Chapter 38: In trouble? Bai: It’s okay, I can handle it.
The words "I'm here" made Bai feel a little sad.
He looked at the handsome and sunny Nan Qi, and Mellon's words to him resurfaced in his mind.
"I... you think I... never mind. It's nothing. Sorry. Let me think about it."
Nan Qi prepared to listen, but Bai remained silent. He felt left hanging, but he wasn't angry, nor did he press the issue. Instead, he said with a smile, "You can always say I'm here. No matter what, I'll be a good listener."
Bai Shenshen looked at Nan Qi and said, "Okay, I will."
After thinking for a moment, he said, "Thank you."
Thank you for your understanding. When I'm ready, I'll reveal all my calculations and my shortcomings to you. I hope that by then, you can still firmly believe that we are allies.
After the topic was evaded, the room fell silent. Bai was a little hesitant to look at Nan Qi, but Nan Qi observed Bai with great interest.
Bai was very beautiful, with a sharp beauty. With ice-blue hair and pitch-black eyes, when he looked up at someone, he looked like the hardest ice in the Far North.
Cold, sharp, hard, and not allowing anything to get close to him, he seems indestructible, but in fact, a little focused enthusiasm can melt him.
He is strong and indifferent, and seems to be unscrupulous and indestructible, but in fact he is sensitive, considerate, and responsible. He silently protects everything he cares about. Indifference and unscrupulousness are the means he uses to cover up his soft heart.
Now, the way he hesitated to speak made him look more fragile.
Strong and fragile, two completely opposite and contradictory words appearing on Bai at the same time, made Nan Qi very curious about him.
I want to explore those little qualities that Bai has hidden, dig them out bit by bit, and restore Bai to his true nature.
This is a little bit of evil in his nature.
Cats are curious and mischievous, aren't they? The Nine-Tailed Cat is the boss of cats, so he's naturally a leader.
Suppressing the black devil kittens that sprang out from the bottom of his heart, Nan Qi glanced at the time, stood up, extended his hand to Bai, raised his eyebrows, and smiled proudly: "Let's go, don't think too much, I'll take you to find treasure."
Bai nodded and put his hand into Nan Qi's hand. Feeling the warmth and strength of Nan Qi's hand, Bai felt a sense of security in his heart.
Nan Qi pulled Bai out of the house. They avoided the crowd along the way and moved very quickly. Soon they arrived at the place where they collected high-level black crystal stones.
Nan Qi turned his head to look at Bai, the deep green in his eyes couldn't hide his excitement: "Bai, you are here to protect me. I can't fully transform into a cat right now. There are some complexities inside. I will mobilize half of my mental power to go in and explore."
"It's no problem for me to protect myself with the remaining half of my mental strength, but since I have you here, I'll just be lazy." Nan Qi smiled like a kitten that had stolen fish, making Bai want to hug him in his arms and rub him hard.
"Okay, I'm here, you can go without worry."
"Then don't let go of my hand." Nan Qi warned.
Bai nodded and held Nan Qi's hand tightly. Nan Qi rolled his eyes and simply moved closer to Bai, leaning against him with a smile and closing his eyes.
When Nan Qi leaned over, Bai's body hardened for a moment, but soon relaxed, allowing Nan Qi to lean on him, and even moved his body slightly to make Nan Qi more comfortable.
Then, he saw a smaller but more agile kitten jump out of Nan Qi's body and land on Nan Qi's shoulder, looking at him curiously.
Bai carefully stretched out his hand, but stopped when he was about to touch the little black cat.
This is Nan Qi's spiritual body, although he does not know the magical properties of the spiritual body.
But since it was transformed by Nan Qi's mental power, it was very likely connected to Nan Qi's five senses. If he touched it without caring, it would be no different from sexual harassment.
Bai stopped, but the little black cat was not happy. It tilted its head and squinted its eyes, as if asking Bai, "Why don't you touch me? Am I not cute?"
Then, it walked up to Bai with a reserved pace and squatted down.
The round, furry little head with delicate inverted triangle ears leaned obediently against Bai's palm and rubbed it.
The soft little ears rubbed against Bai's palm, and Bai's heart trembled and became soft.
"Soft..." Bai was surprised by the touch of the kitten. His hand, suspended in mid-air, gently touched the little black cat's head and lowered his voice. "Go, be careful, and come back early."
The little black cat nodded mischievously, turned around, wrapped its tail around the slender white fingers, then tiptoed and lightly dived into the ore.
This time, the little black cat may not have controlled the strength well, and did not drill directly into the ore like it did in the morning. The head and most of the body of the little black cat went in, leaving only two hind paws and nine furry tails outside.
Bai was startled and was about to go over when he saw the little black cat kicking around with its hind paws, and its tail and round little butt swinging wildly, looking both pitiful and cute.
Fortunately, after this operation, the little black cat was completely inside the ore.
Bai was attracted by the series of actions of the little black cat and didn't notice that Nan Qi's mouth corners were slightly raised when he leaned on him, as if he was thinking about something interesting.
After the little black cat rushed in, Bai gently took Nan Qi to a place sheltered from the wind but where he could see the little black cat coming out, and sat down. He let Nan Qi lean against him and began to be on guard.
The wind is very strong tonight and the weather is getting colder, but Bai feels warm in his heart.
This feeling is very wonderful, like a traveler who has been walking in the snow for a long time without water or food, and suddenly sees a small house with warm orange light in the blizzard.
Even though I know it might be an illusion or a trap, I will still be delighted, and then rush into this small house which may be an illusion or a cruel reality.
Like moths to a flame, this is truly the characteristic of the Zerg.
Heaving a sigh of relief, Bai Chen lowered his guard. Amidst the howling cold wind, time passed little by little, and Nan Qi was about to reach the place he wanted to go.
In fact, when Nan Qi's spirit body leaves the spiritual sea, he does not need anyone to protect him. This is a common combat method used by their sentinels. If they need protection every time they use it, it would be putting the cart before the horse.
He did this just because he didn't want Bai to be embarrassed by having nothing to do next to him, but he didn't expect to get an unexpected reward - Bai seemed to like cats very much.
Moreover, Bai seemed to treat him as a male insect whose spirit would become weak when separated from the body, and protected him tightly.
In the past, he always stood at the front and faced danger. This was the first time he was protected like this. Gotta say, it felt pretty good.
It seems that showing weakness appropriately in the future can have unexpected results.
The main body outside was protected by Bai Xixin, so Nan Qi focused more on the mine.
He followed the route he had explored in the early morning and passed through the cracks in the rocks. After passing the last barrier, he entered an extremely open area.
He came in a hurry yesterday and didn't check carefully. This time he found that after his mining, there were actually not many high-grade black crystals left.
The rest are almost all companion stones of high-grade black crystal. They don’t have much energy, but they are beautiful and are often used to make jewelry.
But in the area surrounded by the half-life stones, which looked like a natural cave, there were high-grade black crystal stones all around, protruding in all directions and growing wildly on the mountain like sharp blades.
The quality of these black crystals is much better than those outside, and it is not an exaggeration to call them top-quality black crystals.
However, Nan Qi’s target was not these higher quality black crystals, but a round stone emitting soft colorful light that was protected in the center by these black crystals.
He felt an extremely pure power on this stone. He didn't know what this power could do, but he always felt that this thing was useful and they would be able to use it in the future.
His sixth sense told him that the unusual production of high-grade black crystals on this mountain was probably related to this colorful stone.
Nan Qi flew to mid-air, and his nine tails exploded, like a small parachute, and also like a navigator to control his flight direction.
With his ears slightly tilted back and his body slightly crouched, he approached the colorful stone carefully step by step with a cat-like gait.
To his surprise, the colorful stone was not as difficult to approach as he had imagined. Although there was resistance directed at the spiritual sea, he did not find it difficult to approach with his SSS-level spiritual power.
Nan Qi rushed over like lightning, grabbed the colorful stone that was half his size with his front paws, turned around and ran.
Facts proved that he was right to run. When the colorful stone was still, it was not difficult to approach. But as soon as he took the colorful stone away, the stalagmite-like black crystal stone began to extend wildly in the direction of his escape, and the sharp crystal tips stabbed at him.
Nan Qi looked at the pierced mountain with a lingering fear. He was glad that the person who came in this time was not a physical entity, otherwise he would be strung into a blood gourd if he was not careful, which would be too embarrassing for him, an SSS-level sentinel.
Nan Qi held the colorful stone and twisted and turned among the black crystal stones. His furry tail seemed a little big compared to his small cat body, but it was strong and powerful. When he couldn't avoid the crystal stones, he could smash them into pieces with one blow of his tail.
Just like that, the little black cat ran out of the mine holding the colorful stone and whooshed into Nan Qi's eyebrows. The colorful stone fell and was caught by Bai and stuffed into his pocket. Nan Qi opened his eyes and ran away with Bai in his arms.
Bai didn't understand why, but still showed his wings, covered Nan Qi's back, put his arms through Nan Qi's armpits and hugged Nan Qi's chest, and flew quickly with Nan Qi.
"boom--"
They had just flown out for a few seconds when half of the mountain suddenly collapsed.
The huge noise, smoke and vibration caused by the mountain collapse shook out most of the insects on Porter Star. They looked in the direction of the rolling dust with a confused look on their faces.
What? Is there another war?
Bai was also confused. He flapped his wings quickly and flew into the sky, taking Nan Qi out of the danger zone before going to look at the half-collapsed mountain.
Rocks collapsed, broke apart and fell, huge rocks smashed to the ground like a meteor shower, making a rumbling sound, and the splashing gravel was like a sharp blade that cut the surrounding trees, flowers and plants in half, startled the flying birds, as if they had encountered a disaster.
Bai, floating in mid-air, watched all this with a complicated expression. He turned his gaze to Nan Qi, who had become extremely well-behaved, as if all the fur on his body had been smoothed out, because he had done something "bad". After a while, he uttered a sentence: "It's okay, I can handle it."
"Really?" Nan Qi turned his head, his emerald cat eyes filled with a sly smile, "Bai, you are really amazing. It feels great to be your friend."
Bai: "...Let's not talk about this anymore. Let's go first. The Star Police and the Porter Star Guard should be here soon."
After saying that, Bai took Nan Qi across the night sky like a shooting star and disappeared in the center of the collapse where smoke and dust were billowing.
In the temporary command post, Melon and Lenk were talking about how Bai was going to transfer Lenk and Todd back to the central star, when they heard a loud noise outside. They thought the star beast army was attacking again.
Melon was about to lead his troops into battle when a female soldier informed them of what had happened. Melon and Lenk exchanged a look of shock. How could the mountain collapse without them even moving?
The two bugs decided to go to the scene of the incident. The place where the incident happened was too sensitive. They had just stolen a lot of high-grade black crystal stones. If it collapsed well, it would be fine. But if it collapsed badly and it was discovered that the ore had been mined, it would be terrible.
In that case, they would inevitably cause the mountain to collapse even more severely.
Just as the two bugs were about to leave, the door of the room slammed open and then slammed shut, and then Mellon saw Bai holding Nan Qi appear in the room.
Bai was floating in the air, and Nan Qi was held by Bai like a rag doll. Seeing Mellon and Lunk looking at him, he didn't feel embarrassed at all. He smiled and waved to the two female insects and said hello: "Hi~"
Mellon, Lenk: "..."
Where have this couple been? They are still in the same style.
The two insects looked at the couple from head to toe. Apart from their clothes being a little dirty and looking a little dusty, there was nothing different about them. So, they were fine.
No, the clothes are dirty and the face is covered with dust?
Mellon's mind raced, and he gasped: "The landslide has something to do with you two!"
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