Chapter 47
When facing Shen Chumo again, Du Mingxing was obviously a little more embarrassed.
After all, she had always looked down upon him, acting like a sister. Suddenly bursting into tears in front of her was embarrassing. But fortunately, her tears were not shed in vain. Although Shen Chumo still acted indifferent, he finally stopped treating her like air and would answer any questions she asked.
The weather wasn't great. On a morning that should have been pleasant, a drizzling gray rain fell. This polluted rain was considered an ominous sign by the survivors of the apocalypse, often leading to the spread and escalation of pollution.
The ash rain was enough to corrode buildings and cause tall buildings to collapse, but when it fell on Shen Chumo, it couldn't even wet the corner of his clothes.
Du Mingxing looked at the streets that looked like a primeval forest in the rain, completely disoriented. "Where are you going? Where is this place from before?"
Shen Chumo quickly gave the answer: “S City, near the gymnasium.”
"Ah, isn't this our neighboring city?" Du Mingxing appeared and looked around. "Is this the gymnasium built for the sports meet? You can't tell its original size at all..."
As she spoke, she gradually fell silent.
Du Mingxing was unsure. He looked up at the sky, then quietly glanced at Chen Chumo. Finally, he lowered his head and looked at the dryness on his body, making sure it was not his illusion.
Shen Chumo actually placed a layer of protection around her to shield her from the rain as soon as she appeared?
Shen Chumo didn't notice it at all, and turned to look at her: "Well, this is the gymnasium, why don't you say anything?"
Du Mingxing was flustered and didn't know what to say. He touched his face with his hand and it seemed a little hot. His mind was full of thoughts like "Does this mean that he is not angry with me anymore?" and "Has he finally forgiven me?" He couldn't think of anything else.
"Hmm?" Shen Chumo saw the subtle curve at the corner of her lips. He didn't quite understand, but he still slowed down his pace. "Want to go in and take a look?"
At this time, no matter what Shen Chumo asked, Du Mingxing, who had given up thinking, nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: "Hmm..."
Shen Chumo didn't answer, but walked towards the gymnasium consciously. Behind him, a hand came over. He frowned and subconsciously shook it off, but the other person's hand still lingered around him.
Shen Chumo's body was a little stiff, and he didn't understand why the inner demon was so happy just to enter a gym.
I turned my head and glanced at her. I saw that she was like a child who had stolen some candy. She was bouncing up and down as if she had drunk alcohol, just like a child who was jumping and skipping when he was excited.
After secretly observing for a while, I found that she didn't seem to be worried about the gymnasium, but the weather. She looked at the sky from time to time, and after looking at the sky, she would feel secretly happy for a while and was not afraid of thunder.
But he clearly remembered the scene where Shen Huaixin hid under the quilt because he was afraid of lightning and thunder.
What's so special about rainy days?
Shen Chumo didn't know why he cared so much, but he did want to understand why she was happy. That way, he could avoid it in the future.
He tried to test it out: "The rain is getting heavier."
"Yeah, thankfully we don't have to get wet in the rain," Du Mingxing said with a smile, her ears turning pink. "I rarely see such a gray rainy scene. It's really unique."
I see.
Shen Chumo suddenly realized that this guy was afraid of getting wet in the rain. From this point of view, it was more consistent with the information he already knew.
While still some distance away from the gymnasium, he quietly removed the energy barrier surrounding Du Mingxing. Instantly, heavy rain came from all directions, drenching Du Mingxing like a drowned rat.
Her eyes were wide open, her black hair stuck to her forehead, making her look innocent and pitiful, as if she didn't understand what was going on, and she let out an "ah" in a half-confused and half-grieved tone.
Shen Chumo's Adam's apple rolled, and he felt an inexplicable joy. He even wanted to see her get even wetter, reveal a more fragile and vulnerable expression, and let out a more aggrieved and vivid whimper.
It's so strange, is this the legendary feeling of revenge...?
She pursed her lips and looked over with wet eyes: "Chu Mo, the umbrella you made seems to be malfunctioning."
Seeing that he didn't answer, Du Mingxing repeated it again. After a while, he heard Shen Chumo speak.
"Then walk faster."
What? You're just going to ignore it. Du Mingxing shook his head, crossed his arms, and walked towards the gymnasium in a somewhat embarrassed manner. After walking for a while, he remembered that he could go into the sea of consciousness to avoid the rain, so he jumped into the sea of consciousness happily.
My goodness, the rain in her sea of consciousness is even heavier, almost drowning her.
Du Mingxing gritted his teeth, now he was sure that Shen Chumo did it on purpose.
Finally arriving at the gymnasium, Shen Chumo looked at the final result expressionlessly - the demon who was drowning, with red eyes and puffed cheeks, glaring angrily at him. Water was still dripping from under the hem of his school uniform, forming a small puddle at his feet.
I felt itchy inside, with indescribable emotions swelling up, and I wanted to ravage it a few more times like pinching a kitten's face.
Perhaps seeing the betrayer's plight was a form of revenge, he concluded.
Shen Chumo was about to look away when he caught a glimpse of her school uniform, soaked by the rain and clinging to her body. Her uniform was a white summer shirt, not exactly thin, but made of a single layer of fabric that wasn't waterproof at all. Even the dampness of the fabric brightened the girl's delicate figure.
He thought of the marble sculptures he had seen in books. The coldest and hardest stone was carved to have the texture of gauze. When it adhered to the skin of the girl in the sculpture, it was clearly an inorganic stone, yet it was incomparably vivid and light.
He had no idea that stone could be carved to have such a texture, just as he only now realized how soft the school uniform looked on her.
Perhaps because Shen Chumo's gaze stayed on her for too long, Du Mingxing's cheeks gradually turned red, and even the tips of her ears were swollen and hot. Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and drops of crystal water hung on her long and dense eyelashes.
Shen Chumo suddenly wanted to taste the water droplets.
He did the same, not because he noticed anything wrong, but because the water droplets were just ordinary water droplets, their composition was no different. Instead, Du Mingxing squatted with his legs hugged, his head buried in his knees, refusing to get up no matter what, like a scoundrel.
Shen Chumo frowned, not understanding why: "What's wrong?"
"My waist is weak."
"Impossible, inner demons can't get sick."
“…”
Du Mingxing couldn't argue with the wooden stake. On the other hand, the culprit who kissed her eyelid acted as if nothing had happened, without any awareness of making any ambiguous gesture. She couldn't help but feel angry.
Suddenly, a whistle sounded from the center of the gymnasium. Then, a vague male voice, like a sports coach,
"Stand at attention, at ease, look to the right! Look forward!"
Du Mingxing came back to his senses and realized that there could be no physical training at this time. The only possibility was -
"Source of pollution?" She looked at Shen Chumo.
Shen Chumo nodded, his tone light: “A level, very weak.”
As for the last sentence "Don't be afraid", he swallowed it back into his stomach.
With a creaky sound, the gate leading to the track opened automatically, and a chilling wind blew out, carrying the smell of blood. Du Mingxing wrinkled his nose, feeling a little uncomfortable.
Shen Chumo's eyes focused, and the gate returned to normal. With him as the center, the entire gymnasium seemed to have ripples spreading outward to cleanse it, and the distorted space around it was restored, as if everything was still in its uncontaminated state.
Du Mingxing was stunned: "Is it solved?"
Shen Chumo shook his head: "No, only 90% of it has been solved. To completely destroy it, we need to find the contaminated core."
Du Mingxing stood in awe.
She walked towards the gate and looked out at the track and field from the auditorium. The auditorium was overgrown with weeds, but the track was clean and tidy, though a bit worn out, as if the pollution source was subconsciously maintaining it.
Seeing Shen Chumo walk in, she joked, "Do you want to run too? I'll cheer you on! I have experience as a cheerleader."
"This runway looks familiar." Shen Chumo walked forward from the audience seats.
Du Mingxing followed behind him, unconvinced. "Runways across the country are all set up like this. There should be a unified standard. It's normal that it looks familiar, but this runway is indeed much smaller than I imagined."
Shen Chumo didn't comment, but his eyes were still on the runway.
"Were you a cheerleader?" he asked. "I didn't know."
Du Mingxing smiled and explained, "I'm not a serious cheerleader. I just used to cheer on friends who were good at sports. We even rehearsed back then."
It’s sad to think about it. At that time, she treated those friends more as characters in the book and didn’t really open up to them. But after returning to reality and slowly calming down, she realized how precious that short friendship was.
As he thought about it, Du Mingxing fell silent.
"What kind?" Shen Chumo interrupted her thoughts.
"that is……"
Du Mingxing trotted to the open space in the middle of the track and pointed him in the general direction: "Assuming she sprints to the finish line from this direction, the three of us will be in the last section, all running ahead of her, shouting "Come on!" as we run..."
"Wait until she crosses the finish line, then raise her hand and say," Du Mingxing cleared his throat, put his hands together in a trumpet shape, and put them in front of his mouth, "Xiong Chentao, congratulations on winning the last place in the Xinxin Girls Team!"
After she finished speaking, she closed her mouth, and her excitement gradually subsided. After a while, a complicated smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.
Shen Chumo looked towards the starting point of the runway: “The core appeared.”
Du Mingxing looked in that direction and saw a vague figure squatting at the starting point, striking a standard running stance. Because its strength had been weakened, the figure appeared extremely blurry and threatened to dissipate at any moment.
Following a whistle from somewhere, a figure rushed towards Shen Chumo. It was as agile as a leopard and full of explosive power. It appeared in front of Shen Chumo almost instantly, with its fangs bared and a chilling aura.
Shen Chumo looked at it, and it was fixed in place, unable to move despite its best efforts. It could only struggle and roar. But in front of an enemy with such a huge disparity in strength, everything was in vain.
"It's very noisy."
Just when Shen Chumo was about to put an end to it, Du Mingxing suddenly held his hand: "Wait."
Her voice was trembling a little, with some incredible sadness.
Shen Chumo suddenly remembered why he felt the runway looked familiar, because it was the school playground. He was startled, and when he looked at Du Mingxing again, her eyes were already red.
She slowly said, "Xiong Chentao, is that you?"
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