I don’t know if she’s being stubborn or what, but when Lin Miao suggested buying Lucy a hacker chair, she kept saying she didn’t like it, displaying strong resistance.
However, for Lin Miao, it’s not entirely bad.
After soaking in cold water, Lucy’s skin pores shrink, making her feel exceptionally firm, and when he lifted her out of the water, droplets cascaded down her smooth body like a waterfall, with some remaining in the grooves of her collarbone, swaying back and forth. Her cool, white skin made her look as beautiful as a goddess emerging from water.
Lucy actually woke up once the plug was pulled, and she could stand anytime, but she continued to lean against him, allowing him to wipe every inch of her, from hair to toes, with a towel.
So why wouldn’t Lin Miao come?
After wiping her dry, Lin Miao placed the towel aside, unable to help but remark,
"You’re really cold."
Lucy raised her eyebrows with a smile, directly placing her two ice-soaked feet in Lin Miao’s palms.
The heat radiating from her soles made her cheeks blush slightly, but she provocatively said,
"So? Are you going to warm me up?"
Lin Miao immediately unbuttoned his coat, enveloping Lucy, who was sitting on him, inside.
Although Lucy is 1.68 meters tall, she isn’t exactly voluptuous and even tends toward being slim; Lin Miao’s coat could easily cover her, leaving only her head peeking from the collar.
He stared at her lips with a playful intent.
Feeling the increasing warmth and oddities around, Lucy’s breathing grew heavier.
Her lips were cold too, with even the air she exhaled carrying a chill, and her tongue had a chocolate sweet taste. Clearly, Lucy hadn’t forgotten to take a few bites of chocolate before entering the pool.
Just as they were lost in the moment, ready to proceed to the next step...
"Lucy, are you done yet?"
Qiwei’s knocking and question abruptly brought them back to reality, hastily ending the scene that was about to unfold, not fit for web description or underage conduct, after all, now wasn’t the time for fooling around.
Lucy quickly slipped out from Lin Miao’s coat and began dressing.
But before finishing her sentence, Qiwei opened the door...
Lin Miao forgot the door wasn’t locked.
"...Sorry... Carry on."
Qiwei very sensibly turned and closed the door.
After Qiwei left, while dressing, Lucy didn’t settle down. She wore her pants and leaned against the console; her right leg again deftly rested on Lin Miao’s thigh, grinding her bare right foot on his thigh back and forth, eyes full of triumphant laughter.
Lin Miao took a deep breath, reason overriding everything.
Once this is over, he’s definitely going to set Lucy straight after her repeated provocations.
He grasped her little foot, then picked her shoes and socks from the ground, fitting them on her, bit by bit.
Though she didn’t achieve her aim, Lucy was content at the moment; this was good enough.
When they came out of the room, Qiwei was leaning against the cab with a cigarette, looking at them with a mocking gaze.
"So fast? I’m in no rush, I can wait for you."
"Cough... Where’s Pandora? Isn’t she out yet?"
Facing a question he couldn’t answer, Lin Miao could only change the topic.
"Went in with her mates, the three hackers are all taken care of; there’s no need to worry about them anymore."
"Mann and his team have cleared those secret paths and gone in to support your people."
Lin Miao nodded, this was good news.
"We can’t let our friends wait too long."
With that, Lin Miao opened the co-driver’s side and, in the unseen angle of view, took out the plasma emitter.
Then, under Qiwei’s horrified gaze, he headed towards the tunnel.
"What’s that he’s holding?"
Despite being only 80MM long, its thickness was more exaggerated than the iron ball Rebecca had.
The metallic shell made it look like a solid iron box.
There’s no such weapon in the market.
Instinct told Qiwei that this thing was even more threatening than a rocket launcher.
"Who knows, maybe another new product."
Lucy couldn’t care less, as she felt she already knew the truth that this was just another legacy.
Is there any need for alarm?
Even if Lin Miao made it appear before her, Lucy would still convince herself of that.
Qiwei noticed her demeanor and slightly shook her head, sighing inwardly that this woman’s brain was already fried.
Meanwhile, when Lin Miao went to find Lucy, the players weren’t idly waiting in place.
After just a minor adjustment, Brother Ni and several players with stealth skills brought crossbows and crept forward for reconnaissance.
Even if all trophies are settled post-battle, scouting ahead could facilitate smoother offensive moves later, and enhance contribution points or something.
The Mann squad that followed found themselves jumping at the sight of the ruins left by the players as they fought their way from the tunnel entrance, marked by bombardment traces, explosive residues, and Night Wanderer corpses strewn all over; it looked just like a world war.
Occasionally, they even saw a few player corpses, each with a grim state; it felt as if these people rushed ahead despite severe injuries, accumulating wounds until they were doomed.
Initially, Mann thought the mission was highly risky, and nearly didn’t take it.
In the end, they accepted a relatively low-risk demolition task, yet during the demolition, they could hear the thunderous booming of artillery in the tunnels.
They’ve faced adversaries multiple times their size, but they’ve never fought so fiercely.
When Lin Miao and Lucy reached the front line where the players had advanced, Brother Ni and the others had already finished reconnaissance.