AGTCTCC Chapter 31

Chapter 31: Chapter 31 If you had known from the beginning…

Chapter 31: Chapter 31 If you had known from the beginning…

“Colonel Chu.”

At this moment, the temporary lab looked like a mushroom with a burst umbrella, fragmented into pieces. Qin Lai stood beside it, with melon seeds still in his pocket.

“…”

This year, not only has love failed to blossom, but the flower of his career has also closed.

As if knowing what he was thinking, a colleague who had been blackened by the explosion next to him forced a smile and joked.

“At least your lifeline is strong.”

Thick black smoke poured out from every crack, billowing upwards, and the sun seemed to dim a bit as a result. Shattered, blackened glass shards littered the ground.

Several lab personnel who had narrowly escaped death felt that the sun above their heads was too bright, their noses were filled with the pungent smell of chemical agents, and they touched the neck rings on their necks with lingering fear.

Xiang Li stood on the other side, staring at Chu Qi’s back in front of him, who was talking to a uniformed officer next to him.

After they finished talking, he noticed the scrutinizing gaze from the other party. Xiang Li raised an eyebrow. He didn’t understand psychology, but he understood Chu Qi.

“I didn’t do it.”

Sure enough, the next second he saw the other party’s gaze retract, and Xiang Li gently hummed.

Looking around, Xiang Li frowned, looking at the most severely exploded area. That area was covered by ruins, but there was more glass, so that everyone could clearly see the charred… corpse below.

After Chu Qi finished listening to the report from the person next to him, he turned to look at Xiang Li, who also pulled on his sleeve at this time. Before he could say anything, everyone present felt a burst of dizziness.

The ground was trembling at a certain speed, and small-scale gravity storms were rolling up on some areas. Their vision began to blur, and some people couldn’t control their strength and knelt directly on the broken glass, a small patch of red oozing from their knees.

The time that had just calmed down began to boil again.

Xiang Li endured the nausea surging in his throat, clenched Chu Qi’s sleeve with his fingertips, pulled him to his side, and stared fixedly at the corpse.

In an instant, everyone’s Spiritual Power scattered around, and the pressure of gravity forced them to tremble uncontrollably. The soldiers endured the trembling caused by their emotions and directed people to leave.

Seeing the mechs responding next to him start up, Xiang Li pushed Chu Qi, his hands soaked with cold sweat, and his voice was hoarse.

“Leave first.”

But Xiang Li himself didn’t move a step. Chu Qi frowned, and grabbed the cold hand in return, his facial lines as stiff as if carved with a knife, maintaining a blank expression even under such circumstances.

Chu Qi: “As a Colonel, I have an obligation to protect civilians and let them leave first.”

Xiang Li “tsk”ed, looking at Chu Qi disapprovingly, and complaining inwardly.

I can’t die, and you can’t die either, right?

But there were too many people around, and Xiang Li couldn’t say it. In the end, he was half-pushed and half-kicked onto the mech by Chu Qi.

In the last second before the mech cabin door closed, Xiang Li took advantage of the inattention of others and threw his Spiritual Form down.

The black little snake was almost rolled into the storm and dispersed the first second it left the cabin. Xiang Li’s face was visibly pale.

He turned his face away, intending to avoid Chu Qi’s gaze, and the fingertips in his sleeves were trembling slightly.

The mech couldn’t stay in the air for long. The gravity storm had a faint tendency to expand. Chu Qi stared at Xiang Li’s back. Instead of choosing to retreat, he signaled the driving soldier to pull the altitude away until they were out of danger.

Xiang Li moved his wrists. He was just about to sneak away while the crowd hadn’t calmed down yet, when he turned his head and met the gaze of a certain Colonel.

But there was no embarrassment of being discovered on his face. He curled the corners of his lips and approached Chu Qi shamelessly, suppressing his voice.

“Chu Qi, is it necessary to stare at me like this? I’m not going to do anything bad.”

Chu Qi didn’t answer, but took a monitor from the side and threw it to him, his meaning was very clear.

Xiang Li frowned, but at this moment, everyone’s gazes were looking over, so he pursed his lips and swallowed the words he was about to say.

The screen in his hand showed the current situation of the temporary lab. The gravity storm was constantly expanding, and glass shards, mechanical broken arms, bricks and tiles on the ground were gradually rolled into it, and then crushed and disappeared in an instant.

Fortunately, the gravity storm lasted for a very short time. After it completely quieted down, Chu Qi led a few soldiers down, and Xiang Li insisted on following. The others were arranged to return.

At this time, everything that could be rolled up on the ground had been crushed cleanly, leaving nothing. The ground became flat and clean.

On the surface, Xiang Li was still a 19-year-old student. The consequence of insisting on following was that he had to follow behind Chu Qi.

The whip tail condensed by the other party’s Spiritual Power was wrapped around Xiang Li’s waist to prevent the latter from running around.

Chu Qi felt the pulling force on one side of his clothes. He briefly explained a few words to the soldiers beside him, looking at the “well-behaved” Xiang Li next to him.

“Chu Qi.” Xiang Li glanced at the surrounding soldiers, signaling the other party to come closer.

“Is that corpse Professor Lai?” he asked in a low voice.

“Five percent probability, maybe.”

“What about the other ninety-five percent?” Xiang Li asked in confusion.

Chu Qi glanced at him: “Margin for error.”

Xiang Li: “…”

“Chu Qi.” Shen Gui rushed over, with faint dark circles under his eyes and unconcealable fatigue, it could be seen that the recent series of events had made him somewhat exhausted.

He also nodded lightly noticing Xiang Li, then turned to look at Chu Qi, rubbing his brow with one hand.

“The military is seriously understaffed now. A part of them are investigating the whereabouts of the Zerg, and the polluted entity riots outside are more frequent. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be your turn to investigate the missing military academy students, and now Professor Lai has had an accident.”

Chu Qi didn’t have any objections to investigating the missing students. Originally, his rank of Colonel was because his body was severely damaged, and the management forcibly gave him a title. The tasks assigned usually didn’t fall on his head.

Speaking of which, Shen Gui used to handle the Colonel’s work.

Pulling his thoughts back, Shen Gui seemed to suddenly think of something, and turned his head to look at Xiang Li next to Chu Qi, who was chilled by his gaze.

Xiang Li: “What?”

Shen Gui: “Are there many people on Planet C079 like you?”

“Not recently.” Xiang Li interrupted him.

Shen Gui’s face showed some disappointment when he heard this, but he quickly cheered up.

“Xing Zi has returned from his mission recently. I didn’t tell him about you. Yan Zhou Ping just sent me a message asking me to keep an eye on you and to use your Spiritual Power less recently.”

Perhaps the aftereffects of the storm hadn’t passed yet, the wind rolled up the hair of several people, blurring their voices.

Chu Qi looked at Xiang Li upon hearing this. The other party had a nonchalant look, looking at Shen Gui with a look that seemed to say “What nonsense are you talking about?”, but he nodded anyway, giving an extremely perfunctory “uh” sound.

After Shen Gui left, Chu Qi slowly opened his mouth.

“Are you going to act on your own?”

Xiang Li: “Huh? What?”

Chu Qi ignored the other party’s pretense of being crazy and foolish, and the whip in his hand gradually tightened.

Xiang Li: “…Hiss.”

He reached out and pressed Chu Qi’s hand, the veins on the back of his hand slightly bulging, and he squeezed out a smile with a grimace.

“Don’t go too far, Colonel Chu, I’m not someone from your main star.”

Chu Qi didn’t speak, but the whip tail held in his hand wrapped around him even tighter.

Xiang Li: “What do you want to do?”

Chu Qi: “Take me with you.”

Xiang Li: “…”

The whip slowly wrapped around Xiang Li’s waist again, tightening.

Xiang Li: “Okay, okay, okay, let go!”

Hearing the other party let go, the whip in Chu Qi’s hand also loosened its strength, but it was still wrapped around Xiang Li’s waist.

This time it wasn’t just to put on a show on the surface, but now there was an added layer of fear that the other party would run away by making small moves.

Late at night, Xiang Li skillfully squatted on the eaves on one side, Chu Qi stood behind him in a black uniform, the end of his line of sight was the main base – the place where the management usually gathers to hold meetings.

Xiang Li turned his head and looked up. Chu Qi wasn’t wearing a hat, and the fine strands of hair followed the direction of the wind. His black uniform blended with the night, exuding a cold and aloof temperament. Seeming to sense Xiang Li’s gaze, his eyes fell.

“Tsk.” Xiang Li stood up, maintaining a line of sight that was the same height as Xiang Li, wanting to say “What bees are you attracting at night?”, but the other party spoke before him.

“You want to blow up the main base?”

Xiang Li curled his lips: “Have a little faith in me, okay?”, tapping the direction of the main base with his fingertip in the void.

“My Spiritual Form is there.”

Following the direction pointed by his index finger, Chu Qi was silent, his eyes questioning.

–Are you sure?

The corners of Xiang Li’s lips first curled into an arc. Chu Qi saw this and paused for a moment, then moved his eyes away without showing any signs.

Xiang Li wasn’t a person who loved to smile. Only when he was playing tricks on people or pretending to be well-behaved would he curl up a hint of an arc. After making things clear, the Xiang Li that Chu Qi saw more often was cold, with a sharp and flamboyant air in his bones.

It always made him think of that person who was already dead.

“What is Wu Zhen to you?” Chu Qi asked.

Xiang Li didn’t expect him to suddenly mention Wu Zhen either, so he casually made up an excuse.

“My brother.”

The surrounding night was so heavy that it seemed to be dripping water. In the blurred vision, Xiang Li saw that the other party’s gaze seemed to soften a bit, but quickly returned to its unapproachable appearance.

“Chu Qi.” he called out.

Chu Qi: “What?”

But he didn’t wait for Xiang Li’s reply for a long time. He turned his head, and the other party was just looking at him quietly, his black and white eyes like black holes, filled with unfathomable mysterious colors.

Chu Qi spoke with a ghost of a chance.

“If you had known from the beginning that the antidote was useless to you, would your brother not have been sacrificed.”

Xiang Li still didn’t speak, Chu Qi’s voice slowly came in the wind, as if the edges and corners of his usual self had been blown away.

But it was too hard for Xiang Li to listen to, he couldn’t say it, his heart was both stuffy and hot, and he felt a burst of emptiness.

“My brother doesn’t like people like you.” Xiang Li said this after a long time.

“I know.” Chu Qi looked at the direction of the main base again, took a deep breath and asked.

“What’s your plan?”

“No plan.” Xiang Li moved his wrists while trying to cover up.

“What plan could there be, we’ll talk after we see what’s inside.” After saying that, he didn’t wait for Chu Qi and rushed out first.

The main base was a little smaller than the military academy, but there were a lot of machines. From the ground to the ceiling, instrument pipelines were stacked everywhere.

“Usually outsiders are not allowed to come here, only the commanders.”

Chu Qi explained to “Shen Gui” next to him.

Xiang Li, wearing Shen Gui’s mask, nodded, his long legs walking very fast, sensing his Spiritual Form in his heart. Chu Qi, who was following next to him, saw the direction Xiang Li was walking and his face became more and more gloomy.

Xiang Li finally stopped in front of a small door. This place looked much more secretive than other places, a closed corner that was twisted and turned to reach.

Xiang Li beckoned, his Spiritual Form pierced through the door and drilled out, the snake’s head nodded towards Chu Qi’s direction, and then honestly coiled around Xiang Li’s wrist.

“What is this place?”

Xiang Li asked the Chu Qi next to him in a suppressed voice.

“Archives room.”

Chu Qi said, he stepped forward, his eyes close to the instrument installed on the wall for testing.

Iris scan.

After a “beep” sound, Chu Qi straightened up, glanced sideways at the mechanical door that was slowly opening to both sides.

Perhaps it had been a long time since anyone had come, the action of opening the door aroused a disgusting cloud of dust. Separated by this thin layer of flying dust, the two glimpsed the black and white world inside the room.