Chapter 56: Seduction
Testing a compatibility list required not only an instrument but also detailed information about the test subjects.
Luo Mingxu intentionally avoided it and got up to go to the playroom.
While waiting for the test results, Zhu Hui couldn’t help but ask, “Brother, did you also come to the summary conference? Did you guys talk about… talk about me?”
Xu Xunyue knew he was going to ask this. A smile flashed in his eyes, and he answered seriously, “I didn’t have to come, but the Emperor invited me. At that time, Luo Mingxu and I were both sitting in the last row, trying to avoid the crowd. Seeing such a young and promising Sentinel go on stage, it was natural for us to have a discussion.”
“Oh, oh, then there’s also…” Zhu Hui knew that many people were discussing him at that time, but what he really wanted to ask was another question. “The Minister of Finance just said…”
“That he felt we would definitely be together in the future?” Xu Xunyue understood.
In a way, Luo Mingxu wasn’t just spouting nonsense. At that time, he had been bored out of his mind, and throughout the entire conference, he had only noticed Zhu Hui.
He felt that this young Sentinel was good-looking, had a nice voice, and was quite interesting.
Perhaps even without the marriage contract, they would have reconnected in some way, then gotten to know each other, and walked into another different but beautiful story.
“Luo Mingxu wasn’t wrong.”
He smiled and ruffled Zhu Hui’s hair.
Beep, beep, beep, beep! Beep, beep, beep, beep…
The notification sound of the testing instrument rang out, and characters slowly appeared on the display screen.
The content was very simple, just one line, followed by the number 85.23%.
As expected.
Xu Xunyue was not surprised at all. When their compatibility had increased to 67.61%, it had already had such a significant effect. Now that it had increased by nearly 20%, the effect would only become more and more terrifying.
Zhu Hui was not as calm as Xu Xunyue.
On the contrary, he was a little excited in his shock.
He was twenty years old this year, not yet of the age where he needed to upload his personal data to the database. He had not seen his own compatibility list. At most, he knew that not many of his peers at the Guide Academy were compatible with him.
But Xu Xunyue was twenty-eight, and he knew what Xu Xunyue’s compatibility list looked like.
Zhu Hui had been secretly pleased about this before. After all, the fact that he was the only one on his brother’s compatibility list proved his uniqueness. From a rigorous physiological point of view, he was undoubtedly the Sentinel who belonged to his brother. The only drawback was that in history, no Sentinel’s compatibility list had only one person.
This was the result of human evolution, and there was nothing to question about it. But when it came to an individual, it still made Zhu Hui a little unhappy, feeling that he had not given the same treatment—although this was completely out of his control.
But today he had discovered that there could be a situation that surpassed past history and genetic expression.
“So a Sentinel’s compatibility list can also have such exclusivity?” he murmured, the corners of his lips unconsciously lifting.
Xu Xunyue noticed his small movement, smiled, and said in a low voice, “It should be said that I turned you into a Sentinel who belongs exclusively to me… Do you feel regretful?”
The last sentence was a question he already knew the answer to. He just wanted to hear Zhu Hui say sweet nothings.
“Is that so?”
Zhu Hui blinked, feeling that what he said made a lot of sense.
His brother could get the testing instrument at this time, so he must have been able to get it before. This was his first time seeing his own compatibility list, but his brother should have seen it several times.
Zhu Hui had seen those ice-blue eyes turn golden, so he naturally knew that Xu Xunyue was different from other Guides. If his brother had personally crafted him into a Sentinel who belonged exclusively to him…
It sounded rather intriguing.
Xu Xunyue saw that Zhu Hui’s face was a little red.
“That’s even better,” Zhu Hui looked at him with pleading eyes and leaned closer. “Then brother can do whatever he wants to me, and I can’t refuse at all.”
“I like this kind of brother the most.”
A week later, in the evening.
The civilian registration clerk at Military Headquarters Building No. 1 was about to get off work. Everyone’s spirit was a little lax, and many people began to chat and gossip with their colleagues at the next desk, talking about recent news.
“Hey, hey, hey, you heard about the boundary line of the Endless Snow cataclysm zone changing a few days ago, right?”
“Of course I know about such a big thing! It’s strange, though. The boundary line change is usually an outward expansion caused by an excessively high concentration of cataclysmic factors in the area. Now it’s actually an inward reduction without anything happening.”
“I always feel that the reduction of the Endless Snow boundary line is related to the teaching accident at the White Tower Academy a month ago… I don’t have any evidence if you ask me, but to say that these two major events with overlapping keywords and close timelines are completely unrelated? Impossible.”
“This past year has been so turbulent. The boundary line expands and contracts. Although we can’t feel the turmoil in the border areas, we don’t have the ability to change the situation in the face of disaster. We can only watch everything happen.”
“Maybe this is the Poseidon Era. We’re just ordinary humans—let’s not talk about such boring things. Let’s change to a more interesting topic. Who do you think the next Chief Guide will be?”
“Ah? Oh, right. It’s almost been three years since that person resigned. The Chief position can only be vacant for three years. It’s a pity… but even if you deliberately remind me, I can’t think of a name. Perhaps his aura is too bright. I always feel that there will never be a Guide like him again.”
“Sigh, people always get hurt. Life is not bad now. He even went to the marriage registration office to get a paper marriage certificate a while ago. I heard the wedding photos are particularly beautiful…”
Knock, knock.
The sound of knocking on the glass sounded. Inside the glass wall, the registration clerks sitting at their workstations instantly fell silent.
Seeing the young Sentinel standing outside the glass wall, one of the main characters of the gossip just now, they were all dumbfounded, on the verge of tears.
When did this person arrive?
How much did he hear? Will he be angry?
I didn’t even feel him approaching!
A registration clerk with short hair was the first to return to work mode. She picked up a pen with one hand and held the mouse with the other. A proper and kind smile appeared on her face, and she asked, “Hello, may I ask what type of registration service you are here for?”
“Forming a team.”
“Okay. According to Imperial regulations, the minimum number of people in a team is five. You can submit the team members’ information and application form here.”
“It’s all here.”
“Received. Then the captain of this new team is… hiss…”
The short-haired registration clerk glanced at all the information Zhu Hui had sent over, and subconsciously took a sharp breath, her expression freezing for a moment, which made her colleagues around her both curious and afraid to make a sound.
“The captain is me and my brother… me and Guide Xu will be co-captains. I remember the military has a co-captain setting.”
A commotion broke out inside the glass wall.
Although the people around couldn’t see the information, they could still hear Zhu Hui’s voice.
“There is indeed,” the registration clerk looked up and then at the Sentinel who had entered Military Headquarters Building No. 1 alone, and said with some hesitation, “But Guide Xu he…” Isn’t it inconvenient for him?
“He’s very capable. There’s no problem.”
“O-Okay.”
The Chief Sentinel came and went quickly, not paying much attention to the registration clerks. Hearing their gossip and questions, he only gave them one more cold glance.
It wasn’t until the tall and straight figure disappeared at the main entrance that the atmosphere among the group of people gradually returned.
A certain registration clerk rubbed the goosebumps on his arm and asked in a low voice, “So he and Guide Xu formed a team? Are they going to a cataclysm zone?”
The short-haired registration clerk shook her head. “I don’t know.”
On the electronic screen in front of her, the information that had just been entered was clearly displayed.
The minimum number of people in an Imperial team was five, and these five people were:
Xu Xunyue, Zhu Hui, Yu Yuan, Yi Chengli, Cheng Tao.
Outside the military headquarters building, Zhu Hui frowned slightly, unable to stop thinking about the information he had just submitted.
Qiu Ye was not in it. He still hadn’t woken up. Cheng Tao was a Sentinel recommended by Luo Mingxu.
Time waited for no one.
That night, snowflakes fell rustlingly.
They were about to set off for a terrible environment, so Xu Xunyue had been paying great attention to his sleep these few days.
Only with abundant energy could one have better observation, memory, and reaction speed.
On this day, the bedroom door was ajar as usual. The snow wolf and the shadows were all lying outside the door. When he came out of the bathroom, he found that his Sentinel’s behavior was very suspicious.
This small building had a total of three bathrooms. One was independent on the first floor, and there was one in Zhu Hui’s former room and his room on the second floor.
Logically speaking, the two of them could use the bathrooms at will. There was absolutely no such thing as not having enough or needing to wait. But Zhu Hui was clingy to him, and had even said things like, “It’s okay to wait a little. I just want to use the bathroom brother has used…”
He had of course gotten his wish.
Xu Xunyue couldn’t possibly force him to use the other two bathrooms to wash up.
But today was an exception. When Xu Xunyue came out of the bathroom, Zhu Hui was already washed up and sitting on the bed. This meant that he had used another bathroom and had finished his shower early.
His sitting posture was not the kind where he leaned against the headboard obediently, but was facing the bathroom door, his legs spread apart, his knees pressing against the soft quilt in a kneeling position. His pajamas were tied very loosely, accentuating the lines of his body even more.
His two hands were also behind his back, as if they were tied by something.
The entire scene above was what Xu Xunyue had captured at first glance when he opened the door. This meant that Zhu Hui had carefully selected a position to kneel.
The hint was too obvious. He knew what he wanted to do without even thinking.
Xu Xunyue took a deep breath.
He put the towel he was using to dry his hair aside and walked a few steps closer to the edge of the bed, about to say something. But Zhu Hui seemed to have been reminded by this action, and a hint of regret appeared on his already flushed face.
He knelt up a little straighter, his two hands behind his back moved, then paused, and he said in a small voice, “…I was a little excited. I forgot that brother had to blow-dry his hair first after washing it.”
[So nervous, so nervous, so nervous, so nervous, so nervous, so nervous…]
[Can this tempt brother?]
[I can’t guess what brother likes. I don’t know if this posture will work.]
[I forgot to blow-dry brother’s hair first.]
Taking in all the emotions, Xu Xunyue looked at him for a while, then suddenly smiled and turned to walk toward the door.
As if he were about to leave.
Zhu Hui was stunned by this development.
“Brother… brother? Wait—”
He first murmured “brother” in a small voice, then his voice grew louder in a panic, and then he wanted to say something else.
Although he didn’t know what to say, he couldn’t let his brother leave.
Why is brother leaving?
Click.
Everything happened within two seconds. The chaotic thoughts came to an abrupt halt after that muffled sound.
The door had been closed by Xu Xunyue.
