Chapter 44: A Punch to the Heart
Chi Wan looked at her nose, her nose at her heart.
Under the powerful aura of the SSS-rank Sentinel, she forced herself to stay calm. Unable to find a reason, she made one up:
“You asked me before what a snake’s nature is.”
Qi Ye looked at her seriously.
“I think I know now.”
Her red lips were moist and cute, but the words she spat out made his heart sink colder and colder.
“A snake’s nature is selfish, cold-blooded, and cruel.
So… not to be deeply associated with.”
Qi Ye’s throat went dry. He took a breath but couldn’t say a word.
The boomerang from half a month ago had hit him.
At that time, he loathed her and used the snake’s nature to threaten her, trying to force her away.
She had said fearfully that a snake’s nature was lustful, making his knife seem to stab into soft cotton.
Now this knife had turned into three, stabbing him until his heart ached sourly.
“In your heart, I am selfish, cold-blooded, and cruel?”
He enunciated word by word.
Chi Wan kept her head down: “Commander Qi, I know you all hate me. Although we still have to continue working together in the Alliance, I won’t have much contact with you anymore. I hope you won’t come to find me alone again. For work matters, you can use the optical computer or relay through the Alliance information officer…”
He interrupted her: “What I hated was the previous Chi Wan, not you.”
Chi Wan’s heart trembled. Although she didn’t know when he had figured it out, she still insisted stubbornly:
“I am Chi Wan.”
After saying that, she raised her hands, the star screen tightly gripped in her hands blocking his face.
“Qi Ye, I hate having my mind pried into.”
“This doesn’t require mind-reading at all.”
Looking at the star screen in front of him, Qi Ye sighed lightly:
“If you don’t like it, I can guarantee that without your permission, I won’t use mind-reading on you.”
Chi Wan shook her head: “Snakes cannot be trusted.”
Qi Ye felt as if something was blocking his throat.
Just as he was pondering what he had done to give her such a bad impression, he saw the star screen close at hand light up because her fingers touched the edge.
The pale blue light illuminated his face. On the screen, Chi Wan’s soothing record for the first day was detailed.
The screen was paused on Hei Mi’s page.
Following the detailed Sentinel information was her neat and elegant handwritten note—
[Felines like the black panther seem to prefer touch soothing. This Sentinel likes having his ears and the top of his head touched. When touched, he blushes and lowers his head to nuzzle, very cute.
Suggest considering this soothing method more often for this Sentinel; the effect is faster.]
The words “very cute” were particularly stinging.
“Hei Mi is ‘very cute’, and I am selfish, cold-blooded, and cruel?”
Chi Wan quickly retracted the star screen, stubbornly lowering her eyes and nodding.
Silence fell between the two.
The smart sensor light in the hallway dimmed slightly, making the already hazy vision even darker.
Chi Wan couldn’t see Qi Ye’s expression, only feeling the aura on him and his deepening breathing.
She didn’t know if he was angry, or angry.
It couldn’t be sadness, right?
She pursed her lips: “Move aside.”
The person in front of her didn’t move an inch.
“Regarding what happened that day, I…”
He swallowed half his words.
Proud self-esteem prevented him from begging too humbly, and he couldn’t voice the self-blame and regret of those few days.
At the moment of life and death, he was the only one in the Alliance who received her distress message.
Yet he personally tore apart that trust.
Even he himself couldn’t say what that strong sense of loss was due to.
Seeing him so serious and stubborn, as if he really came to apologize, Chi Wan wanted to flee even more.
After surviving these four months, she would leave.
In this place, the fewer ties the better, especially with these male leads.
Frustration and unease suddenly rose in her heart. Blocked in the corner, she said harshly in her anxiety:
“Qi Ye, as an SSS-rank Guide, it’s not like I can’t do anything to you.”
In the interstellar world, the reason Guides were much weaker than Sentinels was that in this galaxy rampant with pollution entities, Guides without energy values had no ability to fight pollution entities and could only serve as auxiliary weapons protected by Sentinels.
But when facing Sentinels of the same or lower rank, Guides could control their Mental Entities.
This was also why the original host could almost kill Shen Yu amidst the pollution entities before.
Blocking his Mental Entity’s five senses. That meant blocking the host’s five senses, leaving him helplessly swallowed by pollution entities.
Qi Ye looked closely at her unfeeling little face.
He pulled a razor-sharp knife from his waist and handed the hilt to her.
“Of course you can do something to me.”
Saying this, he stuffed the knife hilt into her hand, took a step back, and neatly took off his bulletproof combat uniform.
Revealing his upper body in a gray sleeveless tank top, his physique proportionate, waist tight, combining strength and aesthetics.
Especially as the sensor light brightened again, the contours of his muscles were illuminated clearly.
“If it can calm your anger, I am at your disposal.”
Chi Wan held the knife helplessly, seeing Qi Ye’s face clearly under the light.
In his perfect face, his gaze seemed covered by a layer of misty gray. When he looked down at her, it was deep and dim.
She threw away the knife in her hand. Taking advantage of the gap created when he stepped back just now, she turned sideways to slip away.
“Can I invite you to join tomorrow’s exploration mission?”
He blocked her path again.
His figure was tough, but his tone was soft and coaxing.
Before Chi Wan could refuse, he raised the stakes:
“Unlike other areas, since the exploration zone is an undeveloped area, all items obtained by the Sentinel who develops it first belong to the individual.”
He paused, his voice even gentler:
“If you come, all my loot belongs to you.”
Chi Wan pursed her lips.
She felt she had particular backbone today.
It seemed that having “died” once, her heart had hardened.
She just said muffledly: “Move aside.”
Qi Ye’s eyes dimmed further.
Along with a sour, stinging pain in his heart.
He had never coaxed anyone, nor did he have much experience apologizing.
This first time in his life was so difficult that he encountered setbacks frequently, his throat feeling uncomfortably blocked.
Immediately after, he saw the Mental Entity above Chi Wan’s head manifest.
And his Mental Entity was dragged out uncontrollably.
His five senses were blocked one by one.
The world instantly seemed to stand still; surroundings became invisible darkness.
She blocked his five senses.
With self-mockery, he relied on his super memory and spatial sense to still block her firmly.
As if wanting to know how cruel she could be to him, his voice remained steady:
“There are no pollution entities here. Blocking my five senses is useless.
The correct way is to amplify my perception, then force me to trigger a bonding heat, leaving me here in agony alone.”
The steady voice disguised the turbulence in his heart.
Then, Qi Ye felt as if his heart had been punched.
Every sign in his body indicated that she had really done it.
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