She instinctively pretended to be asleep, thinking he would leave after putting her down, but then she felt a warmth on her cheek.
The girl who was pretending to be asleep immediately got angry and jumped up, but she didn't expect her hand to miss and she fell down on the stall with him. When she tried to get up, her waist was suddenly tightened and she was pulled back.
Caught off guard, she met a pair of deep, starry eyes. As if electrocuted, she pushed him away with both hands and feet, trying to run away, but he grabbed her wrist and pulled her into his arms again.
"Lu Yuan!" she said, getting a little anxious.
At this moment, in the room that had been transformed into a bedroom under the control of mental power, a tall man on the sofa in front of the sofa gently but firmly held the struggling little girl, his eyes full of tenderness.
"I just want to hug you."
He's really becoming more and more like him.
Xia Yixin discovered this with great discouragement.
The man's slightly aggrieved accusation, his familiar voice, involuntarily brought back countless memories of the past, warm and tempting her to give up her resistance.
Lu Yuan also noticed her change and tightened his arms in satisfaction.
In fact, he hadn't had a single peaceful day in the past week. At first, Lu Yuan thought it was because the unstable situation made him overthink, but just now, he finally realized what that feeling of missing something was.
A child who has never tasted candy before will never forget the taste after trying it once.
She was what he was missing.
But Lu Yuan knew that there were still other problems between them that hadn't been resolved. After hugging for a while, he obediently let go. Watching her quickly stand up and run far away, he suppressed his sadness in his eyes.
Xia Yixin was somewhat agitated and was about to find an excuse to leave when the man opposite her stood up and suddenly apologized earnestly.
"I'm sorry, I didn't tell you the truth about what happened in the battle system before. I'm not a hero."
Lu Yuan had indeed considered confessing before the incident in District T, but the unexpected event disrupted his plans. He had thought about bringing it up for the past week, but hadn't had a suitable opportunity. Now that he had spoken up, he finally felt a huge weight lifted off his shoulders.
He unconsciously held his breath, waiting for the girl's reply, criticism, or even the possibility that she might be angry with him. However, he did not expect to receive a compliment.
"You are already worthy of being called a hero for coming to save me."
After she finished speaking and met his deep eyes, she realized the ambiguity in her words. She coughed lightly and changed the subject, "I was telling the truth. If V hadn't used the knock-off administrator mech to save me beforehand, you would have definitely gone to save me, wouldn't you? That thank you is what you deserve. Thank you, Lu Yuan."
The more she spoke so gently, the more somber he became, for he sensed the distance in her words.
Xia Yixin rubbed her eyes to shake off her sleepiness, then changed the subject, "By the way, about V, I still think there's something wrong with him. If he really was the one who saved me, why would he go to such lengths to modify the combat system? His actions are contradictory and too strange. I need to check the combat system again..."
Xia Yixin tried her best to maintain a professional demeanor to dilute the ambiguous atmosphere. It wasn't until Lu Yuan's bracelet showed that the time limit for his stay outside was about to expire, and he had to leave the General's Mansion, that Xia Yixin returned to her bedroom, climbed into bed, and had a good night's sleep.
However, in the following days, she found that Lu Yuan still showed up uninvited.
The publicly stated reason for his "external stay" was to "cooperate with the investigation." Unbeknownst to him, he spent more and more time with her every day, and it became easier for them to resolve and discuss things. At the same time, her wariness of him gradually decreased as they spent more time together.
Moreover, as she spent more time with Lu Yuan, she increasingly discovered the similarities between Lu Yuan and Lu Yan.
With similar tastes and similar ways of handling things, when Xia Yixin discovered that Lu Yuan had also developed an interest in martial arts, she keenly sensed his intentions, but she didn't say anything, and simply kept her distance silently.
However, since the Allied Powers are still Lu Yuan's territory, the distance she can create is limited.
The strange atmosphere between the two caught the attention of Li Rui and Hong Feng, who joined the plan to destroy V after arriving at the Consul General's residence.
Li Rui and the system researchers of the combat system re-examined the data in the combat system, hoping to find out the secret of V. Meanwhile, Hong Feng and the executors searched for the whereabouts of the little hacker Zhao Jing every day. They found a lot of calculation papers in Zhao Jing's original apartment and discovered a shocking fact: Zhao Jing may have discovered that something was wrong with V three years ago and tried to find a way to completely destroy V, but all the calculation papers proved to be unsuccessful.
Zhao Jing still seemed to have vanished into thin air. Helpless, they could only turn to the surveillance footage from all the allied countries over the past three years, but those tens of millions of hours of video footage would take a very long time to watch.
The citizens of the Allied Powers were completely unaware of these things; their primary concern was the current situation in District T.
To everyone's surprise, including Xia Yixin and Lu Yuan's, on the third day after the V outbreak, a message suddenly came from the closed T zone.
One night, a girl locked up in Zone T couldn't suppress her longing for her family and tentatively found an Executor's bracelet among the pile of corpses, miraculously re-establishing contact.
Upon learning that Lu Yuan had now admitted to what happened on the Eden, the girl could no longer contain her excitement and told all the other survivors in Sector T the news.
For more than a week, not only has information from the ground been blocked from the T zone, but information from inside the T zone has also been blocked.
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