Then the infatuated little man was slapped to death.
Then Yan Chaoge was sobered up by her own imagination. As if telepathically, Qin Muge took a step back when she was about to push her away. He stuck out his tongue and licked a trace of crystalline substance from the corner of his lips. His red pupils deepened in color, becoming unfathomable, yet revealing a hint of a smile. His eyes were upturned, making him extremely alluring.
Such a simple action exudes an irresistible charm.
Chaoge shook her head, ignoring her flushed face, and rushed haphazardly towards the only enclosed space in the house—the bathroom—followed by the sound of the door locking.
Upon seeing this, Qin Muge's lips curled into a silent smile as she walked into the inner space. As she walked, she whispered, "Memory material, transformation number seven, disguise mode activated." Her military uniform immediately emitted a white light, and the fabric covering her body began to change. When the white light disappeared, the clothes reverted to the uniform she wore during military training. The military cap became a white ribbon wrapped around her wrist. Who would know that this military training uniform she wore was generated from memory material?
At the same moment, a layer of light mist formed in mid-air and gathered towards her face. In the blink of an eye, her appearance was back to how she looked when she first appeared at the school.
Sitting at her desk, she tapped it lightly. Not a single sound of water from the bathroom could be heard, demonstrating how well the soundproofing was done.
In this almost deserted environment, the sound of her tapping the table with her fingertips was particularly noticeable. Suddenly, she spoke, "How is it?"
The next second, right in front of her, in a place where there was no one, appeared out of thin air a figure wearing the same white military uniform, but with golden hair as bright as sunlight. His golden eyes were partially obscured by half-closed eyelids, so the light was much less. However, his figure was transparent in the air, like a projection.
"The self-test shows no problems. All the invading viruses have been eliminated, but the energy conversion efficiency is one-tenth lower than before." The man's expression remained unchanged, and his voice was steady and calm, as if he were reporting on his work.
Perhaps some in the military could guess that this General Min was probably with Qin Muge, but his current appearance was beyond anyone's imagination.
Qin Muge didn't react at all after hearing this, and even the way he tapped the table didn't seem to change. His eyes, which were hidden by black, looked through Min Kaiyang's semi-transparent figure and gazed into the distance, as if he was thinking.
"The military's latest move is to expand the scope of the search, seemingly intending to ignore the reactions of other countries in the Red Cloud Galaxy. What are your plans? I think you haven't forgotten where the greatest threat to the Tianzi Star AI comes from." Min Kaiyang's tone remained unchanged, and his eyes, which were clearly devoid of human emotion, exuded an aggressive tone when he looked at Qin Muge.
Qin Muge finally stopped tapping her hand on the table. Her black gloves perfectly covered her hands, and even so, you could still see the beautiful lines of her hands. In Chaoge's eyes, there was nothing about her that was imperfect.
She looked up and met Min Kaiyang's gaze directly, her dark eyes holding a hint of nonchalance. Even with Min Kaiyang's impolite attitude, she remained completely unaffected.
All that could be heard was her lazy, leisurely voice echoing in the room, "Then your system memory should also contain my response to that statement back then: I've never been interested in this matter." The one who should feel nervous about the threat to Tianzixing's AI is Min Kaiyang, not Qin Muge.
Min Kaiyang's golden eyes were fixed on Qin Muge and never left her. Hearing Qin Muge's words, he pursed his lips. His tall figure might have an intimidating majesty in the eyes of others, but in General Qin's eyes, it was precisely the least threatening thing, simply because her aura was no less than that of anyone else in the world.
“If you hadn’t chosen to enter Yuandu at this critical juncture, I might, as you said, have been helpless in this matter.” Min Kaiyang’s gaze finally shifted slightly to the side, indicating the direction where Chaoge was now.
He left half a sentence unsaid, and Qin Muge naturally understood—but you are no longer alone as you were before. You have someone you care about now, and you have ties to them.
But Qin Muge only smiled, a smile even brighter than before, its meaning unclear, radiating joy. She said, "Kaiyang, you wouldn't be so naive as to think you can use her to blackmail me, would you?"
Min Kaiyang neither admitted nor denied it. Finally, after Qin Muge's smile gradually returned, he finished speaking: "That day will come eventually."
Even if it doesn't escalate to the point of directly confronting Chaoge, once Qin Muge returns to the military, he will inevitably face the issue of the abnormal development of the P4 Nebula planetary mine. The entire Red Cloud Star System is focused on the development progress of Tianzi Star. If Qin Muge intends to halt development, not only will the military be unable to pass such a resolution, but other countries will also disagree. The original agreement clearly stipulated the priority development rights for Tianzi Star. Stopping development on Tianzi Star is like leaving a piece of cake that should be cut untouched, while still holding the only knife to cut the cake, leaving others who are eager to get a piece to eat it but unable to.
Qin Muge looked at him calmly, the smile on her lips finally returning, but her eyes showed no sign of being threatened; she was simply too lazy to smile anymore.
"You should recover your energy as soon as possible." Qin Muge stopped discussing the topic and left with these last words, making it clear that he would not speak to Min Kaiyang again.
After taking a bath, Chaoge reached for the clothes rack in the misty room, only to realize that she hadn't brought any clean clothes because she had rushed in!
So here's the question: should I wrap myself in a bath towel, go out to get my clothes, and then come back to change, or should I trouble General Qin to help me get them?
Neither option seemed entirely satisfactory, and Chaoge frowned, caught in a dilemma.
In the end, I decided on option one. Even though the two of them were very close, it still felt strange to help each other with their personal clothing.
She quietly opened the door. There was no sound outside. She wished Qin Muge had gone out on something.
With such naive and beautiful thoughts in mind, Chaoge resolutely took the first step. After walking a few steps, she saw General Qin sitting at his desk, facing her.
"Hey, what's this new look? Yan Chaoge, are you testing your attractiveness to me?" Qin Muge, who was pondering the question, saw Chaoge heading straight for the wardrobe without looking to either side.
"I knew it would turn out like this!" Chaoge thought bitterly. At the same time, she quickly turned to look at Qin Muge. When she saw that Qin Muge was sitting there and had no intention of getting up, she finally breathed a sigh of relief and replied, "You're overthinking it. I just forgot to bring my clothes."
"What's with your reaction? Are you worried I'll take advantage of you?" Qin Muge narrowed his eyes slightly, his gaze filled with obvious mockery, looking as if he disdained taking advantage of her. If you didn't consider her previous actions, it would indeed be very convincing.
Yan Chaoge twitched her lips and silently gave her a disdainful look: Even if my looks are not great, I can't deny the fact that you took advantage of me before, even though I came out ahead.
After returning to the bathroom and changing her clothes, Chaoge came out to see Qin Muge beckoning her with his finger, as if beckoning a dog to come over.
Chaoge felt a chill run down his spine for no apparent reason, sensing that the general must have come up with something troublesome again.
"You never learn." Qin Muge withdrew his hand, slowly stood up from the chair, and looked in that direction, intending to walk over to Chaoge.
Instead of immediately dodging upon hearing this, Chaoge walked towards her, a hint of doubt in her eyes. She took a few steps to Qin Muge's side and reached out to touch her forehead. "You don't have a fever. Why is that so strange?"
The next moment, Qin Muge swept her onto the bed next to him, casting a shadow in front of her. He pressed her hands down onto the bed, looking down at her with a deeper smile and a growing chill in his eyes. Before she could speak, Chaoge interrupted, "I'm not kidding, I'm serious. Did anyone come in just now? I can't quite put my finger on it, but I just felt something was off about you, even if it was just a little bit."
Qin Muge paused for a moment, naturally knowing what had affected his mood, but it was only a negligible thing. He didn't expect Chaoge to be so perceptive.
"It's nothing. Now, it's my turn to ask a question. Be a good girl and answer it." After casually answering her question, Qin Muge immediately threw out a question that Chaoge was prepared for but still caught off guard: "Tell me, what's unusual about you? For example, an intelligent system that's different from the Tianzixing AI."
☆ Chapter 16: The Sixteenth Evaluation of General Qin
That's practically cheating! Answering is like not answering at all, and then demanding to know your minimum net worth—that's utterly shameful. Meeting her earnest gaze, Chaoge straightened her posture and asked seriously, "Can I lie?"
Qin Muge lowered his head and approached her neck, his soft breath falling on her neck, causing an indescribable, slightly itchy sensation. Chaoge turned her neck to try to dodge, but because she was held down, she couldn't move, and a feeling of grievance welled up in her eyes.
It was obvious that Qin Muge wouldn't be satisfied with this answer. Besides, her perception of Qin Muge's emotions was certainly not as accurate as Qin Muge's perception of her. Subconsciously, Chaoge knew that Qin Muge understood her very well, and might even know what she was going to do with a wave of her hand.
So before General Qin could comment on her joking answer, she continued on her own: "Was it Qin Muge or General Qin who asked this question?"
The smile on Qin Muge's lips was deeply etched into Chaoge's mind. Even if she were to meet the person who understood her best in the world, she wouldn't change in the slightest. It seemed that nothing in this world could move her.
She still didn't answer, just looked at Chaoge with a smile on her lips, her grip on her hand not loosening much, as if she wouldn't let her hear a satisfactory answer, and the two of them would be stuck here tonight.
So, in this strange atmosphere, Chaoge met her eyes and continued, "You know perfectly well." You know perfectly well that you have everything, while I have nothing, yet you are forcing me to dig out my only foothold here and show it to you.
“Qin Muge, here, in this world, I trust you more than I trust anyone else. So I can tell you—” Chaoge paused for a moment before finally speaking, intending to reveal everything about herself.
Because if you really don't like being threatened by your other self from another world, then I guess I'm just unlucky.
But Qin Muge, who had just responded, interrupted her immediately: "Did you go to university?"
Huh? Chaoge blinked, still caught in her train of thought. Had she transmigrated again before she even realized it?
As Little Red Riding Hood would say, Chaoge's nerves were naturally different from others, and she could adapt at lightning speed to such a tangent question: "Well, I was a sophomore before I came here."
"Have you ever been in a relationship?" After getting the answer, Qin Muge moved on to the next question without pausing.
Chaoge's eyes darted around, as if she remembered someone. After a moment's hesitation, she nodded tentatively.
Upon hearing this, Qin Muge's smile deepened, and he thought of certain passersby in his life, a fleeting smile crossing his eyes. "So, you like me more than them, don't you?"
Player Yan Chaoge was hit by a critical strike from Qin*OSS, and his health bar was depleted.
She swallowed hard, watching Qin Muge seem to have forgotten about the question about the system from before. However, no matter which answer she gave, she was still troubled. Even though in her original world she was bored and jokingly told her best friend that she'd rather fall for him than settle for just anyone, she only realized when she saw her other self that even that other self was still a person! And it wasn't something you could just fall in love with so easily!
But Qin Muge was so outstanding that Chaoge often wondered why people with the same soul could be so different.
Whether in terms of appearance or social status, the ruler of this empire is far inferior to his college sweetheart.
But it was precisely on this issue that Chaoge was stuck for the longest time, so long that Qin Muge lost his already dwindling patience.
"What? Are you still hung up on your ex?" Qin Muge leaned closer to her, his beautifully shaped, rosy lips pressed against her neck. He didn't look directly at her when he asked the question, but it made Chaoge feel even more pressured.
At the carotid artery, even though her lips only lightly touched the skin, it felt as if she had directly choked him with her hand. Her lips were like a sharp blade, as if if she didn't hear a satisfactory answer, the next moment she would reflect a sharp blade and mercilessly pierce the artery.
Chaoge tried to move her hand, but it was numb from being pressed to the ground. She still turned her head to the side, trying to dodge, and said, "No, they can't compare to you. I... you should let go of my hand, it's a little numb."
Although she didn't know why she suddenly stopped investigating her cheating issue, Chaoge was still thinking about it while also wanting to have a proper conversation with Qin Muge. After all, they could talk about anything for a long time.
Qin Muge was surprisingly easy to talk to this time. He leaned against Chaoge and, just as Chaoge was about to sit up, he pulled her into his arms, seemingly having a deep desire to control her.
Caught off guard, Chaoge was embraced tightly again. The room temperature was just right for falling asleep under a thin blanket, so even though they were close together, neither of them felt hot.
I tried to get her to let go, and found that she wasn't using much force to hold me, but as soon as she felt my strength, she would immediately increase her strength, clearly meaning one thing: she wouldn't let go.
"Fine, fine, you're good-looking, so say what you want." Chaoge gave up struggling and, in a completely reckless manner, simply reached out and hugged her neck. "A fool wouldn't take advantage of a good deal."
A strange stillness filled the room, and the two people inside seemed perfectly at ease, as if they could communicate directly through their hearts without needing to speak.
"It's so strange. I have so many questions I want to ask, but after you stopped talking, I don't know what to say anymore." It was Chaoge who broke the silence first. She frowned and looked up at Qin Muge with a puzzled expression.
Qin Muge held her waist with one hand and reached out with the other to stroke her long hair. She, who would never change her mind for anyone, had suddenly compromised just now.
Even without forcing her to say it, there are many other ways to get Chaoge to tell her on her own initiative.
There are many ways to solve the current problem, but this Chaoge is unique. Even if it is another version of herself from another world, it is still unique. She is willing to slightly change her approach because of this Chaoge.
Qin Muge chuckled softly, his pleasant voice reaching Chaoge's ears at close range: "There are many things you don't know. I'm in a good mood today, so I might consider answering a few honestly to you."
Chaoge: ...So it's this hard to get you to answer questions honestly?
She suddenly realized that she had inadvertently discovered a little-known fact: could it be that General Qin could lie more naturally than tell the truth? She suddenly began to doubt her previous judgment.
A conversation resembling a census check began—
"Are you a time traveler too?" Chaoge asked the first question with great interest, her eyes shining like a puppy that had spotted a bone, the light in her eyes impossible to ignore.
"Next." Qin Muge was indeed very honest, and very tactfully told Chaoge that he didn't want to answer this question.
Faced with an interviewee who refused to cooperate after answering the first question, Chaoge hesitated between continuing the questioning and giving up, but felt there was still a chance to salvage the situation.
"So, can you answer the question about how old you are this year?" There's no point in hiding your age, is there?
Clearly, Chaoge underestimated Qin Muge's shamelessness, as she answered without changing her expression, "Next."
"Holy crap, do you even need to keep your age a secret?" Chao Ge stared at her suspiciously, asking in a somewhat doubtful tone, "Are you sure you're not playing me? What happened to telling the truth?"
"Yes, that's the truth. Be good, don't make a fuss." Qin Muge calmly patted her head.
This conversation can't go on! Chaoge thought bitterly, no wonder when we saw your gloves on the planetary broadcast, the whole country got so excited, and the topic got hundreds of millions of views. Now that I think about it, there's a reason for it.
If this guy is this uncooperative even in front of me, he must be even more troublesome for others!
"Fine, just tell me something from the previous world that I don't know." Chao Ge decisively gave up struggling. Any struggle in front of Boss Qin was futile, and she should have realized that long ago.
Seeing that she was being teased and looked flustered, Qin Muge stroked her hair intermittently, much like stroking a cat's fur. Realizing that she just wanted to satisfy her curiosity, he casually started telling her something.
"The world before that is a long time ago for me, but after graduating from university, there was someone at the company who caught my attention. He was a guy, quite thin, a recent liberal arts graduate, a year below me, and from our major. I hadn't really paid attention to him before. By the standards of the time, he was alright, but I didn't wait long before I ended up here, so it just fizzled out." Just when Chaoge thought she was about to hear a huge piece of gossip, she was speechless at the ending of the story and twitched her eyebrows for a long time.
To describe Yan Chaoge's feelings at this moment in one sentence: I've already taken my pants off, and this is what you show me?
[Isn't the key point that she indirectly admitted she also came from another world?] Little Red Riding Hood was like the most important brick in Chaoge's heart, always there when needed, especially when Chaoge once again overlooked the key point.
"Oh, okay... wait, something seems off about this story." As Chaoge answered Little Red Riding Hood's question, she subconsciously followed Qin Muge's line of thought.
He's a male student, quite thin, and a junior in his class.
Chaoge took a deep breath and then threw out her question all at once: "Is the guy you're talking about the one who's 180cm tall, has excellent grades, is a Leo, wears glasses, and is a junior in the same major whose name is xxx?"
Qin Muge couldn't recall that much, but after hearing her description, she followed the image she depicted and said, "Pretty much." She hadn't expected that her counterpart from another world would have such a vivid memory of this person.
Chaoge immediately laughed it off.