Chapter 1082: Mental Manipulator
"I just think it's a pity. It's rare that a new batch of people have arrived, and it's such a waste for them to die just like that." Sun Jing said.
Miss Ma shot him a sideways glance, grabbed her clothes, and stood up. "I think you've got your eyes on those female players. You men are really something—you can control your brains but not your lower half!"
Sun Jing pulled her back, stroking her smooth shoulder, and said, "I'm completely devoted to you. Look at everyone else in the building—how many women haven't they slept with? Only me, from start to finish, it's only been you."
Miss Ma snorted, satisfied as she leaned against him. "I'm getting old, stuck in this godforsaken place day in and day out, wind and sun beating down on me. Of course I can't compare to those tender young girls. Not to mention that lame one—I saw you staring straight at that little girl surnamed Zhou."
Sun Jing teased, "It's been so long since we've seen any strangers, can't you let me have a wandering eye?"
"You need to consider our situation too. None of you can have children anymore. We need new women. The women in Zone 002 have congenital defects. Mr. Kang definitely won't approve of them. He'll probably let Zheng Da and the others have their fun and then toss them to the back."
"Those three female players can still be used."
Miss Ma pushed him away with a look of disgust. "What's the use of giving birth? This place can't raise children at all. I think you men are just making up excuses for your own desires!"
Sun Jing grabbed her again and bit into her lips before saying, "Don't you want this place to become a real city? Maybe even create a country here? Then we'd be the kings of that country, doing whatever we want, with no games or laws to control us!"
But Miss Ma wasn't fooled by his grand promises. "Create a country? Children are born affected by the gluttony desire and can't even live past three years old. You expect children to have children, generation after generation? Don't dream on."
"And let me tell you, that Kang guy isn't necessarily anything good. He paints a rosy picture for you, but has a single child grown up so far?"
"Women die batch after batch, and not a single child survives. I ask you, where are the bodies of those children?"
Sun Jing's face changed. He pushed her away and started putting on his clothes. "Don't say things like that anymore."
"Why shouldn't I say it?" Miss Ma refused to let it go. "That old bastard Kang had his eyes turning green today staring at someone else's child. I ask you, was my child, our child, eaten by him..."
"Slap!" Her words were cut off by a slap. Sun Jing stared at her viciously. "You'd better behave yourself. If Mr. Kang finds out, you'll end up in the back too!"
After hitting her, Sun Jing rolled over to another bed to sleep, but then felt a pain in his back. He casually slapped at it, scratched a few times, then suddenly convulsed. He sat up abruptly, frantically reaching for an antidote to pour into his mouth. But strangely, his hand froze in midair, and right before his eyes, he poured all the potion onto the ground...
"I've been poisoned! Quick..." Sun Jing was immobilized by an item and couldn't move. He looked up to beg Miss Ma for help, only to find her frozen stiff in place as well!
Bitten by a venomous insect, Sun Jing quickly succumbed to the poison. In less than ten seconds, he had breathed his last.
Miss Ma opened her mouth but couldn't speak. She watched the man with the blackened face, first feeling a sense of satisfaction, then her eyes reddened. But all these emotions disappeared when she saw the man suddenly sitting across from her.
"Don't kill me!" Her mouth opened and closed. Though no sound came out, she still accurately formed those three words.
The man across from her raised a hand, and the pitch-black room suddenly turned white. Except for the two beds still in their original positions, everything else was gone. A matching white table appeared, with a white notebook and a white pen on it.
Crossing his hands on the table, Xu Huo looked at Miss Ma and said gently, "Please stay calm. I have a few questions to ask you."
"You..." Miss Ma found she could speak as soon as she opened her mouth, so she screamed for help at the top of her lungs. But even after shouting several times, she got no response. Her ears were filled with an empty silence.
"What tricks have you pulled?" Miss Ma's forehead broke out in sweat. "I definitely can't have left the building. I'm still inside. Why can't I hear a single sound?"
The person across from her didn't answer her question. He stood up, walked over to her, took out a syringe from his white coat, raised it to expel the air, and then aimed it at her shoulder. "Your mental state is a bit unstable. This shot will calm you down."
As the medicine was injected, Miss Ma indeed calmed down and was no longer as agitated as before. But she was still full of wariness toward Xu Huo. "Let me go quickly, or Mr. Kang will find out sooner or later!"
Xu Huo returned to the table, picked up the pen to take notes, and said without looking up, "Mr. Kang ate your child. Do you think he will help you?"
Miss Ma sneered. "Why don't you just say what you want to know? Why bother with this divisive tactic?"
"Isn't this the truth?" Xu Huo looked up at her while adjusting his glasses, then tapped the notebook with the pen tip. "Now, let's start with the first question."
"How many players are in this commercial building, and what are their player levels respectively?"
Miss Ma looked at him mockingly and didn't intend to answer.
Xu Huo drew a line on the notebook with his pen, then continued with the second question. "How many children have you given birth to?"
Still no answer. He drew another line, then asked the third question. "You said there would be a xenomorph attack on this building. What kind of xenomorph is it?"
Fourth question: "Are you afraid of Mr. Kang?"
Fifth question: "Besides Sun Jing, do you have any other partners?"
Sixth question: "How is your relationship with your other companions?"
Seventh question: "You and your companions discussed dealing with today's newcomers. What are the notable characteristics of these people? Men or women? Or both, and how many men and how many women respectively?"
Xu Huo paused to make notes after each question, so the intervals were a bit longer. After the seventh question, Miss Ma watched him writing and drawing and finally couldn't help but ask, "What are you talking about?"
Xu Huo paused. "Do you want to answer this question?"
Miss Ma found it absurd. "What question? Are you illiterate or have you lost your memory? Don't you even know who your own companions are?"
Xu Huo raised an eyebrow and added another stroke. "So you think I'm an outsider too."
"Psycho..." Miss Ma opened her mouth to curse, but in the blink of an eye, she found that Sun Jing's body behind Xu Huo had disappeared, and the bedsheet had turned into blue and white stripes. Looking down at herself, she was also wearing a blue and white striped coat!
Grabbing her clothes, she gritted her teeth and said, "Looks like you're a powerful mental manipulator!"
Xu Huo just looked at her, then lowered his head and added another stroke to the notebook.
(Chapter End)