Chapter 365: Chapter 363: Once Shameless

“Jiang Yan, don’t kill me–” Jiang Ye’s eyes widened in horror as he stared at Jiang Yan’s finger on the trigger, his handsome face, intentionally made up, now grotesquely twisted with terror, “I, I don’t want to know anymore.”

“Really don’t want to know anymore?” Jiang Yan’s finger paused on the trigger as she let out a cold laugh.

“Don’t want to, never want to know again.” Jiang Ye raised his hands, his legs going weak, his forehead covered with beads of sweat the size of soybeans.

Jiang Yan gave him a sidelong glance, “But I want to know.”

“Whatever you want to know, I’ll confess everything!” Jiang Ye nodded his head like a pecking chicken.

Jiang Yan’s frown deepened.

Should someone this servile and spineless really be kept in the team?

However, it’s not her team.

In a sense, this is Mo Jingsheng’s team.

After all, being crammed into a cryogenic pod with Song Haitao and the others means that this Jiang Ye has some use to Mo Jingsheng or, shall we say, to the officials.

With this in mind, Jiang Yan took a deep breath, “When we were at Flame Base, you kept hovering around me, why was that?”

“I always felt that meeting you halfway was fate. And besides, everyone has a desire for beauty, so I thought–” Jiang Ye rambled on with unreliable gibberish, but then Jiang Yan’s piercing gaze swept over, “Speak plainly.”

“What I said is truly how I feel.” Jiang Ye’s eyes shrank slightly, forcing out a smile with gritted teeth.

After the apocalypse started, due to high temperatures, heavy rains, earthquakes, and other Natural Disasters, he roamed through several places.

Residential complexes, shelters… the old and faded, the young and ignorant, women, even men – anyone with a bit of resources was conquered by his good looks and smooth talk.

After all, in his view, what is dignity compared to resources and life.

The reason he put up with all the humiliation and struggled to survive was for his only remaining relative, his sister Jiang Nana, who had been captured by Xue Miaomiao to Flame Base.

He had to endure the Natural Disasters and helplessness to survive.

In the end, he lived on, gasping like a stray Gypsy.

Until he reached Flame Base.

He once thought about kidnapping Jiang Yan at the right moment to exchange for his sister.

But such a chance never came, ever since Song Qian and the others arrived.

Afterward, he discovered that Jiang Yan was extraordinary.

And then, Jiang Nana failed to escape from Xue Miaomiao’s Golden Grotto.

When he learned of her brutal and dishonored death, Jiang Ye completely broke down.

Later on, by a stroke of luck, he met some of the leaders secretly stationed in Flame Base by Yaoben Base.

He felt rejuvenated.

And then, he arrived at Yaoben Base.

Due to the scarcity of his skills and expertise, he was cared for like a cherished panda.

He knew that in a post-apocalyptic environment, once outside the base, especially a base like Yaoben that needed his expertise, he’d be nothing in seconds.

If no powerful base had discovered them, then he would be nothing at all.

Those scientists too, nothing at all.

Jiang Yan didn’t want to waste more words with him.

After pondering for a bit, she uttered three words: “Jiang Nana–”

Upon hearing these words, Jiang Ye’s previously smiling face immediately stiffened.

Even the eyes that feigned innocence and sincerity gradually darkened with a few shades of redness, “You know everything already….”

He clenched his fists, then honestly laid out his circumstances to Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan listened, frowning all the while.

She increasingly felt that this Jiang Ye might have symptoms of a split personality.

And it’s not just him.

Many people after the apocalypse, especially those whose lives and experiences turned upside down before and after and who couldn’t convince themselves, carried some sort of psychological disease, more or less.

Some even bore shadows for a lifetime.

“Jiang Yan, I apologize for my once shameful plan,” Jiang Ye said with a face full of remorse, “I later realized, if my sister really had been exchanged by me, knowing that her life and freedom came from replacing another innocent girl in the hands of that demon Xue Miaomiao, she would have hated me forever.”

“However, if time could be reversed, I’d rather she hated me forever…” Jiang Ye’s head drooped, murmuring.

“Kurt–” The faint sound of the trigger being pulled broke the silence, but the imagined bullet did not fire.

This gun, the magazine was empty…