85 Gossip

◎Can you please leave some privacy?◎

The moment she moved back into Kong Wei's room, Yan Xunzhi had a trance-like feeling that everything that had happened before was just a dream, a fantasy she couldn't let go of. After a long journey, she woke up and looked down. She was still standing at the starting point, not having taken a single step forward.

The only thing that shattered her fantasy was a call from a new recruit in the East District. He angrily asked, "Have you applied to the higher-ups to remove the link? What does that mean? Who do you think I am? How can you leave or stay as you please?"

Yan Xunzhi could almost imagine the fury over there, "Uh..."

The recruit didn't give her a chance to speak. "When you left, you said you'd be back soon. Okay, six months ago, I asked you, and you said another six months. Okay, so I waited. Now you haven't come back, and your application for release has arrived. Do you have more power than me just to unilaterally keep me running around for you?"

Yan Xunzhi opened his mouth, stopped the continuous output, and then closed it again.

How taciturn the new recruit was when she first joined! Now she can't even get a word in... What went wrong to make her like this?

He silently put the communicator further away and continued with his physical training while listening to her scolding.

After finishing a set, the new recruit stopped talking. "Are you listening to me? Are you doing something else?"

"...No." Officer Yan picked up the communication with a guilty conscience, keeping his breathing steady. "I'm listening, I'm listening."

"Why did you request to be unlinked?"

Yan Xunzhi didn't dare add fuel to the fire, thinking that she had mentioned breaking the chain a long time ago, and now she had finally made up her mind to put it into action...

He was vague about this, "I intend to stay in the South District and probably won't be returning to the East District for a while. If I break up with you sooner, you can find the next one sooner..."

The recruit didn't buy it and suddenly interrupted her, "Why don't you go back to the East District?"

It can be said that the scenery in the South District is beautiful, the ground risks are small, and the South District is built on the ground, so everyone wants to stay in the South District.

But Yan Xunzhi didn't find any reason.

The recruit understood her silence. "...Even if you stayed in the South District, you could have applied to transfer me there as well. Are you the only one who wants to stay in the South District, and I don't want to go?"

That's right. Yan Xunzhi was speechless for a moment, pretending not to understand, and changed the subject, "You... you really want to come? I can help you with some connections. I know a lot of people here."

The recruit ignored her steps and asked directly, "If I go over there, will you link with me?"

Yan Xunzhi was speechless.

The recruit on the other end didn't speak for a long time, only a slight noise. She had a vague feeling that she might be crying, but she had never seen a recruit cry before, so she was a little unsure.

Finally she said, "...you think you are any better than her."

Gnashing his teeth, Yan Xunzhi lowered his eyes and said, "I'm sorry."

She wasn't much better. Kong Wei was using her. When she was looking for new recruits, she had the same intention of using them. Even now, after being exposed, her treatment was almost the same. She was even worse than Kong Wei, who kept the new recruits hanging while playing both sides.

"This is my fault, if you want to adjust..."

"No," the recruit interrupted her, tears etched in his voice. Yan Xunzhi was sure she had truly cried. "I don't need to be transferred anywhere, nor do I need a promotion. If I need anything in the future, I'll come to you. But you can't forget. You have to remember..."

"You owe me."

I want you to owe me.

Yan Xunzhi said, "Okay."

News came from the South Third District that Zeng An had woken up and was under control. Sun Yesuo rushed there without stopping, not even bothering to say hello, but asked someone to deliver a message.

Because of her loyalty in her first life, Zeng An was the main researcher of the experiment and had almost no constraints. Every step of the experiment was deduced by her and a large amount of information passed through her hands. Her betrayal has caused immeasurable amounts of information to be leaked.

At worst, the experiment is completely transparent.

Kong Wei's reaction to this was... turning around and showing it to Yan Xunzhi, "Look, the mess I made isn't bigger than yours?"

“…”

Yan Xiaosentinel simply admired her mentality.

Kong Wei took the steamed bun into his mouth and put away the empty plate. "Let's go and clean up my mess."

While she was dealing with Zeng An, Yan Xunzhi was doing stability tests here. After ensuring that the alienation was stable regardless of whether it was completed or not, he began to prepare for blood analysis and other matters.

Sang Wanyin, acting as the administrator, moved a small chair to sit nearby, staring at the data. After a while, she said, "...except for the speed, the other aspects aren't very high."

"..." Yan Xunzhi said weakly, "I'm level B."

Moreover, this level was catalyzed after several injections. It is estimated that this was her real rating in her previous life. Her value has increased several times!

She knew that the other experimental subjects were either S or A, but... should they be discriminated against just because they were B-grade?

Sang Wanyin suddenly understood, "No wonder."

Sentinel Yan didn't want to talk to her anymore.

She asked for a one-day break.

After chatting with the newly appointed chief researcher, I learned that her process of success was rather tortuous. The types of drugs Kong Wei injected into her were quite mixed, and it is currently impossible to determine. It will take some time for testing to know which one caused the reaction.

When Kong Wei came back after dealing with Zeng An's affairs, the application to cancel the link was also approved.

In fact, this application process would not take long. After all, the federal government would like you to find a more suitable person to do more work tomorrow, so it has been delayed for a while.

But firstly, her compatibility with Kong Wei was truly unique. Secondly, the new recruits had also submitted their applications due to emotional discord and low link compatibility.

In this case, the federal government has no reasonable reason to reject it.

After successfully connecting with Kong Wei again, the boundaries of the picture disappeared, and her picture was completely revealed in Yan Xunzhi's vision, no longer hidden.

Kong Wei didn't know whether he was making an excuse or really thinking this, "It's not good for you to know this earlier. If you don't hide it, the Federation will definitely take action against you, and then everyone will be implicated. I didn't mean to hide it from you."

Yan Xunzhi pursed his lips and did not refute.

Because Kong Wei's worries were not unreasonable. When she was injured, her memory was almost snooped into.

If she hadn't forgotten that part, she would have made up a big drama in her head. She might have felt guilty at the time and might not have had the confidence to refute it like that. It is very likely that she would have really been threatened and spied on. Kong Wei's decision not to tell her was the right one.

She didn't want to think about it anymore. "It doesn't matter. It's all in the past."

They hadn't been connected for a long time, and suddenly the areas had expanded to so many. Yan Xunzhi entered her picture and became familiar with it inch by inch.

The picture is the manifestation and projection of people's inner thoughts. Most of the sentries who have served for a long time have experienced countless battles, life and death, and may even have killed their friends... In such a situation, the expectations will not be very good, and many people simply don't project anything.

——Kong Wei is completely different.

Yan Xunzhi had almost never seen such a pleasant scene: a breeze on his face, flowing water under a small bridge, mountains, snow-capped peaks, grasslands, the sun... Kong Wei seemed to want to set up a rocking chair and take a vacation in the scene.

She was stunned. "You...I...Can I interview you?"

Kong Wei raised half of his eyelids and looked at her, his expression asking: What's the matter?

Yan Xunzhi clenched his jaw and asked, "Why do you look like this?"

Life used to be good, and her prospects were considered good, but it was also covered in yellow sand, stretching as far as the eye could see, with nothing but wind. Later, she connected with Kong Wei, who had a small patch of lawn. She had seen it, protected, and even sprouting a few seeds.

But later when she arrived in the East District, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse. The seedlings immediately withered and died, and her landscape ecology plummeted. She also learned not to set up scenery, and just let the cheetah lie on a blank space, which was more comforting to watch.

"Isn't this good?" She perked up slightly, and a few more trees appeared in the image. "How about this? Leopards can climb trees, right? You can come climb trees here from now on."

Yan Xiaosentinel's jaw dropped again, "No... Why do you want to grow a tree?"

Kong Wei thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it's because I have high mental strength?"

"Isn't the picture a mimicry?" It has only an 80% relationship with mental power.

Kong Wei shrugged. "I don't know. I never cared about it. I saw pictures of it when I was a kid and liked this kind of environment. Then it just grew like this."

“…”

Images are mimicry, but they are also a kind of psychological mapping. The appearance of images will change with the changes in people's emotions.

Yan Xunzhi suddenly realized something.

Kong Wei's emotions are divided.

Therefore, she was calm and ruthless, almost cruel. Emotions did not participate in her decision-making, and even less in her life. They were clearly separated, and she only called them in when Kong Wei needed them.

But because of this, what she could perceive was almost thin.

There is always a trade-off, but Yan Xunzhi felt that this was too good a deal and was envious. "You are so lucky."

"It's natural." Kong Wei said, glanced at her and smiled, "There's nothing I can do about it."

The linked objects have to go to the ground together and sort by level. Yan Xunzhi vowed to follow her, but he regretted it once he went to the ground - what was the point of following her? Damn it, Kong Wei's ground missions were simply hellish!

The locals in the southern area are mainly strong in mental strength, and only a few have alienated bodies. Therefore, most of them move in groups to avoid being disturbed or approached. You will often encounter a large group of them when you go to the ground.

Yan Xunzhi had evolved everything, but Kong Wei's experiment was extreme evolution, so her best skill was actually speed.

Yan Xunzhi's most prominent stat was speed, which allowed her to engage in close combat, but her melee skills were lacking. Furthermore, she believed some of her attacks were definitely Dungeon Sentinel-like transformations, shattering her attacks to pieces, leaving her powerless to fight back.

In the end, most of them ended up running away at this speed.

Compared with her being forced to flee in fear, Kong Wei's ability in the South District seemed particularly strong, and his killing was also covert.

Most of the time she was in charge of controlling the anesthesia, while Yan Xunzhi went up as a sentry to finish off the enemy. It looked like Di Zizai was overwhelmed by the mental siege, and lost consciousness for half a second, allowing the enemy to take advantage of the opportunity.

Sentinel Yan was used to doing this job and had always known that Kong Wei was very strong, so he classified her terrifying mental power as S-level without giving it much thought.

One day, he finally realized it, and it was a little funny, "You...are you also alienated?"

Kong Wei was stunned for a long while, "...Don't tell me you just found out about this."

Yan Xunzhi laughed awkwardly, "Haha, just asking."

No wonder she went to the East District. Kong Wei just kept observing her data and did not take any other action.

If she succeeded, the experiment could continue through her. As a safety measure, Yan Xunzhi only needed to observe her condition and not come to see her unless it was necessary.

Yan Xunzhi felt a little complicated.

She didn't know whether to be happy or sad about this. She used to feel at ease knowing that she was Kong Wei's most important experimental subject, but she fled in fear after knowing that Kong Wei was manipulating her emotions.

Now that Kong Wei doesn't control her, and she is no longer the most important and indispensable person to Kong Wei, she actually feels a little empty.

——You are so cheap.

Yan Xunzhi cursed in his heart. You are such a jerk.

Thanks to Officer Kong's persistent efforts, Yan Xunzhi was tied to her and was on the list again and again.

Because of their extremely high degree of compatibility and these two faces that are impressive in different aspects, they are already quite famous in the Federation.

The dungeon was so empty, and who knows who was nearby, who had a bad mouth and made up a bunch of stories about their relationship and separation, separation and reunion, and spread them around. Yan Xunzhi had heard fragments of them around the corner for the umpteenth time, and today he finally pieced it all together...

It’s a reconciliation between a broken heart and a broken heart!

Without knowing the full story, I won't comment. How could the dungeon sentry be so rude!

In short, the gossip spread widely, and her reputation was known. Before, when Yan Xunzhi went to the cafeteria, people would just look at her twice, but now it's all the same. People come up to greet her, chat with her, ask her gossip...

Officer Kong had a cold face. Although the scar was gone, his temperament was still there, keeping people at a distance... and he just happened to be pushed in front of the young sentry Yan!

His little story was spread all over the district, and he couldn't hide it anymore. Yan Xunzhi was really annoyed. "Why is the South District so idle? Why didn't I notice it before?"

Kong Wei glanced at her lightly, "Because you used to chat enthusiastically about other people's gossip with others, you were so excited that you thought the South District was deserted..."

“…”

Is there? Sentinel Yan touched his nose guiltily. "Haha, actually, it's all because Jing Ting loves gossip too much. I just agreed with her. After all, we are friends."

【Author’s words】

Pickled fish: Please have some shame and let me go orz