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12 See you again if we are destined to

Lu Xiaoxiao walked up to him, stretched out her hand and waved it gently in front of him, with a hint of apology on her face.

"Originally... there is a less bloody solution, but for your safety, it is safer to shoot her first and make her lose her ability to move..."

It took Lin Cheng several seconds to come back to his senses. He shook his head and said, "It's okay. I usually watch a lot of weird and heavy movies. It's just... I think I'm going to have a nightmare tonight..."

Lu Xiaoxiao hooked her finger, and the ice came to Lin Cheng's front, and then turned into clear water, washing the blood on his cheek. The blood just now not only stained his cheek, but also stained his clothes. Lu Xiaoxiao looked at him and said softly, "Take off your shirt."

Lin Cheng was obedient like a good kid. He took off his shirt, still immersed in the horrific scene. He watched his T-shirt being wrapped in a ball of suspended water. Soon the bloodstains were separated and washed away. Then Lu Xiaoxiao returned the clothes to him. Lin Cheng cooperated and looked at her curiously, "Is this your ability?"

"Well, my ability is to control water elements and extremely low temperatures."

"That sounds cool."

Lu Xiaoxiao's eyes stayed on him. Lin Cheng looked thinner before, but apart from the scars on his upper body, he looked quite well-proportioned. Lu Xiaoxiao suddenly reached out her hand and touched his lower abdomen. Lin Cheng hurriedly took a step back and crossed his arms, "What are you doing?"

"You have a good figure." Lu Xiaoxiao raised the corners of her lips.

"Thin people can easily develop abdominal muscles." Lin Cheng hurriedly put on his T-shirt, then he looked at the woman who had been completely frozen beside him. He was silent for a while and asked softly, "She's dead... right?"

"After being parasitized by the blood-sucking worms, she was dead. She might have had some human consciousness in the first three months, but as she took in blood, the blood-sucking worms would control her consciousness. What you saw and heard were all the human survival modes that the blood-sucking worms learned through her memory. When the blood-sucking worms left her body, she would die, so... it's a pity."

"If the blood-sucking worm inherited all her memories, can it be considered her?"

"This kind of philosophical question... is not what we should care about. If she is still alive, there will be the next victim. It is currently recorded that thousands of people have died because of this tiny blood-sucking worm. The moment the blood-sucking worm parasitizes the host, as long as the blood-sucking worm dies, the host will die too. Currently, it cannot be removed by any means." Lu Xiaoxiao's eyelashes drooped a little. She understood what Lin Cheng meant, but she couldn't give him an answer.

She had thought about similar questions in the past, but such questions were impossible to think about because most of the things about natural disasters were still unknown.

As the two were talking, several adjudicators in alliance uniforms ran towards them. Lu Xiaoxiao turned around and was responsible for reporting the mission to them. After negotiating for nearly ten minutes, Lu Xiaoxiao came to Lin Cheng and patted him on the shoulder. "Let's go. Leave the rest to them."

"Oh... OK." Lin Cheng came back to his senses and followed Lu Xiaoxiao out of the park. He suddenly muttered, "Why do I feel like there's a man among the people who just came in who's been staring at me?"

"He is pursuing me." Lu Xiaoxiao replied calmly.

"What? A love rival!" Lin Cheng was shocked. Lu Xiaoxiao was stunned at first, then burst out laughing, "Why? You want to pursue me too?"

　But when Lu Xiaoxiao turned to look at him, she realized that his shock was just an exaggerated performance.

"... still no." Lin Cheng shook his head, "What if you find out I'm cheating on you and you turn me into an ice sculpture?"

Lu Xiaoxiao stretched out her hand and twisted his waist. “You said that as if I would agree if you pursue me.”

The two of them had already walked out of the park. The streets were not deserted at the moment. Lu Xiaoxiao raised her eyes and looked at him. "You have helped me a lot. If you want, the alliance can give you a badge for this assistance mission."

Lin Cheng shook his head. "No, no, is there any substantial reward?"

...Badges are meaningless to Lin Cheng.

"You want money?" Lu Xiaoxiao looked at him.

"Well... money is just enough to spend. It doesn't seem to be very meaningful."

"Then what do you want?" Lu Xiaoxiao looked up at him.

"I always feel like I'll be too nervous to sleep tonight..."

"Go to hell." Lu Xiaoxiao's voice suddenly turned cold.

Lin Cheng looked at her in confusion, "Why do you suddenly want me to die?"

Lu Xiaoxiao crossed her arms across her chest, pushing her chest into an increasingly full curve, and looked coldly at Lin Cheng in front of her. The look in her eyes probably meant, don't you think I don't know what you were thinking about just now?

"I just want to ask..." Lin Cheng hesitated, "Can you give me a hug?"

"Why are you hugging me?" Lu Xiaoxiao raised her chin, "Give me a reasonable reason."

"A hug makes people feel... at ease." Lin Cheng whispered.

Lu Xiaoxiao was stunned at first, and looked at Lin Cheng. Lin Cheng was no longer as playful and smiling as before. Instead, his tone was a little weak, and he looked like a lost little boy. For some reason, Lu Xiaoxiao suddenly felt inexplicably soft in her heart.

It’s hard to say, maybe it’s the aura of motherhood at work.

"Then... let me give you a hug." Lu Xiaoxiao turned her face away.

Lin Cheng walked up to her.

The two of them happened to be standing under a street light. The crowd was sparse. Lin Cheng took a step forward, and the shadows on the ground blended together.

He hugged her very gently, and his hands were placed on her waist. He lowered his head slightly, rested his chin on her shoulder, and sniffed the light scent of her perfume. "You haven't told me...what perfume you use."

"I'll give you a bottle if we meet next time."

"So it depends on fate?"

"Didn't you say... that we are destined to be together? Then let's see if there is a chance to meet again next time."

"Okay." Lin Cheng nodded gently. After a while, he reluctantly let go of her hand and looked at Lu Xiaoxiao. "Would you like to have a midnight snack? The snack street is in front."

"Do you have an appetite?" Lu Xiaoxiao looked at him curiously.

"I usually watch bizarre videos while eating."

"You seemed dazed just now."

"After all, movies are movies, and reality is reality. Seeing it for the first time... it was quite shocking."

It was just that at the moment when Lin Cheng saw the blood, countless images seemed to flash before his eyes. Those images made him fall into a trance. He has been actively treating his post-traumatic stress disorder over the years, and he is much better now.

As Lin Cheng was talking, he and Lu Xiaoxiao walked towards the snack street. Lu Xiaoxiao went to buy cold noodles, while Lin Cheng went somewhere else. He soon came back with two glasses of lemonade. The two of them found a relatively clean small table and chairs and ordered some teppanyaki.

"Come to think of it..." Lin Cheng took a bite of the roasted pork belly skewer and asked vaguely, "Why are you dressed so young?"

Lu Xiaoxiao took a deep breath and then smiled at him.

"What do you mean?"

Oh no, I stepped on a landmine.

"No, no, I just remember... Aren't JK uniforms worn by female high school students...?"

"I'm twenty-one years old, can't I wear it?" Lu Xiaoxiao bit off a piece of butter, but the tone of her voice seemed to be a little bit gritting her teeth.

"That's not what I meant. You look pretty good in it." Lin Cheng changed his mind in an instant. "I think a lot of girls look like they're wearing JK tops with black stockings, but you look pretty cute in it."

Complimenting a girl on her sexiness may backfire, but praising a girl on her cuteness is unlikely to backfire.

Lu Xiaoxiao's anger barely dissipated a little, "What do you care what I wear, the guy who's marking the score?"

Lin Cheng smiled helplessly, picked up the lemonade on the table and took a big sip.

The two of them ate some barbecue at a stall in the snack street and drank a glass of ice lemon water. It was already past twelve o'clock, and Lin Cheng and her came to the intersection. It was time to take a taxi home.

"You go first, I'm not going home."

"Ok?"

"My mom will nag me when I get home. It's so annoying. I'm going to sleep in an e-sports hotel."

"Oh……"

Lin Cheng nodded but said nothing more. This time it was Lu Xiaoxiao who was a little surprised. She thought Lin Cheng would ask him in a slick way if he could come together.

Although she won't agree to it.

The taxi is almost here.

Lin Cheng suddenly called her name softly, "Lu Xiaoxiao."

"Huh?" Lu Xiaoxiao turned her head.

Lin Cheng moved a little further away from her. He once again put his hands together and began to rub them. He was sweating profusely and had an exaggerated expression on his face. But this time, a red rose appeared in Lin Cheng's hand at a speed that Lu Xiaoxiao could not catch with her naked eyes.

He presented the red rose to Lu Xiaoxiao.

But Lu Xiaoxiao's eyes suddenly became a little flustered. She turned her face away in a hurry and did not take the red rose from Lin Cheng's hand. "The bet is over. You have lost..."

"I know, I just saw someone selling flowers on the roadside, so I bought one for you."

The taxi had already arrived, and Lin Cheng reached out to stop the taxi, adding, "After all, buying a bunch is too expensive."

He opened the car door and said, "I'm going home first. See you next time if we're lucky."

Lu Xiaoxiao stood on the side of the road, gently holding the red rose in her hand, watching the taxi go away. She was stunned for a moment, then she tucked her wind-blown hair behind her ears and suddenly laughed.

..............................

The taxi stopped ten minutes later.

Lin Cheng came to the edge of a lake.

This was originally a scenic lake, but it was a deserted area. The tide from the lake kept hitting the steps. Lin Cheng stood there, as if waiting for something.

He waited for about ten minutes, maybe twenty.

Lin Cheng turned around and looked at the men and women walking out of the shadows. He counted them and there were seven people in total.

That was the prey mark left by the blood-sucking worm on his body. After all... she couldn't finish food like him by herself. The blood-sucking worms were a species that possessed the virtue of sharing.

Blood-sucking worms can share vision and prey marks. At this moment, the blood-sucking worms standing in front of Lin Cheng are all blood-sucking worms that are about to complete their evolution or have already evolved once. Only they are eligible to enjoy this prey mark. Lin Cheng suddenly thought of that question again. If the blood-sucking worms in the future inherit all their memories, then what is the difference between them and the original owners? Memory is the proof of a person's existence.

"They can no longer be called human beings because they can no longer suppress their desires."

In a trance, Lin Cheng seemed to hear the words of an old friend, so light that it seemed like a dream talk and soon disappeared with the wind.

The old friend's sister was parasitized by blood-sucking worms and was executed by him before she could complete her evolution.

Lin Cheng's hand touched the small ear clip on his left ear, which was a storage earring made by the spatial power of lemon. He took out a black pistol from it, with exactly seven bullets in the magazine.

Humans parasitized by blood-sucking worms have more than three times the strength and speed of adults, but all Lin Cheng did was raise his hand and shoot, raise his hand and shoot. After seven dull gunshots, the explosive bullets accurately hit the blood-sucking worms parasitic in everyone's brain. Blood flowed all over the ground. He put the pistol away again, took out his mobile phone and called Lizhi.

"North of the city, Yuanyang Lake, needs cleaning services."

13 Human

Every organization with special abilities has its own dedicated cleaners.

When Lizhi arrived here, Lin Cheng was sitting on the steps by the lake, enjoying the evening breeze. Behind him were seven fallen bodies, and the blood had dried slightly. Lizhi carefully walked past the bodies and sat down next to Lin Cheng.

She didn't come alone. There was a special cleaner behind her who had already started cleaning the scene in an orderly manner.

She was still wearing a cute white nightgown, and it was obvious that she had just woken up and was called. Lin Cheng turned his head and said, "Just call the cleaner. Why are you here?"

"I just happened to have insomnia and couldn't sleep, so I just came to see you." Lizhi took out a lychee-flavored lollipop from the storage ring, tore open the candy wrapper and put it close to Lin Cheng's mouth. Lin Cheng opened his mouth and moved closer, but Lizhi took the lollipop away again. Lin Cheng chased after it and bit it all the way. After a while, he finally got the lollipop into his mouth.

The corners of Lizhi's lips curled up.

"How could this happen?" Lizhi asked casually.

"It just so happened that I encountered a blood-sucking worm today. She marked her prey, and these blood-sucking worms came here following the smell." Lin Cheng explained calmly, then sighed helplessly, "We've run out of bullets."

Lizhi took out another exquisite box, which contained twenty explosive bombs.

The explosive bomb was originally a standard equipment developed by the Alliance, and was also circulated on the black market, with a price of one hundred thousand per bomb.

Of course, Lizhi had thought about this a long time ago. After all, this pistol was carefully selected by her for Lin Cheng to use for self-defense. Lin Cheng took the box, took out the pistol again, loaded the bullets into the magazine one by one, and put the remaining bullets into the storage space in the ear clip along with the box.

"Your shooting skills are quite accurate." Lizhi reached out and touched Lin Cheng's head.

Lin Cheng's smile became more helpless, "Muscle memory."

The air was filled with a slight smell of blood, which could not be dispelled even by the strong wind tonight. On the other side of the lake was a thick fog. Lin Cheng looked up at the moon above the fog, "How come there are seven blood-sucking worms that are almost fully evolved in the city?"

The answer to this question is actually very simple. Lizhi took over his words and said, "There is a high-level queen insect."

"The Alliance hasn't caught him for so long?"

"It's a peaceful time now. The two factions are fighting each other internally. We also have to manage all kinds of civilian superpowers. The main blood-sucking queen's nest is indeed difficult to find. I will report the news of the appearance of seven mid-level blood-sucking worms to the alliance, and let them handle the rest."

Lizhi seemed to have anticipated something, and stretched out her fingertips to gently touch Lin Cheng's forehead, "What happens next is not your concern."