allonlinenovel Chapter 235 Charm
Chapter 235 Charm
That night, Miao Yin lay on the bed wearing a short-sleeved shirt, holding a map in her hand. She didn't draw anything, just held it up in front of her and looked at it. Her black hair was casually draped over her shoulders, and she looked languid.
When Xia Tang came in, she saw her calm demeanor.
The RV where Miao Yin sleeps has the largest bed, which is more than enough for two people, but she usually sleeps alone or goes to her spatial dimension.
This was the first time Xia Tang had been summoned here, and she was both flustered and curious.
She looked at the layout of the room, which was not much different from theirs, except that the two beds had been turned into one, and there were many books and maps on the cabinet.
“I thought you would let me sleep outside,” she said, leaning against the cabinet.
"My bed is big, I don't mind having one more person," Miao Yin said lazily.
"What map is this?" Xia Tang asked naturally.
"From Dream City."
"Did Captain Peng give it to you?"
"other's."
Xia Tang walked unsteadily towards the bed. Her gait was very graceful, charming yet dignified. Even in the most ordinary pajamas, she looked like a wealthy lady swirling a glass of red wine in a world of extravagance and fame.
This reminded Miao Yin of Ding Mengting in the refuge, but that wealthy woman in the mink coat couldn't compare to the liveliness of the person in front of her.
She lay down beside Miao Yin, raising her head like a little fox, her heart-shaped eyes flashing red.
"It's because of your appearance that I can't register you as a person without superpowers," Miao Yin said, putting down the map.
Xia Tang stuck out her tongue and said playfully, "Who told me to be so wicked?"
She leaned closer and looked at the map on Miao Yin's leg. It was originally a tourist route map of Dream City, but someone had circled it and drawn it into the current shape of the base. The location of the central area was specially marked in red.
"This central office area is too big! If we could allocate some of this land to refugees, the base could accommodate hundreds more people, right?"
Miao Yin nodded, but said, "But that won't work."
"why?"
Miao Yin pressed her finger on the map, tracing the red border around it: "Can you see it now?"
“…What?” Xia Tang pondered for a moment, not understanding what she meant.
"The area our car just drove through is exactly this circle."
They could have gone straight.
Xia Tang: "..."
Her long eyelashes blinked in surprise and uncertainty, and her wine-red hair fell down, with a few strands landing on the back of Miao Yin's hand.
Miao Yin flipped her hand and pinched a strand of her hair, saying softly, "Xia Tang, I remember you said that your wicked intentions can create illusions for people."
Xia Tang looked up at her: "Sister Yin, is there anything you need?"
"I want to see."
Xia Tang blinked: "Sure, that's possible. What kind of illusion does Sister Yin want?"
What can you make?
"My malice can create two types of illusions. One is to see into a person's deepest memories and make them fall into it. The other is to make up stories. However, this method is easier to expose, so... I usually also use a little mind control."
"Then can you see other people's mental world?" Miao Yin circled her hair in circles.
“That won’t work. I can only let their memories be projected outwards, and these hallucinations can only be seen by them.” Xia Tang let her do as she pleased.
“Let’s try the first method,” Miao Yin said with a smile.
So Xia Tang sat up, propped herself up on the bed sheet, and leaned closer to Miao Yin with her affectionate eyes.
Despite being so close to a psychic-type ability user with a seductive charm, Miao Yin remained calm and simply leaned back against the headboard.
Before the mind control arrived, came the sweetness of rotten apples, the excessive sugar making her dizzy. Then came a full glass of red wine and cherries, and the refreshing lemon squeezed out its sweet and sour juice. Hearts flickered in her eyes, but her world consisted only of Miao Yin.
Miao Yin didn't need to look down to see the rosy lips she was exhaling.
“Ayin…”
Invisible threads of affection stirred, and a blanket of pink flew out from the soft Wu dialect, enveloping the entire room. Ambiguous elements quietly bloomed like a mandala from hell.
So this is what it feels like to be charmed by someone with psychic abilities? No wonder so many people avoid this type of ability user.
Miao Yin lowered her guard and happily accepted the other party's persuasion.
Xia Tang didn't think she could make Miao Yin fall into a hallucination.
So she did everything she could to seduce her, the little fox nibbling at her sleeve little by little, luring her into her fox den.
Fortunately, the little fox succeeded.
The scene before her suddenly changed, and after a moment of disorientation, when Miao Yin opened her eyes again, Tu Hao was sitting in front of her.
She looked down at herself, wearing a simple white dress with a brown trench coat over it, which seemed to be a casual coat she had just put on to go out.
The Tu Hao before them was no longer the wild and untamed man they knew, whose arrogance and murderous intent could not be suppressed no matter how hard he tried to hide it.
He has become more mature, with a touch of composure and resignation in his eyes.
The kettle was gurgling, and with his back to her, he picked up the tea canister on the table and threw some into the teapot.
"Are you really not leaving any room for Dream City Base at all?" he asked, looking at the kettle.
Miao Yin heard her own cold voice ring out: "Use my blood to leave them some leeway?"
"The fact that they offered such terms after a natural disaster shows their sincerity."
"If that's the case, why didn't you do it earlier? I handed Ling over to them, which accelerated their experimental progress by three years, and what did they do? They even want to restore Yecheng's potion. Do they think I'm dead?" she said flippantly.
"First came the mutation, then the natural disaster. They're desperate because they're afraid of human extinction, so they're frantically searching for a way out."
With a soft thud, the water boiled. Tu Hao raised his hand, gripped the handle of the kettle, and poured the still-boiling hot water into the teacup, the scalding heat being diluted by the cold ceramic.
He looked down at the swirling tea leaves, lost in thought.
Finally, he put down the kettle, brought out the teapot and teacups, and placed them on the table.
"Miao Yin" tapped her chin and drawled, "Tu Hao, how come I didn't know you were starting to care about the survival of humanity? Have we cold-blooded mercenaries learned to be kind?"
Tu Hao calmly pulled out a chair, sat down, picked up the teapot, and poured the bitter tea into a small teacup.
"I am human, and so are you."
"Am I?"
"Isn't it?"
"Hahahaha... Okay, me too. You're right. The survival of humanity is very important."
"Miao Yin" was persuaded by him and subconsciously reached out to touch the teacup.
Tu Hao grabbed her fingertips and pushed them back: "It's hot."
"Miao Yin" didn't blame him for overstepping his bounds, but continued on her own: "Speaking of the laboratory in Dream City, I heard that they've recently developed something amazing, and it's already being used by the military. Did you know that?"
“I know.” Tu Hao nodded. “They went to clean up the mutants in Lin City. Tsk, they’ve become a plague. How come the natural disaster didn’t kill all these monsters?”
"Floods, tsunamis, ice storms, heat waves, insect plagues... who knows what will be next."
"That's why Dream City wants to turn everyone into people with superpowers... so that more people can survive."
"I heard their potions are made from mutants. Tu Hao, do you think this time they'll make the potion they've always touted as the one that can eliminate mutations?"
Tu Hao shook his head: "I don't think so. Haven't they produced enough things in the past ten years? How many of them have truly solved the problem of mutation? They're all just 'health supplements,' otherwise they wouldn't have asked for your blood to assist in the experiments."
"Miao Yin" pouted unhappily and complained, "I don't care. They promised to make me a diluent, but they didn't. Now, unless they revive Ling for me, it's not worth talking."
Tu looked at her helplessly: "If Ling is alive, will you agree to Mengcheng's deal?"
"Miao Yin" smiled slightly, her dark pupils resembling a demon's: "If they're willing to give me the base, it's not impossible."
Tu Hao looked as if he had known this all along, and clinked his glasses together: "It's cold."
He pushed the cup in front of her, and "Miao Yin" naturally picked up the teacup and drank it all in one gulp.
The warm, bitter tea flowed down my throat into my stomach, passed through my heart, and then entered my whole body through the bloodstream…
"boom--"
The teacup shattered on the floor.
"Miao Yin" raised her head, tilting it like a snake emerging from the grass in the forest, staring at her prey with her eyes slightly narrowed.
Tu Hao first glanced at the broken pieces on the ground, then turned his gaze to her. He seemed stunned, his eyes flickering with surprise and uncertainty.
"What did you put in?"
The feeling of losing her supernatural abilities came instantly. Without her ghost body and the disappearance of her physical enhancements, she almost immediately felt the same weakness she had experienced ten years ago, a weakness so severe that even breathing was difficult.
The ceaseless, boiling flames within her body vanished, "Miao Yin's" eyes faded, the pitch-black ink disappeared before Tu Hao's eyes, revealing a translucent, glassy color, and her fingernails were no longer bright red.
More importantly, the mark that had manipulated everyone also disappeared.
She turned back into a human, an ordinary person.
“You…” Tu Hao’s voice was terribly hoarse.
"What did you put in?" she asked again.
His lips trembled, a rare display of suppressed panic, but his deep green eyes shone brightly, as if something was beginning to awaken, a wildness tinged with murderous intent emerging, to the point that he even appeared somewhat thirsty.
His expression seemed to conceal two people in a struggle.
"Suxin, that's what they called it. It's... an anti-teratogenic drug."
"You made a deal with Mengcheng, Tu Hao, you betrayed me?" Her tone was somewhat strange.
"betray?"
Tu Hao suddenly stood up. At that moment, his figure seemed incredibly tall. He pressed his palms on the table, almost crushing it.
"Miao Yin, you say I betrayed you? Do you think I've ever obeyed you? What have you treated me all these years, a dog? How did you treat them! How did you treat me! I told you long ago that dying by my hand is the end you deserve!"
"Miao Yin" looked up at him, her position making her seem like a superior, her glassy eyes bright, her words terrifyingly sharp.
"Oh? You think you've never given in? Hahahaha... How ridiculous. Did you think that way when you were crawling on the ground? There's a limit to self-deception."
"You think I treat you like a dog? Yes, that's exactly what I think, Tu Hao. What makes you think you deserve preferential treatment here? You're no different from anyone else outside. I could throw you away and replace you with anyone else! Kill me? Can you even do that?"
"boom--"
Tu Hao overturned the covering, and the wooden table shattered into pieces, just like his personality.
He grabbed her wrist and pulled her up, his eyes blazing with murderous intent: "No difference? I'm no different from them? You don't believe I can do it? Then I'll show you! Without the curse, what are you!"
The scene before her suddenly shattered, and Miao Yin saw countless memories flash by.