Chapter 17: The Cannon Fodder Roommate of the Unlimited Flow Male Lead (Part 17-2)
As the gap opened, a crack appeared in the rammed earth wall, revealing what was hidden deep inside the wall—a dense layer of yellow talismans.
The talismans, which emitted a bizarre and sinister aura, were spread out under the cold moonlight of Zhao Family Village, looking indescribably creepy.
Yu Lin squatted by, and through the moonlight, he looked down at them, his expression unchanged, but his fingers instantly became cold.
The next second, Su Huai threw down the small knife, turned around and picked him up, and ruffled his hair.
There was no one in the room. He held Yu Lin like a child and sat him down on the edge of the bed, looked up, and kissed his eyelids, his voice low. “Don’t be afraid. They’re fake.”
“…”
He reached out and held Yu Lin’s cold fingers, and kissed them.
This series of actions was as smooth as flowing water. Yu Lin sat astride his boyfriend’s lap, his fingers being kissed, and his palm was hot from the kisses. Only then did he come to his senses and say softly, “Actually, I…”
He wanted to say that this was just some unavoidable physical buff, not real fear, so don’t worry.
Su Huai had already kissed the corner of his lips, and with one hand, he shook open the quilt behind him, then lowered his head to take off his shoes, and finally held him and lay down.
Zhao Family Village was very quiet. The originally bizarre sound of musical instruments had stopped at some point. There was not even the sound of insects outside, only the cold moonlight.
In the dim moonlight, Yu Lin’s breathing was quiet. He looked up and could only see his boyfriend’s closed eyes and his smooth jawline.
The palm on his waist was warm and powerful. Su Huai’s breathing was steady, as if he were asleep.
Yu Lin looked at him, and after a while, the hand in the quilt moved, and he quietly reached out and touched Su Huai’s chin.
The next second, his sleeping boyfriend suddenly opened his eyes, reached out and caught his fingers, and in the cold white moonlight, he gently bit his slender fingertips.
He looked over, his eyebrows slightly raised, with a completely unfamiliar handsome face. “What’s wrong?”
Yu Lin: “…”
Yu Lin looked at him, was silent for a moment, looked away, and shook his head gently.
Nothing. He just felt that it was a little strange.
The last time they had met, they were still relatively unfamiliar. He hadn’t fallen in love with Su Huai, so he had accepted his appearance very quickly and treated it as a mission.
It was just that after falling in love with this person and spending a long time with him in the real world… Yu Lin found that he seemed to have gotten used to his boyfriend’s real appearance.
So when faced with this completely unfamiliar face, he couldn’t help but have strange thoughts.
But this was obviously something that couldn’t be said, so Yu Lin pressed his lips together, hesitated for a moment, climbed up, and gently kissed his boyfriend’s completely different nose.
He then reached out, ruffled his hair, and tried to distract him. “It’s nothing. It’s late. Let’s go to sleep.”
His hair fell down, his eyes were slightly rounded, his expression was serious, and his slender fingers rested on his face, bringing a numb and itchy warmth.
Su Huai held his fingers, his heart stirred, and he looked up and kissed his eyes.
The next second, his expression was slightly stunned, and the arm around his boyfriend’s waist also became a little stiff.
He looked up and was stunned to see a completely different face reflected in Yu Lin’s eyes under the moonlight.
Seeing that his expression was not right, Yu Lin lowered his head and kissed him again, as if he was particularly fond of him today. He lay down in his arms and was still asking, “What’s wrong?”
Su Huai: “…”
Su Huai remembered his “I like them both,” took a deep breath, held him in his arms, and forced a smile.
His eyes were dark. He opened his fingers and patted Yu Lin’s back as if nothing had happened, and coaxed him softly, “It’s nothing. Go to sleep.”
When the person in his arms gradually fell asleep, Su Huai frowned, suddenly opened the Main God panel, and began to complain.
『Player 01, Level: S, Complaint Level: S.』
『Complaint Content: Teammate’s real face is also invisible?』
Main God GM: ?
Stupid player, are you sick?
***
Completely unaware that his boyfriend had been staring at the GM and complaining for half the night, Yu Lin was held in his arms and quickly fell asleep.
He was woken up in the middle of the night by a series of knocks on the door.
The knocking came one after another, not too light or too heavy, very rhythmic.
“…” Yu Lin’s consciousness returned. He opened his eyelids and subconsciously fumbled to the side… then paused, holding the quilt in his hands.
Yu Lin’s eyes opened, and he was fully awake.
Su Huai was standing by the bed, bending over to look at him. Seeing that he was awake but silent, he raised his eyebrows slightly.
Yu Lin’s fingers on the quilt were slightly cold. He looked at Su Huai, held the quilt, and slowly sat up, seeming a little dazed. “What happened?”
Su Huai didn’t speak and pointed to the door.
The not-too-light or too-heavy knocking continued.
This was obviously some kind of unclean thing. Yu Lin looked at him, thought for a moment, and said softly, “You mean… something happened outside?”
Su Huai nodded lightly and held out his hand to Yu Lin.
He reached out, wanting to grab Yu Lin’s wrist. Just as his hand reached over, a cold air came over.
Yu Lin paused, calmly avoided it, and said softly, “…And then?”
Su Huai stared at him, his gaze deep. After a moment of thought, he suddenly opened his mouth, his voice a little hoarse. “We can’t stay here. I’ll take you out.”
“…” Yu Lin looked at him silently.
He didn’t move. Su Huai maintained the posture of holding out his hand and didn’t move either. The two of them were silent.
Yu Lin looked at him, and for some reason, he suddenly remembered the original host’s ending.
The original host’s plotline had already changed, but in the original ending, he seemed to have been tricked out by a monster in the middle of the night and then directly torn to shreds.
For a moment, Yu Lin was not sure if this was the plotline’s self-correction.
But after thinking about it, the rule was to change the plot at one’s own risk, not that the plot could not be changed at all, so he still didn’t move.
He actually sat there and began to daze off. Su Huai looked at him, his face becoming more and more stiff.
Suddenly, he curled his lips and smiled. He had a sharp appearance, and such a smile on his face looked very bizarre.
Yu Lin looked at “him” and sighed. “Sorry, I don’t want to go out.”
“Su Huai” stopped smiling.
“He” had a blank expression, paused for a moment, and then his expression gradually became distorted, the malice in his eyes alarming. Then his human skin fell off, and he gradually became a woman in red with no eyeballs.
The woman stood in the thick night, with two dark, bloody holes on her face. She looked over and asked coldly, “You recognized me?”
Yu Lin nodded lightly, looked at her, and suddenly found that the red clothes on her body were actually a wedding dress, but it was soaked in blood and very dirty, so its original appearance could not be seen.
Yu Lin was stunned. “You are… Yilan?”
Yilan didn’t speak. Hearing this name, her black-hole-like eyes stared at him and smiled slightly.
Yu Lin sat on the bed. The windows were airtight, and the light was very dim, with only the moonlight coming through the window lattice.
His face was pale, and his fingers were as cold as ice, but his expression was very calm. He pressed his lips together. “What happened to you? Why did you come to me?”
Yilan looked at him, raised her hand lightly, and under the moonlight, her bright red nails slowly grew longer.
Her nails were very long and very smooth, and they even reflected slightly in the moonlight.
Yu Lin saw two red lanterns inside, hanging high under the eaves at the village entrance. The wind blew, and the lanterns spun slightly, revealing the scenery behind them.
In the blood-red lanterns, the front was a bright red lantern, but the back was carved with two human skins, one was his, and the other was an unknown person.
Yilan slowly approached, and her bright red nails pierced Yu Lin’s collar. The next second, she suddenly let out a tragic scream and took a step back.
A small flame suddenly burst out in front of Yu Lin. The flame was a fluorescent blue, and in the dark night, it was like a night light from the underworld.
Yilan seemed a little afraid. She looked down at her hands. Yu Lin found it strange, lifted the quilt, and saw a stack of blood-red talismans stained with dirt by the bed.
This kind of thing seemed to naturally restrain wandering souls.
Yilan stood a step away, did not move again, but did not leave either. She looked at Yu Lin, and as she looked, blood gushed from her black-hole-like eyes.
The blood quickly soaked the wedding dress under her, and wounds began to appear on her face, and a large hole opened in her chest.
At this rate of bleeding, the blood on her body quickly drained, and some foul-smelling, turbid liquid flowed out, which was alarming to see.
Yu Lin pressed his lips together and looked at her. An unknown amount of time passed. A rooster crowed in the village. In an instant, he looked up, and Yilan disappeared, and the bloodstains on the ground also disappeared cleanly.
It was as if everything last night had been his illusion.
The first light of dawn came through the window lattice. Yu Lin blinked his sore eyes.
The old door of the room was suddenly pushed open from the outside, bringing in a little of the morning light.
Su Huai came in, casually threw away the tattered lantern in his hand, and brought with him a strong smell of blood.
He entered the door and was about to go and get water to wash up when he suddenly found that Yu Lin was already up. He was stunned for a moment, walked over, and saw the ashes by the bed at a glance.
Su Huai pressed his lips together, and the fingers hanging by his side suddenly tightened.
He walked over, half-knelt, and calmly held Yu Lin’s calf, lowering his head to check.
After checking once, he breathed a sigh of relief and suddenly said in a hoarse voice, “I was negligent.”
Yu Lin said, “No.”
He was already wearing a long gown, his skin snow-white, and his chin was resting lightly on the black frog buttons.
He had been thinking about Yilan, but hearing Su Huai’s words, he lowered his head slightly, looked at Su Huai, and the first ray of morning light was reflected in his light-colored, gentle eyes.
Yu Lin said, “Don’t think like that. I have to survive in this world eventually.”
He said, “I like you, so I will stand by your side, not make you afraid.”
Yu Lin reached out, placed his hand on Su Huai’s hair, and ruffled it in imitation of him.
He said, “I’m actually not afraid anymore. It’s just that some physical reactions can’t be controlled. I’m seriously liking you. Try to believe me too, okay?”
As Yu Lin spoke, he told Su Huai what had just happened. He was a little sleepy, so his voice was very low.
His tone was serious. “She was wearing a wedding dress. It might be Yilan, but her eyes are gone, and there’s a stab wound from a sharp weapon on her chest.”
“Someone wants to kill Yilan? Who wants to kill her?”
“Perhaps… Yilan is already dead.” Yu Lin frowned and said softly, “But it’s not time for the wedding yet… how could it be? If Yilan is already dead, then this mission is.”
Never to be completed?
Yu Lin made various speculations, and suddenly his fingers felt a warmth. He looked down and found Su Huai playing with his fingers, the corners of his lips curled up slightly, and a smile crept into his dark eyes.
He thought of something, and the corners of his lips quickly fell, and he pressed them together tightly, his voice placid, as if he were asking very casually, “You could recognize me?”
He said, “You could tell at a glance that I wasn’t him?”
Yu Lin’s fingers were held in his hand. He looked down at him, his expression puzzled.
Then he felt his fingers being held one by one, very forcefully. For some reason, he felt that the person in front of him had suddenly become in a very good mood.
Yu Lin was still a little confused. “Why wouldn’t I recognize you?”
He looked over, his expression actually one of serious confusion. “How could I not recognize you?”
Su Huai looked at him, and after a while, his breathing became ragged. He suddenly lowered his head and bit his finger.
“En.” A laugh suddenly rolled out of his throat, and he said in a low voice, “My bad.”