Tang Xiao was completely sober now and reacted that he was still in the game. He was too sleepy to forget to go offline, so what was the scene before him…
“428? How did you escape?!” Tang Xiao covered his chest area and tried to sit up, inexplicably feeling a sense of foreboding.
Originally, the basis of Tang Xiao’s cooperation with 428 was the armed balance of the Third Eye as an organization. Now, 428 had somehow gained the ability to escape, meaning he might return to the starting point at any time.
What happens to you Third Eye?! How can you let the experimental subject run around?!
Fortunately, it seems that things aren’t going in the worst direction.
The monster didn’t move, and the orange-yellow vertical pupils still stared at Tang Xiao.
How did it come out? Of course, escaping with the new ability.
Having devoured a sufficient amount of flesh and blood, 428 vaguely sensed that it had awakened a new ability. Under strong willpower, it managed to escape its new cage, not forgetting to leave a sub-substance in its place as a cover.
It was clear that its body became warm after absorbing enough flesh and blood, and even had an urge to sleep and digest. For some reason, the emptiness in his heart was not filled, it became more and more restless after Tang Xiao left.
428 thought about it and had an idea that it might be because he was worried that his prey would die.
Humans were really fragile creatures and disappeared at the slightest touch. Although it hadn’t ‘eaten it all’ before, it would be a pity if the young man died out there. It had to take responsibility for eating him clean.
Therefore, after gaining a new ability, 428 quietly left the laboratory and chased to the place where the young man’s taste was deepest.
Sneaking into the dormitory along the vent, 428 managed to meet the young man lying on the bed in a deep sleep with his eyes closed.
The young man’s face was pale, his glasses were placed at the bedside. His lips lacked blood and the corners of his mouth were slightly pursed, unconsciously bringing out a bit of vulnerability.
428’s heart was a little itchy, but it couldn’t tell what kind of feeling it was. It approached according to the impulse of its heart. When it got closer, it was almost skin-to-skin, and it could even hear the gentle heartbeat in its chest still alive.
428 was a little regretful, but not so much. At this time, the fragrant smell entered its ‘nose’. The little monster swallowed its saliva and couldn’t resist licking it.
Then, the young man woke up.
Facing Tang Xiao’s confused look, 428 opened its mouth and blurted out, “...Hungry.”
Still hungry?
Tang Xiao laughed angrily, wanting to yell out what do you take labor for? A blood bag for free blood?
However, when facing 428’s vertical pupils, he said another heartfelt word, “I’ve been too weak lately. The doctor said I needed to make up for it. Why don’t you come back in a few days?”
Hmph, when 428 leaves, he must go to report the laboratory emergency anonymously. This time, I’m going to catch the loophole in the laboratory.
428 was silent. Tang Xiao knew that he couldn’t beg for mercy at this time, otherwise it would be too different from his previous performance in the laboratory. He had to move with affection and reason.
“If you don’t go back, you’ll be dead if someone finds you out. Do you have the confidence to fight against the Third Eye now? One my life data disappears after you’re devouring me here, it’s likely to attract the attention of the higher-ups.”
“No eating.”
Really? Why don’t you get your saliva back?
The mycelium had stretched up at some point, hooking into the hem of the young man’s coat like a beast ready to catch its prey.
428 actually had no intention of devouring the flesh and blood. The energy he got just now hadn’t been digested, but it couldn’t control its drooling once it saw Tang Xiao.
“No. Injured.”
“En? What do you mean?”
428 raised his head and stared straight at Tang Xiao. The mycelium extended to Tang Xiao’s mouth and said a bold statement to the young’s man gaze.
“Other liquids… also can.”
Tang Xiao:?
The sticky mycelium tugged at the young man’s wrist. Tang Xiao winced, and hastily tore the humanoid monster’s face away, pretending to be calm. With his right hand behind his back, he tapped on the bracelet’s guard function.
Snap!
The little monster was clearly in front of Tang Xiao’s eyes, but it grabbed Tang Xiao’s right hand as if it had eyes in the back. The blood-red mycelium engulfed the bracelet, and the mycelium was retracted and grew into a head. The weird face pressed down again, stretching out its long tongue to lick the cold sweat on the corner of the young man’s forehead.
The young man’s face looked paler, and his eyes looked at it coldly.
It was a very different look than before, yet for some reason, this look was more pleasing to 428 than the tame appearance of the young man had just given him.
Only Tang Xiao felt not good entirely.
Is this game okay? Is it really any kind of decent game?
All kinds of speculations in Tang Xiao’s mind were jolted away by the little monster’s imaginative words. The excellent brain circuits of human beings were filled with all kinds of messy NSWF garbage that flashed by as fast as a pop-up screen.
Wait ah! Although he doesn’t reject 428’s appearance, but non-human… non-human is still a bit much, right!
He was just about to open his mouth to refuse, but he was nearly gagged by the mycelium, so he had to keep his mouth tightly shut and try to protest with his eyes.
The little monsters, however, seemed to be unable to see the young man’s dissatisfaction. It even had a little grievance and doubt. “The promise nutrition will be provided to me… why refuse?”
From its orange-yellow pupils, there was no shyness and lust that human beings should have. It even thought that it had found a perfect way to absorb what it needed without hurting the young man.
However, the fragrance was tightly covered by the young man. He didn’t let it leak in the slightest.
The mycelium reached the entrance of the source of the fragrance several times, but it was not allowed to enter.
Tang Xiao couldn’t speak and couldn’t let go of his shame. 428 didn’t seem to have any intention of giving up, so it was a stalemate.
At this time, there was a knock on the door.
Lodge: “Tang, have you slept? I forgot to tell you before, tomorrow is the weekly group meeting, and Bader is expected to be there to check on the progress of the test and assess newcomers. Should we discuss countermeasures?”
There was no sound in the room. Tang Xiao closed his mouth tightly, not daring to make a sound for fear that 428 would vie him a nucleic acid test.
At this moment, 428 suddenly turned its head to look out the door.
Broken information flashed through its mind. It felt the voice a little familiar.
It seems like I’ve heard it somewhere…
It suddenly turned its head to look at the suppressed young man again, its orange-yellow vertical pupils gurgling. “Xiaoxiao… heart beats so fast.”
Tang Xiao’s eyes flashed, but it was too late to control his heartbeat at this time.
“Clearly, before, there’s no refusal.” 428 narrowed its eyes and looked towards the door thoughtfully.
Tang Xiao’s heart almost missed a beat.
Damn, the last archive point was before the confrontation with 428.
It was Lodge’s shouting outside the laboratory just now that allowed Tang Xiao to escape, though not necessarily by association. If 428 had reacted to the fact that the previous ‘offering’ was a complete stalling lie…
No, it may even get suspicious because of Tang Xiao’s different attitudes before and after.
428’s mycelium stretched in the direction of the door. Just as it touched the door frame, it suddenly froze.
A little mellow flavor in the air.
It was like honey, like a ripe peach, sweet and rich.
The young man who refused to open his mouth seemed to have loosened. His thin and soft lips seemed to inadvertently rub the mycelium that 428 had brought over.
A loud explosion blew 428’s mind into a blank. By the time it came back to its senses, those mycelium had already broken free of its control, and couldn’t wait to burrow into that extremely tempting place, greedily sucking on the liquid that was not inferior to the temptation of blood.
Fragments of information that ordinary people couldn’t capture were contained in these liquids. They were reassembled into the required components within 428’s body. A temptation that far exceeded what any food could bring to it, an attraction that truly stemmed from a rule of some kind.
As the party being ‘kissed’ was not good. Tang Xiao subconsciously closed his eyes, and only felt that his scalp was numb. Sometimes the holographic game was too real and it was not a good thing. He was a university student who didn’t even have his first kiss, who would have thought that his first time was actually in the game? The object of the kiss was still so exciting.
No. This is not kissing at all, it’s feeding at best.
Tang Xiao hypnotized himself, forcing himself not to think about the meaning behind it.
It’s just, isn’t it too much?!
Tang Xiao’s mouth was numb. He finally couldn’t help but push 428 a bit, but it didn’t budge. He bit down hard and his teeth almost crack.
What kind of mycelium is this? It’s so hard!
“Tang?” Lodge outside the door seemed to hear something and spoke out in confusion.
There’s Lodge outside, and the little monster inside.
Tang Xiao’s scalp was numb, his ears were red, and only heard the sound of his heartbeat, the greedy swallowing sound of the beast, and the sound of water churning in his mouth. It almost made him unable to think about how things had progressed to this point.
But in any case, he couldn’t expose the fact that 428 had escaped from the laboratory again. The new experiment was going well, and the biological samples collected were sufficient. If 428 was found to have escaped again, he wasn’t sure if he could save 428 this time.
At the same time, it was important not to let 428 notice Lodge outside the door.
Tang Xiao calmed down, and ruthlessly took out the heat shotgun under the pillow, with the muzzle of the gun against 428’s head.
Under the threat of the young man’s cold gaze, the little monster was reluctant to withdraw the mycelium. Tang Xiao resisted the urge to gag, glared at 428 as a warning, and drove Lodge away. “I’m ready to go to bed. If there’s something, let’s talk about it tomorrow!”
“Uh, but it’s going to start early tomorrow morning.”
“It’s okay. You go first!”
“...Okay.”
The footsteps outside the door faded away.
The situation inside the room was not as easy as outside.
Tang Xiao propped up his upper body and maintained the posture of holding the gun against 428’s forehead. He pulled away a little, raising his hand to wipe his mouth, and his eyes were still as cold as ice.
428 didn’t act rashly, it tilted its head, apparently not knowing why the young man was so angry.
The atmosphere in the room was a little sullen. After a long time, Tang Xiao spoke, “I refuse just because this act has a different meaning for human beings… Forget it, you’ve got what you wanted. I think it’s time for you to go back.”
“Are you– angry?” 428 slowly spat out words with its newly acquired vocal chords, popping them outwards one word at a time. “Why?”
Why?
Tang Xiao’s face twitched. Asking him why?
“As I said, kissing means a lot in human culture. I don’t want this to happen a second time.”
“Why?”
Tang Xiao really didn’t bother to explain. “I think we have to establish some basic consensus. Since we’ve already reached cooperation, then I hope that we are mutually respectful of each other. You should have stopped in time when I resisted just now.”
“Also, now that we’ve agreed to cooperate, you shouldn’t be so reckless as to escape from the laboratory. You’ll be discovered.”
“Not, discovered.” 428 still didn’t quite understand that so-called ‘respect’ and only replied to the latter part. “Stay, body-double.”
The corner of Tang Xiao’s eyes twitched. “Then you should also be cautious. How do you know if you have been photographed by surveillance along the way? Whether anyone has seen it, whether there is surveillance data to find the flaws of your body-double. You don’t know anything about human science and technology. You should go back in case the other researcher suddenly goes back to the lab. It may be exposed.”
Thankfully, although 428 remained silent. It heeded Tang Xiao’s advice, and the mycelium disappeared along the vents.
After the shadow of 428 disappeared completely, Tang Xiao sighed in relief and collapsed onto the bed drained of strength entirely.
This sleepiness was gone. He immediately clicked to quit the game.
Sure enough, it’s better to come back to reality to rest.
Wait. What did Lodge seem to be saying outside the door before?
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