Lan Yin Bi Yue

Capítulo 65

“But the perfume he’s wearing smells like women’s,” Sun Qingshan raised an eyebrow. “Doesn’t that prove he’s a pervert?”

His girlfriend hesitated.

A short while later, the two parted ways at the store entrance; the girlfriend was going to take the subway, while Sun Qingshan waited for the bus.

Less than half a minute later, a Ford pulled up in front of Sun Qingshan. The driver rolled down the window and beckoned to Sun Qingshan. Sun Qingshan hesitated for two seconds, then opened the door and got into the back seat.

"Thank you." The shopping bags were arranged, but the car didn't move, and a traffic jam began.

Shao Yanhe adjusted the rearview mirror and looked at her through it. "Did you buy a lot of things?" he asked.

"Can't you see it?" Sun Qingshan muttered to himself, but said aloud, "It's like it's free, might as well buy it."

Shao Yan smiled and turned her head. She sat quietly by the car window and looked out. The lights outside flickered and reflected on her face, the light real and dazzling, intertwining and dancing... He looked away and gripped the steering wheel with slightly trembling fingers.

“Actually, we are quite destined to meet,” Sun Qingshan turned his head and made conversation. “I’ve run into you three times in one day. Why don’t you go shopping alone and find someone to accompany you?” What she really wanted to say was, “You’re a grown man, and you actually go shopping all day long. Do you really have the leisure?”

"Do you really need someone to accompany you when you go shopping?" Shao Yanhe asked rhetorically, starting the car and finally driving forward twenty meters.

The car stopped again, and Sun Qingshan leaned forward, asking, "So what did you buy?"

Upon seeing the pile of plastic bags on the front seat, Sun Qingshan exclaimed in surprise, "You went to the supermarket?!" "You actually went to the supermarket today?"

"Can't I buy some food?" Shao Yanhe looked at her closely.

Sun Qingshan noticed the other person's gaze, a gaze that was hard to describe, yet it made his heart tingle and itch. Because the other person was so focused, he could see something wrong even when there was nothing wrong... Then the two of them stopped moving. He looked at her profile, and she was craning her neck. Suddenly, Shao Yanhe asked, "Do you want to sit in the front?"

"Huh?" Sun Qingshan was surprised. Then he saw the man smile. His dark brown eyes reflected the light through his glasses. Sun Qingshan suddenly snapped out of his daze and quickly retreated.

"Would you like to sit in the front?" Shao Yanhe asked for the second time.

"Huh? Oh... okay." Realizing what question she had answered, she speechlessly helped Shao Yanhe move the books from the front seat to the back seat. She then awkwardly crawled into the cramped car and finally climbed into the front seat, pulling both legs over and leaning her back against the seat. "Phew..." she let out a breath.

The man leaned closer, getting closer and closer… What was he up to?! Sun Qingshan became alert, his heart pounding. While it was common for men to be so attentive, seemingly for this very reason, and the shift from the back seat to the front was a clear enough indication that no one needed to pretend to be innocent or ignorant—wasn't he gay? Besides, they were all Chinese, and helping each other was the proper thing to do. Sun Qingshan genuinely just wanted a ride and had absolutely no intention of developing anything further…

"Burp..." Sun Qingshan suddenly let out a burp, and Shao Yanhe's hand had already grabbed the seat belt.

"What's wrong?" The man turned his head to look at her, his brows slightly furrowed, his eyes full of concern, nothing else.

"Cough... It's nothing..." Sun Qingshan felt unexpectedly embarrassed today. It was just a man, but she felt that their status was extremely unequal. He could get close to her so naturally, but before he could even get close, she already felt her lips and tongue were dry, her cheeks were flushed, and her heart was pounding... All the bad symptoms began to appear.

As her heart raced, Shao Yanhe seemed completely oblivious, turning back and finally managing to get through the street after blocking it for twenty minutes.

As the car sped up, Sun Qingshan became restless again and started asking, "Are you nearsighted? How much?"

“It’s not nearsightedness.” Shao Yanhe turned the steering wheel, finding it amusing. “…I’m getting old, it’s presbyopia.”

"Old age...presbyopia?" Sun Qingshan was speechless, and considering that the two were not even that familiar with each other, he didn't say anything more.

"Business card." Shao Yanhe pulled out a business card from somewhere and handed it to Sun Qingshan.

Sun Qingshan was about to squint when the overhead light came on. "This person is so considerate..." she thought. Suddenly, a familiar feeling washed over her. For the first time, she connected two completely unrelated people. She turned to look into Shao Yanhe's eyes. It wasn't surprising that her heart was racing, because he looked so much like the man in the valley—so much like him...

"Professor?" Sun Qingshan looked at the title on the business card, then at the man, and curled his lip. "Doesn't look like one at all!"

“Doesn’t look like what?” the man asked.

"...You don't seem like someone who does scientific research. I originally thought you were a business person, like a trader or something." Sun Qingshan made up a story.

Shao Yanhe smiled faintly, "You flatter me."

"Haha..." Sun Qingshan forced a smile, inwardly cursing: You, a professor, are being modest? What about me, a PhD student who hasn't even graduated yet? So frustrating!

The carriage fell silent.

This is usually the case; when Sun Qingshan becomes calm, the closed atmosphere suddenly becomes very cold.

However, Sun Qingshan was exhausted. She had been wearing high heels all day, clattering along, and had even gone so far as to buy a whole bunch of things for that savage. She didn't know when they would meet again.

During the brief moment of calm, Shao Yanhe turned his head to take a closer look at her, feeling a warmth in his heart. He even found her thick false eyelashes adorable. There was only half a lipstick left on her lips, and he wanted to lean over and lick it clean for her... Suddenly, he braked and came back to his senses.

"What are you thinking about?" Sun Qingshan didn't answer, so Shao Yanhe asked instead.

“A man,” Sun Qingshan answered absentmindedly.

"Boyfriend?" she asked again.

Sun Qingshan frowned. "No." After a moment of silence, he suddenly protested, "I'm not thinking about that kind of man. I have a boyfriend—don't misunderstand!"

Shao Yanhe raised his lips, his profile reflected in the car window, his eyes crinkling with laughter, "...How could I misunderstand?"

Mount Tai, which has disappeared in history

"I've thought it through..." Her boyfriend knelt on the ground, holding the diamond ring box in his hand, with roses at his feet. "Sun Qingshan, I love you. I'm just casual with other women, but my feelings for you are genuine—marry me!"

Sun Qingshan leaned against the door, yawning, "So sleepy..."

Her boyfriend was impatient. "I'm serious, I've already booked the plane tickets. Let's go home and get our marriage certificate during the holiday—or you can put on the ring and we can get engaged first..." As he spoke, he was about to slip a sparkling diamond ring onto Sun Qingshan's finger.

"What are you doing?!" Sun Qingshan jumped back three steps, putting his hands behind his back. "Don't go looking for trouble. It's just about that guy next door. There's really nothing between us—do you have to get so worked up?!"

Sun Qingshan's boyfriend gritted his teeth, "You still say there's nothing between you and that man?!" He got up and rushed to the door next door to knock on it—"What are you doing?!" Sun Qingshan quickly chased after him, and the two of them stood guard at the door of Shao Yanhe's house, starting to berate each other.

“You’re a lunatic!” Sun Qingshan yelled at her boyfriend.

"You're the one who's brainless!" the boyfriend retorted to Sun Qingshan. "Do you even know what this man does? He was just joking with you, and you, a young girl, actually took it seriously. What a waste of your mother's efforts in raising you!"

Sun Qingshan's eyes widened immediately. "You can say whatever you want, just don't talk about my mom!"

"Who said anything about your mother?!" the other person retorted angrily. "I feel sorry for your mother; how could she have given birth to such a brainless and idiotic child like you!"

"Who are you calling brainless?!"

"I'm telling you, you're stupid!!"

"You're so stupid, why are you sticking your nose into my shoes and trying to steal it—"

No one noticed that at this moment, the door beside them had been fully opened. Shao Yanhe stood behind the door, looking at the two people in the hallway who seemed to have a tacit understanding, even more so when they were arguing. Shao Yanhe lowered her eyes, turned around and wanted to close the door—"Wait a minute!" Sun Qingshan wasn't completely oblivious, but she was completely focused on dealing with her boyfriend's offensive and couldn't spare the time to turn her head.

"Wait a minute!" Sun Qingshan pressed Shao Yanhe's hand firmly against the door. Sun Qingshan felt a surge of lust, but after looking closely at her, he frowned and asked, "Are you alright?"

Shao Yanhe looked very tired, much more haggard than when they last met, with a dull look in his eyes and a listless demeanor.

Fortunately, she was fairly neat, without stubble, except for her slightly messy hair and her pajamas not being buttoned properly—before Sun Qingshan could finish observing her, her unscrupulous boyfriend shoved her aside, "You—" the boyfriend pointed at Shao Yanhe, "You said Sun Qingshan is your girlfriend?"

Shao Yanhe did not react, and waited quietly for the other party to continue.

The boyfriend held up the diamond ring, raised an eyebrow, and sneered, "Then I'm going to propose to Sun Qingshan right now. She's your girlfriend, but she'll be my wife soon—why don't you propose to her too?!"

"How boring!" Sun Qingshan cursed. "Can't you do something constructive? Look, nobody's paying attention to you. They're just too lazy to bother with you..."

"Sun Qingshan!!" Sun Qingshan's boyfriend nodded repeatedly in anger, then shoved Shao Yanhe aside and stormed in.

"Hey you—" Sun Qingshan panicked, ignoring the homeowner, and chased after them inside. "What are you doing? This is someone else's house, what's wrong with you?! I'm telling you—!"

The boyfriend barged into the bathroom. All the flats here are the same, so he knew it like the back of his hand. As soon as he entered the bathroom, his eyes swept across the room—a bottle of toilet cleaner in the corner, which he skipped over—a bottle of dark blue mouthwash on the sink. He rushed over, grabbed the water, and just then, Sun Qingshan blocked the bathroom door.

"Marry me!" the boyfriend yelled, holding up a 500ml bottle of mouthwash. "Or I'll drink it all!!"

"You—!" Sun Qingshan was furious with this man. What kind of man would be so shameless as to appear in a third party's bathroom? Was he out of his mind? Just as she was pounding her chest in anger, a pair of hands suddenly pushed her away from behind. Shao Yanhe, wearing pajamas, walked past Sun Qingshan.

Upon reaching Sun Qingshan's boyfriend—"What are you doing?!" The boyfriend was nervous, tightly gripping the mouthwash in his hand, while his other hand deftly opened the bottle cap.

Shao Yanhe, expressionless, snatched the flat bottle from the other's hand, raised it to his lips, and tilted his head back—"Ah!" Sun Qingshan screamed as the man surnamed Shao gulped down the entire bottle of blue mouthwash in less than two seconds.

"Spit it out quickly—!" Sun Qingshan shouted.

Sun Qingshan's boyfriend was dumbfounded.

"What else would you like to drink?" Shao Yanhe tossed aside the empty bottle in her hand. "How about hand sanitizer? Or bleach?" As she spoke, she reached for the tile bleach. Sun Qingshan was truly exasperated. "Shao Yanhe, why are you arguing with that idiot? Why do you care so much about him?!"

Shao Yanhe ignored Sun Qingshan, handed the bleach to Qingshan's boyfriend, and asked, "Want some?"

The boyfriend immediately blushed, veins bulging on his neck, and kicked the empty mouthwash bottle at his feet with a "bang," then stormed off in a fit of rage.

Sun Qingshan rushed to Shao Yanhe's side and asked anxiously, "Are you alright? You drank such a big bottle of mouthwash, are you stupid? — Guessing, yes, I'll help you guess — no, we should go to the hospital, just to be safe, I'll call a car for you — no, call an ambulance!"

“Sun Qingshan.” Shao Yanhe grabbed Sun Qingshan’s hand, which was shaking wildly in panic, and smiled. “I’m fine. I’ve never heard of anyone getting into trouble from drinking mouthwash. Don’t make a fuss.”

"You're still alright?!" Sun Qingshan exploded in anger. "I've never heard of anyone swallowing mouthwash for no reason! Are you out of your mind? I told you to ignore him, but you insisted on doing so!"

"I'm fine." Shao Yanhe waved his hand and walked out of the bathroom, saying as he went, "Luckily, he didn't take the toilet cleaner at first."

"You're still in the mood for jokes?" Sun Qingshan caught up with him. "Are you really alright?"

"It's really nothing."

Sun Qingshan insisted on helping the other person back to the bedroom. When they reached the bedroom door, he pushed open the slightly ajar door, and Shao Yanhe's expression changed.

Sun Qingshan stared in horror at the scene before him. What was going on—a nuclear battlefield, or a junkyard? Just two days ago, the room was perfectly fine, but now the bed had collapsed, the wardrobe had overturned, the small cabinet had been smashed in two, and all the belongings—books, clothes, appliances, laptops, wall lamps…—were scattered and broken, covering the floor… It was unbelievable…

"You're going to demolish the house?" Sun Qingshan looked at Shao Yanhe as if he were looking at a complete lunatic, even more insane than his boyfriend who wouldn't even drink mouthwash. Actually... it would be best to pair these two up, they'd be a perfect match.

"I'm not feeling well." Shao Yanhe suddenly told Sun Qingshan to leave, saying she wanted to sleep.

Sun Qingshan firmly disagreed, went to boil water for Shao Yanhe, made the bed in the next room, and came and went as he pleased, completely disregarding the wishes of the homeowner.

Shao Yanhe sat on the sofa, occasionally catching a glimpse of Sun Qingshan's back. He had even demolished the house, how could Sun Qingshan not be afraid? He must be a lunatic.

Thinking of closing her eyes, she stuck out her tongue and licked the slightly sweet mouthwash residue from the corner of her lips—if that man had picked up the toilet cleaner first, he probably would have drunk it too—not to show off, nor because he thought it would be okay, but just to let that person know: he also wanted to marry her—whether drinking it would make him marry her, even he himself wanted to know.

Another you in the world

The savage sat obediently in Sun Qingshan's arms. After waking up, he did not move again. At the other end of the sealed underground palace, Yan Chaohong held the lifeless Sun Qingshan far away to prevent his rival from accidentally seeing two Sun Qingshans and falling into chaos.

The process of gene mutation is suffocating; everyone watching feels as if someone is choking them, unable to make a sound.

Fortunately, the person whose genome was invaded and whose protein mutation code was rewritten in an instant was not an ordinary person, but a person who had brushed with death. Perhaps while everyone was amazed to see this person being thrown into an ultrasonic instrument that was like a spin dryer and spinning rapidly, the person who was undergoing molecular structural mutation could not fully understand what exactly had been changed about him.

The pain experienced during this process was enough to break a living person. It was like the excruciating pain that was originally divided into one hundred parts and slowly experienced over one hundred days, but was accelerated and condensed into a few short minutes. —The alien explained. Sun Qingshan couldn't bear it and turned his head away. The wild man who was finally tumbled out of that smoking machine, even though he was dead, was brought back to life by the excruciating pain.

At first, he was like a lump of rotten flesh, boneless and soft, trembling all over and panting heavily... Just as the savage was about to wake up, his eyeballs twitched under his eyelids, and he suddenly opened his eyes—the world had completely changed.

Sun Qingshan carefully observed the other party's reaction. The alien creature's eyes met her gaze in the dim light, their blood-red hue reminding her of the bloodshot eyes of a werewolf on a full moon night.

He died in despair, awoke in a daze. No one expected him to suddenly regain his senses. Even though his pupils had changed color, his unfocused vision hadn't improved. He stared blankly at Sun Qingshan for a while, then looked away—"You're really useless," the alien village chief complained. "If it were another Sun Qingshan, there would definitely be a way to make him recover..."

The newcomer, Sun Qingshan, was frustrated. She had arrived a step too late, and her only purpose was to calm the resurrected savages and prevent them from suddenly grabbing weapons and attacking everyone. In the end, she was subdued and even tried to harm herself.

When the savage pierced his own throat with a sharp stone, his last shred of clarity, which he had futilely maintained, was destroyed by everyone's unanimous insistence: Sun Qingshan is dead.

His attempt to deny it only hurts himself and others.

But this wasn't Sun Qingshan's fault; she was just a step too late, and that's how things turned out.

The alien village chief needs time to revive the other Sun Qingshan, and the surviving Sun Qingshan takes the opportunity to explain everything he knows clearly.

Some things have reached a consensus at this moment: even if Sun Qingshan dies, the collapse of Mount Tai will continue, and these people will still be trapped in this underground palace. But at the same time, the arrival of the second Sun Qingshan will accelerate the earthquake again. The cracks will be reactivated and face an outbreak.