Hearing this, Yu Jin’s eyes narrowed dangerously. “So did they all die?”
“No. Her Luck Aura is too strong—they wouldn’t die that easily.”
Wanting to say something to divert his own attention, he asked, “How did you lure the zombies over?”
“With a suona horn. That sound was so loud! The looks on Jiang Nanying and Xu Qingtian’s faces at that moment were absolutely priceless. Too bad they still managed to escape.”
“Pfft!” Though he wanted to laugh, thinking deeper—for such a young girl, unless she had suffered tremendous injustice and had no other choice, why would she blow a suona in a zombie-infested apocalypse to lure the zombies over?
She must have endured great wrongs.
That Jiang Nanying and Xu Qingtian actually had the heart to throw such a delicate girl out of the house to feed the zombies.
The slight tightening in his abdomen caused a change in his body.
Damn it, what the hell was going on! How could he have a reaction to a girl he’d never even met before!
Hua Wuyan tried several times to break free without success, so she could only press her burning body as close as possible to the only living thing nearby.
“You won’t let me touch? I’ll do it anyway!”
Her height only reached about a third of the way up his neck, so she shoved her entire head against his chest.
The tip of her nose happened to brush against the protruding hard bone of his Adam’s apple.
“Cool and smooth, and it moves.”
It was rare for the great Sovereign to let her snuggle so obediently, so she naturally wasn’t about to miss this chance.
She channeled the Qi Ocean in her Dantian and found her strength had increased somewhat—she broke free from his grip directly.
“Free! Hmph, you wouldn’t let me touch your abs! I’ll touch them anyway!”
With a “riiiip” sound of fabric tearing, she shoved her hand straight through the torn part of his clothing.
Her fingertips touched the elastic skin, beneath which lay firm, scorching muscle.
Her slender, jade-like fingers crossed over the ridges and grooves, about to continue downward. But at that moment, Hua Wuyan suddenly felt a cool sensation at her throat.
The weakness throughout her body gradually faded, and the scene before her eyes shifted from blurry to clear.
The heat within her receded. The two locked eyes.
Hua Wuyan’s hand, still inside his shirt feeling his abs, froze. Her eyes were full of embarrassment.
“If I said I didn’t do it on purpose, would you believe me?” She’d actually been hallucinating and mistook the person in front of her for the Heavenly Dao Sovereign!
“Hah… I believe you.” Yu Jin tried his best to shake off the inappropriate fantasies in his mind and forcibly suppress the throbbing in his body.
Hua Wuyan averted her gaze and noticed that the man’s face was flushed an unnatural red, spreading all the way to his ears. There was resistance in his eyes, and a hint of conflict when they met hers.
This person had been affected by the drug too.
[Host, the antidote has been developed and fed to you. Good thing you woke up in time!]
“Whew, this trip almost ruined everything. Best to leave quickly.”
Before Hua Wuyan could even react, the System’s notification had already sounded.
[Ding! Seduction mission has been activated.]
[Target: Yu Jin. Gender: Male. Age: 27. Height: 187 cm. Weight: 77 kg. Intermediate Stage Fire-type Ability User, Level 1. Current favorability rating toward Host: 50%.
When the target’s favorability reaches 60%, the System will reward the Host with 200 Opportunity Points.]
And when the target’s favorability rating toward the Host breaks through 80%, there will be another Opportunity Points reward. When the favorability rating reaches 100%, Yu Jin will never betray the Host.
Wuyan had just regained consciousness and barely understood what was going on when the System recounted everything she had done while out of her mind.
“So you’re saying this man I nearly ravished is my new conquest target?”
Only then did Wuyan take a proper look at Yu Jin before her.
This was the leader of Linjiang City Base, and the master of the S-grade Sanctuary.
He was Xu Qingtian’s number two simp. No, strictly speaking, Yu Jin was a righteous and kind man who had been used by Xu Qingtian, and only became her simp through blind obedience.
But this Yu Jin was clearly a man of unwavering righteousness. After she had lost her mind to the Aphrodisiac Poison and done all that to him, his initial favorability rating was actually 50%?
How could that be right?
With Ouyang Huiye as a cautionary precedent, Wuyan highly suspected that Yu Jin might also be an M.
So she decided to test him.
She cleared her throat and was about to speak when Yu Jin suddenly dropped to one knee, bracing his hands on the ground on either side of him, trembling uncontrollably.
She stepped forward to help him, but he shouted her back.
“Don’t come near me! I think I’ve been drugged. If you get too close, I might do something that could hurt you.” He didn’t know how he had been dosed, but his instincts told him the pink flower petals in here were the problem.
But it was too late. He could only grit his teeth and endure.
Wuyan furrowed her brow, a chord struck deep within her.
They had both been hit with the Aphrodisiac Poison, yet those men earlier had climbed over each other without hesitation, driven purely by their desires. When they saw her, they didn’t hesitate to hurt others to satisfy themselves.
But this man before her—his neck, arms, and the chest exposed through the torn collar of his shirt—his veins bulged and burst, blood seeping through the skin at the sides of his neck.
His eyes were bloodshot, his fists clenched against the ground, his face twisted in agony as he kept her at bay.
“We’ve only just met. Why won’t you hurt me? This is the Apocalypse now. As long as you’re strong enough, no one would dare say a word no matter what you do.”
Yu Jin shook his increasingly groggy head, managing a pained smile.
“What makes a person human is that they have thoughts and know shame. If everyone in the Apocalypse abandoned all conscience for their own gain, chaos would surely engulf the world, and the nation would cease to be a nation. Little girl, I don’t know how much longer I can hold on—you need to leave now.”
He had been in here for nearly half an hour, and his men would be coming in soon. They’d head back to the Base first.
The Sanctuary’s medical facility was miraculous; it was sure to have an antidote.
Wuyan’s thoughts drifted far away at his words.
The Heavenly Dao Sovereign had once said something very similar when rejecting a female immortal who wished to become his dao companion.
He said that the Heavenly Dao is called the Heavenly Dao because of the cycle of heaven and the karma of the way. If even he were to stray from the path, karma would fall into chaos, and the Cultivation Realm would descend into turmoil.
Truly two stubborn old fossils stuck in their ways.
One devoted to the Dao, the other to the nation.
She let out a sigh, forced to admit that she caught a hint of the Heavenly Dao Sovereign’s shadow in Yu Jin.
Except Yu Jin’s build was more robust and athletic, and his face wasn’t as cold and aloof as the Heavenly Dao Sovereign’s.
This is a god-like, fatherly young man.
Tsk tsk, the goods in this book world really are top-notch.
[Host, stop playing around. The System has detected that the Hua Xu’s Aphrodisiac Poison not only causes the affected person to show signs of being drugged, but also gradually induces a hallucinatory state. Once the hallucinations set in and the poison isn’t neutralized in time, the victim will die from their body exploding.
Yu Jin is one of the key figures and your target for seduction. If he kicks the bucket, the consequences will be severe.]
“I know! I don’t want to be erased by the System just like that.” Hua Wuyan crouched down to meet his eyes, testing the waters.
“If no medical treatment can restore you, and you might even die—would you still not touch me?”
Yu Jin drew in a sharp breath. He had initially believed that with his strength and willpower as a Mid-tier Ability User, he could tough it out.
But when this little girl got close, he could barely even hear what she was saying—he caught only the strange fragrance emanating from her and a faint, maddening trace of the scent of blood.
At the same time, his mind was already flooded with lascivious images, all featuring this little girl he had met for the first time today.
“If death is the outcome, I hope you’ll leave this place immediately before I change my mind.”
Hua Wuyan sighed. Truly, he was a kind and upright person.
Just as she finished that thought, Yu Jin, who had been half-kneeling on the ground, suddenly rose to his feet and pulled her close. His nose pressed against hers, his hot breath washing over her face.
“And now… I’ve already changed my mind!”