Chapter 151
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The psychologist clearly hadn’t encountered such a direct and extreme question before, and remained silent for a while before awkwardly asking, “Um… Could you please elaborate? Why do you feel that your… um, desire has become abnormally strong?”
The patient on the other side of the internet remained silent for a while, and his words appeared on the chat page.
“I really want to f*** him.”
“Just finished with him, but the next second, seeing his face makes me hard.”
“We do it many times every day, but it’s still not enough.”
“I feel an impulse when I see him. Smell his scent, and hear his voice, then I get a reaction.”
“When I’m doing it, I feel really good, but when it’s over, I feel really bad.”
A faint blue light reflected in Fu Xuezhou’s eyes as he remained expressionless, his hands moving across the keyboard.
“As soon as I tell you these things, I feel it again.”
The psychologist was startled, “Th-this… this is indeed a bit abnormal… May I ask, do you have this strong desire for everyone, or is it just for one person?”
Fu Xuezhou furrowed his brow, “Just for one person.”
He thought about the faces of others but felt nothing.
The psychologist said, “I understand. Have you gone to the hospital to check your health? Are you sure your body is in a healthy condition?”
Fu Xuezhou said flatly, “I’m very healthy.”
The psychologist said, “Hmm… then this does seem to be a psychological issue. If you have time, I hope you can come to my office for a face-to-face chat. Your desire has exceeded the normal range, and based on your description, it will cause a serious burden for both you and the other person. You may already have developed an addictive mentality.”
Fu Xuezhou’s eyes lingered on the word “addictive” and asked again, “Can it be treated?”
“Perhaps yes, perhaps no,” the psychologist said, “You can try to suppress the thoughts of engaging in this behavior with the other person. If you can’t suppress them, then try to see the other person less. This is the method I can currently provide you with. Anyway, it’s best for us to chat face-to-face so that we can better understand your psychological issues.”
Fu Xuezhou began to feel somewhat irritated again. He looked at the psychologist’s words, reached out to take another piece of candy, put it in his mouth, and then replied, “Alright. Time and place.”
After arranging a meeting time with the psychologist, Fu Xuezhou closed the laptop.
The room was quiet. Fu Xuezhou leaned back on the sofa, pushed the candy to the right side of his cheek, closed his eyes, and rested.
See less?
It’s worth a try.
***
Early the next morning, Lou Yan woke up and immediately felt the existence of his legs.
He opened his eyes in delight and sat up to see that his black fishtail had already transformed back into two human legs. His legs were covered with a black, slimy substance, as if the scales of his fishtail had turned into mucus.
Lou Yan tried to stand up and put weight on his legs. He felt the sensation of his feet touching the ground after a long time. He stood up with the support of the bed, took two slow steps forward, feeling his legs stiff and trembling slightly, as if he couldn’t control them well after sitting for a long time.
“I wonder if this is how a mermaid feels when she comes ashore…”
Lou Yan muttered to himself as he slowly walked out, but he couldn’t find Fu Xuezhou anywhere in the house. He continued to the bathroom, and by the time he reached it, his legs had returned to normal.
Lou Yan could feel strength coursing through his entire body. He checked his Mental Power and found that after swallowing the “water ghost” heart, his Mental Power had increased from 140 to 170, expanding his maximum mental power by 30.
Lou Yan turned on the tap to wash off the black slime from his legs, but as he watched the water flow, he suddenly had a thought.
The next moment, the water flowing straight down suddenly changed direction, rushing directly towards Lou Yan’s legs as if it had a will of its own. It enveloped Lou Yan’s legs, washing away the black slime without wetting his clothes, and then flowed back into the drain.
Controlling the water flow was as easy as controlling his own body, without any feeling of stiffness. Lou Yan smiled, looked at his Mental Power consumption again, and was surprised: “What’s going on?!”
He had just used the strange power of the “water ghost” and expected his Mental Power to decrease by 10 points as before, but it only decreased by 2 points. Now it was 168 points.
Was it because he used very little of the anomaly power? Or was the consumption of mental power by the anomaly power of the “water ghost” itself very low?
Or was it that after experiencing the frenzy state, his body and mind had become more accustomed to anomaly existence, so the consumption of Mental Power when using strange power had also decreased?
Thinking of this possibility, Lou Yan became excited. He wanted to test it out, so he extended his hand and skillfully formed a white bone spike in his palm. At the same time, Lou Yan closely monitored his Mental Power consumption and the passage of time.
【Mental Power 167/170】
【Mental Power 166/170】
【Mental Power 165/170】
Mental Power was no longer consumed immediately by 10 points and maintained for a minute, but decreased gradually with the length of time the bone spike was used. Lou Yan calculated that with the bone spike exposed for one minute, his Mental Power only decreased by 5 points.
And after one minute, the bone spike was still exposed.
Lou Yan’s eyes sparkled brighter and brighter as words flashed through his mind: Breakthrough after hardship!
For the next twenty minutes, Lou Yan tested all his various strange abilities.
【True Sight】and the bone spike were both consumed gradually with the duration of use. Only 【Time Reversal】 became somewhat different. Lou Yan tried it out and found that reversing one minute consumed 1 point of Mental Power, while reversing five minutes consumed 5 points of Mental Power.
After using 【Time Reversal】twice, he felt feverish all over, but Lou Yan surprisingly felt okay with this heat. And Lou Yan had a premonition that his 【Time Reversal】could now rewind time for more than five minutes!
Lou Yan glanced at his flushed reflection in the mirror, not rushing to experiment immediately. He took off his clothes and patiently cooled himself down with cool water. When his body temperature returned to normal, Lou Yan closed his eyes and began to use 【Time Reversal】.
Time spun rapidly backward, back to ten minutes ago!
Heat surged from Lou Yan’s body to his limbs. Lou Yan suddenly opened his eyes, panting heavily with hot breath as he gripped the sink.
It’s hot, extremely hot, even hotter than after using the “Time Reversal” twice in a row to reverse five minutes each time! But it’s still within Lou Yan’s tolerable range!
Lou Yan could clearly feel that his physical strength had improved significantly compared to before. If it were his previous body, he might have collapsed from the heat by now.
“Whew…” Lou Yan took a moment to relax, feeling much more comfortable. He turned on the tap and washed his face, still thinking about “Time Reversal”.
When he just used this ability, Lou Yan felt that rewinding ten minutes was not his limit.
He even felt that with his current 170 points of Mental Power, he could rewind to 170 minutes ago – provided he could withstand the aftermath of the high temperature caused by the time reversal.
“170 minutes, two hours and fifty minutes…” Lou Yan raised his head, gazing intently at his reflection in the mirror. “Almost three hours. If my Mental Power is enough…”
Wouldn’t he be able to rewind to any point in time he wanted?
Of course, the premise is that his body can withstand “Time Reversal”.
Lou Yan picked up a toothbrush nearby and began to brush his teeth in a good mood. Unexpectedly, even after he finished brushing, Fu Xuezhou had not returned.
“Where did Fu Xuezhou go… Strange.”
According to reason, Fu Xuezhou should have known that he would return to normal today and leave.
Lou Yan thought that based on Fu Xuezhou’s behavior in the past few days, he might ask to spend some time together this morning before letting him leave.
Lou Yan frowned and, without hesitation, took out a set of clothes from Fu Xuezhou’s wardrobe. Fu Xuezhou’s clothes were neither tailored suits nor branded items. There were only monotonous casual clothes and sportswear. Lou Yan picked a gray hoodie and black pants. Although they didn’t fit well, they were wearable.
After changing his clothes and Fu Xuezhou still hadn’t returned, Lou Yan checked the time. He was in a hurry to leave now and didn’t plan to wait for Fu Xuezhou to come back.
Before leaving, Lou Yan took out the paper from under the pillow where Fu Xuezhou had drawn the butterfly. He glanced at the beautiful blue-purple butterfly on the paper, hesitated for a moment, and then put the drawing into his pocket.
Then, Lou Yan found some paper and a pen and wrote a sentence in a lively manner: “In a hurry to leave, I’m going first.”
After writing it, Lou Yan tapped the pen on the paper for a moment, thought for a while, and added another line with a hint of ambiguity: “You’ve taken good care of me these past few days. Remember to buy a new phone. I’ll settle the bed fees for these days after I go back.”
The last sentence became colder again: “I’ll be busy lately. Contact me if you need something.”
Hot and cold, if this were a romantic relationship, these three sentences from Lou Yan would drive someone crazy.
He left the note on the coffee table in the living room and took a final look at the unfamiliar yet familiar room before opening the door and walking out.
The anti-theft door opened and closed again, emitting a crisp locking sound.
In the quiet room, the master bedroom door, which had been locked all along, opened, and a silver-haired youth walked out of the master bedroom, looking calmly at the closed anti-theft door.
He leaned against the door frame for a while before sluggishly walking over to the coffee table in the living room, bowing his head to glance at the note placed on top.
After calmly reading it, Fu Xuezhou pursed his lips, reaching out to pick up the note. However, just as his hand was about to touch it, he stopped.
Fu Xuezhou stared at the note for a few seconds, then slowly straightened up, placing his hands in his pockets.
Suddenly, the note burst into flames, and within a few short seconds, it was reduced to a pile of black ashes.
Without glancing at the ashes again, Fu Xuezhou looked up at the black and white clock on the wall.
He had two hours left before his appointment with the psychiatrist in the neighboring city. With his speed, he could still make it if he left now.
Grabbing his keys, Fu Xuezhou also walked out the door.
In the empty living room, a gust of wind blew in through the window, scattering the pile of black ashes on the coffee table.
***
Lou Yan had no money on him, nor did he have a phone. He went straight to the supermarket under his name and asked the staff to send him back to the villa.
When he returned to the villa, it was only 7:30 in the morning. The slightly cool breeze made Lou Yan feel as if his brain had been cooled down after eating a mint.
He thought everyone in the villa would still be asleep, but as soon as Lou Yan opened the villa door, he saw Lu Haoxiu standing in front of a wall, continuously banging his head against it, blood streaming down his head.
Lou Yan was shocked. With a stern face, he quickly walked up and grabbed Lu Haoxiu. “Lu Haoxiu, what are you doing!”
Lu Haoxiu was suddenly startled when grabbed. He violently shook off Lou Yan’s hand, staggered backward, and tripped over the wrinkled carpet, falling to the ground. Lu Haoxiu looked uneasy and scared, feeling around in the air with his hands. “Who are you!”
“Somebody’s come in! Help! Brother! Brother Sanxin! Brother Sanxin! Little Yu! Someone’s come in from outside!”
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