone marrow. The pain and the itch intertwined together and turned into an indescribable fire.
"Don't... don't blow, it doesn't hurt." He suppressed the gasp that escaped from his throat.
Yin Zhiyi thought his voice was very strange, and seemed to be even hoarser than before. She gently applied the ointment on the wound with her fingers, and she could hear his inner voice intermittently.
[It’s… so itchy.] 】
…Until she finished applying the medicine on her back and took her hand back, another sentence came to her mind: [It hurts…it’s swollen…]
Yin Zhiyi: “?” Is the wound swollen?
"I'll apply it on my waist myself." Yan Shiman looked normal, but his forehead was already covered with cold sweat.
The action of taking the medicine seemed a little hurried.
If she hadn't heard him crying out in pain in his heart just now, Yin Zhiyi would have thought it was her illusion. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart that the villain really was the toughest talker in his entire body.
What the system just transmitted to her was the plot of the villain, but there was too much of it for her to digest it all at once. When she saw the wound on Yan Shiman's back, several fragments suddenly flashed through her mind.
Her chest suddenly felt tight.
Every scene reveals Yan Shiman's bloody, dirty and dark childhood.
She thought that the childhood of Yan Shiman that she saw in her previous dream was the most miserable time of his life, but she didn't expect that it was just the beginning of the tragedy.
It is no wonder that after the villain took over the Northern School of Heavenly Master, he destroyed the entire sect, and was quite perverted in preparing his wedding with the heroine Bai Zhixing in a mountain of corpses and rain of blood. In the original novel, if the hero Ji Ci had not escaped by chance and joined forces with the Southern School of Heavenly Master, the villain would never have been killed.
Yin Zhiyi felt a little complicated.
She suspected that she was reading an abridged version of the text, otherwise why would she have missed all the important information when she just glanced at the ending?
It seems that the refining of those puppets is closely related to the Northern School Heavenly Master.
And there was the previous evil spirit that harmed so many people. Yin Zhiyi suddenly felt that it was hard to say who the villain was.
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