Lazily Yours.

"What did I tell you about me being always on top?" Lyca said as she tried to push him off her. The sharp broken glasses were everywhere, and she didn't him to hurt herself.

"Are you alright?" Shen Qui — who now looked like Ye Wan — asked. "Are you— "

Before he could continue his words, she suddenly pulled him into a tight hug. She missed him. She wanted to prolong the hug and maybe even kiss, but that was when she notice that he too had been wearing the armor that she made for him. Unlike Lyca, who took the antidote that she created using the toxins of the creature, Shen Qui and even Xu Ke didn't have one.

"Is he dead?" Shen Qui said as he eyed Xu Ke, who had a deep cut in his throat. Xu Ke's eyes were still open, unwilling and anger still apparent in his orbs. However, before Lyca could answer, Shen Qui already walked towards Xu Ke, and this time used a knife to cut his throat.

Yep.

If he didn't die because of the piece of glass that Lya threw at him, the knife that basically cut his neck should have done it.

"Just to make sure…" Shen Qui smiled at her just as when she smiled at him the first time that she saved him. "He then eyed the green gas that is still around them. "We need to leave. Our people are putting explosives in this place."

"I need to find out about something," Lyca said as she held Shen Qui's hands and pulled him out of the lab. She looked behind them and stared at Xu Ke's corpse one last time before she left this part of the facility. "Do you have the map?"

"Here it is… Ronan was able to hack it after the gas was triggered."

Lyca stared at the tablet before she peered at him. His features had been changed, but the warmth in his eyes was the same. "This is — "she sighed. It seems that this facility is actually bigger than she thought. "Take me to Xu Ke's office."

"Alright." Shen Qui smiled and, hand in hand, the two left the area.

Unbeknownst to them, just as they left, Xu Ke's fingers started twitching.

Of course, they have no knowledge about this. Lyca had suspicions that Xu Ke did something to his body. That is the reason why he was so confident about dying. So, she wanted to go to his office and make sure.

After about five minutes of walking through the corpses of Xu Ke's men that littered the floor, they finally arrived at Xu Ke's office.

"The security is already in our hands." Shen Qui said as he ordered Ronan to open it now.

Lyca and Shen Qui immediately got inside and started rummaging into Xu Ke's office. To their surprise, the office was clean and organized, to the point of looking a bit boring. Seeing this, Lyca immediately tried to find ways to access some hidden compartments — something that Xu Ke always wanted to do, even in that world.

If Ken was trying to act like Xu Ke, then it would make sense for him to use this method.

"Uhhh…. "

Lyca lifted her head when she saw Shen Qui make a sound while staring at the monitors.

"He's alive…"

"Who?"

"Xu Ke… he just…"

Lyca immediately approached him and focused her attention on the screen before them. Xu Ke asked the IT team to set up their computers here to monitor Lyca, and these computers were not damaged by the gas. Because of this, Lyca could still see everything inside the lab and her room.

"What — what is that thing?" Shen Qui asked when he saw Xu Ke started twitching and crawling on all fours. His eyes were red, bloodied, and wide as his head slowly turned towards the monitor. "He knows that we are watching him?"

"Asked Ronan and everyone else to leave this facility," Lyca ordered.

Without asking questions, Shen Qui immediately told Ronan what she wanted to do. The two then watched as Xu Ke's body seemed to become leaner. It was as if something inside him was sucking his flesh.

"I was right…" Lyca snorted. "He ate that creature. To sustain himself… he was eating humans." That creature would always want to eat flesh and enjoyed swimming in blood. It was barbarous and blood-thirsty.

Shen Qui held the armor and said. "They are out."

"Now lock every door on that side of the facility. That should delay that creature." Lyca said. This time, she ignored the screen and started rummaging towards Xu Ke's things.

Xu Ke and his people didn't succeed in controlling the creature. Unlike Lyca, their knowledge when it comes to the poison of the creature was close to nonexistent. Moreover, Xu Ke was a fake. All of his actions were based on his dreams. There was no way for him to know everything about the previous world.

In the previous world, there was a reason why people don't just eat herbs and any creatures immediately, even if they are already dead. And that is because the magic inside them still exists. There is a possibility that this magic would overpower the body of the person who ate them. In the end, the person would become its food instead.

As long as he feeds the creatures with blood and flesh, then it wouldn't consume him, at least not completely.

But this time… Xu Ke died.

Meaning, the creature would have no way of eating.

Upon sensing that Xu Ke's body is dead, the creature immediately used it in an attempt to find another body to occupy.

"It's dangerous." Shen Qui said. He was still looking at the screen and by now, Xu Ke was already crawling towards them. Just as Lyca said, the glass doors were making it hard for him to approach this part of the facility. "We need to leave and blow up this building."

"No," Lyca said. Xu Ke had no problems dying because he knew that the creature would try to use his body and kill Lyca. Or perhaps he is still hiding other secrets.

She recalled how Xu Ke looked so proud when he saw the creature birth its own. He even called himself its father. Which was totally gross at that time. But now Lyca understood everything.

"Found it!" Lyca said as she pressed a button on one of the books on his bookshelf.

Almost immediately, the light flickered. The bookshelf moved, giving them access to a room with only blue lights.

"What is this room?" Shen Qui asked.