Chapter 18: Throbbing (1st update)
The air in the control room was silent.
Yan Chuanbai's heart skipped a beat the moment Qi He looked up at him.
Then he heard people say that they couldn't live without him.
You Tianxing seemed to take a deep breath.
The communicator was silent for a few seconds before Zhong Panqing's voice hesitantly rang out, "Um, ah... is that so?"
Qi He was certain, "That's it."
Zhong Panqing paused, probably knowing that Yan Chuanbai was right next to him, and his voice became serious:
"Chuanbai, why didn't you tell me about this earlier?"
“…”
Yan Chuanbai turned his attention to Qi He.
The latter's expression remained unchanged. He chewed over the person's meaning again, and suddenly chuckled: He just found out about this kind of thing.
The system was shocked: [What nonsense are you talking about again? ]
Qi He: "Is there any word wrong?"
System: [……] Every word is correct, but when put together they are totally wrong!
Someone beside him suddenly responded: "Yeah."
He turned around and saw Yan Chuanbai with one hand in his pocket, nonchalantly replying: "Major General, you didn't ask me either."
Qi He glanced at him, then slowly looked away.
Zhong Panqing was speechless for a moment.
After a moment, he sighed deeply. The military also values humanity. Given this situation, he couldn't force people to separate from each other. "Well... forget it."
He added, "Chuanbai, you want to report on your work, right?"
Yan Chuanbai straightened up a little: "Yes."
…
There hasn't been any major events recently, so the report only took ten minutes.
After the communication was disconnected.
The three of them left the main control room and as soon as the door closed, You Tianxing's gaze, filled with thousands of words, enveloped them. In Qi He's mind, the system called out:
[It's over, the storm is coming. Yan Chuanbai must have seen that you are using him as a banner to make you talk nonsense!]
Qi He was also prepared to be questioned.
He looked at Yan Chuanbai.
The latter, dressed in a dark uniform, appeared restrained and silent in the bright white corridor. Her slightly drooped eyelashes held an ambiguous expression. Sensing his gaze, she offered him a half-smile without asking any questions.
Then a cold laugh fell: "Hmph..."
Qi He, “…”
He asked in a casual tone, "What do you want to ask?"
Yan Chuanbai stood up and said softly, "I don't want to ask anything."
After saying that, he turned and left.
You Tianxing looked around quickly, swallowed his words, and caught up with Yan Chuanbai in a few steps.
I caught up with him and walked through the clean corridor.
Their intimidating Colonel Yan didn't say anything, and You Tianxing couldn't find anything to say, so he simply said, "I won't say anything."
Yan Chuanbai was at his ease. "Go ahead, I want to hear what you have to say."
“…” You Tianxing.
Why did he bring this up? He has nothing to say.
The two of them went downstairs in silence and separated.
Yan Chuanbai walked out of the institute, and the light outside the gate brightened before his eyes. He was not stupid, and he understood Qi He's meaning almost immediately.
But the throbbing and waves at that moment did not seem fake.
Yan Chuanbai suddenly laughed out of anger: ...Haha.
-
Qi He took a shower after returning to his residence.
Then he sat down at the table and recorded today's student training. The system appeared with lingering fear:
[The plot almost fell apart... I told you not to draw too much attention, but luckily it was a safe bet.]
Qi He was also thankful: "Fortunately, I always managed to turn the tide."
The system opened its mouth to curse, but realized it couldn't do it, so it held back.
Qi He continued to make plans at the table.
No one has yet achieved cross-level evolution, but growth within a level is certainly possible. It's just that You Tianxing's "Nirvana" hasn't been developed yet, so everything is based on intuition.
There are clear signs of his own "evolution."
And there is Yan Chuanbai...
The loss of control of superpowers yesterday indicated that there was stimulation, but why was there no follow-up after a brief fluctuation?
Just as he was thinking, the communicator at hand suddenly beeped twice.
Pick it up and look at three words: Yan Chuanbai.
As far as he could remember, the other party had never sent him a message. Qi He clicked on it with some surprise, and saw a line of words on it:
"Warehouse 3-1 in the northeast corner of the base."
Qi He: “?”
Qi He: "No ransom. Not familiar."
Yan Chuanbai: "Haha, didn't you say we'd fight a few more times in private?"
Qi He suddenly realized it, gave a "1" back, stood up, changed his clothes and went out: "My sample is here."
…
In the northeast corner of the base is a whole warehouse.
Some were hoarding daily necessities; some were storing weapons and equipment; and some were equipment and tools accumulated before the end of the world, which they would be useless to keep and would be a pity to throw away, so they were all placed in the warehouse.
The entire warehouse area is very large, and there are guards on duty outside.
Qi He used his S-level authority to scan his face and went in directly.
Warehouse 3-1 is in the innermost corner.
It was a place used to store old equipment. When he arrived at the door, he saw that the bolt was already open, so Qi He pushed the door open and walked in.
Creaking, light fell into the warehouse.
A small window opened on one wall of the warehouse, and a thin layer of dust drifted in the sunlight. The equipment had been moved around, and Yan Chuanbai was leaning against a stack of boxes.
Qi He looked around and closed the door. "Does it have to be here?"
"Fight with the door closed. You don't have to worry about accidental injuries, and it's easier to perform."
"Okay."
The moment the door closed, the lock froze with a click.
A sense of crisis was coming! Qi He opened his eyes wide and suddenly turned to the side.
Clang, several icicles were nailed into the iron door.
Three bullets were fired in quick succession, "bang, bang, bang".
At the same time, Yan Chuanbai rushed towards him with amazing explosive power, blocking his retreat.
Qi He's heart rate soared in a second.
He felt that Yan Chuanbai had a fierce momentum today and used all his strength right from the start.
The bullets deflected and sank into the ground one after another. As the opponent attacked him, he retreated, using the wall behind him to flip over and kick, leaping directly over the opponent's head.
The figure fell, and a second before it touched the ground, ice spikes suddenly popped up!
Qi He reacted very quickly and pulled himself back with all his strength——
The two finally distanced themselves from each other.
He met Yan Chuanbai's gaze across half the warehouse. The latter stood tall in front of the wall. A fragmented ray of light fell into his eyes, like a dormant beast awakening.
There was a clear fighting spirit in his eyes.
Qi He's blood began to boil, and his tailbone trembled with excitement...
But his hand steadily touched the gun, clicked, and loaded it.
Then he looked straight into Yan Chuanbai's eyes and walked towards him.
Crash——
The equipment in the warehouse was knocked over, dust flew, and the broken ice on the ground reflected the light. Two figures tangled together, and then there was a heavy muffled sound: bang!
Yan Chuanbai's back suddenly hit the cargo box.
The two-meter-high cargo box shook, and Qi He was hit by a knee, and sat on him. One hand held his shoulder tightly, and the other hand held the gun to his forehead, looking down:
"Finish……"
Yan Chuanbai suddenly looked up.
Before Qi He could react, the other party suddenly turned him over and pressed him to the ground, facing the gunpoint.
Plop.
A cloud of dust flew up from my back.
Yan Chuanbai pressed down completely, his hair falling from his forehead. The two of them pressed close together, Qi He's legs pressed against Yan Chuanbai's hips, and he was about to press back again.
A hand suddenly grabbed his lower back.
Qi He was stunned for a moment.
Then he saw Yan Chuanbai resting his forehead on the muzzle of the gun, his eyes lazily lowered, looking at him and smiling, "...Are you using me as a banner?"
he,"………"
He said, how could Yan Chuanbai let it go so easily.
Perhaps because he didn't say anything, Yan Chuanbai narrowed his eyes, found a spot on his lower back with his fingertips, and pushed hard. "Hmm," Qi He arched his waist and bounced back, his gun-holding hand shifted, and his other hand grabbed Yan Chuanbai's arm.
Yan Chuanbai lowered his eyes and looked at me carefully again. "What are you pushing? Didn't you say you can't leave me?"
Qi He, “…”
He stared for two seconds, and finally stood up again.
Bang! He pushed the man back to the front of the cargo box.
Qi He straightened up and lowered his head, sighing to him in a half-truthful tone, "But if you stick too close, I'll also feel bored."
The two looked at each other quietly for a few seconds.
The sunlight shines through the lattice window above my head, casting a small patch of dim light on the ground beside me.
After a moment, the hand pressing on Qi He's waist fell.
Yan Chuanbai relaxed, leaned against the cargo box behind him, and announced, "Today's battle ends here."
Qi He also put his gun away and stood up.
His knees and back were covered in dust, and he lowered his head to brush them off. A figure stood up from in front of him, walked past him, and headed towards the door.
The ice on the door bolt had long melted. Yan Chuanbai pushed the door open and walked out, turning around and saying, "Remember to lock the door later."
After saying that, the door clicked shut.
【……】
The system had been completely silent since Yan Chuanbai grabbed Qi He's waist. Now, it gathered up the scattered code and spoke tremblingly: [You...he...]
Qi He sighed: "Yan Chuanbai really holds a grudge."
【…What? 】
He pressed the back of his waist with his backhand.
When he was first arrested, he was indeed stunned for a few seconds, but he has now fully recovered.
"I told him he was a dog, but you didn't believe me."
The system was in a trance: [No, something must have gone wrong...]
Qi He walked out of the warehouse and locked the door, and kindly comforted:
"Don't worry, there are so many bugs, one or two won't make a difference."
-
Qi He returned to his residence and took another shower.
After washing up, the communicator beeped twice again. He picked it up and saw that it was a message from Meng Yan:
"Will you be free tomorrow? "
"My research has hit a bottleneck. The mutant plants T^T brought back have lost their vitality. I want to go outside the base and study living plants directly."
In principle, a team of three is required to leave the base.
Meng Yan didn't know any other combat-type esper, but if she was looking for an S-rank, she only needed one.
Qi He glanced at the schedule and said, "I'm free. I shouldn't schedule a training session tomorrow, otherwise you'll have to find Yan Chuanbai."
Meng Yan panicked: "No, no, Brother Yan is very busy, I'd better not ask him to accompany me."
Busy with things to do every day.
Qi He said to the system: "You guys have such a thick filter for Yan Chuanbai?"
【Not thick.】
The system objectively said: [Not only does he have a myriad of affairs to attend to during the day, but he also has countless other affairs waiting for him at night.]
“…”
Qi He skipped the topic, made an appointment for tomorrow morning, and then put down the communication to rest.
…
Early the next morning.
Qi He went out and the elevator descended from above.
The number first stopped at the 29th floor, then fell to his floor. Ding! The door opened.
Yan Chuanbai and You Tianxing are both here.
Qi He and Yan Chuanbai met eyes, and the latter raised the corner of his lip towards him. He smiled back and then greeted You Tianxing beside him, "Good morning."
You Tianxing: “…Good morning.”
The doors closed again and the elevator continued to descend.
Qi He didn't speak to Yan Chuanbai, and You Tianxing, seeing they were silent, also closed his mouth. They were clearly acquaintances who had taken the same elevator, yet they landed on the first floor in this subtle silence.
The door opened and Qi He walked out first.
Yan Chuanbai took a few steps behind and walked out of the tall building.
The gazes of the people around him would fall on him from time to time. He endured for several breaths, and finally stopped and turned around.
You Tianxing seemed surprised:!
Yan Chuanbai took a deep breath and said clearly, "Stop thinking about it. What happened yesterday was just his excuse."
You Tianxing remembered yesterday's routine surveillance check.
In the sparsely populated warehouse area in the northeast corner, Yan Chuanbai first appeared from the small path. A few minutes later, Qi He also appeared, his collar still a little wrinkled.
You Tianxing said, "Oh."
After they walked a few steps together, he changed his angle and asked, "So it's not a 'one can't live without the other' relationship?"
Yan Chuanbai paused slightly.
Then, he didn't know what he was thinking about, and the expression on his brow faded. He didn't answer directly, but just said:
"In this world, no one is inseparable from anyone else."
-
Qi He and Meng Yan made an appointment and set off.
Before getting in the car, he opened the driver's door. Seeing Meng Yan glance at him, he explained, "I can drive."
Meng Yan looked in awe: "Yeah, I know, Qi Qi is a speedster."
“…”
Qi He slammed the car door shut and said gently, "I can also race at Qiqi."
After saying that, he waited for Meng Yan to fasten her seat belt, then stepped on the accelerator and rushed out of the base gate at lightning speed.
They were going to the mountains and forests in Ring II Area.
There are many kinds of plants there, and the distance is not too far. At Qi He's driving speed, it only takes two or three hours to drive there.
We sped out of City Z, and the base gradually disappeared on the horizon behind us.
Qi He happened to ask, "What's the progress on the nutritional supplements?"
Meng Yan sat up straight. "So far, we've only conducted experiments on vegetables, chickens, and Brother Yan! It has a clear promoting effect on the former two, and no harmful effects have been observed."
Qi He, “…”
She didn't seem to see anything wrong with putting these three together.
He also went along with it, "Any data?"
Meng Yan rattled off a set of data. After she finished excitedly, seeing that Qi He was actually listening intently, she paused, "Aren't you from the combat department? Why are you concerned about research issues?"
Qi He, "Professional Habit."
Meng Yan was curious, "What did you do before?"
Before Qi He spoke, he thought of his character and compromised: "I play fighting games."
Meng Yan, "..." Is this okay?
After speeding for two hours, the car finally reached the edge of Zone II.
The mutant plants all over the mountain have grown luxuriantly.
Qi He scanned the surroundings and was about to find a suitable research point when a panel suddenly lit up in front of him:
[Ding! System loading...]
【■■■Loading successfully■■■】
[The key plot will begin in 5 minutes, please be prepared. ]
Qi Qi's racing car suddenly shook on the road.
“………”
A calm madness appeared in Qi He's eyes: "System."
Open in 5 minutes?
He is now a million miles away from Yan Chuanbai.
The author has something to say:
Yan Chuanbai: No one can live without anyone else.
Qi He: Yes. You don’t understand. (Calmly going crazy)
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