…He wasn’t afraid of anything.

An Zhe gently pressed his left hand against his abdomen, forehead against the window edge as he closed his eyes, his entire body suddenly trembling slightly.

He gripped the edge of the window with his right hand and pulled it back, applying the opposite force. There was a soft click and the window closed, followed by the radiation-proof metal layer. He took a few breaths, placed his fingers against the metal plate and clenched his fingers like he had made a difficult decision.

Once the radiation was isolated, the tingling sensation in his body gradually faded away. It was just like when Lu Feng held him that night, blocking An Zhe with his body and rolling them away from the area with radiation. In fact, Lu Feng would do this for anyone else. However, this scene left a deep impression on An Zhe, just like he remembered every time Lu Feng left.

An Zhe walked out of the laboratory. At this time, two soldiers were passing by in the corridor. The previous patrol of soldiers had long gone and now it was another group. An Zhe met their eyes and smiled in greeting before turning and walking toward the stairwell.

In the dim stairwell, he could only hear his own heartbeat, beating again and again, faster than usual. The human heart beat faster when they were afraid but he didn’t know what he was afraid of.

He wouldn’t be able to conceal it for long, he knew. Once order was restored and research resumed, they would be able to discover that the human laboratory had lost something important. He had to go. The sooner the better.

Still, he couldn’t control himself from taking something out of his shirt pocket. It was the badge on Lu Feng’s jacket that he had taken off. He held this object in his hand and thought that he would wait until the aurora appeared again and he heard news of the PL1109 plane returning. Then he would leave.

There was nothing good about the city. Only potato soup was good.

If… if his spore hadn’t been close to Lu Feng then he would’ve left.

CHAPTER 48

There were few people in the stairwell or perhaps it was just that the people in a hurry were less than usual. Going up and down the stairs was physically exhausting. An Zhe took a deep breath and struggled. When the solar wind directly hit the earth, the atmosphere would be blown away at a terrible speed and dissipate into the universe. Although only a few days had passed, the oxygen content in the air provided by the vents was obviously not enough. The military broadcasts reminded people every day to avoid going out and unnecessary physical exertion.