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Chapter 344 He's about to scream
No wonder Wells was able to predict their attack path. No wonder after the close combat, Jiang Xingni secretly instructed Song Juexiao to speed up the pace of their attacks and make them less predictable, which successfully brought Wells under control.
She took the communicator from Song Juexiao's hand, waiting for Wells to consider his reply while holding the communicator to her ear and listening to the voice coming from the other end of the earpiece.
"Seriously? I've already captured all your teammates, and you still haven't reacted?"
There was still no sound on the other end of the communicator, as if there was no one there at all.
"Who's on the other side? Sera?" Jiang Xingni asked deliberately, waiting to see how Wells would react.
Unlike the previous question where he hesitated, Jiang Xingni heard Wells's answer as soon as he asked this question: "No, that's not Sera."
...It really is love.
Jiang Xing sighed inwardly. She simply didn't want others to misunderstand.
But Jiang Xingni tried to go a step further, asking a few more questions: "So who's on the other side?"
Wells started playing dead again, pretending that he couldn't hear anything or say anything.
Seeing that Jiang Xingni's patience was about to run out, he finally relented—"VOID said they can keep Sera conscious for longer. Can you do that too?"
As luck would have it, this technique hit Jiang Xingni's blind spot perfectly.
Just a few hours ago, Jiang Xingni had sent the monster, who was also a conscious being like Sera, to its death.
Going back a few months, Jiang Xingni also successfully sent Ji Shanqing away.
She didn't quite understand how to keep the monsters as teammates and go to great lengths to keep them conscious.
She only knows how to quickly, accurately, and ruthlessly strike down any monsters that might become her teammates.
At this moment, Jiang Xingni was extremely grateful that Lu Ming and Xiao Jiming were not here. Even if the two of them wouldn't be bad teammates, Lu Ming hadn't received any formal micro-expression training, so she might not show it in her words. However, Jiang Xingni wasn't sure if Wells could detect anything unusual from Lu Ming's micro-expressions.
Now, the only person around her is Song Juexiao. All Song Juexiao needs to do is act like he's completely confused, and Wells will basically believe him.
This ability certainly doesn't manifest in those around you, so it's only natural that Song Juexiao would show confusion and bewilderment upon hearing Jiang Xingni's words.
This only allowed Wells to conclude that Jiang Xingni and the red-haired girl beside him probably didn't trust each other much.
However, Jiang Xingni doesn't understand these things. If she has any experience, she can only say that she can kill these monsters quickly, accurately, and ruthlessly.
—With that said, there's no way we can win over Wells anymore.
Wells didn't immediately fly into a rage and kill them all with a self-destruction because he wasn't a superhuman and didn't have that ability.
But it doesn't matter, what can Jiang Xingni do if he doesn't know?
Anyway, she can keep asking for help from higher levels; surely the Taixu Academy knows about it! Surely the Forty-Ninth Bureau can figure it out! If neither of those works…
Just then, Lu Ming and Xiao Jiming also returned.
Xiao Jiming spoke up, briefly explaining to Jiang Xingni what had happened: "They suddenly retreated, it seems someone gave them the order."
—It's probably because of He Jingtong. That's the only guess Jiang Xingni could make.
Lu Ming, who had just come over, didn't hear what they were arguing about, only the last sentence.
If VOID is not provided, can your side provide it?
Lu Ming wasn't stupid; she realized in a second that since Jiang Xingni hadn't killed the man, he probably wanted to recruit him.
Although Lu Ming didn't understand what it was about the person in front of her that attracted Jiang Xingni, she still leaned closer, blinked, and said very sincerely, "When VOID says that, it means they must have corresponding data, right?"
"In that case, wouldn't it be better to just snatch it from them?" Lu Ming asked Wells earnestly, his face seemingly harmless.
Wells fell into deep thought.
Wells suddenly realized that this was indeed a good solution.
All he wanted was for Sera to have more time to be conscious and to stay by his side for longer.
As long as the goal can be achieved, what does it matter what methods are used along the way?
Wells was successfully awakened by Lu Ming's words. He suddenly realized that he had been too ethical as an assassin.
It's not mission time now, so why should he have so much professional ethics? Even if he gets blacklisted by the industry for betraying his employer, he has nothing to hide anymore.
While things were raging on one side, Pei Zhaoye finally broke the time loop on the other.
He breathed a sigh of relief, feeling like he was about to die from exhaustion. The amount of calculation was simply too much. Pei Zhaoye subconsciously wanted to choose an easier way: to quantify the data before performing the calculations.
However, remembering Jiang Xingni's warning, Pei Zhaoye ultimately feared Jiang Xingni's fist—plus, he wasn't sure if he would be directly swallowed up by the data network after his transformation, so Pei Zhaoye ultimately did not choose this path.
Whether it's Su Yanzhi or Xie Yungui, time will cycle, but the physical and mental exhaustion will not disappear because of the cycle, and they will not start over.
Apart from Lu Xianqing, who habitually commits suicide to clear away negative status effects after receiving a negative buff, everyone else was exhausted.
Fortunately, the cycle was finally broken. Because time kept repeating itself, the accumulated fatigue dissipated a lot as the cycle was broken—of course, only physically.
The mental exhaustion is unlikely to dissipate unless they lose their memory and completely forget the current experience.
Even years later, when I look back on my experiences, I will feel a deep-seated fear of time-related superpowers.
Jiang Xing smiled at Pei Zhaoye, realizing that there was no longer any need to share information.
—Another Pei Zhaoye suddenly appeared out of nowhere and gave Pei Zhaoye a smile.
"Pei Zhaoye." He murmured the other person's name, a smile appearing on that almost identical face. "So it was you."
Pei Zhaoye stared blankly at the person opposite him: "How come I had no idea when my family gave birth to twins!"
Pei Zhaoye was about to scream!
The good news is that he didn't even have time to yell before the other side started fighting him.