Chapter 290: Are You Speaking the Truth or a Lie?

Walking back from the front of the train, Ye Nan and Alice crossed carriage after carriage. The further back they went, the thicker the musty scent became, and it was laced with a hint of the smell of blood.

This scent of blood was very fresh; it was emitted by someone who had died not long ago. Ye Nan's spirit could vaguely sense a trace of resentment and unwillingness lingering upon it.

"It looks like the one hiding inside should be the Leech Queen," Ye Nan thought to himself, constantly analyzing the current situation.

Based on the situation that had just occurred, the Leech Queen should be on the train, and she had killed quite a few people on board, to the point where the scent of their blood had drifted over through the obstruction of the carriage doors.

"It's just strange why it's so quiet inside."

Ordinary people would certainly resist before they died, and resistance would create noise. This train had no soundproofing facilities, so it was naturally impossible for not even a tiny bit of sound to leak out. The only possibility was that the person did not resist.

"Were they unconscious, paralyzed, or perhaps so terrified that they couldn't even breathe?"

As Ye Nan walked, his mind began to wander. His thoughts suddenly expanded, and he noticed many places he hadn't paid attention to before.

Among them, the most prominent was his contemplation of the great existence in the dark.

To him, that existence in the dark was like the Death in *Final Destination*, manipulating the plot of the movie through various coincidences. No matter how you changed things, what was meant to happen would still happen. It was just that by the time it happened, the plot had already become unrecognizable.

From this point of view, the great existence in the dark seemed inferior to Death. After all, although some people had dodged Death's game once or twice, the final result was always total annihilation. As for this so-called great existence in the dark, it was not comparable to Death at all; the plots it constructed always collapsed in the end.

Of course, this also had to do with the fact that what Death did was simple—it just killed people—while the other one had to force the plot of the movie into reality.

"Ye Nan, I want to ask you something." Alice, walking behind Ye Nan, suddenly spoke up, her face full of hesitation.

Ye Nan turned his head and, seeing Alice's hesitation, was immediately curious. "If there's something to say, just say it. If it involves privacy, I won't answer, though."

Ye Nan chuckled, his gaze falling on Alice's high, firm breasts before he shifted it away, his heart burning with heat.

Although he already had Ai Li, Angela, and Shi Mila, and his younger sister Pan Duola also maintained an ambiguous attitude toward him, and Ma Lien had even confessed to him before, he still felt an impulse deep in his heart when faced with Alice's temptation.

"I want to ask you..." Alice pouted, gathering her courage, and said, "What you said just now—was it true or false?"

Just now, Ye Nan had said there was a Tyrant, which had triggered the series of events that followed. But looking at it now, there was no Tyrant at all. A Tyrant couldn't have failed to appear for so long, and Ye Nan had also said that a Tyrant's perception was extremely sensitive; it was impossible for it not to have appeared by now.

The only possibility was that Ye Nan had been deceiving her. She even suspected that Ye Nan had already seen through her little trick just now, which was why he had played along and staged that scene.

However, there was an indescribable feeling of discomfort in her heart; no matter how she thought about it, she felt uncomfortable.

"If everything Ye Nan said was actually false, then wouldn't I be..." Thinking of this, Alice's face couldn't help but turn pale again.

Seeing Alice's face go from shy to pale after asking "is it true or false," Ye Nan found her ever-changing expression quite spectacular...

"Actually, Alice as she is now is quite nice, even if she isn't a strong woman," Ye Nan teased in his heart.

"You, just say it!" Seeing Ye Nan smiling without speaking, Alice suddenly became anxious. "What you said, was it true or false?"

Seeing Alice like this, Ye Nan wanted to tease her a bit more. "Which sentence are you referring to?"

"That sentence, of course!" Alice stomped her foot, wishing she could grab Ye Nan's ears and lecture him loudly: "I'll teach you not to understand me, I'll teach you not to understand me!"

"Which sentence?" Ye Nan deliberately pretended not to understand, teasing Alice.

"That sentence just now!" Alice stomped her feet in a hurry, her gaze like a hungry wolf, as if she would pounce on Ye Nan and bite him hard if he dared to say a word of denial.

Seeing Alice like this, Ye Nan knew she was anxious, so he put away his playful thoughts and said, "It was indeed false."

As soon as Ye Nan's words left his mouth, Alice's entire face turned pale. She had been somewhat happy because of the confession just a moment ago, but now, everything had turned into a dreamlike bubble because what Ye Nan said was all false.

"However..." Ye Nan's tone shifted. "I do have some good feelings for you. This is not a lie, but a fact."

"Actually, the reason I said it just now was to see your reaction. If your reaction was cold and you rejected me outright, I would have told you that what I said was false and just to tease you. But if you had agreed, I would have been very happy and treated the lie as the truth."

"But," Ye Nan spread his hands, "you neither agreed nor opposed, leaving me unable to grasp your thoughts, so I could only speak my true thoughts. I hope you don't blame me."

Upon hearing Ye Nan's words, a sense of inexplicable joy surged in Alice's heart again. She was just very afraid that what Ye Nan said was false again, so she became nervous. "What you said—is it true?"

"Of course it's true, truer than real gold," Ye Nan said solemnly, his eyes filled with sincerity.

Alice stared at Ye Nan, wanting to see from his eyes whether he was lying, but all she saw was sincerity.

*Puchi! * Alice laughed, her face blooming like a lotus flower in full bloom. "I have good feelings for you, too."

"But it's limited to good feelings," Alice added. "If you want to date me, you can try to win me over."

Ye Nan was stunned upon hearing this. He never expected Alice to be so bold, issuing such a provocative declaration just because they both had good feelings for each other.

"Is she not afraid that I'll eat her up?" Ye Nan muttered in his heart, but his face was full of a warm smile. "Since you want me to win you over, you have to tell me what you like and what your hobbies are, so I can prescribe the right medicine."

"Guess whether I'll tell you," Alice smiled mischievously, her eyes almost squinting into thin slits.

For some reason, Ye Nan said a sentence on a whim: "Guess whether I'm guessing."

Having said this, Ye Nan himself felt a bit strange. This kind of phrase was used by many people in his past life to banter, but this was the first time he had used it in this world.

Hearing Ye Nan use such a near-rascal way to crack her question, Alice suddenly became shy. "Guess whether I'm guessing that you're guessing."

"Guess whether I'm guessing that you're guessing that I'm guessing whether you're guessing." Ye Nan spat out this sentence and couldn't help but laugh himself. "Alright, Alice, if we keep guessing like this, I'm afraid we'll never finish..."

"You were the one who asked me to guess first!" Alice glared at Ye Nan fiercely. "You hurry up and apologize."

"It was clearly you who asked me to guess first," Ye Nan muttered in his heart. He remembered clearly that it was Alice who asked him to guess first, but when it came to Alice, it turned into him being the one to provoke the situation. He was simply more wronged than Dou E.

However, no matter how wronged he was, under Alice's threat, he had to admit it was his own mistake. But deep in his heart, he had already equated Alice with a "little woman."

A little woman is a small bird nestled under a man; they are smart, beautiful, and flexible, accustomed to acting spoiled and playing tricks to gain a man's tolerance. Naturally, they are also extremely cute.

As Ye Nan and Alice chatted, they pushed open a door. The moment they pushed it open, Ye Nan's body suddenly tensed up, and he shifted slightly to the left, blocking any angle from which Alice might be attacked from the front.

However, there was no attack inside; there were only chaotic tables and chairs. These tables and stools were overturned in a mess, and they were covered with a layer of crystalline liquid. Ye Nan recognized at a glance that this was the liquid left behind when leeches crawled.

"The leeches crawled past, and then it cooled down. Judging by the time, it should have been about an hour ago." Ye Nan's heart tightened. From the moment he sensed something was wrong to the moment he entered here, it had taken less than an hour, and the people here had already been gone for an hour.

"Damn Jason, he didn't even investigate the route he chose beforehand." Ye Nan cursed inwardly. As a mercenary, Jason should have scouted the location when choosing a retreat route, but he hadn't. Not only that, the retreat route he chose was simply extremely dangerous.

If Jason, who had come out from inside, encountered the Leech Queen, he wouldn't be able to survive at all. If that happened, the perfect T-virus Ye Nan wanted wouldn't be in his hands either.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Ye Nan's face turn ugly, Alice asked again.

For some reason, Ye Nan's expression was ever-changing and frequently turned ugly; she didn't know what kind of troublesome matters he had.

"Just thinking of some bastard," Ye Nan said lightly.

He didn't want to tell Alice about his sending Jason to steal the perfect T-virus, entirely because of the disgust Alice had shown toward the T-virus in the movie; he was afraid that if he told her, he would be disgusted along with it.

"As long as you're okay." Alice knew Ye Nan was just brushing her off, and the worry in her heart could not be dispelled.

"Let's go, let's go in and take a look. Perhaps before long, we will encounter some disgusting guys. I hope you can hold it in by then." Ye Nan smiled faintly, grabbing Alice's smooth hand to give her courage.

"Mm." ===== CHAPTER 291 =====