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Chapter 1200 The Amnesiac Black Panther and His Poor Little Beauty (82)

The Amnesiac Black Panther and His Poor Little Beauty (82)

Liao Xin never dreamed that after finally shaking off the people arranged by the base and sneaking out for some fresh air, he would be dragged back by Lance so soon after he came out.

The smile that had been on his face froze. When he felt Lance's burning gaze silently watching him walk back, Liao Xin couldn't hold back anymore.

He turned his head, puzzled.

"I know you're at work right now, but your job scope shouldn't include me, right? Why do you insist on personally taking me back?"

Isn't the other person at work? Why are you so fixated on him?

Lance didn't look at him; he was staring straight ahead.

"You are a very important person, more important than your job."

Liao Xin didn't expect to hear this answer. He scratched his head, feeling a little helpless and embarrassed. "Although I did research those crystal core devices, it was actually the result of everyone's joint efforts. It wasn't just my achievement. I'm not as important as you think. You don't need to stare at me like this."

Lance remained silent. He didn't care about what the other person was saying at all. He simply thought that the things that this human could research were very useful to Song Ning, nothing more.

Liao Xin tried to reason with Lance to get him to go outside again, but Lance was clearly unmoved.

After trying for a long time, Liao Xin gave up and sighed helplessly.

"I didn't realize you were the kind of person who's cold on the outside but kind on the inside. But I'm really not that important to the base. Anyone else could have done those research."

Lance looked at him properly this time and corrected the other person's misunderstanding.

"It's not because of the base."

Liao Xin was a little confused by what he said. "What did you say?"

For some reason, Lance felt a deep-seated reluctance to let his actions be misunderstood by others.

He stated bluntly, "It's because your invention is very important to him that you can't be harmed."

"he?"

Although Liao Xin was a researcher, he wasn't really that dull-witted. He immediately thought of Song Ning, glanced at Lance's expression, and suddenly had a look of realization.

"Oh, I see. You and Mr. Song Ning have such a good relationship. Couples like you are quite rare these days. I never knew it was because of this."

He lamented that in the apocalypse, many people, let alone fall in love, were struggling to survive, and many couples had broken up after the apocalypse.

Most people tend to live for the moment, perhaps liking one person today and then liking another a couple of days later, and then getting together with that other person.

With the moral and legal constraints of the pre-apocalyptic world gone, people seem to value relationships less, and it's rare to see someone like Lance who extends his love to everything connected to his loved ones.

While he was still reminiscing, Lance looked at him with a puzzled expression.

"Couple? What are you talking about? He and I are not in that kind of relationship."

Liao Xin's eyes were even more confused and bewildered than his. "What? Aren't you and Mr. Song a couple? Did I misunderstand? Then why did you say that just now?"

Did I misunderstand that meaning?

Lance frowned. "Because that's how I see it. He really likes your inventions, and they've made his life better and more comfortable, so you're important to him."

Liao Xin was dumbfounded and even more confused.

"Isn't this love? Then why are you so good to Mr. Song?"

Did he misunderstand? Is there still such a deep bond between brothers these days?

Lance was stumped by the question.

He really wanted to say that since Song Ning was the human he raised, wasn't it right for him to treat the human he raised well?

But as the words were about to come out, he remembered that Song Ning was very worried that he would expose his true identity, and his expression gradually became conflicted.

His expression misled Liao Xin, who suddenly realized what was going on when he saw him like that.

"You've never been in a relationship before, have you? That's why you don't realize you like him."

Lance shook his head instinctively, "We haven't talked about it."

But do you like it?

He fell into deep thought. Was that feeling what it meant to like someone?

He easily identified with some of his former colleagues who, because they were so engrossed in studying a particular field, had never been in a relationship and didn't know how to date, get married, or have children.

His sister used to say that he was a bit slow-witted and that he would probably be a bachelor for life.

Thinking about it this way, Liao Xin's gaze towards Lance gradually became more sympathetic.

Unexpectedly, this Mr. Lance, who looks so good-looking and handsome, is actually just like him—no, he's even more dull and idiotic than him.

A strange feeling arose within Liao Xin. He felt that as a fellow traveler who had already seen through things to some extent, he should help Lance to get to the point as soon as possible.

After all, Mr. Song looks quite good, and who knows, he might be snatched away by someone else one day, and then Mr. Lance will probably regret it too late.

Thinking about it, Liao Xin inexplicably felt a sense of mission. He felt that the people of Lance were actually quite good. They didn't talk much, but they were very honest. And although they wanted to take him back to the base, which conflicted with his own wishes, their intentions were actually good.

Thinking this, Liao Xin slowed down. "It's normal that you don't know you like someone if you've never been in a relationship. I know a lot of people like you."

"But now that I know about this, I can't pretend I don't know. Don't think I'm being nosy, I just think you two seem like a good match. What if you miss out on him and someone else snatches him away..."

"No, he's mine."

Lance interrupted Liao Xin without hesitation.

After he finished speaking, Liao Xin looked at him with a "see, I told you so" kind of look.

Lance hesitated for only a fraction of a second before humbly asking for advice.

"Does a person—I mean, a typical person—want to date the other person? Do they want to become a couple?"

Was his relationship with Song Ning something he secretly wanted to be defined as that of a couple?

Liao Xin nodded without hesitation, "I only said half a sentence about someone else taking him away and you reacted like this. How can you still say that you don't want to date Mr. Song? Dating means being a couple, which means the relationship can become closer and the two people can trust each other more."

He thought for a moment, "In fact, if you two have a good relationship, some people in your situation before the apocalypse would get married directly, which would make your relationship even closer and more inseparable."

Lance was smitten.