Chapter 155 Your Feelings Are as Fragile as Thin Ice
Loran slowly emerged from the breach, his short silver hair standing out against the few rays of light filtering through the roof.
He only glanced at the lifeless figure kneeling in the center before his gaze fell on Ning Shuyin and Situ Linchen.
"Hmph, what bad luck." A merciless sneer escaped his lips.
Ning Shuyin's mind raced.
He had just admitted yesterday to drugging the hotel, and today he appeared in this place where Gu Lei might be trapped. She couldn't help but be suspicious.
She frowned and asked him, "Did you really do this? Kidnapped Gu Lei?"
Looking at her expression and then at Situ Linchen, who was protecting her closely, Loran's disgust was written all over her face.
He said coldly, "You've fooled one person after another; you're quite capable."
“Loran!” A deep, authoritative voice interrupted him.
Situ Linchen stared at Luo Lan: "Tell me your purpose for coming here. Otherwise, I don't mind using force against you."
Before the golden spear was even raised, energy waves had already gathered at its tip.
Luo Lan's gaze towards Ning Shuyin darkened: "Situ, I advise you not to be fooled by her. You trust her completely now, haven't you noticed anything wrong with her?"
Situ Linchen's dark eyes narrowed: "There's nothing wrong with it."
He answered decisively. But Lorraine's words made him keep thinking back to the past.
From the very beginning on the Alice Space Station, she had a premonition about the "Ghost Serpents" meteor shower.
Later, in the virtual world of Galaxy Cinema, she miraculously calmed his raging consciousness with a gentle kiss on the forehead...
After that, she always managed to turn danger into safety time and time again in desperate situations.
And his heart was moved by her time and time again.
Situ Linchen considered himself a rational, ruthless, and cold-blooded person. But his feelings for her were indeed somewhat different.
Is there anything he has overlooked?
Loran was incredibly perceptive and immediately noticed the hesitation in Situ Linchen's eyes.
"Situ, have you thought of something?"
Situ Linchen snapped out of his reverie. He looked at Luo Lan's elegant and composed face, and the wavering in his eyes disappeared.
He chuckled softly.
“Loran, you’re used to trusting your data and instruments, but I—”
"A person who has walked the battlefield for hundreds of years trusts his own feelings more."
Situ Linchen held her hand very steadily.
“I was thinking about some things. I thought about how she approached me despite the danger when I lost consciousness. I thought about how she pushed the hope of escape onto me and Zhou Zhiheng in the Penrose Triangle.”
He exuded a murderous aura, yet his eyes revealed tenderness when he looked at her.
"My intuition tells me that she deserves all my trust."
After saying that, his gaze towards Lorraine sharpened: "She repeatedly asked me to provide shelter so you wouldn't hurt her. Now, I think she was quite prescient, anticipating your feelings—"
"As crisp as thin ice."
As Situ Linchen spoke, his energy surged, and the tip of his spear pointed at Loran's heart.
“Now, answer my questions,” his voice betrayed a murderous intent, “What are you doing here? Where is Gure?”
Loran's declaration of trust in Situ Linchen was undeniable.
His dark red eyes looked at Ning Shuyin: "I've already told you I don't have Gu Lei, don't make me repeat myself."
"As for why I'm here, that's none of your business."
After speaking, Luo Lan didn't even bother to pay attention to the murderous spear tip of Situ Linchen.
He turned and walked toward the hole they had come through.
"Marshal! Marshal! Please respond!"
Fang Yan's voice suddenly came through the communication channel, with the sound of strong winds in the background.
"Fang Yan, what's the situation on your end?" Situ Linchen asked.
The fact that none of the nine teammates appeared in the hole in the hall could only mean that Ning Shuyin's guess was wrong.
They were unable to reunite.
"Marshal! We've broken through the wall!" Besides Fang Yan, the voices of the other mercenaries also rang out.
"But behind the wall isn't the hall, it's the outside! We've broken through directly to the outside of the ruins."
“We want to go back and reunite with you, but… but the entire ruins are sinking. The entrance we came out of has been submerged by quicksand.” Fang Yan’s voice, mixed with the howling wind outside, sounded extremely urgent. “The ruins are sinking into the quicksand layer. You and Miss Ning need to get out as soon as possible!”
Sinking into quicksand!
Situ Linchen and Ning Shuyin's expressions turned tense. Luo Lan also heard the conversation and stopped in her tracks.
The ground beneath their feet was solid, and the four walls were stable, with no signs of collapse or sinking.
The two men quickly brought up the environmental monitoring panel on the computer.
The data is very straightforward.
Their coordinates were indeed below the horizon.
"Let's go!" Situ grabbed Ning Shuyin's hand, brushed past Luo Lan, and ran towards the hole they had come from.
But just as they were about to reach the cave entrance, a large number of pebbles suddenly fell from the corridor.
That passage was completely blocked.
Situ Linchen's weapon transformation reappeared, this time not a light axe or a spear, but a huge mountain-drilling shield.
Just as the drilling shield touched the rubble, a hoarse laugh suddenly rang out behind them.
"Haha...hahaha..."
The three of them turned around at the same time.
The man, who had been hanging his head and showing no signs of life, suddenly raised his neck.
His face, previously hidden by long black hair, was now revealed; it was as white as paper, and eerily ghostly.
But those eyes were incredibly cloudy.
"Sir, no, Huangfu Desen!" Situ Linchen blurted out the title in shock, then immediately corrected himself.
The man known as Huangfu Desen laughed heartily, his mouth widening to reveal his gleaming white teeth.
"Lin Chen, my former good subordinate. That confession scene just now was really interesting."
He spoke breathlessly, each word dripping with sarcasm: "You actually understand trust? What right do you have to talk about trust?"
His voice suddenly turned sharp, filled with resentment: "The purge on Gamma, those colleagues you personally executed, which one of them didn't trust you?"
"But what was the result? They all became stepping stones for your promotion to marshal!"
“They are all traitors who betrayed the alliance! They deserve to die.” Situ Linchen said expressionlessly.
"Traitor?" Huangfu Desen laughed wildly, coughing up a lot of blood. "A so-called traitor is nothing more than a victim of power struggles. Lin Chen, you are the sharpest knife in the alliance, and you have also become the one who bears the deepest sins."
"No one should trust you; loneliness is your only refuge!"
As Huangfu Desen finished speaking, his cloudy eyes darted around and fixed on Ning Shuyin: "Especially you, don't believe him."
With an angry expression, Situ Linchen pulled Ning Shuyin behind him.
Six floating cannons materialized behind him, their muzzles aimed at Huangfu Desen: "Who released those people who just came out of prison? The Speaker? Or someone else?"
Huangfu Desen's expression was sinister: "In this world, the winner takes all. If I can seize the world, they will all be heroes."
"Unfortunately, Huangfu Desen, you have no chance of winning!"
A golden spear has been thrust forward.
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