Chapter 78
“Are these pollutants still not enough for you?”
“Want me to punch you?”
“Or kick you?”
The clear voice pierced through the sea wind and shot straight into Fu Suxi’s mind.
His scarlet pupils contracted and expanded again. A thought flashed through his head—
—Yu You really could restore sanity points.
The clearer Fu Suxi became, the more sharply he felt everything inside himself. He could distinctly sense the endless killing intent surging from his head, boiling through his limbs and bones, impossible to suppress.
Instinctively, he grabbed the head of a nearby pollutant, curled his fingers—
Bang.
It exploded.
Red and white fluid splattered everywhere. The thick smell of blood calmed a sliver of the killing intent. But as his body stepped forward again, the frenzy and rage rising from deep within only intensified.
Uncontrollably, he moved toward Yu Zhi.
Then he heard that voice again:
“Want me to shoot you?”
“Stab you?”
“…”
Fu Suxi felt as if his mind were a tangled spiderweb. As long as he approached Yu Zhi, touched him, even merely heard his voice, a portion of that web would be cleared away.
But it wasn’t enough.
He wanted more.
He wanted Yu Zhi to clean the web completely.
He wanted to regain clarity—fully.
Just like…
That time when the killing intent had been wiped clean in an instant.
Fu Suxi slowly lowered his eyes, expression unreadable.
He was craving Yu You’s ability.
Realizing this, Fu Suxi forced himself to swallow back the words “Give me your ability.”
He couldn’t say it.
If he did, he’d be handing Yu You his weakness.
He kept splitting pollutants’ skulls apart. Amid the drifting blood mist, he rasped, “Aren’t you afraid… I’ll kill you?”
Yu Zhi looked him up and down. His pupils had widened further, no longer dispersed—expanding from a thin slit toward something closer to a normal human shape.
His speech was clearer too. More logical.
Yu Zhi narrowed his eyes slowly, imitating his pauses.
“I’m… actually… a little scared… ah.”
Fu Suxi’s lips twitched. “…”
Yu Zhi lifted a brow. Even his expressions were more vivid now. He really had become clearer.
Just like back in the underground lab—Fu Suxi had inexplicably regained some rationality.
Yu Zhi didn’t believe in coincidences.
While casually kicking to lure Fu Suxi into hacking at pollutants crawling out of the sea, his mind raced, comparing the lab situation with now.
Both times, when Fu Suxi was losing his mind, he had approached him for no reason. After a while, he regained a bit of clarity.
Excluding the possibility of the black-robed man interfering, that left only himself.
Which meant—
He could make the deranged Fu Suxi regain a little rationality?
When Fu Suxi had almost said “Give me,” he’d meant “Give me your ability”?
Not the same attraction ability as the black-robed man—
But an ability that removed killing intent?
As Fu Suxi’s blade came slashing again, Yu Zhi dodged onto a reef and looked down at him.
Putting on a confident expression, he declared decisively, “You want my ability.”
Fu Suxi paused slightly. His pupils shrank again.
Seeing his reaction, Yu Zhi was certain now. Fu Suxi really did want his [Censored Ability].
And he’d nearly said it out loud before regaining his senses.
???
Yu Zhi was baffled.
He hadn’t even actively used the [Censored Ability] just now—so how had Fu Suxi recovered?
Could it be…
Did the ability leak?
Suppressing the storm inside, Yu Zhi said calmly, “So you like big brother’s great ability too.”
“……”
Fu Suxi’s rage ballooned instantly. He raised his blade and charged again.
Yu Zhi flashed behind him and eyed his broad, scale-covered shoulders and narrow waist.
“Why so embarrassed and angry?”
“I never said I wouldn’t give it to you.”
“Considering we’re brothers, and you helped clear a path for me at the end…”
“I can generously give you one chance to spend money—buy my ability.”
Fu Suxi turned around. Blood dripped from the half-human-tall black blade.
“Kill you. Same result.”
The instant his emotionless voice fell, the reef beneath Yu Zhi trembled.
Yu Zhi dodged without hesitation. The entire slab of rock shattered into powder, broken crabs suspended midair.
A wave struck, soaking his pants.
Then he felt it—The seawater didn’t recede.
It wrapped around his legs like something alive, tightening, trapping him in place.
At the same time, the familiar blade flashed above him.
Fu Suxi could control seawater.
Yu Zhi’s expression shifted. He used a normal flash-step and escaped to the gravel beach.
Before he steadied himself, the hard stones beneath him turned soft—like a swamp pulling him down.
Yu Zhi: “???”
Stones too?
He kept flashing.
To ruins—rebar wrapped his ankles.
To a tree—branches bound his feet.
Wherever he went, Fu Suxi used a matching ability to pin him down, forcing him to use the [Censored Ability].
Yu Zhi couldn’t help cursing internally.
How many abilities had this mad dog stolen?!
Then—The barrage in the livestream exploded.
Meanwhile, Yu Zhi assessed him carefully.
Fu Suxi’s pupils had returned to an oval shape. The gray-green fish scales no longer spread.
But he was clearly struggling—breathing heavier, skin reddening.
Yu Zhi spoke evenly while dodging:
“You don’t mind wasting time here?”
“You look uncomfortable.”
“Why not cure the pollution sooner?”
“Doesn’t it hurt?”
Fu Suxi stared at him and suddenly laughed.
“You’re right.”
“The pollution is… in the way.”
Yu Zhi frowned.
He sounded even clearer now.
Did the ability really have passive effects?
If Fu Suxi could recover naturally over time—
Wouldn’t Yu Zhi get freeloaded?
Suddenly— The livestream barrage changed tone.
Yu Zhi looked up.
And his pupils shook violently.
Fu Suxi was—Cutting off his own scales.
He switched to a smaller blade. Swift. Ruthless.
Slice. Scales and flesh peeled away together.
Fresh red muscle was exposed, blood pouring—Then the wounds healed instantly.
He had healing abilities too. Where scales had been cut off, new human skin regenerated.
Yu Zhi’s face turned green and pale in turns.
Even with healing, this was insane.
Too ruthless. Too disgusting.
His own polluted left hand seemed to ache in sympathy.
Soon, most of the scales were gone. Patchy skin—white and tan—an eerie mosaic.
Fu Suxi calmly pulled on a T-shirt.
The pollution’s influence faded drastically.
Yu Zhi took a breath and quickly adjusted.
“Don’t you want to investigate the pollution source?”
“Don’t you want to know what Meteorite Biotech is doing?”
“Brothers should settle accounts clearly.”
“You want my ability. I want your money.”
“Win-win. Mutual prosperity.”
Fu Suxi smirked. “You taking my money is mutual prosperity?”
“When you’re fully sane, won’t you earn more?”
“…Five hundred thousand.”
Silence.
Fu Suxi lifted his blade. “I choose killing you.”
“Three hundred thousand?”
No pause.
“Two hundred thousand?”
Still advancing.
“…Where did your money go?”
“Universal coins upgrade abilities.”
“You don’t use coins to upgrade yours.”
“…Of course I do. That’s why I’m earning from you.”
“Fifty thousand.”
“Eighty.”
Blade rises.
“…Fine. Fifty.”
A panel popped up.
[The other party transfers 50,000 Universal Coins. Accept?]
“Yes.”
Cold light slashed toward him the moment he confirmed.
Yu Zhi dodged and instinctively threw out the [Censored Ability].
Only then did he realize—
Fu Suxi had deliberately attacked while he accepted the money, forcing him to use it.
Yu Zhi smiled thinly.
“We value integrity in the Yu family.”
“Money received. Big ability delivered.”
Fu Suxi exhaled smoke lazily.
“I also value integrity.”
“I want your ability.”
“Not your life.”
Yu Zhi: “……”
Sure you can get it.
The killing intent inside Fu Suxi was wiped clean again.
Better than expected.
He narrowed his eyes.
—He wanted that ability.
Meanwhile, Yu Zhi realized something too.
Whenever Fu Suxi developed killing intent toward him, he could erase it.
Which meant—Every time Fu Suxi went mad…
He could earn at least fifty thousand.
If there was a first time, there’d be a second.
So when he needed money…
Couldn’t he just make Fu Suxi go mad on purpose?
Yu Zhi’s eyes brightened.
What mad dog?
This was clearly his personal bank.
The two men, each harboring their own schemes, met eyes—Then tacitly looked away.
