Chapter 106 I Owe Lin Yao
Lin Yao cursed at him: "Xie Xingchen, are you a pervert?"
How do you know I'm a pervert?
Xie Xingchen stared at the face on the other side of the screen, his eyes even turning red, which was very alluring. "If I wasn't afraid of something going wrong, I would really like to climb over the window right now."
Lin Yao felt like he had been thrown into a vat of boiling oil, feeling suffocated: "I'm really done for, I can't take it."
He wasn't as open as Xie Xingchen; he couldn't completely lay himself bare, and it was shameful for him.
Then she watched as Xie Xingchen turned off the screen, but kept the receiver on, making the sound in her ears even clearer: "Then I won't watch anymore, I'll just listen. Your voice is very nice too."
Lin Yao's face flushed red: "...Go to hell."
Xie Xingchen blindly praised, "Even when you're cursing, this mouth sounds very good."
His own expression was reflected on the dark screen, so vivid. Lin Yao stared at it for a few seconds, then heard the person on the other end of the phone say, "I just had a bad dream, and I'm a little annoyed, so I was just trying to tease you."
"What?"
“The doctor said that hallucinations can occur during the infection period. I think I stitched your experience together with my own. I dreamed of you as a child in the laboratory,” Xie Xingchen said in a low voice. “You were so small and looked so pitiful. They drew so much blood.”
Lin Yao remained silent.
That experience was like hell; even the fragmented memories are suffocating, and I dare not recall them.
He thought for a moment and said in a low voice, "That must be a hallucination. How could the two of us have met in a place like that?"
"If I had met you when you were little, I would have thought you were incredibly cute." Xie Xingchen smiled with his eyes closed, "and secretly took out candy from my pocket to coax you."
Upon hearing these words, Lin Yao was suddenly stunned.
In a distant memory, a hand reached out to me: "Sorry, here's some candy."
Lin Yao couldn't bear to eat it, so he put it in his pocket, and then it melted during some high-temperature experiment later on.
I got my lab coat all sticky and messy, and I got scolded again.
"Xie Xingchen, if I had met you when I was a child, you would definitely have helped me run away, right?"
Lin Yao stared at the ceiling and muttered to himself, "But I still don't want to. That kind of life is too hard. You can't stand it."
Xie Xingchen didn't know how to answer his question.
He couldn't travel back in time, nor could he make any assumptions, so he could only offer a weak consolation: "I shouldn't have brought this up. Let's talk about something else. Is there anything you'd like to do after you're discharged from the hospital?"
"I want to have a snowball fight," Lin Yao blurted out out of the blue. "It rarely snows in the capital, and I've never had the time or friends to do it before."
Xie Xingchen hummed in agreement, softened by the childish wish, and smiled, "It's almost December, I'll grant your wish next month."
Lin Yao's eyes crinkled into a smile: "Okay."
"Do you want the manual snowball version, the mech shooting version, or the aerial combat version?"
Xie Xingchen got excited and said, "Or we can apply directly to the college to organize a snowball fight league."
"You're exaggerating. I was just saying it offhand." Lin Yao yawned, burying his head in the pillow. "It's just a few good friends hanging out..."
Xie Xingchen heard his voice gradually fade away and regretted turning off the camera.
Feeling drowsy, Lin Yao let down his guard and felt incredibly soft, like a kitten showing its belly to someone it trusts, wanting to be petted.
"Goodnight," he whispered.
Xie Xingchen stayed on the phone for two hours, only carefully hanging up after he heard Xie Xingchen's breathing become completely even.
He got up and left the isolation ward, intending to ask Director Cheng about the specific discharge time, but he didn't see anyone. He only saw a scarlet cigarette butt glowing at the end of the corridor.
"What are you pretending to be so profound about?"
Xie Xingchen walked over and noticed that Cheng Boyan reeked of cigarettes, and there was a pile of cigarette butts in the ashtray next to him, indicating that he had been standing there for a long time.
Cheng Boyan turned around and saw him; his eyes widened in panic.
The cigarette in his hand almost burned him, and he stammered, "Why aren't you asleep in the middle of the night?"
"I just fell asleep with Lin Yao. I slept too much this afternoon, so I came out for some fresh air."
Seeing him smoke, Xie Xingchen felt a little tempted and offered him one. "What's wrong? Did the experiment not go well?"
Cheng Boyan turned his head away and exhaled a puff of smoke casually: "No, it went smoothly."
"So you're heartbroken?" Xie Xingchen asked casually. "So you really were having an affair with He Li, didn't you?"
"Get lost." Cheng Boyan stared at him, hesitant to speak, then lowered his head to stub out his cigarette, lit another one, his hands trembling.
Xie Xingchen was observant and intelligent, and immediately grasped the key point: "Did Lin Yao's experiment discover something?"
“I think it’s better if you don’t know.” Cheng Boyan looked up at him. “Why don’t you both stop dwelling on the past and look forward? It’s more important for the two of you to be doing well than anything else.”
Xie Xingchen noticed the troubled expression on his face and guessed, "Is it related to our family?"
"Why...why do you have to get to the bottom of this?"
Cheng Boyan lowered his voice, "We all know what Lin Yao has been through in the past, and no one can forgive him. Xingchen, don't test our relationship with something like this."
Xie Xingchen remained silent for almost a minute.
She turned to look at him and said, "That's not fair to Lin Yao either. I can't deprive him of his right to know the truth. Tell me, what did you find out?"
Cheng Boyan raised his hand and wiped his face hard: "You can't accept this."
"I was prepared." Xie Xingchen guessed pretty much what was going on. "Tell me what you found out."
The two remained silent for almost a minute before he said again, "Tell me."
Cheng Boyan sighed and handed over his phone, which contained an electronic report of the photos.
He said softly, "When I was comparing Lin Yao's blood analysis, I was originally trying to find inspiration by cracking my dad's database, but I accidentally cracked his most encrypted doctor's observation records, yours."
Xie Xingchen's Laboratory Report on Lesions
Patient: Xie Xingchen, 5 years old
Symptom description: The patient experienced convulsions, spasms, intermittent shock, and pheromone imbalance due to an injection of an unknown drug. Systematic experimental treatment will be administered.
Experimental subject: CG01, 5 years old
Experimental project: Modify their bodies to closely resemble the patient's body data, and then conduct reasonable experiments such as electric shocks, blood draws, drug injections, and high-temperature stimulation.
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Patient: Xie Xingchen, 10 years old
July 21, 2X16
The patient was transferred to Harmony Private Hospital, where Cheng Shu took over the treatment. Apart from pheromone disorder syndrome, the patient's other conditions had recovered, and the patient continued to be observed.
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Patient: Xie Xingchen, 15 years old
July 8, 2X21
Differentiating into an S-level Alpha, accompanied by Cole syndrome (sex addiction), is reasonably suspected to be a sequela of the companion experiment with CG01.
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Patient: Xie Xingchen, 18 years old
August 31, 2X24
A routine check-up revealed that the patient, Lin Yao (originally an Alpha), was suspected to have CG01, and his secondary differentiation into an Omega was a sequela of the experiment. Due to missing reports from the initial transfer, it could not be confirmed whether this was the same person.
September 9, 2024
The patient is in isolation, and Lin Yao's blood sample tested positive for a 100% match, suggesting a possible aftereffect of the forced experiment.
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CG01 is Lin Yao's experiment number.
Xie Xingchen confirmed the speculation that Director Cheng could not verify when he turned to the last page of the record.
"According to the report, it is uncertain whether your father was involved in the five years of the blood plague, but from the age of 5 to 10, Lin Yao was your one-on-one experimental subject."
Cheng Boyan said in a low voice, "Before he joined Harmony, he was working in a laboratory solely for you. He had a better life ahead of him. Xie Xingchen, do you really think Lin Yao can accept that?"
The cigarette in Xie Xingchen's hand had burned out completely. He stood in the wind, looking like a statue that would shatter at the slightest touch.
The inhumane experiments were because of himself.
The difficulty of the second differentiation is due to oneself.
The inability to reunite with family members is due to oneself.
Xie Xingchen cleared his throat, his voice so hoarse he could barely speak: "I was too naive. Reality is even harder to accept than I imagined."
Cheng Boyan also felt there was no solution, otherwise he wouldn't have been holding this report for three hours without coming up with an answer.
He said in a low voice, "If you're being selfish, just pretend you didn't see this report today. My dad won't talk about it, and neither will I."
Xie Xingchen remained silent for a long time, without uttering a single word.
"Xie Xingchen, if I had met you when I was a child, you would definitely have helped me run away, right?"
Lin Yao said this when he made the phone call just now.
But not only did he not help him escape, he indirectly pushed him into another abyss.
"Lin Yao has always said that he particularly hates the condescending attitude of those in power, who can easily destroy other people's lives."
“Three years ago, a casual complaint from me caused him to lose a 50,000 yuan bonus. It took me three years to make up with him.”
"This report added another five years of torment to his already painful experiments; it was the second time."
Xie Xingchen held a cigarette between his fingers, the end of which had accumulated a long ash, but he only gave a blank statement.
He was completely innocent every time.
What a terrible sin!
Xie Xingchen looked down at the number on the report, his eyes red and his voice hoarse.
"I owe Lin Yao something that I can never repay in my lifetime."
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