190: The two were trapped

He admitted that Cheng Siyu looked very charming like this, but at this moment, he only felt irritable. He subconsciously pushed her away and said impatiently, "Right now, there's a pile of things to do in the base. Can you stop adding to the mess? Go back and rest, don't interfere with my work!"

Gu Xiheng's blunt words made Cheng Siyu's face turn red, her heart fill with embarrassment, and her expression become awkward.

She had summoned a great deal of courage to intercept Gu Xiheng looking like this, but she hadn't expected the result to be so humiliating.

Cheng Siyu's eyes reddened, her lips tightly pursed. She gave Gu Xiheng a resentful look and ran away without a word.

Gu Xiheng watched Cheng Siyu's receding back and let out a sigh that was barely audible.

Without dwelling on it too much, he continued his work on reinforcing the base... "Ai Yue? Ai Yue? Wake up..."

Ai Yue felt as though she was trapped in darkness. No matter where she walked, it was pitch black, without a single ray of light.

Just as she was at her wits' end and feeling extremely anxious, a familiar voice drifted from afar.

She ran towards the direction of the voice. As she ran, her foot stepped into empty air, and the darkness before her eyes instantly shattered.

"Ai Yue? Wake up quickly..."

Gong Qiuqiu weakly and repeatedly called out to Ai Yue, who was lying on top of him.

Ai Yue slowly opened her eyes, and what met her gaze was Gong Qiuqiu's face, which was covered in blood.

Ai Yue was startled by his miserable appearance. She was about to get up when she realized her lower body could not move.

"Don't move, you're pressing on my wound," Gong Qiuqiu said with difficulty, baring his teeth in pain as Ai Yue tried to push herself up.

Ai Yue immediately stopped her movements.

She lay back down as she was.

"Ah..." Gong Qiuqiu let out a muffled cry of pain, keeping his voice low.

"Did I hit the wound?" Ai Yue couldn't help but want to get up again.

"Don't move! Let me recover for a moment," Gong Qiuqiu said immediately upon sensing Ai Yue's movement.

Ai Yue didn't dare move again, simply lying there on top of Gong Qiuqiu.

Gong Qiuqiu had reached his limit of endurance and said in extreme agony, "Ai Yue, don't you have Healing?"

"How did you know?"

"You used it on me twice. If I still didn't know, wouldn't I be an idiot?"

Ai Yue let out a deep sigh. It truly wasn't easy to try and hide one's capabilities.

To stop herself from feeling so uncomfortable, and since Gong Qiuqiu already knew, there was no longer anything to hide.

Ai Yue muttered softly, "You're really getting a bargain! But considering you acted as my cushion, I won't hold it against you."

With a flick of her finger, a green light enveloped Ai Yue's own body.

Instantly, Ai Yue got up from Gong Qiuqiu's body, completely unharmed.

As soon as Ai Yue moved, it tugged at Gong Qiuqiu's wounds again, and he let out an involuntary muffled groan.

Seeing this, Ai Yue immediately sent a streak of green light into Gong Qiuqiu's body.

Gong Qiuqiu, who was still trying to endure the pain, felt his whole body lighten as the pain receded like a tide.

Gong Qiuqiu tentatively moved his injured limbs and found they were perfectly fine and moved freely.

"Ai Yue, this ability of yours is simply too heaven-defying. If people with ulterior motives find out, they will definitely target you. You must be on guard," Gong Qiuqiu said.

"Does those with ulterior motives include you?" Ai Yue asked with a light smile.

"Of course! Haven't I been inviting you to my Safety Tower? I'm telling you plainly that I'm targeting you. You were already valuable enough, but I didn't expect you to have an even more powerful Superpower. This makes me have to work even harder to trick your whole family into coming to the base."

Gong Qiuqiu stood up from the ground, picked up a flashlight to illuminate the surroundings, and spoke bluntly.

"What if we've made up our minds not to go?" Ai Yue asked.

"Then there's nothing I can do but build rapport first. If you want to join a Safety Tower in the future, you can give ours priority based on our familiarity," Gong Qiuqiu shrugged with a calm expression.

"Heh, you certainly don't hide anything," Ai Yue said, giving him a white look.

"I have no choice, I can't use force. Besides, force is useless; I can't beat you anyway. I think if you were to choose, you would definitely choose the base most beneficial to you, and our base is your optimal choice," Gong Qiuqiu finished, then walked around with the flashlight to inspect the surroundings.

"You certainly see things clearly. By the way, where is this?" Ai Yue also looked around the environment in confusion.

"I think this should be deep underground," Gong Qiuqiu stated his deduction.

Ai Yue was stunned. "Underground?"

"Yes!"

Ai Yue had no idea how they had fallen underground. She only remembered being completely knocked unconscious by the roar of that giant monster; she didn't remember anything that happened after that.

"We were lucky to fall into this underground karst cave. If you didn't have the Healing Superpower, the two of us could only wait for death here," Gong Qiuqiu said, and then his stomach let out an untimely sound.

The loud growl of his stomach echoed through the silence.

Gong Qiuqiu's face flushed with embarrassment. Fortunately, the cave was pitch black, and he was holding the flashlight, so his entire face was hidden in the darkness, making his expression unreadable.

He suppressed the embarrassment rising within him and spoke calmly, "Sorry, we've been trapped here for two days already, and I'm really quite hungry."

Ai Yue also felt famished at this point. She had no intention of laughing at him. She felt around her person, but in reality, she took two vegetable pancakess out of her space and gave one to Gong Qiuqiu.

Gong Qiuqiu was startled and didn't take it.

"Take it. It's just an ordinary vegetable pancakes. My mother made it with wild vegetables picked from Nameless Mountain. It tastes pretty good! Try it!" Ai Yue handed it to him again.

Gong Qiuqiu took it and took a bite. His mouth was filled with bitterness; it didn't taste 'pretty good' as Ai Yue had said at all.

However, he still ate it with great relish.

When a person is extremely hungry, even eating dirt would be delicious, let alone a somewhat bitter vegetable pancakes.

"Thank you. I didn't expect you to be carrying dry rations with you." Gong Qiuqiu finished the vegetable pancakes in the blink of an eye, taking large bites.

"I'm used to it. Since the Apocalypse began, I often go out, so my mom prepares food that keeps well for me," Ai Yue said half-truthfully.

After eating one vegetable pancakes, Gong Qiuqiu felt his stomach was much better, but he felt even hungrier. He looked longingly at Ai Yue's remaining half-pancake and licked his lips.

Ai Yue felt Gong Qiuqiu's burning gaze fall on her pancake. She silently turned around and stuffed the pancake into her mouth in a few bites.

Seeing Ai Yue finish the pancake, Gong Qiuqiu let out a sigh of regret and withdrew his gaze.

After eating the pancake, Ai Yue felt her mouth was a bit dry and really wanted to take some water out of her space to drink, but that was unrealistic.