BFET Chapter 31

Absorption… Release…

Shen Shu repeatedly chewed on these words, and as if he thought of something, his light-colored eyes brightened. He looked at Xie Yi, eager to try, and said, “Captain, do you need help?”

“What?” Xie Yi didn’t know what he was suddenly getting excited about, nor did he understand what he needed help with, so he subconsciously refused, “No need.”

However, Shen Shu ignored him and leaned over, grabbing his hand. “I’ll help you master this release state!”

“…” Xie Yi’s expression immediately became strange.

Shen Shu, having completely discarded that gentle facade, seemed to have entered a state of constant jumping on the spot. One moment he was malicious and vindictive, making fun of him for the emergency tranquilizer in Jiangbei. The next moment he glared coldly at him, harboring ill intentions. Then, out of nowhere, he dug up some curiosity and attached it to himself, crowding over.

Now, he was brimming with some unknown excitement and interest, inexplicably wanting to help him master the release state.

Xie Yi felt that his previous statement was correct. This person might really be sick!

“No need.” Xie Yi looked at the approaching face, his gaze involuntarily landing on his left cheek. The blood-colored manjusaka seemed to be unfurling. “I already know how.”

“…Is that so?” The eagerness on Shen Shu’s face faded a little. “That’s a shame.”

Although he said it was a shame, he firmly held onto Xie Yi’s hand, and even leaned closer a few seconds later. “Then can the captain show me? You must still have questions you want to ask, right? I can tell you everything. It’s an equal exchange.”

“…” Xie Yi completely didn’t understand what there was to see, but since he did indeed still have things he wanted to know, he patiently replied, “Some other time.”

After saying that, he explained, feeling a little tired, “It can’t be done here. Even with you as a source of pollution, the pollution level wouldn’t require me to use the release state.”

“What about this then?” Shen Shu looked at Xie Yi without blinking, then grasped his hand and slowly placed it on his chest. “I have a lot here. It just so happens that I can’t digest it all. Captain, help me, okay?”

His tone became light and gentle, as if coaxing someone.

Through a thin shirt, Xie Yi felt a slight heat in his palm. Beneath his hand, the heart encased in the shirt and flesh beat rhythmically, touching him again and again.

Xie Yi’s fingers involuntarily curled.

The uncomfortable feeling made him want to pull his hand back, but it wouldn’t budge. He raised his eyes to meet Shen Shu’s gaze. “Shen Shu, let go. What you’re talking about is impossible.”

Shen Shu said casually, “The captain hasn’t even tried. How can you say it’s impossible?”

“Did you feed everything you learned in the biological common sense class at the base to the dogs?” Xie Yi said coldly. “Don’t you know that after the human body is polluted, the pollution inside the body is already…”

Before he could finish speaking, Xie Yi suddenly stopped.

He saw the mottled golden patterns in Shen Shu’s translucent jaw gradually turning crimson. The red lines grew along his neck, and the blood-red manjusaka on his left cheek, where the lines converged, swayed as it visibly spread to other parts of his face.

A chilling aura emanated from Shen Shu.

Xie Yi felt that he was being affected.

He subconsciously released his ability, and in that instant, a dense aura drilled in from the palm of his right hand, which was pressed against Shen Shu’s chest!

The moment he realized it, Xie Yi’s pupils constricted sharply, and he looked incredulously into Shen Shu’s light-colored eyes, which had been staring at him.

“I told you to try.” Shen Shu looked at Xie Yi and said softly, “Captain, look, didn’t it work?”

Xie Yi didn’t speak for a moment. The faint cyan that had just appeared at the corner of his eyes rapidly spread downwards along clear, scale-like patterns. Soon, the scale-like patterns became a mixture of light and dark, until clusters of blooming black roses were outlined on his face and neck.

However, Xie Yi had only recently mastered the release state, and he was also injured. Although he had basically recovered due to his ability evolution, he was still somewhat weak.

In just a few minutes, cold sweat began to break out on his forehead, the scale-like patterns on his hands became solid, and the fingernails on his fingertips gradually became sharp.

Shen Shu: “Captain, you seem to be at your limit.”

Xie Yi glared at him fiercely, immediately reached out his left hand to grab his shoulder, pressed his right hand against his chest, and pinned him to the bed, restraining him.

Xie Yi looked down at Shen Shu from above.

At this moment, Shen Shu was exactly the opposite of Xie Yi. The abnormal reaction on his face had faded for the most part, and his translucent jaw had completely recovered, leaving only some mottled red marks.

“You—” Xie Yi broke free from Shen Shu’s weakly holding hand, grabbed his chin, and questioned coldly, “How the hell did you do it?!”

Shen Shu’s eyes had returned to their normal color. He quietly looked at Xie Yi, almost drawing him into his eyes. “Captain, you’re the one who did it. Why are you asking me?”

Xie Yi used a little force with the hand that was pinching his chin. Just as he was about to speak, a familiar voice suddenly sounded from outside. “Uh… Am I coming at a bad time? Am I disturbing you?”

Xie Yi heard the sound and turned his head to look over.

Through the huge glass window, he saw Jiang Li, who had arrived at some unknown time, standing at the door with a look of “I think I’ve seen something I shouldn’t have,” looking at him in embarrassment and shock.

“No.” Xie Yi released his hand that was pinching Shen Shu, got off the bed, and said, “Why are you only here now?”

“?” The corners of Jiang Li’s mouth twitched. “Bro, I just finished my work.”

“The professor told me to wait for you to contact me before coming down to pick you up, but I finished my work and you hadn’t even communicated with me.” Jiang Li frowned as she approached the glass window. “What’s going on with you? Even though Shen Shu is at a point of high pollution, it shouldn’t affect you like this, right? Besides, aren’t you…”

At this moment, she saw Shen Shu slowly walking forward behind him. She looked back and forth between the two of them several times, truly shocked. “What’s going on with you two?”

“Xiao Shu, are you all better?” Jiang Li blinked, looking at Shen Shu.

She clearly remembered that when she came to see the professor this afternoon, Shen Shu was still in a state of severe pollution, and hadn’t improved since returning from Jiangbei.

Because of this, the professor had practically been living in the research institute recently.

It had only been a few hours, and even when she saw the professor at night, she hadn’t heard that Shen Shu had recovered.

Thinking this, Jiang Li looked at Xie Yi again. “Xie Yi, what did you do? Why are you two…”

As if unable to find the words to describe it, she manually made a switching gesture, and the expression on her face as she looked at Xie Yi was full of incomprehension.

“…” Xie Yi pinched the space between his eyebrows. The dull pain coming from all over his body made him feel somewhat tired. “I don’t know. I’ll probably have to stay here tonight. Take him away first, and then come back later. I have something to tell you.”