BFET Chapter 34

Special

“If you’re not fully awake, I suggest you go back to sleep after noon,” Xie Yi said coldly, his face expressionless. “If you can’t sleep, I can come over and help you.”

A chuckle came from the earpiece, then Xie Yi heard a soft “hmm” before the person on the other end said earnestly, “If the captain wants to see me, there’s really no need to make up excuses.”

“Shen Shu, I don’t have time to joke around with you.” Xie Yi felt a throbbing in his temple, wanting to punch someone. Considering his deal with Hu Xianwei, he resisted the urge to hang up and patiently said, “Professor Hu should have told you already that the high-risk Enclosed Zone isn’t the same as the previous ones. Although we’re not a fixed team anymore, partnering up temporarily isn’t a bad thing.”

“Once we meet up with the other Bai Er members, you can team up with whoever you want; I have no objections.”

Although Hu Xianwei asked him to keep an eye on Shen Shu, he could only do his best. After all, people have legs, and he couldn’t exactly break them off.

At this moment, Shen Shu’s voice came through the earpiece again, “It was clearly the captain who asked me first, so why are you pushing me onto others?”

Xie Yi had no idea what nerve he had struck with that sentence, but he inexplicably felt that Shen Shu’s tone had become somewhat sarcastic.

And that sentence, something about asking him out and then pushing him onto someone else, was a jumbled mess that strangely reminded him of those novels that You Xue used to read, who knows where she got them.

Xie Yi frowned, but before he could say anything, he heard the voice in the earpiece say, “I’ll be there on time, Captain.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the communication was cut off.

Perhaps because it was the first time someone had hung up on him, Xie Yi didn’t even react for a moment. After a while, he “tsk”-ed and strode towards the elevator.

The next day.

Xie Yi went to the supply room first.

He handed the Space Button to the staff at the window. “I need to replenish the resources in the Space Button, and I also need some pollution suppression items and High Pollution Dissociation Bullets.”

“Okay.” The staff took it and gestured to the sensor next to them. “Please touch the Smart Terminal.”

Xie Yi scanned his hand, then suddenly seemed to remember something and stopped the staff member. “Please wait a moment.”

Then he sent a message to Shen Shu asking if he wanted him to pick up his supplies for him, and if so, to send his information code.

Shen Shu replied quickly this time, with two messages in a row: a period and the information code.

“Sorry,” Xie Yi said, turning back to the staff at the window. “I need to pick up another set.”

As he spoke, he brought up the information code Shen Shu had sent and touched the sensor again.

“Hello, this is your Space Button.” The staff at the window handed the Space Button back after twenty minutes. “According to your information, the resources we’ve updated and replenished in your Space Button are based on the standard for permanent field assignments. Other items and weapons that can’t be put in the Space Button need to be collected from the Special Supplies Room next door.”

“The specifications are all prepared for two people,” the staff continued. “According to regulations, your and the other person’s information codes have been temporarily linked.”

Xie Yi nodded, said “okay,” thanked them, and went to the Special Supplies Room.

After finishing up there, Xie Yi went to the logistics department to exchange his field points for a new duty vehicle.

It was the same jeep as before, but the color had been changed to a deep blue.

Around 10 a.m., Xie Yi arrived at the west gate of the headquarters ten minutes early.

It was the same location as when he had departed two months ago, except that it was a few hours earlier and there was one less person.

As soon as Xie Yi turned off the engine, the Smart Terminal popped up with two messages in quick succession.

He opened them and saw that they were from Jiang Li: The new blood test results are out. There is indeed a unique and special reaction between your and Shen Shu’s blood.

Xie Yi was stunned when he saw this sentence, and continued to read.

Jiang Li: I deeply polluted Shen Shu’s blood samples and other people’s blood samples. After confirming that the cell structure began to change, I used your blood samples.

–When your blood came into contact with Shen Shu’s blood, the white blood cells in the blood rapidly produced a BDO form of structural cytokines (oh, this is something that was discovered during your test when you first returned from Jiangbei. I gave it a name. It’s the main reason for the enhanced activity of your blood cells). It absorbed and devoured the pollution in Shen Shu’s blood, but it didn’t appear in the blood of other people.

–I think this should be the reason why you can absorb the pollution in Shen Shu’s body.

The content of the first message ended there. Xie Yi slowly frowned and opened the second message.

Jiang Li: But I still don’t understand why this is happening. I asked my teacher and did several experiments with my teacher again, and the results were the same.

–In the end, my teacher concluded that the problem might lie in your ability. So Xie Yi, what happened between your ability before and after it evolved and Shen Shu?

This sentence caused Xie Yi to subconsciously start recalling. He was silent for a moment, then typed a reply: Nothing. I was running for my life the whole time, and then I was knocked unconscious.

As soon as the message was sent, the image he had seen before passing out, almost overlapping with the one from 16 years ago, suddenly flashed in Xie Yi’s mind.

However…

Xie Yi lowered his eyes. At the time, Shen Shu had been injected with a strong sedative, and based on the drug’s effects, it was impossible for him to have woken up so early. He figured that what he had seen was probably just a hallucination.

“Knock knock knock.”

A few rhythmic knocks suddenly sounded on the passenger side window.

Xie Yi came back to his senses and looked over, only to see Shen Shu leaning against the window, bending over and looking at him through the glass.

When the door was opened, Xie Yi subconsciously closed the Smart Terminal’s holographic screen. When he looked up again, he saw that the person outside the car hadn’t gotten in. He asked in confusion, “Why aren’t you getting in?”

Shen Shu’s dark eyes quietly looked at him for a few seconds. “Do you need me to drive?”

Xie Yi was about to say no, but the Smart Terminal on his wrist popped up with a message.

Shen Shu glanced at the Smart Terminal lit up on his wrist and spoke again, “I’ll drive. Captain looks like you have something to do.”

Xie Yi looked down and didn’t refuse. He unbuckled his seatbelt, got out of the car, and switched places with Shen Shu.

Unsurprisingly, the message was still from Jiang Li, but when Xie Yi opened it, he was stunned again: My teacher said that if it wasn’t something that happened before and after your ability evolved, then it was before… he told me to tell you that maybe it was 16 years ago (Surprised Cat.BQ), and to think about it carefully…

The short few sentences were filled with ellipses and emoticons, which showed Jiang Li’s shock and hesitation.

Soon, a second message popped up: You and Shen Shu knew each other 16 years ago?? Wasn’t that when you first came to Kui City?