sjar Chapter 438 "Infecting the World" - Male Mother (49)
Chapter 438 "Infecting the World" - Male Mother (49)
So he was left with only one thought: to make a name for himself.
Only then could he, like his father, trample others underfoot.
He not only did not resist or reject this way of life, but he also fully agreed with and accepted this worldview, which was inherently flawed.
This is inextricably linked to his family.
But Lu Liruan also believed that he was born with antisocial personality disorder, a born bad seed.
Because from his writings, it's clear he was carefully observing even when his father was abusing his mother.
And he secretly studied, and from that time on, he began to feel that he would do better than his father in the future!
As for what was done better, Lu Liruan didn't want to know, nor did she wish to know...
His mother had once begged him for help.
But what did he say?
He said to his mother, "It's because you didn't do well enough. Look, I did well enough. I'm Dad's pride."
Lu Liruan could easily imagine how matter-of-fact and proud he must have felt when he said those words.
"Besides, how have you treated me? Don't you know your own limitations? If you're doing well, how can I be doing well? Mom, isn't this what you taught me?"
He wrote it in the document.
"When I looked at her face, watched her expression grow increasingly grim, watched her beg me! Watched her finally become desperate and unable to say anything, I felt like I had won!"
"You mean... his mother, like him and his father, is someone who accepts this way of thinking and can find joy in it?"
Lu Liruan didn't understand.
She had seen the male homeowner's parents in that family photo.
Two elderly people held Yuanyuan on their laps.
Their faces were full of concern, and they were very happy and loving.
If someone had told Lu Liruan back then that the old couple were actually a pair of perverts!
Lu Liruan wouldn't believe it.
If she hadn't seen these records, Lu Liruan might have even thought it was all a rumor, because how could someone who seemed so normal...
Now I've truly witnessed it?
Lu Liruan felt that the aftereffects of this situation might be that she would never be able to trust others again.
When you see someone, you only see their outward appearance, without knowing what their true nature is hidden behind that facade.
Lu Liruan sat down halfway through the movie.
Liao Tingyuan very considerately pushed the chair over to her.
Lu Liruan nodded gratefully to him, then plopped back down. She shouldn't have stood up in the first place!
Not to mention Lu Liruan, even Liao Tingyuan couldn't help but want to take a breather when he saw this.
The two looked into each other's eyes, and in each other's eyes they saw one message: "Let's rest for a while, let's talk about it later..."
"Let's go out later and buy a couple of bottles of soda," Lu Liruan suggested.
Liao Tingyuan nodded.
I raised my wrist and looked at my watch.
"Didn't you say you wanted a late-night snack the other day? You wanted barbecue?" Liao Tingyuan asked him.
"Didn't you already reject it? You said that at that time, eating such greasy food is unhealthy." Lu Liruan nodded.
Liao Tingyuan sighed: "When we leave here later, there's a barbecue restaurant outside the community that I remember is open all night. At this point, let's not worry about health for now, let's focus on our mental health first."
"Yay!" Lu Liruan said listlessly, feigning celebration.
To be honest, after seeing all this, Lu Liruan no longer had the energy to eat barbecue.
But as Liao Tingyuan said, we cannot let these things completely affect us.
There is a risk of infection inherent in being in a confined space.
"Okay, then the two of us..."
Lu Liruan originally wanted to say that they should press on and finish the battle quickly.
But he swallowed his words halfway through and slumped limply onto the table.
She stretched out a hand and weakly waved it at Liao Tingyuan: "Rest a little longer!"
Liao Tingyuan hooked his little finger around Lu Liruan's fingertip with his gloved hand and shook it to indicate his agreement.
After a while, Lu Liruan forced herself to sit up: "How much longer... Oh my god, I feel like I'm reading a horror novel!"
"And..." Liao Tingyuan scrolled down, somewhat regretfully, "There's still quite a lot."
"Forget it! See? After watching this, I'll be a hero again!" Lu Liruan patted her chest, encouraging herself.
The two sat down together again and continued looking at the document.
This time, Lu Liruan didn't feel that she was too close to Liao Tingyuan. On the contrary, she felt a sense of security when the two of them were close together.
In the middle of the passage, he used very rich and passionate words to describe how his father treated his mother, and he, as a spectator, was even more excited than watching a movie.
Although he was never allowed to go out and watch movies with his classmates and friends when he was a child.
Scrolling down further, Lu Liruan and Liao Tingyuan finally saw the section about animals.
The male homeowner wrote that when he lived in the city, he saw his father often secretly placing food dipped in poison in various corners of the yard.
But what he regretted was that he couldn't witness firsthand how those small animals that had eaten the poisoned food died...
The first time he witnessed his father killing animals was when they returned to the countryside.
In the village, there was a family who kept a big yellow dog.
Dogs in the countryside are mostly used for guarding homes and property, and they are much more capable than pet dogs in the city.
It barks loudly when it sees a stranger.
But the owner trained it well; without the owner's command, it would not easily bite people.
But if anyone tries to break into his house, the dog will grab their clothes or trouser legs to stop them.
The male homeowner's father once went to that family's house, and the dog pulled down his pants.
Although the owner stopped him in time, the yellow dog's drool still remained on his pants.
The man wrote: After my father came home, he burned the pants. He told me he would show me something interesting in a few days.
A few days later, that family went out to run some errands.
Under the cover of night, the male homeowner's father secretly climbed over the wall and went inside.
The dog in the yard noticed. But this time, the dog only barked once or twice before the man, who had brought it, stabbed it to the ground with a knife tied to a stick.
He didn't stab the dog to death directly. Instead, after the dog was injured and unable to bite, he went over and tightly tied its muzzle.
Then they put it in a burlap sack and, with great effort, dragged the dog out of the yard.
After returning to his own courtyard, he skinned the dog alive in front of the male protagonist, cooked some of the dog meat, and shared it with his wife and children.
His mother refused to eat and was severely beaten by his father.
Not only did he enjoy the food, but he also watched as his father burned the dog's skin, the remaining meat, and the bones.
His father lectured the male head of the household, saying, "See? This is a beast! Even if I kill it, it's not worth as much as my pair of pants!"
When the family returned, they found only messy footprints and some bloodstains in the yard.
The dog has disappeared...
There are no secrets in the village, so the family naturally told everyone about it.
Upon hearing this, the man's father made a special trip to visit the family and said with great regret, "That was truly a good dog."
"I don't know who came to the door, sneaking in just to kill a dog."
He went with the male owner of the house. The male owner, standing next to his father, could still recall the smell of dog meat when he heard those words.
Once they left the courtyard, the fake smile on his father's face vanished instantly.
He muttered sarcastically under his breath, "What a bunch of idiots! I deliberately gave them a clue, and not a single one of them noticed anything amiss..."
The male homeowner was already very intelligent at that age.
Just like his father, cold-blooded...
He understood.
His father just said that someone came to the door, just to kill that dog.
The dog is gone now, so how can we be sure that someone came to kill it, or simply to steal it?
Or... did they just find nothing when they were there to kill someone?
At the time, he just felt that if he had the ability, he would like to do this kind of thing.
“From that time on, I felt that killing these beasts was incredibly satisfying! Later, when I went to college, I finally got the chance to do what I had always wanted to do in the dissection room.”
It's clear that when he was young, he had a certain amount of admiration for his father.
But as he grew older, his desire to surpass his father grew stronger, and he began to disregard his father more and more. In the end, he felt intense hatred for his father and even had thoughts of killing both of his parents!
This idea is getting more and more serious, but he has no choice now because he is bound by social laws.
Moreover, he always seemed to harbor a physical fear of his father...
It's like a wild beast that fears another wild beast, even though it's old, that has been a threat to it for so many years.
As a result, he became increasingly distressed, a kind of pain that he had no way of telling anyone.
He wrote, "Those two old bastards were actually being nice to that brat! I even heard one of the old bastards say to the brat, 'Let him live happily! Why should he? He has to live like me! Otherwise, I'll kill him! Just like I want to kill that old bastard!'"
He might have continued to suffer in this pain indefinitely...
And like his father, he continued to pretend even at that age.
She was even worse than his father, because the lady of the house was clearly not like his mother, who was submissive and swallowed her anger in order to maintain the so-called stability of the "family" and not want to lose face in front of outsiders.
To allow oneself to be abused and humiliated.
Then, this pain is transferred to the child, creating an inexplicable competitive and antagonistic relationship between them...
It has been incredibly deformed over the years.
A woman like the female homeowner might prevent the male homeowner from carrying out his evil intentions; he can only continue to endure the pain and suffering.
But the turning point came when his parents were suddenly involved in that unexpected car accident.
He was almost crushed into pieces, which greatly shocked him.
It's not that I'm sad.
Rather, it was a feeling of finally being free; he could finally take control of his own life and no longer have to be afraid!
Moreover, seeing the tragic deaths of his parents greatly aroused the perverse and vicious nature within him.
This finally drove him to stop, and he began to prey on animals.
He even felt reborn after his parents died!
Actually, we've pretty much covered most of the male protagonist's life story by now.
It seems that his life, from birth until now, has been filled with darkness and gloom...
His family is his parents, and he is also his family.
He now wants to bring this gloom and pain to others.
But in this space, it was interrupted.
Lu Liruan sat there, somewhat dazed.
If the deaths of the male homeowner and his accomplice were related to the source of infection, or were influenced by it, then...
Since neither of them is the source of infection, it is highly likely that they were affected by the source of infection.
If that's the case, Lu Liruan had a question: Does this infected space itself contain both good and bad intentions?
It seemed malicious to them and Liao Tingyuan, and that they would really be killed if they didn't resist.
Overall, however, he used methods that the law could not punish to ensure that these two people, who could have posed a great threat to society, met such a deserved end.
Is this a good thing?
If the purpose of this space, or other spaces, is to eliminate these scumbags, then containing it...
"Thinking about space?"
Liao Tingyuan's voice interrupted her thoughts.
"How did you know? I've discovered that sometimes you're like a tapeworm in my stomach!" Lu Liruan slapped her thigh.
Liao Tingyuan: ...
In the end, he decided to ignore the statement.
"Because I've thought about it before," Liao Tingyuan said with a smile.
"And the conclusion?"
"I don't know," Liao Tingyuan said frankly.
"So you just... took over this place?"
“Actually, containment…” Liao Tingyuan seemed to want to say something, but he shook his head at this moment: “Containment doesn’t mean destruction. You’ll know what true containment is after you get out.”
Lu Liruan was becoming more and more curious.
It feels like there are more and more secrets.
The two of them were on the computer, constantly searching through various chat logs.
Finally, the identity of the accomplice was revealed.
Lu Liruan opened her mouth wide, utterly speechless...
So that's how the two of them were connected.
Lu Liruan thought to herself that Liao Tingyuan's initial judgment was correct; the space for infection was indeed not large, or rather, it should be very small.