Chapter 8

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Seeing the lights on in the villa from a distance, Shen Shanwu vaguely felt that something was about to happen. He bit the bullet and walked forward two steps, only to be grabbed by Yao Wuque, who jumped out of nowhere. Now he could confirm that a catastrophe was approaching.

Shen Shanwu pretended to be hurt and shouted, “It hurts! It hurts! It’s swollen!”

“You still know how to feel pain! Yet you dare to jump out of the window and escape?!”

“I didn’t…”

“Wuque.” Zhong Yin suddenly put one hand to her ear and said, “The lieutenant told us to stop searching and go back.”

“What?” Yao Wuque was surprised, “But didn’t we find him…should we take him back?”

“…” Zhong Yin was silent for a while, then said, “Take it, if the captain says no, we will press him out of the door and let him go.”

Shen Shanwu: “…”

Brother Shanwu holds a grudge very well, so you two won’t have a better life in the future.

Yao Wuque understood the lieutenant’s order as Jiang Tong had “fallen out of favor,” so his hands were heavy. Shen Shanwu felt very low in pain, but this did not prevent him from having five red fingerprints on his arm, and the visual effect was very impactful.

“Captain! I brought the kid back!” Yao Wuque excitedly carried Shen Shanwu into the door, and the first person to greet him was Xiaowen. She quickly ran to the entrance and asked eagerly, “Are you hurt? Are you cold? Are you hungry?”

“No, no, I’m in good health. I’m hungry—”

“I asked Jiang Tong.”

“…”

Shen Shanwu didn’t answer. He missed Xiaowen and looked at Jiang Huan sitting in the hall. Since he entered the door, the other party’s gaze had fallen on him by mistake. There was no expression on his face; he didn’t know what he was thinking.

Xiaowen pursed his lips, patted Shen Shanwu on the shoulder, pushed the person in the direction of the living room, and nagged as she walked, “You kid really… Can’t you just say if you want to go? We didn’t really kidnap you. You even had to jump out of the window at night to escape. We were all worried to death. If you make the captain sad like this again in the future, your sister Xiaowen will not be the first to forgive you.”

Shen Shanwu took off his mask and coat. The former was destroyed and the latter was put in the disinfection cabinet. He walked in front of Jiang Huan in a small step, deliberately hissed before standing still, rubbed his wrists subconsciously, and quickly put his arms behind his back.

“…what’s the matter?” Jiang Huan asked blankly, Shen Shanwu shook his head, “It’s nothing.”

A slender and powerful hand stretched out in front of him, with the palm upward, silently waiting for Shen Shanwu to put his hand up. Shen Shanwu hesitated for a few seconds, and finally raised his right hand. Jiang Huan lifted his sleeve and saw five horribly swollen finger marks.

“Pfft…” Yao Wuqu, who was drinking water from the side, choked to tears in an instant, and Zhong Yin quickly motioned to him with her eyes that they should slip away quickly, so that even if there was punishment, they could suffer it tomorrow.

Xiao-Omnipotent-wen pulled out the medicinal oil and hot towel just in time. She wanted to give Shen Shanwu medicine, but Jiang Huan personally picked up the medicine, poured it in his palm, and gently held Shen Shanwu’s thin wrist that seemed to break with a pinch.

Jiang Huan didn’t speak, and Shen Shanwu didn’t know what to say. The two sat and stood, one looking down at the other’s hand, and the other looking at the bridge of the other’s nose and eyelashes from top to bottom.

At this time, the only third person, Zhang Xiaowen, looked very embarrassed. She regretted that she stayed to watch the ’father and son’ mime instead of leaving with Yao Wuque and Zhong Yin. Fortunately, after a while, the lieutenant walked down because he was not at ease, and they were able to form an alliance of brothers and sisters to enjoy the beautiful scenery in front of them.

After not seeing him for many years, the changes on Jiang Huan’s face were very obvious, and the childishness that belonged to the teenager in his facial features completely faded, replaced by a manly and resolute silhouette.

Shen Shanwu observed quietly until Jiang Huan finished rubbing the medicated oil, wiped his hands clean, and raised his eyes to meet his. He saw the inviting lips slightly open, and then heard a sigh in his ears and then Jiang Huan’s very depressed voice.

“…are you so unwilling?”

“…”

“If you really,” Jiang Huan closed his eyes, “really don’t want to stay…”

Shen Shanwu put down his sleeves and covered his wrists. The smell of medicinal oil was very pungent to the mutant’s sense of smell, but Shen Shanwu thought it smelled pretty good.

“No,” he said, “I just went back and said goodbye to my friends, took… and divided something.” The latter sentence was purely to hide why the black backpack, which he regarded as a family heirloom, disappeared.

Hearing this, Jiang Huan’s eyes became dark and heavy. He didn’t say anything. Instead, the lieutenant asked suspiciously, “Why don’t you talk to us about this kind of thing during the day? You had to sneak out in the middle of the night.”

“Because you will definitely say that children wandering in the outer area can have anything to take, and if they lack anything, they can buy better ones in the future.” Shen Shanwu complained about half-truth and half-false. This was a real event he had encountered in the end times, and it was directly applicable to him.

The lieutenant was dumbfounded for a moment, and then heard Xiaowen ask, “Jiang Tong, what exactly is in your black backpack? Sister is so curious.”

“All the things you would say are rubbish… you will definitely laugh at me when you see it.” Shen Shanwu muttered and moved his gaze away.

What’s the difference between saying this and not saying anything? Xiaowen and the lieutenant glanced at each other and looked at their captain one after another, while Jiang Huan calmly changed the subject, obviously unwilling to delve into it at all, he asked lightly, “Then have you got everything you want to bring?”

“…got it.”

“Then go to bed early and postpone our departure by one hour tomorrow.” Jiang Huan stood up and took the lead to the stairs. Shen Shanwu hurriedly declared behind him, “Captain Jiang, I am willing to go with you, but I must emphasize that I will only call you captain, not others.”

“Whatever you want.” Jiang Huan didn’t stop, and he didn’t seem to care about it at all.

Shen Shanwu let go of his mind, turned his head and began to say goodbye to the demon. He dragged Xiaowen’s clothes and said obediently, “That…can I not sleep with the brother before? He is so fierce…”

In Shen Shanwu’s vision, this time they would explain that Yao Wuque was a knife-mouthed tofu heart, but in fact he was a good person, and then he would nod in a strong and sensible manner and say, “Well, then I will be more careful in the future and stop making my brother angry.”

For a while, the villa will be overflowing with tea.

As Shen Shanwu expected, Xiaowen touched his hair and smiled, “It’s okay, Wuque is good, don’t be afraid…”

But unexpectedly, Jiang Huan turned his head from standing on the stairs and said condescendingly, “Then come and sleep with me.”

Shen Shanwu: “…” No, you are even more terrifying!

Without waiting for Shen Shanwu’s reaction, Jiang Huan had already stretched out his hand to him sideways, with the cold and strong voice unique to the superior, and he could not refuse, “Come here.”

“…” Shen Shanwu picked up a stone and shot himself in the foot. In desperation, he could only bite the bullet. Jiang Huan seemed to think he was dawdling. After reaching an arm’s distance, he actually bent over and hooked Shen Shanwu’s back directly, dragging his thigh with one hand, and picked the person up.

In order to stabilize his body balance, Shen Shanwu subconsciously put his arms around Jiang Huan’s neck in a daze. Since he was a child, he had never been hugged like this. Jiang Huan had good arm strength. Shen Shanwu’s thoughts diverged for a while, but he was directly hugged back to the room by Jiang Huan without saying a word.

Xiaowen didn’t even have time to ask if the bed was still in Yao Wuque’s room. Then how would the kid sleep? The door was closed by Jiang Huan without looking back.

There was indeed only one bed in the room, but it was much larger than the other rooms, and it was more than enough to sleep two adults. Jiang Huan hung the cloak in the closet and said to Shen Shanwu, who was sitting by the bed in a daze, “Do you need me to take off your clothes?”

“…” Shen Shanwu neatly took off his protective clothing and got into the quilt. He didn’t know how many times he and Jiang Huan had slept in the same bed before, but now the two of them had exchanged body types.

Xiao Jiang Huan’s sleeping posture was extremely poor. Shen Shanwu woke up countless mornings, either seeing the short-handed and short-legged Xiao Jiang Huan grabbing him like a sloth, or finding him curled up and dying in his arms.

But this time today… It seems a bit different?

Turning off the light, Shen Shanwu quietly looked at the person on the pillow in the dark. The other party was lying flat in a regular sleeping position, with his hands clasped in front of his abdomen. He looked like a missionary, as if the holy light would light up on his head in the next second.

He closed his eyes and waited for a long time, until Jiang Huan’s breathing completely stabilized, and he didn’t see any change in the other party’s sleeping position.

How could a person change so much? Shen Shanwu was very puzzled, but he had to say that the bed the captain slept in was much more comfortable than the temporary marching bed. Shen Shanwu couldn’t figure it out and didn’t want to, so he fell asleep safely in a comfortable position.

At six o’clock in the morning the next day, Shen Shanwu was woken up reluctantly by Yao Wuque. The other person, who was next to him last night, got up and dressed half an hour ago. At that time, Shen Shanwu woke up but didn’t want to get up. After all, staying in bed was a requirement for every hunk.

Yao Wuque muttered, holding a medicinal oil with a stinky face, sitting on the head of the bed and asking Shen Shanwu to stretch out his paws. Xiaowen explained behind him, “The captain asked Wuque to give you medicine, saying that if it hurts you, he will be fined 50 frog jumps.”

“…” Shen Shanwu blinked. Yao Wuqu’s fingers were still a centimeter away from his wrist, but he already showed a painful face, “Um…”

“Fuck! I haven’t touched you yet, you scream!”

“Fifty.” Sister Xiaowen, the ruthless counting machine, was online.

“Sister Wen! This kid is playing with me!”

“Hurry up, if you linger any longer, you won’t be able to catch up with breakfast.”

Having no food was obviously a very deterrent threat. Yao Wuque could only hold Shen Shanwu’s wrist again with all his reluctance, rubbing it down as carefully as if he were caring for the most expensive porcelain.

“Hmm…”

“One hundred.”

“Brother, I know I’m wrong! Stop screaming!”

The corners of Shen Shanwu’s lips were raised, and he was merciful and didn’t hum anymore. After applying the medicine for the bruise, Yao Wuque went outside the villa with a sad face and began to frog jump around the small garden. Shen Shanwu was pulled by Xiaowen and pressed to the front of a pile of bottles and cans.

“This pure white bottle is an anti-radiation medicine, two capsules a day, once before going to bed and once in the morning; this red label is a cell enhancer, one capsule a day, and take it after breakfast; this large green bottle contains anti-radiation cream, at least three times in the morning, noon, and evening; replenish at any time; this black glass bottle is an anti-radiation injection, once a week, lift up your sleeves.”

“…”

“Your sister is a professional, and it won’t hurt at all.”

Shen Shanwu, a big man, was not afraid of pain, but it was a waste to give him these expensive medicines, and the mutant’s body would not absorb the effects at all… If he really wants to absorb it, it’s more troublesome, and he can’t tell what bad adverse reactions will occur.

The author has something to say: Be careful, green tea might shoot yourself in the foot.

Shen Shanwu: …fuck!