Chapter 39 Jealousy is a poisonous snake. Can you trust me?
Ji An shuddered from the heat and suddenly withdrew his hand. The zombie crystal core fell to the ground and he covered it with his space necklace.
Gu Jinsheng didn’t know that the space necklace was getting hot. To him, it seemed like Ji An suddenly covered his chest and looked very uncomfortable.
"Ji An, what's wrong with you?" Gu Jinsheng took a big step to Ji An's side and held him with his hand. The eyes that seemed to be calm even if Mount Tai collapsed, finally showed emotions at this moment, and they were nervous and flustered in a way that was rare in his life.
There is probably only one person in his life who can easily provoke his emotional fluctuations, and that person is Ji An. No one else, including himself, can do it.
"boss……"
The three people standing behind asked nervously in unison, while Wu Youyang simultaneously retracted the hand that he had silently stretched out to help Ji An.
He seemed a little redundant, Wu Youyang touched his nose awkwardly.
"I'm fine, I just scared you." Ji An let go of the hand that was covering the space necklace, not caring about the burns on his chest.
"You look terrible. I'll take you to the hospital." Gu Jinsheng's attitude was particularly tough, and his tone was unquestionable! He had never treated Ji An like this before. He always respected Ji An and followed his wishes. This was the first time he showed his strong and unquestionable side in front of Ji An.
What's strange is that Ji An, who always hated others making decisions without his consent, did not feel disgusted for the first time, and did not even realize that Gu Jinsheng's attitude was too tough.
"I'm fine." Ji An's eyes looked at the zombie crystal core on the ground, but this time he did not touch it directly with his hands. Instead, he found a piece of cloth to wrap the zombie crystal core.
"What's wrong?" Gu Jinsheng asked.
"I suspect there is something wrong with this zombie crystal core. The people of Country M cannot be trusted!" Ji An said.
"Yeah." Although Gu Jinsheng had a feeling that Ji An might have hidden something from him, he did not ask any further questions.
In fact, from the time he met Ji An until now, Gu Jinsheng has always respected every decision made by Ji An. As long as it is something he doesn't want to say, even if Gu Jinsheng has doubts, he never asks.
Gu Jinsheng didn't dwell on this issue any further. It would be better to be more vigilant against Country M. He knelt down and picked up Ji An, startling Ji An who was thinking about the problem.
After realizing what was happening, Ji An didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and also felt an indescribable sense of embarrassment, but it was more than just embarrassment.
"I'm fine, it's just that just now, um, my chest felt a little uncomfortable." He did act as if his chest suddenly hurt. Now he couldn't say that it wasn't his chest that hurt, so he could only give such a weak explanation.
"You've been too busy lately, so it would be good to get checked." Gu Jinsheng said in a strong tone.
Ji An has been busy since he arrived at the base. He started researching space storage props as soon as he arrived. After finishing his work, he didn't take a few days off before starting researching nutrients. He also has a habit of spending his working time in the laboratory and never giving himself time to relax.
With such high work intensity and pressure, heart problems are very likely to occur and the probability of sudden death is very high.
Thinking of this, Gu Jinsheng pursed his lips tightly into a slit, and his expression became increasingly cold and solemn, as if he was facing something of life and death.
"Boss, do you know how much we earned from this auction?" Zhou Qin walked up from the second floor with great joy. Just as he was about to report the good news to Gu Jinsheng, he saw the cold expression on Gu Jinsheng's face. He was stunned for a moment, then looked at Ji An in his arms and Wu Youyang and Tang Ning and Zheng Yan who were also a little nervous behind him. His expression became serious in a second.
"What's wrong with Ji An? Are you not feeling well?" Zhou Qin immediately realized that there was something wrong with Ji An.
"My chest hurt a little just now, but it's fine now." Ji An said quickly.
Zhou Qin's expression did not relax, but became more tense. "You really need to pay attention to it. You must go to the hospital for a thorough check-up. If necessary, you can ask Fang Rurong to treat you. Don't take it lightly."
As they were talking, several people walked to where Tang Tang was. Tang Tang, who was hiding behind a pillar, had nowhere to hide, so she could only bite the bullet and come out.
After Tang Tang came out, she looked into Ji An's calm eyes and her emotions suddenly fluctuated.
Why did Ji An look at her with such calm eyes, so calm that it seemed as if he didn't even know her. She was just a weed on the street, an ant on the ground, not worth even a second look from him!
It was this kind of look that caused Tang Tang's emotions to surge violently. He could hate her, scold her, or even beat her, but it was better than ignoring her like this!
When they met again, why was he able to remain so calm? Wasn't it because he was living a good life and had found a better lover to rely on?
Tang Tang didn't know Gu Jinsheng before, but he knew Zhou Qin. Who else could Zhou Qin, the deputy commander, call him "boss"? Only the commander-in-chief of the Jingshi base!
Tang Tang thought of Gu Jinsheng's identity, and her blood boiled. Why! Why! Why!
How could Ji An escape from the Third Base in such a miserable way, and still be able to escape to the more prosperous and powerful Jing City Base and gain a foothold! Why did Chen Chen not want him, but he turned around and found a more powerful psychic to cling to, and this psychic was not an old man half buried in the ground, but was more handsome than Chen Chen, and even his psychic level and status were far better than Chen Chen.
And she, Tang Tang, was no worse than Ji An in every way, but ended up in such a miserable state. It was already depressing enough for her to follow a villain like Song Pengcheng. Even though she was so wronged, Song Pengcheng didn't treat her well and actually asked her to meet the most lowly men in the base, who had never touched a woman in their entire lives and whose bodies were dirtier than the roads on the street.
She still wants to vomit when she thinks of those disgusting men moving on her!
Later, she finally hooked up with a person with special powers, who turned out to be an old man. But now this old man doesn't want her anymore.
But Ji An was living such a good life. Such an outstanding man was willing to pay more than a thousand or ten thousand dollars to buy him a high-level spiritual zombie crystal core that Ji An had never used before, just to please him!
But she was worried whether she could have a full meal tomorrow!
How could Tang Tang be willing to accept this? She was unwilling!
The strong feeling of unwillingness stimulated Tang Tang's brain, causing all the blood in her body to rush to her brain, impacting her rationality.
"Mr. Commander, you probably don't know that your lover is hiding many things from you, right?" Tang Tang's mind was burned by the raging fire of jealousy. She forgot to be afraid and didn't care about anything. She just wanted to drag Ji An into the swamp.
Tang Tang screamed almost heartbreakingly, "Did he tell you? He has been with many men. He specifically looks for powerful mistresses, including the commander-in-chief of the Third Base, Chen Chen!"
Gu Jinsheng's eyes were as cold as ice. If eyes could materialize, Tang Tang would have been frozen into an ice sculpture that would shatter into cubes of ice at the slightest touch.
Unfortunately, the look could not be materialized. Tang Tang was only frightened by it, but she was not convinced. She thought that this outstanding person in front of her must not know Ji An's shame. Tang Tang continued recklessly: "Ji An is far dirtier than you think. You might as well have me instead of him. I am a healing psychic, and I am also a woman. I can give birth to a child for you!
I can do everything that Ji An can do, and I can also do things that Ji An can't do!"
"Is this woman crazy?" Zhou Qin sincerely felt so.
Compared to Ji An, no one present can compare.
Forget about the space storage items, space ability users can still replace them, but the nutrient supplements are a good thing that can help the people. Even if he and his boss, the entire Jingshi base combined, can only save less than one ten-thousandth of the number of people that Ji An can save with one nutrient supplement.
He, a level 4 superpower user, didn't dare to compare himself with Ji An, or he didn't have the qualifications to compare himself with Ji An. Even if he died, there would still be thousands of level 4 superpower users in this world, some of whom were even more powerful than him. But the only one who could successfully develop the nutrient was Ji An.
She, Tang Tang, is at most a low-priced psychic. How dare she compare herself with Ji An so brazenly?
"The ignorant are fearless." Wu Youyang suddenly said, "It is true that stupid people should talk less."
Even Tangning felt that Tang Tang was really not smart anymore. "Tang Tang, I used to think that you were just a bitch, but you were actually quite smart. At least you had a clear goal and knew what you wanted, so you would do anything to achieve it. But today I realized that besides being vicious, you are also stupid, stupider than a pig, and simply an idiot! You are as stupid as Chen Chen!"
"You're not dead! How come you're still alive?" It took Tang Tang a long time to see Tang Ning. Her attention had always been attracted by Ji An who was standing in the center of the crowd.
"..." Tang Ning was speechless. It seemed that she hadn't said anything or even looked at her for such a long time.
"How could I die? You are so miserable yet you are still alive!" Later, Ji An showed Tang Ning the video sent by the Third Base. Tang Ning felt relieved at the time, but also a little sad.
Tang Tang also saw Tang Ning's outfit clearly. The dress she was wearing was so beautiful that it must have been very expensive even before the apocalypse. After the apocalypse, when productivity declined, the dress would definitely be even more expensive.
Tang Ning's mental state was very good. At first glance, he looked ten years younger than when he left the Third Base. His aura was no longer half-dead, but rather full of vigor and aloofness, like before the end of the world.
These were not the most important things. The most important thing was the jade necklace that slipped out of her clothes when she came over. Tang Tang blurted out in shock, "Is that a space necklace you're wearing around your neck?"
Tangning was very proud and deliberately shook the interstellar necklace around her neck, "Yes, this is the interstellar necklace that you guys tried your best to get at the auction!"
"You may not know this, but the space necklace was invented by Mr. Ji." Tangning admitted that she did it on purpose just to piss off Tang Tang.
"Mr. Ji has opened a shop in West City now, specializing in selling space storage props that you can't get even if you rob them. Mr. Ji has plenty of those things, and he wears one and throws one for fun."
Tangning boasted, "This thing on my neck was given to me by Mr. Ji because he felt sorry for me and couldn't afford it."
"Oh my!" Tangning covered her mouth and chuckled in a pretentious manner, "The greatest luck in my life is to follow Mr. Ji and leave the Third Base where there is a place like you.
The Beijing base is great. New nutrient supplements will be available soon and anyone in our base can buy any of them.
Oh, I remember that you, the Third Base, didn’t get the right to purchase it. What can you do? You won’t be able to buy it even if you want to in the future! Tsk tsk tsk, how pitiful!"
Tang Tang was so angry that she was about to explode, but she was more jealous, deeply jealous. Jealousy was like a poisonous snake, entwining her heart.
"Impossible, how is it possible? The space necklace is something different. It is magical. How could a fool like you like Ji An research it?"
Tang Tang didn't believe it. She absolutely didn't believe that the fool who could easily snatch a man away with a little trick could turn around and research a space storage device. He couldn't be better than her!
“You must have teamed up to deceive me! The space necklace is a treasure, a treasure that was born and raised by nature. You must have found such a treasure somewhere else and put it up for auction, deliberately lying to me that it was researched by that idiot Ji An!” Tang Tang had a mental breakdown. She couldn’t accept it. She couldn’t accept that Ji An was living a better life than her, and she couldn’t accept that Ji An was so much better than her!
Looking at the crazy Tang Tang, Ji An felt very calm. He had already anticipated Tang Tang's miserable situation. He just felt that this person was too crazy and noisy.
"Drag her away and drive her out of the Jingshi base." Gu Jinsheng gave the order calmly.
"Yes." Zhou Qin didn't need to touch Tang Tang. He just used his supernatural power to throw out a long vine that appeared in the air.
The thick vine was very majestic and fearless in the air, but just when it was about to touch Tang Tang, it stopped, as if Tang Tang was some disgusting thing and it didn't want to touch it at all. It kept twisting and struggling, trying to drill back.
"Commander Zhou, what's wrong with it?" Tang Ning asked.
"It's hard for it. It doesn't want to touch disgusting things." Zhou Qin said seriously: "Be good, just bear with it! Such disgusting things are not allowed to be touched every day."
"Puchi..." Tangning and Zheng Yan couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Commander Zhou has a really poisonous tongue!
"Be good, don't worry, the stain is not contagious. If you're really worried, I'll wash it for you when I get back, okay?" Zhou Qin said again.
The vines then reluctantly wrapped around Tang Tang, who was so angry that her facial features were distorted.
What do you mean the vines are unwilling? Those vines are not Zhou Qin's special ability. He has the final say on how to control them. He is clearly insulting her on purpose!
That superpower can even fight zombies. Could it be that she is more disgusting than zombies?
Zhou Qin had no sympathy for Tang Tang, who was not in her right mind. He simply knocked her to the ground with force and then dragged her like a dead dog.
At this moment, Tang Tang had forgotten about being embarrassed. She only wanted to drag Ji An down with her and make him as filthy as her.
Tang Tang yelled, "Commander, you must not know that Ji An, that bitch, has other secrets that he is hiding from you. His space necklace..."
Tang Tang opened and closed her mouth, but she couldn't utter a word. The words were right on the tip of her tongue, but she just couldn't say them. When she tried to force herself to say them, she got a splitting headache, as if something was swelling in her brain and was about to explode.
The stimulating feeling made Tang Tang retch repeatedly. Zhou Qin hurriedly said, "Don't spit on my vines." Then he walked faster.
Tang Tang refused to give up. While being dragged on the ground, she struggled and shouted, "He has a secret, a big secret hidden from you, more important than the space. It's his space necklace. Believe me, he planted a mental hint in me, and I can't tell it!"
"He really, really hid a very important secret from you!" Tang Tang shouted unwillingly.
Just when everyone thought that Gu Jinsheng would not speak, Gu Jinsheng suddenly said: "I don't care. Everyone in the base has secrets. I don't want to know everyone's secrets."
"It's different, this is different!" Tang Tang didn't know why Gu Jinsheng just couldn't make sense. What kind of magic potion did Ji An give him to make this man so confused.
"Put me down, I have something to say to her." Looking at Tang Tang's hysterical look, Ji An suddenly became interested in saying something to her.
"You're not feeling well. I'll carry you over." Gu Jinsheng didn't let Ji An go. He carried him to Tang Tang.
Ji An half-lay in Gu Jinsheng's arms, looking down at Tang Ning from above, just like a high and mighty god looking down at a lowly ant.
That contemptuous look deeply hurt Tang Tang's eyes and corroded her heart.
Ji An looked at Tang Tang with a smile on his face, and said slowly: "I forgot to tell you that the nutrient supplement was also developed by me."
Tang Tang was going to be driven crazy by his nonchalant tone and what he said. No words could express her collapse. Only the roar like an animal could express her emotions, "Ah! Ah! Ah..."
Ji An's eyes were full of smiles, as if they were filled with stars. "What a pity! If you hadn't tried every means to drive me away, this honor would have belonged to the Third Base, and you would have at least half of it!"
Killing people and destroying their hearts is nothing more than this.
Tang Tang was so agitated that she spat out a mouthful of blood.
Ji An suppressed the smile on his face and stared into her eyes expressionlessly. Strands of mental power flowed out of Ji An's brain, penetrated into Tang Tang's pupils, and flowed into her brain.
The person who was hysterical and crazy in the last second became as quiet as a chicken in the next second, like a living dead.
Tang Tang's eyes were empty, dull and rigid, like a puppet without a soul.
"You will never forget what I said to you today until you die, but you can't say a single word of this even if you have a mental breakdown and your brain explodes and you die. Remember that?"
"I... remember." Tang Tang answered word by word, laboriously and slowly, like a baby learning to speak.
"Very good." Ji An smiled, and his mental power was suddenly withdrawn from Tang Tang's brain. Like the ebbing tide, it disappeared completely from Tang Tang's brain in an instant.
Ji An wanted Tang Tang to remember all this clearly. It was obvious that if she told the truth, she would get him into endless trouble, but she just couldn't say a word. The poison of jealousy would corrode her heart day and night, and resentment would follow her like a shadow all the time.
Tang Tang's eyes were confused for a moment, then she came to her senses. She stared at Ji An with wide eyes in disbelief, "You saw it, he gave me a mental hint like this, asking me not to tell him his secret. Now you believe me, right?"
Silence, overwhelming silence.
Tang Tang looked around, her eyes sweeping across one face after another. They all had different looks, but the same expression, all of which were cold.
"You, you guys..." Tang Tang pointed her fingers at Tangning, Zheng Yan, Gu Jinsheng and the others one by one, "Aren't you afraid? His move is so terrifying, if he wants, he can control you mentally. If he wants, he can even be the commander-in-chief of the third base!"
After all, Ji An himself was worried that his ability would be known to others and he would be frightened and persecuted, so he kept it a secret and dared not speak of it. Why did these people act as if they didn't care? It was as if Ji An didn't have the ability to control people's hearts, but some insignificant trick!
Gu Jinsheng lowered his eyes and looked at Tang Tang coldly, and opened his beautiful thin lips slightly, "Only weak-willed cowards will be controlled by the mind, but we are not."
"Take him away." Gu Jinsheng said coldly, "Shut his mouth."
"Yes, Commander-in-Chief!" Zhou Qin saluted Gu Jinsheng in a showy manner, then used his supernatural powers to catalyze some ripe, rotten and smelly vegetable leaves and stuffed them into Tang Tang's mouth.
Tang Tang was speechless and could only groan softly, struggling and twisting on the ground like a maggot.
It seemed to indicate the huge difference in their fates for the rest of their lives.
After Tang Tang was dragged away, Ji An looked at Gu Jinsheng. From this angle, he could just see Gu Jinsheng's angular jawbone, which looked quite sharp.
"You don't want to ask me?" Ji An asked.
"No need." Gu Jinsheng lowered his head so that Ji An could see his entire face. "Whether I can make you trust me without reservation is my business."
Ji An had imagined thousands of answers, but he had never thought of this one, and was stunned for a moment.
A secret smile appeared in Gu Jinsheng's eyes, and he walked out of the auction holding the person in his arms.
When they arrived at the wide open space, Gu Jinsheng released the car from the space. Ji An was speechless, and then he found that Gu Jinsheng was not the only one who did this, many superpowers in the command center did this, and it seemed to have become a trend.
Researcher Ji An had mixed feelings. When he was doing this research, he never thought that space storage items could have this use.
Gu Jinsheng was holding Ji An in his arms and couldn't open the car door. Zhou Qin hurriedly and attentively opened the car door. After Gu Jinsheng let him in, Zhou Qin leaned over the open car window and said to Ji An, "Boss Ji, you must take good care of your health. Anyone can have problems, but you absolutely can't have any problems. Do you know how much supplies you earned for our base at this auction?"
Zhou Qin slapped his hands, "Fifty years. Based on the current population and total consumption, we earned at least fifty years' worth of supplies this time. Those idiots wanted to use this auction to clear out their own inventory, but in the end they lost everything they had and also suffered a lot of losses. Hahaha..."
Ji An was also happy. With sufficient supplies, the nutrient solution could be processed without limit, and they were one step closer to the goal of ensuring that everyone had enough to eat and no longer went hungry.
Gu Jinsheng took Ji An to the headquarters' general hospital and checked him from head to toe, but found nothing.
This is normal. Ji An drinks spiritual spring water every day, and his body is in very good condition. Even his spiritual realm is much wider than before, and he feels that his brain thinking has become more sensitive. Just now, when Gu Jinsheng was not paying attention, he secretly applied spiritual spring water on his chest, for fear that the skin on his chest would be burned and leave some marks, which would expose his secret.
Gu Jinsheng was relieved after getting the result and sent the man home. "Have a good rest and don't be busy anymore."
Ji An has indeed been too busy recently, with space storage props, nutrient supplements, and auctions. He has been busy all the time, like a spinning top.
"good."
Ji An went upstairs and lay on the bed. Fatigue immediately swept over him. Just as he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly woke up with a start.
Zombie crystal core, Ji An thought of the zombie crystal core in his pocket that he still needed to check.
Ji An previously only suspected that Country M had ill intentions and that the zombie crystal core they sent over might have problems. Now that the space necklace suddenly heated up, Ji An was even more certain that there was something wrong with the crystal core.
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