"What do you think then?" The man glanced at Xiaoqian and said with a smile, "No need to hide anymore, I won’t hurt you."
"Why are you doing this?" Xiaoqian asked.
"Why? I don’t know myself. Maybe it was when I found out that my father was driven to death, I went mad. I wanted to kill all those who hurt my father, but I couldn’t. I could only think of other ways."
Tears rolled down the middle-aged man’s eyes, seemingly telling a tragic history.
The middle-aged man’s na was Liu Yu. His father, Liu Mu, bought this mountain ten years ago. Originally, the old man just wanted to plant so bamboo on the mountain, where he could stroll around. It was simply a bit of joy for his old age.
Later, while planting bamboo, Liu Mu accidentally dug up sothing that looked like an ancient jade, so he had it appraised and found it to be a genuine antique. Not long after, people who sohow heard about it insisted on buying the mountain. The old man refused, and those people kept coming to harass him. In the end, the old man passed away out of anger.
Liu Yu returned ho to handle his father’s funeral and found the jade while sorting his father’s belongings. He also heard from the neighbors about the harassnt, and when he went to confront those people, he was beaten up.
Liu Yu, saddened, ca to the mountain to clear his mind and stumbled upon this laboratory. He was also involved in genetic research, so he quickly realized what was going on here. Then he also discovered the genes of so ancient animal and decided to hire soone to take his place abroad, while he, with a hidden identity, conducted scientific research here.
"Are you saying that it’s always been like this here?" Ye Tian couldn’t help but ask, as the subsequent events beca clear, which is why Xiaoqian said those people deserved to die.
"Yes."
"Then did you know that this place is an ancient tomb complex?" Ye Tian asked again.
"I had no idea."
Just when Ye Tian thought he had unraveled the mystery, it seed to grow even more complicated.
"Did you release that thing?"
"Yes. I didn’t let it hurt good people, it only fed on the bad ones here. But then I realized there were too many bad people."
"How did you know it had that ability? Doesn’t it affect you?"
"I have no idea, but it was very obedient. It’s just that you guys killed it, right?"
"..."
Ye Tian was at a loss for words. He didn’t know what else to say about such a man; a real talent indeed, but what he did was indeed excessive.
Ye Tian didn’t know who turned this place into a laboratory, but an idea suddenly ca to his mind: to make this man work for him.
Ye Tian discussed his idea with Xiaoqian, who didn’t object. She also did not want anything bad to happen to the man, and of course, the man felt extrely lucky not to have been killed or turned over to the judicial authorities.
Thinking that Xu He’s senior brother might co over, Ye Tian didn’t want him to know about this, so the three destroyed anything that could be destroyed on the spot overnight and took away everything that couldn’t be destroyed.
This place had now truly beco just a hole in the ground. Xiaoqian didn’t know why Ye Tian wanted to keep this man, but she hoped he wouldn’t make such strange things anymore. So when Ye Tian wasn’t paying attention, she gave the man a pill.
"What did you give him?" Sadly, Ye Tian noticed.
"A pill that makes him forget everything. Do you want him to continue doing this? Or do you want to beco a mutant yourself? You don’t need to."
"I..." Ye Tian had in fact thought about it. He wanted to beco stronger. He feared that he wouldn’t have enough ti or that his lack of strength could lead those around him to get hurt. He once thought that if he beca strong enough, maybe they wouldn’t have to die.
"Ye Tian, you are the strongest! Because you achieved such results in the shortest ti, you don’t need those things!"
Ye Tian doesn’t value Xiaoqian’s consolation at all; he doesn’t believe that he is the strongest. Maybe to ordinary people, he is lucky or has so shortcuts, but those are not what Ye Tian desires. All he wants is for his teammates to still be alive, but they are already dead.
Even though they are dead, he wants to know who the culprit is, yet that mastermind behind the scenes is hiding, leaving him clueless about what to do.
After returning from Suhe City, Ye Tian locked himself in his room, unstirred by hunger or thirst. As for whether he has slept, Xiaoqian doesn’t know.
"Xiaoqian, Brother Tian can’t go on like this," Li Tianjiao said urgently, contrasting Xiaoqian’s calmness.
Li Tianjiao’s fair-weather friends, who saw with their own eyes that knives couldn’t penetrate his belly, are now scattered like birds and beasts, no longer paying attention to this privileged second-generation. Although he knows deep down that these relationships were mutually exploitative, when the facade is finally shattered, he can’t help but feel desolate.
"It’s fine; if you can’t die, then he definitely won’t die."
Li Tianjiao was caught in a dilemma and had no choice but to let it go.
The sumr weather is as fickle as a baby’s face; monts ago it was a clear sky, and now it’s covered with dark clouds, pouring rain.
Ye Tian is lying on the bed, not eating, drinking, or sleeping for three days, watching the sun rise in the east and set in the west, for three full cycles.
He dares not sleep; closing his eyes only brings visions of his teammates’ bloodshed, Tang Su’s crying face.
Ye Tian feels useless, for the first ti thinking of himself as nothing more than a waste existing in this world. He used to believe that with enough effort, he could achieve anything, but now he feels like he’s just wasting air.
Such a sense of defeat didn’t exist when he entirely lost his Gang Qi, when he was all alone, or even in so many near-death experiences. But when Xiaoqian erased Liu Yu’s mory, it overwheld him like a devastating flood.
"Ye Tian, if you really find this life so painful, I can erase your mory too, and you can beco a normal person," Xiaoqian’s voice ca through the door.
Outside, thunder roared, lightning snaked across the sky, and gusty winds carried the heavy rain that continuously lashed against the windows. Ye Tian wanted to ignore Xiaoqian’s voice, but he couldn’t.
"I don’t know what you’re being so stubborn about. Don’t think you’re the most tornted person; there are always people worse off than you." Sadness filled Xiaoqian’s beautiful face.
"Don’t you always want to know what I can do? I can tell you, I can see through people’s hearts; I only see the darkest places in your heart, your past, your pain, I can empathize."
Ye Tian, with bloodshot eyes, stared at the ceiling, perhaps unaware that when Xiaoqian finished speaking, his heartbeat nearly stopped.
"But, I’m still alive, aren’t I? What does your setback count for? Actually, I begged my grandfather to let co here. Originally, he was going to send my senior brother, but I just wanted to see what the person my grandfather praised was like; instead, I see nothing but a lump of mud!!"
Ye Tian knows that Xiaoqian is using reverse psychology on him, and he doesn’t care. Even if soone calls him worthless, he has no desire to stand up for himself.
"Do as you wish! Your teammates are dead, and I can’t do anything about it; but isn’t there still Tang Su?" Xiaoqian’s eyes flashed coldly, "I’ll go kill her!"
"You dare!" The room door flung open, crashing heavily against the wall and making a loud sound.
"What’s there not to dare?"
"She..." Ye Tian opened his mouth, but no sound ca out.
"That’s enough! Stop living like the living dead! Who do you think you are, making wait on you every day! Hurry up; you can indulge in self-destruction another way. Not eating or drinking won’t do. If you really died, then I’d have no one to play with!"
Ye Tian looked disheveled, almost like a vagrant, but he knew that the way he once lived looked even more defeatist than now.
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