Chapter 109 Chapter 109 Waiting for Spring to Return

Give me a kiss, Chen Luan.

Under the starry night sky, above the lights of thousands of homes, Chen Luan heard Jiang Xun's voice ringing in his ears.

The car continued to climb higher and higher in silence, and the city night scene stretching out below gradually flickered into a silent sea of ​​stars.

When this small space stagnated slightly at its highest point, the only sound in the silence was the muffled sound of the chest colliding.

"good."

The next second, when their lips touched, warm breath fell beside the left ear.

The hand held against the side of the face is dry and warm, time stands still in the almost pious dependence between the lips and teeth, and the touch of another person's kiss on the ear is equally warm.

In the darkness, Chen Luan gently closed his eyes.

Breathing and heartbeat became distant and unreal while cuddling.

If the legend is true——

Chen thought randomly.

Please let him return home safely.

Please let him return to me safely.

Until the touch on the lips slightly faded, warm fingers reached out to the chin and turned Chen Luan's face to the other side.

Before the car drops, the soft feeling disappears at the touch of a finger.

Another pair of light golden eyes in front of him curved upwards, lifted his chin, and covered Chen Luan's breathing again as he spoke.

"Let him go this time. I want to take another ride."

Chen Luan couldn't remember how many circles they rode in the end, but the Ferris wheel kept turning around and around, as if it could replace the movement of the clock hands and stop the time that was pushing them forward continuously.

On the way home, Chen Luan looked at the brightly lit street ahead. It stretched straight ahead, and its end was lost in the distant horizon. At this moment, he wished that this road could be longer and longer.

But the road always has an end, and Jiang Xun will always have to leave home and face a desperate situation one day.

It was just an ordinary morning, neither wind nor rain nor clear. Chen Luan watched Jiang Xun pack up his luggage. It seemed that he was just returning to the team as he had done many times before. Then they would call each other in the evening and chat in between their heavy tasks.

But that is Zero, the most dangerous place in the world.

The magnetic storm there will interrupt all public communication signals, and even the fleet's special frequency band can only stop at the periphery of the core ecology.

Once people enter, they will become deaf and blind. The radar in the command center will be of no help, and the entering team can only rely on the most primitive physical map to locate themselves.

These teams have only one purpose:

Find the mother beast and her lair.

Before leaving, Jiang Xun took Chen Luan's mobile phone. After returning it, Chen Luan found that there was an extra dark blue icon in it.

He clicked on the icon in front of Chen Luan, and raised his wrist to reveal a piece of blue that had been broken and was the same color as the icon.

On the gray screen, a red dot like a star flickered on the map representing Qiwei City.

Chen Luan recognized at a glance that the signal mark was located exactly where they were standing.

He raised his head in some surprise, but was suddenly met with a pair of gentle eyes.

The owner of those eyes was looking down at him, shaking the watch on his wrist that Chen Luan had left behind and never put back on: "I've installed a new signal device that can use the fleet's special frequency band."

A young soldier in a spotless white uniform half-knelt in front of the seated Chen Luan, took his hand, and clasped his fingers through his, pressing their palms together. "Although I can't talk to you anytime, at least when I come out of the core area to rest, you can be sure I'm still here and I'm safe."

Then he gently placed Chen Luan's hand on the side of his cheek, and turned his head to kiss the back of Chen Luan's hand.

The warm touch kissed the pulse point on the inside of his wrist. Jiang Xun raised his eyes again and looked at Chen Luan, a gentle smile curved at the corners of his lips: "Don't worry, I will definitely come back safely."

"After all, you still haven't paid me back what you owed me last time."

Chen Luan was stunned for a moment before realizing what he owed him. His ears immediately turned red, and he gritted his teeth and kicked him: "Wait until you can come out!"

Why didn’t I realize that Jiang Xun was so unruly before!

How did he grow crooked?

Thus, the damp and heavy atmosphere was interrupted and mostly dissipated.

Jiang Ling, who had taken a special leave to come back and see them off, folded his arms, leaned against the door, looked at them, and curled his lips: "Let's go, it's almost time."

"Let's go."

Chen Luan stood up and looked at the brightening sky outside the window. He reached out and pulled Jiang Xun up: "I'll go change my clothes and see you out."

While Chen Luan was changing his clothes, Jiang Xun finally looked at his twin brother: "I leave it to you, take good care of him."

Two pairs of identical light amber eyes stared at each other, and Jiang Ling raised the corner of his lips: "Do you want to remind me?"

"I mean, if I—"

"What nonsense are you talking about, Jiang Xun."

Jiang Ling interrupted him mid-sentence, sneering, "You know how important you are to him, but you have to crawl out of Contaminated Area 0 even if you have to."

What's more, they have the same face and the same blood.

Is the one left behind really just himself in Chen Luan's eyes?

Jiang Ling didn't want to know, and even less wanted to gamble.

Over the years, the two of them have become like two pieces of jade that need to be put together to be complete, and neither of them can be missing.

So no matter what, Jiang Xun must come back.

He must come back.

Jiang Ling didn't want to be like in a soap opera one day and say that classic melodramatic line: "Who are you looking at through my eyes?"

Not at all.

Two pheromones collided in the air.

Jiang Xun looked into his twin brother's stubborn eyes and chose to finish his words: "If I can't come back, you have to take good care of him. Including my share."

After a half-second pause, he smiled again with his eyes crooked:

"Of course, I will do everything in my power to prevent that from happening. After all... you're not the only one who wants to stay with him."

There was a slight sound from Chen Luan's bedroom door.

Jiang Ling glanced at Jiang Xun and sneered, "You're the best."

After he finished speaking, Chen Luan changed out of his home clothes and came out.

Jiang Ling dragged Jiang Xun's suitcase over: "Have you changed? Let's go."

There was actually nothing in the suitcase. The fleet had prepared everything that needed to be prepared, and only a very small amount of personal belongings could be carried, so the suitcase seemed empty when it was picked up.

It was just dawn at this time, and the fresh breeze rustled the newly grown leaves on the branches.

It was not until they stood by the roadside that Chen Luan noticed that the green grass at the intersection had turned from bare in winter to a large area of ​​green.

Chen Luan was not familiar with the tree species planted next to him last year, and he didn't know when it had already bloomed. The red, pink, green and white flowers were crowded together and swaying in the breeze.

The air is filled with the scent of spring.

The car is coming.

Jiang Xun took the suitcase and pressed the brim of his hat: "I'm leaving."

But when he walked not far from the tree, he was stopped again.

"Jiang Xun."

His wrist was grabbed, and Jiang Xun turned around. He was suddenly grabbed by the collar by a hand, and was pulled down.

Beneath a blooming pink spring branch, a pair of warm lips approached for the first time, and their breath met his amidst the sound of a heartbeat that suddenly missed a beat.

The warmth left her instantly, but before she could completely move away, Jiang Xun grabbed her waist and pushed her back.

After a long and lingering kiss, a petal brought down by the wind fell and landed on Chen Luan's lips.

Jiang Xun picked up the petal and quietly placed it in his palm.

Chen Luan pursed his lips, lowered his eyes to hide the sourness that was spreading from his eyes, and raised the corners of his lips with his eyes curved. He raised his hand to straighten his hat that was slightly tilted. "Go. I'll wait for you to come home."

It was deep spring at this time, and Chen Luan stood at the intersection watching the car go away.

In the car, Jiang Xun took out the piece of spring from his palm and carefully placed it in the transparent layer of his ID folder, tightly next to an old photo that had been touched thousands of times.

Chen Luan is smiling in the photo. That is another spring that Jiang Xun will definitely come back for.

A spring that belongs to him and only to him.

On the other side, Chen Luan turned around and walked back only when he could no longer see the fleet's cars. As he turned around, he almost bumped into the other twin.

The alpha in front of him folded his arms, leaned forward slightly, and followed Chen Luan's eyes, with a tone of dissatisfaction:

"Chen Luan, your bias is too obvious."

Chen Luan's mood hadn't yet settled down when Jiang Ling's accusations were so convoluted that he was stunned: "?"

"You've sent me out so many times, why haven't I seen you kiss me first?"

Chen Luan: “…”

Chen Luan: "It only takes two hours to drive to your workplace, and you even switch shifts to go home from time to time... Besides, when have you ever gone out without kissing someone?"

"That's different."

“…Why is it different?”

"You took the initiative, so I want it too."

“…”

"Then you can change to something else."

"...What do you want to do?"

"Shall I sleep with you tonight?"

"Don't even think about it."

"Then you take the initiative to kiss me."

“Hiss—Mmm!…Alright, alright, I’ll kiss you, kiss you, stop tickling me!”

The figures of the two people pulling each other disappeared into the community that was gradually covered with new green.

Then, in the increasingly warm wind, the color of the new green gradually deepened, until the spring chill completely retreated. Chen Luan put away all his thick coats, and the sparse young leaves outside the office window in the school gradually grew into a dense and impenetrable shade.

The days begin to lengthen.

When the first cicada chirped, Chen Luan, who had just got off work, habitually opened his phone to look for the red dot that gave him peace of mind.

The dot that flickered slowly like a heartbeat had just come out of the core area two days ago and was still staying safely in the command center. It must be the rest period again.

This made Chen Luan feel a little relieved, as he had been worried for the past few days.

But he still doesn't like this kind of life.

This would remind him of the days of self-exile, when he could only count the fragments of military reports every day to judge whether the people he cared about were safe.

But it's completely different.

At least at that time, whenever he wanted, he could contact the person he wanted to see.

But now, even every day since Jiang Xun went to desperate situation, Chen Luan admitted that he wanted to see Jiang Xun again all the time.

Every time the red dot disappeared from the map, Chen Luan would fall into an anxiety and torment that was difficult to control.

He was very scared.

He was afraid that one day he might never see Jiang Xun again.

Thus, longing and fear were entangled together to form a tangled vine. As long as Jiang Xun didn't come back, those vines would grow heavier and heavier in my heart.

But there is also good news.

For example, Professor Shen Bohong's team has once again brought good news: the research on wasteland disease, which has found the right direction, has made new breakthroughs.

They found that special bio-wave frequency band.

Coincidentally, it also comes from pollution area 0.

Until one rainy afternoon, there was a knock on Chen Luan’s office door.

"According to the latest documents, the fleet has confirmed that the highest threat target, 'Beast Mother', exists within the core ecological zone of Contaminated Area 0. It is currently awakening from a long period of dormancy and is about to enter an active phase."

"The Federation and the military will vote in three days on whether to immediately launch a full-scale cleanup operation targeting Contaminated Area 0 and the highest-threat targets."

"Once the resolution is passed, the military may issue a wartime mobilization order to call back retired soldiers."

Huo Lin placed the stack of documents next to Chen Luan's desk:

"Chen Luan, I will join the battle."