Keep company with the virtuous and you turn red; keep company with Chu Sheng and you turn black!

Hearing Xingzi's words, Captain Hui couldn't help glancing at Chu Sheng. Seeing that he seemed to consider this perfectly reasonable left him speechless.

The saying about taking on the qualities of the company you kept had never been more fitting.

He remembered that Xingzi hadn't been like this when she first joined the convoy.

Back then, Xingzi had rarely encountered danger because she lived in the Enclosed Tower. Leaving its other survivors aside, at least the Sequence Adepts there hadn't been malicious people.

That had allowed Xingzi to retain the clear-eyed foolishness befitting a college student.

Otherwise, Chu Sheng wouldn't have been able to sweet-talk her into becoming completely lovestruck with just a few words.

But what had Xingzi become now?

Just as money-grubbing as Chu Sheng!

Xingzi had no idea what he was thinking. Had she known, she probably would have protested that she wasn't money-grubbing-she was just earning money for her darling big brother!

"Why didn't you say so earlier?" Captain Hui asked helplessly, looking at Xingzi with a blue-green glow over his head.

If Xingzi had told him earlier, he wouldn't have let her treat him.

It was only the price of using a piece of toilet paper. With his twice-enhanced body, the worst that would happen was that he couldn't control his mouth, and that would pass in a few dozen minutes.

There was no need to spend a supernatural material on it.

At his words, Xingzi blinked and gave him a sweet smile, though to Captain Hui, it looked positively demonic.

"If I told you earlier, what if you decided not to get treated?"

Captain Hui: "..."

Chu Sheng: "..."

In Chu Sheng's eyes, Xingzi had always been a lovestruck, rather silly girl who was easy to fool.

But seeing her now, he realized he