Chapter Ninety-Three: The Group Buying Event is About to Begin
"It's just an injury from the mission, it'll be fine in a while," Qi An said calmly.
She wasn't sure if the scars would eventually fade, and she didn't care.
That's good; at least her face wasn't injured.
Tang Long's face was injured; his neck and right side of his face were covered in scars. During the days he rested and recovered, his mother worried about him every day, saying, "How will you find a wife in the future...?"
Chen Xi remained silent for a long time, and Qi An felt a very deep... complex negative emotion.
The injury was on her body, so why was he upset?
Qi An was quite concerned about Chen Xi's gunshot wound and asked, "Can I take a look at your wound?"
She wasn't really sure if the wound was bleeding or anything, because Chen Xi's combat uniform was all black.
"It's all done." Chen Xi's eyes seemed to brighten slightly as he pulled down the hidden zipper, revealing one side of his pectoral muscle.
It's really healing fast! A layer of tender new flesh has covered the blood hole, and it looks like it's almost completely closed!
"Well..." Qi An hesitated for a long time before finally saying, "Amazing!"
Now is the time to praise him. Qi An saw Chen Xi's sharp, cold eyes curve slightly, revealing a pure, clear, and joyful smile!
Qi An's heart skipped a beat.
Such a contradictory aura, it makes me want to... touch it.
She really wanted to touch Chen Xi's short hair and praise him again: "You're amazing!"
But Qi An restrained himself in time, quickly stepped back, and said, "I'm going to purify Feng Xu."
After Chen Yuezhou sat awkwardly next to her right after he finished showering, she once again felt that restless and uneasy feeling all over her body.
Chen Xi seemed disappointed, glanced at Feng Xu, and remained silent.
Feng Xu sat with his arms crossed on the other side of the half-collapsed platform in the courtyard, also taking on the guard duty.
Because of the excessively high pollution levels, he frowned, and a hint of irritation was hard to hide on his face.
Qi An knew that this person's mental enhancement value was also 5, but he had been in battle and still had remnants of the corrupted blood of the fallen insects on his body. It would take time to reduce the corruption value by taking medicine and meditating, and the process would not be pleasant.
"Do you need purification?" Qi An asked as he walked to his side.
"Yes, thank you." Feng Xu sat up straight, nodded without hesitation, extended his hand, and thanked him politely.
Because of this attitude, Qi An was willing to let him purify for a longer period of time.
She grasped Feng Xu's hand, and the next second she was already in his mental world.
A small villa built at the foot of a mountain in the suburbs, with modern, simple, and beautiful architecture, and lush vegetation inside and out.
Those plants were ones Qi An had never seen in reality, but had seen in textbooks: cycads, palms, kapok trees, flame flowers...
However, all the flowers and leaves were being torn apart by the strong wind, and thick smoke was billowing in the distance, as if a wildfire was about to engulf this cozy little home!
In Feng Xu's spiritual world, pollution is presented in the form of a raging fire, just as in Chen Xi's spiritual world, pollution is those prying eyes that want to drown him.
Wherever Qi An passed, the gale stopped, the flames went out, and the air returned to its moist and warm state.
Then she saw the memories.
Like most people, Feng Xu's first memory was of the apocalypse, the loss of all his loved ones, and his bewilderment and terror as a child.
But the second memory is after the apocalypse, when the base was destroyed, and the young Feng Xu looks back at the sea of fire.
Qi An seemed to understand why Feng Xu had visualized the pollution as a raging fire.
In his memory, the mountains and cities were burning, the last line of defense of the base was breached, and the remaining soldiers were covering the retreat of the evacuating civilians.
Judging from Feng Xu's hands, feet, and height, Qi An estimated that he was about 11 or 12 years old and was also in the panicked mass of people fleeing.
He squeezed onto a bus and, through the rear window, saw what appeared to be a squad leader standing on the roof of a three-story building, covered in blood, his voice hoarse as he called out to the last few buses below.
"Quick! Quick! But don't push, don't bump into that bus, there are children inside!"
He shouted desperately, but a twisted, winged, worm-like creature burst out of the sea of fire, pounced on the captain, corrupted him, and set him ablaze!
A burning person is inconspicuous in the raging fire, like a spark that quickly falls to ashes.
Many soldiers who held their ground fell to ashes.
Amidst the ruins and flames, shrouded in smoke and dust, a figure seemed to float in mid-air.
Qi An couldn't see the figure clearly, but he could see that the main body seemed to be a human figure, but something like wings spread out behind him, making him float in the sky, like a god descending!
Even though they were so far apart and the shadow was so blurry, Qi An could still sense an air of superior indifference emanating from that figure.
Death and despair are spreading, and He casually adds fuel to the fire, remaining unmoved!
The memory abruptly ended amidst the fear, anger, and grief of the young Feng Xu. Qi An ceased the resonance and remained in a daze for a long time.
So Feng Xu also experienced the tragedy of the base's destruction?
But Feng Xu's perspective is completely different from hers back then, and her feelings are also at two extremes.
Qi An tentatively pulled his hand away.
Feng Xu woke up with a start and quickly let go, "Sorry!"
"It's alright," Qi An said, but still asked one more question: "Which base in South China are you from?"
"There's only one base in South China right now, South China No. 6," Feng Xu said, quickly suppressing his surprise at the purification effect and joking, "That place has the fewest people, but the most fallen insects."
Qi An was slightly taken aback, but quickly realized that the Fallen Insects preferred hot and humid conditions and always fought best in the hot and humid summer.
The hot and humid climate of South China, especially in the coastal areas, is a breeding ground for worms!
She seemed to have heard the deputy captain mention that the waters near South China had been subjected to a nuclear attack...
"But your team is very strong, and you are very strong." Qi An didn't know what to say, so he could only express his true feelings with a sigh.
She had never seen Feng Xu's team in action, but she did think Feng Xu was very strong.
What's his superpower called? Electric discharge? Electric arc attack?
Feng Xu was slightly taken aback, then smiled at Qi An and said, "Thank you for the compliment, Dr. Qi."
Qi An liked the man's politeness and manners, and said a few more words before leaving to rest.
However, the break was only for an hour. After the command center completed the 3D model of the mother nest structure, they also drew a 2D model that would not be limited by bandwidth and could be transmitted remotely.
The temporary team gathered together to make one last addition to the floor plan and 3D screenshot based on their memories.
The main problem is that those fallen insects have made too many new holes!
Qi Antian has the most land, and noted that there are still unexplored structures in areas below 1 kilometer in depth shown in the map.
After the new annotations were sent back, the floor plan was updated to version 2.0 and then distributed to all squad leaders.
In the middle of the night, Qi An fell asleep from meditation, but was suddenly awakened by a loud explosion in the distance!
"The Fallen Insects evacuated overnight, which was observed by drones. He... the commander used combat drones to bomb two pedestrian and freight tunnels," Chen Xi explained.
Qi An's sleepiness dissipated by half, and he couldn't help but exclaim "Good!" in his heart!
This shock will greatly slow down the retreat of the queen insects!
Hours later, at dawn, the world was a drowsy, dark blue.
The explosion that shattered the silence and darkness came again, this time even louder than the one in the middle of the night, and smoke and dust filled half the sky!
"The main force is coming." Feng Xu said, squinting at the smoke and dust in the direction of the mother nest to the east.
The group buy is about to start.
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