Not long ago, Lin Zhe had tried to make the first move and push Xu Xingyuan into the monster pit.
Who could have guessed that in the next second, his head would be separated from his body, neatly arranged in a box, eyes wide open in death?
And then, gifted to Xu Xingyuan by the Monster Apartment’s Security Guard.
The amount of information was overwhelming.
Xu Xingyuan stood stiffly on the spot, staring blankly down at Lin Zhe’s eyes, which were congested with blood to the point of bursting.
The Guard, wearing that overly handsome face, continued to chatter at Xu Xingyuan.
“Oh man, I originally wanted to give you the whole corpse, but… how should I put it?”
He rubbed the back of his head with a large hand, continuing to apologize sheepishly:
“I went a little too hard. Everything below the neck turned into pixelated mush. I had no choice… I just buried it on the spot.”
“Of course,” the Guard leaned in close to Xu Xingyuan, grinning. “If you really like it, I can run back and dig it up for you right now. It’s absolutely fresh and warm!”
He draped an arm familiarly around Xu Xingyuan’s shoulder. “How about… Bro goes and digs it up for you now?”
Xu Xingyuan finally snapped out of it. He silently closed the lid, cutting off Lin Zhe’s dead stare.
“Berus…” Xu Xingyuan instinctively called the Security Guard’s name.
The other reacted instantly, whipping his head around to look at Xu Xingyuan with sparkling eyes, like a puppy begging for praise from its master.
“Xingyuan, do you like the gift?”
Facing such an expectant gaze, Xu Xingyuan swallowed the truth.
His thin lips moved slightly, and he squeezed out two dry words: “L-Like it.”
Berus was satisfied. He rubbed the top of Xu Xingyuan’s head with his large palm and said leisurely:
“However, a little mouse still got away.”
Xu Xingyuan quickly understood the meaning of those words.
Lin Zhe hadn’t escaped alone.
Now that Lin Zhe was dead, besides Xu Xingyuan, there was one human left.
Having witnessed Lin Zhe’s death with their own eyes, that person must have fled in a panic.
Right now, they were probably hiding in some dark corner of the Monster Apartment.
Xu Xingyuan glanced at Berus. After spending time together, he could sense just how sadistic this security guard could be.
He had probably let the person go on purpose.
Like a cat playing with a mouse—tease them first, kill them last.
Berus treated Xu Xingyuan quite well. Although he liked to tease him, he often brought him all sorts of gifts.
The NPCs in the apartment all had a bit of a mean streak.
“Wait.” Berus frowned, leaned in close to Xu Xingyuan, and sniffed slightly. His pupils instantly went round.
“Holy sh*t!”
Berus wore the exact same expression the Doctor had earlier. He jumped up from the ground, looking at Xu Xingyuan in disbelief.
“Impossible! How can you have His scent on you? I must have smelled wrong!”
Scent?
What scent?
Xu Xingyuan was a bit confused. He looked down and sniffed himself.
Aside from the smell of blood, there were no other odors.
Berus sucked in a breath of cold air, muttering, “It shouldn’t be. It’s not the right day yet.”
“Maybe it’s a hallucination.” Berus cautiously leaned in again. “Let Bro get another whiff.”
He moved close to Xu Xingyuan and sniffed carefully.
“Holy sh*t! He actually woke up early? We’re done for. The sky is falling!”
Berus jumped even higher this time, his handsome face turning pale with fright. He clutched his fragile little heart, looking terrified.
“Berus?” Xu Xingyuan was still in a daze, lowering his head to sniff himself again.
“Xingyuan,” Berus said, clutching his chest. He tremblingly raised a hand and waved at Xu Xingyuan.
“Bro has other business, gotta go!”
In the next second, Berus vanished from Xu Xingyuan’s sight at a speed of eight meters per second.
“Berus, the box…”
Xu Xingyuan stood in the wind, messy, holding the box that was still dripping blood.
Just as he was pondering the fate of the head in the box, Berus rushed back like the wind!
He snatched the box from Xu Xingyuan’s arms and said rapidly:
“Forgot about this thing. I’ll take it to Ah Jiao so he can mince it for feed!”
Ah Jiao was the name of the chef at the Monster Apartment. He had a rare, amiable personality and a very good relationship with Xu Xingyuan.
The candy the Doctor gave Xu Xingyuan that morning had been specially made for him by Ah Jiao.
Xu Xingyuan looked down at the bloodstains on his palm, then at the clean corridor that Berus had dirtied.
“Sigh.”
Xu Xingyuan let out a helpless breath.
In the end, he resigned himself to fetching the broom to sweep the corridor again.
Inside the Infirmary.
The Doctor, usually all smiles, now had his eyes wide open in total seriousness.
Sitting directly opposite him was that noble black cat.
The Doctor paced back and forth.
The atmosphere in the room was strangely silent, even a bit oppressive.
The black cat completely ignored the Doctor’s existence, lying down on its own to fake-sleep.
The Doctor exploded. He jumped up, pointed a finger at the black cat, and shouted:
“Boss, don’t you give me that attitude!”
The black cat half-lifted an eyelid, staring at the Doctor as if looking at a mental patient making a scene.
“It’s not time for you to wake up yet. What are you trying to pull?”
The Doctor walked over to a stool and squatted down, staring into those red cat eyes.
The man and the cat stared at each other for three seconds.
“Boss, you look so cute like this.”
The Doctor raised a hand, attempting to pinch the black cat’s paw pads.
The next second, his hand was ruthlessly swatted away, and he received a look of disdain.
“Fine, fine, fine. I know. You’re noble, you’re aloof, you’re a germaphobe, and you don’t like people touching you casually. I get it.”
The Doctor lowered his voice, withdrew his itching hand, and became serious again.
“My Lord, you know that if anything happens to you, the entire Infinite Flow world will suffer. You understand that, right?”
The black cat couldn’t be bothered to speak to the Doctor. It shifted its body, turning its cat butt toward him.
“Does your early awakening have something to do with Xu Xingyuan?”
The tips of the black cat’s ears twitched twice.
The smile completely vanished from the Doctor’s face. As the person who had accompanied the black cat the longest, he knew very well that if this entity had any mishaps—
The entire Infinite Flow world would collapse.
“Ever since you drank Xingyuan’s blood, your condition has stabilized immensely. Could it be due to excessive blood consumption?”
The Doctor rubbed his chin, staring at the cat’s ears, muttering to himself:
“Xingyuan is a rare good boy. Making him into medicine… that would be too cruel.”
This was the second human the Doctor had taken a liking to after so long.
Just as the Doctor was contemplating how to dispose of Xu Xingyuan, a cat paw was placed on the back of his hand.
“Boss, what is it?”
The black cat’s vertical red pupils stared intently at the Doctor, the paw applying a bit more pressure.
A few seconds later, the Doctor froze. Frowning, he asked in disbelief:
“You want him… to become the new Guide?”