God-Level Special Forces Soldier-Chapter 535 - 532: Offering Herself as a Token of Gratitude?
The young girl curled up on the chair with her hands covering her head, watching the wall made of books slowly tilting towards her. Somehow, the fear from earlier was gone!
If only I could see him one more time and argue with him once again, that would be wonderful!
The young girl sighed with a helpless, bitter smile in her heart. Goodbye, villain. In my dreams, I will continue to argue with you...
Slowly closing her eyes, letting a single tear fall from the corner of her eye, the young girl quietly began to wait for the sea of books to bury her.
At this moment, she suddenly felt strong arms wrapping around her, then she was pulled into a warm embrace.
In an instant, the heart that had been on edge suddenly calmed down. It seemed that as long as she was in his arms, even if the sky fell or the earth cracked, she would be safe. Even death would be sweet acceptance!
Feeling the powerful heartbeat in her ears, the young girl’s unadorned face turned fiery with her heart racing and breath becoming slightly rapid!
Cautiously opening her beautiful eyes, she indeed saw Xiao Tian’s reassuring smiling face, which only made her more nervous.
Previously, not even the threat of falling into another deep sleep had made her as nervous as she was at this moment!
"You, why are you here?" she asked in a flustered manner.
"What do you think?"
Xiao Tian rolled his eyes, replying in a knowingly rhetorical tone.
This ambiguous answer made the young girl’s thoughts run wild.
What do I think? What to think?
Could it be that he... feels something for me?
Seeing the blush on the young girl’s cheeks, Xiao Tian thought she was just too nervous.
Thinking that if not for his words earlier, she wouldn’t have had to exert so much effort, and ultimately face this danger, he gently said, "Don’t worry, you won’t die with me here. Besides, even if we were to die, it would be me first, so there’s no need for you to be so tense!"
It was the first time she heard Xiao Tian speak to her so calmly, and she found it somewhat hard to adapt.
Thinking about how they were always at each other’s throats before, but could now have such a peaceful conversation, she started to reflect whether she had been too antagonistic towards him before?
Perhaps it was preconceived notions. The first time she opened her eyes after waking up, she saw him about to kiss the sister, and unconsciously labeled him as a villain.
The subsequent arguments only intensified the tension between them. Coupled with the later naming storm, it was a wonder they could come to a peaceful state.
But at this moment, the young girl felt he perhaps wasn’t as bad as she thought, especially after slowly understanding this era, realizing people like Xiao Tian were rare!
"Let’s have a truce and..."
Just as she was about to propose peace, the surrounding Book Mountain finally couldn’t bear the weight and collapsed, forcing the words to remain stuck in her throat.
Seeing this, Xiao Tian maximized the Iron Chain Cross River technique. Although a burden of thousands of pounds was nothing to him, it was only this way compared to his peak period.
Now with his diminished strength, though he wouldn’t be fatally injured by physical resistance, certain internal and external injuries were unavoidable.
As the time to depart for Qing Province was fast approaching, sustaining unnecessary injuries would just be foolish!
Under Lin Bingxuan’s worried gaze, Book Mountain finally collapsed with a loud crash, kicking up a storm of dust, prompting her to instinctively close her eyes.
Finally, when the dust partially cleared, Lin Bingxuan quickly rushed over, starting to toss books down from high places, searching for the two.
After a while, with books again tumbling down from the peak, Lin Bingxuan had to momentarily back away, but also felt more reassured.
Movement at least meant the two were alright!
Soon enough, half of Xiao Tian’s body emerged from the sea of books. Seeing this, Lin Bingxuan hurriedly asked, "Where’s Duoduo?"
Xiao Tian hadn’t yet answered when she heard a muffled "mm-mm" sound from under the books, making her feel a bit strange.
"No problem!" Xiao Tian laughed easily, saying, "Still alive!"
Just as he spoke, the muffled sound from under the books grew more intense.
Xiao Tian groped under the books for a while, before suddenly pulling and grabbing the young girl’s arm, lifting her out like pulling a carrot.
She gasped for air and finally said, "How can you be so inconsiderate?"
"Is this how you treat your savior?"
Xiao Tian countered, looking down on her with a superior attitude.
Shocked by Xiao Tian’s quick change of face, the young girl immediately jumped, nearly falling back into the books in the process, forgetting she wasn’t standing on solid ground.
"If it weren’t for you urging me to develop a new attribute’s application, I wouldn’t be in danger, besides, I didn’t ask you to save me!" she puffed, turning her head away, ignoring him.
She felt baffled by how fast he changed demeanor; they were speaking so gently moments ago, and now he reverted to his old ways, when she was just about to make a peace proposal!
"What you said isn’t right. No matter what, I’m your lifesaver, that’s an undeniable fact!"
Saying this, seeing her still pouting face, he teased, "In both ancient and modern times, such gratitude is typically repaid with marriage."
"But with your disposition, even if you wanted to repay this way, I wouldn’t accept!"
"Huh?" She blushed, her eyes wide, "Who said anything about marrying you?"
Realizing they were launching into another endless yet predictable banter battle, Lin Bingxuan promptly intervened, "Could you two argue after you get out?"
Reluctantly stopping at Lin Bingxuan’s words, the girl pouted but turned away, deliberately avoiding looking at Xiao Tian.
Xiao Tian and Lin Bingxuan exchanged a glance, the latter letting out a wry smile, nodding to indicate they should get out of danger first.
Though she turned her head, now and then she sneaked a peek at Xiao Tian, quickly turning away as if nothing happened.
But when she noticed Xiao Tian intending to leave alone without planning to rescue her too, she suddenly exclaimed, "Hey, you’re so unreasonable!"
Xiao Tian feigned a bewildered expression, asking, "What do you mean unreasonable?"
"If you leave, what about me?"
"Do whatever you like!" he replied irritably, "I’m fed up with an ungrateful person like you!"
"You!"
Frustrated, she had no other recourse, yet absolutely refused to give in to him, looking helplessly at Lin Bingxuan with pleading eyes.
"Alright, stop fooling around!" Lin Bingxuan intervened to mediate, "Just get her out of there quickly!"
Xiao Tian chuckled softly, nodding, then reached to lift the young girl and set her securely on his shoulder. With True Qi releasing beneath his feet forming a counterforce, they both soared into the air...
