Chapter 12 Chapter 12 It’s all Zhou Jing’s fault

A week later.

Jiang Xun's feet are basically able to walk again.

Jiang Yongting was also successfully re-elected. He hurried back to give his re-election speech, held a press conference, and then went to other continents.

Jiang Xun and Jiang Ling have gotten used to it.

For so many years since their mother passed away, the two of them have been raised almost like this.

Chen Luan's work also began to get on track.

The workload of the mecha class teaching assistant is not heavy, at least it is easy for Chen Luan.

After all, adult military academy students are much easier to teach than the naughty teenagers in the base back then.

Relying on his outstanding abilities and good looks, Chen Luan quickly gained the love of most of the freshmen and even made it to the confession wall on the campus forum.

So much so that when he was leaving get off work, some students he didn't know would greet him, blushing and calling him "Hello, Teacher Chen!"

And hope to add Chen Luan’s contact information.

Chen Luan declined all of them.

At this time, the morning news was broadcasting on TV, and Chen Luan, Jiang Xun and Jiang Ling were having dinner.

After the last incident, the relationship between Gemini and Chen Luan has eased a lot.

"Qiwei Daily reports today that another attack by a person with desertification disorder occurred in St. Ann's district last night, resulting in two deaths and six injuries. The injured are currently receiving treatment in the hospital, and the patient has fled the scene. This station reminds the public..."

"Another person attacked by a patient with the wasteland disease?" Jiang Ling looked at the screen covered with red mosaics.

"Well, this should be the 33rd case in the city this year." Jiang Xun nodded.

"Why do I feel like it's happening more and more frequently?" Jiang Ling put down his chopsticks. "I'm full. What is the task force for? Can anyone escape?"

On the screen, the injured person was wailing as he was carried onto a stretcher.

Chen Luan frowned: "I remember your school is in the Saint Ann district, right?"

"The school has a security department that patrols every day, so there's nothing to worry about." Jiang Xun said.

The first case of desolate disease was discovered in the ninth year after the arrival of the interstellar desolate beast. It is non-contagious, but the cause of the disease is still unknown.

In the early stage of the disease, the patient will be attracted to light, afraid of cold, and drooling, and then it will quickly develop into irregular pupil dilation and yellow iris. At the same time, the patient will be extremely aggressive, irritable and bloodthirsty, and enter a rapid degeneration period. At this time, the patient's body will mutate, and grow scales and limbs similar to those of wild beasts, and eventually completely lose their mind and become no different from animals.

However, until the year Chen Luan died, there were only 28 cases of wasteland disease recorded in the entire base.

Chen Luan didn't expect that after two hundred years, it had spread to this extent.

"It's time to go." Jiang Xun looked at Jiang Ling lying on the sofa.

Then he looked at Chen Luan, who was closest to him, and stretched out his hand: "Could you please help me, brother? I'm having some difficulty."

The young man sat in the chair looking somewhat pitiful, his crow-feather eyelashes drooping, and he stretched out a beautiful hand with distinct joints towards him.

Chen Luan felt that the child's foot had not fully healed yet. He had been carrying him for several days, so helping him up today was no big deal.

So he took Jiang Xun's hand and put it on his shoulder: "No problem, hold on."

"Yes. Thank you."

The young man who was stretching was actually not light. Due to his injury, he could only put half of his body weight on Chen Luan's shoulders.

The furry hair sometimes rubs against Chen Luan's face and chin.

Chen Luan could smell the clean soapy scent on the boy's body.

He is much more polite than Jiang Ling, that bad boy who always argues with him.

Chen thought randomly.

On the other side, Jiang Ling rolled his eyes secretly.

I don't understand what his brother is pretending to be.

Before, I could walk and wash up naturally in the bedroom, but now I find it "inconvenient to move" when I come down to eat.

After sending Jiang Xun and Jiang Ling to the car, Chen Luan took public transportation to go to work at the military academy.

Compared to being picked up and dropped off by a driver the whole time, Chen Luan prefers the feeling of being surrounded by the everyday life on public transportation.

On the skytrain, sleepy office workers were yawning while holding their backpacks, while students in school uniforms with backpacks on their backs were laughing and chatting. The golden morning light was pouring in through the windows. Outside was the blue sky and clouds, and birds were flying over the edge of the clouds.

In this world, there are no dark bunkers without sunlight, nor are there winged beasts flying in the sky hunting.

A buzzing sound was heard, and a huge dark cloud seemed to be floating in the distance.

One student excitedly leaned against the window, pointing at the approaching dark clouds and saying to his companions, "It's the Pioneer Fleet! They must be going on a mopping-up mission!"

Another person enviously said, "I heard that the Pioneer Fleet recruits students to join the fleet every year at the Federal Military Academy. When can I be admitted to the Federal Military Academy..."

"But, it seems the fleet only wants the alpha, and we are the beta..."

"The task force is always short of people and will also recruit betas, but I heard that the military is planning to set up a new department, I don't know what it will be used for."

The two people's voices gradually became quieter.

The day passed quietly.

After get off work and leaving the school, Chen Luan saw Zhou Pei's car again.

Chen Luan wondered if the boss shouldn't be busy with the group's affairs, or running around to clean up the mess for his unfilial brother?

What does it mean to come to him every now and then?

Otherwise, just pretend you didn't see him.

However, when the car window slid down, a bright face appeared in the passenger seat.

Wu Ning was leaning against the window, waving at Chen Luan and saying hello: "Hey! Chen Luan——"

So Chen Luan turned around and went back to the car.

"Sister Ning."

Then he looked at Zhou Pei in the driver's seat and nodded: "Boss Zhou."

"Long time no see, Chen Luan! Do you have any plans tonight? If not, would you like to play ball with us?"

Zhou Pei raised his hands and said, "Let me be clear, this wasn't my idea. Wu Ning remembered that you were almost off work, so he asked me to come pick you up."

"Where are we going? What kind of ball are we going to play?" Chen Luan got in the car.

"Billiards, nine-ball. Do you know how to play?"

"A little."

In fact, Chen Luan is quite good at playing billiards.

There aren't many entertainment activities in the bunker, and billiards is one of them.

Many groups of young people in the base would go to the recreation room to play ball during their breaks. The prizes were usually small items picked up from the ruins, or snacks exchanged from the resource center.

Sometimes it’s key chains or small dolls, sometimes it’s compressed biscuits, chocolate and soda.

Most of Jiang Mingming's chocolates were obtained by exchanging contribution points from resources, and a small part was won from others by playing basketball.

The billiard hall that Wu Ning took Chen Luan to was a membership-based one, and the environment was very nice.

Chen Luan felt that the private room was too stuffy, so he and a few others simply set up a pool table in the hall.

Wu Ning was kicking off the game, and Chen Luan looked at his phone.

Jiang Ling sent him a message:

[Bottled Hat: Dinner doesn't have to wait for me.]

【：What are you going to do?】

[Bottled Hat: What do you care? Can't I just do my homework?]

Chen Luan raised an eyebrow.

Jiang Ling can still do homework? Since he came here, he has never seen Jiang Ling touch the textbook.

Did the sun rise from the west today?

So he sent another message to Jiang Xun.

[: Your brother said he'll be home late and won't be home for dinner. What about you?]

【Unhappy: I am with him】

"What is Chen Luan busy with? It's your turn."

"Here I come." Chen Luan put a piece of fruit candy in his mouth and put away his phone.

After three rounds, Wu Ning threw down the club in his hand and said, "Is this what you call a little bit? A little bit is more like it. I'm not going to play anymore. Zhou Pei, you go."

"Me? I can't play as well as you." Zhou Pei was a little helpless, but still took the club and teeed off.

Chen Luan leaned against the pool table, opened another lemon-flavored lollipop, and glanced around the table.

The ball was kicked well, it seems to be clear?

But when playing basketball, there is no excitement, and I always feel like something is missing.

"Want a little gamble?"

Chen Luan tapped Zhou Pei's shoulder lightly with his golf club.

"You don't need to set a prize when fighting Wu Ning, but you should set a prize when fighting me, right?" Zhou Pei said.

Wu Ning leaned back on the sofa and fell down laughing: "Who told you, Boss Zhou, that you're rich?"

"Oh, all right."

Chen looked around and finally pointed at the whole bag of mixed fruit lollipops on the counter: "Once the counter is cleared, the bag of lollipops will be mine. If not, it's yours."

Zhou Pei, who thought Chen Luan would ask for an exorbitant price, was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "That's it? Fine."

There was a voice coming from outside the hall, and the voices sounded young.

Chen Luan was looking for the hitting point and didn't look up.

As Jiang Xun entered the room, the first thing that caught his eye was Chen Luan lying on the table, his hair covering his eyes, a lollipop in his mouth, his white and slender fingers pressed on the table, his body bent like a sharp string.

And the taut curve that can be easily captured along the straight line of the leg.

Like a leopard crawling on the ground, staring at its prey and ready to pounce.

The crisp sound of balls colliding was heard.

The crimson No. 3 ball was hit by the white ball and flew out, hitting the edge of the pocket with a thud and then bounced back, hitting the No. 2 blue ball at the pocket with force and falling into the pocket together.

Boom boom,

It actually coincided with Jiang Xun's heartbeat.

Chen Luan stood up and faced the main entrance. When he looked up, he saw Jiang Xun and Jiang Ling surrounded by a group of young men and smiled.

"Hey, come to do your homework?"

"Hey, hey, isn't that..." Someone muttered behind Jiang Ling.

"I'm not blind." Jiang Ling seemed to come to his senses suddenly, slapping away the claws of his friend behind him, and directly bypassed Chen Luan's teasing: "Why are you looking at me? The billiard hall doesn't prohibit minors from coming here, right?"

"That's not the case." Chen Luan once again possessed the ball and hit it. "I'm just your brother, not your blood brother. I don't care about you."

“Snap—”

The two balls collided with each other with a crisp sound, and the white ball hit the last black 8 and fell into the pocket.

Then he propped himself up with the club in his hand, stretched out his hand towards Zhou Pei, and raised his chin.

"You knew you could clear the table a long time ago, that's why you asked me for the prize." Zhou Pei smiled helplessly.

"Stop talking nonsense and hurry up. I'm willing to accept the loss."

Zhou Pei got up and went to the counter to pay the bill and buy some candy, and the teenagers over there started murmuring.

"What did he just say? Cleared?"

"That should be it."

"Jiang Xun, your brother is so powerful?"

"Those two shots were beautiful enough, weren't they? And the flower balls on the table didn't move, so they must be cleared."

"Wow--"

By the time Zhou Pei brought the candy back, some children had already come over.

"Brother, can you play with us? Teach us." After saying that, he turned around to look at Jiang Xun and Jiang Ling: "Is it okay to play with your brother for a while?"

"Play with whoever you want, why ask me?"

Jiang Ling put on her headphones, put on a sour face and dragged Jiang Xun along to find a pool table.

A group of young men soon surrounded Chen Luan.

"Come on, come on, it's lively here with so many people. Anyone want to play with me for a while?"

Wu Ning is a very outgoing person. Since he can't beat Chen Luan, he enthusiastically plans to bully the kids.

Chen Luan simply opened the bag of lollipops and gave a few to everyone, and the group started having fun.

Jiang Ling looked at Chen Luan, who was like a star among the crowd, and curled her lips:

"A peacock spreads its feathers."

Jiang Xun didn't say anything, but his eyes fell on the bright red mole on Chen Luan's neck.

He had never heard that Chen Luan could play billiards before.

After the show, everyone went home. Chen Luan had already added the contact information of Jiang Xun and Jiang Ling's friends, and even invited him to join a group chat, making an appointment to play together often in the future.

Jiang Ling was very unhappy with this group of guys who forgot their loyalty for the sake of beauty, but his opinions were useless. Whether it was being a beauty lover or admiring a strong man, it was just the instinct of young people.

Plus, Chen Luan’s personality is really good, which is human nature.

But that night, Jiang Ling had a rare dream.

In the dream, his perspective seemed to be much higher than in reality, and he was looking down at Chen Luan.

Chen Luan was lying on his back on the pool table, his shirt collar was torn into a mess, his tie was wrapped around his wrists in layers, and there were some red marks on his collarbone and shoulders.

His hand was placed on Chen Luan's narrow waist, which was bound by a belt.

Those beautiful light grey eyes were drooping, with some red at the corners and watery color.

The air seemed to become a little sticky and a little hot.

Jiang Ling looked at Chen Luan's rosy lips, which seemed to have the sweetness of candy.

Then he lowered his head...

"I C!"

Jiang Ling woke up in shock.

Then he lowered his head and lifted the quilt, and soon he had an expression as if he had been struck by lightning.

"Fuck you! It's poisonous!!!" Jiang Ling cursed as he changed his pants and walked towards the bathroom.

Damn, it’s all Zhou Jing’s fault!

Talking nonsense will pollute your own brain!

I'll beat him up again tomorrow!

But when he walked into the bathroom, he could hear some water sounds.

When I opened the door, Jiang Xun was standing there with a calm expression, with a basin of water in front of him.

When Jiang Ling ran into Jiang Xun, she subconsciously hid her pants behind her. But when she looked over, she saw that Jiang Xun's pants were also soaking in the basin.

He narrowed his eyes slightly: "Brother, what are you doing?"

Jiang Xun looked into Jiang Ling's eyes:

"Whatever you come here for, that's what I'm doing."

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