TLCBITAR Chapter 270

The last wisp of sunset glow disappeared from the horizon, and the room fell into silent darkness.

Ever since Pei Yanlie left, Zhou Zhou stubbornly kept his eyelids open, unwilling to fall asleep, even though his body was exhausted to the extreme.

He leaned against the headboard, looking down at the message Pei Yanlie had sent him two hours earlier.

Including punctuation, it totaled three hundred and twenty characters. Zhou Zhou had silently counted them over and over again, and finally slowly replied with a single “Mm.”

One word expressed his inner disappointment and dissatisfaction.

“Knock, knock, knock.”

A knock sounded on the door, followed by Zhou’s mother’s voice, “Xiao Zhou, are you still not awake?”

She had added Pei Yanlie’s Wei Net account, and he had informed her in advance that he had to leave Pang Xing for business. She had originally wanted to give the young couple some private space, so she had dragged Zhou’s father out for a stroll.

Now that their son was home alone, how could they remain calm? They rushed back home.

She looked at the tightly closed door and knocked again. Xiao Zhou almost never locked his door at home, but now he was acting out of character. She was a little worried.

“Xiao Zhou? Are you asleep?”

“Mom, what’s the matter?” A hoarse voice drifted through the crack in the door to Zhou’s mother’s ears.

“What’s wrong with your voice? Are you feeling unwell?” Zhou’s mother frowned, her worry deepening.

“It’s nothing, I just woke up. I’ll come down later.” Zhou Zhou raised his hand to cover his throat, which was burning with pain, and muttered under his breath, “Pei Yanlie, don’t you know how much you can handle!”

Zhou Zhou lifted the thin blanket covering his lower abdomen, revealing two legs covered in love bites. He struggled to move to the edge of the bed. As soon as his feet touched the ground, he began to tremble uncontrollably, and his lower back was completely limp.

“Serves me right.” He smiled self-deprecatingly, held his lower back, and stood up. He shuffled into the bathroom and saw himself in the mirror, looking as if he had been beaten up. He closed his eyes, unable to look directly.

Could he go out and see people looking like this?!

Time passed, and after who knows how long, Zhou Zhou opened his eyelids and stared blankly at the gloomy-looking boy in the mirror. A chill ran down his spine.

He blinked hard, and his vision cleared. The mirror showed his pale, bloodless face.

Zhou Zhou raised his wrist and turned on his optical brain, casually making an excuse in the family group chat, saying that he would not be down for dinner later.

However, the message sank without a trace, and no one responded. Zhou Zhou frowned, feeling inexplicably flustered.

Something had changed, but he couldn’t tell where the problem lay.

Just as he exited the group chat interface, a friend request message came in.

Zhou Zhou leaned against the sink, and when he saw that the applicant’s note read: I am Zhou Jin, he couldn’t help but be surprised, thinking that he had probably recovered his memory and wanted to catch up with him.

He quickly clicked accept, washed his face, and walked out of the bathroom. He opened the closet and took out soft loungewear to change into.

“Didi di”

The optical brain’s notification tone sounded. It was a video call from Zhou Jin.

Zhou Zhou paused for a moment and turned off the camera before answering.

Zhou Jin’s tense face came into view. Zhou Zhou noticed the scene behind him and asked without thinking, “You’re not on Main Star?”

Zhou Jin was standing in a lush jungle, surrounded by danger.

In front of him was a cliff, and behind him was a white mist gradually drifting over, containing a large amount of mental radiation R Particles. He had nowhere to escape. Remembering that he had not met his cheap younger brother since recovering his memory, he forced himself to remain calm and went to great lengths to search for Zhou Zhou’s account on Wei Net.

“Xiao Zhou, I’m sorry for contacting you so late. I’m indeed not on Main Star.” He lowered his eyes and looked at the dark screen, his eyes softening. “Can you turn on the camera and let me see you?”

Zhou Zhou vaguely sensed that something was wrong, and his eyebrows were tightly furrowed. “Where are you?”

He didn’t hesitate any longer and quickly turned on the camera.

Zhou Jin carefully looked at Zhou Zhou’s face and sighed deeply. “To make a long story short, three hours ago, Yuanci and I went to Delan Planet to participate in an auction. On the way, due to the Star Robber riot, we were forced to separate.”

Zhou Jin slowly walked towards the cliff, his eyes faintly revealing unwillingness and despair. “Later, the spaceship was controlled by the Star Robbers. Based on the Star Robbers’ bad habits, our chances of escape are very low unless the army arrives in time to rescue us.”

“What I want to tell you now is that these Star Robbers are not ordinary Star Robbers. Each person is carrying a black radiation gun. People who are hit will fall into a state of severe hallucinations in a short period of time, unable to extricate themselves.” Zhou Jin stopped, turned his head, and looked at the overwhelming white mist. “Someone has privately used dark matter R Particles derived from black holes to create biological weapons. The consequences are unpredictable!”

“Brother, calm down, there will definitely be a solution! I’ve experienced R Particle bombs before. Although the process was difficult and I suffered from hallucinations, I survived anyway. Don’t be impulsive! It’ll be fine, don’t get close to the cliff!”

Zhou Zhou’s face turned pale with anxiety. He paced back and forth anxiously, ignoring the pain in his buttocks. The shadows hidden deep in his mind suddenly swept over him.

He squatted down, holding his head in his hands, his eyes fixed on one spot, filled with horror. He breathed rapidly, repeatedly muttering, “It’ll be fine, it’ll be fine.”

Seeking a sense of security, he looked down at his left hand. The diamond ring he used to wear on his middle finger had disappeared without a trace, as if it had never existed.

The optical brain, which had been lit up, was also dark. The conversation with Zhou Jin seemed to be just a hallucination, a scene he had imagined.

He opened his dazed and helpless eyes, groping on the ground with both hands, his thin, pale lips trembling.

“Pei Yanlie, where’s my ring?!”

“Pei Yanlie! Where are you? I can’t see… I can’t see…”

“Knock, knock, knock.”

“Xiao Zhou! Open the door!” Zhou’s mother’s urgent and panicked voice rang out continuously.

Zhou Zhou only felt that he was in a dark, noisy vortex. A sharp tinnitus lingered in his ears. The loss of sight and hearing brought him to the verge of collapse.

A scorching breath suddenly arose in his body, quickly spreading throughout his body along with his blood. Zhou Zhou cried out briefly, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted to the ground.

When Zhou’s father used tools to break into the door, he saw his son lying motionless on the ground, as if he had lost his breath.

His body temperature was shockingly high, and he was surrounded by a thin white mist. The air quality detector emitted a sharp alarm.

“Please pay attention to protection. The R Particle content exceeds the standard by five times…”

“Alarm, alarm, the R Particle content exceeds the standard by ten times…”

“Automatic protection has been activated, protection failed, please leave the source of pollution immediately!”

At the same time, in the Main Star’s highest military conference hall.

Pei Yanlie listened to the so-called scientific researchers’ boastful words and found them utterly ridiculous.

Doomsday?

He had finally managed to tie Zhou Zhou to his side, and now these people were carelessly saying that doomsday was about to arrive.

“Once the R Particle storm sweeps over, all interstellar organisms will undergo mutations within half an hour. This is the doomsday for all mankind, General, we’re doomed!”

“After hundreds of years of circling, we still can’t escape doomsday after all. It’s fate!”

“Isn’t there any way to prevent this devastating disaster?!”

In an instant, the conference room was filled with various panicked screams.

“Beep—”

Pei Yanlie’s optical brain popped up with a voice call from Zhou’s mother, and his heart sank.

In non-essential situations, Zhou’s mother would never disturb him rashly unless the matter involved Xiao Zhou.

Pei Yanlie ignored the chattering people below and directly answered the call.