4.9

Charlotte brought Lie Yuan into her room. Although she doesn't feel the urge to communicate with the young man, she wasn't heartless enough to leave her savior. She will accompany him to the base and thereafter, it is his own whether he can survive or enter the base.

Of course, the young man whose face is disfigure was obedient and silent. He let himself be carried by the strong woman. After they entered the room, Charlotte went to check and saw that her one squad member was already awake.

The other woman's name was Shen Yu. She and Charlotte trained together and were very close as sisters. Shen Yu was good at dealing with computer and technology. She was the brain of the group.

At first, Shen Yu was confused by the things she felt, but the memories slowly sink in, and she actually panicked for a mere moment. It's a good thing that Charlotte arrived at the right time, or else she couldn't take the shock all lightly.

Charlotte explained the circumstances, the missing Daniel and Captain Michael, why she was unconscious and the barely breathing Jordan. She even forgot to introduced Lie Yuan to her.

"Who are you?" Shen Yu asked suspiciously.

Charlotte turned around and sneered, "He's Lie Yuan, the one who save me."

"But do you think it's suspicious? Do you really believed that he was brought here by the zombies?" Shen Yu added.

Charlotte went silent. She had zero awareness and would easily trust a stranger. It's not that she was naive, but she was tired inspecting people one by one but now that Shen Yu, whose expertise was in this field, was awake, she looked at the young man hesitantly.

Lie Yuan went dumbfounded. He didn't expect that he actually save a wolf woman! But, unaware of the danger in this world, he doesn't have a choice but to wear this weak facade.

His shoulders were trembling, his voice was shaking, "N-No, I'm really not a bad person… if you don't mind, I will show you the exit in this hospital, that's the place where I entered."

Charlotte and Shen Yu looked at each other. Even if this young man plotted against them, he was weak and helpless, they were a woman who experienced countless battles and this teenager who's barely eighteen would be defeated easily. Besides, what they needed was a back-up from the base. It's not that they don't know the exit of this hospital, they just wanted to see whether Lie Yuan was scheming or not, so they bit his idea.

"Then show us."

Lie Yuan brought the two ladies in the underground. It's very unusual that the whole place underneath was neat and clean. The surrounding equipment and materials doesn't even have a peck of dust. The two girls were guarding against him, but when Lie Yuan opened the other door, the long stairs above greeted them.

"T-This is where I went. The stairs will bring us to the mall, where I hid for several days."

A mall connecting to the hospital was obviously peculiar. If this era was back to the normal one, this would be roughly investigated by the government. Even Charlotte, who went to this school, was unaware of this hidden exit.

To proved his words, Lie Yuan went upstairs first. He weakly pushed the door outside and went up. Charlotte followed closely, and then Shen Yu.

The young man wasn't lying, the two girls thought.

Shen Yu guiltily scratched her head and gave an assuring look to Lie Yuan. In fact, she wasn't a wicked woman to begin with. She adored people younger than her and help them when she can. She was just too shocked to comprehend the things that happened to her, in result she gave the young man a difficult time.

She smiled sweetly, "I'm sorry. It's not that you looked suspicious, so many happened in the past few days, I hope you understand."

Charlotte sneered, and Lie Yuan nodded awkwardly.

They begin to observed around and noticed the unusual blood that hardened by the days in the ground. The mall was big and spacious, the messy things on the floor and the broken glasses remind them again the tragedy of the apocalypse. Good thing that there are no zombies around here, allowing them to look around freely.

Charlotte went to change some clothes and Shen Yu went to the technology department, finding something that could help them. While Lie Yuan went to the other room.

The innocent look on his face disappeared, thus was replaced by the cold and dull countenance. The memories began to reappear as if a clips playing one by one. He doesn't understand what happened to him. He only knows that after he died, he lost his contact with the system and was reduced to an idiot one.

Yong Guan.

That son of a bitch will surely get what he wants. He was trapped here by that bastard, in the last world, he allowed himself to be deceived and did not grow hatred to him. But he would actually turn against the world just to keep him?

He doesn't know how he was able to do that and turn the ancient world into this sinister one. Nonetheless one thing is for sure, Yong Guan is not an ordinary person.

A traveler? Or something more?

He sighed and the expression on his face relaxed. Yong Guan went out and who knows when would he return? Lie Yuan can use this time to escape from this place, and he couldn't do that alone. He was an ordinary person now and had no fighting ability. Those women would be a help to him.

He would find ways to communicate with the system and leave this damn place.

He went into the washroom and saw his scary face in the mirror. He frowned and wiped the wound on his eye. The feeling of stinginess crept into his skin and while wiping the blood oozing, the skin was peeling off.

Lie Yuan was shocked. He looked again and saw his skin peeling off or falling down. He doesn't have any idea what was happening. After he wakes up, he realizes that Qiao Chen's beauty would danger him, so he burned his face for a second, scratch it long with a sharp knife and cut his hair short. What the hell is happening?

The itchiness soon came after, Lie Yuan bit his lips and stopped the urge to scratch it. But soon the milk skin turned to red, and after a few seconds, Lie Yuan wasn't able to stop himself from scratching.

Groaning and scratching the part that was itchy, Lie Yuan felt his skin went along his hands, but this didn't stop him from continuing, soon his all face stopped itching, and several large skins fell on the ground.

He was scared. Although he deliberately made himself ugly, he actually doesn't like seeing himself like that. After peeling those skin off, what would his skin looks like?

He sighed and quickly looked up. His eyes widened, and the black eyes in the mirror also widened.

W-What…

W-What the hell happened to his face?!

No! How did his actual face appear on this world?!

But in a closer look, it's not actually Lie Yuan's real face but more on a combination of the faces of Su Bein, Yeonwoo and Qiao Chen. It looks as if it was mixed together.

The short black hair youth stared at the mirror for a long time. Definitely, the unsightly scars went away but instead of returning it to the gorgeous beauty of Qiao Chen, Lie Yuan feels more trouble.

If he went out with this face, wouldn't he get in trouble?

Lie Yuan don't have any idea how did this happened, but the last thing he wants to do was to be seen by his beauty.

He made himself ugly, but eventually, he ended up being more beautiful. Beautiful enough that no actual words could be found to describe his beauty.

"Lie Yuan are you inside?"