In the corridor not far away, Ruan Qing'an, her face pale, was being protected by Shi Yi as she slowly walked over: "Mr. Zhou."
"Your body..."
Zhou Ziqi paused, then frowned: "You recovered quickly. What about the researcher I asked to look after you in the infirmary? Has the data changed?"
This time it was Shiyi who answered. He glanced at her coldly and said, "If there were any problems, why would I have let Qing'an come over? She came to see what happened here, but it seems you handled it very well."
you do not say?
Pleasure criminals treat the suffering of others as an entertaining spectacle, bringing it to the stage and composing a tragic dirge, finding joy in it themselves.
Hearing the subtle sarcasm in Shi Yi's voice, Zhou Ziqi simply shrugged indifferently. He looked at Ruan Qing'an approaching and tapped her hand holding the hilt of her knife with his slender fingertips.
He chuckled softly, "Little Ruan, you had many opportunities to kill Jia Lan—but you didn't. Perhaps you were waiting for this moment?"
Ruan Qing'an simply pressed his hand on the knife and looked towards the observation window. The atmosphere between the three people inside had reached a point of near-impossible tension. Compared to the more reckless Lu Ting, Xu Wenshan, who was considered a rare intelligent person, seemed even more furious about this matter, which gradually turned into hatred.
She paused, then said, "Actually, compared to Lu Ting, Xu Wenshan is the one who suffered an undeserved misfortune. Mr. Zhou deliberately brought Jia Lan here, wasn't it also to make Jia Lan reap what she sowed?"
Ruan Qing'an's voice sounded weak, and his slightly flat tone was a rhetorical question with a familiar, somewhat dazed, and confused quality to Zhou Ziqi.
Hearing her sincere question, yet so effortlessly aligning with his thoughts, Zhou Ziqi rested his elbow on the observation window, looking down at the petite girl in front of him. Her slender fingertips partially obscured his face, and his narrow eyes held an irrepressible smile.
He chuckled and said, "Little Ruan is really... Anyway, you already know me so well, why don't you come back? I prefer you to call me boss."
Zhou Ziqi smiled, his eyes always filled with tender affection. He leaned down, tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, and said in an ambiguous and lingering tone, "Xiao Ruan is so silly, what would she do without me?"
"Mr. Zhou, please have some self-respect."
Ruan Qing'an subconsciously pursed her lips, took a half step back, and only when she looked up did she notice that Zhou Ziqi's eyes were covered in dark circles—how could this bastard have let himself get like this? He always paid attention to his image.
To be precise, even when extremely angry, Zhou Ziqi's emotions were restrained, and the smile on his face was like a fake mask, completely impenetrable.
For a moment, Nguyen Thanh An stopped in his tracks.
A flicker of light crossed her leaden eyes, but just then—the man stretched out his long arm, blocking the path between Ruan Qing'an and Zhou Ziqi like an insurmountable chasm, pulling the petite girl back a few steps.
"Don't worry about it, I'll take care of her."
Before Ruan Qing'an could react, Shi Yi had already blocked Zhou Ziqi's view, like a dragon guarding its treasure, pointing its sharp teeth and claws at anyone who dared to covet it.
His dark green eyes were icy cold: "Qing'an has always been understanding and good at reading people's minds. She's always been like this."
"...Is that so?"
Distracted by Shiyi, Zhou Ziqi also lost interest. His usually smiling eyes became cold and distant. He had no interest in this kind of verbal argument, nor was he that childish.
Clearly, the same applies to Eleven.
After stabbing Zhou Ziqi to stop his mischief, he simply stood beside Ruan Qing'an, just like in countless previous missions, guarding his "host" and looking down at her.
Ruan Qing'an, who was in the middle of the vortex, simply pressed his hand on the hilt of his knife and suddenly said, "There's movement inside."
Inside the containment chamber, the three had been silent for a long time, and their relationship had completely reached a freezing point. The atmosphere was like a bomb about to explode, and it might only take a small spark to ignite it!
At this moment, Xu Wenshan looked at Jia Lan's evasive gaze, his eyes growing even colder: "It's because of you that Zhou Ziqi seized power and betrayed us."
"I……"
Jia Lan paused, unsure of how to begin.
Xu Wenshan gave up completely, as if he had made a decision. He glared at her and took advantage of Jia Lan being tied up to stride forward. He was about to grab her, and his momentum seemed to be that he wanted to devour her alive!
Jia Lan was shocked, and Lu Ting quickly rocked his wheelchair, angrily pulling Xu Wenshan: "Don't you fucking lay a hand on a woman!"
"woman?"
Xu Wenshan sneered: "Don't blame me for being ruthless, Lu Ting. Half of the reason Zhou Ziqi has gone this far is because of Jia Lan. If you still don't know how to choose, you will surely die today!"
Hearing this, Jia Lan felt a chill in her heart.
She had always known that Xu Wenshan was a smart man, but also a selfish one, so she had always focused on Lu Ting, who was easier to control. But she never expected that—now that she hadn't been constantly applying the subtle influence of her mental abilities, his changes would be so great!
If even Xu Wenshan and Lu Ting betrayed her, Jia Lan knew in her heart that she would truly be completely isolated and helpless!
The mental power that he had finally managed to mobilize condensed into a line and was about to connect with Xu Wenshan, but at that moment—Lu Ting, who had initially blocked Xu Wenshan, had already stood in front of him.
The moment the psychic power entered, Lu Ting spoke: "This isn't about making a choice, Xu Wenshan, you're just being ruthless!"
"Didn't you ever love Jia Lan? Now that something's happened, you just abandon her. Are you even a man? I, as your brother, despise you!"
"You treated me like a brother and then cheated on me?!"
Xu Wenshan's voice almost changed tone.
At that moment, the observation window opened a crack, and a tall, slender man stood there, his narrow phoenix eyes narrowing with a wicked smile, as if he were being amused.
Zhou Ziqi's voice was filled with laughter: "Loved? An interesting phrase. It seems that mental abilities are indeed very effective."
"Psychic abilities?"
Xu Wenshan, who was standing to the side, reacted the fastest and looked up abruptly.
Even Lu Ting, who had been protecting Jia Lan, couldn't help but turn around and glance at the woman when he heard these words—even in the entire apocalypse, psychic abilities were a very mysterious existence.
To be precise, it's a terrifying mystery. No one is unafraid of having their mind controlled or influenced. The only thing that gives people some peace of mind is that mental abilities are extremely rare.
Jia Lan snapped out of her daze and immediately said, "Zhou Ziqi, I've already lost, I can't even escape, why would you slander me?"
"Did Ruan Qingan say something to you?!"
"...Tsk."
Upon hearing this, Shi Yi, who was standing quietly outside the observation window, turned slightly cold with his dark green eyes. He had only wanted to watch the show, but he hadn't expected that the fire would spread to his Qing An.
The observation window of the containment chamber suddenly shattered, and thick roots surged in, attacking Jialan—
It's that monstrous man!
The immense terror of having her life and death controlled, of being on the brink of death, enveloped Jia Lan almost instantly; she was certain to die!
Driven by the fear of death, she used all her remaining supernatural abilities, combining her mental powers with her water powers to create an equally massive water column, which she used to clash against the surging mutated plant.
—That invisible, yet hair-thin, psychic ability could no longer be concealed…
Upon witnessing this scene, Xu Wenshan and Lu Ting, who had always protected and favored her, were almost glaring with anger, their eyes filled with bloodshot veins. Even the most impulsive Lu Ting couldn't help but reveal his hatred.
"Jia Lan—"
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