【Qijie】The Kingdom of Eternal Life

"It's not that we don't know that you have no choice but to join forces this time, but well, feelings are cultivated little by little, right?" The woman patted the back of Xiaojie's hand and said kindly: "The above means That's... you know. Cultivate and cultivate feelings, and complete the combination of the body as soon as possible, which is also good for your recovery. Young people..."

She showed an ambiguous smile: "You understand, I won't talk about it."

Xiaojie reluctantly tugged at the corner of his stiff mouth, he no longer wanted to see the expression of Qi Ya standing beside him.

You should be a pig bred... You guys understand...

His good family education prevented him from expressing his inner thoughts, but at the same time, he didn't know how to respond, so he could only respond vaguely: "Uh...um."

But the woman seemed satisfied with this response, she looked up at Qi Ya: "You are his guide, take care of him more usually."

Xiaojie originally thought that being forced to be overwhelmed by such a long and nonsensical exhortation, Qi Ya must have become impatient enough to turn around and leave.But what he didn't expect was that although Qi Ya hadn't spoken before, Qi Ya turned slightly to the side and said "um" to such an endless sentence.

There was no impatience in the voice.

"I think his mental barrier is quite healthy, very good, keep it up." The woman said. "It's not as broken as it looked when I was single. It was really worrying to watch before."

Xiaojie: "..."

"Yeah." Qi Ya replied again, "His five senses are sharper than other sentinels, and I didn't do anything, just thicken the defense."

The woman is very satisfied: "This is very good."

Xiaojie: "..."

"As for the problem of not being able to see the spiritual guide..." The woman wrote a few lines on the paper, "It may be related to the combination, you can communicate more. Maybe... just... right." She raised her head and rushed They blinked.

Now even Qi Ya was speechless at last.

The atmosphere was awkwardly silent for a while, and Xiaojie said dryly, "Uh...thank you...we'll leave first if there's nothing else to do."

"Go. Oh right, wait a minute, Xiaojie, you can start accepting tasks. Since your spiritual guide has a problem, let the mission department give you some recovery tasks. It's best...let your guide go with you."

Xiaojie couldn't hold back, and raised his head to take a peek at Qiya.He was facing Qi Ya's glance down.

The dark blue military uniform, which symbolized his identity as a guide, was open, revealing a bit of white shirt collar and a line shadow of the collarbone.The golden Eternal Tree military emblem is pinned on the left shoulder, branching off four leafy branches, symbolizing the "S" rank.The golden-yellow chain slid down slightly as he leaned over, wobbled, and fell back again.

Although the tower is independent of the major government agencies, it is still subordinate to the government after all.They are usually organized by the army, and the tasks they perform are difficult tasks that special forces cannot complete.Therefore, the tower basically wears uniforms uniformly.The sentinel is dark green and the guide is dark blue, which is easy to distinguish.Of course, it is not necessary to wear a uniform when on a mission.According to the needs of the task, you can choose the appropriate casual clothes or night clothes.

Of course, when you are in the tower, unless there are special circumstances, you must wear uniforms.

"I see." Qi Ya nodded, looked away slightly, and asked: "Wait. I want to ask. I heard that the same batch of sentries who participated in the same mission of investigating missing persons with him at the beginning have all died. Basically recovered?"

Xiaojie was stunned for a moment, and then belatedly, he looked away from Qi Ya's Adam's apple hidden in the shadow of his chin.

The woman clicked the mouse a few times, and said: "Well, yes, and other people..." Her gaze swept across the screen, she stretched out her hand to adjust the photo frame on the desktop, and said: "There is no such thing as Xiaojie." After waking up, you can’t see the situation of the spiritual guide. You know, Xiaojie’s situation is more or less common. They are all recovering well. Not bad, he will be discharged from the hospital soon. I heard that he is the most seriously injured besides Xiaojie, and he has a concussion."

Um?Xiaojie was taken aback.

Qi Ya didn't say anything more, put one hand on Xiaojie's shoulder, lowered his body slightly: "Let's go."

As he bent down a little, Xiaojie smelled a faint cold fragrance that was familiar to him.He has smelled it a few times, and subconsciously felt it was kind and familiar. He wasn't sure if it was the smell of Qi Ya's guide element or the cologne sprayed by the other party. the awe-inspiring winter.

The taste enveloped him, and Xiaojie chewed the taste for a while in his mouth.Although it is bitter, it is not bitter.At the end, there is still a little bit of sweetness.like chocolate.

Xiaojie nodded at the woman, stood up, and smiled at Qiya.

The pine fragrance that enveloped him rubbed together with this sweetness, and in an instant, it seemed to be vaguely soft and soft.

"Why do you think she lied?"

Qi Ya didn't say until he got into the car.

Xiaojie scratched his head: "I don't know. She has been an intermediary for a long time. Before Kurapika was transferred to the intelligence agency, she had been partnering with Kurapika. It seems that her work ability is still very good."

Qi Ya shrugged: "I don't know. I only know that although she looked at me directly, the anxiety hidden under the calmness was still not completely covered up. She deliberately said a lot of details in order to convince people. The proof of her guilty conscience, if it was normal, she wouldn't say so much. Even if she didn't lie, she must be hiding something. "

"Although she smiled to ease the atmosphere, her eye muscles did not move, and the smile lines from the nose to the corner of her mouth were not involved. These are all signs of a liar. She touched her knee with her left hand hidden by her shirt. It was probably I wanted to lift it up and touch the tip of my nose, but I forcibly resisted it, and instead tugged on the stockings." Xiaojie continued. "And her heartbeat, which started beating violently and then gradually became calm, which is a typical liar's heartbeat."

Sentinels have keen five senses, and guides can absorb all kinds of emotions. Both are natural lie detectors with [-]% accuracy.

"It's a sentry." Qi Ya praised him.Xiaojie rubbed his nose embarrassingly: "The melody taught me about the heartbeat... But I still don't know why this person lied. If we interpret her last words backwards, it means that I am not the only one who can't see it." A spiritual guide? Could this be too coincidental?"

Once the accident occurs in a concentrated manner, it is unlikely to be an accident.

"Just check it out." Qi Ya's eyes were condensed, and he stretched out his hand and made a gesture of spreading his palm upwards.Xiaojie looked at it suspiciously for a while, and then suddenly realized that he was probably gently stroking the chin of his spiritual guide.

Remember Qi Ya's spiritual guide... a snow leopard, right?If Kiya is stroking his spirit guide now, then it is now...

He subconsciously glanced at the rear seat.

Is it sitting here?

He swayed tentatively on the rear seat twice, imagining that there was a long, vigorous tail with silver stripes, swaying back and forth boredly.

Speaking of it, Qi Ya is the guide, but the guide is the snow leopard, the king of the ice field and a beast of the feline family. This is actually quite strange.Most of the battlefield positioning of the guides is to assist in attack or healing, and the spiritual guides also reflect this setting of this group. Most of them are gentle and friendly small animals, such as birds, whales, dolphins and so on.It is actually rare to have a snow leopard as the guide of the spiritual body like Qi Ya.

but……

He turned his head to look at Qi Ya's profile.Qi Ya was obviously still thinking, unaware that his thoughts had already run along the snow leopard's long tail all the way to the ice field and snow sea somewhere.His skin is fair, and the navy blue military uniform is casually worn, which is set off by the restrained blue color more and more like snow.The young man's chin is smooth and his silver hair is unruly. His eyes are looking loosely at the street that is passing by slowly in front of him. His silver eyes are surrounded by long eyelashes, taking away a bit of winter-like arrogance and arrogance. In the pool, there is silence.

Although from a common sense point of view, the fact that a carnivorous feline beast like a snow leopard is a spiritual body is somewhat strange to the guide, but when he saw such a strangeness, he felt that it was not strange at all.

Hmm - rather appropriate.

Xiaojie suddenly felt a little pity.Although I saw this snow leopard in the ward that day, I only saw a tail at the tip of the iceberg.But with that long tail, it must be a healthy adult snow leopard.

Qi Ya was waving his hand to tell Gaifeng to roll back to the back seat and lie down on his own, when Xiaojie, who had been in a daze for some reason, said suddenly: "What's its name?"

Qi Ya was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that this endless sentence was referring to his spiritual guide, and replied, "Gaofeng."

"Flood." Xiaojie repeated in a low voice, "This name is so handsome."

Hearing what he said, Qi Ya suddenly remembered the name of Xiaojie's spiritual guide, couldn't help but want to laugh for a while, and felt a little hard to hold back.He coughed lightly, and just as he was about to speak, Xiaojie stretched out his hand towards the air: "Hello, Blast."

Gai Feng, who was lying lazily on the back seat with his tail fluttering back and forth, suddenly straightened up, burrowed over lightly, carefully retracted his nails, lifted his furry pads to fit Xiaojie's slender body palm.Finally, he lowered his paws and rubbed his chin over, allowing him to stroke the fur on his neck.

Qiu: "..."

Fortunately, Xiaojie couldn't see the shameless appearance of the Icefield King, who was not at all noble and glamorous. He waited patiently for a while, and then turned his gaze to Qi Ya questioningly.Qi Ya waited for a long time for his eyes, and immediately said: "It's ready to go back."

Haifeng raised his eyes dissatisfiedly and looked at his master.

Xiaojie: "Did you shake my hand just now?"

Qi Ya: "...cough, yes."

Only then did Xiaojie feel slightly happy, he spread his palms upwards, and patted lightly, imitating Qi Ya's movement just now.Qi Ya watched the snow leopard being rubbed until it made a grunt in its throat, and snorted coldly.

After being stared at several times by the master, Gaifeng stood up slowly, put his front paws on the seat cushion and exerted force, and went back into the mental barrier vigorously and lightly.

This time, Qi Ya clearly saw the white eyes it turned to him to show him.

Qiu: "..."

Xiaojie didn't know about these episodes. He touched his fingertips, imagining that a vigorous and heroic snow leopard touched his paw seriously and earnestly just now, and he was a little happy.

And this snow leopard is Qi Ya's spiritual guide.

Qi Ya tapped on the autopilot, turned his head and saw the black-haired young man sitting in the passenger seat foolishly, he was slender and well-proportioned, even if he sat with his long legs curled up in a narrow space, he looked like a vigorous green bamboo.Qi Ya glanced twice, and suddenly felt a bad premonition in his heart, and couldn't help but ask, "What are you laughing at?"

Xiaojie hehe said: "It's nothing." After finishing speaking, he felt happy again, turned his face away, and laughed to himself.After laughing for 2 minutes, he finally finished laughing, let out a long breath, rubbed his stomach with his left hand and rubbed his face with the right, stretched his long legs and stretched his waist, and suddenly sighed: "Oh, if only I could see it. "

Qi Ya was speechless when he heard this, paused for a while, and then said: "We will see you soon."

Xiaojie also paused, then turned his face sideways, and gave him a big, big smile.That smile was so warm and brilliant, if every inch of the lines and soft light of that smile were collected into one cup, it would be a sweet wine brewed together with honey and starlight.Sweet is not sweet, nor intoxicating, but just holding that clear color in the palm of your hand seems to make people's hearts move.

TBC.

Hayate: Oh, stupid master.

Note: What Qiya thinks is not necessarily what he thinks.