IRCDM Chapter 28

Chapter 28: Fixing the Bed, I Will Make You Better

As Yue Hang expected, the road they took was relatively remote. Along the way, they encountered only a few waves of low-level zombie groups, and hardly any heteromorphs, let alone military units or other teams, making their progress surprisingly smooth.

“Liang Huan, your protective suit is torn. Take mine,” Xu Yunyan offered Liang Huan a new protective suit.

Liang Huan, who was studying the route with Yue Hang, didn’t even look up and said, “Just put it there.”

Xu Yunyan put down the protective suit and sat next to him: “Liang Huan, you and Li Yao—”

“Xiao Xu, help me hand over the locator to Deng Meng and tell them to depart in half an hour.” Yue Hang looked up, handed the locator to Xu Yunyan, “Go on.”

Xu Yunyan looked at the indifferent Liang Huan, pursed his lips, took the device and got out of the car.

Liang Huan sat up straight, staring at the map, seemingly lost in thought.

“He’s like a little bee, buzzing around you every day, and you’re so heartless?” Yue Hang teased, “I thought he was about to cry just now.”

Liang Huan smiled: “The kid is probably just after the novelty. The more you pay attention to this kind of situation, the more they’ll push. It’ll be fine after a while.”

Back in Northern Liang, plenty of people swarmed around him. Some even went as far as climbing into his bed, drugging him, or scheming with entire families just to get someone into his bed. Unfortunately, Emperor Yuanxing himself had no interest in such things. He’d make an example of one to warn the others, which would bring temporary peace, but it wouldn’t be long before they were at it again. He killed those he could, and for those he couldn’t, he could only feign compliance and give them the cold shoulder. In his youth, he’d avoid men and women with good looks as if they were eight feet away, it was just too exhausting. Xu Yunyan’s actions were something he didn’t take to heart at all.

Yue Hang laughed: “You sound so mature. Anyone who didn’t know better would think you were ancient.”

Liang Huan said: “I’m almost forty, Yue Hang.”

Yue Hang was stunned for a moment, then saw Liang Huan observing his reaction with interest, and he quickly waved his hand: “Stop joking with me, you always manage to fool me.”

Lu Biao and his group called him ‘bro’ all day long, making him want to call Liang Huan ‘bro’ too, it was outrageous.

Liang Huan tapped the map: “Let’s get down to business.”

Yue Hang said: “The guards at the West Gate are more lax. Their captain is on good terms with Yu Wan Yao, so they shouldn’t make things difficult for us. Just give them some extra money, and once we’re inside, everything will be easy.”

Liang Huan nodded, but he didn’t feel it would be that easy.

Sure enough, before they could enter the West Gate, they were “conveniently” blocked in front of a mine by a military squad.

This team was well-equipped, with a large armored vehicle behind them. However, they weren’t numerous, only thirteen or fourteen people, but their attitude was extremely arrogant. There were two civilian teams ahead of them, their vehicles empty. The armored vehicle was piled high with supplies, and there were a dozen or so corpses on the ground. As Shenfeng was intercepted, gunfire rang out, followed by another series of screams.

The leading soldier presented his credentials: “Military order, any team that hunts a Transparent Species must hand over the specimen directly to the military. Hand over all the Transparent Species in your vehicle.”

Yue Hang frowned: “Officer, the announcement stated that we should exchange them at the outer district access center. If we hand them over to you now, the procedures won’t be in order, and we probably won’t get the rewards.”

“Why are you talking so much nonsense?” The other party said impatiently, “Hand them over quickly, or don’t blame us for being impolite.”

“Officer, we are the Shenfeng Exploration Team from the Black Market.” Lu Biao greeted him with a beaming smile, handing over his chip, “A small token of our appreciation. These were earned with the brothers’ lives. We’re all just trying to make a living, it’s not easy.”

“Get lost.” The other party slapped the chip away, his face cold, “This is bribery and disobeying military orders. We have the right to confiscate all your supplies!”

Yue Hang’s eyes darkened. Lu Biao turned to stare at the chip on the ground, then turned back with a smile: “How about we split the Transparent Species specimen evenly?”

The man exchanged glances with the people behind him, then spoke affectedly: “We risked our lives—”

Bang.

A muffled gunshot stopped his words. He widened his eyes in astonishment, blood slowly trickling from his pierced brow, as he recognized the murderer.

The other party’s eyes were dark and heavy. The young face showed no fear of killing, only aloof indifference. He watched as the other party stepped out of the vehicle, and finally lost all his strength, falling to the ground like those they had killed, becoming a corpse that would speak no more.

Yue Hang and Lu Biao acted almost simultaneously. The soldiers were used to doing evil, and didn’t expect them to dare to resist. After a burst of intense gunfire, most of the soldiers were killed or wounded, and the rest were tied up by Chen Jia and his men.

“We lost five men.” Chen Jia cursed, “Damn it, we haven’t lost so many people even when killing heteromorphs.”

Yue Hang had originally planned to hand over the Transparent Species, as he didn’t want to have any conflicts with the military, but he didn’t expect Liang Huan to open fire directly, giving him no time to react.

He didn’t quite agree: “They are from the military, if we kill them like this, I’m afraid…”

“These people never intended to let us pass alive.” Liang Huan pointed to the corpses on the ground, and said indifferently, “Forcible seizure, indiscriminate killing of innocents, they are no different from bandits. If you don’t kill them, we’ll be the ones who die.”

“But this—” Yue Hang frowned.

“Yue Hang, you have to be decisive.” Liang Huan threw the gun to Deng Meng beside him, “The outer district has no morality, no rules, so let’s make sure no one is an exception.”

Lu Biao’s eyes were shining as he looked at Liang Huan, and he shouted, “Awesome! I’ve long disliked these idiots, using the military’s name to oppress people everywhere. Liang Huan, well done!”

Chen Jia and the others also became more convinced of Liang Huan, after all, not everyone dared to directly open fire on the military.

Yue Hang sighed, and looked at Liang Huan: “What do we do now?”

“Throw them all into the mine, strip the armored vehicle of its chips and locator, and take it away.” As Liang Huan spoke, he suddenly turned his head, looking towards the dense forest behind them.

A telescope reflected a blinding light. The person observing felt a chill down his back, lowered the telescope, and turned to the vehicle behind him: “Officer, it seems we’ve been discovered.”

The car window slowly lowered, revealing a man in military uniform. His expression was cold and stern, and he raised his hand to signal. The soldiers around him, who were holding guns aimed at the mine, lowered their weapons one after another.

“Since someone has helped us deal with this bunch of scum, we don’t have to do it ourselves.” He took off his leather gloves, “Let’s go back and report.”

The subordinate asked: “They still have Transparent Species on their hands.”

“That’s what they deserve.”

The subordinate was still worried: “But they attacked the military—”

“Just a normal conflict in the outer district.” The other party smiled, “Check the young man’s information, he’s interesting.”

“Yes.”

——

The Shenfeng Exploration Team’s outer district operation was a great success. When their team name appeared at the top of the points leaderboard, the teams settling accounts in the square and the public watching the excitement on the chip network were all shocked.

“Isn’t this Shenfeng team from the Black Market?”

“That’s right, they’re under Yu Wan Yao. That Yue Hang is said to have S-grade mental power and physical abilities, but his subordinates aren’t that great. They’ve always been very low-key, I remember they were always hovering between the teens and twenties on the team points leaderboard, I really didn’t pay much attention.”

“Hey, I’ve heard of Lu Biao and Chen Jia, but who is this Liang Huan? Why is his score even higher than Yue Hang’s, is he more powerful than a double-S?”

“This score… is a bit terrifying, isn’t it? Their total score is three times that of the mercenary base hunting team below?! How is that possible!”

“The system must be malfunctioning.”

“Is it possible they’re cheating?”

The settling teams chattered, and the updated points leaderboard also caused an uproar on the internet.

[Shenfeng actually surpassed the mercenary team this time? And by so much?]

[Something’s not right, why do both the Shenfeng team and the mercenary team have Transparent Species in their settlement materials, and their rewards are the same?]

[That’s outrageous, isn’t it said there’s only one Transparent Species? Could it be they divided it evenly?]

[Hahaha are you kidding me, buddy? Those mercenaries would share something they got their hands on with others? They wouldn’t even dream of doing that, they’d consider it morally high-minded if they didn’t dismember the Shenfeng team.]

[Come on, do you think Shenfeng are good people? They’re from the Black Market, they’re no less ruthless than the mercenaries when it comes to being cruel.]

[The leader of the mercenaries this time is 969, I haven’t seen his photo, but this big shot is a ruthless person, it’s simply impossible to snatch meat from his mouth.]

[No, I can accept 969 and Yue Hang hunting a Transparent Species, but what is the background of this Liang Huan? He actually suppressed Yue Hang and 969 and ranked first, is that a joke?]

[This character is too difficult to write, what kind of name is that, how do you pronounce it?]

[Could it be another big shot exiled from the military?]

Mao Ming scrolled through the comments on the screen, while packing quickly with one hand. Cheng Xiaolei next to him leaned over: “Uncle Mao, what are you looking at? Oh, isn’t this Liang Huan? How did he get to the outer district? Wow, so powerful!”

Mao Ming didn’t say anything, and ignored the excited Cheng Xiaolei next to him, and continued to scroll through the screen with a serious expression.

[Maybe people are just very powerful? Don’t be jealous here!] Jiang Chuxia bit her lollipop and left a message quickly, not forgetting to send a message to Li Yao: “Li Yao, how did Liang Huan go to Shenfeng? And his team’s score is higher than yours, ah but you’re still awesome, you’re always number one on the mercenary points leaderboard, so what happened? Has my sister asked about me?”

“Chuxia, what are you doing? Hurry up and send the patient up!” Wang Le Ren shouted at the stairwell, “Playing with that broken chip of yours all day, I’m deducting your salary!”

“Coming, coming, Dean, I’m coming, let’s talk nicely, don’t deduct my salary!” Jiang Chuxia hurried upstairs.

A few streets away from the Black Market Certified Clinic, Ai Li looked at Zhou Suiyu, who was tutoring Ai Xiaoli, and brought fruit to them: “Xiao Zhou, have some fruit, don’t be too tired.”

Zhou Suiyu nodded: “Sister Ai, why did you suddenly think of letting me tutor Xiao Li?”

“The teacher, Mu Bo, who had been teaching them seems to have gone to the outer district, and they’ve all stopped their lessons. This child is slow to learn, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to let him learn more.” Ai Li wiped her hands.

“Mu Bo?” Zhou Suiyu asked curiously.

“He’s a volunteer teacher from the Third District.” Ai Li smiled, “A very nice person.”

“Teacher Mu Bo is especially pretty!” Ai Xiaoli shouted, “I miss him so much.”

“Study hard, your Brother Zhou is no worse than Teacher Mu Bo.” Ai Li patted his head.

“I want Brother Pei Zhong to teach me.” Ai Xiaoli retorted.

Ai Li looked at the closed machine repair shop across the street: “Pei Zhong should be back soon too. Leader Li didn’t let us go on this mission, it’s probably particularly dangerous, but I didn’t expect Xiao Liang to go too, although he’s not on the mercenary team.”

Zhou Suiyu curled his lips and looked up at Liang Huan’s name on the screen.

He gently tapped the leaderboard with the ringed finger on his left hand, and zoomed in on the screen.

Yu Wan Yao looked at Liang Huan sitting across from him with appreciation: “Good, you did a very beautiful job on this mission, Liang Huan, you really didn’t disappoint me, our Black Market has also made a name for itself.”

Liang Huan smiled slightly: “It’s all thanks to Captain Yue Hang and the brothers working together, I couldn’t have done it alone.”

“Yes, and Yue Hang, Lu Biao, you guys, it was very unexpected.” Yu Wan Yao looked at Yue Hang, “I always felt you were holding back, now you’re partnering with Liang Huan, it really inspired your potential.”

Yue Hang said modestly: “Mr. Yu, you flatter me.”

Yu Wan Yao raised his hand: “Hey, I know your strengths, but I heard that the mercenary base also hunted a Transparent Species this time, and your reward levels are the same, did something happen in the outer district?”

Lu Biao and Deng Meng exchanged glances. Yue Hang turned to look at Liang Huan. Yu Wan Yao saw them like this and became even more interested: “Liang Huan?”

“It was a collaboration between Li Yao and me. The Shenfeng and mercenary teams hunted it together.” Liang Huan said truthfully.

“Oh? Didn’t you say he hates you to the bone?” Yu Wan Yao raised an eyebrow, “Liang Huan, although I admire you, you can’t disappoint me. What’s going on between you and Li Yao?”

“As the saying goes, one day as husband and wife, a hundred days of grace, maybe there’s still some lingering affection.” Liang Huan said, “He kidnapped me in the middle of the night and questioned me, almost killed me, but halfway through, we encountered a Transparent Species, and had no choice but to cooperate. I saved his life, so he couldn’t bring himself to kill me, and his attitude softened a lot.”

Yu Wan Yao looked at Yue Hang. Yue Hang said: “Yes, Liang Huan disappeared in the middle of the night, the people in the team all know, and the tracker and chip were destroyed, the injury hasn’t healed yet. After we agreed to split the Transparent Species, Li Yao even wanted to take him away.”

“Li Yao has a bad temper, but he is indeed grateful.” Yu Wan Yao said thoughtfully, to Liang Huan, “In that case, seize this opportunity, try to ease your relationship as much as possible, and see if you can continue to dig up some news about the Black Box.”

Liang Huan nodded: “Okay.”

“The armored vehicle you brought back is from the military, which is a bit tricky.” Yu Wan Yao spun the prayer beads in his hand.

Yue Hang and Liang Huan exchanged a glance.

“Let’s do this, the Shenfeng Exploration Team shouldn’t go out for the time being, wait for this storm to pass.” Yu Wan Yao said, “Liang Huan, you and Yue Hang should stay by my side recently, and help me manage the lower eight levels. The mecha competition is about to start, and these people are restless again, all thinking about taking this opportunity to see the light of day again, but they don’t consider whether they have the ability to do so.”

It wasn’t until they left the garden gate that Lu Biao and Deng Meng breathed a sigh of relief.

“Great, Boss, Liang Huan, Mr. Yu is actually letting you manage the lower eight levels, he’s completely treating you as one of his own.” Lu Biao rubbed his hands excitedly.

Deng Meng, however, was worried: “But I heard that the lower eight levels are managed by Lou Chu, the second-in-command of the Black Market, who is a ruthless character who escaped from the Eastern District Prison. I heard the military even specially recruited him. If we suddenly go to the lower eight levels, will he target us?”

Yue Hang said: “Lou Chu wanted to borrow Mr. Yu’s Shenfeng mecha to participate in the competition some time ago, but was rejected. Since then, the two have not been on good terms. Mr. Yu is probably letting us go to give him a show of strength, but I don’t know to what extent.”

Liang Huan smiled: “In this kind of situation, naturally whoever is stronger is listened to. Captain, don’t you think?”

Yue Hang understood. No one can refuse the temptation of power. He clearly saw the ambition in Liang Huan’s eyes, no different from his own. He even felt a surge of joy from the bottom of his heart at finding a confidant and companion. He said decisively: “Since we’re not on a mission, don’t call me captain anymore. Like when you shot, just call me Yue Hang.”

Liang Huan patted him on the shoulder, Yue Hang and he smiled at each other.

The lower eight levels of the Black Market advocate the survival of the strongest. It’s a vortex of power and desire, but at the same time, it’s full of opportunities and the best stepping stone to move up.

Liang Huan and Deng Meng returned to the apartment. A group of underlings swarmed around them, and Xu Yunyan drove them away: “Go back to your rooms, Liang Huan and Deng Meng need to rest.”

Only then did these people reluctantly leave.

Liang Huan looked at the room facing the doorway. Mu Bo came out of it and said to Liang Huan: “Liang Huan, thank you for being willing to take me in.”

Deng Meng frowned, and Liang Huan looked at Xu Yunyan.

Xu Yunyan said somewhat guiltily: “Liang Huan, he, he said he was homeless, and I felt sorry for him, so I let him stay in my room for one night. If it’s inconvenient, I’ll let him stay in a hotel.”

“It’s so late, you don’t know what the hotels in the Black Market are like, someone like him—” Deng Meng said with a headache, “I’m really impressed by you.”

Xu Yunyan looked at Liang Huan helplessly.

“Since that’s the case, let him stay for now.” Liang Huan lowered his eyes to look at Xu Yunyan, “Not again.”

Xu Yunyan nodded vigorously.

“Deng Meng, come with me.” Liang Huan patted him on the shoulder and called Deng Meng upstairs.

Xu Yunyan bit his lip, staring at Liang Huan and Deng Meng’s backs. He always felt like he was being deliberately kept at a distance. Why did Liang Huan always call Deng Meng and not take him with him?

“Mr. Xu, if it’s inconvenient, I’ll leave first.” Mu Bo said to him.

Xu Yunyan came back to his senses and waved his hands repeatedly: “No, no, you can stay here with peace of mind, Liang Huan is especially kind, he won’t drive you away.”

Mu Bo smiled.

Xu Yunyan walked into the room: “Come on, I’ll help you clean up together.”

Mu Bo looked at Liang Huan’s closed door upstairs, a flash of coldness flickered in his eyes.

In the room, Deng Meng hesitated: “Liang Huan, Xu Yunyan is a bit too much, he took the liberty of leaving someone behind without your permission, he’s too ignorant of the rules.”

“Mm.” Liang Huan sat in a chair, looking at the Black Market map on the screen, and said upon hearing this, “His personality is indeed not suitable for continuing to stay in the Black Market, think of a way to send him to school in the outer district.”

“Ah?” Deng Meng was bewildered by his words, “School? Him?”

“He’s not too old, only nineteen years old, it’s the time to go to college.” Liang Huan said, “Although Xu Yunyan is a bit soft sometimes, he’s careful and conscientious. A-grade mental power and B-grade physical ability are considered excellent among ordinary people. This time, he didn’t hold us back when we went to the outer district. In the future, if he comes back after studying, he can help do some things.”

The original purpose of keeping Xu Yunyan was to restrain Deng Meng, after all, the two had grudges in the first place, and in addition, there was really no one else available at the time, so he could only make do for the time being, but essentially Xu Yunyan and Deng Meng are two different kinds of people. Now that he has Lu Biao and Chen Jia, Deng Meng’s competitive consciousness is mainly converging on these two people, so he is becoming increasingly displeased with Xu Yunyan.

Now that Yue Hang can be used by him, but he’s not loyal enough. Li Yao can’t come to his side for the time being, Deng Meng can be cultivated vigorously. In addition, Xu Yunyan has some affection for him, so it’s just right to let him go out for a period of time to clear his head. It can also appease Deng Meng, a double win.

“Deng Meng, once Xu Yunyan leaves, the only truly useful person by my side will be you.” Liang Huan handed him the tea, “This time, the lower eight levels are related to whether we can gain a foothold in the Black Market in the future. Pick out the people in the apartment carefully, and let those who are not suitable to stay leave. Don’t worry about the money. If they want to do some business in the Black Market or want to go out, they can all do so. In the future, everyone will still be brothers.”

Deng Meng’s gaze towards him was fervent. He knew that he had to seize this unprecedented great opportunity and said in a deep voice, “Liang Huan, I understand.”

“By the way, send someone to keep an eye on that Mu Bo.” Liang Huan said, “Don’t cause any trouble.”

“Okay.” Deng Meng responded and left.

Liang Huan watched him leave, and lowered his head to look at the chip, clicking on the communication board with Li Yao. The message he sent last night had not been replied to: [Are you home tonight? I’ll come find you.]

They had been back from the outer district for two days, was he out on a mission again?

But he shouldn’t have not replied to his message.

Liang Huan looked at the time, grabbed the coat next to him, and quietly flipped out of the window on the third floor.

Uncle Yang was watching the mecha simulation preliminary round when someone suddenly knocked on the window next to him.

“Who is it?” His gaze reluctantly left the screen and looked outside the window, looking at the other party with some surprise, “Xiao Liang? Oh, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen you.”

The window was opened, and Liang Huan handed him the gift he had brought: “Uncle Yang, is Li Yao home? Or is he out on a mission?”

“This—” Uncle Yang hesitated a little.

“We had a fight before, and I moved out in a fit of pique. I’ve figured it out these past two days, but he doesn’t reply to my communications or messages. I’m a little worried about him.” Liang Huan smiled gently and harmlessly, “Uncle Yang, please help me out.”

“Ah, you young couple, why are you arguing over nothing?” Uncle Yang took the gift and said, “You know he’s a proud person, ever since he came back from the mission in the outer district the day before yesterday, he’s been staying in his room and hasn’t come out. I went up to send him a meal, but he didn’t even open the door.”

Liang Huan frowned: “Does he do this often?”

“Not really, occasionally when he does a big mission, he can rest for seven or eight days without going out. Sometimes I’m afraid he’ll die in the house by himself.” Uncle Yang said, “But he can jump around again when he comes out. He’s probably just too tired and sleeping. Those with S-grade physical abilities can take it.”

Liang Huan thought of the bottle of medicine that Li Yao had finished, and turned and went upstairs.

“Hey, be careful, he has a bad temper when he’s woken up before, he almost beat someone to death…” Uncle Yang’s voice was cut off outside the elevator.

The door to 7104 was tightly closed. Liang Huan knocked on the door: “Li Yao, are you there?”

No one responded.

He simply scanned his pupils, and the door opened just like that. He was slightly surprised—Li Yao hadn’t deleted his pupil scan.

A choking smell of smoke assaulted his face. After he had left for so many days, Li Yao’s dormitory seemed to have returned to its original state. The kitchen was covered with a thick layer of dust, and the plate he had used to cook for Li Yao that day was still in the sink, the oil stains had not been washed off. It seemed that the food had been eaten. Muddy combat boots were kicked everywhere, combat uniforms and protective suits were thrown haphazardly on the carpet, the cabinet door was half-open, revealing half of Jinbao’s head, with a dry towel hanging on it. What surprised him was the bed that had collapsed in half, the bright yellow bedding was still there, a footprint was on the pillow, lying miserably on the broken spot. Besides that, there was nothing on it, but the rocking chair was always the shape of a bed board, with messy chips and new treatment devices thrown on it. The tea set on the coffee table had been thrown into the trash can, probably too busy to be thrown away all the time.

A muffled cough came from the bathroom.

“Li Yao?” Liang Huan called out, but there was still no movement.

He paused, then simply pushed open the bathroom door, the sight in front of him stunned him.

Li Yao was sitting naked on the water-filled floor, with several empty medicine bottles and spray cans lying beside him. Dark blue pills were scattered all over the ground, and together with countless cigarette butts, they were immersed in blood and water, making them muddy. Li Yao’s whole body was soaked, black combat pants clinging to his legs, with a gun under his boots. His face was pale, and he suddenly raised his eyes when he heard the movement, looking over with a vicious gaze. Drops of water from his hair fell on the scar on the bridge of his nose, making him look disheveled and vicious.

Like a badly wounded tiger, still vigilant and ready to bite its opponent to death.

Liang Huan’s gaze was fixed, seeing his arm with the flesh turned out, as if it had been cut open by a knife. The blood-colored flesh outside had been washed very pale by the water, revealing a deathly pallor.

“Li Yao.” Liang Huan didn’t act rashly, and tentatively called his name.

Li Yao frowned, pulled the arm behind him, his gaze fixed on Liang Huan. After a moment, he lowered his eyes again. He probably wanted to stand up by supporting his arm, but obviously couldn’t do it. The bulging veins on the back of his hand and the tense jaw were all indicating the owner’s annoyance and embarrassment.

Liang Huan was slightly relieved, and stepped on the mess on the bathroom floor without caring, walked up to him, knelt down on one knee, and said softly, “I came to find you.”

“Fuck.” Li Yao gritted his teeth and cursed.

“Want to go out?”

The water supply time was limited, and the water flow from the shower head gradually became smaller, turning into a fine mist. Water droplets hung all over Liang Huan’s forehead, and his eyebrows and eyes became extraordinarily calm in the water mist. He just looked at Li Yao quietly, waiting for his answer.

Li Yao didn’t expect that he would really come, let alone that he would pick the time just right when he had just woken up. The initial shock and embarrassment passed, leaving only annoyance and embarrassment. He never thought that one day he would be seen in this stupid state.

“Get out first.” He was very irritable, and his words were not polite. If he had the strength now, he would definitely shoot the person in front of him.

The smell of blood and the chemical agent in the water were mixed together. Liang Huan knelt in front of him, raised his hand and turned off the shower head: “I’ll keep you company.”

Li Yao glared at him with a gloomy gaze, and only managed to squeeze out one word after a long time: “Fuck.”

Embarrassment and anger were not enough to describe his emotions. The aftereffects of the medicine made his already chaotic emotions even more chaotic and sensitive. If possible, he would rather shoot himself.

Liang Huan glanced at him, got up and went out. He subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, but Liang Huan quickly returned, with a treatment device and a clean towel in his hand.

Li Yao looked at him with a cold face, watching him fasten the treatment device on his arm, and put the towel on his head, covering his vision.

His body was emptied, and he was picked up.

Shock, irritability, anger, shame… a jumble of emotions accumulated in his chest. The veins on his forehead jumped, but he didn’t even have the strength to lift his arm. He now regretted his momentary soft-heartedness and not deleting Liang Huan’s pupil scan, so that he was now being hugged around by this pretty boy.

Liang Huan put him on the sofa, grabbed the towel and began to wipe his wet hair. Li Yao’s hair was very hard, not soft at all. There were also deep scratches on the back of his neck, the wound had turned white from being soaked in water.

He didn’t explore why Li Yao had made himself so embarrassed, stood in front of the sofa and wiped his wet hair dry, then wiped off the water stains on the black dragon, his gaze fell on his soaked combat pants.

“If you dare to change them, I’ll die and drag you down with me.” Li Yao’s voice was cold, with a full of threat.

Liang Huan sighed helplessly, and pulled up the blanket next to him to cover him: “You’re the only one in this world who can let me personally change clothes for them, and you’re still so ungrateful.”

Li Yao stared at him for a long time with an indiscernible expression: “Tsk.”

“You’re very much like a little hedgehog that I raised when I was young.” Liang Huan didn’t bother to clean him up, turned around and pulled out Jinbao from the cabinet, plugged in the battery, and restarted it.

Li Yao didn’t speak, and just sat on the sofa, staring at his every move coldly.

“Master—” As soon as Jinbao started, he came over crying and hugged Liang Huan’s calf, “Jinbao was forcibly shut down, and is very sad.”

Liang Huan squatted down and touched its head: “I bought you a new skin, try it on.”

Jinbao was given a panda skin. He touched his round black ears and matched himself with the special effect of fireworks exploding: “Thank you, Master! Jinbao super likes it! Jinbao is not sad at all now!”

“Then help clean up the room.” Liang Huan said with a smile.

“Okay!” Jinbao started to frantically clean the room with his short legs.

Liang Huan threw away the withered potted plants on the windowsill, opened the window, and the stuffy and choking smoke smell in the room disappeared in an instant. He walked to the broken bed again, and asked Li Yao: “Is there a toolbox at home?”

Li Yao was silent for a long time.

Jinbao dragged the toolbox over and handed it to Liang Huan.

“Thank you.” Liang Huan took it, scanned the chip on the head of the bed, studied it for a long time, and then opened the toolbox to start repairing the bed.

He was not familiar with these tools, and it took nearly an hour to repair the broken spot. The supplies on the bed were cleaned up by Jinbao, and a clean set was replaced. From the time Liang Huan entered the door to the time he put down the toolbox, in just over an hour, the entire room had been completely renewed.

Including the owner of the house.

Liang Huan took off the treatment device from Li Yao’s arm, his gaze swept over the healed scars on it, and placed his fingers on his wrist.

Li Yao pulled out his hand, pointed to the door: “Okay, you can go.”

It seemed like he had some strength.

Liang Huan smiled: “I just got back, and you’re kicking me out?”

Li Yao said expressionlessly: “What, do you still want me to fight you?”

“You can’t beat me anyway.” Liang Huan held his wrist again, “Yu Wan Yao heard about our collaboration in the outer district to hunt the Transparent Species, and he believed what I said, so he wants me to continue to find opportunities to get close to you.”

Li Yao sneered softly.

“You can treat all of this as my means to get close to you.” After Liang Huan finished his pulse, he took out silver needles and stuck them into his muscular forearm.

Li Yao frowned and moved, but his wrist was held again.

“Don’t move, these are all acupuncture points.” Liang Huan took the medical patch and stuck it on the back of his neck, covering those hideous scratches. Li Yao had more wounds on his head, but it was inconvenient with his hair, and according to his nature, he probably wouldn’t be happy to have a treatment device on his head. Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but laugh.

“Laughing at what.” Li Yao kicked his ankle.

He was weak and didn’t have much strength, Liang Huan generously didn’t care about him, and just stuck the needles all over him.

Li Yao froze in place, frowning and asking: “How long will it take to get better?”

“Half an hour.” Liang Huan looked at him with a smile, “Your pants are dry.”

“Even if they’re dry, I’m not taking them off.” Li Yao glared at him fiercely.

Liang Huan nodded, and the next second, he put two needles on his ankle, right on the foot he had just kicked with.

Li Yao was furious: “You wait for me.”

“I’m waiting.” Liang Huan lay down on his bed, opened the chip and watched the mecha simulation competition, “Jinbao, go make a pot of tea.”

“Okay, Master.” Jinbao stared at the panda skin and agreed sweetly.

Li Yao looked at the one man and one robot entering the room and snorted coldly.

“I’m sleeping here tonight.” Liang Huan met his eyes with sincerity, and asked with a smile, “Li Yao, as a reward, would you be willing to order some takeout for me?”