Chapter 439: Frankness, Awkward Ambiguity (Part 1)
When the constraints are peeled off layer by layer, it is like a blooming flower shedding its redundant petals, revealing the delicate buds inside.
The long legs are like stems, straight and slender.
The arms are like scallions, shiny and lustrous.
With straight shoulders and a slender neck, the girl looks like a red plum blossom blooming in the snow.
Standing in the snow, with red tassels dotted around.
The man's pupils suddenly shrank, and the next second, he looked away as if he was burned, but his hands moved quickly.
Disinfection, spraying, secondary disinfection, ultraviolet sterilization.
Jiang Fuyue always cooperated with the man's actions until they passed the buffer zone and Xie Dingyuan took off his protective suit and cleaned it. Only then were the two of them completely safe.
Standing in the sterile room, the two faced each other.
When the crisis was resolved, the belated embarrassment gradually revealed its true nature.
Xie Dingyuan was fine, at least he was still wearing clothes, but Jiang Fuyue...
She turned her back and folded her arms across her chest.
Only a slender and fair back was left, and because of her movements at the moment, the butterfly bones on both sides became more prominent.
The man also turned around at the same time, not daring to look any longer, but the lustrous snow color kept flashing in his mind, making his eyes bloodshot and his breathing rapid.
Silence filled the entire space as a man and a woman stood back to back.
Xie Dingyuan's Adam's apple rolled slightly. "We'll have to wait another ten minutes. How do you...feel?"
Jiang Fuyue shivered: "Cold..."
She had tried her best to suppress the trembling of her body, but her voice still unconsciously revealed her true reaction.
Xie Dingyuan glanced at the exhaust vent. The turbine was spinning rapidly and cold air was being released.
This step is mainly to kill bacteria and viruses that are intolerant to low temperatures, just in case.
He raised his hand to unbutton his shirt, took it off, and handed it to him: "Put it on first."
But in doing so, his upper body was left naked.
Seeing that the girl didn't take it for a long time, Xie Dingyuan frowned, turned his back to her and slowly moved towards her, wanting to pass it closer.
"You hold it, I—"
The conversation stopped abruptly here.
The man's entire body stiffened. He seemed to have touched something warm. In this environment, the only thing that could be warm was...
Girl's skin!
"I'm sorry! I, didn't mean to!"
Xie Dingyuan still kept his back to her at this moment, holding the shirt in his hand and passing it to her from behind.
"Why don't you answer?"
Jiang Fuyue stood there, wanting to cry but unable to. It wasn't that she didn't want to answer, but—
"I can't move."
"What?!" The man's face changed slightly. He no longer cared about avoiding suspicion and turned directly to the girl.
All the things he had tried so hard to ignore and avoid were now clearly visible.
Xie Dingyuan took a deep breath, put on her shirt first, then grabbed the girl's right hand, from the five fingers to the palm and back of the hand, and then the whole arm: "...Do you feel it?"
"No fingers, but there are arms."
"Can you use the strength of your biceps to maintain this height and not fall down?"
Jiang Fuyue pursed her lips. Although she was cold, her forehead was covered with beads of sweat. "I'll try..."
Xie Dingyuan let go.
The next second, the entire arm dropped.
Jiang Fuyue: "Sorry, I can't control myself."
The man said nothing, frowned, and began to examine his left hand.
Same steps, same problem.
Jiang Fuyue patiently did as he was told and answered seriously.
The left side is better than the right side, at least it can stay stable in the air and not fall down.
Then came her legs. The man squatted down and she dodged to the side.
Awkwardness mixed with a hint of ambiguity fermented between the two of them.
Xie Dingyuan said with a cold expression, "Very good, my waist can still move."
Jiang Fuyue gritted her teeth and finally cooperated with his examination: "Is it a bacterial infection?"
"You don't have any exposed wounds on your body, so it's probably not bacteria."
"What about the virus?"
"Not really. The outbreak is too rapid, and it takes time for the virus to multiply and overcome the immune system."
Jiang Fuyue frowned. That only meant...
Xie Dingyuan: "Poison gas."
She thought for a moment: "Is it time to come out?"
"Yeah. It reacted chemically with the disinfectant in the spray area, producing chlorine and another harmful gas."
"Then I will..."
"Luckily, I got out quickly, and the amount I inhaled wasn't large," he said, standing up. "It only caused varying degrees of paralysis in my limbs, but no damage to my brain nerves. But ten minutes isn't enough. I need to stay here for at least half an hour before I can get out."
Jiang Fuyue's teeth were chattering.
She's already very cold. If we wait another half hour, I'm afraid...
Suddenly, her gaze froze and fell on the man's bare chest: "Aren't you cold?"
Why aren’t you cold?
The air conditioning became stronger and stronger, the room temperature gradually dropped, and every pore on Xie Dingyuan's body was shrinking madly.
"Not cold." He shook his head calmly.
Jiang Fuyue was not blind, but he did not expose the truth. He just tightened his shirt.
The two fell silent again.
The girl's legs were pressed together, making her skin look even more slender and well-proportioned.
The hem of a men's shirt is longer, but she is 1.73 meters tall, so the hem just covers her thighs.
When both feet are placed on the floor, the toenails are round, probably due to tension, the arches of the feet are slightly tense, and clear bone structures can be seen under the skin.
But even in such a miserable state, there was no trace of dejection on her face, and her beautiful profile was always full of rationality and calmness.
In comparison, Xie Dingyuan seemed uncomfortable.
The specific manifestations are weak eyes and evasive gaze.
It seemed as if the girl was the dominant one, and he was panic-stricken and at a loss.
In a blink of an eye, ten minutes passed.
Jiang Fuyue closed his eyes tightly, then forced himself to open them, and slowly exhaled a breath of white air from his mouth.
After another five minutes, her hands and feet gradually regained their sensitivity. Numbness and coldness spread from her ankles, up to her thighs, and then to her lower abdomen. She began to shiver uncontrollably.
"Are you okay?" Xie Dingyuan asked.
The man stood with his back to her in the corner farthest from the diagonal line, trying not to make it too obvious that he was trying to avoid suspicion.
"It's...it's okay..." Jiang Fuyue responded, but when she opened her mouth she found her voice was hoarse.
The man was silent for two seconds. "...Don't be so stubborn. There's still a quarter of an hour left, and the temperature is getting lower and lower. You won't be able to hold on any longer."
Jiang Fuyue gritted her teeth: "Even if I can't hold on any longer, I have to hold on!"
In the corner, the man frowned fiercely: "You are a girl, there is no need to be so strong."
Jiang Fuyue curled her lips, trying to distract him with words: "Then what else can you do if you don't hold on? Faint on the spot? Or burst into tears? Or break out of the door and take the possible virus with you?"
Xie Dingyuan: “…”
"Look, you can't explain it yourself." She sighed softly, "There's no better solution than to get through it."
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have brought you in."
"I didn't notice that the protective suit was stuck in the alloy lock of the interlocking door."
Jiang Fuyue asked him again: "Are you cold?"
Xie Dingyuan: "...Not cold."
"You're lying." I gave her the clothes, but she was obviously cold.
Jiang Fuyue: "Research shows that when attention is distracted, the strongest subjective feelings are inevitably ignored. Given our current situation, there's an 80% chance that this will produce a subjective anti-freeze effect. Do you want to try it?"
"Okay. How do we disperse?"
"chat?"
Xie Dingyuan: "Sure. What do you want to talk about?"
Jiang Fuyue's fingertips were trembling because of the cold.
She sniffed. "Problems that are too technical require a lot of thought, which burns up your energy. Let's just talk about something less demanding."
"good."
Jiang Fuyue: "How old are you this year?"
Xie Dingyuan: “…”
“Is this a difficult question?”
“…28.”
"Then you are a full ten years older than me."
“…”No need to emphasize, I know it better than anyone else!
Jiang Fuyue: "It's your turn to ask."
The man hesitated for a moment and asked, "Do you like Zhong Ziang?"
Jiang Fuyue: "What kind of like do you mean?"
"Between a man and a woman."
"Not yet."
"Temporarily?" His brows almost knotted.
"Yeah, who can tell what will happen in the future? Just because it doesn't happen now doesn't mean it won't happen in the future."
"Will you like Zhong Ziang in the future?!" The man's voice suddenly rose.
Jiang Fuyue understood his concerns as a parent: "Don't worry, I won't affect his studies or the college entrance exam."
Xie Dingyuan: "...You can't like him."
"Why?" She couldn't hide her surprise. "Arranged marriages aren't popular among wealthy families anymore, right?"
“…I can’t do that anyway.”
Jiang Fuyue didn't say anything.
"Why don't you agree?"
"There's no need for that." She wouldn't use likes or dislikes to make promises to anyone, and no one was qualified to ask her to make such a promise.
The man pursed his lips into a sharp arc.
Unfortunately, Jiang Fuyue couldn't see it, so it was her turn to ask, "What kind of research does your girlfriend do?"
She was very curious about what field the woman who could resonate with a genius among geniuses like Xie Dingyuan was good at.
Most of them are interdisciplinary subjects, and knowing a little bit of everything is worthy of the breadth of knowledge of a genius.
Xie Dingyuan was silent.
"It's not convenient to answer..."
"I don't have a girlfriend." He spoke each word slowly.
First update, 3,000 words, huge card, but my mother is smiling throughout.
Second update at 12 o'clock.
(End of this chapter)
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