Chapter 177 I Like You
The wind and rain outside made the house even darker and quieter, and even the slightest breathing could be heard. Xing Yuan stared at Lu Yan's eyes motionlessly, and slowly leaned closer. He waited for the other party to run away in fear, or to push him away in disgust. He rehearsed the results in his mind thousands of times, and his curiosity grew deeper.
Lu Yan obviously recognized Xing Yuan. His fingertips hidden in the quilt clenched silently, and no one knew what he was thinking.
“Boom——!”
A flash of lightning suddenly streaked across the sky, illuminating the bedroom as bright as day. Xing Yuan's stern face was immersed in the light and shadow, and was abruptly split in half. He only felt a sudden push from his shoulder, and his heart couldn't help but sink -
Lu Yan was still afraid.
It's hard to explain why, but Xing Yuan suddenly had no intention of dodging at all. He let the other party push him aside in the dark and gently pulled the corner of his mouth. However, what followed was not the man's panicked escape, but the warmth that suddenly covered his lips. The other party skillfully pried open his teeth and hooked the wet tip of his tongue.
Xing Yuan's pupils contracted and his eyelashes trembled violently for a moment. He obviously didn't expect Lu Yan to react like this. He moved subconsciously, but was hugged even tighter by him, and the kiss was so intense that the root of his tongue hurt.
Lu Yan really didn't know what to do.
Pretend to be scared? He was afraid that Xing Yuan would be sad, but if he pretended to be surprised, he didn't know what expression to use. It would be bad to ask anything, and it would be bad to ask nothing either.
All the words and attitudes were hidden in that kiss.
It was obvious that Xing Yuan wanted to speak very much. He turned his head several times to try to avoid Lu Yan's kiss, but was grabbed by the chin again. The man hugged him tightly, as if he did not see the tail under him. The two bodies were pressed tightly together in the darkness, inseparable.
Lu Yan: "Shut up, don't talk."
Don't say anything, just let them both understand.
Xing Yuan raised his eyebrows and insisted, "I am a wanderer, aren't you afraid of me?"
Lu Yan's expression changed subtly for a moment, and finally he accepted his fate: "It's okay, I'll get used to it."
There's no way to run away anyway.
Xing Yuan snorted coldly, thinking that this person usually threw out sweet words like they were free, why did it become a habit now? He tightly wrapped his arms around Lu Yan's waist, like a snake wrapping around its favorite prey, and buried his face in his neck. The fragile throat was so close to his eyes that he was eager to move, and his voice was hoarse:
"That's just a habit. You're still afraid of me."
Lu Yan ruffled his hair and said, "If I were afraid of you, I wouldn't hug you."
Xing Yuan looked up at him, his red eyes flashing with an inexplicable light in the darkness, sparkling: "Then you said you like me."
Lu Yan pursed his lips tightly. He didn't want to say anything at first, but seeing Xing Yuan's enthusiastic questioning, he finally couldn't help laughing and said, "Okay, I like you."
Xing Yuan was finally quiet now. He lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking. He only felt that his chest was filled with an inexplicable emotion, as if even his rotten heart had grown something called flesh and blood. He frowned.
Well, it's a bit uncomfortable.
Lu Yan leaned over to him and asked, "You didn't eat my brother, did you?"
Xing Yuan's eyes flickered, and he thought he might have eaten something: "He's tied up outside, do you want to untie him?"
Lu Yan heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this: "Forget it, I'll solve it tomorrow. As long as I'm alive, it's fine. It's getting late, let's go to sleep."
He started a conversation and turned to go to sleep again. Xing Yuan would certainly not let him go easily: "Why is your brother a wanderer?"
Lu Yan closed his eyes and said, "I don't know. I've already raised it. It's already this big. It's impossible to throw it away."
Xing Yuan said suspiciously, "Don't you know why your brother is a wanderer?"
Lu Yan finally raised his eyelids and looked at him: "I don't even know why the person I sleep with is a wanderer, how can I know why my brother is a wanderer?"
Xing Yuan: “…”
Although it's not quite appropriate to say this, there's always a feeling that Lu Yan is in trouble. Xing Yuan kissed the man's lips in the dark, saying in a seductive tone, "It's fate. We are meant to be a family."
At the same time, he couldn't hide the regret in his heart. It would be great if Lu Yan was also a wanderer, then they would be exactly the same kind.
The red moon outside had long been obscured by dark clouds. Perhaps another group of wanderers had completed their advancement. Xing Yuan represented the most powerful among them, and Lu Xiaozhao represented the slowest to awaken among them. Now both of them had successfully advanced, not to mention the other wanderers.
The director now completely ignored all the objections from the outside world, forcibly blocked all entrances to Sky City, and suspended the issuance of passes, allowing the residents of Devil City to gather on Yunduan Road to protest. Disputes broke out online, and the network was almost paralyzed.
"Protest! Why are all the armed forces stationed in Devil City withdrawn? ! ! Why are the issuance of Sky City passes suspended? ! The authorities must give us an explanation!"
"What impact did the Red Moon have? Why hasn't there been any public announcement yet? Has Sky City given up on Devil City? We have the right to know!"
The entrance to Sky City is adjacent to Yunduan Road. The originally wide and prosperous street is now crowded with people. They hold up banners of protest and shout until their voices are hoarse. However, the patrol soldiers standing guard outside remain indifferent and stand guard with guns held expressionlessly. Occasionally, a wanderer flies across the sky and is immediately shot down with a whoosh.
The representative of the crowd sent by Devil City was a gentleman who stood on a platform made of containers, shouting over and over again with a loudspeaker in his hand. The speech he wrote overnight was soaked with sweat from his palms, and the handwriting was blurred. However, as time passed, no leader was willing to come forward for negotiations, and only the patrol soldiers on guard changed shifts one after another.
Liu Xuyang was getting more and more desperate. If the Sky City officials were willing to send someone to negotiate, they could have further discussions, but now the other party simply pretended to be dead. There were more and more vagrants, spreading from the contaminated area. The outer area of the city was no longer habitable. Many residents would rather not even have houses and bring their families to sleep on the streets of Yunduan Road. All industries were almost paralyzed. In a few months, even eating and drinking would become a problem.
How did it turn out like this?
Liu Xuyang and several other representatives had been protesting with loudspeakers for a whole day. Now, even when he swallowed his saliva, he felt like there was a razor blade in his throat. His mouth was filled with the taste of blood. His eyes went dark and he tried hard to stand up straight, but he still stumbled and fell off the container.
This action completely ignited the anger of the crowd. Death and despair filled the air, causing them to burst into curses and cries. Countless people suddenly rushed forward like a tide and tried to break through the barrier. No matter how Liu Xuyang tried to stop them, it was useless:
“Come out!! Why are the officials hiding in there pretending to be dead!! Get out!!”
"There are so many people in Devil City, are you going to just watch them die?!"
"Adults don't have to go in! What about the children?! You even withdrew the armed forces, how are we supposed to survive?"
"I have worked so hard to save for so long, why do you suspend the payment?! You won't even give me the last chance to survive?!!"
There were too many people rushing to the checkpoint, and the patrolmen guarding the perimeter had no choice but to fire their guns into the air as a warning, shouting at the top of their lungs: "Everyone, get out! If anyone takes another step forward, I'll kill him immediately!!"
Little did they know that these words not only failed to have any intimidating effect, but instead ignited the anger in their hearts, and the crowd rushed forward even more fiercely.
"Go ahead and shoot! The wanderer will be dead in a few days anyway, so why not kill him quickly?"
"Is your gun meant to be pointed at your compatriots?!"
"Your conscience has been eaten by a dog!!"
The patrolmen were so shaken that they were about to fall down. In the end, they did not dare to actually open fire. They could only put up guardrails and cordons to try to keep the crowd outside. At this time, dozens of green pickup trucks suddenly drove over from a distance, and the roar was particularly obvious in the dark night.
The crowd stopped moving subconsciously upon seeing this, and countless eyes stared at the cars, wondering if the president would be sitting in them. However, the car doors opened one after another, and a group of researchers wearing white anti-pollution suits and goggles got out. Each of them was holding a suitcase with a pure black metal shell. Then they walked to the edge of the protection checkpoint in an orderly manner, with one person standing every one meter. They squatted down, opened the energy bayonet prepared in advance, installed a giant silver battery that could only be held in both hands, and then connected it with wires.
There were so many of these researchers, so many that it was frightening. They almost surrounded the entire Sky City, so much so that the crowd couldn't help but fall silent, and there was an almost terrifying silence in the air.
What are they doing?
The crowd didn't understand and could only watch.
Lu Yan went out late at night to strangle the Wanderer. If he could kill another level 4 monster, he could upgrade his ability. However, he did not expect that Yunduan Road would be filled with protesting people. Others did not understand, but he did. The suitcases were probably filled with energy batteries for the PB barrier. Once turned on, they would be completely isolated from the Devil City.
It seemed like a long time had passed, yet it seemed like only a short moment had passed. When the researchers installed the energy batteries, the patrol soldiers who were originally guarding the perimeter suddenly took a step back and stood behind the checkpoint. At the same time, a dark blue energy shield popped out from out of thin air in front of their eyes, completely dividing the two cities in two like a translucent glass.
The crowd parted automatically, and a hunched black figure walked out. It was the director of the hospital. He stood high on the defense wall with the help of He Zhuan. The microphone carried his old voice to everyone's ears:
"Dear people, I am sorry to meet you in this way. I know that what is coming next may be unacceptable to many people, but this is a last resort. Please believe that we have made the final effort..."
Suddenly, many helicopters appeared in the sky, dropping boxes of supplies. The huge sound of the rotors brought up a gust of wind that was so strong that people could not open their eyes.
"The disaster brought by the red moon this time is far more terrible than the last time. Countless wanderers are quietly advancing. When the red moon ends, they will launch a terrible city attack on humans, and the number of mutants is far from enough..."
He stood on a high place, with a crowded crowd below him. The damp rain was falling, and his ears were filled with the sound of heavy rain. The coldness penetrated into his skin bit by bit through his clothes. The energy shield isolated the people outside the Devil City, but it could not block those pairs of desperate and terrified eyes.
"From today on, Sky City will no longer interfere with any security issues related to Devil City. All entrances will open PB protective shields and no one is allowed to enter or leave. Before the red moon disappears, we will sort them by age from the lowest to the highest. We will try our best to accept as many children with no behavioral ability as possible from Devil City..."
The rain was getting heavier, the night was getting darker, the moon was getting redder, and the sorrow and tears that filled the crowd were more surging than the waves, coming silently and almost suffocating people.
"During this period, we will continue to distribute free supplies. When the red moon disappears, the PB protection barrier will seal the last gap and never open it again. No one can go out, and no one can come in..."
The director paused as he spoke, then slowly bowed deeply to the crowd below, and did not stand up for a long time: "My fellow countrymen, I feel deeply guilty about this. I hope that mankind, the Sky City, the Devil City, and all living beings can survive this catastrophe!"
The air was eerily dead silent, and the crowd below was stunned by the news. Although there had long been rumors online that Sky City had completely given up on defending Devil City, the impact of guessing and seeing it with one's own eyes was completely different. They were so angry and sad that they couldn't even curse.
Helicopters were still dropping boxes of supplies from the air, but to them, those neatly packed boxes were like a death meal and had long lost all their appeal.
The thinly clothed mother cried as she hugged her ignorant child, the middle-aged man supported his elderly parents tightly, the young man clenched his fists at his sides, angry, unwilling, and powerless. The faces were blurred in the rainy night, and only the pairs of eyes brighter than fire could be seen.
They stood below, looking up at those people. Finally, someone slowly walked out of the crowd, and a childish voice with determination and desperation said: "Of course humans will survive--!"
It was a young boy, who should be full of vigor and vitality, but he was thin and frail. He stared at the director with a youthful look in his eyes: "I don't believe that without your protection, the Devil City will be destroyed. We don't have superpowers, but we have many people, and we can protect ourselves!"
"Even if only one person survives in this city, Devil City won't be considered a loser!"
Those ragged people stood like nails in the wind and rain, so thin, so rusty, yet so stubborn. The patrolmen on the defense wall were silent with red eyes, and some of them were shaking slightly with their guns. They could do nothing but watch the energy batteries pop out like a fan, forming a light blue protective barrier one after another, isolating their compatriots from the outside.
When the last gap was left, a black figure suddenly jumped down from the defensive wall. In such a quiet time, it was as sudden as a pebble falling into water. Everyone looked subconsciously and saw a slender man. He stood against the windy and rainy background. He raised his hand and took off the hat on his head, letting the rain erode:
"I can protect you, too."
Xing Yuan and other superpowers stood high up on the defense wall to prevent the crowd from rioting, but he didn't expect Lu Yan to suddenly pop out from a corner. His eyelids twitched: What does this mean? Is Lu Yan planning to abandon his family and his brother? !
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