Chapter 124
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Did they expect him to say that after leaving the amusement park, he hooked up with Fu Xuezhou? And not just once, but twice, one of which was done sneakily in the villa while you guys were around?
…Don’t joke around, how could he say something like that.
Lou Yan said with a straight face, “I saw him at Mr. Song’s place. Mr. Song invited him to save Song Yuran.”
He briefly explained the situation, as well as how he and Fu Xuezhou teamed up to eliminate the plastic man, completely omitting the absurdities of their romantic escapades back at the office.
But like a stubborn child, Lu Haoxiu insisted on opposing Lou Yan, asking, “Then Brother Lou, did you take the opportunity to resolve the ghost marriage contract issue with Fu Xuezhou?”
As soon as he said that, Lu Haoxiu was met with an expressionless stare from Lou Yan. That look was quite intimidating, causing Lu Haoxiu to realize what kind of mess he had stepped into. His face gradually turned red as he scratched his cheek awkwardly, stammering, “Uh… Should I not have asked that question? Let’s just pretend I didn’t ask, I didn’t ask, haha…”
“…Go check if the kayaks and motorboats in the warehouse are intact, then give me a count,” Lou Yan took a deep breath, dismissing Lu Haoxiu directly, and continued, “Let’s prepare for this heavy rain. Sanxin, call Lin You and ask the Anomaly Control Bureau to make some preparations too. Even if this heavy rain isn’t the same as the one three months later, it’s better for them to be prepared early.”
Trying to please Lou Yan, Lu Haoxiu smiled and rushed off to the warehouse, “I’m off! Brother Lou, don’t be mad at me!”
Lou Yan: “…”
If you don’t want me to get angry, then don’t say that.
Li Sanxin gritted his teeth silently, unaffected on the surface, and walked to the window to make a call to Lin You. After hanging up the phone, Duan Zege silently approached and asked, “Angry or not?”
Li Sanxin sneered twice, “I’m practically fuming.”
How could he not be angry! Even though Lou Yan didn’t say it, his non-answer meant he confirmed that something happened between him and Fu Xuezhou.
Li Sanxin felt heartache for his handsome and capable childhood friend, who had to feign affection with someone he detested just to stay alive, and he even hated the ghost marriage contract tattoo on Lou Yan’s body the most.
It was like seeing a well-raised flower being dug up by a pig. Li Sanxin was worried when Lou Yan didn’t get close to Fu Xuezhou, but if he saw Lou Yan getting close to him, he’d be furious.
Li Sanxin sighed repeatedly, then glanced at Lou Yan’s back in the living room, whispering to Duan Zege, “I’m angry, but I’m also relieved. If he doesn’t lift the ghost marriage contract soon, I’ll want to tie up Fu Xuezhou myself.”
“But you won’t be able to tie him up,” Duan Zege, adjusting his hair lazily, said, “I’m angry too… That Fu Xuezhou, if I get the chance, I’ll teach him a lesson. Trying to take advantage of our boss Lou, we can’t let him get away with it.”
Li Sanxin suddenly felt displeased, “What do you mean ‘our boss’? That’s my Yanzi!”
“Hey, you…” Duan Zege chuckled a few times, lowering his voice, “Do you think Lou Yan can hear us talking here?”
Both of them turned to look at Lou Yan. Lou Yan was sitting on the sofa, supporting his chin, lost in thought. He didn’t seem to notice their conversation at all.
The two exchanged a glance, then sat down beside Lou Yan. Li Sanxin leaned on Lou Yan’s shoulder, “Yanzi, what are you thinking?”
Duan Zege yawned, slouching lazily, “We can help you think about it together.”
Lou Yan furrowed his brows, “This timeline is wrong…”
Duan Zege raised an eyebrow, sitting up slightly more interested, asking curiously, “The timeline is wrong? What’s wrong with it?”
“Many things are happening ahead of schedule,” Lou Yan continued to mutter to himself, “The Anomaly Resurgence has only been two months, but the number of anomaly occurrences is abnormal. The plastic man is an A-rank horror, and so is the water ghost. Yet both A-rank horrors have appeared now, simultaneously… The cultists are also suspicious. They’re developing too quickly and too early. Just as the anomaly is beginning to revive, they’ve already recruited Wen Yian as their disciple… And even the Mental Recovery Syringe given to the cultists by the Anomaly Lord appeared much earlier than I knew…”
The events in this life were one after another, as if someone had pressed the fast-forward button. If Lou Yan didn’t know that it had only been two months since the Anomaly Resurgence, he would have thought this was the mid-term of the revival.
It seemed like there was a puppet master behind the scenes, urgently manipulating one event after another, facilitating the rapid development of anomalies and the cult of cultists. Upon careful consideration, Lou Yan hadn’t rested much since his reincarnation, constantly bustling about dealing with anomalies and resolving issues with the cultists.
Lou Yan always felt that something was amiss, but his thoughts were tangled like a ball of yarn, unable to find a starting point. This sudden onset of heavy rain three months ahead of schedule allowed Lou Yan to finally grasp onto that starting point.
Reflecting on the events after his reincarnation from the perspective of a bystander, Lou Yan felt that the hidden hand behind the scenes was like a desperate foe, eagerly developing its power and continuously hastening the revival of anomalies to cause trouble for its adversaries.
Lou Yan’s frown deepened, “Being able to rapidly develop the cultists and even advance the revival of anomalies…”
As if remembering something, Duan Zege turned to Li Sanxin with keen interest, asking, “You mentioned before that you saw Fu Xuezhou kill the Anomaly Lord in the entertainment center? What does the Anomaly Lord look like? Is it terrifying?”
“Yes,” Lou Yan murmured, “It was indeed the Anomaly Lord.”
Li Sanxin asked in confusion, “What about the Anomaly Lord?”
Lou Yan replied, “Only the Anomaly Lord can do this…”
Only the Anomaly Lord could rapidly develop the cult organization, recruit celebrities and big bosses like Wen Yian, Wen Jiu, and Cai Mo as his followers. Only the Anomaly Lord could freely manipulate the timing of the anomaly’s revival and accelerate the process with his own power.
But in the previous three lifetimes, the Anomaly Lord didn’t do such things. Why was the Anomaly Lord so anxious in this lifetime?
Lou Yan found the answer in his heart: because it felt threatened.
Only when feeling threatened would the Anomaly Lord hasten its progress to quickly strengthen its own power.
What was this threat?
Lou Yan earnestly recalled the differences between this life and the previous ones.
Upon reflection, he felt the biggest difference in this life was his awakening.
Could it be that his awakening made the Anomaly Lord feel threatened? No, that’s not possible.
Lou Yan remembered the unexpected cooperative attitude of the Anomaly Lord in the amusement park when he made a wish to kill Fu Xuezhou. He felt that the person the Anomaly Lord wanted to deal with was actually Fu Xuezhou. Only someone like Fu Xuezhou, who could kill the Anomaly Lord with one blow, could threaten it.
But the Anomaly Lord still died by Fu Xuezhou’s hand.
Could it be that it was a fake Anomaly Lord?
Lou Yan leaned towards the idea that it was the real Anomaly Lord because only the Anomaly Lord had the ability to fulfill their wishes, and only the Anomaly Lord had the qualification to host the amusement park.
But when the Anomaly Lord died, it didn’t mean the “Anomaly Lord” died.
Just like the transition of power between the old and new kings of a country, the old Anomaly Lord, whose power gradually weakened, died, but the new “Anomaly Lord” was still alive.
This new “Anomaly Lord” was likely the “it” that Fu Xuezhou was looking for.
Lou Yan lowered his gaze in contemplation.
He finally sorted it out.
Fu Xuezhou had always wanted to find the “Anomaly Lord” hidden behind the scenes, but he couldn’t find out where the “Anomaly Lord” was despite returning several times. Based on this, the existence of the “Anomaly Lord” was still in doubt.
But now, with the early revival of the water ghost, it indirectly proved that the “Anomaly Lord” might really exist.
If so, did he still need to kill Fu Xuezhou?
Lou Yan also wanted to kill the “Anomaly Lord.” Their goals aligned with Fu Xuezhou, and they could work together to kill the “Anomaly Lord,” then he could figure out a way to kill Fu Xuezhou afterwards. This would be the perfect solution.
Lou Yan did consider this approach, but upon careful consideration, it wasn’t feasible.
If Fu Xuezhou couldn’t find the “Anomaly Lord” in this life, could he really find the “Anomaly Lord”?
If Fu Xuezhou couldn’t find the “Anomaly Lord” in this life, would he resort to extreme measures like “destroying the world to destroy the Anomaly Lord” again?
If Fu Xuezhou still chose to destroy the world, could Lou Yan really kill Fu Xuezhou when he had fully grown up by then?
If they started over again, would Lou Yan still have memories of the past?
Even if Fu Xuezhou could find the “Anomaly Lord” in this life, it didn’t rule out the possibility that Fu Xuezhou wouldn’t destroy the world again. After all, Lou Yan’s idea that “Fu Xuezhou destroyed the world because he couldn’t find the Anomaly Lord” was just his speculation, and it was still a positive interpretation of Fu Xuezhou’s actions.
Lou Yan didn’t even know why Fu Xuezhou wanted to destroy the world. What if Fu Xuezhou simply wanted to destroy the world?
What if Fu Xuezhou enjoyed betraying everyone on the eve of humanity’s victory?
He could continue to destroy the world and start over again; this bizarre world was like Fu Xuezhou’s playground.
The smile that Fu Xuezhou revealed in the fire that destroyed the world in the previous life was the deepest nightmare in Lou Yan’s heart. He couldn’t understand what kind of person would laugh after doing such things.
Lou Yan felt that such a Fu Xuezhou was even more terrifying and dangerous than the anomaly.
And to kill Fu Xuezhou, he had to go to the extreme cold h*ll.
There were still 44 days until the appearance of the extreme cold h*ll, which was the only opportunity to kill Fu Xuezhou.
And during these 44 days, could Fu Xuezhou and Lou Yan find the “Anomaly Lord,” whose existence was still questionable, and cooperate to kill it?
The hope was slim.
In Lou Yan’s memories of the three lifetimes, the anomaly could be defeated, humanity would achieve victory, but only Fu Xuezhou would destroy the world.
If Fu Xuezhou didn’t die in the extreme cold h*ll after 44 days, no one could do anything to him. At that time, whether the world would be destroyed depended entirely on Fu Xuezhou’s mood.
Lou Yan didn’t believe in Fu Xuezhou, and he didn’t want to entrust his life and the lives of those he cared about to Fu Xuezhou’s whims.
He thought, no one would entrust their lives to someone else’s mercy.
Especially when this someone else had destroyed the world three times in a row and killed Lou Yan three times in a row.
…
Lou Yan thought for a long time, and the result was… he needed to kill.
…
“Lou Yan?”
Lou Yan covered his complex emotions, showing a faint smile. He leaned back on the sofa and looked up, “Hmm?”
But as he moved, he felt something flowing out of his pants.
This embarrassing and strange feeling made Lou Yan stiffen. He suddenly remembered that he hadn’t taken a bath yet, nor had he cleaned up what Fu Xuezhou left inside him.
“…”
Lou Yan maintained his relaxed posture, casually pointing to the kitchen, “I’m hungry, Sanxin, could you make me a bowl of wonton soup?”
Li Sanxin felt his hunger come on quite suddenly, but thinking that his childhood friend might have just experienced intense exercise and lost energy, he obediently stood up and said, “Sure, wait for me, it’ll be ready in fifteen minutes.”
After sending one person away, Lou Yan turned to Duan Zege again, “Could you go and check if Little Yu has finished today’s homework?”
“Probably not,” Duan Zege also stood up and said, “Okay, I’ll go check on her.”
After they both left and confirmed that there was no one else in the living room, Lou Yan slowly stood up from the sofa. He turned his head first to glance at the sofa, sighed in relief when he saw no suspicious traces, and then quickly walked towards the bedroom.
In the kitchen, Li Sanxin, who had just come out and was about to ask Lou Yan if he wanted garlic paste, watched Lou Yan’s retreating figure with a low mood and full of questions, “Why did he suddenly leave?”
He was so excited just now, why does he seem angry again?
Li Sanxin frowned, wondering if Yanzi had been infected with a mental illness from being intimate with Fu Xuezhou just once?!
***
Lou Yan endured the embarrassment and shame, and followed the theoretical knowledge on the webpage to clean himself up. During the cleaning process, he gradually became expressionless and cursed Fu Xuezhou in his heart over and over again.
After finally cleaning up and lifting his head, Lou Yan saw that a colorful butterfly had appeared on the showerhead, quietly closing its wings and looking at him.
The wings of this colorful butterfly were mainly blue and purple, with other colors embellishing the edges. Golden powder sprinkled on its wings, making it look as beautiful as a fairy from a fairy tale.
Lou Yan was stunned, feeling a strange sensation as the butterfly looked at him. He reached out to try to touch the butterfly, but it spread its wings and flew away gently, passing in front of Lou Yan.
Lou Yan seized the opportunity to grab it and successfully touched the butterfly. But at the moment he touched the butterfly, this beautiful butterfly suddenly dispersed like a mirage, disappearing into the air.
Such an illusory butterfly seemed to exist only in dreams.
Wait a minute, dreams.
Was this… the ability to materialize nightmares? To project things from dreams into reality?
Lou Yan thought of a possibility, his eyes sharpened for a moment, his fists clenched, and he muttered in a low voice, “Fu Xuezhou!”
Author’s Note:
ps: The amount of information between Lou and us in the third person perspective is different.
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