This awkward yet proactive kiss continued clumsily.
When Li Yuheng ended the kiss and stepped back slightly, Shu Bai seemed not to have fully recovered from that unfamiliar shock.
His eyes remained closed, and he even unconsciously gave a very slight upward kiss.
Li Yuheng chuckled softly, his voice hoarse from the kiss: "So reluctant to part?"
These words were like a thunderclap, instantly jolting Shu Bai out of his dazed state.
He suddenly opened his eyes, a wisp of confusion flashing across his dark pupils before being quickly replaced by shock, shame, and disbelief.
He reacted as if he had been burned, and suddenly shoved Li Yuheng away with such force that Li Yuheng staggered.
Shu Bai was breathing heavily, raising her hand to wipe her lips forcefully, as if trying to erase all traces of what had just happened.
His cheeks, ears, and even neck flushed crimson at a visible speed, creating a stark contrast with his expression, which instantly returned to its frozen state.
"You..." His voice was terribly hoarse, with a hint of barely perceptible panic, "The pheromone exchange... is complete!"
He practically shouted those words, as if to emphasize that this was merely a "mission," a "guidance," trying to cover up the moment of losing control and his heart pounding like a drum at that moment.
"Yes, yes, it's done. The effect is outstanding. The White Sentinel is indeed... extremely insightful."
Li Yuheng deliberately elongated the words "extremely high comprehension," his gaze sweeping meaningfully over Shu Bai's still glistening lips.
The other person was glaring at him fiercely; if looks could kill, Li Yuheng would have been executed by slow slicing by now.
Li Yuheng licked the corner of his lips, as if savoring the innocent yet delicious kiss from just now, then smiled and said:
"Oops, the channeling is complete, and the energy consumption is huge. White Sentinel, shouldn't you take your personal guide to replenish your energy?"
He took a step closer, deliberately using the familiar tone that comes with having just shared such close proximity, "I'm very hungry right now, and... this base is so big, and being a newcomer, I have no idea how to get to the cafeteria."
Shu Bai took a deep breath, his chest heaving, as if the breath was stuck in his throat, unable to come up or go down.
He glared fiercely at Li Yuheng, his gaze so complex it could compose a symphony.
There was anger, embarrassment, and a sense of frustration with nowhere to vent.
In the end, he said nothing, turned around abruptly, and almost simultaneously, with a sense of tragic heroism, strode toward the door of the counseling room.
The metal door slid open, and he walked out without looking back.
Li Yuheng immediately stuck to him like glue, quickly following and keeping a half-step distance.
The cold light streaming down the corridor made her pale, reddish earlobes almost transparent.
Li Yuheng was so happy he was practically flying. He didn't walk properly at all, but started walking in circles around Shu Bai.
He hopped to Shu Bai's left, tilting his head to look at his tense profile: "Hey, what do you think the cafeteria will serve today? It's not going to be that porridge again, is it?"
Before Shu Bai could react, he nimbly darted to the right and continued chattering: "But it doesn't matter, as long as I'm eating with you, I can taste the delicacies in the nutritional paste!"
Then he quickened his pace, turned to face Shu Bai, and walked backwards, looking directly into her eyes as she tried to look away with a bright smile: "By the way, how did you feel about the counseling earlier? I thought it was very effective! Look at you, your complexion is much rosier! How about we make this a regular practice from now on—"
"Li Yuheng!"
Shu Bai finally lost his temper. He stopped and glared at the guy who was circling around him and chattering incessantly.
"Hey! Here I am, Sentinel Shubai!" Li Yuheng stopped immediately. "What's wrong? Are you annoyed by my noise? Shall I be quiet then?"
"Shut up. Forget about that damn 'guidance' you just did! Now, walk properly. Don't go circling around me anymore!"
Li Yuheng blinked, his face perfectly conveying the "I'm so innocent, I'm so obedient" expression.
He immediately put his feet together, stood up straight, and nodded obediently like a schoolboy: "Yes, sir! Forget it right away! I promise to walk properly!"
After saying that, he obediently walked to Shu Bai's side, no longer circling around or chattering on.
Shu Bai forced himself to look straight ahead and take a step.
Li Yuheng remained silent for less than ten seconds.
His gaze fell on Shu Bai's still tightly clenched fist, and he suddenly let out a soft "Ah".
Shu Bai abruptly stopped, turning his head to cast a deathly gaze.
Li Yuheng's expression was extremely sincere: "Report! This is important business! Very important business!"
"...What is it now?!"
Li Yuheng immediately raised his wrist with the watch on it, then pointed to his pale wrist, and his expression became slightly more serious.
Uh... although the smile in her eyes was impossible to hide.
“This is a monitoring watch specially approved by headquarters.” He tapped his watch face, which displayed a few simple values and indicator lights. “It’s not your average couple’s watch.”
"It monitors and uploads our core physiological data and, most importantly, our mental state, in real time. Your mental fluctuations and my coordination stability are all within its monitoring scope."
Shu Bai's gaze unconsciously fell on the new watch on his wrist, and his brows furrowed slightly.
"Do you see this indicator light?"
Li Yuheng pulled up Shu Bai's wrist and pointed to a small, slowly shimmering dot on his watch face, which had a hazy hue between orange and yellow.
"Colors represent states. Red is danger, orange is warning, yellow is critical, and green is safe. Its current color indicates what just happened... uh..."
"The effect is significant, reducing your volatility value slightly from the dangerous orange zone. Although it hasn't fully stabilized in the safe green zone yet, the trend is positive."
Li Yuheng then pointed to another smaller light next to him, which was almost always lit up with a light green light: "This represents my coordination status, which is currently good. In other words, I can keep up with your pace and effectively soothe you."
“What headquarters means is,” Li Yuheng said, his joking expression turning serious, “that when your mental fluctuation value can remain stable at the green safety threshold for more than 72 hours, and my coordination stability also consistently meets the standard, this table will give a prompt. That’s the signal that our ‘coordination’ has been successful, and we can prepare to pack our bags, leave this boring rear area, and go to the First War Zone to cause trouble for those bugs.”
As he spoke, he lightly tapped the bare white dial with his finger: "So, this thing is very important. It directly relates to when we can go to the front lines. In order to get back to work sooner, you'll have to cooperate with me as much as possible and keep this indicator up."
He tapped the main indicator light. "Stay obediently in the green zone, understand? My personal sentinel?"
Shu Bai listened in silence, his gaze lowered as he looked at the two rings side by side on his wrist.
One is a suppression ring, which exists to suppress him and glows with an ominous orange light.
The other is a monitoring table that exists to measure him, evaluate him, and ultimately release him.
Objective: Green. Stability. Return to the battlefield.
He understood.
This is indeed the most important thing.
He raised his eyes and met Li Yuheng's gaze. Although his face was still expressionless, the shame and confusion in his eyes had faded and been replaced by a cold focus.
Shu Bai nodded almost imperceptibly: "...Understood."
"good."
Li Yuheng, taking advantage of the situation, tried to reach out and pat Shu Bai's head, but the other person dodged to the side.
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