For ability users, ability riots are extremely energy-consuming. They leave behind hard-to-heal hidden injuries, both physically and mentally, which will inevitably lead to their demise in the long run.
Li Yanting didn’t answer Hesheng’s question, but pressed her head and pulled her back into his arms, obviously unwilling to say more.
“This isn’t the first time, is it?” He didn’t want to say, and Hesheng didn’t plan to let him off the hook.
Ability riots are no small matter. In severe cases, ability users need to constantly endure the pain of being on the verge of collapse and consciously maintain the balance within the deep sea in order to stay awake.
However, this balance is fragile beyond imagination, and the clarity of mind that endures great pain will inevitably be accompanied by irritable and angry emotions.
In this case, any insignificant little thing can stimulate the ability user, causing them to generate difficult-to-suppress anger.
Anger clashes with reason, and when it is difficult to maintain clarity, the balance will be broken in an instant, like Pandora’s box, plunging the ability user into despair.
“I can not ask about what happened in the past, but not now. I must understand clearly.”
Hesheng stubbornly raised her head and pinched Li Yanting’s chin to make him look at her.
She couldn’t control what had happened in the past, but she would help him avoid anything that might stimulate Li Yanting to the greatest extent possible in the present and future.
Li Yanting sighed softly, tilted his head to avoid Hesheng’s hand, and rubbed her back as a comfort, still refusing to say anything: “Don’t ask, some things from the past.”
“Li Yanting, you’re not allowed to not say it. If you don’t say it, you’re treating me like an outsider.”
Hesheng felt a little frustrated. She suddenly realized that there seemed to be many, many things that they didn’t know about each other between her and Li Yanting.
Li Yanting always spoiled Hesheng and had always been responsive in the refuge city, but this time, he didn’t compromise: “Hesheng, you know I don’t think that way.”
“How do I know? Anyway, if you don’t say it, I’ll just assume that you still don’t believe me.”
Hesheng turned her head to the side in feigned anger, ignoring Li Yanting for a long time, but he didn’t come to coax her.
So Hesheng’s backbone softened again. Others didn’t know, but she knew very well that she couldn’t lose her temper with Li Yanting now. She would never be able to repay what she owed Li Yanting in her whole life.
“If you don’t want to say it, then don’t.”
Hesheng gave herself a way out in a huff, leaned back and hugged Li Yanting’s neck, burying her head in and sulking.
It was all her fault for being too stupid and naive in her previous life, for trusting others and not understanding her fiancé well, and even for not knowing what he had experienced.
“I just want to understand you more. If you don’t want to say it, I’ll understand it slowly.” Hesheng said sullenly.
Li Yanting supported her back, hugging her and enjoying this soft hug.
His voice was a little hoarse, as if the bad memories had been evoked, and his heart had been scraped twice again by the old blunt knife.
“Okay.” Li Yanting uttered a word, his heart filled with emotions.
“I also have a secret to tell you.” Hesheng snorted, as if retaliating against Li Yanting for hiding it from her, and then said, “I’ll wait for you to discover it slowly.”
“Tsk.”
Da Kun in the driver’s seat sucked his cheeks hard and raised his hand to adjust the direction of the rearview mirror, completely kicking these two people out of his sight.
Although he hadn’t completely accepted Hesheng staying in their team without any grudges, he had also seen what Hesheng had done for his brother these days.
If this woman sincerely repented and was willing to care for his brother, then all the past could be ignored.
But if she still didn’t change her ways, then he would throw this woman into the zombie horde, even if he had to bear his brother’s anger, so that she could never harm his brother again.
“I know your secret.” Li Yanting didn’t fall for it.
“You don’t know!” Hesheng retorted, paused, and then leaned to Li Yanting’s ear and said softly, “You promise me that you’ll let me help you clear impurities and sort out your ability in the future, and I’ll tell you my secret.”
“Then will you still have a fever?” Li Yanting asked.
“You’ll be tired from using your ability to kill zombies, so you won’t use it?” Hesheng asked back.
“I promise you.” This time Li Yanting couldn’t refute it.
Ability was a miracle bestowed on humans after the apocalypse, and it was the ability on which humans depended for survival. He had no reason to prevent Hesheng from using her ability.
Hesheng hesitated for a while, leaned on Li Yanting’s chest, and took two deep breaths: “I always thought that your death was caused by you, so I hated you so much.”
“I know.”
Unexpectedly, Li Yanting’s tone was calm, without any surprise.
Hesheng was not as calm as him at all. This answer only made her feel shocked. She climbed up and grabbed Li Yanting’s collar, her heart full of incomprehension.
“What did you say? You know? You… You know why you didn’t explain it to me? Why didn’t you tell me?”
She didn’t understand how someone could be willing to be misunderstood and targeted, but not explain it for himself.
Li Yanting hooked the corner of his mouth and asked back, “If I explained it, would you believe it?”
“Of course! I…”
Hesheng suddenly paused.
Because she realized that when she was blinded by a leaf, even if Li Yanting had really explained it to her, even if he had produced evidence, she wouldn’t have believed him.
She didn’t believe Li Yanting at all, including everything about him, she didn’t believe it at all.
“I’m sorry…” Hesheng lowered her head, bitterness and sadness welled up in her heart, and she was almost drowned by sad emotions.
If she hadn’t been headstrong and resisted her father and Li Yanting for that ridiculous freedom, she wouldn’t have ended up like that, and she would have killed the two men who loved her the most.
Hesheng was lifted up by her chin, not knowing that her eyes had turned red. She apologized softly: “I know I was wrong.”
“Yeah.” Li Yanting’s throat moved, and his eyes fell on Hesheng’s lips, which had already subsided and returned to their original appearance, making them even more attractive.
“It’s not too late for you to believe it now.” He finally looked away, concealing his unspeakable desire.
The atmosphere in the front seat became more and more sticky. Da Kun reached out and adjusted the rearview mirror again, and then found that it wasn’t a problem with his eyes, but his ears had betrayed him.
Just then, Lan Duo in the back seat suddenly opened her eyes, her face full of joy. The space-type crystal core in her left hand had turned into white powder, leaking from her fingertips and turning into dust.
The crystal core was completely absorbed and transformed. The high-level crystal core directly advanced Lan Duo’s ability by one level, and the space volume doubled, and the supplies that could be stored also doubled.
Lan Duo waved her hand and collected all the supplies on the back seat into the space. Just as she was about to report the good news to the three people in front, Da Kun suddenly snatched her words.
“The back is empty, you two hurry up and sit over there… Ah, that, the car body needs to be balanced.”