Shi Xi fell silent; at the time, he thought Ganmaoling was acting crazy.
Although I don't understand, I respect it.
So I didn't pay any attention to it at all.
He had just pushed Song Guizhou away when his legs went weak and he was about to fall to the ground... The next second, he felt a cool hand supporting his lower back.
"It's just an anesthetic, don't worry," Shi Xi explained first.
"That's good," Song Guizhou said.
Just as Shi Xi was about to get up, she felt something poking her lower abdomen.
"??...!"
His expression immediately turned terrified.
Shi Xi subconsciously tried to distance herself from him, but Song Guizhou was faster and grabbed Shi Xi's hand.
"Don't move around, you might fall."
He smiled, and under Shi Xi's horrified gaze, he took her hand and placed it on his clothes three inches below his navel.
Shi Xi thought Song Guizhou was going crazy, but when she felt the glass-like texture through the fabric, she breathed a sigh of relief.
—It was the floral water he had given to Song Guizhou before.
Shi Xi wiped a cold sweat from her brow and quickly removed her hand.
Song Guizhou remained unfazed: "You haven't recovered yet? I can carry you out."
"No need." Shi Xi tried to stand up and move a couple of times. "I can walk, just a little slowly."
"I'll help you up," Song Guizhou said immediately.
He looked at Shi Xi, tears still glistening in the corners of his eyes, and asked, "Brother Xiao An, won't you even let me help you up?"
Shi Xi hesitated for a moment, but still let Song Guizhou's hand wrap around her waist. The other person's hand was rather cool, and Shi Xi couldn't help but twist her waist.
Si Beiling stepped forward. "I'll help you."
After saying that, he grabbed Shi Xi's other arm, and his other hand naturally reached towards Shi Xi's waist.
"Wait!" Shi Xi immediately spoke up.
Song Guizhou looked at him, thinking that Shi Xi was going to refuse Si Beiling.
"I'm tired." Shi Xi said, pulling Song Guizhou's hand down, then walked to the lab table, pulled up a chair, and sat down. "Rest for a while before you go."
Song Guizhou: "..."
Seeing this, Tang Jue smiled silently to himself, then walked to Shi Xi's side and said, "I'm tired too."
"You don't mind if I sit here, do you?" He looked at Shi Xi.
Shi Xi didn't mind at all, so she sat down with Tang Jue in their sight.
Si Beiling and Song Guizhou stood there... Just as Song Guizhou was about to go over, Si Beiling suddenly spoke up, "I remember you were closest to that bottle of potion?"
When they rushed into the lab together, and Kang Yi smashed the virus, Song Guizhou was in front of him, and Tang Jue was on his right.
When he woke up, he found that the apocalypse had arrived and he had awakened his fire-type ability, but he did not see Song Guizhou and Shi Xi.
This means that Song Guizhou woke up earlier than him.
Although it is unknown how long he was unconscious, neither he nor Tang Jue encountered any danger during the period of awakening their superpowers.
He initially thought it was just good luck, but now he feels something is off.
"So what if it is?" Song Guizhou looked up at Si Beiling, not caring about his question.
"Have you thought about...?" Si Beiling glanced at Shi Xi, deliberately lowering his voice, "...how to explain Uncle Yu's matter to Jiu'an?"
Si Beiling still remembers the scene when he first met Shi Xi at the training base, and he also remembers the dying words of Yu's father.
"You don't need to worry about it." Song Guizhou's expression was indifferent, as if he wasn't concerned about the matter at all.
Looking at the expression on his face, Si Beiling recalled the other person's healing ability.
...
That being said, ever since they returned from S University, Song Guizhou has been leaving early and returning late every day, seemingly busy with something.
On the day they returned, they happened to run into Xue and Shang, who were preparing to go out on a mission.
Xue Yushang looked at the group of people getting out of a car with a surprised expression on his face.
Putting Si Beiling and Song Guizhou aside for now, why is even Tang Jue with Shi Xi?
Xue Yushang frowned, walked up to Shi Xi, and asked, "You guys went out on a mission?"
He remembered that the Wind Training Base hadn't had any important missions recently, let alone one that required three high-level ability users to be deployed at the same time... Missions of that level would probably be extremely dangerous, so why was Shi Xi asked to come along?
"Who took you there?"
He frowned at Shi Xi. "Where did they take you?"
"……?" Shi Xi looked completely bewildered.
"They didn't take me," Shi Xi told him. "I took them."
"I went back to my alma mater, the Sports University."
"You're taking them back to their alma mater?!" Xue Yushang couldn't hold back any longer, and his voice unconsciously rose.
This led those secretly observing to speculate whether he was causing trouble for Shi Xi.
"...Why are you so angry?" Shi Xi didn't understand.
If this were a popular, charming little world, he could understand it as him being jealous of Song Guizhou, but the problem is, this isn't it.
Moreover, Xue Yushang and Song Guizhou had only met a few times, and there was no romantic relationship between them.
What's with his reaction?
"Xiao An, he's so fierce." Seemingly frightened by Xue Yushang's behavior, Song Guizhou whispered fearfully in Shi Xi's ear.
"I'm not angry." Xue Yushang frowned upon hearing this and said to Shi Xi, "But since you brought them, why didn't you call me along?"
After saying that, he felt like he was being jealous, so he added, "My ability level isn't low either."
Si Beiling glanced at Xue Yushang, who seemed to be begging its owner to take it out to play, with a scrutinizing look in its eyes.
He suddenly spoke, interrupting their conversation, and looked at Shi Xi, asking, "You two know each other?"
Didn't they say that Xue Yushang and Wei Yousi had a good relationship?
When did he meet Shi Xi?
Shi Xi briefly recounted their chance encounter in the alley, omitting the part about him carrying the other person back, and only saying that he helped take the person home.
"Our Xiao An is beautiful inside and out."
Song Guizhou smiled restrainedly after hearing this, but the smile didn't reach his eyes. He said, "I can't help but lend a hand when I see the elderly, weak, sick, or disabled."
Xue Yushang, who was inexplicably labeled as old, weak, sick, or disabled: "..."
If the others at the Wind Taming Base knew the label Song Guizhou had given Xue Yushang, they would go crazy.
If Xue and Shang, both third-tier lightning-type ability users, are old, weak, sick, or disabled, then what are they?
Is it a breathing seaweed?!
Upon hearing this, Si Beiling first glanced at Song Guizhou, who was smiling with a hidden dagger, and then, as if only then realizing that Xue Yushang was going on a mission, nodded to him.
"If there's a mission, go ahead. We just got back and need to go back and rest."
After a long silence, Tang Jue said softly, "Yes, we're all tired."
"Take care, and don't bother seeing me off," said Song Guizhou.
Xue and Shang looked at Shi Xi.
"Business is important, you go ahead and get busy," Shi Xi said with a smile.
Xue and Shang met his gaze, and finally nodded, "Then we won't disturb your rest."
...
From that day on, Song Guizhou began leaving early and returning late, and every day when he came back he was so tired that he couldn't speak.
Shi Xi naturally noticed the changes in Song Guizhou.
Even Wang Ke noticed something amiss. Having spent some time at the training base, he naturally learned about the relationship between Shi Xi and Song Guizhou.
However, he wasn't too surprised. After all, he had felt something was off when Song Guizhou was pestering Shi Xi back then.
Especially when Song Guizhou beat someone to death for calling him a "short-lived ghost," he almost instantly guessed what the other person was thinking.
It's said that even the most virtuous woman can be swayed by a persistent suitor, and there's definitely some truth to that.
Wang Ke thought to himself.
He watched as Shi Xi went on a mission with her team, then walked over—
"Xiao An, where's Song Guizhou?"
Wang Ke looked around but couldn't find Song Guizhou. She couldn't help but ask, "Did you two have a fight?"
Shi Xi chopped off the head of a zombie with a kitchen knife, then shook her head, "No."
"He's busy."
I don't know what they're busy with.
Hearing their conversation from behind Wang Ke, Xue Yushang whispered, "What are you busy with?"
"What's more important than you?"
Although Song Guizhou has healing abilities, there haven't been many injured people at the Wind Training Base recently, so Xue Yushang really doesn't know why Song Guizhou is so busy.
Is this a case of someone who can't compete with Si Beiling, wants to break up with Yu Jiu'an but doesn't want to be criticized, so they resort to passive-aggressive behavior?
Wang Ke was puzzled when he heard Xue Yushang's words.
He turned his head and saw Xue and Shang using lightning-based superpowers to eliminate zombies. The moves they used were quite flashy; anyone who didn't know better would have thought they were facing some kind of high-level zombie.
But he was facing only two level one zombies, so there was no need to waste his superpowers.
Wang Ke: "..."
After dealing with the nearby zombies, Xue Yushang looked at Shi Xi and couldn't help but ask—
Did Song Guizhou treat you?
He glanced at the arc of electricity swirling around his fingertips, wishing he had healing abilities... that way, even if Shi Xi didn't have a heartless man like Song Guizhou, it wouldn't matter.
"Of course," Shi Xi nodded. "Otherwise, how could I come out to accept missions?"
Despite his busy schedule, Song Guizhou still made sure to attend the nightly treatment sessions, but he stopped giving him the tonic.
The zombies they encountered this time were not high-level, moved slowly, and sometimes even fell flat on their faces in front of him, not at all as scary as Song Guizhou had described.
They look clumsy.
Xue Yushang, who originally wanted to say something, swallowed his words when he heard Shi Xi's matter-of-fact tone... and then silently followed Shi Xi without saying a word.
Shi Xi glanced around and, finding no zombies in the vicinity, turned to Xue Yushang and said, "Mission complete, back to base."
...
Back at the training base, Shi Xi returned the kitchen knife, collected her mission rewards, and was about to leave when she discovered that Xue Yu Shang hadn't left but was standing at the exit of the mission hall.
Shi Xi looked confused, and before he could speak, Xue Yushang walked over.
"...I've always wanted to thank you in person, but I've always missed the opportunity for various reasons." Xue Yushang looked at Shi Xi, "Now I have the time."
"Thank you," he said earnestly.
Shi Xi waved her hand dismissively, "I've already given you a thank-you gift, no need to thank me."
"It's different," Xue said to Shang.
"……?" Shi Xi looked completely bewildered.
What's the difference?
Perhaps because Shi Xi's behavior seemed too normal, Xue Yushang hesitated for a moment before continuing, "...If you encounter any difficulties, you can come to me."
"Thanks." Shi Xi patted his shoulder. "But it's okay, I'm fine."
Xue Yushang simply looked at him quietly for a while, then finally sighed, "I was talking about the future."
Shi Xi didn't take it to heart, thanked her, and then turned and left.
...
He was all alone in the small building, and Shi Xi was too lazy to cook, so he simply found a restaurant on the roadside and went in to eat.
After ordering, I sat down and was waiting for the waiter to bring the food.
Shi Xi suddenly noticed that someone had sat down in the seat diagonally opposite her.
It was lunchtime, and the waiters were busy, seemingly unable to attend to him.
"Here, to order..."
Hearing the familiar voice, Shi Xi finally noticed the other person, "Brother Tang?"
Tang Jue, who was waving, seemed to only then notice Shi Xi sitting diagonally opposite him, and a look of surprise appeared on his face—
"You're here too?"
"Yes." Shi Xi nodded.
Tang Jue glanced at Shi Xi's side but didn't see Song Guizhou, so he asked, "Alone? Song Guizhou isn't with you?"
"Hmm," Shi Xi said, "He's been busy lately."
Tang Jue smiled, seemingly unconcerned by his answer, then suddenly stood up, walked to Shi Xi's side, and asked, "Shall we share a table? I'm alone too."
Shi Xi: "Okay."
Just then, the waiter came over and asked Tang Jue what he would like to order.
Tang Jue looked at Shi Xi, "What did you eat?"
Shi Xi gave her name.
"Then I'll order this too," Tang Jue said naturally to the waiter.
"About last time..." Tang Jue looked at Shi Xi, "Did you ask Si Beiling about it?"
Shi Xi was stunned for a moment before realizing that he was referring to the time they met in the treatment room, when the other person told him gossip about the base and said he wanted to ask about Si Beiling.
If Tang Jue hadn't mentioned it, he wouldn't have remembered that such a thing existed.
"No," Shi Xi said.
As soon as Si Beiling entered the restaurant, he saw Shi Xi and Tang Jue chatting and laughing in a corner.
"I don't need a private room, I'll just sit here," he told the staff.
The staff followed Si Beiling's gaze and found that it was Shi Xi's table.
The staff member paused for a second, then looked surprised.
Vocal!
The gossip in the base was actually true!!
He nodded excitedly, eager to share the news with others immediately.
"Whatever Yu Jiu'an ate, just give me the same thing," Si Beiling said.
The staff member nodded with extreme restraint and then prepared to lead him over.
Si Beiling: "No need."
He then deliberately quickened his pace and walked towards the corner, attracting the attention of the two people who were talking.
"Brother Si," Shi Xi greeted him.
"What a coincidence?" Si Beiling stopped in surprise and looked at the two people standing there.
"Song Guizhou didn't come?" Si Beiling glanced at Shi Xi's side.
He had thought Song Guizhou was on top of Shi Xi again, which was why he hadn't seen him, but he hadn't expected that he really wasn't there.
Shi Xi: "...?" Why is everyone asking this question?
"No," Tang Jue answered for Shi Xi.
"Let's eat together," Si Beiling said, pulling out the chair to Shi Xi's right and sitting down.
"What were you talking about just now?" Si Beiling took off his coat and looked at Shi Xi. "I think I heard my name."
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