Betrayed by all, with no way back, this was revenge.
Watching Xue Jingjing self-destruct, Xiao Chongyan seemed to feel a sense of relief. His body was undergoing a strange transformation, and he felt an uncontrollable urge to bite.
At this time in his previous life, he had been on the run and hadn't felt this way.
He forced himself to turn his head, licked his non-existent fangs, and nudged the sleeping Zhuo Jin. Zhuo Jin looked at him groggily, and he swallowed.
"What's wrong?"
"I... I want to..."
He stammered, afraid of Zhuo Jin's repulsion.
"Want what?" As soon as Zhuo Jin asked, she seemed to realize something, her eyes turning ambiguous. She leaned closer and repeated, "Want what?"
Her voice was entirely different from before.
Xiao Chongyan was confused, but the impulse within him grew stronger, as if a voice was telling him: Bite, bite...
He suppressed his desire, pushed her away, and said coldly, "Nothing, let's sleep."
He then lay down to sleep.
Zhuo Jin: "..."
Was he messing with her?
She pushed him down, biting out, "Are you getting revenge?"
Xiao Chongyan looked at her blankly, not understanding.
Zhuo Jin finally realized she had been narcissistic. Unable to swallow her pride, she kissed him fiercely. In his dazed gaze, she made him blush furiously.
"You..." His voice held a hint of arousal. "What are you doing?"
"You."
With that, she leaned down again.
Then...
"Ah!"
Zhuo Jin covered her mouth with one hand and pressed him down with the other, glaring with displeasure at a apologetic Xiao Chongyan.
Xiao Chongyan said sheepishly, "I'm sorry, I, I couldn't help it."
"What?"
"I, I wanted to bite someone," Xiao Chongyan said, not daring to meet her gaze.
He was not human.
He had the monstrous desire to eat people.
This left him bewildered and uneasy. Unlike his previous life, where he discovered his uniqueness and then reveled in using it for revenge, in this life, from a certain point on, he had wished not to become the monster he was in his past life.
He hadn't expected to be unable to escape it.
Even more terrifying was that he now had bestial instincts.
Zhuo Jin pinched his chin, tilting his head up, and pointed to the wound on her lips. "You bit me."
Xiao Chongyan froze for a moment, then exclaimed in alarm, "Yes, I... bit you. What do we do? What do we do? Will you also turn into..." Sudanshuwang
"No."
Zhuo Jin stopped him before he could finish. In a rather morbid tone, she said, "In this world, only I won't. Anyone else you bite will turn into a walking dead monster. So, you can only be with me, understand?"
"Host..."
"You..."
Both of them stopped short of speaking.
Zhuo Jin pushed him down again. After all this fuss, the lingering romantic mood was gone. She pinned him down with more than half her body, holding him tightly as if claiming him as her own. She mumbled a couple of times about sleeping and then fell silent.
Xiao Chongyan was initially unaccustomed to it. Gradually, as he listened to her peaceful breathing, the subtle pressure was replaced by a sense of security. He too began to feel sleepy and slowly closed his eyes.
—
The situation in City A was worse than they had imagined.
Although it was the economic, military, and political center, it had not been spared during the disaster. As the red rain moved north, food crops were heavily damaged, and the number of walking dead monsters increased. The human safe zones shrunk and expanded several times. By the time they arrived, they were barely stabilized at about half the original area of City A.
Recently, the number of esper-users had increased significantly, but ordinary people's lives were difficult. They had followed Shen Qianjiao in and, at least, were given several rooms to stay in. The reputation of the "Seven-Person Team" preceded them, and they were quite well-received.
Zhuo Jin didn't want to work for others, so she specifically instructed them not to reveal her. Zhou Shanshan and the others became prime targets for attention.
Duan Mingjie had the protagonist's halo, and she had the heroine's halo. Before long, several "high-level" esper-users publicly pursued her, which made Duan Mingjie, who had been inactive, quite displeased. In a fit of pique, he made a few overtures to her, but her impression of Duan Mingjie had long soured, and she directly kicked him out.
Stimulated, the young master Duan turned around and flaunted his affection with a beauty by his side in front of her. Such brainless playboy behavior was nailed to the pillar of shame by Zhou Shanshan. The two were completely finished, not only their romantic ties severed but also separated by several mountains.
These amusing anecdotes were shared by the girls and Zhou Shanshan when they delivered supplies. Besides these, they also talked about Shen Qianjiao.
"Lian Yucheng has been aggressively pursuing her lately. He's been rejected several times but still won't give up. Hey, Miss Xiao, do you think people choose partners based on looks? Professor Shen is quite good-looking, but her personality is not something to compliment. She's so fierce, only someone stubborn would..."
As she spoke, she seemed to think of something and glanced at Xiao Chongyan several times. Finally, she couldn't help but ask, "Miss Xiao, that... is he and you, really, in that kind of relationship?"