'What kind of bullshit is this!'
Qingque jumped off the bed, her bare feet stepping onto the floor as she walked past Levi and shut the main door.
Inside the house, the lights went out, and rustling sounds came from within.
Right after that, Levi's voice sounded out. "You just stepped on the floor without washing your feet."
"Want to lick them?" Qingque's teasing voice replied.
"I want… don't want! You damn pervert actually want me to do something like that!"
"..."
———
[The Next Day]
Levi, who woke up early, very forcefully shoved Qingque off him as she lay sprawled on top of his body.
After getting dressed, he stood up and stretched.
He glanced at Qingque on the bed, who still hadn't woken up even after that.
He couldn't tell if she was pretending to sleep, or if she really wasn't awake.
He patted his cheeks, feeling the heaviness in his head, and prepared to go to the bathroom to wash his face and wake himself up.
Just as one foot stepped into the bathroom doorway...
Someone knocked on the outer door.
Knock! Knock! Knock!
The knocking was extremely urgent, like whoever came had something important.
Levi glanced at Qingque. Seeing that she was tightly wrapped in the blanket, he yawned and walked toward the door.
"Coming, coming! So early in the morning, you're knocking like you're summoning a ghost!"
He opened the door. Outside stood Yanqing, his cheeks slightly red, breathing heavily.
"You finally opened… I have important business with you!"
Seeing the door open, Yanqing was about to go inside, but Levi reached out and stopped him.
Levi stepped outside, shut the door firmly behind him, and said with a smile, "Lord Yanqing, what do you need me for?"
Seeing this behavior, Yanqing immediately realized there was obviously something inside the room that Levi didn't want him to know about.
But this was someone General Jing Yuan had specifically asked him to find.
So Yanqing didn't pay it much attention.
"You and I are not in the same department. You don't need to call me lord."
Yanqing looked at him and said, "The General ordered me to come find you. Please come with me to the Alchemy Commission."
Jing Yuan was looking for him? And at the Alchemy Commission?
After hearing this, Levi's expression turned strange.
Could it be that he caused too much damage, and that guy wanted compensation?
That shouldn't be the case.
The Luofu was wealthy and powerful, and he had even helped drive off Phantylia. Even if he caused some destruction, they shouldn't be asking him to pay for it.
Speaking of destruction… he didn't seem to have caused that much.
Even the "Honkai Descent" had been kept under control…
'Oh!'
Levi suddenly thought of something. His lazy eyes widened slightly.
He seemed to know why Yanqing was in such a hurry, and why Jing Yuan was looking for him.
If it really was what he thought, then yeah, there was no way not to be anxious.
A whole night had passed. Who knew what the Alchemy Commission had turned into by now.
Riding the starskiff driven by Yanqing, they quickly flew toward the Alchemy Commission.
Not long after they left, a small figure appeared outside Levi's door.
After knocking and getting no response for quite a while...
"I'm coming in!"
The figure opened the door. Seeing the sleeping figure on the bed, she thought it was Levi.
But when she walked closer and saw the person's face clearly, her heart shook and she stumbled backward as if startled.
"Qingqingqing… Qingque!"
'These two are having an affair?! Since when did this happen?!'
"So noisy…"
The figure on the bed moved slightly. As if unable to block out the noise, she sat up.
The blanket covering her body slipped down, revealing Qingque's completely bare figure.
"Ah!"
Bailu immediately covered her eyes. Unfortunately, in the darkness, the scene she had just seen kept replaying in her mind.
To describe it simply, from the neck down, there was an abnormal patch of red every few centimeters.
"Y-you, you hurry up and put on some clothes and cover yourself!"
"Oh, it's just Bailu."
After being dazed for a moment, Qingque looked at the embarrassed Bailu and scratched her slightly itchy neck without caring at all.
Those red marks looked especially glaring in Bailu's eyes.
She could already imagine what the two of them had done last night.
"I thought Levi was calling me to eat… yawn… you're here to find Levi, right?"
After scanning the room and not finding Levi, Qingque yawned again.
"He probably went out to buy food. If you don't mind, just wait here for him. I'm going back to sleep…"
Thud!
After speaking, Qingque followed gravity and dropped heavily onto the soft bed.
With her back to Bailu, she continued sleeping.
After calming down, Bailu complained, "It's already work hours and you're still sleeping here. Aren't you afraid Fu Xuan will come after you?"
'Work hours?'
Qingque opened her jade abacus and checked the work group chat. After a moment of silence, she pulled the blanket over her head and continued sleeping nervously.
Anyway, she was already almost ten hours late. Sleeping a bit more and waiting for Levi to call her didn't matter.
Besides, he was late too.
This was like the difference between being punished to stand alone and being punished to stand together with your best friend.
Qingque felt no panic at all.
"Achoo!"
After arriving at the Alchemy Commission, Levi rubbed his nose and reached out to feel the sparse Honkai energy in the air.
He let out a sigh of relief.
Thankfully, it hadn't developed to the point where Honkai beasts were roaming everywhere.
"Let's go. The General has been waiting here for quite a while."
Yanqing led the way from the front.
[Ding-dong!]
A virtual interface from the chat group popped up in front of Levi.
It showed 99+ real messages. The latest one was from Kiana.
[Kiana: @Levi, my aunt asked me to ask when you're coming?]
After briefly skimming what they had been talking about,
Levi replied in the group.
[Levi: Someone's looking for me here. I'll probably need to wait a while.]
After replying to Kiana, Yanqing also happened to stop walking, stepping aside to indicate Jing Yuan was ahead.
Jing Yuan stood by the railing, his posture straight, his eyes lowered.
The sea breeze rustled his clothes.
Levi nodded politely to Yanqing, then walked to Jing Yuan's side and looked at him.
"You were looking for me?"
When he looked forward, Levi froze at the scene below.
'Oh ho ho!'
'No wonder the Honkai energy in the Alchemy Commission was so low!'
'Turns out it had all gone into the ancient sea!'
Looking at the Honkai beasts below, some fully transformed and some not yet fully transformed, Levi didn't know what kind of expression he should be making right now.
"Brother Levi, what are your thoughts seeing this situation?"
Jing Yuan, with dark circles under his eyes, looked at Levi. There was clear exhaustion in his gaze.
Already an old man, yet still forced to stay up all night.
Fortunately, these monsters didn't have much intelligence. The brave Cloud Knights could still handle them.
But Jing Yuan was worried these things might undergo a second evolution.
If something as big as the one Levi summoned appeared again, that wouldn't be funny.
Seeing the brief awkward look on Levi's face, Jing Yuan sighed. "Brother Levi, do you have any good solutions?"
"Solutions? I'm just a small diviner. What solutions could I possibly have? At most I can offer some suggestions."
If you call it a suggestion, then it's a suggestion.
Levi began making things up on the spot.
"Look, purple symbolizes evil spirits, and white is associated with funerals. It also represents yin energy."
"For something so extremely dark and evil, we just need to wait until noon. When the yang energy descends from above, the evil will naturally recede."
Jing Yuan frowned slightly. "You mean we need to hold out for a few more hours?"
He stared blankly at the soldiers in the distance.
"Good!" Jing Yuan said firmly. "Before noon arrives, these things will absolutely not make it ashore!"
The sea wind made his clothes flap loudly, and the eyes visible beneath his hair were full of determination.
Seeing his high-spirited appearance, Levi smacked his lips twice, almost unable to bring himself to remind him.
The Luofu's sun was artificial. It could be adjusted manually…
"..."
Watching Jing Yuan go to arrange the matter, Levi stretched and let his eyes wander aimlessly.
Suddenly he spotted two figures in the distance.
With the vision enhanced by Honkai, Levi easily recognized who they were.
Herta, and Ruan Mei.
The two were gathered together right now, handling a tied-up Honkai beast all over its body.
Levi couldn't help but say, "So cruel…"
But Honkai beasts don't feel pain. They wouldn't feel suffering because of this…
Roar!
"..."