Chapter 53: Why Is Everyone Rushing on This Night

It was already almost five in the morning. So late, why would Shen Ai call him?

No, or rather, was it so early that Shen Ai was already up?

Chen Fengshi had no choice but to answer. He took a deep breath to calm his inexplicable guilt. No, it was not inexplicable. He recalled the brief, limited loss of control with Juzi, which simply produced a feeling of disloyalty and betrayal toward Shen Ai. Even though he knew full well that the two of them had no relationship so far, and it looked like there would be no relationship in the future either.

But this feeling simply existed.

After the call connected, Chen Fengshi still did not forget to adjust his state. He opened his mouth and said in a low, steady, and unhurried voice: “I just changed my phone. May I ask who this is?”

Yes, given the number of times he and Shen Ai had talked on the phone, he had to pretend not to remember her number, even though in reality he knew it by heart.

“Chen Fengshi, it’s Shen Ai! Jiang Yuan has been crying all night and is now threatening to kill herself. Hurry up and come over to talk her out of it! I’m at the top of Little Peak…” Shen Ai’s voice on the other end was very anxious, but Chen Fengshi’s mood was very gloomy.

The trouble from Sister Yao’s pot had just begun. His own mood was terribly bad right now, yet he still had to muster the energy to face these rotten blame-taking pots and comfort these troubles that he clearly knew had been implanted with Illusory Memory?

Chen Fengshi really wanted to say: If she wants to die, let her die!

However, his damn sense of morality made him unable to say such things. He even felt that having such an impatient thought was a sin after it crossed his mind.

Jiang Yuan was also innocent. What could she do about it? She had no way, so Shen Ai had no way, and thus… what way did he, the one taking the blame, have?

“Master, go to the side gate of the Mountain Park next to Xuancheng University. Do you know the side gate, master?” Chen Fengshi asked the driving master to change the route. The so-called Little Peak that Shen Ai mentioned was the hilltop closest to the school among the hills of Xuancheng University, so it was called Little Peak, and going up from the side gate was the closest.

The mountain peak further back was called Second Peak…

If you went there to play, it was usually abbreviated as going to Second…

If you thought that was already awesome, then the peak next to Second Peak was called Idiot Peak…

Chen Fengshi did not know who came up with this creative naming, but anyway, everyone was used to calling it that.

“I know.” That master was a man of few words, and his reply was brief and crisp.

Chen Fengshi then said in a deep voice to the phone: “Tell her she doesn’t need to kill herself, I’m on my way over.”

On the other end of the phone, Shen Ai had already spoken to Jiang Yuan, and then they heard Jiang Yuan yelling: “So what if he comes over? So what? He’s been playing with my feelings all along. Who does he really like? Exactly how many women does he have? Make him explain clearly—”

Chen Fengshi did not know what a man’s mood should be like at this moment if these were facts. Anyway, as the one taking the blame, encountering so many things in a row, he only felt very annoyed listening to it. But he could not be annoyed. Since he was going over, he had to calm Jiang Yuan down first. So he said in a deep voice into the phone: “Put it on speaker—If she thinks my coming over is useless, I don’t have to go.”

“Chen Fengshi—How can you say that? Of course she wants to see you!” After Shen Ai said this to Chen Fengshi, she hurriedly comforted Jiang Yuan on the other side: “Stop making a fuss! If you keep making a fuss, he won’t come over.”

Jiang Yuan on the other end was not so easy to handle. Hearing this, she instead made a fuss again and yelled: “He’s not coming, I don’t need him to come. Anyway, I don’t want to live anymore! Don’t stop me, let me jump down and fall to my death! Let me fall to my death—”

Chen Fengshi listened to these words and felt she did not sound like she wanted to die, so he calmly continued: “Tell her, confirm one last time, if we can’t communicate properly, then there’s no need for me to go over. As for the school—I won’t go back in the future. I’ve already found a job. If she wants to communicate with me in the future, it’ll depend on what day I’m in the mood to answer her calls.”

“Chen Fengshi! Jiang Yuan is already like this, how can you say such irresponsible things? Do you really have any…”

“I’m coming to help—There’s no reason I should let you casually humiliate me. Shen Ai, if you can’t speak properly, please call someone else for help.” Chen Fengshi interrupted directly. He could not stand hearing such words, so he did not want to hear them. Even less did he want to let Shen Ai get smoother and smoother at saying these definitions. Wasn’t this equivalent to repeatedly reinforcing a labeled impression? Therefore, he had to nip this kind of situation in the bud ahead of time, even if it meant taking tough measures!

On the other end, Shen Ai was ultimately afraid that Chen Fengshi would ignore Jiang Yuan, so she softened her tone. However, her voice still revealed a strong sense of justice as she said: “Daring to do these things, yet not daring to let people talk about it. If you had a sense of shame, you shouldn’t have done so many shameless things. Today I won’t say anything for Jiang Yuan’s sake, but you can’t change what others think in their hearts!”

Chen Fengshi pretended to be very indifferent and said: “Who cares what you think in your hearts? Just don’t say it in front of me and make me feel annoyed.”

At this time, Jiang Yuan on the other end really went quiet.

She was ultimately scared by Chen Fengshi’s words. She was afraid she would not have the chance to meet him again, and she was also intimidated by the calmness and heartlessness Chen Fengshi displayed.

Jiang Yuan was temporarily quiet, so Chen Fengshi directly hung up the phone.

He was wearing wet clothes, and it was so late that he couldn’t find a place to change, nor did he want to go bother Big Guy. He originally planned to head straight to the hotel to shower and sleep, but now look, the troubles were truly endless!

He really wanted to just make an appointment to talk to Jiang Yuan another day, but he figured she wouldn’t have that patience. Ultimately, his heart ached for Shen Ai, so he wronged himself and ran over there in his wet clothes.

However, how should this painful blame pot be resolved?

He had asked Little An, after the memory recovery failed, to what extent would these people’s Illusory Memory be strengthened.

What Little An told him was, it was equivalent to the level of mental illness.

What level was that?

The hallucinations seen by mental patients, no matter how others analyzed them as fake, were of no use at all! Chen Fengshi had seen the real manifestations of persecutory delusions. To them, the illusory memory was real!

So he knew that this matter was truly helpless.

How could he handle it?

Chen Fengshi really hadn’t figured it out yet, but with Jiang Yuan’s matter, Shen Ai was essentially tied down. Thinking about it, he felt how miserably Shen Ai’s role would be tortured by her. Who told Shen Ai to be his goddess? Wasn’t it a matter of course to share the pressure for a goddess?

The taxi stopped at the side gate going up the mountain. The master took no wrong turns and had no hesitations on the way; he was really very familiar with this area.

When paying, Chen Fengshi added an extra sentence: “Master, you are very familiar with this area!”

“When I graduated back then, Xuancheng University was still a third-rate university in the country. Now it’s much more decent.”

“So you’re a senior, my respects.” Chen Fengshi understood. Originally, not many people came to this place normally. The surrounding residents were the type who had no leisure or energy to climb mountains for fun. Plus, the mountain paths here were built simply and were not suitable for sightseeing.

The master smiled. Just as he was about to drive away, Chen Fengshi suddenly noticed it was almost the top of the hour. His experiences really made him have to be more careful, so he deliberately made conversation and asked an extra question: “When you were studying here, senior, the roads on this mountain hadn’t been repaired at all, right?”

The driver was a bit surprised, but Chen Fengshi was a passenger and still quite polite, so he patiently replied: “Yeah. At that time, most of us had no money to get a hotel room, so Little Peak was the Lovers’ Woods…”

Right at this moment, red mist began to overflow from the driver’s body, and a red mist thread extended from the top of his head. But after extending a certain length, it stopped stretching, swaying above the driver’s head as if at a loss.

Chen Fengshi said nothing, directly reaching out to press his palm on the driver’s head. Along with the release of golden mist, he quickly dispelled the Fungal Demon inside the level-four body.

The Fungal Demon inside the driver’s body did not spread out to probe along the way, probably because it was too far from the Fungal Demon Main Body, so its intelligence-gathering ability could not be executed, and the red mist thread could not achieve a connection due to the excessive distance.

After the Fungal Demon inside the driver’s body was dispelled, the person briefly lost consciousness and collapsed on the steering wheel. When he slowly woke up, he felt his mind was very muddled. He didn’t remember how he got here, nor did he know what date or day of the week it was…

Chen Fengshi went up the mountain from the side gate. The so-called side gate actually had no gate at all; it was just a narrow flight of stairs that could only allow a single person to pass. He had nothing left to say about encountering a Fungal Demon Parasite even while taking a taxi. He just increasingly felt that his understanding of the world was being forcibly refreshed.

Going up Little Peak all the way, Chen Fengshi did not see anyone else. After all, it was this time of day. Even couples who came here wouldn’t stay until this hour. If they wanted to watch the sunrise, they should head for the highest of the peaks, though he had never heard of such an eccentric person. Chen Fengshi also could not imagine what was romantic about hugging each other on the mountain top to watch the sunrise after climbing several hills and being covered in stink.

Not long after, Chen Fengshi saw the bunker near the mountain top. It was left over from the past war era, and there were several of them in the hills next to the university.

The mountain top was paved with stone bricks that were uneven in height. The platform was not big. As soon as Chen Fengshi went up, he saw Shen Ai and Jiang Yuan. The former was wearing a pink outdoor sports outfit. No matter when, her exquisite face was as beautiful as a virtual image. Right now, she was clearly looking at Chen Fengshi in anger, and clearly hiding disdain in her heart, but she only looked as cute as a pouting little princess.

Jiang Yuan was originally also a famous flower in the school. However, being in the same dorm as Shen Ai, her brilliance was somewhat overshadowed. Unless someone specially appreciated her, their gaze would inevitably be drawn more to Shen Ai’s flawless face.

But Jiang Yuan was actually also pretty, and her figure was very well-proportioned. Actually, no flaws could be picked out, but she also had no particularly outstanding advantages. For example, her three-size curves were actually pleasing to the eye, but her slim waist was only considered average among those with good figures. The same went for her long legs and so on. So she was pretty and well-proportioned, yet without any particularly outstanding highlights.

She was also wearing a sports outfit of the same style as Shen Ai’s, just in a different color. Her body curves were fully exposed, but her originally well-proportioned waist appeared not slim enough when contrasted with Shen Ai’s.

Seeing Chen Fengshi arrive, Jiang Yuan immediately started crying and making a fuss again. She looked very sad, but Chen Fengshi felt that the pair of seductive fox eyes on her oval face seemed closed, but she clearly left a tiny crack, and hidden inside was her observation of him.

Chen Fengshi had always appreciated fox eyes, but he always felt that Jiang Yuan’s eyes revealed calculation. He felt she belonged to the venomous-hearted type, so he had always kept a respectful distance from Jiang Yuan.

But, one of the blame pots was exactly Jiang Yuan!

Seeing her making a fuss, Chen Fengshi said nothing. Unhurriedly, he walked over while taking off his top.