Chapter 32: People Should Be a Little Sunnier

“Holy mother of—Chairman Yu, what exactly is the background of the person you found… Young Master Lin wasn’t raised by some village witch, was he?”

Director Li had a gun at his waist. It had originally been hidden beneath his white coat, but now he could not help taking it out and wiping it over and over.

He had already fully armed himself and was prepared to make a big move. At this moment, he was standing in front of the computer screen watching the surveillance feed, yet for once, his hands and feet had gone cold.

Not only because of Lin Jiangye’s extremely eerie eyes, but also because the omnipresent chewing and screaming had penetrated reinforced concrete and thick wall panels, forcibly pouring into everyone’s ears.

Ghosts were not frightening. In any case, it was either you die or I live. Director Li had long since lost his fear of those gloomy things.

When a small amount of “inhumanity” appeared on a person, it was actually not frightening. It might even display a different kind of sensual tension.

But if a large, intense amount of “inhumanity” bloomed inside a perfectly human-like shell… it would only make others afraid to get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom for an entire week and a half.

Director Li could be considered experienced and knowledgeable, while Gu Jiu’an had already bitten his lip and crouched down. Cold sweat seeped from his palm.

Thorough powerlessness, a tangible sense of self-abasement, pressed over his head like dark clouds, making him unable to lift his head, and making him not know how to continue fantasizing.

He lightly looked up at Yu Wangxiao and discovered that this man, calm to the point of eeriness, had suddenly revealed undisguised dissatisfaction.

“Li Daqiang, don’t speak badly of him.” Yu Wangxiao frowned, his tone a little heavier than usual.

“Hey, hey, hey, don’t say my real name out loud… I was wrong, I was wrong. My mouth is cheap. Young Master Lin is a deity descended to earth, unparalleled in the world, especially amazing.”

Director Li’s embarrassed face wrinkled into a ball as he hurriedly admitted defeat and expressed loyalty.

Seeing Yu Wangxiao’s dangerous half-smiling expression, he worked hard to swallow the rest of his complaints back into his stomach.

At this moment, the terrifying infant wails and chewing sounds slowly faded. The ICU machine suddenly emitted a piercing alarm—Gu family’s head had completely died.

He died very cleanly. His bodily functions completely disappeared, and all the life-support equipment on him could not save him.

Lin Jiangye was very full.

He suspected that after coming to this new world, he had probably never truly eaten his fill before, not until this wonderful and satisfying instant.

Even though what he had eaten were two tangled souls, a strange abnormal growth that had somehow intertwined. It was a bit like a malignant tumor, ugly in appearance, average in taste, and extremely, extremely strange in texture. But times were different now. At present, he would not be picky.

Lin Jiangye felt refreshed, mentally excited, and full of energy that needed to be released. Even his brain was running much faster.

He simply unplugged the noisy, irritating life-support equipment, sat beside the bald man’s corpse, and immersed himself in thought.

Because his memories seemed to have repaired a little. Unfortunately, they had not yet repaired the hollow where Yu Wangxiao existed, but rather a harvesting mission from much earlier.

A little disappointing, but still a gain.

Lin Jiangye could see a person’s memories before death. This ability did not only work on living people… it also included souls he personally swallowed.

So at this moment, the amount of information surging into his mind was very, very large.

First, that wailing ghost infant… had once truly been an infant, a little boy who never got to grow up.

His dying perspective was extremely bizarre. The scene began from inside his mother’s womb, then without warning, underwent a drastic change.

Piercing light tore through the warm darkness. He saw a bloodstained large hand reaching straight toward his neck.

It was a man’s hand, without gloves, only faint thin calluses. It looked pampered, but its strength was as great as some alien monster.

He was lifted by the neck and forcibly dug out. Through blurry amniotic fluid and scorching tears, he saw a bald man with no expression, and saw his mother’s desperate, pale, blood-covered face.

The bald man was not wearing a shirt. One hand held him, while the other picked up a dagger and aimed it at himself. Then he silently dug out a piece of flesh from his own chest and forcefully stuffed it into the infant’s mouth.

He coughed, suffocated, and struggled instinctively.

It was useless.

The place they were in was decorated extremely luxuriously, piled full of jewels, Buddha statues, and exquisite, extravagant jade ornaments. But none of this had anything to do with him.

The bald man put him into a rough, cold container, poured strange powder over him, and hammered him repeatedly.

He became a perfect, beautiful piece of jade, carved with the four characters “May All Things Go Smoothly,” and was finally placed in a gold shop for sale.

A wealthy couple took a liking to him. The pregnant woman held him in her palm, her eyes unknowingly becoming empty. She stroked him and murmured, “What a beautiful pure gold Buddha pendant… May my baby be safe and successful in all things.”

Not long after, the woman’s child was born prematurely on an airplane, and both mother and child were safe.

He was then given to Yu Wangxiao.

Later, Lin Jiangye crushed him and ate him.

He remained extremely quiet, because he did not understand. He knew nothing about this world, and even intensely longed to be swallowed into Lin Jiangye’s stomach.

Because that was the place most like his mother in his memories, the only place that did not bring him pain, his warm and dark destination.

Until the bald man who represented ultimate terror grew out of his shattered jade body.

He did not understand, but that man had indeed grown out.

He invaded the darkness and warmth that belonged to him, driving him outward from his only destination, devouring his final consciousness and power.

He did not know what he hated, but he was indeed filled with hatred.

He was so frightened that he wailed, desperately fleeing toward an unknown place…

He fell into complete darkness and obtained true, eternal peace.

Lin Jiangye took a deep breath. He was trying hard to digest the enormous and chaotic amount of information in this memory while also noticing many problems.

First, this Gu family head looked like a super evil cultivator who had never undergone any systematic learning.

He was simply messing around recklessly, disregarding all heavenly principles and human ethics, ignoring all moral rules.

But for one human to possess another human, there was absolutely no need to use these disgusting, conscience-destroying methods… Cutting open a seven- or eight-month-old infant alive, inexplicably feeding him a large mouthful of someone else’s “heart flesh,” then crushing him into jade—these steps were all unnecessary.

Considering that this world’s original setting was very “scientific,” and that the appearance of supernatural phenomena had actually been very brief, in reality, perhaps humans had not yet explored any orthodox system that could serve as a textbook…

But he was still far too inexplicable.

Perhaps precisely because there was no system, his own power was too weak, so he could only personally manufacture sufficiently evil power to assist him in achieving his goal.

A soul bitten to pieces and eaten by Lin Jiangye’s own mouth was not wronged at all.

Second, this infant’s mother was Ouyang Jiajia.

Through the infant’s perspective, Lin Jiangye saw her bloodstained face. It was enough to confirm that the woman pushed out by the Gu family to take the blame and go to prison, the woman who had chopped the bald man into brain death on the cruise ship, was her.

That ruthlessness—respect. It could be considered revenge for her innocent suffering child. Although she had done some things that harmed Yu Wangxiao, the actual damage caused to Yu Wangxiao himself was zero, so Lin Jiangye would not trouble her.

Because personally, he rather supported the value of an eye for an eye. Unfortunately, this was a society governed by law. He did not want to frequently break this world’s underlying rules to the point that he would be rejected and unable to survive.

…But that led to a third problem.

The powder that the bald man sprinkled on the infant looked a little familiar. Its taste was also a little strange. If he had to describe it, it was very much like dregs that had fallen from Lin Jiangye himself.

A bit of cold knowledge: in his previous life, Lin Jiangye had detonated his own body and blown up all the colleagues who ambushed him.

The explosion had been huge. He had injured the enemy ten thousand and injured himself ten thousand, blasting a deep crater into the coronation grounds. So his body had of course been completely blown into fragments, drifting down into the void.

Mm, theoretically, it could never be found again.

But when those seemingly ordinary jade fragments were activated by souls, then thoroughly bitten apart and forcibly absorbed by him… he really did feel that the taste was a bit strange. Occasionally swallowing a few mouthfuls felt like eating part of himself.

Aside from these obvious clues, Lin Jiangye noticed a new problem tonight—the powder had a small amount of hallucinogenic effect, and humans seemed completely unable to resist it.

That jade pendant had been placed in a gold shop for sale, and no one felt there was anything wrong with it. The couple who bought it held the jade pendant in their hands and stroked it, yet believed they were touching gold.

Even when Yu Wangxiao received that jade pendant, he had actually told Lin Jiangye it was a pure gold Buddha pendant, without the slightest suspicion. Even though later, when they met, he naturally believed it was a jade pendant… at first, he had still mistaken it, and had completely failed to notice.

Lin Jiangye knew very well that human eyes could make mistakes, human brains could make mistakes, and mistakes of speech often appeared when passing on information.

But if several people in different places were simultaneously wrong about the same object, then it was no longer a simple mistake.

Hallucination. One hundred percent, it was a hallucinogenic effect.

Speaking of coincidence, his eyes from before could actually create such seamless hallucinations. They could even upload the images he saw into his leader’s brain as one of the records of his missions.

This was a small ability he was born with, and it was not very useful. It had no effect on Gu family head’s chain of conspiracy.

Precisely because of this, Lin Jiangye could not help beginning to boldly hypothesize. His thoughts, made especially active by replenished energy, instantly scattered outward.

At this moment, he seriously suspected that the meteor shower that bloomed over A City ten years ago was almost entirely fragments scattered after his own explosion.

Combined with the inexplicable recovery of a small amount of old memories, Lin Jiangye fell into a long silence.

No way.

Could he be the culprit who caused supernatural phenomena to appear in this world?

Were the births of ghost infants and living dead all related to him?

That did not sound right, did it?

He was not Tang Sanzang’s flesh, so how could he have such strange functions?

But then again, energy was only a tool. As long as one found a way to use energy, even corpse pieces could exert unimaginable effects. Whether they were used for evil or good depended only on the user’s thought.

For example, the candles Yu Wangxiao researched and made were indeed quite useful, and they were harmless to humans and animals. He had not created any evil products.

As expected of his favorite human.

“Sometimes, I really do admire… the divergent creativity humans have after mastering tools.”

Lin Jiangye decided to stop thinking and murmured to himself somewhat dazedly.

Just then, Yu Wangxiao’s voice came from the brooch, carrying some worry. “Tuantuan, wake up. How do you feel now?”

“Wu? Ah, I’m fine. It’s already safe here. You can collect his corpse.”

Lin Jiangye was startled and finally fully woke from his trance. He got up and pushed open the ICU ward’s door.

The next instant, Yu Wangxiao had already appeared in front of him, touching his head and face, then rubbing his shoulders and stomach.

“Are you hungry?”

Lin Jiangye was dazedly touched all over and shook his head. “Mm… especially full. Eating isn’t the main point. Do you remember the meteor shower you mentioned last time? Back then, didn’t many meteorites sink into the sea?”

Yu Wangxiao’s dark eyes narrowed slightly, seeming to instantly realize the seriousness of the problem. He wrapped an arm around Lin Jiangye’s waist and led him outside while walking and speaking. “Of course. With human strength alone, it would be impossible to salvage all the meteorite fragments. The ones that fell into the sea might be washed ashore, or might forever sink into the depths. If other people knew the meteorites’ power and deliberately salvaged some, that wouldn’t be strange.”

“Then that’s right. We need to go to the Gu family. I have to personally inspect that place… Where’s Gu Jiu’an? Bring him along. I still have many questions to ask him. Are you tired? Actually, going tomorrow is fine too. I’m just a little excited.”

“I’m not tired. But are you sure you’re fine? Not even a little discomfort?” Yu Wangxiao slowed his steps, his gaze fixed on Lin Jiangye’s face, completely undisguised. “I’m worried. I want to take you for a checkup.”

Lin Jiangye leaned close to his ear and said in a tiny voice, “I’ll tell you a little secret. When I eat souls, I become stronger. Ghost infants can be eaten. I also ate the bald man, so I’m especially full now. Later, I’ll secretly type the details to you. Don’t tell anyone else.”

“…Tuantuan, we all heard the sounds of you eating.”

“Ah?”

“Really. Very clearly.” Yu Wangxiao smiled helplessly. His tone was still gentle, yet a fleeting chill seeped through it. “But it’s fine. If you need to keep it secret, they will never say it out loud.”

It sounded very harmless to humans and animals. Unfortunately, Lin Jiangye was now becoming more and more skilled at reading his micro-expressions. His intention to kill and silence people was simply a little too obvious.

Lin Jiangye hurriedly pinched his hand, leaned over, and kissed the corner of his lips, making a very loud smack.

“No need, no need. Don’t be angry, don’t be angry… People should be a little sunnier, got it?”

Yu Wangxiao paused, then lightly pressed his lips together. “Mm.”

“Do you really understand?”

“Mm. Kiss me again, and I’ll become even sunnier.”