Bai Ge immediately lost interest and walked straight out of the shop, leaving Han Rui deeply frustrated.
It was like pulling out right at the crucial moment.
Fortunately, there were still plenty of people around him. Just as he was preparing to ease the awkwardness, another person walked out.
That person was Shao Yuan. He had watched the entire scene and was quite puzzled by Han Rui's behavior.
As he left, he glanced at Han Rui as if he were looking at an idiot.
Han Rui was stunned. He suddenly felt the atmosphere grow terribly cold.
Shao Yuan chased after Bai Ge and caught up with him after a few steps.
"You saw through him?"
Bai Ge smiled. "That containment object is pretty easy to identify. Come on, we'll talk in the car."
The two got into the car. They kept an eye on the red dot on the containment-object map while discussing what had just happened.
Shao Yuan said, "That guy is way too showy, and he can't take the slightest provocation. He's always trying to show off. Isn't he afraid people will find out something's wrong with him?"
"Unless they're going through their chuunibyou phase, ordinary people won't find this too strange. If I showed you my disguise right in front of you, would you think I had superpowers?" Bai Ge asked.
"I thought you were a secret agent... True, if I hadn't known about containment objects, I never would have thought in that direction. But he's being so conspicuous that someone is bound to overthink it," Shao Yuan said.
Bai Ge smiled. "You found out earlier that he liked bragging online and making up all sorts of identities and experiences. I knew then that this was his personality."
Shao Yuan curled his lip. "He thinks he's extraordinary."
"Possessing a containment object is extraordinary in itself. You need to look at the matter from his perspective."
"We can easily see that something is wrong with him because we already know containment objects exist and know that something is wrong with him."
"But from his perspective, he doesn't know there are other containment objects in the world. Combined with his personality, he'll naturally think he's one of a kind. He'll feel that he's already different from who he used to be, and different from everyone else."
"When he was ordinary, he already had an intense desire to show off. Now it's even stronger. He won't think we're testing him. Instead, he'll assume we're looking down on him, and that's precisely what he can't tolerate."
"To sum up this mentality simply... he's gotten carried away."
Shao Yuan nodded. Thinking about it carefully, if he were in the other person's position, he wouldn't be as showy as Han Rui, but psychologically, he would definitely be the same.
"Bai Ge, what should we do, then?"
Bai Ge looked at his phone. "Just follow him. There are too many people around right now, so it isn't suitable for us to act. Tonight, we'll go straight to his house and contain that ring."
Shao Yuan asked, "It really is a ring? How do we contain it, then? Kill him?"
Bai Ge gave Shao Yuan an amused look. "Wouldn't it be more troublesome if he died? We can just steal it."
At night, Shao Yuan sat alone in the car, operating a computer. The car was parked near the villa district.
He monitored all the surveillance cameras and watched Bai Ge walk inside.
"Bai Ge, he isn't alone at home. He brought a woman back with him," Shao Yuan said into the earpiece.
On the computer screen, Bai Ge was brazenly captured by every surveillance camera, but Shao Yuan would erase all those records. For the time being, only Shao Yuan's screen displayed the real footage.
Bai Ge had already reached the entrance of Villa No. 69. He looked around, then pushed the door open and walked inside.
To him, every locked door was merely decorative.
"He brought a woman? What a nuisance," Bai Ge muttered casually as he came to a window, easily opened it, and climbed inside.
He moved effortlessly throughout the villa and soon found Han Rui and the woman in the kitchen.
The two were having sex atop the dishwasher, making strange noises.
Bai Ge listened outside the kitchen for a while, wondering whether he should interrupt them...
After thinking it over, Bai Ge decided to make some noise and lure them out, then knock them unconscious while he had the chance.
But suddenly, he heard the woman scream. She shrieked, "Wait, it hurts! My body... my body feels so awful!"
Han Rui seemed to suddenly cover the woman's mouth, then said, "Keep your voice down! If I never did this sort of thing for the rest of my life, what difference would there be between me and a eunuch? I'm sorry, but I have no choice!"
Soon, the woman fell silent. Then Han Rui's heavy breathing rang out from the kitchen, as if he were calming himself down.
Bai Ge froze outside the kitchen, wondering what was going on.
What had happened to that woman?
Bai Ge clearly sensed that only one person's breathing remained in the kitchen.
He finally couldn't resist walking inside, and realized that the ring had another property he knew nothing about.
Bai Ge silently leaned into the kitchen and saw Han Rui sitting on the dishwasher, staring blankly at the corpse on the floor as it disappeared.
Yes, disappeared.
It was as if something were devouring it bit by bit. Soon, only a pile of bones remained, and those bones were also rapidly vanishing.
Bai Ge couldn't tell what was causing the corpse to disappear. If it had been evaporating, it would have looked much the same, but the corpse gave off no strange smell or steam.
The woman was dead, and her body had been inexplicably devoured until nothing remained.
And Han Rui clearly knew exactly what had happened.
"Bai Ge, what's going on? What eunuch? What are you sorry for?" Shao Yuan heard the woman's scream through the earpiece on Bai Ge.
Bai Ge quietly withdrew and said softly, "The woman's dead. Her corpse was completely devoured."
"Devoured by what?" Shao Yuan asked.
"I don't know... I can't see it," Bai Ge said.
"Then be careful! Why don't you come back first?" Shao Yuan said worriedly.
"No. I've already come this far. There's no reason to turn back."
Hearing this, Shao Yuan suddenly said coldly, "Then kill him. Don't give him a chance to fight back. When dealing with a containment object, don't take any chances."
Bai Ge hummed in response. "You're quite cautious. But you're right. Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."
With that, he walked straight into the kitchen.
Han Rui noticed someone entering. When he turned his head and saw Bai Ge, he was so frightened that he fell off the dishwasher.
"Who!"
He stared at Bai Ge in shock, completely unaware that someone had suddenly broken into the house.
But then he recognized Bai Ge, because Bai Ge had never changed this fabricated appearance. He was the same person who had called Han Rui a liar during the day.
"It's you! How did you get in? What did you see?" Han Rui stared fixedly at Bai Ge. He quickly calmed down, then casually pulled a kitchen knife from the table.
Bai Ge glanced at it. He didn't care that Han Rui had a knife and instead pointed at the clothes left behind by the vanished corpse.
"What happened?"
Han Rui's expression darkened. He lunged forward and slashed at Bai Ge with the knife.
Bai Ge showed him no mercy. A long blade instantly emerged from his forehead, and he swung it straight at Han Rui.
Without giving Han Rui any chance to react, he decisively chopped off one of Han Rui's hands.
The hand, ring and all, fell to the ground. Han Rui sucked in a sharp breath and leaned against the wall. He dropped the kitchen knife, his face filled with horror.
Bai Ge focused on the ring. Only after seeing that it showed no reaction did he relax. After hesitating for a moment, he didn't dare touch it.
"Tell me. How did that woman die?" Bai Ge pointed his knife at Han Rui.
He had originally planned to secretly take the ring without revealing himself.
But what had just happened made him realize that the ring might have other effects on its wearer.
Since that was the case, Bai Ge naturally didn't dare touch the ring before figuring things out.
And without touching the ring, he naturally couldn't put it into his mindscape, because that process required him to touch his own head.
Since he couldn't use his mindscape to investigate the ring's properties, he could only find out from Han Rui first.
Han Rui was frightened by Bai Ge's blunt brutality and clutched his wrist, screaming.
"You... you..." Han Rui trembled from the pain, his face covered in sweat. He even stammered as he spoke.
He mumbled for a long time but couldn't say anything. However, he had clearly realized why Bai Ge had come. After all, Bai Ge hadn't chopped off the hand holding the kitchen knife, but the one wearing the ring.
Han Rui couldn't understand it. Even if his extraordinary medical skills had aroused some suspicion, there was no reason for this man to break into his home and come at him with a knife.
And besides... where had that knife come from?
Han Rui felt that he was in grave danger. He realized that Bai Ge probably possessed supernatural abilities as well. Now that Bai Ge had injured him, he certainly wouldn't spare his life.
Even if he beats me to death, I can't tell him... If I don't tell him, he definitely won't kill me... Aah! No! It hurts!
The first half was only a thought, but he couldn't help crying out in pain at the end.
It turned out that Bai Ge had seen him remain silent and directly poked his wound with the knife. After only two pokes, Han Rui collapsed limply to the ground, tears of pain spilling from his eyes.
"Back to my question. How did this woman die?" Bai Ge poked Han Rui's wound with the knife again and asked once more.
"It hurts! I'll talk! Stop poking me!"
Han Rui couldn't stand the pain any longer, and his will collapsed instantly. He said, "Because... because my penis... kills people."
"..." Bai Ge was so stunned that he didn't know what to say.
Han Rui said with a mournful expression, "Whenever I have any kind of sexual activity with someone, she dies."
"What devoured her corpse? Some kind of virus too small to see?" Bai Ge asked.
Han Rui panted. "No. I can sense the viruses inside the bodies around me. She didn't die because of a virus."
"Then what did she die from?"
Han Rui cried, "I don't know. It seems like some kind of... Kill-on-Sight curse?"
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