AGTCTCC Chapter 54
by VolareXiang Li thought Chu Qi would be happy for a moment after seeing this face, then perhaps think it was Qi Xiao’s disguise, and then his expression would immediately become serious.
Xiang Li thought that after Chu Qi calmed down, he could tell him that he was Wu Zhen and that he had faked his death.
But what Xiang Li didn’t expect was this.
Inside the healing pod, Chu Qi’s long, dark eyelashes covered half of his eyes. He tried to reach out, his palm touching Xiang Li’s cheek through the glass and the air.
“Why, you’ve turned into Wu Zhen again.”
Xiang Li’s eyelashes fluttered for a moment. The liquid inside the pod was slowly drained, and the crystal glass door opened. Chu Qi finally reached out and truly touched Xiang Li’s cheek.
In Xiang Li’s shocked gaze, Chu Qi finally found the hidden seam and used force to tear the entire mask off.
Looking at Xiang Li’s face behind the mask, Chu Qi chuckled.
“Xiang Li Wu Zhen, your surname is Xiang Li? Nice to hear.”
Xiang Li: “…”
After a long while, he said dryly.
“When…when did you know?”
Chu Qi closed his eyes weakly, “Aren’t you curious whether your name is in that file?”
Reminded, Xiang Li seemed to remember. He blinked gently, ignoring the others nearby, and slowly lowered his head.
He buried his face in Chu Qi’s palm.
The next second, Chu Qi’s hand reached down, grabbing Xiang Li’s collar and pulling him closer, their faces close together due to the force.
“Why did you change back to Wu Zhen again? What is it, playing with me like playing with a dog, are you happy?”
Chu Qi spoke, seemingly with a hint of gritted teeth.
“Very addictive?”
After speaking, Chu Qi pushed Xiang Li away with force.
Xiang Li raised his head, his eyes already replaced with playful and indifferent emotions.
His dark eyes rolled slightly in their sockets, as if sizing Chu Qi up and down.
Chu Qi’s chest wound had completely healed, and a large expanse of his chest was exposed. Xiang Li pretended to whistle, and a few soft chuckles escaped his lips.
Xiang Li: “Officer, with a body like yours, I wouldn’t be content unless I took advantage of you.”
Xian Peng Peng blinked, not understanding what was going on. How, how was he taking advantage? How???
Xian Peng Peng only felt question marks popping out of his eyes, and his head must be topped with a pile of black question marks.
Chu Qi met Xiang Li’s gaze, without the slightest intention of avoiding it, his eyes filled with coldness.
“Get out.”
His voice laced with ice, Chu Qi said before walking away, avoiding Xiang Li.
Xiang Li: “…”
His eyelids half-closed, his gaze shifted downward. Only after hearing the sound of the door closing did he slightly lift his eyelids, taking in the empty healing pod.
After a brief pause, his dark eyes slowly rolled upward.
The others looked at each other, Wu Xing watched quietly, his expression seemingly puzzled by the awkwardness between the two.
Hill slowly handed the slightly cold tea in the cup to Bai Yan. Yan Zhou Ping coughed lightly, wanting to break the silent atmosphere.
“Xiang Li—”
Yan Zhou Ping’s words were cut off when he heard Xiang Li shamelessly humming a tune to describe himself.
“I am a sweet chocolate—”
Yan Zhou Ping: “?”
The others: “?”
Not knowing why he said that, the topic changed too quickly, and Yan Zhou Ping didn’t immediately understand what he meant.
He only heard Xiang Li’s tone change, carrying a casual air.
“Too bad, Chu Qi is a dog.”
……
Not long after Chu Qi left Yan Zhou Ping’s house, someone caught up with him.
Xian Peng Peng handed Chu Qi clean clothes, “C-Colonel.”
Chu Qi took the clothes, nodding to thank Xian Peng Peng, as his current state was indeed inappropriate.
Xian Peng Peng followed Chu Qi, tilting his head and cautiously asking.
“Colonel, where are you going?”
Chu Qi: “Main Base.”
Xian Peng Peng scratched his head, his brain spinning rapidly, “Then Colonel—”
Chu Qi suddenly stopped and turned, staring at Xian Peng Peng.
“Did Yan Zhou Ping send you?”
Xian Peng Peng rubbed his hands together, “Ah”ed twice, and then nodded.
Hearing this, Chu Qi nodded as well. He slightly raised his chin, signaling with his eyes that Xian Peng Peng could go back.
Xian Peng Peng somewhat timidly said “Oh” before turning around. Suddenly remembering something, he turned back and shouted at Chu Qi’s departing figure.
“No, Brother Xiang Li sent me!”
Xian Peng Peng thought he was a genius, appeasing both sides would surely reconcile them.
Chu Qi ignored Xian Peng Peng’s words. Although he was young, ten years had taught him that Xiang Li would never ask someone to do such a thing behind his back.
Xiang Li was someone who… if there was anything that showed his good qualities, he would fight to have others discover it.
Clearly, he was just a bad person with no good qualities.
Xian Peng Peng returned home and saw Xiang Li, who looked indifferent on the sofa. He went over and said, “Colonel Chu said to let you go to the Main Base.”
Xiang Li didn’t even lift his eyelids.
“Not going. Who does he think he is, telling me to go and I’ll go?”
Xian Peng Peng clicked his tongue in disapproval, patiently advising, “Colonel Chu has already given you an out, Brother, don’t be so stubborn.”
Xiang Li’s gaze fixed on Xian Peng Peng, who became a little nervous under his stare.
Finally, Xiang Li chuckled. “Who does he think he is, giving me an out and I have to take it?”
Xiang Li also clearly understood that those words wouldn’t have been said by Chu Qi. Looking at Xian Peng Peng, he deliberately said.
His eyes shifted downwards, signaling Xian Peng Peng to let go of his hands that were clinging to his arm.
“If you’re so free, go to Beta Zone and wait to pick someone up.”
Only then did Xian Peng Peng seem to realize that Hill and Bai Yan were gone, asking, “Pick up who?”
While Xian Peng Peng was out, Xiang Li had explained the matter of Wu Xing to them. Although Yan Zhou Ping didn’t object, the emotions in his eyes when looking at Wu Xing weren’t exactly welcoming.
Yan Zhou Ping had just finished tidying up the cluttered instruments, answering Xian Peng Peng’s question: “Let’s bring Ning Le over, she should meet her parents.”
Yan Zhou Ping had said when he was video chatting with Yu Han.
Xian Peng Peng nodded with an “Oh—I remember” expression, then suddenly turned serious and refused.
“When are they coming? Beta Zone is full of Polluted Entities, I can’t even stay there for a minute, it’s deadly.”
Yan Zhou Ping thought for two seconds, glancing at the time. “Almost… Hill, the Bug King, has the ability to teleport through space and time, and with Bai Yan—we don’t need you to pick them up.”
Xian Peng Peng: “…”
Yan, you’re making him sound like a waste.
At this moment, Xian Peng Peng suddenly noticed a black dot appearing in front of him, and it was getting bigger and bigger.
Xian Peng Peng looked at the circular black hole, which was already as big as his face: “?”
Just as he was about to compare his face to see if it was really that big, a pale hand suddenly reached out from the black hole.
Xian Peng Peng: “!”
I chao!
What the hell!??
The pale wrist turned a circle, and the black hole instantly expanded. Hill, seeing Xian Peng Peng’s ghostly expression as he came out, raised an eyebrow but didn’t ask.
Bai Yan also saw it as he came out, with the same expression as Hill, and also didn’t ask.
Xian Peng Peng suddenly felt a breath stuck in his throat, neither going up nor down.
“?”
Is no one going to care about him?
Xue Hu Su saw Xian Peng Peng and greeted him familiarly: ~(^◇^)/
Ning Le and Zhou Xinshui came out one after the other. Shen Gui’s injuries had mostly healed by this point. He nodded in greeting to Xiang Li and Yan Zhou Ping.
Scanning the area, Shen Gui said, “Thank you for taking care of me during this time. I want to go to the Main Base now.”
Bai Yan and the others had already told him about the situation on the Main Star. He was a little worried about Xing Zi Mu.
Before Yan Zhou Ping could speak, Ning Le crossed her arms.
“I’ll go with you.”
Main Base.
Shen Gui saw the unchanged building in front of him—no, there were changes. Special-shaped starships occasionally passed through the towering clouds.
The Main Base had never been this lively.
Ning Le’s eyes were cold beside him. Looking at the unfamiliar building in front of her, she sneered inwardly.
Her parents were inside this building.
Shen Gui didn’t think much, striding inside. Ning Le’s mechanical cloud disc activated, automatically following beside Shen Gui.
Familiar doors, familiar information detection and recording. Shen Gui stepped forward.
The cold titanium alloy doors hummed, the safety lock verifying iris data for the third time.
Just as the message of incorrect information flashed out again, Shen Gui felt the rough texture of a leather glove suddenly on the back of his neck—Ning Le grabbed his shoulder with one hand and pulled him back.
The small person’s explosiveness was terrifying. Without the slightest hesitation, her boot kicked the door in front of them.
The entire door frame vibrated violently, spewing blue-purple sparks. The alarm hadn’t even sounded before it was pierced by flying alloy fragments, and smoke leaked from the broken cracks.
Shen Gui: “…”
Ning Le stood properly on the mechanical cloud disc again. She didn’t want to walk, and Lao Yan had made this thing for her.
It was very quiet inside the base. Occasionally, a strange robot would pop out from somewhere.
Shen Gui swiped the authority card with shimmering rainbow light, and the top floor button lit up a soft blue breathing light upon contact.
Ning Le’s back was pressed tightly against the titanium alloy car, staring at the scarlet digital afterimage on the floor display.
The numbers gradually rose, just like the time she was about to see her parents was accelerating rapidly.
The sound of the elevator arriving pierced the silence. The two pressure doors slid open to the sides, and the unique cold light of interstellar dust poured out from the gap.
—A circular dome with a diameter of thirty meters suspended a holographic model of the Milky Way, and twelve liquid metal control consoles were flowing with quantum light.
And the woman in front of the holographic model was facing away from the door, seemingly not curious about who had come.
In the corner, Xing Zi Mu was tied to a chair. Seeing Shen Gui, his originally drowsy head seemed to clear for a moment, and then slowly lowered again.
Shen Gui immediately ran over, removing the electronic gag from Xing Zi Mu’s face, gently patting his cheek.
Ning Le’s pupils shrank when she saw Qi Xiao’s back. The cloud disc slowly moved forward, her face becoming colder and colder.
Finally, the cloud disc stopped three meters away from the woman, seemingly pausing for a moment before moving forward half a meter again.
Ning Le: “Three hundred years since we last met, Mom, aren’t you going to turn around and give me a hug?”
Qi Xiao, addressed as “Mom” by Ning Le, paused and turned around. Looking at Ning Le’s face, which still had the innocence of an eight-year-old child, the longing on her face instantly turned cold.
Qi Xiao raised her eyes and looked at Shen Gui, who was trying to wake Xing Zi Mu, and chuckled.
Seeing this, Ning Le’s originally indifferent expression furrowed slightly. She hated this gentle motherly appearance the most.
Qi Xiao: “I thought only Captain Shen was coming. I didn’t expect little Lele to come too.”