Chapter 18 Desert Gas Station - 5 The Two in the Car...
The two people in the car were delighted to see the gas station in the distance.
"I almost thought we were going to lose it." Tang Bufan breathed a sigh of relief and observed the gas station through the car window, where he saw figures moving around.
He's a poisonous person.
"Brother Kai, stop the car." Lu Yi instructed Brother Kai, then turned to Tang Bufan and said, "Teacher, you wait here, I'll go and deal with those poisoners first."
"Let's go together." Tang Bufan's leg wasn't fully healed, but he insisted, "I can stay in the car and fire the gun."
"That's a gas station; firing there could easily cause an accidental discharge," Lu Yi had already thought of that.
Tang Bufan remained silent, and could only watch helplessly as Kai Ge parked the RV.
Just as Lu Yi was about to open his side of the car door, Tang Bufan suddenly grabbed his arm.
Lu Yi was stunned. He turned to look at Tang Bufan, whose pale face was staring straight at him.
"Beast transformation."
Lu Yi's eyes flashed, and he lowered his head: "I'll transform into a beast when we get there."
Tang Bufan didn't believe him at all, and held onto his arm tightly, refusing to let go: "Why won't you transform into a beast?"
Lu Yi lowered his head and remained silent.
Seeing that he was avoiding him, Tang Bufan simply reached out and lifted his chin. Lu Yi was stunned by this domineering action and then looked at Tang Bufan again.
"Speak up."
This is a serious problem. Lu Yi always tries to hide his true nature and refuses to transform into a beast, and this hesitation could cost lives in a critical moment.
Lu Yi pursed her lips before whispering, "It doesn't look good..."
Tang Bufan's expression was quite varied, and he couldn't help but retort, "You really are... shameless."
Lu Yi felt a little wronged and retorted softly, "I'm confident that I can deal with those poisonous people without transforming into a beast."
"Then how about dealing with Anderson?" Tang Bufan questioned.
Lu Yi fell silent. Anderson was also a high-level orc, and a madman at that. If he didn't transform into an orc, he would definitely be at a disadvantage.
Tang Bufan sighed and let go of Lu Yi's chin. But as soon as he removed his hand, Lu Yi turned around and got out of the car.
Tang Bufan had no choice but to pounce on Lu Yi again, this time with greater force, wrapping half of his body around her.
Lu Yi felt his cold body and hard, thin bones, and had no choice but to sit back down in the passenger seat.
"Teacher, please don't try to seduce me."
"Who threw themselves at me?" Tang Bufan laughed in exasperation. He struggled to get up, his thin hands gripping his arm tightly once more.
"I'm telling you, if you don't transform into your beast form in front of me today, don't even think about getting off the bus," Tang Bufan said stubbornly.
Lu Yi's expression turned somewhat grim, and he turned to look out the window.
The two were locked in a stalemate when the poisoners at the gas station in the distance spotted them. Two poisoners walked over together under the blazing sun, but after recognizing one as an orc and the other as a human, they turned and ran back.
They were supposed to go back and inform the other poisoners, but Tang Bufan still held Lu Yi's hand tightly.
Seeing that Lu Yi's breathing had become somewhat weak, Tang Bufan asked in a low voice, "Has anyone ever said that you look ugly in your beast form?"
If it weren't for psychological trauma, Lu Yi, with her gentle and cheerful personality, wouldn't be so stubborn.
Sure enough, Lu Yi's eyelashes trembled slightly, and his expression changed somewhat. Tang Bufan looked at him and continued to ask, "Is she your mother?"
High-ranking orcs are highly sought after in the Orc Federation. Lu Yi's father is the city lord, so no one would dare to call him ugly. Only his mother... that woman from the resistance faction who hates orcs, can attack him with words without restraint.
Lu Yi's eyes were a little red. He was still looking out the window without saying a word, so Tang Bufan leaned over again, cupped his face in his hands, and turned his head back to him.
"You're very handsome." Tang Bufan looked straight at him. "I can swear to you that you are the most handsome person I have ever seen. And your beast form must be tall and mighty. In our Chinese mythology, Sun Wukong is a national hero. A bunch of girls are shouting that they want to have little monkeys for him. He is a monkey, and I like him very much. You can believe me."
Lu Yi's eyes flickered slightly as he stared blankly at the thin man in front of him. Strangely, despite how weak he was, the hands that held his face conveyed a strong energy, reminding him of that night when Tang Bufan was teaching him to sing with great enthusiasm, his body wrapped in tattered black cloth, yet still happy.
Lu Yi's heart wavered, while Tang Bufan's gaze remained fixed, his eyes dark.
"Believe me."
Perhaps the sound was too powerful, for Lu Yi lowered his eyes and saw that his body suddenly began to swell. His already strong muscles bulged with veins, his fair skin turned red and hot, and his handsome face quickly twisted and distorted.
As Tang Bufan raised his head in his beast form, the large driver's seat creaked under the weight of the transformed beastman.
Lu's face was flushed, and he lowered his head, not daring to look at Tang Bufan. Sharp fangs were revealed in his mouth, his skull had transformed into the shape of a wild beast, and sharp claws had grown from his five fingers. His once smooth skin had become twisted.
Orcs in their beast form don't grow a full body of fur; they're more like hairless cats, with their distorted skin and inhuman, beast-like features clearly visible.
To be honest, it was quite frightening. Tang Bufan fainted the first time he saw Uncle Wolf's distorted beast face.
But four years of living in the apocalypse had worn away his fear of orcs. Tang Bufan looked at the big guy in front of him and got up from the driver's seat.
Even when he stood up, he was still shorter than Lu Yi, who was sitting. Tang Bufan reached out and brushed the hair from Lu Yi's forehead, and smiled wryly.
"You're a huge guy." Much bigger than Wolverine in his beast form.
Lu Yi was ashamed and embarrassed, and only lowered his eyes. Tang Bufan looked at the inferiority hidden in his eyes, and his heart was moved. He stood on tiptoe and kissed Lu Yi on the forehead.
Lu Yi shuddered, startled, her eyes widening in shock as she shrank back, the chair beneath her creaking.
Tang Bufan put his foot down, his eyes shining as he gave Lu Yi a thumbs up.
"So handsome! So imposing!"
...If you're going to praise someone, then praise them. Why are you suddenly kissing someone? Lu Yi's expression changed, and his breathing became rapid.
"Teacher, you..." Lu Yi slowly calmed her heartbeat, frowned, and stared at Tang Bufan warily: "Do you like me?"
"No." Tang Bufan sat back in the driver's seat, a smile on his lips, feeling that he had done a good job of comforting her.
“Your behavior…is really bothering me.” Lu stammered, glancing at Tang Bufan.
"I just want you to know that you really don't look ugly." Tang Bufan said seriously, "There must be a lot of people who like you. They love you more than I do, and they definitely don't care about your appearance as much as I do."
After he finished speaking, he saw Lu Yi's depressed expression and regretted it a little: "But I kissed you on a whim, and you looked like you needed a kiss."
Tang Bufan saw him huddled up with his head down, looking pitiful, and in a moment of impulse, he kissed him.
“Who needs it…” Lu Yi touched his forehead with his clawed hand and complained, “Don’t take advantage of the fact that you are ten years older than me to treat me like a child.”
He was rejected. Tang Bufan's eyes welled up with tears; his attempt to comfort him had only moved himself in the end.
"Then I apologize to you..."
"..." Lu Yi remained silent.
Seeing how awkward he had made him, Tang Bufan thought for a moment, then gestured with his finger as if performing a ritual: "Rewind one minute, I didn't kiss you, back off!"
"...Who are you trying to fool?" Lu Yi was speechless. "I'm 17, not 7."
"Well, we already kissed," Tang Bufan muttered, feeling wronged by his well-intentioned attempt to comfort him. "Kissing your forehead is so unfair. How about I let you kiss me back?"
"No."
"You're starting to look down on me?" Tang Bufan was getting a little angry. He reached out and pressed the glass screen in front of him, and took the initiative to open the car door on Lu Yi's side.
"Get out of here, let those poisoners see your ferocious appearance."
"You just said I was so imposing..."
"Now he looks like a ferocious demon."
Lu Yi looked at Tang Bufan with a wronged expression, but after being fooled by him, all the inferiority and sadness in her heart disappeared, and she could only helplessly turn around and get out of the car.
As a result, because it was too big, it got stuck in the car door.
"..." Tang Bufan pursed his lips, trying hard to suppress his laughter.
"..." Lu Yi's body turned as red as a boiled shrimp.
Lu Yi regained his human form and successfully got out of the car. As he turned to close the door, he saw the thin man in the driver's seat shouting at him again:
"Beast form! You beast form!"
"...Okay." Lu Yi thought he was being too long-winded and slammed the car door shut.
Re-transformed into his beast form, Lu Yi's specially made military boots bulged out, his trousers and vest taut against his body. He slowly walked towards the gas station in the distance, stepping on the yellow sand. Thinking of Tang Bufan's efforts to comfort him, he couldn't help but slightly curl the corners of his mouth.
Despite being small in stature, she's very good at coaxing people.
Lu Yi quickened his pace under the sun, determined to finish the battle quickly so he could return to human form as soon as possible.
There were fewer poisonous creatures at the gas station than Lu Yi had imagined. A few clever ones recognized him as a high-level beastman by his enormous, beast-like body and ran away in the sun. Lu Yi leaped high over him, landed heavily on the ground, grabbed one of the poisonous creatures by the leg, swung it up, and slammed it to the ground. The poisonous creature was instantly killed, its bones shattered and limp.
The other poisoners ran even faster in terror, only to be caught by Lu Yi, who could cover dozens of meters in a single step. He would either swing them up and smash them to death or simply break their skulls.
Tang Bufan watched from afar in the RV, yelling incessantly. Uncle Wolf, even in his beast form, still barely resembled a human, fighting the Poison Man to a standstill. Lu Yi, on the other hand, was completely inhuman, torturing the Poison Man like a monster.
"Why does it look so much like the Hulk?" Tang Bufan couldn't help but complain.
"All experiments on enhancing the human body are pretty much the same," Kai said in a gentle, electronic male voice. "The orcs represent humanity's greatest scientific breakthrough in the last thousand years. Electronic science has stagnated, while genetic science has developed rapidly."
Tang Bufan thought for a moment, then asked Kai Ge curiously, "When can human men have children?"
He had heard of successful breeding experiments with two female mice in the 21st century, but he remembered that it was quickly stopped, and in the end, both male-to-male and female-to-female reproductive freedom was achieved.
"The 22nd century".
"A hundred years after I was born..." Tang Bufan understood, finding it unbelievable, "In my time, homosexuality wasn't very well-received."
As the two chatted, they saw the handsome orc boy standing in the gas station under the sun waving at them, indicating that they could come over.
Tang Bufan saw that he had returned to human form and clicked his tongue softly. He thought to himself that he needed to continue training Lu Yi's acceptance of beast form, otherwise when he returned to the Western Federation as a commander, his soldiers would definitely gossip about him.
Kai started the RV and drove Tang Bufan into the dilapidated gas station.
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