Chapter 114: Filthy
Chi Wan remained silent.
Without saying a word, she announced they would act separately.
Currently, all the mechanical pollution bodies in Factory 107 had been stopped. They only needed to clear the pollution source.
Shi Ye and the others went to clear the source while she helped intercept pollution bodies nearby.
The members of the Hutou Shewei Team were very good at reading the room. Seeing that Chi Wan was in a bad mood, they all worked extremely hard. Their energy levels, which were generally around B-rank, actually managed to create the aura of an elite squad.
[Host, there are massive energy stone fluctuations underground about 500 meters to the east!]
“Alright.”
Chi Wan began to explore toward that location.
There were some pollution bodies along the way, but fortunately, there weren’t many.
The essence she was currently absorbing was once again overloaded.
Forcing down the urge to vomit, Chi Wan found the location the System had mentioned.
Sure enough, there was a massive pit here.
Turning on her searchlight, she was the first to walk down.
The path was surprisingly unobstructed. Judging by the walls of the pit, it was definitely not a man-made excavation, but the work of a pollution body.
With such a scale, it had to be a high-level pollution body.
“Stay alert.”
Chi Wan whispered instructions to Shi Da and the others behind her. Her alertness was at its peak, her mental entity leaking out to sense everything around her.
She could feel the fluctuations of pollution body energy underground.
As her footsteps grew lighter, Chi Wan heard footsteps behind her.
She frowned and turned around, her searchlight sweeping back at the same time, illuminating Pei Yuan’s face, making it look deathly pale.
Her small face immediately turned cold, while he hooked up a smile amidst her light.
Chi Wan turned back and ignored him, saying coldly:
“Shi Da, drive him away.”
She didn’t even want to have too much conversation with him.
Shi Da immediately stepped forward to block Pei Yuan’s path:
“Commander Pei, we entered this passage first!”
Pei Yuan’s gaze moved from Shi Da to the back of Chi Wan’s head:
“Oh—”
“But our last cooperation was very pleasant. Why not continue this time?”
Judging by his appearance, it seemed he had sought her out intentionally.
Shi Da and the others were stunned.
If they remembered correctly, he had been beaten like that by Guide Chi Wan last time. That was pleasant?
Chi Wan: “…You’re sick.”
She walked straight ahead. “Shi Da, stop him.”
However, after a few steps, the wind around her stirred slightly, a figure appeared, and then Chi Wan felt someone gather her into their arms. Her vision blurred, and she appeared in a new passage.
Chi Wan urgently put distance between them, raising her long blade to point directly at the Pei Yuan before her.
Facing the tip of her blade and the dazzling searchlight, he leaned closer. His face was nearly millimeters away from the blade.
Pei Yuan’s smile didn’t reach his eyes. “I’ve remembered that sword strike from last time for a long time. I came specifically to reminisce today.”
He spoke like a madman, yet his eyes were so sober they held almost no emotion.
After returning to the Alliance that day, he had constantly thought of her radiant appearance amidst the flames.
From her initial malice to her later cowardly delicateness, he had always loathed her.
But after being tricked by her that day, that swift, decisive, and relentless version of her who refused to lose was too brilliant; it was practically etched into his heart.
He had come today just to find out whether what he couldn’t forget was her sword, or something else.
Chi Wan didn’t know what Pei Yuan was thinking.
She only thought something was wrong with his brain.
If she killed him, she would have to go to prison. Even if she didn’t, Chi Yuzhou would have to spend a fortune to bail her out, while simultaneously offending his base and research institute and bearing the reputation of a murderer.
She didn’t want to go looking for trouble for herself.
She glared at him. “Have you ever thought about getting your brain checked? Get out of the way.”
He didn’t move.
She withdrew her blade, the tip swinging past his cheek, slicing open a tiny bloody cut.
Without giving him a single glance, she walked forward.
“That passage just now was a dead end. This is the only way to the underground.”
Pei Yuan wiped the blood droplets from his cheek with his fingertip and followed her leisurely. His falcon had already flown out of sight to scout the path ahead.
Among all mental entities, the falcon was the one that could fly the furthest from the main body, possessing the strongest scouting and risk-prediction abilities.
Plus, his mental entity had teleportation.
He was very hard to kill.
Chi Wan ignored him and just walked forward.
Before long, she saw deep blue energy stones emitting light in the vast underground space below.
The quantity was so vast they nearly formed a small mountain.
But Chi Wan didn’t move impulsively, because the energy of the pollution body was also most intense here.
She calmly observed the surroundings and felt that a pollution body might be lurking here, and these energy stones were likely its bait.
Once the stones were moved, the pollution body would appear.
Pei Yuan’s voice was leisurely: “Don’t you have space? Collect them, and I’ll teleport you out.”
Chi Wan didn’t even look back: “Don’t touch me. You’re filthy.”
Ever since she first arrived here, Pei Yuan had been the cruelest to her. Even in her dream a few days ago, he was the one who wanted to kill her the most.
Toward Shen Yu, Qi Ye, and Shi Ye, she might only feel distant now without much hatred.
But toward him, she felt genuine, deep-seated disgust.
The falcon landed on his shoulder, its sharp eyes watching her.
Pei Yuan didn’t speak again and just stood behind her.
Chi Wan quickly gathered a large number of energy stones into her space. Simultaneously, the ground split open, and a giant abyss-like mouth appeared. The entire tunnel began to vibrate, and rocks tumbled down!
After firing several consecutive shots toward the abyss-like mouth, Chi Wan ran quickly up the passage.
Pei Yuan followed unhurriedly.
Shi Ye, Chi Che, and the others, having cleared the pollution source, began looking for Chi Wan.
At the same time, the pollution source on the other side was also destroyed.
Yun Qi sensed that Chi Wan was nearby and that her emotions were fluctuating wildly. He immediately followed the sensation to find her.
The passage was collapsing rapidly. Fortunately, Chi Wan ran fast, her feet moving like the wind.
“Guide Chi Wan, why is it collapsing down there?”
Seeing Shi Da and the others, Chi Wan shouted:
“Don’t just stand there! Run up quickly!”
“Ah, right!”
Boom, boom, boom!
The pollution body burst out from the ground with earth-shattering commotion!
Everyone was knocked to the surface by the impact. Chi Wan scrambled to her feet and turned quickly to fight it.
The massive pollution body stood up from the ground. It was actually a strange mutated hybrid of rocks, clay, and an unknown black viscous substance. It had no head or eyes. Around its giant abyss-like mouth, three thick, powerful long arms flailed everywhere.
An interstellar ion cannon appeared in Chi Wan’s hand, and she bombarded the pollution body!
In the next instant, she felt someone gather her into their arms again, and she appeared directly above the monster’s giant abyss-like mouth!
“Boom.”
Pei Yuan’s voice was close at hand.
Chi Wan, coming to her senses, didn’t have time for repulsion; combat came first. She bombarded it rapidly. The ion blast destroyed the interior of the pollution body, revealing a black core structure.
In the next instant, the Pei Yuan behind her disappeared and appeared inside the pollution body.
Holding a chain blade, the long blade shot out from within the chains. Black blood splashed everywhere as the structure collapsed.
Chi Wan quickly jumped off the pollution body. While it was in a state of pain and frenzy, she pushed her devouring ability to the limit.
The silver-white energy, like a silver galaxy, enveloped the pollution body!
The massive essence was forcibly yanked out!
It was all absorbed by Chi Wan!
Full… too full.
She bent over and covered her lips, then saw a pair of Oxford combat boots suddenly appear in front of her.
Meeting Pei Yuan’s deep grey eyes with annoyance, he spoke first:
“The pollution body is dead. Now it’s our turn.”
Chi Wan raised her blade, her voice cold and full of effort:
“Come on then.”
Seeing her looking like she wanted to fight him, the smile on his lips grew deeper. He just leaned down, pointing the spot where she had stabbed him that day toward the tip of her blade. His voice was leisurely:
“Right here. Stab it.”
???
Is this guy an idiot?
For the first time in her life, Chi Wan wanted to curse.
Pei Yuan lifted his eyes to meet her gaze that looked like she was watching a mental patient. He spoke calmly:
“One hundred million Xingbi. Stab me once.”
Chi Wan took a step back, her brow furrowed. She wasn’t sure if he was faking madness or truly insane:
“Stabbing you would only filth up my blade. You have to add more money.”
“How much?”
“One billion.”
“Deal.”
The moment the last syllable of the word “deal” landed, Chi Wan thrust the blade into his shoulder bone without hesitation.
The tip of the blade sank deep into the bone. Blood splashed out, and the blade was withdrawn swiftly.
The extreme pain stimulated his nerves and reason.
Yet the eyes he fixed on her were terrifyingly calm.
Shi Da and the others behind her were stunned. Each of them stood dumbly with their weapons, forgetting to breathe.
The K3 Base Shaobing who had just arrived also looked at each other in bewilderment.
Tan Yan, the Vice-Commander leading them, murmured in a low voice:
“It’s over, it’s over. The Commander has gone completely mad.”
“Vice-Commander Tan, why do you say that?”
“For the past few days, the Commander kept asking me to stab him. Every time I stabbed him, he shook his head and said it wasn’t right. Then he’d heal himself and keep telling me to stab him. In five days, he actually made me stab him over a dozen times and made Xiao Qin stab him seven or eight times. It was like he was insane!”
“Holy crap, what’s wrong with the Commander?”
“I don’t know! I was scared to death too.”
Chi Wan couldn’t hear their conversation. She just threw the blade down after the stab:
“Filthy.”
Then she turned and walked away with large strides, not giving him a single glance.
Pei Yuan, however, appeared in front of her once again.
Chi Wan took a step back, a brand-new short blade from her space appearing in her palm as she watched him warily.
This time, he smiled brilliantly:
“I’ve figured it out.”
Under Chi Wan’s tightening brows, his eyes were soberly sinking into obsession:
“As expected, only being stabbed by you gives this kind of feeling.”
As he spoke, his smile grew even more unrestrained.
He’s a mental patient!
Chi Wan wanted to cry.
When Yun Qi arrived, what he saw was Chi Wan, blocked by Pei Yuan and looking like she was about to cry.
“Pei Yuan, what are you doing!”
Qi Ye and Cang Lin followed closely behind.
They were extremely alert as soon as they heard the name Pei Yuan.
He was the one who hated Chi Wan the most and was always trying to kill her.
Afraid that Chi Wan would be harmed, Cang Lin went straight up to restrain the man.
At the same time, the groups of Shi Ye and Chi Che also arrived.
“What did he do to you?”
Seeing Chi Wan’s tightly furrowed brows, Qi Ye asked anxiously.
Chi Wan shook her head, just hugging her shoulders and looking as though she had been frightened.
“Pei Yuan, stay away from her.”
Seeing everyone protecting Chi Wan, Pei Yuan threw off Cang Lin’s restraint and scanned the group:
“It seems you all care for her quite a bit.”
Cang Lin glared at him. “It’s none of your business.”
Yun Qi looked at Chi Wan’s repulsed appearance but didn’t speak.
Qi Ye looked at Pei Yuan coldly:
“Anyone can approach her, but not you.”
Pei Yuan sneered. “Is that so?”
“Naturally. Every time I see you approach her, I will beat you.”
Just as Qi Ye’s freezing voice landed, Pei Yuan appeared in front of Chi Wan.
Before she could react.
He leaned down and kissed her forehead.
Everyone was shocked.
Especially Chi Wan!
She froze for a second, then let out a loud “Waa!” and began to cry.
She was filthy.
Filthy, filthy, filthy, filthy, filthy.
Her crying was incredibly sorrowful.
Cang Lin’s fist and Qi Ye’s snake tail slammed into Pei Yuan’s face at the same time!
He was being ganged up on.
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