A Healer's Secret and a Runaway Power

The moment she felt the urge to flee, Ye Xing composed herself.

No, she couldn't panic! Otherwise, it would be like protesting too much.

So, forcing a smile, she walked into the ward and casually greeted the two, trying to seem relaxed.

"Captain Guan, what a coincidence! You're here to visit Guan Jin too."

Guan Li raised an eyebrow at her, then looked down at Guan Jin, who was still holding onto him in a daze.

"Is this your friend?" Guan Li asked. Guan Jin stiffly nodded.

"When did you get to know each other?" "… I - I've known her for a while." Guan Jin felt a bit guilty under Ye Xing's intense gaze.

"Let go."

"Ah? Oh, okay." Guan Jin immediately released his hand and lay back on the bed. Ye Xing walked to the other side of the sickbed, facing Guan Li. "There's official business for the enforcement team to attend to. Since your friend is here, I'll be leaving." Guan Li said, then looked at Ye Xing. "If you need anything, remember to call me."

Ye Xing:???

Although she wasn't sure if this was directed at her or Guan Jin, Ye Xing quickly nodded. Then Guan Li left the ward.

As soon as he left, the room fell silent. Ye Xing's eyes drifted to Guan Jin, and she said in a tone, "You never told me you knew the captain of the guard team."

"You never asked me what my uncle did either." Guan Jin said pitifully.

"He's your uncle?!" Ye Xing was shocked. She had thought they were just acquainted. If that was the case...

"W - what are you going to do?" Guan Jin asked fearfully, pulling the blanket up to cover half of his face.

"I'm thinking about how likely it is that I can kill you right now." Ye Xing's eyes glinted menacingly.

The nephew of a guard - team captain had been lurking around her and knew her identity. No, she had to silence him!

"Ye Xing, stop joking. My uncle's men are guarding outside. If you really kill me, you definitely won't be able to escape." Guan Jin really wanted to kneel to her.

"Oh, right. Then forget it."

Ye Xing pulled over a chair and plopped down on it, marveling at Guan Jin's sorry state.

"How did you end up like this? Did someone beat you up?"

Guan Jin shook his head with difficulty. The culprit was right in front of him, but he couldn't voice his grievances.

"Ye Xing."

"What?"

"Let's go find the patrol team, no, better go directly to my uncle. The guard team is more capable. I, umph…"

Before Guan Jin could finish, Ye Xing unhesitatingly covered his head with the blanket.

"I knew you were trying to harm me. Guan Jin, I'm telling you, if you dare expose my identity, I'll go down with you!"

Guan Jin:???

"You're using the idiom wrong!" Guan Jin struggled out and gasped.

Ye Xing: …???

Who the hell wants to discuss the correct use of idioms with you!

Finally, after Ye Xing's forceful coercion and Guan Jin's desperate resistance, the following conversation took place.

"Don't you think it's a great thing to secretly protect a healer and let her grow up, then surprise everyone?" Ye Xing said with a solemn expression.

"I don't know about great or not. All I know is that if a healer's identity isn't reported because of my concealment, and something happens, even if I die to atone for my sin, it won't be enough." Guan Jin said with a grief - stricken look.

Ye Xing's face was expressionless. She snatched back the small bag that Guan Jin was fiddling with, looking extremely cold - blooded.

"Anyway, you're already halfway on this pirate ship of mine. If you dare get off now, I guarantee that dying to atone for your sin would be the least of your worries." Ye Xing threatened him viciously, and Guan Jin clutched the blanket and cried alone.

Finally, Ye Xing patted his hand in a chummy way. "Deputy Protector, don't be sad. Everything you're doing is for one of the future hopes of the Federation. I believe in you."

So Guan Jin cried even louder. Visiting the hospital not only failed to cheer the person up but almost made his condition worse. Ye Xing felt very guilty. So she comforted (or rather, intimidated) Guan Jin by the bedside for a while longer, and then they made an appointment to go out and see mechas together the next day.

The next day, Ye Xing explained the situation to Herley, and then had the driver take her to the place she had arranged with Guan Jin yesterday.

Guan Jin still looked haggard. But when the car stopped beside him and he saw Ye Xing inside, he quickly opened the car door for her.

"Hey, slow down, don't fall."

He was almost about to help her out of the car.

Ye Xing: …

Under the astonished gaze of the driver uncle, Ye Xing waved at him, then dragged Guan Jin away.

"What are you doing? I seriously suspect you're secretly revealing my identity to others." Ye Xing looked at him.

Guan Jin waved his hand, extremely tired. "This is the only thing that can make me feel a bit more at ease." …

Then Guan Jin took Ye Xing to the largest mecha trading center on Randel Star - Ebes. As soon as they entered the hall, Ye Xing was dazzled by the colorful light rays.

Like someone who had never seen the world, she opened her eyes wide and ran around, looking here and there.

Guan Jin followed behind her, introducing the situation inside.

"The first two floors aren't really worth seeing. They're all about trading and exchanging mecha parts. The third and fourth floors have various ornamental and civilian - use mechas. Only the fifth, sixth, and seventh floors are where the combat - type mechas are traded."

So Guan Jin led her to the fifth floor. Here, mechas of different styles, types, and colors were arranged in a circle around the entire floor.

"So many mechas!" Ye Xing exclaimed and stepped forward to touch the metal shell of the blue mecha in front of her.

"These are all Class - C mechas, usually for students going to the preparatory class. For you, of course, we should choose a Class - A mecha on the top floor." Guan Jin pulled back her wandering hand and gave an apologetic look to the mecha - loving boss nearby.

"Then let's go straight up. What are we still doing here?" Ye Xing asked. "Of course, we're here to test your mental perception. Have you not taken the test yet?" Guan Jin said, feeling a headache.

"Ah…"

Seeing Ye Xing's blank look, Guan Jin had an "I knew it" expression, then dragged her to the center of the floor, in front of the perception test pod that occupied about thirty - odd square meters.

"There are several positions inside. Just pick one and stand in, then follow the voice prompts."

Ye Xing did as Guan Jin told her, randomly choosing an empty test booth and walking in. The door of the test booth slowly closed, and Guan Jin stood outside, looking a bit nervous.

Beside them, Su Xiao, who was passing by the fifth floor and was about to go upstairs, slowly stopped when he caught a glimpse of Guan Jin's figure from the corner of his eye. His gaze turned cold, and his eyes were like a deep pool.

Sensing the familiar gaze, Guan Jin turned his head. When he saw the figure on the stairs, his whole body shuddered. Damn it! What's this lunatic doing here! Guan Jin moved aside a bit to block Su Xiao's line of sight.

Thank god I met him here. If it were in a less - populated place, this would never end in three days and three nights!

Guan Jin let out a sigh of relief and touched his chest. Su Xiao was the eldest grandson of the Su family. Their family had had only one heir for several generations. Except for him, the youngest, almost all the family members had joined the military.

His father was a major - general on the border, his mother was the chief of mecha engineers, and his grandfather was a federal executive general. He should have been living with his parents on the main star, but his grandfather said that Randel Star was their home planet, and the Su family had always fought for their own resources.

So Su Xiao stayed and became a... fighting maniac in the eyes of the children of various noble families. Guan Jin and his friends secretly called him a lunatic.

Because once you were targeted by this lunatic, you either had to fight for three days and three nights or get beaten up and lie in bed for a month.

Guan Jin and his friends were so scared of this lunatic that when choosing a school, knowing that Su Xiao had chosen Saloman Academy, the top - ranked school on Randel Star, they all unhesitatingly went to Bu'air Academy to register.

But fortunately, that's how he met Ye Xing. Feeling that the person standing at the stairway had left, Guan Jin straightened up again and continued to wait for Ye Xing to come out.

Ye Xing, who entered the test booth, put on the signal - detecting helmet as the mechanical female voice prompted. A metal plate slowly emerged from behind, restricting her range of motion. Then, her hands and legs were bound. A blue light screen gradually appeared inside the helmet, and Ye Xing closed her eyes as prompted. When she opened her eyes again, she saw a dense mass of zombies in front of her.

"Fuck!" Ye Xing felt as if she was floating in mid - air at this moment, and waves of zombies were approaching her not far ahead.

[Beep - Please try to use mental power to destroy the obstacles with red markers] Ye Xing's eyes widened. She realized that among the dense zombie hordes, there were several groups of zombies with red dots on their heads constantly moving.

Ye Xing did as the system prompted. After concentrating her mental power, she attacked the zombies with red - marked heads as if cutting a watermelon. The number of zombies with red - marked heads was decreasing, and beside her, the system's mental perception coefficient was constantly rising.

Ye Xing became more and more excited. She was no longer satisfied with using mental power to attack just a small group of zombies. 

Somehow, Ye Xing's eyes turned blood - red. With her hands and feet bound, she directly tried to continuously expand the condensed mental - power sphere. The mental - power sphere grew larger and denser...

[Warning! Warning! The mental perception of the tested person has exceeded the limit. Please stop the test immediately! Please stop the test immediately!]

However, Ye Xing, whose eyes were filled with countless zombies in front of her, didn't hear the system's alarm at all. She felt herself getting more and more excited, her adrenaline surging continuously, and the mental - power sphere expanded to an unprecedented extent!

At this moment, Guan Jin, standing outside, looked at the test chamber that was already alarming and starting to show garbled codes. His hands were trembling, and then he began to bang on the door frantically.

"Ye Xing, stop now! The test chamber is going to explode! Stop quickly!!"

"Ye Xing!! Ye Xing!! Stop!!"

Guan Jin's heart - rending shouts didn't reach Ye Xing's ears at all.

At this moment, Su Xiao, standing by the handrail on the seventh floor, suddenly widened his pupils.

Then, with a "boom", an explosion sounded, and the alarm went off throughout the entire Ebes building.

Guan Jin was affected by the explosion and thrown out. He looked up and saw Ye Xing, standing in the ruins with a solitary helmet on her head, looking dazed.

His lips were trembling, and his eyes were filled with despair.

"It's over..."