The Price of Softness

Chapter 143

Although the separation was only a few days, every moment was an extremely long ordeal for Mu Hang.

He never showed any extra emotion during this time.

It's like removing all strong emotions from one's system all together, without showing the slightest hint of them.

Rage, despair, fear, worry, all were suppressed deep beneath the seemingly calm surface, and the dark, brooding emotions flowed silently like a swamp, expanding rapidly as time went on.

The thirst for blood and the urge to destroy rose in his heart, clamoring, agitating, abetting at all times.

Worst of all, Mu Hang was not prepared to stop the urge.

It's like holding a crazy beast in your chest, forgetting how to cry, not to mention not knowing how to stop, and only being able to vent your despair through bloodthirsty roaring and killing.

Thankfully ......

Shi An is back.

Mu Hang leaned down, darkness settling in his eyes.

He kissed the tip of Shi An's sweaty nose, his lips were hot, and despite the ferocity of his movements, the kiss was as light as a downy feather, careful.

--He's back.

Shi An whimpered and buried her head in the crook of the other man's neck.

This time Mu Hang didn't lie to him.

It did stop hurting.

But after the pain was gone, the other senses became sharper, rather harder than last time.

Shi An cathartically bit the other man on the shoulder, not stopping until she tasted blood in her mouth.

But looking at the teeth marks on her opponent's skin, which were oozing blood, Shi An was a bit reluctant to bear it.

He blinked, cautiously leaned over, licked the tip of his wet, cold tongue, and the other man's movements traced a beat, then dragged him into another round of fury immediately afterward.

Shi An held a bit of his opponent's flesh in his teeth, grinding his teeth in regret as he did so.

He's not going soft anymore!

*

It took several days before Zhuo Fu resumed contact with Mu Hang.

Although the man on the screen seemed to be no different from before, Zhuo Fu was vaguely able to catch some subtle differences between the other man and the previous one.

The terrorist//molecule who had hated the whole continent at the time of Shi An's disappearance had finally disappeared, and although Mu Hang's face was still devoid of any unnecessary expression, Zhuo Fu could clearly sense that the other party was now in a calm and happy mood, not to mention that--

Mu Hang's eyes slowly shifted down to land between the other man's shoulders and neck.

At the junction of the collar and neck, a faint tooth mark could be seen, and the blood seemed to have not yet dried, obviously a recent injury.

"......"

The corner of Zhuo Fu's eye twitched.

He took a deep breath, forcing himself to forcefully avert his eyes, and spoke, "I don't know if you've been paying attention to the news and online comments during this period of time ......"

Mu Hang: "No."

...... guessed it.

Zhuo Fu rolled his eyes in his mind and continued:

"The short of it is that Administration over here contacted you through me to make representations and talk to you privately."

Mu Hang narrowed his eyes, "In private?"

A mocking smile lifted his lips, but there was no half-smile in the bottom of his azure eyes:

"There's no need."

Even if he hadn't met yet, he had a pretty good idea of what the other person wanted to discuss with him.

Zhuo Fu doesn't seem surprised by the result.

He shrugged, "Anyway, I'll just get the word out, and following up is not a problem I can get involved with."

"But that's not the main thing I came to see you about this time."

Zhuo Fu coughed lightly and said with a straight face, "The fastest developing and most difficult to deal with several contaminated zones have already been cleaned up by you some time ago, and the rest is no longer a big problem-especially during the time you were out of contact, Wen Yao managed to smash several Infidels' bases and seized quite a few related props from them, basically finishing off all the remaining rifts, and those mediums made from the corpses of dragons have been collected and are just waiting for Shi An to deal with them."

"Speaking of which, where's Shi An?"

Zhuo Fu asked.

A soft color swept under Mu Hang's eyes, "Still sleeping, I'll relay the progress to him later."

Zhuo Fu: "............"

Careless.

I should have known better than to ask that question, at least I would have gotten sunburned one less time!

Mu Hang seemed to have thought of something and narrowed his eyes slightly as he slowly opened his mouth to ask:

"What about the black-robed man, how's he doing these days?"

"He ah ......"

Zhuo scratched his head, a look of confusion surfaced on his face, "To be honest, he's really very cooperative this time, too cooperative, I've never seen such an obedient prisoner, he can simply be elected as a model ......"

The black-robed man was very quiet for a while.

Lying motionless in a narrow space most of the time, whoever asked him about it always got an answer.

Know it all, know it all, but never ask any questions.

He never tried to escape, never tried to kill himself again, was quiet and submissive, whether he was eating or carrying something, almost like a shadow in a cubicle.

Mu Hang lowered his eyes to hide the thoughtful look under them.

After cutting off the communication, he fished over his tablet and began to briefly skim through the information on the internet.

Obviously, the commotion caused by Shi An that day was just too big, causing a sensation in the entire continent, countless rumors and speculations flying around, some people think that it is the rise of a new power, some people think that it is the action of a certain reclusive family, and some people think that it is all a conspiracy by Administration to cover up their incompetence, but there are more people who think that such a powerful force cannot possibly belong to any human being. .

"Is it possible to be a fantasy species?"

"Fantasy species haven't been around for how many years, so there's no need to be so pie-in-the-sky about it."

"Pegasus? Have you not been paying attention to the bizarre events that have been occurring throughout the continent during this recent period? How many districts have already started evacuating the victims? Is it really impossible for a fantasy species to appear?"

"If it's really a fantasy species ...... that's really super scary."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, according to the records, all of these species are just too strong in case ......"

"Didn't you guys notice? The locations where those large-scale spells appeared were all areas that had been evacuated from the victims earlier, and I heard that after that day, large-scale demonic attacks plummeted!"

"Seems like eh..."

......

Then the conversation quickly ran off on a tangent.

"If it really is a fantasy species, which one do you guys think it really is?"

"I think it's an elf!"

"Really fake? How do you tell?"

"Because elves are good looking, end of argument."

"......"

"Seriously, all fantasy species look good when they take human form, right!"

"What are you looking at?"

The teenager's raspy voice sounded not far away.

Mu Hang tossed the tablet away and whipped his head around to look in the direction the voice had come from.

The teenager poked out half of his furry head from the quilt, his pair of golden russet vertical pupils squinting slightly, looking clueless and lovable.

It does look good.

With a short smile, he walked over and dropped a soft kiss on the top of the other man's hair:

"Something irrelevant is all."

The teenager tilted his face up in a daze, looking like he was asking for a kiss.

The covers slipped a little from his body, revealing pale shoulders and neck, and stars of red on his skin.

A dark, pale light swept across the bottom of Mu Hang's eyes.

The look on the other's face was just too familiar, making Shi An instantly wary, "What, what's wrong?"

Mu Hang shook his head, "Nothing."

He leaned down, enveloping the other into the shadow cast by his body, and kissed the other lightly between the ears, his voice low and gentle, "Awake from your nap?"

"...... hmmm."

"Want to get more exercise?"