Apocalypse: The White Moonlight Became a Possessive Mad Dog

The vines didn't stop; instead, they grew longer and more numerous.

They wrapped Su Han's body layer by layer, rendering him completely immobile.

Su Han raised her eyes and looked at the figure that was walking closer step by step from the shadows of the forest.

The man walked slowly and unsteadily, his shoes and trousers covered in mud and broken branches, his clothes disheveled, looking like a homeless man who had been wandering in the mountains for several days.

Su Han's eyes widened.

It's Shen Chengyin.

Is it... Shen Chengyin?

He stared into the man's bloodshot, scarlet eyes, which churned with something completely unfamiliar, almost frenzied. Coupled with the inexplicable appearance of his wood-based supernatural ability, Su Han couldn't even tell for a moment whether the person in front of him was the male protagonist.

The difference is too great... He was sleeping in his arms last night, but today he's turned into a madman.

The man approached step by step, until he stood before Su Han.

The two were very close, so close that Su Han could see Shen Chengyin's eyelashes clearly, and the man's Adam's apple trembled and bounced.

He gazed at Su Han's face, covered in blood, and slowly traced the direction of the vines' growth with his fingertips.

After a long silence, the man finally spoke, his voice hoarse and broken.

"You're leaving too, aren't you?"

It wasn't a question, but rather an accusation suppressed to the extreme.

Su Han's alarm bells rang instantly; he had a strong premonition. If he didn't answer this question well, the mission might... fail.

[Shen Chengyin, you bastard! Don't touch him! Or I'll fight you to the death!!]

The system suddenly popped into my mind and shouted at the top of its lungs.

It jumped and danced in Su Han's mind, even bracing itself for being picked up and crushed by the enraged Shen Chengyin. But Shen Chengyin didn't even blink, his eyes fixed on Su Han.

[Su Han left to protect you! Use your brain and think this through! If we wanted to run away, we would have done it long ago, would you have found us?]

Let go!! Let go—Pah! Pah! Pah!

It saw Shen Chengyin's hand moving upwards, almost choking Su Han's neck. It was both anxious and angry, but since it had no physical form, it couldn't stop him. It could only desperately spit out a few mouthfuls of saliva, hoping to disgust Shen Chengyin and make him take his hand away.

[Shen Chengyin! Su Han poured her heart out to you, and this is how you treat him! No one will ever love you like this!]

System 111 continued its provocations, but finding Shen Chengyin unresponsive, it paused mid-combat, muttering hesitantly, "...Can't he hear me?"

Su Han frowned deeply. "Probably."

Why did Shen Chengyin react so strongly?

He was only gone for a few hours, not gone forever. Did he have a nightmare and go crazy like this?

System 111 looked at Shen Chengyin, then at Su Han, and suddenly understood something.

Why aren't you saying anything?

The vines tightened their grip, and Su Han heard his bones creaking. He couldn't feel the pain, but he could clearly feel his internal organs being squeezed.

"Did I hit the nail on the head?"

The vines pulled Su Han downwards, quickly closing the distance between them. Su Han and Shen Chengyin were nose to nose, and they could clearly see their own reflections in each other's pupils.

"Su Han, do you still want the mission to succeed?" the system suddenly asked.

"Of course I want to."

[Alright, I'll say one sentence, and you repeat it.] The system cleared its non-existent throat. [First: I don't want to leave you; I was forcibly taken away by them.]

"I don't want to leave you, but they forcibly took me away."

I will always stand by your side.

"I've said it before, I'll always be on your side."

【……I like you.】

Su Han paused for a moment, then asked, "What is 'like'?"

"It means... you will always be on the same side, trust each other, and never betray each other." The system's explanation was somewhat rushed.

Su Han remained silent for a moment, seemingly processing the definition, then he raised his eyes to look into the pair of crimson eyes so close to his, and repeated in a low voice, unusually firm:

"I like you."

The moment the words left his mouth, Shen Chengyin's breath caught in his throat.

The entwined vines also paused.

In those scarlet eyes, something seemed to crack open amidst the madness, gushing out something more chaotic, more scorching, and more fragile.

Don't lie to me.

He dreamt that Su Han, like everyone else he had encountered before, betrayed him, trampled him underfoot, abandoned him, and left him amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

He wasn't afraid of betrayal, nor was he afraid of having everything he possessed taken away. But the sight of Su Han's departing figure in his dream terrified him so much that he couldn't breathe.

He had never been so terrified of a dream.

Every dream he had during his mental torment was enough to make him die of fear a million times over, but only this dream woke him up in terror, and he found himself all alone.

No.

He cannot leave.

"We will always be on the same side, trust each other, and never betray each other." Su Han repeated the system's words to Shen Chengyin. "I promise, if one day you open your eyes and don't see me, there's only one possibility: I'm dead."

The moment those words were spoken, the vines that had been binding Su Han instantly broke free, and like a smooth column of water, they re-emerged into the ground within seconds.

Su Han lost her balance in an instant and fell heavily to the ground, where the man held her tightly in his arms. Their chests were pressed together, and the other's burning heartbeat was right next to theirs.

will not.

I won't let you die.

He will become a god who controls everything, and no matter where Su Han escapes, he will bring her back.

The moment Su Han and Shen Chengyin came into contact, Su Han was startled by the other's body temperature, which was significantly higher than normal.

It was a high fever during the awakening of his superpower, which couldn't be healed with life-related superpowers. Shen Chengyin's wood-type superpower was indeed newly awakened.

This madman... he's really not afraid of death.

"Shen Chengyin, you have a fever." Su Han patted Shen Chengyin's burning cheeks. "We have to go back. Go get some cool water and a towel."

Shen Chengyin held Su Han tightly, no matter how much Su Han patted and struggled, his embrace remained strong, even tightening.

How is this any different from when he was bound by vines!

Finally, the system weakly offered a suggestion: "Um... try pressing your mouth against his face."

Upon hearing this, Su Han cupped Shen Chengyin's face and pressed it against the man's high, straight nose.

With a chirp.

Shen Chengyin froze, his dark pupils slowly focusing as he met Su Han's calm gaze.

After a long pause, the man suddenly smirked, his voice low and husky yet clear: "I'll get that stuff out of your head sooner or later."

system:【………】

You damn thing, you can hear me again now, huh?!

Shen Chengyin swept Su Han up in his arms and carried her towards the camp. He walked unsteadily, which frightened Su Han.

"Put me down, Shen Chengyin! You need to walk steadily first!"

Shen Chengyin ignored him, and even though he was almost unable to stand, he did not loosen his grip at all.

There was absolutely no room for Su Han to struggle.

Only after the two figures disappeared into the depths of the forest did the two children, who had been hiding behind cover and witnessed the whole thing, sneak out furtively.

Seeing the corpses scattered on the ground, they felt no fear, but rather excitement, as if they had spotted prey.

The two children rushed over and rummaged through the corpse, looking for anything usable. They grabbed almost anything they could find—pistols, daggers, and even the dead man's boots, which they stripped off and put on their feet.

They stripped the bodies naked, and they even desecrated their mother's corpse.

While one of the children was turning over the body, he accidentally touched a tender green bud underneath it.

In an instant, a strange change occurred.

The tiny sprout, as thin as a little finger, instantly grew thicker and thicker, piercing straight through the boy's eye socket, shattering the back of his head, and bursting out with blood and broken tissue.

With a loud "whoosh," the huge sound of flesh and blood shattering terrified the other child.

He realized what was happening and turned to run away, but he couldn't bear to leave behind what he was holding.

He had clothes, shoes, a compressed biscuit, a dagger, and bullets stripped from the corpse.

He couldn't bear to lose a single one. Greed overwhelmed reason; when one of his shoes fell to the ground, he stopped without hesitation and frantically turned to pick it up.

In that back and forth, a few seconds were wasted, and the vines caught up and easily pierced through the boy's body.

Blood dripped, staining the dust red.

As both corpses convulsed and fell silent, the vine finally retracted slowly, transforming back into a harmless tender shoot in the pool of blood.

The two returned to the camp, or rather, before they even reached the camp, Shen Chengyin couldn't hold on any longer and staggered to his knees not far away.

The man's lips were as white as a dead man's, and his whole body was soaked in sweat, yet he still refused to let go, clinging tightly to Su Han's waist.

Su Han could only support Shen Chengyin with all her might, and the two of them practically dragged and carried each other back to the tent in a disheveled state.

Shen Chengyin had reached his limit. In the last second before losing consciousness, his unfocused pupils locked onto Su Han's face. Vines stretched out, rustling as they slid over, tightly binding the two of them together around their waists and arms.

He was unwilling to accept it. In the last moment before he closed his eyes, what surged beneath his thick eyelashes was a twisted resentment and obsession.

No matter how gently Su Han tried to comfort him, it was no use. In the end, she could only watch helplessly as Shen Chengyin fell into a deep, feverish coma.

In the original story, the male protagonist's elemental abilities, like Jiang Yurou's, awakened all at once. After the village was massacred by Cheng Yibin, Shen Chengyin awakened five abilities at once in despair.

It's unclear whether Shen Chengyin has only awakened wood-type abilities or has also awakened other abilities at the same time.

"Why did Shen Chengyin become like this?" Su Han asked the system. "He seemed perfectly normal yesterday."

The system muttered to itself, "Actually, it's been pretty abnormal all along."

He can't live without you right now, and if you don't leave now, you'll probably never be able to leave later.

Su Han nodded thoughtfully, "Okay."

system:……

What exactly is it?!

"I shouldn't leave the mission target before the mission is completed. Strictly speaking, as long as there is a possibility that he might turn evil and destroy the world, I can never leave him." Su Han's logic was clear and well-organized.

That's how it should be; that's the right way.

System: ...That's not what I meant at all.

Never mind, it's hard to explain.

Su Han wiped Shen Chengyin's sweat; he was tightly bound by vines and even lifting his hand was difficult.

He had thought that Shen Chengyin would remain unconscious for two or three days like before when he awakened his superpowers, and he was still wondering how to deal with his physiological problems. Unexpectedly, Shen Chengyin woke up after only two or three hours this time.

The man suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze fixed on Su Han, still tinged with the lingering crimson and fear.

Su Han could clearly sense that the other person was still not quite awake. He raised his hand to feel Shen Chengyin's forehead and found that the fever had not subsided.

"You're awake?" Su Han raised her hand and pushed away the vines around her waist. "I need to go to the toilet, loosen your grip for a moment."

Shen Chengyin stared at Su Han's face for a few seconds, then forced himself to sit up, his voice hoarse:

"I'll go with you."

Su Han: "...Why are you coming with me to do something like this?!"

Before he finished speaking, the vines around his waist tightened instantly, and at the same time, he felt a rustling crawling sensation at his ankles and wrists, with a few thin vines even trying to burrow into his collar and cuffs.

Su Han felt his collar and cuffs being pulled up, and his scalp tingled. He hurriedly changed his words, "Let's go together, let's go together!"

The vines that had surged up like a tide finally seemed to be soothed and slowly receded.

*

Shen Chengyin's coma lasted significantly longer this time. He would wake up every few hours. Sometimes, Su Han would be sleeping when he would suddenly feel a tightness around his waist, and he would know that the man had woken up.

At first, I would check the situation every time, but eventually I got used to it and was too lazy to even open my eyes when I went to sleep.

Su Han closed her eyes and reached out to touch Shen Chengyin's face, patting his handsome face twice until the vines loosened.

The persistent high fever lasted for three or four days before finally subsiding.

Su Han was genuinely afraid the male lead would burn to death, so she would frequently check on the people around her to see if they were cold.

Once Shen Chengyin's condition had stabilized, the two packed their belongings again and set off once more. However, this time, Su Han wondered if it was just her imagination, but the male lead's gaze seemed unusually heavy.

So heavy-hearted that the moment the other person glances at him, he senses it and immediately turns around to pinpoint the source of their gaze.

The two drove off again, heading towards the Dawn Base.

This time, Su Han, sitting in the passenger seat, had a lush green vine around her waist, like a seatbelt.

Su Han said this thing was ugly and would restrict his movements in an emergency.

Then Shen Chengyin made a small flower bloom at the top of the vine.

The white petals swayed in the wind, bobbing left and right, which was quite cute.

Suhan:…………

Speechless.

The two did not linger on the road this time, and the car sped along. After about half a month, the scene before them gradually changed.

The road began to show obvious signs of human maintenance; the scattered ruins on both sides had been simply cleared away, and not a single corpse or zombie could be seen.

This is probably the area around the Dawn Base.

Just as the vehicle was about to drive onto the main road leading to the base, Su Han suddenly paused, catching sight of a group of somewhat familiar figures.

"Wait...stop the car!" he blurted out instinctively.