In pitch darkness underground—
Qin Siyang floored the accelerator and shot forward at full speed.
Beside him, Hu Chan covered his top with his left hand and his bottom with his right, glaring at Qin Siyang with a face full of resentment.
"What are you staring at me for? This isn't the first time I've saved your life."
"Saved me? Qin Siyang, you attacked me and that sloppy man without discrimination. What exactly were you trying to do? Were you trying to kill me too?"
"If I wanted to kill you, would I need to go through all this trouble? I could've just tossed you outside. I don't believe that guy would've let you off. I was kind enough to come back and save your life, and this is what I get, you nitpicking me here. No good deed goes unpunished."
Hu Chan did not appreciate it at all, "That guy was extremely interested in your drill cabin. He kept pressing me about who you really are. If you'd left me there alone, I'd have had no choice but to sell you out."
"You wouldn't sell me out."
"That's not necessarily true!"
"Even if you sold me out, you still wouldn't live. You'd definitely die, but if I died too, then Black Robe Guardian Yu Ziying would have no one to look after her."
"..."
Hu Chan could only grit his teeth and respond with silence.
Because Qin Siyang had hit the nail right on the head.
"But no matter what, I really almost died! President Qin, you have to compensate me!"
Qin Siyang laughed helplessly, "Just now you were calling me Qin Siyang. Now that you want compensation, it's President Qin again. You Holy Son really are… If you'd died, you'd only have yourself to blame for being stupid."
"What do you mean by that?"
"When I took the Vine Core from you back then, you used a skill that avoided a fatal blow, so I knew you had a life saving trump card. This time, with disaster right in front of you, if you didn't remember to use your life saving trump card, if that's not stupid then what is?"
Hu Chan said coldly, "First of all, that wasn't taking, that was robbing. Second, you saved me, and I'm grateful. But I don't like the way you saved me. And lastly, do you have any clothes?"
"We've only been out hunting gods for two days. I didn't even bring a change of clothes myself. Where am I supposed to find clothes for you? Stop being so fussy and just make do. We're both grown men. Looking isn't going to make anything fall off."
"Easy for you to say. Why don't you walk around naked then?"
"I'm not arguing with you. We'll get you clothes when we get back," Qin Siyang said seriously, "The only reason I could save you this time was because I knew you had a life saving skill. Otherwise, I would've turned around and run without a second thought. I wouldn't dare clash head on with the person who kidnapped you."
Hu Chan's expression also turned serious. He frowned, "That person is very strong."
"I know. When I saw you captured alive without making a sound, I knew he was strong. That's why I went all out immediately and used my strongest combat combo. If I hadn't been able to save you just now, I would've left right away," After saying that, Qin Siyang felt a bit of regret.
He had already used the Thunder Snow Wolf's skill three times and could no longer use [Transform Eating into Divinity] to imitate the Thunder Snow Wolf.
He needed to hunt other powerful gods as soon as possible.
Hu Chan said, "Although your decision to abandon me and run was pretty despicable, I have to say it was very correct. Fighting him, there's basically no chance of winning."
Qin Siyang asked again, "How did you get caught by him? You couldn't activate a skill to resist during the process?"
"That's actually hard to explain. I was outside at the time…"
"Hold on."
"What?"
"I'm feeling like something's off about you right now."
Hu Chan covered his top with one hand and his bottom with the other, eyeing Qin Siyang even more warily, "When you say that, do you mean I'm off, or you're off?"
"Of course you're off."
"Nonsense. How normal can someone be with their ass out?"
Qin Siyang glanced at Hu Chan again, "Being naked… it's not like I've never done that before. But as a guy, why do you need one hand covering the top and one covering the bottom? Isn't it enough to just cover the bottom?"
Hu Chan blinked, looked at himself, and silently moved his left hand from his chest downward.
"This is my first time being naked in front of outsiders. I don't have any experience."
"This isn't a matter of experience…"
"Say less already! I ended up like this to help you, didn't I?"
"But you didn't really help me with anything."
"I fuc—"
"Alright, don't get mad. Let's talk about how you got caught."
"I don't know."
Hu Chan's face turned cold. After Qin Siyang had worn down his temper a few times, he completely lost the patience to explain in detail.
"You don't know?"
"I went out for a stroll. Before I even had time to activate a skill, I was completely controlled by him."
"How did he control you?"
"Some kind of transparent threads wrapped around my whole body. I couldn't move."
"Your armor got wrapped up, but you yourself should still have been able to move."
"Those threads can drill into armor, and they can even, through some kind of strange reaction, make the armor lose its protective ability."
"What? That's possible?"
"Yeah."
After that, Qin Siyang still wanted to ask more, but Hu Chan closed his eyes to rest and ignored him.
Qin Siyang knew that Hu Chan had just escaped death and was probably in a complicated mood, so he didn't disturb him further. He quietly drove the drill cabin back to South Glory University.
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By the time they reached the Miracle Building, it was already night.
Qin Siyang found Hu Chan a set of temporary clothes and sent him back to the guesthouse.
Then he returned to his own room, planning to shower and rest.
But not long after he got back, there was another knock on the door. A staff member delivered a bowl of vegetable and egg drop porridge.
This bowl of porridge eased Qin Siyang's exhausted body a little.
After washing up and getting into bed, as usual, he scrolled on his phone for a bit before sleeping.
But as soon as he opened the [Godslayer Camp] forum, his gaze was drawn to a post, and his drowsiness vanished instantly.
[Director Olov of District 18 Police Bureau promoted to Chief of the District 18 Police Department due to outstanding achievements.]
"What the hell?"
As for District 18, also known as the Sigma District, Qin Siyang only had a shallow understanding of it through forum posts.
Although districts ranked in the top 100 by serial number were on the same level as states, they still only had district level administrative units and various bureaus.
But District 18 was rather special, like a freak.
It was the same kind of region, yet it had complete state level administrative units, such as a police department, and a Sequence Ability User Management Department, and so on. And the one who governed these state level units was still the District 18 district chief.
Qin Siyang remembered that before Olov was transferred to the 14121 region as a detective, he had been the chief of the District 18 police department.
In other words, after going around in a big circle, he had directly returned to his original post.
"No, how did he get promoted so fast? If the District 18 police department is short on people, just transfer more in from outside. Why promote someone with a bad record like this?"
Qin Siyang opened the post.
It briefly mentioned Olov's promotion, then listed his outstanding contributions in cracking down on cults recently.
He had destroyed a Samsara Church hideout in District 18.
He had captured a cadre of the Annihilation Church.
And along the way, he had wiped out some forces of other cults as well.
According to the report, these were glorious achievements worthy of being recorded in the annals of District 18. It even seemed that if Olov hadn't just been transferred back to District 18 not long ago, he might have been directly promoted to Director of the District 18 Police Department.
The more Qin Siyang read, the worse he felt. In the end, he simply tossed the phone aside and stopped looking.
But even with his eyes closed, he could still see that detective with graying hair and beard, wearing a scarf, smiling faintly at him.
It was like a fishbone stuck in his throat.
"This is just unjust!"
"This little old man not only got through danger safely, but he's having a second spring too?"
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