After a long moment of silence, Wu Xinyan finally felt that she could not endure this any longer. She swallowed, and her voice sounded weak, “Umm, Captain Zhou…”
“That chocolate, why don’t you first put it…”
Before she could finish speaking, Si Nan scrambled out from the blanket. He pulled his jacket on, and exited the room.
Wu Xinyan was once again dumbfounded, and did not snap out from her daze immediately.
“What do you want?” Si Nan’s voice was composed. “Quickly, I’m in a hurry.”
Si Nan was only wearing a black tight-fitting police t-shirt. He had his arms folded, and the jacket of the riot uniform was hanging off his shoulders. His expression was very similar to when Zhou Rong saw him for the first time. In the armoured vehicle, he ignored the water handed to him, and took Yan Hao’s gun without a word — even the way Si Nan was standing was exactly the same.
Zhou Rong sighed in his heart. Shoving the chocolate in the pocket of Si Nan’s jacket, he turned and walked away.
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five…
The moment he counted to zero, as expected, Si Nan’s voice came from behind him.
“Are you alright?”
Zhou Rong stopped, but did not turn back, sighing.
“…” Si Nan finally walked forward. His slender and defined eyebrows joined together, observing Zhou Rong doubtfully. “Are you alright?”
Zhou Rong spoke listlessly, “Si Xiaonan.”
“There’s no ‘Xiao’ in the middle of my name.”
“Comrade Xiao Si.” Zhou Rong smoothly changed his address. “Do you think we’re still friends?”
The question was too complicated, mainly because Si Nan rarely interacted with other Omegas in his life. He was unable to verify if “an Alpha and an Omega were really able to just have friendship between the two of them”. But he had interacted with many, many Alphas, so many that even if he had lost his memories, his accumulated vigilance and wariness were deeply ingrained in his subconsciousness.
He narrowed his eyes, observing Zhou Rong.
Zhou Rong had a hand in his pocket. With his boots, he towered at 190cm, and his shadow stretched fairly long under the moonlight.
Zhou Rong was not the bulky, muscular type, but was the wiry and symmetrical type due to the many years of special training — this stature was also very obvious on Si Nan’s body. However, Si Nan’s muscles were leaner, and Zhou Rong’s shoulders were broader, full of the power of a masculine Alpha.
His facial features came together with a sort of rakish handsomeness. Especially when he cocked his brow and laughed, there was an undeniable haughtiness and arrogance coming off him.
This sort of appearance was very different from the image of upright soldiers the citizens had in their mind. If the military were to choose someone for promotional activities, with Zhou Rong’s aura, he would definitely be eliminated from the first round of selection.
However, if he was out of the military uniform, he would seem like a dapper young master. In any circumstances or events, he would definitely receive a lot of attention.
A thought suddenly popped into Si Nan’s head, this person was different from others.
He did not know why he would have such a strange thought. But under the moonlight, there was a sort of indescribable atmosphere, and deep inside him, his heart trembled a little.
“…” Si Nan averted his gaze. “I guess so.”
Zhou Rong looked down slightly, refusing to let it go. “So what?”
“… I guess we’re friends.”
Zhou Rong was almost plastered right onto Si Nan. There was less than an inch between their noses, and they could both see their own reflection in the other person’s eyes.
“Oh?” Zhou Rong spoke slowly, “But why do I feel like you’re scorning me? You don’t even want to talk to me, and we have to drive in two separate cars, and you no longer whisper into my ear…”
Si Nan could feel his breath brushing past his cheek. He could not help but take a small step back.
However, Zhou Rong immediately came closely, his thin lips curving. “Or, now that you know I’m an Alpha, you’re afraid I’ll start wooing you?”
Si Nan continued leaning backwards. Unable to avoid him, he had no choice but to turn his head and look directly at Zhou Rong.
With their distance, Zhou Rong only had to lower his head, and their lips would meet.
“Say,” Si Nan lowered his gaze, speaking slowly, “If I were to be an Alpha, we won’t know who will be wooing who. Maybe I’ll be the one wooing you.”
Zhou Rong was slightly stunned, and Si Nan added, “If you don’t believe, just try it. I’ll leave you with one hand.”
Zhou Rong laughed out loud.
“Comrade Xiao Si, it’s good to have dreams…” Zhou Rong ruffled Si Nan’s hair. Pulling his head towards himself, he laughed till he could barely catch his breath, “However, I feel, hahahaha, this sort of things, hahaha—”
Si Nan did not manage to struggle away, and Zhou Rong placed a kiss on his hair. With a smile, he looked at him, “Very good, then I’ll wait for you. Go back now, don’t let your little girlfriend wait anxiously.”
Before Si Nan could react, Zhou Rong had already let go and strode off.
“…” An indescribable feeling once again welled up within him. Si Nan was unable to describe what it felt like. After a panicked moment, he suddenly thought about something, and turned to shout, “I’ve already said, she likes Yan Hao—!”
Zhou Rong stumbled.
Si Nan watched his figure vanish into the night before he quietly looked away.
“Ah, I forgot to tell him about the Wan guy.” He suddenly remembered, “I should have asked him to stay back and help.”
Having wasted an opportunity of gaining extra help, Si Nan was disconsolate. He slowly walked back towards the garage.
It was already 9.30pm. In the factory a distance away, noise from the dormitory was fading. In this apocalypse, the people had once again ended a day of being on tenterhooks, and sank into a sleep where they would temporarily forget their fear and terror. Under the shadow of the gingko tree, the garage was immersed in darkness. There was an indiscernible crack in the metal door.
Sensitive to the changes, Si Nan’s eyes stopped there.
Next, a crash could be heard in the garage, and a girl shrieked, “Help—! Mm…”
A struggle, panting, and low cursing sounded at the same time. Si Nan pulled out his dagger from his thigh holster, kicking the door open. As expected, in the dark, a bulky man was holding onto Wu Xinyan, cursing and swearing. When he heard the noise, he turned back.
“Who’s that?! This is none of your business! Go away, and pretend…”
“I’ve been waiting for you,” Si Nan said.
Before the Alpha bodyguard with the last name Wan understood what that sentence implied, he felt a pressure around his throat. The back of his collar was yanked by an iron-like strength, and his body was lifted into the air.
By the time he realised he was flying backwards, it was too late.
“Ahhh—”
The bodyguard slammed into the ground. He did not even have the time to climb up, and was pressed back onto the ground with a foot on his chest. Then,
“Don;t come over!” The four bodyguards left raised their guns, trembling and shouting, “D-don’t… Everyone, let’s attack together!”
Zhou Rong exhaled.
That exhalation seemed as though he was relieved, and was laced with a bit of resignation as well. Next, he took a couple of steps forward, standing in the middle of the empty space. Crooking his finger at the three special force soldiers behind him, he spoke, “Seems like there really are these sort of Alphas who would refuse to surrender when they think that their opponents are ordinary people—”
“Brothers, today, let’s convince President Feng.”
Zhou Rong slid out a swiss army knife from his sleeve. Snapping the blade out, he cut his palm.
Chuncao, Ding Shi and Guo Weixiang cut their palms too at the same time. Blood welled up, and the thick Alpha pheromones of the four special force soldiers filled the air, covering the entire area!
The faces of the Feng people changed abruptly, and even Feng Wentai stopped his violent coughing in shock.
Si Nan suddenly turned away, holding his breath, retreating half a step.