Once again, Xiu Lin woke up with disappointment.
He can feel his back aching and his head a bit heavy as well due to oversleep. He could only sigh and helped himself sit up from the room he was in right now.
If in his first step in this world, he was locked in a barricaded box, now he's locked up in a small apartment type room painted with white even his current clothes were white. he noticed that the door lock was even hightech.
'Wow... so, I can live here and wait for my execution?' Xiu Lin thought.
Surprisingly, the bed was soft, the blanket was smooth and thick making him warm in such an empty space and the pillow was squishy. It was something that he'd gotten used to in his previous life after living as a lazy Astixian alien. He looked around again still trying the understand the fact that he is once again a prisoner.
'1204, I've been wondering...'
[About what, host?]
'About the fact that the first person I meet whenever I get in trouble is the male lead.'
[What? How do you say so???] The system pretended to be ignorant.
'Mo Xunian. He's the male protagonist, isn't he?' he asked.
[How did the host know?] is it the power of love?
'Because it's painfully obvious. Why would the intelligence send out agents to save Viper? Isn't it because this world doesn't want him to die yet?' he asked.
[You're getting smarter and smarter now host. I'm so happy.]
'And also, after analysis when I was an Astixian... I still don't understand how those male protagonists from my previous lives fell in love with me. It's really puzzling.' Don't tell me, Mo Xunian will join the number? Isn't this a bit... too... illogical?
[Because host's golden finger is so effective it can bend!] The system explained. Now that Xiu Lin had finally found his way to the brand new world beyond the open closet he can now hint his thoughts a lot more easily as to give him the best love advise.
'The fuck?' Xiu Lin wanted to kick him but that's impossible.
He could only look around again then back to his hand. There were two bangles on his wrist, probably some type of new shackle or something that can immobilize him. He checked it out a few times and couldn't even remove it.
He then stood up, feeling sore all over his bones that caused him to fall back down on the bed. His back aching to the point of tears but he endured and tried again. '1204, how long before I heal?'
[With the help of the system, host's recovery process will take three weeks! With proper medical care and treatment together with the system, it will take less than three weeks.]
'Okay.' Xiu Lin finally got on his feet and checked the room. It has two doors. One leads to the toilet and the other leads to the exit. There is no window privilege to prisoners after all. Inside the bathroom, it was a small box which have shower and a toilet, it could at least two people in it. Then he got out of the bathroom again to check around the small room that only provided him a fully equipped bed.
He went to the door and tried to find the opening only to find no knob or any sort of advantageous things inside. He could only sigh and stared at the door for solid ten seconds before returning back to bed which is the most comfortable area right now.
He leaned his back on the wall and played around his bangles, after that he laid down on the bed with arms widespread, not having enough, he rolled over and hung his head on the bedside trying his best to swat away the boredom. He tried calculating the ceiling's area as well just like how he used too, It's just a bit slower today than when he was a beyond genius. Now he's become an ordinary genius after taking the skillset of Xiu Lin the Astixian alien.
Meanwhile, on the observation room, the people who was watching Xiu Lin through the hidden camera listened as he mumbled numbers. "Three meters width three point five meters high, bathroom ceiling about one and a half square meter. Now solving quadrilateral fbvhdbsdjdasddfv."
"My head hurts." Hawk said as he painstakingly looked at the young man speaking alone.
Xiu Lin never said that he have the hobby of calculating ceilings when his bored tho... Mo Xunian thought as he watch his boyfriend beginning to solve the area of the entire room, then the area of his bed, the area of his pillow, the area of his blanket, the perimeter of the door, dimensions and all that one could never imagine someone doing when they were bored.
Hawk, who happened to be the one responsible for surveillance is already having a headache because his mind was unintentionally forced to solve with Xiu Lin as he spoke and spoke . But everytime Xiu Lin managed to compute it within a three second pause, Hawk could only cry blood.
"Is this little master a genius?!" he asked in despair.
Well, he did sound smart whenever they have conversations. Mo Xunian couldn't help but think back about those dates they had. Xiu Lin was always calm and his smile was too little but they still had warmth in them as if he was merely holding back a lot of emotions, bottling them up to his smaller body.
Xiu Lin never mentioned his real life and upbringing. He usually starts with topics that recently happened at his first year in the university and Mo Xunian would follow along to hide suspicions. He really didn't pay much attention to Xiu Lin's words unless it was noteworthy and never paid attention to details unless he saw a slight flicker. After all, what he wanted was the information regarding the mafia and not his daily normal life.
Now that they were observing him busying himself inside an empty room, talking equations to sound out boredom and being calm despite the fact that he was locked up in a room, he could not help but wonder... did I properly looked at him before?
When they were kidnapped, after rescuing a cuffed Xiu Lin, the first thing the young man asked was if he was alright before Mo Xunian harshly pulled the chain connected to his hands and dragged him away, causing bruises on his white wrists. He even took that shot for him and told him to leave him and go in fear that he might be implicated because those people who kidnapped them were after him. But in fact, they were after Viper or Mo Xunian himself.
To say that the kidnappers were after him, it was the first time Xiu Lin admitted something personal. However, his admittance were merely a misunderstanding.
Did Xiu Lin really liked him to the point that he was willing to sacrifice his own life just to let Viper escape? They've only been together for two months, but it did seem that Xiu Lin cared about him.
Now he feel a bit guilty after all that he's done from when they started dating until now.
"When's the interrogation going to take place?" Mo Xunian asked.
"Tomorrow afternoon. Since he looks like he can talk now based on his equation mumbling, I think he's suitable to answer questions now." Hawk replied with a sigh.
"I'll see him first." Mo Xunian said.
Hawk turned to him. "Oh, are you sure you're going to reveal your identity just like that?"
"I am his boyfriend after all." He turned around and began to walk off the observation room.
Meanwhile, Hawk watched Xiu Lin from the hidden camera. The young man turned to another position again. He was blankly staring up the ceiling with misty eyes as if they were somewhere else. "When will they kill me, tho?" he wondered, pondering about the bangles with a hum. Then he frowned. "Hey, listen. I know someone can hear me in this room. Even if you interrogate me, I won't tell you anything. So better silence me now." he said.
Hawk couldn't help but chuckle. "What a bold kid."
In the white room, Xiu Lin stared at the bangles with a sigh. Nothing happened. It didn't explode.
He lazed around again, now noticing the entrance door sliding open. When he turned his head to meet those cold obsidian eyes, he felt a bit of goosebumps. "Xunian?" he acknowledged, sitting up from the bed and standing up. "Are you okay?"
There he is again. Worrying about Mo Xunian before himself. It made him feel even guiltier. "Xiu Lin, do you have anymore questions?" he asked.
Xiu Lin looked down on the bangles in his hand and then to the hallway behind the open door where Mo Xunian is currently blocking. "Xunian, are you okay?" he asked again.
The agent clenched his teeth making his jaw firmer as he looked at Xiu Lin. "I am okay." He decided to respond.
"Then, that's good." He gave him a little smile.
"How about you? Are you okay?" he asked back.
"Yes. I'll be fine in a few weeks." Xiu Lin replied. "Where are we?"
"That is a classified information." Mo Xunian went back to his cold demeanor again and looked at him intently. "Tomorrow, be prepared, we will be asking you a few questions regarding the underground."
Xiu Lin looked up at him. His eyes were very light and clear. "I won't say anything." He replied.
"You're going to have to. Or else you wouldn't be getting out of here." He warned. Although he felt bad about threatening him like this, but for the sake of every innocent people's safety, he had to give him a scare. "I don't know how you will be treated during interrogation and I do not plan on interfering."
Xiu Lin just smiled. In his mind, he excitedly told it to the system. 'Hear that 1204? They are helping me die.'
"Are you not going to say anything else?" Mo Xunian asked. He really didn't like how Xiu Lin isn't complaining to him or looking afraid. He didn't know which expression will set his mind at ease, but he wanted to know what was going on in this young master's head.
"Your name, is it really Xunian?" He asked.
"No."
"Then you dated me because of this?"
"Yes."
"I see." Xiu Lin just kept smiling lightly like a feather in the wind. Looking at his face made him feel at ease, at the same time guilty.
Why won't he look at him displeased. "Do you not hate me?" he asked again. "I locked you here."
Xiu Lin was flabbergasted by the question. His small smile became straight and he looked at Mo Xunian in the eyes. "Will the interrogation be fatal?"
"That's what you're worried about?" Mo Xunian pinched the bridge of his nose in distress.
"Xunian... am I going to die?"
Hearing this, Mo Xunian froze. He looked at the young man who was looking back at him with clear lavender eyes. What will he answer? Probably? So, he held his ground and said: "I won't let you." It was all he could assure him.
Of course, Xiu Lin was once again disappointed.