bioinnovel Chapter 257: Are we going to be wiped out?!
Chapter 257: Are we going to be wiped out?!
As Lu Yutang listened to their conversation, she looked left at Xue Youyou and right at Muyue, her expression exactly the same as Meng Yanqing's half-minute earlier.
Both of them were completely baffled.
Xue sighed softly.
She realized that tonight's matter was probably not something that could be resolved in a few words.
Since that's the case, let's just make things clear once and for all.
Without saying a word, she lifted the towel to reveal a crescent-shaped mark with a dark red sheen on her lower abdomen.
"Youyou, you too!" Meng Yanqing and Lu Yutang exclaimed in unison, their faces filled with surprise.
The next second, Mutsuki also casually pulled down the towel around her neck, revealing the equally eerie red moon mark below her collarbone.
Meng Yanqing and Lu Yutang were both stunned.
So that's what Xue Youyou meant when she said "everyone here is one of us".
Next, Meng Yanqing showed the mark on her calf to Lu Yutang. Lu Yutang leaned over and examined it carefully, then looked at the mark on Xue Youyou's lower abdomen, and finally belatedly realized that the marks on the four of them were the same thing.
"So, all four of us have the same mark."
Instead of worry, Lu Yutang's tone carried a hint of inexplicable excitement: "What exactly is it?"
On her way to find Xue Youyou, she was indeed a little uneasy.
But when he saw that Xue Youyou and Muyue, these two big shots, also had the same thing, his worry vanished like a burst bubble.
Her thinking has always been simple and direct—although she doesn't know what the current situation is, being able to be like these two big shots is definitely not a bad thing.
Just as Xue Youyou was about to explain to the two of them, she cleared her throat and before she could utter the first word, there was another knock on the door.
The snow's soft chanting was interrupted for the second time.
"..."
Xue Youyou could only walk to the door again and open it.
Su Wanrou and Cui Yelan were standing outside the door.
Su Wanrou was wearing an egg-yolk yellow silk nightgown, her long hair damp with water.
Cui Yelan stood half a step behind her to the side, wearing a plain gray nightgown, and nodded slightly to Xue Youyou, her hair also wet.
"Come in."
Xue Youyou didn't waste any words and stepped aside to make way.
The two entered the room and found that there were already four people sitting inside.
Meng Yanqing sat cross-legged on the bed, Lu Yutang sat on the edge of the bed swinging her legs, while Mu Yue casually occupied the only armchair in the room, crossed her legs, and wrapped her bath towel crookedly, looking like she was saying, "This place is mine now."
Su Wanrou's gaze lingered on Muyue for a second before she casually looked away.
Cui Yelan's expression remained unchanged, only his eyebrows twitched almost imperceptibly.
"It's so lively?"
Su Wanrou tentatively asked.
"You too?"
The snow falls silently, revealing the true nature of things.
Su Wanrou was slightly taken aback, then lifted a corner of her bathrobe to reveal her waist: "I saw this on my waist when I was taking a shower."
There, a crimson moon mark lay quietly on the graceful curve of her waistline, the dark red lines standing out against her fair skin.
"Is it also nightfall?"
Cui Yelan nodded silently, then turned around and pointed to the right side of his buttocks, his voice barely audible: "Here. I only noticed it when I looked in the mirror; I just happened to find it."
Her ears were already bright red when she said this, and her voice was so soft as if she was afraid of disturbing something.
If Su Wanrou hadn't happened to bump into Xue Youyou in the hallway, where she was on her way to find Lu Yutang, and the two had chatted for a bit and discovered their situations were similar, she probably wouldn't have taken the initiative to find Xue Youyou.
After looking at the two marks, Xue Youyou slowly turned her head and looked at Muyue with a speechless expression.
His eyes were filled with the message: "Please explain how these two colored pencils were chosen by the Emperor."
Mutsuki received her gaze, coughed lightly, and said with a hint of consideration in her voice, "Maybe it's because... I've gotten involved with you."
This answer has no basis, yet it is impossible to find fault with it.
After all, in terms of common sense, Su Wanrou and Cui Yelan's talents are not exactly top-tier.
Being chosen by the Emperor's Sacrifice seems to be solely due to their teammate connection with Xue Youyou.
No sooner had he finished speaking than the knocking on the door sounded again.
Moreover, because Su Wanrou and Cui Yelan didn't close the door properly when they came in, and the lock wasn't engaged, it was just slightly ajar, so it was easily pushed open.
The person who came was Luo Yan.
She was wearing a black nightgown, her hair wet and clinging to her cheeks, not yet dried.
After pushing open the door, she saw a room full of people, paused for a moment, and then quickly scanned each person present with her eyes.
Xue Youyou, Meng Yanqing, Lu Yutang, Su Wanrou, Cui Yelan—and Muyue, who was specially invited by Xue Youyou to have a celebration banquet with them.
Everyone else was there except her.
Luo Yan's heart skipped a beat.
She instinctively took a half step back, a bad thought rising in her mind—had she, as a substitute, been ostracized by the team's core circle?!
Why didn't you invite her to the opening party?!
Xue Youyou's gaze swept over Luo Yan's wet hair, and she was too lazy to go through the formalities anymore.
She went straight to the point: "You also found a red moon on your body while taking a shower?"
"That's right!"
Luo Yan was startled and subconsciously asked, "When I was getting dressed, I saw a red moon on my back in the fitting room mirror. Could it be you, Captain?"
"Not just her."
Meng Yanqing jumped off the bed, walked to Luo Yan, stretched out her arm, took off her white stockings, revealing the marks on her calves: "We all are."
Luo Yan was stunned.
She looked at the red moon on Meng Yanqing's calf that was exactly the same as the one on her back, and then at the knowing expressions on the faces of the other people in the room. For a moment, she couldn't quite process what was going on.
"What... what's going on?"
No one answered.
Everyone was waiting for Xue Youyou to speak.
Xue Youyou walked to the center of the room, raised her hands and pressed them down to signal everyone to be quiet.
After waiting a few more moments and confirming that no seventh victim was knocking on the door, he slowly spoke.
"Congratulations everyone, we only have one month left to live."
In that instant, the air in the room froze into tangible ice.
Five pairs of eyes were fixed on Xue Youyou's face, hoping she was joking.
However, there was not a trace of a joke on Xue Youyou's face.