Deep underground, darkness stretched all around.
Qin Siyang floored the accelerator and sped ahead.
Beside him, Hu Chan covered his upper body with his left hand and his lower body with his right, glaring resentfully at Qin Siyang.
"What are you staring at me for? This isn't the first time I've saved your life."
"Saved me?! Qin Siyang, what exactly were you trying to do, attacking me and that scruffy man indiscriminately?! Were you trying to kill me too?!"
"Would I need to go to all that trouble to kill you? I could've just left you outside. I don't believe that man would've let you off. I came back out of kindness to save your life, and all you do is complain. No good deed goes unpunished."
Hu Chan wasn't grateful. "That man was very interested in your Drill Pod. He kept demanding to know who you were! If you'd left me behind, I would've had no choice but to sell you out!"
"You wouldn't sell me out."
"Don't be so sure!"
"You still wouldn't survive if you sold me out. You'd be dead either way, but if I died too, there'd be no one to look after the black-robed Guardian, Yu Ziying."
"..."
Hu Chan could only grit his teeth and remain silent.
Qin Siyang had indeed seen straight through him.
"But regardless, I really did almost die! President Qin, you have to compensate me!"
Qin Siyang smiled helplessly. "A moment ago, you were calling me Qin Siyang. Now that you want compensation, it's President Qin again. You really are something, Holy Son... If you'd died, you'd only have your own stupidity to blame."
"What do you mean?"
"When I took the Vine Heart from you, you used a skill to dodge a fatal blow, so I knew you