Chapter 8
The second hour of Wayne's hunting trip.
Unexpectedly, the self-deprecating words could also trigger a certain young master's attack point. Two hours ago, all the "things" Simon used for self-defense were easily taken away by the arrogant red-haired Alpha, and he himself was knocked down and subdued by the other party.
His hands were twisted and tied behind his back, and the severe pain from the broken wrist did not make his face under the mask look unbearable. On the contrary, listening to the peaceful breathing of Beta in the same room, Simon curled the corners of his lips in self-mockery, and actually felt that the situation of not being able to hunt at this time was quite comfortable.
——Anyway, it was just his bad luck to be targeted by Wayne.
Although he was a little bored, he didn't say anything.
Until Simon heard a soft, mellow moan.
Shi Yu yawned and squinted her hazy eyes. Although she was not fully awake yet, she instinctively picked up the water bottle in her arms the first time.
It's a bit hot...I'm sweating all over.
The cool water finally touched his dry lips. Shi Yu drank several mouthfuls and then let out a long sigh of satisfaction.
"Hey, you."
Shi Yu's brief moment of peace was shattered. He froze for a moment and looked towards the source of the sound. On the other side of the tree house, a young man wearing a strange mask was leaning against it. His eyes were covered by pale, thick eyelashes, and the golden pupils that were faintly revealed were gloomy and fierce.
Because he couldn't see his face, the unscrupulous gaze on Shi Yu at this moment made Shi Yu feel a little cold.
"Huh? Why are you here?" Shi Yu looked around the room, took another sip of water, interrupted his unfinished words, and gave him a very forced smile, "Excuse me, do you know where Wayne went?"
The boy scoffed softly.
"I don't know." He replied in a bad tone, "Why should I tell you?"
“…”
Shi Yu was choked by being criticized for no reason and could only drink some water to calm down.
She didn't really want to talk to this person, if it weren't for Wayne...
The black-haired girl's face still had a lingering blush. She tilted her head back slightly, and transparent liquid dripped down her slender neck. She drank a lot and sweated a lot, and her whole body was wet, like a kitten with its fur soaked.
Simon raised his eyelids to look at her, adjusted his sitting position, and then ordered Shi Yu in a hoarse whisper: "Come here."
"Ah?" Shi Yu wiped his mouth and asked in confusion, "Are you thirsty?"
The young man did not deny it. He stared at Shi Yu intently, his golden pupils under the gray-white wings seemed to be covered with a thin layer of gray snow.
Shi Yu looked at the kettle in his hand, feeling a little embarrassed.
"Well, okay..." Shi Yu thought there was probably no water source nearby. The water in the kettle had been refilled by Wayne later, so it didn't matter if he gave some to this fierce man. So he walked over to him, squatted down, and handed him the kettle, "Drink it, drink it."
The boy seemed to smile, and the strong dark temperament that suddenly revealed him made Shi Yu couldn't help but get angry.
"It's a shame that Wayne ruined my hand."
Simon didn't even glance at the kettle, his tone calm as if he were remarking on the beautiful weather today. He gestured for Shigure to look at the unnatural twisting of his wrists, where they were tied behind his back, and a malicious smile tinged his voice.
"Tell me, what should we do?"
Shi Yu squatted there blankly holding the kettle, almost doubting his vision - the boy was too thin, and the skin on his pale arms was very thin, almost sticking to the bones. Because of this, his wrists, which were tied up in a twisted posture, were particularly conspicuous.
"Is this Wayne...?"
"Of course it's him."
After receiving a positive response, Shi Yu looked at the boy in surprise, with complicated feelings.
Aren't these two people friends? Did she misunderstand?
how so……
Shi Yu suddenly felt a lump in her throat. She could only look away, not daring to look at the boy. She gritted her teeth and suggested, "Then let me feed you?"
The young man snorted, and Shi Yu took it as his tacit agreement. After a struggle between his conscience and his conscience, Shi Yu finally blushed and said to the young man embarrassedly, "Um, what about the mask?"
"There's a hidden button on the back of the head." Simon raised his head slightly and answered concisely.
Shi Yu said "Oh". Considering that it was inconvenient to move the injured boy and she didn't have the strength, she just stood up and bent forward slightly to look for the hidden button in the boy's hair.
Her fingers were inserted into the boy's thin gray hair. His hair was gray, and just like the sickly and gloomy feeling he gave to others, Shi Yu silently groped for the secret button, but the button was located a little lower on the back of his head and seemed a little difficult to unfasten. She half-knelt down without any temper and carefully approached the boy.
"Don't move." Shi Yu reminded him and carefully unbuttoned his clothes.
Too close.
The girl was almost lying on his shoulder. Simon lowered his eyes, staring at the girl's soft profile with his slender pupils. Didn't she ever doubt the reason why Wayne made himself like this to stay with her?
After all, Beta is just a group of comfortable, leisurely and carefree lambs.
"Okay."
Thinking that he might have to put it on again later, Shi Yu only took off half of his mask. While Simon was silently thinking, the girl's voice with a hint of surprise sounded nearby.
"You look very pretty, why are you wearing a mask?"
“…”
Simon frowned, clearly not wanting to answer the question. Shi Yu was startled by his gloomy expression. Thinking that this question was indeed very rude to a stranger, Shi Yu quickly pretended nothing had happened and brought the kettle closer to his already chapped lips. "Drink some water first, drink some water first."
But he is indeed very handsome... Shi Yu thought, the boy has a pointed chin, regular facial features, and an overall feminine and delicate beauty, but those ferocious eyes have destroyed most of this beauty, leaving only a gloomy and untouchable look.
Shi Yu was very sensitive. The moment she felt the boy's rejection, she lowered her head and dared not look at him again.
The boy drank the water in silence, then very consciously looked up and asked Shi Yu to put the mask on him. Shi Yu was speechless for a moment, but still put it on for him.
After doing all these things, Shi Yu inevitably felt a little thirsty. She took the kettle back from the boy and was about to open it to drink water, but suddenly she thought of something and her body froze in place for a moment.
“…”
"……Oh."
Simon, standing beside them, laughed twice without any sympathy or emotion.
Shi Yu's expression turned from red to white, from white to blue, and then from blue to red. She stammered and asked the boy, "You, you just... just..."
"Mouth, mouth...?"
"Oh, yes."
The boy's answer hit her hard: "You've already stuffed the bottle into my mouth, so I can't say anything, right?"
Shi Yu was dizzy and speechless. She looked at the boy with great confusion, then at the kettle in her hand, her tongue was tangled and she stammered. A burning sensation seemed to rise from her stomach to her throat, and her breathing instantly became rapid and hot.
"No! You said that I, I..."
Simon adjusted his sitting position again, and his golden eyes looked at the girl's unnaturally red face, as if he was thinking about something.
"come over."
A subtle itch appeared in his throat, and the boy's Adam's apple moved slightly. He was very aware that he had just drunk water, and this strange reaction on his body was by no means natural.
"……What?"
Shi Yu was just about to move the kettle further away from her lips so that she could drink the water, but Simon's voice made her hand tremble, causing her, who was already a little dizzy, to spill a lot of water on her collar.
Shi Yu's eyes suddenly felt sore and tears were already welling up in his eyes.
Simon pondered for a moment, his golden eyes fixed on Shi Yu's expression, and whispered to Shi Yu, "Anyway, come here first."
"You might feel better this way."
Hearing this, Shi Yu, feeling bewildered, sat down next to Simon, clutching her half-empty water bottle. She remained somewhat cautious, keeping a distance from Simon. However, perhaps this was due to her gender's inherent disadvantage, her wariness of the naturally opposing, aggressor?
Simon guessed so.
"When will Wayne be back?" The girl couldn't speak clearly, and her face looked like she was about to cry: "The water is almost gone... and I..."
Shi Yu missed Xiao very much.
Although Xiao was very gentle to her, it was not just her emotions that she missed her, her body as well... It wasn't quite right to say that, Shi Yu thought vaguely, she just, really, really missed the aroma of beer on Xiao's body.
"Yes, yes..." Her eyes finally couldn't bear the weight of the tears anymore. The desire for beer spread to her nerve endings like a fire. Shigure wiped away the tears that couldn't be stopped, lowered her head, and begged the strange boy, "Hug me...?"
She could no longer hear the boy's voice. As if eager to absorb warmth, Shi Yu approached the boy and hugged him in confusion.
A very light fishy aroma wafted through my nose, a bit like Chinese medicine. Honestly, it wasn't as good as beer...
Shi Yu let out a long sigh and rubbed the cold body in his arms. Suddenly, he felt as if he was hugging a water pillow in the hot summer, feeling refreshed from head to toe.
The discomfort in his body disappeared completely, and Shi Yu didn't want to let go for a while, until a long time passed -
The boy reminded her coldly with a muffled nasal tone: "Can you let go now?"
"Ah, okay!"
Shi Yu came to his senses and let go of the boy embarrassedly, and apologized sincerely: "I'm sorry, I might have been a little emotional just now."
"It has nothing to do with your emotions." Simon laughed darkly. "Did Wayne find out? I guess not."
"Uh, what did you find?" Shi Yu opened his moist eyes wide.
“…” Simon’s eyes suddenly became very strange.
Afterwards, he and Shigure fell into silence. The boy seemed to be thinking about something, and a thick black shadow enveloped his body like an animation special effect. Shigure thought for a moment, then said to him hesitantly and shyly, "Um, Simon?"
"What?" The boy didn't look up.
"Well..." Shi Yu bit his lip: "I want to ask about the situation here. I got lost here, so-"
To be honest, although Wayne looked fierce, Shi Yu knew that he was definitely taking care of him in his actions.
I don't know why, but whenever Shi Yu faces the gaze of that red-haired boy, he seems to become like a frog being stared at by a snake, and every inch of his skin is controlled and manipulated by the other's indifferent gaze.
At this moment, Kanhara Akatsuki, who inexplicably made her feel the most secure, was not around. And facing Simon, whom she had just met, Shigure seemed to feel a little more dependent and intimate with him than with Wayne. So Shigure hesitated for a moment, and finally asked the question that had been lingering in her mind but she had never dared to bring up with Wayne.
Hearing this, Simon glanced at the girl deeply, strangely and subtly. Shi Yu was stunned by his eyes, and naturally stopped talking halfway.
"A word of advice." Simon chuckled softly, his golden eyes gazing sarcastically at the black-haired Beta. "Don't go too far. And don't ask anyone questions that cross the line like this again."
In the training team, every Alpha had more or less some guesses about this Beta who came out of nowhere. Although most of the cadets didn't care about her as if they were just playing around, the proud Alphas would only recognize the answers they had verified.
He just relied on his weak and harmless appearance to try to clear himself of suspicion in this way, and the target he chose was actually him - Simon thought sarcastically that this Beta's idea could no longer be described as naive.
…Shi Yu uttered an "uh," and glanced at Simon, who looked gloomy, in confusion. Could it be that these cadets were in closed-door training here, so it was inconvenient for them to speak out?
Let's wait a little longer. Shi Yu suppressed her desire to ask more questions in frustration. She nodded, indicating that she had remembered Simon's words.
There was a brief silence in the tree house. The black-haired Beta blinked impatiently, then spoke softly, "Simon, there is one more thing, which is..."
Shi Yu blushed, not daring to look into the boy's sharp eyes. She suddenly began to stutter, "Can you chat with me later if you have nothing to do? Because Wayne and I can't seem to communicate..."
After all, Wayne really didn't communicate with her much, Shi Yu added silently in his heart.
Simon's wing-like gray eyelashes fluttered slightly, and his pupils, which had shrunk into thin lines, fixed their gaze on the embarrassed Beta with interest.
The young man raised the corner of his lips and slowly leaned back against the tree wall, looking like he had no resistance to Shigure's proposal.
He even replied hoarsely with a hint of gloating: "Well, of course you can—"
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