HISO Chapter 27
by VolareChapter 27: Eavesdropping
The boy in his dream seemed to say many things to him.
But he couldn’t remember clearly, only that the Omega’s body was utterly soft, and his skin was so thin that he could only tightly close his eyes, a trace of wetness appearing at the corners.
He was thoroughly wicked, deliberately making him look at the mirror behind him at the very end.
Causing the boy to faint from shame on the spot.
And after he fainted, he not only didn’t let him go but became even more insane…
The scenes were chaotic and unspeakable.
Xie Jinsheng’s breathing was completely disordered, and he vaguely heard a delicate moan, and only then did he immediately open his eyes.
He then discovered that he had actually bitten Yu An’s collarbone in his sleep… The Omega wasn’t awake, still sleeping, but already frowning and whimpering in pain.
The sky was faintly bright outside the window.
Everything before his eyes gave him the illusion that he was still in a dream.
It took him a while to slowly lower his head to look at himself.
His expression changed when his gaze landed.
In the past six months, there had been no shortage of Omegas seeking his protection on the road, deliberately falling in front of him during their heat.
But every time he felt nothing, and a slight display of his tentacles was enough to scare people away. Even when his heat came, those still couldn’t stir the slightest ripple in his heart.
After a long time, he assumed he was impotent.
It didn’t matter.
As a monster, he didn’t need a wife anyway.
But he never expected that now, because he smelled this faint jasmine fragrance of the Omega, he actually had a dream, and even did… it to him.
This kind of loss of control made Xie Jinsheng feel dangerous.
He extremely hated the feeling of being controlled.
It was as if he had a weakness.
Therefore, looking at the boy’s porcelain-white and delicate neck, Xie Jinsheng’s eyes revealed an unprecedented killing intent. His slender fingers instantly pressed against the Omega’s carotid artery.
With just a little force, he could break it.
How easy it was to kill a boy.
At this moment, Yu An in his dream was ignorant and unaware.
He vaguely felt a terrible headache, and his eyelids were heavy, as if he was sick and about to drown in a swamp.
Suddenly, a coldness came from his neck, clearly sticking to him.
Like a vine breaking through the swamp to find him.
All of Yu An’s consciousness was instantly taken away.
Xie Jinsheng was about to exert force, but unexpectedly, the back of his hand was grabbed by a hand.
The boy’s fingertips were soft, slender, and delicate, clutching him tightly and uneasily, murmuring something vaguely and weakly: “…Don’t go, I feel uncomfortable.”
His voice was sticky.
With a hint of hoarseness.
He was about to kill him, yet his soft murmurs still showed such trust and defenselessness towards him.
Hesitating for a moment, the boy’s delicate cheek brushed against his knuckles unexpectedly, bringing a wave of heat. Several seconds later, Xie Jinsheng realized that the Omega’s temperature was wrong.
It was as if he had caught a cold and had a fever.
He paused for a few seconds.
What so-called killing intent, what aversion to being controlled, all seemed insignificant the moment he noticed Yu An’s weakening breath.
He hurriedly rummaged through the medicine box for a few packets of medicine, looking at the human words on them.
He didn’t really understand them.
So, relying on the icons, he brewed two kinds of medicine and took a sip himself.
——No poison.
This medicine was safe to drink.
If System 089 were awake at this moment, it would definitely scream. Was this monster’s way of feeding medicine so simple, crude, and casual?
He skillfully helped the Omega into his arms.
Yu An was drowsily fed the medicine, his complexion improved a little, and his lips were stained with a watery sheen, regaining some vitality.
After doing all this, Xie Jinsheng looked at the boy curled up in the quilt.
His body was so thin, so weak, that he could be crushed with a little force.
Or perhaps he didn’t even need to act.
A fever, a disease, and he couldn’t be saved.
But he inexplicably couldn’t bring himself to do it.
The well-behaved and soft boy in front of him was like a chain that could trap him, no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn’t break free.
But Xie Jinsheng didn’t believe it.
Even if they were deeply in love before he lost his memory, would a human really be willing to be his wife?
What’s more, the meaning in the boy’s words was for a lifetime.
Having experienced what happened last night, plus the fact that he had released his powers in Cloud Bay a few days ago.
It was estimated that the soldiers were already suspicious of his identity, and maybe he would be kicked off the train today.
And what would happen to Yu An then?
Humans were capable of anything to survive, hadn’t he seen enough of these things in the past six months?
The mess on his body hadn’t been cleaned up yet.
Xie Jinsheng withdrew his gaze, turned around, and wanted to leave the compartment. But at the moment he opened the door, he suddenly remembered something and retracted the black, tide-like tentacles under his feet.
For a moment, even he was stunned.
He let out a low, self-deprecating laugh.
He had only been with Yu An for so long, yet he had unconsciously changed him so much.
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Yu An always felt like there was a stone pressing against him through the blanket near dawn. When he woke up, the sky was already bright.
The opposite bed was already empty, and Xie Jinsheng wasn’t there.
Where did he go?
Yu An was a little puzzled. Just then, 089 came out of hibernation and screamed at him: [Host, do you know that the infection that attacked Xiao Ji last night was a special-grade infected creature code-named K6.]
It possessed self-awareness and was extremely good at disguises.
It could even conceal its aura and evade detection.
It was caught by Main City a year ago, escaped half a year ago, and had been missing ever since.
“So, you’re saying that Xiao Ji’s infection last night was just a diversion by K6?”
[Yes.] 089 felt that something was wrong, so it checked the entire train and found that the train’s energy core had been damaged. [I only repaired it once with system energy, but it’s only a temporary solution.]
Maybe in a few more hours, 089’s energy would be exhausted.
The train would stop.
Only then did Yu An finally understand that the train in the original plot had stopped last night.
But, if it was already in crisis now, why was the emergency distress signal sent on the eighth day? Could it be that here…
Yu An vaguely grasped a clue and said, “089, check the surroundings. Is there a small city nearby that has a well-preserved energy core stored?”
089 acted quickly upon hearing this.
[Host, I actually found one! There’s an old city, although it’s empty now, there’s an underground warehouse with a new energy core. That means Lin Si sent a team out to retrieve it, then the train will have…]
089 suddenly stopped talking.
Yu An slowly said, “That K6 is mixed in with the team going to the old city.”
Everyone thought there was still hope and didn’t ask the base for help on the first day, instead waiting for the people sent out to bring back the energy core and restart the train.
But unexpectedly, no one on the team survived, and all hope was shattered.
In the end, the entire train was wiped out in the tide of infections.
So, what exactly was the purpose of that deeply hidden infected creature in destroying the train?
Or was the train not the main focus at all, but the old city?
Yu An intuitively felt that he had to stop it, otherwise it might affect the world’s trajectory in the future, and he wouldn’t be able to complete the mission. He planned to go find Lin Si later and tell him all this, but frowned when he went to wash up.
Strange, why did he taste medicine in his mouth?
He found it on the table.
An empty packet of cold and fever medicine.
And, a packet of menstrual pain relief medicine for girls.
Yu An: “…”
His ears turned red.
Although he was very grateful to Xie Jinsheng for taking care of him when he was sick, wouldn’t feeding him medicine like this cause some side effects!
Unsurprisingly, after breakfast, the train stopped.
Yu An originally wanted to tell Xie Jinsheng, but when he went to the next compartment, he didn’t see anyone.
When he came out, he noticed a few soldiers by the carriage, staring at Xie Jinsheng’s room without a trace of expression.
Yu An understood that those words could only deceive for a while. Xie Jinsheng’s strength was too great, and his whereabouts were too strange, especially since the train’s system had been destroyed, Lin Si and the others had to be vigilant.
Maybe they would even misunderstand that all of this was related to Xie Jinsheng and kick him off the train.
That was really a miscarriage of justice!
Not to mention that Xie Jinsheng was still a major villain.
Encountering such heartbreaking things might stimulate the Alpha’s personality to become even darker, or he might directly regain his memory halfway!
Then the entire train would be done for.
Thinking of this, Yu An quickened his pace.
Holding Lin Si’s handwritten pass, he walked into the military compartment, and no one dared to stop him along the way.
Anxious to deal with these things, he didn’t notice the shadows outside the window next to him, something squirming.
A tentacle was in the corner where no light could reach, following his steps, moving quickly.
It seemed, to want to eavesdrop on the boy’s upcoming conversation with others.