HISO Chapter 80
by VolareYu An froze in place.
The other person inadvertently raised his eyes, seemingly trying to look over here through the light snow.
“…” Yu An’s heart pounded heavily several times. His legs trembling, he immediately darted to the side, quickly shrinking into the corner of the wall.
A gentle breeze swept past.
Light snow fluttered and fell onto his hair.
Xie Jinsheng’s dark eyes, reflecting a bit of snow light in the distance, appeared even more profound.
Clearly, there was a scenery of winter chrysanthemums blooming on the hillside ahead, but he only stared at the slightly messy footprints in the corner, looking at them for a long time.
So, he was hiding here.
He’d been searching for him for a long time just now.
Was he trying to hide from him again?
Too bad. This time, it wasn’t something he could avoid just by wanting to.
Xie Jinsheng retracted his gaze, but the light in his eyes silently deepened. Then, he lifted his foot and walked towards the assembly point of Shadow Chaser Squad 1.
At this moment, Yu An in the corner of the wall didn’t dare to breathe loudly. Only after seeing the man’s tall and broad figure disappear on the hillside did he dare to cautiously stick his head out.
[Host, what’s wrong with you?] 089 had just gone to scout the nearby terrain. When it returned and saw its host looking so nervous, it was a bit puzzled.
Until it caught a trace of the sandalwood scent in the air, it exclaimed internally and its CPU nearly exploded.
No way, they ran into him again?
Was that tentacle monster secretly following its host?!
Otherwise, how could it be so coincidental every time?
Anyone who didn’t know better would probably think there was some kind of magnetic attraction between its host and that monster!
Yu An pursed his red lips and squatted in the corner, seemingly comforting himself, softly saying, “Maybe… he was just passing by.”
Ever since they met at Utopia.
He had guessed that Xie Jinsheng becoming a mercenary was probably to better conceal his monster identity and more easily kill infected creatures to recover his memory.
After all, for that tentacle monster.
Memory was the most important thing.
But Xie Jinsheng didn’t like humans, so how could he endure the noise and crowd?
Maybe he came here and was acting alone, not following the main group.
Yu An thought of the other person’s solitary figure, like an isolated island, and for some reason, he felt a little unhappy.
But a moment later, he readjusted his mindset and walked towards the assembly point, listening to the horn.
Unexpectedly, among the twenty-odd people gathered, he saw a familiar figure.
“…”
The man had a perfect inverted triangle figure, broad shoulders, narrow waist, and a slender, powerful physique with a sense of explosive power and wildness. Even after changing into the mercenary uniform of Shadow Chaser Squad 1, he was still extraordinarily outstanding.
Yu An’s footsteps instantly froze, and his hanging heart completely died.
Was there some mistake? How, how could it be such a coincidence?
He was stunned. He subconsciously wanted to shrink under the big pine tree beside him, but he was spotted by the sharp-eyed vice-captain, who called out to him:
“Hey, you, hurry over here, don’t dawdle. We’re leaving soon. Being a deserter is punished!”
At that moment, Xie Jinsheng seemed to have heard it too, and looked over here.
It was clearly a cold and weary glance.
“…” Yu An inexplicably felt that this gaze contained some kind of scorching temperature, causing a slight tremor down his spine. He quickly lowered his small face.
The vice-captain looked at his thin, weak appearance, like a “small Alpha” here to feed the infected creatures. In the end, he couldn’t bear it and sighed, “Forget it, you two new guys, you can ride in the same SUV as me and Duo Xiao later.”
Two new guys… which two?
Yu An was stunned for a few seconds, inexplicably having a bad feeling.
Suddenly, he heard footsteps, the subtle sound of long boots stepping in the snow. A moment later, a low and pleasant voice sounded behind him.
“Mm.”
Covered in thin ice, cold and indifferent.
It was Xie Jinsheng.
Yu An’s heart jumped. It took him a few seconds to react, and his brain returned to its normal level –
Actually, the place they were at was not a resource point, but the mercenary base, five hundred meters away from Bianhan Town.
Protective nets to prevent infected creatures were built around it. It was very safe and specifically used for assembly. They would find their own teams, divide into different groups, and head to the Abyss Canyon.
There were precious herbs, flower seeds, or strange plants there, as well as infected creature crystal cores, etc. It was one of the important resource locations, and also the target location this time.
It was at least 120 kilometers away from here and required a technological energy SUV to get there.
In other words, he was going to be in a closed vehicle space with Xie Jinsheng… for at least one or two hours?!
Just thinking about it made Yu An’s palms sweat. He wanted to speak, but was rejected by the vice-captain. Finally, he couldn’t help but say:
“089, is it too late for me to give up my fake-A disguise and leave now?”
He admitted that although the valley incident wasn’t pleasant, and there was the later incident of touching abs and being touched on the butt, it wasn’t impossible to meet Xie Jinsheng.
It was just a bit awkward.
But after last night’s chaos and that dream.
Yu An felt that everything was different.
It seemed that getting closer to Xie Jinsheng would cause something to gradually get out of control. This was a feeling he had never had in over a hundred years.
He had truly and deeply experienced it with Xie Jinsheng.
Strangeness gives people a sense of the unknown, and when facing the unknown, a person’s first instinct is to retreat. What’s more, these were emotions that a transmigrating host of the Space-Time Bureau shouldn’t have.
[It’s impossible, Host.] 089 said, [Mercenaries who leave the team are in violation of regulations.]
Besides, you’ve put so much effort into leaving this town along the way. Would you really be willing to give up halfway?
Forget it.
Anyway, he was disguised so well, Xie Jinsheng probably wouldn’t recognize him.
Just act like a passerby and get through this.
Yu An struggled internally for a long time, took a few deep breaths, and couldn’t stand in the cold wind any longer, so he walked towards the SUV.
The vice-captain and Zhong Duoxiao were still outside inspecting the team, probably wouldn’t be up for a while.
At this moment, Xie Jinsheng was already in the car.
One side of the glass wasn’t closed. The man in the back seat had distant and profound eyes and brows, with an outstanding appearance and a cold temperament. For some reason, he kept turning his eyes and staring out the window.
Yu An actually wanted to go to the front passenger seat, but he couldn’t open the door because he knew it was locked. So, he went to the back seat with the mentality of facing death.
Isn’t it just acting?
He had survived so many explosive and difficult situations in previous planes. He could definitely pass this test of facing Xie Jinsheng this time.
But one minute after getting in, Yu An regretted it.
Because the car was too quiet.
Xie Jinsheng’s presence was too strong, and he was also idly tapping his knuckles on the edge of the car window, constantly making subtle noises.
It fell into Yu An’s ears and was extremely sensitive, even his waist unconsciously tensed.
It felt like the sound of footsteps when capturing prey, slowly, gradually approaching him.
… As expected of a 3S-level tentacle monster Alpha.
Even an inadvertent action carried a huge sense of aggression from a top predator.
Yu An’s gaze was fixed on a point in nothingness, not daring to move.
Until something hit the car window. Thinking about it, it should be a pine branch that fell off, but at that moment, he mistakenly thought something had happened to Xie Jinsheng and subconsciously looked over.
And so, he unexpectedly met Xie Jinsheng’s gaze in the reflection of the glass.
The man’s eyes were dark, and the beauty mark added a bit of coldness, but his eyes were staring straight at him.
Yu An was slightly stunned. In an instant, a strange thought popped into his mind.
—He didn’t seem to be looking out the window.
He was looking at him through the reflection of the glass!
Yu An felt a pang of heart, quickly twisted his neck, wanting to avoid his gaze.
But because the movement arc was too large, he accidentally twisted it, causing him to cry out “Ah” in pain, and he clutched his side neck.
When he came back to his senses, Yu An realized something was wrong and quickly returned to cover his mouth.
The young man’s thin and fragile body trembled slightly. Afraid of being recognized, he shrunk up like a quail, wanting to reduce his presence and pretend he hadn’t cried out.
Xie Jinsheng: “…”
Did he look very fierce, or was he some kind of beast that would eat him and not spit out the bones?
As for…
Being in a car with him made him so nervous?