Lin Daojing is 1.9 meters tall. Even when he lowers his black hat brim and slightly nods to deliberately conceal his appearance, he is still a head taller than Bryta. He is wearing a black camouflage uniform. Long-term insomnia has caused indelible dark circles under his eyes. His eyelids are droopy, and he looks lazy and tired. His whole body gives people a feeling of "not being easy to mess with".
At that moment, this "extremely unapproachable" man was just saying he was going to open a bottle of rat poison.
Even when she was just a white mouse, Britta knew that this was a human invention specifically designed to deal with them.
His face turned pale, and he wondered if he had been exposed after all.
Seeing the child's terrified expression, Lin Dao's earlier impatience due to insomnia quickly dissipated. After a while, he hummed in agreement and said, "I won't buy it." He then turned and left.
Bretta watched his departing figure, slightly taken aback, and breathed a sigh of relief.
When Xiang You saw the former Iron-Blooded Colonel of the Asian Alliance suddenly change his tune, his eyes lit up with curiosity. After the others had led Cheng Cheng away, he walked over and looked the fair-skinned, blond-haired boy up and down with curiosity, asking, "Do you two know each other?"
Bryta wanted to nod, but then shook her head after thinking for a moment: "This gentleman just moved next door to me yesterday, and I don't know his name."
I see.
"Your name is Britta, right? That's an interesting name." Xiang You pulled up Britta's previous test reports from the Mix base and teased her ambiguously, "I just left that old friend of mine. It seems he used to like these snow-white dumpling desserts that were popular in Europe."
Upon hearing this, Bleta was horrified and asked worriedly, "...Then he doesn't want to eat me, does he?"
"..." After confirming that the innocent boy in front of him was not joking, Xiang You chuckled, reached out and pinched his cheek, bent down slightly and said to him with a mischievous smile, "You're so cute, you never know."
Seeing that he was genuinely frightened, Xiang You chuckled and then gently patted his head reassuringly, saying, "So innocent."
Bleta blinked and stood obediently, not daring to move. He thought to himself that if that man really wanted to eat him, he would bite him first! He encouraged himself with this thought, and Bleta thought it was a great idea.
He's really clever.
Once the equipment was ready, Xiang You got to work, smiling as she asked him, "You happened to be in the dungeon yesterday and bumped into the infected, mutated alien, right?"
Bryta nodded cautiously: "Yes."
“Don’t be nervous. It’s just that according to the Base Protection Guidelines, as a close contact of an alien species, you need to undergo a check-up to make sure there are no problems.” Xiang You gestured for him to come over and undergo a full-body check-up.
Bryta was very nervous. Even though this wasn't the first time he had been tested since arriving at the base, he was still worried that he would be exposed.
You should know that if it were discovered that he was not actually a human being captured for experiments, but a lab rat, he would likely be shot dead, or... put back in a petri dish to undergo various experiments.
Although the drinks in the lab were delicious, the experiments were too painful.
His little face was scrunched up, and he resisted from the bottom of his heart; he didn't want to go back.
"Does it hurt? It's just a blood draw, why are you frowning like that?" Xiang You said gently as he drew blood from him.
Bryta shook her head slightly: "It's alright, it doesn't hurt that much."
Yu continued to guide Bryta through various tests.
After more than two hours of fussing, Xiang You informed Qiao Song to come in and take him away.
Bretta carefully observed his expression and cautiously asked, "Doctor, is there something wrong with me?"
Xiang You patted his shoulder considerately and smiled, "No, you're very healthy."
After hearing this, Bretta secretly rejoiced and nodded slightly to the handsome man in front of her: "Thank you."
Xiang You smiled and saw him out of the testing room. Then she turned around and leaned against the instrument table, her expression becoming serious.
As the son of the chairman of the Asian Union's political department, he was the most successful young man in the military and political circles besides Klindall. He was both Klindall's partner and a comrade-in-arms who was willing to follow him to the death. Xiang You was saddened after his old friend's sacrifice, until he contacted him through Cheng Cheng and learned that he was still alive but unwilling to return to the Asian Union. Without asking any questions, Xiang You directly applied for a special investigation team at the Mix base half a month ago, personally led the team over, forged an identity for him, and hid him in the dark.
However, as an outstanding biological scientist, he also keenly sensed that his old friend was hiding something from him and could also detect subtle abnormalities in his body, but the other party has refused any medical tests to this day.
He had a vague suspicion that something had happened to him, but he could never find out.
The next day, after receiving the complete test report from Bretta, he glanced at it, raised an eyebrow, and immediately dialed Lin Dao's contact, only connecting via voice.
"We've received the child's full-body test report, and he shows no signs of being infected by a foreign species. You can put your worries to rest now."
"Okay, I understand."
"Hey, wait a minute," Xiang You hurriedly said, noticing that he was about to hang up, "Kids are pretty innocent, don't stare at them maliciously just because they're good-looking. Although Dad really wants you to find a partner, we can't be unethical..."
Lin Dao quickly cut off the communication without expression. When he looked up, he happened to catch a glimpse of Blaita downstairs, who was walking around the stairwell of the boxing ring seating area, selling drinks from a square box hanging around his neck.
The next moment, the other person seemed to think they had secretly glanced up at him, but after meeting his gaze, they immediately pretended not to have seen him and looked away, awkwardly trying to sell drinks to the audience.
Lin Dao was taken aback, then silently curled his lips into a smile.
On his way back after completing the test, Blaita finished the chocolate in a few bites, leaving a ring of black, sticky chocolate stains around his mouth. He licked it clean with lingering satisfaction, then smacked his lips contentedly before rushing back to find Boss Xiong to take over today's work.
As a handyman, Boss Xiong casually assigned him the job of selling drinks inside the underground boxing arena.
Bretta, being a staff member, naturally didn't need to buy a ticket. He was selling a mixed carbohydrate-based energy drink, advertised as "Stronger without mutation," and deliberately given a dark green color, earning it the nickname "Alien Coke" among many. It was cheap and tasted good, and surprisingly, it became very popular among the base's young population.
As soon as Bretta entered the underground boxing ring, he spotted Lin Dao standing in a dark corner on the second floor. He couldn't help but steal glances at him, but was quickly noticed. A probing look swept over him, and Bretta quickly pretended not to see him, avoiding eye contact. He then proceeded to sell his drink to others, secretly wondering where he could find such delicious chocolate and how expensive it was…
Coming to his senses, he continued to call out softly:
"The best-tasting 'alien cola,' you can become stronger without mutation..." The most exaggerated advertising slogan was uttered in the softest tone.
"Hahaha! Kid, come here and give me a bottle!" A young man in the audience called out to him with a laugh.
Fortunately, it's a best-selling product, and even if Bretta's explanation is unconvincing, there are still people willing to pay to try it out.
The young man paid and twisted open the bottle cap, ready to take a sip.
Standing nearby, Bryta caught a faint scent wafting from the beverage bottle and paused, realizing that the smell was just like the one from the deformed man's bottle yesterday.
The young man tilted his head back and drank more than half of it in one gulp, smacked his lips, and commented, "It's actually quite delicious."
Upon hearing this, Britta pursed her lips secretly, looked on longingly, and unconsciously said, "Really? I knew it was delicious."
Perhaps due to the advertising effect, the man's friend couldn't resist and bought a bottle from Bretta.
One bottle of beverage equals one donation point.
Blatta hawked his drinks in the hallways and stairwells of the boxing arena, and within half a day he had sold all ten bottles of beverages in the box in front of him.
Boss Xiong was a shrewd businessman. Seeing this, he quickly poured ten more heavy bottles of beverages on him, patted him on the shoulder and praised him, "Well done, keep it up! You'll get a bonus at the end of the year if you do a good job!"
After being praised so confidently, Bryta's eyes lit up, and he nodded emphatically: "Yes, Mr. West."
The boxing ring was relatively peaceful today. Cheng Cheng made his rounds and returned to the second floor. He saw Lin Dao looking down at the ground floor. Following his gaze, he saw that Bretta was selling drinks downstairs. Cheng Cheng rubbed his chin and thought for a moment, then said with a grin, "Captain, are you thirsty? I'll go buy you a bottle."
Because Lin Dao felt that calling him "boss" was too impolite, he changed his address to "captain".
"No need," Lin Dao coldly refused.
Cheng Cheng asked considerately, "Are you hungry? I'll get you a boxed lunch. I noticed you haven't eaten anything all day, and you didn't sleep well last night, so you're always sleepy during the day..." He was halfway through his sentence when he was startled by Lin Dao's sudden glance and immediately shut up.
"No need, just keep a close eye on things down there and make sure nothing goes wrong."
As he was speaking, he suddenly noticed a man downstairs wearing a gray tweed coat and a hat walking through the crowd to the spot where he had fought with the alien yesterday. He looked around, then suddenly stopped, squatted down, and did the same thing as when he was collecting evidence in the bathroom yesterday!
Lin Dao realized something and looked down at the crowded and chaotic stairwell beneath his feet and the densely packed audience seats below, where Cheng Cheng was right next to him.
Without even half a second to think, he immediately said, "I'm thirsty, go buy me a drink."
Cheng Cheng, who had just been rejected: "?"
"Hurry up," he urged in a cold voice.
Cheng Cheng didn't dare to hesitate and quickly ran downstairs. The moment he turned around, Lin Dao, who was in a dark corner on the second floor, disappeared from the spot.
The next instant, they appeared on the first floor of the boxing ring where the man in the tweed coat had just been standing.
However, by then, the man had vanished without a trace.
He noticed that a small section of the ground had been completely scraped away. He squatted down to take a closer look, reached out and touched the ground, and felt some black debris, similar to the corrosion residue he had just collected for testing yesterday.
"Huh? Were you just here?"
A questioning voice came from behind him.
Lin Dao paused, turned his head, and looked back.
Bryta instinctively flinched; it was terrifying.
Lin Dao stood up and naturally noticed the fear in the child's eyes.
For some reason, the boy's appearance made his throat move involuntarily. He restrained himself by clenching his hands at his sides, and looked away without answering.
"Hey! Kid, give me a bottle... Hey? Captain, what are you doing here? Weren't you just..." Cheng Cheng was dumbfounded when he saw Lin Dao.
Lin Dao glanced at him and interrupted him: "You're too slow."
"Oh, so you're here to buy a drink. Here, take this." Bryta handed him a bottle of drink, adding carefully and deliberately, "...You have to pay for it."
"..." Lin Dao swallowed back the "I'm not thirsty anymore" that was on the tip of his tongue, paid quickly, took the bottle, twisted off the cap, and tilted his head to drink.
The pale green liquid flowed down the transparent bottle into his throat, and he swallowed it with a thud.
After finishing his drink, when he lowered his gaze to reflect the golden-haired boy's image into his dark, unfathomable eyes, he could clearly feel a desire in his brain's nervous system that was even stronger than before, a desire stemming from his body's innate instincts and almost completely out of control.
He thought—
Eat this boy in front of you.
Author's Note:
Xiang You: Tsk tsk, look, I only just told you this, and you've already given up on being a human being. (Family misfortune)
Blaita licked her lips: No way! I... I'll bite him in one big mouthful first!
Klingdale: ...Are you sure?
Bryta: QAQ
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