Chapter 162 – (Extra 9) Ayer Mauri X Tang Tingzhi Pt. 5
Novel Title: 龙血 (Dragon Blood)
Author：水千丞 (Shui Qian Cheng)
Translator: K (@kin0monogatari)
Protagonists: 单鸣 (Shan Ming -MC), 沈长泽 (Shen Changze -ML)
*Please read at Novels Space.space, the original site of translation. TQ*
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Since Ayer was able to transform between his two forms freely, his range of activities in the base was much larger. There were not so many people holding guns following behind him for defence anymore. He felt a lot more relaxed and could move around. In fact, apart from not being able to see the sun or smell the fragrance of flowers, there are still many things to do to pass the time in the underground base. At least he can play many things that he can’t play on the ground, such as simulated space battles, speed racing, simulated space shooting and other men’s favourite games.
There are currently more than 30 Dragon Blood people in the base who are in stable condition. They are extremely energetic. It can be said that there is endless energy in the whole body but they don’t know where to vent it. They can’t go out casually and they currently have no enemies to fight with.
Since Shen Changze was taken away by Shen Yao after their battle in Madagascar, Shan Ming’s mood has fallen into an unprecedented downturn. Ayer has known him for more than 20 years and this is the first time he has seen him like this. When he is not training, he always takes Shan Ming around to play games. He wanted to try to make him feel less depressed. So, he took Shan Ming to play those powerful games prepared for Dragon Blood people. Shan Ming was more ruthless than them when playing games. Even Ayer was terrified. After all, Shan Ming was an ordinary human being and his injuries could not be healed.
Shan Ming has always been concerned about the whereabouts of Shen Yao and Shen Changze. He always asked Tang Tingzhi whenever he saw him. Seeing Shan Ming’s solemn expression day by day, Ayer was also very anxious.
One day after the training was over, Ayer followed Tang Tingzhi slowly. When everyone else had left, Tang Tingzhi looked back at him, “Is there anything you want to say?”
“I want to ask you. Is there any news about Shen Changze? Shan Ming is very anxious every day. Why are you so slow this time?”
Tang Tingzhi said: “Shen Yao hid very deeply this time. He lost a lot of Dragon Blood men in the last battle. So now he needs to recharge his energy. He will naturally do everything possible to hide to prevent us from finding him. He used to be the best special soldier in the country so he is familiar with all our operational routines. His anti-reconnaissance ability is very strong. The people we sent out last month fell into the trap set by him. And now we are even more afraid to act rashly.”
Ayer sighed and lowered his head, “If he couldn’t find that kid and there was no news, he would be so depressed every day. He doesn’t look like who he used to be at all.”
Tang Tingzhi stretched out his hand but hesitated for a while. He finally put it on the top of his head and touched his soft blond hair, “We are working hard for this.”
Ayer smiled slightly. He moved his head to accommodate his palm and said softly: “Have you learned how to comfort others?”
“This…isn’t difficult.”
“It must not be easy for you. When you comfort someone, do you only touch their hair?”
Tang Tingzhi took his hand back and frowned slightly, “What else should I do?”
Ayer grabbed his hands and wrapped them around his own waist. He touched Tang Tingzhi’s nose with the tip of his nose, “You should make a warm expression and then kiss me.”
Tang Tingzhi didn’t know what a ‘warm expression’ was. But he understood the word ‘kiss me’. So he consciously stretched his chin forward and touched Ayer’s lips with his own lips, “Is this right?”
Ayer kissed him back. He then looked at his earnest expression and couldn’t help laughing, “Why are you so obedient? You just do whatever I asked you to do?”
“It’s only your request that I would try to meet. Keeping you happy is also a very important item in training.”
Ayer’s blue eyes dimmed suddenly. He gritted his teeth and said with dissatisfaction, “Could it be that everything you do for me is because I’m a Dragon Blood Man?”
After carefully analysing this question in his mind, Tang Tingzhi gave him what he thought was the most accurate answer, “The work I’m doing right now is indeed centred on the Dragon Blood people. What do you mean by ‘everything I do’? Can you be more specific?”
Ayer was so angry that his face was looking uncertain, “I asked you to kiss me, sleep with me, cook for me, and promise to marry me.”
Tang Tingzhi’s black eyes looked deep and sincere, “These are not related to my work. If you refer to these, it has nothing to do with you being a Dragon Blood Man. It’s because you are Ayer.”
Ayer’s pupils contracted violently. His arms around Tang Tingzhi’s waist tightened. He couldn’t believe Tang Tingzhi could say such beautiful words, “Say that again.”
Tang Tingzhi was a little surprised by this request. But he still repeated it politely, “These are not related to my work. Is that what you want to hear…”
Ayer interrupted him rudely, “Idiot. Just the last sentence is enough.”
Tang Tingzhi blinked, “Because you are Ayer?”
Ayer kissed him heavily. His mood was so good that he felt like he was almost floating. Although Tang Tingzhi was not good at words. What he said was probably not what people normally would have said. Nonetheless, Ayer could still feel Tang Tingzhi’s kindness and affection for him. He really wanted to ask Tang Tingzhi if he liked him from time to time. But he was worried that Tang Tingzhi didn’t even know what liking was at all.
Ayer was not in a hurry to know anyway. Seeing the warm interactions between the two now already filled his heart to the brim. Because of his status as a Dragon Blood Man, he knew that the two of them could not progress too fast. When sex was temporarily stripped from this relationship, Ayer felt that he could understand the tenderness between them better. Perhaps it was due to the series of drastic changes that occurred during this period that brought about a huge change in his mentality. At this age, he was like a young man in love. He longed for a kiss and a hug for a long time. He thought to himself that this time, he is really in love. And this feeling is too wonderful to imagine.
Tang Tingzhi didn’t understand why he was so excited. But when Ayer kissed him, he obediently enjoyed it. He had no reason to refuse something that made him feel good.
Ayer stroked his back tenderly, “I think I should teach you how to react when kissing.”
“Okay. How long will it take for me to study?”
“It depends on how well you understand.”
“Which aspect of understanding is that?”
Ayer curled his lips, “I don’t know. It depends on whether you are smart enough.”
“My latest IQ test result is 226. I am not only smart. But my mind is at the peak of human intelligence.”
“This has nothing to do with your IQ.”
“Why doesn’t it have anything to do with that?”
“Damn it. Can you stop asking a hundred thousand ‘whys’ every day?”
“Knowledge is a human instinct. Besides, I only asked three questions just now. Do you always like to use rhetorical techniques like exaggeration? Who taught you Chinese?”
Ayer was so angry with him that he lost it, “Anyway, I don’t know how long it will take you to learn to kiss so don’t ask me again.”
“You can just say that you don’t know. Given your intelligence and knowledge, there should be a lot of things that you don’t know. That’s normal. Let’s do this. I’ll tentatively set this study plan into three classes with a total of six hours. I’ll make adjustments based on the actual situation at that time.”
Ayer felt that if he continued to talk to him, it would ruin his life so he just said helplessly, “It’s up to you.”
“So when do you want to start? I’m going to check my schedule.”
Ayer gritted his teeth: “We don’t need to take up your working time. I’ll go to your room and you will cook for me at night. Then we can start doing the rest.”
“But……”
“No ‘buts’.”
Tang Tingzhi thought to himself for a while, “Well, I don’t want to mess up my schedule…”
Ayer pinched his waist with a strong force. Tang Tingzhi couldn’t help but yell, “What’s wrong?”
Ayer said with a gloomy face, “It’s nothing.” He then let go of Tang Tingzhi and began to help him turn off the experimental equipment and pack things up. This was originally the work of Tang Tingzhi’s assistant. Ayer had watched them do it a lot. Sometimes, the two of them stayed late together so he would help Tang Tingzhi to do it.
Looking at Ayer’s busy back, Tang Tingzhi felt slightly warm in his heart. His rationality told him that this was only an illusion. But the heart would not be able to deny the warmness that he could clearly feel. It felt so real. It was really strange. It looked like he would have to do a physical examination for himself tomorrow.
While Ayer was packing up his things, Tang Tingzhi couldn’t help but take out his diary and quickly wrote down, ‘Ayer wants to teach me how to kiss. I don’t know if it’s enough if I make a six-hour study plan. Although I don’t doubt my own learning ability, I also need to consider Ayer’s intelligence level and teaching ability.’
Tang Tingzhi thought for a while and then added another line, ‘Ayer’s hair is really soft. I can’t help but want to touch it all the time. Why is that?’ He drew a big question mark. This is his habit. When encountering things that cannot be explained by him temporarily, he will mark them down and remind himself to seek answers to it.
In the evening, Ayer didn’t go to the cafeteria to eat. Nor did he ask someone to deliver the food to his room. Instead, he asked someone to deliver a bunch of ingredients to Tang Tingzhi’s room. All of which he liked to eat.
Tang Tingzhi looked for the menu on the LCD screen. He then put on the timer and started to work in strict accordance with the cooking method on the menu. He cooks carefully and even weighs the ingredients and seasonings. It looks like he was doing experiments. But the dishes he makes are really delicious and look good. With Tang Tingzhi’s strict requirements on himself, if he doesn’t do well on even this, he won’t set the food on the table.
By the time he brought the dishes to the table, Ayer was already starving.
His recent food intake has decreased a lot compared to before. But it is still not too much. Tang Tingzhi cooks each dish for the amount of three people to eat. Every dish filled several large plates.
Looking at his masterpiece, Tang Tingzhi was in a good mood. He served Ayer a bowl of soup, “Come. Let’s eat.”
Ayer began to feast and said while eating, “I also want to learn how to cook Chinese food. I will cook them for you when I’ve learned how to make them.”
“Okay. It’s not difficult to learn. Let me give you a set of basic textbooks. There are only about 400 pages.”
Ayer rolled his eyes at him, “Leave me alone. I will learn by myself. Who wants to read so many words?”
“42% of the content in the book is images.”
Ayer picked up some dish with his chopstick and stuffed it into Tang Tingzhi’s mouth, “Just eat your meal.”
Tang Tingzhi swallowed the chicken meat silently. He then said softly, “I like fish.”
Ayer didn’t hear him clearly, “What?”
“I like eating fish.”
Ayer looked at the dishes on the table, “Then, why don’t you cook fish?” Then, he suddenly remembered that these ingredients were all ordered by him. So he said, “If you like fish, just say so. I’ll ask them to deliver it together.”
Tang Tingzhi added: “It doesn’t matter if I don’t eat one today. Didn’t you say that when you learn how to cook Chinese food, you will cook for me? So I’m telling you now that I like fish.”
Ayer’s expression became extremely gentle. He smiled and said, “Got it. I’ll learn how to cook fish first.”
Tang Tingzhi also smiled back at him.
He is smiling more and more now. Especially when he was with Ayer. Even the scientists and assistants around him felt the change in him.
After Tang Tingzhi cleaned up the dishes, he came out of the kitchen. Ayer was watching TV on the sofa. He was watching a Taiwanese variety show. He couldn’t understand some of the jokes but he endured himself as he read the subtitles. He wanted to understand every Chinese word. Even though Tang Tingzhi could sometimes express fewer emotions than he did, he didn’t want to miss even a little bit of anything just in case he couldn’t understand.
Tang Tingzhi brought tea and dessert to the table. He sat next to him and watched TV with him.
Ayer switched to the Science Channel. A documentary was playing on the TV. He thought that Tang Tingzhi would be interested in it. The two of them watched TV quietly next to each other.
After the show was over, Tang Tingzhi looked at the time and reminded Ayer, “It’s time for you to teach me how to kiss.”
Ayer almost spit out the tea that he was sipping on. Such a romantic thing was treated like something as boring as a maths class by Tang Tingzhi.
Tang Tingzhi tilted his head and looked at him, waiting for him to teach him.
Ayer sighed, “I really admire you.”
“What’s the matter? Didn’t you say you’ll teach me?”
Ayer said helplessly: “Yes. I want to teach you how to kiss.”
Tang Tingzhi leaned closer. He blinked his eyes at him and said, “Then teach me.”
Ayer grabbed him by the waist and pressed him down on the sofa…
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*Translator’s Note: The interaction between Ayer and TTZ is so funny. Hahaha. -K
☝🏻Fanart from Weibo. Translation for above:
~“Dragon Blood” Ayer X Tang Tingzhi Chibi Theatre (Part 1)~
Assistant: “I don’t want to see him. I am very busy”, that’s what the Colonel said.
Ayer: …
(He said this when Ayer agreed to participate in other people’s experiments)
~When Tang Tingzhi is angry, the consequences are severe.~
Ayer: It’s already the third day, baby. You have been avoiding me for three days. And you look very angry too…
TTZ: Ayer. You usually have a good sense of principle. Why don’t you understand it until now?
Ayer: It’s nothing, baby. You know what I mean.
TTZ: You should first…apply for permission from me before participating in other experiments. I…I am your other half.
Ayer: … Okay. I’m going to apply.
~to be continued~
Next update: 2023.–.–(*TBA)
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