Blame the Villain – Chapter 199

Villainous Zombie King (18)

Song Xuyi found herself in a void of nothingness.

After a long time, she once again recalled memories from her distant past in the real world of Song Xuyi herself.

Song Xuyi saw herself lying in a cold cabin. A cold, mechanical voice sounded in the cabin: “Does the task participant have any other requests?”

Song Xuyi in the cabin thought for a moment and said softly, “Do you think I’ll find her? Will she remember the experiences in the small world?”

“You are the person with the highest compatibility with her,” the voice remained cold, not giving a definitive answer. “As for whether she remembers or not, I don’t know. It’s beyond my authority.”

“Then—” Song Xuyi in the cabin pondered, “Can you set an instruction that prevents me from falling in love in the small world? Is that possible?”

Strangely, Song Xuyi found that she could sense the emotions of the Song Xuyi in the cabin: the Song Xuyi in the cabin harbored feelings for the person she was looking for, but that person didn’t seem to like Song Xuyi. So, Song Xuyi wanted to set such an instruction, fearing that she might involuntarily develop a relationship with that person in the small world. After all, affection is hard to conceal, but if that person didn’t like her, any bond formed in the small world would only cause trouble when returning to the real world.

“The current version of the operating system cannot interfere with human emotions and will,” the voice paused, “But I can use the highest authority to make your companion system write ‘cannot fall in love’ into the guidelines to remind you at all times…”

“Then please do so.”

Song Xuyi in the cabin seemed to want to say something more, but at that moment, urgent warning sounds came from outside. Song Xuyi was startled and raised her voice: “—Activate settings, destroy all traces.”

Almost as soon as Song Xuyi finished speaking, accompanied by a red light, violent impacts came from all directions. Then Song Xuyi fell into darkness…

However, this darkness seemed different from previous instances: her body was extremely stiff, and she felt as if she had suddenly sunk into a swamp. A suffocating sensation surged from all directions, and her limbs and internal organs were permeated with coldness—

Song Xuyi struggled with all her might against that overwhelming suffocating feeling, and finally, at some moment, she broke free from the restraints and opened her eyes.

Dazzling sunlight poured down, and as soon as Song Xuyi opened her eyes, she couldn’t help but want to cry. She could only close her eyes again.

When she felt she had more or less adapted to the environment, Song Xuyi tentatively opened her eyes.

Before her was a fully equipped laboratory. She could hear the growls of zombies around. Song Xuyi looked left and right and saw Zhao Miaomiao sleeping at the bedside.

How was she still alive? Hadn’t she been killed by Yu Song?

Song Xuyi blinked and moved her shoulders and neck. Perhaps due to sleeping for so long, Song Xuyi felt much stiffer than usual, and her thoughts were momentarily sluggish.

“Miaomiao?” Song Xuyi spoke softly, only to find her voice frighteningly dry and hoarse after speaking.

Almost as soon as Song Xuyi spoke, Zhao Miaomiao opened her eyes. Upon meeting Song Xuyi’s gaze, Zhao Miaomiao’s big eyes immediately filled with tears.

“Mommy Xuyi, you finally remember me! Wuwuwu…” Zhao Miaomiao rushed into Song Xuyi’s arms like a little firecracker, hugging Song Xuyi and crying incessantly: “You’ve been in a coma for almost a month—”

A month?

“I’m sorry,” Song Xuyi gently patted Zhao Miaomiao’s little shoulders, softly comforting her, “I didn’t know I would be unconscious for so long. I made Miaomiao worry.”

But Zhao Miaomiao shook her head: “Actually, I wasn’t the one who worried the most—”

Zhao Miaomiao seemed to remember something and quickly ran to the window, pushed it open, and shouted, “Aunt Shuiyu, Mommy Xuyi is awake!”

“Be careful,” Song Xuyi watched Zhao Miaomiao’s actions, amused in her heart. Knowing that Zhao Miaomiao was still young and might not be able to explain things clearly, Song Xuyi, as usual, asked the system. However, before the system could respond, there was a loud ‘bang’ from the window—Ye Shuiyu’s beautiful face had crashed into the window glass!

Even Song Xuyi felt pained seeing it, but Ye Shuiyu herself seemed to feel no pain at all. After seeing the awake Song Xuyi, she was obviously stunned for a moment, then quickly pushed open the window and jumped in.

Perhaps due to the backlight, when Song Xuyi first saw Ye Shuiyu, she felt that there seemed to be a red glow in Ye Shuiyu’s eyes, but when she looked carefully, Ye Shuiyu’s eyes appeared perfectly normal, looking no different from before.

As Ye Shuiyu approached, Song Xuyi belatedly realized she felt afraid: including the days she had been in a coma, Ye Shuiyu had now recovered twenty years of memories. She must have remembered that the original Song Xuyi had also experimented on her…

Song Xuyi unconsciously shrank back a little.

Ye Shuiyu’s eyes flickered, but she didn’t seem to notice Song Xuyi’s evasion. She stepped forward and hugged Song Xuyi, affectionately nuzzling her neck: “Xuyi, you’re awake!”

Song Xuyi’s body trembled slightly.

She didn’t know why, but the moment she touched Ye Shuiyu, her body suddenly went numb, losing all strength in that instant, as if instinctively unable to generate any resistance towards Ye Shuiyu.

What concerned Song Xuyi more was Ye Shuiyu’s attitude. Why did Ye Shuiyu still care so much about her?

Full of confusion, Song Xuyi questioned the system, but the system couldn’t explain clearly either. It only told Song Xuyi about the events that had occurred during this period.

“After Yu Song broke your throat bone that day, Ye Shuiyu rushed in and took you away. She was probably after Yu Song, but Yu Song used the lives of those researchers as shields, and your condition was very dangerous, so she didn’t kill Yu Song and took you away instead…”

“I could feel that your life force was terrifyingly low at that time,” the system’s voice became somewhat hesitant, as if carefully choosing its words: “…Anyway, Ye Shuiyu went crazy trying to save you, injecting all sorts of drugs into your body, and finally woke you up—”

“During the time you were in a coma, Ye Shuiyu also became a madwoman. She mobilized zombies to surround the city, with the intention that if you didn’t wake up, she would destroy the entire Jing to accompany you in death. Zhao Miaomiao has been too afraid to talk to her during this period…”

Song Xuyi felt that the system seemed to have omitted something in its words, but she couldn’t think of what it was at the moment, so she focused on her own question: “Why is she still so good to me?”

The system’s voice became even more evasive for a moment.

“Perhaps…”

“Ah! I don’t know either, why don’t you ask her yourself!” The system actually had a guess in its heart: if the villain was a sharp, relentless sword, hurting this world while recklessly harming herself, then every time she encountered Xuyi, the villain would gain a soft scabbard, teaching her to coexist peacefully with the world.

One thing restrains another, it’s as simple as that.

But the system felt awkward and couldn’t bluntly break through this layer of pretense, so it could only lie and claim ignorance.

Song Xuyi didn’t pursue the question further.

Being hugged by Ye Shuiyu like this was fine at first. Song Xuyi could understand Ye Shuiyu’s excitement, but as Ye Shuiyu held on for a long time without letting go, Song Xuyi’s cheeks felt increasingly hot—

“Shuiyu,” Song Xuyi gently poked Ye Shuiyu’s shoulder, watching as Zhao Miaomiao spread her five fingers wide, pretending to ‘cover’ her eyes while giggling and moving towards the door. Song Xuyi’s face turned bright red: “Can you… can you let go of me first?”

“No,” Ye Shuiyu’s voice sounded somewhat petulant: “I’m afraid that if I let go, you’ll run off to seek death again.”

This Ye Shuiyu didn’t have any of the cold-heartedness Song Xuyi had expected. Instead, she seemed no different from before…

Song Xuyi’s heart skipped a beat, and a thought flashed through her mind. She couldn’t help but ask—

“Shuiyu, how… how old are you this year?”

Ye Shuiyu blinked, a strange red light flashing quickly through her eyes, but her tone remained unchanged: “I’m seventeen, I’ve been seventeen these past few days—”

As she spoke, her tone contained a hint of amusement: “Xuyi, do you think my real age is seventeen? But… but I don’t seem to look like it…”

No wonder Ye Shuiyu would save her, it turns out she hasn’t remembered the original Song Xuyi experimenting on her.

Song Xuyi felt relieved in her heart, but hearing Ye Shuiyu’s latter words, she found herself in a dilemma, not knowing how to respond…

Ye Shuiyu couldn’t possibly be seventeen years old.

Nine years ago, Song Xuyi was fifteen, and Ye Shuiyu was eighteen. The current Ye Shuiyu should be twenty-seven years old.

But if she told Ye Shuiyu her real age, it would to some extent prove that she had interacted with the previous Ye Shuiyu—

However, Song Xuyi couldn’t bring herself to lie.

The system, seeing Song Xuyi like this, deeply sighed in its heart: The system didn’t believe Ye Shuiyu’s nonsense about not recovering her memories. Xuyi was good in every way, but particularly slow when it came to emotions, even less perceptive than itself as an observer.

“Do you really believe she’s seventeen?” The system couldn’t help but speak up.

Song Xuyi thought for a moment and quietly replied to the system: “If she had recovered her memories, with her strength, killing me would be like killing an ant. She has no reason to deceive me…”

The system choked, not wanting to help the villain break through that layer of pretense, and could only ‘hmph’ and speak sarcastically: “Maybe she has other motives?”

Song Xuyi was about to refute the system, saying that she had nothing the villain could covet, but before she could speak, Ye Shuiyu spoke again in a coquettish manner: “It seems Xuyi also thinks I’m not seventeen—”

“Xuyi won’t find me childish, will you?” Ye Shuiyu finally let go of her embrace of Song Xuyi, smiling and looking directly into Song Xuyi’s eyes: “I will strive to become Xuyi’s support and reliance.”

“Of course not.” Although she felt Ye Shuiyu’s words were somewhat strange, not sounding much like a child’s words, Song Xuyi was relieved that Ye Shuiyu didn’t pursue her view on her age further.

“I’m so glad.” Hearing Song Xuyi’s response, the smile on Ye Shuiyu’s face deepened even more: “Xuyi, it seems even the heavens have been helping me lately—”

She led Song Xuyi to the window. Although Song Xuyi had heard the growls of zombies when she woke up, it was clear that Ye Shuiyu knew Song Xuyi wouldn’t like her mobilizing zombies, so the area below had become extremely clean.

Song Xuyi then realized that she was in a hospital building in the suburbs, with a perfect view of the research institute in the distant base.

“Xuyi,” Ye Shuiyu turned her face, looking at Song Xuyi with bright eyes: “The person who collected evidence of Yu Song experimenting on humans and distributed flyers throughout the city was you, right?”

Song Xuyi lowered her head: this was the backup plan she had left. She had long anticipated the possibility of failure, so she had used crystals to bribe a wind-element ability user to blow the flyers across the entire city.

“Xuyi, you’re really amazing,” Song Xuyi didn’t know what had gotten into Ye Shuiyu, she seemed to have been stimulated by Song Xuyi’s near-death experience and became particularly fond of hugging people. When she got excited, she hugged Song Xuyi again.

“After the flyers spread across the city, Yu Song was immediately put under investigation. They… uncovered that he had been using human bodies for experiments for a long time, further deducing that he might be the mastermind behind the zombie virus. Now everyone is condemning him. Some time ago, he was injected with a new type of virus he had researched by people filled with righteous indignation, and he has now turned into a half-human, half-monkey monster—”

“The family of his wife, who was in cahoots with him, has also suffered a major blow. They’ve all been sent to the poorest slums now…” Ye Shuiyu’s voice contained pleasure: “For those who were once high and mighty, abusing their power, falling to the bottom is indeed a punishment worse than death for them…

“My Xuyi, coming up with such a plan, is really… extremely clever!”

“Is… is that so?” Song Xuyi didn’t know why, but it seemed that after waking up this time, she was particularly sensitive to Ye Shuiyu’s entire being. Just seeing Ye Shuiyu made her extremely happy, and when hugged by her, she couldn’t muster any desire to resist in her heart. Now, with Ye Shuiyu’s cool breath lingering by her ear, hearing her emphasize the words “my Xuyi,” Song Xuyi felt waves of numbness through her body, her legs going weak. It took all her willpower to maintain her composure and listen to the end of Ye Shuiyu’s words.

“I actually didn’t expect to achieve such an effect.” Song Xuyi’s face flushed red as she turned to look out the window: “After all, Yu Song had monopolized Jing before. I didn’t expect to be able to topple him. I just wanted to plant a seed in some people’s minds, waiting for the right time in the future when the truth would eventually be revealed—”

“Yes, I didn’t expect it either,” Ye Shuiyu curved her lips slightly, looking at Song Xuyi’s flushed face and small earlobe with near infatuation. Resisting the surging desire in her heart to claim Song Xuyi as her own, she struggled to maintain a calm tone: “Perhaps it’s because humans are not as worthless as we thought, they’re a bit smarter and more lovable than we imagined—”

While saying this, Ye Shuiyu deliberately omitted some things:

For instance, when the zombie army approached, Ye Shuiyu had pushed a talking third-level zombie puppet to the front, making people think the zombie army was controlled by a third-level zombie. The third-level zombie spoke: “Yu Song, you turned me into a beast that eats raw meat and drinks blood. You hypocritical scoundrel, the sinner of all humanity…” This caused an uproar throughout the city.

For instance, Song Xuyi’s friend she had mentioned earlier, Zhao Ningning, whose mother had been killed by Yu Song’s ability users, along with her boyfriend Li Sibai, were at the forefront of the resistance against Yu Song. They have now become high-level officials in the Jing base.

And also…

Ye Shuiyu lowered her head to look at Song Xuyi, her eyes with a red glow lingering on Song Xuyi’s smooth, fair neck.

Ye Shuiyu recalled how Song Xuyi looked when she saw her in the experimental building: hideous vines like a giant python were wrapped around Song Xuyi’s neck, her eyes tightly closed, being pulled by the vines like a broken kite falling to the ground—

At that moment, Ye Shuiyu felt unprecedented panic and pain, as if a whip had lashed across her heart.

She had come with anger towards Song Xuyi.

She thought Song Xuyi had remembered the events from when she was eighteen and had deliberately gone to Yu Song for protection.

But even this woman, who had once hurt her and now betrayed her again, Ye Shuiyu found she couldn’t bring herself to harm her;

At first, Ye Shuiyu thought it was due to Song Xuyi’s healing ability, which had a strong affinity, making her instinctively feel close to her: wanting to smile when she saw Song Xuyi smile, feeling extremely sad when Song Xuyi was upset, and feeling displeasure when seeing Song Xuyi playing with Zhao Miaomiao…

But later, Ye Shuiyu realized it wasn’t like that: when she returned to Yu Song’s side, she gradually learned to use schemes, becoming selfish and deceitful, but when she was with Song Xuyi, she felt as comfortable and at ease as before.

What Ye Shuiyu found even more intolerable was that she started to envy her daytime self…

It was then that Ye Shuiyu finally realized she might have some inappropriate feelings for Song Xuyi, even breaking her principles repeatedly for her.

It was she who had provoked her.

At that time, Ye Shuiyu was both angry and wronged, even spending a night drafting an agreement: as long as Song Xuyi was willing to treat her as before, taking her and Zhao Miaomiao wherever she went as previously planned, coaxing her to smile every day, doing what adults should do at the right time, proposing to her… then she would consider forgiving Song Xuyi.

Ye Shuiyu deeply regretted drafting that agreement because it took some time to print it, and when she went, Xuyi was already barely alive…

Ye Shuiyu never imagined that Song Xuyi had entered the research institute to kill Yu Song.

At first, she was both angry and heartbroken, angry that Song Xuyi didn’t discuss it with her, heartbroken for the suffering Song Xuyi endured, and finally, as she gradually recalled all her memories, day and night completely merged, and Ye Shuiyu began to repent, regretting that she, who prided herself on being clever, hadn’t realized in advance Song Xuyi’s intention to kill Yu Song…

Fortunately, this heaven, which had always been harsh on her, finally showed a bit of mercy this time, or perhaps it was that heaven couldn’t bear to see such a good Xuyi leave this world…

Even though it took quite an effort, and even though some things might be difficult for Xuyi to accept, she still survived.

What more could be hoped for?

Even if she had to pretend to be seventeen forever, even if Xuyi never realized her feelings and only regarded her as a partner, as long as Xuyi was alive, and could be as unrestrained as she was now around her, she would gladly accept it…

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The author has something to say:

Sobs, only managed to write over five thousand words today. Combined with the extra thousand or so words from yesterday, it barely counts as six thousand words for the day… right?

Covering my face, I’ll never randomly set FLAGS again~

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LP: Re-translated on November 19, 2024

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