ABFA Chapter 33

The assignments for the Food Science and Engineering program had to be postponed because Jiang Yue hadn’t pulled the strawberry seedlings out of the petri dishes by the roots. Fortunately, the Food Science and Engineering program students’ temperaments weren’t too bad.

Jiang Yue also received severe criticism. Bearing two dark circles under her eyes, she stayed up all night to finish a three-thousand-word self-reflection, then, like a walking corpse, knocked on Instructor Fu Yan’s door.

Seeing that her three-thousand-word reflection was fairly sincere, Director Fu Yan snorted and let her off.

The incident was so comical that it unexpectedly shot to the top of StarNet’s trending list.

In the video, the person involved, Jiang, had been pixelated. Amid the tearful complaints of the Food Science and Engineering students, the onlookers couldn’t help but laugh while also growing curious about how delicious the “Food Science strawberries” might be. As a result, these strawberries suddenly became famous.

On the military academy forum, Jiang Yue continuously dominated the posts, people even dug up the color of her underwear trim.

Jiang Yue still hadn’t come up with a proper solution for those two eyes. To prevent any accidents, she had no choice but to buy two sturdy alloy freezer boxes and carry the eyeballs with her at all times.

Because the dormitory was crowded and full of eyes, Jiang Yue had no choice but to repeat her old trick. She slipped the two freezer boxes into her pants and sneaked off to the bathroom to examine them in a stall.

Along with the freezer boxes, she also brought the long, thick steel needle, the very one Xi Boyu had used to awaken her and Xiang Sui.

At this time, the bathroom wasn’t very crowded. Jiang Yue crept into the stall at the very back, shut the door, and grimaced as she pulled the freezer boxes out from her pants.

She had set the freezer boxes to the lowest temperature, so they were ice-cold, keeping them in her pants was extremely uncomfortable.

When she opened the freezer box, a frost-covered eyeball was trembling inside. It extended two white tendrils to wrap tightly around itself. Its silver spiral pupil had already been shattered by the cold, and seeing daylight for the first time in a while, it looked dazed and dizzy, spinning its “mosquito coil” eye as it stared at Jiang Yue.

Suddenly, it saw its host pull out a gleaming steel needle.

Before the eyeball could even react, the shiny needle was plunged straight into its body.

“Ahhh!!!!”

The eyeball’s pupil trembled violently. In pain, it tried to pull the steel needle out with its tendrils, then panicked and scrambled back into the freezer box. Its two tendrils clutched the lid, and with a lightning-fast click, it shut the box completely on its own, remarkably obedient.

Jiang Yue sighed, holding the steel needle. Even the thickest, longest needle could only cause the eyeball momentary pain; it couldn’t inflict any real harm.

She put the needle back into the sewing kit and pulled a lighter out of her pocket.

Click! The freezer box was opened again. The eyeball’s pupil dilated, and it was mercilessly pinched between two of Jiang Yue’s fingers.

Jiang Yue lifted the eyeball by one tendril, and the lighter spat out a scorching blue flame. This was a limited-edition lighter Jiang Yue had specially borrowed from Xi Su, capable of extremely high heat.

The searing flame scorched the eyeball. Its pupil violently dilated and contracted, then dilated and contracted again.

Its two tendrils hung limply, powerless, and the silver pupil once more dispersed.

It was clear that it was in extreme pain, yet it still hadn’t suffered any real damage, the high-temperature flame hadn’t even singed its tendrils.

Jiang Yue muttered softly, “What on earth is this thing made of?”

She put away the lighter, grabbed the eyeball with both hands, and stretched it forcefully to the sides. The eyeball elongated into a long strip, its silver pupil scattering into a trembling, wavy line.

Still useless, it couldn’t be torn apart at all.

Jiang Yue released her grip, and the long, thin eyeball hung limply like a piece of dried cured meat.

After a while, the “cured meat” curled up, twisted for a moment, and then reshaped itself into a plump, round eyeball, its gaze full of terror.

Jiang Yue covered her forehead, feeling utterly defeated. The eyeball’s pupil dilated and contracted repeatedly, mirroring her own inner collapse.

She sighed and had no choice but to put the eyeballs back into the freezer box, walking out of the bathroom stall in utter disappointment.

By this time, lights-out had arrived. When Jiang Yue returned to the dormitory, her roommates were already lying in bed, asleep.

She tiptoed into the room, placing the needle and lighter on the desk. The freezer box was too cold, so this time she didn’t climb the ladder; instead, she leapt onto the bed using the bed rail.

The mattress shook suddenly. Xiang Sui looked up at her, propped against his pillow, and said, “Why didn’t you climb the ladder today?”

Jiang Yue replied, slightly frustrated, “If I’m the only one climbing the ladder obediently, it really feels lonely.”

She looked up at Xiang Sui. “Why aren’t you asleep either? Aren’t you supposed to be sleeping like a dead log?”

Xiang Sui yawned. “I was sleepy, but I just woke up from a nap. How come you were in the bathroom so long, did you fall into a pit or something?”

Jiang Yue: “You’re the one who fell in a pit. I just had some things to take care of. Oh, by the way, I put your lighter on your desk.”

Xi Boyu’s voice came from behind Jiang Yue: “Did you go smoke?”

Jiang Yue shook her head. “How could I possibly smoke!”

She pulled the blanket up and lay down, while Xiang Sui continued to yawn, propped against his pillow.

Cautiously, Jiang Yue reached into her bag and took out the two freezer boxes, placing them under the quilt. She was truly worried, what on earth was she going to do with these two eyeballs?

In the morning, sunlight streamed through the curtains. Bai Wang’s phone rang exactly on time. At the first piercing second of its shrill ringtone, Jiang Yue sprang out of bed, clutching her chest.

Bai Wang twisted and tangled herself in the blanket, clinging to it as if for dear life. Jiang Sen lifted the covers and climbed over, patting Bai Wang’s belly from side to side.

Smack! Smack!

Bai Wang was woken up, groggily lifting the blanket and stretching. Jiang Sen, wearing boxer shorts, jumped off the bed and grabbed a washbasin from under the bed to go to the bathroom.

Jiang Yue followed closely behind. By now, she was completely at ease with seeing her roommates’ naked bodies.

One really can’t have high expectations. In the neighboring dorm, there was an Alpha who liked to sleep naked. When Jiang Yue went to borrow something, the Alpha jumped out of bed, and the item swung back and forth, glaringly exposed in her direction.

Fortunately, there was also Xi Boyu in the dorm, who liked to dress very modestly, which made Jiang Yue feel that she wasn’t too out of place.

After finishing her morning routine, Jiang Yue returned to the dorm. Xiang Sui was still lying on the bed, fast asleep. Her roommates tried calling him several times with no success. At their wits’ end, they had no choice but to let Xi Boyu unleash his ultimate move, the steel-needle finger poke.

The needle pierced, and a bead of blood appeared, but Xiang Sui still didn’t wake up.

Jiang Yue leaned in to check his breathing, then turned to report to her roommates: “He’s still alive. Breathing is steady.”

Xi Boyu frowned. “It’s already been three days. The blastozyme shouldn’t have affected him this much.”

Jiang Yue nodded. “Yeah, I recovered in less than a week. Xiang Sui has a very strong constitution, he shouldn’t be recovering this slowly.”

Xi Boyu frowned and jabbed Xiang Sui’s middle finger with the steel needle again.

This time, Xiang Sui slowly woke up, his tiger-like eyes looking dazed at them. After a moment, he sluggishly got out of bed, shaking his hand and complaining, “Xi Boyu, you’re too cruel. Can you be a little gentler?”

They all went to class together. Xiang Sui was extremely sleepy, so Jiang Yue and Jiang Sen had to support him on either side as they walked.

It was Thursday, and there were no afternoon classes. Xiang Sui barely made it through the morning. After class, he didn’t even eat lunch and went straight back to the dorm to sleep.

Jiang Yue skipped lunch as well. Carrying the freezer boxes, she went to the first cafeteria and ordered a hotpot.

Using Xiang Sui’s annual card, she secured the most secluded private booth. When the server finished preparing the broth and the hotpot began to boil, Jiang Yue opened the freezer box and dropped the eyeballs into the bubbling red-oil broth.

The eyeballs trembled in the boiling oil, its tendrils clinging to the edge of the pot. Jiang Yue used her chopsticks to push them down.

The eyeballs rolled around in the red oil, then stubbornly began climbing up again, trying to escape this fiery red-oil inferno.

Over and over again, five or six times, Jiang Yue grew tired of the hassle and asked the server for a large slotted spoon to place over the pot.

Thirty minutes later, she used the spoon to scoop up the eyeballs.

The two eyeballs lay limp on the spoon. Jiang Yue poked them with her chopsticks; they felt soft and glutinous, like cooked rice dumplings.

Flopped over on the spoon, the two eyeballs turned over, presenting the backs of their “heads” to Jiang Yue.

Conclusion: the eyeballs could be softened by boiling, but still couldn’t be physically harmed.

What a waste of such a good spicy broth. Jiang Yue ordered a mushroom broth next and added the meat and vegetables.

The two limp eyeballs were placed back into the freezer box. After finishing her meal, Jiang Yue left the first cafeteria and returned to the dorm.

Her roommates were taking their afternoon naps, so Jiang Yue tiptoed onto the bed.

Xi Boyu was a light sleeper. Even though Jiang Yue moved gently, he still opened his ice-blue eyes, looking at her somewhat drowsily.

His eyelashes were soft, dense, and long, and his messy bangs fell over his forehead. His gaze was no longer sharp and cold; instead, it carried a kind of bewilderment and innocence, almost like a fluffy little chick poking its head out of the nest.

Seeing this, Jiang Yue’s heart fluttered, and affection surged uncontrollably. She instinctively reached out and ruffled Xi Boyu’s hair.

Xi Boyu’s eyes snapped wide, instantly alert. His gaze became sharp as knives, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked at Jiang Yue with lethal intensity.

Jiang Yue withdrew her hand and weakly said, “We’re all Alphas, what’s wrong with touching your hair?”

Xi Boyu had no response. He took a deep breath and spat out two words through clenched teeth: “Perverted hand!”

Jiang Yue was furious. Leaning over the bed rail, she pressed her voice low and retorted at Xi Boyu’s forehead, “Perverted hand? This is clearly a delicate jade hand!”

She waved her hand in front of Xi Boyu’s eyes, and suddenly noticed that her fingers were slightly longer than his.

Fearing getting her face stepped on during sparring, as a little fairy, she dreaded disfigurement and had to train her arm strength diligently, leaving her palms covered in thick calluses.

Calling her hands “delicate jade hands” was frankly embarrassing. In contrast, Xi Boyu’s hands were long and fair, as beautiful as white jade.

Jiang Yue was shocked. She grabbed Xi Boyu’s hand and held it up close, examining it carefully.

Smack!

Xi Boyu smacked Jiang Yue on the forehead.

Jiang Yue felt utterly wronged. Covering her forehead, she pressed close to his ear and whispered, “We’re all Alphas, what’s wrong with touching your hand? Why are you hitting me?”

Xi Boyu was practically developing PTSD from hearing that phrase.

After a moment of speechless silence, he reached out and tugged at Jiang Yue’s white T-shirt. “We’re all Alphas, and you’re dressed so tightly that you don’t even let anyone touch your humps.”

This left Jiang Yue momentarily speechless. She fell silent for a moment, her expression shifting several times before she said, conflicted, “If you really want to touch… it’s not like you can’t.”

Xi Boyu: “…”

Smack!

Another slap landed squarely on Jiang Yue’s forehead.

Xi Boyu, both embarrassed and angry, snapped, “I don’t want to touch! So what if your humps are well-developed!”

He angrily turned his head to the other side to sleep, resting the tips of his feet against Jiang Yue’s head.

There was no way a meticulous little fairy like Jiang Yue could allow anyone to point their feet at her noble, beautiful head!

So she grabbed Xi Boyu’s ankles and pulled them down, quietly scolding as she tugged, “Xi Boyu, how can you put your feet on my head? That’s not allowed! I won’t be able to sleep like this!”

It was strange, female Alphas’ pheromones were colder than the millennia-old snow on mountain peaks, yet her palms were as scorching as molten lava.

Being grabbed by the ankles and pulled down, this kind of playful scuffle was completely normal for an Alpha, but for an Omega, it felt far too intimate.

How frustrating, it was unbearable to be in the same dorm as such a dopey idiot, with their beds right next to each other.

And she didn’t even realize how utterly foolish it was to be doing something so childish while maintaining such a handsome, aloof face!

Xi Boyu was utterly helpless and could only painfully turn his body in the other direction.

Jiang Yue lay down, completely satisfied, and even flashed a peace sign, waving it teasingly over Xi Boyu’s forehead.

Xi Boyu closed his eyes.

An Alpha this mischievous? Any Omega with eyes wouldn’t possibly like her!

 

 

 

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