Yuan Yuxue did not leave.
The young man did not leave either.
He stared at Yuan Yuxue's figure with a pair of round eyes, looking less shrewd and more dazed.
"Aren't you leaving?" He asked, seeming to feel strange and inexplicably anxious.
The young man's words sounded like a reminder and also like an urging.
Yuan Yuxue didn't actually look at him, she just sat down on the roof leisurely. It was as if the moonlight connected the sky and the earth and fell on the corner of the eaves. But when the young man spoke, Yuan Yuxue turned sideways and glanced at him indifferently.
He is so handsome that one glance at him is enough to silence you.
"No, I won't leave." Yuan Yuxue said.
The young man turned away, a little panicked. After a while, he spoke, his voice hesitant and dry, "You don't know... they sent more than just me to destroy the shelter. I'm slow to act, and even though the others haven't received the signal, they can't wait any longer."
He guessed that Yuan Yuxue wanted to save people, so it was time to set off.
"No." Yuan Yuxue uttered two words again in a very short time.
His drooping eyelashes obscured the color of his eyes. His dark eyes were looking at a small, shiny object below—the communicator that the young man had just destroyed, folded up like a roll of paper, and thrown on the ground.
"They won't do anything, they should be ready to come over."
Or maybe it was because she had nothing to do now, Yuan Yuxue turned her head slightly and explained a few more words, her tone very matter-of-fact.
The young man was slightly startled when he heard this, as if he had missed a beat, and was somewhat at a loss for words. He pursed his lips tightly, "You..."
Yuan Yuxue said, "You were the one who informed them."
Yuan Yuxue has always been a very straightforward person. The human relationships are too complicated for him, so he seemed particularly "unreserved" and spoke directly, without leaving any room for the young man.
He raised his hand slightly, and pointed his slender fingers like bamboo at the weapon that the young man had just thrown down.
"Use that to call the police." Yuan Yuxue's tone did not sound angry. She was still very nonchalant and said calmly, "Isn't it?"
Young man: “…”
He wanted to go weak in the knees again.
Indeed. He had just destroyed the "watch"-like device in a somewhat irritable manner, seemingly surrendering to Yuan Yuxue, but in fact it would automatically sound the alarm. In the current context of communication failure, the players' briefly formed alliance already knew that something was wrong with him and would send someone over soon.
The device was actually very sophisticated, but no matter how sophisticated a device was, it would only appear clumsy in Yuan Yuxue's eyes.
How could Yuan Yuxue not have noticed
Even when the young man crushed the equipment inside and called the police, he could have stopped it - but he didn't do that.
The young man could only smile bitterly.
He probably smiled bitterly more times today than in the past year.
"I'm just a fence-sitter. I go wherever the wind blows." He sighed, "I do want to listen to you. But if I don't report it to the police, I'll offend them and cause trouble for them in the future. I don't want to die."