Conditions

People formed relatively stable, fixed lines of thought, methods, procedures, or patterns through repeated use, based on accumulated mental activity, lessons from experience, and established laws of thinking. This was generally called a mental set.

Commonly known as thinking inertia.

Du Qiangwei had to admit that, for certain reasons, she had thoroughly studied everything related to the Chicken Dinner Game and understood many similar issues quite well.

That way, she could quickly figure out what Wang Ji was doing whenever he acted strangely.

For example, when healing or drinking a boost, one should throw smoke for cover. This time, she had prepared for that long ago.

Recently, Wang Ji's hobby had indeed formed a certain inertia in her thinking.

So she also knew that in the Chicken Dinner Game, maliciously hurting and killing a teammate could get one reported...

But this was simply fucking unbelievable, wasn't it?!

Who could have imagined this thing could actually happen?

It seemed fundamentally impossible, so Du Qiangwei's thinking inertia had not connected this matter to the Chicken Dinner rules either.

When she had suddenly become unable to move in that bizarre way, it was not as though Du Qiangwei had not considered the possibility that outside factors had affected or attacked her. That had been her first thought.

But neither her genetic system nor her Black Armor system had issued any alarms or feedback, basically ruling out an external attack. Not to mention that no one had sensed any Dark Energy fluctuations.

Her second thought had been that something was wrong with her body.

It was truly hard to imagine that it might have happened simply because she had screwed Wang Ji over once...

But no matter how impossible it seemed, there was someone beside her showing off nonstop!

He kept talking about unplugging the network cable... Others might not have thought much of it, but she had subconsciously made the connection.

"You're all right now, aren't you?"

His kind face carried a smile as warm as spring, and his gentle voice was pleasant to hear, making Du Qiangwei roll her eyes inwardly.

Some people were naturally suited for acting. Unfortunately, he should not have performed for someone who knew him so well.

Du Qiangwei had never seen him treat her this gently...

Aside from Qi Lin, his attitude toward others now—especially female friends—was consistently cocky. Either he said nothing, or what he said was enough to infuriate people.

Thinking of how she had deliberately let him see her frightened expression just now, who knew how smug he was feeling inside!

Du Qiangwei looked at him gratefully and smiled slightly. "Thank you, Wang Ji. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't even know how to cure this problem of mine~"

As she spoke, she gratefully grabbed his arm.

Wang Ji did not think much of it. With a reflective expression on his face, he said naturally, "The world of Super Soldiers is truly too dangerous. I never expected there to be an illness like this. Luckily, I happened to stumble upon the cure and helped you solve this problem.

So remember, if you encounter something like this again, you must face yourself honestly!"

Du Qiangwei quietly placed her other hand on his arm as well, smiling as she sighed. "Right. I am sick, after all~"

Wang Ji chuckled. "Then you... Aahhh! What are you doing?!"

In the blink of an eye, the two had arrived several hundred meters in the air. The wind was indeed stronger here than on the ground. A pair of mechanical wings spread from Du Qiangwei's back, and both her hands tightly gripped Wang Ji's arm.

A sweet smile was on Du Qiangwei's usually cold face, and she gazed affectionately at the panicked Wang Ji.

The running formation had already gone more than ten kilometers away. Unless one paid special attention, they could not even see them.

"Nothing..." she said sweetly. Though she was gritting her teeth, her voice remained sugary sweet. "Aren't I sick?"

Wang Ji instantly looked at her in terror.

She continued with a smile, "I think you're right. I have a psychological illness, maybe I'm mentally ill too. And I heard mentally ill people aren't punished for murder... Are you ready? Do you still have a parachute?"

She gently let go.

"I... Aahhhhh!"

Thud!

A moment later, Du Qiangwei sat sideways atop a four-limbed creature, one leg crossed over the other.

One of its hands clutched its abdomen while the other supported its body on the ground. It knelt there without moving.

"After calculating everything, I never expected you to be so easy to subdue. And everyone even thought you were just fooling around yourself. Heh~"

Du Qiangwei said lazily, "If I'd known sooner, big sis would have taken you into the sky and thrown you down ages ago. Why would I have had to put up with you acting so cocky around me every time..."

As she spoke, she took out a twig from who knew where and used it like a little whip to smack his butt. "All you know how to do is fool around all day! You scared big sis to death, okay?"

Wang Ji remained silent and began crawling in the direction the formation had gone.

"I know that after you're downed, you can activate your extreme speed and might quickly catch up to Qi Lin."

Du Qiangwei sat with her legs crossed, slowly moving forward as he crawled. She said unhurriedly, "But I advise you to think this through. Being able to immobilize me so easily is your own ability, so it doesn't matter whether that gets exposed.

But the fact that falling from the sky will down you—or perhaps some other fatal condition you have—are you sure you want everyone to know about that?

If you go ask Qi Lin to help you up, what will you say if others ask? That I had nothing better to do than throw you down from high in the sky?"

The four-legged beast silently stopped.

Du Qiangwei looked approvingly at her obedient mount. Her little whip leisurely tapped his butt as she said casually, "Or big sis can be kind and help you up later."

The four-legged beast remained wordlessly silent.

"Also... I can help you keep this secret." The corner of her lips curled slightly. "As for me suddenly freezing up, I'll just say later that I had a cramp again. Whether they believe it or not doesn't matter. It'll pass.

That way, I won't have to undergo a full examination.

As for your secret that you really do get downed, it's enough that I know. The more people who know, the more danger there is to you... I promise I won't tell anyone."

Wang Ji knelt on the ground, silent.

Du Qiangwei crossed her legs and smiled softly. "Don't think you'll be able to brush this off as easily as before. Everyone used to think you were just being edgy.

But once Auntie Lian Feng gives me a full-body examination, if she happens to connect it to you, a lot of things about you will become suspicious...

Though Auntie Lian Feng has always suspected that there was a chance you really did... get downed.

What do you think?"

He remained silent.

"If you don't say anything, I'll take that as agreement. Then our deal is settled." Du Qiangwei smugly flicked her little whip.

"A deal?" Wang Ji crawled two steps and said, "Then what are your conditions?"

"Uh..."

Du Qiangwei paused at that, stunned for a moment. "Conditions... Right, I can make conditions.

I keep your secret, and you agree to my conditions?"

As she spoke, she suddenly thought of something, and her eyes lit up. "Any condition? No... Nothing too difficult."

Wang Ji was silent for a moment before saying, "Some things are not possible."

She fell silent too. After a while, she said, "Then forget it. I'll just consider it a secret I learned."