Chapter 162 Zhu Lai's Scheming

After arriving outside the side hall, Zhu Lai stretched out his hands and touched the door, but did not push it open immediately.

He looked back at Lin Yi and suddenly asked, "Lin Yi, do you think you are happy now?"

Lin Yi was stunned. He didn't understand why Zhu Lai suddenly asked such a question, and didn't know how to answer for a while.

Happy?

Since he discovered the existence of the aliens, he has been jumping back and forth on the edge of death. Can such a life be called happy?

If there were no aliens, with Lin Yi's grades, he could have been admitted to a good undergraduate university.

Zhou Kai should have chosen a local university, so that he would not have to separate from Zhou Yun.

Not to mention Zhang Cheng, if it weren't for those things at the beginning, Zhang Cheng would not have taken the college entrance examination, let alone refused to be recommended.

The same is true for Lu Linhai. He will also be admitted to the school of his choice and have a normal life.

Zhou Yun is still in school, but during holidays, he will also go shopping with his classmates.

If everything has not changed, Uncle An's child should be born.

Everything they have experienced has nothing to do with "happiness" at all.

"I have lived here for more than ten years, and I have been thinking about one thing." Zhu Lai said to himself.

"If I had not been caught here, would everything be different?"

This question has troubled Zhu Lai for many years. He doesn't know whether it is a lucky thing for him to come to this underground world.

If he had not been caught here, Zhu Lai might have been eaten by other animals like other beastmen.

But after coming here, although he survived, he felt very uncomfortable in the days that followed.

The people in the village rejected him and disliked him as an outsider.

"Until I saw you, I finally understood." Zhu Lai's eyes suddenly had a yearning and envy.

He seemed to envy Lin Yi, envious that even if he was in danger, there were still people around him to accompany him and fight with him.

Zhu Lai pushed open the door and walked in.

The two children looked confused. They didn't know what they were doing here, but because they were afraid, they followed in.

Lin Yi frowned, always feeling that Zhu Lai in front of him was a little strange.

As he walked into the side hall, this feeling became stronger.

The red silk in the hall fluttered, revealing an indescribable weirdness.

Looking up, the woman who was originally soaking in the bath in the center of the pool disappeared.

At first, Lin Yi didn't think there was anything strange. According to what Zhu Lai said before, if this woman was a human, she would not stay in the pool all the time.

But as they kept getting closer to the bath, Lin Yi suddenly remembered something.

The night before yesterday, in the scene he saw, the villagers threw the captured people into the pool in front of them.

These people were all sacrifices offered by the villagers to the alien Huanhuan. Didn't Zhu Lai say that the villagers would process these people and feed them to Huanhuan?

Since Huanhuan was locked up in the main hall, why did the villagers throw them into the pool?

When thinking of this, Lin Yi felt bad.

He instantly realized that Zhu Lai had been lying all the time!

No, to be precise, what Zhu Lai said was not all lies.

At least according to the plan, they successfully arrived at the underground palace.

Zhu Lai's lie was his ultimate goal.

Lies are easy to be seen through. Even if the acting is superb, there will always be loopholes.

And half-truths are the hardest to see through.

"Zhu Lai, what are you going to do?!" Lin Yi grabbed Zhu Lai and asked sternly, "What is your real purpose?"

"Did you find out?" Zhu Lai smiled.

"Well, I don't have to explain it to you again."

Bubbles kept appearing in the pool, and then the woman poked her head out from the center of the pool.

She frowned and looked a little impatient.

After seeing Zhu Lai, she immediately shouted: "Food, where is the food?"

"Bring the food here! My Lai'er, my Lai'er is hungry!"

Lai'er?

Lin Yi looked at Zhu Lai.

Zhu Lai smiled bitterly and said: "I have been a substitute from the beginning."

Although the name "Zhu Lai" was given by a woman, the name itself does not belong to Zhu Lai.

Zhu Lai is just a substitute, a kind of sustenance.

It was like a mother who lost her child and had a mental breakdown, and regarded her child's toys as her own.

Zhu Lai could be called this name, and so could others.

Or, before Zhu Lai, there were actually countless people who had called this name.

The people in the village knew this very well, so even if Zhu Lai was favored by this woman, they still didn't take Zhu Lai seriously and rejected him as always.

Because they knew very well that even if Zhu Lai died, there would be another Zhu Lai to replace him.

And the real "Zhu Lai" was the woman's child.

Zhu Lai pulled Lin Yi's hand away, stepped forward quickly, and lifted the little boy up.

"Mom, here's the food you asked for." Zhu Lai exerted force and threw the little boy into the pool.

With a "splash", the little boy began to struggle. He was scared and tried desperately to swim up.

The little girl didn't care about being afraid. To her, the little boy was her only relative, so even though she was trembling all over, she quickly ran to the edge of the pool and stretched out her hand to pull the little boy up.

Lin Yi gritted his teeth, raised the shotgun in his hand and aimed at the woman who was swimming towards the little boy.

The woman's speed was frightening, and the key was that her movements in the water were strange. It didn't seem like she was swimming over, but it seemed that something was holding her up under the water and sending her over.

Lin Yi was ready to pull the trigger. Although he didn't have the confidence to hit the boy with one shot, he could at least stop the woman from getting close to the little boy.

But Zhu Lai on the side didn't seem to be worried, saying, "He won't die so easily."

"After all, these two little guys are the ones I found under the guidance of fate."

"Your real purpose is to use us as sacrifices?!" Lin Yi asked sternly.

"No." Zhu Lai shook his head, "My purpose is to destroy this village and kill my mother."

"What?!"

Lin Yi was confused. It was understandable that Zhu Lai wanted to destroy the village. After all, the villagers had never regarded Zhu Lai as their own people, and their attitude towards him was also very bad.

But why did Zhu Lai want to kill this woman?

Didn't he like this woman very much?

This sudden change made Lin Yi confused for a while.

He didn't have time to think, and the little boy in the pool suddenly became strange.

He looked very painful, and as the woman kept approaching, he looked more and more anxious.

His body began to swell, and white bones emerged from under his skin.

He looked more and more swollen, like... a huge meat ball? !

Lin Yi thought of the boy in the meat ball in the forest. Yes, these two children were just like those people who had been transformed. If they were stimulated in some way, their transformed bodies would be stimulated.

Lin Yi finally understood why Zhu Lai brought these two children here. He didn't bring them here to take care of them. He wanted them to deal with the woman in the pool!