Chapter 41 Xi: Kiss Me

Xi was floating in mid-air, the wings behind her flapping slightly, very close yet far away from Shu Mo.

Unlike last time, there were some slight changes in the temperature and breath coming from Xi's body. There were still sweet hymns in the air, but when Shu Mo turned around, the sea of ​​flowers and the sculptures in it were... They had all disappeared, leaving Xi alone in the entire containment room, imprisoned alone in the huge containment room.

Xi opened his palm, and his palm slowly cracked open, revealing a mouth full of fangs. It let out a hoarse laugh, and then devoured the crawling rune worm in front of him. The translucent worm made a chewing sound. After the shock dissipated, Shu Mo felt his body suddenly lightened.

He looked at the talisman insect and realized what No. 7 had done to him before: "Is this their purpose?"

The talisman insect, also known as the curse insect, is a kind of weird and vicious witchcraft, which is rumored to be related to The most famous deed of the rune insect is that a conjurer fell in love with a star pillar. The conjurer hated social interaction, hid himself, and was close to nature. Therefore, many conjurers loved the star pillar that had mastered the origin of nature, and fanatically Court them.

The star pillar rejected the conjurer's advances and scolded him for wishful thinking. The conjurer was not angry, he just said: You will fall in love with me in the end.

So he placed a curse on the star pillar.

Nothing earth-shattering happened or suffered after that. Xingzhu's life was very peaceful, but he suddenly discovered that every day, he was being forgotten by everyone around him.

Day after day passed, his brothers and sisters forgot him, his messenger forgot him, and finally even the Star Pillar himself forgot himself. When the man completely forgot who he was, the magician came from the darkness. After walking out, he reappeared in front of Xingzhu as if he were welcoming the finale of a stage play, sighing: Because you can only choose me.

Of course, the abilities of rune bugs are not limited to this. They are mostly used for cursing and killing people. Because spellcasters are so elusive, few people even know about rune bugs, let alone how to deal with them. Shu Mo lowered his head and looked at the thing gradually disappearing in Xi's palm, and slowly took a step back.

Being forgotten by everyone... does sound uncomfortable.

No wonder No. 7 and No. 13, the pair of sleeping dragons and phoenixes, were sent to the laboratory.

Shu Mo suddenly understood.

Because they are just... couriers who transport curse insects here.

"It'll be okay." Xi's sweet voice came. His voice was a dreamlike singing voice. It was a beautiful voice that could only appear in dreams or phantoms and could not be captured. People could not help but sink in, as if Sensing Shu Mo's nervousness, Xi chuckled and slowly raised her hand. The split mouth was full of fangs and there was an eyeball in it. She seemed to be aware of Shu Mo's gaze. The sound of sticky and soft water came, and a tongue stuck out from it, and then lightly licked Shu Mo's fingertips, ready to move.

"You are very good, Shu Mo." Xi said, "You came to me, so nothing will happen to you."

Shu Mo's fingertips were entangled, and he looked at the fingertips, which were completely different from human beings and appeared translucent. The strange tongue that slowly extended like a spider web on his palm was silent. His fingers twitched slightly, but could not stop the spread of the mycelium-like tentacles. The young man raised his face and looked at Xi, with a look in his eyes. There was some helplessness and some accusations.

Xi slowly put away her hand, and the thing restraining Shu Mo disappeared in front of him. The face under Xi's mask seemed to be smiling. He looked at the young man in front of him, held up his face and said, "Since you left without saying goodbye last time, I have been thinking about one thing."

Shu Mo looked at the man in front of him . The monster's heart beat inexplicably faster. He opened his mouth and explained: "What happened last time..."

was an accident.

He was about to explain, but his throat was dry as if he had swallowed a piece of ice, and then he found that he suddenly lost control of his tongue. An indescribable feeling came from Shu Mo's mouth and lips, and he suddenly found that he couldn't speak even if he opened his mouth, and he couldn't make a sound even if he screamed hard.

"□?"

Shu Mo held his neck and looked at the monster in front of him, already realizing why he became like this.

Xi put one of his fingers in front of his lips. He had a six-fingered hand. His lips were light and thin, and his skin was flawless. When the light illuminated it, it revealed a pearl-like brilliance. When the man made this gesture, he suddenly An inexplicable rule came to this small room: when "God" speaks, other creatures can only listen silently, and cannot refute or speak.

After losing the ability to speak, Shu Mo seemed a little at a loss. But he calmed down quickly. Xi slowly raised his body. He was floating in the air, while Shu Mo was standing on the ground. The height and posture of the two people had subtly changed from the first time they met. , Shu Mo even had to raise his face to see Xi's figure, but somehow it was because the light emitted from the other party blocked his field of vision, and the person's face seemed a little unclear when it was illuminated by the light.

He wanted to say something, but found that he could only remain silent. Xi looked at him condescendingly, and for a long time, the man said softly: "You didn't choose me, but chose them because you think they are your kind."

Shu Mo raised his face, and in the sea of ​​blood with countless bloody ribbons squirming , the young man stood on the ground and looked up at the monster in front of him, then slowly shook his head.

"Oh? You mean, you think what I said is wrong?"

"But you rejected me before."

Xi stretched out her hand, folded her hands together, and said unhurriedly: "You not only rejected me The invitation even pushed me away and left my paradise, preferring to go to other people."

The pure white mask on his face covered the man's face, and the expression on his face was invisible. Shu Mo shook it again. Shaking his head, he seemed to want to take a step forward. Xi's wings moved as if to push him away. She stopped the moment she pushed the young man away completely, but did not let him touch him.

"I'm thinking, when you choose to hang out with them, do you really think that they regard you as part of themselves?"

Xi raised her lips and suddenly laughed softly. The smile obviously looked gentle, but it didn't How warm, but only revealed a hint of ferocity: "Too naive."

"Do you really think that the so-called director really wants to cooperate with you?" Xi said without concealment: "He just wants to take advantage of you.

"Just like he wants to imprison and study all pollutants, do you think that when he discovers the truth one day, you will be imprisoned like other pollutants. " In the containment room, and then be trapped by him forever?"

After hearing his words, Shu Mo subconsciously raised his face and looked in the direction of the director. In the distance, the man's figure was clearly visible, and everything that happened in the containment room was clearly transmitted. In his ears, the director suddenly tilted his head at this moment. He took off the communicator from his ears, clicked on the earphones, and suddenly found...he couldn't hear anything just now.

"It's okay, he can't hear it." Looking at Shu Mo's appearance, Xi's voice soothed the inexplicable emotions that had just arisen in his heart. Xi gently reminded Shu Mo, as if she was talking to Shu Mo in a secret whisper: "But whatever you say can be heard by the director."

"You can speak now." The man raised his finger and blew lightly: "What you want to say, what you want to answer me, it all depends on you. ."

His heart was beating so fast that Shu Mo could hear his suddenly accelerated heartbeat. He seemed to be colluding with the devil and threatening in a clear way: Do you want to join me in the evil, or choose to side with the director?

Shu Mo licked his lips. He had been trying to say something just now, but now he found that he didn't know what to say. At this time, the director's voice came from his ears:

"What just happened?"

The director's voice was thick and thick, flowing into his ears like a ball of sweet syrup. In front of Shu Mo, Xi looked at him with a smile.

"It's nothing." Shu Mo's voice reached the director's ears through the communication. The man slowly narrowed his eyes. The already extremely bright red eyes became more intense at that moment, like a blooming poppy. .

"No. 0 is very cunning," the director said. "Although our experimenters have never really come into contact with it, in the eyes of those believers, No. 0 is their god. I don't know why they believe in No. 0 so much, but You have to be careful not to be deceived by its rhetoric.

"Everything it does is to deceive you so that it can escape from the containment room."

"Concentrate on the experiment. I need you, Shu Mo, to bring its feathers. "

"...I will try my best." Xi

looked at this scene and smiled softly: "Look, he is just using you."

"I am your breeder. " I want to come here to take care of you."

Shu Mo squeezed his arm hard, and his voice was soft but firm: "As long as I can see you, I will be happy."

So Shu Mo will not betray Xi, this is who he is. guarantee. Xi floats in the air, like a god who has descended into the world, and like a monster that manipulates people's hearts. But in Shu Mo's eyes, he was just a pollutant who was imprisoned in the containment room and raised by him.

Xi's wings spread out, but a breeze hit her. The man fell to the ground, and at this moment he finally stood on the same level as Shu Mo. He was so tall that even if he fell to the ground, Shu Mo would have to raise his face to see him. But at this time, Xi no longer looked as unattainable as before. Instead, she walked down from the altar and landed gently in front of him.

"Take care of me?" Xi stretched out his hand and suddenly held Shu Mo's wrist. He turned Shu Mo's hand over forcefully, revealing a circle of red and swollen marks on his wrist. Shu Mo subconsciously wanted to withdraw his hand, but the white jade Shu Mo couldn't move just by pressing her fingers on his hand.

A more terrifying sense of oppression came than when facing greed. Xi stretched out his finger and touched the circle of red marks. Shu Mo looked down at his wrist, but suddenly his eyes froze because he had noticed that he was being The area where the cloth is wrapped and the area where Xi pulls it up are the marks left by greed.

Cold sweat almost flowed out from the back of his head. For some reason, Shu Mo suddenly realized one thing very clearly: if at this time, at this moment, regardless of whether Xizhi knew what greed had done to him, but that If the mark appeared in front of him at this time... nothing good would definitely happen.

Shu Mo's body slowly stiffened. He watched helplessly as Xi opened his hand and wrapped it around his wrist like a big spider. After a cold and warm touch came, the man moved his hand away and Shu Mo The marks on my wrist disappeared.

Xi seemed to let out a chuckle: "When you came to see me, you even had talisman bugs on you and wounds on your wrists."

"Is this you, but you said you would take care of me?"

The man's voice was pleasant, The ending tone is slightly upward, so that it has a very slight mocking tone, and it seems to be just explaining a very small thing. He seemed to be venting his dissatisfaction, but Shu Mo was not disturbed by his words the whole time.

He was so panicked and only focused on whether the mark left by greed had been discovered that when Xi let go of his hand, the first thing Shu Mo did was to quickly withdraw his hand and then put it behind his back to block it.

This move inevitably seemed a bit hasty. He was afraid that Xi would notice this, so he could only speak faster to attract the man's attention: "I can help you."

"I can help you do something I can do.

" Mo added: "There are always things I can help you with. Since you chose me, you also need me, right?"

Xi raised her lips, opened his fingers, and suddenly clicked My own chest:

"Speaking of which, I do need your help with something."

"Unlock my chains."

"-No."

The two voices almost appeared at the same time. For a moment, Shu Mo even closed his eyes. Mouthed. As if he was afraid of angering Xi, he continued: "You... are too dangerous."

"And even if you can leave the containment room, you can't escape the cage of the laboratory."

This was obvious, and Xi sneered. He shouted, but didn't say anything more. Blood was still flowing out from his chains, and the blood turned into ribbons and returned to the sea of ​​blood behind him. Shu Mo watched this scene and suddenly stretched out his hand to get closer to him. Xi did not stop his approach. The man stood there and watched the black-haired young man in front of him cautiously approach him. Then he stretched out his hand and pressed on his wound. .

I don't know why, but the area held by Shu Mo seemed to have received some kind of comfort. The hideous and terrifying injuries began to slowly subside, and even the blood stopped gushing out. Shu Mo had a happy expression on his face, but the next second, Xi stretched out his hand and pushed him away.

The man's move caused the newly repaired injury to burst again. A confused expression flashed across Shu Mo's face, as if he was confused: Why did Xi reject him?

"I don't need you to do this." Xi's voice became louder, and he just stood there, gently stroking the hem of his robe with his hand, and folded his hands again, with a calm posture: "I don't need you to overdraft yourself for me. Do all this."

"But... this is what I should do." Shu Mo stood there, his face turning slightly pale: "Don't you want to be cured?"

"Do you think sacrificing yourself to redeem me will do anything? Make me happy?"

Xi tilted his head and said, "Instead of doing this, you should think more about how to make me really happy."

Shu Mo took a step back, looking confused for the first time. . Shu Mo didn't know what his actions essentially meant, he just did it instinctively to redeem himself.

Then Xi told him: You shouldn't approach him in this way.

Shu Mo didn't know what to do. Xi slightly raised his delicate chin. He raised his face and completely looked down at Shu Mo for the first time, with an attitude of showing God's gifts to others:

"Shu Mo, you shouldn't just remember By devoting yourself, you can try to ask for rewards from others, or even order them and dominate them."

"You can also ask for gifts from me," the man whispered in his ear, "You can do this."

Shu. Mo opened his eyes wide, alert and probing: "Asking from you?"

"Yes."

Xi said to Shu Mo, "Come and ask for it from me. I will give you what you want. You only need to ask me for it." Giving a small reward."

Shu Mo frowned, not understanding what Xi meant. Or maybe he had been accepting requests for help from others. A person who was used to lending a helping hand to others was temporarily unable to do so. Asking for something, Shu Mo covered his head, Xi stood in front of him, waiting quietly.

Can he claim it?

Could it be that he could order other people around?

Shu Mo raised his head, licked his lips and said tentatively: "I want... your feathers."

"Can you give me your feathers?"

"Kiss me."

"...What?"

Xi nodded her lips and said to Shu Mo, "Kiss me."

"As long as you kiss me, I will give you my feathers."

"This is not a price, but a reward you give me."

The man said, "Kiss me."

Shu Mo's eyes wandered for a moment, and he looked Looking at the giant man in front of him, he seemed to want to say something. For example, he had been alone for more than 20 years, for example, he had never kissed anyone else, and for example, this was his first kiss.

However, Xi didn't give him a chance to hesitate, or even the right to refuse. The man just lowered his head slightly, and a beautiful creature that was so tall and huge just lowered its head towards him. The other person's breath came closer, and an unusually strong aroma came, so warm that it could only remind people of heaven.

That kind of temperature made Shu Mo's body relax slightly, as if he had been by Xi's side, gentle, peaceful, and calm. In a strange way, Shu Mo looked at the person close in front of him and blinked slightly. Moving, he stood on tiptoes, moved forward, and rubbed the corner of his lips against Xi's lips.

It didn't even feel like a kiss, more like a simple touch, skin against skin. At that moment, Shu Mo only felt his body tremble. When he realized what he had done, the young man felt an unusually soft touch on his lips. He jumped back a few steps in shock. The ears under the hair were so red that they were almost bleeding, and the young man's neck began to turn red. He didn't even realize what he had done, but found that he seemed to be reminiscing about the fleeting touch just now.

"Is that enough...?"

Kakaka.

A sound like breaking glass came out. Shu Mo subconsciously raised his face and looked in the direction of the director, but he was suddenly shocked because the man who had been standing there had disappeared without a trace. The place where he stayed was , leaving only a whole piece of protective shield that is gradually extending outwards and spreading, and continues to spread out, slowly breaking like a spider web.

That was used as Xi's containment room, the laboratory's highest-level protective shield.

Shu Mo's eyes twitched and he couldn't imagine what had just happened there. The director had disappeared, but at the side, Xi slowly stood up straight. When Shu Mo raised his head and looked in the direction of the director, he just missed the man's raised lips.

That smile no longer had any gentleness, but was full of ferocity, giving people an unusually ferocious feeling, as if they finally got what they wanted.

"How good."

The man sighed. He stretched out his hand and slowly plucked out a feather from his wings. He then held up the dreamlike feather with his palm and lifted it in front of Shu Mo.

"——This is what you asked for."

"Next time, try to ask for more from me, Shu Mo." Xi said softly, like a devil who was tempting others step by step into the abyss: "Ask for more from me. " More, ask for more."

"You have to remember, you can control everything you want."

The man's voice became softer and softer, and his wings slowly closed, wrapping the monster in the center and falling into a deep sleep again.

"Because you could have done that."

Shu Mo had a dazed expression on his face. He couldn't believe that he just walked out of Xi's holding room. He was still holding the feather in his hand that seemed to be heating up and even seemed a little hot to the touch.

The young man turned his head and looked around, but the director did not appear for a long time. He didn't know where the other party had gone or what the director was doing. But when the other party didn't come, Shu Mo hesitated for a moment, and finally opened his hand. In the palm of his hand, the feather that exuded a faint light and every line seemed to be emitting a holy light was floating lightly. In the air, it is so beautiful that it can be used as a work of art.

"...I don't understand why you want to kiss a monster."

After Shu Mo admired it for a while, the sound of footsteps came from behind. Deep in the corridor, there were people with long gray-blue hair. The extremely tall figure gradually approached, but upon closer inspection, there seemed to be subtle changes in his appearance.

There was a strange friction sound under his white coat, like metal overlapping and rubbing together, and like the sound of scales intertwining and touching each other. Shu Mo was about to turn around, but the man said: "Don't move." "

Don't look back." The director's voice still sounded calm and indifferent, but upon closer inspection, it gave people a faint sense of discomfort.

Shu Mo didn't look back, or even made any move. He stood there and watched the man behind him gradually approaching him. Shu Mo's eyes turned and looked at the shadow beside him. Then, he saw that The road gradually took on a ferocious, inhuman outline.

"Give me the feather, Shu Mo." The director said softly behind him. A smell so sweet that it makes you feel trance-like. You just want to be immersed in it and follow the dreamy feeling at all costs. It came from behind Shu Mo. The young man took a gentle sniff and felt that everything was flowing through his limbs. Inhaled a sweet aroma that was rotten to the extreme.

He didn't dare to say anything, and he didn't make any other moves. He just stretched out his hand and watched the director take the feather from behind. Everything looked very normal, but Shu Mo closed his eyes and thought about the hand that just appeared in front of him.

The hand covered with fine scales.

"How does it feel to kiss a monster?"

The director's voice came from behind Shu Mo. The man stood behind him, fidgeting with the feather with his hands. Shu Mo opened his eyes and said, "I got him. The

director said: "You haven't answered my question yet." "...Xi is not a monster, he is a

pollutant that I raised."

"And you asked me to do this."

, said something that didn’t answer the question. The director suddenly laughed too. The sticky laughter came from behind Shu Mo, but it didn't seem to have any joy at all. Instead, it seemed like he had swallowed a piece of ice. There was only one kind of laughter that made people feel chilled in their hearts. , the eerie feeling that all the internal organs began to sink into the cold pool.

"You are so obedient, Shu Mo." The director said. Shu Mo frowned and smoothed the goosebumps on his arms. He felt that there was a cold sharp blade hanging in the air, pointing directly at his throat. If he was not careful, it seemed that it would cut off his entire body.

"Do you just listen to it?"

Shu Mo felt a pressure on his shoulders. It was the hand of the man behind him that pressed on his body, and then pressed harder. Shu Mo closed his eyes and opened them again. Finally, he reached out and patted the arm on his shoulder. As if he couldn't bear it, he couldn't help but growl:

"Don't go crazy."

The next second, Shu Mo When his throat tightened, he felt that the hand seemed to be irritated and stretched out towards his neck without hesitation, as if... it would strangle his breath in the next second.