Chapter 27: Prank
Jiang Yang turned his head and saw that Zhou Yu’s big eyes were somewhat moist, her whole person looking pitiful, as if silently begging him for a negative answer.
“I don’t want to die. I still have so many things I haven’t done. I haven’t even been in love once. To be honest, I’m really quite scared.”
She tried hard to control her emotions, but it seemed like she was about to lose control.
Jiang Yang gently held Zhou Yu’s hand, feeling the chill and trembling of that small hand, and smiled: “Death is not the end. There is new life after death. It will be quick, over in an instant. It’s okay, it’s okay.”
Zhou Yu closed her eyes and breathed hard, calming down after a moment: “You really don’t know how to comfort people.”
“Hey, you’re the one responsible for giving me psychological support, not me supporting you.”
Zhou Yu did not pull her hand back, letting Jiang Yang hold it: “Don’t talk about that. That… in the last cycle, what exactly did I do?”
She seemed to have already adjusted her mindset, accepting the fact that death was about to come.
“Want to know?”
“Yes.”
“In the last cycle, you did… guess.”
“Hey, you’re annoying! I’m not guessing, tell me quickly!”
Jiang Yang suppressed the heaviness in his heart and deliberately grinned mischievously at Zhou Yu: “Just like you think.
Don’t think I don’t know what you’re thinking. In the previous life, heh heh, I know everything.”
Zhou Yu was instantly stunned: “Really?”
“Of course, no fake.”
Zhou Yu’s fair face slowly flushed red, her whole person both shy and angry: “You, you pervert! Pervert! You actually dared to do that to me, you, aah, I’m going to kill you!”
“Hey hey hey, we’re serious colleagues, working normally together every day. This counts as pervert?”
Zhou Yu was stunned again: “Nor… normal work?”
“What else did you think?”
Jiang Yang grinned mischievously again: “That’s how it was in the previous life, eh? Wait, no, why did you think of pervert and such? What exactly are you thinking? Or are you also hoping that I…”
“Fine, you’re teasing me!”
After some laughing and joking, the previous heavy atmosphere finally disappeared.
Zhou Yu’s eyes darted, as if she remembered something, and a prank-like smile appeared on her face: “In the next cycle, when you meet me in the steamed bun shop, you do this…”
She leaned close to Jiang Yang’s ear, lowered her voice and said it once, making Jiang Yang’s expression gradually shocked, his eyes gradually widening.
“This, this isn’t good, right? You’re too ruthless, even pranking yourself? Aren’t you afraid of social death?”
“I’m dying in this life, whether it’s me in the next life or not is uncertain. Whatever. I’m very curious what my reaction would be in that situation, heh heh.”
Looking at Zhou Yu’s prank-succeeded smile, Jiang Yang finally conceded: “If you’re not afraid, why should I be? Fine, let’s do it.”
After twists and turns along the way, they arrived at Apocalypse Base No. 7. Jiang Yang saw again the numerous complex and massive equipment, and the staff with serious expressions and hurried steps.
Compared to the previous life, Jiang Yang could clearly see that the equipment installed this time was greatly different. Of course, he still didn’t know what those devices were specifically for.
“Relying on these devices, we can trace the source of that strange radiation, and determine the exact type of this radiation?”
Jiang Yang sighed in his heart: “I hope so.”
In the meeting room, Jiang Yang met Sun Changhe, Lu Zhaoming, and others.
Sun Changhe held Jiang Yang’s hand: “Comrade Jiang Yang, we’ve been too busy this time, only meeting you now. I’m really sorry.”
“No problem, we already met last time.”
After some pleasantries, Jiang Yang looked at Lu Zhaoming beside him and saw that Professor Lu Zhaoming’s hair was disheveled, his eyes full of bloodshot veins, his whole person exuding a decadent aura.
“Professor Lu, you didn’t do anything wrong. The only mistake is that the matter was too bizarre, beyond our previous expectations.”
Jiang Yang sincerely said: “Your effort and effort won’t be in vain. At least, it eliminated a wrong direction for us in the next life.”
Lu Zhaoming patted the back of Jiang Yang’s hand and said nothing.
“Alright, let’s start the meeting.”
This meeting had no meaning for Jiang Yang. Because a similar meeting, he had already attended in the previous life.
It was nothing more than introducing the base layout, the construction of the radiation source tracing network, explanations of some equipment and information, and the like.
After the meeting ended, they came to the core laboratory. Jiang Yang saw again that chair like a lying chair. Only the equipment beside it had almost completely changed, entirely different from last time.
Stroking the cold metal feel of the lying chair, a touch of emotion naturally arose in Jiang Yang’s heart: “You and I are quite fated.”
After understanding the current situation, Jiang Yang was arranged to return to the restroom, until 11:30 p.m. at midnight, when a knock sounded.
Zhou Yu was wearing loose sportswear and looked at Jiang Yang: “Time’s almost up.”
“Let’s go.”
All core personnel of the base gathered again in this meeting room.
Jiang Yang looked at Lu Zhaoming: “The radiation formula experiment still has no results?”
He shook his head gloomily.
“Alright.”
He said nothing and silently lay down on the lying chair, allowing the doctors in white coats to connect various devices to his body.
He knew that at this moment, at least ten thousand people on the entire Earth were undergoing the same treatment as him.
Just in this base alone, there were no fewer than ten.
Based on the characteristic that this special radiation only affects the human body and is ineffective on other equipment and organisms, the human body became the necessary medium for tracing the source of this radiation.
After the equipment connections were completed, only the last 10 minutes remained.
Just like in the previous life, a white coat carrying a refrigerator walked in again.
Opened, there was only one injection inside.
He looked at Sun Changhe, his expression somewhat puzzled.
Sun Changhe smiled and shook his head: “No need to carry out any judgment mission this life, so I won’t get it.”
“This… it hurts a lot.”
Sun Changhe’s face still carried a smile, but his gaze began to become distant and faraway.
“We failed to save the nation and civilization, failed to let our compatriots avoid pain. This is what we should bear.”
Jiang Yang fell silent and didn’t persuade again, but looked at Gu Changshan: “You… oh, forget it, you don’t need it either.”
Gu Changshan’s prepared refusal words were forcefully held back, and he looked at Jiang Yang full of surprise.
Jiang Yang ignored him and looked at Lu Zhaoming again: “Professor Lu, will you get it?”
Lu Zhaoming barely smiled: “No, I, I want to personally experience this radiation.
I searched more than 20 million times without finding it. I want to know how it kills me…”
Jiang Yang looked at Zhou Yu again: “Want a shot? No kidding, it really hurts a lot.”
