CH 43

Chapter 43: It Receives Retribution (END OF MAIN TEXT)

This world, how can there be so many coincidences?

A normal two-year-old child with two loving fathers who cuddled him every day suddenly experienced one of them not allowing him to be close to the other. How could he not cry, not make a fuss, and obediently listen?

Children are inherently capricious, especially when they are so young and don’t understand what it means to be sensible.

However, Kou Li had a filter for Kou Sen.

He had seen how different Xiao Shu was from others when he grew up, so he thought that Xiao Shu had been sensible from a young age.

Although this was somewhat irresponsible thinking, the more important reason was attributed to Kou Li’s illness.

When he saw the fake Bian Yi again, his condition worsened.

During this year, Kou Sen had secretly seen Kou Li’s symptoms many times. After he regained consciousness, Kou Li didn’t remember what he had said or done.

He couldn’t clearly judge what was wrong with his child, and Kou Sen couldn’t tell him that he, his two-year-old son, was not like a normal child, even if his soul had not changed. It was difficult to predict how Kou Li would react, and it could worsen his illness.

Kou Sen wouldn’t blame his father for this – he was too heartbroken. He knew who was responsible.

When Bian Yi returned that day, Kou Sen only came out of the room after hearing a commotion.

He saw Bian Yi holding a knife, and Kou Li pressing him against the wall, choking him.

At that moment, Kou Sen was terrified, and he quickly made noise on the stairs, pretending to have just woken up and was looking for his father, to stop them from ending their lives together.

He had actually seen the knife under Kou Li’s foot and the wound on Bian Yi’s neck that he had blocked.

After Bian Yi returned, Kou Sen also observed him, and then he discovered that his other father was also ill.

He understood, having learned many things in his previous life.

One who had been imprisoned for many years, the other who had been searching for many years – how could their minds not be affected?

Kou Sen was really sad, especially when he saw the occasional murderous glances exchanged between them, thinking they had hidden it well in front of him, but Kou Sen was not really a three-year-old child.

In order to ease the relationship between his two fathers, Kou Sen always found opportunities to show his presence in front of them, avoiding them from fighting or even hitting each other. He even gave instructions to N1101 several times.

Kou Sen actually guessed that Bian Yi would misunderstand N1101, but he didn’t plan to clarify it too early.

One of his fathers needed an emotional outlet, and if he directly told him everything, he would find it hard to bear.

As long as there was still time, keeping him by Kou Li’s side meant that there was still a chance for reconciliation.

Kou Sen looked up and saw the photo frame on the experiment table where Kou Li usually sat.

The frame contained a family photo of the three of them, and they had three copies printed.

One was in the master bedroom, one was brought here by Kou Li, and the other was originally in Kou Sen’s bedroom but he later moved it to his trophy room.

The trophies that filled the room in his previous life were not as valuable to him as that photo, which he wanted to cherish and display.

Kou Sen withdrew his gaze and looked again at the completely stiffened bug. He smiled innocently and said, “Mr. Bug, I have bad news for you. The device my father and I completed together is not just this cage, there is also a prison cell– don’t doubt our sincerity, you will definitely feel what pain is like. Please enjoy the days to come.”

The child’s face was round and cute like a fruit dumpling, without any aggression. When he smiled, he made people want to take a gentle bite out of him and see if there was a sweet and delicious filling inside.

However, this little dumpling made the system extremely frightened, even trembling like a human being. It repeatedly said that it was impossible, but those bright red words reminded it every second that it was real.

It really couldn’t escape, and next, it would be locked up in some kind of prison by the father and son.

Originally, it was not afraid at all. Even if it was really trapped, they would have no way to deal with it. One hundred years would quickly pass by.

Waiting comfortably for one hundred years, or even sleeping for a few hundred years, was no big deal. But to let it wait in the torment of pain for one hundred years – not to mention one hundred years, it felt extremely terrifying even for one year.

At this moment, the system didn’t realize how similar it was to Guan Xi.

“Xiao Shu!!” The laboratory door opened and Bian Yi’s anxious voice came from outside.

Kou Sen quickly retracted his sinister and eccentric gaze, rubbed his eyes in a hurry, pouted, and cried out with a sob: ‘Daddy, I’m scared.’

He executed a set of movements fluidly, obviously inheriting Bian Yi’s talent for acting.

The golden ball on the semi-elliptical machine flickered as if to say: ‘I didn’t expect you to be such a good actor.’

Bian Yi saw Xiao Shu standing next to the bug, and his heart almost stopped.

He and Jian Yi helped Kou Li to the rest area, and when he turned around, he found that Xiao Shu was missing. He searched for him because there were still several passages from the laboratory to the rest area, and he had seen Xiao Shu following them out of the laboratory before. He thought Xiao Shu might have been left behind in one of the sections.

However, he searched every fork in the road, but still couldn’t find him.

But he had searched everywhere and couldn’t find him, so there was only one possibility that Bian Yi was most worried and afraid of.

-The child was still in the laboratory.

The bug could escape at any moment. Although the laboratory had shielding equipment, it couldn’t escape outside, but it was definitely able to move around inside the laboratory.

If Xiao Shu was really still in the laboratory, Bian Yi could not even imagine the consequences.

When he opened the laboratory and really saw Xiao Shu’s figure here, Bian Yi regretted it and wanted to die.

How could he be such a bad father? How could he be so careless?

Xiao Shu was obedient and well-behaved before, but he was just a child who was only so young. Children are curious by nature, why didn’t he hold his hand and leave with him?

How could he—

Kou Sen looked at Bian Yi’s weak legs and stumbling run towards him, also feeling remorseful.

He rushed towards Bian Yi and bumped into his arms, saying silently, ‘I’m sorry.’

He didn’t deliberately keep it from the two fathers, but he was younger and more likely to arouse their protective instincts. They needed to spend time and energy taking care of him, and they needed to consider his growth and future.

Even if, even if they didn’t want to live anymore, they still had to live for him who was still young.

Kou Sen could feel how much force Bian Yi had used to hug him tightly, and he was still shaking all over.

Kou Sen was quietly held by him, and he knew, he knew how much both of his dads loved him.

Bian Yi gradually regained feeling in his limbs, and he let go of Xiao Shu, his heart still pounding. He then went to look at the bug.

As he looked at it, he was stunned.

Previously the system arrogantly displayed  ‘only 98% left’ on the icons, however, this had now changed to an icon containing three words: ‘Unable to Breakthrough’.

Success?

Did Kou Li really succeed?

Bian Yi was still in shock when he heard the sound of someone hitting the lab door outside.

That was the sound of Kou Li’s shoulder hitting the lab door. The person behind him was cursing, an unusual display of anger.

The hologram display in the lab was very prominent, and it could be seen clearly from the door. The cursing stopped when they saw the display.

He helped Kou Li up and looked at his profile, somewhat incredulous: “You’ve really succeeded?”

Kou Li didn’t say anything, he just looked at Kou Sen in Bian Yi’s arms and then, with the help of the person behind him, walked over to the computer.

When he had finished checking everything, Kou Sen couldn’t sit still. He got out of Bian Yi’s arms and, as he expected, Kou Li glanced at him again.

Kou Sen straightened his back a little, but as he had anticipated, Kou Li didn’t expose him. He just said to Bian Yi, “It’s okay, it’s completely sealed.”

Finally, Bian Yi let out a long sigh of relief. He was a little exhausted and knelt on the ground, his eyes staring at the shrunken bug, feeling a little dazed.

It was over, finally over.

Bian Yi blinked his eyes, looked at Kou Li, then looked at the little tree and whispered, “Let’s go home.”

Kou Li stood up and leaned on the table, nodding to him: “Alright, let’s go home.”

Xiao Shu was led by Bian Yi and he looked at Bian Yi, who was bending down to ask him: “Xiao Shu, let’s go home and sleep tonight, there are bad bugs here.”

Kou Sen smiled sincerely at Bian Yi: “Okay, Xiao Shu and dad will go home together.”

That house, which originally belonged to their family, still remains the place they yearn for the most despite everything they’ve been through.

Jian Yi watched helplessly as Kou Li was helped into the car, and stayed behind in the lab. He had asked Kou Li before, no matter how he touched it, he couldn’t open the cage.

He could rest assured that he was sharing a room with the system.

Fuck!

But the system didn’t want to share a room with this freak!

The whole bug shuddered when it saw Jian Yi walk back and forth.

It had seen how Jian Yi stripped Guan Xi bare, that kind of fear that made people feel exposed, and it didn’t want to experience it.

But now–

“You’re just a piece of meat,” Jian Yi laughed the same crazy way, “You need to understand the situation: whether you’re scared, unhappy, or in agony, you have to endure it. After all, what can you do to us? You’re just a lowly bug.”

Jian Yi gave it the same words back.

It thought it was high and mighty, thinking that humans were weak and lowly, and it could make them suffer with just a flick of its tentacles. Now it finally experienced being trapped with the very creatures it despised the most, unable to escape, and forced to accept various tortures in the waiting.

It had finally received its retribution.