Care Guide to Raising a Max Level Leaf in Apocalypse - 23
Si Yin Yuan quickly read through the two reports and remained unfazed. He asked, “What do you want to say?”
Hu Yan frowned, “The injuries on Fang Sheng’s body, apart from the ones that were disabled, were all caused by him, right?”
Fang Sheng was notorious in the base for being a scumbag, causing harm to many young girls and boys who looked good, but he had never been held accountable due to the lack of evidence and the indifference of the Security team and the Judicature, who were the only ones with the authority to deal with such matters. Hu Yan believed Fang Sheng deserved the beating he received, but he started to worry about his good friend when he saw the injury report.
To be able to beat an Awakener with the ability “Sharp Transformation” to such an extent without getting hurt at all, it indicated that Ji Jiu was not as harmless as he appeared.
While contemplating this, Si Yin Yuan felt that he should be cautious about the little guy they had picked up. However, his initial reaction was that Ji Jiu, who could stand up for himself, made him feel relieved.
This unfamiliar emotion was unexpectedly not unpleasant.
Hu Yan didn’t know about his friend’s inner conflict and thought that chief hunter had completely fallen for Ji Jiu, his judgment clouded by love.
He sighed with regret and pointed to another document, “We’ve given the original entity of ‘Dream Garden’ the designation B-480. You mentioned before that you suspected B-480 created a cage in the dream and ate it to create a hole big enough for a person to escape. However, in reality, it doesn’t have that ability. Apart from dreaming, B-480 is incapable of anything else. There was someone else who destroyed the cage in the dream.”
At the time, only Ji Jiu was present, and he had climbed into the cage himself.
Si Yin Yuan nodded, “Where did you get this injury report?”
Hu Yan knew that Si Yin Yuan wanted to help cover up for Ji Jiu, so he reluctantly explained, “They went to find Ruan Shuang.”
She was one of the base’s two Healing Awakeners. Si Yin Yuan wasn’t surprised that Fang Zhengzong sought her help since the other was protected by the Research Institute. Besides seeking help from Ruan Shuang, who also possessed the Regeneration ability, they had no other options.
However, from Hu Yan’s attitude, Si Yin Yuan knew that Fang Zhengzong didn’t get what he wanted.
Most likely, he wasn’t even allowed to see her.
Now that Fang Zhengzong had been overthrown, their enemies, the people who held grudges against them, would definitely not let them off.
A small cluster of golden flames flickered at Si Yin Yuan’s fingertips as he burned the injury report to ashes. He knew that Hu Yan had probably given him the original document.
Hu Yan sighed once again, “Forget it, I can’t persuade you. You’ve always been like this, once you’ve decided on a path, you’ll see it through. Take care of yourself.”
He waved his hand and walked away gracefully, followed by his assistant, Chen Ke, who was frantically holding a pile of documents.
Si Yin Yuan raised an eyebrow and whispered softly, “He’s different.”
The words dispersed in the wind, unheard by anyone.
…
When Si Yin Yuan found Ji Jiu, the latter was at a place selling spicy crayfish, holding a crayfish that had mutated to be even bigger and eating with delight.
He was covered in the spicy fragrance of the crayfish.
Seeing Si Yin Yuan, he waved happily, “You’re here! I thought I’d be left behind to do the dishes.”
Si Yin Yuan glanced at the pile of shells on the ground. “Where can I find a bowl for you to wash them?”
Ji Jiu took a bite of the white juicy meat and said, “It’s how they do it on TV.”
Unusually, there was a hint of headache onSi Yin Yuan’s face as he pulled him up. “Who has been showing you these strange TV dramas?”
Ji Jiu thought silently, of course, it’s you.
Encountering a host who liked to keep the TV on 24 hours a day, the little grass was also helpless.
If you can’t beat them, join them. He particularly liked the melodramatic channels in the evening.
After paying, they packed up all the remaining crayfishes from the stall and slowly made their way back home with the setting sun. Occasionally,Ji Jiu would playfully step on the man’s shadow, but he was domineering and did not allow the man to step on his shadow, like a playful kitten extending its claws.
There were still some people marching on the road, demanding the trial and execution of Fang Zhengzong. Many ordinary people who had been humiliated by the guard squad wanted justice.
Everywhere was chaotic and noisy, and some people even took advantage of the situation to rob and create unrest. The leaflets with white background and red characters were thrown everywhere.
The words on them were trampled, and those who had initially distributed them no longer cared. They only wanted to gain benefits from the fallen guard squad.
As they passed through these people,Ji Jiu appeared completely indifferent.
To be honest, as a little grass, he was only interested in his owner and food. Many human affairs were not as important to him as a small crayfish.
…
After taking a shower, Ji Jiu skillfully carried a pillow and knocked on Si Yin Yuan’s door.
The little grass was always spoiled and arrogant. Sharing a bed would either happen zero times or countless times.
He washed away the spicy crayfish smell on his body, but he forgot one important thing.
The mutation made the fragrance of the chinese violet flower even more alluring. Previously, it had been masked by the smell of the spicy crayfish, but it persisted and emerged again after the shower.
If Ji Jiu had only eaten a little, maybe the smell could be washed away, but he had happily eaten all the stored chinese violet in the church, even the offerings to the Holy Lord.
Thinking about how the strange masked man would react when he found out, the mischievous little grass was quite pleased.
So now, just by getting close and smelling, one could detect the faint floral fragrance on Ji Jiu.
He entered Si Yin Yuan’s room ignorantly and playfully rolled on his bed. He tried to mark his territory again by rubbing his own pheromones on it.
After playing for a while, he patted the bed, and his eyes gleamed brightly. “Come, let’s sleep!”
While lying down,Si Yin Yuan turned his head to say something but his eyes instantly darkened, “What’s that smell?”
The young man’s fair and elegant neck was emitting a faint fragrance at this moment.
If it were someone else, they might easily mistake it for the scent of some kind of floral perfume. However, since the apocalypse, Si Yin Yuan had been dealing with mutants. He had crawled and fought through them, even slaying countless mutants. In the early days of the apocalypse, he witnessed many of his comrades torn apart by mutants right before his eyes. Whenever he closed his eyes, all he saw was himself locked in a deadly struggle with mutants, his body soaked in his teammates’ blood.
This was a hatred deeply ingrained in his memory, and he had almost an instinctive intuition when it came to mutants.
“Chinese Violet.” Si Yin Yuan’s expression darkened with a storm brewing. “Why do you have the scent of this mutant on you?”
This was a plant-based mutant that only existed in the “Wasteland.”
He could accept that Ji Jiu had his own little secrets, perhaps some other ability or a means of self-preservation, but he couldn’t accept any connection between the young man and mutants.
In an instant, he realized that he knew nothing about Ji Jiu.
A strong and sudden restlessness surged within him.
The man’s hand slowly placed itself on the fair neck, gently caressing the most dangerous artery.
In a position hidden from Ji Jiu’s view, Si Yin Yuan’s eyes were shadowed, revealing a hint of madness as he whispered softly, “Good boy, where does this scent come from?”