10: Chapter 10 The Transcript Scandal (2)

"Phew~ That should be fine now." Xing Yaoyan exhaled a breath of stale air and slowly raised her head.

The lid of the capsule had opened at some point.

She slowly crawled up and cautiously observed her surroundings.

Aside from a few large and small healing capsules still emitting blue light, there was no one else in the room.

She hadn't paid much attention when she first entered, but now she saw that in some of the open healing capsules, various Spirit Beasts were lying inside with dull, vacant gazes, like statues.

Xing Yaoyan carefully shifted her body and leaped lightly onto the floor without making a sound.

Truth be told, these healing capsules were quite effective; the previously large wound now left not a single trace. The only downside was that it couldn't replenish the Power Of Will within her body.

She leaped lightly, twisted the doorknob, and ran quickly toward Room 101 based on her memory.

It was lucky for her that the Spirit Beast treatment room was in a relatively remote location, where people rarely came, and it wasn't far from her destination.

Xing Yaoyan thus arrived at Room 101 without any obstruction.

The closer she got to this room—no, the closer she got to the object inside this room—the more intense that feeling of longing became.

Gradually, she stopped caring about any risks, real or imagined, and quickly slipped through the slightly ajar door of the room. Guided by desire, she bypassed box after box and impatiently dove into a black plastic package.

Xing Yaoyan sensed things that felt like stones, but without the slightest hesitation, she opened her small mouth and bit down on one of them.

The "stone" that had felt as hard as iron instantly melted in her mouth, just like eating a mouthful of incredibly delicious cream puff, making her feel as if she were floating on air.

Moreover, she was pleasantly surprised to discover that after eating these "stones," her previously dull and lusterless Spirit Sea gradually began to fill with little specks of starlight, which made the golden Holy Mark suspended in the center appear even more exceptionally divine.

Good stuff! Eat quickly!

Munch munch munch munch~

Xing Yaoyan was completely immersed in an ocean of deliciousness and the joy of gradually recovering her strength, completely failing to notice that two dark shadows had arrived behind her at some point...

...

"Hey! Tell me, Qian Mo, why does your family member like eating trash..."

"Hmm... I don't know either. Maybe it's a quirk unique to its species of Spirit Beast?"

Crouching by the torn bag, Qian Mo silently picked up a crystal stone that had long since lost its luster and examined it curiously.

"Let it eat a bit more..."

"Why? These are used-up Spirit Stones; what use is it for a little wolf cub without any Qi to eat them? Don't let it get food poisoning." Captain Li Qiaoyan, who was also crouching, poked Qian Mo with her shoulder.

"Just let it eat a bit more, it'll be fine..."

"But it's already been eating here for ten minutes... And I'm still covering for it without reporting it; after all, this matter could be big or small..."

"I will definitely apply to the Longxiang Academy..."

"Oh my! Junior is a man of true character! I'll do a good deed then; if she likes to eat, let her eat more. It's not worth anything anyway. Hahaha..."

The two stopped talking and just silently watched Xing Yaoyan's adorable appearance as she ate.

"System! Is it really okay for it to eat this stuff?"

Qian Mo stared at the new golden mission that had appeared in the mission list—Xing Yaoyan has inexplicably run to Room 101, please provide cover for it and let it eat to its heart's content.

This was also the reason why he had dragged Captain Li Qiaoyan to this room so mysteriously the moment he came out, and why he had told her not to make a fuss.

[Ding! Host, rest assured, the mission issued by the System is purely to pave the way for the Host's path to becoming a god; it will not harm you.]

"Don't give me that 'my' stuff; I'm asking if it's okay."

[It is.]

"Got it."

Who knows how much time had passed.

Xing Yaoyan raised her head in a daze, looking somewhat foolishly and adorably at the two two-legged beasts behind her who were staring with wide eyes.

"Did I hallucinate from the high?"

The feeling of fullness coming from her Spirit Sea made her feel as if she were floating on air, and she hadn't expected these special stones to provide her with so much replenishment of Power Of Will.

If I have another meal of these stones, my Spirit Sea should be full!

But as for further Breakthrough, it might still be missing something...

Mixed with joy and other special emotions, her gaze became hazy, as if she were drugged.

"Xiao Yan? Are you finished? Then we should go."

"Mmm, okay." Xing Yaoyan's words were slurred.

"Qian Mo, did your family member just speak?"

!

Xing Yaoyan instantly perked up after hearing Captain Li Qiaoyan's words.

The sense of crisis from having been locked in the Black Prison before washed over her nerves again and again, and combined with the memory of witnessing the snake monster die miserably at the hands of the young girl, it undoubtedly reminded her:

Here, the fate of being treated as a monster is miserable!

"Meow... Awoo~"

Xing Yaoyan leaped up, jumped straight into Qian Mo's arms, and after a moment of hesitation, quickly licked the young man's face, looking exactly like an excited Spirit Beast seeing its master.

Although she was a wolf, and a Star-Swallowing Wolf from the mysterious starry sky at that, as the saying goes: A Dragon in shallow water is teased by shrimp, and a fallen Phoenix is worse off than a chicken. When under someone else's roof, one has to bow one's head.

Once I, the Dragon, get back to the water, I will make the Yangtze River flow backward. By then, it will be you, Qian Mo, licking... pfft, you will be under my feet...

Xing Yaoyan, who was pulling out all the stops to act cute, thought to herself.

"Did it? Could you have misheard?" Qian Mo looked calmly at Captain Li Qiaoyan.

"Uh—I suppose so... Forget it, anyway, the Monster Detection Stone at the entrance didn't react when we came in. Besides, monsters are smarter than this guy; at least they wouldn't eat these Spirit Stones that have no Qi."

Captain Li Qiaoyan rested her chin on one hand, watching the intimate interaction between Xing Yaoyan and Qian Mo with interest, a trace of imperceptible envy flashing in her eyes.

"Alright, it's getting late, let's hurry up and leave, otherwise Sister Han will be in trouble; she helped us stall for a full half hour."

Captain Li Qiaoyan stood up and stretched lazily.

"Oh, that's right, my future junior, let's add each other on Spirit Messenger so it's easier to contact each other in the future."

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