Chapter 12

Dark clouds obscured the moonlight, the area around the factory was quiet, while at the far distance, the wind was wailing in mourning. Yan Hao climbed the iron ladder in two steps, then poked his head from the edge of the back compartment and caught a glimpse of Si Nan sitting on the top of the car: “What’s wrong? Get down!”

Just as he said this, Si Nan’s figure moved and glanced over at him. The man gave him a look, but he couldn’t see his expression.

Immediately after that, Si Nan grabbed the edge of the driver seat’s side window, and swung his legs. He did a neat flip and entered directly from the roof into the car!

Yan Hao was a bit shaken by the sight of his arched back and only reacted after a moment delay, “Si Nan, hey!”

The next moment the armored car suddenly started, moving through the front yard, doing a full turn to the back of the building.

Yan Hao was nearly thrown off the car, but fortunately, when he landed he did a roll and was able to stand up immediately. Stunned, he wondered, “He… this… What the h.e.l.l just happened?”

Hot water sprinkled down, the bathroom was quickly filled with white steam.

The blood on his palm was carried away by the water, and soon the the slightly white-looking wound stopped bleeding. Si Nan heaved a long sigh and moved to lower the water temperature when the dormitory door was suddenly pushed open. “Are you ok? Did you get injured?”

Si Nan looked back and saw Yan Hao standing by the door.

“Are you hurt?” Yan Hao asked again, his tone showing the obvious tension he was feeling.

“…” Si Nan went back to the shower, “No.”

He could feel Yan Hao’s suspicious gaze from across the bathroom gla.s.s: “Are you angry?”

“No.”

“……Then why did you run?”

Si Nan did not answer.

Yan Hao’s suspicion re-newed. He studied Si Nan’s figure through the water vapor covered gla.s.s, and felt that the other guy’s posture was unusually tight.

In actuality, it was difficult to see anything under such visual condition, but amidst the sound of falling water, his eyesight suddenly became extraordinarily sharp, he even noticed the meticulous details of Si Nan’s neck-to-shoulders curvature. The man was standing sideways in the shower, showing off his back and body; they looked thin, so unlike the swift and fierce image he gave off.

But his explosive force was very strong. Was it because the relations.h.i.+p between his muscle fibers was very tight?

In that moment, a thought entered Yan Hao’s mind: even for a beta, his body is way too thin.

What did he do before the apocalypse? He never talked about his experiences, what secrets is he hiding?

“……I said,” Si Nan’s voice pierced his pondering, saying slowly, “have you seen enough?”

Yan Hao: “?”

“Can you go out now?”

Yan Hao: “…”

Yan Hao finally returned to reality. At the same time, all the blood in his body  rushed to the top of his head, he hurriedly turned and stumbled  out of the bathroom.

“Yo,” Zhou Rong slammed open the dormitory door with a cigarette hangging off his hands, and greeted Yan Hao. He then asked vaguely, “What about him?” Si Nan rus.h.i.+ng alone to this single-door dormitory must be a bad sign.

Yan Hao stood by the bedside table, feeling his heart beating a little faster, yet he had no clue as to what was this strange excitement he was feeling. At Zhou Rong’s question, he pointed to the bathroom’s door.

Zhou Rong threw him half a pack of cigarettes: “Tribute from those idiots.” Then he walked into the dorm and opened the bathroom door, “Hey, you …”

Si Nan turned back to the bathroom door, thinking Yan Hao had come in again: “I said you …”

However, the moment he turned his head, he was immediately faced with Zhou Rong.

Instantly, alarm bells rang inside Si Nan’s mind; he had never been more consciousness of his gender than he was at the moment. If there was no gla.s.s barrier between them, perhaps he would have taken his towel and hanged Zhou Rong right there.

“Get out–OUT–!”

Zhou Rong trembled and slammed the bathroom door close.

“Are you a woman?” Baffled, Zhou Rong huffed and shouted at the door. “Also, who allowed you to use the hot water like this! I haven’t had a shower for days, you know?”

“Did he get sick or something?” Zhou Rong pointed at the door and asked Yan Hao.

“…… He was very gentle to me just now.” Yan Hao, “May be he is only rough because it’s you.”

“The group stayed,” Zhou Rong said ten minutes later, sitting on the edge of the bed with a golden knife and smoking a cigarette.

Yan Hao was standing with his back to the windowsill, holding a cigar in the same posture as Zhou Rong’s. The single dorm was filled with the smell of nicotine.

Si Nan glanced at them while toweling his wet hair. He couldn’t understand why, if they had time, these people didn’t do something useful like patrolling instead of just sitting around in this room. But out of habit, he did not ask, and simply issued an “ah” sound as acknowledgement.

“Why did you run before?” Zhou Rong frowned, ” I would’ve liked to let that boy kowtow to you, or do you want to let him do it in public tomorrow?”

Si Nan replied: “No.”

Zhou Rong and Yan Hao shared a glance.

“…… Are you mad?” Zhou Rong asked tentatively.

Si Nan: “?”

“Isn’t all alpha like that?” Si Nan said, “It’s not the first time and it won’t be the last. But what can you do? Throw them out to fend for themselves?”

He went back to towelling his hair in front of the mirror and missed the unreadable expression on both Zhou Rong and Yan Hao’s faces. After a while, Zhou Rong coughed, seeming like he wanted to say something, but in the end he raised hands and let it go.

“Elder brother knows you don’t want them to stay here, but we also can’t kill them. However if you let them go, this matter will always remain unsettled. Not getting back at them right now will only bring more trouble in the future…”

Si Nan nodded expressionlessly.

“And,” Zhou Rong continued, “that group is the shareholder of this fertilizer plant.”

This was something that even Yan Hao did not expect, “Is that true?”

“Yeah, the leader is called Feng Wentai,” Zhou Rong uttered the name of the well-known financial tyc.o.o.n in B City, “-he is from the landlord family. They indeed has investments in this industrial area. Seemed like they had met Xiangzi before, once the man recognized him, he immediately apologized, clearly intending to hold onto his thigh. They also offered to use the fertilizer plant as a temporary shelter for the country.”

Yan Hao whistled, “Xiangzi is really useful in these situations.”

“Because of Xiangzi, that group will not become a trouble for the time being.”

Zhou Rong took a cherished last drag of his cigarette and saw Si Nan coming back from the bathroom, his eyes gazing at them in suspicion: “…what does a man who wished to be a rooster in the next life have to do with anything?”

“His grandfather is the Vice Minister of the National Security Council – Guo Bai. He himself is a third generations honorable government official in his family.” Yan Hao explained, “The current situation is chaotic, that Feng must want to embrace the government’s thigh, so he should not dare to give us trouble for the time being.”

Hearing the name ‘Guo Bai’, a sense of familiarity rose in Si Nan’s heart, but that feeling was extremely vague and fleeting.

He pondered for a moment, as if to rea.s.sess the Guo Weixiang in his heart. After a long while, he finally looked up to meet Zhou Rong and Yan Hao’s gazes and said “Ah”, before asking thoughtfully:

“Then does his grandfather know about him and the rooster?”

Feng Wentai and his six bodyguards settled down in the fertilizer plant. Just like Zhou Rong predicted, they did not immediately start to play the devil, on the contrary they were quite conscious of themselves. The next day they even took the initiative to find Zhou Rong and gave him almost all the money in their pockets…

Zhou Rong felt like laughing and crying at the same time. Holding the money in his hands, he said, “I’m afraid this won’t be enough to be used to burn firewood in winter, or maybe we can use it when the toilet papers are gone? Let everyone use it to rub their b.u.t.tocks?”

“How nice, I have never seen so much cash in my life.”  Sitting with upturned feet on the windowsill while folding a paper airplane, Chun Cao said appreciatively,” These people are really well-off ah… How do you think they managed to flee with so much money?”

Yan Hao who sat on the bedside table while scrubbing firearms smiled when he heard her question and replied, “Because at that time the virus has just begun to spread, no one thought it would last so long. It was also thought to be spreading only within a limited range; as long as you escaped from that area, you could return to normal society. However electronic transactions in the affected areas are limited, and many people were afraid of soaring prices… ”

Just as he finished half of his explanation, Chun Cao suddenly threw a money airplane up in the air. It flew out of the dorm door, and happened to hit Si Nan who was pa.s.sing by the corridor.

“Si Xiao Nan!” Chun Cao hopped down the windowsill,”Come, we are spliting the money!”

Si Nan was coming back from his jogging, wearing a slim black vest and camouflage trousers with a sweat-soaked towel on his neck. Hearing the call, he stopped and took a look at the room.

Zhou Rong was standing by the bedside, while Yan Hao sat at the desk. When he appeared, both men turned to look at him at the same time.

Half a second later, Si Nan nodded to Chun Cao then continued to walk forward without saying anything.

“Hey, Si Xiao Nan!”

Chun Cao stopped abruptly in the halfway. She watched the back of Si Nan’s head for a while before saying, “Say… this man, why is he acting like such an old man recently, did he eat the wrong medicine or something…”

Before Chun Cao was done talking, Zhou Rong had already put down the money and ran out of the dorm. He strode through the corridor, and grabbed Si Nan’s shoulders.

His movements were very precise and sure. Si Nan wanted to turned back and talk, but before could make a sound, Zhou Rong suddenly hugged his waist and easily lifted him up.

“…” Si Nan exclaimed, “What are you doing?!”

Zhou Rong ignored him and took hurried steps to the the dormitory. Then, under Yan Hao’s stunned gaze, he threw Si Nan to the bed!

“You!”

Si Nan quickly supported his upper body with his elbows. Just as he uttered that one word, he saw Zhou Rong picking up the money and hissed, “You—” before throwing the money at him.

This action was too shocking. In his entire life Si Nan had never been smashed by someone else’s money while lying down on a bed; he suddenly didn’t know what to do.

He opened his lips a bit, seemingly angry, and scorned at Zhou Rong.

From the side, the view of his protruding b.u.t.terfly bone, semi-raised back waist, and slightly separated slender legs formed an unusually eye-catching silhouette.

– Anyone who paid a little attention could hardly move their eyes.

But Zhou Rong didn’t notice. He dropped himself on the bed, held the sheet at either sides of Si Nan, and looked down on the man, “What are you hiding from, ah? Why are you so unsociable these days?”

Si Nan: “…”

Zhou Rong was about to say a few more words,  but stopped as an enticing smell suddenly entered his sense. A smell that seemed to be pouring out of Si Nan’s sweat soaked skin and hair.

The smell was difficult to describe in words, it wasn’t a simple fragrance; if he had to describe it, it felt more like a heavily dense fog, something obscure and hidden, yet one breath of it could turn people’s mind into a mess.

It was only a matter of moments.

During this time, Si Nan suddenly reached out and pushed him away, making Zhou Rong stagger back for half a step. Si Nan hurriedly turned over and get out of the bed, saying coldly, “You want to fight?”

“…” Zhou Rong swallowed, his Adam’s apple moved up and down, suddenly forgetting what he wanted to say.

“Ah, Si Xiao Nan!” A lively figure suddenly rushed out from behind them. A pair of thin hands soon hooked themselves around Si Nan’s neck, almost knocking him back to the bed. Immediately after, Chun Cao grabbed the money and conveniently stuffed them into the man’s bosom, all the while saying bluntly: “What are you fighting for ah, here take it! Those silly people from yesterday insisted on giving it to us. How much do you have left in your room? Just use it.”

Si Nan looked down at the money, his mouth twitching slightly.

Chun Cao’s interruption pushed  Zhou Rong’s chaotic mind back to reality. He blocked his mouth with a fist and coughed, “OK, don’t make trouble, brother was joking with you.”

He reached out and patted Si Nan’s shoulder, then guided him by the shoulder towards Yan Hao. He smiled and waved at the man, “Come here, I asked all of you here to have some fun.”

“Go to the house and clean up in five minutes, then gather back at the garage in the backyard, I’ll take you to rob a house.” The corner of Zhou Rong’s mouth raised up in a smirk as he continued, “We brothers are destined to make a fortune today!”