62 Butcher

◎No... who wants to be your secret storage station for past lives!◎

The moment he settled in East District 1, Yan Xunzhi breathed a sigh of relief.

There was no other reason for coming to East District 1, simply because Kong Wei was familiar with the West District, and she had an experiment to do and could not hide too far away.

Jin Xiao had a friend in the East District, who was a junior military officer with some power, so she asked her to use a backdoor - her own application for transfer was rejected.

After crawling around in the dungeon, Sentinel Yan has become very adept at going through the back door.

The file was submitted to the East District for enrollment, but there were still a few days before the transfer order expired. Except for the time when he had to connect to the ground, Yan Xunzhi did not dare to go back.

She was now terrified that Kong Wei would suddenly think she was too preoccupied and disobedient in the middle of the night, and would get up and secretly absolve her. In her current state, if she continued to stay with Kong Wei, she felt she would either be driven mad or killed.

So he shamelessly hugged the quilt and rubbed against Sang Wanyin for two nights, and Ning Yue for three nights - the defense department sentries were not very popular recently, so Officer Ning had a little more free time.

Before leaving, Yan Xunzhi chatted with Sang Wanyin under the quilt. He no longer cared about anything else and said bluntly, "I'm afraid of her."

She confessed, "I used to be afraid of her, but I never thought she'd kill anyone. But now, if she wanted to kill me, I'd die without even knowing anything. I wouldn't even be living under her thumb; I'd be living under her thumb. I'm just asking for my life. I'm so scared of her."

Sang Wanyin didn't say anything.

Yan Xunzhi waited for a moment, but saw no response. He turned around, a bit puzzled. "Why don't you say anything? Are you intimidated by me? Or are you afraid to say anything bad about Kong Wei?"

Sang Wanyin smacked her lips. "I just think what you said is quite right. Few people dare to say that about her."

"Yeah."

In fact, Yan Xunzhi didn't dare to do that before, but now she felt that Sang Wanyin was not a big mouth, and she felt a bit desperate.

Sang Wanyin turned her head and looked at her, smiling teasingly, "Do you know what her code name was when she was on a mission in the Central White Tower?"

"?"

"Butcher." She smiled, the words completely inconsistent with her expression. "She's killed many people. She just blocks her senses and then slits their throats. Her method is very effective and no one else can learn it."

"..." Yan Xunzhi felt a chill on his neck and couldn't help but rub it with his hand. "Why can't others learn it?"

"She has no killing intent." Sang Wanyin asked her seriously, "Don't you think this is the most terrifying thing about her? Killing people is like cutting vegetables. She has no killing intent, so she doesn't feel guilty or afraid. She just thinks she's doing something."

Yan Xunzhi was stunned for a moment, remembering that she had said the same thing when she killed Xiao Mingran. Because I had no intention of killing.

How can someone kill someone without any intention to kill? Is it because they don't want to kill but are forced to, or... they just don't care at all?

Life is too contemptible for Kong Wei.

She's the killing machine.

Yan Xunzhi couldn't help but shudder, "Don't talk about her, talk about something else." Then he changed the subject abruptly, "After I'm gone, you have to miss me!"

Speaking of this, her eyes lit up again, "Have you been to East District 1?"

Sang Wanyin shook her head, and Yan Xunzhi was very interested. "Although I think the underground is all the same, if you ever come to East District 1, come find me. I'll be your host and show you around!"

Sang Wanyin said yes with a smile. The two young men gathered together and began to discuss the differences between each underground military region.

Ning Yue and I didn't chat about family matters. Although it seemed that she and Kong Wei didn't really get along, and that they were simply forced to be together in this life, she really wanted to complain.

But she was an officer several ranks higher than him after all, so Yan Xunzhi didn't dare to act rashly. He quietly pulled up the quilt and prepared to fall asleep.

Ning Yue knocked on her, "I'm leaving soon, don't you want to chat?"

"..." Yan Xunzhi's forehead was dark, and he was forced to slowly get up, "...what should we talk about?"

"Let's talk about me and Kong Wei?"

Yan Xunzhi didn't want to talk, but Officer Ning wanted to. She could see that she had been holding it in for too long and had some secrets that she couldn't share. After finally finding a suitable partner, she could only chat with him, "Okay."

Ning Yue propped up her head and looked at her, "Don't be so reluctant. Haven't you thought that Xiao Mingran was probably reborn alone? I haven't seen Xu Yan with anyone, so why were Kong Wei and I reborn together?"

She replied incoherently, "Didn't you protect her?" She had said this before.

Suddenly, she perked up. Yes, she had forgotten to count Ning Yue. Ning Yue was a sentinel. The sentinel who had successfully reborn in the dungeon was right in front of her, and she had actually forgotten her.

Sentinels have limited mental strength. Can they really survive the loss... or...

Was it Kong Wei who helped her to be reborn?

"But Kong Wei and I have conflicting abilities." Ning Yue raised an eyebrow. "Have you ever thought about it? There's no need to put them together. Why are we bound to each other?"

Yan Xunzhi had no idea, so he casually guessed, "It was a multiplayer mission, a group of people went to the surface, and you were the only ones who survived?"

In terms of attributes, the two of them have the strongest survivability and survive to the end. It is normal that they connect with each other for survival.

Ning Yue nodded thoughtfully, "It's okay if you say that. This way we will really be together."

Oh, it seems that's not the case. Yan Xunzhi silently crossed out this direction.

Ning Yue was quite interested and guided her calmly, "Why do you think a defensive sentry would follow a guide around 24 hours a day?"

What's the reason?

Defensive sentinels are not affected by mental power. Ning Yue can either act as Athena's shield to protect her, or...

Yan Xunzhi hesitated for a moment and looked up.

"Kong Wei and I are in a supervisor-supervisor relationship."

“…”

"You've never thought about it before." Ning Yue grinned, her smile particularly bright. "You don't think the connection between us is particularly strange. Even though we are so close, you don't feel that there is something subtle about our relationship. Even Sang Wanyin has hinted at it. You are really slow-witted."

Yan Xunzhi lowered his head in silence.

She admitted that she did seem to be confused and conflicted in her feelings.

I don’t know if it’s because Kong Wei blocked her feelings, she can’t see these things at all. Looking back, she has been stuck in a dead end countless times.

"Kong Wei got a little...out of control later. I'm a defensive type, and her mental power has little effect on me, so I'll be supervising her and keeping an eye on her movements. If she attacks someone she shouldn't, I'll immediately arrest her and bring her to trial."

Yan Xunzhi was dumbfounded, but also felt it was very reasonable.

Either he explodes in silence or he perishes in silence. If the direction of the experiment is truly wrong and cannot be changed, Kong Wei will never accept it.

"Since you're a supervisor sent by the higher-ups, you should have access to the center of her experiments."

Ning Yue didn't answer directly, but gave an example that sounded like two different things. "If you have a very important secret, and you have a close friend, a seemingly loyal subordinate, and a dog in front of you, who would you choose to tell it to?"

Yan Xunzhi said without hesitation, "Dog."

Then he was stunned for a few seconds, and suddenly looked up at Ning Yue.

"Were you kidding me last time?"

Ning Yue tilted her head and tapped her solar plexus lightly with her fingers. "To be honest, I was specially trained."

"My mind has been tampered with by technology," she laughed. "I can't remember specific things, and sometimes I forget entire episodes. Like I remember having dinner tonight, but I can't remember what I ate. Tomorrow I should remember that I talked to you, but I may not remember the content."

Everything seemed to be connected, Kong Wei trusted her because she couldn't remember the key points at all. Kong Wei was such a self-centered person, she was wary of everyone except herself.

If an illiterate dog could fetch her newspaper, she wouldn't use anyone she trusted.

So even though she was reborn with Ning Yue and there was a shortage of manpower for the experiment, she did not provide the experiment with an S-level double insurance.

There is something wrong with Ning Yue's mental strength, and her data is completely unusable.

"In fact, I've almost forgotten everything about my previous life. Being on guard against Kong Wei was exhausting and taxing on my brain." Ning Yue teased, "I took a lot of medicine, and my mental body was severely damaged. This life is better, but it's been edited, so I don't remember much."

"Actually, this is a secret, but I no longer have that identity in this life. I can't tell anyone about it, and I can't write it down. If I don't tell you now, I'm afraid you'll completely forget it in the future."

Ning Yue blinked cunningly and reached out to ruffle her fur. "What should I do if Kong Wei tries to trick me? So you remember it for me. If I forget in the future, I can always ask you. Xiaoyan, you are quite honest. Don't lie to me in the future."

…

Yan Xunzhi closed his eyes and fell on the bed in the newly assigned room.

The single room was a bit cramped. With my arms spread out, my fingertips on either side could touch the wall.

"Go away," she muttered to herself, feeling a little upset. She didn't want to know anymore.

She didn't have a past life anyway, so those complicated relationships didn't belong to her. Now she just had to complete the experiment and stay in the East District.

I got up early in the morning and went to say hello to Jinxiao's friend. The officer probably heard that she used to be Kong Wei's link sentry. He was very kind and gossiped about the reason for her broken link in a roundabout way.

Yan Xunzhi laughed it off awkwardly, saying that her rank was too low, and she had been following Officer Kong for too long and still felt overwhelmed, so she decided to separate.

She took all the blame on herself and thought that was a nice way of saying it.

Anyway, no one would believe her if she said something bad about Kong Wei, and others might even think that she was a narrow-minded little sentinel.

The officer nodded in understanding. "It's true that the level gap is quite large, so it's difficult. Sometimes you have to balance the level and the compatibility."

As usual, he comforted and encouraged her and told her to go back to training well.

Arriving at the training ground and swiping her card, someone suddenly patted her from behind and slid in front of her, "Yan Xunzhi?"

Ever since Yan Xunzhi realized he had a good-looking face, he was no longer surprised to be recognized everywhere. Knowing that this was probably Shao Xiang, who he had trained with, he nodded in a familiar manner, "Who are you?"

"Dong Peng, an A-level guide." Dong Peng extended her hand. Yan Xunzhi shook it in a friendly manner, then it felt as if a long neck stretched out from the other side, whispering mysteriously into her ear, "I heard that you had a falling out with Officer Kong Wei from the South District, so you broke the chain and came to Dongyi. Is that true?"

“…”

Yan Xunzhi was confused. She always talked about peaceful liberation. "...Where did you hear that?"

Dong Peng said, "It's been all over the South District for a long time. My friends in the South District told me. Is it true?"

Yan Xunzhi was embarrassed. She and Kong Wei had had a couple of fights in the South District, and they were so emotional that they hadn't paid any attention to whether the room was soundproof or not.

Besides, the fact that they slept in separate rooms was too obvious. I guess... the rumors had already spread all over the South District, but she was just ignorant and didn't care, so they didn't reach her ears.

It has already spread like this, it is useless to deny it.

Yan Xunzhi simply admitted it, since it was the truth anyway, "Let's call it a day..."

Dong Peng's eyes were gleaming, and she was about to continue speaking enthusiastically when Yan Xunzhi stepped forward and shoved the words back at her. "That's all I have to say. Don't ask any more questions! I won't tell you even if you ask me. Just go ahead and guess based on rumors!"

"That's enough!" Dong Peng chuckled, hugged Yan Xunzhi, and swore to the heavens, "I have firsthand information. That's enough. I won't ask anymore!"

【Author’s words】

Pickled Fish: Every failure is a learning experience. Next time we have an argument, I'll definitely go to the training room...