Chapter 97 Love: "Do you love her?"
Sang Li slept for a full two hours.
It really feels like a dream.
It floats and sinks.
Lu Jin's chest was so hot, and his eyes were deep, drawing him in little by little.
Who says men can't seduce women?
Lu Jin is really good at it.
He didn't give himself any time to think; his mind was filled with a dense, flowery expanse. Their fingers intertwined, he loved looking directly at her, gazing at her, kissing her forehead and cheeks.
He can coax her with tender affection, make her answer things she doesn't want to say, and make vows.
At this point, I no longer realize that what's said in bed can't be trusted.
Everything is for the sake of being happier.
When I woke up, it was already fully light; it was noon.
Sunlight streamed in obliquely through the yacht's portholes, gently filling the entire cabin.
Beside him, Lu Jin was half-naked, his skin reflecting the golden glow of the sunlight.
One can only truly appreciate the flavor of something after tasting its marrow.
Clearly, they hadn't had enough fun yet.
Sang Li slowly turned over, and a wave of soreness washed over her, as if she had been hit by a heavy hammer.
She frowned, her voice weak, and complained, "Ugh, where does it hurt so much? I'm so tired. Did a dog chew your muscles? My muscles are so hard to work up."
Lu Jin sat up, his half-naked body appearing even more muscular in the sunlight: "Sorry, it wasn't gentle enough for the first time, but I can change."
Sang Li was speechless, staring at him: "Are you showing off?"
"How was it?" Lu Jin seemed to be asking for a rating, a good review.
Sang Li pursed her lips.
Lu Jin leaned in closer, and Sang Li suddenly felt that this man was being a little too clingy.
Lu Jin laughed and said, "I can do it again."
"I can't do it anymore."
Sang Li surrendered. Although she had a habit of stretching while watching movies and occasionally doing yoga, this kind of high-intensity exercise made her feel like her whole body was shattered.
Lu Jin found Sang Li's appearance strangely cute: "Why aren't you spouting nonsense this time?"
“Because I am an honest person now.” Sang Li turned over, her back to him. “So, what did you mean when you said you weren’t human yesterday?”
"No."
Sang Li asked, "Are you also an abnormal being? It's not that you have sexual dysfunction, is it?"
Lu Jin raised an eyebrow: "What do you think?"
Sang Li: "Oh, right."
Lu Jin: "It seems you are quite satisfied with me."
Although he really wanted to ask, would he be more satisfied compared to others?
Being with Sang Li brings a joy that satisfies the soul.
After about half a minute, Sang Li blurted out, "It's alright."
Lu Jin: "Hmm?"
Sang Li: "Keep up the good work, you still need to learn one more thing."
Lu Jin: "What should we study?"
Sang Li: "So, the force can't be too great, and you can't just think of yourself. You'll have to figure out the force yourself."
Lu Jin: "..."
Just as Sang Li was nestled in bed, intending to laze around a little longer, the communicator on her wrist suddenly vibrated slightly.
It's a strong notification from the phone.
Bai Heng: [Where are you?]
Bai Heng: [Your data is fluctuating; your heart rate is too fast, which is abnormal.]
Sang Li's hand trembled, and she almost dropped her phone off the bed.
Is it that fast?
She glanced quickly at the half-naked Lu Jin, then looked at the message "heart rate too fast," and her face slowly turned red.
That can't be right.
It's not like I haven't seen naked men before!
She tried to remain calm and typed: "I'm outside. It's probably a bit hot, or maybe I just finished extreme exercise."
The communicator replied almost instantly: "Is it hot? Where are you? How are you feeling?"
Sang Li: [...at the beach.]
What extreme sports can you do at the beach?
But it's already winter.
The seaside now.
It's unlikely to be warm.
It's not like we're on the equator.
Bai Heng: [You must now undergo a physical examination.]
Sang Li: [It's not very convenient to go back...]
Bai Heng remained silent for a full two seconds, then sent a message that seemed calm but was clearly tinged with unease: [Have Lu Jin answer my calls. He hasn't replied to my messages for hours.]
You two should be together.
"..."
It was guessed.
Sang Li's heart skipped a beat, and she turned to look at Lu Jin, who was still nonchalantly fixing his hair.
The two of them were out of contact for several hours.
It's easy to guess what the two of them were doing in the dark for half a day.
However, someone as noble as Bai Heng probably wouldn't use such vile human thoughts to think about himself.
Sang Li silently turned off the terminal, buried her face in the pillow, and muttered softly, "If Bai Heng finds out, don't report me. I don't want him to know."
Lu Jin raised an eyebrow: "What did you discover?"
"His heart was beating so fast, and we shared a bed, I think he must be a smart man."
Lu Jin was silent for a moment, then suddenly smiled, his smile brighter than the sunlight: "I can take responsibility for keeping it at this speed."
It refers to the heart.
Sang Li: "Shut up! Are you out of your mind? If you keep talking nonsense, I'll sew your mouth shut. He's coming after you!"
"good."
Lu Jin got out of bed, opened the door, and left the cabin.
The sea breeze, carrying a salty, damp scent, rushed in from the edge of the deck. Lu Jin stood on the upper deck of the yacht, wearing a dark gray coat.
Her clothes billowed in the sea breeze, and the warmth on her face was gone.
He switched his terminal to call mode and dialed Bai Heng's private encrypted channel.
"Finally, they've accepted it." Bai Heng's voice sounded a little tired. "You're still alive, Commander Lu?"
To tease.
It seems like the question is directed at Lu Jin, but it's actually directed at Sang Li.
Lu Jin didn't answer the joke; his eyes lowered slightly, as if confirming something.
Despite the sea breeze making her clothes flutter, she felt no chill.
He suddenly realized that he was indeed not afraid of the cold.
He had previously thought he was just in good physical condition, but now he realized that this was the normal physical condition of a clone.
Regardless of the type of genes, they are all the best.
He whispered, "I've discovered that I don't seem to feel the cold anymore."
Bai Heng was taken aback: "What did you say?"
"My physical strength has changed. My reaction time, endurance, and perception all seem to have improved." Lu Jin gripped his phone tightly.
"What?" Bai Heng didn't understand what he meant. "Are you showing off?"
"No." Lu Jin stopped there, after all, he didn't want Bai Heng to interfere in his affairs, but there were still some things he had to say, "Aren't you going to ask why we were together? What did we just do?"
“I don’t want to know,” Bai Heng said. “If you’re only answering my call because of these things, you can hang up now.”
Lu Jin, facing the wind, paused for a few seconds: "Do you love her?"
"What?"
“Sang Li”.
There was a pause on the other end.
"like."
Although he didn't know why Lu Jin asked that question, Bai Heng answered decisively.
Very decisive.
He has nothing to hide.
Lu Jin got the answer.
I'm relieved.
At least, Bai Heng won't harm Sang Li.
Lu Jin said, "Go and retrieve all of Sang Li's files. We didn't get all of them."
Bai Heng was somewhat surprised: "What did you find?"
Lu Jin raised his eyes to look at the surging sea in the distance, his expression unchanged: "She is not an ordinary anomaly. She has undergone experiments, and from the beginning, she was not as described in the BEAM-071 file we obtained."
There was a moment of silence on the other end of the communication line, then Bai Heng said slowly, "I guessed it, is it related to BEAM-001?"
001, The Day Witch.
Lu Jin's eyes suddenly sharpened, and he lowered his voice: "How did you know?"
Bai Heng: "Some time ago, I randomly checked the sequences of some highly sensitive genomics, and Sang Li's had a similarity of more than 87% with the original template of 001. At the time, I thought it was a database mislabeling, but now it seems that she had some problems from the beginning."
Lu Jin remained silent.
Bai Heng continued, "So what do you plan to do now?"
Lu Jin straightened up and stared at the distant sky: "If it's a project led by the Administration Bureau, their procedures won't change."
"First, we observe the situation over a long period of time to confirm the stability of the ability."
“Then they recycle it,” Bai Heng continued, his voice deepening. “You know what they mean by ‘recycling’.”
"So we need to get ahead of time." A cold glint flashed in Lu Jin's eyes. "Find out their ultimate goal, and who is orchestrating all of this."
Bai Heng sighed: "You want to investigate internally?"
"I want to live," Lu Jin said coldly, "and for her too."
Bai Heng was silent for a few seconds, then his tone became serious: "Okay. I'll cooperate with your investigation. Be careful, the deeper you go, the more dangerous the places you'll be. You must do everything you can to protect him. If you can't, I can."
"certainly."
After saying this, Lu Jin hung up the call.
He lowered his eyes and looked at his palm, where calluses from holding a gun for too long had been left.
The sea breeze blew by, but he remained motionless.
He turned around and looked into the cabin; Sang Li was already asleep.
Sang Li was fast asleep, but her body was slightly curled up.
It's warm inside the blanket.
This kind of weather is perfect for sleeping in.
Especially since I was already very tired.
The dream washed over me like a tide.
She had a dream.
From God's perspective.
It was just a dream.
But in the dream, Sang Li remained very lucid.
She knew this wasn't just a thought; it was her entire past.
She saw herself lying in a blurry room, the light was warm amber, and the air was filled with low, suppressed breathing.
Her heart was pounding so fast, as if it were being hooked by something, so intense it felt unreal.
The bed shook, and a heavy shadow pressed down on it.
No, it's Lu Jin!
Sang Li immediately realized what was happening.
But it wasn't the Lu Jin she knew.
The two were very heated, moving from the sofa to the windowsill.
This is something I don't think I could do myself.
Sang Li felt her face burning red, as if she were watching someone else's movie.
In her dream, Lu Jin didn't seem to like talking much. He just buried his head and kissed her neck, and that familiar, burning heat washed over her again like a tidal wave. In the dream, she didn't struggle or resist; she couldn't help but wrap her arms around his neck, as if it were just an instinct.
But there seemed to be no deeper feelings between the two; it was just pure pleasure.
Sang Li didn't remember having such a memory with Lu Jin, or even how it started, or what happened in the process. But she clearly felt his possessiveness, anger, and even pain.
Inch by inch, it was driven into the very marrow.
There is no love.
Only possession.
Or rather, it's about sex.
This contact cannot be called love.
The dream was sometimes bright and sometimes dark.
Lu Jin kissed her.
Finally, Sang Li could see the person's face clearly.
That was clearly Lu Jin, younger than he is now, and with even colder eyes.
This is what a warrior is like, a merciless blade and machine of BEAM.
Sang Li pondered.
Did they know each other a long time ago?
Why is this memory also missing?
Did they do it already?
The dream has not ended.
The warm, chaotic scene just now was like clouds blown away by the wind, fleeting and then the scene changed abruptly.
The surroundings suddenly turned icy cold.
She stood in a huge, long-abandoned factory, the air thick with the smell of rust, dust, and decay. A shattered skylight let in dappled light, the cold white light filtering down like blades suspended in mid-air.
Opposite him, Lu Jin stood there, his posture straight, wearing the Containment Bureau uniform, his expression indifferent.
He was holding a gun.
The gun was pointed directly at her.
“BEAM-071, anomaly containment mission in progress.” He spoke coldly, as if reciting a trivial order. “You must come with me.”
Sang Li subconsciously wanted to say "I'm not," but before she could speak, her dream self spoke first, her tone weak but mocking: "Of course I'm willing to go with you, if you can remember."
Sang Li is smiling in my dream.
“But not now.” She staggered back a step, cold sweat trickling down her forehead, her breathing rapid. “I have to go find someone.”
Sang Li could tell that her body was very weak at this moment. In the dream, she could feel the intense imbalance, the chaotic energy, and the abnormal temperature. Every breath was burning, and her muscles ached as if they were on fire. Without Lu Jin's help, she knelt on the cold cement floor, her fingertips supporting her weight, but she couldn't hold on and coughed violently.
However, this tone of voice doesn't sound like it's his own.
She always thought her voice was soft, but it wasn't like that in her dream. If the voice could be described as "high-pitched," then that tone was more like that of a beautiful and passionate woman.
She was panting, her forehead pressed to the ground, as if being dragged into an abyss by her own pain.
“Lu Jin,” she murmured softly, “you’ll regret it if you treat me this rudely.”
But he didn't move.
He remained completely unmoved.
The wind blew in through the broken window, making the badge on his shoulder rattle softly.
After a long while, he lowered his head and switched the gun in his hand to tranquilizer mode.
*Smack*
The sound of the switch being turned on was particularly jarring.
He raised his gun, the dark muzzle still firmly pointed at her.
She couldn't see his eyes clearly, but she wasn't afraid to face Lu Jin.
I just feel it's a bit of a pity.
Sang Li could tell that this was not the current Lu Jin.
The image that appears in her dreams now is from an earlier time, a "past" she no longer remembers, hidden in the depths of her dreams.
She opened her mouth as if to say something, but the next second, a gunshot rang out.
The world turned dark again at that moment.
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