The three major powers launched a war to plunder resources, which dragged many small neighboring countries into the conflict, eventually escalating into a world war.
Cheng Luo also participated in this great battle for two reasons. First, the people Yu Tang had asked him to take care of were all in South Korea, and he had to protect that country.
Another reason is to... pick up corpses...
He needs a large number of corpses to conduct research on reviving Yu Tang.
During this time, he established a mortuary research facility, located only five kilometers from the battlefield of the most brutal war.
Only high-ranking South Korean officials knew about this.
They relied on Cheng Luo to help them fight, but at the same time they were terrified of his behavior.
Some people also set their sights on his research findings after the war ended, and had ulterior motives.
They've been trying to persuade Cheng Luo to use corpses to research viruses, bioweapons, or an undead army, promising to buy them at high prices.
Cheng Luo did not tell Yu Tang about this.
Because he has a terrible secret.
Yu Tang died on his back back then. He waited for ten years, but couldn't help taking that letter and giving up the idea of following Yu Tang in death.
He started frantically brainwashing himself, telling himself that Yu Tang was just asleep. And that one day he would find a way to wake Yu Tang up.
This madness tormented him every minute of every second, turning his hopes into despair time and time again.
This led to his personality becoming increasingly eccentric and his emotions becoming increasingly volatile.
Although he was trying his best to keep his promise to do good deeds, he rarely smiled and couldn't feel happy at all.
Some even entertained violent and cruel thoughts.
At this time, the arrival of war gave him an opportunity to release this pressure.
He split into two personalities.
One is a paranoid and insane corpse researcher, and the other is the composed philanthropist that Yu Tang hopes he will become.
Now, facing Yu Tang is the same innocent and kind-hearted Cheng Luo. He can still act coquettishly towards Yu Tang and confide his grievances to him, just like before.
But if it were that perverted corpse researcher, who knows what he might do.
"Don't come out." Yu Tang was intently studying the history of the past two hundred years when Cheng Luo suddenly staggered half a step and whispered a reprimand.
"Now that he's back, you have no reason to exist."
He turned around and covered his right eye: "I will shut down the research base immediately. There's no need to continue those studies!"
"Luo Luo?" Even though Cheng Luo's voice wasn't loud, Yu Tang still caught a few key words: "Who are you talking to?"
"Ah, no, no." Cheng Luo quickly withdrew his hand when he heard Yu Tang call him, and smiled with his eyes narrowed: "I was just smiling, because I was so happy."
He watched until the video on the bracelet finished playing, then put it away and put it back on his wrist. He sat down on the edge of the bed and asked Yu Tang, "Tangtang, how are you feeling now? Is there anything that's bothering you?"
"Except for feeling a little dizzy and having little strength in my limbs, I'm fine."
As soon as Yu Tang finished speaking, his stomach suddenly started growling.
The atmosphere froze instantly.
Yu Tang blushed and said, "Let me add one more thing: I'm probably hungry."
"Feeling hungry means your body is gradually recovering!"
Cheng Luo seemed very happy. He covered Yu Tang with a light blanket and said, "But at this stage, we can only give you some liquid food, along with nutrient injections. You can't eat anything greasy for now, so please bear with it."
He stood up and placed a kiss on Yu Tang's forehead: "Wait for me a moment, I'll go prepare now. After you've eaten, you can sleep for a while. Starting tomorrow, you'll have to have a physical examination every day. I believe you'll get better soon."
Cheng Luo's actions and tone were very gentle, less of his former mischievousness, and he seemed much more composed than when Yu Tang left him.
This gave Yu Tang a real sense of pride that her child had grown up.
"Master, while you were watching the footage, Bai Feng and I also investigated Cheng Luo's behavior over the past two hundred years," Xiao Jin said, her tone somewhat serious. "[We discovered something.]"
"What's up?"
He seems to have dissociative identity disorder.
Yu Tang frowned: Is it the same as Shen Yu before?
"Hmm, it does look a bit like it."
Xiao Jin replied: "But Shen Yu's problem stems from childhood trauma, while Cheng Luo's is due to your departure."
In the first two worlds, Wei Mosheng and Shen Yu both followed you.
But Cheng Luo suppressed those thoughts, relying entirely on what you had told him and what you had asked him to do to sustain his spirit. However, this had its limits. This forced him to deceive himself into studying the corpses, firmly believing that one day he could resurrect you.
The outbreak of war provided him with this opportunity.
After that, Xiao Jin told Yu Tang everything about the research base.
This includes Cheng Luo's other personality, the personality traits of that paranoid and terrifying corpse researcher.
That person was named Luo. He always wore a white lab coat and round-framed gold-rimmed glasses, and he only smiled when he was dissecting corpses.
He's essentially a highly intelligent madman.
Chapter 3
The villain is resurrected for the third time (03)
Xiao Jin's words successfully made Yu Tang uneasy.
But at the same time, he also thought that since he could cure Shen Yu, he should be able to cure Cheng Luo as well.
All that's needed is time.
Within twenty minutes, Cheng Luo brought nutritious porridge and nutritional supplements.
After Yu Tang finished eating, he quickly put an IV drip on him, then stayed by his side, propped his head up with his hand, and asked him, "Tang Tang, two hundred years have passed, and all the people you knew have passed away."
The outside world has changed dramatically; ways of survival that used to work are no longer viable. If you woke up in such a world, would you feel afraid and lonely?
Yu Tang looked at him and shook her head: "No..."
"Time changes, birth, aging, sickness and death, nothing is constant. I am already very happy that I was able to wake up and see you again."
Although the outside world has changed, as long as you are here, and you guide me to explore it, I will not feel lonely or afraid.
Cheng Luo looked at him quietly.
After a long while, he lowered the hand that had been supporting his head and gently tapped the edge of the bed.
It made a rhythmic clicking sound.
Yu Tang suddenly felt sleepy for no apparent reason.
My upper and lower eyelids are constantly drooping.
He vaguely saw Cheng Luo take a pair of glasses out of his pocket and put them on his nose; they were round-rimmed with gold wire.
"Since you're so happy to see me, then stay with me forever."
Cheng Luo leaned slightly forward, looking at the drowsy man.
He continued.
"Your health is not good, the outside world is too chaotic, there are many bad people."
If they find out you've been resurrected, they might even try to take you away from me.
"Tangtang, your body is something I pieced together bit by bit."
“If it weren’t for my help, you would never have been able to be resurrected.”
Cheng Luo actually wanted to kick me out and take all the credit for himself!
Upon hearing this, Yu Tang had already guessed that the person in front of him was no longer Cheng Luo, but had been replaced by the personality named Luo.
My cheek was touched by fingers, then my neck.
The clothes were slowly cut open by the scalpel in Luo's hand.
Two hundred years of living in an ice cell has given Yu Tang's skin a bloodless white color.
His only warmth and the slight rise and fall of his chest revealed his weakness, as if his heartbeat would stop at any moment, and he would die like he had before.
"You are mine." The scalpel was put away, replaced by a finger drawing lines. Behind the glasses, Luo's eyes were filled with obsession and greed: "You are what I created. You are also what I awakened."
"Cheng Luo is a coward; he doesn't dare to face his own heart."
Luo took off her shoes and lay down beside Yu Tang, her hand still fiddling with the thin blanket.
The icy touch made Yu Tang's heart race, and even sent chills down his spine.
“He actually didn’t want to do any charity work anymore.” Luo whispered in Yu Tang’s ear, his voice hoarse. “He even had the idea of experimenting on living people, and the result of his desperate restraint was the birth of me.”
"He acted like a good person, but pushed me into the war, using me to unleash his bloodthirsty side to the fullest extent in the war."
I really should take you to see that cadaver research facility; it has many of my masterpieces.
I did all that to resurrect you, to bring you back to me.
"Now that you're awake, he wants to destroy me." Luo Yi nestled beside Yu Tang, drawing warmth from the man. Her voice was chilling.
"That's just wishful thinking."
“I will not disappear. I love you more than he does. I am the real Cheng Luo.” He hugged Yu Tang tightly: “I have never been a good person. I don’t do bad things because you are by my side. I want you to always look at me, and only at me.”
I'm going to build a castle to "lock" you up, since there's no one you know outside anyway.
Besides, there are a lot of bad people around. So you'll just stay with me, stay by my side, stay in the castle, and don't go anywhere else, okay?
"My God!"
Xiao Jin exclaimed in surprise: "That yandere's line is so classic!"
Is the long-awaited "little dark room" finally coming?!
Yu Tang rolled her eyes inwardly: Don't you think this situation is very serious?!
Xiao Jin immediately said:
"Master, you need to think about it from a different perspective. Look, you're not in good health anyway; you can't even walk on your own. Even if we let you out, what could you possibly do?"