The Ring's 'Poison'

Bai Ge's interest piqued, and he left the shop immediately, leaving Han Rui quite dejected.

It was like being pulled out at a crucial moment.

Fortunately, there were still many people around him. Just as he was preparing to ease the awkwardness, another person walked out.

This person was Shao Yuan. He had watched the entire scene and found Han Rui's behavior quite baffling.

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 turn cold.

Shao Yuan chased after Bai Ge, catching up to him in a few steps.

"You figured it out?"

Bai Ge chuckled, "This containment item is quite easy to identify. Come on, let's talk in the car."

The two got into the car, their eyes fixed on the red dot on the containment item map, chatting about what had just happened.

Shao Yuan said, "This guy is too flashy and can't handle provocation at all. He's always trying to show off. Isn't he afraid of people knowing about his abnormality?"

"Unless they're in their teens and going through a chuunibyo phase, most people wouldn't find it that strange. If I showed you my disguise abilities, would you think I had superpowers?" Bai Ge asked.

"I thought you were a secret agent... Indeed, if I didn't know about containment items, I wouldn't have thought in that direction at all. But he's so flashy, there will always be people who overthink things," Shao Yuan replied.

Bai Ge laughed, "When you found out earlier that he liked to brag online and make up all sorts of identities and experiences, I knew he was this kind of person."

Shao Yuan curled his lip, "Arrogant and self-important."

Bai Ge said, "Possessing a containment item already makes one extraordinary. You need to think from his perspective."

"The reason we can easily see his abnormality is because we already know about the existence of containment items and that he has an abnormality."

"But from his perspective, he doesn't know that there are other containment items in the world. Coupled with his personality, he'll definitely think he's unique, that he's already different from his past self and different from everyone else."

"When he was ordinary, he had a strong desire to perform. Now, he has even more so. He won't think we're testing him; instead, he'll think we're looking down on him, which is precisely what he can't stand the most."

"A simple way to summarize this mentality is... he's gotten too big for his britches."

Shao Yuan nodded. After thinking about it carefully, if he were in the other person's shoes, even though he wouldn't be as flashy as Han Rui, psychologically, he would definitely feel the same way.

"Bai Ge, what should we do then?"

Bai Ge looked at his phone and said, "Just follow him. There are too many people now, so it's not appropriate for us to make a move. We'll go to his house tonight to contain the ring."

Shao Yuan asked, "It's really a ring? Then how do we contain it? Kill him?"

Bai Ge glanced at Shao Yuan with amusement, "Wouldn't it be more troublesome if he died? We can just steal it."

At night, Shao Yuan sat alone in the car operating his computer. The car was parked near the villa area.

He monitored all the cameras and watched Bai Ge walk in.

"Bai Ge, he's not alone at home. He brought a woman back," Shao Yuan said into his earpiece.

On the computer screen, Bai Ge swaggered through all the surveillance cameras, but Shao Yuan would process and remove these. For now, only Shao Yuan's screen displayed the real footage.

Bai Ge had now reached the entrance of Villa No. 69. He looked at the surrounding environment and directly pushed the door open.

All locked doors were merely decorations to him.

"Brought a woman? What a hassle," Bai Ge muttered casually as he walked to the window, easily opening it and climbing in.

He moved effortlessly through the entire villa and soon found Han Rui and the woman in the kitchen.

The two were having intercourse on top of the dishwasher, making strange noises.

Bai Ge listened outside the kitchen for a while, contemplating whether to interrupt them...

After some thought, Bai Ge decided to create a disturbance to lure them out and knock them unconscious.

But suddenly, he heard the woman scream, "Wait, it hurts so much, my body... my body feels so uncomfortable!"

Han Rui seemed to have suddenly covered the woman's mouth, then said, "Keep it down! If I can't do this kind of thing for the rest of my life, what's the difference between me and a eunuch? I can only apologize to you!"

Soon, the woman went silent, and then, from the kitchen, Han Rui's heavy panting could be heard, as if he were calming himself down.

Bai Ge stood outside the kitchen, stunned, wondering what was going on.

What happened to the woman?

Bai Ge clearly sensed that only one person's breathing could be heard from the kitchen.

He could no longer resist and walked inside, realizing that this ring had properties he was unaware of.

Bai Ge silently sidled into the kitchen and found Han Rui sitting on the dishwasher, staring blankly at the disappearing corpse on the floor.

Yes, disappearing.

It was as if it were being eaten away bit by bit, and soon only a pile of bones remained, which were also rapidly vanishing.

Bai Ge couldn't tell what caused the corpse to disappear. If it were evaporation, it would be similar, but the corpse didn't emit any unusual odors or steam.

The woman was dead, inexplicably and cleanly dead.

And Han Rui clearly knew about this death.

"Bai Ge, what's wrong? What eunuch? What do you mean sorry?" Shao Yuan heard the woman's scream through the earpiece on Bai Ge.

Bai Ge secretly pulled back and said softly, "That woman is dead, her body was completely devoured."

"Devoured by what?" Shao Yuan asked.

"I don't know... I can't see it..." Bai Ge replied.

"Then be careful! Or maybe you should come back first!" Shao Yuan said with concern.

Bai Ge said, "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. Don't get lucky when facing a containment item."

Bai Ge grunted, "You're quite cautious, but you're right. Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."

After speaking, he walked directly into the kitchen.

Han Rui sensed someone entering and turned his head to see Bai Ge, immediately falling off the dishwasher in shock.

"Who!"

He looked at Bai Ge in shock, not realizing that someone had suddenly broken into the house.

But then, he recognized Bai Ge's appearance, because Bai Ge hadn't changed his fabricated appearance and was the same person who called him a liar earlier that day.

"It's you! How did you get in? What did you see?" Han Rui stared at Bai Ge intently, no longer flustered, and casually pulled a kitchen knife from the table.

Bai Ge glanced at it, unconcerned about him holding the knife, and instead pointed at the clothes left on the ground by the just-vanished corpse.

"What happened?"

Han Rui's face darkened, and he lunged forward, slashing at Bai Ge with the knife.

Bai Ge didn't hold back, instantly pulling a long saber from his forehead and swinging it directly at Han Rui.

Without giving Han Rui a chance to react, he decisively severed one of Han Rui's hands.

The hand, along with a ring, fell to the ground. Han Rui gasped and leaned against the wall, dropping the kitchen knife, utterly terrified.

Bai Ge's attention was on the ring. Seeing that the ring showed no reaction, he breathed a sigh of relief. After a moment of hesitation, he didn't dare to touch the ring.

"Tell me, how did that woman die?" Bai Ge pointed the saber at Han Rui.

He had originally only intended to steal the ring secretly and not show himself.

But what had just happened made him realize that this ring might have other effects on its wearer.

If that was the case, Bai Ge wouldn't dare to touch the ring until he figured things out.

And without touching the ring, he couldn't put it into his "brain hole," as the process required touching his own head.

If he couldn't use his brain hole to investigate the ring's properties, he would have to find out from Han Rui first.

Han Rui was terrified by Bai Ge's direct and brutal approach, screaming and clutching his wrist.

"You... you..." Han Rui trembled with pain, his face covered in sweat, stuttering as he spoke.

He stammered for a long time but said nothing, yet he clearly understood Bai Ge's intentions. After all, Bai Ge hadn't attacked the hand holding the knife, but the one wearing the ring.

Han Rui couldn't understand. Even if he had shown extraordinary medical skills and aroused some suspicion, there was no need for this person to break into his home and confront him with a knife.

And... where did that knife come from?

Han Rui felt like disaster was imminent. He realized that Bai Ge likely possessed extraordinary abilities and, having injured him, would certainly not spare his life.

"I won't say anything even if you beat me to death... If I don't say anything, he definitely won't kill me... Ahhh! No! It hurts so much!" The first part was just a thought, but the latter part was an involuntary cry of pain.

It turned out that Bai Ge, seeing his silence, had directly poked Han Rui's wound with the saber. After just two pokes, Han Rui collapsed to the ground, tears streaming from his eyes from the pain.

"Returning to my question, how did this woman die?" Bai Ge poked Han Rui's wound with the saber and asked again.

"It hurts! I'll talk! Stop poking!"

Han Rui couldn't bear the pain, and his will immediately broke. He said, "Because... because my ding ding... can kill people."

"..." Bai Ge was stunned, not knowing what to say.

Han Rui said with a mournful face, "Whenever I have any sexual intercourse with someone, she dies."

"What devoured her body? Was it some kind of microscopic virus?" Bai Ge asked.

Han Rui gasped, "No, I can sense viruses in people around me. She didn't die from a virus."

Bai Ge said, "Then what was it?"

Han Rui cried, "I don't know, it's like a... a curse that kills whoever I sleep with?"