Chapter 1252 Hug
The vague yet persistent word "hug" was like two hot irons thrown into an icy lake, instantly piercing through all the surging guilt, rational considerations, and even the vigilance and sense of distance that a supreme commander should maintain when facing unknown dangers.
What inhuman forces, what potential dangers, what unpredictable consequences...
At this moment, faced with the almost instinctive, clumsy plea struggling in those purple eyes, faced with her slightly open arms like a lost young animal seeking shelter, all those cold concerns and considerations melted away like thin ice under the scorching sun, leaving only an irrefutable impulse and pity from the depths of my soul.
She searched for him for so long, waited for so long, and now she's turned out like this...
"Everyone, step back!" Gu Chengyuan's voice wasn't loud, but it instantly overwhelmed all the tension and vigilance around him.
Once he finished speaking, he didn't hesitate for a second.
Under the astonished, shocked, and even somewhat incredulous gazes of all the surrounding high-ranking officers and guards—
Gu Chengyuan shoved away Lu Chong, who was still instinctively blocking his way, and strode straight toward the figure standing beside the broken car door, dressed in a floral dress, seemingly out of place with the surrounding steel and grim atmosphere, yet exuding a fatal attraction!
His movements were so urgent and unrestrained that the hem of his crisp, dark green general's uniform billowed backward as he ran.
In just a few steps, he had rushed up to Xiong Yuting.
There was no pause, no probing.
Gu Chengyuan opened his arms and, without hesitation, pulled the stunningly beautiful figure, whose face was slightly upturned and whose purple eyes still held a hint of confusion, into his embrace tightly!
Her body felt slightly cool to the touch. It wasn't as delicate as it looked; instead, it possessed a strange, understated strength. Her pale skin, through the thin floral dress fabric, exuded a coolness almost like jade.
After the mutation, Xiong Yuting's height became almost the same as his, which made the embrace less of a protective gesture from above and more of a strange, almost equal harmony.
But Gu Chengyuan had no time to think about these things at the moment.
He embraced her with all his might, as if to convey all the belated response, the overwhelming guilt, and the indescribable heartache and trembling he felt at that moment through this hug.
His chin rested on her shoulder, their ears close together, and a faint, almost imperceptible scent of gardenias, a blend of coolness and a strange vitality, lingered around their noses...
"It's okay...it's okay..."
Gu Chengyuan's voice was deep and hoarse, carrying an unprecedented tenderness, repeating it in her ear again and again.
"I'm here...I'm here..."
And Xiong Yuting—
The moment she was completely enveloped by that familiar body temperature and scent that she had longed for day and night, her entire body stiffened almost imperceptibly for a second.
Her purple eyes were forced to droop slightly due to the extremely close distance, and her long eyelashes almost brushed against Gu Chengyuan's cheeks.
In the depths of those eyes, which were always filled with confusion, emptiness, and coldness, something seemed to be violently and brutally stirred by this sudden, almost illusory warmth and touch.
A faint wisp of light, flickering like a candle in the wind, struggled to burn with great difficulty in that purple, lifeless "deep sea".
It wasn't a clear emotion, nor a complete memory; it was more like an instinctive imprint of "safety," "belonging," and "warmth," locked deep within the soul, activated by this embrace so familiar it made the soul tremble...
She herself was unaware of it.
But in that instant when the "light" flickered, two lines of crystal-clear liquid, shimmering with a strange glow, slid down silently and without warning from the edges of her purple eyes.
Tears rolled down her pale, almost transparent cheeks, gathered at her chin, and then dripped down, silently soaking the dark green fabric of Gu Chengyuan's casual clothes on his shoulders, leaving two small, slightly darker stains.
She remained expressionless, without sobbing, and even after tears streamed down her face, her eyes seemed to be quickly filled with emptiness.
But those two lines of tears truly existed.
Like the first drop of spring water melted by geothermal heat beneath an icy abyss, it carried indescribable sorrow, grievances, and a deep-seated attachment that even she herself could not comprehend, transcending life and death, mutation, and stubbornness.
In front of the government building, time seemed to stand still once again.
Sunlight streamed down on the two embracing figures, creating a scene that was both eerily strange and inexplicably harmonious:
On one side are the government buildings symbolizing the highest power and order in the war zone, and the grim guards; on the other side are two people tightly embracing each other, as if isolated from the entire world, with only each other's breath and heartbeat remaining.
Lu Chong stared at the scene with his mouth agape, as dumbfounded as a black dog. His gaze kept shifting back and forth between the commander and the girl, and he was almost hypnotized by himself.
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All the previous worries, fears, and shock at the strange girl's terrifying power now turned into profound astonishment!
Zhou Guihong, Navy Commander Chen Haitao, and others looked at each other in disbelief.
Especially Zhou Guihong, as Gu Chengyuan's close secretary, had never seen her boss show such a... out-of-control yet "human" side.
Jia Daiquan stood a little distance away, watching the figures embracing each other. His heart, which had just died and could not die any more, finally came back to life on the spot!
God knows how much psychological pressure he endured in that short span of less than half a minute, from the moment the girl kicked the car door open until now...
In that short period of time, he even began to regret not having sacrificed himself in the Battle of Zhanjiang...
He was just a lowly director of the supervisory bureau; he never imagined he'd cause such a huge uproar...
If the commander had been attacked because of this, he would have been utterly responsible and would have been doomed!
Fortunately, the worst didn't happen... Not only that, looking at the scene before him, Jia Daiquan belatedly realized that he might, perhaps, possibly... be about to ascend to immortality??
