HISO Chapter 23

Chapter 23: Thinking of You When Sleeping

Looking at the table full of dishes, Yu An was bewildered.

He went to the back kitchen to confirm several times and heard that it was a gift from an event.

“When did I get so lucky?” he muttered doubtfully, glancing in Xie Jinsheng’s direction for a few seconds.

He then remembered how the other man had been in the Ruined City, slaughtering contaminated beasts and obtaining all advanced crystal cores.

Suddenly, he understood.

“…”

So rich.

“And also a good person,” an indescribable feeling arose in Yu An’s heart, and he had a new understanding of the Alpha who rarely showed emotions.

[Yes.]

— But only to you.

089 supplemented in his heart, its expression complex as it looked at Xie Jinsheng.

Could this amnesiac monster really be treating its host as his wife?

That night, Yu An ate his fill.

Finally, he didn’t have to live in the Ruined City eating compressed biscuits. When he finally wiped his mouth with a napkin, even his lower abdomen was slightly bulging.

Xie Jinsheng stared at the young man’s slightly bulging stomach for a while, his eyes darkening when he looked away.

By the end of dinner, the ticket supplementing situation was already down.

“These are your two room cards,” the conductor said.

“Okay,” Yu An accepted them.

He glanced at them, Xie Jinsheng’s was a different sleeping compartment.

Yu An secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, as a pure gay man, the last thing he wanted was to be on the same bed with a tentacled monster who was so good-looking and had such a great body but couldn’t be slept with. It was quite torturous.

So, Yu An was quite satisfied with this result.

“It seems we’ll have to live separately from now on,” Yu An said to Xie Jinsheng, “But it’s okay, I’ll miss you when I sleep.”

He said he would miss him, but when they arrived, the Omega slipped into the sleeper compartment in a puff of smoke. Not even looking back at him.

Xie Jinsheng: “…”

Especially when a young couple came along the aisle at this time.

“Honey, I’m afraid when I fall asleep in the middle of the night, what if we’re not in the same compartment?”

“It’s okay, baby, I’ll pry open the door to find you in the middle of the night, don’t be scared.”

“Isn’t it better if I leave the door open for you?”

“Don’t you think prying the door is more exciting? You’re asleep, you don’t even know when I came in…”

“Disgusting!”

The two young lovers walked away intimately, scattering dog food all over the place.

Xie Jinsheng: “…”

He suddenly felt a strong urge to tear down the wall in the middle of the two compartments.

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Yu An only had one thought when he moved into the compartment.

As expected of the high-tech post-apocalyptic era, it was too luxurious. Two beds, two tables, spacious and exquisite, and independent bathroom and toilet.

But…

Xie Jinsheng was nowhere to be seen again.

That man’s whereabouts were always strange, and Yu An was almost used to it.

Although he knew that the other party would not get off the train and would not reveal his identity even wearing a mask, he was still quite uncomfortable without a meal buddy.

The train traveled for eight or nine hours on the first day, then stopped in a Yunwan area for about two days.

It was said that there were too many contaminated beasts nearby, and some people were trapped in it and unable to board the train, so many soldiers went to rescue them.

Yu An saw Lin Si several times.

The young Alpha soldier was surrounded by a crowd, walking quickly, with a communicator in his hand, as if he was issuing some orders swiftly.

It wasn’t until the third day that the train started again.

And the empty berth in this compartment was also filled.

It was a thin Beta boy, wearing black-framed glasses, who was a survivor from Yunwan. Seeing him, he greeted him shyly: “Just call me Xiao Ji.”

“Yu An,” Yu An replied gently.

The temperature had dropped too fast in the past two days, and he was planning to get something from the storage locker when he accidentally almost dropped the blanket.

At this time, a pair of hands appeared in time to help him steady it.

It was Xiao Ji.

“Thank you.”

“You’re welcome,” Xiao Ji said, somewhat embarrassed, “Well, Yu An, do you have a pen? Can I borrow it? I accidentally lost my pen on the way, and now I want to write a letter.”

The train had free pens and paper.

Yu An had taken one when he had dinner with Xie Jinsheng before, “Here.”

Xiao Ji took it and thanked him very much.

Yu An then studied the little bear doll alarm in his hand.

This was also bought when he bought the mask for Xie Jinsheng, thinking of putting it on the table by the window after he fell asleep in the future, so that he could immediately sense any movement outside.

Yu An sighed as he looked at it.

To be honest, he missed Xie Jinsheng a little.

He wondered if the other party was used to living on the human train in the past few days.

“I’m done writing, thank you, Yu An,” Xiao Ji returned the pen to him.

Yu An accidentally saw the name on his envelope and was a little surprised: “Are you writing to yourself?”

“…Yes, it’s writing to myself a year from now,”

Xiao Ji scratched his head, seeming not very good at communicating with people, but Yu An’s conversation made him very happy, and he mustered a little courage to express his inner self:

“I hope that when I get to Rong Nan Base, my future self can work hard to be a good military doctor. Then my parents will be very happy when they know in heaven. The little bookworm they always protected has finally grown up and can stand alone… Am I disturbing you by talking too much.”

Xiao Ji said in horror.

“No, I’m listening seriously,” Yu An lowered his eyes, “I just didn’t expect…”

In such an apocalyptic era, there were still such energetic people.

He saw in his eyes the yearning for the future and infinite possibilities.

“You will succeed, I believe in you,” Yu An said sincerely.

“Really… You’re the first person to encourage me,” Xiao Ji met the young man’s eyes, his face suddenly turned a little red, and a sense of strength suddenly rose in his heart, “I will work hard! Yu An, thank you, I’m very happy to talk to you.”

“I’m also very happy to meet you, so shall we go to dinner together?”

Coincidentally, Yu An was also missing a meal buddy.

The two hit it off immediately.

Sure enough, the meal tasted much better when they went to the restaurant to eat.

However, during this process of eating with Xiao Ji, Yu An always felt that he was being stared at by some gaze.

A chill ran down his neck.

Thinking it was the temperature dropping, he quickly returned to the compartment with Xiao Ji.

In the corner, a man wearing a silver mask stared at the young man and the Beta approaching, his jawline tightened, his eyes full of gloom.

…He had only gone to Yunwan to kill a few contaminated beasts, but when he came back, he found that the young man was actually with someone else.

Heh, they were really close.

Nine o’clock in the evening.

After Yu An finished washing up, he lay on the berth, said good night to Xiao Ji, wrapped himself in a blanket, and curled up into a ball.

But before falling asleep, he couldn’t help but recall the scene of boarding the train before the rainstorm—

Although he had his eyes closed the whole time, he could feel the Alpha’s grip on his waist was very tight.

It was very reassuring.

Otherwise, he would go find Xie Jinsheng tomorrow, after all, he still had to maintain a good relationship.

Even if the other party’s whereabouts were unknown, he would always be able to wait for him by guarding the tree.

Thinking like this, Yu An fell asleep unconsciously.

He dreamed of irises blooming all over the ground.

At the end of the road, there was a mysterious woman wearing a blue cloak, holding an old-fashioned clock in her hand.

Time seemed to stagnate in her hands.

She stood under the holy light and her face could not be seen clearly, but her tone of speaking to him was kind and gentle, and also tinged with a bit of sadness:

“Child, you are the only one who can save him and this world, promise auntie, no matter what, you must give him a future, okay?”

In a daze, an ear-piercing alarm sounded in his ears.

Yu An woke up in shock and quickly turned on the light, seeing that the opposite of the berth was empty, Xiao Ji didn’t know where he had gone.

And the alarm outside the aisle hadn’t stopped.

It looked very urgent.

“089, what’s going on outside?”

Could it be that they ran into contaminated beasts again like in the original plot? But the time didn’t match.

Yu An’s heart was raised, inexplicably feeling a bad premonition.

[I… I don’t know either, there are some magnetic waves interfering with me…] 089 couldn’t receive a signal, [Host, I’ll go out and see what’s going on, you stay in the compartment and don’t move.]

“089, you have to be careful.”

After the system left, Yu An stuffed the top-quality crystal core used for defense into his pocket. He also searched around for tools and took the anti-contaminated beast spray in his hand.

He stared vigilantly at the position of the door.

Unexpectedly, at this time, the little bear alarm behind him made a “buzzing” sound.

It seemed that something was trying to push the glass window outside!

Yu An was frightened and trembled as he raised the spray.

But in the next second, he saw a familiar dark tentacle trying to pry open the window.

Yu An: “…”

After a while, it really pried it open, and taking advantage of the night, a tall and slender man turned over and entered the room.

But unexpectedly, in a certain moment, the moonlight flashed past the window.

“…”

The two faced each other, the scene was extremely silent.