Marry the NPC with Money, Wife Comes Knocking - Chapter 146

Chapter 146

With just one look, Hua Suihe saw right through her. “Oh~ so this plan of yours is…”

“I…” Ye Susheng turned her face away, her tone firm. “I can definitely do it.”

“By coming back covered in injuries again? Like last time, when you came home crying that you’d gotten ugly?”

Seeing that gentle persuasion wasn’t getting through to her, Hua Suihe’s attitude hardened as well. “I’m the one who decides this. Take me back to the Safe Zone. We’ll clear this dungeon first. You are not allowed to act alone.”

“Hua Hua.” Ye Susheng clearly disapproved of this plan. Frowning, she said, “The dungeon is too dangerous. I don’t want to see Hua Hua end up in danger like last time.”

Ye Susheng’s reaction was intense, and her tone grew heavier.

Hua Suihe turned her head away and refused to look at her, her voice still leaving no room for negotiation. “If you won’t come with me, I’ll go by myself. I have plenty of ways. Do you really think Black Cotton Candy can trap me at home? You forcibly brought me out of the dungeon, and you haven’t said a single word about the price you paid.”

“Hua Hua!” Ye Susheng shouted sharply. The whites of her eyes showed signs of turning red, and the crimson cracks beneath her collar seemed ready to crawl up her neck.

“Every night, when Hua Hua falls asleep and stops talking, I’m scared. I keep checking whether Hua Hua’s temperature is normal. The dungeon is really too dangerous, Hua Hua. And there are those bad humans who want to capture you. I can only feel at ease if you stay home.”

Hearing those words, Hua Suihe felt her heart twist. She lifted a hand and placed it over Ye Susheng’s icy nape, soothingly kneading it as she pulled her into an embrace.

Hua Suihe’s attitude softened. “I’ll be more careful, Ye Zi’s wife. I won’t let myself fall into danger again.”

“I know you don’t like how you look in your Anomalization state. That’s exactly why we have to avoid reaching an irreversible state of Anomalization. If you go out and fight, it’ll definitely delay things, right?”

“I know you’re worried about me, but I’m worried about you too. I don’t want to see the Ye Susheng who stood in front of me and said things like ‘kill you’ ever again. Okay? I want my Ye Zi to be safe and healthy.”

Ye Susheng rested her head on Hua Suihe’s shoulder, her heart at a loss. She knew her own condition. The stronger her urge to kill became, the more frequent her Anomalization would be, until she turned into a machine that knew only slaughter. By then, she would lose her reason and lose her human traits.

But how could she be at ease letting Hua Hua enter a dungeon again? Those people were all harboring ulterior motives, and the humans from that damned Agency were rotten to the core. Last time, it was because that man had stolen Hua Hua away that Hua Hua had nearly died in the sea.

“Ye Zi, since I have the ability to choose you, I also have the ability to help you. Trust me, okay?”

Hua Hua’s words sounded so strange.

Ye Susheng wrapped both arms around her waist, making their embrace even tighter. This wasn’t the first time Hua Suihe had used the word choose, but only now did it sound extremely odd.

“Hua Hua…” Ye Susheng wanted to ask, only to find she had no idea where to begin.

Hua Suihe tilted her head and pressed her lips close to Ye Susheng’s ear, speaking softly. “I mean it. Before that, let’s finish the dungeon first, okay? The livestream has been on this whole time. It’s making daily life inconvenient for us. You’ve been troubled by it these past few days too, haven’t you?”

Ye Susheng was silent for a long time, clinging to her final bit of stubbornness. “Tomorrow.”

At last, it was settled. Just then, the livestream chat’s whisper function happened to stop working. Hua Suihe said good night to the livestream, then turned off the lights and went to sleep.

Early the next morning, after eating breakfast together, they headed for the Safe Zone.

Once they left the house, Ye Susheng maintained a state of extreme vigilance. The moment she saw any living thing, she treated it as though facing a mortal enemy. The two of them arrived at the territory within the Safe Zone dungeon that belonged to the Anomaly.
A few days ago, Ye Susheng had gone on a killing spree here, wiping out every last Anomaly in the area.

And yet now, the Anomaly she had killed were alive and well again, attacking the giant machine shell that housed the Safe Zone.

To be fair, that thing was surprisingly sturdy. Seven days had passed, and the Anomaly still hadn’t managed to break through.

The moment they saw Ye Susheng appear out of thin air, the Anomaly scattered in every direction, throwing their mission to attack the Safe Zone to the back of their minds as they fled to hide somewhere dark.

What a joke. Sure, the dungeon mechanics allowed them to revive, but the pain was very real. The neck that had been snapped last time had taken an awful lot of needle and thread to sew back on.

Seeing this, Ye Susheng was a little puzzled too. “They actually didn’t die?”

Hua Suihe wasn’t surprised. “Of course. It was just a fight, that’s all.”

Ye Susheng seemed to realize something, and her expression suddenly darkened.

That damned Thriller. While she had lost her reason, it had guided her into slaughtering the Anomaly in the dungeon, using that to trigger endless killing intent in her. Once it reached an irreversible point, she would become Thriller’s dog for good.

After figuring that out, Ye Susheng couldn’t help feeling deflated. “Hua Hua, that idea I had yesterday really was terrible.”

For now, it really did seem like there was nothing they could do about Thriller. The number of human Believer was growing by the day, and the Anomaly population was constantly expanding too. Thriller would only become stronger and stronger.

Hua Suihe, however, didn’t take any of that to heart. All her thoughts were on figuring out the clear conditions for this dungeon.

Since the goal was to protect the Safe Zone, there should have been a time limit for that protection. Logically speaking, this was a survival dungeon, but the System hadn’t given a specific time. What a scam.

“Ye Zi, can you get inside the Safe Zone?”

Ye Susheng tried teleporting. The route was blocked by some special barrier, preventing her from entering the interior.

Ye Susheng shook her head. “We can only fight our way in.”

The mechanical head lay across the boundary between humanity and Thriller like a mountain. Last time, she hadn’t paid any attention to this enormous pile of scrap metal, so she hadn’t smashed her way inside. But breaking it apart probably wouldn’t be difficult.

Before Hua Suihe could say anything, Ye Susheng seemed to see right through her and rejected the idea outright. “Hua Hua wants to go in? I don’t agree.”

Hua Suihe gave her a strange look. “When did I say I wanted to go in?”

“I was just thinking about what method we could use to take down this Safe Zone.”

“Huh?” Ye Susheng froze. “Didn’t Hua Hua say we came back to clear the dungeon?”

“There are two ways to clear it. Victory, and failure. At worst, we just don’t get victory points. It doesn’t matter.”

A survival dungeon with no time limit-who knew how long they would have to defend it? Instead of that, they might as well switch sides and help Thriller speed up its capture of the Safe Zone, turning a dungeon with no deadline into one that did have a deadline.

Shanhu had short hair and wore a white shirt with black suit pants, giving her a very sharp, capable appearance. From the highest control room inside the Safe Zone, she watched their every move and began activating the high-tech Mechanical Bugs deployed around the perimeter, waiting for the right moment to capture Hua Suihe.

She really had come back.

Whether outside or inside, Shanhu had made every preparation. She was determined to take Hua Suihe away.

Pei Ying had betrayed them, and Xia Moyi wasn’t a core member, so capturing Hua Suihe was Shanhu’s personal mission. No one could help her. If she failed to bring Hua Suihe back, the consequences for her were easy to imagine.