Chapter 48: The Human-Shaped Cataclysm Defuser (Part 1)
【This is the seventh time this world has been blown up… What the hell is the trigger point for that thing? I’m begging him. I’ll even call him daddy. Bro, can you be a little more emotionally stable?】
A post appeared out of nowhere on the Jiang City forum late at night.
As soon as the post appeared, it quickly went “hot,” with thousands of replies. The replies below were clearly divided. One group, who claimed to be insiders who had returned from the apocalypse, were cursing the human-shaped cataclysm. The other group, ordinary people who didn’t understand, were jumping up and down with question marks.
【What, what, what? What is the OP talking about? I don’t understand. The apocalypse is here? What’s going on?】
【Damn, that’s interesting. What do you mean by apocalypse? Bro, can you explain in detail? What should I do now? Quit my job and go home to install a security door? Stock up on instant noodles?】
【OP, OP, will there be colorful superpowers in the apocalypse? Ice, rain, lightning, fire? Can our lightning king electrocute the whole field? What’s the OP’s superpower? Do I need to get a perm?】
【Are there zombies in the apocalypse? Are there different levels of zombies? Is there a zombie king? Is there a plot where the zombie king is the big brother next door, gets separated from his childhood sweetheart, and after they reunite, they have a tragic and deep love, and they can’t bear to be apart? The Zombie King’s Apocalyptic Love Song.】
【Not the OP, but I have the same experience as the OP. I’ll reply to everyone at once. None of the above… but the apocalypse is very terrifying. I suggest that those who believe should make plans early… Every time I come back and see this group of clear and foolish humans, my vision goes black.】
【Ababababa…】
【What do you mean? Are we humans going to be finished?】
Yu Lin sat on a flowerbed at the bottom of the residential building, his eyelashes lowered slightly, eating a rice ball while browsing the post.
He was a recent graduate who had found a job in home design. His weekly task was to wear a pair of black-rimmed glasses and quietly rush to finish his design drawings.
On weekends, he would usually go out to buy daily necessities. Because he would become withdrawn if he didn’t have contact with humans for a long time, he would also take half an hour to breathe some fresh air downstairs.
He would usually go to the fitness equipment by the community activity center for twenty minutes. Here, he could listen to the old men and women chat and gossip to pass the time. In the last ten minutes, he would eat a rice ball. After he finished dinner, a quiet week of life would end.
His life was plain and uninteresting, day after day, step by step, with nothing special.
The only special thing was that during his walk today, he had accidentally clicked on a post and had learned that he would be killed by a sudden explosion in the world at some point in the future.
But it didn’t matter. The post said that he would only be terrified for a few seconds when the explosion came—perhaps a normal person like him would not even have time to react, and the world that had been blown up would rewind and start over, as if nothing had happened.
There was a monster in this world.
When he was emotionally unstable, he would bring countless disasters to the world: heat, tsunamis, landslides, until the world could no longer support it and collapsed, and then it would rewind and start over.
A portion of the people would probably have their memories rewind after the explosion. They would vaguely remember that they seemed to have already lived their current lives.
This was originally nothing. Some people even enjoyed the convenience brought by the memory rewind, and they would frantically buy lottery tickets and live a life of reaching the peak. But it was a pity that they would soon be blown up again.
What was even more troublesome was that with multiple explosions, the world’s structure had become unstable, and disasters were frequent. Two suns had appeared in the sky, the seawater had poured in, and plants and animals had stopped growing. The living space of humans had been drastically reduced.
Until the eve of the last explosion, all kinds of natural disasters had already depleted the earth’s resources. People were constantly fighting for resources in order to survive, ignoring the law, and the social order was in unprecedented chaos. It was a naked apocalypse.
As the post went viral, some of the people with memory rewind began to flood in.
【Damn it, my living daddy. Before I came back, I had my brains bashed out fighting with someone for half a bottle of mineral water. After I came back, I chugged ten bottles of mineral water. I’ll drink myself to death.】
【That’s rough, bro!】
【A friendly reminder, the interval between the last and the previous explosion was 215 days. There are still six days until the two suns. Those who believe should quickly grab some supplies. May everyone be blessed!】
【Is it real or not! You’re saying it like it’s real… I’m at work…】
【Damn! Wait for me!!】
The appearance of the post had caused a small sensation in Jiang City, but the number of people with memory rewind was still a small number compared to the general public. Many people were skeptical and suspected that it was just netizens following the trend and acting.
Yu Lin’s identity this time was an ordinary person, with no memory rewind ability. Besides clicking on the forum to check the news, he was no different from an ordinary person.
He didn’t know, and he didn’t care about any human-shaped cataclysm. In fact, due to his overly serious personality, he thought that this was fake, and it was just someone playing a prank.
【It’s fake, right? There’s no evidence.】
He only had this one sentence in the entire script.
And the ending was to be a standard NPC that existed to make up the numbers, and to end with death in the repeated explosions of the world.
Yu Lin stood by the horizontal bar in the park, his eyes lowered as he browsed the forum. He was holding a pork floss rice ball in his hand, and he was eating and reading. The rice ball from the shop at the entrance of the community had a lot of sauce, and he was very satisfied.
When he was almost done, although he didn’t believe it, the things said in the forum were so mysterious that he decided to prepare more food in the next few days. A week had passed, and his refrigerator needed to be updated.
Thinking this, Yu Lin quietly finished the last bite of the rice ball and threw the wrapper into the trash can.
It was summer at this moment, and the weather was hot. He was wearing a black T-shirt. When he threw the trash, he raised his elbow slightly, revealing a section of his thin and fair arm.
For a moment, he felt that he was being watched.
Yu Lin turned his head, his eyelashes lifted slightly, and he looked into the darkness.
The night was thick. By the fitness equipment was a row of straight trees. The passersby who were exercising had gone away at some point. In the air, there was only the sound of dogs barking. The shade of the trees was blurry, and nothing could be seen clearly.
In the midst of the barking of dogs, the bushes by the road were blown by the wind and rustled.
Yu Lin didn’t move, just stared in the direction of the shadows.
Before long, a person crawled out from inside.
Yes… crawled out.
This person was very strange. He seemed to be not yet familiar with the use of his limbs. His bones were very soft, and his eyes were dark. His crawling posture was very bizarre at first glance.
But he was very beautiful. Yu Lin was already very good-looking. Because of his quiet nature, he needed to use black-rimmed glasses to slightly cover his face to reduce the gazes of the people around him.
But this person was even more unbelievably beautiful. He was a tall young man, with eyelashes as long as raven feathers, and his skin was snow-white. He was wearing a tracksuit, and he was as clean as a university student.
He crawled out, his eyes fixed on Yu Lin. He slowly crawled to Yu Lin’s leg and stopped, and he looked up slightly, his eyes wet, like a puppy looking at a person.
He had his head up and was looking at Yu Lin without blinking. As he was looking, he suddenly smiled, his eyes curved, and he showed eight teeth, and said with a vibrant voice, “Wife!”
Oh… so he’s a psycho.
Yu Lin stood in place, pressed his lips together and looked at him, without a word.
Yu Lin himself did not like to communicate with people, and he did not know how to communicate with a psycho, so he could only remain silent.
The young man didn’t mind either. He looked at him with his eyes curved, and secretly reached out his finger, wanting to hook his.
Yu Lin withdrew his finger, lowered his eyes to look at him, and said seriously, “I’m not your wife. Men can’t be called wives.”
The young man was stunned for a moment, but he was not angry. As if he hadn’t understood, he came over and nuzzled his feet, and tugged at his shoelace. “It’s fine, wife!”
Yu Lin: “…”
After a long while of silence, he reminded him, “The shoes are dirty.”
But the other party didn’t mind at all. Not only did he not mind the dirt, but he even tied his somewhat loose shoelaces in a messy way.
Yu Lin lifted his foot to avoid him, but his ankle was gently held.
Seeing Yu Lin look over again, he blinked, and then he smiled again. “Wife, it’ll be done soon (^_^)/.”
Yu Lin: “…”
Yu Lin silently confronted him, in a dilemma.
Ten minutes later, with his messy shoelaces, he pretended not to have seen anything, and walked home with a calm expression. A few steps behind him was a young man with a strange walking posture.
The young man was no longer crawling, but was following him. At first, his posture was strange, but gradually, as if he had learned something, his back gradually became straight. With his beautiful appearance and extremely clean smile, he gave people an indescribable good impression.
Therefore, although he was a psycho, Yu Lin did not dislike him.
In the system space, the little jellyfish system was biting its little fist, and with a terrified expression, it was staring at the human-shaped cataclysm in the screen, which was emitting black energy and was clearly not right, and Yu Lin, who was extremely slow due to his identity setting.
It finally knew why Lin Lin had to max out the original host’s setting this time, to the point where he was so slow to everything that he could pretend to be a native… it was really because the thing he was going to encounter was too bizarre!
The road from the activity center to home was not long, and it was only a ten-minute walk.
Yu Lin lived in an old residential area. His parents had separated early and were living their own lives, and they were both relatively unfamiliar with him.
This house was left by his maternal grandfather. He had lived here since he was a child and had gotten used to it, so he had also chosen to work from home after graduation and was unwilling to leave.
He had a quiet personality and was not used to going out, nor was he used to getting along with other people. He always felt a sense of distance.
He had never thought of living with someone, even if the other person was a fool and looked very obedient.
He had already walked into the corridor. Yu Lin turned his head and looked at the person who had followed him with hesitation.
In his original plan, Yu Lin had only briefly planned to raise a cat to keep him company.
But before he had had time to choose, the pet shop owner had stood him up, and this matter had also been put on hold.
When he was about to enter the door, Yu Lin turned back, and the beautiful psycho was following him eagerly, his eyes curved, and he smiled at him with eight teeth, and happily called him wife.
Seeing that he was about to close the door, the other party was stunned for a moment, and as if he had realized something, he stopped in a daze.
Yu Lin looked at him, and his heart softened a little.
He seemed to be easily soft-hearted towards this beautiful psycho. He vaguely knew that this was because the two of them had a special connection, but in this world, he had been set to ignore these things, so after a thought, he stopped thinking about it.
He just thought for a moment that if he couldn’t raise a cat, then raising an obedient and beautiful psycho seemed to be not bad either?
But it was just a fleeting thought.
Yu Lin closed the door, went back to his room to wash up, and after he was done, he went to bed and had a not-so-peaceful sleep.
When he woke up in the morning, he was listening to the news of a heavy rain somewhere. He took out his breakfast from the refrigerator, heated it simply, and while eating, he prepared for work. The manuscript in his hand was urgent, and he might have to go to the company in the afternoon.
His director was a hot-tempered middle-aged man who liked to use body language to express his dissatisfaction and was full of aggression. Yu Lin did not like to deal with him.
Biting into a sandwich, Yu Lin opened his computer. Before he started working, he hesitated for a moment, but still got up, opened the door, and looked out for a moment.
Although the psycho’s behavior was strange, Yu Lin did not feel any aggression from him. On the contrary, he felt that he was actually gentler and quieter than most people.
Like an obedient little dog.
Thinking this, Yu Lin pressed his lips together and looked up.
『Are you there?』 The moment he opened the door, Yu Lin wanted to ask, but in the end, he did not say it.
Because the beautiful young man was sitting at his door with his legs bent, and when he heard the door open, he looked at him.
Because he had been leaning against the wall for a night, his clean white tracksuit was a little dirty, and there was a streak of gray on his chin.
Seeing Yu Lin looking at him, and the key point was his chin, he was stunned for a moment, and he raised the back of his hand and wiped his chin randomly.
This made him look like an innocent child.
As the gray mark on his snow-white chin became dirtier and dirtier, he looked even more harmless. He had his head up and smiled very cleanly, his eyes bright, and he asked with a cheerful voice, “Wife, you’re awake. Did you miss me?”
Yu Lin: “…” So enthusiastic.