Chapter 177 : Chapter 177
Lu Zheng’s mood instantly plummeted to absolute zero.
It was like hearing your precious son put on a dramatic performance of “Thou shalt not be rude before the Emperor” in front of his little friends—just like Emperor Shi Ren himself.
His expression drooped instantly, and he even felt the urge to give Yi Ning a slap right there.
Fortunately, Lu Zheng’s anger meter had been cleared once after leaving the forest, so he wasn’t quite at the point of throwing Yi Ning off his back and composing a violent symphony on her face.
But it was enough for him to call it quits.
“Get off me!”
Lu Zheng stopped walking, squatted down, released his hands from under Yi Ning’s thighs, and placed her feet on the ground.
From now on, she could walk using her own damn legs!
“Nooo!”
Seeing her ride about to throw in the towel, Yi Ning immediately tightened her grip around Lu Zheng’s neck, while her feet, now touching the ground, clamped tightly around his waist for support.
She even rubbed her flat chest against Lu Zheng’s back on purpose, hoping he’d remember the good times they’d had with her riding on his back.
Even if there wasn’t much weight to her... small things could be cute too!
At the same time, she tried to soften him up with a gentle, delicate voice, hoping to stir his sympathy.
“I... I can’t go on any longer...”
“Then walk backward.”
“Even walking... I don’t have the strength for that~”
“Then crawl!”
Lu Zheng’s voice was utterly devoid of emotion. No sympathy, no sentiment about past joyful moments.
The old him might have had compassion. The current him? None at all!
“What’s going on?”
Seeing Lu Zheng stop, Lester and the others looked back with curious expressions.
Everything had been fine just a moment ago—why the sudden quarrel?
Lester even took a few steps toward Lu Zheng, intending to try and mediate, maybe help them reconcile.
Spotting useful pawns nearby, Yi Ning’s wicked little brain immediately spun into overdrive.
Within seconds, a vicious scheme popped into her head.
She clung tightly to Lu Zheng, putting on the appearance of a love-struck fool about to be cruelly abandoned.
“I’ll agree to everything you said! I just don’t want you to abandon me!”
She was planning to exploit Lu Zheng’s image-conscious, hero-esque mentality, using the pressure from clueless bystanders to force him into retracting his decision to drop her.
Heheheh!
Let’s see how you handle being mistaken for a pervert by the crowd—substitute attack no jutsu!
“Even if it’s those perverted things... like stomach punches...”
Yi Ning deliberately dragged out these suggestive words that might be censored by the mighty River Crab God, leaving Lu Zheng just enough time to stop her and sign the unequal treaty of ‘Must Carry Yi Ning Anywhere Treaty’ under social pressure.
But Lu Zheng acted as if he didn’t hear a thing, simply curling his lips into a smirk, waiting for Yi Ning to say something filthy.
“Uh...”
Yi Ning hesitated a moment, then leaned in close to Lu Zheng’s ear and said, “I advise you not to hold onto the delusion that these aliens don’t understand what I’m saying.”
“I’m a genius evil scientist. Even if those aliens are innocent babies who don’t even know how reproduction works, this translation konjac will let them understand every filthy word crystal clear~”
“It’s not too late to stop now, or they’ll start thinking you’re some depraved pervert~.”
Lu Zheng’s only response?
“Heh~”
A look of go ahead if you dare.
How could Yi Ning take that provocation lying down?
She cleared her throat and said the rest of the words in full.
He actually just stood there, letting Yi Ning say all those filthy things out loud.
“Like stomach ○ intercourse, suffo○ intercourse, womb rupture, uterine prolapse... as long as you don’t abandon me, all of these... all of these can be done to me!”
With her superb acting skills, Yi Ning successfully portrayed a tragic lover willing to throw away her dignity just to avoid being abandoned.
The bizarre vocabulary she spouted left Lester and his companions dumbfounded.
It wasn’t like they didn’t know about SOX-type things, but as hardworking bumpkins who rarely left Esick City to broaden their horizons, these unheard-of (yet oddly intuitive) plays blew their minds.
So that’s another way to do it?!
You two sure know how to play!
They now looked at Lu Zheng with a bit of awe and disbelief.
They didn’t know why they suddenly understood the meaning of Yi Ning’s words, but it was clear those plays weren’t gentle in nature.
This was a whole different person from the calm and polite Lu Zheng they’d talked to before!
The Lu Zheng described by Yi Ning was practically a depraved, violent maniac.
So this is what “everyone has a beast within” truly means?
Terrifying indeed.
“Uh... um...”
Lester awkwardly scratched his head, then took a few tentative steps toward Lu Zheng.
“Mr. Lu Zheng, well... I think... some things, you know...”
Lester’s expression was a bit complicated, unsure how to phrase his thoughts.
He wasn’t one to judge others’ preferences.
No matter what the play was, as long as both parties consented, he, as an outsider, had no right to interfere.
It’s just that these country bumpkins hadn’t seen much of the world, didn’t know Yi Ning well, and were easily fooled by her performance—completely buying into the persona she crafted for herself.
“Something like... like stomach ○ intercourse... that kind of thing, which seems... quite likely to hurt someone... I think it’s best to only try it under mutual consent and with care...”
“Miss Yi Ning looks pretty delicate, and if something bad happens... wouldn’t that be awful...”
Lester slowly inched closer to Lu Zheng, planning to rescue Yi Ning once he got close enough.
He also carefully chose his words to avoid angering Lu Zheng and provoking any rash behavior.
These pure-hearted alien friends were being played like fools by Yi Ning, the villain.
Lu Zheng sighed helplessly. “You’ve all been fooled by her.”
He pried open Yi Ning’s legs clamped around his waist, grabbed her wrist, and forcibly yanked her off his back.
With his left hand gripping her ankles and right hand gripping her wrists, Lu Zheng held her suspended in mid-air—one end up, the other down.
This move shocked Lester, who had been inching closer to Lu Zheng.
Because he’d been distracted by Lu Zheng’s words, he missed the timing to stop him from peeling Yi Ning off his body.
Lester furrowed his brow.
If he hadn’t been distracted just now, could he have saved Yi Ning?
A faint sense of regret surfaced in his heart.
Then he saw Lu Zheng bend down... and gently place Yi Ning back on the ground.
Lester: “?”
“This whole thing was just this rotten girl’s scheme to cling to me and not get off!”
Lu Zheng pinned Yi Ning, who tried to jump back onto him, with one hand, while spitting out the decisive evidence to prove his innocence.
“If I were really the kind of person who’d do whatever I wanted to someone just for my own pleasure, why the hell would I carry this perfectly fine-legged girl the entire way here?”