AGTCTCC Chapter 45

“There’s no helping it, Chu Qi should know this outcome.”

Even though he said that, Xiang Li felt a stuffiness in his heart.

“Did I say something wrong?” He habitually asked Old Yan.

Old Yan’s expression was complicated.

“This matter, it’s hard to say. Hard to say.”

Xiang Li pondered over the words he had said, feeling that he wasn’t wrong, but at the same time, he was wrong about everything.

To the point that when he saw Chu Qi, he didn’t rush over like he usually did. The other party also noticed Xiang Li’s unusual behavior.

Chu Qi: “What’s wrong?”

Xiang Li stared into Chu Qi’s eyes, asking very seriously.

“Do you like being with me? Do you like anything we do together?”

Although Chu Qi was surprised by Xiang Li’s question, he still followed Xiang Li’s example and looked equally serious.

Chu Qi: “I like it.”

After hearing the answer, Xiang Li suddenly didn’t know what he was doing. He scratched his head, not understanding what his mental state was.

Xiang Li: “If you have time, will you still come to Planet C079 to play with me?”

Before Chu Qi could answer, he became dejected on his own.

“Forget it, you can’t find C079.”

Chu Qi was puzzled, seeming to understand something, and asked softly.

“Why do you say that?”

Xiang Li: “The Main Star doesn’t have what we want. It’s surprising to be able to stay in the Main Star for so long, but C079 is our home.”

“If you miss me, you can video call me, but to avoid being locked onto, it probably won’t be for long…”

Xiang Li babbled on.

Chu Qi: “…”

Xiang Li played with Chu Qi’s fingers, touching and kneading them. He didn’t notice that the expression on the person in front of him had already turned cold.

Chu Qi pulled his hand back, his eyes without a hint of a smile, like a cold pond in winter, where even sunlight could only reveal a thin layer of ice.

Chu Qi: “Are you saying goodbye to me?”

Xiang Li: ?

Wasn’t it obvious?

He looked at the man in front of him, his handsome face appearing even more aloof due to his cold expression. Xiang Li’s heart stirred.

He pretended to close the distance between them, his hands restlessly reaching for Chu Qi’s waist. Feeling the excellent material of the uniform under his palm, he couldn’t help but narrow his eyes.

“What’s wrong?” he said, his voice hoarse.

Chu Qi ignored his wandering hands and said coldly.

“From the start, you didn’t plan to be with me, did you?”

Xiang Li’s hands paused at this question. He seriously scrutinized Chu Qi, then backed away slightly, as if he understood something.

Xiang Li: “You thought I was going to be with you forever?” he asked, puzzled.

Chu Qi didn’t speak.

Xiang Li explained earnestly.

“But you will die, I won’t.”

Xiang Li: “I can’t even commit suicide with you. It was impossible for us to be together forever in the first place.”

Chu Qi’s expression grew colder with each word Xiang Li spoke. When Xiang Li finished, he didn’t refute but turned and left.

Xiang Li didn’t chase after him. He didn’t understand; wasn’t this something everyone knew?

Yu Han and Yan Zhou Ping, who were eavesdropping in the corner, had complicated expressions.

“…”

The two exchanged a glance and quietly retreated to find a secluded place.

Yan Zhou Ping clicked his tongue and pulled out a cigarette from his pocket, lighting it before slowly exhaling the dispersing white smoke.

Yu Han: “What do you think of Xiang Li and Chu Qi?”

Yan Zhou Ping refused: “I don’t want to think about it.”

Yu Han: “Although that’s the truth, Xiang Li doesn’t even know how to say something nice. How did Commander Chu even take a liking to Xiang Li?”

In Yu Han’s eyes, Xiang Li was like a wooden stake, and a charred one at that.

Now that a flower called “Chu Qi” was finally willing to bloom on it, this wooden stake not only didn’t cherish it but actively uprooted itself.

Hearing Yu Han’s words, Yan Zhou Ping paused in his smoking, then suddenly remembered something.

That’s right, how did Chu Qi take a liking to Xiang Li? When did it happen? It seemed to be different after that jailbreak.

The more Yan Zhou Ping thought about it, the more he felt that something was off.

Yan Zhou Ping: “Commander Chu isn’t trying to use Xiang Li to disintegrate C079 from within, is he?”

Yu Han “ah”-ed, not understanding how it was related to disintegrating C079 again.

Yu Han: “Aren’t you overthinking things?”

Yan Zhou Ping extinguished the cigarette he had only taken two puffs of. His serious and certain expression made Yu Han consider the possibility of what he said.

Yan Zhou Ping: “Chu Qi’s sudden change in attitude must have a purpose.”

Yu Han: “What purpose?”

“It’s not clear yet, but if someone you suddenly hate, someone who killed the person you liked, just because they saved you, you’d fall in love with them?”

Yan Zhou Ping analyzed seriously.

Yu Han stroked his chin.

“Maybe.”

Yan Zhou Ping suddenly didn’t understand humans after hearing that, his mind filling with question marks.

“Maybe?”

Humans are truly strange.

Early the next morning.

Xiang Li hadn’t seen Chu Qi since yesterday, and his messages weren’t being returned. This morning, when Yan Zhou Ping saw him, his eyes were bloodshot, and he looked like he wanted to say something but couldn’t.

Xiang Li yawned, leaning lazily against the back of his chair. He opened his eyes to check the messages he had sent yesterday, still with no reply, then closed his eyes again.

The Empire probably couldn’t wait any longer. Early in the morning, troops had set off for Planet C079.

Xiang Li and the others weren’t in a hurry. They would watch first. After all, the barrier around Planet C079 wasn’t so easy to break.

Around Planet C079, many mechs were scattered in the surrounding orbits.

Chu Qi saw the words “Be careful” sent by someone on the communicator and closed it.

Shen Gui saw it and came over to tease him.

“Why didn’t your partner come to see you off this morning?”

Chu Qi said coldly, “We broke up.”

Shen Gui: “Ah… ah?”

At the very front, several combat mechs were positioned there, with countless cannon muzzles pointed at Planet C079.

Everyone entered a state of first-level combat readiness. The radar screen was temporarily calm.

The black and red star seemed to be unaware, remaining quiet and still.

Xing Qing Kun took everything in through the video feed and raised his hand to give instructions to the person next to him.

“Begin.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a cannonball from one of the mechs shot out first, smashing towards Planet C079.

The cannonball didn’t reach Planet C079 smoothly. Instead, it was blocked by something at a distance from the planet.

As the cannonball exploded, a storm of shrapnel and orange flames burst open like a giant beast’s mouth. Following that was the launch of countless cannonballs.

Countless orange mushrooms bloomed, completely blocking humanity’s vision. From the radar, the explosion points were always at a distance from Planet C079.

The smoke carrying flames and shrapnel dissipated, and humans could see the planet behind it still rotating quietly.

One cannonball after another, Planet C079 remained intact.

Just as Xing Qing Kun was frowning in thought, the person next to him interrupted him.

“Wu Zhen”: “Use Source Power Magnetic Resonance.”

After hearing these words, Xing Qing Kun’s eyes suddenly became turbid. Under “Wu Zhen’s” control, he relayed the order.

The control switch for Source Power Magnetic Resonance was pushed up. In the next second, a wave of Spiritual Power spread out from the magnetic resonance Source Stone as the center.

Seconds later, they saw the invisible barrier outside Planet C079 suddenly materialize, and cracks appeared in the area that had been bombarded.

After the Source Power Magnetic Resonance was activated, the barrier around the Main Star’s base also suddenly began to weaken and thin.

Before long, the barrier couldn’t withstand the dense artillery fire and shattered completely. Countless mechs also rushed into Planet C079’s protective atmosphere.

Planet C079 was as they had expected. Countless Polluted Entities occupied the surface. Discovering that they had invaded their territory, each and every one of them was enraged and ferocious.

Countless twisted limbs rushed towards the mechs still in the air, dragging them down to the ground with brute force.

A ball of orange flame rose up. The mech was damaged in battle, but the Polluted Entity walked out of the flames unscathed. Some even stared at the other mechs with eager anticipation.

A Polluted Entity next to it swelled up, and in the next second, it spewed out dense, poisonous mist.

The soldiers quickly put on their air masks. The corrupted air made a viscous hissing sound in the mask’s filter.

Sixty-four sets of tactical images flickered on the soldiers’ retinas, and the neural current inside the masks constantly kept everyone highly vigilant.

It was at this moment, when the commander should have been issuing orders, that Xing Qing Kun went silent.

Qi Xiao removed the mask from her face, and a gentle female voice slowly echoed in the communicators in the minds of all the soldiers present.

Qi Xiao glanced at Xing Qing Kun, who was unconscious in his seat, and said.

“Temporary emergency situation, I will be in command now.”

In the first second of hearing Qi Xiao’s voice, Shen Gui and Chu Qi instantly cut off contact with the Main Star in their minds.

At the same time, Chu Qi issued an order to the other soldiers.

“Switch channels to n167chu, isolate all frequencies broadcast by the Main Star, and from this moment on, I will command the battlefield.”

As he spoke, Chu Qi took out a magnetic Source Stone ring and placed it on a hidden position on the [Silver] mech. The ring was just right to be inlaid on it.

Such a thing would have been impossible to obey before, but the magnetic Source Stone ring was a symbol of the commander’s identity.

Chu Qi’s mech was automatically labeled as the commander in the eyes of the soldiers at this moment.

Chu Qi: “Switch to the Source Power spectrum world.”

He said to the [Silver] mech’s intelligent system.

The vision instantly plunged into a ghostly blue quantum observation mode.

The Polluted Entities, which were identified as abnormal creatures by the radar, were now sprouting dark matter tentacles in Chu Qi’s eyes, baring their fangs and brandishing their claws.

“Seventh Squad, coordinates G7 area.” Chu Qi’s voice was calm, his fingers drawing scarlet trajectories on the holographic sand table in front of him.

“Use magnetic storm coils to form a Fibonacci array.”

Twenty heavy mechs simultaneously deployed their rear reactors, and superconducting coils wove a golden spiral net in the ionosphere.

At this time, Qi Xiao didn’t bother to manage what was happening on the battlefield. She looked at the two people who had suddenly appeared in front of her, not panicking at all.

Qi Xiao: “Breaking into the Main Base Command, do you know what crime that is?”

The tip of the crescent blade formed by Xiang Li’s Spiritual Power was pointed at Qi Xiao, as well as the man behind her who hadn’t spoken.

Yan Zhou Ping: “We…”

Xiang Li interrupted: “Are you going to wait until we beat you up and drag you away, or will you beg for mercy right away?”

Yan Zhou Ping: “…”

Qi Xiao took off the commander’s earpiece from her ear and hooked her finger. The puppet-like man finally raised his head, his eyes empty.

He stepped forward and placed something in Qi Xiao’s hand.

Qi Xiao: “Isn’t Planet C079 the most peaceful and has never liked fighting? Let’s make a bet, Number 054.”

“I bet on how much your little boyfriend loves you.”

These words were spoken by Qi Xiao with gentle affection, but they were disgusting to Xiang Li’s ears.

At this time, on Planet C079, under Chu Qi’s command, the soldiers flexibly responded to the rushing Polluted Entities.

Not far from the battlefield, the G12 area, which should have been densely populated with Polluted Entities, now had a vacuum zone with a diameter of five meters.

Ning Li An stood at the center point, his face without a trace of expression, like a robot, coldly watching everything that was happening on the battlefield.