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"What book are you reading?"

This book is truly harmful; it's so harmful that I have no choice but to read it.

Qi Shi pinched the other's delicate cheek, leaned forward slightly, not to take the girl's alluring thin lips that she was waiting to offer, but to embrace her and gently touch her forehead with his own, and then said gently.

"Okay, go back and rest. You've been waiting for a long time, haven't you?"

After they separated, Bronya remained seated on Qi Shi, touching the lingering warmth on her forehead as if savoring the sensation.

After a moment, she gently hugged Qi Shi's waist again, and they stayed quietly together for more than ten seconds before finally separating.

"Bronya went back." She turned back and said again before leaving.

Bronya will leave the door open for you.

"I have other things to do today," Qi Shi replied helplessly.

Chapter 148 When did your relationship become so good?

The room was simple and tidy.

She slowly sat up from the bed, staring blankly at the pillow soaked with tears.

Why am I crying...?

Fu Hua wiped her still slightly moist eyes with her fingers. Although she couldn't feel it, tears were still sliding down her cheeks.

She felt as if she had forgotten something very, very important, and a sense of emptiness and sadness welled up inside her.

It took Fu Hua a long time to calm down. She took a deep breath, got out of bed, dressed, and decided to wash up to regain her composure.

It was just getting light outside, only five o'clock, but she was already used to getting up at this time for her morning exercise.

Arriving at the bathroom door, Fu Hua raised her hand to open it.

However, with a snap, she yanked the doorknob off completely.

Fu Hua froze, staring at the broken doorknob in his hand. As a martial arts master, his control over his strength was incredibly precise. How could he suddenly damage the objects around him?

When did she become so strong?

Moreover, Fu Hua also felt that her injuries were slowly healing, bringing her an unprecedented sense of ease, and...

A very faint, flickering power, like a candle in the wind, yet it stirs a deep unease within.

Inside St. Freya's dormitory, perhaps because there was an extra person, the atmosphere at breakfast today seemed a bit strange.

Qi Shi's expression and movements were natural, with a smile on his face, and he occasionally let out a heartfelt praise for the dish.

To his left, Kiana absentmindedly scrambled the spoon in her bowl of porridge, while Bronya sat on the other side of the room, eating her breakfast with a calm and natural expression. Mei, on the other hand, seemed preoccupied and not in a good mood, only maintaining a gentle expression as she occasionally spoke.

"Qishi, how did your talk with that guy go?" Kiana finally couldn't help but ask. Since yesterday, the End Worm hadn't spoken a word in her consciousness.

"Should we seal her away and then throw her out of St. Freya?"

As she spoke, she waved her little fist, seemingly excited and impatient.

Seeing her like this, Qi Shi smiled and replied, "No need, Kiana. We already talked yesterday, and Miss End is not a bad person."

"Huh?" Kiana looked bewildered. "But weren't we at odds just last night? She even attacked you."

"Why do you seem so excited about getting rid of me...?"

The eerie voice of the End Worm came from Kiana's consciousness, as if it were emanating black mist.

She really wanted to give her rebellious past a good whack on the head and correct it severely, but in the end she could only keep taking deep breaths and comforting herself, "This is me, this is me, I can't hit myself."

"Uh..." Sensing the resentful aura deep in her mind, Kiana gave a somewhat timid and awkward smile, but seeing Qi Shi beside her, her fear immediately disappeared, and she became confident and fearless again.

With Qi Shi by my side, what do I have to be afraid of!

End Worm: "..."

Looking at her past self who always tries to betray her, she feels so tired.

At this moment, Qi Shi spoke with a smile: "There was just a misunderstanding before. Miss Zhongyan and I have already reached an agreement. I will find a way to help Miss Zhongyan return to her own time and space."

"Yes," the End Worm replied with a slight pout.

She was naturally a little uncomfortable, because the misunderstanding she had to deny was precisely the scene where she saw Mei hugging the other person.

The fusion of two completely opposite views—an absolutely intolerable and despicable rival in love, and a kind person who is actually quite nice and willing to help—is why the End Worm's feelings towards Qi Shi are so complex and strange.

"Thank you for your help with this. I'll be happy to help if there's anything else."

However, seeing the harmonious back-and-forth conversation between the two, Kiana's eyes widened, revealing a somewhat stunned expression.

"No, when did your relationship become so good?"

Hearing this, Qi Shi smiled, while the End Worm in the mental space awkwardly crossed its arms and tilted its head slightly, its gaze wandering.

She always felt that she had made a wrong decision.

"So, what do we do?"

The End Worm asked, looking somewhat uneasy.

"Every effect has a cause, and the occurrence of a phenomenon should often be traceable," Qi Shi replied, then, after thinking for a moment, asked a question he already knew the answer to.

“Miss Kiana, since you came to this time and space, you haven’t been anxious or impatient. Instead, you’ve been focused on it. I think there must be something you care about a lot in this time and space.”

The End Worm froze, feeling as if the other party had hit the nail on the head.

Of course she does. In her dreams, she always returns to St. Freya, the place where all her beautiful memories are gathered, and also the place where she can see Himeko-sensei again.

Having understood the meaning behind the other person's words, she replied, "So, you mean that we're going to conduct an experiment around my most cherished wish?"

However, Qi Shi denied it, which surprised the End Worm.

Seeing the other person's expression, his gaze turned deep and unfathomable as he looked at the Earth Goddess in front of him, whose expression seemed very unnatural and as if she was unwilling to cooperate.

"I think that before you start helping, Miss Kiana, you should first adjust your attitude towards your benefactor."

"At the same time, during the period I am helping you, I hope you will follow my instructions and advice as much as possible."

After hearing this, the End Worm stared at Qi Shi, her face falling like a cat's. Of course, she knew that what she was doing was wrong, but she had a feeling that this guy was saying this on purpose with bad intentions.

But what the other party said wasn't wrong either. Now it was my turn to receive help, and I was the one asking for their help. It was really hard to get over this seemingly unwilling expression.

The End Worm took a deep breath to calm herself down. After a while, she exhaled a long breath, her expression brightening considerably, but now it was more of a helpless look.

"It's okay now."

It certainly won't be quick for her to change her opinion about her rival who wants to steal Mei away; this is already the result of her best efforts to control her emotions.

"It's much better than before, well, it's barely passable." Qi Shi carefully examined it for a few moments before nodding in approval.

While it's certainly delicious to see the End Worm looking at you with a disgusted expression but still obeying you, it's more comfortable to have a harmonious relationship if you're going to be watching and interacting with it all the time.

"Your requirements are really high," the End Worm muttered under its breath. However, upon hearing this, Qi Shi looked over and repeated it very solemnly.

“Miss Kiana, I have also provided a great deal of assistance.”

"Uh..." The End Worm choked on its words, trying to cover its embarrassment.

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

Qi Shi nodded and continued.

"Before we begin the formal experiment, let's go meet another visitor who doesn't belong to this time and space."

"Alicia?"

Upon hearing this, the End Worm recalled what had happened the previous night and did not object.

In fact, she was also very curious about the other person's existence. Whether it was because they didn't belong to this time and space, or because Mei often mentioned the other person, as if she were a white moonlight, she wanted to find out if the other person was as good as described.

The worlds of consciousness are interconnected, and the two quickly arrived at another space of consciousness, where they saw the figure of their target.

Chapter 149 is too much! I'll cry!

Inside the space, a pink figure sat listlessly on a crystal swing, swaying back and forth as if humming a lighthearted tune. Even being confined couldn't dampen her lively and energetic personality.

Upon seeing Qi Shi appear, he immediately perked up and came over.

"You've finally arrived! Honestly~ Keeping a beautiful girl locked up for so long is really rude~?"

"Wow! What a cute girl! Hello, my name is Alicia, what's your name? We look just as cute, we're sure to have a lot in common!"

Alicia was still somewhat dissatisfied, but when she saw the End Worm, the pink-haired girl's eyes lit up, and she became incredibly excited and energetic, rushing forward and uttering a series of words.

Seeing the overly enthusiastic figure rushing towards him in an instant, the End Worm even panicked a little and couldn't help but take a half step back.

However, with a bang, Alicia bumped into an outstretched arm, and was thrown backward, landing on her bottom with a scream.

The End Worm breathed a slight sigh of relief and couldn't help but cast a grateful glance at Qi Shi, who had made this move.

She was finding it hard to handle this overly enthusiastic manner.

Alicia, who had just gotten up from the ground, puffed out her cheeks. She was about to say something like "That's so ungentlemanly," but when she saw Qi Shi's calm, condescending gaze, she stopped herself in her tracks.

She felt an inexplicable sense of oppression. In that instant, she seemed to see through those eyes hundreds of thousands of similar pitiful scenes, such as unruly children hanging from the rafters and stray dogs being driven out of their homes, and each one showed her own face.

That gaze, seven parts calm, two parts disdain, and one part gleaming with an unseen light, seemed to suggest that anyone who misbehaved would be ruthlessly punished. Although she didn't believe anyone could be so heartless as to harm such an innocent and lovely girl like herself, Alicia ultimately trusted the guidance of her intuition.

All he could do was say it timidly and with a wronged expression.

"That's too much! I'll cry!"

Faced with Airi's tearful and cutesy antics, Qi Shi remained calm, even showing a hint of disdain, but still maintained a businesslike demeanor and spoke directly.

“Alicia, you don’t seem to realize your situation. It’s not that you’ve arrived in some unfamiliar place, but rather that you’re no longer in your own time. This place…”

'It was the Far East in 2014.'

Alicia blinked in surprise.

Did she travel back thousands of years?

However, Qi Shi said, word by word, "No, you have come to fifty thousand years in the future."

"The previous civilization was destroyed 50,000 years ago; it is now a civilization on another Earth."

"The one standing before you is the Herrscher of the End, representing the end of the Herrschers, the end of the catastrophe caused by the Honkai energy of Earth."