Chapter 65 is like a stray kitten.

Laughing at Life: [Xiao Mei, Grandpa knows you participated in the Interstellar Mech Competition. I saw your performance. When you used the Ghost Assassin Mech, it reminded me of my own past glory. This is a top-tier jamming device. Activate it immediately to prevent the Federation army from locating you.]

Qiao Mei clicked on the attached link, and after obtaining the item, the pending status of the attached link instantly changed to claimed.

Seeing this, Xu Wenfeng on the other side of the screen continued to use one-finger typing on the electronic keyboard.

[After activation, it will display whether the surrounding magnetic field waves have disappeared. Once they have completely disappeared, remember to tell your grandfather immediately and come to the Xu family's old house tomorrow. However, you cannot use your own aircraft; you must use the one your grandfather gave you. It has a built-in shielding function, making it the safest option.]

Qiao Mei clicked on yet another bonus link. Looking at the aircraft that looked very valuable, she felt like she had found a powerful patron and clicked "accept" again.

After the call ended, she looked at Xu Wenfeng's chat box, which was still displaying "typing," and after thinking for a moment, replied with the following message:

[Grandpa, aren't you curious why I, as a disciple of a Starless Sacred Beast, possess the ability to control a mecha?]

Xu Wenfeng replied after a while: [Of course I'm curious, but everyone has their own secrets. Grandpa has never been the type to pry into other people's secrets. The only reason I brought this up is because you were threatened. As my granddaughter, now that you're in trouble, how could I possibly pretend not to see it?!]

After saying that, Xu Wenfeng typed with one finger for a long time, and while Qiao Mei remained silent and her expression changed, he continued to reply to her:

Don't worry about this. I won't tell Huihui. When you feel the time is right, you can tell her yourself. Just remember, now that you and Huihui are back in the Xu family, you won't be bullied like before. You have the Xu family, and I, this old man, will be your support!

These words, though merely appearing as text on the computer screen, felt to Qiao Mei like a sharp dagger piercing through her heart, which she had wrapped in layers of defense.

She felt a slight soreness in the tip of her nose and a burning sensation in the corners of her eyes.

But she didn't cry. Instead, she took a deep breath and replied with a simple sentence that represented a sudden change in her state of mind.

Okay, from now on, my mother and I will rely entirely on you, Grandpa, for protection.

Ao Cang quietly looked at the girl whose eyes were a little red at the corners and whose red eyes were misty. Although he didn't see what she had seen, he still felt that she looked so pitiful.

It's like a kitten that has been wandering outside for a long time, finally receiving human affection, and experiencing the joy of having its chin scratched for the first time.

He couldn't resist sticking out his forked dragon tongue to lick Qiao Mei's face, forgetting that in his complete form, his dragon tongue had also grown considerably larger.

This lick was equivalent to washing Qiao Mei's face, and it even moistened her bangs a little.

"......."

The Dragon God looked at the girl who seemed to be licked into a daze, and after a moment of stunned silence, his dragon face turned bright red.

Unlike human saliva, dragon saliva has no smell; it's odorless and tastes almost like water.

Qiao Mei glanced at the dragon god, whose head was bowed low and whose long eyelashes trembled slightly. She then looked at the magnetic waves that had disappeared from the special-grade shielding device and said to him helplessly, "It's okay, you didn't do it on purpose. But why did you suddenly lick me like that?"

As she spoke, Qiao Mei, fearing that Ao Cang's prolonged use of his complete form would be too taxing for him, told him that the magnetic waves detected outside had disappeared, and asked him to transform back into his little black dragon form.

Ao Cang was indeed a little tired at this moment. After turning back into the little black dragon, he explained why he had taken the initiative to lick Qiao Mei before.

"I just felt that An'an's expression just now made me very uncomfortable, and I didn't want to see you like that."

"My expression just now..." Qiao Mei recalled how Xu Wenfeng's words had warmed her heart and touched her eyes. After a moment of confusion, she asked Ao Cang uncertainly, her red eyes looking at him, "You mean, you feel sorry for me?"

Dragon Gods are not ordinary humans, so it's quite rare for them to have such emotions.

Ao Cang tilted his dragon head: "Feeling sorry for me?"

It seems so, right?

And it wasn't just this time.

But after Qiao Mei couldn't help but yawn, he suppressed these thoughts and didn't tell her, instead giving her an ambiguous answer.

Then he urged her to dry herself off and go to bed to rest and sleep.

"The divine power I provide can only help you recover your mental state; your body still needs rest, which you will have to get through sleep."

Qiao Mei sensed it too. She carried Ao Cang out of the bathtub, dried themselves off, changed into dry pajamas, and then took him to bed.

When Xu Hui came home from get off work that evening, she pushed open Qiao Mei's bedroom door and looked inside. She found it was pitch black, and could only hear steady breathing. She assumed that Qiao Mei was tired from studying mecha-related knowledge too hard recently, and didn't think much of it.

After gently closing the bedroom door, she received a message from Xu Wenfeng's personal terminal, saying that he wanted Qiao Mei to come to his place tomorrow to report to her as her parent.

Upon learning that Xu Wenfeng wanted to personally teach Qiao Mei some unique methods of using mechs, Xu Hui recalled Xu Wenfeng's glorious deeds in the past and readily agreed.

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