Qi Lin Likes Her

Qi Lin noticed the convoy had broken away through the rearview mirror and signaled Qin Yu to stop and wait.

"What happened? Why did you stop the car without saying anything beforehand? Did something happen?" Qin Yu asked.

An Lan smiled and said, "They even let two people get out of the car."

She didn't say it explicitly, but it was meaningful nonetheless.

"I've long heard that Professor Song from the School of Pharmacy is a talent the Federation has been eagerly seeking, but unfortunately he's always been reluctant to come to Beijing. Now that he's accepted the Federation's invitation, it's for Su Yuan."

"At first I thought it was just a joke, but now I see there's some truth to it."

Qi Lin pressed his thin lips into a straight line and looked away.

He seemed to pay too much attention to Su Yuan.

In the car.

"Are you back to normal?" Su Yuan rubbed her wrist and warned, "Don't talk nonsense about our relationship anymore."

"Does your hand hurt?" Song Shixiu asked.

Su Yuan: ?

Was he even listening to her?

"Wouldn't that be a little inappropriate?" Deng Ke leaned closer and asked Sun Jia.

"After all, we're on a mission, so..."

Sun Jia glared at him. "We're engaged, it's been so long, what's wrong with that? Mind your own business!"

The car door suddenly opened.

The two of them turned around at the same time.

Their eyes were wide open, each one bigger than the last.

Sun Jia pointed, but didn't dare to speak for a long time.

Their great Professor Song, with his face slightly swollen on both sides, was still smiling!

"Professor Song."

The two of them shouted in unison.

Song Shixiu pointed to the back row and said to Sun Jia, "Go to the back row."

Did he upset his teacher's wife and get abused by her?

Sun Jia expressed sympathy, her admiration for Su Yuan was like a surging river, and she really wanted to know how her teacher's wife had captured Professor Song's heart.

Even domestic violence makes Professor Song so happy.

"Don't call her 'teacher's wife,' we're not in that kind of relationship."

"I'm pursuing her."

Song Shixiu slowly and deliberately straightened his collar.

He always pays close attention to his image when he is out in public.

Sun Jia nodded emphatically, "Understood!"

The teacher's wife is shy.

They all understand!

After the seating arrangement was changed, we started again.

As expected, Su Yuan did not hear the term "teacher's wife" again along the way.

She silently grumbled to the system: "I guess I really need a couple of slaps to wake up."

System: [Host is awesome!]

Su Yuan recalled her first meeting with Song Shixiu.

At that time, Song Shixiu was even more insane, utterly incorrigible. His daily pleasure was watching how much blood flowed from his wrist.

After breaking up with Zhou Si, she hid away and worked as a waitress in a high-end club for people with special needs.

Su Yuan was worried because her lifespan was nearing its end and the system was slow to release new strategy missions.

Unexpectedly, while delivering food to Song Shixiu, the system suddenly issued a binding task.

[Host, the person in front of you is the target of this mission. Please attract the target's attention immediately and establish a bond with them!]

She looked at Song Shixiu, who no longer resembled a human being, and reached out her hand to him.

What did I say again?

It sounded like—"It hurts a lot, doesn't it? Do you need help?"

At that time, Song Shixiu was a blood slave kept by a person with superpowers.

The woman who imprisoned Song Shixiu as a blood slave was later personally dismembered by Song Shixiu, piece by piece, and became food for stray dogs by the roadside...

The convoy approached the Red Mist Forest.

The convoy did not rest at all along the way.

At noon, the team arrived at the federal restricted area. All vehicles were turned off, and everyone began to organize their equipment. The rest of the journey would have to be done entirely on foot.

The forest was shrouded in red mist, making it impossible to see what was inside; only occasional sharp cries could be heard from within.

It sounds like a bird's call, or perhaps it's a bird's call that someone deliberately imitated.

The first team, along with the students from the Pharmacy Academy who participated in this mission, totaled ten people.

The other two pharmacy students were mainly responsible for transporting the containers.

After they put the containers into Deng Ke and Ning Fei's backpacks, they handed the communicator prepared in the car to Sun Jia, indicating that she should distribute it.

That was a high-signal communicator provided by the Federation for this mission.

Experiments have shown that communication can be maintained as long as the distance between people in the Red Mist Forest does not exceed 500 meters.

Sun Jia handed over a Su Yuan, "Steward Su."

Su Yuan took it and put it on her ears.

Qi Lin looked at everyone and reminded them through the communication headset: "Everyone is ready. The destination is in the heart of the forest. We need to find a place to stay in the forest before dark."

On a treetop not far away, a dark figure plummeted vertically, landing steadily before showing respect to the person in front of it.

"My lord, the target has entered the Crimson Mist Forest."

-

The Red Mist Forest is shrouded in red mist year-round. Once inside, the ground is so damp that every step leaves a deep footprint.

"Slower."

Deng Ke reached out and pulled Sun Jia along.

Ning Fei followed closely behind.

Qi Lin led the charge, An Lan followed in second place, and Qin Yu and Feng Yao brought up the rear.

Su Yuan was assigned to assist the students of the School of Pharmacy because she was familiar with them.

As they passed a pothole, Song Shixiu reached out to take Su Yuan's hand.

The latter leaped and landed steadily, tugged at the pack on his back, and urged him, "Keep up."

Sun Jia was dumbfounded.

Cattle!

[Host, a slight fluctuation in eerie energy level has been detected.]

Upon hearing the system notification, Su Yuan instinctively became alert to her surroundings.

From the moment she entered the forest, she activated the system's detection function.

The source of the strange energy fluctuations is still unclear. She raised her hand and pressed the earpiece to speak.

"Captain, there's a fluctuating aura around us."

The girl's clear voice came through the headset.

Qi Lin's throat bobbed. "Mmm."

"Everyone, be on high alert."

Qin Yu glanced at Su Yuan's figure ahead and said, "Little ancestor, your radar is really useful."

Feng Yao listened silently to the reminders in his earpiece, his alertness immediately reaching its peak.

As they walked, their view suddenly narrowed, with more trees and weeds blocking almost their entire view.

The weeds grew taller than a person.

After finally emerging from the dense thicket, a colossal ancient tree appeared before them, towering into the sky with its branches lying haphazardly, obscuring the sun.

It's a completely abnormal tree.

Qi Lin made a cut with his dagger, and bright red sap flowed from the tree trunk.

The three students from the Pharmacy Department quickly caught up and were instantly excited when they saw the blood-red liquid.

"Oh my god! It's actually red serum!"

"The red serum is an important ingredient in healing potions. Quick, let's gather some!"

Although they frequently use it in their daily research and production, this is the first time they have seen the raw materials in person.

After all, this kind of thing is the responsibility of the Resource Recycling Academy.

If Professor Song hadn't volunteered to come to Jinzhou to provide support, and hadn't happened to encounter a new type of toxin, and only Professor Song recognized the plant needed for the drug, they probably wouldn't have even seen this thing.

"Let's rest here for a while," Qi Lin gestured for everyone to rest.

Sun Jia and two other people worked hard to cut open the tree trunk and fill containers with sap.

Su Yuan moved her neck, and her gaze suddenly met Qi Lin's.

The former deliberately avoided eye contact, while Su Yuan thought of what Song Shixiu had said.

Qi Lin likes her.

Look at Qi Lin's disgusted expression; he clearly hates her terribly. You can't see a trace of liking him at all.

They must be blind.