Across Deep Space: Four Men and a Play

Xia Jiumeng didn’t know how long she had slept. When she woke up again, she saw the familiar ceiling pattern.

Blinking, her thoughts returned, she slowly stood up and sat up, and asked softly, "Is the beast fighting game over?"

What answered her was not Qin Che's low voice but the hoarse "cuckoo" of a crow.

"Xiaomei?"

Turning his head, he saw Qin Che sitting upright with his legs crossed on a single black leather sofa not far away, while Mephistopheles was squatting on the edge of the armrest, his head nodding under Qin Che's fingers like a chicken pecking at rice.

"Aren't you busy?"

Now that Charon has no one in charge, shouldn't Qin Che be busy taking over the territory?

"Not urgent."

There was a small coffee table next to Qin Che, with a few gems scattered on the floor at his feet, and three wine glasses and a marker on the coffee table.

It seemed that Qin Che not only drank three glasses of wine but also thought about a lot of things while he was asleep.

"It's the early morning of the third day after the Beast Fighting Game, and the overtime is almost over."

"Three days?"

"Did I sleep for three days?"

"almost."

"No wonder I feel so hungry, is there anything to eat?"

"I've asked them to prepare it."

Qin Che anticipated that she would wake up early today and asked someone to prepare.

As they were talking, they could hear horrific explosions in the distance, which even caused the windows to tremble slightly.

She nodded and looked out the window curiously. "Overtime? With the Colosseum in such a state, anyone still wants it?"

There's only one big hole left.

Those people did not fight for the ownership of Charon but for a small Colosseum.

"For some people, that place, even if it's ruined, still holds something very important."

"Without Yu Mi, they will only fight more thoroughly."

"That lab is just full of outdated junk. The only good thing is the antimatter technology."

The technology in this world is not as backward as you think.

She wanted to get out of bed but found that her whole body was sore, so she took a few quick steps and sat on Qin Che's small sofa, pushing him out.

"My body is so sore, did you hit me secretly while I was sleeping?"

Qin Che immediately raised his hand innocently and said, "You are the one who hits people." He made a two sign.

"Two punches."

"Yeah?"

"Yes."

"Okay, maybe I had some physical reactions because I was dreaming while I was asleep." Xia Jiumeng touched her nose unconsciously.

She remembered that she didn't seem to have the habit of moving around in her sleep...

Looking up at the dark red silk bed not far away, she felt inexplicably guilty at the chaotic scene that looked like a war scene.

The four pillows on the big bed were now placed one at the head, one at the foot, and two on the edge of the bed and the floor beside the bed respectively. Needless to say, the quilt had been wrapped into a long strip, completely losing its shape, like a rope, and in an S shape.

Qin Che saw her awkwardness and smiled, "Have you slept enough now?"

"full."

"Come on, we should go and fill your stomach."

Qin Che stood up and stretched his body. Mephistopheles took the opportunity to slip away from him, picked up an empty wine bottle and flew out the window.

When Qin Che carried her like a princess to the dining table, she looked at the table full of food and began to eat with relish.

The little girl almost finished all the food on the table.

While drinking the last glass of orange juice, she touched Qin Che's long legs with her feet.

"Your eating habits are becoming more and more indulgent in my presence."

“I remember eating more indulgently the first time I came here.”

The fact that the body feels full only after eating so much food can only be attributed to the fact that these foods are extremely low-energy foods. If they cannot meet the amount needed by the body, you can only eat more to fill the gap.

If it is an energy plant, I'm afraid I'll be full after just a few dishes.

I hope that next time he comes back, he can restore something good to the world.

There was a noise outside the window. Mephistopheles, who had disappeared for a meal, knocked on the crack in the window and came in. He loosened his claws and threw a black shadow at her.

"What's missing?"

I picked it up and saw it was a small USB flash drive.

Qin Che explained, "This is the biological key of the Gaia Center."

Looking at the small piece of metal in his hand, Xia Jiumeng was silent for a moment. "Gaia's key is here, so what are those people in the overtime game fighting for?"

Qin Che paused holding the wine and said, "Who knows?"

"You played in overtime too? Then why are you still here?"

"What do you say?"

"I don't need to take action to deal with those guys. Xue Ming and Xue Ying are more than capable of doing so."

"Indeed." Xia Jiumeng nodded in agreement. Xue Ming and Xue Ying used to be Qin Che's right-hand men, not to mention them who have awakened their special powers now.

I'm afraid it's even stronger.

Of course, he still couldn't beat Qin Che.

The secret key in his hand was a bit old, and the number engraved on it had been deliberately polished off, making it impossible to know which researcher it originally belonged to.

But obtaining the secret key is equivalent to obtaining ownership of the former site of Gaia Center, although it is now in ruins.

A wisp of black and red mist climbed up from the back of her hand, squeezed between her fingers, and suddenly grasped the key and pulled it out.

"Qin Che?"

"This is my trophy. Return it to me when you've had enough."

".....You're just showing it to me?"

Qin Che didn't answer, but just glared at his long legs, pushed the chair back a little, leaned against the backrest, and used his index finger to lift the mist and pull it back.

Seeing this, Xia Jiumeng not only did not let go, but instead held her hands tightly.

As a result, she flew into Qin Che's arms like a bird attracted by rice grains.

"Don't want to give it to me? If you throw yourself into my arms, I can give it to you."

Qin Che stretched out his hand and moved the person in his arms so that she leaned against him, and couldn't help laughing.

"Since you said so, it's mine." Xia Jiumeng flipped her wrist and the USB drive disappeared into her palm.

"You interrupted me so much that I forgot I had something to ask you."

She said as she leaned lazily on Qin Che's broad chest like a kitten.

"Ok?"

"I had a dream before. I saw a smaller version of us killing stray bodies in an interstellar arena. Did you know about this?"

Qin Che didn't answer but just asked, "Anything else?"

"Yes, I saw us kill a lot of stray bodies and cyborg-like monsters together, until we were the only ones left in the Colosseum..."

"Then the crowd in the stands started roaring and cheering, urging us to fight."

"There's a universal rule everywhere, there's only one winner..."

Qin Che: "Either I kill you, or you kill me."

She sat up straight, looking at Qin Che's usual eyebrows and eyes, and her hand couldn't help but touch the corner of his eyes, looking for the strange color hidden in his right eye.

"I saw that when we were facing each other and preparing for battle, you didn't attack me. Instead, you held my hand and asked me if I wanted to escape together."

"But that nebula is even more chaotic than the abyss. I can't see the end.... Did we finally escape?"

The dream felt so real that she knew it was not a dream, but a past that she had never known about, about her and Qin Che.

"What do you say?"

Qin Che approached with an empty wine glass, and the cold wall of the glass gently touched her forehead.

"If you didn't escape, who did you see?"

Xia Jiumeng: "Then we are pretty awesome."

The two children were able to kill the wandering bodies and still have the strength to escape from the hunt in the Interstellar Colosseum. They were extremely powerful.

Qin Che remained noncommittal. "Regarding the topic of whether you are powerful or not, you have indeed never doubted yourself, nor have you ever worried about me."

Xia Jiumeng smiled, and thinking of Qin Che's origin, she continued, "Then did you escape here after a narrow escape, and end up in N109, which had not yet fallen?"

"Almost, but have you ever considered that it's no coincidence that I landed at N109?"

Xia Jiumeng thought for a moment and asked, "Is it because of Gaia?"

Qin Che and her have a soul bond, so he must have come here to find her, and at that time she should still be being studied by Gaia.

"clever."

Xia Jiumeng: "I saw some information in the corridor of the Gaia Ruins before. In addition to trying to establish a connection with deep space, they were also studying other special energies."

"Yu Mi said that unicrn wanted to restore a certain powerful force in the universe, but that force ended up existing in my body in the form of an ether core."

Qin Che raised his eyes and asked, "Do you believe what he said?"

"I don't believe it. He left the Gaia Research Center midway through, so the information he knows is limited, and it might even be wrong."

"Putting aside his psychopathic rhetoric, it's nothing more than the destructive power I possess."

“And I did feel a wonderful sensation in the collision chamber.”

"Perhaps what Yu Mi said is true. At that time, 'I' did have the power to destroy everything, and it was uncontrollable."

The cyclical scenes of planetary destruction and compression and the faint resonance she had seen when she was fighting against the power of the ether core had indeed given her a mysterious feeling.

It seemed as if she could easily destroy everything by releasing all her strength as long as she wanted.

But if she had 3s, she could also do this kind of power, it would just take a little more effort.

How could a world where such power could exist be trapped in a cycle of self-destruction?

This starting point is at least a level five civilization, unless... there is an error in the logic of the world's rules.

But if that were the case, such things would have been detected and erased from the world by the rules from the very beginning.

Is it because this world was born from the rules derived from the game?

So how does it repair itself? It's clearly a dead end.

A crazy brainstorm in Xia Jiumeng's mind.

When she became a 5s or above, she came into contact with some of the rules governing the birth and operation of the world, but the current situation in this world was so complicated that it was beyond her comprehension.

As expected, even with all the knowledge she had, she still knew too little as a newbie. Thinking of the invitation letter deep in the space, she thought that if she had the chance in the future, she would go and take a look.

The saying that learning never ends is true.

Just when she was still thinking about something, her chin was suddenly pinched by a hand, and her gaze fell on Qin Che's mentally handicapped face.

"Getting you out of that big fiberglass, you're in so much pain."

"If it's so painful, don't make it hard on yourself."

"Don't let me see you with that expression, it will hurt me."

His rough fingertips gently stroked her pink lips. The bewitching core in the man's scarlet eyes was unusually quiet, filled with only deep care and love.

"Can't you still pull me back?"

"Swoosh."

"Hehe, I'm just kidding. I wouldn't do that. Besides, I have complete control over this power. There's no way it's going to get out of control."

If her true power is not suppressed, it is countless times stronger than the ether core. If she can control that, how can she control this one?

However, if it weren't for 'her' arrival, perhaps the final outcome of this body would really be complete 'disappearance'.

The powerful and uncontrollable force was placed in a fragile container, and the final result could only be breaking. By that time, she couldn't imagine how desperate they would be.

fine....

Just silently thank the God of Destiny.

God of Destiny: When you were promoted earlier and heard about my existence, you were dismissive and declined your thanks!

I don’t want it!