HISO Chapter 45
by VolareChapter 45: Deceased Wife (Part 1): I Want to See Him
But what kind of memory could grow such a vast expanse of pale, eerie flowers?
Yu An’s thoughts scattered until Lin Si’s voice came from beside him again, “He’s not human, is he?”
Hearing this, Yu An’s fingers clenched slightly.
He turned to meet the Alpha’s sharp, scrutinizing gaze. “On the way here, I saw many traces of inhuman combat.”
The whip marks were imprinted on the walls, a shocking sight. It was clear how strong Xie Jinsheng was as a monster.
Definitely not someone that can be approached unharmed.
Not to mention the wood-vine flowers, which can disrupt the mind and cause one to fall into deep sorrow. Xie Jinsheng, who grew such a vast expanse of black and white flowers, was probably already insane.
In the distance, the sound of water could be faintly heard.
The self-destruct device had been activated. In a few minutes, the cold water would flood everything.
Lin Si decisively said, “We have to leave here immediately.”
But the young man remained unmoved, only asking:
“Vice Captain Lin, I want to know something—if the person at the bottom of the abyss right now were just an ordinary human, would you still choose to leave?”
Lin Si suddenly froze.
Yu An captured his expression, raised his delicate and somewhat pale face, and said with understanding, “You’d hesitate, wouldn’t you?”
After a moment of silence, Lin Si said, “But he’s not human after all, just a monster. He might even have escaped from a lab…”
Those things were cold-blooded and cruel, the least deserving of sympathy, even more terrifying than the infected.
“I used to be like you at first, but then I discovered that he’s not the ‘monster’ I imagined. Although he’s sometimes indifferent and suspicious and doesn’t like to talk, he’s very good to me.”
So good that he often felt that Xie Jinsheng was just an ordinary Alpha man, not someone to be feared, but someone to be relied on as a close friend.
“—Just like now, what you see is his darkness and danger.”
As Yu An spoke, he raised his hand and, despite Lin Si’s obstruction, reached out to touch the black and white flowers.
In an instant, the thorn-covered petals cut his finger, and a little blood welled up.
But he seemed oblivious, only looking at the depths of the flowers. “But what I see is his endless pain.”
If it were just a stranger, he might have been able to try to convince himself.
But Xie Jinsheng wasn’t.
They had experienced so much together, from the Ruined City to the train, and then to the old district.
The other party had protected him so many times. If he abandoned Xie Jinsheng, then who exactly was the so-called “cold-blooded monster” in this era?
Should people be afraid of monsters, or should they be even more afraid of human hearts?
Lin Si didn’t expect him to say such things. He closed his eyes for a moment and when he opened them again, his eyes were deep and he said, “I apologize for what I just thought.”
He admitted his prejudice against monsters.
Because after the experimental subjects escaped from the Main City, incidents of them running amok and causing bloody injuries were endless.
In addition, there was that shocking video from five years ago—his weak and delicate younger brother, forced to cower in a corner, surrounded by the monsters’ dark tentacles.
Just thinking about these things filled him with pain, wishing that all the monsters would never have peace.
But looking at the young man in front of him.
He suddenly realized that he seemed to have overlooked his younger brother’s expression in that clip.
Was it fear as he had imagined, or was it like the Omega in front of him, leaning on the monster a bit?
Yu An silently distanced himself from him, retreating to the edge of the rope bridge:
“Vice Captain Lin, I’ve already handed the energy sphere over to Cheng You and the others. There will be infected on the way back. Go and escort them back to the train. As for Xie Jinsheng and me, you don’t need to worry about us.”
“Yu An, come back.” As if sensing something, Lin Si’s tone became more serious. “Let’s think of a way to rescue Xie Jinsheng together.”
“I don’t want to trouble you, and please don’t blame yourself for what happened today.” Yu An looked at him and said:
“Everyone has their own mission. I can risk my life for Xie Jinsheng, but you can’t, Lin Si. The people on the train need you more than I do. Xie Jinsheng and I believe we’ll be safe…”
In a daze, Lin Si seemed to see a scene from many years ago.
It was also such a long gaze.
His well-behaved and beautiful younger brother, with a smile in his eyes, was waving to him: “Brother, you go quickly, I can take good care of myself.”
But he didn’t expect that one farewell would be the last.
Amidst the earth-shaking rumble.
Yu An wrapped the wood vines around himself and jumped into the abyss.
Lin Si tried to grab him, but it was in vain.
His fingertips touched the wood vines on the rope bridge, and the tiny vines wrapped around his forearm, instantly blooming black and white flowers.
It turned out that the sorrow and regret in his heart were no less than Xie Jinsheng’s.
But the burden on his shoulders was too heavy. The pain made Lin Si a little more sober. Looking at the abyss below, he clenched the railing, his veins bulging. “I won’t get on the train. After I protect them, I’ll come back to find you.”
He didn’t want to repeat something he had already regretted once.
But Yu An couldn’t hear any of this.
He landed on a small platform under the bridge, watching the cold water that had already flooded the bottom of the abyss.
[Host, are you really going down?]
Although the oxygen pill could keep Yu An breathing underwater and prevent him from drowning, the pain of contact with the icy cold would not be reduced by even a bit.
[Xie Jinsheng is still a villain…]
He usually doesn’t die.
Even if he dies, wouldn’t it be great?
“089, I know what you’re thinking.” Yu An said, “But if the villain dies halfway, will the apocalypse definitely end? In this era, as long as there is no peace for a day, everyone is likely to become a villain. If he dies, and a new villain comes, do I have to start the mission all over again?”
It was so hard to progress this far.
Moreover, he didn’t want to see Xie Jinsheng’s life in danger.
The cold water was bone-chilling.
089 was heartbroken, and finally sighed, flashing its sensing light: [Host, I’ve detected that the flowers in front are the most luxuriant. Xie Jinsheng should be inside.]
Oh well.
As long as it was someone the host wanted to protect, it would help.
The mission was nothing!
*
At this moment, deep within the sinkhole.
In the place where the black and white flowers were most luxuriant, Xie Jinsheng was entangled in wood vines, sinking into a chaotic and long memory—
The images were blurred.
The surroundings seemed to be full of infected, and he, like a cold-blooded machine, was in the midst of them, killing until he was covered in filthy blood.
He didn’t know how long it had been before he heard footsteps behind him.
He seemed to know who it was, and didn’t turn around, or perhaps he didn’t have the strength to turn around.
His eyelashes were covered in blood, and smoke scattered before his eyes. He turned a blind eye to everything, only asking, “Did you give him today’s antidote?”
Perhaps even Xie Jinsheng himself couldn’t imagine that he would actually speak in such a tone.
Cold and repressed, with some submission. It was as if a vicious dog had been caught by its weak point, forced to put away its claws, and had no choice but to submit.
“You performed well. The people above have allowed you to see him today.” The robot conveyed the meaning, its tone without any fluctuation, which was a little comical after listening to it for a long time.
But he smiled as if relieved of a heavy burden.
However, just as he came out after washing off the blood from his body, he saw a strange, Omega, who was in heat, in the room.
The surveillance camera in the corner kept flashing red: “His body is too weak and is no longer suitable to help you relieve this heat period. Here is a new Omega…”
“Get out.”
The surveillance camera kept going.
He smashed the surveillance camera with something, and his tentacles also went out of control, scaring the Omega beside him into screaming constantly.
In the midst of the chaos, his eyes were chilling, and the force with which he gripped the surveillance camera was as if he wanted to crush the head of the person on the other side of the screen: “I want to see him, I want to see him now.”
That was an extremely long road.
The winter snow in the distance had accumulated a thick layer, and he remembered that his young man used to love to admire the scenery.
It was a pity that he couldn’t see any beautiful snow scenery here.
The gray sky was divided into countless pieces by the high-tech “safety detection network.”
Safety, how ironic.
Wasn’t it just because they were afraid that these experimental subjects would escape?
Unconsciously, the road came to an end, with a door.
He patted the thin snow off his shoulders and checked again and again that there was no bloody smell on his body before pushing the door open and walking in.
It was a warm room, with some flowers and plants in the corner, but now they were withered.
On the bed, a young man with an indistinct appearance was sleeping soundly with his eyes closed.
The moment he saw him, his heart seemed to suddenly calm down. Sitting by the bed, he carefully tucked in the quilt for the young man, his movements so gentle that they were simply unlike him.
“…Xie Jinsheng?”
The young man woke up, a little surprised, and opened his eyes, wanting to burrow into his arms.
Unfortunately, his body was too weak, and he kept coughing softly.
He hugged him into his arms, raised his hand to touch him, and only then did he realize that his Omega had lost a lot of weight again these days.
“Xie Jinsheng, I’ve become so fond of sleeping these last half a month.”
The young man’s weak voice suddenly had a bit of life, and he took his hand and went to his abdomen, his eyes sparkling, and asked him, “Could it be that… am I pregnant?”