Quick Transmigration: What to Do When the Male Supporting Character You Saved Becomes Obsessed with

Chapter 467 "Infecting the World" - Male Mother (78)

The room already smelled bad, but now, covered by the stench of blood, it was almost impossible to breathe.

The male homeowner's body and face were covered in horrific bloodstains.

He hacked the fat man to pieces with a kitchen knife, leaving him unrecognizable; some dismembered organs even clung to his body...

He just stood there expressionless.

I don’t know how much time passed.

"Clang—" The kitchen knife fell to the ground with a terrifying sound.

His footsteps sank into the sticky, watery ground as he walked toward the kitchen.

Bloody footprints were left on the stained white tile floor of the kitchen, and blood dripped from his clothes.

The male homeowner slowly stopped and opened the freezer compartment of the refrigerator.

Inside was... a frozen cat's carcass, packed in a bag.

Lu Liruan tried to see what the male host was doing, but as soon as she lifted her head from Liao Tingyuan's arms and squinted out, the shocking red sight made her gag, her stomach churning as if it were about to rise to her throat.

"Stop looking." Liao Tingyuan quickly patted her back and made her turn around.

He pushed open the bathroom door with one hand, put his arm around Lu Liruan's waist with the other, and led her slowly out.

It's almost time.

Seeing Lu Liruan's condition, they should get out of here as soon as possible.

Lu Liruan closed her eyes, completely trusting Liao Tingyuan, and followed him without looking or listening.

She relied on Liao Tingyuan wholeheartedly, completely trusting that he would take gentle and considerate care of her.

I took a few steps forward...

Lu Liruan suddenly stopped.

The sensation underfoot was wet, slippery, and sticky. With each step, you could almost feel the still-warm liquid seeping through the soles of your shoes, transmitting the heat of death to your body.

This feeling was an invisible fear that completely gripped her nerves, making it impossible for Lu Liruan to move forward. Her legs felt like they were filled with lead, as heavy as a thousand pounds.

Liao Tingyuan sensed Lu Liruan's power and stopped in his tracks.

"what happened?"

Lu Liruan couldn't speak; the extremely disgusting smell filled her nasal cavity, and she felt as if she might vomit if she opened her mouth.

If she vomits on the ground, I wonder what might happen.

Lu Liruan bit her lower lip tightly, closed her eyes tightly, and pointed her trembling finger at the ground. Liao Tingyuan immediately understood.

The little girl's white shoes were splattered with dark red stains.

"Don't move." Liao Tingyuan stepped back to Lu Liruan's side and patted her head reassuringly, signaling her not to be so nervous.

He slid one hand behind Lu Liruan's back and gently tapped the back of her knee with the other hand to let her know what he was doing.

Then, with a little effort, he lifted Lu Liruan up in his arms.

"what!"

Even though she was mentally prepared, the sudden feeling of weightlessness still startled Lu Liruan, and she quickly put her arms around Liao Tingyuan's shoulders.

"Is it stable?" Liao Tingyuan adjusted his posture slightly. Lu Liruan's weight was like a rag doll in his hands, allowing him to easily bounce and adjust her.

"Ah."

Lu Liruan's breath lingered on Liao Tingyuan's neck: "Let's hurry up and go..."

"it is good."

It wasn't that Lu Liruan wanted to be strong or not; it was that she genuinely had no way to overcome it.

When she was little, one morning she went to the park with her aunt to exercise. It had rained the night before, and when the sun was fully up and they were about to leave the park to go home...

Lu Liruan saw many earthworms, each as long as her forearm, grayish-red in color and covered in mud, crawling up the only way out of the park, wriggling and twisting on the ground.

Lu Liruan was too scared to walk over and stood still.

Lu Liruan forgot what happened after that... but that feeling, that feeling of being frozen in place, that feeling of being unable to overcome it, was deeply etched in her heart.

Now, Liao Tingyuan not only took her away from here, but also seemed to have suddenly and steadily filled in the sense of security that Lu Liruan had lacked.

Lu Liruan is not a girl who lacks a sense of security. She lives alone and has a strong and intelligent personality. However, she has to admit that sometimes she still hopes that someone in her life can make her feel at ease and whom she can trust unconditionally.

Lu Liruan felt that she had walked out of the door, but Liao Tingyuan did not put her down immediately. Instead, he carried her down the stairs.

It wasn't until Lu Liruan smelled the unique scent of the night that she was finally able to breathe normally.

"Teacher Liao...please put me down."

Lu Liruan patted his arm.

Liao Tingyuan stopped in his tracks: "It's alright, it's fine to go back like this."

Lu Liruan shook her head: "Let's sit outside for a while. I want to get some fresh air."

Liao Tingyuan placed her next to the stone bench in the courtyard, protecting Lu Liruan as she sat down. Lu Liruan put her feet on the ground, let out a long breath, and rubbed her face.

Forcing a smile, she said, "That really scared me! Thank goodness..."

"Ruan Ruan doesn't need to act so strong." Liao Tingyuan sat down next to her, interrupting her, and raised his hand to tap the corner of her upturned lips.

Lu Liruan's expression froze, then her smile slowly faded, leaving her with an empty look.

“I was really scared,” she whispered.

"Yeah, I was actually scared too." Liao Tingyuan said seriously without being perfunctory, "I've never seen anything like that before."

Hearing him say that, Lu Liruan felt a little calmer. Some things feel better once they can be said out loud.

But much later, Lu Liruan realized that this was one of the few lies Liao Tingyuan told to comfort her.

"I thought I was strong..."

“You’ve been very strong.” Liao Tingyuan said sincerely, “You’re the fastest person I’ve ever met to accept this. I have a colleague at work who was so frightened that he didn’t dare to leave his house for a whole month, for fear that he might accidentally enter some other dimension again.”

"real or fake?"

"real."

“Then it’s a good thing he doesn’t live here.” Lu Liruan thought for a moment and was amused: “Living here means he can enter the space without leaving his house.”

“That’s right…” Liao Tingyuan’s complaint was particularly personal.

"Maybe it's just your bad luck that dragged me down with you," Lu Liruan pouted.

Liao Tingyuan disagreed: "I'm not unlucky..."

"Mmm, mmm, mmm, you're not unlucky, but you better not be unlucky, otherwise if you're unlucky, I'm unlucky too, we'll both be unlucky!" Lu Liruan said in a tongue twister.

"Well, neither of us can be unlucky anymore," Liao Tingyuan sighed.

"Sigh..." After so long, Lu Liruan finally felt a bit more energetic.

"Want some popsicles?" Liao Tingyuan asked her after checking the time.

"eat!"

Lu Liruan forced herself to cheer up. The matter wasn't resolved yet, and she couldn't cause Liao Tingyuan any more trouble!

The two walked slowly into the supermarket. The slightly damp heat of the summer night made Lu Liruan feel much better, and the sweetness of the popsicles soothed her throat, which had been sore from gagging.

When Lu Liruan got home, she took off her shoes. The red splatter marks on the soles and uppers were gone, but Lu Liruan could still remember them...

"Ugh—" My stomach churned again.

While taking a shower, Lu Liruan was in a daze. After drinking half a cup of warm water handed to her by Liao Tingyuan, she collapsed onto the bed without saying a word and instantly fell asleep.

But I couldn't sleep soundly at all. I felt very uncomfortable, like I was having a nightmare, but it didn't seem like that. In short, I couldn't fall into a deep sleep. I vaguely felt that my head was very heavy and my limbs were also very heavy.

Lu Liruan felt as if she had fallen into some strange dream, and she couldn't open her eyes no matter what she did.

Until she heard someone calling her name.

"Ruan Ruan! Ruan Ruan!"

The sound grew clearer and clearer, and Lu Liruan felt as if she were slowly walking forward from a very far place until she finally opened her eyes.

"what!"

Lu Liruan tried to sit up, but her body felt limp and unresponsive.

The person next to her noticed her movement and quickly helped her lie down again.

Lu Liruan then opened her eyes and looked around, finding herself lying in bed with a blanket covering her.

Liao Tingyuan sat beside him, leaning over to look at him with a hint of worry in his expression.

"What's wrong with me?"

Lu Liruan wanted to speak, but when she opened her mouth, the syllables she uttered were extremely hoarse, and her throat ached as if it had been rubbed with sandpaper. Even swallowing saliva was extremely difficult.

"Have some water first."

Liao Tingyuan took a cup from the side, considerately helped Lu Liruan lean slightly against the headboard, and found a soft cushion to place under her waist.

Following his action, Lu Liruan took a few sips of water. The water had a faint honey flavor, and drinking it soothed her throat a little. After coughing a few times, her voice wasn't so unpleasant anymore.

"You have a fever."

Liao Tingyuan pulled the blanket up a bit and then stuffed Lu Liruan's arm inside.

The room wasn't hot because the air conditioner was on all the time to keep the temperature constant.

Lu Liruan was nestled in the blankets, feeling as if she were wrapped in a cocoon.

"It's probably because he sweated yesterday and then got caught in the wind," Liao Tingyuan said softly.

"I think I was just scared out of my wits." Lu Liruan waved her hand, indicating that her physique shouldn't be that weak.

In the middle of summer, where could the wind blow her like this?

Liao Tingyuan once again pulled her out of the blanket and shoved her waving hand back in.

And he instructed, "Make sure you cover yourself with the blanket tightly."

For a moment, Lu Liruan felt that Liao Tingyuan's way of speaking was exactly the same as her mother's when she was a child.

"You had a fever of almost 40 degrees this morning. No matter how I called you to get up, you didn't make a sound, so I pushed the door open to check on you," Liao Tingyuan explained, explaining why he entered Lu Liruan's room without her permission.

Lu Liruan didn't care about that. She already knew what kind of person Liao Tingyuan was after spending some time with him.

"I felt like I was dreaming the whole time, but I don't know what I was dreaming about," Lu Liruan recalled.

"If you can't remember, then don't think about it." Liao Tingyuan patted her head to stop her, afraid that she might remember something bad.

Liao Tingyuan took out a thermometer and handed it to her, asking her to take her temperature again.

Lu Liruan felt that she was already tired just from getting up.

After taking out the thermometer, I glanced at it; it still showed 38 degrees Celsius…

Lu Liruan suddenly remembered that she had a fever of 40 degrees Celsius in the morning, but she was asleep and unable to take medicine. How did her temperature come down?

Then Lu Liruan turned her head away.

Seeing a stool beside the bed with a basin of cold water and a towel on it, Lu Liruan's heart skipped a beat...

Liao Tingyuan didn't know how long he had been there, but he slowly helped himself relieve the fever by using physical cooling methods.

Lu Liruan didn't know how to express her feelings at this moment, given this patience and care.

"Teacher Liao, how can you be so kind?"

Lu Liruan murmured.

Liao Tingyuan noticed the direction of her gaze.

“I’m so much older than you, isn’t it only right that I take care of you?” he said naturally.

That's not what we should do...

Lu Liruan has lived alone for many years. Although there haven't been any major upheavals, she has experienced a lot of heartache and bitterness.

Lu Liruan felt that she might not even take such good care of herself, but Liao Tingyuan treated her this way. In every little detail, Lu Liruan's heart was warmed.

How could I live without Liao Tingyuan?

Lu Liruan was startled by her own sudden thought.

She was the one who should be helping him... how did she end up depending on him? Lu Liruan couldn't understand.

When Liao Tingyuan saw her suddenly start to space out, he assumed she was feeling unwell again.

"I'll go heat up the porridge, you can lie down for a while longer..."

Lu Liruan didn't want to sleep right now. When she was in a daze, she felt terrible. Now that she was finally awake, she didn't want to fall back into that feeling.

"Hurry up..." Lu Liruan watched Liao Tingyuan walk out.

"Then come back and be with me!" Lu Liruan suddenly blurted out her willful idea.

Perhaps it was because she was unusually sentimental and vulnerable when she was sick, or perhaps it was Liao Tingyuan's indulgence that made her unconsciously want to act coquettishly.

Lu Liruan didn't want to be alone at this moment; she only wanted to be with Liao Tingyuan.

Liao Tingyuan thought she was having a nightmare but didn't want to say it, so she expressed it this way. He turned back from the doorway and said, "Yeah, soon."

Liao Tingyuan spoke very quickly, and he really did speak very quickly.

Ten minutes later, he returned with porridge and side dishes.

The salted duck egg yolks were very fragrant, and the millet porridge was thick and sticky, which soothed her empty stomach. Lu Liruan hadn't felt hungry before, but under Liao Tingyuan's gaze, she unknowingly drank a whole bowl of porridge.

"anything else?"

"full."

Lu Liruan felt she should eat more slowly so that Liao Tingyuan could stay with her a little longer. Now that she had finished eating, there was no reason for him to stay any longer.

But after Liao Tingyuan delivered the bowls and chopsticks to the kitchen, he came back.

He sat down by Lu Liruan's bedside and put a fever-reducing patch on her.

"Take the medicine later." Before applying the patch, he tested Lu Liruan's temperature with the back of his hand; it was still hot.