Chapter 390: Chapter 390
After confirming Bai Ji had indeed evolved successfully, Qian Qi then stored Bai Ji into the Beast Taming Space and turned to look at Nangong Yan, who was quietly sitting beside her.
"How did you get in here?"
Qian Qi frowned slightly, obviously displeased with Nangong Yan’s behavior.
Nangong Yan chuckled, "You slept so soundly, you didn’t even lock the door."
At first, he thought Qian Qi hadn’t locked the door on purpose to test him, as she had always been wary of him and shouldn’t have trusted that he wouldn’t sneak in while she was asleep.
Thus, he deliberately leaned closer to her face, trying to test if she was really asleep.
But unexpectedly, she was truly asleep.
Completely defenseless.
Was it because she was no longer wary of him, or was there another reason?
Clinging to a bit of unrealistic hope, he ultimately didn’t open that box and, while she was still asleep, injected the superpower inhibitor into her body.
Nangong Yan’s words hid many meanings, but to Qian Qi, who was once again on guard about his actions, only understood another layer of meaning.
You were sleeping so soundly, and didn’t lock the door, which is just telling me I can come in. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ novel✶fire.net
It’s like a homeowner forgetting to lock the door, and then a thief saying you left it open for me to steal, which is just absurd.
Qian Qi’s face suddenly turned cold, "Who taught you that if a door is unlocked, you can just come in?"
Nangong Yan’s original intent was to ask if Qian Qi was less wary of him now, and upon seeing Qian Qi’s misunderstanding, he could not explain that he came in because of the inhibitor issue, so he gestured to the wide-open door on the right, "With the door wide open, a passerby can see both of us—one on the bed, one on the floor. Any observant person would know I was taking care of you."
The man showed a hurt expression, "Feel your face, does it smell like medicinal wine? Who else but me would have applied it? I just knew you wouldn’t apply the medicine yourself, so I deliberately came back to do it for you."
Qian Qi touched her face and indeed it smelled of medicinal wine.
She glanced again at the system.
System: [Uh... he actually didn’t do anything improper, and he did apply the medicinal wine on you...]
Realizing she had wrongly accused Nangong Yan, Qian Qi’s cold expression finally softened, "Alright... actually, you don’t need to take care of me specially, after all, we are..." not familiar with each other.
Nangong Yan interrupted, "You allowed the Nan Family Army to clear the instance without a soldier’s cost, I should thank you."
"There are plenty of ways to thank me, like giving me money..." Qian Qi began to act shamelessly.
Nangong Yan: "...No money, I’m broke."
Qian Qi immediately showed eyes full of pity and disdain.
"Isn’t the Magic Weapon Research Room more tempting than money?" Nangong Yan’s peach blossom eyes slightly narrowed, "Weapons have always been the most profitable."
"Weapons making money means there will be more wars, otherwise without wars, weapons aren’t valuable," Qian Qi thought of the Blast Gun and couldn’t help but gaze deeply at Nangong Yan, "I’m very worried that after Magic Weapons deal with the Magic Beasts, their barrels would turn towards humans."
One family monopolizing Magic Weapons is obviously dangerous. If an S-Class Magic Beast appears, major families will undoubtedly suffer great loss, and world resources will be redistributed. Once the Nangong Family desires to seize control, human wars are bound to happen.
Qian Qi couldn’t judge if this was right or wrong, as a common person, she naturally hoped no wars would happen.
Yet consolidating power seems inevitable.
Nangong Yan scrutinized the thoughtful Qian Qi.
She is indeed clever, capable of connecting the possibility of the Nangong Family aiming the Magic Weapons’ barrels at humans, but alas, she can’t bear such consequences, after all... taking innocent lives with a gun you crafted is indeed hard to accept for someone with a strong moral conscience.
She doesn’t belong on a blood-stained battlefield.
"Don’t overthink, just go with the flow." Nangong Yan chuckled, "Focus on the Magic Beasts first."
Qian Qi snapped back, "Once I finish with Qing City and Sealed City, I’ll visit your lab, maybe I can help out!"
She thought, the method of making the Blast Gun should be sold to more places, like missiles, as long as everyone has them, no one would dare to act rashly!
It’s definitely not about making more money.
She’s merely upholding the tradition of being frugal, sharing resources equally!
Nangong Yan looked at her and then smiled, "Alright."
"By the way, what’s that?" Qian Qi pointed to the silver box on the table, which Nangong Yan had specifically brought to her room, so he must have meant to introduce it to her, right?
Nangong Yan glanced at the box, his eyes flickered slightly, then turned back with a gentle smile at Qian Qi.
"Nothing, just an empty box."
The instance rewards from Black Lotus Mountain increased Qian Qi’s Strength and Defense Attributes, but because the difference between A-level and S-Class is so vast, Qian Qi’s Strength Attribute level remained at A, though her formerly B-level Defensive Power rose to A-level.
"It’s so frustrating, all the increases are in Strength and Defense points, and now Speed points are going to be harder to gain in the future."
Qian Qi sighed, tidying up the Poisonous Emperor Pythons playing games on her hair, and stuffed the White Extreme Rats into the hovercar.
Suddenly thinking of something, she glanced at the system that had been floating all this time, narrowing her eyes slightly.
Curious... what’s the system doing here floating around, when usually it goes invisible and disappears at times like these?
When the system spit out Bai Ji’s Evolution Materials, she immediately realized something, so upon seeing the system’s overly suspicious behavior, Qian Qi stayed silent for a moment, then slowly revealed an insidiously crafty smile.
Seeing this expression, the system sneakily watching from the side immediately felt something was amiss!
Oh no! She can’t have figured it out, can she!
The system was alarmed, hastily took flight, but couldn’t escape Qian Qi’s sudden pouncing like a hungry wolf, flinging open the hovercar’s trunk!
Looking at the neatly stacked cash in the trunk, Qian Qi exclaimed in excitement, "Aha! I knew it! How could you bear to put clean money together with dirty magic plant materials? You must be hiding the money!"
Daring to secretly hide stashed cash in her car! No need for explanations, rounding up, this is all hers now!
Qian Qi firmly hugged the trunk full of cash, ignoring the system slapping her back, she steadfastly refused to let go, wailing pitifully, "Tongzi! Think about it! Didn’t my tears of gold dropped because you disappeared deserve this little money like dirt as compensation?"
[Go to hell! How can dirt compensate you! Return the dirt to me! I’ll give you something else!!!]
It took a lot of effort! Sneakily waiting at the bank! Withdrawing cash in consecutive numbers!
It can’t fall into this greedy dog’s hands!
One person and one system, one willing to fight, one willing to get hit, finally, Qian Qi compromised, "Then remember, and give me 10 more lottery tickets~"
The system smiled: [＾＿＾ Fine, keep the money.]
Just some consecutive number cash, next time it’ll buy gold bricks, to smash this dirt-coveting scoundrel!