Chapter 47
Ye Xuan even helped Xia Chenxi deliver the flowers to Venue A.
When Guan Yu saw it, his mouth opened so wide in surprise that an egg could fit inside.
“Ye Xuan, this bouquet must cost nearly five hundred. You’re that rich?”
That expensive? Ye Xuan quickly said, “It’s not mine. It’s Xia Chenxi’s. I’m just carrying it for him.”
Guan Yu understood. If it was Xia Chenxi, then he had nothing to say. Xia Chenxi was probably the richest person in their team.
“Xia Chenxi, why did you get such a huge bouquet?”
Xia Chenxi had no desire to answer this question. He said coldly, “None of your business. Go train.”
Guan Yu obediently left. Last time, he had spoken badly about Xia Chenxi behind his back and had been ruthlessly taught a lesson by him. He could not provoke this demon again.
“Then I’m going to train too. Xia Chenxi, see you after it ends.”
Ye Xuan smiled brightly and waved at Xia Chenxi.
Xia Chenxi nodded, put one hand in his pocket, and walked toward the team.
He looked cold and aloof, but his heart was pounding nonstop.
Was Ye Xuan being too enthusiastic toward him today?
Xia Chenxi stood beside Guan Yu. Guan Yu glanced at him, then leaned over and asked, “Xia Chenxi, why is your face so red?”
“Because it’s hot.”
“Hot? But the venue has air conditioning!”
No more words were needed. Xia Chenxi used a simple and crude method of force to make Guan Yu shut his mouth.
Ye Xuan walked out of Venue A. His smile disappeared, replaced by a worried expression.
Xia Chenxi was definitely angry. He had not even been willing to speak to him properly.
His proactive policy seemed completely useless. He could only think of another way after training.
When he arrived at the venue, Ye Xuan stood beside Chen Cheng. Thinking that Chen Cheng had given him the chance to take the mission, Ye Xuan thanked him.
Chen Cheng did not respond. He simply stood there gloomily, staring straight ahead.
Since the other person did not speak, Ye Xuan did not keep sticking close to him. He had already given the thanks he should give.
When the time came, Luo Feng gathered the team members and began training.
Morning was still group training, meant to train the members’ coordination and physical fitness.
During training, the team members no longer joked around. Luo Feng also took on the proper posture of a team leader, teaching and commanding them strictly.
In this kind of training environment, Ye Xuan did not feel tired at all. He only felt extremely fulfilled.
It felt as if only the blink of an eye had passed before noon arrived.
The team members still went to the cafeteria together to eat.
Lu Shao said to Ye Xuan and the others, “You weren’t here yesterday. Team C came looking for trouble again. They even said they’d beat us until our teeth scattered all over the ground in the weekend challenge match. They really used up all the boasting in the world.”
Tong Wei laughed arrogantly. “Who doesn’t know how to brag? I could also say I can easily beat Team One’s Nan Yunzhou to the ground. Any person would know that’s impossible.”
“This young master is just waiting for them to throw eggs against a rock on Sunday.”
Ye Xuan only ate his own food and did not speak. Saying more was useless. Strength was the best proof. This afternoon, he wanted to try the training room in the central venue.
On the way back to the venue, Ye Xuan remembered something important. Yesterday, Brother Feng had said he would report the zombie they encountered during transport. He wondered whether there was any result.
That delicate-looking face and the yellow, thin people in the dim mine cave appeared in his mind.
Ye Xuan jogged to Luo Feng’s side.
“Brother Feng, is there any result from what happened yesterday?”
Luo Feng quickly reacted and understood what Ye Xuan was talking about.
He told Ye Xuan, “The higher-ups sent me a message this morning. They said they already sent Team C to investigate. The road along the mining area and the surroundings of the mine were all checked. They didn’t discover any zombies. The conclusion from above is that the zombie accidentally ran near the mining area.”
“Is that reliable?” Ye Xuan remained doubtful of Team C’s work ability.
“Ye Xuan, even if we have friction with Team C, we shouldn’t wear tinted glasses when it comes to work. Since the higher-ups assigned it to them, they must have investigated seriously.”
“Got it.”
But Ye Xuan still felt that something was strange. Since that road had been carefully chosen specifically because it was rarely traveled, how exactly had a zombie ended up there?
The conclusion that it had accidentally wandered in seemed reasonable, but it was full of suspicious points.
The matter was set aside for now.
After the team members returned to the venue and rested for a while, they each began individual training.
Ye Xuan also walked toward the central venue. He had merit points now, so he could exchange them for training room usage time.
Training room usage time could be exchanged through the wristband. There were instructions for first-time users.
Ye Xuan scrolled down and saw the important part.
The rooms on the lowest floor cost one merit point per hour. For each higher floor, the hourly price increased by 0.1 merit points. The rooms on the top floor did not follow this rule and were uniformly five merit points per hour.
He only had ten merit points right now, and he did not know when he would be able to take another mission.
He might as well use the lowest-floor room.
Ye Xuan booked an empty room on the bottom floor and exchanged three hours of usage time.
On his way to the room, he happened to run into Xia Chenxi coming toward him.
Ye Xuan began fake-smiling again. He himself did not know how unnatural he looked.
“Xia Chenxi, you’re here to train too?”
Xia Chenxi stopped in front of him.
“I usually spend the afternoon in the central venue. Besides, I’m participating in the challenge match this weekend. If nothing unexpected happens, I’ll be in the central venue every afternoon this week.”
Ye Xuan covered his mouth and widened his eyes, looking surprised. “What a coincidence. You’re participating in the challenge match too.”
Xia Chenxi narrowed his eyes.
Ye Xuan looked like this…
Impossible to watch.
“Ye Xuan, do you know your behavior right now is very strange?”
Ye Xuan frowned and pouted.
“Is it strange? What’s strange about it?”
Xia Chenxi could not stand it and covered his eyes.
“Our major in university was biotechnology, not acting. Your acting is so terrible it makes one’s hair stand on end.”
Ye Xuan could not keep acting anymore and muttered quietly, “Is it really that strange?”
“You just need to be the same as before. Be yourself. There’s no need to please me. No matter what you’re like, I’ll treat you the same from beginning to end.”
This time, Ye Xuan genuinely curled his lip. “Liar. This morning, weren’t you too lazy to even bother with me?”
“What about if I faced you like this?”
Xia Chenxi showed Ye Xuan a fake smile with all eight teeth.
Not only did Ye Xuan fail to feel even the slightest hint of warmth from the smile, goosebumps rose all over him.
Xia Chenxi looked like a fake human.
Ye Xuan gave a sharp review. “Possessed by a ghost.”
Xia Chenxi returned to his dead-fish expression. “So, don’t smile at me like that again. Just be normal and be yourself.”
“Then you’re not angry anymore?”
Xia Chenxi: “?”
When had he been angry? Ye Xuan’s way of thinking was always on a completely different channel from his.
Even so, he still liked Ye Xuan.
From the moment he accidentally saw Ye Xuan leaving milk for him, he had hopelessly fallen for him.
During those hard days in university, a bottle of milk would appear in his drawer every now and then. The first time, he thought it was someone’s prank.
Later, as the days passed, he understood the kindness of the person who had placed the milk there.
That person sympathized with him for often eating instant noodles and not getting enough nutrition, while also carefully protecting his self-esteem.
When he found out that person was actually Ye Xuan, the fox-eyed boy who always passed by him with a cold face, the emotions in Xia Chenxi’s heart, which had been like stagnant water, finally stirred.
A young master like him could have openly performed good deeds as if accumulating merit. Yet he had chosen to protect Xia Chenxi’s worthless self-esteem.
Something broke through the soil in his heart, then fully sprouted on the day the zombie outbreak happened.
On the day they became roommates, he had told Ye Xuan that he had already paid rent.
It had been paid with those bottles of milk.
But his heart was clamoring.
He hoped Ye Xuan would use himself to pay the debt.
Tie himself to Xia Chenxi for a lifetime.
Yes, that was right.
A wild fantasy.
