It's not too much to say that a beauty is a little bit stronger

The moment Xiao Huai stretched out his hand towards the half heart, it felt as if countless needles were piercing his palm and crushing it repeatedly.

Pain came from the palm of his hand, his brows furrowed slightly, and veins bulged on his forehead.

[Warning! Spirit level continues to decline! The source of severe pollution has been detected as half of Joseph's heart!]

[Joseph's Half Heart] Heavy pollution source description: Not an item, the source of curse and pollution. Once you receive the cursed heart, your spirit value will be reduced by 50 instantly!

[Note: You don’t even know what pain is.]

The cold air cut his outstretched hand like a knife, bringing intense pain.

At that moment, he suddenly smiled, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"Boom boom boom!"

Like a winter wind piercing the earth, he grasped half his heart in one hand.

It hurts!

The noisy prompt sound of the system kept replaying in his mind, but Xiao Huai seemed to only hear a buzzing sound, and his vision was blurred by a mist.

He was gasping for breath and half-knelt on the ground in pain.

[Current mental value is 48. Emergency mental status protection is activated. Please leave the heavily polluted area immediately! The protection period ends in one minute.]

Before Xiao Huai's consciousness faded further, he stood up and left the magic circle with his heart.

But at the moment of leaving.

His pupils shrank, his Adam's apple slid up and down, and the groan of pain was swallowed back into his throat.

It was as if someone was taking a knife and cutting his heart piece by piece. Black lines appeared on his body, appearing and disappearing, as if something was burning under his skin, and his soul and even his bone marrow were in pain.

His back was tense and trembling with pain, his skin was already soaked with sweat, and his whole body was almost exhausted. He was relying on his willpower to walk out bit by bit.

Only then did he finally understand how real the system's warning was.

The blood in his body was steaming and burning, and his body was trembling slightly.

At this moment, he suddenly bit his lower lip, and the bright red blood was particularly glaring on his pale lips.

His black hair was wet with sweat and stuck to his face. He raised his chin and smiled slightly, as if mocking himself, but there was a defiant look in his eyes that could not be ignored.

"I have to go out." He muttered to himself, striding forward with a trembling body.

In order to prevent himself from completely losing consciousness here, he bit his lip to remind himself without hesitation.

As drops of blood and sweat fell to the ground, he knew that if he continued to be so cowardly, he would only appear more pathetic.

Leaving the space inside the door, the black lines gradually fade away.

Xiao Huai didn't know how he walked down and returned to the office alone.

But when he saw the familiar figure in the office appear in his sight, his heartbeat and blood flow maintained the same frequency, and the passage of time became blurred in his world.

"Lu Yuanshi."

He gently called Lu Yuanshi's name.

The man responded softly, his lips opening and closing as if he was saying something again.

But Xiao Huai heard nothing. His eyes went dark and he couldn't control himself from stumbling, but the man hooked his waist and prevented him from falling to the ground.

Xiao Huai pressed his forehead against the man's shoulder. He breathed quietly, sniffing the faint fragrance on Lu Yuanshi's body with a bit of greed.

His hand was clearly only resting lightly on her waist, but it felt as if it was touching his flesh and bones through his coat, giving all the coldness a layer of barely perceptible warmth.

Lu Yuanshi lowered his eyes, his gaze fixed on the poor man in his arms who looked like he would break with a single squeeze.

He had seen too many fragile people, but the moment Xiao Huai called out his name.

But he didn't hear any trace of vulnerability in it.

Like... a greeting as warm as the winter sun.

There is no weakness, no grievance, no pain.

There was only that most normal call, like Xihe rising in the east and setting in the west, the temperature of the rising dawn, the sky with golden scales floating on it; it was the illusion of locked breathing, the tightened nerves, and the condensation of time and space.

Lu Yuanshi's lips, which always showed a smile, were now pursed into a straight line. He raised his hand slightly, and the wind blew on the eyelashes of the person in front of him. His fingertips touched the bloody corner of his lips as lightly as water.

It took a long time for Xiao Huai's five senses to slowly recover. His mental value had dropped too much, causing the sharpness of his five senses to decrease. This was why he suddenly and greedily smelled the scent on Lu Yuanshi's body.

Perhaps it was because of fear, fear that he would die like this, and the last thing he smelled before dying was the fishy smell of the sea.

Or perhaps, it was because Xiao Huai wanted to turn the faint fragrance on Lu Yuanshi's body into a memory and preserve it forever.

Xiao Huai raised his head and subconsciously kept a certain distance from Lu Yuanshi.

He raised his bloodless thin lips, and a smile like a breeze passed across his lips, bringing with it a fleeting ripple.

"Sorry," he whispered, "I stained your clothes."

The sweat from his forehead stained Lu Yuanshi's coat.

But the next second, a big hand suddenly fell on the ends of his hair, and the fingertips stroked the hair on his forehead.

Xiao Huai's pupils shrank slightly. When he heard Lu Yuanshi's voice in his ears, he slightly raised the corners of his lips.

"I don't mind it."

At that moment, there was no more falsehood in this smile.

He looks good when he smiles, but his good looks are too illusory.

But at the moment when they looked at each other, Xiao Huai suddenly felt that the ethereal gauze was gently blown by the wind.

Xiao Huai looked away, his fingertips trembled slightly, and blood flowed towards his fingertips.

He looked at the clock hanging high in the office. An hour had passed since he went upstairs.

Xiao Huai: "We have to go to the next place."

Lu Yuanshi's deep eyes were always on him, and Xiao Huai turned his head to look at him.

He didn't ask Lu Yuanshi why he suddenly got separated from him while walking.

In a horror game, there are too many variables, and getting separated from teammates is a common occurrence. If you move in a space, many people will be trapped there forever.

He opened his thin lips and said only one sentence: "Fortunately, the two Diamond Guys are fine."

He didn't even tell Lu Yuanshi that he was planning to look for his remains and body, nor did he tell him about everything he encountered when he was there alone.

The pain is hidden in the black box of my heart. There is no need to tell these things to an outsider.

If both people are alive, the chances of success will be greater.

There was a hint of a smile on the corner of Lu Yuanshi's lips, his dark eyes were slightly narrowed, and his long and thick eyelashes drooped, hiding the faint warmth beneath his eyes.

"Yeah." He responded in a low voice.

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In the underground laboratory of the diamond factory, the air is filled with a pungent smell of the sea, and employees in white coats and gas masks enter and exit various laboratories.

Various test tubes are piled up in the office lobby.