Chapter 45: I’m a Vibe of Delicate Weakness (14)
“What is he even talking about?” Jiang Zhiyan frowned. “I hate cryptic people the most, can’t he just speak clearly?”
Jiang Zhiyan was truly baffled. It was fine if he didn’t like her, but why repeatedly probe her? She wasn’t an alien spy, and why ask her about A University? Was he just guessing randomly, or was he really hinting at something?
Was there something wrong with his ability? She needed to study the script more carefully when she went back, she couldn’t just focus on the parts with Si Xu.
“Don’t mind him.” Si Xu sat down next to Jiang Zhiyan, looking at her pouting face. “Did you… go to the training ground just now?”
“Yes.” Jiang Zhiyan replied. “Did I disturb you? Because you didn’t come back all afternoon, I wanted to see if you needed anything, after all, you’re still injured.”
“It’s my fault for overthinking it, you have many people around you.” Jiang Zhiyan smiled bitterly. “Senior is so nice, there are always so many people around you, unlike me…”
Jiang Zhiyan lowered her head, looking a bit lost, wanting to fidget to relieve her nervousness.
“They were just trying to persuade me to join their teams, it’s not what you think.” Si Xu explained. “And…”
She looked at Jiang Zhiyan’s bangs covering her forehead, paused, and continued, “I think you’re great, but I’m not as good as you think, and you shouldn’t think so highly of me either.”
Jiang Zhiyan didn’t speak, just looked up at Si Xu.
Since Si Xu wasn’t going back, Jiang Zhiyan followed her to the training ground. There were quite a few people there, basically all the evolved humans who weren’t out on missions. It was normal; after all, their ability level was tied to their lives and their treatment at the base.
“So diligent.” The system glanced at Si Xu in the distance, then at Jiang Zhiyan sitting in the shade. “Don’t you think you don’t fit in here?”
“Oh.” Jiang Zhiyan opened the script and searched for the segments related to Xue Lin. There were quite a few. She quickly skimmed through them. “Are there any detailed descriptions of Xue Lin’s ability?”
“What are you looking for?” The system asked. “His ability is just what it says, most of the time he’s thinking of ways to get you out of the team…”
“There must be a reason why he’s staring at me so intently.”
Finally, Jiang Zhiyan found a sentence with a very high repetition rate in the numerous segments: “Xue Lin sensed danger.”
The sentence itself wasn’t unusual, but after searching the entire text for the keywords “danger” and “sense,” she found that the most relevant results were related to Xue Lin.
“So he sensed danger from me? Is this a passive effect of his ability?” Jiang Zhiyan deduced. “That’s really troublesome.”
Her ability countered Xue Lin’s, but Xue Lin’s ability, in a sense, directly countered her true self.
She hated unrealistic worlds.
“Host, you should keep a low profile for a while.” The system offered its insincere comfort.
“Am I not keeping a low profile?” Jiang Zhiyan felt like she was practically buried in the ground in this world. “Forget it, a vague sixth sense can’t be used as evidence, and even if I said it out loud, no one would believe him. At most, tsk.”
System: ?
“Who was the one who said she hated cryptic people the most just now? As expected, everyone eventually becomes the person they hate the most.”
Jiang Zhiyan didn’t finish her sentence, but the system could sense the thick malice and ill intentions in her tone.
It silently lit a candle for Xue Lin. This guy was quite clever, but compared to Jiang the Bully, he was still lacking. After all, Jiang the Bully was not only clever, but also immoral, with a very low bottom line.
“Sigh, you could have been a qualified vicious female supporting character.” The system sighed.
Jiang Zhiyan ignored it, looking at Si Xu in the distance. A group of people walked towards her, and after talking for a bit, glanced at Jiang Zhiyan and left.
Jiang Zhiyan: ?
Si Xu also glanced at her, their eyes meeting briefly. Jiang Zhiyan wanted to know what they had said, but she hadn’t seen their lips, otherwise she could have read them.
“Five hundred points.” The system’s voice appeared faintly.
“Ha, do I look like a sucker? If I want to know, I can just ask her directly.”
The corners of Jiang Zhiyan’s lips curled up slightly: “And do some things even need to be asked?”
She rested her chin on her hand.
“Host, you look particularly lovesick right now.”
“Oh.”
The system took a few pictures of Jiang Zhiyan and changed its mental communication background image to them. It hadn’t used this function before.
Jiang Zhiyan, when she didn’t want people to know what she was thinking, her expression was so neutral it made people want to punch her. When she did want people to know what she was thinking, they still wanted to punch her.
In short, Jiang Zhiyan was always punchable.
Si Xu trained until 8 pm. Before going back, she brought two buckets of water.
In just one afternoon, she had become close friends with two evolved humans with water abilities.
Because the ice had been broken in the afternoon, Jiang Zhiyan still wanted to walk with Si Xu, who took several steps to the side to avoid her.
“I’m dirty.” Si Xu said helplessly.
“But Senior smells nice.”
Si Xu had never met someone like this before and coughed awkwardly.
System: What a desperate and perverted thing to say.
Jiang Zhiyan and Si Xu opened the door and saw Qian Rongrong peeking out. Her gaze darted between the two, as if observing something, then she smiled knowingly.
“You’re back, together, good, good that you’ve made up.” Qian Rongrong stood up, then turned and went back to her room, glancing back every few steps. “I’ll leave the living room to you two, don’t worry, I’ll wear earplugs.”
She winked, a look of “I understand everything” on her face.
Probably afraid of being beaten up, Qian Rongrong quickly locked her door after entering her room.
“I’ll go shower first.” Si Xu said, carrying the buckets towards the bathroom. After taking two steps, she suddenly realized something was wrong with what she said, and turned to see Jiang Zhiyan blushing furiously.
They exchanged glances, Jiang Zhiyan nodding shyly: “Yes, yes.”
Si Xu: …
Si Xu fled into the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror.
This was a disaster. She had just resolved one crisis, why was she caught in another?
What should she say? Should she just say she was taking a shower? But what if Jiang Zhiyan asked what she meant by that earlier statement? What if Jiang Zhiyan was just blushing and replied casually?
Jiang Zhiyan leaned against the sofa and couldn’t help but laugh.
“So what do you mean?” The system asked.
“Oh, just teasing her.” Jiang Zhiyan stood up, went back to her room, wiped herself down, changed into her pajamas, and sat back down on the sofa.
Si Xu lingered in the bathroom for a long time. Coming out and seeing Jiang Zhiyan in a camisole and pajama shorts, she froze.
“Ah, I’m so tired today, I’m so sleepy, good night, you should go to bed early too, the lights will be out soon.”
“Okay, good night, Senior, have a good rest… By the way, Senior, can you wake me up tomorrow morning?” Jiang Zhiyan looked at Si Xu expectantly, sitting properly on the sofa, like an elementary school student.
“Okay.” Si Xu quickly nodded. “Good night.”
Jiang Zhiyan watched Si Xu’s retreating figure, the corners of her lips curling up slightly, then went back to her room, lay down on the bed, and pulled the blanket over herself.
“Si Xu, so wise and capable, how could she…”
“You don’t understand my charm.”
“Ugh.”
“Wake me up at 5:30 tomorrow.”
“Why?”
“To prepare in advance.”
System: …
“Don’t tell me you’re going to wake up and put on a full face of makeup.”
“I’m not an idiot.”
Jiang Zhiyan closed her eyes. Three minutes later, the system asked: “Are you asleep? How can you still sleep after sleeping for so long this afternoon?”
“How come you’re still not smart after being stupid for so long?”
“Fuck.”
“Shut up.”
The system didn’t want to wake Jiang Zhiyan anymore, it even wanted to draw something on her face.
But it didn’t have the guts.
Jiang Zhiyan woke up and styled her hair in a messy bun, lying on her side to show off her perfect right profile.
The system couldn’t bear to look: “Like a viper preening itself. What if she just knocks and doesn’t come in?”
Jiang Zhiyan muted it. Hearing footsteps outside, she closed her eyes.
Hearing the knock, Jiang Zhiyan’s heart skipped a beat. Could the system be right?
She didn’t move. After knocking three times without a response, Si Xu opened the door.
“Jiang Zhiyan?”
Si Xu called out, but Jiang Zhiyan didn’t move.
Jiang Zhiyan felt Si Xu approach. She stopped beside the bed, seemingly at a loss, then, after a moment’s hesitation, reached out and gently shook Jiang Zhiyan’s shoulder.
“Hmm…” Jiang Zhiyan opened one eye, looked at Si Xu with a confused expression, then burrowed further under the covers and yawned. “Senior.”
“Wake up.” Si Xu patted her again. A hand suddenly reached out from under the blankets and grabbed her hand. She froze, then felt Jiang Zhiyan nuzzle her hand with her cheek like a cuddly cat.
“Senior, sleep with me for a little longer, it’s still early.” Jiang Zhiyan’s voice was slightly nasal, drawing out the last syllable.
“It’s not early anymore, get up.” Si Xu pulled back a corner of the blanket.
Jiang Zhiyan curled up, feeling the light, and opened one eye to look at Si Xu with a harmless expression, like a mewing kitten.
“Senior, I can’t get up, pull me up.” Jiang Zhiyan stretched out her hand, her beautiful eyes slightly red. She did look sleepy, her eyes watery.
Si Xu took her hand and pulled her up. Who knew that after getting up, Jiang Zhiyan would immediately hug Si Xu’s waist, bury her face in Si Xu’s stomach, and nuzzle against her.
“Okay, I’m awake!”
Si Xu took a deep breath and rubbed Jiang Zhiyan’s head, unable to argue with someone who had just woken up: “Hurry up, I’ll wait for you outside.”
“Okay.” Jiang Zhiyan nodded.
Si Xu went out, closed the door, then went to wake up Qian Rongrong. She banged on the door three times. Opening it, she saw Qian Rongrong lying motionless on the bed, so she replicated two metal basins and clanged them together in front of her.
“Holy shit, Si Xu!” Qian Rongrong shot up from the bed.
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