Lowly Creature

Chapter 9

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The days went on like this.

Under He Zhi's insistence, Ji Mao did not resign, and he continued to work in the retro styling studio naturally.

Ji Mao has adjusted himself well. He has adapted to the work in the styling room. It’s still early to go home for odd numbers, and it’s late for even numbers. Sometimes when a customer comes to have a perm at nine o’clock in the evening, he has to work overtime until eleven o’clock. to go home.

But no matter how late it was, He Zhi would pick him up and go home.

He Zhi was stubborn and thin-skinned, and he couldn't speak nice words. He parked his car and waited at the door of the modeling room. When Ji Mao came out of the modeling room, he opened the car door for him. It was He Zhi's signal to make peace.

He accepted Ji Mao for more than a week, and Ji Mao saw that he was really pitiful, and finally accepted his overture.

On this day, Ji Mao worked the day shift, but he didn't get off work until 6:30.

He Zhi drove a silver-gray suspension vehicle to pick him up, put Ji Mao in the seat, and fastened his seat belt for him, before asking Ji Mao: "It's so late today?"

"I met a difficult customer." Ji Mao complained seemingly genuinely and falsely, and started the first interactive topic in a week.

He Zhi pressed the shortcut button to go home, obviously jumping up for joy, but pretended to be cool and said, "Let's listen."

"He ordered me to wash my hair every time he came. He didn't come here until after five o'clock today. I was off work. I was about to go out when I met him walking in, but he still wanted me to wash it." Ji Mao complained.

Seeing that He Zhi's face immediately became uneasy, Ji Mao added: "He said that I resemble his son who was selected into the new genetic program, nothing else."

He Zhi made a single sound from his nasal cavity.

"Most of the people who come to our styling room are old people, who come to nostalgia," Ji Mao said sincerely, "It's not as dirty as you think."

They arrived home soon, Ji Mao rushed in first, opened the wall curtain, and ordered his new love.

"So you worked overtime," He Zhi folded his arms and looked at Ji Mao, "because of nostalgia."

"Because he made a fuss in the shop, I had no choice but to wash his hair again." Ji Mao looked at the screen dissatisfied, and continued to complain, "I missed an episode of "You in the Star Sea"."

He Zhi looked at Ji Mao's face, and suddenly said, "It's better to let the second laboratory make a simulated robot that is exactly like his son so that he can use the scene to make love."

"...No need," Ji Mao rejected He Zhi's overly idealistic proposal, and said, "But I have some good news."

"What?" He Zhi's ears perked up.

"I'm on vacation on May 6th," Ji Mao suddenly fell down on the sofa, "I'm going to watch TV series for 18 hours at home."

So no matter what happens to He Zhi on May 6th, all he has to do now is watch TV at home.

The plan could not keep up with the changes. On the night of May 5th, Ji Mao worked overtime again. He Zhi waited in the car for more than half an hour before Ji Mao got off work.

The store manager asked Ji Mao without any surprise: "Your friend changed the car again?"

"Yeah." Ji Mao swiped his employee card, and took off Jimmy's name tag pinned to his chest.

"If I want to have such a rich friend, I won't be working here anymore." The store manager said with an ambiguous tone, and glanced at Ji Mao.

Ji Mao smiled at the store manager, looked at the car outside the window, and said, "It's just a friend."

"Is that so..." Seeing that Ji Mao didn't want to talk too much, the store manager tactfully helped him put away the name tag, and wished him a happy vacation tomorrow.

As soon as Ji Mao got into the car, He Zhi asked him, "Tomorrow is a holiday?"

Ji Mao nodded, leaned back on the chair tiredly, and said: "The second laboratory technology of Qianzhan Technology is really not good. This artificial intelligence has only been borrowed for a month, and the battery of the inflatable doll is not very good. This should be 2080 It will not happen after the fifth reform of battery technology in 2009."

He Zhi rolled over in the overturned car, and threw a power supply bracelet to Ji Mao.

A while ago, He Zhi sent the charging base of the inflatable doll back home from the company. The base is really big, a transparent seat, half the size of a single sofa.

He Zhi criticized the person in charge of the laboratory, and the person in charge brought up a power supply bracelet.

The charging wristband can only charge 10% of the robot's electricity, but it can also be used in emergencies. He Zhi asked him to make more than a dozen and put them where he can see them, in case Ji Mao suddenly loses power.

Ji Mao chatted better than Wudi put on the bracelet and didn't speak.

"What's going on?" He Zhi frowned and asked him.

"It's not something for people to use for a long time," Ji Mao explained solemnly, "The battery life has deteriorated in the past few days, and only 5% is left in one day."

He Zhi looked at Ji Mao's half-dead look, and said, "You go to sleep first, and I'll carry you up."

"It doesn't matter," Ji Mao said, "I turned off other functions, and only kept a few on the head. Auntie will come home tomorrow, did she tell you?"

He Zhi stared at the road ahead and said, "Which aunt?"

"Your mother," Ji Mao said, "she heard me say that she will be on vacation tomorrow, so she said that she will come to play tomorrow."

"My mother?" He Zhi became very vigilant, "What does she mean? She contacted you secretly?"

Seeing that He Zhi was so excited, Ji Mao sat up and wanted to answer everything, but was pushed back by He Zhi: "Lie down."

"Auntie happened to come to the store with her friend today, so we had a chat," Ji Mao said, "She asked me if I was still staying at your house, and I said yes, and the store manager came over to ask me about my vacation tomorrow, and Auntie heard it. , Said to come to play."

"She's free to go to the retro stylist to get her hair done," He Zhi turned a corner into the garage, and told Ji Mao, "Don't talk too much to my mother."

"What can I say?" Ji Mao looked sideways at him.

"Forget it, don't mention this, why is she here?" He Zhi's tone was still very bad.

Ji Mao shook his head and said, "I don't know."

He Zhi stopped the car and asked Ji Mao not to move, but Ji Mao didn't bother to restart the function, so he really didn't move.

He Zhi went around and opened the car door, carefully carried him out, touched Ji Mao's skin with his hand, and was startled by Ji Mao's temperature: "Why are you so cold?"

Ji Mao nodded and said, "I also turned off the thermal balance system, it consumes too much power."

"Why do you still work like this?" He Zhi put him on the sofa and plugged in the charging cable for him, "Resign and stay at home."

"How long will it take for my new body to be ready?" Ji Mao asked He Zhi while lying on the pedestal, still not wanting to move.

His hair fell on the tip of his nose, looking a bit childish. He Zhi pulled him up a bit, pinned his broken hair behind his ears, lowered his head and told him, "Half a month."

"I have to change my job," Ji Mao said, "wait for a few more days."

Ji Mao's body was really too cold, the temperature was not low in May, and He Zhi's face was icy when he touched him. He Zhi couldn't help but grabbed Ji Mao's hand, trying to warm him up, but he couldn't warm up the inside even if he heated the outside.

Ji Mao looked at He Zhi's serious and expressionless expression, and his expression became unnatural. He opened his mouth and persuaded He Zhi, "When the battery reaches 20%, I will turn on the heat balance. Don't do this."

He Zhi and him looked at each other for two seconds, one hand was loosened, but the other hand was still holding him, but he didn't obviously want to heat him up anymore.

Ji Mao twitched, but didn't pull it out.

In front of Ji Mao, He Zhi called the person in charge of the laboratory and asked them to improve the power system of the bionic robot.

Ji Mao's hand was still in He Zhi's, He Zhi hung up the phone, and got closer to him, Ji Mao was already sitting next to the sofa, there was no way to avoid it, so he had to explain to He Zhi: "It's my fault, yesterday Sleeping halfway through the night, I got up and turned over, the charging cable fell off, and I didn’t bother to plug it back in, and the battery was not full when I went out.”

"You turned over after sleeping?" He Zhi grasped the point keenly.

"If you sleep for too long, it will be slower to restart." Ji Mao explained.

If Ji Mao knew that He Zhi would use this as an excuse to force him to share a room with him, he would definitely not tell the truth to him.

Ji Mao was already lying down, covered with a quilt, and the door was knocked open by He Zhi

He Zhi turned on the light, saw Ji Mao lying on the bed, and said, "Let me check your charging cable."

Ji Mao pulled back the quilt to show him, Ji Mao's charging port is next to the hip bone on the waist side, a little above the edge of the underwear, He Zhi reached out and touched the charging port carefully, but didn't touch Ji Mao's body, and grabbed it again. The interface shook and judged: "It's a little loose, it may fall off at night, come and sleep with me."

"..." Ji Mao looked at He Zhi silently for a while, then refused, "No."

"Do you have the final say?" He Zhi raised his eyebrows and said.

There was an aura of determination in his trip, which made Ji Mao feel that he seemed to be ignorant of something.

But Ji Mao really didn't want to sleep with He Zhi, so he still resisted: "I don't want to go."

He Zhi looked at him, and had to ask why: "Why?"

"If you feel guilty because of what you said that day, you don't have to. You didn't say anything wrong." Ji Mao pondered carefully, only to realize that He Zhi was still making amends, and said, "I don't want to be so angry."

He Zhi's sense of responsibility is too gentle, and he will no longer be like He Zhi, which will give Ji Mao the illusion of being taken seriously, and then sink deeper.

Lying together like this is not a couple who don't love each other, so they shouldn't do it. If one party pretends to be passionate, it will be embarrassing. It's not that this has never happened.

He Zhi paused for a while, and then slowly said: "You are thinking too much. My mother will come tomorrow, and I'm afraid you're just going to pass through."

"I can set a timer and wake up every hour to watch it." Ji Mao said.

He Zhi refused straight away: "No, are you reliable? Go back to the room with me."

He unplugged Ji Mao's charging cable, and directly hugged Ji Mao forcefully. Ji Mao was wearing his pajamas and should be lying on his bed.

The skin under He Zhi's hands is not as cold as at night, but has the warmth of his body.

But Ji Mao still struggled uncooperatively: "No, can you listen to me!"

He Zhi carried him out of the guest room door, while perfunctory: "You say."

"It's not suitable for us to sleep on the same bed." Ji Mao said, he didn't dare to kick He Zhi, struggling as if he wanted to refuse.

He Zhi put Ji Mao on his bed and looked down at him: "Where is it not suitable? Didn't you sleep with me on the first day when you came here?"

"How can this be the same?" Ji Mao got up, and He Zhi pressed him on the bed again.

He Zhi was on top of him, with his arms propped up, very close to him, Ji Mao was bewildered by He Zhi's eyes, what he wanted to say was suddenly stuck on the tip of his tongue.

"Why is it different, tell me?" He Zhi asked Ji Mao, he raised his hand and pressed the touchpad beside the bed, the lights in the room dimmed, and the atmosphere suddenly became charming.

Ji Mao looked into He Zhi's eyes, was stunned for a while, and then said to He Zhi, "Don't give me any more fantasies."

He Zhi was stunned on the spot, and Ji Mao looked at He Zhi as if he saw a student who was not motivated.

Ji Mao earnestly educated He Zhi: "He Zhi, you have to keep a distance from me, because I really like you."

He Zhi looked at Ji Mao's sincere eyes, and his mind went blank.

This is not the first time that He Zhi has been confessed by others. In fact, he has been confessed to countless times. He never bothered to remember the other party's face, and he never bothered to respond and left it behind.

But this is his most defenseless confession. Ji Mao said that he likes to speak too casually, just like eating and drinking, naturally.

For the first time in his life, He Zhi knew that blushing and heartbeat were so easy to happen, and he didn't dare to look at Ji Mao again.

He is not as clumsy when facing anyone as he is when facing Ji Mao. He Zhi doesn't know how to talk about love, and he doesn't know how to say things he likes. He wants to put many things in front of Ji Mao for him to choose, but he doesn't want Ji Mao to find out that he is worrying about gains and losses. .

He suddenly remembered Jimmy lying in a pool of blood in The Last Day. Jimmy pulled his collar and asked him if he loved himself.

It was Ji Mao in front of him who was asking.

Jimmy is always very happy when he looks at He Zhi. He puts his hand on He Zhi's shoulder, and kisses He Zhi with his head up. ,I really like you.

It was Ji Mao in front of him who was talking.

He Zhi remembered that Ji Mao said that he went crazy to the head of the testing department, wandered around the streets late at night, and finally found his home.

The last one was the one who kissed him through the railing by the sea. He Zhi even remembered the fishy smell of the sea in the night wind. It was really silly to say it, this was the first time he kissed someone.

It was Ji Mao in front of him who was kissing him.

The word pure doesn't fit He Zhi at all, and liking a game character sounds like something only an incompetent trash would do.

He Zhi's emotions are not rich, and he has been compressed in the most remote corner of his mind all year round. All the education he has received is conveyed. It is too stupid to act emotionally. He Zhi is a smart person who is supercilious.

He wanted to be cautious with Ji Mao's advances and retreats, and he never thought about anything else except instinctively wanting to keep Ji Mao in his territory.

"I'm sorry, I can't help it," Ji Mao said again, he looked a little distressed, "I can't help but not like you for the time being."

Jimmy turned into Ji Mao. He tried his best to be a normal person, concealed his emotions, talked and laughed as usual, cheated He Zhi, and was forced to confess by He Zhi.

He Zhi watched Ji Mao for a long time, then stood up, not knowing where to put his hands and feet.

Seeing that He Zhi didn't move, Ji Mao got up again, and wanted to get out of bed and go back to the guest room, but He Zhi grabbed his shoulder, and He Zhi still refused to let him go.

Ji Mao put away his temper and looked at He Zhi, but He Zhi didn't even dare to look Ji Mao in the eye, and just said, "Just tonight."

Ji Mao thought that He Zhi was too worried about showing off in front of Fu Haoyin, so he nodded tactfully: "It's fine if you don't mind."

Seeing Ji Mao obediently lying down under the quilt, He Zhi said, "I don't mind."

Ji Mao was afraid of seeing He Zhi lying down, so he closed his eyes after saying good night, and went to sleep.