Chapter 90: Pathological [Arnis, 85%]
[Host, Host, wake up!]
He Yue was awakened by the system’s voice, his eyes opening to a familiar ceiling.
He had imagined he might be thrown into a dark basement, but he was now in the single-person sunroom he had lived in for a long time.
The comfortable bed had been changed, the floor and desk spotless, all signs of frequent cleaning.
He Yue had originally thought this room was a sunroom that Arnis had painstakingly arranged so that he wouldn’t suffer in a dark and damp prison, but he hadn’t expected Arnis to have long planned to imprison him here.
It only takes 21 days to form a habit, not to mention He Yue had lived here alone for several months. Arnis hoped he would get used to this life, until he no longer had any thoughts of escaping.
[Is the host feeling any discomfort?]
(No.)
On the contrary, He Yue was a little too used to it.
He Yue sat up from the bed, and as he raised his hand to brush his messy hair, he felt the heavy weight on his left wrist.
A thick iron chain, the other end embedded in the wall, probably welded to the steel bars inside the wall. The iron cuff on He Yue’s wrist was thoughtfully lined with a thick layer of fluffy padding, leaving no chance for the iron cuff to chafe He Yue’s wrist.
Arnis was undoubtedly a cruel captor, yet he harbored such humble and cautious thoughts.
He Yue tried to turn the iron cuff on his wrist, but found it was tightly attached to his wrist, without even a finger’s gap. The tightened lock was an electronic fingerprint lock, and forcibly breaking it would probably trigger an alarm to Arnis.
[Host, do you want to escape? I’ll get you some tools.]
(Why should I escape?)
He Yue lay back on the bed, letting the warm sunlight from the locked glass window shine on him.
The iron chain on his wrist was warmed by the sun, the reflective iron a bright color.
(Of course I will, in this place with three meals a day, warmth and comfort, and rich entertainment, I will crush the president’s last bit of pitiful persistence to dust.)
The system didn’t dare to make a sound. He saw He Yue’s cold, piercing gaze, like an unbreakable ice that even the warmest sunlight couldn’t melt.
He knew what this meant.
Arnis had personally destroyed He Yue’s last bit of goodwill, and what awaited him would be the most severe punishment.
Even with the iron chain on his wrist, he couldn’t possibly be a subordinate. He had ways to torture Arnis to the point of collapse, with his hand that was bound by the iron chain.
Who was taming whom, it was really not certain.
The iron chain was very long, allowing He Yue to walk freely to any corner of the room. The doors and windows were locked, and there were no sharp objects here.
There were delicious snacks and sweet cakes, new paints and custom-made easels…
Except for the freedom to leave here and communicate with the outside world, the sunroom had everything.
He Yue didn’t plan to run, and he walked around the familiar room a few times.
An iron chain was welded to the bedroom wall, and the bricks next to it were a slightly different color. The inconspicuous difference was not easy for people to notice, but it would not escape He Yue’s absolute sense of color.
He bent his knuckles and gently knocked on the discolored brick.
The hollow sound was definitely not the sound a normal solid brick should have. This small brick was connected to a deeper secret.
The excitement of discovering an unknown secret made He Yue hold his breath. He was very wary and asked the system for a self-defense pistol before pushing the discolored brick in with all his might.
The room was quiet for a few seconds, like a silent waiting room before a grand performance. Then, the entire wall shook, and after a loud sound, a deep, dark long corridor appeared before He Yue.
He Yue stepped forward, and as soon as he stepped into the corridor, the lights on both sides lit up one by one, from near to far, guiding the intruder’s vision.
He gripped the pistol in his hand and loaded it with one hand.
He Yue didn’t know where the end of the corridor led, but instinctively, he felt it wouldn’t be anything good.
The door at the end was not locked, and it opened with a gentle push.
There was no one inside, only countless hanging red threads. Wooden clips were neatly attached to the red threads, and each wooden clip held a photo.
He Yue’s photo.
He stood in the middle of the room, stunned by the dense wooden clips and photos, his scalp tingling.
The photos were in chronological order, mostly from a stalker’s perspective. From his appearance at the highly anticipated wishing well, there were photos of him at various times.
If these photos were connected, they could probably become an excellent and detailed autobiography of He Yue. But appearing in this dark room that never saw the light of day, they became a chilling piece of evidence.
He Yue’s face was clearly or vaguely presented in the photos, and if the camera accidentally swept over the other insects beside He Yue, their faces would be crossed out with a big red X.
Koeyle, Knasch, Wien.
None of the three were spared.
Thankfully, Mo Lfei was a male insect, and even if he was very close to He Yue, he was considered a close “male insect friend” by Arnis, and was thus spared.
A small blackboard recorded detailed information about the three female insects besides Arnis, only Koeyle and Knasch were crossed out.
Wien’s photo appeared on the blackboard, and He Yue felt something was wrong.
Last time, it was Wien who had sent him to Yiai Group!
(System, check Wien’s status!)
After a “beep” sound, the system’s comforting voice came: [The conquest target Wien’s mental state has no obvious fluctuations.]
He Yue secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
On the table in the middle of the dark room, a photo was embedded in the glass, a photo of He Yue playing at the festival. The cat ear headband and cat tail belt were black and eye-catching, and He Yue, with his waist-length hair, smiled easily, the lights of the festival illuminating his face.
Such a warm and serene scene, as if the noisy market would also quiet down, leaving only He Yue’s gentle and beautiful smile.
This photo was sealed in the glass table, completely out of place in this oppressive and dark room.
He Yue remembered what Arnis had said.
The little black cat he had bought at the market, the little cat he had spoiled with money, was never referring to Black Sugar.
There was a diary on the table, but He Yue was not interested in Arnis’s obsessive ramblings and didn’t even open the first page. He noticed the recording pen on the table, the one that had become key evidence in the confrontation with Oried.
It was glowing with a full green light, a sinister gleam.
He Yue found many audio files named by date in the unlocked computer on the table.
Arnis said that his Master didn’t like clumsy novices, and he had learned this from Koeyle.
He also said that he was a slutty insect who craved his Master’s cock, and he had learned this from Knasch.
“Lunatic…” He Yue murmured to himself.
Arnis was a despicable pervert. He had invaded He Yue’s life in this way, trying to occupy a place in He Yue’s life through cameras and recording pens.
He had monitored and stalked He Yue in this way, trying to express his love and possession in a completely twisted way.
…That wasn’t love.
He Yue didn’t want to admit this almost crazed possessiveness.
(I shouldn’t have believed that any of the conquest targets you found were normal insects.)
[…Host, I’m sorry.]
He Yue had initially thought he had rarely encountered a normal elite insect. He was gentlemanly and decent, with self-restraint, just that he had too much money and was a bit of a domineering president with an abnormal sense of grandeur.
Only now did He Yue truly know that under that decent and exquisite suit was a twisted and deformed obsession that was difficult to bear.
This 80% was not a small amount.
[Does the host want to escape? I can get a chainsaw to cut the iron chain, or use a pistol to break the glass window…]
The shadows of the red strings and the photos on them were projected on the ground, and the entire dark room was as terrifying as a horror movie. The shadow of the red line on the high place fell on He Yue’s face, the crisscrossing thin lines as if binding him.
The system was so scared it didn’t dare to breathe.
(There’s still 20% left.)
[We… we can go find the fifth conquest target who was replaced, right?]
He Yue smiled and shook his head, rejecting the system’s kind offer.
He was not afraid of difficult conquest targets, nor was he afraid of sinister criminals. On the contrary, it was Wien, that pure and sincere little dog, that he couldn’t quite handle.
At the end of the wall facing the entrance, there was another door. He Yue turned the unlocked doorknob and pushed open the heavy iron door.
Outside, the sun was shining brightly.
The warm sunlight slanted in, illuminating a small part of the dark room, dispelling most of the sinister and terrifying atmosphere. He Yue reached out and caught the warm sunlight in his palm.
He took a step forward and stood in the sunlight, the iron chain on his left hand already at its limit.
The iron chain restricted his freedom, and he couldn’t take another step forward.
He heard hurried footsteps behind him.
He Yue stood in the sunlight, not running, not hiding, quietly waiting for the rapidly approaching footsteps. The warm sunlight turned his shiny black long hair a warm chestnut color, as if covered with a thin golden veil.
A huge force hugged his waist from behind, lifting him from the ground, his feet dangling.
Such an aggressive and solid confinement, yet He Yue’s back felt the violent heaving of a chest. The heavy, rapid heartbeat pounded against his back, and the warm, hurried breath hit his ear.
“Don’t, don’t go, Master, you can’t go.”
He Yue turned his head and saw the captor, who should have been the superior, his eyes red and filled with tears, his eyes wide with fear, his lips trembling.
Like a pathetic subordinate.
He Yue raised his left hand, which was chained, and said calmly, “Be glad for this iron chain, otherwise, when you came back today, you would have only seen an empty room.”
The hand that was bound by the chain playfully lifted the instigator’s chin, the warning voice making the fearful captor even more flustered.
“Arnis, you better make sure this iron chain is strong enough, otherwise, I’ll leave you without sparing any effort.”
He Yue smiled and admired his increasingly pale face, further deepening this panic. “If you let me go, you’ll never find a trace of me again.”
His remaining reason was ignited by He Yue’s threat, and even the heavy iron chain couldn’t give Arnis a sense of security. He was like being on a perfectly good floating boat, but still worried that the small gaps between the wooden boards would leak water and capsize the entire boat.
And He Yue’s words were like a gentle breeze blowing on the floating boat. Even if there was no killing power, it would make Arnis feel like he was facing a great enemy.
He Yue was thrown heavily onto the soft, large bed, and his whole body bounced on the soft mattress. The heavy iron chain was thrown to the side of the bed, making a dull sound.
Arnis, who had been provoked by He Yue’s words, tore at He Yue’s clothes without a word, tearing off all the fragile shirt buttons, revealing the pale skin under the fabric.
He Yue had been warmed by the sunlight, and when he came into contact with Arnis’s cold hand, which was cold from fear, his waist flinched. He curled his legs and blocked his front, resisting the beast who had completely lost his reason.
“My iron chain is very hard, Master, unless you cut off your own hand, you can’t get out of the handcuffs…”
With a “rip” sound, the shirt was torn, and the tattered cloth hung on He Yue’s body, half-covering, half-exposing. He covered half his face with his elbow, warily watching the almost crazed Arnis.
“Master won’t leave me… I’ll lock Master here forever, Master will always belong to me…” He repeated as if possessed, as if by repeating it, what he said would become a reality.
A clear slap sounded, and He Yue’s palm mercilessly slapped Arnis’s face.
“No, Arnis.”
He Yue’s eyes were as calm as water, without a single ripple. He was composed and calm, his tone just stating an established fact.
No anger, no hatred.
So calm that there was nothing.
“Even if I had the chance to cut off my own hand, I wouldn’t stay by your side.”
Like a stone thrown into a calm lake, or the fuse of an explosive, He Yue’s words almost blew up Arnis’s last bit of reason.
He crazily grabbed He Yue’s hands, his large hands pinning his two slender wrists, and held them above his head, pressing them hard on the bed.
He was very strong, and even when He Yue tried to pull his hands back, they didn’t move at all. This stretched posture inevitably made He Yue feel a pull in his arms, and he swayed his body uncomfortably, trying to break free from his hands.
“Arnis…!”
He Yue was about to say something when Arnis, who had leaned down, covered his mouth. No matter how much he refused, the other party’s lips still licked his, gently biting his slightly parted lips, and sucked with force.
The aggressor’s kiss was domineering and forceful, but it was not without a method.
He had learned a lot, and all the contact was the result of careful preparation. So much so that when his tongue swept over He Yue’s upper palate, He Yue, who had fallen into his arms, lost his strength in his waist.
Then, Arnis was bitten hard by He Yue.
The metallic taste of blood in his mouth and the immediate pain forced him to pull away, his extended tongue covered in a long string of blood.
He Yue’s lips were stained with blood, like a bright lipstick, a bright red, looking even more delicious.
Arnis’s fingers gently stroked He Yue’s lips, wiping away all the blood.
“Thankfully, it’s not Master who’s injured…” The crazed eyes were lit with a dark fire, and his obsessive possessiveness and infatuation became all of Arnis.
He Yue slapped his hand away.
In the next second, a powerful floral scent exploded in the room, and the male insect’s oppressive pheromones filled every corner of the room.
Arnis was a masterless female insect and had never bonded with a male insect.
This meant that he could easily be dragged into the abyss of a forced heat by He Yue’s oppressive male insect pheromones, and fall into an irreversible insectoidization.
He would die because of this.
He Yue rarely used oppressive pheromones, this method of directly crushing female insects, unless he was really angry to the extreme and no longer cared about the female insect’s life or death.
Or, he had the intention to kill.
He sat on the bed, one hand on his gland, his slightly furrowed brow showing his anger and resentment. His angry eyes had a special sexiness, especially with his red and swollen lips.
Arnis was dizzy from the powerful male insect pheromones, and the uncomfortable heat in his body was like ants gnawing at his flesh and bones. His body appeared phantom-like, and many insect hands appeared on both sides.
As Arnis mutated, the system’s alarm sounded: [Warning! The conquest target is showing signs of pseudo-insectoidization! Host, stop!]
“Where’s the door? If you don’t want to die, crawl out yourself!”
Arnis didn’t crawl away. On the contrary, he endured the excruciating pain and got closer to He Yue. He took He Yue’s hand, squeezed his fingers tightly, and placed a light kiss on the back of his smooth hand.
“Master… a masterless female insect will have a pseudo-insectoidization, will have a forced heat… are you, inviting me?”
He had fallen into a crazed abyss, and every cell was trying to possess everything about his Master.
He would die, a very, very miserable death, becoming an insect corpse.
But He Yue had threatened him with death, and it hadn’t made him surrender. On the contrary, he seemed even more excited, falling into a frenzy of burning his life.
This wasn’t his weakness.
He was no longer afraid of death now.
The insect hands also climbed onto He Yue, caressing him everywhere, not wanting to miss a single inch of his skin.
“Arnis! Stop… ugh…”
The insect hands gently stroked the angry and resisting He Yue, tearing off the pants he was wearing.
With several hands at once, they tried to arouse He Yue’s emotions bit by bit, seeing the faint blush climb up his cheeks, dyeing his eyes and earlobes.
The insect hands were burning Arnis’s life, and he could easily die completely in the pseudo-insectoidization. But he didn’t care about this at all, like a demon whose shackles had been opened, he used his last bit of moth-to-a-flame strength.
“Arnis!”
The resistance gave He Yue a clear mind, but it was being stripped away bit by bit by the insect hands roaming over his body. The comfortable feeling was very strong, and Arnis, who had been stalking him for so long, knew exactly that he liked to have the gland on the back of his neck and his fragile earlobes touched.
“Arnis… let go of me, I… I’ll give you soothing pheromones… ugh…”
Arnis seemed not to hear him, grabbing his ankle and leaning over He Yue.
Arnis, in his pseudo-insectoidization state, showed more insect-like characteristics. He was a kind of centipede-like insect, with many hands, no teeth, only mandibles and a tongue plate, forming a special oral structure.
He had no teeth and couldn’t chew food, so he could only suck nutrients.
“Ugh…”
His erection instantly became engorged and purple, and the poisonous insect fluid covered the fragile and sensitive skin, burning it with both pain and pleasure, making He Yue cry out instantly.
He had never dreamed that in the insect world, he would have to face all kinds of strange insects. These strange biological features were magical toys that the craftsmen at Castle couldn’t even imagine.
Should he marvel at the wonders of nature…
He Yue was completely dazed, and the unprecedented feeling took away his consciousness, throwing him to the clouds.
His waist was held by the insect hands, forming a beautiful arc, like an exquisite work of art. He had been grabbing Arnis’s hair, trying to pull him away, but now he could only weakly rest his hand on his head.
[Arnis, 85%.]
Arnis trembled slightly, and hearing the system’s voice undoubtedly added more fuel to the fire. He became even more wanton, almost with a fatal determination.
“Ugh… don’t, Arnis… let go of me!”
Countless insect hands held He Yue tightly, and the intense comfort made him even weaker, losing the strength to struggle, and he fell into Arnis’s arms.
You shouldn’t fight fire with fire with a monster who isn’t afraid of death…
Although it was effective, the price was a bit too high.
He Yue had a little bit of regret.
The toothless mouthparts had no risk of scratching, and it increased its speed even more wantonly, and as expected, it received He Yue’s tearful cries.
The pulse throbbed, and He Yue tensed his body, his vision blurring. He had no strength to release oppressive pheromones, and the floral scent in the air was sickeningly sweet.
He Yue fell limply into the soft bed and heard a loud thud.
He struggled to lift his neck and saw Arnis fall to the ground, out of sight.
(Is he dead?)
[…No.]
He Yue sighed with a hint of regret and pulled the quilt over himself.
To cause such a severe pseudo-insectoidization, and as a masterless female insect, to receive the strong oppressive pheromones of a “strange” Master, yet still be alive.
This insect race, He Yue was getting more and more confused.
He turned to his side, and a shrunken version of Arnis appeared before him.
His childish face was paired with a fierce gaze that didn’t belong to his age, and the well-tailored suit now hung loosely on him, the sleeves too long.
The medicine Yilinde had given Arnis had taken effect after he had received He Yue’s “pheromones” in his throat, and it had immediately made Arnis turn into a child.
Yilinde, who had done so much evil, had saved Arnis, the demon he had adopted.
He Yue glared at him and turned his back to him.
“Master, I’m sorry…”
The little Arnis pleaded pitifully, his childish voice harmless, as if he wasn’t the one who had just gone crazy.
“Get out.” He Yue didn’t even give him a glance.
“I know I was wrong… Master, I’m sorry, I was just… so afraid that Master would leave…” Arnis knelt by the bed, his childish voice saying, “There are no other female insects by Master’s side now, right? I, I just want to protect Master…” “Do you think my Wien doesn’t exist?”
“Ah… him, I almost forgot.”
A sinister smile appeared on Arnis’s youthful face, his pathological nature completely revealed. He said with a cheerful smile, his tone upbeat, “He’s dead, I killed him myself. By Master’s side… there’s only me.” He Yue’s eyes widened, and his body trembled. He rarely turned around, but now he wrapped the milky white quilt around himself.
“What did you say?”
“No one will bother us anymore, Master…”
His pathological smile was like a bloodthirsty flower, blooming with blood and infatuation. Arnis said word by word, “I said, Wien, I killed him.”
