AGTCTCC Chapter 30
by VolareChapter 30: Is it because you can’t bear to part with your own life?…
Silver-white beams of light wandered haphazardly in the room, brushing against Chu Qi and then Xiang Li. The latter’s eyes were tightly closed, and the sunlight streaming in made every speck of dust floating in the air sparkle.
There were fine beads of sweat on Xiang Li’s forehead, and his breathing was slightly rapid, which Chu Qi could hear particularly clearly in the quiet, small room.
Before them, a huge miniature round plate of the military academy was taking shape, with spiritual power swirling and gathering around it.
Xiang Li cautiously opened one eye, his Adam’s apple bobbing. For some reason, he felt that the gaze of the person opposite him had become more ardent.
The miniature of the military academy gradually became clearer, like a sandbox game. Xiang Li took out the safety charm with “Ke Man” written on it from his pocket.
The safety charm pushed away from Xiang Li’s palm, circled twice in the air, and then floated towards the simulated miniature.
The safety charm moved slowly, and several small balls of spiritual power spontaneously ran behind the charm and pushed it along.
The charm stopped moving in a certain area, and the small balls behind it were caught off guard and piled together.
The small balls seemed a little incredulous and unwilling to accept this, so they retreated a few steps and ran to push the safety charm, but the charm remained motionless, and the small balls were squeezed into a pile again.
Xiang Li raised his eyes and secretly glanced at Chu Qi, who was coldly watching everything, and snorted inwardly.
Whose fault is this?
Xiang Li stretched out his index finger to pull away the small balls, and finally tapped the corner of the safety charm. His fingertip touched the edge, and the not-so-sharp corner pierced a bloody cut in Xiang Li’s fingertip.
His finger joints were slender and delicate, and the bright red liquid was dazzling. It dripped onto the jade charm, and the cracked gap was visibly repaired, even emitting a faint fluorescent glow.
Chu Qi stared at Xiang Li’s movements, and then looked up to see the other’s expression.
Xiang Li’s face was a little pale. Noticing Chu Qi’s gaze, he gave a playful smile, his tone teasing.
“What, have you fallen in love with me?”
Chu Qi withdrew his gaze and continued to look at the base miniature. The instant his gaze shifted, he didn’t notice the bit of red that had overflowed from the corner of Xiang Li’s lips, which was inconspicuously wiped away by its owner.
The safety charm circled twice more in place. After receiving the instructions, it began to move slowly.
The small balls that had been pulled away stared at the jade charm, each more anxious than the last. They stretched out small hands, crossed their arms, turned their faces away, and tapped their feet in the air.
The safety charm slowly moved away from this area, all the way to the edge, and then, for some reason, returned to the dormitory location.
Xiang Li frowned even more deeply as he watched the movement of the jade charm. He looked up and met Chu Qi’s eyes.
Xiang Li: “…”
If he wasn’t mistaken, the place where it stopped should be his dormitory room.
The safety charm stayed in that dormitory for quite a while, and then slowly started walking towards the outside of the military academy, seemingly heading towards the main gate.
Xiang Li had no way to track it after it left the range of the military academy. The safety charm obediently returned to his palm.
Chu Qi seemed to be sending messages to others, and said without looking up.
“Can you know the specific time?”
Xiang Li clenched the safety charm in his hand. Hearing this, he wore an expression that said, “If I knew everything, what would I need you for?”
“Don’t know.”
Chu Qi didn’t seem to expect an answer. He walked up to Xiang Li, reached out, his voice devoid of emotion.
“Disconnect.”
Xiang Li didn’t understand human language: “What?”
Chu Qi: “The spiritual link.”
Before he could finish speaking, Xiang Li stretched and yawned, ready to leave.
He snapped his fingers, and the entire scene in the room instantly transformed into tiny starlight, merging with the dust in the air.
Chu Qi’s familiar silver-white ball appeared before him. He subconsciously reached out to cup it in his hands. When he looked up again, Xiang Li was nowhere to be found.
Xiang Li returned the safety charm to Ke Shi Zhuo and casually sat down next to him.
The other person was still maintaining the posture from when Xiang Li left. Noticing that the jade charm in his hand was intact, he looked up at Xiang Li in shock.
“You can repair the jade charm?”
Xiang Li didn’t care at all. Hearing Ke Shi Zhuo’s words, he moved to the side and slowly kneaded the healed fingertip with his thumb.
“It was Chu Qi. His Spiritual Power is so strong, repairing a spiritual jade charm is a piece of cake for him.”
Ke Shi Zhuo pursed his lips, lowered his head, and kept stroking the jade charm with his fingers, muttering softly.
“Chu Qi is really amazing.”
Then, where he couldn’t see, Xiang Li rolled his eyes slightly.
Xiang Li hadn’t closed the door tightly when he came in. Through the crack, he vaguely heard the conversation coming from outside.
Ke Shi Zhuo opened the door and saw Chu Qi not far away. He trotted over and bowed to thank him.
“Thank you, Chu Qi, for repairing Ke Man’s spiritual charm.”
Chu Qi frowned, looked at Xiang Li coming out from behind Ke Shi Zhuo, then turned back to Ke Shi Zhuo, and nodded slightly, acknowledging it.
Ke Shi Zhuo noticed several people around Chu Qi going in and out of the dormitory next door. He wanted to ask something but didn’t open his mouth, so Xiang Li pushed him inside.
“You go in first and think carefully about what’s been strange about your brother lately.” After saying that, Xiang Li closed the door.
The next second, he darted in front of Chu Qi, stretched his head out, and peered into his dormitory.
“Why didn’t you tell me before you came to search my dormitory?”
Chu Qi sneered, coolly sweeping a glance at Xiang Li, who was leaning against the doorframe, a shallow mockery in his eyes.
“What’s the matter? Is there anything in the dormitory that can’t be seen?”
Xiang Li generously replied, “I myself am someone who can’t be seen, so naturally there are many things that you Main Star people can’t know.”
Chu Qi stared at Xiang Li’s back as the latter craned his neck and watched the people inside the room use instruments to search the corners of the dormitory. Then, he heard Chu Qi’s suppressed voice.
“What about Wu Zhen?”
Xiang Li’s body stiffened. He slowly straightened up, turned sideways, and slowly moved his eyes in Chu Qi’s direction.
“Was Wu Zhen just a sacrifice for you to get the antidote?” Chu Qi continued to ask.
Xiang Li tilted his head slightly, his expression blank, his tone showing utter confusion.
“Commander Chu, since you like Wu Zhen so much, why don’t you go with him?”
“Is it because you can’t bear to part with your own life?”
Chu Qi narrowed his eyes and sneered.
“Just curious why you weren’t the sacrifice.”
The atmosphere between the two became tense for a moment until someone came to Chu Qi’s side and handed him the light panel in his hand.
Xiang Li withdrew his gaze, raised his chin slightly, and returned to that indifferent and careless look, but in reality, one ear was secretly perked up to listen to the conversation between the two of them.
“Commander, no spiritual fluctuations were detected, and no suspicious items were found.”
Chu Qi took the light panel and nodded, asking the surveyors around him.
“Has the star chart surveillance been checked?”
The person shook his head.
“Commander, the star chart was checked before, but nothing was found. The several locations you mentioned all have surveillance, and nothing was discovered…”
Xiang Li didn’t listen carefully to the rest of the words. He looked back at his dormitory, which still looked the same as before.
…Perhaps it had changed, but he didn’t remember the placement of things. It was clean anyway. He never had many things in his dormitory.
Ke Man hadn’t been to his dormitory, and he didn’t seem like the kind of person who would break into someone else’s dormitory.
So why did he come to the dormitory? Was there something in his dormitory?
On his wrist, the black serpent Spiritual Form was slowly slithering, bringing a slippery sensation.
Xiang Li pressed the snake’s head with his other hand, stuffed his hands in his pockets, and walked out.
“Where are you going?” Chu Qi asked.
Xiang Li didn’t turn his head back. Originally, he didn’t want to pay attention to Chu Qi, but suddenly thinking of something, he stopped completely, turned around, and grabbed Chu Qi’s wrist.
Chu Qi frowned but didn’t struggle, letting Xiang Li pull him out. The latter narrowed his eyes.
Xiang Li: “Going to the lab.”
After the sudden explosion incident involving “Wu Zhen” last time, the laboratory could be said to have suffered heavy damage.
A month had passed, and the temporary laboratory was barely presentable, but many things were a bit overwhelming, coupled with the theft of the antidote, there was a low mood.
A few days ago, Professor Lai was called over by Shen Gui, and when he came back, he was sneaky, burrowing into the laboratory and not allowing anyone to disturb him. But Qin Lai was sure that he had secretly been carrying something in his arms when he returned.
So, when Xiang Li dragged Chu Qi over saying he wanted to see Professor Lai, Qin Lai skillfully refused.
“The old geezer is eating alone, not seeing anyone.”
Xiang Li let go of Chu Qi’s hand and asked Qin Lai, who was buried in doing experiments, across a table, without saying a word.
Qin Lai: “…”
He suddenly missed the old laboratory, where he could at least be separated from others by a glass panel.
Qin Lai finally reluctantly put down the test tube in his hand, glanced at Chu Qi, then looked at Xiang Li in front of him, and said meaningfully.
“If I could really get the old geezer to move, I wouldn’t let him eat alone.”
After saying that, he looked Xiang Li up and down, narrowed his eyes, raised his hand, and stroked his chin, his tone leisurely and suggestive.
“Your spiritual power is so familiar. Have we met somewhere before?”
Xiang Li noticed that Chu Qi’s gaze had also turned over, but after two seconds, it moved away. His lip line slowly straightened. Before he could speak, Qin Lai said again.
“Why don’t you come to my house tonight and reminisce?”
Xiang Li slapped away the paw that Qin Lai stretched out, his voice not fluctuating much.
“Then I’ll borrow the lab.”
“No, there are rules against borrowing it.” Qin Lai refused.
“You need a permission slip.” He looked at Chu Qi and added.
Xiang Li pointed at the background board Chu Qi.
“Isn’t Commander Chu here?”
Qin Lai shook his head, stretched out two fingers, and waved them. “At least two people.”
Xiang Li: “…”
Next to him, Chu Qi made a call to Shen Gui.
After getting Shen Gui’s approval, Qin Lai happily gave up the position to Xiang Li, grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the experimental cabinet below.
Xiang Li: “I want a quiet laboratory without a third person.”
Qin Lai didn’t get angry when he heard this. He put the unfinished melon seeds into his white coat pocket, took a sticky note from the side, wrote something on it, stuck it on Xiang Li, and winked. “I’m going off work then.”
After Qin Lai went out, Xiang Li lightly stepped his foot, and a black domain spread out from under his feet, until it covered the entire laboratory.
He took out a glass tube from his pocket. Chu Qi quietly watched his movements from the side. Xiang Li’s hands were constantly moving, and his mouth wasn’t idle either.
“Your Main Star’s efficiency is really slow,” he mocked.
“If I weren’t here, how would you find people, relying on your pile of useless machines?”
Chu Qi didn’t refute.
“What are you planning to do?”
“This is the antidote for Polluted Entities,” Xiang Li introduced, noticing the surprise that flashed across Chu Qi’s eyes, and felt a little smug.
“You researched this antidote yourselves, and you, as a commander, haven’t even seen it before.”
Chu Qi stared at the drop of red liquid, his voice without emotion. “Didn’t you hand it over to Shen Gui?”
“I can have as much of this stuff as I want.” Xiang Li snorted.
“The antidote is useless to us, but it’s not difficult to make.”
Chu Qi raised his head, meeting Xiang Li’s smug eyes, stunned, then quickly lowered his eyes.
“Then why did you go to steal the lab?”
“We didn’t expect that the well-hidden antidote you had was like this.”
Xiang Li said softly, raising the medicine in his hand and shaking it. He lightly closed one eye, and opened the other, looking at Chu Qi through the medicine.
“Although it’s useless to us, it might be useful to you?”
“Commander, would you like to be infected with the virus and try the effectiveness of the medicine?”
Across the medicine, Xiang Li stared at Chu Qi, and Chu Qi also stared at Xiang Li.
Bang!
Suddenly, a deafening explosion rang out, and the shattered glass even affected them, blocked by a black Spiritual Power shield.
Following that was a pungent, unpleasant smell.