Chapter 46: Between Partners, There’s No Need to Be Formal

After saying that, Ji Mingchen got out of the car.

Wen Yao thought he had something important to do, so she waited quietly for a few minutes. But the man just came back with a rose. The rose had thorns, and he picked it with his bare hands. The sharp thorns would inevitably cut his fingers.

A drop of crimson blood rolled down his slender index finger, staining his white shirt, creating a strangely striking beauty.

“Tsk, accidentally got it dirty…” Ji Mingchen looked at his sleeve with regret, then patiently pulled out the thorns from the rose stem. When the stem was bare, leaving only harmless leaves, he reached out and handed it to the person next to him.

Wen Yao: “…”

Forget it, she was used to it.

As she put down the gun and reached out to take the flower, Ji Mingchen explained: “I upset you today, so I’m giving you a midnight rose as an apology. Do you like it?”

“I’m not upset…” Wen Yao held the rose stem. She originally wanted to say it wasn’t necessary, but looking at the man’s still bleeding finger, she felt that it was inappropriate. She could only turn to ask with concern: “Is your hand okay?”

Ji Mingchen looked down, nodded: “It hurts a little.”

Wen Yao: “…”

She knew she shouldn’t have asked. This guy was too good at taking advantage of the situation, not even a little bit humble.

But the rose was already accepted, and it would be unethical to ignore it now.

Wen Yao sighed softly, so she put the rose in the car window and picked up the handkerchief in front to wipe his finger.

Ji Mingchen looked at Wen Yao, smiling, and cooperated by handing his right hand to her.

Their car was parked next to a European-style street lamp. The dim light shone through the sparse leaves, casting mottled shadows on the front windshield.

And that slender jade hand happened to fall into this moving light and shadow, with distinct knuckles and cold white color, perfect like a work of art. Even the blood stains on the fingertips became the embellishment of this work of art.

Because Wen Yao didn’t dare to look at Ji Mingchen’s eyes, she focused on his hand, and found that this man’s hands were so beautiful that they were mesmerizing.

While wiping the blood stains on his fingertips, their fingertips touched, and the temperature transferred to each other. In this deserted night car, it was inexplicably seductive.

Just as Wen Yao was holding her breath and putting down the handkerchief, the man suddenly reached out and pulled her sleeve gently.

Wen Yao looked up at him, looking at the stunning face so close to her, her heart skipped a beat.

Ji Mingchen’s long eyelashes drooped slightly, pointing at the blood stain on his wrist, his thin lips parted slightly, his voice magnetic and gentle: “Be careful…”

“Here, you missed a spot.”

Wen Yao’s mind went blank instantly, and she quickly reached out to wipe it clean for him: “…Okay.”

…

From the time the car restarted to when they arrived at the Biological Research Building, it took about half an hour.

Wen Yao, who never got carsick, actually felt a bit carsick during this time, feeling like she couldn’t breathe.

Finally, Ji Mingchen noticed her discomfort and thoughtfully rolled down the car window for her, and she felt a little better.

It was the middle of the night, and the outer layer of the research building was still heavily guarded, but there were not many people coming and going inside.

Wen Yao held the silver pistol and followed closely behind Ji Mingchen. Although this man told her to protect him, this place seemed very safe, and she didn’t need to protect him at all.

They walked through a blue corridor that looked very high-tech, took the elevator to the ninth floor of the building, and then used facial recognition and fingerprint unlocking to enter a room that looked like a monitoring room. There were screens on three walls, densely packed.

But it was obvious that six of the screens were broken, black and lifeless, especially noticeable.

Wen Yao didn’t know what Ji Mingchen was going to do, and out of her former vice-commander’s professional training, she didn’t look around or touch anything. She just quietly watched him operate those computers.

The man’s tall figure stood in front of the computer screen desk, his waist slightly bent, his slender jade fingers fell on the keyboard, the letters on the screen flickered constantly, and soon, one of the broken screens flickered a few times and lit up.

Wen Yao: “…” So amazing.

After so many years of the apocalypse, the things she learned before the apocalypse were long forgotten, so she couldn’t even understand the characters on the screen, she could only vaguely know that it was a very advanced program.

This kind of advanced monitoring maintenance work was only done by specific engineers in the North Continent’s Thirteenth District.

Unexpectedly, Ji Mingchen could do it too…

He knows medicine, computer programs, his gun skills are excellent, and he also has fire-type abilities that he rarely uses.

What kind of genius is this? What doesn’t he know?

Wen Yao silently watched from the side, looking at the surveillance screens that lit up one after another, she felt increasingly ashamed.

Compared to Ji Mingchen, this refined and elegant man, she had lived like a rough brute all these years, except for her knife skills, she knew nothing.

After all the screens lit up, Ji Mingchen straightened up, casually picked up a disposable cup, filled it with water from the water dispenser nearby, and then handed it to Wen Yao: “Want some water?”

Wen Yao was still immersed in her amazement, subconsciously took the water and took a sip, but when she casually put the cup on the table, Ji Mingchen picked up the cup again, twirling the rim with his fingertips, and also took a sip.

Wen Yao: “!?”

She inexplicably felt a little hot in the face, and couldn’t help but remind him: “This is the cup I drank from…”

Isn’t this man very clean?

Ji Mingchen leaned back against the desk, his head tilted slightly, staring at the screen in front of him. He didn’t seem to care about her words and simply hummed, as if it was the most normal thing in the world: “Between partners, there’s no need to be formal.”

Between partners, there’s no need to be formal…

So he did it on purpose.

Wen Yao didn’t know what to say, so she could only shift her attention to the surveillance, most of the scenes in the surveillance were unmanned, and the few people who were moving were all researchers wearing white coats.

There seemed to be nothing unusual.

In the quiet monitoring room, Ji Mingchen suddenly asked: “Do you know what the raw materials for the ability awakening agent are?”

Wen Yao: “…”

Why ask that suddenly?

She was confused for a moment and shook her head honestly: “I don’t know.”

How would she know? This thing seems to have been developed first in the East Continent, and the other three continents gradually began to replicate it later.

Ji Mingchen propped his hands on the desk behind him, leaned back lazily, and looked up at the monitors, his beautiful peach blossom eyes lit up by the light from the screen: “It’s those mutated creatures with special attributes…”

Wen Yao looked at him blankly.

“Not the mutated zombies. Mutated zombies are dead things, while those infected mutated animals and plants are alive. In the past two years, Director Fei has discovered that there is a substance in their bodies that can induce human genes to mutate.”

“We named them ‘element crystals’, and these element crystals are the raw materials for the ability awakening agent.”

“!?”