Upon hearing Zong Lin’s words, Shen Jie’s eyelashes fluttered as he contemplated how to respond.
“Well… we can say… we know each other,” he said slowly.
The exoskeleton was his consciousness, so it wasn’t wrong to say they knew each other.
Su Shiyu’s hand gently stroked his fish tail, accompanied by the healing white light, and the “Feather of Creation” emitted a contented chirping sound.
The experience bar for leveling up was rising extremely fast. In just a moment, it was almost equal to the total he had gained in the past two days of rescuing people in the bunker.
He thought, perhaps it was because unlike ordinary sources of infection, this human body’s mutation was influenced by his soul’s original essence.
His soul’s original essence, although emitting only a faint aura, was fundamentally incomparable to those low-level mists and sources of infection from the aliens.
As a result, the abilities of Rank Three possessed by Lu Ming Kong had failed on him.
As for the “Feather of Creation”…
According to the system’s description, the Feather of Creation at Stage Two should be equivalent to the ability “Purifying Blessing Light” of Rank Eight of the ‘Life’ category, which could only treat infections on ordinary people and Rank Nine ability users.
Now it seemed that it was not just that.
He was still contemplating. But in Zong Lin’s eyes, it appeared as if he answered in a nonchalant manner and then allowed the green-eyed savior to touch Shen Jie’s tail back and forth.
Zong Lin slowly clenched his fingers, his crimson pupils turning towards Su Shiyu.
He definitely didn’t misinterpret it just now. This savior secretly… no, openly touched Shen Jie’s tail in the same spot multiple times.
Just a therapeutic touch, is it necessary to touch so much?
The abilities of the “Soul” ability couldn’t help but flow on the surface, carrying a hint of warning pressure.
If it were an ordinary Rank Eight ability user, under the warning of a Rank Two ability user nearby, they would be sweating profusely by now.
However, this savior seemed oblivious to the looming danger, still performing the treatment with a very indifferent expression.
As Su Shiyu’s hand touched the tail part, the fish scales gradually faded away, the purple color on it lightening, slowly turning into a translucent white resembling skin.
Su Shiyu had transitioned from a stooped posture to a half-kneeling position, grasping the segment of pale purple tail fin.
Soon, the color of the tail fin began to fade. Until reaching a certain point, the two semi-transparent fins split and transformed into legs, then slowly upward…
Zong Lin’s eyelids twitched incessantly.
Seeing that the progress was about to reach the thigh position, he quickly picked up the thin blanket and covered Shen Jie’s legs, blocking himself in front of Shen Jie, saying:
“Enough!”
Su Shiyu stood up and said, “I think we still need to double-check to see if there are any other areas that need treatment.”
Zong Lin replied, “I can handle the checking.”
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After speaking, he directly lifted Shen Jie from the wheelchair, took big strides from the living room back to the bedroom, closed the door, and then placed Shen Jie on the bed.
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Shen Jie allowed himself to be held.
Although the prominent symptoms of mutation on the surface had been eliminated, Shen Jie’s body temperature remained low.
Zong Lin subconsciously wanted to transfer some warmth to Shen Jie and also wanted to erase the traces of others’ breath from Shen Jie’s body. So he covered his lover’s skin with his palm and rubbed it gently, just like he had been touching Shen Jie’s fish tail in the bathtub before.
While the fish tail was smooth, cold, tough, and elastic, making people want to touch it repeatedly, Shen Jie’s own skin was delicate and soft, like a handful of fresh snow, enticing people to sink into it unknowingly.
Zong Lin buried his head in Shen Jie’s neck.
Shen Jie’s five fingers ran through his white hair, akin to stroking the fur of a Samoyed. He asked, “Lin Ge, what do you want to do?”
Although many things had happened in the past two days, and the body of an ordinary person was already very tired, he didn’t mind if Zong Lin made him even more tired.
In fact, he wasn’t afraid of pain or fatigue. The only thing he was a little afraid of was not finding a connection point with this world.
“Check,” Zong Lin said gloomily.
Shen Jie then opened up for his inspection.
The treatment with the exoskeleton was very comprehensive and careful. After all, no one knew his body better than himself.
However, although the body’s mutation was suppressed by the “Feather of Creation,” his biggest problem was never that.
Shen Jie allowed Zong Lin to inspect him while intermittently stroking Zong Lin’s hair. He liked white because, for a long time, in his eyes, white was the only pure and bright color in the world.
After Zong Lin thoroughly examined him, his breath stabilized somewhat. Suddenly, he asked, “How did you meet him before…?”
Shen Jie paused for a moment before realizing that Zong Lin was asking about him and Su Shiyu.
He didn’t want to hide anything from Zong Lin, but while he could explain the exoskeleton he secretly created, it was difficult to explain the origin of “Feather of Creation.” Moreover, he knew that because of his loss of control, Zong Lin had sensed something amiss. It was only out of consideration for his feelings that he refrained from probing further, and also stopped others from asking. However, he couldn’t tell Zong Lin the whole truth.
Perhaps Zong Lin would know everything in the future, but not now.
And considering what he planned to do, the existence of Su Shiyu had to be separated from his own.
Shen Jie’s thoughts changed and he said, “We’ve met a few times before. When I was still working in the wilderness cleanup team.”
Indeed.
Zong Lin pursed his lips, remained silent for a moment, then said, “Just a few times, really?”
Given Shen Jie’s temperament, being able to tolerate someone touching his body without feeling uncomfortable implies they must be quite familiar and close.
“Maybe more than a few times? I forget…” Shen Jie felt a sudden bite on his neck by Zong Lin.
Zong Lin rarely bites him like this.
Generally, he was the one who offered his neck to Zong Lin, as Zong Lin feared he might hurt him.
He realized belatedly.
Is Zong Lin… jealous?
Shen Jie found it somewhat intriguing.
Jealousy… this human-specific emotional activity was still not very clear to him.
If he followed what he read in those love guidebooks before, “People in love feel jealous when they see their loved ones getting close to others,” then they both didn’t have much opportunity to feel jealous for each other.
After all, since they registered as partners, they had been apart most of the time, and whenever they met, they were basically glued together. He himself had some cleanliness issues, feeling uncomfortable with anyone except Zong Lin touching him.
However, just now, he was controlling the exoskeleton, indeed getting a bit too close.
After all, it was oneself touching oneself, without any psychological barriers, and unexpectedly seemed to have caused Zong Lin to misunderstand something.
So Zong Lin’s silent demeanor led him to keep asking about the relationship between Shen Jie and Su Shiyu.
Upon careful consideration, it was indeed… cute.
…Haha.
So when Zong Lin looked up, he saw Shen Jie, who hadn’t shown any obvious emotional changes since they met at the Temple of the aliens, seemed to have thought of something, and the corners of his lips curved slightly.
This smile made his “human” scent much stronger. He seemed to be no different from before.
Zong Lin was stunned. It was certainly good that his beloved was willing to smile, but he didn’t seem to have done anything just now, yet he couldn’t help but bite Shen Jie.
The only thing that was different was… mentioning Su Shiyu.
Zong Lin’s complexion became a bit dark, and his throat felt a bit dry.
Throughout, he had one regret: not getting to know Shen Jie earlier.
Just the thought of the teenage Shen Jie, who was barely in his teens at the time, risking his life for survival in the high-mortality wilderness cleanup team, even getting lost in the wilderness due to an accident and almost unable to return to the city, made him unable to contain his fear and heartache.
Su Shiyu and Shen Jie met in the cleanup team. In that kind of environment, it was likely a life-and-death bond. Shen Jie’s lack of resistance to Su Shiyu’s touch was not something difficult to understand.
It’s just… he still couldn’t help but feel jealous.
Seeing Zong Lin’s silence, Shen Jie reached out, encircling his neck, and pressed his forehead against Zong Lin’s, saying, “Lin Ge, there are so many people passing by me every day in this world, bustling around, coming and going.”
He turned his head and pressed his lips against Zong Lin’s, saying,
“But from beginning to end, I only like you.”
—-
“How is it? Is the infection cleared successfully?”
Just as Su Shiyu came out of the room, he received an anxious inquiry from several “Dawn” team members waiting outside.
Even though these people had little interaction with Shen Jie personally, only meeting briefly at the Cleaning Center, their eyes were filled with genuine concern.
“It’s all fine now,” Su Shiyu said calmly as he adjusted his gloves.
“Uhm, uhm, uhm…?!!” Suddenly, Lu Ming Kong jumped up from the stretcher, startling the people nearby. Bound up like a rice dumpling, he could only hop over to the researcher and point to the duct tape on his mouth, his expression twisted.
The researcher in charge of him sighed and helped him remove the tape from his mouth.
“Amazing! This can’t be!” Lu Ming Kong exclaimed as soon as he could speak.
In just that short moment, his hearing seemed to have returned. However, his eyes still appeared half-blind, with a foggy haze over them.
Lu Ming Kong pointed angrily at a clump of decorative bamboo nearby and said:
“The patient whose abilities couldn’t be treated by my powers, he’s just a Rank Eight, how could he possibly recover?”
Su Shiyu, standing by his side, remained silent.
Yan Hua said, “So he’s the savior. Are you?”
“I’m not!” Lu Ming Kong shouted loudly, then immediately hugged his head. “But why am I not? I’m so handsome, so powerful, the unparalleled healer in the world, how could I not be? Ah—damn it!”
The researcher gestured towards his own head and shook it, indicating, “He’s a bit frozen up here. Please be understanding”.
“Savior! I challenge you to a duel!” Lu Ming Kong declared fiercely, facing the clump of bamboo.
Su Shiyu silently stepped aside a couple of steps, about to say something, when his expression suddenly changed.
“What’s wrong? You don’t look too good,” Yan Hua asked with concern.
Su Shiyu replied, “… I’m fine. I just need to rest somewhere for a while.”
Yan Hua watched as Su Shiyu hurriedly left, murmuring to himself.
“He’s quite a peculiar person. But, he truly is a good person.”
—-
The good person and savior hid in an empty room, touching his forehead.
Even though they had been registered for seven years, Zong Lin still acted like an impulsive young man, fiery and passionate.
But he likes it.
Cute. I do like this couple. Good thing Lu Ming Kong’s health issues can recover, though it doesn’t seem clear whether it’s through the healing of others or his own recovery, unless I missed something
They did say it was his own self-healing, as long as he doesn’t use his ability more than 3 times, he’s able to heal himself.
Oh good, thank you! I couldn’t remember so I appreciate it
No problem~
Thanks for the update ❤️❤️❤️
Own! And damn they have done so much in so little time, I’m afraid now!