Recap
Chu Shici actually couldn’t understand what was going on with his Zhe-ge now?
The walls inside the room are gray and there are no hospital beds, only a metal frame bed.
It doesn’t look like a hospital, nor can it be his villa in the original text.
The food is poor and the accommodation is terrible. Where is this place?
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Being locked up in a small dark room, Chu Shici could only rely on listening to the sounds to determine what was happening outside.
He wasn’t angry with Zhe-ge, nor did he feel sad. He knows they are lovers, but in Shen Xiuzhe’s eyes, he is only a suspicious and dangerous stranger.
Chu Shici feels very distressed now.
For Zhe-ge, who had been blinded accidentally and was suddenly locked into a dark room by the whole world and could never get out again.
Shen Xiuzhe turned over several times on the metal frame bed, got out of bed and began to walk back and forth in the room, seemingly looking for the utility knife that had fallen on the ground.
He kept feeling around for it with his hands, and the speed that he was searching was very slow.
At about ten o’clock in the evening, there was a sound of the door opening outside, and several people walked into the room.
Chu Shici heard one of them knocking on the table, “Mr. Shen, how’s the painting going?”
Shen Xiuzhe had regained his composure and said calmly: “It will take at least three days.”
“So slow?”
“If you didn’t monitor me, I would have drawn faster.”
After hearing what Zhe-ge said, Chu Shici touched the system and said, ‘Zhe-ge firmly believes that I am a talking surveillance system. Tong-ge, he won’t send me out, right?’
[I also think there is too much misunderstanding between both of you. How can a sweet love blossom if this continues? I’ll check out the forum and pick out a plug-in for you that can also be used with little speakers.]
After the system finished speaking, he ran away, leaving Chu Shici alone to face reality alone.
He held his breath and listened nervously to the conversations of the people outside.
The man with an accent smiled and said, “Mr. Shen, what are you talking about? We are not monitoring you.”
Shen Xiuzhe didn’t speak, just sneered mockingly.
His attitude seemed to anger the visitor, and the man suddenly slapped his hand on the table, “Shen Xiuzhe, don’t be so shameless! Do you think you are still the same great painter Shen?”
“If you don’t like me, you can kill me.”
“Kill you? What a beautiful idea you have, I will fuck you to death!”
Shen Xiuzhe reacted very calmly, “If you touch me, I will never draw another painting in the future. Even if I have to use my mouth, I will bite these hands to shreds.”
The room suddenly fell into deathly silence, and the man’s angry breathing became loud and heavy.
After a long time, he took a deep breath and softened his tone, “Sorry, I’ve been under a lot of pressure recently and I was a little agitated. Mr. Shen, have a good rest. A psychiatrist will come to counsel you in a while.”
“I’m mentally healthy, go and remove the surveillance camera.”
“Those surveillance cameras were used to monitor the previous person. We haven’t turned them on since you moved in.”
“Take them all down.”
Chu Shici heard several clear crisp sounds.
The man laughed twice, gritted his teeth and said, “Okay, you two, go take care of the garbage.”
Several people began to move around the house and dismantled the monitors in several hidden corners.
Chu Shici was a little surprised.
Is the person going to monitor the room from 360 degrees without blind spots? The last person who lived in this room was so miserable.
Just as the man was about to leave, Shen Xiuzhe suddenly tapped his brush and said, “There’s more.”
“No, there are only three.”
After hearing his words, Shen Xiuzhe paused for a moment.
He pursed his lips and remained silent, just tapping the edge of the table with the paintbrush in his hand.
Seeing his resolute attitude, the man gritted his teeth and walked to the drawer and reached out to open the drawer.
The light suddenly became brighter, and Chu Shici was startled.
He looked out and saw in front of him a bald man with a sinewy face, and a ferocious scar on his face.
The man let out a sigh when he saw the little speaker in the drawer.
He picked up the speaker and looked around for a few times, plugged it in and pressed the power button to give it a try.
Chu Shici covered his mouth and remained silent. No matter how much the man tried, the little speaker didn’t respond.
After confirming that it was a waste, the man casually put it in the drawer. After rummaging around in the drawer for a while, he found an old listening-in device.
He walked up to Shen Xiuzhe, waved his hand in front of his hooded eyes, and muttered suspiciously, “That’s not right…this machine hasn’t been turned on, how did you know about it?”
Shen Xiuzhe couldn’t see, but he could hear the sound of drawers being opened.
He thought that the monitoring device disguised as a speaker had been dismantled just like the other devices.
He didn’t answer the bald head’s question. He could feel a source of heat approaching him.
Shen Xiuzhe quickly turned his head to avoid the man’s hand reaching for his cheek.
He didn’t touch his face, and the man didn’t persist anymore. He cursed under his breath and turned to leave the room.
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The door was slammed shut, and the violent sound made Shen Xiuzhe’s ears hurt.
But the outcome is good, at least no one will spy on him anymore.
Those people were too close to him just now, and Shen Xiuzhe didn’t like the smell of them.
He picked up the towel and stood up to take a shower. As he passed by the drawer, he heard the energetic male voice again.
“Damn it, there are so many monitors in this room. Fortunately, they didn’t turn them on before, otherwise I would have been exposed. Zhe-ge, you are so awesome, how did you know there are surveillance devices in this room? You can even feel out a few of them, So cool!”
Shen Xiuzhe’s steps suddenly stopped.
The voice was still sighing, “It scared me. If they find out that I can talk, I will definitely be taken apart for research. By the way, Zhe-ge, do you want to tell them about the quality of the food? I think you seem to have some bargaining chips, how about improving the food and accommodation first?”
He sighed, “The meal you ate tonight is really sad to watch. Zhe-ge, why don’t you say anything?”
Shen Xiuzhe: ……
“Why are you still here?”
“He didn’t take me away. I’m not a surveillance device. I’m just a little speaker.”
Chu Shici was about to tell him a story he had made up when Shen Xiuzhe suddenly grabbed him and smashed him to the ground.
The speaker hit the ground and made several soft noises.
Chu Shici’s eyes widened. He felt as if a corner of the speaker was dented.
When the system came back from buying the plug-in, it looked outside and said, [Fuck, your husband is hitting you!]
‘Fuck, my husband is hitting me!’
Shen Xiuzhe fumbled around on the table and picked up a board, swinging it with the intention of smashing the speaker and the monitor hidden inside.
He had suppressed it for a long time, and now he was extremely emotional. Coupled with the fact that he couldn’t see, his attack was a bit off-target.
The board flew past the little speaker and hit the ground next to it. He used so much force that a corner of the board broke off.
The system saw this and quickly installed the plug-in.
Seeing that the next board was going to hit the speaker while its host was still looking at Shen Xiuzhe with a hurt look on his face, the system jumped up in fear, [Stop standing there and run!]
Chu Shici came back to his senses and said, ‘I have no feet!’
[I installed some small wheels for you, you can roll around now. What are you doing standing there for, roll out of here!]
Chu Shici: …?
He tried to move forward a few steps and successfully avoided the attack.
The system put its hands on its hips, [Isn’t the plug-in I found for you awesome? Praise me.]
Chu Shici wasn’t used to this kind of movement yet.
He could feel that his originally flat bottom had four small wheels. It’s not fast, but it can move back and forth.
The system is introducing the plug-in it purchased.
[The Ministry of Supervision is very strict and there are very few plug-ins suitable for speakers. I only got two suitable ones.]
[The first plug-in is the ‘four small rollers’, which have no other function except rolling.]
[The other one is the ‘strong and flexible little tail’. Your charging cable can become part of your body, and you can rely on it to pull in some heavy objects. However, your thread is very thin, so remember not to use too much force or it may break.]
After listening to the system explanation, Chu Shici was just about to study his charging cable when a man’s cold voice came from above his head, “You can still move?”
Then a board hit him from behind, frightening him.
The little speaker rolled on four small wheels and hid under the table. He turned the wheel with some difficulty, and when he turned around, he found that the male protagonist was following him.
Shen Xiuzhe’s hearing was very keen and he could accurately find where he was hiding by listening to the sound of the rolling wheel.
He strode over and bumped his body against the open drawer, groaning in pain.
Shen Xiuzhe fumbled to close the drawer, covered his abdomen and panted. Then he carried the board to the table, leaned over and grabbed the charging cable of the little speaker, trying to pull it out.
Looking at Shen Xiuzhe’s stern expression, Chu Shici felt particularly complicated.
He was being chased and beaten by his lover, and even though he had turned on the pain shield and couldn’t feel anything, he still felt uncomfortable.
But Chu Shici isn’t angry with Zhe-ge.
One of them had a weapon in his hand, and the other could only rely on wheels to dodge in a panic. It seemed that Chu Shici was at a disadvantage.
He could see his helplessness and fear in Zhe-ge’s subtle facial expression.
Zhe-ge was very scared, so he pretended to be fierce and attacked anything suspicious in an attempt to protect himself.
Shen Xiuzhe couldn’t see or get out, the monitors were like a pair of eyes following him. On the other end of the surveillance, there were countless people with malicious intentions spying on him.
Therefore, he extremely hated the little speakers that he mistook for a surveillance device.
Chu Shici felt wronged and distressed. He bit his lower lip tightly and tried hard not to cry.
The system likes to see beautiful people cry, and Chu Shici is indeed very charming when he cries. But even so, it couldn’t help feeling distressed when its good friend is so sad.
It stuck its head out and said, [Ah Ci, why don’t you hide in the system space for a while and wait for him to calm down before going out?]
When the system voiced its concern, Chu Shici couldn’t bear it anymore.
He choked and wiped his tears, ‘I have been with Zhe-ge for hundreds of years, and I know that he only looks fierce on the surface, but is actually shy and gentle. He is very disciplined and nice to everyone. What the hell is this place and what has he been through! How did he become like this!’
The system didn’t know how to coax him.
It looked at the background data and wanted to change the subject.
[If a person’s vitality value reaches the low negatives, a person would have already committed suicide. It’s not normal that he can survive until now. Ah Ci, do you think it’s possible that although his memory has been erased, he still subconsciously remembers what you said to him.]
[If you tell him to hold on, that you will definitely come to accompany him, even after his vitality dropped to a negative number, he continued to hold on until it reached -40. He could no longer hold on and chose to commit suicide by cutting his wrists.]
The system was just analyzing, but Chu Shici became more and more sad the more he listened.
He took a deep breath and said, ‘I’m not angry with him, I just feel sad. Forget it, don’t talk about it, there’s no point even thinking about it. I’ll calm down and have a good chat with him later. By the way, Tong-ge, how far has the punishment against Zhe-ge progressed? How many more worlds are there?’
[I don’t know, but my boss told me to hold on a little longer last time. It gestured to me that there is another one after this one. It’s probably almost done.]
Hearing what it said, Chu Shici felt a little better.
At this moment, a man’s cold voice suddenly came from above him.
“Are you crying?”
Chu Shici was stunned for a moment. He felt Shen Xiuzhe’s grip on the charging cable loosen.
Shen Xiuzhe’s cold fingers caressed the casing of the little speaker, trying to find the place where the camera is.
When he was a child, he liked to stand in the woods behind the orphanage and listen to the sounds around him. He would close his eyes and picture the scenery in his mind. Then draw everything he sees and hears on the paper.
His hearing became sharper after becoming blind, and he can guess the mood of the person from the subtle fluctuations in his voice.
A small cry came from the little speaker just now, and Shen Xiuzhe could hear his sadness and helplessness from his soft sobs.
But sometimes the voice is more deceptive than the expression.
Shen Xiuzhe slowly put down the board and asked softly in the direction of the crying: “Were you captured too?”
The only answer he received was a few mumbled cries.
Shen Xiuzhe pondered for a long time, and his tone softened, “You are crying. Are you scared, or are you injured somewhere?”
The moment he heard these two questions, Chu Shici immediately thought that he could make up a story.
Although he still doesn’t know what is going on here, it does not prevent him from pretending to be a victim.
His voice sounded so tender that it wouldn’t be strange to say that he was a high school student. He could pretend he was a teenage student who got caught, beaten, abused, and forced to do bad things.
Zhe-ge is a good person. Even if he cannot protect himself, he will still sympathize with those who are weaker than him and try to protect them.
No one knows his Zhe-ge better than Chu Shici.
He has already generated the victim script in his mind, ensuring that every line can touch the soft spot in Shen Xiuzhe’s heart and quickly gain his trust.
But looking at the man in front of him with his eyes covered with white cloth, he couldn’t say the lines he had prepared.
The script turned around in his mind several times before Chu Shici shoved it down.
He didn’t want to take advantage of Zhe-ge’s trust, a relationship cannot be built on lies.
Chu Shici took a deep breath: “No one caught me. I cried because you kept hitting me and I was scared. My outer shell was dented, but it didn’t hurt, so I don’t blame you.”
Shen Xiuzhe’s body tensed up, “Is it fun to trick me?”
“I’m not lying to you. I know you don’t believe that a speaker can talk. You just thought that I was also captured and you wanted to comfort me. You are a good person and I don’t want to lie to you.”
Chu Shici tried to control his charging cable.
The white cord slowly floated with the plug, moved forward precariously, and finally fell into the man’s pale and slender palm.
Shen Xiuzhe was stunned for a moment when he heard a sound coming from the little speaker. The man had just cried and had a nasal sound when speaking.
“What you are holding now is my plug. I am not a victim, I am not even a human being. My name is Ah Ci, and I am a smart voice speaker. I suddenly came to life today and you are the first person I laid eyes on after I became conscious. From today onwards, I will be your exclusive little speaker.”
After Chu Shici finished speaking, he carefully observed Zhe-ge’s expression.
Shen Xiuzhe caressed his plug repeatedly with his fingers, the cloth on his face covered his eyes.
This made the extremely subtle changes on his face even more difficult to detect.
A few minutes later, Chu Shici saw a very slight arc at the corner of his mouth.
“It’s such a great opportunity, but you didn’t continue on. Should I call you smart or stupid?”
Shen Xiuzhe tapped the power button of the little speaker with his fingertips gently, “Okay, I’ll trust you for once.”
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