Chapter 89, The World You Like
I don't know what this city looks like originally.
Jiang Ran was stunned.
Si Xu narrowed his eyes and shifted his gaze from the starry sky to her.
Seeing her surprised expression, the curve of his lips softened, and a smile etched in his eyes. "I've lived in the laboratory ever since I can remember. Every day, apart from the staff with different expressions, there are only iron walls and various unfamiliar machines around me. Before the disaster, I never left the laboratory because it was not allowed."
Although he had become a laboratory assistant when the third batch of experimental subjects arrived.
In the twenty-six years before the disaster, he had never set foot outside the Xiling Experimental Base.
"I've never seen the secular world you're talking about, and I don't know whether it's good or bad. By the time I was able to step out of the laboratory and see this world, it already looked like this."
When he said these words, his tone was very nonchalant.
He didn't know what the world was like originally - although he could imagine the original prosperity and bustle of the human world by looking at the wandering zombies, the cold buildings and the deserted streets, but what did it matter?
No matter how lively it was, it was a world where he had never existed, leaving him with no memories.
"Everyone at the base said the spread of the virus was a disaster, but to me, it made no difference."
Just like a baby's first impression of the environment after opening his eyes, when he walks out of the laboratory, what awaits him is a living environment full of zombies and dangers.
In his perception, this is how the world really is.
"In the past, I always thought that such a world was not bad." Only the strong have the right to speak, and he happens to be the kind of person who has absolute right to speak.
Between the fingers, the lit cigarette burned slowly, and the scorching scarlet light approached the skin little by little.
Si Xu threw the cigarette on the ground, crushed it with his foot, and looked up at the little girl standing in front of him: "Jiang Ran, if you like the way this world was before..."
To him, the world now is neither good nor bad, but if in her eyes, the previous world was better...
Feeling that his next words were important, Jiang Ran pursed her lips nervously and stared at him.
The little girl stood in the night, her hair draped over her shoulders a little messy in the night wind.
Behind her was a cold, deserted high-rise building, and above her head was a dazzling, flickering starry sky. She stood in front of him, her slender figure looking even thinner under the night sky.
But he knew that she would always stand here, beside him, within his sight.
If you like the way the world was before.
"I'll change it to the way you like it." He smiled slightly, and the coldness in his eyes faded as he stared at her, and he was gentle and affectionate. "Jiang Ran, I'll change this world to the way you originally liked it, okay?"
He asks her if she is okay.
OK?
How can it be bad, idiot?
She threw herself into his arms, hugged him tightly, and wanted to laugh, but tears fell unconsciously first.
After choking for a long time, he replied with one word: "Okay."
…
Hearing that Jiang Ran was going to spend the night in the car, Qi Yuan came out to give his friend a blanket. As a result, as soon as he reached the door, he saw two figures cuddling together in the night not far away.
The young man was leaning against the car, his arms around the girl's waist, his head slightly lowered.
In front of him, the girl hooked her arms around his neck and stood on tiptoe to kiss him.
Qi Yuan paused and silently retreated into the shadow behind the gate, as if he had never appeared.
…
The fiancée came back with the blanket in her arms. Chu Yuan raised an eyebrow and asked, "Didn't you see Jiang Ran?"
"I saw it." Qi Yuan's cheeks flushed, and she said softly, "But she didn't seem to need a blanket, so I brought her back." Ranran is Professor Yousi, so she doesn't need a blanket, hmm.
"Oh." Without asking any more questions, Chu Yuan patted the made bed and said, "Rest well. We will leave for Fengyang tomorrow."
Qi Yuan put the blanket on the sofa, climbed onto the bed and got into the quilt.
Forced to share a bed with a man due to a lack of rooms, Qi Yuan quietly pulled up the quilt to cover her burning cheeks.
"Hey." Chu Yuan reached out and patted the bulging quilt, helplessly, "Are you going to suffocate yourself in here?"
Qi Yuan didn't stick his head out, his voice muffled from under the quilt: "I'm cold."
"cold?"
She vaguely heard the man mutter a few words and then fell silent. Qi Yuan was about to breathe a sigh of relief when she felt the quilt behind her move and a strong arm stretched out. The next second, she was pulled into the man's warm embrace.
"Chu Yuan!" The moment he got close to him, Qi Yuan's whole body stiffened and he struggled subconsciously, "What are you doing?"
"Aren't you cold?" Chu Yuan held down the girl's twisting body and warned, "Don't move. You're letting go of the heat I've accumulated with great difficulty—the more you move, the colder you get. Haven't you heard of that?"
The young man's arm pressed on his waist. Qi Yuan couldn't break free and sweated all over. "I'm not cold anymore, you..."
"I'm cold." Chu Yuan muttered, "Don't move, go to sleep quickly, we have to travel tomorrow."
The man clearly wouldn't let go easily, so Qi Yuan had no choice but to sleep stiffly in his arms all night. When he woke up the next morning, he found that sleeping was more tiring than not sleeping.
…
Awakened by the first rays of morning light, Jiang Ran yawned and moved out of Si Xu's arms, sat up and stared at the morning scene outside the car window in a daze.
Si Xu had long been accustomed to the little girl's three minutes of drowsiness after waking up, so he pulled his coat around her and pushed the door open to get out of the car.
Some people with special abilities had already started packing their luggage, and they greeted him politely when they saw him.
The early morning sunlight was soft, a bit dazzling on his face. Si Xu stood there for a moment, and when Chu Yuan appeared with Qi Yuan, he called out to Chu Yuan.
After letting Qi Yuan wait in the car, Chu Yuan walked up to Si Xu and asked, "Seventh Brother, what's wrong?"
"That girl..." Si Xu signaled Qi Yuan with his eyes and said, "After returning to the base, send her to Chen Yao for a checkup."
"Check?" Chu Yuan was stunned for a moment before he understood what Si Xu meant. The man was instantly moved to tears. "Seventh Brother, are you willing to treat her?"
"It's not a cure, it's just an inspection." Si Xu corrected him, "If the amnesia is man-made, Chen Yao can cure it."
"What do you mean by man-made?"
"Like hypnosis."
"Uh?" Chu Yuan waved his hand. "That girl isn't an important person. Who would go to such lengths to hypnotize her? She said her amnesia was caused by a car accident. Is that man-made?"
Si Xu replied expressionlessly: "Not really."
Chu Yuan: "..." Hey, how can a car accident not be considered man-made? Brother Qi, are you trying to comfort a child?
(End of this chapter)
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