"Zhu Yuan, about yesterday..."
Mo Xuan thought for a moment and brought up yesterday's matter. After the battle, he had hugged Zhu Yuan, but it wasn't actually him. He was afraid Zhu Yuan would have some questions about it and wanted to test the waters.
"What about yesterday? Were you injured?"
Zhu Yuan asked in a calm tone, as if she had already forgotten about yesterday. Although she was looking down at the paper cup of red tea in her hand, the corner of her eye was watching Mo Xuan's expression.
"No, nothing."
Mo Xuan awkwardly scratched his cheek, turning his embarrassment into appetite and eating all the breakfast in his hand. Seeing his窘迫 (jiǒngpò - embarrassed) appearance, Zhu Yuan's lips moved, and an inconspicuous smile appeared. She actually didn't mind being hugged by Mo Xuan at all. After a fierce battle, venting emotions was a good thing. Keeping it bottled up was unhealthy. It was just that she couldn't say this out loud. She would still be shy.
Today's Criminal Investigation Special Operations Unit was back to its usual state. Other than Zhu Yuan being busy with some trivial matters, everyone else was just doing their work at hand. After they were done, they could slack off.
Qingyi was bored, so she turned on the TV. Of course, you couldn't watch the entertainment channel during work hours, but you could watch the news. Some news about the direction of New Eridu was also very important to the people at the Public Security Bureau.
Mo Xuan walked to Qingyi's side and looked with curiosity. He found that the TV was playing an old man with white hair and a beard, talking eloquently. From his mental state, he looked quite healthy, not like someone in his sixties or seventies. But this person's height looked to be only... seventy or eighty centimeters, anyway, less than a meter.
"A Dwarf Demi-human?"
Mo Xuan said in surprise. This was the first time he had seen a dwarf. This was a rare species. But he also didn't know how many Demi-humans there were in New Eridu. Even sharks had come ashore. A dwarf didn't seem so strange.
"Pfft, little Mo Xuan, your mouth really shows no mercy when you hurt people. If the chief representative heard that, he'd definitely skin you alive."
Qingyi burst out laughing. She didn't expect Mo Xuan to take this joke to a whole new level with just one question. After laughing, she explained to Mo Xuan who the person on TV was.
"That's the chief representative of Vista Engineering, his name is Charles Perlman. The news is now broadcasting about him about to blast a certain area."
"The fall of the old capital actually didn't happen that long ago. There are still many things left there. To put it simply, it's to clear the damaged old capital subway lines and build new ones."
"That's a good thing. Isn't this just demolition and relocation? Which residential area is going to get rich?"
Mo Xuan said with interest. According to the TV news, many people lived in that demolition area. The housing prices in New Eridu were rising every day and had already gone crazy. If it weren't for Mo Xuan coming to this world with a house, he would definitely be homeless now. The housing prices made him have no desire to buy at all.
"It seems to be a place called Canvas Alley. So nice. I, your senior, also want to be a 'demolition nouveau riche'."
Qingyi's expression returned to its limp state. Zhu Yuan happened to be passing by. Hearing her speak, she also complained, "Senior, you don't use much Denny, do you? Aren't your losses all covered by the science department?"
"What are you talking about? Can't I have a private life? You haven't seen a robot who knows how to enjoy life. Spending a thousand gold is not enough to describe it."
Qingyi was very dissatisfied with Zhu Yuan's interruption. She grabbed her and was about to say things like "a robot's life is also a life" and "robot lives matter." The office was filled with a happy atmosphere.
Time quickly passed to the lunch break. Mo Xuan and Zhu Yuan appeared in the training room together as if they had an appointment. In fact, this was something Mo Xuan had been looking forward to. If he wasn't on a mission like entering a Hollow, he wouldn't be able to say a few words to Zhu Yuan all day. Her work was too much, and he couldn't follow her home after work. So the training room was where they had the most contact during the day, and also where they had physical contact.
A moment later.
"I surrender, I surrender! My arm is going to break."
Mo Xuan lay on the ground, constantly crying out in pain. At this time, Zhu Yuan's legs were crossed over his chest in a strange posture, pressing him down while also restricting his throat. Mo Xuan's entire right arm was grabbed by Zhu Yuan and passed between her long thighs, locked under her chest and abdomen, unable to move at all. Mo Xuan could only pat the floor with his left hand to show that he surrendered.
"I'm still a newcomer. How can you do this to me?"
Mo Xuan lay on his back on the floor, panting, after Zhu Yuan left. He suspected that Zhu Yuan was doing it on purpose. How could an Ethereal use this posture to lock him? Was this still special training against Ethereals?
"You're a grown man, stop crying about the pain. I learned all these in school. It just so happened to be suitable for this move when we were sparring, so I used it."
Zhu Yuan said to Mo Xuan with a smile. His reaction just now was really funny. After getting along with him for a long time, she was also getting better and better at dealing with him.
"So you have other moves, right? Don't use them next time."
Mo Xuan sat up and sat cross-legged on the floor. He could still feel the soft touch of Zhu Yuan's body on his arm. She really didn't treat him like a man.
"Why? Did it really break?"
Zhu Yuan patted Mo Xuan's right arm with some confusion and asked. Looking at him, he didn't seem to be angry, but rather embarrassed.
"I'm a grown man too. That state just now, it was too intimate..."
Mo Xuan thought for a moment and then explained. Although the pain had dominated just now, after he came to his senses, the touch still lingered on his body. How was a virgin like him supposed to deal with it?
"Ah, um, you're right. Next time, if I can kick you away, I definitely won't use this move."
Zhu Yuan's expression looked very surprised. She thought about what Mo Xuan had said, and her cheeks suddenly turned a little rosy. To avoid being seen by Mo Xuan, she specially sat down behind him, hiding her shy side.
This couldn't be blamed on Zhu Yuan's carelessness. The only sparring partner she had before was Qingyi. When she used this move to lock Qingyi, her senior would only show an enjoyable expression and say that her body was soft. Her senior was a girl robot, so of course Zhu Yuan didn't care. But when facing a male of the same age, she found something was wrong.
"No, no, you should still use it."
Mo Xuan's heart turned cold when he heard this. He quickly took back his words and wanted Zhu Yuan to use the locking move on him again. It was better to be embarrassed than to be kicked away. If it weren't for the soft mats embedded on the walls of the training room, he might have already broken a bone the few times he was kicked away. Zhu Yuan's leg strength was simply comparable to a powerful Ethereal.
"Hehe."
Zhu Yuan's uncontrollable laughter came from behind. Mo Xuan wanted to ask her why she was laughing, and he felt something soft leaning against his back. It was a girl's back. To be leaned against by a girl like this for the first time in his life made him so nervous his ears turned red.
"Let's rest for a while."
Zhu Yuan's voice was soft and friendly. Leaning against each other for support could indeed allow them to rest. But Mo Xuan didn't understand why she didn't sit on the chair over there. Leaning against him with all his sweat should be quite uncomfortable, right? But he didn't dare to say it, nor did he dare to ask. Gradually, his mood also calmed down, and he spent this rare relaxing moment.
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