From Apocalypse Boss to Farmer: My Vegetables Make Me Stronger!-Chapter 185 - 176: Wrong Path
Qi Xiang didn’t dare to think about it any further.
She hurried to Gu Xi’s side, wrapped her arms tightly around her arm, and leaned against her.
They were originally on a single-seater sofa, and now she was about to be pushed off the edge... Gu Xi had no choice but to comfort her, "As far as I know, the Transformation Ability has a time limit."
Besides, they were only caught off guard because they didn’t know. Now that they were aware and prepared, it would be difficult for the enemy to pull the same trick again.
Qi Xiang suddenly thought of Shen Yue, who was away, and Yang Chi and the others holding down the fort in South City, so she quickly sent them a message.
To prevent being exploited again, Qi Xiang suggested, "We need to set up a secret code..."
The moment she said that, Wei Heng frowned. "A secret code might not be reliable. There’s an ability called the Mind Reading Technique. With the cooperation of a High-level Spirit System..."
Gu Xi glanced at him. ’It seems Wei Heng has suffered at the hands of the Mind Reading Technique before.’ But it wasn’t hard to understand. The Chen sisters had controlled the Abnormal Ability Research Institute for so many years, and the Institute focused most of its research on those special abilities...
So, it wasn’t strange to Gu Xi that the Chen sisters had a few powerful individuals under their command.
Qi Xiang was stunned for a moment. "You’re saying they’d pair the Transformation Ability with the Mind Reading Technique?" ’Wouldn’t that make them invincible?’
Qi Xiang shivered and subconsciously snuggled closer to Gu Xi.
’So scary. I’m never splitting up with Gu Xiaoxi again.’
Seeing this, Wei Heng couldn’t help but say, "That’s enough out of you." ’Can’t you see you’re about to push Gu Xi right off?’
Qi Xiang glanced over, shifted a little toward her side, but kept her hands tightly wrapped around Gu Xi’s arm.
’Surviving the apocalypse is no easy feat. A helpless, peerless beauty like her naturally has to cling tightly to her golden thigh.’
’Of course, this is a feeling certain men will never understand.’
Wei Heng: "..."
Wei Heng averted his gaze, his expression blank. He then took an exquisite little box from his pocket and pushed it in front of Gu Xi.
"What’s this?" Qi Xiang asked curiously.
Wei Heng shook his head slightly. "I don’t know." He looked up at Gu Xi, his gaze complex. "Someone asked me to bring it to Gu Xi."
Qi Xiang turned to look at Gu Xi and opened her mouth, but in the end, she didn’t ask anything.
Gu Xi lowered her eyes, staring at the small box in front of her as her gaze grew colder and colder.
The large living room fell into a strange silence.
Qi Xiang and Wei Heng exchanged a look. ’Gu Xi’s mood is off. What on earth is in that box?’
"I want to start the team member selection tomorrow and leave the Central Base as soon as possible," Gu Xi suddenly said to the two of them.
「At the same time.」
"Wei Heng has gone back." In the dimly lit room, Li Ming sat in his wheelchair, looking at the man standing by the window. "You shouldn’t have touched him..."
"I didn’t intend to touch him." The man was completely shrouded in a black robe, his back to Li Ming. He looked out the window, his eyes downcast. "I just... don’t want her to leave the Central Base."
Li Ming looked at him, his gaze like a torch, and pointed out sharply, "Do you not want her to leave the Central Base, or do you not want her to go to City A to find Yun Ye?"
The man standing by the window lowered his head and fell silent for a moment.
"Is there a difference?" He turned to look at Li Ming, the paranoia and madness in his eyes startling. "Besides... Ming, you figured it out long ago, didn’t you? But you didn’t stop it either."
The look in Li Ming’s eyes instantly grew several shades colder.
The two stared at each other for a long while, neither willing to back down.
The atmosphere in the room grew increasingly frigid.
In the end, Li Ming couldn’t bear it. He sighed inwardly and offered a reminder, "Wei Heng is just Xiaoxi’s teammate. There’s no need for you to do this..."
"That’s my business. I won’t trouble you, Vice-Captain, to worry about it." The man turned away, his deep, cold voice seeming to melt into the darkness.
The lonely, gloomy coldness in his voice carried a certain paranoia, making Li Ming frown slightly.
’The reason I didn’t intervene this time was because I knew those young people wouldn’t be in any mortal danger.’
’So I wanted to use this opportunity to see... would they cower and retreat when they learned that being with Xiaoxi would expose them to all sorts of dangers, even to their own lives?’
’Would they even... betray and sell out Xiaoxi?’
’This is a tradition in our Doomsday Squad. Every new member who joins the team has to go through this kind of test.’
’Yes, and more than once.’
’Because some people can withstand the test of personal gain, but not necessarily the test of life and death... And everyone has their own weakness. Discovering those weaknesses and selecting suitable team members was originally part of my job as vice-captain.’
’I believe I’ve done nothing wrong.’ ’But the person opposite me...’
"I am still the Vice-Captain of the Doomsday Squad. And you..." Li Ming gave the man opposite him a deep look, then turned his wheelchair and left.
He left only a single sentence hanging in the air—
"You are now the base’s Third Commander."
’With that title came certain responsibilities.’
He didn’t want his former teammate... to go astray.
After Li Ming left, the man stood by the window for a long time.
Until the sky outside had grown completely dark, the crescent moon had risen, and the sky was filled with a multitude of stars.
The man closed his eyes.
’I just don’t want to miss another chance. I want to keep the person I love by my side forever. Is that so wrong?’
’No.’
...
The next morning, Gu Xi and the others arrived at the selection site.
There were quite a few people who came for the selection. Gu Xi took a look and saw that, aside from a few Wood Element ability users, all the other candidates were high-level ability users.
There were more than twenty at the peak of the ninth level.
’It seems some factions have really spared no expense. They truly hold me in high regard.’
Gu Xi looked at Qi Xiang, who was beside her.
Qi Xiang nodded and walked into the crowd with several staff members arranged by the Military Department.
When the crowd learned that today’s selection assessment would be hosted by Qi Xiang, a commotion broke out. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚
A few of them even started causing a scene right then and there.
"These few..." The military official in charge, standing to the side, frowned slightly. "I’m afraid Qi won’t be able to handle them. Should we send someone over..."
He turned his head to look at Gu Xi beside him.
Gu Xi stood outside the testing grounds and slowly shook her head. "No need."
’Qi Xiang’s bizarre luck is no joke. When the trouble starts, it’s hard to say who will be the unlucky one.’
Sure enough.
On the assessment grounds, Qi Xiang walked up to the few ability users who were causing the biggest ruckus.
—Bright red lips, bold and confident eyes.
Qi Xiang stopped, tilted her head up slightly, and raised an eyebrow, looking at the leader of the group with a hint of arrogance. "You have a problem?"
The man leading the trouble was stunned for a moment by the beauty and aura Qi Xiang displayed, but he quickly recovered.
He snorted coldly. Unwilling to waste words on a young miss raised in a greenhouse, he directly flung a shocking bolt of lightning at her, wanting to teach her a lesson.
However... for some reason, that bolt of lightning, which was clearly a single-target attack, ended up becoming an area-of-effect attack.
The few ability users who were hit were, of course, not going to take it lying down—they were all competitors, to begin with. ’Since you launched a sneak attack first, I certainly won’t be polite either.’
Soon, a group of high-level ability users descended into a chaotic brawl.
Her mission accomplished, Qi Xiang made a graceful retreat, calmly returning to the edge of the testing grounds.
Wei Heng discreetly eyed a few of her slightly frazzled strands of hair, put a fist to his mouth, and coughed. "Nice work." ’This wave should eliminate more than half of the high-level ability users.’
’As for the rest...’
A smug and radiant smile appeared on Qi Xiang’s face. ’Isn’t this assessment just getting started?’
Gu Xi stared at the hair clip on her head, lost in thought. "That hair clip of yours..."
Seeing that she had noticed, Qi Xiang turned back, gave her a playful wink, and whispered, "One of us."
’They knew it was inevitable that someone would be planted on Gu Xi’s team, but the important thing was that they held the initiative...’
So, after Qi Xiang and the others put their heads together last night, they came up with today’s little show.
Gu Xi: "..."
’How come I didn’t know about this?’
