Bennett and the Veil of Secrecy Chapter 3

As soon as Carter Song entered the laboratory in the morning, he saw Bennett standing by the filing cabinet, sorting things with his side facing the door.

Perhaps sensing someone coming in, Bennett looked up and happened to meet Carter Song's eyes, but it only lasted less than a second before he lowered his head again.

Bennett is much shorter than Carter Song, his back and shoulders are slightly arched, and he looks very stiff, without any sign of the slackness he had on the dating app last night.

Without stopping, Carter Song crossed Bennett and walked towards Jasper Zhang, who was in the same group with him.

Last night, after Carter Song heard Bennett praise him, he decisively deleted the dating app. After all, being stimulated by Bennett into speaking out was really irrational, and chatting with a gay who wasn't good at school was a waste of time.

"Brother Yuan." Jasper Zhang greeted Carter Song and showed him the data he calculated last night.

Their group's project is more than halfway through and has entered the final stage. After a short meeting in the laboratory today, they will start writing a paper.

Not long after, other people in the team also arrived. After Carter Song had finished arranging everyone's division of labor, the sound of breaking glass bottles suddenly came from behind.

Everyone turned to look. Bennett had broken a test tube and was leaning over to pick it up.

"It's him again..." Jasper Zhang showed a mocking expression, "Shame on you."

Jasper Zhang spoke quietly, but Bennett heard it. Bennett threw the broken glass into the trash can, turned around and looked at Jasper, and asked Jasper in a cold voice: "Why am I embarrassed?"

Yesterday afternoon, Bennett was angry at Jasper.

If Carter Song is the invisible center of the Chinese in the laboratory, Jasper is the eunuch-like figure next to the emperor in ordinary TV dramas.

Carter Song had to study for two degrees and was often away from the laboratory. He would not directly conflict with Bennett, and he did not even talk to Bennett much. At most, he would ignore and avoid him.

But Jasper is not. Jasper only has two hobbies in life. First, to curry favor with Carter Song, and second, to try every means to make Bennett feel uncomfortable.

When Bennett took the reagent yesterday, he accidentally touched the electronic balance that Carter Song was using.

Carter Song stood next to Bennett, quickly pushed away Bennett's hand with the experiment book he was holding, and looked down at Bennett with a stern face. However, before Carter Song could speak, Jasper quickly came up to him and began to blame Bennett for ruining Carter Song's half-hour debugging results.

At first, Bennett apologized in a good-natured manner, but later Jasper relentlessly grabbed and scolded him for a while, his face became cold, he picked up his reagent and turned around and left.

Jasper did not expect that Bennett, who had always been tolerant, would dare to refute. He paused for a moment and watched Bennett walk towards him.

"Why am I embarrassed?" Bennett approached Jasper and asked again.

Although Bennett is not tall, he is still half a head shorter than Jasper.

His eyes were sharp, and he was holding a half-broken test tube in his hand. Jasper was stared at by Bennett, and he took a step back in a panic, with his butt pressed against the table. He mustered up the courage to confront Bennett with his neck stiffened: "Did I tell you?"

"Then who are you talking about?" Bennett asked, twitching at Jasper.

"Okay, okay, stop arguing," Wesley Zhou came over to smooth things over, and Bennett said, "Ran Yu just said something casually, but you still take it seriously."

Bennett originally wanted to argue a few more words, but the teaching assistant and professor happened to walk into the laboratory, so he had to give up.

He walked upstairs to his seat, turned on the computer, took out his mobile phone, and opened the software that he had just started yesterday.

After complimenting Lucas's muscles last night, Lucas seemed shy and never replied to him again.

Bennett felt that maybe he was a little bit like a fledgling and didn't want to contact anyone except Lucas. He clicked on the chat page with Lucas and sent a message to Lucas.

He first typed, said good morning, and asked if the other party was up. After writing the analysis report for a long time, Lucas still didn't reply. Bennett pressed the voice button and said to Lucas in a long tone: "What are you doing?"

"I met an idiot again today and I'm in such a bad mood. Why don't you chat with me," Bennett harassed the other person persistently, "Okay?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Bennett heard some small noises behind him. When he looked back, he saw that Carter Song had come upstairs for the rare occasion. He turned his back to him and took out his computer.

There were people upstairs, so Bennett couldn't send any more voice messages, so he sent a few more crying emoticons to Lucas and started reading the information.

After Bennett finished reading a paper, he couldn't help but open the chat interface again and found that Lucas had replied to his message. Lucas said, "Are you made to cry by an idiot?"

"Well," Bennett leaned on the table and typed Lucas word by word, "I cried."

This time Lucas responded much faster than last night. He said to Bennett, "I don't believe it. Take a picture and show it to me."

"I'm in the laboratory, and there are people around me." Bennett looked back and saw that Carter Song was typing very seriously. He probably couldn't notice him, so he lowered his voice and said to Lucas, "Aren't you working?"

"At work," Lucas said, "I saw you saying you were in a bad mood, so I took the time to chat with you."

Bennett felt that Lucas seemed a little different from last night, and seemed to be more enthusiastic. Bennett didn't know what to say for a moment, so he said to him: "Thank you, someone talks to me, and my mood becomes better."

"Can you make speech in the lab?" Lucas asked Bennett, "What are you studying?"

"Sure," Bennett told Lucas about his major and then asked him, "What do mechanical engineers do at work? Are they very busy?"

Before he finished speaking, there was some noise behind Bennett. He looked back and saw Carter Song stood up and walked quickly toward the stairs with his cell phone.

There was suddenly no movement on Lucas's end. Bennett analyzed a few data and looked up, then sent a message asking: "Are you really so busy?"

After a while, Bennett received a reply. There were only three words on it: "I am very busy."