A few minutes later, after a struggle between her conscience and her will, Gu Li, with a dark face, reached out her hand for He Shiyi to hold, and was carried downstairs in his arms.
Her dangling legs kicked him countless times, leaving marks on his black casual pants.
"I already told you to walk by yourself."
He Shi kept his eyes fixed ahead. He was exceptionally tall, and Gu Li sitting on his arm felt like she was holding a light, floating doll.
"If I put you down, can you promise you won't fall asleep?"
His gaze swept over Gu Li's drooping eyelids, and he awkwardly patted her back with his other hand.
"Don't worry, go to sleep first. No one can hurt you here."
As soon as he said those words, He Shiyi's aura instantly swept across the entire building, and from a distance, the building seemed to disappear from sight for a moment.
Gu Li instinctively grabbed something and closed her eyes.
The next day, Gu Li opened her eyes and looked at the very familiar white ceiling. She got out of bed with practiced ease, jumped off the bed, and went out in her slippers.
She held the pendant she had taken from her clothes yesterday as she walked through the quiet, quiet ward floor.
We went straight to the top floor.
The top floor housed a conference room and her office, where Cen Xingbang occasionally worked. Clutching the pendant, she nervously knocked on the door.
The conversation inside abruptly stopped, and footsteps gradually approached. Feeling guilty for possibly getting into trouble, Gu Li guiltily raised her head and smiled obsequiously at the approaching person.
"Hey, are you busy right now?"
All eyes in the office fell on her. Lucy, who came to open the door, blinked and slammed the door shut. Gu Li could still vaguely hear her muttering.
"Impossible! When did Miss Guli have a child this big?!"
Gu Li: ...
She clenched her fist tightly around the pendant and knocked on the door again: "Lucy, open the door. I'm looking for Mr. Cen."
The sounds inside seemed to be chaotic for a while, including the sound of stools scraping against the floor, a mixture of incredulous whispers, and a loud-voiced octopus questioning someone.
"You've kept something this big from me?! Who is that man? Bring him out so I can see him properly—"
Gu Li's anxiety completely disappeared. Holding the pendant, she took a step back and kicked the door before Lanse could say anything stupid.
The finely crafted beechwood door slammed against the wall with a bang, and Gu Li walked in with a murderous aura, standing in front of Cen Xingbang amidst a faint smile on his lips.
Gu Li raised her hand and showed the pendant: "Mr. Cen, where is the storage room on the other end of the pendant? I think I subconsciously put some...not-so-good stuff in there yesterday."
It was hard to guess why Cen Xingbang would call everyone to a meeting in Gu Li's office so early in the morning, instead of in the conference room next door with transparent glass. Gu Li gritted his teeth.
Before that, there was a very serious problem.
"That might be a mutant species at least at the missionary level..."
As soon as the words were spoken, the building beneath everyone's feet shook violently. An explosion, seemingly coming from an unknown direction, caused the furnishings inside to sway violently.
The smile on Cen Xingbang's lips vanished, his gaze falling on the constantly ringing communication device. He abruptly stood up and walked outside.
A smile now graced Gu Li's face. She eagerly followed, explaining in a low voice, "That's the mutant that suddenly appeared in that abandoned building in the safe zone last night. I suspect it's..."
The one I dug up from the red bee.
Before the words were finished, a huge sphere crashed through the wall and burst into the building from the outside, its thick blood vessels wrapped around an eyeball baring their fangs as they entangled Gu Li.
Gu Li was about to back away when someone grabbed him by the back of the neck, lifted him up, and turned him around.
Cen Xingbang's tall figure stood in front of everyone, and the air began to surge violently as an invisible hand swept down towards the eyeball.
Gu Li sat on Lancer's shoulder, watching with a solemn expression as the blood vessels nimbly emerged from the gaps, constantly trying to rush towards her.
The thick veins throbbed, constantly spraying out a dark red liquid that corroded everything around it.
Gu Li: "You've definitely gotten stronger."
After all, it absorbed most of her power and greedily wanted to devour her whole as nourishment.
Lancer gripped a longsword and severed the bluish-purple vein that was rushing towards her, pulling her back as they retreated. The others moved in unison, firmly shielding Gu Li behind them.
Lancer clicked his tongue, looking at the persistent, enormous eyeball: "What did you do to it that makes it so fixated on it?"
Gu Li was lifted up by him, using the wall as leverage to leap up and avoid the veins that covered the corridor. She silently hugged Lancer's head tightly, her eyes shifting guiltily.
"Actually, it's nothing much, it's just the head that the red bee summoned..."
Lancer stared at the bare eyeball for a moment, then paused in silence: "...Now all that's left is the eyeball?"
Gu Li puffed out her chest and suddenly said confidently, "Her head was almost successfully delivered, so of course I couldn't just sit idly by. Before I left, I pried out her eyeballs that had successfully delivered."
Her youthful appearance, coupled with her devilish words, caused everyone present to fall silent for a moment.
Lan Meng held a constantly spinning crystal ball in his hand, his figure perfectly blocking the eyeball's retreat, and gave Gu Li an appreciative look from a distance.
"Well done. It would be even better if you could clean up the mess properly."
Gu Li smiled and said, "Thank you for the compliment."
Lancer, having brought Gu Li with him, became the creature's primary target. He gritted his teeth and said, "I'm not trying to praise you, but why did you bring this thing back?"
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