Chapter 121. I Will Kill You

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Arc 5 : Wasteland World Movie Nightmare.

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Shen Heng finally spoke, and he asked: “You, are you still planning to go back to the research institute?”

Du Yan stared at his tangled expression and suddenly laughed: “Why? You can’t bear to send me back?”

Shen Heng was stunned and nodded subconsciously.

Du Yan said: “I am the hope of mankind and have the gene to purify radiation by myself.”

“…” Shen Heng was silent. When Du Yan asked him, he was thinking only of the person in front of him, not about the future of mankind.

Du Yan was teasing Shen Heng, and Xiao Ba couldn’t stand it anymore, so he reminded him: “Du Yan, I always feel like you seem to have forgotten your purpose of coming here is to eat nightmares, won’t this backfire?”

Du Yan asked in return: “Why would it backfire?”

Xiao Ba said: “You said that you would let Shen Heng make his own choice this time, but the choice you gave is too difficult. One way is to send the only person who can accompany him to the end, back to the institute, and the other is to choose to care about people but give up the beliefs he has always held on to.”

Du Yan glanced at Shen Heng and saw that he was still in deep thought. He was very considerate and did not interrupt him. He directly took the canned food on the table, opened it, and prepared to eat.

After all, Du Yan is just a Pure One. His physique is completely different from that of an Infected. Now he hasn’t eaten for a whole day and was very hungry.

Shen Heng’s reaction was somewhat unexpected. The sound of Du Yan opening the can seemed to startle him. Shen Heng took the can directly: “I’ll heat it up for you. It’s not good to eat cold food.”

Du Yan looked at Shen Heng’s back, and his heart moved slightly. Perhaps to strengthen his belief, Du Yan said to Xiao Ba: “Do you know what the source of the nightmare in this movie is?”

Having experienced several nightmares with Du Yan, Xiao Ba is quite experienced. He answered: “Of course it’s loneliness.”

Du Yan said: “You are wrong. It is a sense of recognition. From the beginning to the end, no one recognized everything he did. In the last stage of the movie, after the Pure Ones developed a more powerful mecha, they even began to hunt down Shen Heng.”

“Even if Shen Heng is determined, this feeling of not being recognized will always lead to an indelible shadow, which leads to this nightmare. What I have to do is push Shen Heng to the position of a hero who saves the world and is admired and recognized by everyone. If he is recognized, the nightmare will naturally dissipate.”

Xiao Ba already knows Du Yan’s routine very well: “I know, to become the savior, he must defeat the villain, and you are the one playing this villain role. But before you entered the dream, didn’t you say that you would let Shen Heng make the choice this time?”

Du Yan said: “Yes, I have laid out the two paths. If he chooses to keep me in the end, then I will accompany him to live a peaceful and stable life. Having me as the only one who identifies his achievements and admires him is enough to eliminate the nightmare.”

“If he had sent me to the research institute, that would have been another path. I would have followed the villain route as planned, trying to kill everyone in the world. A protagonist like Shen Heng would naturally stop me at the critical moment and become a hero who saved the world, achievements praised by everyone. Perfect.”

Xiao Ba couldn’t help but sigh, Du Yan is still Du Yan. He doesn’t follow the usual path, and the effect of dream eating is unexpectedly good.

Shen Heng had already walked out of the kitchen at this time and handed the canned food in his hand to Du Yan. The temperature was just right: “Eat it. The temperature is just right.”

Xiao Ba was silent for a moment and suddenly said: “Shen Heng is really a good person, I just think the choice you gave is a bit too cruel.”

Du Yan said: “Only by going through difficult choices can one grow up. Don’t you think this is true?”

Xiao Ba sighed, thinking that it was a blessing or a curse for Shao Lingheng to meet someone like Du Yan, who had a bad taste and a strange way of thinking. From his observation, these two people were a perfect match, one willing to strike and the other willing to be beaten.

Du Yan took the can of food handed over by Shen Heng, took a bite, and asked: “Don’t you want to eat it?”

Shen Heng said: “We Infected don’t need to eat every day. These pure foods are not much to begin with, so I’ll keep them for you now on. I’ll just hunt a few mutant creatures to eat tomorrow.”

Du Yan glanced at him and said: “Actually, I want to try what mutant creatures taste like. You know, at home, we eat pure plants, and I have never tasted what meat tastes like.”

Shen Heng looked at Du Yan’s aggrieved expression and soothed him: “I have cleaned up all the mutants around here. When we get to the infected area, I will roast the delicious mutants for you to eat.”

Du Yan’s eyes lit up: “Do you mean you agree to take me around?”

Shen Heng looked at his excited expression, and a smile appeared on his lips unconsciously: “Well, I will accompany you to see all the scenery you want to see and walk the path you want to walk.”

Du Yan shouted happily, walked forward, hugged Shen Heng, and kissed him on the face again.

“…” Shen Heng was stunned again, and it took him a long while to utter a word.

“Du Yan, even if you have a special physique, I also have a special physique, so it’s better to have less contact…”

Du Yan curled his lips in dissatisfaction: “Don’t you like me touching you? Am I annoying to you?”

Shen Heng shook his head and said: “That’s not what I meant. I’m just worried that I will affect you. You had a high fever yesterday because of the rejection reaction and looked so uncomfortable.”

Du Yan raised his eyebrows, smiled, and said: “That was the only time for rejection reaction, there will be no more in the future. If you don’t believe me, do you want me to kiss you a few more times? Or you can take off all your clothes, and we can have close contact, and then we can know whose physique is stronger.”

“…” Shen Heng was speechless for a long time after hearing this.

Even though Shen Heng’s skin color was darker, Du Yan could see that his face was already flushed red. It was estimated that if stimulated a little more, he would be able to boil water on the spot.

Du Yan thought about it and decided to change the topic in order to prevent the powerful Infected from breaking through the wall and leaving due to excessive stimulation.

After the two of them had dinner, Du Yan continued to pester Shen Heng with some adventure stories. When the night deepened, Shen Heng settled Du Yan in the room and turned around to leave.

Shen Heng had never thought that one day he would bring people here, so naturally, this was the only room in the whole house that could accommodate people.

As soon as Shen Heng took a step, he felt the corner of his clothes tighten. He looked down and found a white and slender hand grasping the corner of his clothes.

“Where are you going to sleep?” Du Yan asked: “You don’t have any friends, and you don’t get close to anyone. There won’t be a second room in this house where people can sleep, right?”

Shen Heng never lies. He nodded and said: “I’ll just rest in the living room.”

Du Yan still didn’t let go and said: “But I feel a little scared, can you accompany me?”

Facing Du Yan’s pleading eyes, Shen Heng had no words of refusal in his mind and acted completely on instinct.

When Shen Heng took off his coat and lay down in the quilt, he smelled the boy’s scent, a very clean scent that was out of tune with this dirty, abandoned world.

Thump thump thump——

Shen Heng could only hear his own heartbeat. He took a few deep breaths, fearing that the violent heartbeat would disturb Du Yan, who was lying next to him.

Here, Shen Heng was holding his breath and was extremely nervous, and over there, Du Yan moved.

He turned around and lay face to face with Shen Heng, without a trace of sleep in his eyes: “Shen Heng, although I completely rely on you for protection now, can you let me make a request?”

Shen Heng looked at the face so close to him, and his heartbeat finally calmed down. But because Du Yan called his name so formally for the first time, he became a little nervous again.

“Is it not possible?” Du Yan was a little disappointed when he saw that Shen Heng did not reply for a long time.

“It’s possible.”

Du Yan smiled and curled his eyes, teasing: “You agreed without even asking what the request was. The newspapers will soon describe you as more terrifying than the most ferocious mutant. If someone knew you were such a good talker, they would probably be scared to death.”

Shen Heng said: “I’m not like this usually.”

Du Yan stopped joking and went straight to the point: “I want to go to Homeland No. 5 to take a look.”

Homeland No. 5 is thousands of kilometers away from Homeland No. 1. It is not far from where a massive nuclear bomb was detonated, and the environment was completely destroyed. Until now, it has not recovered, and the ground is covered with yellow sand, a tragic scene.

The reason why there is a Homeland in that place is because it was once a military base of a great country, with solid buildings and abundant supplies, and a huge shelter underground.

The shelter under the military base was filled with soldiers in the cryopods. After thawing, these well-trained soldiers quickly used the military base as a fortress and established the first human settlement.

Therefore, Homeland No. 5 has grown to such a large scale.

Shen Heng was a little confused and said directly: “The view over there at Homeland No. 5 is not good and it is very dangerous.”

Du Yan said: “I know. I have read the survival manual in the institute and learned about these Homelands. I want to go to Homeland No. 5 to see my parents.”

Shen Heng was stunned: “You, want to see them?”

“Mmm” Du Yan nodded: “I just want to see what kind of people they are and ask why they sent me to the institute? Is it for the purpose of benefiting all mankind, or is it really like what the researchers said, just for a life without worries about food and clothing.”

At this point, Du Yan sighed: “No matter what the result is, I have to get an answer before I give up.”

Shen Heng just felt a little distressed. He raised his hand to rub Du Yan’s face, but he was worried that the calluses on his palm would scratch his fair skin.

After thinking for a while, Shen Heng placed his hand on Du Yan’s head. It was the first time that his palm touched the boy’s hair. It was as smooth and soft as he imagined. It was even softer than the cat at that time, which made Shen Heng feel softer from the bottom of his heart.

He whispered: “Okay, let’s go to Homeland No. 5. No matter what answer you get, remember that I’m with you, okay?”

Du Yan nodded, reached out to take Shen Heng’s hand, hugged him with both hands, and closed his eyes.

“By the way, you are not allowed to send me back while I am asleep.” Du Yan opened his eyes and bared his teeth: “Otherwise, I will kill you.”

Shen Heng laughed. The threat from the young man in front of him had no power at all. He was just like a small animal that was scowling.

Seeing Du Yan glaring at him, Shen Heng said again: “Okay. It will not happen. If I send you back again without permission, just kill me, okay?”

Du Yan then closed his eyes and went to sleep peacefully, while Shen Heng just stared at his sleeping face in a daze all night.

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