Chapter 68 Oops, Accidentally Fell into Your Arms

Chapter 68 Oops, Accidentally Fell into Your Arms

"Feeling better now?"

Shen Que stood shoulder to shoulder with Meng Ci, looking at the exhausted Liu Jie in the floodwaters and asked.

"Not quite yet."

Meng Ci felt that his anger wouldn't fully dissipate until Liu Jie was truly dead.

"Can we at least tend to your wounds before you calm down completely?"

Hearing Shen Que's words, Meng Ci remembered he had a wound on his back.

It seemed fighting couldn't make one forget pain; only anger could do that.

Seeing that Liu Jie had had enough of the water, Meng Ci asked Shen Que to help pull him out.

It wasn't because Meng Ci was being soft-hearted, but rather because he didn't want Liu Jie to be swept away or rescued while he was tending to his own wounds.

After pulling Liu Jie out, he spat out water, and the only underwear Meng Ci had left him with had been washed away, leaving him lying naked on the ground.

It was quite an unpleasant sight, so Meng Ci quickly looked away.

Liu Jie began rolling his eyes and spitting out more water.

"Xiao Ci, I knew you still like me!" Liu Jie, after spitting out water, started feeling self-important again.

Meng Ci was speechless. Like him? What was there to like about that bit of flesh?

With a swift movement, Meng Ci expressionlessly finished Liu Jie off as he was about to speak again.

He threw the body into the floodwaters and punctured the Green Dragon Gang's inflatable boats to destroy any evidence. Then, Meng Ci and Shen Que went upstairs.

On the seventeenth floor, Yun Jingcen and the others had sustained various injuries.

They had already tended to their wounds and were planning to dispose of the bodies.

Seeing Meng Ci and Shen Que come up, Yun Jingcen asked, "Done?"

Meng Ci nodded.

Shen Que said, "I'll go help him bandage his wounds first, then I'll come out to help you with these."

"Don't worry, we have enough people to handle it quickly. You two take care of yourselves," Yun Jingcen kindly replied.

"What? Brother is injured?"

Ruan Qing opened the security door, but before stepping out, he retreated upon seeing Duan Yan's gaze and closed the door again.

Alright, alright, no going out then.

He had already seen the corpses outside, so what was there to avoid?

Shen Que brought Meng Ci to his home, turned on two heaters, and then had Meng Ci remove his clothes and lie down on the sofa.

Alcohol disinfection, followed by wrapping the wound with gauze.

Throughout the process, Meng Ci remained silent. Shen Que thought it was due to his high pain tolerance, but in reality, Meng Ci was lost in thought.

In this post-apocalyptic world, it seemed impossible to live without getting involved. If trouble didn't find him, he would surely be killed by an enemy one day.

If that was the case, he might as well live according to his heart's desires.

Thinking this, Meng Ci glanced at Shen Que.

Shen Que felt puzzled by this look and paused, asking, "Does it hurt?"

Then, he deliberately applied less pressure.

Meng Ci shook his head and turned away.

This guy was quite pleasant to look at, and he had been thinking about him for so long. Wasn't it better to seize the moment than wait for another life?

Worse comes to worst, they could just live a bit more frugally.

Acting on this thought, when Shen Que helped Meng Ci get up after treating his wound, Meng Ci pretended to feel a sudden pain and fell into Shen Que's arms.

Meng Ci blinked, "Sorry, I accidentally pulled my wound."

Then, he inwardly sighed, appreciating how comfortable it was to fall into those arms.

"No problem." Shen Que helped him sit down.

"Since your wound hurts, stay here. I'll go help them."

Meng Ci didn't agree, knowing that Yun Jingcen and the others were also injured and hadn't rested.

As a man, it didn't seem right to rest inside while others worked.

Seeing Meng Ci's insistence, Shen Que didn't argue further.

The bodies on the seventeenth floor were almost disposed of, so Meng Ci and Shen Que went down to the sixteenth floor to carry the bodies out.

After disposing of the bodies, they started using rainwater to clean the floors.

At this moment, Ruan Qing came out again, carrying his box.

This time, Duan Yan did not bother with Ruan Qing.

Ruan Qing went down to the sixteenth floor and started looking for something.

Meng Ci saw him and came down to ask what he was looking for.

"Looking for marbles!" Ruan Qing squatted down, picking up two blood-stained marbles and tossing them into the box.

These marbles were round and had rolled down from upstairs, who knows where they ended up. It would be difficult to find them all.

Ruan Qing nodded, "I know I can't find them all, but I'll try to get as many as I can."

Mao Xinyu, hearing this, said, "Since Ruan Ruan wants to look for them, could Meng classmate please help him?"

"As for the rest, leave it to us."

Meng Ci's back was injured, and dragging himself around would affect the wound. Since they offered, he didn't refuse.

After searching the stairwell, the two of them entered the sixteenth floor to see if any marbles had rolled there.

After finishing their search, they continued down the stairs, checking each floor one by one.

In the end, Ruan Qing found only a little more than half of the marbles in his box.

"These were brought back for me by Teacher Duan, saying I could play with them when I'm bored."

A while ago, when Duan Yan went out to look for supplies, he brought back a box of marbles for Ruan Qing, along with a board game.

When they were fighting earlier, Ruan Qing had been observing outside. When he saw those people trying to escape, he knew that leaving any roots behind would cause trouble later.

So, seeing the marbles in the room, he took them out and scattered them on the stairs.

Now that the danger was over, Ruan Qing naturally wanted to collect the marbles.

Meng Ci, hearing this, sighed, "Teacher Duan is really good to you."

Ruan Qing paused at these words, complaining, "Not at all."

"Teacher Duan is too much. I'm only in my second year of high school, and he's already teaching me high school physics."

"He even compiled a huge pile of college-level physics books and told me to study them!"

"Do you know how thick those books are when stacked up?"

"And Teacher Duan also asked Teachers Yun and others to find books and teach me together!"

At this point, Ruan Qing looked incredibly aggrieved.

"Wah, physics is so hard. I just can't learn it!"

Meng Ci, who struggled with advanced calculus in his first year of university, understood the pain and suggested,

"Perhaps I should talk to Teacher Duan and ask him not to teach you physics anymore."

"No way." Ruan Qing immediately refused and then hurriedly climbed the stairs.

"Teacher Duan doesn't want me to be unbalanced in my studies. If I don't learn, he'll be sad."

Meng Ci shook his head. Well, it seems these two are a match made in heaven. He'd better not meddle.

Duan Yan, who had come to find them, nodded in satisfaction upon hearing this.