Chapter 71 The Overbearing Marshal's Little Thoughts
A faint smell of alcohol wafted from the cramped shipping box.
The girl was curled up, fast asleep.
Her complexion was rosy, with a faint aura of energy emanating from it.
In her arms was an opened can of dried meat.
In addition, there is a fluffy interstellar hamster.
The little hamster was nestled in Ning Shuyin's arms, burying its head in the jerky can and munching away.
Seeing that she was safe and sound, Situ Linchen's worry all the way turned into throbbing veins on his forehead.
He reached out and gently patted her shoulder.
"Ning Shuyin, wake up."
Ning Shuyin was shaken awake from her sleep.
She opened her eyes groggily, and it took her a while to focus her gaze before she could clearly see the face in front of her.
It was Situ Linchen!
It's a ghost story.
How did I end up seeing him when I woke up?
"Marshal?" Her mind was still a little fuzzy. "What happened?"
"Ning Shuyin, what happened?"
The two asked the question almost simultaneously.
Ning Shuyin sounded confused.
She was clearly asking Situ Linchen why he was there, and why she was being held at gunpoint by a group of heavily armed robots.
Situ Linchen did not answer her question.
Of course, he couldn't tell her that he had waited outside her company for an hour and a half, then caused a scene at the Rose Club, and almost deployed the long-range air force to turn the entire planet A upside down.
He looked at Ning Shuyin, who was still sitting in the cargo box, and concealed his expression: "That's the question I should be asking you."
"The Alliance fleet has detected an energy anomaly right here. According to regulations, we must intercept and inspect it," Situ Linchen casually offered a reason.
Mu Ze, standing behind him, stared at his toes, not daring to look up.
What he was thinking was: Marshal, it's one thing for you to personally "inspect the package," but you even went so far as to come up with regulations...
Ning Shuyin shook her head, not understanding how she had caused the energy fluctuations.
But she glanced at the imposing scene before her, then looked down at her cramped little cargo box.
Finally, her gaze fell on his face, which seemed to scream "explain yourself quickly."
"Marshal, could you please have your men... put away their weapons? I'm afraid they might accidentally fire. My situation is a long story."
Situ Linchen ordered the guards to be lifted.
"Go ahead and speak, there's no rush."
Ning Shuyin climbed out of the cargo box and stretched her stiff body.
"Here's what happened: I was at work and accidentally got locked in the storage room."
Upon hearing the word "storage warehouse," Situ Linchen's face hardened.
"Was your job always this dangerous before?" he asked.
Ning Shuyin was stunned for a moment.
She didn't understand why, in this emergency, the marshal suddenly had time to care about her daily work.
She shook her head.
"No, this was my first time in the magnetic chamber. I got stuck in a corner with a bunch of boxes."
"But later, I figured out how to get out on my own."
"Think of a way?" Situ Linchen asked curiously, "What way?"
"I kicked open the top of a box and crawled inside..."
She paused for a moment, as if recalling some unpleasant memory.
Situ Linchen noticed her expression.
He gave her another long look.
At that glance, he felt that she was somewhat different from when they had met before.
It's still the same face.
But her skin was radiant and glowing, and when her eyes sparkled, they seemed to shimmer with light.
Every flutter of her eyelashes, every slight pursing of her lips, exudes a vibrant and lively energy.
Ning Shuyin did not notice Situ Linchen's gaze.
She continued, "Later, I found a way out between the boxes."
She spoke of it casually.
In fact, she had to drink the only energy supplement in her spatial ring because she was exhausted—the highly concentrated supplement that Loran had given her before, which was worth one million star coins.
Ning Shuyin felt a pang of heartache as she drank, but there was nothing she could do.
After replenishing her energy, she used her senses to find a path.
Like playing a maze game, she kept opening one box, going inside, then opening the panel on the other side to enter the next box. Among countless boxes filled with miscellaneous items, she carved out an internal passage.
Finally, she crawled out of a box high up and returned to the outside world.
Then, like playing hopscotch, you step on boxes one by one and jump back to the ground safely.
Ning Shuyin continued to explain: "Then, I discovered that this storage room is equipped with a channel for handling unused items, which is for those discarded but still usable items. So I treated myself as an 'unused item' and had the logistics robot send me to the commercial area, where someone would come and pick me up."
She was supposed to come to the movie theater in the commercial district after get off work.
Although she was late for this unexpected event, at least she arrived.
Situ Linchen looked at her, his eyes showing admiration.
When he saw the state of the warehouse, he felt worried and angry.
The desperate situation of being buried alive is enough to break the spirit of many resilient soldiers.
However, not only did she escape through her own abilities and courage, but she can also talk about it so calmly.
He himself was unaware that the lingering fear in his heart had been replaced by another emotion.
[Target person Situ Linchen's favorability has increased by 5 points.]
[Current favorability: 10 (Curious).]
Ning Shuyin was somewhat surprised when she heard the announcement of the favorability rating.
Situ Linchen's favorability rating has remained relatively stable since the space station incident, unlike the earlier fluctuating levels.
This means it won't easily plummet. But getting it to rise is equally difficult.
These 5 points today may seem insignificant, but Ning Shuyin knows that they are more useful than jumping 50 points at once in the past.
At this moment, Situ Linchen's gaze was intense, and he naturally noticed the tear in the hem of her clothes.
"Are you hurt?" he asked in a deep voice.
"No……"
"Then what's wrong with these clothes?" Situ Linchen stretched out two fingers and gently picked up the fabric fibers from the torn hem of her clothes.
"Ah! It's this." Ning Shuyin smiled, picked up the interstellar hamster in her arms, and showed it to Situ Linchen.
"I found it in a junk box. The little guy was injured, so I stopped the bleeding and healed it."
"You treated it?" Situ Linchen's eyes showed some dissatisfaction.
"Mm." Ning Shuyin nodded.
Suddenly, the man in front of her reached out and took the hamster that was happily eating from her arms, examining it for a moment.
“Stealing stored supplies,” he commented, then casually tossed the hamster to Muze. “Take it back and put it in solitary confinement.”
Then, he gave orders into the command terminal.
"Dismissed. Also, send today's military expenditure bill to the Rose Society."
Orders were issued and carried out immediately.
The drone overhead took off rapidly and quickly disappeared from sight.
The hounds also quietly retreated, disappearing into the shadows of the street and blending into the commercial district.
Situ Linchen looked down at Ning Shuyin and said, "I haven't formally thanked you for the Purification Crystal yet. However, this gratitude isn't something I can express so hastily on the roadside. I'll send someone to deliver a formal thank you in a few days—"
However, before Situ Linchen could finish speaking, a commotion and uproar suddenly erupted in the center of the square not far away.
That's the direction Galaxy Cinema is heading.
Something happened at the movie theater.
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