Hurting Each Other, Licking Each Other's Wounds / Active and Passive

Lin glanced at Vill-V again to make sure she was still asleep, and then turned his attention to Elysia.

This nurse's uniform was originally meant to be a prank on him, but after seeing Lin and Vill-V asleep, she for some reason decided to lean on their shoulders and fall asleep as well.

Should I say I'm relieved...?

As Lin observed Elysia's attire, something suddenly occurred to him.

The two real Elysia seem to have the same figure. He spent four years with the Elysia from that world and knew exactly where every piece of flesh on her body was. However, the Elysia from the Intrinsic World is not a homebody who spends all day streaming; she needs to go out on missions every day. So why do the two Elysia look similar in figure?

Could it be that there are slight differences in the unseen areas?

Lin's eyesight was almost like a high-precision measuring instrument; he could measure Elysia's measurements at a glance, and there was almost no difference between the measurements of the two Elysia.

Lin then shifted his gaze from Elysia's exquisitely sculpted face to her stockinged thighs, scrutinizing her perfect long legs beneath the smooth white stockings with a serious look.

His eyes, cold as frost, greedily swept over every corner with a meticulous academic perspective.

Elysia usually wears black over-the-knee boots, which are a bit too tight, but now she wears white pantyhose, which makes her figure look more beautiful, but it's impossible to tell the difference between her slight plumpness and slenderness.

So...

Lin reached out and placed his hand on the conspicuous thigh, carefully pinching the flesh with his palm to visually assess whether it was more fleshy than it appeared.

"Hmm..." Lin raised an eyebrow, cupped his hand, and gently stroked the skin covered by SiZhi with his fingers.

It seems... there's no difference.

The soft flesh usually grows on the upper inner side of the thighs. He pinched that area a little harder and found that it was fleshier than it looked, which surprised Lin.

He didn't notice at all that as he started touching and pinching her thigh, someone pursed their lips, their eyelids fluttered, and a beautiful sunset began to appear on their fair cheeks.

After touching every part of it carefully, Lin came to a conclusion.

The Elysia from the Intrinsic World is actually the fatter one.

That sounds a bit ambiguous. He felt that the difference between the two was less than half a pound of flesh, and that the difference was that the Elysia from the Intrinsic World would feel softer to the touch.

The fact that the two were different actually put Lin at ease. He had an inexplicable sense of resistance in his heart, which made him not want to treat the two as the same person. That would be too much, both for the two of them.

He withdrew his hand with satisfaction, but just as he was about to turn his gaze away as well, he noticed something unusual on Elysia's face.

Lin only sees black and white; he can't tell if someone is blushing. To him, blushing is just a slight darkening of the face, but for the sensitive Lin, even such a small difference would make him feel something is different.

He moved closer to Elysia's closed eyes and carefully examined every inch of her skin.

When they were less than a centimeter apart, her tightly closed eyes suddenly opened, and her beautiful, breathtaking eyes looked at him with sparkling eyes.

"..."

Moonlight, silent.

Lin was stunned for half a second, then heard a series of "click" sounds as the flashlights illuminated the entire ward like daytime.

Elysia suddenly stood up, her face flushed red to her ears. She forced a calm expression and held up her camera, laughing loudly at the expressionless Lin: "Hehe~ I caught you, didn't I? The usually serious Lin is sleeping with two girls and is planning to make a move on the cute nurse girl in her sleep."

I've been tricked.

Lin had almost forgotten Elysia the gentle and lovely Elysia loved to tease others after spending so much time with her. At this moment, he had undoubtedly fallen into her trap.

"Hmph, what do you want to exchange these photos for... Don't look at me~, I'm just a beautiful girl passing by, you guys continue."

After saying that, Elysia grabbed the camera containing evidence of "intending to do something indecent to a beautiful girl" and rushed out of the ward.

Lin took a deep breath, then indifferently turned his head to look at Vill-V face was already full of barely suppressed laughter.

"Are you pretending to be asleep too?"

"Pfft, hahahahaha..."

Chapter Twenty: Hurting Each Other, Licking Each Other's Wounds

The green-haired girl silently walked into the laboratory, leaning on her mode of transportation. Danzhu and Cangxuan were already standing at the door, anxiously waiting for her. She coldly raised her snake-like pupils and glanced at each of them.

"Didn't I tell you to do your own thing? What are you waiting for me for?"

"Senior Sister, she..." Cangxuan hesitated, but Danzhu grabbed Cangxuan's hand and shook her head at him.

Often, words are powerless. Mobius cared more about reality than anyone else, so no amount of comforting words would be of any use to her.

Would Klein and Bianca come back to life if you just said "look ahead"?

Joke...

Mobius will not wallow in this useless atmosphere, nor will she be discouraged and idle. On the contrary, she will do her best to make fragile humans stronger than Honkai creature and will research a way to turn Herrscher back into humans.

Cold-blooded like a snake, transforming like a snake.

She said, "Get back to work," and went into her office.

Sitting down at the table, her mind was completely blank. She wanted to muster the energy to do something, but she didn't know where to start.

Oh right, I haven't seen Griseo yet.

Mobius swayed as she got up, slipped, and fell back into her seat. Her vision blurred as if the television screen was filled with static.

A tedious transition period.

She was acutely aware that she was not being honest, and that it would take her a long time to get through this period.

This is also a sign of human weakness. Even the most rational person can be influenced by emotions. Even if they cannot be swayed by choices, the hormones secreted in their body will not lie.

To become a transcendent being, to become a transcendent being—this is what Mobius told herself. These were lives they never chose to give up; when they wanted to live, the world didn't give them the power to choose, and neither did that person...

She had been overthinking things without realizing it. She used both hands to support herself on the table and stood up again. This time, she stood firmly.

Sitting in his mode of transportation, he slowly made his way to the door, intending to visit Griseo, who was now being cared for by Aponia...

Suddenly, she heard Danzhu exclaim "Lin?" outside the door, and then the door in front of her was pushed open, and a person strode into her, knocking her and her vehicle over.

"Thump!"

He crashed heavily to the ground, Mobius, clutching the back of his head, glared angrily at the guy who wasn't watching where he was going. After recognizing the person, he was first taken aback, then his anger flared even more.

The idiot wearing his tattered helmet calmly stood up from the ground, casually closed the door to block Danzhu and Cangxuan's view, and then locked it with a click.

"What are you doing here?" The green-haired doctor's white coat slipped down halfway, revealing her bare shoulders under only an off-the-shoulder sweater. She suppressed her anger and turned her head slightly, her long green hair, which was longer than her, piled up under her body.

"... I came to see you."

"Look at me?" Mobius couldn't help but scoff. She laughed out loud, "Well, what an honor to have you here! I'm so sorry for not welcoming you properly. Have you finished looking? If you've finished, then get out of here."

Lin put his helmet back on. He hadn't worn it for nearly five years and wasn't quite used to it yet. Through the viewing window, he looked at the sneer that Mobius couldn't stop on his face. After a slight pause, he said in a deep voice, "Actually, I wanted to tell you something."

Mobius raised an eyebrow. "Hmm?"

"You spent half a year in the Intrinsic World, while I spent more than four years in the Quantum Sea."

"..."

"..."

"So what?"

"So now we're only less than three years apart in age, don't you think that's amazing?"

Amazement, doubt, and sneer.

In an instant, three expressions flashed across Mobius's face in a dazzling display. She smiled, crossed her arms, and gently parted her red lips towards the helmeted man—

"Roll."

"Besides..."

"Roll."

No matter what Lin said, Mobius would only say one word after that.

She was very impatient, and she was also impatient while waiting for Lin.

Anyway, she's a woman with a terrible temper and almost no human morality, don't waste your time on her. Doesn't this guy have plenty of women who like him? Then go find one who's willing to be gentle and obedient to him, like Vill-V or Aponia, they'd definitely be happy to be his sweet and dependent partner.

She's not going to play along...

"Get lost." After uttering this word lazily again, the helmeted man finally fell silent.

He must have gotten angry and turned around and left.

Mobius got the result she wanted, but she was even more agitated, and she didn't understand where her agitation came from.

She stared blankly as Lin raised her helmet, looked at her, and hesitantly asked, "Are you angry?"

"..." Mobius paused for a moment, then retorted sharply, "No!"

"Because of Bianca and Klein..."

"Shut up!"

Lin calmly added, "I'm getting anxious."

"Bang!"

Mobius's brain felt as if it had been struck hard on the head with a club, and countless rages ignited within him. In an instant, a black liquid gushed out from under her feet and transformed into an arm, pinning him against the wall.

The jumbled documents rained down from above like a blanket of white snow. The helmet stared at the silent, head bowed "Dr. Devil" through the snow, while azure particles quietly diffused in the darkness.

After a long while, the liquid that had been pressing on Lin slowly receded, and he fell to the ground, silent.

As if by prior arrangement, both of them kept their heads down, neither looking at the other nor speaking.

It was as if maintaining this calm was the greatest effort they could make.

After a while, the "snow" overhead began to fall around the two of them, and the room became eerily silent. She exhaled her last breath...

"What do you want me to do..." Mobius's words were devoid of sarcasm, only endless weariness remained. She raised her snake-like eyes from beneath her disheveled hair, staring at the man who had taken away the most important person in her life. "Like wounded animals licking each other's wounds?"

"..."

"I'm so tired... I've always been so tired..."

She sat on the ground, clutching her forehead, her pupils unfocused. Despite her sassy facade, she was incredibly vulnerable in front of Lin.

In a daze, she returned to that stinking, filthy, and dilapidated home. She hugged her thin body, standing alone and cold in the cold wind, looking at her drug-dependent and ugly father, listening to his spittle-flecked insults, her hands and feet icy cold.

There's nothing left, absolutely nothing.

Even the sunlight shining through the window felt monotonous and cold on my skin.

She looked up, but could not see the light.

She looked up... but couldn't see any light...

It has always been like this...

"Whoosh."

"..."

The bitter cold was driven away by the spring breeze.

When she came to her senses, she was already in a strong, warm embrace.

The lifeless pupils rested on his shoulder, and his icy hands and feet gradually thawed under the warm body temperature.

Mobius didn't struggle. After a long while, she tentatively reached out, afraid of being hurt, and slowly, slowly... hugged him.

Like two animals with different temperaments, they hurt each other, yet lick each other's festering wounds.

Chapter Twenty-One: Active and Passive

Mobius didn't think about anything. He was immersed in the warmth he hadn't felt in a long time for who knows how long. This warmth that soothed his wounds was like the intoxicating aroma of wine, making him sink deeper and deeper.

In the silent room, only two people sat on the floor embracing each other, and time passed by little by little, but they did not let go of each other's hands.

Unbeknownst to them, their hands had slipped inside each other's clothes, sharing their body heat.

Mobius wore only a backless sweater under her white lab coat. As the sweater slipped off her shoulders, her exposed skin was revealed to the air. When Lin's hand touched her waist, her body trembled. Then, Lin shamelessly slipped his hand inside the sweater from the side opening, slowly moving upwards...

In the pitch black, the only sound was the soft rustling of a knitted sweater. The large hand seemed to be exploring a mysterious realm, leaving no inch of skin untouched. Finally, the fingertips touched the softest part...

"Bang!"

Lin was kicked squarely in the neck by a small foot. Under the full force of the Flame-Chaser's attack, he was sent flying as if he had been hit by a car and crashed into the wall, almost losing consciousness.

Mobius deftly picked up the white coat and draped it over her shoulders, clutching the collar tightly with both hands. Her expression was not clearly visible in the darkness, but her chin was flushed red, almost dripping with moisture. She clenched her teeth, her snake-like eyes, emitting a shimmering green light, staring at the bewildered helmeted man who still didn't know what was happening.

Her teeth chattered, and she forced out a single, trembling sentence. "Do you think the tricks that work on others will work on me?"

"..." Lin shook his neck, which had cracked, and he was seeing stars and could barely stand. He hadn't expected Mobius to stomp so hard. The moment he hit the wall, everything went black and he almost fainted.