Across Deep Space: Four Men and a Play

"Your acting skills are too poor."

"Old man." Xia Jiumeng slowly let go of the dagger in her hand and let the old man fall slowly by inertia.

"You...how did you..." The old woman wanted to ask her how she found out, but the blood rushing up her throat prevented her from saying a complete sentence.

Xia Jiumeng was not in the mood to answer her questions. When she took a step forward and was about to end her life, the old man who was dying just now suddenly threw a metal ball towards her face.

He subconsciously raised his hand to smash it. A thick smoke appeared and the old man's figure instantly disappeared in the smoke.

Qin Che stepped forward, hugged her and walked out of the smoke range. At the same time, the red energy mist in his hand instantly followed the direction of the smoke.

"idiot."

Qin Che was talking about the old man.

Xia Jiumeng looked at the small wounds on her arm and asked, "Is there a medical kit?"

"Have."

Qin Che put her down and looked around, then found the medical kit in the cabinet.

The box was a bit worn and looked like it had been there for quite some time.

She took the box and sat down next to the only relatively clean sofa, opening it and looking for medicine to treat the trauma.

Qin Che frowned slightly and walked over. "I'll do it."

"I...."

Before Xia Jiumeng could finish her words, she was captured by the red mist and moved into Qin Che's arms. He held her in his arms like a doll, and he had already grabbed her injured hand.

"Don't be so stubborn."

Qin Che spoke lightly as he picked up the medicine and wiped it on the wound. The slight stinging made her pull her hand back.

"Does it hurt?"

"It hurts."

"I thought you wouldn't feel any pain."

"..."

"This is Charon's special disinfectant. No one who has used it says it doesn't hurt."

"But the effect is surprisingly good, it can make wounds heal at least ten times faster than prescription drugs on the market."

"Before the advent of healing potions, this was the most sought-after commodity."

As Qin Che spoke, his hands moved much lighter.

“Is this thing so powerful?”

"Fake, it's just saline solution."

"......"

Qin Che threw away the cotton ball he had used to clean the wound, took a piece of hemostatic dressing, warmed it in his palm for a while before applying it to her wound.

"Why are you so absent-minded?"

Qin Che: "Are you thinking about that old man? Are you unhappy?"

Xia Jiumeng shook her head. She was just lamenting that even such old people would participate in such a game.

It's just weird.

"No, I'm just curious about why that old man and the people here became like this."

Is it the invasion of strange energy or the sinful nature of this city?

In the face of disaster and death, shouldn't people yearn for stability and peace? Why is it that...

Qin Che continued his movements and said, "Maybe they won't think this is bad."

"What some people consider hell may be paradise to others."

The complexity of human nature lies in the fact that people desire beauty but are also good at destruction, and they hope for peace but are also good at provoking conflicts.

Looking at Xia Jiumeng who was slightly distracted, he slightly increased the strength in his hand to attract her attention back.

"You're already busy taking care of yourself, and you still have the mind to worry about others?"

"Most people here are stupid."

“We are always fighting with each other for our desires, but rarely realize the treasures we are born with.”

Xia Jiumeng: "Treasures? You're not talking about their lives, are you?"

Qin Che tilted his head and pointed at his eyes with his fingertips. "It's the soul."

"Even if it only weighs 21 grams, the soul is one of the most precious gifts the universe has given to mankind."

Xia Jiumeng nodded. Indeed, the soul is a very precious thing. Then she thought of something and curled her lips slightly.

"So, by collecting human souls, aren't you stealing from the universe?"

She still remembers what Qin Che said when they first met in n109.

Obviously Qin Che also understood and looked at her with a half-smile.

"Your way of changing the subject now is to laugh at me?"

He withdrew his hand and put the bandage tools back into the medical kit.

"Okay."

Xia Jiumeng turned her wrist and praised, "As expected of Boss Qin, your bandaging skills are quite good."

"I can move freely now."

She turned it around to show it.

"Aren't you going to move forward?" Xia Jiumeng looked at Qin Che and asked.

She sensed that many people were gathering towards where they were.

Qin Che sat on the sofa without moving. "Now is not a good time to go out. Wait a little longer."

Hearing Qin Che say this, she was just about to sit back on the sofa when she saw a blue beam of light appear on Qin Che's body.

"Qin Che!"

“.....!”

At the critical moment, Qin Che pulled her out of the window to avoid the impact of the explosion.

And in the depths of the dark alley where they fell, several familiar figures appeared.

Xia Jiumeng recognized those figures at a glance.

"It's these masked men again. They're really lingering around, chasing them all over the place."

Qin Che hugged her and said with disdain, "They are very confident in this batch of antimatter weapons. They really think they can kill me."

Xia Jiumeng commented sharply, "It seems that he is quite unlucky for you at the moment."

Qin Che looked at her with a puzzled look, "..?"

Xia Jiumeng: "Ahem....We shouldn't underestimate the enemy."

She calmly glanced around. This dark alley was not a dead end. She could go around to the back of those masked men by following the fork on the left. A plan formed in her mind.

She said, "Qin Che, you attract their firepower, I'll go around the back."

Qin Che: "You have made a very clear arrangement."

"Be careful, there might be other hyenas attacking here."

Xia Jiumeng nodded to indicate that she knew. After Qin Che took action to attract the attention of those masked men, she quietly went around behind them with a double star bomb.

A moment later, with the roar of the last explosion, the dark alley was once again shrouded in night fog and silence, and peace returned to its original state.

Xia Jiumeng rushed back from the back and asked, "Are you okay?"

She looked at Qin Che with concern.

"That's what I want to ask."

Qin Che looked her up and down, and confirmed that there was no blood on her body before looking at the broken weapons and the lifeless figure on the ground.

"There aren't many people, nearly ten are missing."

"It's better for them to die in the hunting zone."

"With weapons like these, they won't die so easily." Qin Che kicked away the weapon fragments at his feet. "Maybe they are hiding somewhere in the dark, waiting for the next opportunity to attack us."

Xia Jiumeng: "We are not that easy to attack."

"But how did they know we were hiding here?" The masked men did not follow them when they entered the hunting area.

"Is it because we rank too high on the investment list?" So those electronic eyes were following them and that's why they were discovered by the masked man?

"No."

Qin Che pulled up her wrist and rubbed her inner skin with his calloused fingertips. She couldn't help but shudder.

"What are you doing?"

"Looking for something." Qin Che let go of his hand. "Found it."

A tiny, almost invisible transparent 'flake' appeared at the tip of his finger.

Xia Jiumeng was puzzled. "What is this?"