The beautiful mage was kidnapped by the contracted beast again

Click, click, click.

Footsteps echoed in the empty corridor.

Jiang Liujing looked at the ground beneath his feet, feeling very subtle with every step he took.

This subtle mood finally reached its climax when the door was opened, revealing Cyrus's face inside.

Although I had already made an 80% or 90% guess about this before, I still felt inexplicably emotional when I actually saw this face.

"Is he dead?"

Jiang Liujing stopped at the door and did not move closer, just watching from a distance.

As a fellow prisoner, Cyrus obviously did not receive as good treatment as them.

The thick smell of blood in the air, so thick that one had to cover one's nose to suppress the urge to vomit, proved that something had happened. However, judging from his appearance, he didn't have any obvious shortcomings.

Thinking of what the zombie children had told him before, that Cyrus seemed to be unable to die, Jiang Liujing frowned slightly. The Cyrus in his memory was a completely powerless person.

Number Five walked over, looked at the well-mannered child, and then roughly grabbed his hair and lifted him up: "You're still breathing, why are you pretending?"

Seeing that Cyrus hadn't opened his eyes yet, he picked up a bucket of water nearby and poured it on his face.

The water flowed into his mouth and nose. Cyrus coughed and opened his eyes, his eyeballs full of red bloodshot.

The man's expression was extremely sinister, and his eyes were filled with murderous intent as he stared at Number Five from a close distance.

But when his blurry vision fully focused on the figure behind Number Five, his body, suspended in mid-air, suddenly froze.

"It's you."

"Long time no see." Jiang Liujing looked at him calmly.

Cyrus forced a smile.

At this moment, he seemed to feel embarrassed and tried hard to free his wrists from the chains. The room was filled with the sound of metal clashing.

But he soon realized that this made him look even more embarrassed, so he stopped and said to Jiang Liujing as if nothing had happened, "It looks like you're doing well."

"Yeah, but you look terrible." Jiang Liujing said.

If you think about it carefully, it’s only been a month.

That's how Cyrus observed him outside the lab a month ago.

A month later, the situation was completely reversed.

Jiang Liujing thought that fate was truly magical. No one could predict what the future would be like. Only the dead could be judged for sure.

Cyrus stared at his expression closely. Until this moment, he was still thinking to himself masochistically, Jiang Liujing must hate him to death. Now seeing his miserable appearance, would he feel happy and relieved because of him?

He could never control him, even though everyone said they were good friends, even though Jiang Liujing saved him time and time again in the early days of the apocalypse, but Cyrus knew in his heart that he was not that important to Jiang Liujing.

He still remembered the conversation he heard when he went to see Jiang Liujing one day.

He was one of Jiang Liujing's subordinates. He had just returned from a mission, and the team members gathered together to drink and celebrate.

The subordinate was probably drunk and told Jiang Liujing bluntly that Cyrus was not a person to befriend and advised Jiang Liujing to get rid of him as soon as possible.

Jiang Liujing said that Cyrus was his adopted brother and had been kind to him in the past.

The man shook his head, saying, "No matter how great a favor, it's time to repay it." In the apocalypse, fratricide is common, let alone a non-blood relative. He's using his name to win over people outside the base. If something goes wrong later, won't he be blamed?

Cyrus became furious when he heard this.

He thought Jiang Liujing would speak for him, but Jiang Liujing just remained silent at the time and changed the subject soon.

Cyrus' heart sank at that moment.

Half a month later, the team member received a mission assigned by the base with a very generous reward. He went without thinking and died in the mission.

Afterwards, Jiang Liujing went to see Cyrus about this and asked him why an A-level task was marked as B-level?

It was clear that the information that there were a group of mutant zombies lurking near the mission location had been submitted by someone long ago, but the mission only stated that there were a few ordinary zombies and specifically asked that team member to go there. It was like a blatant murder.

Faced with his anger, Cyrus just smiled as usual and comforted him gently, saying that his subordinates made a mistake when assigning tasks, and they only found this team member because he was suitable for the task. The base will give his family enough compensation and take care of their basic life in the base.

He thought at the time that as long as this divisive guy was eliminated, his relationship with Jiang Liujing would be able to return to normal and nothing would change.

But he was wrong.

After that incident, Jiang Liujing began to gradually distance himself from him.

Cyrus finally realized that the influence he was so proud of on Jiang Liujing was actually so fragile and vulnerable. As long as Jiang Liujing wanted to, he could unilaterally abandon him at any time, giving up their past and friendship.

The source of all this was the power he possessed. A powerful being with sufficiently strong abilities possessed the confidence to walk independently even in the apocalypse. Having one more enemy or one less friend around him would have no impact at all.

But not for Cyrus.

He wanted to keep Jiang Liujing, wanted everything to go back to the way it was before, and wanted to see Jiang Liujing again, the one who would always accompany and respond to him no matter what he said.

So he made that choice.

But now it seems that this experiment that was interrupted halfway has failed. At least Jiang Liujing who appeared in front of Cyrus now did not seem to have lost his supernatural powers.

His eyes were still bright, even brighter than when he was at the Y City base, as if to say that he was living a better life now than before... Cyrus's breathing became heavier.

But when his gaze fell on the side of Jiang Liujing's neck, his vision suddenly stopped.

He saw a little different color.

It seemed to be a streak of red, as gorgeous as a plum blossom, and it was particularly conspicuous when it fell on the young man's overly porcelain-white skin.

Was it an accidental scrape? But at this location and with this size, Cyrus suddenly felt a particularly ominous premonition.

At this time, his attention finally diverted a little from Jiang Liujing, and he saw the other people around him.

The most conspicuous person is naturally the man next to Jiang Liujing.

The moment Cyrus noticed him, his whole body began to sound alarm, and he even began to wonder why he had not noticed him before.

His pupils contracted slightly, and his gaze was fixed on the man next to Jiang Liujing.

The man was tall, with a stern face and a chilling sense of oppression in his eyes.

Standing next to Jiang Liujing, his posture was natural, but with an undeniable possessiveness, as if Jiang Liujing was part of his territory.

Noticing Cyrus's gaze, he didn't avoid it, but raised his hand and placed it on Jiang Liujing's shoulder.

Cyrus's breathing suddenly became heavy, and his heartbeat was almost bursting out of his chest.

He stared at the two people in front of him, trying to figure out the possibility that he had made a mistake in judgment.

But what did he see? Facing the man's falling palm, Jiang Liujing didn't even dodge?

He is obviously a person who keeps strangers away. He is not someone with a high degree of favorability and will not have any close contact with others.

"Who is he?" Cyrus' voice was hoarse and low, with an undisguised hostility.

His eyes were fixed on the part where their bodies were touching, and his tone gradually became hoarse and crazy, "What is your relationship?"

Jiang Liujing frowned. Cyrus had never shown such a crazy attitude in front of him, which made him feel extremely unfamiliar.

But it was not surprising. Since the day he was betrayed, he knew that Cyrus was not the person he imagined.

Jiang Liujing didn't intend to pay any attention to him since his true nature was exposed at this moment. But he didn't expect Chi to speak first.

"Miaomiao said that you are his adopted brother?"

Chi's handsome face was as perfect as a sculpture, with sharp, thin lips that were slightly raised at the edges, but his deep red eyes showed no trace of a smile as he stared coldly straight ahead.

"Nice to meet you, let me say hello. I'm your brother's boyfriend."

He spoke slowly and clearly, "Now, you can bless us, Brother."