What’s Wrong With Seeking Death?

While Jiang Lin was still thinking about how far he could travel in the Wilderness of Beasts, Xu Tuoran was lying on the bed, falling into a new round of deep sleep.

She woke up once before, when she just obtained the starlight at the end of the chaotic path. But not long after she woke up, she couldn't wait to fall asleep again, and didn't even give Yang Buqi time to say hello.

Yang Buqi didn't know what the situation was, and he didn't dare to wake him up rashly. He paused for a few seconds, and could only speak softly to Xu Tuoran's forehead:

"Excuse me, are you still there?"

"Is it convenient to come out and talk again?"

…

There was a short silence. Yang Buqi thought about it and added: "If it's inconvenient, then I'll ask her after Xu Tueran wakes up. By the way, you said you were Xu Tueran's or something before, and I will be there just in time. ask..."

"..."

There was another moment of silence. Xu Furan's long hair on the pillow moved slightly, and a lump of minced meat with eyes squirmed out from it.

"You guys are really annoying." Rou Min said bluntly, "So, what do you want to ask?"

Yang Buqi glanced at Xu Turan whose eyes were closed tightly, and pursed his lips: "Is she okay now?"

"Don't worry. It's okay—at least it's okay now." Rou Min said impatiently.

Yang Buqi frowned: "What do you mean, at least for now?"

"She has acquired the starlight at the end of the two tendencies of natural disasters and chaos. It is impossible to control it so quickly." Meaty said lightly, "Obtaining one, it takes a considerable amount of time to master and absorb, let alone two. And her current body's endurance is also limited."

Even with the death value system that can help temporarily store and digest, Xu Tuoran will inevitably suffer some negative impacts in the future. But after all, it was obtained through normal channels, so it is not particularly serious, and it should be relieved soon.

Yang Buqi was still not at ease, and kept sweeping his gaze towards Xu Tuoran's face: "Then she now..."

"I had a sudden idea just now, I just rushed back to kick people and lock the door." Rou Min's tone was calm after the storm, "You know her character. She has this kind of power, so don't take the opportunity to give a little bit of star fragments It's pretty unrealistic."

Chaos and beasts, war and natural disasters, the two tend to lead to the same goal by different routes. Xu Tuoran got the only Starlight, which means he got the supreme power in two tendencies at the same time, occupying four sites at once, so it doesn't mean that he can wear small shoes for whoever wants to wear them.

As for why he had to take another nap and go back to close the door... that was purely because he didn't think about it at first.

Yang Buqi: "..."

Okay, got it. This is no longer the category of "everything is coming". This is purely because the person has already left, and after thinking about it, I still have to go back for a beating.

"But I just got Xinghui to do this kind of operation. When she wakes up, she will have to suffer for a while." Roumi said leisurely, blinked, and began to turn around with difficulty, "Is there anything else? It's okay, I'll go back first."

Yang Buqi looked at the figure that was squirming towards Xu Tuoran's head, and his heart suddenly moved. Before he could react, he had already patted it with one hand, just in time to stop the moving body of Minced Meat.

"...I'm sorry. Please allow me to ask one more question." He forced the corner of his mouth to twitch, but his tone gradually cooled down, "I noticed something puzzling. You don't seem to want Xu Tuoran to see What is your appearance... or rather, the main body?"

Minced meat: "..."

It slowly turned around again, looking at Yang Buqi quietly with one eye: "What do you mean?"

"Just a curious question." Yang Buqi said, "I remember you said before that you are Xu Tuoran's umbilical cord, and the system and so on... Then you should be very close to her. You shouldn't hide it from her like this. .”

"..." Rou Min blinked, "Are you asking me?"

Yang Buqi shrugged: "It doesn't count. It's just that if you don't give a reasonable explanation, I might consider telling Xu Tuoran about it and let her ask herself."

Minced Meat: "..." It already knew that it should have stopped Xingxing when it was ordered as a companion.

"Okay. Let me explain it to you like this - if you have a boss. And that boss really likes to make the most of everything, and you know that. So what do you do to avoid some extra work ?” Rou Min blinked again.

"..." Yang Buqi was silent for a moment, not sure, "Reject?"

"Bad policy. The correct way is to simply not let her know that you have extra functions. Don't say you can draw if you are not from the art department, and don't say you can program if you are not from the development department. In the same way, if you don't want to be used as something Temporary cheap sacrifice, don't let her know that you still have a tangible entity." Meaty vowed, "Creatures must have some survival wisdom."

Yang Buqi: ...This logic is not incomprehensible, but for some reason, it is strange to say it from the mouth of a lump of meat.

The most outrageous thing is that this is actually true.

"Of course, another reason is that the current stars, her cognition is still at the level of human beings. It can't go beyond too much." Meat added, "Let her see my body, which may cause some problems. kind of blow."

"..." Yang Buqi frowned, "I don't think this will have any impact on Xu Tuan."

She's not that vulnerable.

"Yeah. It's really not." Roumi agreed, "because she usually passes this kind of blow on to others. For example, the person who caused her cognitive shake."

"That's not enough." Yang Buqi shook his head affirmatively, "Xu Tuoran is just reckless, and she is still reasonable."

"Think whatever you want." Roumi cut a little, "Anyway, when things come to an end, it's not you who will be treated as a sacrifice..."

As it spoke, it began to squirm and turn around again. Before he could turn around completely, he suddenly felt a shadow falling from the top of his head—

In the next second, it was picked up by one hand.

"Interesting." Xu Turan, who didn't know when he woke up, sat up and looked at the meat dumpling in his hand with great interest, "So you think so."

Minced meat: "..."

Its eyes widened in disbelief, as if it had realized something, its condemning eyes instantly fell on Yang Buqi's face. The latter coughed, stood up as if nothing had happened, and muttered "clean the room" while turning around and walking outside.

Seeing that he was planning to slip away, Rou Min was even more shocked. He opened his mouth to let him stay, but suddenly he heard Xu Turan speak thoughtfully behind him, muttering to himself: "Make the best use of everything..."

After speaking, he smiled slightly.

"Don't say it, it's indeed the umbilical cord, you know me quite well."

She said softly, shook the meat ball in her hand twice, then freed her other hand, picked up the watch on the cabinet next to her to check the time, and immediately raised her head.

"Yang Buqi—" she raised her voice and shouted towards the door, "Have you called Xiao Zhang? It's time for him to deliver fruit today!"

Xiao Zhang received a confirmation call from Xu Tuoran at two o'clock in the afternoon.

The call was made by Yang Buqi. Xiao Zhang is already accustomed to this. After all, this week, Yang Buqi has been in charge of communicating with him on the phone. At first, Xiao Zhang would have a kind of gossip curiosity about it, but after a week, the curiosity has gradually become Got bored.

What surprised him was that Yang Buqi's designated delivery time was nine o'clock in the evening.

Although it is not the closing time, it is still too late for Xiao Zhang to deliver the goods to the door at this point. Not to mention that their family didn't provide takeaway service in the first place, and he didn't even know why he agreed to it before.

He tried to coordinate the time with Yang Buqi, but the other party insisted that they were only at home at this point.

Xiao Zhang was helpless, and wanted to struggle again, asking if he could put the things at the guard's place, but before he could open his mouth, a strange pressure suddenly surged from all directions. At the same time, it seemed that there was an inexplicable force driving from within. Before he could react, he had already nodded and said hello.

Yang Buqi responded and hung up the phone. Then came another big red envelope for food delivery. In this way, there is no way to push it away.

Xiao Zhang had no choice but to pack up his things and drove over on time on a small electric donkey. When I rushed to the vicinity of the community, I was still a little nervous—Xu Turan lived in a villa area, and Xiao Zhang was not sure if he needed to provide any proof before entering, and this kind of villa area, the internal roads were comparable to small roads, and it was probably difficult to go around. It takes a lot of time...

While thinking about it, he approached the car to the guard, and was about to greet the people inside, when he took a closer look, he was taken aback.

It was already night. The security guards at the gate were all wearing sunglasses.

...Is this the face of a high-end community?

Xiao Zhang sighed inwardly, and explained his intention nervously. Fortunately, there was no need for any formalities, and the other party let him in directly.

The security guard also kindly showed him the way: "Go along this avenue, turn right at the second intersection, and then turn left."

Xiao Zhang gratefully agreed, and only realized a very important thing when he drove into the community——

He didn't tell the security guard where he was going at all just now, how did he point the way?

Should...Sister Xu should have greeted you in advance?

He thought uncertainly, and the further he walked in, the more he felt something was wrong—although it was night now, it was still sunny, and when he came over, he saw a sky full of stars. However, at this moment, there was a thick layer of dark clouds covering the top of the head at some point, and the wind became a bit strong.

Xiao Zhang rolled up his collar, swallowed, and continued to move forward. Suddenly, something flashed by in front of my eyes, I stopped the car suddenly, paused for a few seconds, and suddenly felt a chill down my back.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but he seemed to see a black shadow floating under the street lamp just now...but now he can't see it anymore.

It's getting weirder and weirder. Xiao Zhang stood still for a few seconds, but finally overcame his remorse, and continued to drive the eMule nervously.

Out of an inexplicable vigilance and depression, he drove quickly on the next road. On the way, he saw someone running or walking at night, and all of their exposed faces were wearing sunglasses without exception, which made him feel an indescribable weirdness—and this kind of weirdness, when he saw Xu Tuoran coming out to open the door, reached its peak.

Xu Tuoran also wore a pair of huge sunglasses on his face. It was exactly the same as when she came to find herself that day.

…what's going on? Absolutely abnormal, right? Did he accidentally enter another domain?

Xiao Zhang thought in surprise, and instinctively wanted to drop his things and leave quickly, but he was a little worried about Xu Tuoran's state. Just when he was struggling in his heart, Xu Tuoran stepped forward and opened the courtyard door.

"Come in and sit for a while." She yawned and said to Xiao Zhang, "I'm preparing supper, let's have some together."

Forget it...Xiao Zhang's heart trembled, and when he was about to refute, his consciousness suddenly went into a trance—by the time he realized it, he had already nodded again and said hello.

Xu Tuoran stared at him quietly for a while through the sunglasses. I don't know if Xiao Zhang read it wrong, but he always felt that she smiled, and the smile was a little creepy.

The living room of Xu Tuoran's house is very large, and it looks empty. Xiao Zhang followed him in stiffly. He didn't see Yang Buqi, so he asked curiously. Xu Tuoran paused slightly when he closed the door.

"He has something to do at the moment, so he's going out." She turned her head and smiled at Xiao Zhang again, "Wait a little, supper will be ready soon."

Xiao Zhang was confused, and sat down at the dining table as he said. With the bright light in the living room, he noticed that Xu Tuoran's complexion was extremely pale.

"Are you okay?" He couldn't help asking, "And...why do you wear sunglasses when you're at home?"

"My eyes are injured and I can't see light." Xu Tuoran said without thinking, with his back to Xiao Zhang, he took something out of the pool and began to beat it hard. Xiao Zhang fidgeted and looked around, and suddenly heard a muffled groan coming from the counter, turned his head in surprise, paused for a moment, and hesitated to ask: "Sister Xu, what are you... doing?"

"Big-eyed steak." Xu Tuoran didn't turn his head.

Xiao Zhang was stunned for a moment: "...I've only heard of rib-eye steak."

"Yes, it's the same thing." Xu Tuoran said, clapped his hands, turned half sideways, and took out a plate from the cupboard. Xiao Zhang stared at her side face, and for some reason, a sense of anxiety suddenly surged in his chest.

Need to take off her sunglasses.

It doesn't make sense to go on like this. Had to take off her sunglasses.

Unfamiliar thoughts entered his mind, obviously inexplicable, but unexpectedly he found it very reasonable.

Xiao Zhang's eyes changed slightly, he stood up involuntarily, and walked towards the open kitchen.

Xu Tuoran seemed to be really uncomfortable, he kept yawning, and his movements were a little limp. Xiao Zhang tiptoed over and was about to reach out to her back when suddenly there was a loud noise upstairs—shocking, like thunder.

Xiao Zhang was taken aback by the movement, just as Xu Tuoran turned around with the plate in his hand, the two sides collided, the plate tilted, and the meatloaf inside rolled to the ground. Xu Tuoran clicked his tongue and leaned over to pick it up, while Xiao Zhang subconsciously took two steps back, just now the voice was still urging him to take off his sunglasses, and suddenly changed the instruction.

...have to go upstairs!

There must be something hiding upstairs. Gotta go see it!

Driven by this weird voice, Xiao Zhang turned around, and while Xu Tuoran was still leaning over to pick up something, he turned around and ran straight upstairs without hesitation!

Xu Tuoran's blocking sound came from downstairs, but Xiao Zhang pretended not to hear it. He precisely found Xu Tuoran's room, pushed open the door, and frowned inexplicably when he saw the situation inside.

It looked like a very ordinary bedroom. Spacious and refined. On one side of the room was a tall cat climbing frame, and on the opposite side was a deep corridor.

The floor is wooden, with a weird break in the middle, and there are scorched black marks at the crack. Xiao Zhang stared at the trace for a while, then turned his head again, looked at the deep corridor, and walked in cautiously.

Just when he entered, suddenly there was a sound of Xisuo behind him. He turned his head in astonishment, but saw nothing alive, only a small pink flower at the entrance of the corridor.

… Strange, were there any flowers here just now?

Xiao Zhang thought uncertainly, forced himself to look back, and tried to push open the door closest to him. After seeing the situation clearly, his scalp suddenly felt numb——

In this room, there is a person lying down.

It looked like a girl, wearing a black dress. Both feet were facing Xiao Zhang's side, his face was covered with a cloth, and he remained motionless.

Xiao Zhang deliberately stared at the other person's chest for a while. No ups and downs.

He felt that his chest would no longer rise and fall.

Xiao Zhang's eyes widened, and he closed the door stiffly and slowly. His instinct was telling him to leave quickly, but driven by another voice, his feet involuntarily moved forward again, and opened another door.

Inside, too, lies the motionless body of a girl.

The next one, still.

Another one...

Xiao Zhang could hardly restrain his impulse to scream. He almost slammed and closed the door in front of him, obviously wanting to run, but he couldn't restrain himself from walking forward. Just as he was about to reach out to open the door, he heard rustling sounds behind him again.

...Xiao Zhang paused and turned his head slowly.

Behind him, there was still nothing.

There is only one small pink flower. Lying quietly a few steps away.

The problem is that this flower...was at the entrance of the corridor just now.

Xiao Zhang's eyes widened in astonishment, and finally he couldn't restrain himself from screaming. At this moment, a click of the door lock next to him was heard, and a person opened the door and poked his head out from the inside.

"Xiao Zhang?" Yang Buqi asked in surprise, and gathered the coat on his body, "Why did you come up? Xu Tuoran asked you to come up?"

"...No, no, I..." Xiao Zhang was dumbfounded and didn't know how to explain it for a while. Looking at Yang Buqi's face wearing sunglasses, he suddenly felt something was wrong: "Didn't you go out?"

Yang Buqi: "..."

"Yeah. I went out before. Then I came back again. I went through the back door." He pushed the sunglasses on his face, and pushed Xiao Zhang's shoulder without any explanation, "You can't just go in upstairs. Go down quickly. "

"But I..." Xiao Zhang choked for a moment, his heart still filled with the urge not to leave. He glanced aside inadvertently, only to see that the pink flower that was lying quietly behind him just now had stood upright, with two roots stepping on the ground, and ran out without looking back.

…Help.

Xiao Zhang opened his mouth, and his surprised brain fell into a strange calm instead. He turned his head to look at Yang Buqi, pointed to the side stiffly: "Did you see that? A little flower is running."

"I didn't see anything." Yang Buqi said firmly, grabbed his shoulder with his right hand forcefully, made him turn around and pushed him outside without any doubt: "Okay, get down quickly. Xu Turan's supper must be ready."

...how do you know she's making supper?

Xiao Zhang thought vaguely, and then realized another very strange thing.

Yang Buqi was wearing a big coat. And it was the kind of heavy coat that would only be worn in autumn and winter.

And from the first moment we met, all his activities were done with his right hand. The left hand was hidden in the clothes, and it was never taken out from the beginning to the end.

As if aware of something, Xiao Zhang quietly turned his head. It was only then that he noticed that Yang Buqi's coat was actually very uncomfortable - there was a strange protrusion on the position of his left hand.

At this moment, Yang Buqi's coat slipped off. Because he was pushing Xiao Zhang with his right hand, he had no time to pull it, and could only let it fall to the ground—and until this moment, Xiao Zhang finally saw his hidden left arm clearly.

I saw that arm, which was not covered by anything except the fallen coat. And on the exposed skin, the entire forearm is covered with densely packed little fingers...

Xiao Zhang's eyes widened, and his whole body froze instantly.

Three seconds later, Fang yelled as if he had just woken up from a dream, turned his head and ran forward in panic, and just as he ran out of the corridor, he saw the front door of the room in front of him open.

"Why did you come here?" Xu Tuoran, who was standing outside the door with a plate in his hand, sighed, "I just prepared an ingredient... why are you running around?"

Xiao Zhang: ...

Good question, he also wanted to know why he was running around.

He only felt that his soul was about to fly away, and his mind was blank. Unexpectedly, Xu Tuoran suddenly stepped forward and pushed the food plate in his hand towards his eyes—

"By the way, this is the steak I was talking about. Let's see how it goes."

Xiao Zhang lowered his head in confusion, and saw a mass of minced meat that had been patted into cakes on the plate. The quality was not very good, like synthetic meat. But that's not the point, the point is...

"Sister Xu, this meat is raw..." Xiao Zhang stared at the piece of raw meat, and opened his mouth tremblingly. The next moment, he saw the meat stir, and suddenly opened a round eye.

"..." Xiao Zhang was caught off guard, and directly met the eyes of that eyeball. After a moment of stiffness, he finally couldn't bear it anymore, rolled his eyes and fell down, fainting.

Xu Tuoran: "..."

She put away the plate, and exchanged a complicated glance with Yang Buqi who was standing behind Xiao Zhang. Yang Buqi touched his left arm covered with little fingers, and sighed: "You shouldn't have let him come up."

"I'm not feeling well, and I can't find the medicine you left for a while. Isn't this a waste of time?" Xu Tuoran muttered, put the plate aside casually, and leaned over to observe Xiao Zhang's situation.

Yes, uncomfortable - Xu Tuoran didn't want to either.

As the system said, getting two stars in a row will always have some negative effects. That's why they postponed their meeting with Xiao Zhang until nine o'clock—before that, Xu Tuoran's condition was even worse.

The poor state directly led to a certain degree of power spillover. In addition, in order to prevent Jiang Lin from taking the opportunity to cause trouble, or repenting and running away, Xu Tuoran deliberately enclosed the entire community as a country... and she happened to be in this country, so the whole community was inevitably affected. There are some influences, weather anomalies and some hallucinations, which are considered to be mild.

On the contrary, in the domain, it was a little serious. Especially when she first spread out of the country, Yang Buqi, who was closest to her, suffered a critical blow and was almost hit by a thunder. Affected by hallucinations, he took the potion by mistake while holding the marker, and smeared a piece on his arm, which led to a more serious hyperplasia... Therefore, the reception work could only fall on Xu Turan's head in an emergency.

But as I said before, she is not in good condition, she is a little dizzy. Instead, it gave Xiao Zhang a chance to go upstairs.

...Well, although judging from the current situation, they are not the ones who suffer losses because of this.

"On the bright side, hallucinogens and sleeping pills are no longer needed." Xu Tuoran nodded affirmatively.

In their plan, it was originally intended for Xiao Zhang to look directly into the eyes on the meatloaf. But I was worried that this behavior was too deliberate, which would arouse the vigilance of the omniscient, so I planned to create some hallucinations to confuse the public.

Now it seems that there is no need for that.

"But I don't understand." Yang Buqi thought for a while, and said, "Isn't this domain protected from outsiders? Why can Xiao Zhang come in?"

"What silly words are you talking about? His words must be authorized." Xu Tuoran said, reaching out to pick up Xiao Zhang's legs, and dragging him back into the room, "Otherwise he won't even open the door." can't get in..."

"?" Yang Buqi was confused, but still stretched out a bunch of hands to help, and moved Xiao Zhang to the room of one of the split bodies. Even though Xu Tuoran had thoughtfully covered the faces of all the split bodies, he still didn't dare to enter the house, but stood at the door: "I thought you would put away the split bodies after you finished upgrading."

"Why do you want to accept it. There is always a shortage of people at the Faith Box." Xu Tuoran said vowedly, and put Xiao Zhang down, "It's done. I'm going to bed."

Yang Buqi: "...? Why is that?"

"Only when I'm asleep can I wake up in vain." Xu Tuoran took it for granted, "This is the mechanism of using runes to create split bodies... and when she wakes up, she can directly release the parasitic fragments in Xiao Zhang's body." The body was eaten."

… eat. She said eat it.

Yang Buqi nodded half-understood, and felt strange: "Why did you appoint this one?"

"She is the person in charge of the Faith Box." Xu Tuoran closed the door smoothly, "I was able to increase two stars in a row, she contributed a lot. This is my bonus."

And she always felt that the Faith Box was in vain the most beautiful of all split bodies—although in the eyes of others, this kind of beauty didn't seem easy to accept.

In fact, the person she originally arranged to meet Xiao Zhang's eyes was not the minced meat system, but her split body. It was Yang Buqi's resolute refusal that made her dismiss the idea.

Xu Tuoran sighed secretly, and picked up the dinner plate that fell on the floor. The task was completed, and now the meatloaf returned to the shape of a lump of minced meat, with one big eye open, looking around curiously.

Yang Buqi stared at the minced meat for a while, and felt something was wrong: "It doesn't seem to be your umbilical cord."

It is much quieter and more pleasing to the eye, with a kind of innocence that does not know the world.

"Well, this is its split body." Xu Tuoran nodded, "It's also made out of runes."

For this reason, she deliberately extended the scope of the domain to the entire house.

This rune can only be used in the domain. As for the split body made of runes, some more detailed settings can be made during manufacture. Such as belief, such as loyalty, such as memory.

"At the moment of staring at each other, omniscient insects can read a considerable amount of information through the eyes of the other party. Just in case, I must ensure that the existence that is staring at it will not disclose additional information while providing specified information. " Xu Tuoran yawned lazily.

In addition to staring at each other, the splits of omniscient worms can only obtain information through the consciousness of the host. In other words, it can only obtain the information received and processed in the host's brain-this is one of the reasons why it needs the assistance of hallucinogenic drugs and sleeping pills.

Hallucinogenic drugs can confuse omniscients' judgment of situations, and sleeping pills can force a reduction in fixation time. Xu Tuoran's original plan was to make Xiao Zhang look into the eyes on the meatloaf one second before he was about to faint.

Hmm... Now that it's like this, it can be regarded as the completion of the plan by accident.

"I think this method is better than prescribing drugs, and it's not so deliberate." Yang Buqi frowned suddenly, "But are you sure that there is nothing wrong with releasing that news?"

"There must be. Otherwise, why would I let it go." Xu Tuoran said indifferently, took off his sunglasses, rubbed his eyes sleepily, turned and left.

On the other side, in the rental house.

Jiang Lin's cell phone beeped, and the news from Jiang Lin popped up one after another again, shaking her eyes sorely.

She took a deep breath, finally prepared herself mentally, and picked up her phone. After seeing the above content clearly, he sat up straight.

Jiang Lin sent a lot of content, but there were only four pieces of information that were actually valuable.

The first one, [Confirmed, the starlight of the war has also been taken away, and we are now even more behind. 】

The second, [They really are trying to trap me. I lost another split. Fortunately, the domain of the stars is very weak, cutting off the connection between me and the split body, I still collected some useful information. 】

Article 3, [It can be confirmed that Xing Xing is currently in a bad state and behaves strangely. I suspect that something is wrong with her mind. And the ability user living with her has lost control. This may be our last chance. 】

The fourth article, [In addition, there is another piece of news that is enough to make us turn around. 】

[In this world, there are projections of educators. 】