Chapter 29: Xie Jing: So Angry

Chapter 29: Chapter 29: Xie Jing: So Angry

As long as she pretended to observe the trees and took out her Light Brain to record the plants’ appearances, she wouldn’t arouse the suspicion of any Beastman. Everyone might even think she was a hardworking and studious female!

Gu Weilan went around touching the trees one by one just like this. Just as her Beast Rank was about to break through from the Fourth Rank to the Fifth Rank, Gu Yaoqing finally blocked her path.

Shi Lingfeng, who was silently following behind Gu Weilan, couldn’t help but narrow his eyes beneath his windproof helmet.

Because he didn’t want any Beastman to recognize his face, he could only rely on the windproof helmet to conceal his features. However, this also somewhat restricted his movements.

Unlike Shi Lingfeng’s hesitations, Xie Jing walked directly to Gu Weilan’s side without a word. With his height of 195 centimeters, he looked down at the 174-centimeter Gu Yaoqing and demanded, "What do you want?"

Gu Yaoqing was startled. He squeezed out an ugly smile. "I just wanted to apologize to the female Gu Weilan for mistaking her for someone else earlier. I wanted to invite her to a meal..."

"My Female Master doesn’t need a meal from you!"

When Xie Jing’s sharp phoenix eyes and his chiseled face turned cold, his gaze became extremely piercing.

Gu Yaoqing naturally didn’t dare to pester them any longer. He awkwardly performed a Beastman salute to Gu Weilan, hastily apologized, and left.

Gu Weilan narrowed her eyes as she watched Gu Yaoqing’s retreating back. She didn’t believe he had come to apologize to her.

"Could this guy be trying to test if I’m his dead sister, Gu Weiran, and then do something like extract my heart’s blood?" she speculated inwardly.

It had to be said that Gu Weilan had hit the nail right on the head!

After all, Gu Weilan had fought her way through the extremely harsh environments of the Apocalypse. She had been a lone wolf, and she had also joined a base in search of safety. Therefore, her subconscious sixth sense regarding the malice of human nature had invisibly helped her dodge quite a few schemes!

Xie Jing immediately seized the opportunity to stand right beside Gu Weilan. "I should just stay by your side and protect you. This way, those weird males with designs on you won’t come near!"

Gu Weilan pursed her lips. Anyway, her Wood Beast Rank had already reached the Fourth Rank at 2982/3000. By absorbing a small portion of vitality from a dozen more trees, she would be able to reach the Fifth Rank in the Wood Element.

It was better to have Xie Jing openly follow beside her than to have him sneaking around behind her back!

However, Gu Weilan looked at Xie Jing and warned, "If you’re going to follow me, don’t talk to me all the time. And you’re not allowed to call me Female Master so casually."

Xie Jing pursed his lips, a trace of grievance appearing in his silver-white eyes. But he knew that if he didn’t agree, Gu Weilan would definitely make him go back and have Shi Lingfeng, who was standing not far away, come over instead!

He could only nod reluctantly, letting out a muffled grunt from his nose in agreement.

Gu Weilan ignored Xie Jing, placed her hand on a tree, and began absorbing the energy.

But Xie Jing couldn’t resist the urge to talk to her. He leaned in and whispered breathily in Gu Weilan’s ear, "Actually, any HighRank Beastman can sense that you’re absorbing Wood Element Energy from the trees."

Gu Weilan’s almond eyes widened slightly. Without moving her head, she couldn’t help but glance out of the corner of her eye at Xie Jing, who had leaned in close.

Xie Jing’s phoenix eyes widened a fraction as well, and his naturally smiling lips trembled. He looked at Gu Weilan, voicing his grievance in a low, disbelieving tone. "Did you... just want to kill me?"

Gu Weilan immediately retracted her aura and feigned a relaxed tone. "How could I? You must have felt wrong. I’m just a weak and delicate little female whose Beast Rank just passed the Fifth Rank. How could I possibly want to kill you?"

A wave of bitterness washed over Xie Jing’s heart. He was a Tenth Rank Beastman. His rank wasn’t simply piled up using resources; he had fought his way up with his own strength, little by little, alongside his brother and their family’s Personal Guard Team on the frontier planets and Resource Stars!

How could he not be sensitive to killing intent?

Just now, his Female Master... or rather, his not-yet-completely-severed former Female Master, had actually harbored murderous intentions toward him!

Xie Jing suppressed the bitterness that rippled from his heart to the corners of his mouth. He leaned closer to Gu Weilan and explained in a low voice, "Some Beastmen with Fire Element or Water Element Beast Ranks awaken special talents that aren’t offensive in nature. They also have this kind of talent for rapidly absorbing energy.

"There’s nothing to be afraid of. The reason there is no information about these Beastmen on the Star Network is that they fear their rivals—with whom they have conflicts of interest—will find out that the Talent Skill they awakened is non-combative.

"Female Master, what you’re doing isn’t all that unusual. I just noticed that every time you see a Beastman passing by, you get very nervous.

"Therefore, I wanted to remind you so you could set your mind at ease."

Only then did Gu Weilan smile and express her heartfelt gratitude to Xie Jing. "Thank you. No wonder I couldn’t find any precise information online. Every time I searched, all the results were ambiguous! So there were all these hidden complications behind it."

Gu Weilan hurriedly feigned cuteness, puffing out her cheeks. "I came from a habitable planet with poor conditions. Plus, I don’t have my Mother or Father anymore, nor do I have any highly knowledgeable friends. So, no Beastman friend has ever actually told me about these things."

Xie Jing couldn’t help but secretly inch a centimeter closer to Gu Weilan. His ears were red. He cleared his throat, and his deep, resonant voice sounded just behind and above her ear. "Then from now on... can you stop being so resistant toward me?"

Gu Weilan quickly put on a happy, fake smile. "You definitely felt wrong. You are my Beast Husband’s younger brother, which makes you my younger brother too. How could I possibly treat you badly? I’ll be a good sister-in-law!"

Xie Jing choked on his words. He didn’t want Gu Weilan to be his sister-in-law at all!

He couldn’t help but ask a tricky question. "My brother and I look exactly alike. If I were matched with another female, wouldn’t you feel uncomfortable in your heart?"

Gu Weilan frowned and shook her head. "I can tell the difference between you and your brother. He is the one I like, so naturally, I wouldn’t feel uncomfortable."

Xie Jing was unconvinced. "My brother hasn’t even spoken a word to you. Why do you like him?"

"He is the Beast Husband that the Beast God matched me with." The laws of the interstellar beast world were highly biased in favor of females. "Besides, after interacting with him recently, I feel he’s quite easy to get along with. So why wouldn’t I like him?"

Xie Jing opened his mouth, wanting to say that his brother had brought up dissolving the match together with him, only he didn’t know why his brother had immediately gone back on his word at the time.

Why was it that just because he was a little late in wanting to go back on his word, she couldn’t accept him? Yet, her demands on Zhan Heng weren’t nearly as harsh.

But if he really said that, what if it provoked the Female Master’s displeasure? If both he and Zhan Heng provoked Gu Weilan’s displeasure and were unmatched from her, then even his excuse to keep freeloading at Gu Weilan’s villa would become completely unjustified!

Those covetous Beast Husbands—like Shi Lingfeng behind them, who looked as if he wanted to glare right through him even through his helmet—would probably immediately come up with a way to drive him out!

Xie Jing pursed his lips and could only nod. "You are right to like my brother. My brother is indeed very good."

Gu Weilan immediately took the opportunity to question Xie Jing, "What does Zhan Heng usually like to eat? Why doesn’t he eat with me in his young beast form? What colors does he like?"

Xie Jing felt a stifling sensation in his chest, as if Gu Weilan had just elbowed him right in the heart.

He lowered his eyes to look at Gu Weilan. Just as he was about to answer, the corners of his mouth curled up, and he asked in return, "If you want me to answer your questions, can you offer me an equivalent exchange?"