Chapter 141. I Admit My Mistake
Arc 5 : Wasteland World Movie Nightmare.
Du Yan came out of his deep thoughts when he thought of this. As soon as he came back to his senses, he saw Shen Heng staring at him with a serious expression but did not speak for a long time.
Du Yan knew that the other party must have something to say but didn’t know how to start because he was not good at speaking. So, he asked directly: “Just say whatever you want to say, I won’t blame you.”
Shen Heng said: “Can we have a good talk?”
Du Yan was slightly stunned and imagined many possibilities from Shen Heng’s serious expression.
Shen Heng is not a fool. He should have figured out that what happened at Old K’s place was not normal. The excuse of taking drugs does sound too perfunctory.
He turned around, opened the vehicle door, jumped out, and then turned around and said: “Let’s get off and talk, it’s too boring in the vehicle.”
As soon as Shen Heng got out of the vehicle, he saw Du Yan using his hands and feet to climb onto the hood of the vehicle, but the chassis of the ‘behemoth’ was very high off the ground, so it was not easy to climb onto the hood.
Shen Heng rushed over to hold the other person, somewhat helplessly: “What are you trying to do?”
Du Yan pointed to the roof of the vehicle: “The scenery there is good, suitable for chatting.”
Seeing Du Yan like this, Shen Heng became even more suspicious of Dr. Jin. How could this young man in front of him be the obsessive, gloomy, and twisted person that Dr. Jin mentioned?
He lifted Du Yan onto the roof of the vehicle, and then he jumped on top himself.
The two of them sat on the roof of the vehicle, looking at the endless yellow sand and the sun whose outline could only be vaguely seen in the sky.
Du Yan took a long breath and said: “Tell me, what do you want to ask?”
Shen Heng got straight to the point and said: “Do you have any special abilities, spiritual ones?”
Du Yan was stunned. He didn’t expect Shen Heng to know about this. Who did he meet at the trading center today?
If it was just people from the First Research Institute, Shen Heng probably wouldn’t believe what they said. But from Shen Heng’s tone, he is convinced that Du Yan has special abilities.
Shen Heng did not wait for Du Yan to answer and continued: “Today I met a man who said his name is Dr. Jin. He told me this.”
Shen Heng’s straight to the point talk really made Du Yan a little perplexed.
He really didn’t expect Shen Heng to just blurt out the whole thing. What surprised Du Yan even more was that Dr. Jin actually came here in person.
Dr. Jin is in the advanced stage of OCD. It would be more painful for him to leave his residence and step on the land contaminated by radiation than to die, not to mention that he would have to meet with Shen Heng, an Infected.
Du Yan thought about this and asked again: “Besides this, what else?”
Shen Heng shook his head: “Rest of that, I don’t believe a single word. I will tell you the rest of it later. But regarding psychic power, I think it is true.”
Du Yan saw Shen Heng looking at him deeply. Although his expression was very serious, his eyes were very sincere.
Shen Heng thought for a moment and added: “Maybe there are some things you don’t want to say for the time being. Then you can tell me first the part that you can tell, okay?”
Seeing this, Du Yan nodded and said: “Psychic abilities are real. I can sense other people’s emotions, and under certain conditions, I can control their thoughts.”
Seeing that Shen Heng was just stunned, Du Yan added: “Don’t be nervous. For an Infected like you who is determined, I can only have a certain influence when you are disturbed.”
Shen Heng pinched Du Yan’s face and said: “What are you thinking about? I am not afraid of your denotation. I just wonder if what happened with Old K today is related to your ability?”
Du Yan laughed a little. Shen Heng, this man is so one-track minded sometimes to the point of being cute. After knowing these secrets, he only focused on the unlucky Old K.
Not sure if Dr. Jin will be furious after knowing Shen Heng’s reaction. This person really let down the good intentions of the late-stage OCD patient who endured great pain to come to see this Infected.
Du Yan frankly said: “Old K really had bad intentions. After he brought me over, he gave me some spiked stuff to drink.”
Shen Heng secretly clenched his fists, thinking that just breaking Old K’s spine was too easy for him.
“You know I can sense other people’s emotions, so of course I won’t drink, but Old K tried to force me to drink.” Du Yan pouted: “Maybe he saw that I looked easy to bully, and he was very excited at that time, so I controlled him a little.”
Du Yan smiled, but the words that came out of his mouth were completely different from this seemingly innocent smile.
“In fact, I didn’t do anything. I just let him drink that stuff and then stimulated the evil thoughts of the people present a little bit.”
“As a result, bang —— it exploded, and the scene was very chaotic. It was probably because those people were too evil. Although the scene was a bit painful for the eyes, it was also very exciting.”
After Du Yan finished speaking, he glanced at Shen Heng, and seeing that he looked a little strange, he turned around and hugged Shen Heng’s arm and rubbed it.
“But I’m still touched that you came so quickly.”
This was Shen Heng’s first time when Du Yan rubbed him. He couldn’t help but blush. He looked at Du Yan and thought about Du Yan’s performance from the beginning to now.
Shen Heng was finally able to confirm that Du Yan was indeed not hurt by what had just happened, and the young man in front of him was not as innocent and fragile as he had imagined.
After discovering this fact, Shen Heng was somewhat surprised that he did not feel any disgust. Instead, he felt a little distressed. What kind of growth experience would make such a young boy accustomed to disguising himself in this way?
“Du Yan, you don’t need to pretend in front of me.” Shen Heng said: “It doesn’t matter what you really are.”
Du Yan’s eyes widened, and he looked at Shen Heng in disbelief: “What do you mean by this?”
Shen Heng rubbed his head: “You don’t have to act coquettishly or try to please me just to get my protection. I won’t go back on my promise.”
Du Yan blinked, patted Shen Heng’s shoulder, and laughed, and it took a long time for him to stop.
“What are you thinking? Everyone has two sides. I am indeed curious and have never seen all these messy things outside. However, I am not so naive as to think that there are only beautiful things in this chaotic world.”
Du Yan thought for a moment and added: “I admit that I lied to you about some things, but when I am with you, it is all the real me.”
Shen Heng touched his nose and suddenly felt a little embarrassed: “I was overthinking.”
Du Yan put away his smile and became serious: “Shen Heng, make a choice, take me away, or leave me here.”
“No matter what you choose, I won’t blame you. But there are some things I still can’t tell you now, and I won’t ask what Dr. Jin said to you. These things are left to you to judge.” Du Yan paused: “You know I have the ability to protect myself, so you don’t need to consider the issue of responsibility.”
Shen Heng answered almost subconsciously: “I’ll take you away.”
Du Yan blinked, shocked again by his lack of hesitation.
“You, sure don’t want to consider it again? Think about it.”
Shen Heng saw Du Yan’s confused look, and it looked like he was back to his previous self.
He rubbed Du Yan’s hair and laughed: “I am a person who does things based on my intuition. Since I can’t figure out those complicated things now and you don’t want to tell me, I will just follow my feelings first.”
***
There is big news about Homeland No. 5 recently. The huge power faction on the edge of the Homeland No. 5 was suddenly wiped out. The leader of the power faction, Old K, died tragically in his own luxurious base, leaving only a note on the bedside.
“You shouldn’t touch the most important person to me. Shen Heng.”
In addition, many of Old K’s confidants or Infected friends also died in their own residence.
Someone with a curious mind did some calculations and found that the list of Infected who lost their lives was highly consistent with the guest list of a party organised by Old K the day before.
The local residents knew about Old K’s parties. To use the words before the war, it was a feast of wine and women, and every party would have several beauties that Old K had found from all over the place.
Combined with the note left by Shen Heng, a rumor began to spread. Shen Heng had been lonely for hundreds of years, and finally, he found his beloved woman. But Old K also fell in love with this beautiful woman, which led to the downfall of his faction.
《The strongest infected person Shen Heng fights for his beloved》.
Du Yan read this rumor in the latest issue of the Infected Weekly. He sat in the co-passenger seat of ‘behemoth’ and laughed so hard that he fell backward.
“Hey, Shen Heng, listen to this.”
“Shen Heng’s hands have never trembled before, not even when he faced the extremely powerful mutant beast. However, at this moment, his hands were trembling slightly. He couldn’t believe that the person who looked like a rag doll was his angel…”
Shen Heng looked ahead and finally couldn’t help but speak after hearing this: “Du Yan, if you keep talking like this, I’m going to drive the vehicle into the ditch.”
Du Yan made a zipper-like motion on his mouth and said: “I shouldn’t have disturbed the driver. I admit my mistake.”
The two were only one or two days away from their destination, although Shen Heng didn’t understand why Du Yan insisted on coming to this desert.
This city was indeed a very prosperous city before the war, but it was also a major target of nuclear strikes and was razed to the ground in the later stages of the nuclear war.
The huge amount of nuclear radiation has caused the city to be in a state where, even now, the radiation level has not reached a level where humans can survive safely.
When Shen Heng heard that the destination was here, his first reaction was to refuse. However, Du Yan repeatedly assured him that he could withstand this level of nuclear radiation and would not enter the city center but would look for an underground shelter on the edge.
Both of them tacitly avoided the purpose that Du Yan insisted on, and now the trust between the two was in a delicate balance.
Shen Heng knows that Du Yan has many secrets, but he believes that the other person will tell him the truth one day.
Du Yan knew that Shen Heng might have met someone and heard a different version of his life experience.
But he thought that instead of telling Shen Heng about the Adam Project directly, it would be better to let Shen Heng figure it out slowly along the way, and then meet the original Adam in the underground shelter.
Most of the time, words are no match for what one sees with their own eyes.
So, along the way, the two of them got along harmoniously as if nothing had happened.
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