As darkness receded, Shen Qian slowly awoke, only to be met with a pair of caring eyes.
"Ninth Junior Brother, you're awake."
"Third Senior Brother Shi, where am I?"
Shen Qian patted his throbbing head, secretly surprised.
This was the first time he had felt mentally exhausted after waking up. Was this... the system had racked its brains?
Shen Qian couldn't understand for a moment what could have caused the system to exhaust the wisdom of the two of them.
"You are in the guest room of my residence. I have already set your broken bones. Is there anything else that is uncomfortable?" Shi Dingyan asked with concern.
"I……"
Shen Qian was puzzled. Hadn't his leg bone been set? However, just as he tried to sit up, a heart-wrenching pain shot through his lungs.
"Ninth Junior Brother, don't move yet. It will take a while for the medicine to take effect," Shi Dingyan advised.
Looking down, Shen Qian saw that his upper body was naked, with thick bandages wrapped around his chest and abdomen. On the ground, a piece of clothing stained with blood was thrown into the trash can, and it was vaguely visible that it was the white shirt he had been wearing earlier.
"What's wrong with me?" Shen Qian was stunned.
“You fell from the Tower of Babel. Although I caught you, you scraped against a lot of the tower's plaster during your fall, and you broke seven ribs and suffered minor internal organ damage,” Shi Dingyan explained.
"I fell off the tower?" Shen Qian asked incredulously.
Shi Dingyan nodded.
"Was...thrown down?" Shen Qian asked tentatively.
Shi Dingyan nodded again.
So he sat there blankly for a long time, his face expressionless.
"Have I been expelled from the sect?" After a long while, Shen Qian finally spoke in a hoarse voice.
He didn't know what the system had done, but since Gao Wenyuan had thrown him down, it must have been extremely malicious.
"Um?"
Shi Dingyan was taken aback at first, then he understood what Shen Qian meant. He shook his head and said, "Our teacher rarely interferes in our private affairs."
Shen Qian was puzzled. "Huh? Private matters?"
Shi Dingyan looked at Shen Qian with a complicated expression and said firmly, "Yes, this is definitely a private matter. However, since Ninth Junior Brother has provoked him, he needs to be prepared to bear the consequences..."
"Third Senior Brother, wait a minute!"
Shen Qian realized he might have misunderstood something, and asked uncertainly, "It wasn't the teacher who threw me down?"
Shi Dingyan looked at Shen Qian with some surprise, "Junior Brother doesn't remember?"
"Your mind is still a bit foggy, isn't it?" Shen Qian smiled bitterly.
"...You were thrown down by your junior sister," Shi Dingyan said with a strange expression.
For a moment, Shen didn't realize who it was.
Which junior sister?
Then he remembered that Liu Changqing had said that besides him and his third senior brother, his junior sister also lived in the Tower of Babel.
If you count the seniority, now that I've joined the sect, their junior sister is my eighth senior sister...
This result was quite unexpected for Shen Qian.
I was actually thrown down by my eighth senior sister, whom I'd never seen before?
What exactly did the system do?
"Third Senior Brother, you go ahead and do your thing. I want to be alone for a while," Shen Qian said to Shi Dingyan, eager to see the AFK (away from keyboard) log.
"Alright." Shi Dingyan nodded. "I'll water the flowers in the outer room. Just call me if you need anything."
As he approached the guest room door, Shi Dingyan stopped again, pondered for a moment, and then added a couple more words.
"Ninth Junior Brother, although I don't know what misunderstanding happened between you and Junior Sister, Junior Sister has always been aloof and likes to eat vegetarian food and chant scriptures. Unless it's something important, she generally doesn't like to be disturbed."
“I know that a gentleman loves a beautiful and graceful lady, but Junior Sister… is a bit special. Ninth Junior Brother should keep that in mind, but please don’t act rashly again.”
After Shi Dingyan finished speaking, he left. Chen Qian pondered for a moment and then roughly understood what Shi Dingyan meant.
He really wanted to say, "Third Senior Brother, you've misunderstood. The system is definitely not that kind of person."
It's a heartless training machine, yet it can flirt with girls?
Stop joking.
The scene where he forcibly flirted with Huo Ling'er was so awkward that Shen Qian practically dug out a seaside villa on the spot.
He lay back down, adjusted to a comfortable position, and mentally summoned the system interface, opening the date to see the last AFK record for today.
"This AFK session has no combat experience or training memory. To conserve energy, only a written record will be left for the host's reference."
You asked Gao Wenyuan about the nature of "the spiritual energy of heaven and earth" (11:47).
Gao Wenyuan remained silent for 17 seconds (11:47).
Gao Wenyuan invites you to sit down (11:48)
..."
Before I even finished reading the first few sentences, I felt a chill run down my spine.
System, are you courting death?
Is the essence of heaven and earth's spiritual energy contained in every breath?
Is this the realm that a weakling like you, who isn't even a beginner martial artist, can reach?
Another key point is Gao Wenyuan's silence.
What was Gao thinking during those 17 seconds?
Has he already sensed something...?
Chen Qian couldn't help but let his mind wander for a moment, then continued reading.
"You and Gao Wenyuan discussed the origins of Reiki (11:49)"
You and Gao Wenyuan conducted a probability analysis on whether a fourth Great Cataclysm existed in prehistoric times (11:59).
You studied the feasibility of using martial arts to verify 'string theory' (12:37)
You had a heated debate about the existence of the 'cosmological constant' (13:01)
You asked about the principle of the unification of parallel universes' beings (13:58)
...
You ponder the true meaning of Gao Wenyuan's statement that "the speed of light cannot truly transcend time" (15:39).
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