Chapter 217
Tang Yu'an retracted his hand and felt Zhou Qi's body become tense. At the same time, he also heard Zhou Qi's sudden rapid breathing.
It's like a string that gets tighter and tighter, and when it reaches its limit of endurance, it finally breaks.
Just like Zhou Qi’s current state.
Tang Yu'an vaguely sensed something and was about to sit up to check, but he felt a pair of large hands grabbing his shoulders. The world was spinning around him, and with a slight thud, he was pressed down on the mattress.
The originally simple cottage was later renovated and now has a gable roof and glass windows.
The light this morning was not as bright as usual, but dim, pouring into the house through the sloping skylight and falling behind Zhou Qi.
He was facing the light, with a halo around him, but his face was in shadow, which gave him an oppressive look that made people hold their breath.
Tang Yu'an lay on the soft mattress, held tightly by Zhou Qi's powerful hands. He stared at Zhou Qi blankly, and once again saw that expression of endurance and gnashing of teeth on Zhou Qi's face.
He couldn't help swallowing and was about to admit his mistake when Zhou Qi bent down.
They were so close that their noses almost touched.
Tang Yu'an suddenly didn't dare to speak. He looked at Zhou Qi's eyes at a loss, and saw his eyes move slightly and his gaze fell downwards.
He saw Zhou Qi raise his hand.
Zhou Qi pressed his thumb on the depression in the center of the boy's lips, and his fingertips slowly slid along the lip line to the corner of his mouth.
Tang Yu'an felt that his gaze seemed to have some kind of magic. Just being brushed by his gaze brought a tingling sensation.
Their breathing intertwined.
No one spoke, but the breathing became heavier.
And the thumping heartbeat gradually became clearer in this quiet space.
“Tick-tick-tick-tick-”
Until the sound of raindrops hitting the roof broke the silent and ambiguous atmosphere and ended the long gaze between them.
The confusion in Zhou Qi's eyes faded away, and he came to his senses.
He suddenly withdrew the finger that was pressing on the corner of Tang Yu'an's mouth, hurriedly got up from the bed, and staggered out of the house with his still not very flexible legs.
Tang Yu'an lay on the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling. What lingered in his mind was Zhou Qi's aggressive gaze, and...
He raised his hand and pressed it against his chest, feeling that his heart had never been beating so fast.
“Clatter-clatter-clatter-clatter—”
The sound of rain gradually became faster, and the rain hit the window, leaving behind chaotic climbing marks.
Inside and outside the house, the two teenagers were in a state of confusion.
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It was unknown how long it had been before Tang Yu'an slowly got up from the bed, walked cautiously to the door and looked out.
Zhou Qi sat under the eaves, staring blankly at the still dense rain in the sky.
Tang Yu'an looked at him, his eyes showing a hint of guilt as if he had done something wrong. His gaze wandered for a while, and finally he moved a bench over and sat down next to Zhou Qi.
Zhou Qi's body stiffened slightly, and the raindrops condensed on the ends of his hair slid down.
Together with the raindrops hanging from the eaves, they splashed into the puddles at my feet, creating circles of unstoppable ripples.
Neither of them said anything, just watching the rain quietly for a while. Zhou Qi finally adjusted his thoughts and turned his head to look at Tang Yu'an.
Tang Yu'an happened to look at him, and seeing that Zhou Qi was finally willing to pay attention to him, he immediately put his hands together and apologized.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have poked you there!"
Zhou Qi: “…”
He turned his head away, but his ears flushed suspiciously again, and his heart, which had just calmed down, became turbulent again.
Tang Yu'an squeezed closer to him again.
Seeing that Zhou Qi didn't hide, he grabbed his arm and said, "Brother Xiaoqi, I won't dare to do it again next time. Please forgive me..."
After Zhou Qi ran out, Tang Yu'an slowly came to his senses and finally remembered the biology knowledge he had learned. He understood why Zhou Qi's body had undergone such changes.
Then, thinking carefully, I realized that my action just now was indeed excessive and a bit disrespectful to Brother Xiaoqi...
"I didn't mean it. I was just curious. I really didn't mean anything else!"
Zhou Qi was already choking.
He didn't expect Tang Yu'an to come over to say something like this. He almost...
Should we say that he is generous or too slow?
Zhou Qi pursed his lips. He was actually frightened by the situation that almost got out of control just now.
He is only three years older than Tang Yu'an, and all his knowledge of love comes from film and television dramas and literary works, and the expressions in those works are often implicit and restrained.
What's more, the love in those works belongs to the male and female protagonists.
He likes Tang Yu'an, but...
Zhou Qi never thought that he would have such a strong desire to kiss him.
It's a desire to taste and explore that is completely different from the simple touch we had during the emergency.
Zhou Qi was frightened by this desire, and at the same time, he was troubled by his increasingly sensitive body.
He couldn't help but feel a mixture of panic and relief.
Fortunately, the slow-witted An An didn't notice his abnormality at all, and he didn't want An An to hate him.
Most people would probably feel disgusted if they were kissed by someone of the same sex, right?
Zhou Qi lowered his eyebrows slightly to hide the frustration in his heart. After suppressing all the surging emotions, he looked at Tang Yu'an again.
"I'm not angry." He said calmly.
"Really?" Tang Yu'an obviously didn't believe it.
He still remembered the fierce and oppressive look in Zhou Qi's eyes when he pinned him down, as if he wanted to eat him alive.
He had never seen Brother Xiaoqi so angry!
"I saw that your face turned red from anger just now..." Tang Yu'an said in a low voice.
“…”
Zhou Qi looked at Tang Yu'an helplessly, and finally reached out to rub the top of his head, and said in a low voice: "You will know when you grow up."
"But when will I grow up?"
Tang Yu'an held his chin with both hands, his chubby cheeks squeezed out of shape. He looked at the rain outside and muttered, "I want to try what it feels like, too."
"Try, try what?"
"Just like you did this morning...what does it feel like?" The boy leaned closer to him again, his eyes sparkling with curiosity.
Zhou Qi: “…”
He stretched out his fingers and pressed them on the boy's forehead, pushing him away.
"I'm going to make breakfast." He stood up and walked away.
Tang Yu'an curled her lips in dissatisfaction. Looking at his back, which was still very steady, she couldn't help but stand up and chase after him: "Are you feeling better? Do you want me to check you out?"
"No!"
Zhou Qi almost growled, his voice filled with uncontrollable shame and anger.
"If you don't need it, then don't use it. Why are you so fierce?"
"……I was wrong."
The conversation between the two was gradually drowned out by the heavy rain.
To the giant forest, it was just a drizzle, but to the two young men from another dimension, it was undoubtedly a storm.
Fortunately, when the rain was about to destroy the house, the protective barrier opened and blocked all the rain.
The whole world was woven into a vast expanse of white by the rain.
It was impossible to go out and explore at this time, so after breakfast, Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi took the teleportation array back to their original plane.
They stayed in the alternate dimension for more than two months, and less than three days passed in this dimension.
It was night time.
"It's been a long time since I came back!" Tang Yu'an said.
Zhou Qi nodded, but he frowned slightly and did not respond.
"Brother Xiaoqi?"
"It's okay. It might be because the concentration of spiritual energy here is low. I feel like the petrification is getting worse."
"Then let's go back!" Tang Yu'an said nervously.
"No, I can still control it for now."
Seeing that Zhou Qi didn't seem to be showing off, Tang Yu'an finally breathed a sigh of relief. He said, "We can't stay too long. Let's go back soon."
"good."
Although most of the livestock were transferred to the deserted city homes for breeding, the swimming pool was not abandoned.
Among the animals that ran in before, several mutant chickens were left behind, and the mutant hens are still laying eggs at a frequency of one per day.
However, these eggs are unfertilized and can no longer hatch chicks.
In addition to the mutant chickens, there are also birds that build nests on the vines - during these two months, birds keep coming to the swimming pool.
Now the entire first floor of the swimming pool is filled with bird nests to accommodate different birds.
Although the birds in the deserted city are very powerful, they will be driven out if they fight because of the existence of the protective barrier, so the birds that remain live in peace.
Cleaning up bird droppings is a troublesome job, but fortunately we have Golden Head here, who always cleans the place thoroughly and works tirelessly.
In addition to the basic work, Old Li would also bring leftover potatoes and sweet potatoes to have Jin Naotou make them into bean flour and potato flour.
So in addition to breeding, this place is also half a processing plant.
Tang Yu'an flew in the air, took an egg from each bird's nest, and soon gathered more than twenty eggs. Then he left with Zhou Qi.
They returned to the cabin of the RV.
The RV remained in the center of the deserted city. After two or three days, the water level in the center of the deserted city dropped to one or two meters.
Compared to before, there are obviously more red dots indicating dangerous creatures on the map.
The sounds of various wild animals appearing one after another sounded particularly scary.
After patrolling outside and picking up a few crystal stones, Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi returned to the car and prepared to drive away.
"Is your foot okay?" Tang Yu'an looked at Zhou Qi.
"Well, no problem." Zhou Qi nodded.
Then he drove the RV, but instead of returning, he followed the path left on the map and found the whirlpool they fell into.
They stopped a few dozen meters away from the vortex.
Even though it's so far away, I can still feel its huge suction.
Tang Yu'an marked the area around the vortex as a dangerous area, and then stayed there to observe for a while.
You can see schools of fish rushing towards the whirlpool. If they cannot completely leave before the water recedes, they will die here.
"It seems that the flood in the deserted city really came from another dimension." Zhou Qi said, "I just wonder if this passage will be closed after the flood completely recedes."
"You'll know when you come back."
Tang Yu'an took out two construction robots and said, "Let's open a branch here and build a teleportation point."
Anyway, the whole package only costs 25,000 points, which is nothing for him who currently has a points balance of more than 700,000.
It feels so good to have enough money to spend!
Zhou Qi also thought this was a good idea. After all, they still had to drive the RV to other places, and it would not be easy to come back after the car left.
So they brought bricks, cement and sand and asked the robot to build a small house.
Anyway, there is a protective barrier, so this cabin doesn’t need to be too big. It can be expanded if needed in the future.
While the robots were building the house, they made a video call to Gu Qianli.
The young man who appeared on the screen had sleepy eyes and messy hair, and it was obvious that he was woken up from his sleep.
"Teacher Gu, did we disturb you?" Tang Yu'an asked apologetically.
"It's no problem, no problem."
Gu Qianli shook his head. Seeing Zhou Qi return to normal, he showed a look of joy and said with a smile: "It seems that you have survived the crisis."
"This is all thanks to the teacher's guidance!" said Tang Yu'an.
"I didn't do anything." Gu Qianli shook his head.
"Teacher, please throw the message in the bottle into the sea of dreams. We want to send you some gifts!" Tang Yu'an said excitedly.
"No need for gifts..."
"It's just a little food, nothing expensive."
Although Gu Qianli had already been fasting, seeing the sincerity of the two young men, he finally nodded, "Okay then."
"Very good!"
Gu Qianli smiled slightly, "Do you have anything else to ask today?"
Tang Yu'an thought for a moment and asked, "Teacher, the opening of the spirit storage bag is so small, how can we put big things in it?"
"Of course there is a magic formula for this."
Gu Qianli then taught them the techniques for using space magic weapons like the Soul Storage Bag. "It should be applicable to ordinary magic weapons, but I'm not sure about advanced magic weapons..."
"It's okay, this is already very useful!"
When the professor finished, the conversation time was almost up. Tang Yu'an was about to say something when he saw a small black snake slowly crawling up Gu Qianli's shoulder.
He couldn't help but widen his eyes, "Teacher, be careful!"
Gu Qianli glanced sideways and quickly said, "Don't worry, this is Heilin."
The pure black little snake was as black as ink, without even a trace of other colors. It spit out its red tongue and looked in the direction of Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi.
"Is it your pet?" Tang Yu'an asked.
Gu Qianli shook his head.
"Then it may not be able to see us." The system can only be seen by authorized creatures, and this temporary call interface should be the same.
"Yes, that's true." Gu Qianli nodded.
At this time, the little black snake had shifted its target. It was slowly winding along Gu Qianli's neck.
Finally, it coiled around Gu Qianli's neck, its head lightly touching the side of his face, and then it spat out its tongue at Tang Yu'an and the others.
Obviously, the little snake shouldn't be able to see them, but Tang Yu'an could feel that there seemed to be a bit more provocation in its eyes, as if it was declaring its sovereignty.
But before they could say anything else, today's conversation time was over.
Maybe he saw it wrong?
Tang Yu'an scratched his head, observed the progress of the robot again, and then returned to the attic of Ping'an Grocery Store with Zhou Qi.
The upgrade of the purple sleeping pillow is not over yet, and the furniture elf Fu Fu is lying on the sleeping pillow to rest.
This time, there was not only a quilt, an eye mask and earmuffs, but also an exquisite tulle curtain. She slept in the hazy curtain, looking more and more like a delicate and elegant little princess.
Tang Yu'an changed the music on the computer to a more soothing lullaby, then walked to the window of the dream bottle and pressed the accelerator.
Soon, the dream sea was lit up with flickering lights.
There were three messages in a bottle that returned this time. Tang Yu's security department fished them out and took a look. In addition to Gu Qianli's, there were also Mo Sang from the Orc Tribe and Kosona from the Water-Scarce Plane.
They tried to bring the message in a bottle to the cabin in the other dimension, but found that it had no effect.
Zhou Qi took Gu Qianli's message in a bottle and tried to practice the technique he had just learned - Gu Qianli said that this technique could also be applied to a message in a bottle.
Tang Yu'an opened Kosona's message in a bottle and prepared to deliver the remaining water.
Now the number of space capsules has increased to 8, it seems that Kosona and others' productivity is increasing.
What surprised Tang Yu'an was——
"Dear mysterious merchant, I heard you mentioned before that you wanted to trade the space capsule again. I'm sorry, due to insufficient production capacity, we can't trade you a complete version of the space capsule."
"However, we have tried to make a miniature space capsule. See if it is suitable for your use..."
Tang Yu'an did mention this matter to Kosona last time, but he didn't expect that she would respond to him this time and provide a mini version of the space capsule.
He poured out the space capsule from the bottle and quickly found the target.
This space capsule is about half the size of the original one. After testing, it was found that it can expand the space by 0.01 cubic meters, or 10L.
Compared with the original 10 cubic meters, it is really a super mini version!
But no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat, and the mini version is also very useful. Moreover, if it weren’t so mini, Cosona and the others probably wouldn’t be willing to take it out.
Tang Yu'an immediately thanked Kosona and promised to give her the water she delivered as a reward.
Then he put the space capsule back, filled it with 70 cubic meters of water, put the stopper in, and opened Mosang's message in the bottle.
"Dear Tang Yu'an, your medicine helped our tribe overcome the difficulties, and my family members have recovered their health. Thank you so much!"
Hearing Mo Sang's words, Tang Yu'an couldn't help but smile.
It is a happy thing to be able to help others and allow more people to survive.
“I didn’t know if the disease would come back, so I put feathers in the bottle again, hoping to get more medicine.”
Tang Yu'an also saw the brightly colored feathers in the bottle, which he had previously sent to Turles.
This kind of feather should be of higher quality than other materials. I hope he can make it into suitable inscribed equipment.
However, he discovered that there seemed to be more than just feathers in the bottle.
"In addition to the feathers, I also put a bird's egg." Mo Sang's voice sounded, "I picked this up in the woods. I don't know what kind of bird it is, but it's the only one that can fit in the bottle."
"You can hatch it or eat it. This is my gift to you. I hope you like it!"
This turned out to be an egg sent via a dream bottle!
Even Zhou Qi's attention was attracted.
They took out the feathers and then poured out the egg. It had a very bright orange-red shell that looked crystal clear.
More like a gem than an egg.
"Is it still alive?" Zhou Qi asked.
Although the fertilized egg cannot be considered a real life, if it still remains active, it at least shows that the dream bottle will not cause harm to life at this level.
Tang Yu'an used an identification skill on the bird eggs.
"Yes, it can still hatch!" He said in surprise, "Even the system doesn't know what kind of egg this is. It can only analyze that it has fire attributes."
Zhou Qi also took out the identification album to check it out. He nodded and said, "It requires a higher temperature than ordinary birds to hatch."
"It's okay, we have the Fire Stone."
No matter how high the temperature is, you can adjust it!
"The egg is so small, the bird that hatches will probably be small too. I hope I can raise it." Tang Yu'an happily accepted the gift and began to write back to Mo Sang.
He put the cap back on the bottle, then took it back and threw it into the sea of dreams.
Then he returned to the other dimension and practiced Professor Gu Qianli's techniques with Zhou Qi. It took him seven or eight hours to finally master them.
They threw the mini space capsule into the drift bottle. The original capacity of the drift bottle was only 600ml, which suddenly expanded to 10L, so it could hold a lot more things.
Zhou Qi personally made some pastries, wrapped them in a clean low-temperature cloth, and then used magic to successfully transfer the entire package into the drifting bottle.
From the outside, the package looks like it has shrunk.
Tang Yu'an also tried to transfer two Star Chain Fruits in. Teacher Gu needed to plant spiritual plants for trading, and the Star Chain Fruit vines could enrich nutrients, which he might need.
Then they returned to Ping'an Grocery Store together and threw the message in the bottle for Gu Qianli into the sea of dreams.
Under the effect of the achievement title "Dream in the Dream", the message in the bottle disappeared in the blink of an eye.
When they left the RV again, they saw that the branch hut in the center of the deserted city had been completed with the cooperation of two construction robots.
Zhou Qi then used his special powers to drain out moisture and speed up the solidification of the cement, and soon the task was completed.
Tang Yu'an opened the interface.
You are establishing a branch
【……】
[Points deduction successful, please name the branch]
Thus, Ping An Grocery Store No. 7 was officially completed!
When opening the protective barrier, Tang Yu'an discovered that the barriers between the branches did not seem to conflict—
Because this is in the center of a deserted city, in order to protect its own safety, this cabin is always surrounded by the protective barrier of the RV.
This does not affect the opening of the barrier at Store No. 7.
But until he grants permission, Zhou Qi can't come in.
Tang Yu'an closed Store No. 7, then activated the teleportation array and connected it to the teleportation arrays of Ping'an Grocery Store and Store No. 1.
After completing this arrangement, they drove the RV away again.
It took more than a month to get here, but less than an hour to go back. Of course, when we arrived at the starting point, the road became difficult again.
They also felt tired, so they parked the RV and returned to the cabin in the other dimension.
When Zhou Qi took off his shoes, Tang Yu'an discovered that his toes were still petrified and had not recovered.
"You're taking a risk. What if you accidentally break something?" Tang Yu'an said angrily. "We won't go back until you're fully recovered!"
Zhou Qi knew he was in the wrong and didn't dare say anything more.
When it was time to go to bed at night, he made up the mattress and prepared to sleep on the floor.
Tang Yu'an sat on the bed and glared at him, "Why do you want to sleep on the floor? Don't we always sleep together?"
Zhou Qi paused, pursed his lips, then looked up at Tang Yu'an and said seriously, "I just don't want something like that to happen again this morning."
Tang Yu'an suddenly deflated like a balloon.
Zhou Qi opened his mouth slightly, and heard the young man say aggrievedly: "I said I wouldn't poke you there again, why don't you believe me?"
Zhou Qi: “…”
That's not what he was talking about!!!
The author has something to say:
Anzai: So I can continue poking?
Xiaoqi: ...No!!!
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