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

Chapter 395 "Infecting the World" - Male Mother (6)

This was the first time Lu Liruan had walked upstairs.

Like any ordinary staircase, it was gray and unremarkable.

As Lu Liruan stepped onto the sixth floor, a door opened, leading to the room directly above hers.

"Please come in."

The man's pale hand rested on the doorframe, pushing it open wide enough for one person to enter.

Lu Liruan went inside.

At this point, being wary is useless. After all, this man is the only one who can answer my questions now. If I can't get the truth from him, I'll probably stay in the dark forever.

There was a faint scent of jasmine in the room.

It had the same layout as Lu Liruan's house, but it looked a bit bigger because there were fewer things and they were arranged very neatly.

The living room has large windows, and light green sheer curtains make the whole room look quite bright and airy.

"Hello."

Lu Liruan changed into disposable slippers and walked into the living room.

"How's the injury? Why is it wet?" The man's gaze went down and he saw the wet gauze on Lu Liruan's knee, and he frowned slightly.

His eyes at this moment appeared to be dark gray, and would appear even darker in backlight.

When Lu Liruan entered, she paid special attention to her surroundings.

"I took a shower; it was too hot this afternoon." Lu Liruan had already wrapped the gauze with plastic wrap, but it still wasn't completely dry.

"Please take a seat."

As the man spoke, he went into the house and took out a large medical kit.

"It's okay...no..."

Before Lu Liruan could finish speaking, the other party had already taken out all the disinfectant, medicine, and new gauze.

Lu Liruan shut her mouth.

She was wearing a loose T-shirt and knee-length shorts, and after sitting down, the cuffs of her shorts were rolled up a bit.

Lu Liruan shuddered when the man's fingers landed on her inner thigh.

So cold.

His gloved hand, with his fingers touching his skin through the fabric, was icy cold.

"do not move."

The other party's technique was very good, and Lu Liruan hardly felt any pain.

After the gauze was removed, Lu Liruan saw her wound for the first time.

I didn't realize it was this serious!

The abrasion covered an area roughly the size of half a palm. In the most severe areas, the epidermis was gone, leaving only bright red, tender flesh, from which yellow tissue fluid was still oozing.

Lu Liruan suddenly remembered the bloodied cat corpse she had seen in the trash can last night.

"yue——"

Lu Liruan felt a lump in her throat and felt nauseous again. Before she could pull her legs back and run to the bathroom, a small glass bottle with the lid open was shoved in front of her philtrum.

A refreshing, slightly spicy sensation shot straight to the top of Lu Liruan's head, instantly clearing her nasal passages and suppressing the urge to vomit.

"Thank you, thank you. You have quite a complete selection here." Lu Liruan took the small glass bottle and began to sniff the contents...

"Yes, I use it myself too."

The man responded in a low voice.

Lu Liruan thought for a moment and understood what he meant. He probably felt disgusted when he saw those things.

"All right."

Lu Liruan watched as the other person deftly tied a knot in front of her knee, bandaging it neatly.

"I've bought everything you wanted." He said, gesturing to the bags on the kitchen table as he packed the first-aid kit.

"It's troublesome."

Lu Liruan suddenly had a strange feeling... This person is actually quite nice.

He washed his hands and sat down on the sofa, his fingers interlaced and placed on his knees, gently rubbing against each other.

Lu Liruan was involuntarily drawn to him, and even forgot to speak.

The other party didn't feel offended at all; on the contrary, they quite calmly allowed Lu Liruan to look them over.

His calm expression carried a hint of inquiry, as if he were studying and analyzing some of Lu Liruan's behavioral patterns.

Only when he noticed Lu Liruan slowly leaning towards him did he raise his hand and snap his fingers.

With that snap of her fingers, Lu Liruan seemed to snap out of her daze.

She looked around blankly, then at the person in front of her, a puzzled expression on her face.

She thought the man opposite her... seemed even more handsome.

"Do you think I'm pretty?"

As if the other person could read her mind, they suddenly asked in a gentle voice.

The meaning behind his words was not narcissism, but rather a narrative-like statement, and then he sighed softly.

He raised his hand and pinched the bridge of his nose.

He then picked up the black-framed glasses that Lu Liruan had seen him wearing yesterday from the small table next to him and put them on again.

Lu Liruan felt somewhat embarrassed.

"Close your eyes and stop thinking about the idea that I am good-looking."

Lu Liruan closed her eyes in response to his voice.

"Three, two, one, open your eyes."

When Lu Liruan opened her eyes again, everything around her remained unchanged.

The only thing that has changed is the man on the other side...

He looks ordinary now, not because he's unattractive, but because he's not as captivating. His current demeanor is more like when I first met him—like a handful of clear water, shapeless, yet so refreshing and pervasive…

"What's going on?" Lu Liruan swallowed hard, not understanding why her feelings for him had changed so drastically in such a short time.

"You've been influenced by me, and you're still unable to control and concentrate your mental energy."

The man reassured him, "It's alright, it's already very good."

Lu Liruan: ...

Why is it good?

What exactly makes it good?

The term "mental power" was not unfamiliar to Lu Liruan, because the system had mentioned "mental power" when it was extracting the cheat code for her.

The system claims to possess very high "mental strength"...

"What exactly is going on? My mental power is based on whether I find you attractive? What's going on in this world? What's going on every night? What do you do every night?"

Lu Liruan felt she had never had so many questions before, and she didn't even know where to begin...

I had no choice but to bring up all these issues bluntly.

"Calm down, I'll answer you." The man didn't seem to mind Lu Liruan's eagerness, as if he were somewhat angry.

He is very calm.

Then he sighed again.

“There should have been a professional to explain this to you, but now this task has fallen to me. Please wait while I organize my thoughts.”

Lu Liruan: ...

The tone you're using sounds like a corporate slave sighing because their colleagues aren't working hard enough and they have to take on more work.

Looking at him up close, Lu Liruan noticed a small patch of dark blue under his eyes, which even his glasses couldn't hide.

"Can you answer one question for me first?" Lu Liruan couldn't help but ask.

"Ah."

Are you really a salesperson?

The man rested his chin on his hand, leaning forward, seemingly surprised for the first time by Lu Liruan's seemingly silly question.

"Sort of, and sort of, but in our company, everyone does have their own scope of work." He drew a circle in the air with his fingertip.

"This is not within my job scope. I just live here. I didn't expect an infection to happen here, which is why we are in this situation now."

Lu Liruan could tell that he was really troubled.

"Don't worry about it now, worry about it later... I don't know where your company's responsibility lies either. But could you explain to me what an infection is?" Lu Liruan tried to interrupt.

"Infection, simply put, is the first step in the formation of our current environment. It might be an object, or occasionally an intangible word, or an event... After being infected by mental energy, it radiates outwards. When its level is high or its intensity is strong, it forms a defined space, and then it radiates outwards, affecting the people or objects, behaviors, language, etc., within the space it controls..."

The man recited the entire passage with remarkable ease, as if he were being called upon by the teacher in class to recite a concept.

Then, pushing up her glasses, she asked Lu Liruan with considerable expectation, "Did you understand?"

Lu Liruan thought to herself: What do you think?

The man sighed again.

Lu Liruan hadn't counted, but she felt that since she walked in, he had sighed so many times that she couldn't count them on both hands...

It feels like they're using a sigh as a punctuation mark.

Are you so desperate to live?

The man could also sense that Lu Liruan basically couldn't understand what he was saying.

He pondered for a moment.

Suddenly, from who knows where, a folding knife appeared in his palm.

With a light and nimble movement, the folding knife sprang open, its thin blade gleaming silver as it spun in his palm.

Then the hilt of the knife was pointed at Lu Liruan.

It's very flashy and has artistic value.

Lu Liruan thought to herself: This person has practiced before!

"Take it."

He gestured for Lu Liruan to come over.

Lu Liruan didn't understand, but she still did as he said, walked over, and grasped the handle of the folding knife.

“For example, you hate me very much, you've hated me for a long time, and then today here, you kill me with this folding knife.”

With his gloved hand, his fingers pressed against the back of Lu Liruan's hand, slowly guiding her hand as he pressed the knife against his chest.

"It is quite possible that this folding knife was infected, and for some reason that we still don't know, the infection level of this folding knife is very high."

"Therefore, an infection space will be formed around this folding knife, and the first step is completed."

Lu Liruan nodded, indicating that she understood.

"Assuming the infection space of this folding knife covers the entire community, then people, objects, or even animals in this community may be infected by the radiation from this folding knife as a source of infection."

"What happens after the radiation?" Lu Liruan frowned.

“If radiation reaches a person, in most cases, the person’s mental strength will be at a lower level. We can categorize this folding knife as ‘hatred,’ and explain it to you using the concept of hatred as the source of infection: suppose there are two people living upstairs.” The man extended two slender fingers and pointed them at each other in a somewhat cute gesture.

"There is a long-standing grudge between A and B, and B has a lower mental strength. After being infected by radiation, B will take the most drastic action and kill A."

Lu Liruan was taken aback.

"There could be many ways for A to kill B, such as strangling, stabbing, or drowning..."

Lu Liruan interrupted him: "Okay, there's no need to describe these things in such detail."

It will bring back some unpleasant memories...

The man nodded in understanding.

"This is when the infection spreads to a person. But when the infection spreads to an object, for example, to a pair of scissors in two rooms upstairs, A might use those scissors to kill B, and B might use those scissors to kill A. But if the two people's mental strength is at a relatively similar level, or if neither of them is particularly weak, then perhaps the killing will not occur."

Lu Liruan nodded.

If you give an example, she can understand it.

"So what do you do for a living? Since you know these things, your job must be related to this, right?"

The man nodded somewhat listlessly: "To solve and destroy this infected space, we need to address the root cause. We need to find the original source of infection and contain it. My workplace is the unit responsible for containment investigations, infected items, and infected spaces."

"You mean we're now in an infected space?"

The man nodded again.

"Then why are you still sitting here so calmly?"

Lu Liruan couldn't hold back and blurted out what was on her mind.

The meaning behind it is: Brother, the sky is about to fall! How can you still sit still?!

"Because I am not an investigator."

Lu Liruan: ...

"So, after all this talk, what exactly do you do? What is the source of our infection? And what is the role of the investigator?" Lu Liruan continued to ask.

"Investigating the source of infection is the investigator's job. Within this infected space, everything could be a source of infection. Therefore, investigators need to investigate, reason, and analyze. Only by finally identifying the source of infection can they contain and destroy it. This is the investigator's workflow."

Lu Liruan thought to herself: So, Master, what do you do for a living?

They probably sensed the undisguised emotion in Lu Liruan's expression.

The man replied, "I'm an executive, but I'm currently on semi-leave."

"Then what should we do now?"

The man's gaze fell on Lu Liruan. He slightly pulled down his glasses, revealing a pair of light-colored eyes, and looked at Lu Liruan calmly from above the black frames.

Lu Liruan subconsciously looked away, avoiding his gaze.

This person is incredibly wicked.

Lu Liruan could tell from her own reactions over the past few days.

"What's the difference between an executive officer and an investigator?" Lu Liruan felt that there must be differences between the different positions.

The man raised an eyebrow and pushed the glasses back up, not forcing Lu Liruan to look at him: "You're good at finding the key points." He nodded.

"Investigators are people with high mental strength. These people can see and sense the infected space, and finally locate the source of infection, and most of the time, they are not contaminated by radiation. Enforcers are the opposite."

"Is the executor's mental strength very low?" Lu Liruan asked him.

The man shook his head: "Actually, it has no direct relationship with the level of mental strength. The executor is a survivor."

"survivor?"

"Yes, survivors who survived radiation contamination in a space with high intensity and high infectiousness."

Lu Liruan was taken aback. The word "survivor" didn't sound very pleasant...

"Will people always die in the infected space?" Lu Liruan asked, licking her dry lips.

"Of course not, if that were the case, things would have been in chaos long ago. High-intensity, high-level infection spaces are extremely rare."