Chapter 384: Chapter 384
Nangong Yan patted the dust on his leg left after being kicked, not angry at all, "Alright, I won’t tease you anymore. Let Su Ang take you to freshen up in the back."
He naturally wiped off the bloodstain with dirt from the corner of her lips, "Let me handle the cleanup work."
"That’s your job anyway." Qian Qi rolled her eyes and turned to walk towards the back, but suddenly saw the system flying rapidly from afar.
System: [Qian Qi! What happened? Was the instance conquered?! How did you find the boss?]
The system flew towards Qian Qi in surprise. It had just tidied up the promotion items and was about to return, only to feel that the instance had been conquered, so it hurried back.
What did she do while it was away?
The system asked anxiously, but unexpectedly, Qian Qi acted as if she couldn’t see it, staring straight through it to the front.
[Qian Qi?] The system floated in front of Qian Qi, flying while quickly displaying: [Qian Qi? Pay attention to me, won’t you? How did you suddenly kill the boss?]
But the girl continued walking forward naturally, as if she couldn’t see it at all, causing a foreboding feeling to rise in the system’s heart.
Qian Qi... couldn’t see it anymore?
No, that’s impossible... How could this be?
The system constantly changed the content on its panel in front of Qian Qi, sometimes showing funny emoji, sometimes displaying amusing white expression packs, but the girl walking unperturbed, humming a tune as she moved onward, seemed oblivious.
The system was dumbfounded, staring at the girl in confusion, its mind blank, just feeling the sky had fallen.
Its Qian Qi couldn’t see it anymore.
Could it be because it strayed too far away, or it was absent too long and got disconnected?
No way, it doesn’t even have such a mechanism...
The system followed the girl closely, constantly checking its internal program. After eliminating all possibilities of disconnection, it squinted slightly and suspiciously looked at Qian Qi.
This kid... is she pretending not to see it intentionally?
Could it be she summoned it during that time, but because it was too far away it didn’t receive the call, so she’s deliberately punishing it?
It flickered in place and floated back in front of Qian Qi.
To determine if Qian Qi was acting, it’s simple: just point the sharp corners of the system panel at her eyes, pretending to attack her. If Qian Qi really couldn’t see, she’d surely run into its sharp corners, but if she could see...
In this swift attack scenario, without special training, she would instinctively blink, dodging its assault.
[Qian Qi, I’m going to attack your eyes!] The system panel tilted forward, revealing its sharp corners.
The expression on the girl’s face didn’t change a bit.
The system panel paused, then, with a gust of wind, fiercely struck towards the girl’s pupils. The girl’s eyes blinked naturally, as if unaware of the danger ahead, allowing those clear, smiling eyes to meet the sharp attack.
The air seemed to be frozen, as the sharp corners of the panel and the clear pupils were inches apart in the rushing wind.
The girl smiled naturally, taking a step forward.
The sharp corners of the panel suddenly pulled back, swiftly retreating like a deflated balloon, fearing it might really poke the innocent girl blind.
The system was left bewildered.
Qiqi... really couldn’t see it anymore.
She didn’t blink, she even unhesitantly faced its sharp attack. If it hadn’t pulled back the panel just now, the system was one hundred percent sure, it would have blinded Qian Qi.
Thinking that Qian Qi wouldn’t be able to see it anymore, the system suddenly burst into tears.
[Why can’t you see me anymore! Boohoohoo— If I knew this, I wouldn’t have prepared for the promotional event, I wouldn’t have left you for a single step, boohoohoo—]
The system panel lingered in mid-air, heartbroken and devastated, while the girl ahead walked lightly with a faint arc on the corner of her lips. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ novel fire.net
She knew it, the system would be reluctant to blind her beautiful big eyes.
Let it sweat for a while! Make it stop going out without reporting back!
After washing off the sand and bloodstains from her body, Qian Qi put on the clean clothes Nangong Yan had prepared for her and breezily left the tent.
The system followed Qian Qi dejectedly, like an abandoned puppy, its entire panel exuding an air of dejected grievance.
"Want some?" Su Ang stood at the tent entrance, holding a bowl of hot soup and rice, and asked, "You haven’t eaten while busy looking for the boss, have you?"
Qian Qi touched her stomach, which grumbled cooperatively twice, and she couldn’t help but take the bowl of rice. "Mm."
The soup rice was very hot, and Qian Qi, sipping the soup, walked towards the lakeside where she had cried before, suddenly remembering something, she turned and said to Su Ang, "Senior, can I be alone for a while?"
Su Ang’s gaze slowly passed over her eyes, confirming that the sense of abandonment in them had disappeared, then he nodded. "Alright."
The silver-haired youth watched her back as it drifted further away, then turned back to the camp.
The 36 smashed fish carcasses were still there, attracting Bloodthirsty Demon Fish to the shore to feast, leaving only some shredded meat and a heap of fish bones. Qian Qi sat beside the pile with her hot soup and rice, glanced at the fish bones, then lowered her head to sip the hot soup and rice.
As she drank, her little face sank deeper, as if her whole face was about to dive into the bowl. The system noticed something wrong and immediately leaned over, shocked to see a bean-sized tear falling into the bowl.
The girl blinked her moist eyes, chewing the bitter grains of rice, while tears like broken pearls dripped into the hot soup and rice one by one.
"Why hasn’t my system come back..." Her voice was as if murmuring whimpers, full of grievance and sorrow, bringing heartache to those who heard it. "Did it abandon me, wah wah wah..."
The girl’s stifled sobbing, with an unwilling reluctance to be noticed, carried the despair of losing a loved one in this life, making the system panic. It fumbled around beside her, unsure how to console her.
After a while, the anxious system finally seemed to hit upon an idea, suddenly waving the air: [Panicking to death! How could I forget such a simple method!]
It gently patted Qian Qi’s head, then placed the system panel against her cheek: [Qiqi! I’m here! Can you feel me?]
The girl hesitated at the sudden touch, then her tear-filled red eyes gushed even more tears as if a dam broke. She trembled, "Tongzi? Is it you, Tongzi?"
[It’s me!!!] Confirming that she could feel its touch, the system breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said: [I’m here! But somehow, you can’t see me anymore!]
It moved away from her cheek, intending to write on the ground, but unexpectedly was snatched by her arm, hugging it tightly to her chest as if fearing to lose it again.
"Wah wah wah, I knew you wouldn’t abandon me!" Qian Qi cried bitterly, nose twitching as she began to sob, "Where did you go! I thought you didn’t want me anymore, wah wah wah—"
[Qiqi, let go of me first, let me write on the ground.] The system tried to pull itself from her embrace, intending to write on the ground to answer her question.
But she just hugged tighter, pressing her cheek tightly against the system panel, tears like rain washing over the surface, snot also smeared on the panel, "Don’t go! You can’t leave!"
Qian Qi wiped her tears and snot all over the panel, shouting in a distorted voice, "Are you abandoning me again? I won’t allow it! You won’t escape my cage in this lifetime, you can only be mine! Only mine!"
The system was initially moved by her feelings, but as tears and snot smeared all over its body, the not-too-smart system suddenly caught on.
Was that possessive overlord-like rant a mistake on its part?
If she was truly sad, would she have the mood to utter such outrageous words?
It glanced again at Qian Qi, who’s been rubbing her snot and tears on it all along.
The system was furious: [Damn it! Stupid Qian Qi! You can see me, can’t you!]