Quick Transmigration: What to Do When the Male Supporting Character You Saved Becomes Obsessed with

Chapter 459 "Infecting the World" - Male Mother (70)

Lu Liruan walked to the window in the corridor, stood on tiptoe, and looked downstairs.

But the light downstairs was too dim; nothing could be seen clearly, just shadowy figures.

"Can't see clearly..."

Liao Tingyuan confirmed that there was nothing in the corridor, nodded to Lu Liruan, and then Lu Liruan went down another floor.

But I still couldn't see anything.

The cat's meow sounded very strange...

It didn't seem to be in the flower bed, nor did it seem to be over on the path. It sounded very close, so close that... it felt almost like it was right next to my ear, or like it was on the next floor.

But it wasn't there.

Liao Tingyuan and Lu Liruan felt the same way.

He told Lu Liruan to stay at the door, holding the doorknob so the door wouldn't close, and then he took a dim flashlight and went downstairs.

"I'll go with you!"

The pattern I've been working on for so many years was suddenly broken tonight, which is very unsettling.

Lu Liruan was worried that this was some kind of trap, designed to separate her from Liao Tingyuan and defeat them one by one.

"Don't worry, if anything comes, it will come from below and rise up; it won't appear out of thin air," Liao Tingyuan reassured her.

“You’re here, and we don’t know what’s going on. If we both leave and the door closes so we can’t go back, that might be the real problem,” Liao Tingyuan patiently explained to her.

Lu Liruan wasn't oblivious to what she was saying. She took a deep breath and said, "Then hurry up... no matter what the situation is, make sure you're safe first."

Liao Tingyuan gestured for her to look, but found that Lu Liruan couldn't see.

He reached out his hand and let her touch the folding knife in his palm: "Don't worry about me. Don't go anywhere. If there's an emergency, come inside first."

"Only when I return, when you see me in person, not just hear my voice... Only when you see me and confirm it's me can we move on to the next step, understand?" Liao Tingyuan thought things through carefully and earnestly instructed.

"What? How could something else impersonate you?" Lu Liruan was so shocked by what he said that her hair stood on end.

Hesitantly, his throat dry, he asked, "Then, should we agree on a secret code?"

Liao Tingyuan really didn't want to be amused by her at a time like this...

"Then when I get back, you can ask me questions, okay?" he whispered in Lu Liruan's ear.

He was just being cautious because he heard a cat meowing sound he had never heard before in the space. Liao Tingyuan was worried that there might be something wrong with the sound, which is why he gave this instruction. He didn't expect it to scare Lu Liruan.

"Go and come back quickly... Let me think about what I want to ask you later." Lu Liruan nudged him.

After hearing Liao Tingyuan's footsteps approaching, she placed one foot inside the door and the other outside, using her body to ensure the door wouldn't close easily.

Lu Liruan has no concept of time.

But it feels like a long time has passed...

Lu Liruan initially tried to comfort herself, thinking that the perception of time here was abnormal, and that it would definitely take Liao Tingyuan a while to walk up and down...

But later, in the darkness, Lu Liruan slowly began to feel anxious.

She began to worry: Had Liao Tingyuan encountered some kind of accident outside?

Then it gradually turned into... Could it be that he's in some kind of predicament right now, and I'm going to rescue him?

Every second I linger here is putting Liao Tingyuan in even greater danger.

This feeling is the hardest to endure.

Darkness and fear, in particular, amplified my senses little by little.

Lu Liruan closed her eyes and silently recited in her heart: I must listen to Liao Tingyuan's arrangements.

Haven't you seen in horror movies that the ones who die young or are prone to getting into trouble are always the ones who don't follow instructions and court death?

The cat's meowing is still going on.

They are both close and far apart.

Each sound seemed to be an attempt to communicate with Lu Liruan.

"Meow~" Lu Liruan meowed softly a few times with her eyes closed: "It's no use me calling you like that, I don't understand! I don't have a cat language translator!"

Lu Liruan felt like she was grasping at straws in her desperation, and she even wondered if the cats in this space could be communicated with.

After letting out two bland and timid cries, Lu Liruan coughed lightly and then cried out a few more times with great emotion.

"Meow meow meow!"

Lu Liruan felt that her screams were more eerie than the cat's meows.

But it was clearly useless; the cat's meows continued to reach my ears in a strange, rhythmic manner.

There was no change despite Lu Liruan's emotional communication.

Lu Liruan: ...

I feel like my brain is bubbling.

When people are nervous or scared, they often do things that they themselves cannot understand.

Lu Liruan thought that it might be that some hormones were being secreted excessively due to fright, causing this near-mental breakdown.

"Meow~" Lu Liruan silently recited what she wanted to say in her heart, and then meowed again.

Then he decided to count to three hundred in his mind. If Liao Tingyuan didn't come back by then, he would definitely go down and look for him, no matter what, in case Liao Tingyuan was really trapped...

Lu Liruan counted her heartbeats.

I felt it was too fast; I counted over 150 in no time.

But Liao Tingyuan still didn't make a move, so Lu Liruan decided to slowly count the remaining 150 numbers...

Just as Lu Liruan finished counting to the 140th, she stared wide-eyed at the darkness below.

Finally, a tiny, extremely faint, flickering light appeared.

Lu Liruan thought she had misread it and hurriedly rubbed her eyes.

That's right!

But Lu Liruan didn't say anything, she just waited for the light to slowly approach, and it was indeed very slow.

When the light was just a few steps away, Lu Liruan finally saw Liao Tingyuan holding a flashlight and slightly out of breath!

Liao Tingyuan also looked up at her and brought the flashlight close to his face.

From Lu Liruan's perspective, all she could see was a head suspended in mid-air amidst the bright light.

Liao Tingyuan's face, with its extremely pale skin, held a... somewhat strange expression.

He stared intently at Lu Liruan, his brows furrowing slightly, revealing a hesitant expression.

"Stop!" Lu Liruan called out, only to find her throat already dry and hoarse.

Liao Tingyuan stopped as instructed and stood there with his head tilted back.

"Ask whatever you want to ask."

His voice carried a hint of helplessness, as if he were coaxing a child.

"Let me think..." Lu Liruan had been trying to distract herself by thinking about what questions to ask later, but she still couldn't think of anything.

"What do you least want me to call you?" Lu Liruan suddenly thought of something Liao Tingyuan had been complaining about that night.

Liao Tingyuan: ...

Then he sighed deeply, his voice faint: "You can call me whatever you want, but... please don't call me Mom anymore."

Lu Liruan: ...

"Alright, come on up. I'll try to be more careful in the future, Teacher Liao." Lu Liruan waved to him.

When Liao Tingyuan came up, he noticed Lu Liruan's strange posture: she had stuck herself in the door crack, with one hand still tightly gripping the frying pan.

"Um..." Liao Tingyuan reached out and held the door open, gesturing for her to come out first.

Lu Liruan then realized that she had been in the same position for too long and her legs were numb.

"Are you in danger?" Lu Liruan asked, holding another flashlight and carefully shining it on Liao Tingyuan from head to toe.

Seeing her worried expression, Liao Tingyuan pursed his lips almost imperceptibly.

"It's okay."

Liao Tingyuan let her look him over, and even raised his hand to let her see him more clearly.

Lu Liruan breathed a sigh of relief.

When she counted down to the last few numbers, she really decided to go down to Dongsheng immediately to find Liao Tingyuan.

If he's alright, then at most he's just gotten separated from his group, or he's been criticized by Liao Tingyuan for not following orders.

At worst, I'll just wait outside until dawn...

If Liao Tingyuan were really in danger and she didn't help her, Lu Liruan would regret it terribly.

"Um..." Liao Tingyuan wanted to continue speaking about what he had just been interrupted about.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Lu Liruan gestured for him to speak.

Liao Tingyuan tilted his head and asked cautiously, "Just now, did you also meow like a cat? Did something happen?"

Lu Liruan: ...

How am I supposed to answer that?

"Did...you run into something?"

Liao Tingyuan was utterly baffled.

As he walked back, he felt the cat's meow was still so far away, but before he could even listen carefully...

Several extremely mournful, and rather terrifying, hissing cat cries, seemingly filled with great resentment, suddenly came from upstairs.

For a moment, Liao Tingyuan thought something had happened to Lu Liruan.

After running uphill for a while, the cat's meowing stopped for half a minute, then started again.

Then Liao Tingyuan stopped in his tracks.

If I heard correctly... it should have been Lu Liruan who called out, but her voice was too strained, so Liao Tingyuan didn't recognize it the first time.

Although he didn't know what had happened, Liao Tingyuan returned as quickly as he could.

He was actually breathing heavily and his chest hurt a bit, but he's only just starting to feel better.

"Uh—" Lu Liruan pouted, "Well, I guess so."

"Really?"

"I wanted to communicate with that cat's meow..." Lu Liruan mumbled and spoke very quickly.

"Huh?" Liao Tingyuan didn't hear her clearly.

"I said! I had a sudden lapse of judgment, thinking I could communicate using cat meows and spatial abilities! I just had a brain fart, okay?! Stop asking!" Lu Liruan said loudly and clearly.

"Pfft—" Liao Tingyuan laughed and turned his head away without any warning.

“It’s nothing…” He couldn’t see Lu Liruan’s face clearly, but he could imagine her with her cheeks puffed out, looking ashamed and indignant.

"It's okay, you couldn't communicate with the space, but you can communicate with me."

He managed to finish the sentence, but couldn't help laughing again.

Lu Liruan: ...

How come I didn't know you were such a cheerful person?

When we first met, you weren't this cheerful.

What, am I that funny?

"Did you understand what I meant?" Lu Liruan asked indignantly.

"Ah."

Liao Tingyuan gestured for her to continue, then earnestly replied, "You're asking about the space, when will it let us out?"

"Oh, you actually understood." Lu Liruan muttered to herself, taking the hand that Liao Tingyuan offered, and the two of them walked down the stairs together.

"What are we going downstairs for now?" Lu Liruan felt a little uneasy as she went downstairs without a fight for the first time.

"I don't know," Liao Tingyuan replied.

"The meowing was always there. Once we stepped out of the building, we could tell where it was coming from. It was as if the sound was there to guide us and lead us in the direction of the sound."

"Huh?" Lu Liruan shuddered. "These cats... whether in the real world or in this space, they should all be... dead by now, right?"

Lu Liruan grabbed Liao Tingyuan's hand and lifted it up, then looked at the watch on his wrist to confirm the time.

That point in time has indeed passed...

"Yes." Liao Tingyuan had also thought of this problem.

"Where will the dead kitten lead us?" Lu Liruan felt a chill run down her spine when she heard herself say those words.

"Anyway, there's no other way. Let's go and take a look first," Liao Tingyuan reassured her.

“That’s true…” Lu Liruan murmured softly, “Every wrong has its perpetrator, and every debt has its debtor. We just want to restore things to normal here; we have no ill intentions whatsoever!”

"Shhhhh-"

Liao Tingyuan could understand what she said before, but what was that meaningless "whoosh whoosh" sound coming from her mouth afterward?

Before he could finish thinking, he felt Lu Liruan's fingers frantically drawing crosses on his back: "I'm pretending my hand is a peach wood sword, but I don't know how to draw talismans, so I've decided to be unrestrained and combine Chinese and Western styles. Now you can imagine that I'm using a peach wood sword to draw crosses on both of us!"

Liao Tingyuan: ...

Just when Lu Liruan thought he wouldn't pay attention to her, she heard Liao Tingyuan say in a very calm and rigid tone, "Amitabha."

"Huh?" Lu Liruan paused.

"Alright, now it's even more of a mix."

It has everything; it's a complete hodgepodge of praying to gods and Buddhas.

“Okay, let’s hope whoever is free right now blesses us!” Lu Liruan echoed.

After a series of meaningless banter to ease the tension, they finally reached the stairwell.

The moment she stepped out, Lu Liruan immediately understood the feeling Liao Tingyuan had just described.

I can tell the direction now.

It can be understood immediately; this is a sign of guidance.

Whether it was just their imagination or not, the cat's meows seemed to grow louder as the two stood motionless at the door, as if urging them on.

"This way?" Lu Liruan pointed to the path in front of the flower bed, confirming that Liao Tingyuan and she were hearing the same direction.

Liao Tingyuan nodded.

The two of them walked together in that direction.

The cat's meow always lasts until just before it takes a step.

Halfway there, the two of them pretty much knew where the cat's meows were leading them.

Go to the home of an accomplice.

That's exactly the direction.

And as they got closer, the cat's meows became more and more frequent.

The sound made one's heart race; the eerie and piercing cry made one feel panicked and tense, as if one's heart was being gripped by a hand.

Arrived.

Lu Liruan looked up and saw that the window of the accomplice's house was lit.