CH 15

Chapter 15: What exactly does it want? 

Bian Yi was riding in an elevator that was descending downwards. He didn’t know how many floors were beneath him since the elevator had not stopped yet.

Above the elevator was a residential building similar to the villa that Kou Li had brought him to, along with Jian Yi, who claimed to be Kou Li’s old friend.

Bian Yi did not ask any more questions. He just wanted to see Guan Xi with his own eyes.

Perhaps because the ride in the elevator was longer than he had anticipated, Byan Yi found himself uncontrollably recalling last night.

Last night, he slept on the same bed with Xiao Shu and Kou Li.

Bian Yi thought he wouldn’t be able to sleep, but surprisingly, he slept well.

In the middle of the night, Xiao Shu kicked the blanket once, and accidentally woke up Bian Yi. When Bian Yi covered Xiao Shu with the blanket, he touched another cold hand.

It was Kou Li.

To be honest, waking up in the middle of the night and finding someone staring at you with a pair of pitch-black eyes that showed no positive emotions was a terrifying experience. However, Bian Yi had been through so much that Kou Li staying up all night to stare at him could not scare him.

On the contrary, from time to time, Bian Yi’s mind would think, “One day, I will drag this man with me to die together.”

However, Xiao Shu, who had himself re-covered, turned over and stretched his leg over Bian Yi’s body.

Bian Yi touched Xiao Shu’s soft face and went back to sleep, and it was another peaceful night with Kou Li.

The elevator stopped without any sound.

Soon, the elevator door opened.

In front of Bian Yi appeared a transparent passage with seawater and marine life outside, which was both beautiful and romantic.

Kou Li was beside him, and for a moment, Bian Yi thought he had returned to his 18 or 19 years old, dating Kou Li in an underwater park.

But it was just an illusion.

Bian Yi took a step forward, and the illusion shattered like broken glass, becoming fragments that could not be pieced together.

This was an underwater laboratory, and without any calculations, it was clear that it must have cost an astronomical amount to build, and it was done without the government’s knowledge.

With this laboratory, Bian Yi no longer had to guess.

Sure enough, the variety show was filmed on this island, and it was all planned by Kou Li.

After passing through several heavy doors and barriers, Bian Yi finally arrived at where Guan Xi was being held.

It was two transparent rooms without any privacy. Even if the people inside were dressed, they looked like they were stripped naked.

This design was truly—

Exactly what Bian Yi had in mind.

“This is my masterpiece.” Suddenly someone spoke up, trying to take credit.

Bian Yi looked to one side and saw Kou Li’s strange friend. He vaguely remembered this person was a doctor.

But as he watched him skillfully operate the control panel to wake up Guan Xi from what seemed to be a coma or deep sleep, Bian Yi realized that this doctor was not an ordinary one.

Of course, birds of a feather flock together. Anyone who could be a longtime friend of Kou Li’s could not be an ordinary doctor.

Bian Yi quickly shifted his attention away from Jian Yi and focused on Guan Xi, who had just woken up.

He had been unconscious for a day, and his time-limited golden finger had already expired. The person lying on the bed with his eyes open was someone who looked exactly like Bian Yi in appearance and build.

And Bian Yi had been watching this person for sixteen years.

At this moment, there were countless things in his chest that wanted to burst out. He felt like he was about to explode. His body was probably trying to protect itself. Before Bian Yi’s brain could catch up, his hands were already on the glass wall, his face twisted, staring at the person on the other side of the glass room, releasing his hatred without restraint.

Previously, Guan Xi was still wearing Wen Xiaobai’s mask, and with that mask covering his face, Bian Yi could still restrain himself. But now, he had completely lost control.

Bian Yi’s sudden action did not attract the attention of the two people around him. Everything seemed to be within their expectations.

Jian Yi even raised the visibility of this room.

This glass was, of course, not ordinary glass. The design of the two rooms was different: on their side, it was transparent, but the other side could not be seen unless it was made visible, like now.

Guan Xi woke up, his consciousness slowly going from blurry to clear, his expression changing from confusion to fear.

He immediately got up from the bed, but it seemed to be too late. He found several needle marks on his arm, which were painful when touched.

This pain spread throughout his body. Not only his arms had been pricked, but other parts of his body as well.

Guan Xi’s face turned ashen, and his legs were as soft as noodles. He almost crawled into the corner and curled up.

It was over. Everything was over. He had really been captured by a perverted scientist, and he had become an experimental subject! He had only been drawing blood from him so far. Next, he would be dissected, and in those science fiction stories, even if a person had only a brain, they would not die in the hands of those scientific geniuses.

He would be immersed in a vessel filled with nutrient solution, with only his brain left.

Guan Xi buried his head in his knees, holding his head in his hands, screaming silently with his mouth open, his eyes filled with fear, and not a single tear shed.

“Guan Xi.”

The voice was unusually familiar, causing Guan Xi, who had buried his head in his knees, to lift his head in fear.

Fear completely enveloped him, to the point where he had forgotten to call out to the system at the first moment of sobriety, using his remaining points to exchange for an escape from this place.

Then, he saw Bian Yi. In the glass room opposite him, his hands were only propped up against the wall, his face had a strange smile, and his eyes were full of hatred as he looked at him.

Tears finally flowed from Guan Xi’s eyes. He shook his head repeatedly and pleaded with Bian Yi: “No, no, no, please don’t. I was wrong, I know I was wrong. Please spare me. I don’t want to die or become an experimental subject. Please, I beg you…”

Bian Yi didn’t speak, but his expression became even stranger.

At this point, Guan Xi finally noticed the people around Bian Yi, one was Kou Li. When he saw him, Guan Xi shrank back into the corner, despite having nowhere to go. The other, Guan Xi also recognized, was the handsome man he had asked for help before he lost consciousness.

Guan Xi trembled with purple lips, a sense of absurdity surged in his heart, but more of it was a sense of powerlessness.

He was indeed wrong, very wrong.

There are some men who cannot be conquered, and the system’s golden finger is not omnipotent.

Is this retribution?

He pretended not to know, did not inquire about the whereabouts of the original owner, and assumed himself to be the protagonist, occupying everything of the original owner.

So now he was caught by the original owner, imprisoned.

He used completing system tasks as an excuse to conquer one man after another, he was affectionate towards them all.

So he was dragged into this black vortex by a new target he had just set his sights on.

But Guan Xi didn’t accept this.

He had only occupied Bian Yi for a year, and he had only conquered two men.

Yet he had to endure these cruel tortures, it was unfair!

Guan Xi did not realize that he had deceived himself again, he had clearly seen this island, seen his own ending, and guessed why he had been afraid of Kou Li from the beginning.

But he wrapped himself up again, he knew nothing, only knew that he was very miserable.

He was deceived by the system, chased by people, not tolerated by this world, and still cruelly tortured by these lunatics, locked up in hell.

He was clearly not guilty to this extent!!!

Bian Yi withdrew his hand, stood up straight again, and looked coldly at the despairing Guan Xi in the glass room, then lightly laughed.

Had he not begged before? He had begged many times.

The system had forced him to watch his lover be with another man, watch his life be stolen, and forced him to watch the little tree be destroyed.

His pride and self-esteem were shattered.

He screamed, cursed, and begged hysterically in that dark room. His eyes, mouth, throat, internal organs, and even his breath were all filled with blood, but who cared about him? Who came to save him?

Now, Guan Xi couldn’t even last a day in confinement?

Release him? Hah.

“A madman’s dream.” Bian Yi stared at Guan Xi inside, his clear pronunciation shattered Guan Xi’s illusions one word at a time. “Stay here, stay for sixteen years. Don’t you like the life I lived? This is how I lived it.”

Bian Yi looked at Guan Xi, who was lying limp in the corner like a puddle of mud, sneered, and left the room.

He wouldn’t go crazy, the hatred was not yet been settled. There was still the system, and many people who needed to pay their debts.

Bian Yi left, and Jian Yi looked at the man beside him. His face didn’t show it, but the pair of eyes under his glasses were causing a tsunami.

Jian Yi lowered his gaze and saw that Kou Li’s hands were already clenched into fists, the veins on the back of his hand bulging terrifyingly as if something inside was about to explode.

Sixteen years, this was a number Jian Yi hadn’t thought of, but obviously it was reasonable. If it was just one year, these two people wouldn’t have become like this.

Really annoying, these invasive outsiders.

Does it like torturing people? It doesn’t seem so. From the fact that it chose someone like Guan Xi and committed a series of despicable events, it can be seen that it has extreme contempt for humans. For contemptible creatures, at least Jian Yi himself isn’t interested in torturing them.

So there must be another possibility.

There is something it wants from Bian Yi and Kou Li.

Jian Yi’s guess is “and” rather than “or” for a reason.

If it just wants something from Kou Li, it could simply kill Bian Yi and let the fake Guan Xi lurk by Kou Li’s side, and there wouldn’t be the danger of the real main character escaping. Therefore, it didn’t need to keep Bian Yi locked up for sixteen years.

But Bian Yi didn’t die.

From the fact that the system didn’t have a hobby of torturing humans, it can be deduced that this is not its preference, but it must do so. And something that must be done must have a very clear purpose.

Jian Yi looked at Kou Li next to him and recalled Bian Yi’s frantic appearance just now. Does it want negative energy?

This guess only lasted a few seconds before Jianyi rejected it.

No, if it’s negative emotions, then the current Kou Li and Bian Yi can definitely provide it with sufficient nourishment, but it is still so weak that it can’t even escape the cage Kou Li made, let alone Guan Xi’s brain.

Jian Yi touched his chin and tilted his head to observe Guan Xi in the glass room.

So, what does this system want?

If you hollow out Guan Xi’s brain, can it be dug out?