Chapter 3220: Saving the Zero-Protein Bai Ze Love Story 21

The air in the room was thin, making it hard to breathe.

Yiqi stared at Bai Ze, asking word by bit: "Your earlier explanation was also a lie to me, right?"

Those assassins weren't meant to send you back; otherwise, why would Claire also want to crash into you? Bai Ze, what other secrets do you have?

Bai Ze's body stiffened as Yiqi approached; hearing that, he felt somewhat at a loss, his limbs gradually turning cold, and panic rose in his heart.

The doctor beside him broke out in cold sweat, yet dared not stop his movements, and he felt he could not bear to hear what came next!

He quickly gave Bai Ze an injection, hung up the IV bag, then turned to the only person in the room who seemed relatively calm, Jin Chen, and gave him a few instructions: take the anti-inflammatory medicine twice a day, don't get the wound wet, and preferably change the medicine again tomorrow. After saying that, the doctor practically fled, clutching his medical kit, fearing he'd be dragged into trouble by these big shots.

Bai Ze lowered his eyelids, his voice a little hoarse: "You have what the Region Nine organization needs."

Yiqi's expression underwent an extremely subtle change at that moment; he gripped the edge of the sofa's backrest tightly, his gaze shifting frame by frame from the IV bag to Bai Ze's face, as if he had suffered a huge impact.

Jin Chen finally lifted his head upon hearing that, looking at Yiqi then Bai Ze, and asked: "What do you want? Do you want it too?"

Bai Ze fell silent for a few moments, his expression gradually growing grave, even his brows furrowing, and said: "I want to protect Yiqi well."

Yiqi suddenly turned his head to stare at him, grabbing Bai Ze's hand without the IV line, his five fingers clenching tightly with considerable force, as if he were confronting Bai Ze, and also confronting that terrifying suspicion within himself.

"I've been in Didu for several years now... what do you want?"

While Yiqi asked that with his mouth, his back had already begun to break out in cold sweat; a bad premonition faintly rose from his heart, and he feared hearing the answer.

Although his tone was clearly fierce, Yiqi's gaze looked as if it were about to shatter, as if Bai Ze uttering those words would completely break him apart.

Bai Ze lowered his eyes in embarrassment, as if all his coverings had been torn open, all his secrets and lies laid bare in the daylight, with nowhere to hide.

He spoke, his voice hoarse to the point of being barely audible: "X agent."

Jin Chen froze for a moment: "What the heck is that?"

He turned his head to look at Yiqi, his expression becoming subtle: "You have an X agent?"

Calling X agent a legend circulating in the fringe regions is not an exaggeration.

It is said that a certain scientific team in Region Two developed it, holding various extremely high-risk drug development projects; X agent is the most domineering of those results, and even someone with only their last breath left can drink it and jump up lively.

For those in the fringe regions who risk their lives daily just to make a living, this thing is practically a second life, and of course it's worth fighting over.

But for some unknown reason, after that scientific team developed five agents, the research institute went up in an unstoppable fire overnight, burning all materials and researchers to ashes.

Those five agents thus entered the fringe regions, becoming legends among legends; even the black market in Region Four, which claims to be able to buy anything in the world, has never heard of them.

If Yiqi has an X agent in his hand, this rumor still circulates in Region Nine...

Jin Chen's expression gradually became remarkable.

Isn't this just a living target?

No wonder in the end it's dead, dead, dead...

Jin Chen: "......"

Jin Chen ran through that information in his mind, leaving only a simple sentiment in his head.

He missed his wife terribly while in Didu.

Unlike Jin Chen's inner shock and gossip, Yiqi, upon hearing that answer, felt as if he'd been scalded and jerked his hand back.

Bai Ze's fingers clenched in the air in vain, grasping at nothing.

"... Yiqi." He watched Yiqi's withdrawn hand, his gaze stubbornly following Yiqi's face, pleading for him to look at him once more and give him a chance to explain.

Seeing this, Jin Chen clicked his tongue and thought he should withdraw.

The atmosphere between those two was already suffocating; standing there as a third wheel would be inappropriate.

"You rest here for the night; tomorrow I'll have someone come pick you up and take you away."

Before leaving, Jin Chen casually locked the door.

In the hallway outside the door, Jin Chen pulled out his phone and, as he walked, sent a message to his subordinate.

——

Indoors.

Yiqi began to take off his racing suit, pulling the zipper of the one-piece from chest to waist, he pulled off the sleeves, revealing the black T-shirt soaked with sweat underneath, exuding an aura of "I'm about to leave."

Bai Ze almost reflexively pushed himself up from the sofa.

He still had the IV bag hanging from his hand, his movements a bit clumsy, but he still wrapped himself around Yiqi from behind, embracing him, his voice filled with an unprecedented unease, almost a panicked plea.

"Don't go..."

"Sorry, I don't want to make you angry, but if I had a choice, I... wouldn't want to hide anything from you."

Yiqi froze for two seconds.

During those two seconds, he could feel Bai Ze's breath blowing on his neck, warm and hurried.

But he still shook off Bai Ze's hand and headed straight for the bathroom.

Bai Ze staggered backward from being shoved, steadied himself by holding the sofa's edge, and watched Yiqi's retreating back as he entered the bathroom, his tense nerves finally easing a little.

Bai Ze slowly retreated to the edge of the sofa and sat down, the IV tube still hanging from the stand, the fluid continuing to drip drop by drop.

He raised his hand without the IV line and covered his face, palm pressed against his eyes, his breath trembling as he sank into deep panic.

How did we end up like this?

In the bathroom, Yiqi turned on the tap, and cold water splashed down with a clatter.

He stood under the showerhead, letting the icy water wash over his hair, cheeks, and body.

Although it was cold water, and although it felt cool on his face, his eyes felt hot and sore, as if tears were backed up in his sockets, ready to spill at any moment.

Yiqi lifted his hand to wipe the water from his face and drew in a deep breath.

Bai Ze, that liar, knows nothing at all; he no longer has any X agent.

He clearly ought to hate him, clearly ought to resent him.

But thinking of Bai Ze's naked vulnerability and helplessness just now, his resentment just couldn't be sustained.

Yiqi felt useless; how could he like someone and end up liking them in such a miserable way?

He stood under the water for a long time before turning off the faucet, grabbed a towel from the rack, hastily wiped his hair and body, put on his robe, then angrily wrung out a wet towel and held it in his hand, walking out of the bathroom.