The Witch's Taste

Let's see how she handles it: she first ridiculed and ridiculed this "Mother's behavior" of wanting to save everyone, and then acted like "I have no choice but to help you for the sake of my sister"... By now, Chen Ziang also knew that Xia Qingyu was by no means a cold-blooded person, but what he didn't understand even more was why the other party deliberately pretended to be like this.

Could it be that my favorability is too high and you will explode on the spot?

After recovering from the chaotic and complicated thoughts, Chen Ziang looked intently again. Xia Qingyu still didn't move in the office.

She was curled up on the office chair, her slender legs were squeezed together, and her head was looking at the starry sky outside the porthole, leaving only a vague outline of Chen Ziang from the side and back.Her long black hair fell down, over her shoulders and almost to her waist. She looked like a classically elegant princess who had lived in a palace for a long time.

Well, it seems that her identity is indeed a princess.

Chen Ziang felt that she could no longer remain silent. If she didn't interrupt her thoughts with words, this man might be able to sit there all day.

He coughed and knocked hard on the door.

Xia Qingyu turned around slowly, as if she had not been aware of his presence before, and asked in a low voice:

"Is something wrong?"

"What are you doing?" Chen Zi'ang asked tentatively, "In a daze?"

"This has nothing to do with you." Xia Qingyu said coldly.

Okay, here comes the taste, it’s authentic Qingyu.

"Do you not like this kind of chat, or do you not know how to deal with other people's kindness?" Chen Ziang was not angry, he just pulled up a chair opposite her and sat down, and asked jokingly, "But you won't do this to Zili. "

Xia Qingyu picked up the open notebook on the desk, closed it hard, then put it aside and pressed it with other books.

So Chen Ziang immediately realized that there must be something recorded on it that she didn't want herself to see.

hateful!I didn't pay attention just now!

"I just don't like fools running into my office on their own initiative and asking me a bunch of stupid questions for no reason." Xia Qingyu replied coldly, "Do you have to compare yourself with women?"

"So your attitude towards me is just because I am a male?" Chen Ziang asked in surprise.

"I didn't say that." Xia Qingyu said indifferently.

"In that case, I won't talk to you about anything else." Chen Ziang said helplessly, "I have a question to ask you."

This woman... if you want to talk to her about something else, she will snap at you, making you just want to end the topic quickly; but if you get straight to the point with her, the topic will be ended quickly, but you may not get what you want. The answer!

"I encountered a sudden explosion in the subway tunnel of the ruined planet before. Do you know?" Chen Ziang asked slowly.

"I know." Xia Qingyu said.

"That incident seemed to be an accident caused by a strange combination of circumstances." Chen Ziang sighed, "But Zili Suzuna and the others believed that because there was no human evidence at all, the scene was too clean, which made people think that there might be something behind it. There’s really something fishy about it.”

"Now that they have come to a conclusion, what are you still asking me for?" Xia Qingyu asked coldly.

For some reason, Chen Ziang suddenly felt that her confidence was lacking. Although her tone was still cold, it was not as cold as usual...

"What do you know about this incident?" Chen Ziang continued to ask.

Xia Qingyu didn't answer.

Very good, Chen Ziang thought to himself.Silence is also an answer.

If it was just an ordinary accident, Xia Qingyu's character would definitely laugh at herself and say some ugly things such as "Do you think the whole galaxy wants to assassinate you?" But now she is silent and does not answer. First, she said that behind this There was indeed a conspiracy. Secondly, she probably didn't want to tell the truth, but she also didn't want to lie, so she kept silent.

Silence is passive defense.A person with a strong personality like Xia Qingyu is now forced to remain silent. There must be something wrong with this.

"Do you still remember, Qingyu?" Chen Ziang changed his attack method, "You said that you owe me a life."

If you continue to ask about frontal attacks, there is basically only one ending, that is, the opponent breaks the defense and then lets you get out quickly.After all, after so many years together, although Chen Ziang still dared not say that he knew her well enough, he dared to say that he already knew how to deal with her.

"Yes." Xia Qingyu replied softly.

"So I think you should be unaware of it, or at least not aware of it beforehand." Chen Ziang held his chin and analyzed, "Otherwise, as long as you come to save me, the kindness of this life will be repaid, right?"

Xia Qingyu was silent again.Just when Chen Ziang thought she was pretending to be silent again, he suddenly saw a faint, helpless smile on her face:

"correct."

"Uh..." Chen Zi'ang was silent this time, and then said after a while, "Qingyu, are you... okay?"

"What problem can I have?" Xia Qingyu raised her eyebrows and returned to her cold expression, "Or do you prefer me to mock you?"

Sure enough, with this indifferent expression, I immediately felt much more normal.

"That's not the case." Chen Zi'ang said vaguely, "So, what's behind this incident?"

"It is true that someone is planning it." Xia Qingyu said lightly, "I have already asked people to check the details."

Cha, that is to say, she denies that she did it herself.Chen Ziang breathed a sigh of relief. It was good. Suzuna's guess was wrong.

"That……"

"But it may not be possible to find out in the short term." Xia Qingyu was silent for a while and then said, "You don't have to worry about this matter. From now on, you just need to protect yourself."

"You mean..." Chen Ziang pondered, "There will be another attack on me next?"

"Otherwise, why would I remind you to protect yourself?" Xia Qingyu asked in surprise, "Don't you understand the meaning of the word 'protect'?"

"But isn't this contradictory?" Chen Ziang asked her back, "If the mastermind behind it is still planning an attack against me, you should let me know the general situation instead of simply and rudely telling me 'don't worry about it'."

"If you insist on intervening, that's okay." Xia Qingyu said coldly, "As long as you have the ability to find out."

"I don't mean to interfere." Chen Ziang was slightly annoyed by her attitude and said, suppressing his anger, "I want you to share the information with me."

"No." Xia Qingyu refused bluntly.

"Why?" Chen Ziang asked irritably.

"Because I just owe you a life." Xia Qingyu said quietly, "I will repay you in my own way, but this does not mean that I have to obey your orders. Can you understand?"

Again!

Chen Ziang was a little crazy.Obviously your motive is to protect me, why do you say so many sarcastic words as if you are deliberately trying to control my favor?You won't feel comfortable if you don't make me angry, right?

"Xia Qingyu!" He stared into the other person's dark eyes, trying hard not to become furious, "What on earth is going on with you?"

"Before asking questions, why don't you organize your own questions first?" Xia Qingyu asked him back.

"You know what I mean!" Chen Ziang said angrily.

"I don't know." Xia Qingyu said indifferently, "Maybe the ape thinks its cry should be understood, but..."

Before she finished speaking, Chen Ziang got up angrily, crossed the desk and came to her, holding her shoulders down.

For an instant, an emotion similar to panic flashed in Xia Qingyu's eyes, but this strange emotion was quickly submerged in her eyes as deep as night, and turned back into an expressionless and cold look.

So it was Chen Ziang's turn to do nothing.What on earth should I do now to pry this woman's mouth open?

Kiss him hard?

No, no, no, that's all if they are really in love with each other.Now I am still not sure whether this woman likes me, nor do I know what kind of emotions I have towards her. If I forcefully kiss her, wouldn’t it be like harassing my sister-in-law?

"Can you let me go?" Xia Qingyu asked coldly.

Chen Ziang silently let go of her shoulders, sighed longly and said:

"Feel sorry."

"I don't accept the apology..." Xia Qingyu wanted to say something else, but was quickly interrupted by Chen Ziang.

"Xia Qingyu, you did help me a lot in the past." He decided to express the doubts that had troubled him for so many years, regardless of whether he could get the answer from her mouth, "but I still don't understand..."

"Judging from the facts, I don't think you actually hate me in your heart, because I can't understand the psychology of 'hating a person but having to help him'; but judging from your words and demeanor, every time you help me Later, you will deliberately say some cold and hostile words, as if you are worried that the relationship between you and me will heat up, so you deliberately want to arouse my disgust..."

"To be honest, I'm really confused by you." Chen Ziang took a deep breath, and then stared into Xia Qingyu's eyes again, showing a somewhat confused and uneasy look, "So, Qingyu."

"Why are you doing this? What I actually want to ask is...do you have...a good impression of me?"

Xia Qingyu looked at him blankly.

It was not a cold and emotionless look, but a feeling of being shocked to the point of losing the ability to speak... so much so that Chen Ziang thought she had finally broken through her guard and was about to open up to herself and tell the truth.

However, what followed were cold and heartless words:

"Yes, I chose to help you for some reasons in the past...but that doesn't mean I have a good impression of you."

"The reason why I said something offensive to you after I helped you is to prevent you from misunderstanding."

"Can you accept this answer?"

This should be the last time, I mean Xia Qingyu behaves like this.

393. Chapter 387 The reaction of the two witches

Without even a moment to question Xia Qingyu, the person who immediately rushed to the bridge to attend the high-level meeting was Chen Ziang.

There is no way, she has clearly said "I don't like you", it would be too ugly to forcefully break up with her.

However, Chen Ziang breathed a sigh of relief. At least Xia Qingyu was willing to tell the truth to him, instead of continuing to use her sarcastic Tai Chi style to get around.

The content of today's high-level meeting is very simple, which is to decide whether the Forever should jump and run away immediately.

Before the Federation's vanguard was defeated, relevant information must have been transmitted through the long-range starlink.

In other words, there must be many fleets in the Federation at this time. After receiving the news, they are jumping to the ruined galaxy, and among them there must be "space anchor ships" that prevent the jump. Once these things get mixed up in the sea of ​​fleets and get close enough, Within this time, the Forever will lose its ability to jump, and its fate and outcome will naturally be self-evident.

"We must launch the jump as soon as possible." Tsukimiya Suzuna said, "Once the position is exposed, we must move as soon as possible. No matter how late it is, we will not be able to leave."

"But the energy collected so far is not enough." Xia Zili habitually expressed dissent. "Even if you force a jump, first of all, you will not be able to make a long-distance jump out of the federal territory. Secondly, you will fall into a state of complete depletion of energy reserves after arriving at the destination. If you reach the enemy, you will only be beaten."

Although it was expected in advance, the lack of antimatter energy on the ruined planet was beyond everyone's expectations.After a large-scale search activity, only two and a half warehouses of energy were collected through patchwork. Coupled with the salvage of the wreckage after defeating the first wave of the Federation fleet, only five and a half warehouses of energy were obtained.

Therefore, there are only two options before everyone: one is to jump immediately, betting that the galaxy where they will settle can immediately find more energy; the disadvantage is that if there is no energy, the starship will be paralyzed.

The second is to stay in place and continue to carry out planetary surface search activities. Of course, you can also try to attack the incoming second wave of federal fleets and use the enemy's assets for your own use; the disadvantage is that if it is not the second wave of fleets that come, but the second, third, and fourth waves, After five or six waves of fleets, the starship humans will become turtles in a urn.

No matter what the situation is, as long as the federal fleet is stuck and unable to escape, the only outcome is the annihilation of the entire army.

Because of the existence of the curser, the witch has no way to fight back wantonly, and it is impossible to protect the starship for a long time, waiting for the Elf Temple to find more ways to restrain the witch's power, so the end result is to abandon the starship and humans and Chen Ziang escape together.

But in that case, all the hard work along the way will be completely wasted.

Xia Qingyu did not attend this meeting.Chen Ziang pondered for a long time and asked:

"With the current energy, if we want to make a jump, which galaxies can be used as destinations?"

"Not many." Xia Zili replied, "Except for those with complete star ports, there are actually only three options."

Why remove galaxies with complete starports?Because whenever a galaxy has a star port, a large number of land-based anti-orbital weapons will definitely be deployed on the surface of the planet to prevent the star port from rebelling...and these anti-orbital weapons will seriously hinder any large-scale operations of starship humans.

It's not that you can't beat it, but you can't waste so much time on it.

"But it is very likely that the energy we need will be found in these three galaxies..." Tsukimiya Suzuna was about to continue persuading, but was suddenly interrupted by Chen Ziang.

"According to your assumption." He analyzed calmly, "We have these three options. Do the federal elves know?"

Tsukimiya Suzuna blinked and quickly understood.

What the starship's human high-ups can analyze, of course there are so many think tank experts in the Federation without smart guys.At this moment, apart from the Federation fleet that is jumping to the ruined galaxy, there must also be many elven fleets jumping towards those three galaxies in order to block the next step of the starship humans.

War is like a chess game. When your moves are within the opponent's expectations, you are not far from defeat.

"In that case, let's jump to other targets." Tsukimiya Suzuna refused to give up, "No matter where we go, it is better than staying here."

"Then where are we going?" Chen Ziang asked her.

"Precisely...just because we don't know where we are going, it is even more impossible for the Federation to know, isn't it?" Suzuna Tsukimiya had an idea.

"You are right, but if you continue to search here, the risk is not that great." Chen Ziang said calmly, "What we are most worried about is that the next wave of federal fleets arriving is too powerful and drags us into the quagmire of war. Here, right?"

"That's right." Xia Zili sighed.

"Actually, we can change our thinking." Chen Zi'ang continued, "If the Witch does not take the initiative to attack the incoming fleet, but paralyzes them, such as only attacking the engine room or destroying the propulsion nozzle, etc., then let the fleet destroy it Enemy ship, then if there is a curser in the target fleet, who will bear the curse?"

"It will be borne by the entire crew of the Instant Fleet!" Xia Zili's eyes lit up.

This is the memetic loophole that exploits the curse: Anyone who harms me will be punished, so who is this "harmer"?Of course he was the one who delivered the final fatal blow.

Otherwise, if "the person who harms me" is understood as "the person who harms me", then the directionality of the meme will be very confusing.For example, if I have a stomachache after eating unclean food, then the workers in the food factory will become "harmers"; if I breathe car exhaust outside, it will affect my health, and everyone from drivers to car manufacturers will be selected by the meme. This The curse would immediately be dispersed to the point where it would have no effect at all.

Because of this, the Witches can exploit the loopholes in a targeted manner and do all other things, except that the final touch-up is done by the Fleet of Instants.

With hundreds of thousands of sailors on board, how many cursers would it take to fill them?Curse all you want!

Tsukimiya Suzuna and Xia Zili also suddenly realized.It's not that they are unintelligent, it's just that they are trapped in the thinking of their previous lives and are used to directly using excessive force to solve problems, so their brains are not so flexible.As for the other attendees, they didn’t even know what the curse was—you couldn’t try to understand it, otherwise you would have to increase your spiritual vision.

"And just in case, I hope that at least two witches will act together." Chen Ziang continued, "If one of the witches accidentally destroys the ship, or is cursed for any other reason, its strength will be weakened. If so, at least another person can save her."

Xia Zili and Yuegong Suzuna looked at each other.What he said is indeed reasonable, but it is difficult to implement.