Chapter 166: Dark and Windy Night
After seeing Jiang Yu off, Xie Chengzhi made a cup of coffee and tiptoed into the study.
Luo Rui was sitting at the table looking through the records of the slums. When she heard footsteps, she didn't even look up. "Where's your good brother? Did he leave?"
Placing the coffee next to his girlfriend, Xie Chengzhi rubbed her shoulders and said helplessly, "Are you angry?"
Luo Rui asked back: "Is there anything worth getting angry about?"
Her tone was cold, and it seemed that she was really angry. Xie Chengzhi rubbed the tip of his nose and coaxed her softly: "Don't be angry, I can explain."
Luo Rui pushed the documents aside, leaned back in her chair, and looked up at him: "Explain."
"He came to the Military Control Building and asked for me by name. I was afraid he would cause trouble there, so I had no choice but to bring him back." Xie Chengzhi said in an orderly manner, "He complained to me that Brother Xue's team was ostracizing him and hoped that I could give him some help - as a former teammate, I couldn't just reject him outright."
"You'll just agree to let him join the Sixth Team?"
"He suggested it himself." Xie Chengzhi smiled bitterly. "I think, as a person with special abilities, he would be quite useful in the Sixth Team. If he were placed somewhere else, he would probably become a parasite."
"We've just taken over Team Six, and you're already giving former teammates backdoors and shortcuts... What do you think the other players will think?" Luo Rui asked. "They all went through numerous rounds of selection to join the base's special abilities team. Can Jiang Yu make it through?"
"Rui Rui..."
"It's no use calling me by my name." Luo Rui sneered, "Since you promised Jiang Yu, you can make the arrangements yourself. You are the captain of the Sixth Team anyway. I have no objection to your decision."
The girl sneered at him, and Xie Chengzhi blushed and turned pale. In the end, he just pursed his lips and didn't argue with her.
"You're in a bad mood today. I'll go out first and not disturb you."
The boy stood up, took his hand off the back of her chair, and was about to leave.
"Xie Chengzhi!" She thought he would continue to comfort her and explain, but he tried to run away. Luo Rui was so angry that she jumped up from her chair and pointed at him, "Get out, or I'll break up with you!"
The girl's voice was filled with tears. Xie Chengzhi turned around and looked at her with a cold expression: "Didn't you say that I can just let myself be happy?"
"I, I just said it casually!" Luo Rui threw her hands and said angrily, "It's obviously your fault, and you still refuse to admit it!"
"How could I refuse to admit my mistake?" Amused by the red eyes and the aggrieved look on her face, Xie Chengzhi sighed and reached out to pull her into his arms. "I know I shouldn't have agreed to his request. I admit that I haven't considered it as thoroughly as you have. I'm just afraid of making you angry again, so I just want to get out of your way first."
"When did I ever say you're an eyesore?" Luo Rui sniffed and choked, "You're just taking advantage of the fact that I like you to bully me—didn't you comfort Jiang Ranran when you had a fight with her before?"
Jiang Ranran's name suddenly popped into Xie Cheng's mind. He was taken aback and replied subconsciously, "Jiang Ranran and I have never had a fight."
They were together for a relatively short time, and they were deeply in love, so they never had a fight.
He was stating the facts, but Luo Rui heard something else: "Are you saying I'm being unreasonable?"
Xie Chengzhi touched her head and patiently explained: "How could I? You are not being unreasonable. You are correcting the mistakes I made. I don't know my girlfriend so well."
"……snort."
"Ruirui, since you don't want Jiang Yu to join the Sixth Team, I'll go tell him."
The boy gave in. Luo Rui leaned her little face against his chest, a smile on her lips: "No need - he can go to the Military Control Building today or tomorrow. His presence at the Military Control Building is a threat to you, idiot, and you are still so open and sincere to him."
“…”
"It's not like you haven't come into contact with Brother Xue and his team before. Do you think those people are the type to exclude him?"
Xue Weixin is a righteous man, and the team members he leads have similar personalities to him, all of whom are generous and magnanimous.
Xie Chengzhi's mind was not as delicate as Luo Rui's, but fortunately he was smart. After Luo Rui's little reminder, he realized that he was blinded by his sense of loyalty.
"Jiang Yu..."
"He's lying to you, idiot!" Luo Rui sneered, "He probably thinks it's a great thing for us to follow Master Shen, and he wants to take advantage of it."
The lover's analysis was well-reasoned. Xie Chengzhi sighed in frustration: "He and I have such a deep friendship, is it necessary for me to do this for something like this..."
cheat.
No matter what Jiang Yu's purpose was, it could not change the fact that he had deceived him.
No matter how good friends you were, once a rift appears, it is difficult to repair it.
Xie Chengzhi said in a deep voice: "Don't worry about what happens next. I will explain it to him clearly."
"No, I already promised him."
"...let him join the sixth team?"
Luo Rui raised her head and placed a kiss on his chin. "Joining the base's special ability team requires an assessment. I've already thought of the content. Whether he can join depends on his own ability."
…
It was a dark, windy night, the warm yellow light stretching the shadows long and thin. The slum cabin had no electricity, and the candles danced in the evening breeze, illuminating a corner of the house.
Jiang Ran leaned back in the chair, peeling melon seeds in a leisurely manner.
On the chair next to him, the boy squatted, staring at the dwindling number of melon seeds on the plate, feeling troubled.
Zhou Jian walked back and forth in the room twice, looked at the two calm people again, moved to the side of Yi Xi who was leaning against the wall, and asked quietly: "Is it really okay? If it was Luo Rui, she would definitely not take it lightly. Are we really okay?"
Yi Xi opened his slightly closed eyelids and replied indifferently: "Didn't you see how leisurely those two people were?"
“…I saw it.” That’s why I panicked even more.
Those two - Qiao Yi is a fearless person, the more troubles come his way, the happier he is; Jiang Ranran is a big fool, there is no hope when trouble comes - what is there to be nervous about?
Jiang Ran didn't notice Zhou Jian's uneasiness, he only felt the warm gazes around him.
She glanced at Qiao Yi and pushed a plate of peeled melon seeds in front of him: "Here you go."
Qiao Yi, feeling sorry for the melon seeds, was stunned: "You don't want to eat it?"
"I get a sore throat from eating this."
"Then why did you peel it out?"
"I'm so bored." Jiang Ran continued peeling, "Si Xu isn't here. If Si Xu comes, you won't have anything to do."
The boy, who was still hesitating whether to sit back and reap the benefits, rolled his eyes when he heard this and directly grabbed a handful of melon seeds and stuffed them into his mouth.
It’s already peeled, it would be a waste not to eat it.
After finally swallowing the melon seeds in his mouth, Qiao Yi took a sip of water and asked Jiang Ran, "Why didn't Professor Si come?"
"Work, busy."
"Then what are you doing here?"
"To save you." The girl kicked the box beside the chair, "And by the way, I'll bring you some medicine for Si Xu."
The base was short of medical resources and could not take care of everyone, so the slum residents, who were of no value, became the first to be abandoned.
It was not easy for Jiang Ran to go through a tunnel, so he simply hijacked a bunch of useful medicines from Si Xu's space and brought them over.
Qiao Yi glanced at the small medical kit and said frankly, "This amount of medicine may not be enough."
"Just be content. I crawled through the tunnel carrying such a heavy box by myself. Do you know how tiring it was?"
“…”
"Once things are settled tonight, I'll send you some more."
"That's more like it." Qiao Yi snorted, his eyes glancing towards the next room. "Do you think anyone will really come tonight?"
"certainly."
"The woman you left in the next room..."
"I already said it's a gift." Jiang Ran quickly peeled another stack of melon seeds and said, "I hope it can give those people a little surprise - if there is no surprise, the gift is meaningless."
(End of this chapter)
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