Care Guide to Raising a Max Level Leaf in Apocalypse - 36
The scent
Lan Fei waited for a while, but the incredibly handsome man, almost like a deity, didn’t spare him a single glance. He had no choice but to awkwardly climb to his feet, reluctant to leave. He lingered with an affectionate gaze fixed on the man.
That look was enough to make anyone feel as if they were deeply loved and unable to resist, sending shivers down their spine.
In his line of sight, Si Yin Yuan got up.
Lan Fei’s spirits lifted, about to say something, but he was brushed past by Si Yin Yuan and left standing there, staring as the man with the mask, exuding an air of elegance, walked over to the young man.
In a gentle, deep voice, he asked what was wrong.
Ji Jiu put down his hand, sounding a bit displeased. “I don’t know.”
Si Yin Yuan was very attentive. “Is it because the lights are bothering you?”
This blatant favoritism left Lan Fei’s expression behind him twisted with jealousy.
Why? They both rely on their looks; he was a minor male celebrity in the pre-apocalypse world. Lan Fei was very confident in his appearance, even under a mask, and he believed he could compete well with him. He assumed that Si Yin Yuan was a person of power and status, maybe even a formidable Awakened. After seeing Si Yin Yuan’s favoritism towards Ji Jiu, he was even more determined to win him over.
Who wouldn’t want to be liked by such an excellent man, even if it was just for a simple physical relationship?
However, before he could put his various dark and cunning schemes into action, Ji Jiu caught him off guard with a straightforward statement.
“I dislike him.”
He was direct and clear, his black-and-white eyes filled with pure dislike.
There was no intention to conceal it.
Lan Fei stood frozen in place. All his dark thoughts seemed particularly vile and elusive under this gaze. He stiffened for a moment, but inside, he felt a twisted sense of delight.
People like this were the easiest to be despised, and it was a good opportunity for him to rise in status.
Before he could even open his mouth to perform his act of grievance, Ji Jiu accused him again, “He’s still secretly cursing me in his heart!”
The ittle grass was highly sensitive to human malice.
Lan Fei immediately exclaimed loudly, “How could you say that about me!”
He looked tearfully at Si Yin Yuan, attempting to elicit sympathy.
Ji Jiu became even more unhappy, clenching his little fist as if he were about to confront someone.
However, someone was quicker than him. In a flash of red, Lan Fei was suddenly picked up and thrown out.
When that man was kicked by Si Yin Yuan onto the cart, all the alcohol on the cart was spilled, and whether intentionally or not, he landed right on the filthy stuff. His one and only presentable suit was now ruined.
Lan Fei immediately forgot his act and screamed loudly, his voice grating and unpleasant.
Ji Jiu’s eyes lit up. “Yao—”
“Shh.” Feng Chuyao raised a finger and gently placed it in front of her red lips. “Here, please call me Lucy.”
Yu Feichen couldn’t help but let out a cold laugh. “Hah.”
Then, he received a fierce glare from Feng Chuyao.
No one cared about Lan Fei, who had been thrown out. People were screaming all over the place at the carnival, venting loudly, and no one paid any attention to him.
Lan Fei got up in a sorry state, but before he could sell his misery, he received a stern warning from Si Yin Yuan.
He was just an inexplicable passerby who had managed to upset Ji Jiu, and now he had even displeased Ji Jiu’s owner.
It was worth noting that he had spent quite some time coaxing the little guy into wearing the mask that prevented him from eating and bringing him here.
Si Yin Yuan didn’t show any mercy. Lan Fei met his brown-tinted irises, and he was so scared that he shivered, losing all his thoughts. His face turned deathly pale as he left this place.
His retreat was rather awkward.
Ji Jiu’s anger came and went quickly. He didn’t pay much attention to the small and easily crushable human anymore, quickly dismissing this matter from his mind. He was curious about how Feng Chuyao had managed to get in and asked her about it.
Si Yin Yuan didn’t want to delve into what the passerby was up to. Seeing that Ji Jiu had calmed down, he pulled him to sit down.
In this corner, only a few of them remained. Feng Chuyao chuckled and had meticulously applied makeup on her face. “My new boyfriend works here as an employee.”
Yu Feichen suddenly stood up, his face inexplicably reddening. “Weren’t you just out of a relationship?”
Feng Chuyao didn’t expect him to focus on this, and she gave him a strange look. “It’s been two months since we broke up. Is there a problem with finding someone else?”
Yu Feichen fell silent and returned to his seat, feeling self-contained.
Si Yin Yuan’s eyebrows relaxed. “The waiter?”
Feng Chuyao revealed an eight-tooth smile. “He’s a junior manager. He told me that a few days ago when he got drunk in bed.”
But she didn’t reveal more.
Si Yin Yuan raised an eyebrow. “You seem to have found the right person.”
He was direct. “We need to go for an internal inspection. Can you get the key to upstairs through him?”
The carnival had a second floor, but only those who had participated in the carnival more than eight times and had obtained internal qualifications could go upstairs.
It was said to be a series of rooms, similar to high-end private rooms.
Feng Chuyao thought for a moment. “I’ll give it a try.”
She was someone who took action immediately. After saying that, she stood up and walked in a direction where she bent down sneakily near a staff member wearing a uniform mask. She whispered something, and her half-covered mask couldn’t hide the sweet smile at the corner of her mouth.
She looked completely like someone deeply in love.
Humans really do enjoy being in love, but what exactly should love be like? Should it involve kissing like on television?
Ji Jiu watched thoughtfully.
Feng Chuyao didn’t feel any guilt about using her boyfriend. This man was slightly above average in looks among her past boyfriends. If he hadn’t pursued her persistently, she wouldn’t have agreed. She was always generous and had given him many expensive gifts during their relationship.
Now, being able to contribute to the security of the base was his honor.
The staff member’s attitude was very cold, but under the cover of his sleeves, he discreetly placed something in Feng Chuyao’s jacket pocket.
Feeling the sudden increase in weight in her pocket, Feng Chuyao patted her buttocks satisfactorily and walked away.
She led them to the second floor, showing the card to the staff member guarding the elevator.
Unlike the entrance invitation card, this VIP card for the second floor allowed unlimited guests to accompany the holder upstairs.
However, Si Yin Yuan didn’t intend to let Yu Feichen go upstairs. He pointed to the communicator on Yu Feichen’s hand. “You stay down here and keep an eye out for any suspicious people or things. Stay in touch with me at all times.”
If the mutant that had escaped from the research institute was really present at the scene, someone had to be responsible for directing survivors below.
Yu Feichen seemed to have completely emerged from his self-isolation and nodded solemnly. “Leave it to me, you can rest assured!”
After taking the elevator to the second floor, Feng Chuyao immediately parted ways with them. She flipped her hair and said, “My boyfriend will come up to find me later. I’ll handle him first, so you can search without worry.”
Si Yin Yuan nodded and held Ji Jiu’s hand, striding forward.
Unlike downstairs, this place was almost quiet, entirely made up of rooms, and had excellent soundproofing.
There were not as many waiters here, and they didn’t encounter any staff as they walked.
The freedom here was quite high, with carts containing drinks and snacks every ten meters or so.
Suddenly, someone brushed past them, and Ji Jiu paused and turned to look.
There was a somewhat familiar aura, someone he recognized among humans.
However, despite his sensitivity to the aura of humans, he wasn’t focused on it and couldn’t recognize who the person was.
The person looked anxious, lowered their head, and hurriedly walked past them. The mask on their face was just a basic style.
They didn’t look like someone who should be on the second floor.
Si Yin Yuan asked softly, “What’s wrong?”
Ji Jiu shook his head. “Nothing.”
He withdrew his gaze, not very interested.
They began searching room by room, and each time they reached the door of a room, Si Yin Yuan would release golden flames to sense the Gama fluctuations inside.
The Gama fluctuations of mutants were generally more active than those of awakends, for unknown reasons.
Humans had only known about Gama elements for a little over two years, and many mysteries had yet to be discovered.
Typically, awakeneds with stronger abilities had more active Gama fluctuations. Ji Jiu was such a case, the first time Si Yin Yuan had seen someone with such powerful abilities but lacking significant Gama concentration. This was one of the reasons why Si Yin Yuan initially thought Ji Jiu was just a weak awakened.
Although in his eyes, Ji Jiu still needed protection.
Inside the rooms, there were those with no Gama concentration at all and others with awakened fluctuations.
When they reached the twelfth room, the door suddenly opened, and the person inside and Si Yin Yuan stared at each other.
He exclaimed, “Didn’t I press 0? How did I get a 1?”
“What’s with the 0 and 1?” Si Yin Yuan looked puzzled.
His presence was too overwhelming, and the person who opened the door became nervous and stammered, “Big brother, did you come to play up here too?”
Seeing Si Yin Yuan’s extraordinary aura, he wanted to get acquainted.
He started talking nonsense and blurted out everything about how he had booked an escort here.
Si Yin Yuan’s masked expression gradually turned impatient. He took a step back and said, “Sorry for the interruption.”
Without waiting for a response, he forcefully closed the door with a loud bang.
Si Yin Yuan instinctively looked down to see if Ji Jiu was scared. However, the young man who should have obediently followed him had disappeared without a trace.
Si Yin Yuan: ?
On the other side, Ji Jiu had followed a strong scent to an unknown room.
The scent was extremely powerful, and he was almost instantly captivated by it.
It was this scent. He had smelled it when he went to see the prophetic grandmother!
Strangely, the scent was several times stronger than it had been back then, making Little Grass completely unable to resist.
He didn’t realize why this scent had suddenly appeared and led him away from his caretaker. When he snapped out of it, he was no longer with his master.
“Heh.” In the dimly lit room without the lights on, a voice with a husky tone suddenly sounded, “How did a little grass sneak in?”