When the Female Lead Becomes Obsessive – Chapter 127

Volume Six: The Years I Wasn’t Human

Painkiller

Wen Nuan walked into the sealed room. An Min had prepared many high-rank crystal cores for her to absorb to recover her body.

Rumbling thunder and flashing lightning, fierce fire burning.

For an entire day, Wen Nuan went from a bloody mess to a bloody mess again, burned and electrocuted until she no longer looked human. Chu Han’s electro-type ability was already formidable, and Sang Er’s pyro-type ability was even more ferocious. The power of these two abilities was demonstrated to the fullest extent¹ on Wen Nuan’s body.

Chu Han and Gao Zhengwu truly could not bear to watch Wen Nuan’s miserable state, and they averted their eyes one after another, unable to look directly.

Sang Er’s face was already covered in tears, which blurred her vision. She kept her eyes tightly shut, listening to An Min continuously shouting “Increase! Increase!” from the control room.

After a long time.

An Min looked at the values on the computer and smiled with satisfaction. “Alright, everyone can stop.”

He clicked save. Looking at the charred black corpse in the sealed room, he said faintly, “Everyone out. Wen Nuan can just stay here and recover properly.”

“I want to stay.” Sang Er’s voice was hoarse from crying, her red eyes glaring at An Min.

An Min shook his head and said faintly, “No.”

“Are you looking for death?” An Min was continuously rubbing back and forth on her bottom line², and Sang Er had already wanted to slaughter this guy several times.

“If you kill me now, then all the suffering Miss Lin has endured will be for nothing.” An Min smiled, his eyes showing ridicule. “Is Miss Sang sure you want to kill me?”

Anger was in Sang Er’s eyes. She clenched her fists and said through gritted teeth, “You’d better be able to figure out a way to solve the H-agent’s side effects, otherwise This Father³ will cremate you on the spot.”

An Min smiled with ease. “Okay.”

Sang Er gave Wen Nuan a deep look, then turned and left.

Wen Nuan’s consciousness slowly returned. Looking at her own charred black body, she collapsed on the ground and let out a breath of relief. “Dying and coming back to life, it’s really too tiring.”

The system sighed: 【The blackening value has risen, the female lead’s current blackening value is 5.5!】

Wen Nuan was not surprised that the blackening value would rise. After all, Sang Er was not cold-blooded and ruthless, she had feelings for her, it’s just that she didn’t know it.

“It’s fine, it will go down in a few days. No rush.”

The system also knew Wen Nuan had a plan in her heart. It looked at Wen Nuan’s miserable appearance and sighed with emotion: 【Fortunately, this body of yours has no sense of pain, otherwise you would have been tormented to death.】

After all, the pain-blocking it provided couldn’t help Wen Nuan much.

Wen Nuan smiled and said nothing.

“Are you okay?” An Min looked at that charred black lump in the sealed room. He knew Wen Nuan could hear his question.

Wen Nuan tentatively moved her finger and gave An Min the middle finger, proving she was still alive.

An Min looked at the middle finger Wen Nuan gave him and smiled helplessly. “It seems you’re still quite spirited.”

He looked at the data on the computer. “Now, I can give you one hundred percent certainty.”

Wen Nuan didn’t want to talk, mainly because her five facial features⁴ were all burned away. She made an “OK” sign again.

An Min was still very curious about Wen Nuan’s immortal body. “In your current state, how much more time do you need to recover?”

Wen Nuan held a fifth-rank crystal core, absorbed it instantly, and waved her hand, indicating that she herself was also not very clear.

An Min thought for a moment, walked into the sealed room, took a crystal core from his pocket and handed it over. “A Zombie Emperor’s crystal core. The impurities inside are almost negligible. You try it?”

This was what Wen Nuan had given him at the time for his research, but he hadn’t used it. Because he had planned from the beginning to experiment on Wen Nuan, he had intentionally saved this Zombie Emperor’s crystal core for her.

Wen Nuan looked at the crystal core in his hand and opened her palm.

An Min placed the crystal core in her palm, then widened his eyes and watched the almost magical phenomenon before him.

The Zombie Emperor’s crystal core contained enormous energy. This enormous energy could allow Wen Nuan to instantly recover as before, her flesh and skin reorganizing and growing again.

An Min’s brows furrowed. During the experiment just now, Wen Nuan already didn’t look human, so there was no need for anyone to pay attention to the distinction between male and female⁵. But now that Wen Nuan had started to recover her body, some places were gradually beginning to take shape.

He turned around, took off his clothes and covered Wen Nuan’s body, then walked out of the sealed room.

Wen Nuan put on the clothes, walked out of the sealed room, glanced at the control console, and asked, “How much more time do you need to create the antidote for the H-agent’s side effects?”

An Min thought for a moment. “One month at the fastest, three months at the slowest.”

“Is there anything else you need me to do?”

“I might need you to test the medicine,” An Min planned to use zombies and Wen Nuan to test each generation of the antidote he created, to observe the specific reaction process of the medicine’s properties.

Wen Nuan understood the time and energy required to create an antidote and said with great understanding, “Okay, call me when you’ve made it. I’ll be going first.”

After Wen Nuan finished absorbing the Zombie Emperor’s crystal core, she felt her physical and mental strength were exceptionally abundant.

If I could roll around with her⁶, I wouldn’t be tired for seven days and seven nights.

The system sneered: 【In that case, the female lead would be screwed to death by you.】

Seven days and seven nights, be a human⁷.

Wen Nuan touched her nose and said awkwardly, “Isn’t this just using a bit of exaggeration.”

The system snorted a laugh: 【Hehe.】

You guess if it believes it. Truly an animal.

Wen Nuan walked out of the laboratory. As soon as the electronic door opened, she saw Sang Er sitting on the floor, her head buried between her legs. Her entire body exuded exhaustion and gloom, hidden in a corner, slowly being covered by darkness.

Her clothes had all been burned away; on her body was only An Min’s lab coat and a pair of slippers.

Wen Nuan walked in front of Sang Er, squatted down, and called her softly, “Little Ears?”

Sang Er didn’t react, still maintaining the posture of hugging herself, as if she had sealed herself off.

Wen Nuan reached out her hand and hugged Sang Er. “Little Ears, I’m Wen Nuan. Pay attention to me, okay?”

She must have been terrified.

Sang Er’s body shook violently. She hugged Wen Nuan, buried herself in Wen Nuan’s embrace, and burst into tears. “Wen Nuan….”

“I’m here, I’m here, don’t cry,” she coaxed softly.

Sang Er cried too fiercely, her body trembling nonstop, her cries filled with fear and terror. She hugged Wen Nuan tightly, wishing she could merge her into her own body.

She had killed Wen Nuan with her own hands, killed Wen Nuan again and again…

The base’s power supply had a time limit. As soon as it was ten o’clock at night, except for An Min’s laboratory, the power in all other places would immediately be cut.

Using the moonlight, Wen Nuan looked at Sang Er, whose eyes were swollen from crying. “Still crying?”

Sang Er shook her head. Seeing that Wen Nuan wasn’t missing any arms or legs, she let out a breath of relief and sobbed, “N-..not crying anymore.”

“Then let’s go home, okay?” Wen Nuan’s voice was light and soft.

“En,” Sang Er looked at Wen Nuan, who was only wearing a lab coat. She took out the bag from behind her. “I prepared clothes for you. You should change into them first.”

Wen Nuan took it. After all, besides the lab coat, she was in a state of vacuum underneath⁸. “Okay.”

Wen Nuan finished changing and slowly and leisurely walked back to Building A with Sang Er.

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If one ignored the ceaselessly roaring zombie hordes outside the base, the peaceful and quiet atmosphere inside the base made one feel as if the apocalypse had never happened.

Tonight’s moon was both round and big, hanging high in the night sky, illuminating the road back by a lot.

The two of them walked on the road, fingers intertwined⁹, mutually silent.

“Does it hurt?”

Wen Nuan knew what she was asking. She shook her head and said, “It doesn’t hurt.”

Sang Er’s throat was already hoarse from crying, her voice a bit low and magnetic. She denied in a low voice, “…I don’t believe you.”

Her ability burned zombies to the point they were crying for their fathers and shouting for their mothers¹⁰. How could Wen Nuan not be in pain? Chu Han’s ability was also very powerful, how could Wen Nuan not be in pain?

Seeing that Sang Er didn’t believe her, Wen Nuan sighed. “Alright, I am indeed in pain.”

Sang Er panicked. “Where… where does it hurt?”

“It hurts here,” Wen Nuan said, placing Sang Er’s hand on her chest, a faint smile appearing in her eyes. “My heart aches¹¹.”

Sang Er saw her smile and knew right away that she was joking with her.

But she couldn’t bear to be angry with Wen Nuan, and asked, “Wen Nuan, did it hurt that time?”

“What?”

Sang Er looked at her, her eye sockets turning red, the scene of Wen Nuan and the Zombie King self-destructing four months ago surfaced in her mind. She choked out, “That time, the self-destruction, did it hurt?”

Wen Nuan was startled, her expression conflicted, then she smiled wistfully. “A little.”

At that time she was still human, she didn’t have her current immortal body. Although the system had activated pain-blocking for her, there was still a little bit of pain.

Sang Er took her hand and blew on it distressedly. “I’ll huff-huff¹² for you, then it won’t hurt anymore.”

She was an unwanted wild child¹³. Sometimes when she got bumped or scraped, she could only endure it herself and not cry. Later, an elderly person in the village told her that if something hurt, she should just “huff-huff” at the wound, and letting the wind carry away the pain would make it stop hurting.

Wen Nuan blinked, her eyes felt a little sore, her voice had a trace of an imperceptible tremble. “But I… still hurt?”

“Then what should we do?” Sang Er was a little flustered. In the apocalypse, medical resources were the most scarce. She only had a relatively powerful pyro-type ability, and nothing else.

Wen Nuan pulled Sang Er into her embrace, stroking the back of her neck, and sighed softly, “Little Ears, let me hug you.”

“It won’t hurt like this?” Sang Er hugged Wen Nuan’s slender waist and asked, puzzled.

“En, it doesn’t hurt anymore,” Wen Nuan’s expression was moved. “You are my painkiller. As long as I’m hugging you, it doesn’t hurt.”

In that instant, Sang Er felt as if her heart had skipped a beat.

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