Chapter 106: Sharing the Aurora with a black sweater wrapped in a long skirt, winding to...
The moment the hatch opened, a puff of air thick with snowflakes lashed her face, pure and chill. Wen Yi blinked, then unconsciously reached out, feeling the breath of the thousand-year-old glacier with her fingertips. Gu Yifeng, fearing she might catch a cold, wrapped his scarf around her neck twice and said gently, "Don't catch a cold."
Wen Yi exhaled a puff of white mist, buried her hands in her coat pockets, nodded at Gu Yifeng, and followed him down the gangway.
The car drove along the winding mountain road, each bend revealing a breathtaking panorama of heaven and earth. Towering snow-capped mountains stretched endlessly, their peaks plunging into the clouds, like a row of silent gods, towering at the edge of the earth. Born in the south, Wen Yi had never seen such vast snowy regions. As she journeyed through them, her worries about the future were quietly swallowed up by the silent grandeur. It felt more like... a romantic journey to a snowy land with Gu Yifeng.
The car slowly stopped in front of the laboratory entrance, and a tall figure strode out. He had slightly curly blond hair and smiling blue eyes. The man opened his arms and gave Gu Yifeng a tight bear hug.
"Hey Gu, my friend!"
Gu Yifeng raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and after letting go, he gently patted his shoulder: "Chris."
Chris turned around immediately, his eyes lighting up, and extended his hand generously to Wen Yi: "Hello! I'm Chris."
Wen Yi shook hands with him, then her eyes widened in surprise: "Hello! You can actually speak Chinese."
Chris smiled but said nothing.
"He doesn't understand." Gu Yifeng shrugged. "He and I were roommates for two years and he learned three Chinese sentences in total, which means he learned one and a half sentences a year on average."
Wen Yi couldn't help laughing: "So you two are friends."
"Alumni." Gu Yifeng explained, turning around and introducing Wen Yi to Chris in English, "Yi, my partner."
"Yi" Chris looked at Wen Yi, then at Gu Yifeng, his eyes flashing with understanding, "I know! Does that mean one in Mandarin"
Wen Yi was about to explain, "This Yi is not that Yi," but Chris had already taken the lead and smiled meaningfully, "She's the one, I can tell."
Gu Yifeng's ears turned slightly red. He coughed twice and said lightly, "Just partner, Chris."
"No way." Chris shook his head in disapproval. He quickly took out his phone, spoke something in English, and then turned the screen to Wen Yi with a natural expression - "He wouldn't send a 'partner' here specially unless she is the only one who deserves his exception."
Wen Yi was startled, her gaze quietly turning to the man beside her. Gu Yifeng didn't look at her, but only frowned slightly and called out softly, "Chris."
Chris put away his phone and laughed out loud: "Yi, you get it now?"
He hooked his arm around Gu Yifeng's shoulders and winked at her: "You're the one." - He said the last three words very softly but with great certainty.
The three of them entered the core area of the laboratory, where an assistant handed them a pair of lightweight simultaneous translation headphones. Wen Yi put them on and was able to receive real-time translation of the staff's English conversations.
Chris led them on a tour of the lab, his tone filled with pride: "This is the only lab in the world that can perform dynamic genetic monitoring—we don't just look at your DNA sequence, we capture what it's actually expressing."
He pointed to the transparent chamber in the center and told Wen Yi: "What we are going to do next is called whole genome dynamic monitoring."
"Isn't it just a blood draw and DNA test?" she asked.
Chris smiled and shook his head, explaining seriously, "A blood test to check your ancestry can only capture a static DNA sequence at a single point in time. It's like taking a photo of your genes, while we record them in a video."
He gave an example: "For example, when plants sense light, leaf cells activate photosynthesis genes; when you are injured, immune cells initiate an inflammatory response. These are not permanent gene mutations, but rather the body's real-time regulation of gene switches. What we need to do now is to watch this 'live broadcast of life'."
Under the guidance of the staff, Wen Yi put on a special monitoring suit with thousands of nano-scale biosensors embedded in it, which can capture the micro-electric changes on the body surface and the flow trajectory of free DNA circulating subcutaneously in real time.
Chris took her into the central cabin and laid her down on the monitoring device that looked like a recliner.
Everything is ready and the hatch slowly closes.
The cabin door blocked out the noise, and the cabin was so quiet that one could hear one's own breathing. Wen Yi tilted her head slightly, and her eyes met Gu Yifeng's through the transparent glass curtain wall.
He stood in front of the console, his arms folded, his expression calm, his deep gaze never leaving her.
Wen Yi's heart moved slightly, and her fingertips curled unconsciously. Without warning, Chris's words appeared in her mind:
"You're the one."
Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and a faint blush appeared on her cheeks.
Outside the cabin, data streams began to scroll on the main control panel:
【Stable brainwave spectrum】
Stable heart rate
Normal blood pressure
The system performs a dynamic scan of the entire genome every 15 seconds, listening to the breathing of every gene in her body.
On the screen, blue represents silent genes and red represents actively expressed genes.
Everything is as usual.
The system searches for and analyzes any abnormal fluctuations that deviate from the "human baseline" in real time, attempting to capture gene clusters related to cross-dimensional information.
Time passes by every second.
Thirty minutes later, the scan was completed. The system generated a preliminary screening report:
No unconventional gene sequences were detected
No interdimensional information fragments
"At least at a basic level, your body shows no abnormalities," Chris said rigorously. "The system is currently conducting an in-depth analysis of the data, but this level of computation takes time." He glanced at the progress bar. "It's estimated that in-depth results will be available in 48 to 72 hours."
He turned to Gu Yifeng, smiled and snapped his fingers: "So... you can enjoy your 'vacation'. Don't miss the Blue Lagoon and the Aurora tour."
Wen Yi's cheeks flushed slightly, and she subconsciously looked at him. He was also looking at her, and for once, he didn't refute her. He simply said, "Let's go, go back and have a good rest first."
The car slowly drove away from the laboratory along the mountain road, passed through the wind and snow, and finally stopped in front of a Nordic-style wooden house hidden deep in the pine forest.
A two-story building stands in the woods, its wooden walls exuding a rustic texture, its roof covered with thick snow, and a few crystal icicles hanging from the eaves.
The curling smoke is like a fairy tale.
The fireplace crackled inside, creating a warm atmosphere. Wen Yi and Gu Yifeng sat by the French window in the living room, cups of hot coffee in hand. Outside, the silhouette of the snow-capped mountains loomed in the night.
The night is quiet and the snow falls silently.
The glass reflected the silhouettes of the two people, leaning on each other in silence.
Wen Yi had never seen such heavy snow before. She looked at the snow piling up thicker and thicker on the terrace, her eyes lighting up: "Building a snowman?"
She pushed open the door and stepped into the soft snow, making a soft crunching sound. She squatted in the snow, scooped up a ball of snow with both hands, and played with it happily. Suddenly, Gu Yifeng's low voice came from above her head.
"Wen Yi, look up."
"Huh?" She was startled and suddenly raised her face.
He stood half a step behind her and pointed to the deep night sky in the north: "Look, it's the aurora."
"Where is it? Where is it?!" She jumped up excitedly, looking around anxiously in the darkness.
A faint light quietly rises from the horizon, like an emerald curtain, slowly unfolding inch by inch in the night sky, swaying and flowing.
"Ah..." She held her breath, a flash of light reflected in her eyes.
The legendary Aurora descended upon her, as real as a dream, gentle yet resolute.
Gu Yifeng lowered his head, his eyes tracing the frost and snow condensed between her brows.
He suddenly spoke: "Do you know? The aurora is caused by charged particles in the sun, which hit the atmosphere after traveling in space for three days." His voice penetrated the flying snowflakes and fell clearly into her ears.
"To put it mildly, the light we see now started from the sun three days ago, passed through tens of millions of stars, and traversed 150 million kilometers of space, finally completing a silent confession right before your eyes."
Her heartbeat paused, and she slowly turned her head to meet his gaze.
The snowy night was silent, but she felt as if something had exploded, deafening her ears.
She pursed her lips and asked, "Then...what should I do when I see a miracle happen?"
Gu Yifeng stared at her intently, his eyes fixed on her. "It is said that kissing under the aurora can allow love to transcend time."
Wen Yi raised an eyebrow: "Really?"
"It's fake. I made it up."
"Gu Yifeng!" She was startled, then glared at him angrily, "You——"
Before she could finish her words, he leaned closer, gently stroked the back of her neck with his big hand, and pressed her into his arms.
"But I want to kiss you, really."
The world suddenly became quiet, leaving only the mingling of their breathing. The familiar woody scent of his body gently enveloped her.
Wen Yi lowered her eyes, her eyelashes trembled slightly, and her heart was pounding.
Gu Yifeng tilted his head slightly, opened his thin lips slightly, and tentatively touched the corner of her lips.
"Yiyi, look up." The voice was hoarse.
Wen Yi subconsciously looked up at him. In those bottomless eyes there was Aurora, and also her.
The next second, the lips were blocked.
At first, it was just a light kiss, but soon, he completely lost control, pried open her lips and teeth, broke into her world, and plundered her breath wantonly.
She trembled slightly in his arms. It turned out that there was only a kiss between restraint and surrender.
She thought silently, "The aurora may be rare, but even rarer than that is your appearance in my life. Our reunion is a miracle even more insignificant than the aurora, but it is real."
The aurora still flows in the night sky, like a witness from the gods.
After the kiss, Gu Yifeng did not let her go. He just gently pressed his forehead against hers and said in a low voice, "Let's go back to the house."
Snowflakes danced and the aurora drifted, quietly reflecting their footsteps all the way to the cabin in the snow.
Next to the fireplace in the house, shadows blended on the wall. In the corner of the sofa, a hastily taken-off black sweater wrapped around a long skirt spread out to the ground in the slightly swaying fire on the wooden walls.
The next morning, the lab door slid open silently, and Gu Yifeng and Wen Yi stepped into the building. Chris came up to them, report in hand, his brows raised slightly. "Hey, Gu, I have good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?"
"Bad news." Gu Yifeng took the report and quickly scanned the data.
"OK, the bad news is - the first whole genome dynamic monitoring did not find any abnormal gene fragments." Chris spread his hands.
Gu Yifeng's eyes were calm, not surprised.
"What's the good news?"
"Well~" Chris grinned, "The good news is—you have to stay here and continue the dynamic genetic monitoring."
"How is this good news?" Gu Yifeng frowned, but his eyes passed over Wen Yi calmly.
"Oh! My friend, isn't this great news? The polar night in Fairfuges has just begun, and the aurora borealis is waiting for you!"
Wen Yi didn't say anything, but looked up at Gu Yifeng. His expression was cold, but there was still warmth from last night in his eyes.
She asked softly, "So what should we do next?"
Chris put aside his joke and said seriously, "Gu, we need to do a full genetic dynamic scan again at the moment the superpower is actually triggered."
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