Chapter 349, Eternal Night and Starry Sky
As Qin Huai spoke, he walked around the campfire and came to Chen Yao's side, just isolating the passionate couple from the girl's sight.
Thinking that her little thoughts were seen through, Shen Yao glanced at the person standing in front of her, then quickly looked away.
In order to cool the temperature on her cheeks, she turned her attention to Qin Huai's question: "Miao Miao and I came together. Miao Miao said she had a gift for me, and she went back to get it. I was waiting for her here, and then you came..."
She spoke in a serious manner, like a student answering a teacher's question in class. Qin Huai found it amusing and continued, "Want to come to Women's Day? Qian Miaomiao brought you here, but didn't tell you what Women's Day is about?"
Shen Yao shook her head.
Qian Miaomiao didn't explain it clearly, but she was not stupid. Listening to the girls' chatter and the entanglement between men and women, she could figure out what the main activities of this so-called Goddess Day were.
The girl's face heated up uncontrollably again.
She lowered her eyes and said nothing.
Chen Yao looks carefree, and was born in a wealthy family like the Shen family. She also has a brother with a bad reputation. Outsiders say that she should be a veteran in the love field. However, just as Qian Miaomiao thought, she has lived for so many years, but she is a poor little girl who has never even held a boy's hand. What she saw tonight was really beyond her tolerance.
The flickering firelight made the girl's skin look as white as snow and also reflected her red ears.
Qin Huai stared at her for a moment, raised the corner of his mouth, and said thoughtfully: "Chen Yao, if you like activities like this tonight, I can..."
"I don't like it!" She blurted out a reply without thinking. Chen Yao always felt that her answer was very obvious. She emphasized, "I didn't know that your Yancheng base likes this. If I had known, I would not have come!"
Seeing that he was about to make the man cry, Qin Huai decided to stop while he was ahead: "Stay here? Or go home now?"
Shen Yao stood up and said firmly: "Go home!"
After saying that, she felt that these two words were not right - go home? That was his home, and had nothing to do with her.
She wanted to change her words, but was afraid that he would laugh at her for doing so.
The girl pursed her lips and muttered softly: "I knew you were not a good person..."
Qin Huai, who had excellent hearing and heard the girl's complaints clearly, said: "???"
…
Just as the two were about to leave, Qian Miaomiao came back in a hurry.
"Yaoyao!" The girl, holding a stack of books, braked suddenly and stopped in front of Shen Yao, "Where are you going?!"
She realized later that the man who was traveling with the girl was still dazzled by that beautiful and enchanting face: "Qin, Boss Qin, you're back?"
Changing her majestic demeanor in front of Shen Yao, the girl said shyly, "Are you here to pick up Yaoyao?"
Qin Huai was somewhat impressed by Shen Yao's sturdy friend, and his answer was very gentle: "Well, come and take Yaoyao home."
"Wow!" Qian Miaomiao held the book in her hand, her eyes almost full of hearts. "Boss Qin, I didn't realize you were so considerate!"
She stuffed the book into Shen Yao's arms and winked: "Yaoyao, this is a treasure from my college days. Take it back and study it carefully. If you like it, you can practice more!"
After saying that, he ran away.
Chen Yao held the book in her arms, a bewildered look on her face. "Study and ponder? Practice more..."
Her tutor often said this when she was in college. The girl was already used to hearing it and didn't think much about it. She just looked at Qin Huai with her book in her arms: "Are we going home?"
Taking his eyes off the stack of books, Qin Huai smiled with interest: "The weather is nice tonight, Chen Yao, do you want to go stargazing?"
Chen Yao's attention was on the book given by her friend, and she casually replied, "Sure."
Seeing that she was absent-minded, Qin Huai took the book from her hand. When she looked at him doubtfully, he leaned forward slightly, close to her breath, and whispered softly: "Since you are going to see the stars, you should study this book when you get back."
Warm breath fell on his face, and Chen Yao stared at him blankly.
He was handsome. Among all the handsome men she had ever seen, he was the most handsome one, with picturesque eyebrows and eyes and a graceful figure.
If there weren't so much grudges between them...
Chen Yao suddenly took two steps back and said vaguely: "Just hold on to the book, I, I'm going back!"
She walked back with her hands and feet together.
Qin Huai didn't hide his joy. He caught up with the girl who was walking quickly with her head down, and said leisurely in a long tone, "Look at the stars. Come this way."
Shen Yao suddenly stopped and glared at him angrily: "Qin Huai!"
"I'm here." He smiled, "Don't worry, I won't leave you alone."
Shen Yao stamped her feet in anger: “Who told you this!”
"Don't tell me." He agreed with her. "Let's look at the stars. Let's go."
Chen Yao: “…” With a red face, she followed him silently.
…
Before the apocalypse, Qingcheng Mountain, near the Yancheng base, was a 5A-rated scenic spot, renowned for its beautiful scenery and numerous visitors. After the disaster, Yancheng was hit by seven days of torrential rain. Huge rocks slid down from the mountaintop, blocking the only path down the mountain. Tourists who hadn't had time to leave were trapped on the mountain.
Holding Qin Huai's hand and climbing over the stone that lay across the middle of the road, Shen Yao wondered, "Are there no zombies on this mountain?"
"Yes." Qin Huai jumped down from the stone lightly and continued to walk forward with her hand. "I cleaned it up."
As they walked up the mountain, the temperature gradually dropped. Chen Yao wrapped her coat tightly around her: "Do you like it here?" Otherwise, there would be no need to come all the way to clear the zombies on the mountain.
"I guess so." Qin Huai quickened his pace as they approached their destination. "The scenery here is beautiful."
The scenery of Qingcheng Mountain was so magnificent that he could never imagine it and had never seen it in the more than 20 years he had lived in the laboratory.
"When I was in the lab, the lights in the room where I was held were very bright, on day and night. I couldn't tell the time by the intensity of the light or the rising and setting of the sun or moon."
He rarely mentioned laboratory life in front of her, and even if he did, he would just mention it briefly.
This was the only time he spoke in such detail, and Shen Yao listened very carefully.
"Later, they moved me to another place and locked me up. There was no light in that place, and it was airtight. I couldn't even see my own hands clearly. Chen Yao, can you imagine a place with nothing but darkness? I was alone, with no light, no sound, and no matter how loud I shouted, no one would respond."
Those people knew what methods could make a disobedient experimental subject obedient, so after he tried to escape several times, they threw him into the dark room alone.
He stayed in that dark room for three months.
At first, he would resist and struggle, banging against the wall and calling for help...
The walls around the room were covered with fingerprints and bloodstains left by him.
"Later, I finally understood that no one would save me." Qin Huai looked at the girl beside him, his light golden eyes filled with some indescribable complex emotions. "No one is willing to save an insignificant experimental subject, Chen Yao. In the eyes of those people, the experimental subject may not even be as good as their pet dog."
(End of this chapter)
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