AGTCTCC Chapter 21
by VolareChapter 21: I Don’t Like You
Chu Qi collected his thoughts, staring at the man before him. He raised his hand, and a gun materialized out of nowhere, its dark muzzle pointed directly at Xiang Li.
Chu Qi: “I’m not in the mood to play games with you.”
“After all these years, you still haven’t learned how to treat a guest.”
Xiang Li wore a regretful expression, but in the next second, he appeared behind Chu Qi, gripping his hand, loading the gun, and firing.
The bullet neatly shattered a vase, sending shards of porcelain scattering across the floor.
Chu Qi closed his eyes, his chest rising and falling slowly, ignoring Xiang Li’s breath in his ear. “What did you come here for?”
“Xiang Li’s plan is to enter the lab.” Xiang Li revealed his plan to Chu Qi without reservation.
“So, I came.”
Chu Qi asked, “What is your relationship with him?”
“Relationship?”
He walked back to the sofa in two steps, resting an elbow on its armrest, staring at the high-ranking Chu Qi with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, and thought for two seconds.
“Maybe the relationship is that the thigh he’s hugging is my best friend?”
“You are…” Chu Qi couldn’t bring himself to say the last two words.
“A bad guy?” Xiang Li supplied for him, chuckling.
“Just teasing you when you were little, you actually took it seriously?”
Those words felt like a slap in the face, mocking Chu Qi’s naivety, that after all these years, he could still believe him.
Chu Qi put away the gun in his hand. The other man simply watched his movements in silence, not saying a word.
“You’re entering the lab. Is your goal the same as his?” Chu Qi asked.
“Same.”
“What is his goal?”
“…” Xiang Li raised an eyebrow, straightening up. Just when Chu Qi thought he wouldn’t answer, the other man’s voice came, muffled.
“To get the antidote.”
Chu Qi turned to “Wu Zhen” and asked, “What do you want to do?”
Xiang Li pondered for two seconds, tilted his head, and said jokingly, “I want you to look at me?”
As the words fell, the surrounding air seemed to freeze. The two men, one standing above and the other below, stared at each other, neither speaking.
“Bad guy.”
After a long while, Chu Qi added the two words he hadn’t been able to say earlier.
Xiang Li’s brow twitched, his tone drawn out as he softly hummed. “You have keen eyes, Commander. I’m a great—good person—”
*Knock knock!*
The doorbell suddenly rang.
“Chu Qi, we’re here!”
Shen Gui’s voice came through the monitor, interrupting the strange atmosphere between the two men.
Chu Qi took a few shallow breaths, closed his eyes, and felt like his head was about to explode. When he opened them again, the man who had been sitting on the sofa had already strode over and opened the door.
“Hi, you must be little Chu Qi’s friends, come in, come in, come in.”
Xiang Li pretended not to know them, acting as if he were the owner of the house, enthusiastically welcoming them.
Shen Gui, whose face had been plastered to the monitor, immediately grinned when he heard the door open, but his smile faded when he heard the unfamiliar voice.
“You, are?”
Outside the door, a bewildered Sang Quan Shi Li asked, while Xing Zi Mu already had an icy expression on his face, and Shen Gui was about to shove his face into Xiang Li’s after his smile disappeared.
Inside the door, the enthusiastic Xiang Li (scratch that), now called Wu Zhen, was acting like he owned the place, while the real owner of the house, Chu Qi, looked like he was in a lot of pain.
“I’m Wu Zhen, Chu Qi’s best friend.”
“?”
The three men’s gazes all fell on a certain commander, their expressions colorful.
“Get out.” Chu Qi said coldly.
“Wu Zhen, the child kidnapper who I thought had died long ago, who tried to get the kid to call him dad.” Chu Qi introduced seriously.
“.”
“!”
“!?!”
“!!!!”
Xiang Li touched his nose with some guilt, as if there was such a thing. Besides, wasn’t it because he saw that this child had lost his father, and his father had saved him, that he thought of taking care of him?
He held a grudge.
So much so that later, when Chu Qi knew that he was Xiang Li, he never refuted it when people thought he was his illegitimate son or something.
Leaving a certain “illegitimate son” silently breaking down. Of course, that’s a story for another time.
“Cough.” Xiang Li coughed softly twice, putting on a dignified smile that he thought looked decent, and fabricated, “I still have experiments to do, I’ll be leaving first.”
“…Oh, goodbye.” Sang Quan Shi Li hadn’t reacted yet, and obediently said goodbye.
Xiang Li said he had experiments he hadn’t finished, and to complete the act, he really went to the lab.
“Beep~”
After the work card was scanned correctly, the door of the lab opened. On the surface, it was Xiang Li’s second time there, but he had walked through it countless times in secret, so he was quite familiar with it.
Sometimes, when he found himself walking faster than the robot, he would deliberately stop by the bare wall and pretend to admire it.
After the robot caught up with him, he would follow it as if nothing had happened.
“Wu Zhen’s here!”
Professor Lai noticed Wu Zhen and smiled, taking the initiative to speak.
“Your experimental results, take a look, I can almost reach perfection.”
Xiang Li was also wearing a white coat, and his wrists and neck were also fitted with clasps. He pulled at his collar uncomfortably.
“Mm.”
Professor Lai: “Where did you go this morning?”
Xiang Li: “I went to see Commander Chu.” Xiang Li took over the experiment in his hand.
Professor Lai also didn’t let him take over the main experiments, only letting him do some crystal extraction experiments, claiming that the perfect experimental materials could greatly improve the success rate of the experiment.
“You two?”
Professor Lai stared at the movement in his hand, and looked up in shock when he heard the words, and then instantly lowered his head again to avoid missing any movement.
Xiang Li’s beautiful hands controlled the glass instruments, his expression indifferent.
“Mm, he likes me, he wants to be close to me.”
“…”
Professor Lai couldn’t help but look up at Xiang Li when he heard the words.
After the experimental results came out, he took out an instrument again and carefully packed it up.
Xiang Li quietly watched him admire it, until Professor Lai sighed.
“Your talent is really good.”
Xiang Li didn’t care much about this sentence. He had been trained one-on-one by Yan Zhou Ping for a few nights, just to do an experiment.
Nothing else, just practice makes perfect.
Professor Lai waved to the side: “Qin Lai, come and take him, teach him the experiment at hand.”
“Okay.”
The person pointed to by Professor Lai raised his head from a pile of experimental data, pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, and nodded in response.
Xiang Li tilted his head, and the other party nodded to him, as a greeting.
After Professor Lai left, he placed a container containing fragments of a Polluted Entity on the experimental table in front of Xiang Li.
Qin Lai: “This is No. 19, have you ever been in contact with a Polluted Entity?”
Xiang Li said indifferently: “I’ve killed a few.”
“Okay, experienced.” Qin Lai commented, looking Xiang Li up and down from head to toe.
“Do you like men?”
“?” Xiang Li was stunned by this sentence.
“Don’t you like them? I just heard you say that Commander Chu likes you, I thought you liked him too.”
Qin Lai looked quite regretful.
Xiang Li: “…?”
Qin Lai continued to ask: “If you don’t like him, would you consider me?”
Xiang Li: “???”
At this moment, Professor Lai, who was holding a teacup in his office, thought silently: People with the same interests should be able to chat very well.
Xiang Li pushed away Qin Lai, who was getting closer and closer to him, his face numb: “I don’t like men.”
“Don’t like them?” Qin Lai looked puzzled, but just shrugged.
“Then when you like men, remember to consider me first.”
Xiang Li: “…”
I must take a few more showers tonight.
After finishing, Xiang Li, smelling like he had been in the office all day, went to a certain commander’s house first.
Xiang Li felt disgusted all over. Chu Qi’s house was in the main star city, much closer than Yan Zhou Ping’s house that was about to leave the barrier.
“Why are you here again?”
Chu Qi looked at Xiang Li, who had just left during the day and came again at night, with a dark face.
Xiang Li smiled and squeezed in.
“Commander Chu, I’m here to take a shower, you don’t mind, right?”
Chu Qi was stunned, and just for a moment, Xiang Li had already squeezed in.
Xiang Li skillfully went into “Xiang Li’s” room, took a shower, and didn’t forget to bring a mask when he came out. He didn’t wear “Xiang Li’s” pajamas, but wrapped a bath towel around his lower body.
After coming out, he didn’t find Chu Qi in the living room, turned around and went to Chu Qi’s room. Now he was “Wu Zhen,” he had always barged in directly when he was a child, so he still did.
He opened the door and didn’t see Chu Qi. Just as Xiang Li entered the room, before he could do anything, the bathroom door was pushed open.
Chu Qi: “?”
He had also just taken a shower. Perhaps he didn’t expect Xiang Li to be in his room, but he quickly understood.
A towel, half-wet from wiping his hair, was held in his hand, his hair was half-dry, and a white bathrobe covered him tightly. His slender, slightly muscular calves were exposed to the air, with a few streaks of water running down them.
Xiang Li stared at Chu Qi, his eyes unblinking. If it had been usual, he would have leaned over and smiled, but now his mind was full of Qin Lai’s sentence from the day, “Do you like men?”
Does he like men?
Xiang Li: “I don’t like you.”
Chu Qi’s hand that was wiping his hair paused, and the fingers holding the white towel slowly tightened.
His expression remained unchanged: “.”
Xiang Li turned his head away, not looking at him, swallowed a mouthful of saliva after a long while, coughed softly twice, with a hint of trying to hide something.
Chu Qi continued to wipe his hair.
“That’s Xiang Li’s, my house has four rooms.”
Hearing Chu Qi mention his name, Xiang Li couldn’t help but curl his lips. He took two steps forward, but stopped two steps away from Chu Qi after realizing it.
“Then where am I going to stay tonight?”
Xiang Li lowered his head, not looking at the person who was “trying so hard” to seduce him, and asked, completely forgetting that he had only come to someone’s house to take a shower.
“My house has four rooms.” Chu Qi repeated.
Xiang Li: “I’m not used to staying in a room that someone else has stayed in.”
Chu Qi’s thoughts were still on Xiang Li’s sentence just now, and he said unceremoniously, “Then sleep on the floor.”
Xiang Li reacted for two seconds, and asked out of the blue, “Can’t I sleep on the ceiling?”
Chu Qi glanced at him, as if he had thought of the child who had tricked him and ran away. “Someone has slept on the ceiling before.”
“…”
In the end, Xiang Li was chased by Chu Qi to sleep in “Xiang Li’s” room. Thirty minutes later, Chu Qi lay on the bed, staring at someone who suddenly appeared in his room: “…”
Someone was not aware of it and got into Chu Qi’s quilt on his own, covered himself up, and also covered his head tightly.
Chu Qi was annoyed and angry: “Wu Zhen!”
“Can’t hear, can’t hear, my ears are off work!” Xiang Li played rogue.
“How old are you?”
Chu Qi suddenly remembered and asked.
Xiang Li was six hundred and twenty-nine years old, and the bulging person in front of him not only knew Yan Zhou Ping, but also knew Xiang Li.
Although he also felt that the other person’s appearance had changed, it shouldn’t be so young.
“…”
“I guess you’re about the same age as Xiang Li.”
“…”
“Why can you all live so long?”
“…”
“What is the antidote for you? Do you have friends who have been infected?”
“…”
“Wu Zhen…”
Xiang Li lifted the quilt, wrapped the commander up, and pressed him down. He took two deep breaths, gritted his teeth: “Go to sleep, Commander.”
The commander raised his eyebrows, his hands pressed under the quilt by the person on top of him. He didn’t struggle, staring at Xiang Li expressionlessly, seemingly calm, but actually with a storm hidden in his eyes.
“Wu Zhen, do you know how I’ve been these past few years?”