Chapter 1536 - 772: Finally Arriving at Wood Stone Town!

Chapter 1536: Chapter 772: Finally Arriving at Wood Stone Town!

"Ah, it’s my turn already?" Aixius felt a bit nervous, still wanting to watch a little longer.

"Yeah, you try assembling it first. If there’s anything you don’t understand, I’ll teach you."

Hearing Lin Beichen say that, Aixius finally picked up the gun parts happily and started putting them together.

Actually, Aixius wasn’t dumb at all—on the contrary, she was very smart, and her memory was especially good.

So by the time Lin Beichen finished assembling it the first time, she already felt like she’d got it.

But when she actually started doing it, Aixius’s eyes rolled, and she deliberately asked, "How am I supposed to fit this part in?"

Hearing Aixius ask, Lin Beichen picked up the part and slowly demonstrated it in front of her.

Because he had to hold the parts to demonstrate, Lin Beichen’s hand inevitably bumped into Aixius’s hand.

This made Aixius secretly delighted, and then she kept finding all sorts of excuses for Lin Beichen to teach her more.

After quite a while, Lin Beichen saw that she finally got it and said to her, "Keep one gun on you for self-defense."

"But remember, when you’re about to shoot, you absolutely have to flip off the safety first."

Lin Beichen was worried that a newbie like Aixius might screw up. If some big trouble happened over such a small detail, that’d be way too stupid.

Aixius knew Lin Beichen was saying this for her own good, so she nodded and carefully put the gun away.

"Alright, sleep. Tomorrow we have to hurry and figure out a way to get to Wood Stone Town."

After saying that, Lin Beichen lay down on his own bed and closed his eyes to rest.

Aixius also lay down on the other bed not far away, secretly watching Lin Beichen.

She’d been half-asleep and muddle-headed last night, so Aixius felt like she hadn’t really gotten a good look at Lin Beichen sleeping. Now that she had the chance, she was determined to cherish it.

Especially when she saw Lin Beichen close his eyes, Aixius’s heart got even more tangled.

She lay on her side, one hand propping her head, quietly staring at Lin Beichen lying flat on the bed.

Should I tell him that I like him?

If I tell him, how will he react?

Will he be willing to be with me?

Right now Aixius’s mind was a mess, all sorts of thoughts flying around in her head.

In the end, she tossed and turned on the bed for over an hour, still not the slightest bit sleepy, and finally just sat up.

She saw that there was still a bit of empty space next to Lin Beichen, and she really wanted to go lie there like she had yesterday.

But if I do that, will he think I’m too easy?

No, I have to at least pretend to be reserved.

Besides, my mom said that if a man gets a woman too easily, he won’t cherish her.

Just like that, Aixius had no idea how long she spaced out, and in the end she probably got tired.

She went to the bathroom, and when she came back she just collapsed and went to sleep.

She had barely fallen asleep when Aixius suddenly felt both embarrassed and a little pleased.

She muttered in her heart: I really didn’t mean to end up sleeping in the same bed as Lin Beichen. I just accidentally got into the wrong bed, hehe.

Aixius even smugly praised her own little bit of cleverness.

With her goal achieved, Aixius quickly fell asleep next to Lin Beichen.

However, what she totally hadn’t expected was...

She had only just fallen asleep when a gunshot suddenly went "bang" in the distance.

It sounded like it came from the room next door, or maybe from the hotel hallway.

The sound instantly jolted both Lin Beichen and Aixius awake.

Aixius’s first reaction upon waking was to throw her arms around Lin Beichen in a panic and say, on the verge of tears, "Someone’s firing a gun outside. I’m scared."

The whole thing happened so suddenly that Lin Beichen had no time to wonder how Aixius ended up in his bed. He just subconsciously assumed she’d pounced on him because she was scared.

He never even considered that he himself had already sat up the instant he heard the gunshot, so how could Aixius possibly move fast enough to throw herself at him right away?

The front desk girl at the hotel had even said that as long as you stayed here, it was guaranteed to be safe.

Lin Beichen lightly patted Aixius’s shoulder, comforting her not to be afraid, while secretly complaining in his heart.

"I’ll go take a look."

Then Lin Beichen planned to go out and see just which idiot was stupid enough to fire a gun in a hotel in the middle of the night instead of sleeping.

"Don’t!" Aixius put on an extremely terrified expression and tightened her arms around Lin Beichen, absolutely refusing to let him go.

She’d finally caught an opportunity to have some intimate contact with him, how could Aixius bear to let go so easily?

As for the guy who fired that shot last night, Aixius even felt a hint of gratitude toward him, secretly thinking she ought to thank him.

Lin Beichen noticed that the gunshots outside had already stopped, and it was obvious that whoever it was hadn’t come for them and didn’t seem to pose any threat to them. So he went along with Aixius’s wishes and didn’t insist on going out.

"Alright, I’ll stay with you." Lin Beichen thought Aixius was genuinely scared and didn’t think too much of it.

When Aixius heard him say that, she nestled in his arms, her eyes curling into smiling crescents.

Lying in his arms, it felt like even the air had turned sweet, and in no time at all Aixius drifted off to sleep.

With last night’s experience, falling asleep in each other’s arms again didn’t seem so hard for Lin Beichen to accept.

So he also turned on his side and fell asleep together with Aixius.

Time flowed from night to day, everything seeming to repeat its usual path.

Lin Beichen really felt like this mission had dragged on way too long and didn’t want to waste any more time. Before tonight, no matter what, he had to catch up with the Beishi Mercenary Corps.