CH 16

Chapter 16: Their First Kiss 

Kou Li left the room, and it was easy to guess that he went to find his wife. So, he stayed here for a while longer.

Jian Yi had a preliminary idea, and a smile appeared on his face. He looked at Guan Xi, who was completely curled up and trembling inside the glass room and sighed softly, “You say you’re wrong, but you don’t really think you are, right?”

“Self-deception, self-centeredness, and blaming others for your problems, without even having the courage to admit your mistakes.”

“Uh…” Jian Yi fumbled with the edge of the control panel, “Let me guess what you were like before… No higher education, no savings, no good job, and even your family and friends look down on you. You don’t have a girlfriend or boyfriend, and you live in a narrow rental house, eating takeout or instant noodles for three meals a day. As for your appearance…it couldn’t be more ordinary, with blemishes on your face and occasional pimples. In short, it’s definitely a world of difference from Bian Yi.”

Guan Xi heard his voice and trembled even harder while biting his lip.

He felt as if the man in front of him wasn’t just looking at him through the glass room but had stripped him bare, including the outer layer of Bian Yi’s body he was “wearing” and had seen the real him.

It was a terrible feeling.

He regretted again that he shouldn’t have asked this man for help.

This was a demon, an unscrupulous demon who peered into people’s hearts.

“Oh, are you cursing me in your mind again? A despicable and perverted mind reader?” Jian Yi quickly interpreted his movements and said, “You underestimate me too much, really. Mr. Guan, perhaps you’ve never seen a genius before? Honestly, someone like you is too easy to read, and I can tell what you’re like and what you’re thinking with just one glance. That’s probably the difference between geniuses and fools.”

Guan Xi couldn’t refute the arrogant and contemptuous words. Before he was caught, he might have thought that people like Jian Yi were full of attractive qualities and desires to conquer, but once he got to meet one in person, he knew how terrifying such people could be.

The man was obviously smiling, but Guan Xi felt that his eyes were like cold surgical knives, dissecting him from the inside out.

What was even scarier was the next thing the pervert said: 

“Mr. Guan, you need to protect your brain in the next few days. After I’ve studied the samples I collected before and find them boring, well…you know what the next most valuable thing on your body is, don’t you?”

After Jian Yi finished speaking, he left the glass room.

But his last two soft laughs almost scared Guan Xi to death. If it weren’t for the nutrient injection Jian Yi gave him, he would have really fainted and couldn’t get out of bed. After all, he had used the escape card before, and without Easy’s specially formulated potion, he would probably still be lying on the bed like a pile of mud.

However, Guan Xi didn’t have time to think about the side effects of the escape card now.

He only had one thought in his mind: he was really, really going to have his head opened up!

Ah ah ah ah!!!

This is not his ending, it must not be his ending, he is the protagonist of a time-travel novel, and regardless of what the original novel was like, time-travelers like him are the protagonists, right? How could the protagonist die? The protagonist definitely wouldn’t die!

Liar! Liar! Someone will definitely come to save him!

“System? System! Save me, save me, you must have a way, right? I’ll do any task, and I won’t hold it against you for tricking me before, I just beg you to save me, save me…”

However, after being caught by Bian Yi and useless after being killed by the new target of his conquest, Guan Xi was already doomed. How could the system waste its energy to save him? If he wanted to escape, he could only spend his last points to open the store.

But unfortunately, his mind was full of fear, and he had forgotten about the points.

But it didn’t matter, even if he used up his points to escape, what difference would it make? Everyone outside wanted to catch him, he was basically a wanted criminal, and his fate outside was no different from being trapped here.

Bian Yi stood in the transparent channel, with various fish swimming freely in the sea outside.

He remembered he and Kou Li had indeed arranged to meet in a similar place, a certain aquarium.

In that aquarium, when he saw two small dark blue fish mouth-to-mouth in the water, he looked at Kou Li with a strange smile on his face. Before he could say what was on his mind, he was kissed on the lips by the man next to him.

That was their first kiss, Kou Li was as gentle as the deep blue sea, making people want to comfortably close their eyes and immerse themselves in his sea.

When Bian Yi came to his senses, Kou Li’s figure was already in his peripheral vision, and just like back then, he was standing to his right.

Bian Yi turned to face Kou Li without waiting for his intentions, and asked directly, “Your friend said you trapped the system here?”

Kou Li’s gaze shifted from the blue sea fish close to the channel and nodded, “Yes.”

Actually, Bian Yi had no doubts about this. Kou Li was very intelligent, and he was also very capable academically. He had won many awards in academia, some of which Bian Yi couldn’t even pronounce properly. He also liked doing business, and his ability to make money was on par with his scientific research ability. However, Bian Yikou wasn’t clear whether he was making money to buy laboratory equipment and materials for better experiments, or if he was making money to do more experiments. Or perhaps it was simple, he liked both.

But those were not important. What was important was…

Bian Yi asked, “So can you get it out or kill it directly?”

Kou Li turned around and looked at him, truthfully answering, “Not now.”

Bian Yi wasn’t too disappointed. If it was that easy to deal with, he wouldn’t have been trapped for so long.

However, could a system deal with another system?

Perhaps that revenge system in his mind could have a way, but of course, he would need to pay a price.

Bian Yikou wasn’t sure if he had anything of value left to exchange…

At this point, he heard Kou Li continue, “Leave it to me.”

Bian Yi heard him, but he didn’t take it to heart.

Kou Li looked at him and wanted to say something, but Jianyi came out.

They couldn’t stay on the island for too long. Guan Xi disappeared here, and if they stayed too long, it would raise suspicion from others. Plus, Xiao Shu’s weekend was over, so the group headed back.

As soon as they left, Guan Xi officially began to experience the same imprisonment that Bian Yi had endured before.

At first, Guan Xi was really scared, afraid that Jian Yi would come and mess with his brain the next day. But fortunately, that pervert may have gone to study his blood and the samples he collected before, and so didn’t come to see him.

Food and water were delivered to the room on a regular schedule, but they were all mechanical and there were no living people. The level of technology in this world was higher than the one Guan Xi had lived in, but since he had been here for a year, he was not too surprised.

Furthermore, he felt more at ease not seeing people around.

After two days of trembling with fear, Guan Xi became less afraid. He had food and water here, and surprisingly, he felt a little sense of security, as long as Jian Yi and his people didn’t show up.

During this time, he still tried to get a response from the system.

However, Guan Xi did not know that Jian Yi had already performed surgery on him while he was unconscious. His brain had actually been opened, but the incision was very small, and a tiny chip was inserted.

The main function of this chip was twofold: one was to locate, and the other was to monitor Guan Xi’s brain activity, that is, to observe what reactions occurred when the system communicated with him. This was one of the reasons why the system refused to respond to Guan Xi.

The system’s lack of response made him very anxious, but what surprised him was that the system’s mall could be opened. He quickly used his remaining points to buy the escape skill. But when he was about to use it, he suddenly stopped.

His not-so-bright brain finally became clever for a moment. His points were used up, and he could no longer buy the disguise skill, which meant that he would be recognized as soon as he went out.

As soon as he was recognized, the outcome awaiting him would be no better than what he was facing now.

Prison? With so many vicious criminals inside, how much torture would he endure, and how many days could he survive? After he got out, he had no money or identity, and he might be found by criminals, not only being dissected but also possibly being sold. Moreover, this island was likely to be Kou Li’s, so as soon as he went out, wasn’t he still within Kou Li’s range? Maybe he would be captured again in less than two minutes.

Guan Xi sat on the bed in despair, he had nowhere to escape.

Even the current outcome is the most lenient one for him. After all, Bian Yi said that he would be imprisoned for sixteen years. Even if he was experimented on by Jian Yi the pervert, he still had sixteen years to live.

As time passed by day by day, on the seventh day, the screen in front of Guan Xi lit up, and the screen automatically played the program that Bian Yi recorded on E Island a week ago.

Guan Xi looked at Bian Yi in the program, and his eyes gradually turned red.

After watching this program, he finally understood why he was so guilty and why he was going to be locked up here.

He watched as another person stole his life, while he could only be trapped in a small room and do nothing.

That thief clearly enjoyed everything but still pretended to be forced to complete the task. It was really…

Guan Xi finally realized that he was a shameless thief.

It was another weekend, and Bian Yi did not watch his own program, nor did he pay attention to the speculation and comments about him on the internet.

He was in the amusement park with Kou Li and Xiao Shu.

From now on, he would accompany his Xiao Shu every weekend.

Because it was a weekend, the amusement park was quite lively. Bian Yi also dressed up a bit, not to be recognized at a glance, but so as not to affect their activities today.

Recently, Bian Yi has been cooperating with the nutritionist. He has gained some weight on his face and body and his physical strength has also improved, allowing him to play two more games with his child. However, he still easily felt tired.

Kou Li noticed this and did not let Xiao Shu continue to pull Bian Yi to play.

Bian Yi smiled and sat on the bench watching Xiao Shu. He was still a child, full of energy, and of course, he wanted to continue playing. Bian Yi let the father and son go, and he would wait here.

Kou Li was pulled away by Xiao Shu, and Bian Yi watched their backs. The smile on his face disappeared instantly.

The first time he escaped from the system space was also in an amusement park, not this one.

At that time, the amusement park was also very lively. When Bian Yi escaped, his heart was beating violently. He quickly found his husband and son whom he hadn’t seen for a long time in the crowd. He looked at them from a distance, tears streaming down his face. But as soon as he wiped away the tears and took a step toward his husband and son, he saw Guan Xi.

That person who looked exactly like him was holding a pink cotton candy and approached Kou Li, who was about to raise his head, with a sweet smile.

The pink cotton candy blocked Kou Li’s profile, and Bian Yi was stunned. In these few seconds when he was stunned, he blinked, and he was already grabbed back to that black room.

The liveliness of that amusement park did not belong to him. His escape was like a dream.

Bian Yi closed his eyes and leaned against the bench, afraid that something terrible would appear in his eyes, scaring the children who came to play there.

But as soon as he closed his eyes, he felt someone running towards him. It was Kou Li holding Xiao Shu and coming back.

Bian Yi looked up at him, and the panic in the man’s eyes and on his face could not be hidden, as if he had just woken up from a nightmare. But when he saw Bian Yi, he returned to his usual self, as if the nightmare had shattered.

The corners of the man’s mouth twitched into a somewhat stiff smile, “Let’s go together when you’ve rested.”