"Xiyu Base." Ji Yueyao strode down the stairs and headed straight for her office.
Xia Yaoxuan followed closely behind, "What are you going to the Xiyu base for?"
"I'm looking for someone." Ji Yueyao glanced back at Xia Yaoxuan, afraid that he would keep asking questions indefinitely. After a pause, she continued, "When I first came to this world, I was in the wasteland. I met people from the Xiyu Base and started living there. One of my companions is still at the Xiyu Base, and I need to go find him."
"Friends?" Xia Yaoxuan felt slightly annoyed. In this world, could even the best of friends be more important than him? He finally found her, and she said she was going to look for someone else elsewhere. This was really annoying.
"Mm." Ji Yueyao nodded.
“I’ll go with you,” Xia Yaoxuan said decisively.
Ji Yueyao glanced at Xia Yaoxuan and silently rolled her eyes. "Get lost."
Xia Yaoxuan snorted coldly, "I don't care. I finally found you, so you have to go somewhere else. What am I going to do if you leave?"
"..." Looking back at Xia Yaoxuan, who had suddenly turned into a kindergarten student, Ji Yueyao felt a headache coming on. "Do whatever you need to do. I can't take you with me this time."
"Why?" Xia Yaoxuan turned around and blocked Ji Yueyao's path, leaning against the wall with his head turned to the side, looking sad.
"Stop pretending. I know what you're really like." Ji Yueyao rolled her eyes at Xia Yaoxuan, walked past him, and continued walking. This guy used to always have that gentle, smiling face whenever he came to her house, which charmed her parents. But she guessed only she knew his true colors—a man full of mischief. Thinking of this, Ji Yueyao couldn't help but turn back. Looking at Xia Yaoxuan's mature face, she felt only a sense of unfamiliarity. It was truly awful. "I said you can't go, and that means you can't go. My movements are being kept secret this time. Wouldn't it be conspicuous for a black leader like you to show up?"
Xia Yaoxuan was displeased. "What's so eye-catching about it? I'll just keep a low profile."
"The higher-ups at the Xiyu base have all met you, right?" Ji Yueyao glanced at Xia Yaoxuan and said speechlessly, "I've only been seen once at most. They'll forget me in the blink of an eye after seeing me. But you're a high-ranking figure, so your situation is different. You're just causing me trouble."
"You talk like you're not on a high-ranking mission." Xia Yaoxuan muttered, then suddenly remembered something and his expression changed. He then grabbed Ji Yueyao's shoulder and said, "By the way, I heard you're getting close to Mu Yanxuan from the military region. Stay away from him!"
Ji Yueyao was startled. She gritted her teeth. If the person in front of her wasn't Xia Yaoxuan, she probably would have already thrown him away. "You scared me... Mu Yanxuan has helped me a lot..."
"So what?" Xia Yaoxuan sneered. "Let me tell you, that guy is my mortal enemy. I told you to stay away from him, so you should stay away."
Ji Yueyao was a little annoyed by being spoken to in such a direct, commanding tone. "That's your problem."
Seeing Ji Yueyao's obviously displeased face, Xia Yaoxuan felt a little annoyed. After so many years in this world, he seemed to have gotten used to speaking in a condescending manner. "Okay, okay, my tone was wrong. Please don't be angry and listen to me, alright?"
Ji Yueyao rubbed her temples, not intending to get angry with Xia Yaoxuan over this, and nodded.
“When I came into this world, it was the 107th year. Mu Yanxuan was about seventeen years old. Something happened then that made me remember him and always be wary of him.” Xia Yaoxuan frowned, seemingly lost in thought. “In the 107th year, there was a military coup. Mu Yanxuan and his men turned the entire military region upside down. This turmoil affected the power structure of many people and caused some fluctuations throughout the world at that time.”
Ji Yueyao was taken aback, thinking Xia Yaoxuan was exaggerating a bit, "It's understandable that it affects Country C, but how come it has an impact on the world as well?"
“Yueyue, the military region’s territory covers about a quarter of the entire country of C. A riot that occurs in such a large area is no longer a simple riot; it’s a war.” Xia Yaoxuan shook his head, walked to the other side of the corridor, and looked out the window. “As long as there is a war, the economy and other aspects will stagnate, and it will naturally bring certain fluctuations to the whole world.”
Ji Yueyao also walked to the window and nodded thoughtfully.
However, Xia Yaoxuan quickly changed the subject. The point he wanted to make to Ji Yueyao wasn't that. "Let's continue talking about Mu Yanxuan. When he infiltrated the headquarters of Qin Lichang, the then-most popular successor to the military region commander, he didn't hesitate to kill everyone in the headquarters. He also mobilized a large number of superhumans to set up a death barrier in the border area and wiped out all foreigners who wanted to set foot on C country's territory. After the war ended, the soldiers spent a whole month cleaning up the severed limbs at the border, but the blood that had seeped into the soil could not be completely cleaned up. Therefore, the border area is the place with the strongest smell of blood and the most supernatural beings."
"What is the death barrier?" Ji Yueyao asked softly.
"That's a protective barrier made by the superhumans who output a lot of their superhuman abilities. This thing can not only defend against attacks, but also attack actively," Xia Yaoxuan said calmly. "However, if a superhuman is not careful, he may exhaust his superhuman abilities and die, so superhumans nowadays don't use this kind of death barrier to protect themselves at all."
Ji Yueyao was stunned. This was the first time she had heard these stories from the past. Even though they had nothing to do with her, she felt as if they had happened right beside her. "So what? Is this a reason for me to stay away from Mu Yanxuan?" If it was a power struggle, Ji Yueyao didn't see anything wrong with it. If she had that power… Ji Yueyao lowered her eyes and thought for a moment; she would do the same.
Xia Yaoxuan was clearly not expected Ji Yueyao to answer like that. Looking at Ji Yueyao's almost unchanged face, a surge of anger suddenly welled up from the bottom of his heart. He took a step forward and pinned Ji Yueyao against the wall next to the window.
"Ji Yueyao, are you really that inseparable from that bastard Mu Yanxuan?!" Xia Yaoxuan's tone was filled with suppressed anger. Ji Yueyao looked bewildered, not understanding how she had offended Xia Yaoxuan.
Ji Yueyao shoved Xia Yaoxuan twice, gritted her teeth, and glared at him. "What are you thinking? I just said I don't think I need to avoid Mu Yanxuan like this. What he did was perfectly normal. Does he have to capture all those enemies alive and feed them well?"
Looking into Ji Yueyao's clear eyes, Xia Yaoxuan gritted his teeth, then suddenly realized he was overthinking things. Perhaps Ji Yueyao didn't have the same feelings for Mu Yanxuan as he thought. On the contrary, he was the one who lacked patience. What if he had accidentally hurt Ji Yueyao? He withdrew his hand, looking apologetically at Ji Yueyao's hair, and sighed softly. People always change in different environments, but as long as she remained herself, that was enough. (To be continued.)
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