The noise and screams outside the door were deafening.

Just as Su Han was about to close the door, a hand stopped her.

"Ahan..." The voice outside the door trembled with urgency, "After Zhou An saw you, why...did he jump down?"

The newcomer had a look of terror on his face.

That scene just now was so bizarre. Why would a perfectly normal person suddenly become so suicidal?

Su Han lowered his eyelashes, his voice as soft as a sigh: "He probably saw Shen Chengyin so ill with his own eyes, and couldn't bear it, so he blamed himself." He paused, then sighed dramatically, "...He really is a soft-hearted person."

The man who came to inquire was completely bewildered by Su Han's words. Before he could say anything, Su Han slammed the door shut, the door panel almost breaking his nose.

The man's lips twitched; he was angry but helpless.

After all, so many people saw Zhou An jump down on his own, so it wouldn't make sense for them to try and pin the blame on Su Han.

Only after the sounds outside the door had completely disappeared did Su Han slowly turn around.

When her gaze fell on the edge of the bed, she unconsciously went limp.

Shen Chengyin's hair was soaked with sweat, hanging down in a mess, like a little dog.

"Why are you awake?" Su Han walked over quickly and brushed the wet hair off his face.

The skin on my hand was burning hot, the temperature was scalding.

Shen Chengyin woke up too early; even by the standards for the average person with superpowers, it was far too early.

The man was still somewhat dazed, looking up at Su Han, and after a long while, he managed to choke out a question in a hoarse voice: "Where did he touch you?"

"He just pushed my shoulder, he didn't touch me anywhere else."

The man's dark expression softened slightly upon hearing this. He patted Su Han's shoulder with a stern face, as if something dirty had gotten on it.

[The male lead has finally woken up! Quickly ask him about the potion!] System 111 urged.

Su Han cleared her throat. "Shen Chengyin, did you inject yourself with the drug the research institute provided?"

The two stared at each other for a long time. Shen Chengyin frowned and raised his hand to support Su Han's head.

"What's inside your head?"

Upon hearing this, both the system and Su Han fell silent.

"You...you can hear the voices in my head?"

Shen Chengyin nodded.

His psychic abilities are still very weak; he can only sense Su Han's abnormality but cannot determine what the voice is.

System 111 remained silent, wishing it could kick itself out of Su Han's head.

Just when it thought Su Han would cover for it, it heard its dear host speak excitedly:

"He's the one I told you about before, the one who told me the world is a book."

system:【???】

Did you say that before?

When did Su Han sell it?!

Su Han grabbed Shen Chengyin's wrist and pulled it onto her head.

Soon, System 111 felt an unparalleled sense of oppression. It was coming from Shen Chengyin.

Under immense pressure, it was forced to speak: [Meow, meow... I, I'm just a passing kitten QAQ]

Shen Chengyin: ………

Suhan:…………

After saying that, System 111 made a hasty retreat, shrinking back into the deepest corner of its consciousness, as if it had never existed.

Shen Chengyin sensed that the strange "noise" had disappeared, his fingertips twitched slightly, and he slowly withdrew his hand.

He lowered his eyes and remained silent for a moment.

"...I did inject myself with the drugs I brought back from the research institute," Shen Chengyin continued, picking up where he left off. "You should know what these drugs do."

The man who jumped off the building just now has already explained everything.

Su Han's eyes widened.

Just as the system predicted, Shen Chengyin knew the plot's direction in advance.

"You...you are...reborn?" Su Han asked, enunciating each word clearly.

This word is too fantastical; even he struggles to articulate it.

Shen Chengyin did not answer immediately. He simply looked at Su Han quietly, his eyes misty, making it impossible to see what was churning within them.

After a long pause, he suddenly chuckled very softly.

What if I say no?

His voice was very low.

"What if I said that I did those things without reason or hardship, simply because it was my nature?"

He leaned forward, closing the distance between them, his warm breath brushing against Su Han's lips.

"If I were to say that I stole supplies, schemed against people, and killed innocents, it was all because I wanted to, because I am a thoroughly rotten villain at heart—"

"In this state, you still want to stand by my side and accompany me through... utter ruin?"

Su Han nodded without hesitation, "Of course."

Shen Chengyin is the male lead. Even if he commits murder and arson, as a mission taker, he will firmly stand on the male lead's side.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have survived.

Su Han was a little confused. He remembered that he had already told the male lead everything when they were in the mental hospital, so why would the male lead ask such a question?

Shen Chengyin's fingertips trembled almost imperceptibly.

Even though he was still experiencing excruciating pain in his head from waking up too early, he couldn't care less about that at the moment.

He could barely control the upward curve of his lips, and in the end, he looked somewhat insane.

Shen Chengyin reached out his hand to Su Han.

"I will kill many people."

But not you.

*

Even until the very end, Shen Chengyin did not give a direct answer to the question about rebirth.

Su Han wanted to ask more questions, but Shen Chengyin intertwined his fingers with hers, tightening the grip.

He instinctively sensed danger and remained silent.

.........

Now that Shen Chengyin has awakened, Cheng Yibin's increasingly urgent mission to search for weapons should be put on the agenda.

After packing their luggage, Su Han and Shen Chengyin went through a simple procedure in the mission hall before meeting up with the teammates that Cheng Yibin had assigned to them.

Besides him and Shen Chengyin, there were three other people involved in this operation: two men and one woman, all of whom were superhumans.

Su Han nodded to the three of them one by one, and then got into the off-road vehicle provided by the base.

The five of them split into two cars: two male superhumans rode in one car, while Su Han, Shen Chengyin, and another female superhuman rode in the other.

Su Han was not actually satisfied with this arrangement, which meant that he and Shen Chengyin had to choose one of them to drive.

Shen Chengyin had just awakened his superpower, his headache hadn't subsided, and his driving skills were far from excellent.

It's okay to pull him out temporarily for an emergency, but if you ask him to drive for more than ten hours straight, it's a miracle he doesn't drive the car into a ditch.

But it wouldn't be appropriate for two men to push a woman to drive.

After careful consideration, Shen Chengyin, despite the aftereffects of awakening his superpowers, still sat in the driver's seat, with Su Han covering for him for half an hour every now and then.

Su Han was unsure whether Shen Chengyin would really follow Cheng Yibin's instructions to retrieve the weapons from the military factory, or whether they would kill the three men under Cheng Yibin and hide in the small mountain village mentioned in the original text.

The military factory was located far away, and all they had were simple paper maps and compasses. It would take at least half a month for the two vehicles to find their way back and forth.

To stay alert, the group agreed to get off the vehicle every six hours to rest and set up camp nearby, where they could also hunt down a few ordinary zombies and collect crystal cores.

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