Chapter 80: Begging, casting hearts, nuance.

The other monitoring points are getting more and more people in place, both in groups and alone.

Zhan Yanchao was the seventh "tenth" to arrive and happened to be at the same monitoring point as Chi Xiaochi and the others.

When he was led to the rest area and saw Luo Qian, Zhan Yanchao first averted his eyes, but when he thought about what it meant for Luo Qian to be here, his heart stirred and his eyes turned to Chi Xiaochi, who had walked in from outside the tent, shaking the water droplets from his hands.

Zhan Yanchao's eyes were as saved as if he had been rescued, and he walked quickly towards him.

When he spied on him in private, Zhan Yanchao felt that he had a million things to say to him, words that could pile up in his throat, but when he saw him, he felt that his whole body had been emptied, and the only thing that was conscious was his heart, which was beating faster and faster.

He straightened his lapel a bit and touched his cheeks again to make sure there was no dirt before squeezing out a wide grin.

Chi Xiaochi sat down, and he followed.

Realizing that the other party did not intentionally dodge, Zhan Yanchao's slightly stiff and curt smile became much more relaxed.

When he first teamed up with Zhan Yanchao, Wang Xiaoqing didn't have much ill will towards him, only knowing that Ji Zuoshan was his human sacrifice, and that he later broke away from the Zhan family.

But after last night, now she couldn't wait to spit in the little thing's face.

Luo Qian sensed her stupidity and patted her leg, "Xiao Qing, go."

Having been with Luo Qian for so long, Wang Xiaoqing of course already knew what kind of mess she had made. She stared at the two men and whispered, "What are you doing?"

Luo Qian : "The helicopter is outside. Let's go to the headquarters and check out your mech."

Wang Xiaoqing: "I'm not leaving. If the one surnamed Zhan bullies Xiao Ji."

Luo Qian looked at her with a smile.

Wang Xiaoqing lost it.

...... Ji Zuoshan Spiritual power is so strong, as long as he wants to, in this small monitoring point, those who are not wearing mechs, I am afraid that they can all be directly shocked into ashes by his spiritual power.

But Wang Xizhou, oblivious, patted his chest and said, "Sister, you go with Sister Luo Qian, I'll help Xiao Ji."

Wang Xiaoqing could not help but pick up the outspoken Wang Xizhou and drag him towards the outside.

For this little thing to say "help" Xiao Ji is as ridiculous as saying he's going to "donate" to the Zhan family.

Before leaving, Wang Xiaoqing gave Zhan Yanchao a big middle finger.

Luo Qian laughed, reached out and pressed her slender middle finger down, smoothly wrapping that palm between the slightly calloused palms and pulling her out of the tent.

Zhan Yanchao coughed softly only when the idle people left.

Chi Xiaochi ignored him and read the pamphlet on prizes that the Ombudsman had just given him.

He got second place, and the prize was a desert camouflage-colored speed scout mech.

The army-grade solo mechs differ from Chi Xiaochi's Blue specs in that the larger ones are over a hundred meters tall, weigh about a hundred tons, have the ability to navigate the cosmos, are equipped with heavy firepower weapons that are strong enough to withstand space jumps perfectly, and are equipped with enough firepower for a regiment.

The army didn't have any extra large mechs for the students to practice on, so usually they divided many classes according to the various functions of military grade mechs, including space simulation piloting, the use of various light and heavy fire weapons, and the physical mechs they usually used were used to train their close combat skills.

When meeting with the insect army at a distance, firepower suppression was still useful, however, once they met with the insects in a short battle, the only thing left to rely on was to fight for their lives.

There weren't many main pilots qualified enough to use a single mech, mostly countless young Alpha's in mechs similar to the one Chi Xiaochi had won, following the single mech behind the manned ship like little cans in a big can, staring blankly into the darkness in front of them, waiting for orders from the summit, waiting for the hatch to open, ready to fight the Insectoids anytime they wanted to kill you or me.

Finding himself unheeded, Zhan Yanchao coughed again.

Chi Xiaochi asked him, "You have a scratchy throat? Do you want some water?"

Zhan Yanchao nodded his head at the sight of the paper cup of water placed at his right hand.

Chi Xiaochi gave him his glass of water.

Zhan Yanchao took several sips, feeling the water so sweet that it seeped straight into his heart.

Chi Xiaochi added the second half of the sentence, "Xiao Wang used it, you're welcome."

Zhan Yanchao choked on a mouthful of water.

Xiao Wang refers to Wang Xizhou.

If it weren't for Ji Zuoshan's own persona, Chi Xiaochi would have called Wang Xiaoqing Da Wang.

Zhan Yanchao coughed so hard that tears came out of his eyes, and when he wiped his mouth, he still gritted his teeth and glared at the cup, until he thought that the cup was touched by Xiao Ji, and then his heart felt a little more comfortable.

He held the cup, rubbing his fingertips over the surface, waiting for Ji Zuoshan to speak to him.

But it took a while for Zhan Yanchao to realize that Xiao Ji was no longer the same Xiao Ji who had to rack his brain to keep the conversation going.

Thinking about it, the mouth flooded with a faint sour taste, choking Zhan Yanchao eyes blurred.

He wiped his eyes and whispered, "Number one?"

He's asking for Ji Zuoshan's name.

Chi Xiaochi pointed to the second mech on the brochure.

Zhan Yanchao found the topic and started to be positive, "How come. You should be number one."

Chi Xiaochi doesn't answer, "You're seventh."

Zhan Yanchao knew that this kind of thing was a matter of luck, and it was useless for the team to work together if they were too far away from the monitoring point. Conscious of his luck, he puffed out his chest, "Yes."

Chi Xiaochi: "Grabbing someone's keys."

Zhan Yanchao : "......" The smile on his face faded.

He froze for a long time and hastily defended himself, "It wasn't. It was another lone person who attacked me first ...... me ......"

Chi Xiaochi said, "You don't have to explain anything to me. It's the rule by default."

Zhan Yanchao no longer said anything and whispered, "I'm afraid you hate me."

Chi Xiaochi looked up at him steadily for a moment, smiled, shook her head, and lowered her face again.

Zhan Yanchao panicked, but didn't dare to force him away once again by grilling him vociferously as he had done on previous occasions.

He had seen enough of Ji Zuoshan's back leaving him, and even thinking about it made his heart ache.

Had he known that he would end up like this, he would have died rather than let Luo Qian take Ji Zuoshan away.

He called out to him, his voice drenched in wanting pain, "Xiao Ji."

Ji Zuoshan's attitude was light, yet not so light as to ignore it, as if he were treating an ordinary classmate, "Huh?"

Zhan Yanchao couldn't take such a cold reception and reached out to hold his hand, "Xiao Ji, come home with me."

Chi Xiaochi : "......" vomit.

061 immediately used a baby warmer from the warehouse to stick on his stomach, and gently covered him with his palm through the baby warmer, so Chi Xiaochi was able to continue the play despite some discomfort.

Chi Xiaochi tilted his head slightly, watching Zhan Yanchao.

Zhan Yanchao lowered his head so low that it almost nestled into his chest, leaving Chi Xiaochi with only a shaggy swirl of hair, "I know I'm wrong."

Zhan Yanchao's tongue was numb with acerbity as he uttered those words, but he was full of anticipation.

Give me a chance. I'll never treat you that way again. I'll be nice to you, I'll go back and burn the whip with the coffin. I'll make you Alpha, the strongest Alpha.

You've been with me since I was eight years old, which is almost ten years, ten years, which is longer than half the time I've been alive.

Please be as soft-hearted as you always are ...... please.

A thousand words came to Zhan Yanchao's lips, condensed into another "I know I'm wrong".

Chi Xiaochi looked at him and I don't know how much time passed before he asked, "...... So?"

Zhan Yanchao: "Don't you hate me. Don't hate me. I want you to come home with me, I'll make it up to you, I restored your room a long time ago, I bought new furniture, the old ...... old ones I gave ...... to throw away, as long as you go back, I'll listen to you from now on... ..."

He was almost a little short of oxygen after the string of words.

The immense pressure made him unable to lift his head, even when he was facing the seven or eight bugs that had closed in on him in the past few days, he had never been this desperate, yet hopeful.

After a long time, he heard Ji Zuoshan's judgment, "I don't hate you, because that's not what's necessary."

Zhan Yanchao was delighted, yet before he could joyfully embrace Ji Zuoshan's arm, he heard the man continue, "I'm not going back because that's not necessary either."

Zhan Yanchao sprang to his feet, still with his head bowed, but his tone had become urgent, "How is this not necessary? How is it not? It's important to me! Very important!"

He hated his crazy self for being that way in the first place!

If he hadn't burned all of Ji Zuoshan's belongings for the sake of a quick fix, he wouldn't have been able to find even a single remnant of Ji Zuoshan's past, except for an ordinary notebook.

The heart was bouncing wildly in his cavity and it hurt him to death.

Chi Xiaochi's mood, however, remained light: "I think my opinion is important too. Can you respect my opinion?"

Zhan Yanchao has long been tense childish temper and spread out: "You think I'm not good, I can change, I can change everything, but you can not not give me a chance ah."

Chi Xiaochi asked rhetorically, "Why can't I?"

Zhan Yanchao knuckles snapped twice, in the usual way this is the omen of his anger.

"Getting angry again." Chi Xiaochi asked calmly, "Getting the whip out again?"

Zhan Yanchao's fingers loosened.

He lifted his head and looked fixedly at the person in front of him.

A large, round teardrop fell out of his eye and hung on his eyelashes, shaking.

Chi Xiaochi is still looking at him.

The Zhan Yanchao who begged bitterly, the Zhan Yanchao who panicked, the Zhan Yanchao who deliberately tried to please, and the Zhan Yanchao who was weak and powerless had never appeared in Ji Zuoshan's original memories.

In Ji Zuoshan's memory, he was strong, domineering, naive and savage.

And these very different Zhan Yanchao, Chi Xiaochi saw it all in a matter of minutes.

Ji Zuoshan, who was inside him, was likewise watching.

Soon, Ji Zuoshan opened his mouth, "Let's go."

No sadness, no anger, no elation, just say, go.

Chi Xiaochi readily accepted the good advice and covered up the booklet, intending to check out the new mech he'd accidentally gotten his hands on.

Zhan Yanchao wiped away the tears staining his long eyelashes, "Ji Zuoshan, I like you."

Chi Xiaochi didn't react much, just stood still, but Ji Zuoshan's heart trembled at the tip.

When he was still alive, Zhan Yanchao had never once said "like" in such a serious manner, even when he was making love, he was just sticking to his ear and saying some rogue words that made him blush.

I never thought I'd have the honor of hearing it now.

Ji Zuoshan let out a muffled, self-deprecating laugh, "......ha."

When Chi Xiaochi heard Ji Zuoshan laughing in this way, he already guessed his attitude, and without further hesitation, he took a step toward the outside.

Zhan Yanchao chased out a few steps and said in pain, "Ji Zuoshan! How dare you say you don't like me? How dare you say that?"

Chi Xiaochi, who had come to the door of the tent, lifted the curtain and waved lazily at the back.

"I wouldn't dare." Chi Xiaochi was frank, "There's nothing wrong with admitting that you liked it."

If he had not liked it, Ji Zuoshan could not have been so sad and hateful, so hateful that he would rather burn his own body than be taken back to the coffin by Zhan Yanchao.

But it's all in the "past".

It was not until long after Ji Zuoshan disappeared in front of the tent that Zhan Yanchao sat down, picked up the disposable cup, rubbed it again and again, never able to throw it away, and finally put it into his own pocket.

Leaving the tent, Chi Xiaochi looks up at the sky.

The first countless rays of the early morning sprinkled down, wrapping the teenager's lean figure in them and causing him to squint slightly.

061 confirmed the data and said, "The remorse value is up to 30."

Chi Xiaochi: "Uh-huh."

061 held back, but still couldn't hold back, "...... don't cash cards?"

Chi Xiaochi closed his eyes, but the corner of his mouth slowly hooked up a little smile.

061 coughed softly, "Please, this student, don't mock the teacher."

Chi Xiaochi commiserated, "Teacher, I didn't."

061 roughened his voice slightly, "What's the matter with you being so biased, can't you even out the points for the class on good sense?"

Chi Xiaochi argued, "I didn't use the favor value because for Zhan Yanchao, the favor value is the best prop to use."

061 As righteous as a people's teacher: "Don't talk about props in a child's house."

Chi Xiaochi was shocked: "...... "Mr. Six what happened to you Mr. Six, quickly return the original Mr. Six to me.

Ji Zuoshan snorted out a laugh, "You guys are so affectionate."

061 finally remembered that there was someone else in his body, and was vaguely earwigged.

Chi Xiaochi said naturally, "Just kidding, this is my teacher."

Saying this, he said to 061, "Bah, die of this, I won't tell the secrets of our party."

061: "......" jumps the shark so fast?

But he quickly picked up on Chi Xiaochi's play: "You're young, isn't it good to think about your future, why are you obsessed?"

Chi Xiaochi, in an attitude of defiance, "Because our thinking is progressive and yours is corrupt."

Ji Zuoshan couldn't quite understand what they were saying, but he couldn't help but burst out laughing.

061 and Chi Xiaochi thought in unison, "Laughing, it sounds pretty good.

Since returning from the summer training, Ji Zuoshan's personality has changed a lot, he started to try to join 061's conversation with Chi Xiaochi, borrowed some books from 061 about different worlds and tried to learn about different social patterns.

Sometime after receiving the mech, Luo Qian found Chi Xiaochi in the mech repair room and said, "I've measured all that Naman metal you brought back, it's perfectly capable of re-strengthening Blue from head to toe, and there's still some left over."

Chi Xiaochi got out of Blue's cabin, rubbing some motor oil on his cheeks, "Thanks a lot."

Luo Qian: "No thanks. Did you go mining? Where did you get so much Naman metal?"

Chi Xiaochi, however, smiled without saying a word.

Since Chi Xiaochi doesn't want to talk about it, Luo Qian won't force him to do so, even if friends are close to each other, there should always be some secrets.

She said, "I thought you had a new mech, why are you thinking of using Blue?"

Chi Xiaochi plastered himself with gold: "Nostalgia for the past."

Luo Qian suddenly remembered something, "My mech arrived, where's yours, bring it to me for study."

Chi Xiaochi : "Oh, that. Sold."

Luo Qian : "......???"

Chi Xiaochi stroked Blue's back, "I have Blue and that's all I need."

Blue gently raises his hand and touches his chin in response.

Luo Qian blinked her blue eyes, a bit reluctant, "Who did you sell it to? Didn't you say you'd let me study it?"

Chi Xiaochi wipes his sweaty forehead with a towel, "Sold to Wang Xizhou. He happens to be a speedster. If you don't feel comfortable going to Wang's house for research, I'll get it back for you?"

Luo Qian raised her eyebrows, gave him a thumbs up, and was about to leave when Chi Xiaochi stopped her behind her back, "Luo Qian, you want to do scientific research, don't you?"

Luo Qian froze, "Yes."

"If you want to do scientific research, you still have to be an Alpha before you can qualify for access to top resources, right?"

Luo Qian smiled, "Yeah. Isn't that normal? Why do you suddenly want to ask this?"

He reentered the cabin and whispered, "No. It shouldn't be."

Luo Qian shook his head, not knowing what whims he had suddenly had.

Anyone can sense that Ji Zuoshan is not the same.

The change was especially noticeable upon returning to school.

He was much more cheerful, and would pull in his classmates for a chat, whether they were of noble birth, or those who accompanied Gong Zi's brothers to school, and would often spar with them, and instruct them not sparingly, sometimes with a witticism or two in which he was not quite fluent.

Once, he encountered the classmate who had been shot out of his own mech at the shooting range.

Since that time, he's switched classes.

He purposely discharged blanks to interfere with Chi Xiaochi's shooting, but Chi Xiaochi, who sensed his intention, shot off the target handle in a second.

The man was so mortified that he jumped up and shouted, "Surname Ji, I'll fuck you up!"

Chi Xiaochi had already finished consuming the energy inside the accumulator gun, pinched a small flower and inserted it into the still-smoking muzzle of the gun, and then he swung the gun into his arms and laughed, "Then I'll thank you on behalf of my grandpa."

There are many rumors out there, saying that since Ji Zuoshan has fallen out with Zhan Yanchao, according to the way Zhan Yanchao treated Ji Zuoshan in the past, it would be strange if Ji Zuoshan would not beat him into an Omega.

Zhan Yanling also heard about this and called Zhan Yanchao home to inquire about the situation.

Zhan Yanchao, however, was unperturbed by this, and was even quite happy: "He can beat me. If he beats me to Omega, will he not want me?"

Even the good-tempered Zhan Yanling can't help but be furious: "...... Do you know what an Omega is?"