After Bystander A Bound to JJ Literature City – CH95

Chapter 95

Although the livestream audience didn’t know exactly what Fu Suxi had done to Yu Zhi, they could roughly guess it was related to an ability—so much so that his mental state had visibly declined.

He had clearly used his ability on Yu Zhi, yet now Yu Zhi had turned the tables on him.

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Fu Suxi ignored the comments. Watching Yu Zhi’s careless expression, the violence and fury in his heart twisted together; the bones in his right hand cracked audibly.

“What did Ji Yangqiu tell you?”

Yu Zhi blinked lazily. “Everything.”

[Detection: Statement is false.]

Fu Suxi’s dark pupils were gradually dyed red, scarlet churning in his eyes.

There were barely a few true words in Yu You’s mouth.

The remnants of his rationality told him Yu You must have gotten the information he wanted from Ji Yangqiu. He knew Fu Suxi was using lie detection on him, so he kept lying.

“Don’t go crazy” — both a warning and a threat.

The violent restlessness with nowhere to vent kept battering his sanity, scrambling his thoughts.

It seemed to whisper in his ear nonstop: Find a way to force Yu You to tell the truth. Use your ability. Make him speak. Then make him die…

Fu Suxi’s eyes grew redder and redder as he stared fixedly at Yu Zhi’s pale, clean face.

The temperature in the office suddenly dropped. Though the doors and windows were shut, an icy wind arose out of nowhere.

Suddenly, Yu Zhi heard the wooden coffee table beside him creak, as if under some invisible and terrifying pressure.

“Crack—”

The table was crushed into splinters by something unseen, leaving only fragments on the floor.

Then the desk, the office chair, the decorative painting on the wall…

Aside from the sofa where Yu Zhi and Fu Suxi were sitting, everything else in the office was ground into dust by the invisible freezing wind.

Yu Zhi remained unmoved and looked up at Fu Suxi, who had just lit another cigarette.

The next second, he felt a cold wind coil around his ankle like chains, winding up his leg and tightening fiercely, forcing him to stay seated.

He tried to move his feet, but both legs were tightly bound; he couldn’t even stand up from the sofa.

Narrowing his eyes, he straightened. “I told you not to go crazy. And now you’ve gone crazy?”

Fu Suxi walked in front of him, his scarlet eyes scanning him from top to bottom, voice low and heavy. “You really aren’t afraid of death.”

Yu Zhi smiled. “I was never planning to make it back alive anyway.”

Fu Suxi: “……”

The spark slowly consumed the cigarette paper; bluish-white smoke curled upward, drifting between them.

Yu Zhi snatched the cigarette from his hand and bit it between his lips. “Besides, you can’t kill me.”

“I’m the powerful ability you want, Brother.”

He took a drag. Smoke slipped from between his lips, spreading along his cheek. “Little Fu.”

“This time, the price goes up.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a short sneer sounded above his head. “Ji Yangqiu didn’t tell you? You’re not the only thing that can keep me sane.”

“I choose to add life.”

The next second, Yu Zhi felt the space beneath him vanish.

The sofa was crushed to pieces by Fu Suxi’s ability. With a thud, Yu Zhi fell flat onto the ground.

Sofas are comfortable to sit on. They hurt to fall from.

Yu Zhi sat on the floor expressionlessly, looking at Fu Suxi.

Fu Suxi stood nearby, also expressionless, looking at him.

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…………

Research Building – Corridor

The quiet hallway was suddenly broken by heavy footsteps. The motion-activated lights flicked on, illuminating a bald man standing at the stairwell entrance.

Lin Xiangyuan rubbed his warmed scalp and looked up at Zuo Feiyang standing upstairs.

Lin Xiangyuan said, “I just went to find Minister Lin to ask her to help the Combat Department investigate the mole. She was all sarcastic with me.”

Zuo Feiyang replied, “I just came from Minister Yu’s place. Minister Yu and Brother Yu were at each other’s throats—almost started fighting.”

The two looked at each other and sighed.

Lin Xiangyuan muttered, “Might as well go kill pollutants on a mission.”

Zuo Feiyang firmly disagreed. He had nearly died in the contaminated zone and had only just recovered from mental pollution. “No, no. Better deal with the mole first.”

“Otherwise entire teams could get killed in the contaminated zone.”

Another set of footsteps sounded.

They both looked down. Shang Yu appeared at the underground second-floor stairwell, looking up at them. “Knew you two were hiding here.”

“Hurry up and come with me to Team Leader He. Headquarters doesn’t know our situation well. We need our own people watching.”

Lin Xiangyuan sighed and went downstairs, muttering, “Old Qi has it good—sitting pretty in the observation room. And now there’s Xiao Ming, a healing-type ability user, helping him.”

“No need to face Minister Lin or Minister Yu.”

Hearing that, Shang Yu suddenly paused. “You’re right.”

“Old Zuo, go call Old Qi over.”

Zuo Feiyang hesitated. “Really call him?”

“Yes,” Shang Yu answered calmly. “Whether he suffers a bit isn’t important. What matters is preventing anyone from getting hurt if the mole tries something.”

“And I believe Comrade Xiao Ming, after these days of training, can stand on his own.”

Zuo Feiyang adjusted his glasses and turned to leave. “I’ll get him now.”

Lin Xiangyuan continued downward with Shang Yu to find He Hanhai.

Upon reaching the third underground floor, they overheard several researchers:

“Did the Combat Department release any evidence?”
“No. Purely based on abilities. Minister Lin just lost her temper.”
“We don’t even know what their abilities are. What if there’s a mole in the Combat Department? Couldn’t they kill innocents at will?”
“I heard today’s interrogation is handled by an ability user from headquarters. That’s better than the Combat Department’s domineering new minister.”
“Isn’t the new minister also from headquarters? Who knows if they’re all in cahoots…”

One researcher noticed Shang Yu and Lin Xiangyuan and quickly signaled the others.

The researchers glanced at them. Though they stopped speaking openly, their expressions weren’t friendly as they entered the lab.

Lin Xiangyuan scratched his bald head. “Come to think of it, what ability did Minister Yu use?”

“At the Wall Gate before, he didn’t even ask a question—just took one look and shot the parasitized person.”

“No idea,” Shang Yu shook her head. “I wouldn’t dare ask.”

“Minister Yu’s methods are a bit extreme, but it’s a special period.”

“If he were truly killing indiscriminately, the first to die would be those insulting him.”

“Ding—”

The elevator doors opened slowly.

The two people they had just been discussing walked out.

Different from usual, Fu Suxi wore sunglasses on his nose instead of his usual gold-rimmed glasses.

After a few steps, he paused slightly and glanced toward the elevator.

The doors reopened. Yu Zhi slowly walked out.

Seeing the sunglasses, Lin Xiangyuan remembered what Zuo Feiyang had said and whispered, “Minister Yu suddenly wearing sunglasses…”

“Could Brother Yu have hit him?”

Shang Yu’s gaze drifted to Yu Zhi’s hips and legs, noticing he walked much slower than usual. She muttered, “Maybe it’s demons fighting.”

Lin Xiangyuan: “……”

They hadn’t even tried to hide their staring. In an instant, the two being stared at turned their heads simultaneously.

“Minister Yu, Brother Yu.”
“Brother Yu, Minister Yu.”

Shang Yu cleared her throat and pointed right. “Team Leader He’s interrogation room is this way.”

Yu Zhi walked last—not because he wanted to, but because his fall earlier had left his butt aching, making it hard to walk fast.

They followed into a separate white room in the corner.

Unlike the Combat Department’s interrogation room, this one had clearly been converted from a lab and mental contamination research room. Experimental equipment still filled the space.

Inside, a massive one-way glass wall faced them. On the other side was He Hanhai and several ability users.

He Hanhai had removed his eyepatch, revealing his multi-pupiled right eye. Several pupils overlapped and rotated like a kaleidoscope.

Yu Zhi only glanced once before feeling his mind grow dizzy.

He quickly looked away, focusing instead on the researchers seated across from He Hanhai.

They stared blankly, pupils unfocused, lips moving faintly.

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Leaning against the wall, Yu Zhi glanced at the comments, then at Fu Suxi.

He wouldn’t mind lying more to push Fu Suxi further, but Fu Suxi had probably learned his lesson and wouldn’t use lie detection on him again.

Fu Suxi had come here to kill.

Ji Yangqiu had said blood could make him slightly clearer-headed.

Yu Zhi was also curious how much killing would restore him.

Blinking, he looked toward the interrogation room.

Not long after, the interrogation room door suddenly opened. A woman in her thirties strode in, interrupting He Hanhai’s ability.

Seeing this, Fu Suxi tilted his head toward Shang Yu.

Shang Yu immediately turned to Lin Xiangyuan, who hurriedly explained, “I told Minister Lin clearly to come to the observation room. She didn’t seem to agree—maybe dissatisfied…”

Before he finished, Fu Suxi exited the observation room and headed for the interrogation room.

Inside—

“Minister Lin, it’s not convenient for you to participate directly here.”
“You can go next door to the observation room. Minister Fu and Minister Yu are there…”

Once the mental ability ceased, one interrogated researcher’s eyes shifted slowly.

Seeing Minister Lin, he muttered, “Wen Yu… Wen Yu, I didn’t mean to. Our research project won’t succeed.”

“I saw—”

Mid-sentence, he suddenly snapped awake and lunged from his chair toward Minister Lin.

His movement was too fast. The three ability users present were distracted, and before He Hanhai could draw his gun, Minister Lin was already restrained, a dagger pressed to her neck.

“Don’t you—”

Before he could finish, a large hand appeared atop his head.

Fu Suxi materialized like a ghost, pressing his right hand down.

His fingers curled.

With a sickening squelch, the researcher’s skull burst like a fragile watermelon. Red and white splattered across Minister Lin’s face.

She stared at the headless corpse collapsing onto her, touched her face, felt brain matter, and fainted on the spot.

“Minister Lin—” Shang Yu rushed forward.

She and Lin Xiangyuan lifted her—one carrying the unconscious woman, the other dragging the corpse.

Fu Suxi remained where he was, not even blinking.

Rubbing the warm blood between his fingers, he said to He Hanhai, “Continue.”

…………

For the next several hours, Yu Zhi watched as He Hanhai, under Fu Suxi’s oppressive presence, dared not pause even a moment, interrogating batch after batch of researchers.

Fu Suxi stood at the door like a guardian statue.

When interrogations seemed finished and researchers exited, he would suddenly crush the mole’s skull without warning.

The brutal scenes made more than one researcher faint.

Yu Zhi felt sick at first. After seeing it many times, he still felt sick—until the disgust turned numb.

Lowering his lashes, watching dried blood at the doorway layered over by fresh blood, he suddenly remembered something.

Using the excuse of going to the bathroom, he left the lab and went to a quiet corridor corner.

“System,” he called. “Does today’s daily mission count as completed?”

He glanced at the panel.

[Daily Mission: Build the Future Together (0/30)]
[Objective: Perform at least one personal ‘Defend the Earth’ action each day. Mission lasts 30 days. Refreshes at 0:00 daily. Please complete actively!]

Today’s mission wasn’t completed.

“Why isn’t it completed?” he asked.

The system replied, “What did you do?”

Yu Zhi blinked, expression unchanged. “I safeguarded someone’s precarious mental state, indirectly safeguarding Earth.”

System: “???”

You call that safeguarding?

Wasn’t Fu Suxi’s precarious mental state caused by you in the first place?!

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