Before An Yu could finish sighing in his heart, he felt his shoulders sink, and he knelt down with "Boom!"
He stared blankly at himself in the mirror, kneeling on his knees, with a large red area spreading from under the skin on the back of his neck.
In the mirror, Xide stood behind him, using his two flexed index fingers to grab the barbell, which weighed more than 200 pounds and almost hit the back of his neck. He said in surprise: "How can you still be so weak with such a broken body?" Bad? No, no, no, I didn’t think you were that weak when you were in Area 53."
An Yu: "..."
Xi De was a little thinner than An Yu when he last saw him, which made his eyes brighter and sharper. He looked down at An Yu in confusion. After looking at An Yu for a while, he suddenly laughed out loud and casually lifted the barbell like An Yu putting down chopsticks. Putting it aside on the ground, "No wonder Lu wants to replace Jiang Xiao. What has he done to train you?"
An Yu stood up reluctantly, holding his knees and said, "Willpower."
Refers to the ability to endure abnormality.
As he stood up, he glanced at Xi De's arms - when he lifted and lowered the barbell, the muscles in his upper arms only moved a little symbolically, and it could even be understood that they didn't move at all.
Xide understood his thoughts, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Don't compare with me. My distortion direction is that of a phoenix. Even if I don't show my wings, as a human, my upper body strength has already been greatly improved."
An Yu looked at him silently, and he thought for a while, "Actually, there is no point in training your muscles. You are just a fragile human being. No matter how much you train, you will only be like that. It is better to train your physical fitness to improve your explosive power and endurance."
An Yu breathed a sigh of relief, "Okay."
It sounds much simpler.
Twenty minutes later.
"Whirring whirring--"
An Yu lay on his back, looking at the mirror on the ceiling with his eyes distracted.
There was a dead dog in there.
The dead dog's heart was repeatedly probing its throat.
Xide picked up his terminal with a smile, "The survival value has not fluctuated, but the system prompts that you have hypoglycemia. I found that you consume blood faster than the average person. With your body, ten wet nurses are not enough."
An Yu lay on the ground, turned his head with difficulty, and watched him walk towards the vending machine outside.
The chief said that Xi De is one of the rare people who extremely recognizes and relies on his abnormal identity, so he never deliberately restrains his abnormal physical signs. When he is in a bright mood, when he walks, his whole body will emit clusters of flame-like red as he breathes. There are obviously no wings visible, but the slight movement of the shoulder blades makes people seem to see a pair of giant wings flapping with the breathing.
An Yu couldn't help but recall the giant wings of convection fire fluttering over Area 53. He wondered if those scorching flames could melt a corner of the polar glacier.
A few minutes later, An Yu sat in the corner of the training room and carefully tore open the ice cream wrapper.
Xide went too far and even used his terminal to buy supplies for him without asking for his permission in advance.
The payment system is even more outrageous, with no password required for payments under 20 points.
And this palm-sized sweet actually costs 14 points? !
The cracked chocolate crispy skin suddenly slid down half an inch, and the rich milk inside dripped down. An Yu immediately caught it with his mouth.
The golden eyes were stunned for a moment, and the pupils slowly dilated.
"What's wrong?" Xi De raised his eyebrows, "Don't you like ice cream?"
The cold and silky milk flowed down his throat. An Yu gently broke the chocolate crispy crust with his tongue and chewed quietly.
"It's delicious." He whispered, staring intently at the missing corner of the ice cream in his hand. Anger spread in those eyes, and in the mirror, there was a rare smile of satisfaction in those eyes.
"Ling Qiu... my former neighbor must have eaten this after coming to the main city. He must also like it." An Yu said softly: "My bakery will also have several new types of ice cream in the future."
Xide looked at him curiously and leaned against the mirror casually, "We like this thing too. When we are unhappy, we use this to coax him. You kids are all the same."
An Yu took a small bite of the ice cream and said vaguely: "Bo seems to be the same age as you, and so are An and Ning. It's just that they came two years late."
"Really?" Xi De clicked his tongue and smiled nonchalantly: "That's because they are too childish. In order to supervise them, I even forgot my own age."
Xide's light is too strong and will indeed dilute people's perception of his age.
An Yu looked at the can of alcoholic beverage in his hand with some hatred.
It was also bought with his points, 18 points.
"Don't you want to eat ice cream?" He sighed. Although ice cream is also expensive, it is still a few dollars cheaper than this thing.
Hearing this, Xide suppressed his smile and shook his head carelessly, "I hate those cold things."
An Yu suddenly remembered that there were rumors that during his childhood, Xi De was locked in an icehouse and abused by his stepfather who owned a cold drink shop. He extremely hated all cold things, including cold food.
"That's right." Xide's displeasure disappeared for a moment, and he smiled happily again, "In order to welcome Dian's arrival, there will be a high-level dinner party the day after tomorrow. Did Lu tell you? Let's go to Dian's floor to eat hot pot. It’s hot, help him warm the house.”
"Hot house?" An Yu was confused for a while, then pulled out this ancient custom from his memory, "But Dian moved in the day before yesterday."
Xide nodded casually, "Originally, we had to wait for everyone to gather, and we decided to do it tonight. But today, the main city suddenly announced that the whole city would be silent, including the spires outside the main city, so we can only postpone it. Tomorrow night... oh , Tomorrow night is the church’s Orphanage Night Prayer Service, Dian said he wanted to see it, so it was finally decided to wait until the day after tomorrow.”
An Yu was confused, "What is silence?"
"It means cutting off the power, cutting off the signal and network, and stopping all activities. Everyone goes back to their homes and sleeps." Xi De yawned, "There are abnormal things happening in the two bait cities in the innermost circle very close to the main city. In an invasion, as usual, the main city will turn on the dome system to the maximum operating power and silence the whole city. Fortunately, there are no super abnormals this time, just some abnormal ones causing trouble, and the military personnel have almost cleaned up."
"Power outage?" An Yu was stunned for a moment, "Do you want to turn off the lights?"
"Well, what's wrong?" Xi De squeezed the empty can and threw it into the trash can far away. "It happens to be night, so turn off the lights and go to sleep. It won't affect you."
An Yu looked at the bare ice cream pole and said "oh" hesitantly.
*
At nine o'clock in the evening, nine warning sounds sounded over the main city, and then the whole world went dark in an instant.
There was still some moonlight outside. An Yu walked up to the top of the tower in the dark and looked out from the window - the entire main city was almost hidden under the night sky. The brightly lit high-rise buildings seemed to be missing, and the people on the road seemed to disappear in an instant. .
It was obviously just a power outage, but the sounds of the main city also stopped abruptly, and the huge feeling of an empty city was suppressed in the silence.
There were footsteps behind him. When he turned around, he was walking upstairs with two cans of Coke in his hands. He was stunned for a moment when he saw him.
"Are you here?" Bo paused, "Then I..."
"I'm leaving." An Yu said quickly, giving up the spot next to the window with the faint moonlight, "Come on."
Bo bowed his head respectfully. An Yu walked a few steps down the steps and was stopped by him again.
The whole steeple was silent, and Bakuya lowered his voice inadvertently, "I heard that the chief taught you a lesson today. How is his mood?"
An Yu thought for a while, "Sorry, I don't see anything unusual about him."
"That's good." Bo smiled silently, threw another can of Coke to him, and shook the drink at him, "Please talk to him more during class, thank you for your hard work."
"Okay." An Yu nodded, "He bought me ice cream."
After a pause, he added: "With my money."
Bo Chang breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good, thank you for telling me."
As he spoke, he bowed to An Yu, then turned to drink Coke out the window in a daze.
An Yu stayed there for a while, not realizing that the other party had any intention of paying for the officer, so he could only go downstairs.
The terminal had no signal and was offline. He returned to the door of his room with the faint light of the screen - there was an extra box on the ground at the door, which was the new gloves he bought for his superior.
The entire 199th floor was also dark. The door to the officer's room was closed tightly, and no sound came from inside.
An Yu hesitated for a moment, then opened the door and returned to his room.
In the darkness, Qin Zhilu lay quietly on the bed.
His new terminal was out of power—the subject of supervision, who had no common sense in using electronic products, had obviously been playing with it for a long time after getting it and forgot to charge it. There was no light source in the entire room at this moment, so I could only close my eyes and listen to my own breathing.
The familiar smell of ointment came from the pillow. Qin Zhilu turned sideways with his eyes closed, took off his gloves, unscrewed the cap, scooped out a lump, and applied it to the broken skin on the heel of his palm.
The gene induction test will cause a large amount of subcutaneous bleeding throughout the body. Although the brain medical staff will take good care of the injury after the test is over, some bruises will delay the bursting of the skin, often bursting again within a few days after the test ends. Small wounds.
Qin Zhilu thought it was a natural phenomenon before, but after meeting An Yu, his idea was shaken again - in Area 53, he had been paying attention to the large bruises on An Yu's abdomen, and those terrifying purple-red colors were only separated by one layer. With his shockingly thin skin, he thought that An Yu would burst out of blood at any time, but he didn't hold on until the end - all the wounds on his body were caused by fighting, and the human body was the same as the soul in the body. The same, looks extremely fragile, but has extraordinary resilience.
He closed his eyes and turned back to the lying position, recalling the regular "hoo-hoo-" sounds made by An Yu when he was sleeping, trying to ignore the headache and brewing sleepiness.
Suddenly there was a cautious knock on the door.
Du, du.
Qin Zhilu, who had his eyes closed, frowned deeply. For a moment, his consciousness was in a trance, thinking that he was back in the laboratory.
"Sir." A low voice sounded from outside the door, as if afraid of being heard by him.
Qin Zhilu paused for a few seconds, then sat up suddenly and looked at the door in shock.
"Are you asleep?" The little animals outside seemed to have their ears pressed up, and there was a sound of rubbing on the door.
Qin Zhilu went down and opened the door. An Yu was standing at the door holding a candle, holding a huge black box in his other hand, and holding the octopus sleeping doll under his arm.
"Sir, I can't sleep."
The candlelight wavered gently in those golden eyes, looking as innocent as ever. He asked in a low voice with a hint of begging: "Can we stay together for a while?"
If Qin Zhilu met him for the first time, he would believe it.
Chapter 59 Main City·59
An Yu consciously occupied the sofa with his arms around the octopus doll.
Chen Nian's candle was placed on the bedside table. With the weak candlelight, Qin Zhilu took the gloves out of the box. There are several stacks of new gloves in the cabinet all the year round, and the pair on my hand was just put on today.
He calmly put on the one given to him by the person under supervision, but he was keenly aware of a slight difference.
There seems to be a slightly raised pattern on the pad of the right index finger.
He stretched his fingers to the candle flame and stared at the tiny snowflake.
"The staff said that you have a lot of the same windbreaker and gloves. So I made a mark so that you won't remember that I returned the gift of clothes you gave me in the future." An Yu paused and added in a low voice, "This customization costs 450 points."
Qin Zhilu rubbed the snowflake on his right index finger with his ungloved left hand, "If I remember correctly, I gave you 6 sets of polymer clothes."
"I know." An Yu looked away unconfidently, "I recently bought very expensive things from the poet. When the bakery makes more money, I can buy you a few more pairs."
"What did you buy?" Qin Zhilu asked casually.
"A book that teaches you how to win the lottery."
Qin Zhilu: "..."
An Yu said cautiously: "Now it seems that it should be of some use."
"Did you hit it?" Qin Zhilu asked.
