Soft and reliable
Even though only a few seconds had passed, the wall was already almost touching An Xiao's face.
Lin Yehuan struggled to extend his leg to try the foot brake, but the car was tripped by something, and then the impact sent it flying into the air, over the barrier, and crashing to the ground.
"Do you even know we just clipped through the camera?!" Lin Yehuan, still reeling from being thrown to the ground, couldn't help but curse at the damn system. "Flying that high, don't you think it's ridiculous?!"
"This is even more absurd than the Japanese talking about raccoons!"
Lin Yehuan was still in shock, seemingly forgetting there was another living person beside him. Under An Xiao's astonished gaze, he muttered something to himself, "Restart, mission, modeling..."
"I'm so sorry, I didn't expect this..." An Xiao was afraid that she might have hurt her brain from the fall, so she got up and carefully moved the motorcycle off her. "Are you alright?"
"It's alright, just a bit dead." Lin Yehuan finally breathed a sigh of relief, only to find himself lying on his back in a strange position on a pile of earth that had been turned up by construction. He quickly stood up, patted the dirt off his body, and thought to himself, no wonder he was so weak and powerless when he was cursing earlier, he was about to be crushed to death.
[No casualties detected; emergency medical services mode disabled]
[Current progress of Anxiao's side quest: 0%]
Lin Yehuan closed his eyes, unwilling to open them. What did he want?
For safety reasons, the two chose to set off from the outskirts of the city. The construction site looked abandoned for a long time, probably an unfinished project.
The area was surrounded by high fences, at least four meters high, making it impossible to climb over them in a human pyramid. There was a small path used for transporting materials, diagonally opposite their location.
An Xiao originally wanted to ride her motorcycle over, but the road surface in this area was covered with all sorts of building materials in a mess. The piled-up earthen mounds looked like small hills, and steel pipes of various sizes were lying haphazardly on the uneven ground, making it difficult to even walk over.
The two of them crossed a single-plank bridge and encountered a rocky hill, stumbling and walking for most of the night before finally standing in front of the path.
Very well, the road is blocked.
Lin Yehuan laughed, and without caring about his image, he sat down on the ground and leaned against the steel pipe, ready to sleep there.
“Oh dear,” An Xiao sat down next to her and took out her phone, “I’d better call someone to bail us out.”
"Damn it! No signal!"
Lin Yehuan shifted down, adjusting to a comfortable position. Of course, there was no signal. That's how it's written in novels. What new tricks will this system, which pieces together plots from various novels, come up with this time?
The system, unusually, did not step forward to defend itself.
Lin Yehuan felt something was off: "How can we get out?"
The system still hasn't displayed any interface.
"No way..." Lin Yehuan opened the control panel with a mix of trepidation and helplessness.
The system screen displayed snowflakes and a "No Signal" sign with a white border and red text, resembling the screen on an old-fashioned television set during its weekly maintenance check.
What do you mean by "no signal"?! Also, system administrator, you're showing your age!
"It's okay, we'll make some noise, someone will definitely pass by and notice." An Xiao thought she had given up struggling, so she comforted her while throwing hard clods of dirt at the steel pipe.
"Shh." Lin Yehuan pressed down her hand, which she raised again, and pulled her into his arms.
An Xiao was slightly taken aback. Before she could react, her head had already unconsciously rested on her lap.
"Stop thinking about these things."
Aren't you scared?
"There's nothing to be afraid of," Lin Yehuan smiled. Few people usually pass by here, let alone in the middle of the night. Knocking and banging would be a waste of effort.
“Someone will come, and,” Lin Yehuan restarted his phone, but there was still no signal. The message he sent to Lu Xingzhi kept spinning, which was very annoying, so he simply threw the phone aside, “The weather is nice today, isn’t it?”
The pale moon that had set off was now high in the sky, tinged with gold. The stars, scattered like diamonds on a dark blue velvet, were serene. So serene that you could hear the soft rustling of breaths. Amid the gentle rustling of her hair against the fabric, An Xiao grew sleepy. Her eyelids closed uncontrollably, then she forced them open again. The full moon shimmered in her eyes, fragments that eventually merged into the darkness.
Lin Yehuan could sense that An Xiao wasn't sleeping soundly; her head was bobbing back and forth on Lin Yehuan's lap, and her hair was tickling and prickly.
In comparison, she was still quite comfortable. It would have been even better if the soil had been drier and softer, the steel pipes rounder, and the evening breeze warmer...
Lin Yehuan drifted off to sleep, feeling utterly drowsy. Dreams were wonderful; they could even fool your senses…
wrong.
Lin Yehuan was startled awake by the firm yet soft touch. Before his eyes could focus, he saw Lu Xingzhi's sharply defined jawline.
"Stop posing."
The voice came from inside his arms, and Lu Xingzhi realized that he had been holding his head high and stretching his neck. He immediately adjusted to a normal and comfortable posture: "We'll be out soon, don't worry."
Lin Yehuan wasn't worried at all, but he felt like something was missing: "Where's An Xiao?"
Lu Xingzhi raised his chin again and pointed forward with his face.
A hundred meters away, An Xiao was carried out on a stretcher by rescuers.
…………
Fine, seeing that Lu Xingzhi held him very steadily, Lin Yehuan reluctantly accepted this clichéd Mary Sue plot.
[Male protagonist's charisma increased, character perfection +0.01%]
This is such a familiar tactic. Won't this get them sued for copyright infringement by some shopping app? And... I haven't even left the store yet, where did you get this signal from?
The wind in the early September morning, carrying the coolness of early autumn, gently brushed against the skin, carrying the crispness of dew on the tips of the grass. It hit Lin Yehuan's face, making his nose feel wet. He raised his hand to wipe it, and suddenly remembered a more clichéd plot. He looked up and met Lu Xingzhi's gaze, who was looking down. He glanced around guiltily, and while Lu Xingzhi looked away and continued walking, Lin Yehuan awkwardly and mechanically leaned closer to him.
[Male lead's affection +200 (already exceeded, not included in the total)]
Tsk, isn't that right?
Lin Yehuan moved closer and felt a warm, soft, and reliable sensation on his cheek. He turned his head slightly, and his hair and eyelashes brushed against her unintentionally.
[Male lead's curiosity +100, character design perfection +0.01%]
You can add this? Oh well, curiosity is a good quality.
Lin Yehuan's mind was filled with all sorts of melodramatic plots and complaints. His eyes were vacant, and he looked at Shang Lu Xingzhi with a confused and curious expression. He decisively chose to jump down and walk on his own.
[Male lead's curiosity +100, character design perfection +0.005%]
Being too curious is also not good.
Lu Xingzhi's ears turned red, and he stood there, still thinking.
"Don't be curious, you curious ghost..." Lin Yehuan turned around and did a standing long jump, flying two and a half meters away in an attempt to divert his attention.
[Male lead's curiosity +100, character design perfection +0.0025%]
It was a success. If we could ignore the three times more curious look on Lu Xingzhi's face, it would be an even greater success.
After confirming that they were not injured, the two got into the car and swayed back to school. They almost forgot that they had made an appointment with Professor Cheng to go to the lab today.
"Heads up, chests out, eyes forward." By the elevator on the first floor, Lin Yehuan helped the other three people adjust their posture.
Lu Xingzhi stood as Tom the cat as instructed, eyes wide open, looking very serious.
Lin Yehuan tiptoed and pressed his head down, which was straining too much: "Look at me, don't stare at me so hard."
"Ahem," Gu Ye raised an eyebrow and gave Xu Pengpeng a wink.
"Mmm." Xu Pengpeng pursed her lips, indicating that she was not surprised.
Lu Xingzhi narrowed his eyes slightly, revealing his most common pitiful puppy expression: "Is that so?"
"Open your eyes just a little wider."
Be firm.
Lu Xingzhi's eyes followed her every angle.
"Stop, don't look away."
"Turn your left eye to the right, back to the three o'clock position." Lin Yehuan lamented how many bad ideas he had while teasing the honest man. "Turn your right eye to the left, back to the nine o'clock position."
"Hmm?" Lu Xingzhi was about to do as instructed, but suddenly felt that something was not quite right. "This could easily make people look down on you."
"Pfft, hahaha," Lin Yehuan rubbed his face, his focus quite unusual. "Just follow behind me."
"Just follow behind me~" Gu Ye and Xu Pengpeng whispered in a strange tone at the very back of the elevator.
Lin Yehuan gave them a deathly smile: I'll deal with you two later.
As expected, just as I arrived at the office floor, I ran into Ms. Wang Jinqian, who was arriving at work on time that afternoon.
Lin Yehuan forced a casual greeting, and although he didn't receive a response, he still breathed a sigh of relief and knocked on the door of the office next door.
Professor Cheng occupies a private office. His outstanding achievements and high professional title are one thing, but the main issue is that teachers who have worked with him have reported that they are under too much mental pressure and cannot withstand any more shocks during their rest time.
Besides two desks, a sofa, and a few chairs, the office also contained a hardboard bed covered only with a straw mat and a sheet. On the faded old sheet, one could still vaguely make out a yellowed human figure.
"Xiao Lin," Professor Cheng looked up from his computer screen, glanced at the group of people through his thick glasses, and then buried his head back into the screen. "Sit down, find a place to sit."
Lin Yehuan glanced at the chairs and sofas that hadn't been touched in a long time and were covered in a layer of dust, and regretted wearing new clothes today.
"Here you go." Lu Xingzhi made sure they weren't paying attention to what they were doing, then pulled out a pack of tissues from somewhere and handed them out to the group.
"Don't be so fussy. Even if your senior brothers and sisters wanted to sit, I wouldn't let them!"
The four of them felt their cerebral cortex ripple from the sudden shout, and ultimately chose to stand.
"You're all interested in our experiment, right?"
Several people nodded in unison. Based on their senior's painful experience, this teacher never uttered questions; he only spoke what he believed to be facts, leaving no room for rebuttal.
"In our lab, there are no hierarchical distinctions," Professor Cheng said, pulling several people into the same group. "You guys just need to do what I posted. Whoever finishes it first gets it."
Lin Yehuan opened the system dialog box again: "Wasn't the research task already finished? Why is it happening again?"
[This project is a growth mission for the male protagonist. Completing it and gaining Cheng Xiao's approval will grant significant progress.]
That's it, he won't approve of anyone.
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